Every parent wants children to be protected against harm as the world can be such a harsh place for them. Teaching them to be brave starts at a young age. If kids already know how to remain strong in spite of challenges that come their way, they will be able to achieve their goals as they journey through adulthood.
1. Make kids understand that failure is part of the learning process.
In a society where kids and adults alike are surrounded by prying and scrutinizing eyes, failing seems like an unforgivable offense. When kids perceive failure as the end of accomplishing their personal goals, they won't even bother giving themselves a second chance to correct things. This is why it is important that you let kids understand that failure teaches great lessons in life that will make them a better person in the end and it should not be something they should fear.
2. Help them face their fears.
Instead of running away from fears, help your child acknowledge fear. Allow them to talk about the fears they have and make them feel you understand them. They won't be able to move on if the fear is not acknowledged.
3. Don't compare them to others.
Your child may develop insecurities if you compare them to others because they will start to feel they are not good enough. Be sure to focus on your child and give them time to discuss the things they fear.
4. Remind them everyone has fears.
Your child may feel they are alone with their fear and as a parent, you should tell them that they are not alone. It gives them a sense of security that will help them overcome the fear.
5. Avoid passing your fears onto your kids.
Although your own fears cannot remain hidden forever, just show your kids how you are able to handle these fears.


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Hesler Enrique Phillips Baca (born 18 November 1978) is a Honduran former football player.

Club career
Phillips played for Universidad and Victoria with whom he got relegated in 2003. He returned to Universidad and later joined Platense.

International career
Phillips was part of the Honduras Olympic squad which qualified for the Summer Olympics for the first time in 2000. He did however not make the Olympic Games roster.

He made his senior debut for Honduras in a May 1999 friendly match against Haiti and has earned a total of 6 caps, scoring 1 goal. He was a non-playing squad member at the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup and played at the 2001 Copa América.

His final international was a July 2001 Copa América match against Uruguay.

International goals
Scores and results list Honduras' goal tally first.

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
People from Valle Department
Association football forwards
Honduran footballers
Honduras international footballers
1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2001 Copa América players
C.D. Victoria players
Platense F.C. players
Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players

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module SchemaPlusPgAggregates
  module ActiveRecord
    module ConnectionAdapters
      module PostgresqlAdapter
        def aggregates
          result = exec_query(<<-SQL, 'SCHEMA')
            SELECT
              p.proname AS name,
              (SELECT string_agg(format_type(t, null), ',') FROM unnest(p.proargtypes::oid[]) t) AS arguments,

              -- below here are the settings specific to the aggregate
              a.aggtransfn::varchar AS state_function,
              format_type(a.aggtranstype, null) AS state_data_type,
              a.agginitval AS initial_condition
            FROM
              pg_proc p
            INNER JOIN pg_aggregate a ON p.oid = a.aggfnoid
            WHERE p.proisagg = true
              AND p.pronamespace IN (SELECT oid FROM pg_namespace WHERE nspname = ANY (current_schemas(false)) )
          SQL

          result.to_hash.map do |row|
            row['arguments'] = row['arguments'].present? ? row['arguments'].split(',') : []
            AggregateDefinition.new row.symbolize_keys
          end
        end

        def create_aggregate(name, state_function:, state_data_type:, initial_condition: nil, arguments: [])
          settings = [
            "SFUNC = #{state_function}",
            "STYPE = #{state_data_type}"
          ]
          settings << "INITCOND = #{initial_condition.inspect}" unless initial_condition.nil?
          execute <<-SQL
            CREATE AGGREGATE #{name}(#{arguments.empty? ? "*" : arguments.join(', ')})(
              #{settings.join(",\n")}
            )
          SQL
        end

        def drop_aggregate(name, arguments: [])
          execute <<-SQL
            DROP AGGREGATE #{name}(#{arguments.empty? ? "*" : arguments.join(', ')})
          SQL
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Q: QGIS Load WFS everytime different Output I want to load a WFS in QGIS and execute some queries. I tried different versions of QGIS.

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*QGIS 2.18 number of objects: 160036 (first query)

*QGIS 2.18 number of objects: 80018 (second query)

*QGIS 3.2.0 number of objects: 81103

*QGIS 3.4.5 number of objects: 80018

To check the correct number of objects I load the WFS in FME and get 80018.
I tried other WFS Clients and there I get in every version the correct number of objects.
Unfortunately I can´t give you the WFS because the access is restricted.
Does anyone have an idea why each version spends a different number of objects and why reloading in the same version will dump different objects?

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Consider the fact that it takes roughly one million spins on Pandora for a songwriter to earn just $90.
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If before you made your video, you said, "Let's make a viral video," then you're doomed from the very start. Look up "viral" in a dictionary and you will realize your mistake.
The coronation of Iggy as one of the most successful rappers in history has occurred without much support from the imagined hip-hop community or from black people not invested in her brand. Funkmaster Flex has called her music "trash," and Iggy's hit singles have received little airplay on Top 40 "urban," hip-hop radio stations.


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Q: Can't set the default value in the dropdown in template driven form

      <form #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(f)">

          Email Id
          <input name="email" type="email" class="form-control" ngModel email required #email="ngModel"/>
          Please enter a valid email id

          Subscription
          <select name="subs" class="form-control" ngModel>
            <option value="basic">Basic</option>
            <option value="advanced">Advanced</option>
            <option value="pro">Pro</option>
          </select>
          Password
          <input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" ngModel required #password="ngModel"/>
          Please enter a valid password

        <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit">Submit</button>

Please enter the corrrect data

      </form>

import { Component,OnInit,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import {NgForm} from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit{
    @ViewChild('f') userForm : NgForm;

    ngOnInit(){
        this.userForm.form.patchValue({
            userdata:{
                subs:'advanced'
            }
        });
    }
}

I have used these code to fetch the value from the user and put some some validations and all. I tried to fill the dropdown with a default value with the patchValue function.But it seems there is some issue here.
Please help.

A: you need to use  [(ngModel)] just like this:
 <select class="form-control" id="power"
                required
                [(ngModel)]="ddlDefaultValue" name="power"
                #power="ngModel">
          <option *ngFor="let pow of powers" [value]="pow">{{pow}}</option>
  </select>

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Long Island, a region east of New York City, holds its place in history as the nation's first suburb. Today, Long Island boasts some of the country's top schools, consistently ranks among the best places to live, and is home to world class research, medical, and academic institutions that are making advances in the fields of health, energy, and technology and are fueling a new innovation economy. However, racial inequalities deprived the region of an estimated $24 billion in GDP in 2014. By empowering communities, cultivating homegrown talent, and strengthening governments' roles in collaborating across the region, Long Island's leaders will bolster the region's competitiveness and help all Long Islanders see greater economic inclusion and sustained benefits.
In Long Island, we have partnered with a coalition led by the Urban League of Long Island, with support from the Long Island Community Foundation and Citi Community Development, to dismantle exclusionary policies and advance policies and strategies that increase health equity, wealth, and economic resilience for the Black community and all Long Islanders.
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We've been in the business of wedding photography for 40 years, so we have done pretty much every type of wedding. Big ones in castles, small ones in homes, and pretty much everything in between.
We offer standard packages starting from £499 (£399 on weekdays), and go right up to £2145, but mostly we do bespoke packages as couples have different needs, preferences and budgets. We like to spend time with each couple getting to know them, so that we can be sure of delivering the style and specific photos that they want in the locations that we agree upon.
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Hi Gordon, Thanks very much for this and sorry for the delay, we have been away. The photos are lovely! Thank you very much. Jen"
The 437 bus to/from Liverpool city centre stops right outside the studio.
A very small one in a house where the bride's mother was terminally ill.
I'm proud of having my own studio and shop so that clients can come to a bricks and mortar business to see my work and chat about their needs, rather than just being a website of someone who works from home.
Take time with your photographer. Get to know him/her and let him/her get to know you. Make a list of "must have" shots, such as you with your favourite relatives or friends.
We meet for a relaxed chat either in my studio or in their home. We get to know one another and I get to understand the couple's preferences. I find out if there are any relatives coming from afar. I find out about the family background. E.g. it is common these days for a bride or groom's mum and dad to both be there, but not be on speaking terms due to divorce, etc. So I find out if I have to tread carefully! We discuss the plan for the day as to what happens when with timings. When I have to be at the bride's house for preparation shots, when I need to go to the venue to get the groom and best man before the bride arrives, etc. We agree a list of "must have" photos and put them into a contract, but the list can be modified up to the day of the wedding, although I try to discourage last minute changes as it can cause confusion on the day if significant changes are made. We both sign a contract and I take a deposit to secure the day. I explain to the couple that I am working for them on the day, so they simply need to ask for any specific shots that they or their guests think of on the day and I'll do my best to accommodate them in addition to the "must have" list.
The kiss! Both during the ceremony (may be restricted if in church) and staged afterwards with a suitable location to produce a great photo.
I was once asked to take a photo of the bride's garter, not by her lifting her dress to reveal it on her leg, but by me lying on the floor whilst she stood astride me!
I always carry some white brollies in the car for the bride and groom and many of the better venues provide them too. You can actually get some good fun photos in wet weather, for example I've taken photos of brides wearing wellies under their dresses! I will always have a backup plan. Depending on the size of the venue and number of guests, we can often take photos indoors if the rain really is heavy and I always have some portable lighting gear with me for such occasions. Alternatively, if the venue isn't suitable, then other venues can be used. For example, I have taken some great photos in an indoor shopping centre for one couple and lots of the shoppers stopped to watch!
At the age of 12, we were on a holiday trip to London and my dad bought a Russian 35mm camera to replace his 1920's folding camera. The Russian camera manual had us in fits of laughter i Hyde Park. The manual seemed to have been translated word by word using a Russian to English dictionary. We were playing with the camera and I saw a commotion going on. I grabbed dad's camera and ran over to Hyde Park corner just in time to grab a shot of Princess Margaret and Tony Armstrong-Jones driving away in an Aston Martin. I was hooked from then on and bought my first 35mm SLR camera as soon as I started work at the age of 18.


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A conversation with Jitin Asnaani, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance
Posted in Interoperability/HIE.
Mark W. Stevens, Contributing Editor
As a part of our "Countdown to IHT2 Cleveland Big Data Conference," I spoke with Jitin Asnaani, Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance, a national not-for-profit interoperability collaborative dedicated to the vision that health data should always follow the patient, regardless of where care occurs. Prior to CommonWell, which was founded in 2013 by industry titans athenahealth, Allscripts, Cerner, Evident, Greenway Health, McKesson and Sunquest, Asnaani worked for athenahealth, where he helped build and expand their cloud-based interoperability platform. Previously, Asnaani was an appointee at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), where he helped incubate and launch the S&I Framework and led The Direct Project. He received his undergraduate degree in computer Science & Engineering from M.I.T. and his MBA from Harvard, and has been with CommonWell since March, 2015.
Stevens: You just returned from HIMSS16, how did it compare with last year's conference and with what were you able to come away?
Jitin Asnaani, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance
Asnaani: What jumped out at me most was the enthusiasm for the value of putting the patient at the center of care. I think providers acknowledged the concept of patient-centered care some time ago, but I think they're starting to experience the powerful role of health IT in committing to that transformation. That's why CommonWell is so laser-focused on deployment. By putting our cross-vendor interoperability services in action, we're able to help providers transform the model so that care is truly centered on each individual. I was very enthused by the industry readiness for services like our patient record locator, not just in the hospital and clinic settings, but in the post-acute market as well. After all, healthcare doesn't stop when a patient leaves the hospital, so the patient record shouldn't stop there either. It's time to start bringing the tangible value of interoperability to patients and caregivers, and I'm excited to see how CommonWell services will have a role in that transformation.
Stevens: There is much activity on the interoperability front. What among the current initiatives do you see ultimately gaining traction, and do you see HHS as the leading driver of progress and innovation, the vendor community or providers/payers?
Asnaani: When the issue is this significant and the need this urgent, we need the good thinking and active participation of everyone. All hands on deck – with maybe some division of labor so that we don't duplicate effort. I see the CommonWell role primarily focused on nationwide deployment of a cross-vendor interoperability infrastructure that is patient-centered, while HHS will continue to be a driving force on broader policy.
But let's not silo our efforts so completely that we fall into the same specialization trap that created our currently fragmented model. We need diversity of experience and expertise in everything we develop and implement. And we need to involve others in our monitoring and measurement of success. That's why we solicited membership across the continuum and recently established the CommonWell Advisory Board – to ensure the voices of providers, staff and patients are captured and acted upon. CommonWell also supports and works with other initiatives, such as the HIMSS organization, DirectTrust, NATE, Center4MI, The Sequoia Project, The Argonaut Project and HL7 – all of which are contributing to the enhancement of true interoperability in unique and valuable ways.
Stevens: What role do you see the consumer playing in the advancement of interoperability?
Asnaani: If we put them at the center of their care as everyone wants, they're pivotal. We made them first-class citizens of our infrastructure – really at the center of everything we have created – so that patients and all those who care for them can be empowered to provide care that is informed by secure and authorized access to that patient's data, no matter where care has occurred.
I've used the phrase "tipping point" of late – about the health IT world in general and CommonWell cross-vendor interoperability services specifically. I think we are very close to the point when interoperability services are not just available, but expected – even demanded. Providers will drive that before consumers, but I don't think consumers will wait very long. In fact some of them are already vigorously demanding their data, and I expect more to join the chorus.
Stevens: CommonWell is purely a U.S. domestic-focused organization, but a number of your members operate globally. What Health IT advances abroad do see most effecting the U.S. healthcare market, and who are the leaders in healthcare outside of the U.S. for whom we should be on the lookout?
Asnaani: Our priority continues to be focused on U.S.–based providers and healthcare organizations, ensuring that they have access to our cross-vendor interoperability services. However, it is interesting how much demand we have seen from other countries, particular England and Canada, which share some amount of overlap with the U.S. in terms of both technical resources and operational challenges. What that tells me is that we in the U.S. may well be that leader, that looking inside may be as valuable as looking outside, that maybe we here at CommonWell have specifically stumbled into something unique and transferable.
What that also tells me is that solving the healthcare interoperability problem is difficult and complicated. As we know from the consumer internet world – the more complicated a problem is, the more important it becomes to find a simple approach that can create powerful outcomes. CommonWell has grown from a pie-in-the-sky concept to real-life deployments across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and done so in a matter of just three years. And that's because the health IT vendor community decided to come together, to collaborate and to lead the industry forward. Perhaps that is the simple approach that other countries can emulate to create powerful and effective interoperability in their communities.
Stevens: Jitin, you've been invited to participate on an interoperability panel at IHT2's Cleveland Big Data Conference in April. Can you provide us a preview?
Asnaani: I think that the panel will be an opportunity to explore the many complexities involved in reaching true nationwide interoperability. One theme that I will certainly raise is the impact of interoperability on patient-centered care. Of interest to the audience will be the specific role of industry standards, but we'll also go a step further and discuss the need for functioning solutions that are scalable nationwide. I'll highlight how CommonWell cross-vendor services are contributing to nationwide interoperability and how our own use of standards has enabled us to accelerate adoption and development at a lower cost to the end-user.
Just prior to HIMSS'16, CommonWell announced that it was expanding its cross-vendor interoperability services to the post-acute market, with vendor-members Brightree, Cerner and McKesson among the first who will be deploying these services nationwide. According to the February 25th release, "The plan is to put health information in the hands of caregivers across the continuum, including patients themselves, with data access from other health information technology systems, patient portals and apps." For more information, visit: http://hitconsultant.net/2016/02/25/commonwell-expands-cross-vendor-interoperability-to-post-acute-market/.
Geisinger Health: On the Call with John Kravitz, MHA, CHCIO
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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader
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The word diet first appeared in English in the 13th century. Its original meaning was the same as in modern English, "habitually taken food and drink." But diet was used in another sense too in the Middle and early modern English periods to mean "way of living." This is, in fact, the original meaning of diet's Greek ancestor diaita, which is derived from the verb diaitasthan, meaning "to lead one's life." In Greek, diaita, had already come to be used more specifically for a way of living prescribed by a physician, a diet, or other regimen.
Alexander the Great reached India in the 4th century BCE. Along with his army, he took Greek academics with him who later wrote memoirs about geography, people and customs they saw. One of Alexander's companion was Onesicritus, quoted in Book 15, Sections 63–65 by Strabo, who describes yogins of India.[107] Onesicritus claims those Indian yogins (Mandanis ) practiced aloofness and "different postures – standing or sitting or lying naked – and motionless".[108]
Tantra is a range of esoteric traditions that began to arise in India no later than the 5th century CE.[181][note 17] George Samuel states, "Tantra" is a contested term, but may be considered as a school whose practices appeared in mostly complete form in Buddhist and Hindu texts by about 10th century CE.[183] Tantric yoga developed complex visualizations which included meditation on the body as a microcosm of the cosmos. They included also the use of mantras, pranayama, and the manipulation of the subtle body, including its nadis and cakras. These teachings on cakras and Kundalini would become central to later forms of Indian Yoga.[184]
Intensive weight training causes micro-tears to the muscles being trained; this is generally known as microtrauma. These micro-tears in the muscle contribute to the soreness felt after exercise, called delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). It is the repair of these micro-traumas that results in muscle growth. Normally, this soreness becomes most apparent a day or two after a workout. However, as muscles become adapted to the exercises, soreness tends to decrease.[22]
One of the earliest and most influential sub-traditions of Vedanta, is Advaita Vedanta, which posits nondualistic monism. This tradition emphasizes Jñāna yoga (yoga of knowledge), which is aimed at realizing the identity of one's atman (soul, individual consciousness) with Brahman (the Absolute consciousness).[258][259] The most influential thinker of this school is Adi Shankara (8th century), who wrote various commentaries and original works which teach Jñāna yoga. In Advaita Vedanta, Jñāna is attained on the basis of scripture (sruti) and one's guru and through a process of listening (sravana) to teachings, thinking and reflecting on them (manana) and finally meditating on these teachings (nididhyāsana) in order to realize their truth.[260] It is also important to develop qualities such as discrimination (viveka), renunciation (virāga), tranquility, temperance, dispassion, endurance, faith, attention and a longing for knowledge and freedom ('mumukṣutva).'[261] Yoga in Advaita is ultimately a "meditative exercise of withdrawal from the particular and identification with the universal, leading to contemplation of oneself as the most universal, namely, Consciousness".[262]
Due to the growing concerns of the high cost, health consequences, and illegal nature of some steroids, many organizations have formed in response and have deemed themselves "natural" bodybuilding competitions. In addition to the concerns noted, many promoters of bodybuilding have sought to shed the "freakish" perception that the general public has of bodybuilding and have successfully introduced a more mainstream audience to the sport of bodybuilding by including competitors whose physiques appear much more attainable and realistic.
According to Crangle, some researchers have favoured a linear theory, which attempts "to interpret the origin and early development of Indian contemplative practices as a sequential growth from an Aryan genesis",[53][note 4] just like traditional Hinduism regards the Vedas to be the ultimate source of all spiritual knowledge.[55][note 5] Thomas McEvilley favors a composite model where pre-Aryan yoga prototype existed in the pre-Vedic period and its refinement began in the Vedic period.[58]
To combat steroid use and in the hopes of becoming a member of the IOC, the IFBB introduced doping tests for both steroids and other banned substances. Although doping tests occurred, the majority of professional bodybuilders still used anabolic steroids for competition. During the 1970s, the use of anabolic steroids was openly discussed, partly due to the fact they were legal.[9] In the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990, U.S. Congress placed anabolic steroids into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). In Canada, steroids are listed under Schedule IV of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, enacted by the federal Parliament in 1996.[10]
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In natural contests, the testing protocol ranges among organizations from lie detectors to urinalysis. Penalties also range from organization to organization from suspensions to strict bans from competition. It is also important to note that natural organizations also have their own list of banned substances and it is important to refer to each organization's website for more information about which substances are banned from competition. There are many natural bodybuilding organizations; some of the larger ones include: MuscleMania, Ultimate Fitness Events (UFE), INBF/WNBF, and INBA/PNBA. These organizations either have an American or worldwide presence and are not limited to the country in which they are headquartered.
In 1990, professional wrestling promoter Vince McMahon announced that he was forming a new bodybuilding organization named the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). McMahon wanted to bring WWF-style showmanship and bigger prize money to the sport of bodybuilding. A number of IFBB stars were recruited but the roster was never very large and featured the same athletes competing; the most notable winner and first WBF champion was Gary Strydom. McMahon formally dissolved the WBF in July 1992. Reasons for this reportedly included lack of income from the pay-per-view broadcasts of the contests, slow sales of the WBF's magazine Bodybuilding Lifestyles (later WBF Magazine), and the expense of paying multiple six-figure contracts while producing two TV shows and a monthly magazine.
If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart problems, ask your doctor what you can do. You may need to avoid certain postures, like those in which you're upside down or that demand more balance than you have right now. A very gentle program of yoga, coupled with a light aerobic activity like walking or swimming, may be the best way to start.


You can download the cross country database and the document describing the variables, the data and the sources of the cross country database used in Mario Holzner's PhD thesis 'Fear of Croatian Disease' as a ZIP file.
Holzner, M. (2005), 'Fear of Croatian Disease' Cross Country Database, www.shadoweconomics.org, Mimeo.
You can download the panel database and the document describing the variables, the data and the sources of the panel database used in Mario Holzner's PhD thesis 'Fear of Croatian Disease' as a ZIP file.
Holzner, M. (2005), 'Fear of Croatian Disease' Panel Database, www.shadoweconomics.org, Mimeo.
Holzner, M. (2005), 'Fear of Croatian Disease', PhD Thesis at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, 26th of October 2005, Mimeo at www.shadoweconomics.org.
Mario Holzner's CV and List of Publications; Teaching details; Back to the main page.


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Thetford and Brandon Times > Sport
Party time at Thetford Rugby Club
Published: 4:49 PM April 21, 2010
THETFORD Rugby Club recently held a ball to celebrate its 50th anniversary which was attended by over 200 people. A raffle was held on the night and this resulted in funds towards the club as well as a donation to the Air Ambulance of �200.
THETFORD Rugby Club recently held a ball to celebrate its 50th anniversary which was attended by over 200 people.
A raffle was held on the night and this resulted in funds towards the club as well as a donation to the Air Ambulance of �200.
The club would like to thank everyone who attended and those who contributed to the raffle making it such a memorable occasion.
The club is now in the Norfolk Junior Cup final which will be played at Thetford on Saturday against Holt.
A buffet will be held at 1pm before the game, contact club secretary Lisa Tanner on 07846697928 for details.


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Report: Pro-life pregnancy centers in Latin America unfairly attacked by Spanish newspaper
By David Ramos
Madrid, Spain, Dec 7, 2021 / 11:50 am
Pro-life pregnancy centers in Latin America were unfairly and inaccurately portrayed in a recent article published by a Spanish newspaper, an investigation by ACI Prensa has found.
The article, titled "The New Anti-Abortion Tactics of the Far Right in the Americas" was published on Oct. 23 by the El País newspaper.
Based on undercover reporting by journalists who posed as pregnant women, the El País article accuses pregnancy centers in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico of using "strategies that include deceptive advertising, shelters for pregnant women and false promises of adoption to convince vulnerable women to not interrupt their pregnancy."
These organizations "are promoted on the internet as feminist sites and with deceptive language in favor of abortion, but in reality they function as avenues to manipulate and instituionalize women and try to get them to carry their pregnancy to term," El País claimed.
A subsequent investigation by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister news agency of CNA, found that El País article contained a host of misleading and unsubstantiated claims. Among ACI Prensa's findings:
● El País uses the misleading term "institutionalize" to refer to the housing, medical, psychological, and material assistance these pregnancy centers provide women in need. El País' own reporting acknowledges that "some of these women, according to their own testimony, were grateful to have a place to live and carry their pregnancy to term; others, of having been able to get out of a situation of domestic violence."
● The two "experts" El País cites to verify its claims are both pro-abortion activists. One has stated that she does not believe "that adoption is a morally superior option to abortion, or that increased adoption would be good for women and families." The other heads a Peruvian NGO that has received more than $1 million in funding from Planned Parenthood.
● There is no evidence that any of the pregnancy centers have been sanctioned for offering to provide illegal adoption services, as El País suggests. The article alleges that a child protection agency in Costa Rica has taken legal action against one of the pregnancy support organizations, but the organization's director told ACI Prensa that she's never been notified about any legal action and said, "we work according to the law."
● The pregnancy centers cited in the report aren't posing as abortion clinics, as El País claims. El País accuses the same Costa Rican organization of presenting itself as an abortion clinic, but the director says that the organization's website clear states that it provides counseling and other support, not abortion services.
● The "false information" El País alleges the pregnancy centers share about the dangers of abortion are supported by medical studies. The El País article states that their undercover reporters "were shown videos and pamphlets with false information about abortion," including increased risks of suicide and breast cancer, and the possibility that using chemical means to induce the killing of a fetus can result in an incomplete abortion and dangerous heavy bleeding. But there is medical evidence to support all these advisories, ACI Prensa found.
Jesús Magaña, president of the United for Life platform in Colombia, told ACI Prensa that the El País article "has a clear tendency to promote organizations that want to impose abortion on us in the region."
"It's not true that the women's aid centers carry out any activity that is illegal in relation to adoption" in Colombia, Magaña explained.
"On the contrary: They are women's support centers where they are welcomed, received, listened to and supported; and thanks to this work it is possible to save the lives of mothers and babies," he said.
The El País journalists who produced the article did not respond to ACI Prensa's requests for comment.
Pro-abortion support for article
To validate their report, El País journalists cite two abortion advocates as "experts": Susana Chávez and Gretchen Sisson.
Chávez is a veteran activist in support of legal abortion, with many years at the head of Promsex, a Peruvian NGO that has received more than a million dollars in 16 years from Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion multinational organization.
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This money came from both its parent company, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and its U.S. branch, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which has been accused of trafficking in organs and tissues from babies aborted at its facilities. Chávez failed in her bid to win a seat in Peru's Congress in the 2020 presidential and congressional elections. Chávez also led Promsex in its failed attempt to silence ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish language sister news agency, and hide its ties to Planned Parenthood.
A recent ruling by the Second Constitutional Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima dismissed all charges filed by Promsex against ACI Prensa for allegedly making false statements and defamation.
In early October 2021, Planned Parenthood awarded the "We Are Courage" award to Promsex, calling the NGO "one of the most courageous and inspiring voices for sexual and reproductive rights."
Chávez told El País that it's a lie that the organizations that give shelter to women in crisis pregnancies really help them with the adoption procedures when they don't want to keep their children.
"In reality, what they seek is to discourage the girl, the adolescent, the women, from having an abortion with a false promise that they will never keep," Chávez charged.
Sisson, the other expert cited in El País' report, is the principal investigator of the "Abortion on Screen" program of the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIHR) at the University of California, San Francisco.
"Abortion on Screen" is a program that is dedicated to evaluating and listing films and television productions with "stories about abortion."
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Sisson told El País that she's not sure "that there are many women interested in abortion who then turn to adoption unless they are given a lot of misinformation about the accessibility or safety of abortion itself."
Sisson has been explicit in the past that she doesn't believe "that adoption is a morally superior option to abortion, or that increased adoption would be good for women and families."
The El País article itself was funded by a pro-abortion foundation supported by CNN, CBS, and other U.S. media outlets, ACI Prensa found. El País states that the reporting for the story was done "with the support of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its initiative for the Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in the Americas program."
IWMF says on its website that "this initiative supports reporting on issues that impact women and girl's daily lives in the region, including abortion and contraception access, maternal health, reproductive health policy and abortion bans."
The El País presents the article as a "follow-up to an Open Democracy investigation of Heartbeat International's operations" in Latin America.
That report was published in February 2020 and leveled accusations against Heartbeat International and Latin American pro-life centers.
Open Democracy is a publication that claims to seek to "educate citizens and challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world."
Between 2016 and 2020, Open Democracy has received more than $1.6 million from the Open Society Foundations, an organization established by George Soros, who is an open promoter of legal abortion in the world, ACI Prensa found. The CIDE, where Eliezer Budasoff teaches, has received between 2016 and 2018 more than $470,000 from the Soros foundation, the news agency reported.
Interview distortions
Isabella Cota, one of the authors of the El País article, made a phone call Oct. 18 five days before the publication of the article to Dr. Miguel Ángel Salazar, medical advisor to the Latin American network of Women's Aid Centers (CAM), a pro-life organization.
El País includes brief segments of Salazar's response in the article and ends by saying that he "abruptly hung up."
ACI Prensa reported that its review of an audio recording of the interview shows that Salazar ended the conversation in a friendly manner in the face of a series of false accusations from the El País journalist.
Salazar provided ACI Prensa with a sworn statement that Cota had identified herself to him as a journalist from the New York Times. ACI Prensa sent a query to the Times on Nov. 2 about its contractual relationship with Isabella Cota but did not receive a response.
Salazar told ACI Prensa that "from the beginning, far from being an interview, [Cota] described all the false accusations aimed at CAM by the group that allegedly infiltrated it. Acting as a judge and a prosecutor, and in an inquisitorial way, she asks me for comments on the aforementioned accusations."
Salazar stated that "it was clear" that "Isabella Cota's intention was to create a provocation that was intended to manipulate me and make me mention accusations that [the journalists] themselves could use against CAM."
Salazar said that "none of the CAMs carry out adoption procedures. For this we work with sister and respectable institutions such as Vida y Familia A.C. (Life and Family) which for many years has been dedicated to promoting a culture of adoption and performs these services in a professional, legal and transparent manner, always in accordance with the legal framework in force in our country and in each state of the Mexican Republic."
In addition, Salazar stressed that "before going to a CAM" none of the women "are deceived or informed that an abortion will be performed there," as the El País article claimed.
On the contrary, Salazar explained, "they are offered support where we assess their situation, respecting the decisions of each one of them."
Although Cota and her fellow journalists from El País present the protection of pregnant women as a series of "new tactics," the CAM network has provided the same services for 32 years, ACI Prensa noted. The first of the Women's Help Centers opened its doors in Mexico City in 1989.
In the photographs that accompany the article, games for children can be seen as an example of a safe and welcoming environment.
'They want to torpedo something so good'
Another organization attacked in the El País article is Vida y Familia A.C. (Vifac) is even older than the CAM network and has assisted more than 46,000 pregnant women during its 36 years of work.
On its website, Vifac explains that its objective is "to support vulnerable pregnant women who face an unexpected pregnancy and require help and support to move on in their lives with their children and achieve better living conditions."
Vifac offers lodging, food, medical and psychological care, job training workshops, talks for the prevention of teen pregnancy, and help with the adoption process for women at risk.
Despite noting the gratitude of the women served at the Vifac facilities in the state of Mexico, El País cites a source from the National System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF), stating that the Mexican government agency has advised Vifac of "possible illicit practices concerning adoptions."
Vifac denies that it has violated the law. "The trafficking of minors is a criminal offense. Vifac has never been tried for this crime," the organization states on its website.
Vifac denies "forcing" women to give their children up for adoption, stating that each woman who seeks the organization's assistance "comes of her own free will with the intention of being helped, supported and to move on in life with her child."
Vifac claims that only 10% of its clients choose to place their children up for adoption. "In 2020 of the 3,535 babies that were born under our protection, only 51 were given up for adoption and in accordance with DIF regulations," Vifac states.
Mariana Ariza is a 22-year-old Mexican woman who was adopted thanks to the help of Vifac. Her two younger brothers are also adopted.
"I'm disappointed they want to torpedo something so good," she said of the El País article.
For Ariza, now a pro-life leader as director of the Juventud y Vida (Youth and Life) platform in Puebla, Mexico, the story of "happy adoptive parents" should be known.
"They have to meet the women who have given testimonies of 'thank you because I was able to go on with my life and I was able to give life to a baby and that it could have parents and be happy,'" Ariza said.
"Really these associations, foundations, what they do is create families, save lives, help women," she said.
While Ariza doesn't know the exact life story of her biological mother, she told ACI Prensa that "because of Vifac she was able to make the best decision."
"Thanks to that support, she had the courage to say 'yes, I give her life, I give her the opportunity to live.' And that option saved her at that time and saved me, because thanks to all that support, she was able to say yes to life," Ariza said.
For the Women's Institute for Comprehensive Health of Costa Rica (IFEMSI), another of the organizations accused by El País, the article is nothing more than "a rehash," a text that collects old reports and makes them pass for something new.
In an interview with ACI Prensa, Priscilla Díaz García, executive director of IFEMSI, warned that the Spanish newspaper's journalists "are getting involved with a very sensitive issue because they are claiming that adoptions are taking place outside the framework of the law, which is totally false."
"The reason why they're doing it, according to my reading, is that, as the first time they did an article, they were ridiculed, this time they tried to introduce the legal issue to create more controversy," Díaz García said.
El País accuses IFEMSI of presenting itself "on the internet as an abortion clinic," which Díaz García denies.
The organization's website, www.quieroabortarcr.com, which means "I want to abort," [SM2] states "at all times that we provide counseling, unlike what this media says: that we deceive women and all those kinds of things they mention," Díaz García said.
"What our organization does through this page is to give counseling to these girls so that they have more alternatives, one of them is to continue with the pregnancy through the support they receive from our organization," she stressed.
Díaz García also denied the assertion in the El País article that the National Children's Trust (PANI), a government agency that safeguards the rights of children and adolescents in Costa Rica, has taken legal action against IFEMSI.
Díaz García told ACI Prensa that "I haven't received any kind of notification," about any legal action. "We work according to the law," she stressed.
"The government agencies know how we work," she continued, noting that "if this possible complaint comes, we have a record of visits from government agencies to learn how we operate," she said.
Another pro-life organization targeted in the El País article is the Fundación Hogar Margarita (Margarita Home Foundation) in Costa Rica.
The article charges that the foundation "promises to facilitate or arrange adoption, even if they are false or illegal." The article claims that the organization gave an undercover journalist "confusing messages" suggesting "that the foundation would be in charge of the process outside the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, the agency in charge of adoptions in Colombia."
The foundation denies the charges and has demanded that "the El País newspaper rectify the information they gave."
The foundation states that it has spent "34 years dedicated to the comprehensive protection of pregnant women in a vulnerable state and in conflict with their pregnancy, with a No. 3102 operating license dated March 31, 2020 from the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare in the category of a Home."
When mothers decide to give their babies up for adoption, they are referred "to the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, which is the only regulatory agency for childhood in the country, therefore the only one authorized to carry out adoption processes," the foundation states.
Abortion warnings aren't 'false'
The El País article states that their reporters who visited the pregnancy help centers "were shown videos and pamphlets with false information about abortion, such as that it could lead to suicide and they could suffer from post-abortion syndrome, a kind of psychological impact whose existence has not been proven."
The El País journalists continue: "They said that the use of the misoprostol pill can lead to an 'incomplete' abortion that can cause an infection; that an abortion can cause breast cancer, uncontrollable hemorrhaging, death and even a possible leg amputation."
Dr. María José Mancino, a psychiatrist and specialist in psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology, told ACI Prensa that "post-abortion syndrome is a reality, it's a form of post-traumatic stress syndrome."
Mancino, who is also founder and president of Doctors for Life Argentina, as well as a professional advisor to Project Rachael, which helps women who have undergone an abortion, said that "the most characteristic symptoms" of post-abortion syndrome "are depression, anxiety, stress and difficulty sleeping."
Psychological symptoms, she said, "range from general symptoms of denial in the early years, followed by depression, feelings of guilt, the need to make amends for or change what happened, recurring nightmares, behavioral disturbances, flashbacks (constant memories of the abortion), avoidance and/or rejection of stimuli that recall the episode."
You can also see "impulsive disorders," she continued, such as "increasing addictions, alcoholism, and suicide, depending on the woman's personality base and her prior psychological condition."
Dr. Guillermo Kerz, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics and vice president of Doctors for Life and academic vice-rector of the Catholic University of Santa Fe in Argentina, stressed that "abortion is a violent intervention performed on women, not to mention that the baby is cruelly killed in the act."
"Every medical surgical intervention has its consequences and this is no exception. It's reckless from every point of view to argue that it is false that women do not suffer after an abortion, medicine is a factual science, based on facts," he said.
MedlinePlus, an information service of the United States National Library of Medicine, recognizes the risks of an abortion performed with medications such as misoprostol, including the possibility of "an incomplete abortion," after which "it will be necessary to have an abortion at the clinic to complete the abortion." MedlinePlus also states that "heavy bleeding," "infection" and "blood clots in the uterus" may occur.
Heavy bleeding may entail that the woman "is soaking 2 sanitary napkins every hour for 2 hours," while "blood clots for 2 hours or more" can be expelled, in some cases "larger than a lemon." These cases, MedlinePlus notes, "should be dealt with immediately for your safety."
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that it has been reported that the use of misoprostol to induce labor, as is the case with chemical abortions, can cause "pelvic pain, retained placenta, severe genital bleeding, shock, fetal bradycardia and fetal and maternal death."
Pro-life centers 'work as they should'
El País says its undercover journalists went to pregnancy help centers in El Salvador, but, as in the case of Argentina, it doesn't say which ones.
If they had contacted the Yes to Life Foundation of El Salvador, their journalists would know of the nearly 12,000 lives that they have managed to save from abortion.
For Julia Regina de Cardenal, president of the Yes to Life Foundation, the text of El País is an "absurd article," since its authors "defend the indefensible, a legal barbarism against defenseless little people."
"In our Help Center, almost 12,000 lives have been saved just by showing them the reality of abortion," she said.
The women whom they receive at their shelter, she said, "are the ones who have nowhere else to go. All receive shelter, a balanced diet, clothing, if they are poor, training, medical care, psychological and spiritual help, etc."
"And if they stay with us for a long time and their children are already two years old, they also go to school," she stressed.
To Sara Larín, founder of the VIDA (Life) SV Foundation of El Salvador, the El País report shows "that pro-life homes work as they should."
"The report confirms what we have always said: A pregnant woman in crisis who receives unconditional support decides in 90% of the cases to not have an abortion and keep her baby. That's wonderful!"
In addition, she said that the El País report reveals "two important things." The first is that "it's the pro-life groups that really take charge of helping vulnerable women so that they can be genuinely free to live their motherhood without being conditioned by the circumstantial problems that are pressuring them."
The second thing, she added, is "that the Open Society Foundation is obsessed with imposing abortion on us culturally."
For Magaña, president of Colombia's United for Life platform, the position of the journalists is "sad and regrettable," because "it seems that they are doing a job in some way previously 'paid for' to obtain an expected result and not an objective investigation."
"This situation is very sad but predictable, because this abortion industry is an industry of death. If you don't mind killing, much less will you mind lying, confusing or cheating in order to remove this 'obstacle' for the industry and your business," he said.
The pro-life leader lamented that the El País article shows "the tendency to criminalize or stigmatize extraordinary heroines and heroes who give their time, energy and life to help moms and their unborn babies."
Harumi Suzuki, Diego López Marina and Walter Sánchez Silva contributed to this article.
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Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Privada del Norte in Trujillo, Peru. I have been part of the ACI Prensa team for more than 10 years. I have covered Pope Francis' trips to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Peru. I covered the beatification ceremony of today's Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 2015. Special envoy for investigation in Honduras in 2016. Head of the ACI Prensa Office in Mexico since 2018.
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Ally Coffee's new global specialty coffee headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina. Photo by Tony Abbott, courtesy of Ally Coffee.
Green coffee importer Ally Coffee has opened a new global headquarters for its specialty coffee operations. Officially opened last month in a revitalized business district in Greenville, South Carolina, the more than 7,000-square-foot facility will serve as Ally's home for specialty purchasing, sales and education, while offering ample space for training, coffee community events and educational programming.
Ally Coffee first opened a quality control lab and offices in Greenville in 2014, making a concerted effort to grow its green coffee sales in the U.S. since. In an announcement yesterday, the company said the move to the much larger facility was precipitated by "consistent growth" and new projects for the specialty division.
The new open-concept facility includes a bar outfitted with two Mahlkonig grinders and a Nuova Simonelli Mythos Clima Pro grinder supporting La Marzocco Linea and Nuova Simonelli Eagle-model espresso machines.
Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Ally Coffee is part of Brazil's Montesanto Tavares Group, which owns multiple businesses throughout the supply chain, including two Brazilian coffee farms, a dry mill and export houses. Ally maintains satellite offices throughout the U.S. and Europe, in Los Angeles, Kansas City (Missouri), New York, Portland (Oregon), Atlanta, Plantation (Florida), Berlin and Gothenburg.
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Three injured in police vehicle smash and officer suspended from driving duties
The officer had been searching an estate in Wardley, Salford, for suspected car thieves when the crash occurred on Friday morning.
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A policeman has been suspended from driving duties after his patrol car crashed with another vehicle.
The patrol car, which had its emergency lights on, collided with a Volkswagen Polo carrying a 14-month-old child, on Hamilton Road just before 9am.
The Polo driver, a 24-year-old woman, and a woman passenger aged 26 suffered back and neck injuries and were taken to hospital. The police officer was also treated for whiplash-type injuries.
Police bosses say his temporary suspension was part of their normal procedures and did not indicate any blame on the officer's part.
Senior officers are studying on-board footage from the patrol car.
The policeman had been one of a number of officers who were responding after a stolen silver Toyota Auris crashed into a garden wall on Ash Drive.
The occupants of the car were seen running from the scene.
Two men, aged 19 and 21, were later arrested on suspicion of burglary and failing to stop following a road traffic accident. They remain in custody for questioning.
Any witnesses to the incident are asked to call police on 0161 856 7201.
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Equiniti Group PLC said Wednesday it has been awarded two pensionadministration contracts in the UK nuclear sector.
The FTSE 250-listed company, which provides payment services and financial administration technology, said the contracts are for the UK Atomic Energy Authority and for the Combined Nuclear Pension Plan, covering 60,000 members in total.
Under the terms of the contracts, Equiniti's pension division, EQPaymaster, will support virtually all employees and former employees engaged in the UK nuclear industry.
The company said it will transfer the work directly onto its CompendiaTouch pension administration platform.
EQPaymaster Chief Executive Officer Ric Williams said: "I am delighted to welcome UK Atomic Energy Authority and CNPP as direct clients.
"I intend to build on my ambitious and capable team, that is already doing highly skilled work for clients who are not only important to us, but also to the UK's energy infrastructure."


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Por amar sin ley is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro that premiered on Las Estrellas on 12 February 2018. It is a remake of a 2016 Colombian telenovela La ley del corazón. The telenovela revolves around the personal life and work of a group of lawyers belonging to a prestigious law firm.

Main characters

Alejandra Ponce
Portrayed by Ana Brenda Contreras, Alejandra Ponce is a lawyer specialized in family law. During her wedding to Carlos, the police arrest him interrupting the wedding. After a while Alejandra gets to know Ricardo, and thanks to him she starts working at Vegas y Asociados.

Ricardo Bustamante
Portrayed by David Zepeda, Ricardo Bustamante he is a senior lawyer in family law. Ricardo is a straight-laced and honorable man. When his wife Elena is unfaithful to him, he decides to divorce her. Ricardo has two stepchildren, Federico and Natalia, whom he considers his own children.

Carlos Ibarra
Portrayed by Julián Gil, Carlos Ibarra is a renowned lawyer. Carlos is best known as a criminal lawyer representing various defendants accused of serious crimes including murder. He is ambitious and is willing to do anything necessary to get more money and power. On the day of his wedding to Alejandra, he was arrested for accused of the murder of Patricia, a sex worker who was with him the night before his wedding.

Roberto Morelli
Portrayed by José María Torre Hütt,  Roberto Morelli is a lawyer of Vegas y Asociados. He is a womanizing man who likes to take and go to parties. Roberto is Leonardo's best friend. He tries to conquer Victoria, but she does not let herself be easily fall in love by him.

Gustavo Soto
Portrayed by Sergio Basañez, Gustavo Soto is a prestigious lawyer of Vegas y Asociados. Gustavo maintains a relationship with Milena, his lover. But after realizing that what she did was wrong, he decides to end her lover, but when Milena frustrated and feels betrayed by Gustavo, she does everything possible to make her marriage to Isabel come to an end.

Victoria Escalante
Portrayed by Altair Jarabo, Victoria Escalante she is a lawyer, a specialist in family cases. She has a romantic interest with Roberto, but since she is a feminist woman who believes that men are not necessary for a woman to be powerful, she decides to ignore him. Victoria is a brave woman who fights and defends the rights of women.

Alonso Vega
Portrayed by Guillermo García Cantú, Alonso Vega he is the owner of the law firm Vega y Asociados. Alonso is the one who advises and keeps track of all the cases his lawyers have.

Benjamín Acosta
Portrayed by Pablo Valentín, Benjamín Acosta is an ambitious lawyer of the company Vega Y Asociado. Benjamín has a wife and children, but maintains a relationship with Leticia, and with her he tries to do everything possible to be recognized for his efforts in the company.

Olivia Suárez
Portrayed by Ilithya Manzanilla, Olivia Suárez she is a dedicated lawyer in cases of family abuse. Olivia is a sensitive and romantic woman who believes in love. She is secretly in love with Leonardo his platonic love.

Elena Fernández
Portrayed by Geraldine Bazán, Elena Fernández is the mother of Federico and Natalia. As a result of a clandestine relationship that took place outside of her marriage, Elena divorces Ricardo, but she does not accept having divorced so she tries to get Ricardo back.

Alan Páez
Portrayed by Moisés Arizmendi, Alan Páez he is Carlos's cousin. He is a mediocre lawyer who only feels envy and hatred towards his cousin, since he is more recognized in the professional field.

Leonardo Morán
Portrayed by Manuel Balbi, Leonardo Morán is a lawyer for Vegas y Asociados. Leonardo is a handsome, reserved, intelligent, serious and very professional man, man in his forties. A lawyer specialized in criminal law, dedicated to his work. He is Ricardo Bustamante's best friend and is always there to give him good advice. Leonardo is a very correct, ethical and responsible man, that is why he has a lot of credibility, both in the law firm and in the courts of Mexico City.

Special guest stars

Introduced in season one

 María José as Patricia Linares
 David Ostrosky as Saúl Morales
 Ricardo Fastlicht as Méndez
 María José Magán as Ana María
 Gilberto Romo as Daniela Segura
 Jade Fraser as Rocío
 Alejandro Ibarra as Darío
 Ana Patricia Rojo as Lina
 Jacqueline Andere as Virginia
 Lisette Morelos as Mariana
 Joshua Gutiérrez as Fermín
 Fabián Robles as Pérez
 Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez as Silvia
 Dobrina Cristeva as Jimena
 Natalia Juárez as Anita
 Aleida Núñez as Milena
 Raúl Magaña as Raúl
 Andrea Ortega-Lee as Rosita
 Sofía Castro as Nora
 Nuria Bages as Cinthya
 Jesús Ochoa as Taxista
 Marco Muñoz as Ojeda
 Pilar Ixquic Mata as Laura
 Alex Sirvent as Arturo
 José Elías Moreno as Joel
 Ernesto D'Alessio as Agustín
 Margarita Magaña as Lorenza
 Gabriela Zamora as Lupita
 Gloria Aura as Inés
 Daniela Noguez as Claudia
 José Carlos Ruiz as Armando
 Aitor Iturrioz as Óscar
 Rodrigo Cuevas as Patricio
 Pepe Olivares as Lara
 Carlos Gatica as Rodrigo
 Andrea Torre as Nuria
 Toño Mauri as Dr. Ávalos
 Luis Xavier as Papá Gutiérrez
 Claudia Acosta as Florentina
 Juan Carlos Nava as Tomás
 Renata Notni as Sol
 Adal Ramones as Alberto
 Laura Carmine as Berenice
 Danna García as Fanny
 José Ron as Ramón
 Pedro Prieto as Alfonso
 Macaria as Marcia
 Silvia Manríquez as Melisa
 Carmen Becerra as Ligia
 Luis Romano as Fabián
 Daniela Luján as Valeria
 Alejandra Zaid as Alexa
 Ernesto Gómez Cruz as Plutarco

References

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I'm always asked if I was encouraged to write by my teachers when I was young. I can't say that I was. But writing came easily. I was a co-feature editor of the high school paper. And when I was a junior I had an English teacher, Albert Komishane, who gave us the freedom to be creative and appreciated our efforts.
Later, I took a class in writing for young people at New York University. I received professional encouragement from my teacher. When the class ended after one semester, I took it again. And before the end of the second semester a few of my stories were accepted for publication in small magazines. My teacher presented me with a red rose in class. I don't think anything is as exciting as that first acceptance, even when it brings a payment of just twenty dollars.
I wish every would-be writer could be as lucky as I was in finding a supportive teacher. Mine did not like or approve of all my work. But her criticism was presented in a positive way. She gave me the courage to try a novel instead of the rhyming picture books I was writing when I entered her class. I wrote the first draft of Iggie's' House while I was taking her course, turning in one chapter a week.


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NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL: Ely City boss Brady Stone hopes Robins can continue impressive recent form
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Ely City manager Brady Stone.
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Brady Stone is hoping his Ely City side can continue their impressive recent form with a win at Stowmarket Town on Saturday.
A stunning acrobatic effort from striker Sam Reed saw the Robins hold high-flying Newmarket Town to a 1-1 draw last Friday before they saw off Fakenham Town last night courtesy of a Jonathan Brown double and a Nick Heap strike.
Those two results have seen the Robins fly up the Thurlow Nunn Premier Division standings into ninth, and Stone hopes his side can continue their climb with a win in Suffolk this weekend.
"We knew the Fakenham game was going to be a funny one because of what's been going on there lately and with their reserves stepping up," he said.
"To their credit they made the first half tough. We spoke at half time and said we needed to move the ball quicker and we did and got a good win in the end.
"It's another good result after a positive draw on Friday. We were fantastic against Newmarket. They usually dominate when we play but we played on the front foot and looked like the team that could have gone on to win it.
"We were happy playing Stowmarket at the beginning of the season because they were a new team but they've turned a corner lately.
"We know it will be a tough game – it always is going to Stowmarket - but if we can play like we did against Newmarket then there's no reason why we can't get a good result."
Saturday's game marks the start of three tricky fixtures for Ely, with Haverhill Rovers and Thetford Town set to visit the Ellgia over the next 10 days.
"We've got a tough run of fixtures coming up," Stone admitted.
"I've said to the boys that if we can win them then we'll be looking at the top seven or eight which is fantastic.
"But equally if we lose them we can easily slide down the table so it's important that we keep winning."
Ely's reserve side was also on the winning side at the weekend.
They secured their passage into the next round of the Cliff Bullen Challenge Cup with a 2-0 win over Fulbourn Institute. Luke Mansfield and Charlie McManus found the net in that game.


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College of West Anglia students get hands on experience with community project at Hickathrift House
The three brick work students from the College of West Anglia Wisbech campus were invited to a Fenland care home to get some hands on experience by repairing a damaged raised flowerbed.
Over the course of two days, Paulius Jonaitis, Brandon Bryan, and Michael Gritsenko, along with their tutors, removed the old structure and re-built the flowerbed at Hickathrift House in Marshland St James using new bricks for the residents, staff and visitors to enjoy.
General manager at Hickathrift House, Ceri Mills, said: "We are so happy that after discussions with Jamie Hall, the home's maintenance manager, the students from the College of West Anglia came to rebuild an old brickwork flowerbed at the front of the home.
Three College of West Anglia bricklaying students completed a new flower bed at Hickathrift Care Home. (14618010)
"It looks so much brighter and more welcoming for visitors and the people that live at the home. We are looking forward to future projects with the college. Well done and thank you Paulius, Brandon and Michael."
Jamie said: "I am very pleased with the standard of work achieved by the students they worked well as a team and really enjoyed the opportunity to exercise their bricklaying skills on a worthy community project. All that remains is to select the flowers that help will give this side of the building, a bright new look for the summer."


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Natural History of the Vertebrates: September 8-10, 2017
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Adventures in IB LBK and Beyond
Submitted by Todd Schlenke, Spring 1994
I took IB 104 in 1994 with Jim Patton, Ned Johnson, and Harry Greene. Some things I remember from the course were: On a fieldtrip to Sagehen Creek we trapped a flying squirrel. We let it out in a clearing in the forest – it immediately jumped on a student and climbed up to her shoulder, then jumped off and glided to another student and climbed up that student's shoulder, then jumped off and glided to a tree, which it promptly ran up. On a fieldtrip to Hastings we trapped a skunk, and Jim couldn't help getting sprayed right in the glasses when he tried to sneak up and open the cage. On another fieldtrip where our van was trying to "find" more vertebrates than the other vans, Ned would pull over on various side roads, open his window to hear bird calls, and tell us what new species he'd heard that we should write down in our notebooks. I also remember taking a lab test where we received a bizarre looking skull to identify. By dentition it seemed to be a dog, and sure enough it turned out to be a bulldog skull (a trick question) – that might have been Jim's Mammalogy class.
After IB 104 I got a job as a curatorial assistant at the MVZ where I worked for two years. I worked on the bird egg collection, among other things, and was often surrounded by dozens of random egg boxes of different shapes with outdated taxonomy. I was jokingly referred to as "egg boy". My job was to get everything into standardized containers and get them sorted by taxonomy. There was one really large set of eggs from a particular collector who for some reason tagged all the specimens with a letter code rather than a number code, even though his notebooks had numbers for every specimen (his notebooks also had vivid descriptions of collecting golden eagle eggs and eating them for breakfast – "tastes like chicken"). By comparing the rarer specimens back to his notebook I slowly deciphered his code: it was BLACKSMITH, where B stood for 0, L stood for 1, etc. Why he chose to use a different code for his notes versus his actual specimens I don't know, but I was very proud to have figured it out.
Taking IB 104 and working in the Museum opened my eyes to the possibility that one could study natural history for a living. I went to grad school at UT Austin and TA'd vertebrate natural history there a few times, then eventually switched over to bugs. I'm now a professor at the University Arizona working on the evolution and genetics of interactions between fruit flies and their parasites, especially parasitoid wasps.
A Career Changer
Submitted by Raymond B. Huey, Spring 1965
Unlike many biologists, I was never a child naturalist. In fact, I had no interest in animals as a kid. True, I did collect my first herp (a desert tortoise) when I was 5 years old. I took that tortoise to 'show-and-tell' at my kindergarten class and proudly announced that I'd dug up a turtle. My teacher quickly corrected me, "Ray, that's a tortoise, not a turtle." That was my first encounter with the trials of taxonomy, and it soured me on herps for years.
I avoided taking biology in high school, and went off to Deep Springs College in '61. Although Deep Springs is in an isolated desert valley in eastern California, it was occasionally invaded by herpetologists in pursuit of the endemic Deep Spring toad (Anaxyrus exul). I remember thinking that anyone who would drive hundreds of miles just to see a little black toad is certainly strange and perhaps warped! I had no inkling whatsoever that I myself would soon become a herper.
I transferred to Berkeley in Jan '64 with the near-certain intent of eventually going into medicine. I chose to major in Zoology, as the associated course work would make medical school less challenging. Becoming a professor was not on my radar. I took Zool 1a that spring and Zool 1b that summer (at UCLA). I found both courses to be boring and conceptually uninteresting, and I got C's in both. Obviously, I did not get off to a good start!
But in fall '64 I took Embryology from Richard Eakin and Wildlife Biology from Starker Leopold. Both were captivating professors, I loved the material, and my grades jumped to A- and A respectively. Zoology was suddenly starting to look interesting, but even so I was still fully committed towards medical school.
In spring '65 Leopold invited me to participate in a grad seminar on wildlife biology, and I also took the Natural History of the Vertebrates (then Z. 113), taught by Seth Benson, Ned Johnson, and Robert Stebbins. The course had a reputation of being a major time sink, but I was immediately at home. Great profs, great material, great TAs, and great field trips. For the first time in my academic education, I had found material that was 100% fun to learn. I devoured everything (I even read the textbook) and was soon at the top of the class. As a result, Ned Johnson and later Robert Stebbins offered me a job, which got me involved in the MVZ as a bonus.
For me the individual field project was the high point of the Natural History course. I'd been on a canoe trip on the Russian River the previous summer and was excited to drift very close to a great blue heron. So, I decided to observe the foraging behavior of great blues. This was the first field project I'd ever done, but I was a kid in a candy store; and I happily spent my entire spring vacation (plus several weekends) watching herons near Bodega and Tomales Bays.
I still have my project paper — it is in fact the only thing I saved from my undergrad days! Here are two quotes. "Herons use two distinct types of hunting whether on land or in the water – stalking and still hunting…" "If a heron is…still hunting in a shallow bay when the tide is coming in, it will orient itself into the flow of the water and wait for the water…to bring in its hoped for meal." Thus, I had observed that herons adjusted their foraging mode to the immediate habitat.
[As delighted as I when I found that old project paper, I was rather shocked to be reminded how poor a writer I was at the time. Here is the start of the Introduction: "The central coastal are of California between Tomales and Bodega Bay is a compact interspersion of relatively unadulterated habitats…Corresponding to these habitats is a diverse variety of avifauna…" ]
By coincidence, Eric Pianka was finishing his PhD thesis at the University of Washington in that same spring of '65. His thesis included a chapter (published in 1966 in Ecology), distinguishing between "sit-and-wait" versus "widely foraging" lizards, and Eric speculated that this difference might reduce interspecific competition. So, we had independently seen different foraging modes and interpreted them in an ecological context.
By the end of the Natural History course, I was beginning to favor a career in biology rather than in medicine. I graduated in January 1966 and immediately went on a Tropical Ecology field course (OTS) in Costa Rica. That course – and the associated faculty and students – reinforced my feeling that I should switch to biology.
When I returned from OTS, I got a job working in the herp lab for Robert Stebbins, who was about to go on sabbatical leave in Australia. That job led to an opportunity to join Carl Koford and two grad students on a fantastic MVZ expedition to the coastal deserts of Peru in summer 1967. I then started grad school in Zoology at the University of Texas Austin in Sept 1967, and did my thesis (June '69) on interspecific competition of geckos in coastal Peru.
By yet another coincidence, Eric Pianka was hired at UT in Sept 1968, and we immediately became close friends. Eric invited me to run a NSF-funded field study on species diversity and ecology of desert lizards in the Kalahari Desert, and I jumped at the chance.
So, from late November '69 until mid-October '70, I camped out in the Kalahari, happily chasing the wily desert lizard, while evading scorpions, puff adders, cobras, lions and their ilk. Eric came over for about two months, and we soon noticed that the lacertid species used two different foraging modes, sit-and-wait or widely-foraging. We ended up writing a paper (Ecological consequences of foraging mode, Ecology '81) that drew attention to the importance of foraging mode in ecology, and also that introduced me to phylogenetic thinking and the comparative method. I later did a set of additional papers with great colleagues (with Al Bennett, Ken Nagy, and Henry John-Alder) on the physiological ecology of those lizards.
Returning to the States in late '70, I became a grad student at Harvard, finished my degree in '75, and moved back to the MVZ for a Miller Postdoc ('75-'77). I was then hired as an Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington, and my first course was, of course, "Natural History of the Vertebrates, Exclusive of Fishes"!
So, Natural History of the Vertebrates has profoundly and positively influenced my life and career. Most importantly, I learned that organismal and academic biology was not only great fun and exciting, but also that academic biology would be far more interesting to me than was medicine. As a result, I changed careers and have never regretted that shift. Also, that course got me involved with the MVZ, where I was able to meet and interact with outstanding scientists, join the MVZ expedition to Peru, and later be a postdoc. And my field observations on foraging behavior of herons led directly to ecological and physiological projects on foraging mode of Kalahari lizards. Natural History of the Vertebrates compelled me to a career that I have enjoyed for over half a century.
Suited for the Occasion
Submitted by Lawrence A (Larry) Riggs, TA 1974-1976 and 1978, Teaching Associate 1977
As GSI in 1974, 1975, and 1976 (we were "TA's" then), Teaching Associate in 1977, and GSI once more in 1978, I often reminded students to dress appropriately for Zoology 107 field trips and to be prepared for weather changes. Photos from the early days of MVZ field trips show "appropriate" dress to be full suits and long dresses, usually black in color. In the 1970's the colors were lighter, occasionally flamboyant. But we were usually well prepared for the weather – for example with birthday suits for the banks of the Owens River on a 70's-era Spring Break trip to the desert.
A Herpetologist Out from the Rocks
Submitted by Bryan Bach, Spring 2016
I don't know how it happened, but for the final IB 104 trip to Hastings, I was picked to be in the Birds of the Central Valley van. "That's funny," Jim McGuire said after we'd arrived. "I thought you would have been in one of the herp-themed vans." Me and you both, Jim.
Though I was admittedly expecting the worst, I was absolutely delighted by the birds we saw—Loggerhead Shrike in the distance at Del Puerto Canyon, a flock of Cedar Waxwings noisily munching on mulberries (I helped myself, too) in Gustine, and the chainsaw-like song of the Yellow-headed Blackbird at Merced National Wildlife Refuge.
How Many Field Biologists Does it Take to Lift a Car?
Submitted by Sabrina Horrack, Spring 2017
On our trip to Pt. Reyes, our car got a flat tire. Another car of fellow students stopped and stayed behind to help while the cars ahead of us went on. When we got the tire off and tried to put on the spare, we realized the jack wasn't quite tall enough and we didn't have enough clearance to get the tire on. Faced with a lack of cell service/ability to call for help, with the turkey vultures soaring ominously overhead waiting for us to fail and die in the wilderness, we did what any intrepid field biologists in our position would have. We gathered around and lifted the car enough to slide the tire on. So, how many amazing lady field biologists does it take to lift a car? Turns out it's about 8. The rest of our class may have gotten to go on and see some quail and an otter latrine without us, but at least we got a good story and some intense biologist bonding out of our misfortune!
Zoology 107: A Lasting Mark
Submitted by Katie (McLain) Noonan, Spring 1970
I was a student in Zoology 107 in Spring 1970, and my professors were: Oliver Pearson, Ned Johnson, Robert Stebbins and James Patton. The course discipline of careful observation, recording details — being quiet on the trail — and appreciating the ecological context of our lives stayed with me in all my subsequent endeavors. I completed a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of Michigan in 1979 with Richard D. Alexander (my dissertation "Strategies of Inclusive fitness maximizing in the social wasp, Polistes fuscatus).
My most vivid memories of Zoology 107 are of 1) sitting on lab tables and watching a rattlesnake and a CA King snake interact, and 2) having my T.A. break into tears recounting the failure of Brown Pelican nests in the Channel Islands in 1970.
Currently, I volunteer with UC Berkeley professor Frank Sulloway on his long-term study of the population dynamics of Opuntia echios in the Galapagos in relation to human influences, using the technique of repeat photography. My role is to help find new photographs especially from the 1960's-2000 and then to compare the photos from different years to abstract survival and recruitment of individuals. If you would like to share photos for research, please contact Dr. Sulloway at sulloway@berkeley.edu, phone (510) 642-7139. You can read about the research in an article on his website, "The mystery of the disappearing Opuntia" at http://www.sulloway.org/OpuntiaMystery.pdf
I taught high school biology in Oakland California from 1990-2014. I am perhaps proudest of this part of my story because I was able to develop a program inspired by Zoology 107 that encouraged students to spend time observing nature, keep field notebooks, and consider the ecological context of their lives. Many of my students became scientists, conservationists, teachers and outdoors enthusiasts.
The photo shows a trip to Plaza Sur (Galapagos Islands) in 2013.
Race to Hastings
Submitted by Natasha Stepanova, Spring 2016
For the final field trip, our class broke into groups with each taking a different route to Hastings Natural History Reservation in Carmel Valley, competing to see who could get the highest number of species along the way. My group went through the Santa Cruz Mountains where we stopped at multiple locations, primarily to look for herps though we kept our eyes peeled for other vertebrates. Our biggest find, pictured here, was a first for most of us, a Rubber Boa (Charina bottae). In fact, we found a total of three over the two-day trip! We also saw a black salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus) and the largest rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) I have ever seen. By the time we reached Hastings, we had seen over 100 species!
At Hastings, we joined up with the others to eat dinner, set mammal traps, and spend the night. The next morning, after checking the traps and hiking, we gathered to go through our species lists. Although my group didn't see the most vertebrates, we did see many herps that we'd never seen on previous field trips and all of us had a blast. As a class, we saw around 260 species overall! To top it off, on the way back, we stopped once more in the Santa Cruz Mountains and found 4 snakes (rubber boa, ring-necked snake, gopher snake, Coluber constrictor) within five minutes of each other. It was the perfect way to end the best course I took at Berkeley.
A Lesson in Territoriality
Submitted by David Kammerer, Spring 1992
I took this class in early 1990's and Prof. Ned Johnson led the Ornithology section. The class was down at Aquatic Park on a field trip having a great old time. I pointed out an Anna's Hummingbird perched on top of a branch. We observed it for a few moments and it then flew away. I began to move on but Ned instructed us to wait around for a minute. Sure enough, the Anna's returned to the exact perch it had left one minute before!
After Ned's explanation, the importance of territory was etched in my mind.
Predicting the Rise of Computers
Submitted by Ilka Schulz, Spring 1990
I was a student in IB 104 Spring 1990, my first semester at UC Berkeley as a transfer student. It was an exceptional experience! I am a biology teacher in Switzerland now and still grateful for that course.
Just one anecdote I remember from the good-bye meeting of 104 in the big lecture hall. Ned Johnson gave a moving speech to us on completion of the course, and I remember that he predicted that the computers we had just started using (mostly offline at that time, I bought my first Macintosh at UCB 1991) would become the most important tool by the time we were adults, and that we would save the forests by not reading paper journals and newspapers any more. Crazy!!
Field Footwear Faux Pas
Submitted by Paula White, GSI/TA 1999-2003
I was fortunate enough to be a GSI for several years and ultimately a TA for the Natural History of the Vertebrates class while completing my PhD. Saturday field trips met early in the mornings, rain or shine, in various parks around Berkeley. One morning as we were all assembled and getting ready to head out on the trails, a car raced up at the last minute, parked, and a student who was running late got out. He rushed over to meet up with us. It was only then that he realized he was still wearing his fuzzy bedroom slippers. That was the only footwear he had with him, and it was a very muddy day on the steep trails, but he just laughed and slid along good-naturedly for several miles through the puddles and muck as we checked small mammal traps and looked for birds, reptiles and amphibians. I doubt his slippers survived beyond that day, but he never complained. Such was the enthusiasm that 104 inspired in students.
Bird Watching and Robbing
Submitted by Michael Chinn, Spring 1972
I was a student in Zoology 107 in 1972.
A member of our class, who was apparently a falconer, was implicated in the robbing of the nest of Peregrine Falcons at Morro Rock that spring. I don't know if they ever recovered the birds, but I'm pretty sure he didn't pass the class.
I still enjoy going bird watching and that has taken me to many places I might never have visited. I volunteer as a docent at the Berkeley Botanical Garden, and often point out the vertebrates we run across on my tours. I also helped create a guide for the Garden and East Bay Hills – "Illustrated Guide to Common Animals of the East Bay Hills" which covers common vertebrates and insects in the Berkeley Hills.
Submitted by Monica Jane Albe, Spring 2000
Our class had some really wonderful people in it and over the semester, many of us became good friends.
And speaking of good friends — during that time, in grocery stores, there was Kashi 'Good Friends' cereal, and one of the people on the cover of it looked just like one of my lab buddies, Lauren Richardson (McGoldrick at that time). I thought this was hilarious.
So, as a joke one time, I bought a box of the cereal and brought it into lab to show the class and get Lauren's autograph on it….turns out, Lauren did some modeling and that was ACTUALLY HER! We all laughed and I felt pretty silly. We had so many good laughs during that class. The students were great, the GSIs were great, and the professors were amazing! Wouldn't trade those memories for anything!
Influence of the Natural History of the Vertebrates Class
Submitted by Carla Cicero, Undergraduate Spring 1981, GSI 1987, Teaching Associate Spring 1992
I took the "Natural History of the Vertebrates" class in 1981 when it was Zoology 107. We were on the quarter system, so it was an intense 20 week class with one grade for 10 units. Without a doubt it was the best class I ever took at Cal. I had already been interested in animals, and especially birds, and had taken a similar field ecology class at the Teton Science School (Jackson Hole, Wyoming) when I was in high school. If you want to be a field biologist, there is nothing like these sorts of experiences – especially if you grow up in a city like I did.
In those days, one field trip involved watching "Brown Towhees" (now known as California Towhees) for a full four hours and then writing a report on their behaviors. I remember that it was raining that trip. Who knew that watching a LBJ ("little brown job") in the rain could be so fun?! Although I loved taking the class, I equally loved helping to teach it and seeing students get excited by the natural world.
This is a picture of me in 1987 holding a nestling Barn Owl at Corral Hollow to show to a group of enthusiastic students.
A Love for Ecology
Submitted by Edwin Pister, Spring 1947
It may well turn out that I am one of the older students who took Zoo 113, later 107. I am 88 years old and believe I took the class in 1947, not long after WWII. Professors were Bob Stebbins, Alden Miller, and Seth Benson. Our TA was Bob Rudd who led us to numerous woodrat nests in Strawberry Canyon. Bob had recently returned from flying heavy bombers over Germany. Lending assistance to the class was my major professor, A. Starker Leopold, a Berkeley Ph.D.who was creating a major in Wildlife Conservation. I pursued this major through the master's program and into the Ph.D. Stebbins and I later taught a UCB extension class: "Ecology of the High Mojave Desert," assisted by Nate Cohen, a really great herpetologist. Through Starker I received the influence of his Dad, Aldo. "A Sand County Almanac" served as a major guide in my later career and throughout my life.
Following graduation I was hired as a fishery research biologist by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Convict Creek Research Station on Convict Creek in Mono County. I later transferred to a fishery biologist position with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife headquartered in Bishop, supervising aquatic management and research in about a thousand lakes and streams along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, lakes that were formed toward the end of the Pleistocene. I spent my entire career in Bishop and still live there.
I still visit the Bay Area and stay with my brother in Lafayette. Karl served as Dean of the College of Engineering during the 90s and ended up in the President's Office following six years as Chancellor at U.C. Santa Cruz. At 92 Karl is still active in Berkeley affairs. Karl and I were led to Berkeley by our mother, who attended Cal in the Class of 1914.
If I were to list my major professional accomplishment influenced by Natural History of the Vertebrates, it would be my efforts to lead the Department of Fisn and Game (later Wildlife) into the management and concern for all parts of the biota, and not just those with a commercial value. The Department of Fish and Wildlife holds strongly to superficial and traditional values, hunting and fishing being two of these traditions. I am proud of this accomplishment, being led by MVZ faculty and what I learned from them.
Carrying on the Grinnell Method
Submitted by Steven Herman, Spring 1958
I was a student in Natural History of the Vertebrates in1958. I was fascinated by the course and especially by the Grinnell journal system. I got only a B- on my journal, but later went on to write and publish a book describing the system in detail: The Naturalist's Field Journal: "A Manual of Instruction Based on a System Established by Joseph Grinnell". The book has gone through two editions and been distributed all over the world. Several copies reside in the MVZ library. Most importantly, the course, the system, and other connections with MVZ led me to a Ph.D. in zoology from UC Davis and a now 46 year career at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. There I also established The Evergreen State College Museum of Natural History. The nucleus of my career involved taking students to wild and semi-wild placed in North and Latin America for significant periods of time. Rigor was ensured by requiring the Grinnell Journal. So the course and MVZ had much to do with creating a life that has been as rich as any imaginable.
Coyote Hills Bird Hike
Submitted by Steve Carr, Spring 1977
In Spring Semester 1977, Laurence Frank led a group of us student on a bird hike at Coyote Hills. We came across an old snag, with extending limb. Beneath the limb were several owl pellets. Students began poking them apart, looking at the remains of small rodents, etc. Someone asked, "What kind of owl is it, Laurence?" Laurence answered without hesitation, "Great Horned Owl." Students wrote this down in their field notes; I thought, well, sure, and wrote it down. Laurence sniffed the pellet, and announced "Female." Students wrote; I closed my notes. Laurence mashed it open, tasted it, and announced "Raised three young to maturity last year." Students wrote; I listened. Some students were still writing it all down several minutes later.
Field Day at Corral Hollow
Submitted by Jackie Childers, Spring 2011
After spending the entire day in separate vans, three teams competed to find the highest number of species in the final bioblitz of the 104 class. At the end of the day we arrived at Corral Hollow, wading through the high grass at sunset to reach our final destination: a large rock-outcropping at the edge of a farm where for many years a pair of Barn Owls continued to nest every Spring. This year was no different and we were able to view the nest that evening, and it contained three nestlings.
Sunol Regional Wilderness
Sean the snake charmer: Sean Reilly, a former graduate student of Jim McGuire, had disappeared for 20 minutes while the rest of the class continued to search for lizards and snakes under boulders. When he suddenly returned he came back not just with one, but three snakes! A Whip Snake (Masticophis flagellum) in his right hand, a Western Racer (Coluber constrictor) in his left, and a Gopher Snake (Pituophis catenifer) around his neck. Sean was the TA for IB104 during this semester.
Tilden Park – Dawn Chorus Trip
The Dawn Chorus field trip was the first time in my life I'd ever seen wild birds up close and held them. We set up mist nets before the sun rose, and within the next hour we already had our hands full. California and Spotted Towhees, Wrentits, Bewick's Wren, and several Wilson's Warblers were all carefully removed, one by one, before being weighed and measured and subsequently released. Rauri is shown here, instructing me how to properly hold one of the delicate Wilson's Warbler's we caught, the first bird I ever held in my life. Now, nearly six years later I'm a first-year PhD student in his lab!
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