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Of Kings and Migrants — A Look at ABC's New BirdScapes Approach
By Cristina Santiestevan June 09, 2017
In the shadows of trees he planted himself, Don Francisco Lopez tends his black pepper crop. The woody, perennial vines reach a dozen feet or more overhead, clambering up the Cordia and Gliricidia trees that surround his house. The dappled shade protects the vines from Guatemala's strong sun, while the trees that cast those shadows provide shelter and food for abundant birds, including many migratory songbirds that travel to these slopes from their summer breeding grounds in North America.
"We call him the Guatemalan King of Black Pepper," jokes Marco Cerezo, President of Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y la Conservación (FUNDAECO), which translates to the Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation. "He has put three daughters through college, all on the proceeds from his pepper vines."
Don Francisco is one of many local landowners who are experimenting with a more bird-friendly approach to agriculture with the help of FUNDAECO and ABC in the Conservation Coast region of Guatemala — a stretch of land that covers approximately one million acres from the country's Caribbean shoreline to the Izabal Department hills farther inland. His success is among the first for ABC's ambitious new approach to saving migratory birds, BirdScapes.
How to Save What Won't Hold Still
Far to the north, in a climate that wouldn't begin to support black pepper, Wood Thrush build nests, hatch eggs, and fledge chicks in the mature forest of Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains. But once the chicks leave the nest, they and their parents relocate to nearby stands of dense, scrubby habitat known as "young forest" to forage.
"Right there, you see how we can't just think about a single site," ABC's Migratory Bird Program Director, Andrew Rothman, says. "The birds need two kinds of habitat — mature forest, with young forest nearby. So we have to think about how these sites interact. We need to think about this at a bigger scale."
Wood Thrush move between habitats on their nesting grounds. That relatively local movement is challenge enough for bird conservation. But when their full lifespans are considered, they and other migratory birds inhabit an almost incomprehensible amount of territory. Some species travel more than 4,000 miles each way in their twice-yearly migrations.
In addition to healthy habitat at both ends of that journey, the birds also require well-preserved "rest stops" during their travels. Some of these stopover habitats provide shelter and fuel for more than 200 species of migratory birds.
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This is the origin story for BirdScapes, ABC's newly launched answer to the essential question of migratory bird conservation: How do we save something with a range that potentially spans continents and may cross a dozen or more international borders? Put another way: How do we save migratory birds when they just won't hold still?
The solution, explains ABC President Mike Parr, is to be selective. "Migratory birds are in all kinds of habitats. They're in agricultural areas. They're in the surrounding forest. They're almost everywhere. We can't properly conserve them by setting up small reserves, but we can't protect absolutely every acre either. We have to define landscapes that are big enough to make a difference, but manageable enough that we can deliver conservation and make change happen."
This is the founding idea behind BirdScapes: Make them large enough to matter, but small enough to allow for effective conservation action.
Defining BirdScapes
What, exactly, is a BirdScape? Put simply, BirdScapes are large-scale priority areas for habitat management to support the conservation of migratory birds. A single BirdScape could cover 150,000 to 2.5 million acres. It might include several habitat restoration projects, extensive working lands, and a handful of protected areas.
Like a watershed, a BirdScape is a landscape-level classification of habitat, and it may include whole towns and counties within its borders. But while watersheds are defined by the downhill and downstream flow of water, BirdScapes are defined first by the seasonal migration of birds.
Depending upon the regional threats to birds, a BirdScape's conservation plan may call for planting trees, removing invasive species, or working with local farmers and landowners to establish more bird-friendly land-use practices. For example, in grassland areas this might include the implementation of ranching practices that support a diversity of grass heights through rotational grazing; financial incentives for bird-friendly herd management strategies; and the use of fencing and supplemental water sources to reduce impacts on streams and riparian habitats.
Wood Thrush prefer to build their nests in mature forests, such as what can be found in Pennsylvania's Poconos BirdScape. Photo by Michael Stubblefield
"You can think of a BirdScape as a way of delivering a project across a landscape," says Parr, who explains that the borders of each individual BirdScape are drawn with pragmatism and compromise.
The designation of a BirdScape begins with the birds, but it does not end there. In addition to the birds' habitat needs, ABC considers the location of existing and potential partner organizations — an essential ingredient for success — as well as the ability to effectively implement conservation projects in the region.
"It's the junction of science and opportunity," says Parr.
Evolution of Migratory Bird Conservation
BirdScapes build upon similar approaches that have already been proven successful, many of which ABC already supports as a partner. For example, the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service — often in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation — has already designated multiple areas for habitat management of priority species. Likewise, the Commission for Environmental Conservation — a trinational intergovernmental organization that unites Canada, the United States, and Mexico on continent-wide conservation issues — helps prioritize landscapes for conservation through its Grassland Priority Conservation Areas project.
Migratory birds, such as this Golden-winged Warbler, rely on healthy habitat in multiple places throughout the year. This requirement is one of the reasons behind the creation of ABC's new BirdScapes approach to habitat management and conservation. Photo by Bruce Beehler
In the northern Great Plains, the Northern Great Plains Joint Venture and partners are collaborating to keep large swaths of grassland protected from agricultural development. And in Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Resources Institute is actively working to protect 20 million hectares by 2020 through its Initiative 20×20.
Even within ABC, many of the pieces that make up BirdScapes have been in place for some time. In fact, all of the currently active BirdScapes are set around areas where ABC has existing partnerships and projects. BirdScapes formalizes those programs and unites them in a hemisphere-wide approach that has already proven itself successful on a local scale.
The Conservation Coast BirdScape in Guatemala includes bird friendly cacao plantations — shown here — as well as other forms of forest-based farmed, known as agroforestry. Photo by Mike Parr
"We're confident this is a good thing precisely because it is based on tried and true approaches," explains EJ Williams, ABC Vice President for Migratory Birds and Habitats. "This is built on 20 years of work with migratory birds."
But while many of BirdScapes' tactics have been in place for years, the overall strategy — protect migratory birds throughout their full life-cycles, and especially on their wintering grounds — is new for both ABC and bird conservation overall. "This is very much an evolution that's taking us from site-based habitat conservation to habitat conservation on a large scale across the landscape," says Williams.
From Maps to Boots-on-the-Ground
Guatemala's Conservation Coast is one of the two dozen or so active BirdScapes. Here, ABC and lead partner FUNDAECO are working with landowners to implement forest-friendly agriculture. Agroforestry is no substitute for wild, primary forest, but it supports significantly more wildlife than crops often grown as monocultures, such as corn, oil palm, and sugar cane.
Shade-grown coffee supports is a well-known example of bird-friendly agroforestry, but ABC and FUNDAECO believe crops such as cacao, cardamom, rubber, black pepper, and sustainable timber also have potential to generate income for landowners and habitat for birds. Already, some local landowners — such as the Guatemalan King of Pepper — are benefiting from these new practices, which often bring a price premium at the market while restoring viable habitat for birds in the forests.
Shade-grown coffee — shown here — is often considered a bird-friendly form of agroforestry because the coffee plants are grown as understory shrubs under larger trees, all of which helps support birds and the food and shelter they rely upon. Agroforestry is one of many conservation tools currently employed within ABC's BirdScapes locations. Photo by loca4motion / Shutterstock
But, these successes — in Guatemala and at other BirdScape locations — do not start in the forest. Rather, explains Parr, they begin with a map. "First, we set a boundary. It's based on a combination of bird data, topographic and political boundaries, and existing protected areas." Then, once the BirdScape is defined in broad terms, the partners work together to create a land-use plan that accounts for the needs of all its stakeholders — landowners and birds alike.
Not every acre within a BirdScape can be protected, and this is never the goal. To identify priority areas for conservation action, ABC and partners first disregard areas that are already well protected and do not require additional conservation efforts. Then, they eliminate the areas that are already too far gone, such as cities and towns and urban centers that are paved over and fully developed. The remaining landscape — that which is neither fully protected nor fully developed — is where ABC and partners focus their efforts.
"You take the data that you have, and you look to see where you can make the most positive change for birds," says Parr.
In this manner, ABC and FUNDAECO are defining priority areas within Guatemala's Conservation Coast BirdScape. At the same time, they're putting conservation efforts on the ground. Some lands will be set aside as demonstration sites for bird-friendly agriculture, such as shade-grown cardamom, cacao, and black pepper. Elsewhere, the partners will work with interested landowners to change over annual crops to sustainable agroforestry. And in some cases, ABC and FUNDAECO hope to unite landowners into cooperatives that might attract outside investment for crops that require years to fully develop.
"Even cacao takes several years before it starts to return any kind of proceeds," Parr explains. "So, if you're a landowner, are you going to plant cacao? Or are you going to go with corn, which you can plant this year and get money out of this year?"
Outside investors may be able to help local farmers and property owners establish slow-growing but bird-friendly crops, such as this hardwood plantation in Guatemala. Photo by Jason Berry
By bringing in outside investors, ABC and FUNDAECO hope to make it possible for landowners to plant high-returning but slow-yielding crops, such as cacao, rubber, and sustainable timber. "We're trying to identify large enough amounts of production that might appeal to investors as a way to get non-philanthropic dollars invested in conservation and the production of more bird-friendly products," says Rothman. "So, if we package together a large number of acres of long-term, sustainably managed timber production with, say, cacao underneath it, we may be able to engage fund managers who are looking for environmentally friendly products to serve their environmentally conscious members or investors."
This is one of the potential advantages for BirdScapes. By working at such a large scale, ABC hopes to implement conservation solutions — such as investor-supported sustainable timber production — that would simply not be possible if attempted one property or landowner at a time. Likewise, BirdScapes allow ABC and our partners to find economies of scale, attract new funders and donors, and better share tactics and strategies across landscapes and continents.
"We will learn from each one as we go," Rothman says. "But I think there are some baseline concepts that apply broadly, such as influencing land use and doing so in a way that's going to be more beneficial to birds while also meeting the economic needs of local people. How that actually is done, I think, will vary from one BirdScape to another."
Twenty-one of those BirdScapes have already been identified — including the Poconos BirdScape in Pennsylvania where Wood Thrush raise their young and where the idea for BirdScapes first took flight. These same Wood Thrush may winter on Guatemala's Conservation Coast, in the trees that support the shade-grown vines that have made one man a de facto king of black pepper. More — many more — BirdScapes will be added in the years to come.
ABC's conservation efforts at the Guatemala Conservation Coast BirdScape are made possible thanks to the generous support of the March Conservation Fund through the Latin American Reserve Stewardship Initiative, and also from the Jeniam Foundation.
Cristina Santiestevan is an independent writer and editor committed to sharing stories about nature and conservation in today's world. She has written about the ecology of gardens, the myriad impacts of climate change and habitat loss, and the surprising conservation value of whale poop. Visit her blog at outlawgarden.com.
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Guy Gardner Set for Green Lantern Animated Debut
TV Guide let slip today some news about the upcoming return of Green Lantern: The Animated Series with comments by series producers Giancarlo Volpe and Jim Krieg about what fans can expect this fall. When Hal returns to Earth at the end of the "Homecoming" episode at the conclusion of his battle with Atrocitus, little does he know that he's been replaced as the Green Lantern of Sector 2814. In his absence Guy Gardner has been chosen as the protector of our little part of the universe.
Volpe mentioned that Gardner is one of his favorite characters during our interview with him so it'll be fun to see how they play with his personality when the second half of the season resumes. According the the article Guy is being voiced by Diedrich Bader whose comedic past will seem to play an important role in how Guy is played onscreen. Bader, perhaps best known as Oswald Lee Harvey during his nine year stint on the Drew Carey Show, has been doing a variety of voice acting jobs and recently played Batman on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
Also mentioned in the article was the revelation of the major villain that Volpe indicated most fans might not see coming – the Anti-Montior. This brings about the need for Hal to reunite the crew of the Interceptor, a job which might not be so easy as not everyone is willing or able to join the battle.
As Krieg jokes, "Essentially it's the plot of The Blues Brothers — but there's less music."
Fans attending the San Diego Comic Con can see a sizzle real for the coming season as well as purchase the Green Lantern Animated Series soundtrack weeks before the street date.
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FNF Coaches Talk — Ways to Improve On-Field Tech, Mentoring Program, Backup QB Versatility
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Good afternoon, Coaches. Welcome back. We hope you enjoyed the weekend. Here are three stories for today.
1. 8 Ways to Improve Your On-Field Technology (FNF Coaches)
There are various ways to improve on-field technology, depending on a school's operating budget and resources. We've picked out eight.
Here are two you may not have heard about.
The camera technology has gotten so good that high school coaches are finding it within their budgets to afford products that remove the blur, and in some cases, don't even require videographers to hold the camera. The DJI Osmo x5 is a handheld device that can be used while the videographer is in motion without blur. The HUDL Focus is a smart camera that follows the action and automatically records and uploads to HUDL.
Tackling systems
With concussion research at the forefront of the sport of football, coaches are limited to the number of full-pad practices they can hold each week. Companies like TackleTube, TackleBar and MVP Drive provide padded equipment or robots for players to use when practicing tackling technique. Research shows the decrease in live reps has also caused a decrease in head injuries.
What new on-field technology helped your team in 2018?
2. New Jersey high school football players mentor younger students (Burlington County Times)
The Red Zone peer mentoring program has partnered Burlington City High School football players with a group of Wilbur Watts Intermediate School boys to talk weekly about how to behave in school, academics and life in general.
For the high school football players, it was the power of being a role model and the impact their decisions can have on those who look up to them. For the intermediate students, it was how to be respectful, accountable and a better student.
Wilbur Watts school counselor Kryssa Calderone came up with the idea for the program when thinking about the school's atmosphere on Fridays in the fall. Raymond Costello Field, home to the Burlington City High School football team, is essentially the intermediate school's front yard.
"Our little boys watch practices and games, and Friday night lights turns into everybody getting ready for the football game," Calderone said. One morning while she was getting ready for work it clicked, and she reached out to Burlington City Head Football Coach Ray Robinson.
What mentoring opportunities can you provide for your players next season?
3. Copycat NFL Teams Hunting for Rookie QBs Who Can Be the Next Taysom Hill (Bleacher Report)
It looks like the copycat NFL has finally figured out that backup quarterbacks can be much more than just backup quarterbacks. It's all thanks to Taysom Hill, the former Brigham Young option quarterback who made slash players all over the field last year.
Hill slipped below the draft radar because his college career was interrupted by several injuries and his Mormon mission. The Saints grabbed Hill off waivers two years ago and transformed him into a unique multi-position playmaker.
Hill rushed for 196 yards and two touchdowns last year on Wildcat-type plays, fake punts and other chicanery. He caught three passes and completed three others. He returned kickoffs. He blocked a punt. He played on the punt and kick coverage units.
Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht even spoke about the appeal of a Hill-type player earlier in the offseason.
"If you can find a backup quarterback who can play on a lot of your special teams units and come in and play a role on offense, you're utilizing 46 guys on your roster on game day," he said, via Auman. "It's something that's talked about a lot. It's finding a guy that's the tough part."
Hill's success may have finally opened the eyes of coaches and GMs to the possibility of doing more with their third-string quarterbacks than inactivating them on Sundays. And that may open the door for other players with similar skill sets.
In what ways do you try to get your second- and third-string quarterbacks adjusted to the speed of the game?
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Federal Court Denies Unbundling Review
By Ed Sutherland | August 16, 2006
A federal appeals court denied EarthLink's request to review an FCC ruling exempting Baby Bells from sharing broadband lines with rivals.
Writing for the three-panel appeals court, Judge Janice Rogers Brown said EarthLink's request "misses the mark."
The FCC reasonably concluded the benefits of unbundling were modest," Brown wrote in the 22-page decision.
The court said the FCC's 2004 ruling "reasonably weighed present conditions and future developments in determining what is necessary for just and reasonable rates ..."
EarthLink argued that the earlier FCC decision to reverse its original plan, which forced incumbent Bells to lease their broadband network to rivals, would "reverse decades of communication precedent."
The court rejected this opinion.
Chris Putala, EarthLink's executive vice president for public policy, told internetnews.com that the court refusal means "business as usual."
"We'll continue negotiating our commercial agreements with the RBOCs (regional Bells) to include fiber to the home when we have products and services to deliver," Putala said.
In 2004, the FCC reversed its plans to promote local phone competition, requiring baby Bells to offer portions of their networks to competitors at below-market rates.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act gave the regulatory agency the task of developing rules that called on local phone companies to unbundle parts of their networks.
Those attempts, however, met with a series of court losses.
Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell said at the time the ruling was "carefully designed to pass judicial muster," as internetnews.com reported.
The FCC's attempt to promote broadband competition came as Bells argued that opening their broadband lines to rivals put them at a disadvantage against cable companies not required to share their networks.
On the other side, companies hoping to use telephone lines to offer DSL competition say reversing the unbundling rules would create a broadband monopoly for Bells.


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Should We Kill or Rethink?
The death sentence has been around since the dawn of the justice system. Throughout the entire history, people have been burned, stoned, or electrocuted to death. Some of the countries still punish the alleged offenders in this way. The devastating fact is that, in the United States, 4.1% of the death penalty convicts are actually innocent. In this day and age, can the death penalty be justified?
In his column for The New York Times, Mr. Nicholas Kristof dealt with this complex subject in great details, facing the readers with cases where sentence to death was taken lightly by the judges and jury. As Mr. Kristof mentioned, most of the convicts had actually committed vile crimes they had been executed for. But there are some facts that we should consider before taking a stand.
Reasons 'in Favor' of Death Sentence
The states that still have the death sentence argue in favor of this penalty for a few significant reasons. First, some see it as a way to discourage brutal crimes. A study published in 2003 shows that every execution stops, on average, five murders. However, another study from 2012 opposes this, finding that deterrent effect depends on the statistical model. It suggests that possible result of execution could be saving 21 lives, but causing another 63 murders.
The other argument that "justifies" this harsh penalty is saving money. This, in fact, is not accurate. Preparations before trial, selecting the jury and appeals are far more expensive when the capital cases are in question. Study that several criminologists performed in 2017 found that for each death sentence taxpayers paid on average $700,000 more than they would if a verdict was life imprisonment. The other reason sentence to death is costly is because appeals are automatic, which gives more time for the defense to prepare the case.
Aside from these two, the third common reason to support the death penalty is that it is seen as a fitting retaliation for a monstrous crime. This stand argues that we dishonor victims if a monster is just locked away. It is the value-based reasoning that cannot be overruled with statistics and data. However, Mr. Kristof finds the counterargument in history. Executions as a way to express moral values of the community are the ones that lead to the stoning of the adulterers, burning witches, and heretics. Our columnist even mentions boiling Christians in Japan.
Death Penalty and Racial Bias
One of the greatest problems the justice system in the U.S. faces is racial bias. Researchers have found that in comparison to white defendants, black defendants fare worse. Also, black prisoners with dark complexions fare much worse than the ones with light complexions.
The statistics show that 42% of the convicts on death row are black, while the other 42% are white, and most of the remaining ones are Hispanic. Research from Washington State found that jury was four times more likely to recommend a death sentence for a black defendant than for a white defendant.
Facts That Make Things Worse
Mentioned research also found that in Thurston County in Washington, prosecutors asked for the death sentence in 67% cases of the aggravated murder. One hundred thirty miles further, in Okanogan County, this percentage is zero.
Another study shows that, in Texas, prosecutors partly rely on how The Houston Chronicle reports about the case when asking for the death sentence. Also, if the majority of jury members are women, punishment by execution is less likely.
The other thing that should be noted is that jury in most cases sends on a death row prisoners that don't show remorse. That puts in danger those defendants who are innocent because innocent people don't show remorse. And, when it comes to evidence, in most cases there is not enough DNA for testing.
In the first paragraph of this article, we mentioned that 4.1% of the prisoners waiting for the execution were innocent. Since there are more than 2,700 Americans waiting for the death sentence, it means that 110 of them are unjustly convicted.
The Case of Clifford Williams Jr.
All of the statistics and research data bring us to one of the greatest injustices people could suffer. What when you get convicted so harshly for the crime you didn't commit?
Mr. Kristof mentioned several cases of injustice regarding the death penalty, but the one that he talks about at the beginning of his column leaves as almost speechless. On October 27, 1976, Judge Clifford B. Shepard sentenced to death Clifford Williams Jr., who was found guilty of murdering a woman whose house he entered with a spare key.
Though forensics had shown that the shoots which killed the woman had been fired from the outside, breaking the glass on the window and piercing the curtains, the jury decided to convict Williams. Another fact that was going in favor of the defendant was his alibi. Many witnesses confirmed that Williams was attending a birthday party that evening.
This verdict came only three months after the Supreme Court, in the case Gregg vs. Georgia, restored death punishment which was supposed to be applied only to the worst of the worst. However, in 1980, Williams' verdict was overturned, and he was convicted on a life of imprisonment instead.
He Was Waiting for Freedom for 42 Years
Williams had to spend in prison 42 years until someone looked at his case again and realized that there was no valid evidence to prove his guilt. In 2016, Williams finally got his long-awaited freedom. Today, he lives in Jacksonville with his daughter, picking up the pieces of his life unjustly wasted in prison.
And What About Rehabilitation?
Scotty Morrow was a black man who grew up surrounded by violence. Through his childhood, he faced constant abuse, which lead him to commit murder. In 1994, this man was sentenced to death for killing two women and shooting another one in the face.
Morrow spent his time in prison praying for the families of the women he murdered. Some of the correctional officers appealed through the years for his life to be speared. The psychologist that worked with Morrow, William L. Buchanan, recollects that one of the correctional officers said this inmate was the best man in the world. In twenty years of imprisonment, only disciplinary report against him was for intervening during a prison fight and trying to protect one prisoner from being stabbed.
This example can be looked at as a testament to one's honest remorse and rehabilitation. And, though many confirmed Morrow's growth and repentance, the State of Georgia executed him last month. Before twenty witnesses, he stated once again his sorrow, hoping that families of victims would heal one day.
What Are We Thinking?
Mr. Kristof ends his column with the words of Clifford Williams Jr., saying that too many people who don't deserve it get the death sentence. Even Henry M. Coxe III, the prosecutor on Williams' case, agreed that the death sentence didn't serve a meaningful purpose.
Yet, 56% of Americans favor this punishment, believing it would save money and be applied only in cases of the vilest crimes. However, having all information, it is an inevitable conclusion that the death sentence is expensive, random, and unjustified.
To rephrase Mr.Kristof's words, one day, people will look at this subject the way we look at witch trials, and someone will ask what we were thinking. So what are we thinking?
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Yebin Mok is a former competitive figure skater based in America. She began skating in Cluver City, California in 1994 and won many competitions. Yebin suffered an injury in 1998 and had to stay away from the ice for about three months.
Yebin Mok will not be competing in the show, Dancing on Ice, for a couple of weeks as she suffered a huge injury. Her celebrity partner, Graham Bell accidentally stabbed his skate blade into her leg.
Quick Facts: What Happened To Dancing On Ice Yebin Mok? Injury And Facts To Know
Name Yebin Mok
Birthday April 19, 1984
Profession Former Competitive Figure Skater
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Husband Tom Naylor
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Yebin Mok was born on April 19, 1984. Her present age is 36 years and her zodiac sign is Aries.
Yebin was born in Seoul, South Korea and she moved to the United States of America with her parents when she was seven years old. Her ethnicity is Korean.
Yebin Mok suffered a big injury recently on the sets of Dancing on Ice. Mok suffered from a laceration in her leg and a huge stab wound from the ice blade, reports Daily Express.
Mok's current health condition is better now and is currently resting. She posted about her injury on her Instagram account.
How old tall is Yebin Mok? Yebin's height is 5 feet 3 inches or 1.60 m.
Mok began skating at the age of 10 in 1994 and she retired in 2008 at the age of 24 years.
Yebin Mok has 6.1k followers on her Instagram account. She is very active on Instagram with over 471 posts as of January 2021.
Yebin Mok married her longtime boyfriend Tom Naylor. Tom is a doctor and an orthopedic registrar. Naylor is the team doctor for Manchester Storm, a hockey team.
Tom Naylor is also a professional ice skater and made his debut in 2020's Dancing On Ice. Yebin and Tom have a son together.
Yebin did not take part in any competition between the years 2005 and 2006 because she was battling depression and suffered from an eating disorder, reports The Sun.
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Courtesy of Sepang International Circuit (SIC), the tickets were handed to local leaders to be distributed to youth in their respective areas who are keen to catch the event live. "The lights went off, we did our start". Ferrari have played down their faltering form with Sebastian Vettel shrugging off Lewis Hamilton's apparent criticism of his driving.
Three New York Giants Who Need to Improve in Week 4
The Bucs surrendered a whopping 11 explosive plays against the Vikings, more than any other team in the National Football League in Week 3 and tied for the fourth-most of any team in a game this season. Manning, who passed for 366 yards and three touchdowns against Philadelphia, said the Giants are more determined than crestfallen. "I think guys have a lot of respect for each other.
National Football League players disrespected USA war veterans
Protests during the national anthem came into the limelight when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick staged a silent protest during the 2016 preseason when he first Saturday. "I saw so many great young people and they are missing legs and they're missing arms and they're so badly injured". I don't think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our National Anthem.
Cubs clinch division, celebrate by dropping multiple f-bombs on CSN Chicago
The former Cardinal and three-time World Series victor struck out three and gave up two hits and two walks. It all fell apart on him after that. It's a fun moment for Russell, who's been having an okay year for the Cubs , playing a solid shortstop, batting.243, helping the team inch closer to clinching the NL Central.
Barcelona now behind me, Liverpool after my heart - Coutinho
It's all passed by", said Coutinho, who has started the last three games for the Reds. Coutinho was able to rescue Liverpool a 1-1 draw in Tuesday's UEFA Champions League clash against Spartak Moscow, scoring the equaliser in Russian Federation, but the Brazilian admits the team expect much more of themselves.
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Name: Emma Woodhouse
Hobbies: Other than matchmaking, Emma is the consummate dilettante. She reads, plays the pianoforte, draws likenesses, engages in fine needlework, and even collects the occasional riddle, all with a great deal of natural skill but no diligence.
Most charming quality: Her devotion to her family, particularly her rather trying father.
Most detrimental tendency: "A disposition to think a little too well of herself."
Greatest strength: A willingness to correct her faults, once they become manifestly clear.
Truest Friend: Mrs. Weston, nee Taylor
Worst enemy: Pick one - Mr. or Mrs. Elton
Prospects: Very good. She is mistress of her father's home and possesses thirty thousand pounds. No other lady in Highbury is her equal.
Favorite quotations: "But, with common sense," she added, "I am afraid I have had little to do."
"Perhaps you may now begin to regret that you spent one whole day, out of so few, in having your hair cut."
"I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.--It depends upon the character of those who handle it."
"These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!—I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?"
"I would much rather have been merry than wise."
"You are sick of prosperity and indulgence. Cannot you invent a few hardships for yourself, and be contented to stay?"
"Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other; and, therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer."
"Can you trust me with such flatterers?--Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?"
Musings: It seems that Emma Woodhouse is, after Fanny Price, the most despised of Austen's heroines, and while I feel called upon to defend Fanny (read my profile of her here) because she is so misunderstood, my desire to espouse Miss Woodhouse is based in purely selfish motivation, much like her own. For better or for worse, she is the heroine in Austen that I can best relate to. We are almost sickeningly alike - spoiled, self-consequential, and meddling - but we also share our good qualities. As stated above, Emma's greatest strength seems to be her willingness to learn from her mistakes. So if we acknowledge that she begins the novel as a flawed creature, she is undoubtedly a far superior one by the end. And I think this is really the crux of Emma. It is a tale of blunders, and of learning the hard lessons they teach. The word is used repeatedly throughout the novel, most memorably in the scene where Frank Churchill spells it out with the young Knightley's alphabet letters. However, all of Emma's amendment and repentance does not seem to be enough to excuse her in the minds of the many readers who insist upon hating her. I have only been able to construct two explanations for such unreasonableness. The first is that Austen herself declared that it would be so in her famous statement, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." The second is that Emma is far more privileged than Austen's other heroines, and therefore not an object of commiseration. In regards to the first argument, I suggest we all try to cultivate such good taste, and as for the second, which I find more convincing, I propose comparing Miss Woodhouse to the Austen heroine she most resembles: Elizabeth Bennet. Both are clever, charming, and make mistakes based upon an over dependence on their own intelligence, yet Miss Bennet is universally beloved. Granted, she does not interfere in other people lives the way Emma does, but she is also not so fortunate as to be the most consequential lady in her neighborhood. If we reversed their circumstances, I think we would find them to be uncannily similar. It is interesting that Austen declared her intention of creating a heroine whom no one but she would like almost immediately after receiving the criticisms of Mansfield Park, which always have and always will focus on Fanny Price's lack of Elizabeth Bennet's charms. Perhaps Emma can be viewed as a criticism of the public's taste? I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
http://pecuniarities.com/carnival-of-personal-finance-no-188-the-jane-austen-edition/2122
http://austenprose.com/2010/02/01/deconstructing-miss-emma-woodhouse/
http://daysofserendipity.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/emma/
http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/asp/works/349/emma.htm
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ibmiller November 16, 2010 at 4:30 PM
I think Emma and Fanny are criticisms of public taste, actually. While Austen doesn't hold either up as a perfect ideal (despite what Claudia Johnson may claim), they both force the reader to work harder than the somewhat too-easily-liked Lizzy (I find myself often sympathetic with Prudie from the Jane Austen Book Club - "If this were a popularity contest, then Elizabeth Bennet would be most popular and Fanny Price least" - said with the perfect tone of despair and self-pity :-) I do love Prudie.
Anyway. I adore Emma for much the same reasons you mention above.
Side note - did you see the new Jane Eyre trailer - with the wampire Rochester?
Alexa Adams November 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Hi ibmiller! Always good to hear from a fellow defender of Austen's least loved heroines. I find it interesting that I received only your comment to this post - perhaps readers weren't thrilled by my proposition that Austen was critical of their disapprobation for Miss Woodhouse? I find Claudia Johnson's writings on Austen far too feminist to invoke my sympathies. I simple cannot view Austen (or any writer, for that matter) from such a confined bubble, and so I tend to disregard her opinions on, quite frankly, pretty much everything, though I do keep on reading her essays, for some masochistic reason.
I have not yet seen the new Jane Eyre trailer, though I am aware it has been circulating. I find myself increasingly sick of the book, which I adored as a teenager, and so have been unable to muster the slightest bit of enthusiasm for a new film adaptation. Presumably you meant vampire Rochester? I had no notion this was a monster mashup, though it does seems far more fitting to make him a vampire than Mr. Darcy. Perhaps I will look into it after all ...
Just watched it. Am I missing something? He didn't seem much altered from the book to me. Please explain, as I am now thoroughly confused.
Re: Emma - I dunno - perhaps everyone was tired out by the Emma cliche-fest that was the press's reaction to the most recent miniseries. "No one likes Emma, Emma's a matchmaker, blah blah blah." Seriously, no one but the actual cast and crew seemed to get the interesting bits - Emma's really isolated, Emma's got lots of class issues, Emma is totally awesome (okay, I made the last part up ;-)
Re: Johnson - I too keep returning to her - partly because I feel like I should know what I hate, partly because she reads too closely for me to totally reject what she says. But she is really annoying with her insistence on deviance and perversion and the utter uselessness of non-gay men.
Interesting - for me, Jane Eyre has been the opposite. I read it at 17 (right after I first tore through Austen for the first time), and was approving of her writing ability but rather bored by the self-indulgence of the story (not to mention irritated at my first brush with feminist criticism with third-rate Gilbert and Gubar imitations). However, when I was forced to reread the book last year for school, I found myself rather liking it (helped by the 2006 miniseries). I am looking forward the the new film (and just watched the 1944 Orson Wells/Joan Fontaine adaptation - rather liked it - quite nice acting and camerawork), but am perplexed by some things. I do mean vampire, but a friend and I like to make fun of how stupid vampires are by combining the word with "wah" as in "wah wah crying now" - thus, the wampire. And what I was confused about mainly was the scene where Jane and Rochester are apparently kissing, and he pulls away with black eyes (like a Hollywood demon possession or Willow from Buffy on black magic). Someone thought it was probably after he gets blinded - but I've always thought of that as glazed or grey or white eyes. We shall see.
Alexa Adams November 18, 2010 at 6:02 AM
So here's my deal with Miss Eyre. I've read the book at least a dozen times. As a teenager I adored it. I thought Mr. Rochester the greatest thing since sliced bread, even going so far as to cry in his defense in the middle of a classroom. Then, in college, I discovered that my boyfriend of three years (my Mr. Rochester) had been consistently cheating on me the entire time. Well, let's just say that the experience opened my eyes to Mr. Rochester's true character. Any and all romance I attached to the notion of the brooding, misunderstood, and consummately selfish hero (of the Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff models)was totally demolished, and Mr. Darcy quickly became my ideal. Now, Mr. Rochester aside, there are magnificent attributes to Jane Eyre. The depiction of her youth I still find totally fascinating, but once the Lowood School is behind us, I get increasingly frustrated. Bertha Mason remains a subject of interest - in fact, it is generally the women in the story that keep me coming back for rereads - but the men are absolutely infuriating. Bronte portrays a world in which men are either of the St. John type (totally unromantic and agonizingly pragmatic, wanting to mold woman to their purposes), or of the Mr. Rochester type (totally untrustworthy until they are maimed enough to be controlled). This just doesn't ring true to me. And yes, The Madwoman in the Attic probably had no little impact on my adult reading of the tale, especially since I went to a college where Susan Gubar was and is the superstar of the English department (not that I ever met her). Bronte might have accused Austen of lacking passion, but I cannot help but regulate Bronte to the realm of drama queen. That doesn't mean I don't still believe she was a phenomenally thoughtful and philosophic writer, but it does mean that my adult sensibilities - you know, the ones that tell me to act like Elinor and not Marianne - finds her brooding rather irritating. Villette, which was always my favorite of her novels, and still boggles my mind in it's complexity, is perhaps an even better example of Bronte's completely depressed perspective on life, but at least there she creates a hero one can respect. Today I prefer books that lift the spirit and compel one to make the most of life, hence my Austen obsession, while Bronte's novels are more likely to make a person want to commit suicide.
Oh, and for those who criticize Austen for having overly contrived scenes - like Willoughby's confession and Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth's meeting at Pemberley, let's take a moment and ponder Jane Eyre's oh so bizarre spiritual communication with Mr. Rochester, their voices traversing time and space, carrying their need for each other across the barren moors. Really? I hate that scene.
On another note, I like the wampire moniker, as I deplore the modern desire to make vampires sensitive and endearing, ala Twilight. These are monsters, people! Vicious bloodsuckers who have only ever been portrayed as romantic because Victorians couldn't depict straight up sex and so devised an alternative method for fluid exchange. They are NOT appropriate boyfriend material, just like Mr. Rochester. I wish women would stop romanticizing bad boys and make some healthier choices in life.
Nothing like starting the day with a solid rant!
ibmiller November 18, 2010 at 10:44 AM
I too share your hatred of bad boy appeal (though it's rather problematized by the fact that a) I'm male; b) there's another stereotype which is just as bad, the nice guy, which is easy to fall into when trying to avoid the "bad boy" persona; c) I actually like Twilight - but mostly for the female characters). It's actually a serious reason I have trouble with the roles of Cary Grant - he is so very selfish in his relationships with women generally (with some exceptions, like North by Northwest).
The 2006 miniseies seriously challenges the idea that the selfishness is attractive, I think, by making Rochester much more sensitive. I'm curious to see what they're going to do in the new film.
The Madwoman in the Attic, quite aside from the feminist component, relies so heavily on a model of the artistic process I cannot emotionally or intellectually accept (the psychological model, that is - the idea that a work is all about the author's unconscious, and all characters are first and foremost symbols - I read and write much more in the mimetic tradition, not denying the power of our unconscious desires, but trying to read them as contributors rather than controllers of our fictions) that I find it utterly abhorrent.
And yes, there's no contest between Austen and Bronte for me. The former encourages me to do good and love wisely, the latter encourages me to look at my navel and love idiots. However, I think there is a certain amount of emotional sympathy I can find for the romance in these types of stories (even Twilight). I don't know how consistent it is, but there is a simple pleasure in straight romance read uncynically. Something I'm still not sure about...
You should read Insatiable by Meg Cabot - it's a brilliant satire on vampires through the ages, including dead-on (and intelligent, instead of the generally moronic fare I have to suffer through as a Twilight reader) take on the modern vampire craze. Without pulling punches Cabot manages to show both why vampires are attractive and evil. Good stuff (though definitely adult - not quite to Importance of Being Emma level, but edging towards it).
The Rush Blog December 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM
Emma Woodhouse is Austen's least loved heroine? Really? She's a big favorite of mine. I like her so much, because she IS flawed (which makes her character so entertaining) and is willing to acknowledge her flaws . . . unlike another Austen heroine I know.


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Het Sint-Barbarabeeld is een standbeeld in het dorp Wijnandsrade in de Nederlandse gemeente Beekdaelen. Het beeld staat in een klein plantsoen op de hoek van de Hellebroekerweg met de Stephanusstraat en de Van Bongardstraat midden in het dorp.

Het beeld is opgedragen aan de heilige Barbara van Nicomedië, de beschermheilige van mijnwerkers.

Geschiedenis
Met de ontginning van de steenkolenlagen van het Zuid-Limburgs steenkoolbekken werden er van heide en ver mensen aangetrokken om te werken in de steenkolenmijnen die verspreid over Limburg gehuisvest werden.

In 1963 werd het standbeeld opgericht van de hand van beeldhouwer Paul Driessen op initiatief van de Nederlandse Katholieke Mijnwerkersbond. Om het beeld te bekostigen werd er een fancy fair en een loterij georganiseerd. De gemeente stelde de grond ter beschikking. Het beeld is de eerste professionele opdracht die Paul Driessen in zijn loopbaan als kunstenaar kreeg.

Standbeeld
Het standbeeld staat op een sokkel met hierop aan de voorzijde een reliëf aangebracht dat een boer met paard, een ploeg en een korenaar toont, verwijzend naar de agrarische gemeenschap van Wijnandsrade in die tijd. Aan de zijkant is er een tekst aangebracht:

Op het voetstuk staat het standbeeld dat uitgehouwen is in Franse kalksteen. Het beeld toont de heilige als jonge vrouw, terwijl zij een kroon draagt en een palmtak (symbool voor martelaren) en een kelk (met ingekerfd kruisje) vasthoudt. Bij haar linkervoet is een koeltoren en een schachtbok aangebracht, verwijzend naar de kolenmijnen.

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 Lijst van beelden in Beekdaelen

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Q: can we call two functions onClick event I am trying something like this

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but only check_update('personal_details') is getting called . I want to execute two separate functions at the same time when DIV is clicked. Any help will be great for me as I am still in a learning phase. Thanks in advance.

A: You can't execute two functions at the same time. JavaScript in a web browser is single threaded.
The code you have will execute the functions sequentially, providing that the first one doesn't throw an exception and terminate the execution.
If it does throw an exception then you should try to resolve that. As a brute force hack:
try {
    check_update('personal_details') ;
} catch (e) {
    alert("Oh no! An exception! " + e);
}
showUser(2);

… but preventing the error in the first place is, obviously, a better solution!

A: You're question is tagged as jQuery, so I'm going to assume you're using it. In that case, you shouldn't be using the onclick attribute at all. This would be the correct way to write the code from a jQuery perspective:

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A: Use a function within a closure. Replace otherFunction with the name of the second function you'd like to call and everything should work as expected.

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…Denning discovered that he learned more from trading stories in the cafeteria than he did from reading the bank's official documents and reports. An organization's knowledge, he realized, is contained in its stories.
Stories have an incredible amount of power! Power to move people, ideas and organizations forward. This same power can keep us in the dark, living in flux or simply the past. Some of the big players are getting this concept and moving it forward into the fiber of their organizations. Pink mentions 3M, NASA and Xerox. Recently I attended a performance by Laurie Anderson and learned that only a few years ago NASA made her their artist in residence. What an incredible match!
How do we use these stories that float aroud us but perhaps never make the annual report? We know they play a big part in who we are. Are these the stories that tell the deeper truth of who we are as organizations? I'm curious about how anecdotes turn into story and expand into the minds and behaviors of staff and leaders. What are the stories we tell ourselves–about ourselves? A great work is to harness the power of the stories that make us–libraries, nonprofits, businesses, families–who we are, or who we think we are. How do we broaden the story? When is it time for a plot change (when anecdote starts ruling decision-making, perhaps)? There are endless ways to celebrate our stories. Now, what about those stories that simply need an ending?