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Rice: Callahan wanted to 'sabotage' Raiders, let Gruden win Super Bowl
By Don Burke
January 23, 2013 | 7:30am
DIRTY RICE: Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (here during Super Bowl XXXVII) backed up teammate Tim Brown's claim that Raiders coach Bill Callahan wanted to sabotage his team to let the Buccaneers, coached by Callahan's close friend Jon Gruden, win. The Bucs triumphed, 48-21. AP
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DIRTY RICE: Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (here during Super Bowl XXXVII) backed up teammate Tim Brown's claim that Raiders coach Bill Callahan wanted to sabotage his team to let the Buccaneers, coached by Callahan's close friend Jon Gruden, win. The Bucs triumphed, 48-21. (
Tim Brown's wild claims about his Raiders coach possibly sabotaging Super Bowl XXXVII may have just gotten a tad more credible.
Yesterday, Jerry Rice, also a member of those 2002 AFC champions and judged by many to be the greatest player in NFL history, said he agreed with Brown's comments made over the weekend on SiriusXM Radio.
That Raiders team was coached by Bill Callahan, the former Jets' assistant who is now the Cowboys' offensive line coach.
"For some reason — and I don't know why — Bill Callahan did not like me," Rice, the Hall of Famer said on ESPN's "NFL Live." "In a way, maybe because he didn't like the Raiders, he decided, 'Maybe we should sabotage this a little bit and let Jon Gruden go out and win this one.' "
Last night, Callahan, who is at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., responded in a statement saying he was "shocked and saddened" by the allegations. He called suggestions he wasn't trying to win the game "ludicrous and defamatory."
"I think it would be in the best interests of all, including the game America loves, that these allegations be retracted immediately," he said.
The Raiders met Gruden's Buccaneers in that Super Bowl and, for the previous four seasons, Gruden had been the Raiders' coach. Brown said Callahan did not want to be in Oakland and was only there because his close friend Gruden "made him come."
Rice also supported Brown's claim the game plan, which originally called for the Raiders to run the ball heavily, was changed to a pass-oriented attack on the Friday before the Super Bowl, a move that shocked the Oakland players because, as Rice said, "you worked all week long on running the football."
On that Friday, Callahan put in a new plan that had the team throwing the ball more than 60 times. The Raiders lost, 48-21.
"Why would you wait to the last second to change the game plan?" Rice said.
Rice also said he believed Callahan's decision to change the game plan at the last minute led to center Barrett Robbins being a no-show for the game. Robbins, who was later diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, begged Callahan not to change the game plan because there wasn't enough time to prepare, Rice said.
But quarterback Rich Gannon, who was the NFL's MVP that season when he threw for 4,689 yards and the Raiders led the league in passing, said on SiriusXM he didn't agree with his teammates' claims.
"In terms of Bill Callahan, let me just say this: He was a good football coach, he was a good man," said Gannon, now an NFL analyst for CBS. "We all wanted to win.
"I think what happened was that we came out and tried to run the football early in that game, we didn't have a lot of success," Gannon said. "We fell behind in the game and at that point we started throwing the ball too much."
Where Gannon did admit the Raiders dropped the ball was in not changing the language used for calls at the line of scrimmage. He said Callahan didn't change any of the offensive terminology the Raiders used. As a result, the Bucs — tutored by Gruden — knew what was coming when Gannon audibled.
"So much of our verbiage and terminology was a carryover from what Jon Gruden had installed in terms of our run checks, and so we were calling certain plays and guys like Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks were calling out the runs," Gannon said.
Brown tried to back away some from the word "sabotage" yesterday in a Dallas radio interview, but still questioned Callahan's loyalty to the Raiders at the time. But Brown did say "sabotage" was the word used a lot inside the Raiders' locker room.
"I like Tim Brown. Great guy, great teammate," former Raiders' linebacker Bill Romanowski told ESPN. "But he is delusional to think that Bill Callahan would give up the biggest opportunity of his life… to be a Super Bowl-winning coach."
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Student Success Spotlight: Meet Ganga Mehta
By Higher Education MarketingMarch 15, 2019October 11th, 2020No Comments
Students of the Academy of Learning Career College (AOLCC) tend to be a motivated bunch, and alumna Ganga Mehta is a perfect example of that fact. A recent graduate of AOLCC's PC Support Specialist program, Ganga is the sort of person who knows exactly what she wants from her career and how to get it. At AOLCC, she found a school that supported and encouraged her on her journey towards a successful IT career. We are so proud of all she has achieved here as part of our community.
Read on to hear more about Ganga's inspiring story and how she upgraded her skills at AOLCC.
Ganga Chose AOLCC to Upgrade Her Skills and Pursue a Successful IT Career
Ganga's journey begins in India, where she already had plenty of experience in the IT industry. "Back home," she says, "I was working with IBM in the IT department as a Senior Operations Professional."
When Ganga immigrated to Canada in September 2016, however, she decided that to thrive in an IT career she was going to need to upgrade her skills. Because of her knowledge of the IT industry, she says that when looking for a college "I knew exactly what I wanted to achieve." She had heard positive testimonials about AOLCC, but what really attracted her to the school was that she says, "it helps you to be a certified person and get into your field."
Specifically, she was impressed with how AOLCC's PC Support Specialist IT diploma program prepares students for a number of IT certification exams, namely CompTIA A+, Network+, and Server+. Ganga knew the value of such certifications in the IT industry and she saw AOLCC as an investment in her future success. As she says, "I chose this program because IT skills are valuable in every industry. Technology isn't going away."
Ganga Attributes Her Success to AOLCC's Supportive Culture and Learning System
When she began her classes, Ganga was particularly impressed with the quality and flexibility of AOLCC's teaching method. The Integrated Learning System (ILS), which combines in-class coursework with online learning, was especially appealing to somebody as driven and self-motivated as Ganga. ILS, she says, "means you are your own boss. You can log in anywhere."
Aside from ILS, Ganga also gives credit to the many instructors and staff members at AOLCC who created a supportive and encouraging culture. Ganga recalls that "Nayima Nadeem (Training Director), she was always there for me to resolve my problems. She used to motivate me. She always gave me the courage and confidence that I can do everything."
Ganga also gives credit to "Leonor Cadag De Leon (Senior Facilitator) and Hong Li (Senior Facilitator). They were also helped me wherever I got stuck during my learning period of the program." She offers a "Special thanks to Michael Matwichul who was always there for resolving my CompTIA and Network books problems." In addition, "Kathryn Killoh (Student Support Services), Jessica and Grace ( Front Desk)" were also a wonderful support to Ganga throughout her studies. Whether she wanted help with the course material or needed motivation for staying on track, AOLCC's staff and faculty—from the front desk to the instructors—were there to help Ganga succeed.
After Her Academic Success, Ganga Is Now Going to Put Her IT Diploma to Use
Ganga's positive experience with AOLCC reached its high point when she was awarded the Best Overall Progress and Marks award. For Ganga, it was a moment that was a pleasant surprise, especially since, she says "I wasn't expecting my name" to be called during the ceremony.
Now with her diploma in hand, Ganga is looking to become a PC support specialist where she can put her skills into practice. Specifically, she says she wants to join a company's help desk support team or work as a network administrator. Given the demand for IT professionals and Ganga's clear motivation, we expect she'll have plenty of success as she continues on her journey.
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As far back as I can remember in the history of cell phones I have always overcharged my phone. I use it so much for taking pictures or Googling random facts, that I don't like to let it out of my sight long enough to charge until I'm ready to hit the hay. At the end of the day I plug it in, thinking, I won't fall asleep before I unplug the phone, but inevitably I always doze off before it's done charging. It's a bad habit that ruins my phone battery and keeps me running on empty throughout the day, but it always happens.
One evening I was winding down for the day and went to plug in the phone, but the end of the cord that connects to the phone was fried. In my sleep a few nights before I had unplugged the phone and left the cord plugged into the wall. It had been like that for who knows how long, and it had finally gotten too hot and melted the outer shell of the plug. Fortunately this did not cause a fire, but from the appearances of it, it very well could have.
As I reflected on my foolish mistake, I realized that we neglect our spiritual lives just the same. We power up on Sundays, neglect God all week, and return the next Sunday ready to refuel. And just like I didn't unplug the cord from the outlet, so God does not unplug from us. His Holy Spirit current is still flowing to us, but we are disengaged. We fail to receive His power because we've detached ourselves from the source. It is not that He ever denies us the Holy Spirit, in fact, it is still flowing at the same speed and same strength as it ever did. And like the cord that got so hot it melted, so we can feel the Holy Spirit tongues like fire (Acts 2:3) roaring in us, to the point of it spilling over, erupting from us. God uses that precious overflow to reach those around us that are yet to know His power.
Today and everyday, God invites us to reconnect, refuel, and allow His goodness to spill over in our lives if only we take the time to plug in.
This entry was posted in Reflections & Revelations and tagged Christ, Christianity, devotional, faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, relationship with God on August 16, 2016 by sitathisfeet.


Electric fences can be a simple and cost effective way to keep native fauna, like bears, out in the wild.
Electric fences can be a simple and cost effective way to keep native fauna, like bears, out in the wild instead of foraging in neighbourhood back yards.
In response to a high number of incidents between bruins and fowl and coyotes and pets, WildSafeBC is hosting two free workshops about electric fencing on Saturday, called "Good Fences Make Good Neighbours." The first session goes in Trail on Nov. 12 from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in Room 155 of Selkirk College. The second is slated later that day in Rossland from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Second Avenue curling rink.
The animals are not yet in hibernation, though sightings are on the down swing.
Compost and fruit trees remain a primary attractant for bears and other animals like raccoons, so electric fences are a good deterrent to avoid interactions even this time of year.
Gillian Sanders from Kaslo WildsafeBC, is leading the workshops. Sanders lends her expertise following a project that involved the installation of 140 electric fences to successfully protect livestock and fruit trees from both black and grizzly bears.
Various electric fencing designs, both permanent and temporary, will be discussed during the sessions.
Those interested are asked call Profili at 250.231.7996, or contact her by email at trail@wildsafebc.com or rossland@wildsafebc.com.
This is the first year Montrose residents have been allowed to install electric fences. After several residents asked to install the fences as a means to field away bears, council removed the electric barriers as "prohibitive" under its zoning bylaw.
Mayor Joe Danchuk has heard from one of those homeowners since, and says it wasn't just bears that were deterred from the man's garden.
Aside from a few cougar and deer sightings, Danchuk emphasized that bears continue to be the village's number one nuisance.
Aside from bear and chicken clashes, a few other wildlife species have also been the source of alarm this year.
She reminds the community that coyotes and cougars remain active all winter, so pets should always be walked on a leash and small children kept at arms length.
WildSafeBC is a program designed to reduce human-wildlife conflict through education, innovation and cooperation. It has evolved out of the highly successful Bear Aware program and is owned and delivered by the British Columbia Conservation Foundation.
Rossland/Trail WildsafeBC reported 11 bears killed in Trail last year, and nine in Rossland – the highest number since 2010.


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ON Semiconductor (ON) Hitting on All Cylinders
Dividend Investing
November 23, 2021 7:15 am by Rick Rouse
ON Semiconductor (ON) shares have been on a roll this month after announcing a blowout quarter that exceeded Wall Street's forecasts. The company is a leading supplier of power and analog semiconductors, as well as imaging sensors—a white-hot market of late.
One of the biggest developments to ON's solid quarter was the company's concentrated effort in shifting its focus from the consumer and computing markets to the automotive, industrial, and communications markets.
Despite the supply chain issues that have plagued much of corporate America, ON Semiconductor has done well in navigating these issues since acquiring GT Advanced Technologies in August, a producer of silicon carbide (SiC). The $415 million cash deal gave ON Semiconductor an experienced partner in crystalline growth, including SiC, and a key material used in electric vehicles and green energy infrastructure.
The acquisition is already paying dividends, as evident in ON's most recent quarter: on November 1, the company reported a third-quarter profit of $0.87 per share on revenue of $1.74 billion. Wall Street had been expecting $0.74 and $1.71 billion, respectively. For the current quarter, ON Semiconductor said it expects profits between $0.89–$1.01, versus forecasts of $0.75, with revenue of $1.74–$1.84 billion, above estimates of $1.72 billion.
To add even more sizzle to this rosy outlook, gross margins are expected to come in between 42%–44%. More importantly, the company's CEO, Hassane El-Khoury, is delivering on his longer-term strategy to improve the company's structural margins and leverage growth opportunities.
Following the news, a dozen analysts raised their price targets on the stock to the low to mid-$60s, with the high checking in at $75. Given this month's momentum, shares are easily on track to meet these expectations. The chart below shows a double-top breakout above $50 and key resistance from September, with shares at an all-time high. Current support is at $60 with a close back below this leveling signaling a possible near-term top. RSI (relative strength index) is signaling shares are in overbought territory with a reading near 80.
Subscribers to my newsletter, 30-Day Double Up, benefitted from this parabolic move as we were positioned in the ON Semiconductor November 50 call options for $1.00. We took half- and quarter-profits following the earnings news over the next four sessions, with an average overall exit price of $6.625, for a gain of 563% – here's how.
While it was prudent to take these massive gains off the table, options peaked at $13.45 a day before expiration. Of course, we could have seen an even bigger profit potential of more than 1,200%, had we held the position into expiration. However, it's hard to complain after hitting a five-bagger in less than a week.
I will continue to monitor ON Semiconductor for a possible reentry point, as it remains a solid long-term investment. My guess is that shares could trade to $100 at some point in 2022 if the company keeps firing on all cylinders.
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Boy Scouts seek more items for care packages
Maddy Hayden
CARLSBAD — When it came time for the boys in Boy Scout Pack 286 to choose a service project, they thought immediately of U.S. troops overseas.
They decided to collect donations for care packages to send to the soldiers away from home.
"The boys thought this project would be really good to do," leader Sasha Jordan said. "They're really into the Army thing."
Jordan said many of the boys have family members that have served in the military.
The Scouts had originally planned on collecting items through Nov. 7, but after getting just a small amount of donations, Jordan said they will extend the deadline through February.
"We thought maybe we'd get more donations," Jordan said. "We're just hoping to get as many as possible sent over."
Despite the low number of items donated to the effort, the troop gathered Monday night to pack those items they did receive.
They were able to put together around 30 packages to send overseas through a non-profit organization called Operation Gratitude, which has sent nearly 1.4 million packages to overseas military.
Items for the packages were being collected by the troop members through their school, but Jordan said donations can also be given to her, especially those items that aren't allowed to be sent to schools such as razors. Those wishing to make donations or would like the full list of items may call her at 575-706-3253.
Items needed include toothpaste, toenail clippers, gum and phone cards.
"We were wanting to teach them how even sending the smallest thing to someone overseas, they (soldiers) appreciate it no matter what," Jordan said. "They're not always near a store."
Maddy Hayden can be reached to 575-628-5512.


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The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) recommends your horse receive a dental examination and floating, if needed, at least once per year. Horses over twenty years, particularly those with previously diagnosed dental issues, should be seen twice each year. During the exam portion of the dental, the tongue and cheeks are checked for any abnormalities, teeth are closely examined to make sure they are not loose or broken, and the gums are checked for disease.
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We provide parents with opportunities to learn new skills, try new approaches, and talk about shared experiences.
Just as our faculty, staff and students are continually growing and learning, we also strive to offer learning opportunities for our parent community. We know that parenting is a complex and challenging job, and we provide parents with the chance to learn new skills, try new approaches, and talk with fellow parents about shared experiences. We frequently partner with organizations such as PEN (Parents Education Network) and SPEAK (Speakers for Parents' Education And Knowledge) for parent education sessions.
Parenting U
Julia Morgan School for Girls and SOS4Students are partnering to offer a unique half-day conference for parents on Saturday, November 2, featuring a keynote speech by New York Times-bestselling author Peggy Orenstein as well as breakout sessions with experts on executive function, sleep science, homework support strategies, and more. To register, please visit parenting-u.com.
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 2, 2019
Julia Morgan School for Girls, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613
Tickets are $100 per person, with a 25% partner discount
Some of our parent education events from the past few years include:
SPEAK Event, March 13, 2019: What Makes Humans Happy?
SPEAK hosted a discussion with psychologist Laurie Santos, an expert on human cognition, its origins, and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too imperfect life choices. Dr. Santos provided advice on how students can engage their uniquely human faculties to counteract evolution, choose more wisely, and live happier lives.
SPEAK Event, February 6, 2019: Raising My Rainbow
Author and advocate Lori Duron gave a frank, heartfelt, and humorous account of her family's adventures of (initial) distress and (eventual) happiness raising a gender creative son. Duron explained the differences between sex, gender, sexuality, and other related concepts in an easy-to-understand way. In addition, she shared how her family navigated the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a gender creative LGBTQ son and offered tips for supporting kids like hers to beat the statistics and launch them healthily into adulthood.
Challenge Success Event, November 2, 2018: Say What?
At this event, Dr. Denise Pope and Dr. Madeline Levine (co-founders of the nonprofit school reform organization Challenge Success) joined clinical psychologist Dr. Wendy Mogel for a presentation on the role of communication in the parent/child relationship. How we communicate with our children at each age and stage of development changes and brings new opportunities for growth and connection; this session explored how to strengthen conversations and family relationships and support our children to be healthy and engaged learners.
SPEAK Event, October 2, 2018: Reaching for Greatness
In this presentation, Dr. Yong Zhao called for a paradigm shift in education and brings extensive evidence to show that every child has both the potential and the need to become great. He advocates that the goal of education is to help each child discover and develop their unique strengths and passions so that they can be best prepared to meet the challenges of the modern world, including globalization, technology, smart machines, and the need to create value for others. To do so, parents and educators need to make education personalized by the child, instead of personalized for the child. Together, we need to help each child find what uniquely makes them great.
SPEAK Event, Wednesday, April 25, 2018: Getting to Calm
This presentation by clinical psychologist and nationally-recognized author Dr. Laura Kastner focused on how parents can be effective and skillful in handling typical parenting challenges, with the understanding that we all share the all-important goal of maintaining a loving, reliable, and affectionate bond with our children even when it feels like kids are pushing limits almost all the time.
An Evening with Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., March 7, 2018
Dr. Moore, director of the Privilege Institute and the National White Privilege Conference, held two discussion sessions. The first, "Diversity, Privilege, and Leadership: Are We Making Any Progress in the 21st Century?" examined and explored issues of diversity, privilege, oppression, and leadership across America. In the second session, "Teaching and Reaching Black Boys in America," Dr. Moore discussed his newly-released book The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys and concluded the evening with a book signing.
SPEAK Event, Wednesday, February 7, 2018: A Conversation with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, has written a different kind of book this time out—a deeply personal, biting, and affecting account of her life growing up as a biracial Black woman in America in Real American: A Memoir. SPEAK conducted an interview with Julie at this event.
SPEAK Event, Wednesday, October 4, 2017: Empowering Introverted Kids in a Noisy World
One third to one half of all people are introverts, according to research. Acclaimed author, quiet revolutionary, and self-described introvert Susan Cain helped parents and educators understand how to unleash the strengths of introverted kids in a culture that celebrates extroverts.
PEN Event, September 9, 2017: ADHD: Strains & Strengths
Children's Health Council's Dr. Vivien Keil presented this free class for parents and volunteers in partnership with San Francisco Public Library's The Bridge at Main program. The Bridge at Main is a literacy and learning center that prioritizes community learning, adult literacy, youth and family literacy and technology literacy to create a learning environment for 21st century skills.
PEN Event, May 11, 2017: How to "Tech Up" Learning Skills
Summer is a great time to introduce technology to your children, as it avoids the pressure of learning new tools while juggling schoolwork. This workshop makes practical suggestions for getting kids up to speed on tools that can help them in four important academic areas: reading, writing, taking notes, and managing time and tasks. Assistive Technology Consultant Shelley Haven provided recommendations of "essential tools" (Mac, PC, iOS, and Chrome), resources for learning how to operate them, strategies for applying them effectively, and activities to help students practice and build confidence.
SPEAK Event, April 25, 2017: Talking to Our Children About Race
Dr. Howard Stevenson (Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education and Professor of Africana Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania) provided an exploration of racial stress and examine racial literacy as a capacity for improving conversations and relationships.
EdRev 2017: The 9th Annual Education Revolution, April 22, 2017
Sponsored by Parent Education Network (PEN). A unique day of information, resources and celebration for students who learn differently and the families and professionals who support them.
SPEAK Event, February 8, 2017: Queen Bees and Masterminds
Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and Masterminds and Wingmen, discussed the ways in which social group dynamics influence kids' interactions and offered step-by-step advice on how to teach young people to treat each other with dignity.
PEN Event, January 28, 2017: Ain't Just Misbehavin'
Author and education specialist Kari Dunn Buron discussed social cognition, executive function, and emotional regulation as they relate to social anxiety and a loss of emotional control, focusing on evidence-based strategies used to teach social cognitive skills while highlighting the use of the 5-Point Scale.
SPEAK Event, October 25, 2016: Mathematical Mindsets
Dr. Jo Boaler (Ph.D, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University) revealed how to turn mistakes and struggles into valuable learning experiences, provided examples of rich mathematical activities to replace rote learning, and explained ways to give students a positive math mindset.
PEN Event, October 19, 2016: Decoding & Encoding
David Berg (ET, founder and director of the Making Math Real Institute) led a discussion of mathematical concepts and their connection to teaching strategy. If the interconnected codes of the mathematical world are not properly taught, students are likely to be confused and struggle unnecessarily. This presentation provided suggestions for overcoming these barriers.
PEN Event, October 14, 2016: Beyond Labels
Sindy Wilkinson (MEd, LMFT, Director of Enhanced Learning and Growth Center), offered the opportunity for attendees to gain a deeper understanding of learning and attention issues. She focused on the HANDLE (Holistic Approach to Neuro-Development and Learning Efficiency) paradigm, a non-drug, non-judgmental alternative model in which one can view behaviors individually and assess underlying causes and stressors.
SPEAK Event, March 3, 2016: Building a Better Blueprint
Ana Homayoun, noted teen and millennial expert, author, speaker and educator, discussed the intersection of school, social media, and stress.
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Silver & Gold Smashed And Why it Doesn't Matter
Last night saw mass liquidations across nearly all assets except the USD, and even then it barely moved rather than rally. However none got hit as hard as silver which saw nearly 15% falls, the biggest daily drop since the GFC. Both gold and Bitcoin were also off heavily, each by around 5%. It's not entirely clear what the catalyst was but likely the combination of Russia announcing it has a vaccine (and the market not caring it's had just 2 months of trials) and Congress still nowhere near agreement on the next rescue package. The fickle hands of the Robinhood traders who were heavily in the ETF's of SLV and GLD on pure momentum could also be a factor. SLV was sitting at #9 in Robinhood's top 10 most popular trades. Many were calling some kind of pull back at some stage in gold and silver in particular given the strength and speed of the rally we've recently seen. One of the more famous gold analysts, Peter Schiff tweeted:
Indeed there is no coincidence that bull markets are named after something that bucks and challenges you to hold on to win in the end. There are usually clowns heckling you along the way too…
When such big moves happen without any clear catalyst it is a test to ask yourself why you invested in the first place and what has changed. Often the fundamentals haven't and it is just the sort of momentum trade we can see now in our new world of Robinhood and large algorithmic traders. Last night we heard the announcement that the largest independent publicly listed business intelligence company, MicroStrategy, allocated $250m of excess cash reserves to Bitcoin. The reason articulated is a great reminder of why holding gold, silver and their digital brothers of Bitcoin and Ethereum are unchanged. From BusinessWire:
""Our investment in Bitcoin is part of our new capital allocation strategy, which seeks to maximize long-term value for our shareholders," said Michael J. Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy Incorporated. "This investment reflects our belief that Bitcoin, as the world's most widely-adopted cryptocurrency, is a dependable store of value and an attractive investment asset with more long-term appreciation potential than holding cash. Since its inception over a decade ago, Bitcoin has emerged as a significant addition to the global financial system, with characteristics that are useful to both individuals and institutions. MicroStrategy has recognized Bitcoin as a legitimate investment asset that can be superior to cash and accordingly has made Bitcoin the principal holding in its treasury reserve strategy."
Mr. Saylor continued, "MicroStrategy spent months deliberating to determine our capital allocation strategy. Our decision to invest in Bitcoin at this time was driven in part by a confluence of macro factors affecting the economic and business landscape that we believe is creating long-term risks for our corporate treasury program ? risks that should be addressed proactively. Those macro factors include, among other things, the economic and public health crisis precipitated by COVID-19, unprecedented government financial stimulus measures including quantitative easing adopted around the world, and global political and economic uncertainty. We believe that, together, these and other factors may well have a significant depreciating effect on the long-term real value of fiat currencies and many other conventional asset types, including many of the assets traditionally held as part of corporate treasury operations.""
The company has a market cap of $1.31b and proven track record of being ahead the game.
"A leader in the business intelligence space, MicroStrategy has a 30-year history of anticipating technology trends. MicroStrategy was one of the first companies in the enterprise business intelligence software sector. It was a pioneer in Relational Analytics, Web Intelligence, and Mobile Intelligence and has most recently invented HyperIntelligence® – zero click insights that can be embedded in applications to make them smarter, faster, and stronger."
One thing you can be sure of is they will be unfazed by last night's price action.
At the time of writing the southern hemisphere markets opened and silver jumped nearly $1 immediately. Maybe the break in that momentum with the market closed has people reassessing those fundamentals again….


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When an Absolute Pollution Exclusion is Not So Absolute
Author: Carl A. Salisbury
Beginning in the early 1980s, an explosion of litigation across the country occurred, in which corporate policyholders sought insurance coverage for billions of dollars in defense and indemnity for environmental liabilities. The passage by Congress in 1980 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, or CERCLA (also known as "the Superfund law") was the catalyst for an ensuing cottage industry in coverage lawsuits. Corporate policyholders large and small received "Potentially Responsible Party" letters from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and from state departments of environmental protection, holding them strictly liable for the creation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous wastes at thousands of private and municipal landfills across the country. A small handful of visionary lawyers (a couple of whom I had the good fortune to work with in the late 1980s and early 1990s) believed — correctly, as it happens — that the standard Comprehensive General Liability insurance policy that essentially every company in America had been purchasing since the 1940s should provide coverage for this new kind of statutory liability.
Very soon, the dockets of state and federal courts across the country began to fill up with complex monster lawsuits. Each one of these suits might easily involve scores of insurance companies as defendants and many tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in potential insurance coverage. As these cases made their way slowly through the system, judges began providing interpretations of the key words and phrases of the standard CGL policy: "occurrence," "accident," "as damages," "neither expected nor intended from the standpoint of the insured," "damage during the policy period." Starting in 1970, the CGL policy included a standard, limited, pollution exclusion. It excluded coverage for the discharge or release of pollutants unless the discharge or release was "sudden and accidental." That, of course, became another key phrase that courts across the country had to interpret to determine if the CGL policy covered a policyholder's CERCLA liabilities. Not surprisingly, perhaps, a patchwork of case law developed in which some courts interpreted the key coverage provisions favorably to policyholders and others interpreted them favorably to insurers. Soon, the question whether a policyholder might or might not recover insurance proceeds turned on which party won the race to the courthouse, with policyholders running to pro-insured jurisdictions to file their coverage cases and insurance companies running to pro-carrier states to file pre-emptive suits.
"If an insured throws a knife and injures someone, the insurance carrier will now deny coverage on the ground that the harm arose from 'air pollution.'"
Beginning as early as 1982, but occurring in earnest by about 1984, the insurance industry started to include what it called the "Absolute Pollution Exclusion" in the standard CGL policy. This provision eliminated the "sudden and accidental" exception that had been written into the old exclusion. The new exclusion precluded coverage for any liability arising from or relating to bodily injury or property damage from the release of "pollutants," which the provision defined very broadly. Soon enough, courts began interpreting the Absolute Pollution Exclusion and applying it to an ever-expanding class of claims involving harm caused by the use or release of essentially any chemical or substance. The late Eugene Anderson (who became known as the "Dean of the Policyholder Bar" and was a partner of mine at the time) once quipped that if an insured throws a knife and injures someone, the insurance carrier will now deny coverage on the ground that the harm arose from "air pollution."
By about the late 1980s, attorneys who practiced insurance law predicted that the Absolute Pollution Exclusion would bring an end to all environmental coverage litigation in just a few short years. In fact, it took nearly another decade and a half for the pace of filing environmental coverage litigation to slow to a comparable crawl. As time has passed, though, policyholders have had success in some states challenging insurers on claim denials under the Absolute Pollution Exclusion that, once upon a time, were routinely upheld by the courts.
In my home state of New Jersey, for instance, our Supreme Court was one of the first in the nation to narrow the ever-expanding scope of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion in a case called Nav-Its, Inc. v. Selective Ins. Co., 183 N.J. 110 (2005). The court relied, among other things, on a number of representations the insurance industry made in testimony before the New Jersey Insurance Commissioner at the time the industry sought approval of the exclusion for use in CGL policies sold in the state. Those representations strongly suggested that the exclusion would never be used to try to exclude coverage for pollution claims other than traditional industrial waste handling and disposal. Accordingly, the court limited the application of the Absolute Exclusion to hazards that were historically considered "environmental catastrophes related to intentional industrial pollution." A number of federal courts in New Jersey thereafter rejected the application of the exclusion to fact patterns that didn't fit the "traditional environmental pollution" template.
The most recent example of a New Jersey case to apply the exclusion narrowly came in an unpublished trial court decision in Westwood v. Great American E&S Ins. Co., et al., MID-L-2320-13 (2013). (Full disclosure: I represented the policyholder in that case.) Westwood manufactures hoses, filters, and other peripherals for the oil and gas industry. Its products are sold and distributed in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. A Westwood filter was installed on a home heating oil tank in Canada. It appears that the installer did not properly fit the gasket to the device, leaving a gap through which thousands of gallons of oil were released onto the ground during several refills of the tank. The resulting pollution caused extensive environmental damage for which the homeowner sued Westwood, among others. Westwood argued, and the trial court agreed, that the claim at issue was not an "environmental catastrophe related to industrial pollution" but was, instead, in the nature of a defective-product suit. Therefore, the pollution exclusion did not apply.
Injury or damage must have a legal cause, even if there is no such thing as a sole cause.
In a case decided last month, the Washington Supreme Court employed a causation analysis to reject a coverage denial in what otherwise would have been a straightforward application of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion. The case is Xia v. ProBuilders Specialty Ins. Co., No. 92436-8 (Apr. 27, 2017). (Get a copy here.) This is how it happened.
The plaintiff in the case moved into a new home in May 2006. Soon thereafter, she became ill. A service contractor discovered that the builder had incorrectly installed a vent on the hot water heater, a defect that released carbon monoxide into the home. She sued the builder, which put its liability carrier, ProBuilders Specialty Insurance Company, on notice. ProBuilders declined coverage on the basis of a broad Absolute Pollution Exclusion in its policy. The plaintiff eventually settled with the builder for $2 million and took an assignment of the builder's insurance claim against ProBuilders in exchange for an agreement that she would seek to recover the settlement only through the proceeds, if any, from the ProBuilders policy. This is a pretty common way for insurance coverage claims to reach the courts.
The case made its way through the lower courts and ultimately got accepted for appeal to the Washington Supreme Court. The court framed the questions on appeal in this way: "Does the specific pollution exclusion include the carbon monoxide in this case, and does the exclusion preclude coverage when the cause of the loss was a covered occurrence under a different provision." The answer to those questions was, according to the court, "Yes," and "No," respectively.
The court reviewed the development of earlier case law on the absolute exclusion and found that Washington courts had applied the exclusion "to preclude coverage in the case of traditional environmental harms or where the pollutant acted as a pollutant." In other words, the interpretation of the absolute exclusion in Washington had followed a course similar to that employed by courts in New Jersey (and a few others), and had reached a similar conclusion. Under this analysis, the first question is whether the occurrence stems from traditional pollution and whether it involves a "pollutant acting as a pollutant." The court concluded that, in fact, the carbon monoxide release did constitute a "traditional environmental harm" in which the pollutant acted as a pollutant. The court did not end the analysis there, however. It also considered whether the otherwise excluded occurrence was the "efficient proximate cause" of the claimed loss. Here, it is worthwhile to take a short diversion.
In a post on December 5, 2016, I discussed a decision by the Florida Supreme Court that explored causation in the context of insurance coverage. Causation is a central concept in very nearly all of litigation. Cause and effect, cause and result; these are superficially simple concepts in theory that are vexatious to apply in practice. Most have heard of the "butterfly effect." It is a concept in chaos theory that posits that tiny changes in the initial condition of a system can cascade into larger and larger perturbances. It inspired a famous and influential scientific lecture by Edward Lorenz entitled Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? The point of the butterfly effect is that every event that happens in the world alters the future and is a "cause" of everything that occurs thereafter. There is no such thing as a "sole cause" of anything. But lawyers and judges and courts — and the parties who look to the courts to resolve their disputes — can't live with such uncertainty. Injury or damage must have a legal cause, even if there is no such thing as a sole cause. In the law, the legal cause of injury or damage is the one we identify as the "proximate cause."
Getting back to the Xia decision, then. The Washington Supreme Court has adopted a theory of causation that further limits the legal cause of an event to the "efficient proximate cause." The court described it as follows: "Under Washington law, the rule of efficient proximate cause provides coverage 'where a covered peril sets in motion a causal chain[,] the last link of which is an uncovered peril.'" In other words, if the first cause in a chain of events is a covered peril, it doesn't matter that other concurrent causes might be excluded perils. The court will look only to the first cause to determine if coverage applies.
Now, the insurance industry has been writing exclusions for many years that contain language to circumvent the concepts of concurrent causation (one or more causes combining to result in an injury) and efficient proximate causation from coverage decisions. The standard Absolute Pollution Exclusion contains such language. In fact, the exclusion in Xia contained such language: "The Exclusion applies regardless of the cause of the pollution and whether any other cause of said property damage, bodily injury, or personal injury acted jointly, concurrently, or in any sequence with said pollutants or pollution."
A number of states, including the State of Washington, have rejected anti-concurrent-causation provisions such as the one that appeared in the exclusion in the Xia case. For this reason, the Washington Supreme Court voided the anti-concurrent-causation clause of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion: "The exclusion cannot eviscerate a covered occurrence merely because an uncovered peril appeared later in the causal chain. The efficient proximate cause rule exists to avoid just such a result, ensuring that an insurance policy offered for indemnity of a covered peril will provide coverage when a loss is proximately caused by that covered peril."
From there, it was a relatively short leap to the conclusion that the event in this case should be covered. "[I]t is clear that a polluting occurrence happened," said the court, "when the hot water heater spewed forth toxic levels of carbon monoxide into Xia's home. However, by applying the efficient proximate cause rule, it becomes equally clear that the ProBuilders policy provided coverage for the loss. The polluting occurrence here happened only after an initial covered occurrence, which was the negligent installation of a hot water heater that typically does not pollute when used as intended."
Courts are increasingly willing to apply coverage rules that significantly restrict the application of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion.
There are problems for both policyholders and insurers inherent in the application of an "efficient proximate cause" rule to insurance coverage. By definition, the rule focuses solely on the most remote cause in a chain of occurrences and ignores all of the more immediate causes, a choice that seems arbitrary. In states that do not preclude the use of anti-concurrent-causation clauses, the efficient proximate cause rule may operate to preclude coverage unfairly to a policyholder when there are concurrent causes of a loss, at least one of which is covered, and the carrier chose not to employ an anti-concurrent-causation exclusion for that loss. An efficient proximate cause can just as easily be excluded as it can be covered. In a state such as Washington, which has outlawed anti-concurrent-causation clauses as a matter of public policy (California, North Dakota, and West Virginia have also done so), policyholders may find that they have no coverage when a long chain of causes fall within the coverage of a policy except for the very first one. It just happens that the insurer's ox was the one that got gored in the Xia case.
The broader take-away from the Xia case, though, is that courts are increasingly willing to apply coverage rules that significantly restrict the application of the Absolute Pollution Exclusion. When it was first introduced, that exclusion appeared to mark the end of coverage for any and all losses that could remotely be viewed to involve a release of essentially any substance whatsoever into the environment. Indeed, for a period of years after its introduction, insurance carriers were getting away with applying that exclusion in highly creative ways to deny claims that could never have been in the contemplation of its drafters, that was contrary to what those drafters routinely represented to insurance regulators at the time of adoption, and that was thwarting policyholders' reasonable expectations of coverage. It now appears that the pendulum might be in full swing in the other direction.
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March 28, 2019 Peyton Skipwith
As the London Times noted recently: 'March 29, 2019 is etched in the minds of many. No, not as the date that was set for Britain to leave the EU, but the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens.' The young 'Ned' Lutyens's father was a painter of horses and had him christened Edwin Landseer in honour of his hero, the artist Sir Edwin Landseer, beloved by Queen Victoria and later to be celebrated throughout the world as the painter of The Monarch of the Glen.
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Ned Lutyens was precocious and a compulsive drawer. He set up his own architectural practice in 1888 at the age of nineteen, having already completed his studies at the South Kensington Schools and worked briefly for the practice of Ernest George and Peto. His first commission was a house in Surrey, at which time he met the renowned landscape gardener Gertrude Jeckyll, initiating a partnership that was to have an effect world-wide in regard to the relationship between building and nature, and we will see tangible proofs of this when we visit Le Bois des Mouitiers (1898) at Varengeville in June. A few years later he built Munstead Wood for Miss Jeckyll, a landmark in domestic architecture, and in 1904 the German writer and architectural critic, Hermann Muthesius, in his great work, Das Englische Haus, predicted that Lutyens, who was still only thirty five, would 'soon become the accepted leader among English builders of houses.' He was not wrong!
Lutyens was the most inventive British architect since Sir Christopher Wren, as is borne out by the seldom seen La Maison des Communes, built on a triple-butterfly plan, which we will visit while we are in Varengeville. However, he was not just content to design and build houses. The imperial city of New Delhi, which he planned and created in an often uneasy partnership with Herbert Baker, is architecture on the grandest scale, and the gardens of the Viceregal (now the Presidential) Palace are yet another tribute to his collaboration with Miss Jeckyll. However his greatest work was still to come.
Towards the end of the war he was appointed one of the three principal architects to the Imperial War Graves Commission. Among the many monuments and memorials he was to design is the Monument to the Missing at Thiepval, which we will also visit in June. This stark monument is not only awe-inspiring in its complexity, it is also chilling in the respect it inspires for those tens-of-thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers, whose bodies were never found but whose names are here engraved in stone – 'Their Name Liveth For Ever More'. This great monument , with its elaborate geometry, stands in stark contrast to his simplest – and possibly best known – memorial, the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall, the scene of the annual Service of Remembrance.
Join us in June in Normandy and Picardy when we can toast his memory once again, perhaps this time with a glass of the refreshing local cider, or even calvados.
About Peyton Skipwith
Peyton Skipwith is a leading authority on British arts, both fine and decorative, of the 1870-1940 period. He retired in 2005 as Deputy Managing Director of The Fine Art Society in New Bond Street, after 40 years of service. During that time he curated or co-curated exhibitions covering most aspects of British fine and decorative arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among those were The Arts & Crafts Movement (1973), Jewellery and Jewellery Design 1850-1930 (1976), Sculpture in Britain Between the Wars (1987), Britain Between the Wars (2004), Sixty Paintings by Joseph Southall from the Alan M. Fortunoff Collection (2005). Since retiring from the Fine Arts Society he has written a number of books, including for ACC Art Book's design series, in conjunction with Brian Webb – Edward Bawden; Eric Ravilious; Paul & John Nash; John Piper; McKnight Kauffer; Claude Lovat Fraser; Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon -The Heyday of the Curwen Press; Peter Blake and David Gentleman. Read more about Peyton Skipwith.
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Adrian Yanez: 'I'm more than likely going to finish Kyle Estrada at LFA 78
Mick Hammond
When it comes to his two wins in 2019, bantamweight Adrian Yanez sees things as a mixed bag.
While he's not overly impressed with his first win of the year over Warren Stewart in January, he is more so pleased with how his June victory over Michael Rodriguez turned out.
"I don't hold my win over Warren that high," Yanez told MMAWeekly.com. "I just kind of count it as a warm-up fight just to get the year going.
"Then my fight with Michael was a good one. I knew I was the more well-rounded fighter. It was a good win for me. He had a winning record. He fought some tough guys. Getting a win over him was really good for me. It helped get the ball rolling for me to get another winning streak."
While Yanez has had two bouts so far this year, he originally was scheduled to have three. When a bout in August was scrapped when his opponent Levi Mowles came in overweight, Yanez then had to wait until the LFA was able finalize their move from AXS TV to UFC Fight Pass.
"With the rescheduling and everything that had went on, it was nerve-wrecking a little bit because I didn't know when I was going to fight," said Yanez.
"My coach told me to relax, and then I got confirmation from (the LFA) that they wanted me to stay on this card, to just to relax, and they would take care of me. Once they did that everything has fallen into place and has been looking up since."
On November 15 in Belton, Texas, Yanez (9-3) will look to continue his willing ways when he faces Kyle Estrada (10-4) in the 135-pound main event of LFA 78.
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"I feel Kyle is a great match-up for me," Yanez said. "I've fought a lot of wrestlers in my past, and I feel I don't have to worry about wrestlers taking a shot at me anymore. His style is just going to open up my tool box to let me do whatever I want.
"He's a good fighter, a scrappy guy, but I feel if I just stick to what I do best I'll beat him. If I mind my P's and Q's then I'm more than likely going to finish him."
Should Yanez close out his 2019 undefeated for the year, he'll be looking to make his move up to the next level by the end 2020.
"You can say I'm taking it fight by fight, but I'm also trying to plan things out," said Yanez. "I want to be back in by February depending on how my body heals.
"I feel if I fight now and just rest up for the rest of the year I can fight again in February and then just try to make it four by fights by the end of 2020, and hopefully by the end of 2020 I'm in the UFC."


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Dr Moreno Di Marco
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Possingham Lab
m.dimarco@uq.edu.au
Since 2009, I have performed research in Universities and NGOs in Italy, UK and Australia. I completed a PhD in Ecological Sciences at The University Sapienza of Rome, and I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland. My research interests span across the realms of Conservation Biology and Macroecology. I am interested in the identification of global- and local-scale conservation priorities, using systematic conservation planning techniques and with a focus on international biodiversity targets. I am also interested in global conservation policy and the reciprocal feedback between conservation policy and conservation science. In addition, I am interested in the investigation of biogeographical and macroecological patterns at a global and regional scale, and how these are distorted by human activities. I am generally interested in investigating the effects of human pressure on multiple levels of biodiversity organisation, from the prediction of species extinction risk to the prediction of functional changes in animal communities. Terrestrial mammals represent my preferred study group, also due to my background on large carnivores, but I have broader experience with research projects on terrestrial vertebrates.
Coad, Lauren, Watson, James E. M., Geldmann, Jonas, Burgess, Neil D., Leverington, Fiona, Hockings, Marc, Knights, Kathryn and Di Marco, Moreno (2019) Widespread shortfalls in protected area resourcing undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17 5: 259-264. doi:10.1002/fee.2042
Di Marco, Moreno, Harwood, Tom D., Hoskins, Andrew J., Ware, Chris, Hill, Samantha L. L. and Ferrier, Simon (2019) Projecting impacts of global climate and land‐use scenarios on plant biodiversity using compositional‐turnover modelling. Global Change Biology, . doi:10.1111/gcb.14663
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Allan, James R., Watson, James E. M., Di Marco, Moreno, O'Bryan, Christopher J., Possingham, Hugh P., Atkinson, Scott C. and Venter, Oscar (2019) Hotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates. PLOS Biology, 17 3: . doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000158
Smith, Robert J., Bennun, Leon, Brooks, Thomas M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Cuttelod, Annabelle, Di Marco, Moreno, Ferrier, Simon, Fishpool, Lincoln D. C., Joppa, Lucas, Juffe‐Bignoli, Diego, Knight, Andrew T., Lamoreux, John F., Langhammer, Penny, Possingham, Hugh P., Rondinini, Carlo, Visconti, Piero, Watson, James E. M., Woodley, Stephen, Boitani, Luigi, Burgess, Neil D., Silva, Naamal, Dudley, Nigel, Fivaz, Fabien, Game, Edward T., Groves, Craig, Lötter, Mervyn, McGowan, Jennifer, Plumptre, Andrew J., Rebelo, Anthony G., Rodriguez, Jon Paul and Scaramuzza, Carlos A. de M. (2019) Synergies between the key biodiversity area and systematic conservation planning approaches. Conservation Letters, 12 1: e12625. doi:10.1111/conl.12625
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Di Marco, Moreno, Venter, Oscar, Possingham, Hugh P. and Watson, James E. M. (2018) Changes in human footprint drive changes in species extinction risk. Nature Communications, 9 4621. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07049-5
Mazor, Tessa, Doropoulos, Christopher, Schwarzmueller, Florian, Gladish, Daniel W., Kumaran, Nagalingam, Merkel, Katharina, Di Marco, Moreno and Gagic, Vesna (2018) Global mismatch of policy and research on drivers of biodiversity loss. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 7: 1071-+. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0563-x
Di Marco, Moreno, Watson, James E. M., Currie, David J, Possingham, Hugh P. and Venter, Oscar (2018) The extent and predictability of the biodiversity-carbon correlation. Ecology Letters, 21 3: 365-375. doi:10.1111/ele.12903
Venter, Oscar, Magrach, Ainhoa, Outram, Nick, Klein, Carissa Joy, Possingham, Hugh P, Di Marco, Moreno and Watson, James E M (2017) Bias in protected-area location and its effects on long-term aspirations of biodiversity conventions. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 32 1: 127-134. doi:10.1111/cobi.12970
Allen, Toph, Murray, Kris A., Zambrana-Torrelio, Carlos, Morse, Stephen S., Rondinini, Carlo, Di Marco, Moreno, Breit, Nathan, Olival, Kevin J. and Daszak, Peter (2017) Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases. Nature Communications, 8 1: 1124. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00923-8
McGowan, Jennifer, Smith, Robert J. , Di Marco, Moreno, Clarke, Rohan H. and Possingham, Hugh P. (2017) An evaluation of marine important bird and biodiversity areas in the context of spatial conservation prioritization. Conservation Letters, 11 3: e12399. doi:10.1111/conl.12399
Crooks, Kevin R., Burdett, Christopher L., Theobald, David M., King, Sarah R. B., Di Marco, Moreno, Rondinini, Carlo and Boitani, Luigi (2017) Quantification of habitat fragmentation reveals extinction risk in terrestrial mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 29: 7635-7640. doi:10.1073/pnas.1705769114
Kuempel, Caitlin, Di Marco, Moreno, Watson, James Edward and Possingham, Hugh (2017) Achieving the targets of global conventions. Decision Point Online, 100: 16-16.
Allen, T., Murray, K., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Morse, S., Rondinini, C., di Marco, M., Olival, K. and Daszak, P. (2017) Corrigendum to "Global correlates of emerging zoonoses: Anthropogenic, environmental, and biodiversity risk factors" [Int. J. Infect. Dis. 53 (Supplement S) (December 2016) 21](S1201971216312759)(10.1016/j.ijid.2016.11.057). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 58 68-68. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2017.03.016
Santini, Luca, Gonzalez-Suarez, Manuela, Rondinini, Carlo and Di Marco, Moreno (2017) Shifting baseline in macroecology? Unravelling the influence of human impact on mammalian body mass. Diversity and Distributions, 23 6: 640-649. doi:10.1111/ddi.12555
Di Marco, Moreno, Chapman, Sarah, Althor, Glenn, Kearney, Stephen, Besancon, Charles, Butt, Nathalie, Maina, Joseph M. , Possingham, Hugh P. , Bieberstein, Katharina Rogalla von, Venter, Oscar and Watson, James E. M. (2017) Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science. Global Ecology and Conservation, 10 32-42. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2017.01.008
Watson, James, McDonald-Madden, Eve, Allan, James, Jones, Kendall, Di Marco, Moreno and Fuller, Richard (2016, December 14). Half the world's ecosystems at risk from habitat loss, and Australia is one of the worst. , .
Moreno, Di Marco, Watson, James E.M., Venter, Oscar and Possingham, Hugh P. (2016) Global biodiversity targets requires both sufficiency and efficiency. Conservation Letters, 9 6: 395-397. doi:10.1111/conl.12299
Tracewski, Łukasz, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Di Marco, Moreno, Ficetola, Gentile F., Rondinini, Carlo, Symes, Andy, Wheatley, Hannah, Beresford, Alison E. and Buchanan, Graeme M. (2016) Toward quantification of the impact of 21st-century deforestation on the extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology, 30 5: 1070-1079. doi:10.1111/cobi.12715
Watson, James E. M., Jones, Kendall R., Fuller, Richard A., Di Marco, Moreno, Segan, Daniel B., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Allan, James R., McDonald-Madden, Eve and Venter, Oscar (2016) Persistent disparities between recent rates of habitat conversion and protection and implications for future global conservation targets. Conservation Letters, 9 6: 1-9. doi:10.1111/conl.12295
Di Marco, Moreno, Watson, James E. M., Possingham, Hugh P. and Venter, Oscar (2016) Limitations and trade-offs in the use of species distribution maps for protected area planning. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54 2: 1-10. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12771
Watson, James E. M., Shanahan, Danielle F., Di Marco, Moreno, Allan, James, Laurance, William F., Sanderson, Eric W., Mackey, Brendan and Venter, Oscar (2016) Catastrophic declines in wilderness areas undermine global environmental targets. Current Biology, 26 21: 2929-2934. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.049
Juffe-Bignoli, Diego, Brooks, Thomas M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Jenkins, Richard B., Boe, Kaia, Hoffmann, Michael, Angulo, Ariadne, Bachman, Steve, Bohm, Monika, Brummitt, Neil, Carpenter, Kent E., Comer, Pat J., Cox, Neil, Cuttelod, Annabelle, Darwall, William R. T., Di Marco, Moreno, Fishpool, Lincoln D. C., Goettsch, Barbara, Heath, Melanie, Hilton-Taylor, Craig, Hutton, Jon, Johnson, Tim, Joolia, Ackbar, Keith, David A., Langhammer, Penny F., Luedtke, Jennifer, Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Lutz, Maiko, May, Ian, Miller, Rebecca M., Oliveira-Mrinda, Maria A., Parr, Mike, Pollock, Caroline M., Ralph, Gina, Rodriguez, Jon Paul, Rondinini, Carlo, Smart, Jane, Stuart, Simon, Symes, Andy, Tordoff, Andrew W., Woodley, Stephen, Young, Bruce and Kingston, Naomi (2016) Assessing the cost of global biodiversity and conservation knowledge. PLoS ONE, 11 8: e0160640. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160640
Butchart, Stuart H. M., DiMarco, Moreno and Watson, James E. M. (2016) Formulating smart commitments on biodiversity: lessons from the Aichi Targets. Conservation Letters, 9 6: 1-12. doi:10.1111/conl.12278
Di Marco, Moreno and Santini, Luca (2016) Climatic tolerance or geographic breadth: What are we measuring?. Global Change Biology, 22 3: 972-973. doi:10.1111/gcb.12984
Di Marco, Moreno, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Visconti, Piero, Buchanan, Graeme M., Ficetola, Gentile F. and Rondinini, Carlo (2016) Synergies and trade-offs in achieving global biodiversity targets. Conservation Biology, 30 1: 189-195. doi:10.1111/cobi.12559
Di Marco, Moreno, Santini, Luca, Visconti, Piero, Mortelliti, Alessio, Boitani, Luigi and Rondinini, Carlo (2016) Using habitat suitability models to scale up population persistence targets. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 27 1: . doi:10.4404/hystrix-27.1-11660
Visconti, Piero, Bakkenes, Michel, Baisero, Daniele, Brooks, Thomas, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Joppa, Lucas, Alkemade, Rob, Di Marco, Moreno, Santini, Luca, Hoffmann, Michael, Maiorano, Luigi, Pressey, Robert L., Arponen, Anni, Boitani, Luigi, Reside, April E., van Vuuren, Detlef P. and Rondinini, Carlo (2016) Projecting global biodiversity indicators under future development scenarios. Conservation Letters, 9 1: 5-13. doi:10.1111/conl.12159
Di Marco, Moreno, Collen, Ben, Rondinini, Carlo and Mace, Georgina M. (2015) Historical drivers of extinction risk: using past evidence to direct future monitoring. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, 282 1813: 1-9. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0928
Di Marco, Moreno and Santini, Luca (2015) Human pressures predict species' geographic range size better than biological traits. Global Change Biology, 21 6: 2169-2178. doi:10.1111/gcb.12834
Di Marco, Moreno, Brooks, Thomas, Cuttelod, Annabelle, Fishpool, Lincoln D. C., Rondinini, Carlo, Smith, Robert J., Bennun, Leon, Butchart, Stuart H., Ferrier, Simon, Foppen, Ruud P. B., Joppa, Lucas, Juffe-Bignoli, Diego, Knight, Andrew T., Lamoreux, John F., Langhammer, Penny F., May, Ian, Possingham, Hugh P., Visconti, Piero, Watson, James E. M. and Woodley, Stephen (2015) Quantifying the relative irreplaceability of important bird and biodiversity areas. Conservation Biology, 30 2: 392-402. doi:10.1111/cobi.12609
Penone, Caterina, Davidson, Ana D., Shoemaker, Kevin T., Di Marco, Moreno, Rondinini, Carlo, Brooks, Thomas M., Young, Bruce E., Graham, Catherine H. and Costa, Gabriel C. (2014) Imputation of missing data in life-history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5 9: 1-10. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12232
Di Marco, M., Boitani, L., Mallon, D., Hoffmann, M., Iacucci, A., Meijaard, E., Visconti, P., Schipper, J. and Rondinini, C. (2014) A Retrospective evaluation of the global decline of carnivores and ungulates. Conservation Biology, 28 4: 1109-1118. doi:10.1111/cobi.12249
Venter, Oscar, Fuller, Richard A., Segan, Daniel B., Carwardine, Josie, Brooks, Thomas, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Di Marco, Moreno, Iwamura, Takuya, Joseph, Liana, O'Grady, Damien, Possingham, Hugh P., Rondinini, Carlo, Smith, Robert J., Venter, Michelle and Watson, James E. M. (2014) Targeting global protected area expansion for imperiled biodiversity. PLoS Biology, 12 6: e1001891.1-e1001891.7. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001891
Santini, L., Di Marco, M., Boitani, L., Maiorano, L. and Rondinini, C. (2014) Incorporating spatial population structure in gap analysis reveals inequitable assessments of species protection. Diversity and Distributions, 20 6: 698-707. doi:10.1111/ddi.12198
Di Marco, Moreno, Buchanan, Graeme M., Szantoi, Zoltan, Holmgren, Milena, Marasini, Gabriele Grottolo, Gross, Dorit, Tranquilli, Sandra, Boitani, Luigi and Rondinini, Carlo (2014) Drivers of extinction risk in African mammals: the interplay of distribution state, human pressure, conservation response and species biology. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 369 1643: 1-12. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0198
Rondinini, Carlo, Di Marco, Moreno, Visconti, Piero, Butchart, Stuart H. M. and Boitani, Luigi (2014) Update or outdate: long-term viability of the IUCN Red List. Conservation Letters, 7 2: 126-130. doi:10.1111/conl.12040
Pacifici, Michela, Santini, Luca, Di Marco, Moreno, Baisero, Daniele, Francucci, Lucilla, Marasini, Gabriele Grottolo, Visconti, Piero and Rondinini, Carlo (2013) Generation length for mammals. Nature Conservation, 5 87-94. doi:10.3897/natureconservation.5.5734
Visconti, P., Di Marco, M., Alvarez-Romero, J. G., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., Pressey, R. L., Weeks, R. and Rondinini, C. (2013) Effects of errors and gaps in spatial data sets on assessment of conservation progress. Conservation Biology, 27 5: 1000-1010. doi:10.1111/cobi.12095
Di Marco, Moreno, Rondinini, Carlo, Boitani, Luigi and Murray, Kris A. (2013) Comparing multiple species distribution proxies and different quantifications of the human footprint map, implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 165 203-211. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.05.030
Murray, Kris A., Verde Arregoitia, Luis D., Davidson, Ana, Di Marco, Moreno and Di Fonzo, Martina M. I. (2013) Threat to the point: improving the value of comparative extinction risk analysis for conservation action. Global Change Biology, 20 2: 483-494. doi:10.1111/gcb.12366
Santini, Luca, di Marco, Moreno, Visconti, Piero, Baisero, Daniele, Boitani, Luigi and Rondinini, Carlo (2013) Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals. Hystrix, 24 2: 181-186. doi:10.4404/hystrix-24.2-8746
Di Marco, Moreno, Cardillo, Marcel, Possingham, Hugh P., Wilson, Kerrie A., Blomberg, Simon P., Boitani, Luigi and Rondinini, Carlo (2012) A novel approach for global mammal extinction risk reduction. Conservation Letters, 5 2: 134-141. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00219.x
Rondinini, Carlo, Boitani, Luigi, Rodrigues, Ana S. L., Brooks, Thomas M., Pressey, Robert L., Visconti, Piero, Baillie, Jonathan E. M., Baisero, Daniele, Cabeza, Mar, Crooks, Kevin R., Di Marco, Moreno, Redford, Kent H., Andelman, Sandy A., Hoffmann, Michael, Maiorano, Luigi, Stuart, Simon N. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2011) Reconciling global mammal prioritization schemes into a strategy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 1578: 2722-2728. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0112
Wilson, Kerrie A., Evans, Megan, C., Di Marco, Moreno, Green, David C., Boitani, Luigi, Possingham, Hugh P., Chiozza, Federica and Rondinini, Carlo (2011) Prioritizing conservation investments for mammal species globally. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 1578: 2670-2680. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0108
Rondinini, Carlo, Di Marco, Moreno, Chiozza, Federica, Santulli, Giulia, Baisero, Daniele, Visconti, Piero, Hoffmann, Michael, Schipper, Jan, Stuart, Simon N., Tognelli, Marcelo F., Amori, Giovanni, Falcucci, Alessandra, Maiorano, Luigi and Boitani, Luigi (2011) Global habitat suitability models of terrestrial mammals. Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, 366 1578: 2633-2641. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0113
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First class have been learning all about the very important people in our school community. There are so many people that work tirelessly to make our school a happy and safe place to be. There's Ms Doherty our principal, Karen our school secretary and John our caretaker to name but a few. But did you know that there is a very important group of people who work hard for our school when we are in school and when we go home. They are the parents association led by the chairperson, Mrs Allison Carter. Can you think of some of the fun things the parent's association have organised for us? There are so so many! Below is a list of things that Room 9 could remember from the last year.
The list is endless! First class recently invited the chairperson, Mrs Allison Carter, in to our class to ask her some very important questions. Below is a photo of Allison in Room 8 with Ms Bates and Room 9.
For photos of Allison's visit and of the recent bingo event, please click here.


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The University of Global Peace is currently undergoing building construction.
It is located a short walk away, about 100 meters away from Oo Yin Pariyatti Monastery, at the foot of Yankin Hill Mountain, about miles east of Mandalay.
Sayadaw's vision and goal of uniting the world, with his principal motto of, "Global Peace & Harmony " is an emphasis on bringing about harmony and peace within all groups of worldly people, despite caste, race, gender or religion.
The newly opened College of Global Peace and also the University of Global Peace have been built with this principal in focus, for all people to be able to study the Dhamma studies and receive a high standard of education.
The University of Global Peace is due to be complete by the end of 2016.
The Degrees offered at the The University of Global Peace are a continuation of studies including the Diploma in English currently being offered at the College of Global Peace.
Students who have finished other Degrees, or Diplomas elsewhere will be eligible to apply to study the Degrees offered at this university.
There will be a wide range of a high standard of Degrees offered at the University of Global Peace, on various Religious Studies and other Degrees, with native English speaking teachers invited to live and teach at the University.
Sayadaw U Jotika states below why he decided to establish The University of Global Peace At Yankin Hill.
"My ambition is to decrease suffering for all beings in human society and help increase peaceful life for all. Every person who observes morality can make a peaceful life not only for oneself, but for others in the surrounding environment.
I feel that the word Peace does not depend on any religion, e.g. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam or Hinduism.
Peace is dependent upon how one observes morality. When the majority accept and observe strong morality, this will enable really peaceful Dhamma.
The university will teach the really peaceful Dhamma."
Sayadaw's aim is to allow students from all nationalities, all religious backgrounds to attend, to study an open range of Religious subjects.
This objective includes having experienced scholars from various religious groups to lecture classes and spread awareness of theory teachings of their religions in an open, peaceful, non-dogmatic way.
This will allow an opportunity for students attending the University of Global Peace to learn and develop their wisdom, awareness and increase understanding, tolerance, respect and appreciation of other religions.
Sayadaw U Jotika laying down one of the 9 Jeweled bricks as part of a new buldings foundation setting at Global Peace University. A Part of Oo Yin Monastery
The front archway pillars being built into construction.
One of the main buildings still in construction.
The foundations the main building of the University of Global Peace in progress.
The foundations for one of the University buildings in progress.


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Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a Japanese cultural anthropologist whose work on digital media and young people has established her as one of the most exciting scholars in the field. Currently Professor in Residence and MacArthur Foundation chair in Digital Media and Learning, University of California, Irvine, in her early work she focused on the cultural dynamics of children's computer games and software. She moved on to examine the role of the changing digital media landscape in shaping the identities and social relationships of young people in Japan and the USA, particularly in relation to mobile phones and online anime fandom. Using innovative ethnographic research methods, her writings have been central to understanding the cultural and social consequences of the digital media revolution for young people. She co-authored the Polity book Participatory Culture in a Networked Era (with danah boyd and Henry Jenkins).


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The most luxurious of spa therapies. Starting off with a hydrating exfoliate with your choice of coconut, vanilla or sugar kiss scrub to remove dead skin then a vitamin mousse mask is applied to the body to decongest, detoxify and grant vitality to the skin. To awaken your spirit- relax under a cascading waterfall with our Vichy Shower. A relaxing 30min wellness massage is performed to compliment this service.
Relax with a hot chocolate to start!
All of the pleasure, non of the guilt. Escape to a state of bliss while the sensory pleasures of chocolate indulgence entice your senses. Your treatment will begin with a custom skin glowing exfoliation. Then bring your mind and body into perfect balance with a tantalizing, cocoa-laced firming mud wrap. You are then cocooned in warm linens allowing the moisturizing properties of this treatment to pamper your body. To awaken your spirit- relax under a cascading waterfall with our Vichy Shower. To complete this chocolate fantasy, an application of deep hydrating creamy lotion is applied. A "chocolate treat" will be given to satisfy your sweet craving.
Choose from warm coconut, vanilla or sugar kiss to hydrate, exfoliate and detox the body. To awaken your spirit- relax under a cascading waterfall with our Vichy Shower.
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A ritual bath to add to any of your services.
Himalayan salts are used to draw impurities and aid in relaxation.


The sun has got his hat on this week and I'm wanting to celebrate the approaching summertime and make the most of my outside space, particularly the patio area. Time to spruce up ready for outdoor living and hopefully have a pretty space all set for having alfresco teatimes, entertaining and just some quiet sunny relaxation.
1.Firstly you need a place to sit whether it's a formal bistro set or an informal bench and picnic table. Whatever the size of your space, from large garden to courtyard, somewhere to unwind when you get home from work or entertain at the weekend is a must. Give wooden furniture a lick of fresh paint, I love cool and fresh sage green or go bold with many of the colourful outdoor paints available. Spray paints for metal furniture can create some exciting combinations. Don't forget the good old stripy British deckchair too!
2. I love to decorate the patio area with bunting and lanterns for a party atmosphere. I buy big bright pin-wheels for fun, placing them into pots and when we are on holiday I usually look in gift shops for flags and other seaside trinkets to add to my patio collection. Many of these items just last the season, so cheap and cheerful is perfect.
3. Think about lighting for the summer evenings. Tea light holders and lanterns for romantic flickering light and citronella candles will keep the bugs away. My favourite lights are coloured solar powered fairy lights and I string them in trees and bushes around the patio; it looks magical in the evening.
4. My dream would be to have a seamless look in the transition from indoors to outdoors. A contemporary material in the house like Amtico flooring that is robust for family life with a boisterous boy and two dogs, leading onto a Yorkstone patio would be amazing and have a warm quality. Choose similar colours to give the illusion of continuation.
5. In summer it's so much fun to go to the garden centre and stock up on tons of lovely plants to make up pots or hanging baskets for outside. I put themed plantings together so a Pimms basket with strawberries and mint or a salad mix in a terracotta pot with different types of lettuce, radishes and tumbling cherry tomatoes.
On the walls bordering my patio I look for quirky pots that I can attach with brackets and my main plant of the season is the geranium with their distinctive look and smell that gives a Mediterranean feel.
7. What would summer be without a picnic? Bring out the coloured melamine plates, the checked blanket and lots of tasty picnic treats. The quintessential British barbecue must make an appearance, the smell of charcoal will always remind me of my childhood and burgers slightly burnt around the edges by my dad and a table with a bottle of Cinzano sat on it. It was pretty basic back in the 1980's , standard fodder of sausages on a bun but nowadays it's a more culinary exciting affair, have a look at these barbecue recipe ideas.
8. Keep the children happy with a selection of fun garden games and box of outdoor activities. We love chunky chalk for drawing on the patio or decking with, bubbles and hula hoops. My son loves water play so we have foam and squeeky bottles aplenty.
9. Use what you already have and upcycle, saving money and creating a unique item. Paint up plastic plant pots to coordinate your colour scheme or create unusual seating made from old pallets. I inherited a dolly tub and that is now used as a seasonal planter.
10. Make your outside space more private using trees in pots as a screen or have climbers twining their way up the supports of pergolas. Extend the height of walls and fences with trellis to grow summer blooms clematis or honeysuckle against. A mini water feature with trickling noise will help disguise against outside noise and bamboos that swish in the wind will help with the feeling of seclusion.
I do bet those walls (and plants) could tell some tales if they could talk!
In Derbyshire, near Chesterfield. Great place.
Yes, it does. I'd love to flounce around in a ball-gown in the grounds :) Just need a prince.
What an imposing building! Love all the floweres, amazing photos.
What gorgeous flower pics - and a beautiful building - fabulous!
What a gorgeous castle and I love the history behind it. Lovely photos too.


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Week 4 of 30 days wild was another wet week. I did enjoy a rainy walk in the park.
A pink flower peeking through.
Rain water collecting on a leaf.
This plant reminds me of fireworks.
I had a gadget free day on Sunday to enjoy nature. I didn't miss my phone or tablet. I spoke to a few people about it and a lot of people said they couldn't live without their phones. They are missing their environment by starting at a screen getting repetitive strain injury by swipe swipe swipe. I'd quite happily have another gadget free day.
Enjoying the clouds at dusk.
My next blog post will be a evaluation of 30 days wild.