It is the better to take preventative measures against the natural intrusion in advance from invasive alien species that reduce biodiversity and cause economic loss to humans. If the prevention of intrusion and spread fails, we need to make active control and eradication. This study aims to introduce nutria (Myocastor coypus) control cases performed in the United Kingdom and the United States and to provide information for the contribution of nutria management measure improvements. The nutria eradication campaign in the United Kingdom was developed as a long-term plan based on sufficient understanding on the management target and objective and suitable support. Sufficient information on nutria was accumulated and the management strategy was flexibly modified according to the changes in management that were proactively reflected in the field. Regarding the eradication project at Chesapeake Bay in the United States, based on long-term ecological information, more advanced capture technology than in the United Kingdom were introduced and the eradication plan, strategy and implementation were configured by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the eradication campaign in the United Kingdom. The successful cases in the United Kingdom and the United State provide an information on how to improv the nutria management measure. For the eradication of nutria, it is necessary to reach a consensus between stakeholders and to form a consultative group between related organizations for periodic communication. Opinions on the field must be actively accepted in the consultation process for strategy and policy decision, and the eradication plan needs to be developed based on a management index. The eradication plan is required to be managed, evaluated and adjusted in a systematic way. Scientific management must be introduced and the management performance must be evaluated objectively so that a practical plan can be flexibly adjusted. It is also required to secure a long-term budget support and a stable organization and to input a concentrated budget at the proper period when there is high efficiency of eradication.
Baker, S.J. 2006. The eradication of coypus (Myocastor coypus) from Britain: the elements of a succesful campaign. In, Koike, F., Clout, M.N., Kawamichi, M., DePoorter, M. and Iwatsuki, K. (eds.), Assessment and Control of Biological Invasion Risks. Shoukadoh Book Sellers, Kyoto, Japan and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. pp. 142-147.
Baker, S.J. 2010. Control and eradication of invasive mammals in Great Britain. Revue scientifique et technique-Office international des epizooties 29:311-327.
Boorman, L.A. and Fuller, R.M. 1981. The changing status reedswamp in the Norfork Broads. Journal of Applied Ecology 18: 214-269.
Carter, J. and Leonard, B.P. 2002. A review of the literature on the worldwide distribution, spread of, and efforts to eradicate the coypu (Myocastor coypus). Wildlife Society Bulletin 30: 162-175.
Convention on Biological Diversity. 2002. Decision VI/23 on alien species that threaten ecosystems, habitats or species. https://www.cbd.int/decision/cop/default.shtml?id=7197. Assessed 3 December 2015.
Evans, J. 1970. About Nutria and Their Control. United States Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Denver Wildlife Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Foote, A.L. and Johnson, L.A. 1993. Plant stand development in Louisiana coastal wetlands: nutria grazing effects on plant biomass. In, Landin, M.C. (ed.), Wetlands: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the Society of Wetland Scientists, New Orleans, LA., South Central Chapter, Society of Wetland Scientists, Utica, MS, USA. pp. 265-269.
Gosling, L.M. and Baker, S.J. 1987. Planning and monitoring an attempt to eradicate coypus from Britain. In, The Proceedings of Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 28-29 November, 1986, London, UK. pp. 99-113.
Hess, I.D., Conner, W. and Visser, J. 1997. Nutria - another threat to Louisiana's vanishing coastal wetlands. Aquatic Nuisance Species Digest 2 (2).
Kendrot, S.R. 2011. Chesapeake Bay nutria eradication. In, Veitch, C.R., Clout, M.N. and Towns, D.R. (eds.), Island Invasives: Eradication and Management. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. pp. 313-319.
Leblanc, D.J. 1994. Nutria. In, Hygnstrom, S.E., Timm, R.M. and Larsen, G.E. (eds.), The Handbook:Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage. Nebraska Cooperative Extension Service, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. pp. B71-B80.
Lockwood, J.L., Hoopes, M.F. and Marchetti, M.P. 2006. Invasion Ecology. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Lowe, S., Browne, M., Boudjelas, S. and De Poorter, M. 2000. 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species: a Selection from the Global Invasive Species Database. Invasive Species Specialist Group, Auckland, New Zealand.
Public Law 108-16. 2003. Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003. http://www.congress.gov/108/plaws/publ16/PLAW-108publ16.pdf. Assessed 01 September 2015.
SCBD. 2014. Global Biodiversity Outlook 4. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada.
The Nutria Management Team. 2013. Chesapeake Bay Nutria Eradication Project: Strategic Plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USA.
Willner, G.R., Chapman, J.A. and Pursley, D. 1979. Reproduction, physiological responses, food habits and abundance of nutria on Maryland marshes. Wildlife Monographs 65: 3-43.
Woods, C.A., Contreras, L., Willner-Chapman, G. and Whidden, H.P. 1992. Myocastor coypus. Mammalian Species 398: 1-8.


My road to perhaps the most ultimate sports mix of endurance, strength and effort.
The Motivation: If not now, then when? Life is too short to stay inactive.
The Dream: Staying fit and feeling younger day by day!
Despite my full time job as a computer engineer, I am a keen sport's person and I am involved into rowing, cycling, triathlon, windsurfing for years. I realised that to get a basic feedback of your body conditioning DURING training requires a nice sports watch. There are currently hundreds of models on the market and it's a complete headache trying to pick up the one that best fits your needs.
I don't want to tire you with an exhaustive review about this watch (Polar RS300X), but I will try to outline its most important technical features. I assume that you are a serious sports person otherwise you don't need all the features of this watch. These combined features made me pick up this quality watch out of other branded sports watches or Polar models around an affordable price range (90-100 euro inc.VAT). Some of the features that I quote below are NOT mentioned (or better perhaps: are not clearly indicated) on the Polar official manual, despite being there for the user to enjoy! (you can download and read Polar RS300X user manual ) I have been using this watch during training/racing since 2009 and I never had any technical problems or issues with this model.
The amazing Spetses Island in Greece: Swimming, cycling and triathlon races (2015)!
2010 Athens Classic Marathon: Pre-race photo coverage!!


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Windows Phone 8 timeline – Announcement 9/5, SDK 9/7, Launch 9/30?
Back in July, there were strong rumors indicating that Microsoft will be revealing the consumer features of Windows Phone 8 during Nokia World 2012, scheduled to be held in Helsinki, Finland on September 5, possibly also accompanied by the announcements of the first Nokia Windows Phone 8 handsets. Today two pieces of news came out revealing a rough timeline of when Microsoft plans to introduce Windows Phone 8 to the world.
The first news came from WPCentral who speculated that Microsoft might be releasing the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to developers on September 7. Whilst a pre-release version of the SDK was leaked a few weeks ago, Microsoft have yet to officially unveil all developer features in the new operating system. WPCentral's speculation is based on Microsoft's website for their TechEd Australia conference, due to be held between September 11-14. They have spotted an oddity where details for all sessions were provided in full on the website, with the exception of the eight Windows Phone-related sessions. These Windows Phone sessions had the following comment on the website:
Windows Phone session abstracts and speakers will be released September 7.
The embargo for these Windows Phone session details seems to indicate that the SDK, aimed at developers likely to be attending these sessions, will be released around the September 7 timeframe. Coincidentally, Nokia also has something "amazing" planned for September 7. Although we're not sure if the two are related.
The second piece of news came from Pocketnow.com, who reported that an internal memo was leaked from an unspecified Microsoft hardware partner hinting that Microsoft might officially launch Windows Phone 8 on or after September 30. The internal memo specified that the "initial announcement embargo date" is set as Sunday, September 30, leading to Pocketnow.com speculating that Microsoft may reveal information about the exact timing of Windows Phone 8's hardware releases on October 1, detailing when consumers can finally get their hands on the first WP8 devices.
On that note, we've already heard that Nokia may be launching their first Windows Phone 8 devices during the last week of October. WPDang also reported that HTC might be announcing their Windows Phone 8 lineup during the third week of September, with a launch date set as sometime in October. Samsung's Windows Phone 8 lineup, the "Odyssey" and "Marco", are also said to be coming in 4Q 2012.
If all goes as planned, it seems like consumers will be able to get their hands on the first Windows Phone 8 devices just a bit over two months. September certainly seems like it'll be an exciting month for Windows Phone!

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Two unfortunate (royal) children
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It was difficult enough merely to survive childhood in earlier times, with nearly certain death in childbirth or later in infancy – through lack of hygiene, lack of medicine, lack of medical knowledge or simply lack of parental care and love. Our two subjects in this post had been healthy enough to survive the normal hazards of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, but they died young almost certainly for dynastic or political reasons. They did not just die – they were both murdered.
Dimitry a son of Tsar Ivan IV was a Russian prince born in 1583. His father was nicknamed 'The Terrible' but it appears he did not actually do away with his youngest son. Historians agree that the dirty deed was performed by the Regent Boris Godunov, about whom a great opera was composed.
When Dimitry would have been twenty years old an equally young monk who had run away from his monastery pretended to be the murdered prince, who had been done away with when he was eight. The monk, named Grigori, just one of many young men claiming to be Dimitry, actually got crowned by the army as Tsar, but couldn't enjoy the throne very long because he was killed in a rebellion twelve months later. The same happened to most if not all the false Dimitrys.
Ivan the Terrible had indeed killed his oldest son, Ivan, in 1581, two years before Dimitry's birth, and the infant probably knew about the infanticide. The Tsar himself died in 1584, which is why Boris Gudonov became Regent. It is possible the Regent eliminated the boy prince because he wished to continue being Regent.
Approaching doom in the Temple prison /historyandotherthoughts.blogspot.com
Louis (Charles) XVII was born in 1785, second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He was heir to the French throne from June 1789 – not at all a good time to be a member of the monarchy or aristocracy, as the French Revolution was under way. In 1793, when Louis was eight, the revolutionaries guillotined his father (later his mother as well) and put the little boy in a notorious prison called the Temple in Paris. He never left it alive. Mystery still surrounds his death and where his burial place is, but Robespierre and his friends knew that royalists across Europe had had their hopes of a continuing royal family dashed. The secrecy surrounding the little boy's death led to rumours of a supposed escape, and several pretenders appeared in the years following the end of the Revolution.
Eventually the younger brother of the murdered King became Louis XVIII. He had been spirited out of France in June 1791, possibly by the celebrated 'Scarlet Pimpernel', who though not using that name, actually existed, inspiring the successful series of novels by Baroness Orzcy. In one of these the Baroness writes about 'the escape from the Temple' of little Louis XVII and it is worth reading, like all the Pimpernel books, if only for the tremendous sense of atmosphere Madame Orzcy creates.
Louis XVIII was King of France in name only from 1795 to 1824, and in fact from 1814 to 1824. He had fled France in fright when Bonaparte escaped from Elba and returned in triumph to Paris in 1815. After Wellington and Blücher had at last defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo (q.v.) Louis returned to his kingdom, where he successfully introduced a system of constitutional monarchy, and other good reforms, before dying in 1824, the last of the Capets.
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Media coverage of Bull City Summer:
"(BCS) a book that deserves to be a classic." Ben's Bookshelf. Milb.com. Official website of Minor League Baseball. January 16, 2015.
A piece on BCS in Mother Jones magazine, August 31, 2014, with some focus on the excellent writing in the book.
BCS featured in The New Yorker magazine's Photo Booth. August 13, 2014.
Kate Joyce and BCS in Harper's Magazine. August, 2014 issue. Impact of the Ball and the Outfield Wall, Part 1 (detail).
BCS in the New York Times. July 10, 2014. "…images that sidestep most of the cliches of baseball photography."
"Baseball Art from Out of Left Field." A review of the BCS photography. ARTnews. July 10, 2014.
WUNC public radio and television both covered BCS. WUNC TV's North Carolina Now produced a 5-minute video featuring new interviews with Ivan Weiss and Leah Sobsey, plus footage from Ivan's film, "Leaving Traces." July 1, 2014.
"Kate Joyce: Bull City Summer at Rick Wester Fine Art." A review of Kate Joyce's satellite BCS show in New York. Musee Magazine. June 26, 2014.
"Bull City Summer Tells Story of Durham Bulls Community." A review of two BCS museum exhibitions and BCS book by David Menconi. News & Observer. June 21, 2014.
"A 'Bull City Summer' in Photos and Film." A review of BCS by Blue Greenberg. Herald-Sun. June 15, 2014.
"Une saison de Base-ball a Durham." Feature piece and magazine spread in Fisheye Magazine, a Parisian photography publication. May 14, 2014.
Review by W.M. Hunt in "L'Oeil de la Photographie" (The Eye of Photography). "It is a home run…The mix is winning." April 14, 2014.
"Bull City Redux." Nicole Rudick on Bull City Summer in Paris Review Daily, with a slideshow. March 20, 2014.
"Capturing the Beauty of Baseball" by Jordan G. Teicher. Slate Magazine. Featuring the work of Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Leah Sobsey, Alec Soth, and Hiroshi Watanabe. March 4, 2014.
WRAL Evening Newscast. Featuring the work of Bull City Summer photographer Leah Sobsey. February 21, 2014.
New York Times Lens Blog and International Edition piece. "Homage to a Standout in the Minor Leagues." By Andrew Boryga. Featuring the Bull City Summer work of Hiroshi Watanabe. February 18, 2014.
ARTnews piece. Featuring Bull City Summer in its 2014 preview of museum exhibitions nationwide. January 9, 2014.
Paris Review Daily has a 13-part series on Bull City Summer throughout the 2013 season.
"The People Behind Bull City Summer." By David Fellerath. The Independent. July 31, 2013.
"A Day at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park with Japanese Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe." By Chris Vitiello. The Independent. July 31, 2013.
"The Bulls of Summer." By David Menconi. A look at Bull City Summer in progress. The News and Observer. June 1, 2013.
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Are you a Spiritual Tourist?
I wish I could say that I thought of that title but I didn't. Recently I was speaking at a pastor's conference and one of the pastors in the room spoke of the frustration of church members moving to the church down the street in search of a "greater experience." He referred to them as "spiritual tourists." I thought that was a pretty good term. A tourist by definition is someone who visits a place temporarily in order to get the most out of the experience before moving on to the next stop. Unfortunately that explains the church experience of too many Christians and the watered down commitment toward church membership today.
Let's be honest about church growth, statistics consistently show that much of it is transfer growth. Church growth expert George Hunter estimates that 80% of church growth in evangelical churches is transfer growth. In other words, as Great Commission churches we are called to reach the lost in our communities, but often we mostly reach members of other congregations. Not to say church leaders are intentionally trying to steal sheep, most do not. Much of the problem is rooted in a consumer mindset that has taken hold of so many Christians.
In 2009, a Lifeway research study of Protestant church pastors revealed "49 percent of new attendees during the last five years have transferred from other congregations, while 32 percent were unchurched and 19 percent were children born to adults attending the church." (http://www.lifeway.com/Article/LifeWay-Research-finds-ministry-expansion-doesn't-automatically-lead-to-attendance-growth). Based on this research, much of the church growth comes from transfer growth and organic growth (68%). This trend is not healthy for the church and is actually working against us. For instance, in the SBC baptism and membership numbers are at the lowest level in years and consumer Christianity isn't helping to reverse those numbers. Church leaders are putting most of their energy into keeping the sheep in the pen and less energy on reaching the lost sheep. The prevailing question today is "How do we keep members happy and satisfied with their church experience?" It should be, "How do we reach more unchurched and unsaved people in our community?" Thom Rainer has written prolifically on this subject, but most of his writings have a consistent theme worth restating, "church membership is not about me." I will admit as a pastor, much of my frustration comes from this mindset in members. I am amazed at how quickly someone will leave a church that God has used mightily in their life. If there is an issue that arises rather than staying and working with church leaders to overcome, they simply jump ship. Nothing frustrates a pastor more than spending much time reaching a family only to see them leave the first time they disagree with a decision. Even worse the next week they are on Facebook bragging about their new found church down the street. (Seriously, please stop doing that.) If they only knew how it discourages the heart of the pastor and church leaders. It is crushing.
My parents have been members of the same church since I was in the nursery, I am now 44 years old. I have watched their church go through struggle after struggle, yet there stands Terry and Jean Blackwell serving, giving and helping. I have always respected their unwavering commitment to Cottage Hill Baptist Church. They will not leave their church, because they realize that it is not about them. May their tribe increase!
I realize there are legitimate reasons to leave a church, no doubt.
Major doctrinal issues or the church is practicing things that are unbiblical.
When the vision of the leadership and the direction of the church doesn't match God's calling in your life.
If you are moving to another town, county, state.
When your church is consistently stuck in tradition and is being disobedient to the Great Commission and you see no hope for change.
If your preacher begins handling dangerous reptiles or takes you to the beach on a retreat and announces he has created a new kool-aid recipe.
Even if any of these describe your church (Except #5) you should exhaust every opportunity to bring positive change before leaving and spend much time in prayer about the decision.
Your church membership is part of your testimony. Part of your testimony of God's work in your life is a direct result of how God is using you in your church. If you are a spiritual tourist, you are hurting the integrity of your testimony.
The Bible teaches us that God places us in a church for a specific purpose. "from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." Eph. 4:16. He is the one who joined you to that congregation to do your part through the spiritual gift he has placed in your life. When you change your church membership, you strongly need to consider this biblical fact.
Every church has issues, the only perfect church is found in heaven. Sometimes the grass seems greener on the other side simply because it has more, well you know, to fertilize it. (If you catch my drift or smell). If you are leaving your church because of an issue it may be that you will find the same issue at you next church (or worse).
Think twice before you leave your church. You may be the very one God has placed in that church to enact change and renewal. Spiritual tourists visit and consume. Spiritual giants stay and contribute. Spiritual tourists seek to get the most out of a church experience. Spiritual giants pray that their church will get the most out of them.


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Born in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Urška Horvat is a versatile award-winning solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. Her passion for music and more specifically chamber music has brought her to visit many countries around the world and perform in many distinguished venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Cadogan Hall, King's Place, St. John's Smith Square, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Flagey in Brussels, The Slovenian Philharmonic Hall in Ljubljana, among others.
Urška has been invited as a soloist and a chamber musician to participate in various festivals, such as prestigious Trondheim Chamber Music Festival (Norway), Davos Festival (Switzerland), Les Sons Intensifs (Lessines, Belgium), Seeklang Hergiswil (Switzerland), "I Giardini della Filarmonica" in Rome, Virenze Concerts Series (Netherlands), Festival Lent (Maribor, Slovenia), Autumn International Fest Hyderabad in India. Urška is playing in a cello duo, Duo Furioso, with another Slovenian cellist, Helena Švigelj, and is also a member of Avant Trio; their recent CD has been released by Sheva records receiving a rave review in the BBC Music Magazine.
Urška won several national and international prizes in the UK, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia:
1st prize at the Music Club of London Competition 2017, Live Music Now 2017 supported by Yehudi Menuhin, Concordia Foundation 2017, 1st prize at the Soloists' Competition 2016, 1st prize at the Leonard Smith and Felicity Young Competition 2016, 1st prize at the Vera Kantrovitch Bach Competition 2015, 1st prize at TEMSIG national competition (Slovenia), Wettbewerb fur Violoncello Liezen (Austria), Young International Janigro Competition (Croatia). As a member of a piano trio Amarilis (2008-2015), she received many rave reviews for their artistic pursuits and awards, including Prešeren Award of the Faculty of Music Ljubljana in the year 2011/12.
As a soloist, Urška performed with several orchestras. One of the most noticeable performances took place in Cadogan Hall (London) where she debuted with Dvořák's Cello Concerto, after winning Trinity Laban Soloists' Competition 2016. One of her performances has recently been also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
She is proud to be a Concordia Foundation Artist and a part of Live Music Now supported by Yehudi Menuhin.
She finished Postgraduate Artist Diploma in 2016 with Distinction and Director's Prize for Excellence in Strings at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London with internationally renowned cellist David Cohen.
Urška is playing on the ex-Pergamenschikow Montagnana copy made by Robin Aitchison in 2019.
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When I first started writing, it was a spontaneous affair. I was a teenager, lying on my bedroom floor; I think I was talking to someone on the phone, and I'm certain music was playing. There happened to be a pen and a spiral-bound notebook (for schoolwork) in front of me, and before I knew it, I had written a poem.
In the years that followed, I continued to write spontaneously, and frequently. But I rarely polished anything, and I never submitted my work for publication.
Not until I started this blog.