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It seems vacationers aren't the only ones fond of Siesta Key's pristine beaches. Something about the area also makes it especially attractive to Siesta Key's beloved snowy plovers, the tiny, white, endangered birds that call the No. 1 beach home. As the birds enter their breeding season, the Sarasota Audubon Society is once again ready to help protect them.
The organization has been monitoring birds on the beach in some form for approximately 25 years, and in the past three years, it has ramped up its monitoring programs, placing a special emphasis on protecting the area's snowy plovers.
Jeanne Dubi, president of the Sarasota Audubon Society reported at the Siesta Key Association meeting, Thursday, April 5, that of the approximately 225 snowy plover nesting places on Florida's Gulf Coast, 8% to 10% of those are actually in Sarasota county, and thus we have a great responsibility to protect them.
"We'd prefer it if they went to a quieter beach, but they're following Dr. Beach as well," joked Dubi. "I was surprised to learn that the amount of birds on the beach is one of the criteria considered by Dr. Beach. So that played a part in being ranked No. 1 — it's one of the 50 things that makes Siesta Key so special."
With the help of volunteers and the assistance of the Siesta Key Association, the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office and other interested individuals, Dubi says the Audubon Society has seen considerable success in the past few years in getting the snowy plovers to the fledgling stage, which is when the chicks are able to fly on their own.
Volunteers monitor the beach each morning during the birds' breeding season, which spans from March to August, keeping track of numbers and taping off areas where eggs are laid.
With Siesta Fiesta and the Fourth of July approaching, the increase of people in the area is something the organization is taking into consideration.
"We all have to live together," said Dubi. "When there are tons of people on the beach, and fireworks and so on, we have to ramp up our volunteers and get more help protecting those birds."
Because of the snowy plovers' small size and white color, Dubi emphasized how easy it can be to overlook the birds as they begin to walk around the beach. Accordingly, volunteers are putting forth even more extensive efforts to protect the endangered birds.
"When the little chicks are hatched, we actually follow them around on the beach and trail them to make sure there aren't any disturbances," said Dubi. "So, that's how intense the effort is."
Although some people are resistant at first to the efforts to protect the birds, Dubi says they are usually quick to come around.
"Some people don't care for the sections of the beach being roped off," she said. "But when we take the time to talk to them and explain why, 99% of the time, they are perfectly OK with it."
Retired wildlife biologist and regular Audobon volunteer, Dr. Allan Worms, estimates six to eight pairs of plovers are currently mating, and that hopefully more chicks would soon be on their way. He encourages anyone interested to head to Siesta Key Beach between 7:30 and 8 a.m. to assist in volunteering.
"We always need more volunteers," Worms said. "And it's fun — you get to learn a lot."
At the meeting, the Siesta Key Association board members unanimously agreed to continue donating funds to the Audubon Society, increasing its donation to $1,000.
Dubi expressed her gratitude to all the volunteers and donors who help the organization continue its monitoring programs and other efforts to protect the birds on Siesta Key, which she estimated costs about $10,000 per year.
"I think it's a credit to all of us in this community that we can support this kind of effort for these tiny little birds," said Dubi. "Once you see one of these little things, you fall madly in love."
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For example, if you take the Midland Trail west, you'll end up in the heart of Old Town Colorado City with a cornucopia of restaurants, coffee shops, and gift stores. It has great atmosphere and lots of fun diversions.
On the north end of the trail, theres' a great miniature golf course, a huge bike shop, a delicious Italian restaurant, and the 9.6 mile Cottonwood Creek Trail. All of these little side trips are easily visible from the trail and are relatively inexpensive and superintensive. (a new word for fun)


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PRS's coverage of the Americas this month includes an update on Peru, where the challenges posed by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's very weak legislative position have been compounded by a slump in his popularity, the result of corruption scandals and the government's indecisive response to protests by indigenous groups that have impeded mining projects seen as crucial to spurring an economic revival. The administration's weakness was highlighted in December, when Prime Minister Fernando Zavala failed to prevent Congress from ousting Education Minister Jaime Saavedra in a vote widely interpreted as a show of force by Keiko Fujimori's Popular Force, which controls a majority of legislative seats.
The update will include a recap of the measures the government has managed to implement under temporary decree powers granted to Kuczynski last fall, which the president has promised will boost real GDP growth to 4.5%–5% in 2017, and assess the government's prospects for achieving its remaining legislative objectives. In that vein, PRS will examine the political options available to Kuczynski, and what each implies for the investment climate and Peru's economic fortunes over the next five years.
Turning to the Middle East and North Africa, PRS will issue a new report on Egypt, where the government has negotiated a $12 billion loan deal with the IMF that has kept a currency crisis in abeyance, but commits the government headed by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to implement unpopular reforms that are essential to reducing the country's heavy dependence on external financing. Our analysis will include an assessment of the government's chances of securing legislative approval of the reform agenda and of implementing follow-up measures required to promote economic growth and establish a basis for longer-term economic stability.
The report will also examine the prospects for an improvement in security conditions, which has thus far remained elusive, to the detriment of the economically important tourism industry, and to the growing dismay of Egyptians who have tolerated heavy restrictions on political freedoms as a necessary cost of the battle against violent extremism.
This month's coverage of Western Europe includes a revised report on Spain, which remained one of the EU's economic success stories in 2016. However, the inconclusive results of two general elections held in the space of six months prevented aggressive action on structural reforms aimed at addressing the country's lingering fiscal imbalances and spurring the creation of jobs for some one-fifth of the work force that remains unemployed, and the economic revival is largely attributable to a boom in the tourism industry that would be difficult to sustain if the country is targeted for a terrorist attack.
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February 4, 2011
|Jean Montes with a student in Haiti. Photo courtesy of Wadner Pierre.
Gambit Weekly and the Big Easy Foundation will honor New Orleans classical music, opera and dance communities at its annual Tribute to the Classical Arts awards ceremony Monday, Feb. 7, at 11 a.m., at the Monteleone Hotel located in downtown New Orleans. Several members of the Loyola community have been included in this year's line-up of nominees and award winners.
Jean Montès, D.M.A., associate professor of music and director of orchestras, will be given a special recognition for his work supporting music students who were victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Following the earthquake, Montès, along with help from the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, organized a massive effort to collect and deliver more than 500 music instruments to students at Holy Trinity School of Music in Port-Au-Prince, Ecole Musique Dessaix-Baptiste in Jacmel, and Ambassador's Music Institute in LaPlaine. He traveled to Haiti twice in 2010 with students and volunteers to deliver the instruments to the earthquake victims. Montès says he has more than 1,000 additional instruments still to deliver.
"We gave music students in Haiti something tangible so they can continue to keep music in their lives," said Montès. "Their new instruments brought them comfort and support in the wake of the earthquake in which most instruments and supplies were lost."
Emel Songu Mize, Ph.D., and R. Ranney Mize, Ph.D., chair and member respectively of the Loyola College of Music and Fine Arts Visiting Committee, will be given the Classical Arts Patron Award. The two are being commended for starting the Medicine in the Arts program at LSU's medical school, and for their unwavering support of Loyola's College of Music and Fine Arts, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera Association, New Orleans Friends of Music, and other organizations that train artists and develop new audiences for the classical arts.
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The timezone in Cow Lake Church (historical) is America/Rankin_Inlet
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Latitude. 35.4583°, Longitude. -91.0569° , Elevation. 66m
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The upcoming AVP season is examined by Brockinton & Reynolds of INSIDE MEDIA, and it touts "new sponsors, more live TV coverage, increased national/local promotional activities, enhanced on-site amenities and adjusted on-court rules." American Honda and Volleyball magazine have become official sponsors and NJ-based ISI has been retained to land sponsorship and media packages. ISI is looking to find a soft drink, water and isotonic beverage sponsor after Coca- Cola/PowerAde dropped its AVP package (INSIDE MEDIA, 1/29). SIDE OUT W/PEACOCK? Brockinton & Reynolds note that the "big question" for the AVP is whether '97 "will mark the final year of the AVP on NBC." NBC's schedule, featuring "more golf" and a commitment to the WNBA "in late-afternoon time slots ... is a lot more crowded" than when the network first signed the AVP. AVP CEO Jerry Solomon: "NBC has been and continues to be a great supporter of the AVP. We feel there should be six to ten AVP telecasts on broadcast per year ... So we're right in the ballpark." NBC Sports Senior VP/Programming Jon Miller: "The AVP is a good property that helped us fill a niche six years ago when we lost Major League Baseball and before we had Notre Dame football, more golf and now the WNBA. Jerry understands the network sports business and the need to be flexible. We have every intention that the AVP will be back in some format" (INSIDE MEDIA, 1/29 issue).
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A federal appeals court ruled that Motorola and Stats, Inc. can transmit real-time NBA game scores and statistics taken from radio and TV broadcasts, according to Michael Rapoport of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. The 3-0 ruling reversed a lower court ruling "which had enjoined" Motorola and Stats, Inc. from disseminating information over pager systems called Sportstrax and other online services. NBA Legal Counsel Jeffrey Mishkin said the league plans to appeal the ruling (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/31). HOT TEST: The appeals court ruled that the NBA had not met "a narrowly tailored 'hot news' test for prevailing on such a misappropriation claim." The court ruled that neither Motorola nor Stats were "free-riding" on the NBA's information. The court also ruled that while "broadcasts of athletic events are protected by copyright, the events themselves aren't because they aren't 'original works of authorship' under the law." The outcome isn't know in advance and "wholly unexpected events may influence it." The court said the ruling "applies equally" to an AOL site featuring information provided by Stats. Stats attorney Andrew Deutsch said he expects a separate NBA suit against AOL and Stats to be dropped (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/31). In N.Y., Lawrie Mifflin writes that the ruling "reiterated that the facts and scores of a basketball game were facts, and that under Federal copyright law, facts could not be copyrighted." In her ruling for the NBA, lower court Judge Loretta Preska noted the league's commercial property rights were being taken without compensation. But the appeals court ruled that the NBA claim "confuses three different products:" the games, radio and TV broadcasts of those games, and retransmission of "strictly factual information" about those games. The opinion said: "The first and second products are the N.B.A.'s primary business ... [but] there is no evidence that anyone regards Sportstrax or the AOL site as a substitute for attending N.B.A. games or watching them on television" (N.Y. TIMES, 1/31). REAX: On "Moneyline," CNN's Lou Dobbs called the ruling a "big legal victory" for Motorola. Dobbs noted the court "said the NBA failed to prove that it was harmed by the transmission of those scores." Dobbs added that the ruling could also be a "boon" to AOL ("Moneyline," CNN, 1/30). Motorola Attorney Herbert Schwartz: "It's also an important result for online providers and for the Internet because it also allows people like America Online to give updated scores in real time as the game goes on. ... It's important for the new media in terms of their ability to transmit facts promptly once those facts have been made public over TV or radio" ("Market Wrap," CNBC, 1/30). ESPN's Bob Ley noted the ruling was a "loss" for the NBA ("SportsCenter," ESPN, 1/30). In Chicago, Howard Wolinsky notes Stats and Motorola "scored big" with the ruling. As for Sportstrax, Motorola attorney Roger Dusberger said, "Sportstrax is a great product with a lot of pent-up demand. But Motorola management will need to re-evaluate whether and how to move forward with the product" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 1/31).
Dennis Rodman will meet with NBA Commissioner David Stern today in New York, according to Lacy Banks of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. Rodman and agent, Dwight Manley, will meet with Stern to discuss the league's 11-game suspension and directive to undergo counseling. Sources tell Banks that Atlanta psychiatrist Dr. Lloyd Baccus will be present at today's meeting, but Manley said Rodman "will undergo no treatment or counseling by any psychiatrist." Neither Rev. Jesse Jackson nor NBPA Exec Dir Billy Hunter will attend, but sources say Jackson "served as a catalyst" for today's talks through conversations with NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 1/31). YAZ: In N.Y., POST's gossip columnist Neal Travis notes Rodman "is about to become a major motion picture star" with his upcoming performance in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, "Double Team." Sources say Rodman's "screen presence" is "already causing an industry buzz" (N.Y. POST, 1/31). MOVING ON UP: The NBPA will stay in New York City after Exec Dir Billy Hunter was "seriously weighing" a move to Washington, DC, according to Dan Wasserman on SportsTicker. The NBPA's lease on its midtown Manhattan office ended last month, and Hunter has signed a five-year lease that will move the NBPA's office to an upgraded facility just four blocks from the current location (SportsTicker, 1/30).
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was a guest on ESPN's "Up Close" last night. Excerpts from his interview: On Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego: "The timetable is up in the air because of the court case. ... Hopefully we can play the game there ... but it's at risk now. ... We'll have to look at contingency plans and we're doing that. The Rose Bowl ... would love to host the game, I'm sure there would be other cities." On the league's substance abuse policy: "You want to have standards, we have them. You want stiff discipline, we have it. In most cases, tougher than people would run into in the courts." On the next TV deal: "CBS has made it clear that they want to be part of the conversations, and I would expect eventually they would be." On an 18-game schedule: "The 16 games over the 17 weeks works extremely well ... I think we'll be with the same schedule for the regular season, we might look at a different approach for the preseason" (ESPN, 1/30).


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Winner of the Public Radio Talent Quest, host Al Letson takes you on a journey of the new Americana. With a journalistic, documentary-style approach, the hour-long program focuses exclusively on one city or town in the scope of an episode featuring interviews, commentary, recordings, listener-generated letters and music. Every episode State of the Re:Union (SOTRU) asks the questions; What makes community? Who are the people who bring it together? What are the issues they face? SOTRU, telling the story of America, one community at a time.


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For the record, I fucking miss you guys.
This was an amateur Kickboxing event that I filmed, held at the Ronkonkoma, Long Island MacArthur Airport on July 10, 2010.
Proceeds went to the St Jude Childrens Hospital.
Great card and looking forward to the next one!
I'll be doing the same for this weekends M-1 event in Atlantic City :-)
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Psst......Here you go. We have had this forum for a few years now. Better than YMAS for your thread.


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From Kevin Barnes's Twitter:
"Started work on a song 4 B.not that she's contacted me.just in case.it's called"He'sMyPartyDrug". sounds like The Time meets Four Tet."
With the media's play-by-play coverage of this and the invention of Twitter, these two could plausibly crank this thing out into the world before they ever have to do anything crazy like meet or talk on the phone. It's a shame. We hear Athens is lovely this time of year. We're also pretty pumped for the look on Mama Beyonce's face when Kevin and his wardrobe department show Beyonce her dress options if this potential jam is ever performed live. Silliness. (Via: Paste)


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FORT WORTH, Tex. - Bobby Labonte continued to collect the spoils of victory Friday during pole qualifying for the Samsung/RadioShack 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Three weeks after winning a bass boat at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the younger of two racing brothers from southern Texas earned another trinket, a riding lawn mower, after posting the fastest qualifying lap of 193.514 mph.
Labonte won the race at Atlanta, another 1.5-mile raceway in the Speedway Motorsports Inc. family with the similar D-shaped, double-dogleg front straightaway.
"Obviously we brought a lot of confidence," Labonte said after winning his second pole position of the season. "We ran good at Atlanta, so we brought the same car."
His other pole came at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, yet another 1.5-mile raceway in the SMI stables with the same cookie-cutter shape.
"Speeds are fast here, just like Atlanta," Labonte said. "We picked up a bit from practice. The car was good in practice and we made a few small changes and that made a difference. You can't ask for anything better than that."
Labonte won the race at Atlanta. He was fourth at Las Vegas.
Labonte's lap brought some relief to his Joe Gibbs Racing team. Tony Stewart, his teammate, had his Chevrolet impounded by NASCAR officials during the inspection process early Friday.
Officials said the rear trunk area of Stewart's car was off-center. It was so bad, according to NASCAR president Mike Helton, the organization decided to seize the car for evaluation instead of giving it back to the team for repairs.
The rear area of the car was twisted to be nearly a half-inch beyond NASCAR's tolerances. It was the first time in the sport's 55 years the sanctioning body confiscated a car from one of its teams.
"It was a bad situation for the 20 car (of Stewart)," Labonte said. "Rules are rules. (NASCAR) pretty much showed everyone how they were going to do that from now on (during inspection). Their car was a brand new car with an old chassis. Everybody was trying to get everything they can with the rules they give you."
Stewart qualified 22nd in a backup car.
Labonte said his older brother, Terry, still considers his 1999 victory at Texas as the biggest in his career. Despite winning the Brickyard 400 in 2001 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Bobby Labonte said nothing compares to winning in your home state.
"Terry said it was the biggest race he ever won," Bobby Labonte said. "It would be the same for me."
The younger Labonte has the benefit of his own experience and the new ideas of crew chief Michael "Fatback" McSwaim. A year ago, McSwaim was working at Robert Yates Racing, and he used a combination of that team's secrets with Labonte's to squeeze every ounce of speed out of their Interstate Batteries Chevrolet.
"I had tested here last year, and we took some of that stuff from Atlanta and just made a good race car," said McSwaim, who wound up with the bass boat at Atlanta as a present from his driver.
Labonte wasn't sure who was going to end up with the mower.
McSwaim's old team didn't miss him much during time trials. That car, now driven by Elliott Sadler, qualified second at 193.313 mph.
"This is the same car we had at Atlanta," Sadler said. "I'm pretty happy with that."
Ryan Newman was third at 193.140.
"I didn't have the speed I needed," he said.
Jimmie Johnson was fourth at 192.747, followed by Jerry Nadeau in fifth at 192.630, Bill Elliott in sixth at 192.294, Jeff Gordon in seventh at 192.226, Kevin Harvick in eighth at 192.041, Joe Nemechek in ninth at 192.020 and Rusty Wallace in 10th at 191.843.
Labonte said it was easy to transfer the ideas that helped him win at Atlanta, but the biggest thing that race provided was confidence.
"Obviously we were running good at Atlanta and having run good here in the past helps out," he said. "It's just the confidence in our program, as far as tracks like these go."
And if that wasn't enough to build momentum, Labonte knows he still has two races remaining this year at the Lowe's Motor Speedway near Charlotte, N.C., and a return trip to Atlanta. Lowe's is configured like its sister properties at Las Vegas, Atlanta and Texas.
"It's one of those things where you get all you can out of it, and when you get done with your lap you can breathe," he said.
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Mason Receives National Honor for Maintaining Safe Campuses
Posted: August 10, 2007 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
Mason was awarded the 2007 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award, which is presented annually by the nonprofit Security On Campus Inc. "in honor of schools that have done extraordinary things to make college university students safer."
The presentation was the culmination of the second annual College and University Police and Investigators Conference (CUPIC), a national organization created last year by Mason's University Police. Nearly 300 law enforcement officers attended this year's conference held this week in the Johnson Center on the Fairfax Campus.
Mason Chief of Staff Thomas Hennessey accepts the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award from Connie Clery.
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The safety award was created by the parents of Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania who was murdered in 1986. Three years after their daughter's death, the Clerys founded Security on Campus Inc., which is dedicated to the prevention of violence, substance abuse and other crimes in college and university settings. The federal campus crime reporting law, originally known as the Crime Awareness and Campus Safety Act, is now called the Jeanne Clery Act.
Connie Clery, Jeanne's mother, was at the conference to present the award to Mason. Mason Chief of Staff Thomas Hennessey, Police Chief Michael Lynch, and Det. Thomas Bacigalupi accepted on behalf of the university.


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Tuna Capsizes Boat, Fisherman Airlifted to Safetyby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Man 1, Enormous Fish 0.
Anthony Wichman, a 54-year old from Koloa, Hawaii reeled in a 230-pound Ahi tuna this week, only the animal did not go down without a fight:
It dove deep into the water and capsized Wichman's 14-foot boat in the process.
Anthony's daughter, Anuhea, detailed the harrowing adventure to KHON2:
"In his mind, he thought he was dying, that he was gone," Anuhea told the station, explaining that her dad freed himself just enough to use a water-proof cell phone and call his daughter.
"All I could hear was him hyper-ventilating and puking."
Fortunately, Anuhea also heard the words "sinking" and "Coast Guard" and called the latter, who tracked Wichman down via his phone's GPS and sent a helicopter in to make the rescue.
"It seriously is a miracle," said Abraham Apilado, a fisherman pal at the scene.
Most amazingly? Wichman only had bruising and rope burn... and the tuna stayed on the line!
Sounds like someone is up for a role in Sharknado 2! Bring it, giant animals around the world!


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I haven't done a "recommended" post in a while. Here's hoping this pair of takes on hand-crafted food and drink helps to remedy that.
- Warren Ellis on the hyper-concentrated coffee known as The Black Blood of the Earth.
- Scott Gold on the meat and butcher shops of North Brooklyn.


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This is just the thing to keep our minds off this oppressive heat: The Lake Placid bobsled run, which I can attest is a great deal of fun, has been added to the list National Historic Places, according to 20th CD Rep. Scott Murphy.
Here's Murphy's statement:
"The Olympics and the Lake Placid Olympic facilities are critical part of our local economy, heritage and community here in the North Country. Thirty years after Upstate New York last hosted the Olympics, the bobsled track truly is a historic site deserving of this recognition. Even today, tourists and residents still enjoy the track, and it provides a necessary source of income for the Adirondacks. The Olympics brought our community together, and I join with that community today in honoring the bobsled track's long and rich history."


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Duration: 88 min
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Country: United States
Director: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier
Age restriction: Parental Guidance Suggested.
Seven years passed since adventures in an underground. There was a drift of continents. The main characters of the cartoon, separated from the herd, are forced to use an iceberg as a raft. They cross the ocean and get to unknown lands with exotic animals and pirates, hostile to them. Skret's got his acorn, but he moved to the new ground for it.


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Coach Greg Schiano of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)Coach Greg Schiano of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano says he's going to hire LSU defensive backs coach Ron Cooper as his secondary coach.
Schiano made the announcement Thursday at the NFL scouting combine. He said the deal is not official yet, but expects Cooper to sign the necessary paperwork shortly.
Cooper molded several stars at LSU. The Tigers featured two national award winners in Morris Claiborne (Thorpe Award) and Tyrann Mathieu (Bednarik Award) this past season. In 2010, Patrick Peterson won the Thorpe and Bednarik awards, and was the fifth overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.
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Have you watered your lawn yet?
It hasn't rained in Houston in a week, and that doesn't look to change any time soon.
To be sure the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report for the state of Texas continues to show modest improvement — less than 47 percent of Texas is now in a severe or worse drought.
Nevertheless the memories of last year's drought are dying hard for me. As I look up and see blue skies and feel the effects of high pressure, I can't help but wonder if we're about to enter another extended dry period.
So I put the question to Fred Schmude, of ImpactWeather. When are we going to get another nice round of showers?
His response is as follows:
The weather pattern has indeed taken on a more noticeable change towards drier weather during the past week or so and it looks like that same trend will continue over the next week. April can be and is typically one of the more drier months here in the Houston area as high pressure aloft builds from south to north over the Southern U.S. from the deep tropics associated with the higher sun angle, which of course works in tandem with the tilt of the Earth's axis.
The big question now is are there any signs the current dry weather pattern will break down or change over the next few weeks? Latest data indicates upper level high pressure will more than likely remain fairly strong, for the most part, across the Houston area keeping rain chances on the low to very low side. However, there's currently some indication a weak disturbance may make a run toward the area early next week (Mon & Tue) bringing a slightly higher chance of showers and perhaps even a thunderstorm over the region. I doubt this will be a widespread or severe weather system, but it does bear watching over the next few days.
Other than this weak weather system, expect the weather pattern to remain mostly dry and warm with elevated relative humidity values into the first week of May. Temperatures over the next 7 to 10 days will average in the mid 80s during the day and the upper 60s to lower 70s at night.
The longer range outlook for the second week of May calls for a slower flow pattern, which may be signaling a higher risk for a few more showers and stronger storms over the area. Right now it's still a little too early to be confident in the exact forecast, but at least for now current trends are a little more favorable for rain during the second week of May.
I sure hope those Monday or Tuesday showers work out, but right now the National Weather Service is still rating them a 20 percent chance.


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The vision of the Semantic Web has always been a global Web of knowledge parallel to the existing Web of data. This vision has been returned to numerous times, including the call for ISWC 2005 to "put the Web back in the Semantic Web", or Tim Berners-Lee's recent post on the Giant Global Graph.
Figure 1: A global Web of knowledge and services
While standards and technology progress towards maturity, and Semantic Computing is reaching readiness for isolated application (e.g., behind company firewalls), the challenges of the originally envisioned global Semantic Web have received less attention. We expect millions, even billions, of knowledge and service providers and consumers to interact, integrate and coordinate (Figure 1). Technological solutions paying tribute to the issues of scalability, heterogeneity, dynamism, distributedness and openness that come along in such an environment are thus a necessity.
With this workshop we aim at bringing together promising cutting-edge middleware and Semantic Computing research, which - in integration and coordination rather than in current isolation - address the aforementioned challenges and can form a new semantic middleware layer that enables the global Web of knowledge and services, and hence the true Semantic Web vision. We address the traditional issues of data and process heterogeneity, however with a clear focus on large-scale, open and distributed environments, i.e. in settings that match the Semantic Web in the true Web sense, rather than on a corporate or even application level.
Middleware technology is traditionally seen to provide the functionality necessary to abstract providers and consumers from syntactic and technical heterogeneities. However, it is clear that for the Semantic Web, current solutions such as CORBA are not appropriate. The same holds for the Semantic Web service approaches proposed in the last years, which focus on the automation of the tasks in the process of using Web services and building service-oriented architectures (publishing, discovery, composition). For a truly global Semantic Web it is necessary that novel middleware solutions are developed and that further synergies between existing Semantic Computing and non-semantic technologies are exploited in integrated manners. The outcome of the workshop is thus expected to provide new insights, ideas, and technologies that enable a semantic middleware that delivers an interaction and coordination platform, and that virtually grants access to the available knowledge and services on the global Semantic Web.
In consequence the workshop focuses on three cutting edge Semantic Computing research areas whose integration is expected to enable the new semantic middleware:
- access and discovery to distributed knowledge
- semantic service oriented architectures
- integration and coordination of knowledge and service providers and consumers
The workshop will collect the best results from these fields, while clearly favoring proposals that might deliver solutions to all three of them. We clearly focus on approaches that exploit the synergies between the three fields in order to develop novel and promising technologies towards a global Web of knowledge and services.
We welcome original academia and industry papers or project descriptions that propose innovative approaches to build a semantic middleware layer for the Web.
The topics of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to:
- Languages, programming and implementation techniques for middleware technology
- Extensions of existing middleware such as Web services, GRID, tuplespaces, message oriented middleware with semantic technologies
- Software architecture and software engineering techniques for building semantic middleware
- The usage of ontologies and reasoning in relation with middleware technologies
- Methods to deal with the complexity of managing distributed knowledge and processes
- Methods to deal with coordination of distributed services and applications working with semantic data
- Metadata infrastructures for the modeling and management of semantic middleware
- Self-organization in semantic middleware systems
- Reasoning about middleware structures, tasks and behavior
- Meta-level architectures and reflective middleware: inspection and adaptation
- Mobility-aware semantic middleware
- Practical experiences in using semantic middleware to realize service-oriented architectures, knowledge engineering systems, i.e. the Web of knowledge
- Deployment perspectives for future semantic middleware
- Studies on existing and emerging target markets for semantically enabled middleware
Elena Simperl
University of Innsbruck (Semantic Technology Institute)
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Reto Krummenacher
University of Innsbruck (Semantic Technology Institute)
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Lyndon J B Nixon
Free University of Berlin
Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf
Free University of Berlin
Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems Inc., USA
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, MIT CSAIL, USA
Edward Curry, National University of Ireland, Galway
John Davies, British Telecom, UK
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
John Domingue, Open University, UK
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Daniel Martin, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Ronaldo Menezes , Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Meena Nagarajan, University of Georgia, USA
Daniel Oberle, SAP Karlsruhe, Germany
Ian Oliver, Nokia Research, Finland
Emanuele della Valle, CEFRIEL, Politecnica di Milano, Italy
Alan Wood, University of York, UK
- Submission Deadline:
- April 4 April 27
- Notification:
- May 5
- Camera-Ready & Registration:
- May 16
- Conference and Workshops:
- August 4-7
Authors should submit a 6-page paper in double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available on the ICSC2008 Web page. All workshop papers will be included in the IEEE conference proceedings.
Please submit your contributions via EDAS.
Final program for the workshop on August 4, 2008.
09:30 - 10:00 Opening, Introduction and Objectives
10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk: Ian Oliver, Nokia Research Center Finland
Personal Semantic Web Through A Space Based Computing Environment
The Semantic Web in its current form represents information that is either static or monotonically changing. It has its roots in the World Wide Web and thus takes this web-wide persona. The information and ontologies used have standard web-wide semantics grounded in common and generally accepted real-world concepts. Deviation from this - at least in the semantic sense is not permitted.
Much of the usage of information - that will invariably become part of the Web - will be personal and/or local; its semantics, structure and adherence to real-world concepts will be grounded by the local users of that information resulting in many localised Semantic Webs.
These local Semantic Webs will contain information that is highly dynamic, non-mononticaly changing, adhering loosely (if at all) to their stated ontologies or even not to any standardised, written, commonly understood ontology and behave and be reasoned about according localised, non-standard and non-intuitive logics.
The dynamicity and monotonicty of information in and forming the Semantic Web will vary depending upon locality and be organised according to person, usage etc as - what we term - spaces.
We describe here our vision and an architectural concept regarding the development of these small, localised information or knowledge spaces by which persons via autonomous agents interact through control-flow-free mechanisms.
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Paper Session I
- Towards a Semantic Enabled Middleware for Publish/Subscribe Applications
Federico Facca, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Srdjan Komazec, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michal Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Implementing Agent-Based Middleware for the Semantic Web
Artem Katasonov, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Paper Session II
- Towards a RESTful Plug and Play Experience in the Web of Things
Vlad Stirbu, Nokia Research Center, Finland
- Implementation of a novel Semantic Web middleware approach based on triplespaces
Kia Teymourian, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Lyndon Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Daniel Wutke, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hans Moritsch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Reto Krummenacher, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Eva Kühn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Christian Schreiber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
14:30 - 15:30 Open Forum, Discussion and Wrap-Up
15:30 - 16:00 Closing Coffee
Reto Krummenacher
University of Innsbruck (Semantic Technology Institute)
Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Some ReservationsWe are one of those households in America that staunchly refuses to pay for our television signal. We survived on an antenna for years--I can't remember the last time I had cable or satellite. My family has just not really needed all those extra channels...
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How can I help my father if he was deported? 1 Answers as of May 24, 2011My father just got deported 2 days ago. I'm 28 years old and a US citizen. How can I get his past records because he was in the process of trying to get his papers but never appeared to court? Can I still try to help him get his papers?
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First drive report here with the Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro which is also simply called "The Monster". No other street car has this amount of torque. Incredible!
Given the V12 TDI Q7 tips the scales at a massive 2635kg, it's acceleration is nothing short of spectacular. Audi claims it can dispatch 0-62mph in just 5.5sec. Top speed is electronically pegged to 155mph, but officials at quattro GmbH reckon the big seven-seater would haul beyond 180mph without the limiter.
Even more impressive, is a combined cycle economy average of 25mpg, which theoretically gives the Q7 V12 TDI a range of 550 miles. In the real world, and using the performance, that average plummets – enthusiastic use sees the trip computer showing a less impressive 12.3 mpg. Unlike many big capacity diesels, Audi's new V12 sounds great when wound up with a heavy application of right foot, with an alluring combination of mechanical roar and exhaust blare.
Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR, Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro
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Before I get into the recall, I have to give you a little background. When Alex was 18 months old and I was seven months pregnant with Tyler, I decided to cross my fingers that Alex would continue to sleep in his crib for at least another six months and bought a new crib for Tyler. (Actually, my generous in-laws bought the new crib, just as they had bought Alex's.) Needless to say, less than two weeks after we set up Tyler's crib, Alex climbed out of his. But Alex's crib converted to a toddler bed, and that's what he's slept in since that fateful day.
Fast forward almost two years. A few weeks ago, I reported that Jardine had recalled over 300,000 cribs . It wasn't until last Friday, when I was reading Freebies 4 Mom, that it finally registered that Tyler's crib was made by Jardine.* I immediately checked the model and date codes, and realized it was part of the recall. I then completed the online submission form to receive a voucher for a new crib.
Of course, the remedy per the CPSC press release announcing the recall states: "Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cribs and contact Jardine to receive a full credit toward the purchase of a new crib." So we decided to get Alex a "real" bed and re-convert his bed back into a crib. It took all Sunday, but we did it. And Alex is thrilled. (Tyler, not so much. I think he was hoping to get Alex's bed as-is.)
Meanwhile, yesterday, I received a UPS envelope from Jardine, directing me to send them the mattress support hardware and identification label back to them in the enclosed envelope in order to receive my voucher. I couldn't believe it. Nothing at their recall page alerted me to the need to save anything from the crib. We had dismantled the crib on Sunday, and left the final large pieces on the curb for oversize pickup yesterday morning. And while we might have saved some of the screws, we didn't remove anything else from the crib during the dismantling process. (A copy of the letter enclosed in the UPS envelope is available on the web site, but the link leading to it simply says "review more detailed instructions." Nothing about it alerted us to the need to keep any hardware.)
If I actually needed the voucher now, I would be irate. Fortunately, I don't, so I am just writing about this here to warn other Jardine owners not to act hastily if your crib is part of the recall. I can understand the company's need to protect against fraudulent claims, but they need to inform customers who are completing the online submission form that they will need to send in parts of the crib to receive the voucher. I can't be the only proactive parent who didn't want to wait for a voucher.
As a side note, the Baby Bargains Book Blog is reporting that Babies R Us will honor the voucher for online purchases, but you need to front the cost and then get reimbursed. (Read their post for more details.)
*I never liked the Jardine crib much anyway. You could tell it was $100-200 cheaper than Alex's crib (I can't remember what brand it is, but I know they don't sell the same model anymore). The rail on the Jardine never went up and down smoothly, so there was no hope of laying a sleeping baby down and then quietly sliding the rail up. The wood also came off the slats with the slightest scraping, so there were a few spots where I had accidentally scratched off some wood and paint with my engagement ring. It's not hard to understand why the recall was for possible breakage of the slats and spindles. If I could do it over again, I definitely would have chosen a more expensive, better-made crib.
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This article was published in the December 2016 edition of Medical Observer, under the title, "Does milk thistle do any good?" (pp. 64-65). (PDF)
Clinical scenario
Thanh, a 35-year-old pharmacist with chronic hepatitis B, consulted with me recently. He mentioned that he had been treating himself with a milk thistle (Silybum marianum) product and wondered what my thoughts about it were. I knew that milk thistle is commonly marketed for "liver health" and wondered what the evidence was.
Clinical question
What is the effect of milk thistle extracts, on liver disease severity, in people living with chronic hepatitis B?
What does the research evidence say?
Step 1: The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library has a systematic review, updated to 2005, on milk thistle for alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseases [1].
Step 2: TripDatabase
I conducted a search using the TripDatabase PICO search tool (Participant: "hepatitis B", Intervention: "milk thistle", Comparator: "placebo", Outcomes: blank). There did not appear to be a more appropriate or newer paper. TripDatabase did identify two newer studies in patients with viral hepatitis – however, one was in patients with chronic hepatitis C [2], and the other was terminated with no results available.
Although it isn't ideal, let's look at the Cochrane systematic review by Rambaldi et al. (2007) in detail [1].
Critical appraisal
I will use the systematic reviews critical appraisal sheet from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine [3].
What PICO question does the systematic review ask?
In people living with alcoholic liver disease, and/or viral induced liver diseases (hepatitis B and/or C) (Participants); what is the effect of milk thistle or any milk thistle constituent at any dose or duration (Intervention); compared to placebo or no intervention (Comparator); on several outcome measures including, (i) death, (ii) development of hepatitis clinical symptoms and complications (e.g., ascites, variceal bleeding), (iii) liver biochemistry, (iv) liver biopsy findings, and (v) adverse events (Outcome).
Is it clearly stated?
Is it unlikely that important studies were missed?
Unclear. Although the authors searched multiple electronic databases, and approached the principal authors of the identified trials and the manufacturers of milk thistle products to enquire about any relevant unidentified or unpublished randomised trials, this systematic review is close to 12 years out-of-date.
Were the criteria used to select articles for inclusion appropriate?
Yes. The authors only included randomised trials that enrolled patients with the aforementioned types of liver disease. Other types of liver disease, and trials of liver disease prevention, were excluded.
Were the included studies sufficiently valid for the question asked?
Unclear, possibly not. The authors formally assessed the risk of bias of the included studies using a clearly described process (pp 4-5) [1]. Of the 13 included trials, only 1 provided a sample size calculation (see Stat Facts), 6 had an adequate method to generate the allocation sequence, only 3 described adequate allocation concealment, with only 1 described as double-blinded.
Were the results similar between studies?
Mostly. There was little heterogeneity in the results as presented, though given the small number of studies, there were not many direct comparisons.
What were the results?
The results are limited. Of the included studies, only one was specifically in people with hepatitis B, and there were fewer than 30 participants in that study. Participants who received milk thistle compared to placebo [1]:
- There was no difference in mortality (analysis 1.1, p 39) or liver-related mortality (analysis 2.1, p 53) (note: there were no deaths in the studies of participants with viral hepatitis).
- There were no differences in the risk of any liver complications (analysis 3.4, p 59) (note: results for people with HBV not available)
- There was no effect on fibrosis score (analysis 3.13, p 67) (note: single study in alcoholic liver disease)
Discussion and conclusion
There is limited evidence on the effect of milk thistle on liver diseases generally, and on chronic hepatitis B specifically. Of the evidence that exists, the quality appears to be low, with most of the randomised trials having very small numbers of participants, and methodological issues.
When all the trials are taken together, there was a statistically significant beneficial effect on liver-related mortality, but this was mostly in the alcohol-liver disease participants, and the benefit was no longer statistically significant when the analysis was restricted to high-quality studies [1].
My interpretation of the evidence is that it is insufficient to provide an estimate of the effect of milk thistle on chronic hepatitis B. Of the evidence that does exist, there does not appear to be any dramatic beneficial effects, and the possibility that there may be no meaningful therapeutic effects seems likely. The precautionary principle should apply and milk thistle products cannot be recommended for chronic hepatitis B.
On further discussion with Thanh, he had not experienced any subjective benefit from milk thistle and was happy to stop using it.
Stat Facts
Sample-size calculation
The sample size of a clinical trial – the number of participants in each arm – should be determined in the study design. Importantly, this depends on the expected magnitude of the effect (more participants are required to identify a smaller effect). Studies with too few participants have low statistical power and thus a lower chance of detecting a true effect. Less commonly appreciated is that low power also increases the risk that a positive result is false, and that the detected effect size is an over-estimate [4].
- Rambaldi A, Jacobs BP, Gluud C. Milk thistle for alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseases. Cochrane database Syst Rev 2007 Oct 17(4):CD003620.
- Fried MW, Navarro VJ, Afdhal N, et al. Effect of silymarin (milk thistle) on liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C unsuccessfully treated with interferon therapy: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2012 Jul 18;308(3):274-82.
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Systematic Review: Are the results of the review valid? Oxford: University of Oxford, 2005.
- Button KS, Ioannidis JP, Mokrysz C, et al. Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience. Nat Rev Neurosci 2013 May;14(5):365-76.


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His mullet was beautiful. I had never seen anything like it before. Staring across the pool at him made my six-year-old body nervous and excited at the same time. No one knows what love means at that age. All I knew is that I wanted Zachary Crawford to continue watching me.
"Show us your dive J.," my mother laughed. "Watch this," she said, smiling coyly at Zach's father.
Stepping up to the edge of the pool I placed my toes slightly past the brim. Bending my boney knees at almost a 90 degree angle, I arched my arms above my head in perfect Olympic fashion. One, two ,three…and "jump!" I screamed.
As my head surfaced I could hear laughing from all sides. Having no clue how to dive, and an intense fear of my head smashing into the water, I had perfected a type of feet first belly-flopping which is still utilized by JBlondie today.
"That was the moment," he said. "That was the moment I decided you were the cutest girl in the entire world." Zachary always had a way of making me blush.
We were sixteen when he first told me he loved me. We then spent all night talking on the telephone. Both of us would go to school the next day and write letters to one another during study hall. Young love is such an amazing thing. It's so intense, and so free all at the same time. I find it sad that as we age we forget how to love like that. Life creates boundaries for our heart in order to prevent future breaks. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to realize those boundaries cannot be crossed.
Being that he still lived in Atlanta, and my mother had moved us to the Chicago area a few years back, made my first love a little unusual. However, distance has never kept my heart from feeling, and being young you think everything will eventually unfold as planned. Our parents often grounded us for outrageous telephone bills (there wasn't free long-distance back then) and writing letters to one another was our calling card. Receiving snail mail is still one of life's tiny pleasures for me. I become ridiculously excited opening the post box.
At age eighteen I asked Zachary if he would be my first. I loved him unconditionally. While at that moment in time he had told me his feelings weren't mutual, I knew he loved me as much as you can love someone whom you're not "in love" with.
He visited me for a week after high school graduation. It was awkward, and painful, but everything you could ever want for your first time.
As I headed off to college, Zachary got stuck in an abyss of uncertainty. Where my future was a straight path, his seemed to have multiple forks in the road. Eventually he decided to join the Army and away he went to Iraq and then to Afghanistan. The war was at it's peak and my wildest imagination could not due justice to his experiences while deployed.
Upon a three-week break from fighting in the sand, he asked me to come and visit. I took my first solo road trip down to Georgia to see him. I already noticed changes in his personality. He was colder. Parts of him were still goofy and fun, but his spirit seemed more abrasive.
One night while visiting we were watching a movie about The Vietnam War. I couldn't take it and went to bed crying. He came and held me in the dark. It was such a selfish moment that I will always remember it. I should have been holding him.
Zachary would continue to write letters to me while he was deployed and of course I wrote back. He called me a few times while in Afghanistan (this was before Skype) and during one particular phone call he alluded to the fact he was having a difficult moment. His thoughts were dark and very hopeless. It's only now looking back I realize that could have been the last time I heard his voice.
After his last deployment he was stationed in Texas. It was all pretty ironic seeing as I had chosen to attend grad school in the same state. He called me a few times after returning home and we had discussed possibly seeing one another, but then I received a text message from him one afternoon…
"I got married today. Thought of you."
Zachary eloped with a girl named Jessica. They now have two adorable boys who look exactly like their mother. He and I stayed in-touch for a long time, and would occasionally message each other to check-in, but now he's disappeared from my life. Even so, Zach will always be my best-friend-ever, and I will forever remain his clumsy mermaid.
Growing up in Georgia in the early 90's was the best time of my life. I still think of Atlanta as home. On certain warm fall days my mind will drift back to a time when the high point of my afternoon was climbing trees with Zachary Crawford in the woods behind his house …silently pleading him to kiss me.


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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Colombia, Venezuela
Range Description
This species occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela (where it has been reported from the States of Falcón, Lara, Mérida and Zulia, and is expected from Trujillo). A record from Apure State, east of the Andes in Venezuela, is doubtful and requires confirmation; it is not mapped here. It is a species of low altitudes occuring from sea level up to 500m asl.
Habitat and Ecology
It is a nocturnal, terrestrial species that lives in grasslands and open environments, including semi-arid habitats. They make jelly nests in water and the carnivorous tadpoles develop in temporary pools. It is an opportunistic species, breeding when conditions become suitable.
It is generally an uncommon species. It can be abundant in certain localities, but its distribution appears to be patchy, there are sometimes several kilometres between populations, even in apparently suitable habitat. This species was listed as having experienced population declines by Vial and Saylor (1993), but there is little evidence to support this view.
Population Trend
Major Threats
It might be adversely affected by droughts, and the national and international pet trade might have a local impact. Agriculture and livestock grazing in the eastern part of its range might also affect it.
Conservation Actions
It occurs in the Parque Nacional Morrocoy in Venezuela, and in several protected areas in Colombia.
Red List Status
Least Concern (LC)
Jose Vicente Rueda, Abraham Mijares, César Luis Barrio Amorós 2004. Ceratophrys calcarata. In: IUCN 2014


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A San Jose man disappeared on a mining trip in Nevada County, and a multiple-agency search is under way, according to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office received a call reporting that Walter Steever, 65, was missing when he did not return over the weekend as planned. He left for the trip on Oct. 23.
The search began after deputies, with the help of a California Highway Patrol helicopter, found Steever's car parked in a fire lane at the end of Owl Creek Road in Nevada City. As of Tuesday, searchers from the state parks, Nevada County probation, Placer County, Sacramento County, CHP and El Dorado Search and Rescue teams were looking for Steever.
He is described as 6 feet tall and 185 pounds with a white beard. No sightings have been reported. Anyone with information about the disappearance should contact the Nevada County Sheriff's Office at (530) 265-7880.


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Every commissioner got one of the city's bigger bureaus, he said, noting that he wanted to "spread the work around," while also making sure assignments matched their council member.
Commissioner Nick Fish, who received both the Bureau of Environmental Services and the Water Bureau, was chosen for the role because of his "incisive legal mind," Hales said. The mayor noted that Fish would be busy negotiating the clean up of the Willamette River as part of his new portfolio and that his legal backing would help.
Hales credited Commissioner Dan Saltzman with already having taken an active role in streamlining the fire bureau by pushing for rapid response vehicles a couple years back. Given that he already helped with those changes, Saltzman was a good fit to lead the bureau now.
Transportation went to the council's newest face, Commissioner Steve Novick, because he's "already showed some aptitude" for transportation issues, Hales said. Novick had been vocal about securing sidewalk funding for East Portland neighborhoods following the high-profile death of a child.
As for Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who landed the Parks Bureau, the biggest assignment yet for her, that fit well with her passion for communities, Hales said. Fritz has previously been a big supporter of neighborhood involvement and parks was a significant component of creating a livable city, according to Hales.
The new assignments are the biggest shake up in City Hall's power structure for at least four years now. The mayor said he went back and forth trying to decide whether he ought to shake things up or leave commissioners to continue the work they'd already come to know.
In the end, he said, he felt it was "healthier to mix it up." Still, he added that he expects collaboration will be key moving forward.
He noted that he would be heavily involved in helping Novick secure additional transportation dollars as well as in helping Fritz get more money for the parks system. Hales also said the council would continue creating subcommittees composed of a couple council members and staff.
Fritz and Fish, Hales said as a timely example, will have to work together to figure out how to reuse the sites of the decommissioned water reservoirs.
The Oregonian: Mayor Charlie Hales assigns city bureaus, scrambles them
The Oregonian: Multnomah County beefs up enforcement of firearm surrender orders in domestic violence cases
Willamette Week: Novick to PBOT: More money, more bikes
-- Ryan Kost


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TGIF Everyone! Thank you for stopping by to party at Freshmen Friday. It is always so nice to see you! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I will be alternating Freshmen Friday posts between posts about building our businesses and posts about fellow bloggers who I would like to share with you! If this is your first party with me, you can go back and view some of my previous party topics here:
Building a Professional Facebook Page
Using Pinterest to Build Business
Using Twitter to Build Business
ERecipeCards.com as a Readership Source
Now, for this week, I am happy to be posting my first blogger introduction and the blogger I am featuring just so happens to be on one of my favorites. I am going to let Erin tell you about her site, How to Nest for Less, and I am sure you will enjoy it just as much as I do! Take it away, Erin…
Hi Everyone! My name is Erin and I'm the girl behind
How to Nest for Less.
I'm so glad that {the other} Erin is letting me share my little blog with you today at Freshman Friday! I've always been a HUGE fan of Home Savvy A to Z and am excited to connect with her followers and make some new friends along the way!
So, how about we start with a little introduction…
I'm a wife & momma to a 4 year old daughter who is the light of my life. My hubby and I met back in high school and have been {MADLY in LOVE} ever since. I just turned 30 this past year (eek!) and decided it was time to get CREATIVE again.
See, I was a Fine Arts Major in college. I have a background in Graphic Design and am now an Art Director here in St. Louis. So yes, I work full time at a very demanding job, have the hubby & kid, and blog in my free time. Some people may call me a bit crazy, but I LOVE {and need} to stay busy and create new things.
I started How to Nest for Less back in Mary 2011 to document my DIY parade of crafts, home decor, recipes and refurbished furniture. I was trying to "nest for less", hence the name of my blog.
And I've been quite busy creating these past 7 months…
One of my first projects was giving my daughter's bedroom a makeover, including a stenciled accent wall.
And a fabric scrap wreath for my daughter's bedroom door.
Oh, and this Anthropologie-inspired lamp shade for her desk.
Since I was beginning to take over the dining room with my various craft projects, my hubby let me convert the extra bedroom into an office/craft room. I'm a sucker for color, so this yellow stenciled room is perfect for me. It's still a work in progress, but it's getting there!
And I'm a penny pincher! How about quick & easy interchangeable iPhone covers using scrapbook paper and a clear phone case? LOVE this. I have a Valentine's Day version on my phone now 🙂
Oh, and I mentioned refurbishing furniture. One of my favorites was transforming my brother's bedroom set from traditional to modern!
I'm also partial to this baby crib makeover. I think it went from 70s drab to funky & fab!
Whew! Project and photo overload?
Well, if you're ready for more, I would LOVE for you to visit my site:
You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+.
Erin, thank you SO MUCH for having me visit for the day! I truly appreciate you and can't wait to see what you have in store for 2012!
Much love to everyone,
and hope to see you around!
St. Louis based designer, wife, mother, and author of the blog
How to Nest for Less
See, I told you she is great! Would I ever lie to you? Please make sure you stop by Erin's site to check out more of her fantastic articles and show some blog love! We all love our GFC and Facebook friends, right? Now, let's party. Remember, Freshmen Friday is a little different than most blogger parties! The rules are:
The rules are:
- Freshmen Friday is a party designed for linking directly to your homepage. I picked the maximum number of characters allowed by my linky tool, so you have 99 characters to share your website name and whatever else you can squeeze in in 99 characters! Maybe a description of your site, i.e. "Home, Decor, Recipes, etc." Anything (appropriate) is fare game! Feel free to shamelessly promote your site or business directly.
- I would love for you to become a Google Friends Connect follower of my site IF you like what you see of course. 🙂
- If you would like to "like" my Facebook page, you can do so by clicking here (though it isn't mandatory).
- Visit your fellow partiers, share the comment love, and become followers of sites you enjoy!
- I would really appreciate you linking back to this party and/or telling your friends about it! The more the merrier right?!?


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PURPOSE: The USARA Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship is a memorial to the selfless service and contributions made to our country by USARA members; awards are presented in their honor. The scholarships provide an opportunity to provide financial assistance to qualified dependents of USARA members in furthering their education. The Scholarship Committee seeks to award scholarships to applicants displaying the potential for a degree in higher education, whether it is technical, university or professional. Each year the USARA Scholarship Committee evaluates the scholarship applicants and selects the most outstanding submissions to be awarded a USARA Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship.
SCOPE: Provide financial grants to students who are or plan to attend an accredited college, university, or higher technical trade school. Scholarship awards funds are to assist with academic expenses at the attending University/School and will be disbursed directly to the University/School to assist with tuition, books, fees, supplies and room and board.
FUNDING: The scholarship fund is supported by voluntary donations from USARA members and public donations. The number of scholarships to be awarded annually will vary. However, the scholarships will not exceed $3,000 per awardee and will be no less than $1,000. USARA also diverts dollars from the general fund to the USARA Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship Fund as required.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be a qualified dependent of a USARA member.
Qualified Dependent is defined as an unmarried child; grandchild or great-grandchild of a USARA member (included those legally adopted) who is under the age of 23 for the entire academic year.
Application Process: All applications will be processed in accordance with the annual Application Process Schedule.
DONATIONS: If you would like donate to the USARA Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship Fund you may do so securely online by clicking the DONATE icon below (Please specify "USARA Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship Fund" in the Donations Instructions):
or send check donation to:
U. S. Army Ranger Association, Inc.
Attn: Michael B. Ranger Legacy Scholarship Fund
P.O. box 52126
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Bahrain Exclusive: An Interview with Maryam Alkhawaja
Nabeel Rajab gets arrested, imprisoned for periods [weeks] at a time, and yet nothing from the State Department; nothing from the US administration. The situation right now as it is is that Nabeel is in prison, possibly for a little more than two months; Zainab Alkhawaja, who is also one of the most active activists, is unable to walk without crutches for at least six weeks afer she was directly targeted and shot in the leg at close range, which not only shattered her thigh bone, but removed all skin and tore the muscle. Removing two of the most well-known activists from the streets at this time seems to be too convenient right before Ramadan to be a coincidence.


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Android Apps
VLC Remote lets you manage audio/video playback on Android [App Reviews]
May 28, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
If you've seen my previous post on Boxee Wi-Fi Remote and the inclusion of Gmote in our 60 Best Apps post, you know that I'm a huge fan of apps that allow me to control media content stored and played through my computer.
VLC Remote is the latest Android app to earn my favor, and it's a beauty. If you've already used Gmote, you don't really need this, but VLC Remote has more polish and graphical elements than most other remote apps that I've used. Aside from having a superior interface, browsing large directories with VLC Remote is lightning-fast. Folders, files, and playback controls all load in an instant.
For only $1.99 and installing software on a PC, VLC Remote can control the music and videos stored on your desktop. The app allows users to switch between full-screen mode, change volume settings, and create or manage playlists on the fly. It even supports pairing with multiple computers, allowing users to move from their desktop in an office to a media-linked computer in their living room (if you're techie, like that). Download VLC from the Android Market.
- Control VLC playback of audio, video, or media playlists directly on phone
- Set skip distance to move forward as little as 5 seconds or as much as 15 minutes.
- Create profiles to control multiple computers (one at a time)
- Works with VLC's advanced controls and DVD controls
- Doesn't stream from computer to device, so it cannot replace Gmote in that regard.
- Doesn't have an in-app search feature for quick access to certain files
App: VLC
Price: $1.99
Website: http://www.hobbyistsoftware.com/android/vlc-more


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Only one third of Bloomington's statutory commission members are women, 39 percent of domestic battery arrests result in no charges being filed, and a working woman in Indiana earns 66 cents for every dollar a man earns.
These statistics all come from reports from the Commission on the Status of Women, which announced this week that applications are being accepted for a new member. WFHB News Director Alycin Bektesh catches up with City Deputy Clerk Sue Wanzer and Commission Chair Cathi Crabtree about current commission projects.


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Today was quite the interesting day which involved a "field trip" to a local vet to have Dixie's tumor removed from her leg. Please note: some of this images may be disturbing to some people. I decided to post the pictures in black and white, so the images will be a little less graphic than their color form.
Dixie, if you recall, is Munchkin's foster horse at the horse rescue. Dixie came to the rescue with a large tumor on her leg. It needed to be removed, so Isabel (the owner of the rescue) set up an appointment with the vet. Because this is Munchkin's horse, we were invited to come along. We learned how to properly load the horses into the horse trailer and then pulled the trailer to the vet's office.
The procedure itself was quite interesting, so we, along with two other girls who volunteer at the rescue watched the entire surgery.
Everything went well, and they were able to remove the large tumor.
We thought Dixie's polka-dot leg wrap was pretty cool.
After the surgery was completed, we took the horses back to the ranch and got them settled in for the night. (We had to take Dixie's daughter, Gypsy, with us as she, at this point in time, does not do well without her mother around.)
We're exhausted, but it was a good day overall.
We can't wait to see how Dixie responds to her tumor being gone once the incision heals up.


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I'm really bummed out today, and I'm happy about it. That won't sound so peculiar when I tell you two good friends flew out of my life this morning. Deborah and Mary have been in Kelowna since last summer. Now they're headed back to their home in Brisbane. Canada's loss, Australia's gain.
They've been drop-in friends, the kind that are rare these days. They felt free to drop by our place, and we felt free to be just as spontaneous with them. The friendship started off fun and quickly deepened.
One of our gatherings was reason #12 for hope because we really did become a chosen family.
So why am I happy about being bummed out? We all know how important social ties are to our happiness and sense of self. We also know that a lot of older people are isolated and lonely. Yet here we are making new friends and connecting in a deep and satisfying way. We'll miss being neighbours, but we'll still be friends.
Tonight Sharon and Hylton and I will meet at DJ's Mexican Restaurant to ease our sense of loss by celebrating what we still have—a circle of loving friends that keeps expanding.
Safe travels, Mary and Deborah, and thanks for enriching our lives.