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Preliminary allocations of the city's expected Community Development Block Grant funding include one new recipient amid 14 total grantees, most of them organizations that assist low-income populations, including seniors and people with disabilities.
The city made its 2013 grant allocations based on the amount it received in 2012 - $860,000 - from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The amount it actually has to distribute next year won't be known until sometime in the spring, and individual grants likely will be adjusted at that time.
"Everybody who was eligible did get something," said assistant city planner Jen Ferguson, who administers the granting process. All of the grant recipients serve Wauwatosa residents in some way.
The Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation is the one newcomer to the list, Ferguson said. It requested, and tentatively was granted, $20,000. In spite of its name, WWBIC serves men as well as women, providing technical assistance, business education and loans to start-ups and small businesses.
HUD divides CDBG money into three categories: administration and planning; public services; and public facilities and economic development.
Administration and planning
The first category, administration and planning, can amount to no more than 20 percent of the total allocated. Two grants were made in this category: one is a grant to the program administrator, in this case the city of Wauwatosa. The city's grant to itself for next year is $75,000 to cover staff time and other internal costs associated with allocating the money.
The second grant in this category, $33,000, is to the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, to further its mission of promoting fair housing and eliminating illegal discrimination in the sale, renting, financing or insuring of housing. A fair housing component is a HUD requirement.
The total given in the administration and planning category, $108,000, is about 12.5 percent of the total - below the 20 percent maximum.
Public services
Public service funding can amount to no more than 15 percent of the total.
The grants in this category are to:
YMCA Senior Center: $82,000 of a $104,009 request. The YMCA was contracted by the city of Wauwatosa to establish and manage activities for the senior center at Hart Park.
ARC of Milwaukee: $13,250 of a $17,750 request. ARC, at 7302 W. Center St., assists individuals with developmental disabilities, and their families.
Common Ground/Elena's House: $10,000 of a $15,000 request. This is a nonprofit that provides housing for low-income people with HIV/AIDS, and provides other services. It serves about 60 people a year.
Tosa Cares: $6,000 of a $6,000 request. Tosa Cares provides food and assistance to families in need, and undertakes service projects. It is run by volunteers.
Interfaith: $12,750 of a $20,000 request. Interfaith helps older adults live in their homes. It uses volunteers to provide day-to-day services such as transportation, home visits and minor home repairs.
Tosa Community Food Pantry: $5,000 of a $5,000 request. The food pantry is affiliated with the Hunger Task Force and serves people living in Wauwatosa-area ZIP codes. This funding will be used to purchase needed food when donations are light.
Economic development
There is no limit to grants in the Public Facilities and Economic Development category. In addition to WWBIC, grants were awarded to:
Milwaukee Hellenic Elderly Housing Corp (Greek Orthodox Manor): $109,500 of a $109,577 request. This is a 34-unit subsidized residential facility for low-income seniors and the physically disabled. The funding will be used for needed physical improvements to the building.
Vision Forward (Badger Association for the Blind): $10,000 of $20,000 requested. This organization offers personal and professional development for people who are blind or visually impaired. The funding will be used to buy and install protective shade equipment over the children's playground. Vision Forward serves an estimated 200 people in Wauwatosa ZIP codes.
Lutheran Home: $303,195 of a $303,195 request. The Lutheran Home provides residential care for elderly and frail individuals who have experienced physical or mental decline and cannot safely live on their own. The Lutheran Home requested funds to renovate two units that are part of their skilled-care program.
Economic Development: $45,305 of a $45,305 request. The city's Development Department will use this money to provide grants to qualified applicants for activities such as building renovations, construction, acquisition and equipment when jobs are created for qualified individuals.
Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee: $125,000 or a $125,000 request. This group provides free home repairs for low-income homeowners who are senior citizens and/or people with disabilities.
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Perimenopause-Related Mood and Behavioral Disorders
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The purpose of this study is to investigate mood and behavior changes in the time period surrounding and including menopause. This is an observational study; volunteers who participate will not receive any new or experimental therapies.
Controversy exists regarding the relationship between estrogen and progesterone (gonadal steroid) changes and midlife-onset depression. This study will examine the role of gonadal steroids in perimenopausal mood and behavioral disorders.
Perimenopausal women with depression symptoms and a control group of healthy perimenopausal volunteers will be compared to identify correlates of the occurrence of depression. Participants with depressive symptoms may also participate in companion studies that will test the antidepressant efficacy of phytoestrogens and selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMS).
A group of younger pre-perimenopausal women with normal menstrual cycle functioning will be followed through menopause in an effort to confirm the association of depression onset with changes in reproductive endocrine functioning.
|Depression Healthy Perimenopausal Depression
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|The Evaluation of Women With Perimenopause-Related Mood and Behavioral Disorders
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|Study Start Date:
|July 12, 1988
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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Perimenopausal Subjects:
- History within the last one year of at least one month with perimenopause-related mood or behavioral disturbances of at least moderate severity - that is, disturbances that are distinct in appearance and associated with a notable degree of functional impairment;
- Age 40-60;
- History of the onset of menstrual irregularity during the past six months but not greater than one year of amenorrhea (i.e., not postmenopausal);
- Biological evidence of a deterioration of normal ovarian activity, specifically, plasma FSH levels persistently elevated (> 14IU/L) (as recommended by the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop criteria (106)) drawn at two week intervals over a period of eight weeks;
- No prior estrogen replacement therapy for treatment of perimenopausal physical or emotional symptoms within the last six months; and
- In good medical health;
- Subjects must be competent to comprehend the purpose of the screening process and to provide written informed consent and be willing to participate in NIMH IRB approved research protocols.
- A control group of age-matched perimenopausal women who meet patient selection criteria with the exception of the presence of mood or behavioral disorders will also be sought.
Premenopausal women will be women who meet the following inclusion criteria for the longitudinal study participants:
- Regular menstrual cycle function (21-34 days);
- Absence of current mood or behavioral disturbance as determined by a structured diagnostic interview;
- Plasma gonadotropin levels in pre-perimenopausal range (<14 IU/L);
- In good medical health; and
- Medication free.
- Primary general medical illness (i.e., appears to be causing the mood disorder);
- Current antidepressant therapy (since this is a screening protocol for subsequent treatment studies in which participants must be untreated). Antidepressants will not be withheld from participants who need or want them;
- Current alcohol or substance abuse or dependence (excluding nicotine) of sufficient magnitude to require independent, concurrent treatment intervention (e.g., antabuse or opiate treatment, but not including self-help groups);
- Pregnant or lactating women;
- Subjects who are unable to provide informed consent.
Additional Exclusion criteria for the Dex/CRH protocol:
- Pregnant or plan to become pregnant within the next 6 months,
- Sexually active and are not willing to use a barrier method of birth control such as a diaphragm or condom with spermicide,
- Heart or lung disease, chest pain, frequent shortness of breath, trouble breathing while lying down flat or at serious for heart disease (for example, if you have high blood pressure or a very high cholesterol level),
- Current medical illness, fever, or a chronic medical condition,
- Taking medication regularly, or not able to stop taking over-the-counter medications other than acetaminophen (Tylenol), completely for one week before having the study testing.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001231
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|National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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|National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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|NCT00001231 History of Changes
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|November 3, 1999
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|April 20, 2017
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) ):
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Depressive Disorder
Problem Behavior
Behavioral Symptoms
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
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Music Director Emeritus
Joel Cohen , (born 1942) was the Music Director of the Boston Camerata from 1968 to 2008. He remains connected to the Boston Camerata as Music Director Emeritus. Cohen founded the Camerata Mediterranea in 1990 and incorporated it as a nonprofit research institute in France in 2007. He has collaborated very frequently with French soprano Anne Azéma. His professional honors include the Signet Society Medal (Harvard University), the Howard Mayer Brown Award, the Erwin Bodky Award, and the Georges Longy Award. He was a government-appointed artist-in-residence in the Netherlands during the year 2000, and is an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. Cohen studied composition at Harvard University. He was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and spent two years in Paris as a student of Nadia Boulanger. In the 1970s he spent two seasons as a producer of musical radio programs for the French National Radio (France Musique), where he originated the concept of an all-day musical celebration on the days of the solstice. This annual event is currently known as the "Fête de la Musique" also known as "World Music Day".
Work in European early music
Cohen's initial projects in the early music field were in the area of the French and English Renaissance. His enthusiasm for medieval and Renaissance music continues to be reflected in more recent projects. His forays into baroque repertoire have been more episodic but have attracted widespread comment and attention: the first early-instruments recording of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"(Harmonia Mundi, 1980), and a well-received recording of Jean Gilles' "Requiem" (Erato, 1990, among others. From 1986 forward, many of his new Eurocentric projects dealt with music of the Middle Ages, including a medieval retelling of the "Tristan and Iseult" legend (Erato, Grand Prix du Disque, 1987).
Work in early American music
Cohen's interest in American vernacular traditions dates from his childhood.]. He was introduced to southern shapenote hymnbooks by the composer Randall Thompson. His first program with the Boston Camerata involving extensive treatment of early American oral and written sources was "The Roots of American Music" (1976), and later re-recorded (1986) as "New Britain". The commercial success of this last recording, leads Cohen and the Erato label to record a series of early American programs with the Boston Camerata, including "The American Vocalist", "Trav'ling Home", and "Liberty Tree". "Nueva España", commisioned in 1992 by the Tanglewood Festival and recorded by Erato has become one of the Boston Camerata's most requested touring programs. Cohen maintains an enduring personal relationship with the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, whose member agreed to record and perform their music in the company of the Boston Camerata and collaborating choirs. Two CDs of Shaker song (Simple Gifts and The Golden Harvest) commemorate these collaborations, which continued for several seasons from 1992 forward.
In 2004 Cohen and the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen create a dance piece, "Borrowed Light", using live Shaker music. This production has toured extensively in France, Germany, England, Sweden, Finland, Italy, and the United States, most recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November, 2007. Intercultural musical activities
As early as 1982, Joel and the Boston Camerata had developed a program called "The Sacred Bridge," exploring Jewish and Christian interactions during the Middle Ages. The 1988 Erato recording has recently been reissued on Warner Classics. Recent performances have been undertaken with the U.S.- based Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble In 1997 Joel Cohen met the eminent Moroccan musician Mohammed Briouel for the first time. Their encounter gave birth to a recording of thirteenth century Cantigas by King Alfonso el Sabio with European and Moroccan musicians collaborating together. The Cantigas recording won the coveted Edison Prize in 2000, and has toured in concert extensively in the United States, Morocco, and Europe.
"A Mediterranean Christmas", with the Boston Camerata and the Sharq Ensemble, is Cohen's most recent recorded production (Warner Classics) exploring shared roots and musical practices.
In recent seasons Joel Cohen has also undertaken collaborations with Dünya, a Turkish music ensemble, and its leader, Mehmet Sanlikol. With Camerata Mediterranea, he is planning a colloquium in early summer 2009 around the subject of cross-cultural Mediterranean musical interactions, in the French village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.
You may watch a video on Joel's Camerata Mediterranea here:
Why Camerata Mediterranea?
"An interview with reknowned early music maven Joel Cohen about his new intercultural musical institute. Paris, June 2008"


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger says top-class scouting has been integral to Swansea City's emergence as a Premier League force.
The Swans were tipped for relegation last season after winning promotion to the top flight via the play-offs, but they were a revelation under Brendan Rodgers and finished a creditable 11th.
Michael Laudrup has continued Rodgers' fine work this season to guide Swansea into eighth place - just behind their next opponents, Arsenal. And Swansea's approach to team building on a limited budget has caught the eye of Wenger.
"There [are] two keys to success, apart from the quality of the coaching and developing players," he said. "[They are] producing young players within your ranks or scouting well and buying intelligently away from home.
"Of course you could have a third way, just to take the best players in the world and buy them - but nobody needs scouts to do that. You don't need anybody to buy Messi or Ronaldo. But you need good scouts to find a player [at] a smaller club, who is a top-quality player that nobody has seen.
"You can imagine that some players are still unknown and are good, and you have to find them."
Michu was one of those 'unknowns' when he moved from Rayo Vallecano to the Liberty Stadium in the summer but is now hot property after eight goals in the Premier League.
Chico, Pablo Hernandez and Angel Rangel complete a strong Spanish contingent at Swansea and Wenger likes what he's seen from them.
"They have done really well," he said. "They have adapted well.
"These are players who are difficult to find if you don't know where. You have to be in touch on a daily basis with these players to see how good they are. They maybe didn't have the name, but they had the quality and he [Laudrup] saw that.
"Four Spanish clubs will be qualified [for the knockout stages] of the Champions league. That tells you a lot. Within that four, you don't have Atletico Madrid, who are second in the league. That shows you the Spanish league is very strong."
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Where is cow finger???? There is clearly a spam thread that needs to be deleted!!!
RIP 1.9L Lysholm Corrado (I8AVR6) and your Turbo charged sister (TRBRADO) 68 Baja and 64 slammed standard. Too many GTi's to count..
good job mods!!!
RIP 1.9L Lysholm Corrado (I8AVR6) and your Turbo charged sister (TRBRADO) 68 Baja and 64 slammed standard. Too many GTi's to count..
Smile it will get Worse!!
...."I'm planning..."
put an older harness in it if it bothers you to cut and wire out wiring...smoothing the dash and putting new switches in ain't a science..just follow the direction...
thing is you gotta start digging into that thing before you worry about the wiring since you can save that til the end.
Believe it or not, some of us do work.
i know i need to get it running first, i just have ten million things running through my head at once. it pretty much causes a headache when i dont plan things out ahead of time.
but i just sat down and thought about it, i figuired it out. im going to remove the harness, have the dash shaved and done up, then make all the holes for switches and guages, and once its back together then wire them up. i'll be back on the subject when the time comes around.
oh, and schell, i called some vw shop closer to me about a head and they want too much for it... some day i will make my way down there to get that thing...actually, we're picking up a jeep in Charleston in the next few days... maybe we could take a detour. i'll see about that.
champagne taste with a beer budget.
yeah yeah....
dude for $40 bucks for a head that's good ,why would you call someone else?...i can only tell you sooooooo many times...I have everything that car needs and guys who have what i don't...I've done more resto's and BS, than any other vw shop around and thats a fact.
...your gonna find out quick...how if driving or getting to the place where you need s--t is gonna hinder your project...it will never get done.
see... these cars you MUST search,locate and drive for everything...sometimes states away!!!
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it was closer.. but we actually are going to go through coventry today, so we could probably drop by. willl you be around?
champagne taste with a beer budget.
Goodmorning folks..... Nothing like the smell of torches burnin steel in the morning, smells like money to me.
Just real glad I aint the guys out there burnin all day in this insane heat. Full dressed torch suit, respirator, helmet, gloves and surounded by hot metal.
one for the torch guys..
We havent bought a aircooled vw in a month is that a good sign?
Smile it will get Worse!!
Have I mentioned how bad I despise f uckin scammers? Whats up with these douchbags selling nikes, and gucci sheit in the forums?
Some small updates on the bus....
Got the seats fitted, refurbished the front wheels and hubs, removed the front bumper...
Crazy difference in the wheels.....almost forgot how bad sanding wheels suuuuuuuuuuuucks!
Bumper done!
gambino...where are you located?...got an auto bus for parts,for my 78,if you need anything let me know...if your local ish that is...!
i can brind some stuff to terryville if you'd like!
Hes in PA
RIP 1.9L Lysholm Corrado (I8AVR6) and your Turbo charged sister (TRBRADO) 68 Baja and 64 slammed standard. Too many GTi's to count..
about 20 miles outside of pittsburgh. Im really looking for the belt line trim. cip1, 13pc kit with clips they want $320 +shipping, which is totally rediculous. I have a few pieces still on it, like the tiny 1" pieces and the rear door piece but thats about it. Theres a few older fellas in my area with parts busses, but those ol farts are all vacationing in florida and wont be back until the end of the month. Im trying to have this thing done by then.
Also, the PO removed the rear bumper for some reason and left it in new mexico. he is currently there on business and said he would ship it back to me and split the cost of shipping. So, who knows if that will really happen, supposed to hear from him today.
Well, as of right now, I need a few misc parts:
-Original seat brackets/bolts that bolt to the floor
-belt line trim
-rear bumper
Everything else is pretty much there, just filthy. I swear the PO never cleaned this thing, while bringing the dash back to shine the cleaning stuff i was using was just making mud with all the dirt and filth packed in. Ill get pics of that soon too. All the vinyl really needs pressure steamed and it would look perfect, but it still looks good now after a fresh cleaning.
Shell, if you have any of these parts would you be willing to ship em?
All that sheet ya need Gaybino is on Samba as we type...
Yeah I know man, well aware, not a big fan tho. Would rather find stuff locally or over here. Most guys on the samba think this sh it is gold or something, sorry but im not paying top dollar or close to retail. Just not my steelo, got me this far, not giving in now.
I got the front emblem, a complete full good condition original interior, full set of seat belts and bolts front and rear, a bag full of misc interior trim pieces, door panels, fresh air ducts, mint black rubber front floor mat, a new spare......all for $100 last weekend.....I'll hold out!
Get off the net and get on that dub danz, you got work to do!!
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i can't ship..no worries.
hey schell, i was just looking over this head and it's cracked all the way down through the spark plug hole, into a valve. it also looks like someone tried to repair it and it melted. do you happen to have any less cracked ones? we could probbably meet up again if you go to that diamond hill show in a few weeks
champagne taste with a beer budget.
I've been watching my neighbors kids everyday since Sat. (shoot me) so no F'n with the bus til Sunday....Gonna open my own day care ctr. pretty soon to fund the damn thing.
I might have some of those clamps for the back seats man..I'll dig thru all my chit and see what's out there..I don't plan on using the middle back seat anyways.
cool man!
it would be these ones:
lemme kno!
The vortex network hard at work..
RIP 1.9L Lysholm Corrado (I8AVR6) and your Turbo charged sister (TRBRADO) 68 Baja and 64 slammed standard. Too many GTi's to count..
I have these 2 that need to be cleaned up but, they're all good. Can't find any bolts,and not even sure If they came with the bus. If you want these 2 they're yours.
i just had an idea... but before i make myself sound stupider than usual.. can a super beetle body drop onto a standard pan?
champagne taste with a beer budget.
Smile it will get Worse!!
I was gonna blast my rims but loaned out the sand blaster and haven't seen it since ..Now it's have someone pull the tires off, then drop them off to get blasted, paint or powder the wheels, back to the tire shop...pain in the bag.
Crazy how many tools I've loaned out to never see again, and usually I never remember who I loaned them to...Hand tools, sand blaster, nail guns, saws, etc....Bastards!


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The list of former "Star Wars" actors throwing their hats in the ring for "Episode VII" continues to grow.
The latest star to join the roster of hopefuls? Samuel L. Jackson (aka Mace Windu).
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"I'm not surprised but totally geeked by the idea of there being more 'Star Wars,'" the actor told E! News on Friday. "It's like, okay, Obi-Wan was dead when episode four started, so maybe everyone thinks I'm dead and we'll find out what happened to Mace Windu."
The "Avengers" star's schedule is swamped -- he has three films currently in production - but when asked if he'd like to return for "Episode VII," the actor gave an enthusiastic "Hell yeah!"
VIEW THE PHOTOS: The Cast Of Star Wars: Then & Now
"I can come back as one-armed or a one-handed Jedi that's still around that didn't actually die," he said. "I could do that or be a ghost hologram. I don't care!"
Adding, "I just want to stay associated with the franchise. Not that I won't, because I've been in three of them." As for why the actor is drawn to the sci-fi world, Sam said he loves the concept of life in other in galaxies far, far away.
"I just always loved it. I always loved the idea of it, that there's this whole civilization out there somewhere else that's just as much fun and different and diverse and wild as we are," he said.
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"Star Wars: Episode VII" is slated for theatrical release in 2015.
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'Heaven forbid anyone even thinks about next year. But, just for giggles, while accepting reality, let's say the Sabres don't win the Cup. What happens then with The Dominator?'
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Quality control is an important aspect of cement production. Sample preparation is an essential part of it, because only a representative and reproducible processing of the sample material ensures reliable and meaningful analysis results. RETSCH offers a range of instruments for dividing, crushing, grinding and sizing all materials which are involved in the production process of cement, including secondary fuels. To ensure the right choice of instrument for the right sample material, Retsch offers free-of-charge sample testing in application laboratories all over the world.
Elemental analysers based on combustion technology are a useful addition to XRF analysis for the quality control of cement and related products, ensuring fast, precise and reliable determination of carbon and sulphur. With its offering of analyzers using resistance or induction furnaces or both, ELTRA covers a wide range of applications for C and S determination in organic and inorganic samples. The product range is ideally suited to the variety of analytical applications in a cement plant.


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Ok Guys does anyone know what kind of colour the ESB flightsuit should be ??
I have just recieved my softparts incl flightsuit from ladysewforus,as seen in the film it is more blue .
Debbi told me if i want to dye it the i should be getting Rit Powder - Evening Blue ...can anyone confirm the colour befor i go ahead and dye my softparts ,i cant find any other thread on this matter but only 1 saying its evening blue .
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Mention great Texas comeback stories and some people will think of Staubach and Pearson and the Hail Mary pass that gave the Cowboys a victory over Minnesota in the 1975 play-offs. Texas Tech fans will cite the Red Raiders' record-breaking comeback win over the University of Minnesota in the 2006 Insight Bowl.
But this fall Texans everywhere have a chance to be a part of what may be the most remarkable comeback story of all time.
In 1944 there were only 21 whooping cranes left in the world, with 18 of those spending that winter on the Texas coast. This fall, wildlife officials are hoping that as many as 285 whoopers will winter in Texas, bringing the worldwide population, including captive and experimental populations, to around 540. The Texas population, which winters in the coastal wetlands of Calhoun and Aransas counties near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, should show an increase this year over the 266 whoopers wintering in 2007-08, thanks to a record 66 whooping crane nests in Canada this summer.
Rarely has any species experienced such a dramatic recovery, according to Lee Ann Linam, biologist in Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Wildlife Diversity Program.
"The outlook is often discouraging when any species reaches such a low population point, but whooping cranes had several things going for them," Linam says.
Linam notes that whooping cranes have a long life-span, up to 25 years, and, though they don't produce many young, the parental care that the adults provide ensures a fairly high survival of young.
"These life history traits, combined with remote breeding grounds, protection from overharvest, and efforts by public and private landowners to conserve coastal wetlands in Texas have helped this magnificent bird to make a slow, but steady comeback," she says.
Texans can continue to play an important role in the return of the whooping crane. Starting in late October, whooping cranes will begin passing through Texas en route to their wintering grounds. The primary migratory path runs from north-central Texas southeast to the mid-coast region, often passing over areas such as Wichita Falls, Dallas-Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, Victoria, El Campo, Port Lavaca, and Rockport. Texans are asked to be on the lookout for whoopers and report their sightings.
Whooping cranes are the tallest birds in North America, standing over 4 feet tall. They are solid white in color except for black wing-tips that are visible only in flight and a small marking of black feathers and red skin on the head. They fly with necks and legs outstretched. During migration they often pause overnight to use wetlands for roosting and agricultural fields for feeding, but seldom remain more than one night.
They nearly always migrate in small groups of less than six birds, but they may be seen roosting and feeding with large flocks of the smaller and grayer sandhill crane.
Whooping cranes are protected by federal and state endangered species laws, and Texans can help safeguard this national treasure by helping to prevent harm or harassment to whooping cranes.
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Matthew Broderick and his son are obviously on their way to see Elf.
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PBS ombud says emails about McLaughlin Group make him want to "grab a beer and hit the chute"
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PBS' ombudsman Michael Getler has a column up about the McLaughlin Group -- or as he calls it, "that weekly scream-fest 'talk' show that is aired by some 315 PBS member stations but is not produced by PBS."
It seems Getler just hates getting emails about the show. So much so that the messages make him want to "grab a beer and hit the chute."
Funny, I feel the same way watching the show given all of the conservative misinformation spewed on the program by the likes of Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley and John McLaughlin himself.
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This was one of those weeks where I, too, felt like that airline cabin attendant who grabbed a beer and hit the escape chute. Actually, there wasn't much going on. What follows is a brief mailbag before I set out on a too-brief vacation.
Most of the e-mails are about one or another segment of the PBS NewsHour, which is about the only game in town during August. But the first batch of letters, and the real reason I wanted to grab a beer and hit the chute, is, once again, about The McLaughlin Group, that weekly scream-fest "talk" show that is aired by some 315 PBS member stations but is not produced by PBS, nor does PBS have anything to do with its content. And so PBS, of course, takes no responsibility for this obviously popular but raucous opinion program, even though most of the people who watch it on their local PBS station seem to think it is a PBS program, and who can blame them.
I have written about this program many times in my columns over the past four years, having received probably thousands of e-mails from viewers about it. Most of them are critical. I've argued, to no avail so far, that PBS and its member stations ought to figure out some way to flag programs on the screen that are not part of the national PBS programming. Programs such as the NewsHour, Frontline, NOVA and Antiques Roadshow, for example, are part of the national programming service and carry the small PBS logo at the bottom of the screen. Just the absence of that little PBS logo doesn't seem to do it.
I write about The Group at times, anyway, because even though PBS washes its hands of this program, so many people think it is has the PBS seal of approval that I feel an obligation in many cases to respond to the issue people are writing-in about, and also to explain, again, PBS's alleged non-role and that all of these member stations are independent and can broadcast whatever they choose.
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Saturday's game should be close, and by close I mean down to the last second. Utah goes down swinging, but the Wildcats manage to score just enough to get the first road victory of the year.
Arizona 38, Utah 35
Overall: 7-3
Ashley Nevel: Arizona still has yet to win a road game this season, but this Saturday's game at Utah will be the time to water that drought.
While running back John White receives all the praise and attention for this upcoming matchup, somewhere Ka'Deem Carey, who set the Pac-12 record for rushing yards against Colorado last week, is smiling to himself knowing that he and the rest of the Wildcats offense will flourish to victory.
To say this game will be easy for the Wildcats is a lie. However, if the performance of the offense is equivalent to its high-caliber execution displayed the majority of the season, then Arizona should be in great shape.
Arizona 30, Utah 24
Overall: 5-5
Jason Nimrichter: The more I look at this match-up ,the more I like Arizona, with or without Matt Scott. Utah's defense is ranked among the better units in the conference, but when you take a look at their individual efforts, you will notice they struggle much more against offenses like UA's. Ka'Deem Carey will come nowhere near his record setting performance from last weekend, but he will still have a big day and open up the field for the rest of the offense to thrive. Arizona's defense plays a step above where it played against Colorado and UA pulls off its first road victory of the season.
Arizona 38, Utah 28
Overall: 7-3
Michael Luke: If the Utes had any kind of passing game, the Wildcats would encounter major problems because John White IV figures to have a huge game on the ground. However, the lack of a passing game will help Arizona's defense make enough stops to succeed. Arizona will put up a ton of points and the Utes will struggle to keep up.
Arizona 38, Utah 24
Overall: 5-5
Jason Scheer: I think Arizona is the better team due in large part to the fact that it holds the best overall unit that this game will see, which is its offense. However, Arizona struggled with the run against Colorado and will face a similar, better back in John White. It will be interesting to see if Arizona gives Matt Scott free reign to do what he wants on offense in terms of being able to run the ball. The guess here, however, is that Arizona's offense is able to score, but White had a big day and the Utes come out on top.
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Chocolate is seemingly everywhere and the temptation to indulge is high. After all, when a craving hits, who can resist that melt-in-your-mouth richness and smooth, creamy texture of a good piece of chocolate? Whether you need a mood boost, have something to celebrate, or are simply saying, "I love you," a box of chocolates is just right. Now, new studies suggest that the health benefits of chocolate might make it more than just a satisfying treat. Researchers have isolated powerful disease-fighting substances in chocolate, with some early studies showing that certain kinds of chocolate may help lower blood pressure and stave off heart disease. Before you call chocolate a health food, however, learn more about this research and what it may mean for your sweet tooth.
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Chocolate comes from the cacao (or cocoa) bean, and since the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés penned a letter about the frothy cacao beverages of the New World to the emperor of Spain in 1520, chocolate has had a place in our diet. It was first used as medicine to treat everything from tuberculosis to gout to low virility, but by the end of the 18th century, the plant dubbed Theobroma cacao, or "food of the gods," began creeping into our culinary vernacular. Eaten in slabs, sorbets, desserts, and even soups and pastas, chocolate was so common by World War I that it was used as a ration for the troops. Today chocolate is an ingredient in cooking worldwide, from the savory sauces and moles of Mexico to the sweet, smooth French chocolate éclair.
Yet, the pendulum could be swinging back. With some intriguing health news now emerging about chocolate, this tasty treat may once again be elevated to medicinal status. It started when scientists began to wonder about the historical uses of chocolate as medicine. "It's not so unusual when you consider the beans of the cocoa plant are extremely rich in flavonoids," says Carl Keen, Ph.D., a nutrition professor at the University of California at Davis who has done extensive research on chocolate. Flavonoids are potent plant antioxidants, and for years scientists have said that antioxidants can exert a positive influence on health by neutralizing damaging free radicals, substances believed to advance aging and promote disease. Many fruits, vegetables, red wine, and teas also contain flavonoids. Now researchers are zeroing in on flavonoids in chocolate and identifying a different subclass: flavonols. It's these compounds that appear to pack the most health benefits.
One German study, for example, found that eating dark chocolate high in flavonoids may reduce blood pressure. In the same study, however, flavonoid-free white chocolate yielded no change in blood pressure. As part of the study protocol, 13 volunteers with high blood pressure munched on a custom-made, 3.5-ounce dark chocolate bar for two weeks and then switched to eating the same amount of white chocolate over the next two weeks. During the dark chocolate phase, systolic blood pressure (the maximum pressure created when the heart muscle contracts) dropped an average of five points. Diastolic pressure, the pressure in the arteries when the heart muscle relaxes between beats, dropped about two points. (A reduction in both is optimal for those with high blood pressure.)
However, there is one stumbling block in the case for the health benefits of chocolate: Not all of them are created equal when it comes to flavonoid content. Most reports, like the German study mentioned above, suggest dark chocolate may harbor the highest amounts of these compounds. But some experts say that chocolate's flavonoid content has nothing to do with color and everything to do with how it's processed. two rules of thumb when looking for chocolate rich in flavonoids: First, dark chocolate in general has two to three times the amount of flavonoids found in milk chocolate. If you're looking for the highest amount of flavonoids, it's best to choose a brand that has a high cocoa content, 70 percent or greater. On that list are gourmet chocolates such as Lindt, El Rey, Scharffen Berger, Lake Champlain, and Ghirardelli. As for other brands of chocolate with lower cocoa contents, it's hard to predict the health benefits they may deliver. And, more importantly, any benefits chocolate may provide need to be weighed against its nutritional downside-mainly, its high fat content.
Fat Facts
If you look strictly at the numbers, a 1.5-ounce bar of chocolate has around 235 calories and between 13 and 14 grams of fat, six to nine grams of it the artery-clogging, saturated kind. That's a lot of calories and fat for such a small amount of chocolate. Saturated fat raises blood cholesterol levels, and high cholesterol levels can clog arteries. However, some of the saturated fat in chocolate is in the form of stearic acid, which doesn't raise cholesterol. Stearic acid is in cocoa butter, which is the main fat in chocolate. The liver converts stearic acid to oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat, which isn't damaging to the heart. Some researchers argue, however, that, regardless of stearic acid, chocolate is still a high-fat, high-calorie food. Small amounts can be worked into a healthy diet, but large quantities aren't a recipe for good health, particularly when you consider how many Americans are overweight, says Penn State University nutritionist Penny Kris-Etherton, Ph.D. She suggests a leaner way to get that chocolate fix: Opt for cocoa, the powder formed when cocoa beans are ground and stripped of cocoa butter.
Trick or Treat?
As comforting as it is to think your next chocolate fix may be good for you, think twice. The reason is simple: "Eating any food in excess of caloric needs, including chocolate, will cause weight gain," Kris-Etherton says.
In the meantime, Richard Mattes, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition at Purdue University, says there's nothing wrong with enjoying the comfort food status of chocolate in moderate amounts. "It's how often and how much that's the issue," he says. Adds Kris-Etherton: "Instead, incorporate it into an already healthy diet that meets-doesn't exceed-energy needs." Until there are more controlled clinical trials examining the health benefits of chocolate, and the magnitude of those effects, and until flavonoid-rich chocolates become more common, it may be wise to dip into that bucket of trick-or-treat chocolate with discretion.
Maureen Callahan, a chocolate lover, is a frequent contributor to Cooking Light.


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Mathematica -> VRML?
Has anyone created a Mathematica program that takes a Graphics3D object and
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P.S. I know that it is possible to export the Graphics3D object as a DXF
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This A list stylist and designer wannabe had a collection so horrid that people told her it would be career suicide to show it. Excuses made and back to the drawing board or wherever she can buy her designs for next time.
Rachel Zoe
This A list stylist and designer wannabe had a collection so horrid that people told her it would be career suicide to show it. Excuses made and back to the drawing board or wherever she can buy her designs for next time.
Rachel Zoe
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I want to know why she keeps renting and doesn't buy. It would be so much more cheaper for her to buy a house and have the right off. Something is not right with her finances.
How many times have you seen her without that damn vest. I think she sleeps in it…probably because she's always cold from being anorexic.
Christ, Bacon, I just read that Huffington article (which was actually a NYT piece) and it was cutting in the extreme. Best/worst of all, Rachel was pictured wearing a FUR VEST. WTF??
erry'body got this one
Rachel speaks like a 13 year old. If I had a nickel every time she said, "like" on her dopey show, why I'd have a few pillowcases of nickels by now.
And the only ones who have successfully pulled off wearing a fedora are Frank Sinatra, Indiana Jones and Perry the Platypus.
Awesome comment. Perfectly said.
I agree AJ – there was an instagram acct I saw of this little 5yo boy who is a 'fashionista' … Did a quick search and couldn't find it. He wears all high fashion labels. I lack comprehension of this – kids need to be able to play.
But hats rock – this is the time of year for a foxy little felt number, maybe in burgundy … mmm, maybe time to go shopping 😉
TTM, my sweet girls have worn fedoras for the last 3 years..including a hot pink zebra & black with their long hair In a pretty side fish tail braid..mind you they are just 11 & 12, but I love how they think they are cool.. also love the Sun protection..Im with you!
They make GREAT beach hats–a much more attractive alternative to the old standby, bucket hat.
I love fedoras, and I love my little boy in them. He looks awesome in them!
"Pre-Fall" is known to mere mortals as Summer.
And hats rule. I wear them almost daily.
@Alita I like other hats it just never have been a fan of fedoras. Plus Rachel's kids just always look like she's dressing a client rather than a child. Children should be able to run around & not be worried about getting cloths dirty or ruined.
Ya know I was a little disappointed I thought I would hit the jackpot but too many real Dlisters for competition. Usually I will settle for a pack of Belmonts and some Canadian Tire Money on my local Toronto corner but now all the big spenders are gone ; )
I occasionally rock a newsboy hat when I don't feel like washing my hair. and a Captains hat when I am in Cannes selling my body bwahaha
Not feeling the fedora hate. We need more hats in our lives, not less. Hats are shockingly underrepresented in the accessorising playbook- and they look awesome!
I urge everyone to increase their hat ownership.
If you think he doesn't have to wear fedoras too, you clearly misunderstand how things roll Chez TTM. JK, I let him get away with newsboy caps (boys have been wearing those since birth too) and watch DragRace when he's out with his beer drinking buddies. Win win!
imagine the fights that TTM and her man get in regarding dressing the boys
"take off those damn fedoras and stop putting on that damn Drag Queen show-" lol *jokesjokes*
Y'all are crazy; my boys have all looked FABTASTIC in their fedoras since they were one years old. And they loved them. True story
I absolutely agree. Fedoras should be banned completely. Hahaha.
@AJ NO ONE should wear a fedora…
I've been a bit baby crazy lately so I enjoy adorable photos of kids. Every time I see her son, I want to cut his hair. He looks miserable and dressed in stuff that is way more focused on fashion than comfort. No toddler needs to constantly wear a fedora.
Geez I just had a look at her 'Pre-Fall' collection (WTF is Pre-fucking-Fall???) and saw a plaid jumpsuit and a horizontal striped jumpsuit…..eeeuuurghhhh!!!
On what planet stylist ???????
What a convenient pregnancy
When I read this I realized i've never seen any of Rachel's clothes featured in any magazines so I decided to Google her line. Ended up at the Nordstrom site and I see almost all of her stuff is 40% off.
QVC and HSN will sell any shit they dont care because losers will buy it.
If the collection is that bad and is already in production, put that stuff on QVC. She's sold stuff there before, and they think oversized denim shirts with embroidered flowers, and polyester skorts are high-fashion.
I remember! They said she had the good shit from Mexico. Her and Nicole are friends again and Nicole is scary again
Tina, that was when Zoe was working for her and NR was at her tiniest. It was thought that NR was essentially blaming Zoe for her extreme weight loss because of her "advice". Apparently Zoe was a Thinspiration!
Nicole Ritchie calls Zoe raisin face?
Wow let's get those two probable anorexics into the thunderdome, no drugs allowed beforehand, unfair advantagem and see if they have enough strength to go at it.
A dress aaannnnnnd METH. I'd hire her. And her hubby, he's pretty cute.
I'm with you, fancy. She has been wearing the same, 1970s tired, bohemian crap and oversized hats for YEARS. A designer evolves. She is no designer.
She's the one Nicole Ritchie called "Raisin Face", it was kinda epic and hilarious
No Bacon Ranch it is the same mentality that spends millions of dollars on art that one's 3 year old niece could pull off.
If you build the hype up well enough the rich and brainless will come running and pull out their wallets and credit cards.
But if you don't have the real goods and maybe even if you, you won't have the staying power because the rich and brainless will have already run off to the next IT designer or stylist.
It like lemmings to the cliff.
The Nieman Marcus outlet sells her stuff. I'm usually a size six and I couldn't even fit my elbow in her size eight. It was the cutest little black leather dress too. Dammit.
what she should do is lease out her name to designers because even I know her, though I couldn't point out any of her rags.
…or is that what enty is saying…; /
WTF I never heard that! She sounds like a complete jerk now!
She was blasted as a 'pox on humanity' for her styles dating back to '08.
She must know/have dirt on some powerful people.
I don't like her. Remember when she was the head stylist for the Hweird bimbos (Nicole, Lindsay, Mischa etc) and it was rumored she would give them dresses 2 sizes too small and a gram of meth to help get to their "goal weight" smh…
I've never seen her in anything cute. Her wardrobe is snooze worthy.
I just wish ol girl would eat. Food is amazing rachel!!
She has always been overrated and she's just living off her celebrity.
I am amazed at her staying power. Gurl has hustle
Duh. Stylist. At best. Fame should not be the end game. Success add should. She had that until she wanted to much and priced herself out of the business
Well that's just bananas! Seriously though…meh.


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SF SPCA Encourages Public to Speak Out at GGNRA Meeting [1]Date:
As a member of the Eco-Dog coalition, the SF SPCA will advocate for on- and off-leash recreation in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) at an open house style meeting on Monday, March 7, 2011. The meeting, the third of four conducted in the Bay Area, offers the public a chance to respond to the draft Dog Management Plan presented by the National Park Service in January.
That draft plan recommends banning or curtailing both on- and off-leash access to such areas as Fort Funston, Baker Beach, Crissy Field, the Marin Headlands, and many other parts of the GGNRA that currently allow limited or unfettered access to dogs and their guardians.
The SF SPCA encourages all responsible dog guardians who like to experience nature with their canine companions to attend the meeting and offer environmentally-sound alternatives to the Park Service's proposals.
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U.S. Airways Refuses to Give Terminal Cancer Patient Refund
U.S. Airways said they are standing by their decision not to refund money for tickets purchased by a woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
Lynn McKain and her family had purchased five round-trip tickets earlier this year to Belize. The dream trip was booked after she had been cleared of breast cancer. However, she was recently diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and her doctor ordered her not to travel, according to a report on WUSA.
When the McKain family asked for a refund on their $4,200 tickets, the airline refused, explaining that the tickets were nonrefundable.
"We are so sorry to hear about the situation with Mrs. McKain and we empathize with her," U.S. Airways spokesperson Liz Landau told Fox News & Commentary.
WUSA reported that McKain provided letters and medical documentation to the airline proving that she was not able to travel, but so far – the airline has refused to budge.
Outrage is growing online. A blogger at The Right Sphere called the airline's decision "cold, heartless and just plain mean."
"If this is the kind of company U.S. Airways chooses to be, I assure you I will never fly with them again," wrote one blogger.
Landau said the airline agreed to waive change fees as well as offer the family vouchers for future flights.
"We're trying to be flexible and offer her and her family some accommodations," Landau told Fox.
"Big deal – I may not be alive," McKain told WUSA. "What good is a voucher gonna do me?"
Landau explained that the vouchers "can be used by anyone in her family."
She also offered a word of caution to all travelers.
"As with purchasing anything, it's important to understand the terms and conditions of the tickets you purchase," Landau said.
So the bottom line for the McKain family – no refund.
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Year in Review 2016
Year in Review 2016
The SEI Year in Review, an annual report of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, spotlights projects and initiatives that demonstrate the SEI's value to its sponsors and customers in government and industry, and which demonstrate the ways in which the SEI is advancing the field of software engineering to meet emerging challenges.
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I am pleased to present this year's edition of the Software Engineering Institute's Year in Review. This edition highlights some of our most prominent research and development accomplishments for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2015. These highlights reflect how we support the nation's defense by advancing the science, technologies, and practices needed to acquire, develop, operate, and sustain software systems that are innovative, affordable, trustworthy, and enduring. They also demonstrate the impact we make on behalf of our sponsors and customers, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Special Cyber Operations Research and Engineering Working Group. Finally, they express our core purpose: to improve the state of the art of software and cybersecurity and to transition this work to the community so that we improve the state of the practice as well.
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Helping Air Force Intelligence Adapt to Agile Methodology
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SEI Tools Promote Situational Awareness
In 2015, the Situational Awareness Team in the SEI CERT Division released a number of new tool capabilities for analysts in the computer network defense community.


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I've been doing Chicken-Head for almost 10 years now and as time has gone on, the places for us to drop off our zine has gone way down. I'm looking for suggestions on where there are zine friendly places to drop our zine.
Places that are out:
Amoeba Records, they want you to fill out forms to leave them how "indi" is that?
Second Spin: They now throw out our zines.
Any help would be great.
Chicken-Head Records Zine
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some suggestions:
Skylight Books
Meltdown Comics on Sunset
417 N. Rowan Avenue just off of Cesar Chavez Avenue, our door opens on to the Rowan/Dozier bus depot if you take the bus
We're open 11-8 Monday to Thursday, and Saturday, we close at 7 on Fridays
We're a very small family bookshop, it's just my wife and I who run it. So if you want to talk about consignment or anything like that please email me firstname.lastname@example.com otherwise a family member may be tending the store and they wouldn't be able to help you with much other than buying a book.


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Arsenal Ladies stormed into the Sixth Round of the FA Women's Cup with an emphatic win against Reading.
The holders booked their place in the last eight of the competition thanks to four goals apiece for Lianne Sanderson and her strike partner Gemma Davison.
Jayne Ludlow (2), Anita Asante, Gill Flaherty, Rachel Yankey and Sian Larkin were also on target for a weakened Arsenal side.
Vic Akers' side were in cruise control throughout the tie but there was a moment to savour for Reading when Natasha Caswell's long-range effort gave the Southern Division side a late consolation.
Despite being outclassed for much of the game, Reading had the first chance after five minutes. Emma Byrne kept the Royals at bay on that occasion and was barely troubled afterwards as Arsenal took command.
Sanderson's unstoppable finish gave Akers' side the lead a minute later and they led 8-0 at the break, Asante rounding off a one-sided first half with a rare goal.
Byrne, Ludlow and Ciara Grant made way at half-time as Akers gave some valuable match time to his fringe players. Gilly Flaherty marked her third appearance for Arsenal with a well-timed header after 48 minutes.
The holders ended the game with 10 players after Danielle Buett limped off with an injury and Reading took advantage of their numerical advantage to set up a consolation goal for Caswell.
Arsenal will now play Birmingham City in the Quarter Finals on Sunday, February 11 at 12pm. This match will be played at Boreham Wood FC.
Arsenal Ladies
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- Asante
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- Chapman
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- Flaherty
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- Buet
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- Ludlow
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- Grant
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National Park
Yosemite National Park embraces a vast tract of scenic wildlands set aside in 1890 to preserve a portion of the Sierra Nevada mountains that stretches along California's eastern flank. The park ranges from 2,000 feet above sea level to more than 13,000 feet and offers threemajor features:
- alpine wilderness,
- groves of Giant Sequoias, and
- Yosemite Valley.
The story of Yosemite began about 500 million years ago when the Sierra Nevada region lay beneath an ancient sea. Thick layers of sediment lay on the sea bed, which eventually was folded and twisted and thrust above sea level. Simultaneously molten rock welled up from deep within the earth and cooled slowly beneath the layers of sediment to form granite. Erosion gradually wore away almost all the overlying rock and exposed the granite. And even as uplifts continued to form the Sierra, water and then glaciers went to work to carve the face of Yosemite. Weathering and erosion continue to shape it today.
Tuolumne Meadows and the High Country
This section of Yosemite has some of the most rugged sublime scenery in the Sierra. In summer the meadows, lakes, and exposed granite slopes teem with life. Because of the short growing season, the plants and animals take maximum advantage of the warm days to grow, reproduce, and store food for the long, cold winter ahead.
The Tioga Road (California 120), crosses this area. This scenic highway, originally built as a mining road in 1882-83, was realigned and modernized in 1961. The road passes through an area of sparkling lakes, fragile meadows, domes, and lofty peaks that only 10,000 years ago lay under glacial ice. Scenic turnouts along the road afford superb views. At Tioga Pass the road crosses the Sierra's crest at 9,945 feet, the highest automobile pass in California.
Tuolumne Meadows (at 8,600 feet) is the largest sub-alpine meadow in the Sierra. It is 55 miles from Yosemite Valley via the Tioga Road. Long a focal point of summer activity, it is also growing in popularity as a winter mountaineering area. In the summer Tuolumne Meadows is a favorite starting point for backpacking trips and day hikes. The meadows are spectacular in early summer, abounding in wildflowers and wildlife.
Rangers at the Tuolumne Meadows Visitor Center, open during the summer, can help you. Remember that Yosemite's meadows are fragile and are easily affected by foot traffic and are closed to bicycles and autos.
A trip into the high country can be rewarding. But remember that the elevation ranges from 7,000 to 13,000 feet. Even hardy visitors find that vigorous exercise can make them short of breath. Slow your pace; take time to awaken your sense of wonder.
Glacier Point
Glacier Point is one of those rare places where the scenery is so vast that it overwhelms the viewer. Below your feet a sheer rock cliff, about 3,200 feet straight down, affords you a bird's eye view of the entire Yosemite Valley. Across the valley you can see the 2,425-foot drop of Yosemite Falls. Beyond, the panoramic expanse of the High Sierra stands out in awe-inspiring clarity. Signs identify major peaks. Sunset and full moon nights are ideal times to visit the point. A full moon transforms the pastel granite landscape into a fairyland. In summer you can drive to Glacier Point (32 miles from Yosemite Valley). In winter when the road is closed at Badger Pass Ski Area Glacier Point is a favorite destination for cross-country, skiers. But no matter how you travel or when you go, Glacier Point offers what may be Yosemite's finest view.
Giant Sequoia Groves
The Mariposa Grove, 35 miles south of Yosemite Valley, is the largest of three Sequoia groves in Yosemite. The Tuolumne and Merced Groves are near Crane Flat. Despite human pressures, these towering trees, largest of all living things, have endured for thousands of years. Only in recent years, however, have we begun to understand the Giant Sequoia environment. During the last 100 years protection has sometimes been inadequate and sometimes excessive. For example, in the late 1800s tunnels were cut through two trees in the Mariposa Grove. Conversely, good intentions created another problem, protection from fire has resulted in adverse effects.
Sequoias are wonderfully adapted to fire. The wood and bark are fire-resistant. Black scars on a number of large trees that are still prospering indicate they have survived many scorching fires. Sequoia reproduction also depends on fire. The tiny seeds require minimal soil for germination, and seedlings need sunlight. Historically, frequent natural fires opened the forest, thinned out competing plant species, and left rich mineral soil behind. But years of fire suppression have allowed debris, such as fallen branches, to accumulate, stifling reproduction and allowing shade-tolerant trees to encroach. Prescribed fires, intended to simulate natural fires and improve the health of the forest, are now set by the National Park Service.
As you look at these trees, keep in mind that they have been here since the beginning of history in the western world. The Mariposa Grove's Grizzly Giant is 2,700 years old and is thought to be the oldest of all Sequoias. Private vehicles are not permitted beyond the parking area in the Mariposa Grove. You may ride the trams through the Grove from May until October. Trails are available year-round for hiking or cross-country skiing.
This Indian word apparently meant "big tree". Wawona was once an Indian encampment and, later, was the site of a wayside hostel built in 1857 by Galen Clark. Known as Glares Station, it served as an overnight stop for visitors in transit between Yosemite Valley and Mariposa. In 1864, when Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove were set aside for protection, Clark became the first guardian of the area. In 1875, the year the original Wawona road opened, the Washburn brothers purchased the area and built the Wawona Hotel that is still in operation today. Wawona focuses on Yosemite's human history. It is the setting of the Pioneer Yosemite History Center, a collection of relocated historic buildings and horse-drawn coaches.
Yosemite's wilderness is varied and offers day hiking and backpacking experiences for both the seasoned hiker and the novice. About 800 miles of trails offer a variety of climate, elevation, and spectacular scenery. Near the crest of the Sierra you can take both long and short trips at elevations above 9,000 feet. The higher regions offer a cool climate, while lower elevations are warmer and drier.
To protect Yosemite's wilderness, there are quotas for overnight use. Free wilderness permits are required and are available at ranger stations and visitor centers. Be sure to read the information you receive with your permit and observe all regulations. Above all, remember to keep your impact to a minimum. Additionally, you will need appropriate equipment and good footgear.
During winter the wilderness is receiving increased mountaineering use. Cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing have grown in popularity and open up a new world for the backpacker. The high country is a wonderland. Deep snow covers the land, and summer landmarks may be unrecognizable. But winter in the wilderness is more demanding than summer. Good equipment, warm clothing, and proper planning are essential to assure a safe and comfortable trip into the harsh Sierra winter environment. Backcountry travel both summer and winter, can be gratifying. However you are experiencing the mountains on their terms, and the mountains are not forgiving to the careless or unprepared.
Yosemite Valley
"The Incomparable Valley", it has been called, is probably the world's best known example of a glacier-carved canyon. Its leaping waterfalls, towering cliffs, rounded domes, and massive monoliths make it a preeminent natural marvel. These attributes have inspired poets, painters, photographers, and millions of visitors beginning with John Muir for more than one hundred years. Nowhere in Yosemite is the sense of scale so dramatic.
Yosemite Valley is characterized by sheer walls and a flat floor. Its evolution began when alpine glaciers lumbered through the canyon of the Merced River. The ice carved through weaker sections of granite plucking and scouring rock but leaving harder, more solid portions—such as El Capitan and Cathedral Rocks—intact and greatly enlarging the canyon that the Merced River had carved through successive uplifts of the Sierra. Finally the glacier began to melt and the terminal moraine left by the last glacial advance into the valley dammed the melting water to form ancient Lake Yosemite, which sat in the newly carved U-shaped valley. Sediment eventually filled in the lake, forming the flat valley floor you see today. This same process is now filling Mirror Lake at the base of Half Dome.
In contrast to the valley's sheer walls, the Merced Canyon along California 140 outside the park is a typical river-cut, V-shaped canyon, for the glaciers did not extend this far. Back from the rim of the valley itself, forested slopes show some glacial polish. But for the most part these areas also were not glaciated.
The valley is a mosaic of open meadows sprinkled with wildflowers and flowering shrubs, oak woodlands, and mixed-conifer forests of ponderosa pine, incense-cedar, and Douglas-fir. Wildlife from monarch butterflies to mule deer and black boars flourishes in these communities. Around the valley's perimeter, waterfalls, which reach their maximum flow in May and June, crash to the floor. Yosemite, Bridalveil, Vernal, Nevada, and Illilouette are the most prominent of these falls, some of which have little or no water from mid-August through early fall.
Take time to visit the Valley Visitor Center, where an orientation slide program and publications are available. Exhibits highlight the valley's natural and human history. Rangers are available to answer questions or assist you. The Indian Cultural Exhibit and the Indian Village, located behind the visitor center, display the cultural history of the native Miwok and Paiute people from 1850 to the present. Nearby, the Museum Gallery features artwork of past and current Yosemite artists.
Note: When you arrive in Yosemite Valley, park your car and walk to the places you want to see. Distances are short. If you prefer, use the tree shuttle bus system that serves most of the valley. Either way, you'll save gas and frustration. It you are visiting just for the day, park your car in the day-use parking lot at Curry Village.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A general photo album for this park can be found here. For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
We believe that the stewardship of our national parks and public lands lies with today's students. It is imperative that we provoke in them today a sense of wonder and ownership of such places, in the hope that they will take this into the future. We hope that you will find that by using Yosemite National Park as an extension of your classroom, the science of the natural world will come alive.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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Dig This is an attraction, where for $250 you can learn to operate a bulldozer or excavator in 90 minutes or less. Originally located in Colorado, it later moved to Las Vegas, putting it within easy reach of anyone who visits that city. I was there this January for the World of Concrete and reserved a 90-minute Big Dig the day after the show.
The "school" occupies a small building at the end of a strip mall that adjoins a large open lot within sight of the Las Vegas Strip. My wife and I arrived 15 minutes early so we could fill out the required paperwork, a release form that listed every terrible thing that could possibly happen and that if any of them did, Dig This was not liable. There's nothing unusual about that; if you ride a roller coaster the ticket says it's not the amusement park's fault if the coaster bursts into flames and flies off the track with you in it. But what happened next was kind of different. We were asked to take breathalyzer tests—not because it looked like we'd been drinking but because Dig This (well, probably their insurance company) requires it of everyone who climbs into a machine. We both passed, which was no surprise given it was 9:45 AM and we hadn't been out late the night before. That's not the case for everyone, as we learned from an instructor who regaled us with stories of epic fails by people who decided to party before class instead of after.
The 90-minute Big Dig experience began with 30 minutes in the classroom. Our teacher was a grizzled guy who'd spend 35-plus years operating heavy equipment; teaching newbie "operators" in Las Vegas was his retirement gig. He began by explaining how the controls of Caterpillar bulldozers and excavators work. Using a sandbox-like model of the lot outside, complete with a miniature bulldozer and excavator, he then showed us what we'd be doing when we got in the machines. The sandbox demonstration is what I imagine Top-Gun School would be like if instead of flying fighters naval aviators drove heavy equipment—but without weapons and not quite as fast. At the end of the 30-minute classroom session it was time to climb into the machines.
Those of us who were there to drive excavators went off with one instructor. My wife chose to drive a bulldozer so she went off with another. The instructor for each group communicates with his students through headsets, telling them what to do and offering advice on how to do it. We were informed that if anything went seriously wrong—we had a seizure or freaked out and started to drive off the property—the instructor had a remote kill switch and would shut down the motor of the machines.
I won't try to describe how to drive an excavator other than to say it is controlled by a couple of joysticks and a pair foot pedals that move in both directions. Anyone who is reasonably coordinated and can tell left from right and front from back could learn how to do it after a fashion--though doing it well takes years of practice.
During my time in the excavator I drove around, dug and filled a trench, and moved a bunch of 1,000-pound tires and stacked them in a pyramid. The grand finale involved lifting a basket ball with a bucket and placing it on top of a traffic cone. I'd have been pretty impressed with myself for completing the basketball trick except I'd seen professional operators at The World of Concrete perform much harder tricks in a fraction of the time it took me to put one ball on a cone.
The hour went by quickly and I was so engrossed that I didn't notice what my wife was doing a short distance away in bulldozer. She said she ran a slalom course backwards and forwards, dug a big trench and filled it in, and then pushed some tires around.
Spending an hour in the cab of a machine did not make me the least bit competent as an operator, but it gave me a sense of what's involved in operating heavy equipment. Of course, I had it easy; there was an instructor nearby and I was in an open field where there was no need to worry about hitting buildings, buried gas pipes, overhead electrical lines, or tradesmen working nearby.
A basic session at Dig This isn't cheap, but then there are plenty of other ways to go through $250 in 90 minutes in Las Vegas. And unlike some of those other activities, you'll remember this one after it's over and won't be embarrassed to tell folks about it.


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To indemnify another party is to compensate that party for loss or damage that has already occurred, or to guarantee through a contractual agreement to repay another party for loss or damage that occurs in the future.
One common example of an indemnification occurs when an insurance company, as part of an individual insurance policy, agrees to indemnify the insured person for losses that person incurred as the result of accident or property damage.
Another example is when a subcontractor agrees to indemnify a general contractor for any losses that occur as a result of the subcontractor's work-–whether they be as a result of a suit filed against the general contractor for failure to adhere to contractual terms, or because of personal injury suffered at the job site by a worker or some other individual.
See Hercules Inc. et al v. United States, 516 U.S. 417 (1996).


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The Maryland Department of Agriculture reports that testing from the University of Kentucky confirms that the 2-year old filly in Laurel Park's Barn 1 is positive for EHV-1.
LAUREL, MD. 11-14-08---The Maryland Jockey Club today announced until further notice no horses will be allowed to ship into Laurel Park except those from the Bowie Training Center on a Maryland Jockey Club shuttle. The limitations were instituted after a two-year-old filly in Barn 1 at Laurel tested positive for equine herpesvirus Thursday. In addition horses based at Laurel and Bowie are restricted to the grounds. The Pimlico Race Course stable area is closed for the winter.
"This is a precautionary measure," said Tom Chuckas, president and chief operating officer of the Maryland Jockey Club. "It is in our best interest to restrict the movement of horses in and out of Laurel until we see the outcome of the tests on the remaining horses in Barn 1."
The Hold Order limits all movement into and out of Barn 1, pending further testing. None of the other 29 horses are showing neurologic signs. Testing will continue in the barn.
Today's announcement forced 38 horses to be scratched from Friday's nine-race card and another 29 shippers will not be allowed to race tomorrow. The Maryland Jockey Club racing office attracted 87 entries on the overnight for next Wednesday's nine-race program, which were taken today.
"Everyone is being affected financially but you can't keep track of the movement of horses that come off the farm or another training center," said Maryland Jockey Club racing secretary Georganne Hale. "Entries will be short but we are trying to keep this situation confined."
The Maryland racing community faced an outbreak of the virus in early 2006 when three horses at Pimlico and another at Laurel were euthanized, while three live racing cards at Laurel Park were cancelled due to lack of horses as racetracks in neighboring states barred horses from running in Maryland.
Equine herpesvirus causes upper respiratory infection and can lead to severe neurological disease. There is currently no known method to reliably prevent the neurologic form of EHV-1 infection. It is recommended to maintain appropriate vaccination procedures in an attempt to reduce the incidence of the respiratory form of EHV-1 infection, which may help prevent the neurologic form. Transmission occurs primarily by direct nose to nose contact or contaminated hands, equipment, feed and water. It can also be spread up to 35 feet by airborn droplets. This virus is not associated with any human health risk.
Brimming with confidence, trainer Chris Grove will start his star filly Sweet Goodbye against the males in Saturday's $50,000 Northern Dancer Stakes. The race will go 1-1/16th miles on the main track and is restricted to Maryland-breds.
Grove is best known for conditioning top female runners Silmaril and Lexi Star, who combined for 17 stakes victories and more than $1.6 million in earnings before retiring this year.
Sweet Goodbye, who is the third choice at 9-2 on Frank Carulli's morning line, has won four straight since finishing off-the-board in her debut. Her win streak culminated with a victory in the one mile Maryland Million Oaks on October 4. J.D. Acosta has been aboard for all four wins and retains the mount.
"She is really special and could be as nice as either of those two," said Grove, comparing his latest star to his other leading ladies. "She is very advanced physically. She'll end up looking a lot like Lexi, tall but not broad, but she has what Silmaril had, that nose for the wire. Lexi won because of talent whereas Silmaril won with heart and desire. This filly has both attributes. I don't think I have ever run a filly against the boys and I am not afraid."
The race got easier for Grove since morning line favorite Fujita (9-5), a Monmouth Park-based colt who finished third in the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs, and Delaware Park-based Knight In Armour (4-1) will be forced to scratch with today's announcement that until further notice no horses will be allowed to ship into Laurel Park, except those from the Bowie Training Center, after a filly tested positive for the equine herpesvirus earlier this week. Longshot Sarto (15-1), who is stabled at the Fair Hill Training Center, will also scratch.
Sweet Goodbye's main completion will likely come from another filly as trainer Richard Small will saddle Fascinatin' Rhythm (6-1) in the Northern Dancer, too. The daughter of More Than Ready is three-for-three at Laurel and posted a bullet workout over the strip November 5 in anticipation of this start. Jozbin Santana continues as her rider.
Legendary Lover (6-1), Jen's Revenge (8-1) and Sumacha'hot (10-1) complete the field. All three geldings are based at either Laurel or Bowie.


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I wouldn't be surprised if marquez wins here.. its a relatively new track, and marquez has already won on a test where he has tested at previously.. granted cota was brand new this year..


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The editors of each of the sites in the Soccer News Net network nominated up to four local players for the award, each of which will be eligible for the regional player of the year award. The nominations included athletes playing at colleges within each site's coverage area, as well as athletes from the area playing collegiately elsewhere in the country. Nine additional at-large selections rounded out the nominations.
Fans from across the country will be able to vote for the top collegiate player. Voting will begin on Thursday, November 15 and continue until December 15, and will be conducted on Big Apple Soccer ( www.bigapplesoccer.com), Chicagoland Soccer News ( www.chicagolandsoccernews.com), LA Soccer News ( www.lasoccernews.com), New England Soccer News ( www.newenglandsoccernews.com), Philly Soccer News ( www.phillysoccernews.com) and Dallas Soccer News. ( www.dallassoccernews.com)
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Fact is, she's made a habit of inviting debate with me, then shuts it down in apparent frustration because she fails to know or even try to know the material she's already decided (assumes) is nonsense, deciding there's nothing to learn, much less know.
C'mon ...You're asking me questions based on assumptions, that tell us you haven't looked at any of it...
IMO and George's Having enough LAND (or its equivalent) to support yourself is a right,
Is it a joyful thing for you, this game you're playing? I certainly hope so
>>If you go to work every day for a month, and at the end of the month you dont have anymore than you did at the beginning of the month and you believe that what you did all month was only worth a roof over you head for 30 days, gas to get you to work, food to fuel you so you can work, and the wear and tear on your cloths so your not naked at work, vehicle to get you to work, etc., According to some, that is more than the worker deserves. ( sorry bee-nuts, I took this out of context)


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Hello Friends! I have just gone through the ENTIRE Cambridge list of CELTA course sites without finding what I need.
Still I see other places listed in Cactus.
Are ALL real CELTA courses run through Cambridge or are there other licensors? If there are others, are there "good" and "bad" ones? I have not been able to find a shorter (less than 12 weeks) PT course in a place that I really want to go, via Cambridge, so I'm looking for other places to look. Are there any, for CELTA specifically. (I'm going to post separately but what about recommendations for a truly awesome TEFL cert?)
MANY thanks,