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The truth about mortgages
Think again before you get in a rush to pay off the loan.
This guest post comes from Frank Curmudgeon at Bad Money Advice.
Conventional wisdom holds that a mortgage on the house you live in is a special kind of debt, one that, mostly because of favorable tax treatment, is so cheap that you should be in no particular hurry to pay it off.
But there is a popular heresy that opposes this firmly established orthodoxy. It holds that all debt is a bad idea, and paying 3X to the bank so you can save X on your taxes is loopy. Free Money Finance made this case recently. And Dave Ramsey is probably the high priest of this particular sect.
I have an instinctive contempt for orthodoxy and a sympathy for heresies of all kinds. But, alas, this is one of those cases where the conventional wisdom is spot on. Sad and boring, but true.
Mortgages are easily the cheapest way a consumer can borrow money. Even setting aside the tax effects, the raw interest rates paid on mortgages are the best deal going for most people. And once taxes are factored in, for many of us mortgages are so cheap we would be very foolish to pay them off.
To illustrate, I will do something I generally try to avoid doing -- use myself as an example. Two weeks ago, after three months of hassle and bureaucratic wrangling, I succeeded in refinancing the old homestead. (The appraisal was the biggest challenge. I live in a small and eclectic neighborhood where comps are hard to find and appraisers are understandably very conservative these days.)
The reward for my efforts was a 5/1 ARM at 3.875%, no points. Thinking about that rate still makes me smirk. It is probably even money that inflation over the next five years will average more than 3.875%, meaning that the expected real cost of the loan is zero. The interest I pay will be counterbalanced by the erosion in the value of the principal.
And then there are taxes. Whether or not mortgage interest will have an impact on your tax bill is not as simple a question as you might think, or as it should be. There is the issue of the standard deduction: If your itemized deductions aren't safely bigger than the standard deduction, then the net effect of mortgage interest on your taxes could be small to zero. And at the higher end of the income spectrum all deductions "phase out."
But for me, as for many people, mortgage interest works out to be a straight-up reduction in taxable income. Best I can figure, our marginal federal income tax rate for 2011, the first full year of the new mortgage, will be 36%. So for every dollar I spend in mortgage interest, the tax bill will go down by 36 cents. Put another way, on an after-tax basis that 3.875% rate is just 2.48%.
I'll borrow at 2.48% all day long. Seriously, I am willing to borrow as much money as is offered at that rate. I'll take a thousand, a million, a billion, whatever. I may not be as good an investor as I think (few of us are) but I am quite certain I can get a return north of 2.48%.
And just to be clear, for me, investing the money is explicitly the point of the mortgage. I have the liquid assets to pay it off at short notice if that ever became necessary. For example, it is more than conceivable that at some future date interest rates will be much higher and the positive effect on my tax bill will be lower. In the meantime, I am quite happy to borrow this cheap money and to accept the government subsidy that makes it even cheaper.
It is important to remember that the tax deductibility of mortgage interest is a discount on something of value rather than a goal itself. The heretics argue that paying a dollar to get 36 cents back from Uncle Sam doesn't make sense. If that was what was going on, it wouldn't. In fact, I'm paying the $1 as a year's rent on about $26. I think I can put $26 to profitable use. The 36 cents is a discount, meaning I am really paying only 64 cents to rent $26. That's a great deal, even if it is boring and conventional.
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The witness statement presented to London South Employment Tribunal a fortnight ago revealed fascinating details about his 11 years with the paper. Shenton told the court that as well as spiking bad reviews that might embarrass associates or bumping up star ratings, Townsend ordered him to interview a nine year old who was appearing in a play at the Young Vic because he had been asked by Martin Ellice, the joint managing director at Northern & Shell [the parent company] to do the write up because he was friends with [the boy]s father and because Martin Ellices daughter was in the same class at school. Despite my reservations about the merits of the piece, I felt obliged to write it because when the order comes from someone that high in the organisation, I felt as if I had no choice but to do it.
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So much for proprietor Richard Desmonds claim during his 2009 libel action against Tom Bower that he and his executives would not dream of interfering in editorial decisions on their titles: Thats not how its done
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Desmond himself popped up in Shentons witness statement too, as the demanding recipient along with Martin Townsend and his friends and family and sometimes more senior staff at Express newspapers of free tickets to West End shows. I recall in particular one occasion where [Townsend] had called me asking for three free tickets for Richard Desmond to see The Ladykillers in or around September 2013, the critic continued. When Martin called me he told me he was with The Chairman (as Richard Desmond is always referred to internally) at the time and was relying on me to say that I could get the tickets so that he was not shown up.
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The process of developing document specifications using schema languages can take years to complete. Most organizations that are building industry specifications for business-to-business document exchange are following a waterfall methodology. The problem is that by the time the schema representations have been developed, the business requirements have changed. This leads to further delays of a specification as new requirements are analyzed and added to the schema. To reduce the delay and increase the accuracy of the schema for the document exchange, an Agile Development approach is needed. This approach can greatly benefit anybody that is developing schema or implementing a schema specification.
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Greta's Not Pink-and-Girly Room
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Name: Greta
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Greta is our fourth child, third girl (in fact, our last baby boy Lewis' nursery was also featured on Apartment Therapy!) We have done the pink and girly thing before so I wanted something different for this room.
This is a tiny little sun room off of our room that used to be the back porch of our 100-year-old bungalow. When the previous owners added on, they closed it with two walls of windows. It is a wonderful little space, but honestly, I was really worried about how to make it work. It came together perfectly, and I'm actually kicking myself a little for not using this space as a nursery for any of my previous babies - it's so close and convenient.
I decided to go with white walls and lots of bold, bright colors and patterns. A big obstacle in this room was figuring out a way to cover the nine windows in the room. We originally ordered pull down blinds, but when they came we realized that neither an inside nor an outside mount would work on the windows and opted instead for curtains. I am so glad we did! The red and white polka dots are perfect, and the IKEA fabric is thick enough to keep almost all of the light out.
The Pendleton blanket hanging above her crib adds a big punch of pattern and color as well. I purchased the mushroom pouf from Anthropologie, as well as the rug and the two animal busts on the wall above the vintage rocker that I had recovered. The cuckoo clock is by Decoylab and has the cutest details. The crib is the Bam model by Argington.
This is our last babe, so I have been really treasuring our time together in her tiny just-for-her space.
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Love this room! Where is the ceiling light from?
This is so charming and unique. I think my favorite piece is the mushroom pouf! What child wouldn't love that:)
Cute! Where is the faux wolfskin from?
Thanks so much!
The light is from cb2 (last I looked it was on sale)
The bear blanket over the side of the crib is by romawinkel and can be found here
I love it so much!
I love, love, love this space. We're expecting our first baby in November and I just love looking for nursery inspiration! The gender will be a surprise, so we are thinking about lots of bold fun colors that could be for either a boy or girl... this gives me a lot of ideas. Love all your fun details-- I've been drooling over that Anthro pouf for ages.
With the large amount of red polka dots, did that corner NEED a "big punch of pattern and color" from the blanket? The blanket seems to be fighting against the curtains for dominance. Its handmade earthy vibe seems out of step with the rest of the room, which is all sharp graphics and crayon colors.
Cutest and most original nursery I've seen featured in this spot. I'm totally inspired. Thank you!
I LOVE this room!!! we almost bought that crib too.
Where is that lovely crib from?
@littletrainbooks- it's called a wheels bug, very sweet ride on toy for toddlers:)
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Those wheely bugs are not just cute but are also an awesome toy. My kids used it as a push walker early on when other walkers were too unstable and now ride it. I think in the past year there isn't a day it wasn't played with
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"People and Wetlands: The Vital Link"
7th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
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Ramsar COP7 DOC. 24
Background Document
Invasive species and wetlands
Outline of a keynote presentation to the 7th Conference of the Contracting
Parties to the Convention on Wetlands
(Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
by Geoffrey Howard, Programme Coordinator,
IUCN East Africa Regional Office, Nairobi
1. Sustainable use of wetlands, "wise use" in the Ramsar Convention context, includes the management of threats to the biodiversity and ecological integrity of wetlands. Invasive species are an increasing threat to the existence of wetlands as we know them, and the following is a consideration of how to treat that threat within the policy framework of the Convention on Wetlands.
2. Noting that the issue of invasive species is an area identified for cooperative action in the Joint Work Plan between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Ramsar Convention, this paper aims to promote through COP7, and the ensuing meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the CBD in June 1999, a coordinated approach to addressing the problem posed by invasive species. This paper has been developed in cooperation with the IUCN Invasives Species Specialist Group and the IUCN Global Initiative on Invasives.
3. There are many examples of invasive species causing species extinctions, damage to populations of wild and domesticated organisms, and significant alteration of ecosystems. The destruction wrought by invasives is through predation, introduction of disease, competition for food and other resources, hybridisation, and habitat degradation. These problems are likely to become more acute with increasing global trade, global change and changing land use patterns. They are especially relevant to wetlands, where much damage has been caused in both tropical and temperate areas. There is a need to understand, recognise and manage infestations of invasives in wetlands and to be prepared for new arrivals and changes in status of otherwise benign species. Wetlands are especially vulnerable to invasives because of their position as ecotones or interfaces between terrestrial and aquatic environments that makes them susceptible to invasion from both spheres.
What are invasive species?
4. Invasive species are organisms that have been introduced intentionally or accidentally outside of their natural range. The draft IUCN guidelines on invasive species separates them from natives and aliens thus:
- a native species (or indigenous species) is a species, subspecies, or lower taxon occurring within its natural range and dispersal potential (i.e. within the range it occupies naturally or could occupy without direct or indirect introduction or care by humans);
- an alien species (introduced, non-indigenous, foreign, exotic) is a species, subspecies or lower taxon occurring outside of its natural range and dispersal potential (i.e. outside the range it occupies naturally or could not occupy without direct or indirect introduction or care by humans) and includes any part, gamete or propagule of such species that might survive and subsequently reproduce;
- an invasive species is an alien species which becomes established in natural or semi-natural ecosystems or habitats, is an agent of change, and threatens native biodiversity (species, populations and/or ecosystems).
5. These definitions apply in wetlands as in other ecosystems and refer to plants, animals and micro-organisms. There are many opportunities for invasions in wetlands, as the range of terrestrial to aquatic (and marine) habitats is so great and the chances of habitats changing as a result of wetland modification, pollution, nutrient enrichment, etc., are very great. For example, the drainage of a swamp for agriculture can result in the modification of a regime of water-logging that previously kept some plants "in check"; the consequence can easily be that a previously benign native species becomes an alien invasive because the ecosystem has been changed by humans. Similarly, an altered flooding regime of a river or floodplain can change the fish community structure so that an alien, introduced species suddenly has an advantage and becomes invasive.
6. The addition of pollutants or nutrients to a wetland system may give the opportunity for an alien species that was starved of nutrients (and so "just surviving") to become invasive since there is no longer any limitation to its growth. Or the pollution of a wetland may reduce the diversity and density of native species and permit the expansion of an alien to invasive species once competition is removed. These are additional to the more familiar introduction of exotics to wild or modified ecosystems. These may become invasives because of their ability to compete with local species or because of their invasion of ecological niches that are not completely occupied.
Effects of invasives on wetlands and other water-dependent ecosystems
7. Wetland invasives can establish in many parts of a wetland system but most often have some relationship with water (fresh, brackish or marine) which enables their establishment and often enhances their spread more easily than in many purely terrestrial systems. Invasive species can settle in or on the waters of a wetland and so use the water as a medium for dispersal and expansion. They can invade water-logged soil, the interface between water and land and even the wetland plants that are submerged or emerge from wetland waters. The effects of wetland invasives on ecosystems, people and biodiversity are many and varied - the main ones are listed below.
8. Effects in relation to water
- Alteration (often impediment) of flow and changes in natural cycles of flow, as, for example, where submerged wetland plants block stream flows, alter stream flow patterns and reduce water passage
- Alteration (mostly reduction) of quantity and sometimes also in timing (seasonality), as, for example, where emergent invasive plants slow the drainage of flooded areas or prevent normal flooding from occurring by reducing runoff and retaining waters - and even increasing evapotranspiration with consequent loss of water
- Alteration (usually lowering of acceptable standards) of water quality in its broadest sense (including eutrophication, de-oxygenation, fouling, poisoning and reduction of nutrients)
- Reduction or loss of hydrological benefits of wetland function, as, for example, when invasive wetland plants replace the natives that take the energy (and so damage) out of floods or enhance ground water recharge
- Alteration of wetland functions downstream of invasions and across national and international borders. These effects are often not realised within the affected country as well as in the wetland where the invasives have their primary effect. A dramatic example is the build-up of invasive floating water weeds in one upstream country (due to increased availability of nutrients) which then leads to a dramatic release of these plants after heavy rains because the hydrological balance has changed. This in turn leads to invasions of the released weed downstream and then a series of effects all the way down the watershed - involving increased evapotranspiration and water loss, blockage of water ways, altering of stream flows and fouling of hydropower installations, etc.
9. In relation to wetland products, uses and users
- Alteration of fisheries often resulting in dramatic declines due to invasives competing with fishable species, preying upon fishable species or generally disturbing the balance of species and populations in a fishery. This is due to invasive fish, invasive crustaceans and other invertebrates and fish parasites and diseases - themselves the invasives or passengers with the invading aliens
- Reduction of wetland grazing and browsing most often caused by invasive wetland plants bringing about plant community changes that reduce access to grazing; but also by alien grazers and the introduction of weeds or pathogens of the wetland food plants
- Impairment of crops in wetlands by alien competitors and pathogens and also by hydridisation
- Reduction or prevention of access to wetlands and their products due to growths of invaders that block routes to and from wetlands or by the invasion of wetlands by alien species (animals and plants) that are harmful to the users of wetlands
- Reduction or prevention of wetland transport again by blockage of waterways or the invasion of access routes by alien invaders that are harmful to people and their livestock
- Increase in human health hazards, especially bilharzia, malaria, and other water-borne pathogens that are encouraged by aliens (or are aliens themselves) as well as snakes, crocodiles, aggressive fish, etc.
- Increase of risks of drowning and other results of coverage of the water surface, especially by invading floating water weeds, but also in association with alien wetland animals that are feared by wetland users.
10. In relation to wetland biodiversity
- Reduction in wetland species abundance with extremes in extinction. This arises from competition for space, nutrients and "places to live", from predation, from "overgrazing" by invasive herbivores (be they molluscs, insects or vertebrates) and from pathogens and parasites introduced with invasive species
- Reduction in wetland species diversity arising as above and from habitat changes caused by aliens
- Alteration of wetland species/population integrity and wetland species community structure - as above
- Alteration of wetland species distribution
- Alteration of wetland ecosystems - and even wetland conversion to dryland condition. Invasive plants may alter the water relations of a wetlands as well the availability of nutrients and sunlight to other species; invasive animals may cause direct changes in vegetation by grazing, browsing and trampling or indirect changes as predators of native grazers and browsers. These effects can occur below the water surface, at the water surface, or in water-logged soil and wetland edges.
11. The economic and social effects of these impacts of invasives in wetlands can be drastic, and even those seen to be of little significance in the short term can add up to serious consequences over time. Two classic examples of this are the dramatic invasions in Lake Victoria, East Africa, by the exotic floating weed Water Hyacinth (Pontederiaceae, Eichhornia crassipes) and the purposely-introduced predatory fish, the Nile perch (Centropomidae, Lates niloticus). Water hyacinth had been in the Nile River system (of which Lake Victoria is part) for decades but began to cause trouble in 1990 when it first started to spread around the lake. By late 1998 it was estimated to cover 1% of the lake's surface - but this is the 1% that is also occupied by people and their infrastructure of cities, towns, villages and fisheries. These invasive weeds grow well in the climatic and nutrient conditions of Lake Victoria and are now causing millions of dollars of damage to the fisheries, lake transport, water supply, hydropower generation, people's access to the lake and human health, as well as unmeasurable effects on lake biodiversity and changes to the wetland ecosystems that fringe Lake Victoria.
12. Nile perch is a large and edible predatory fish that was introduced to Lake Victoria from its native waters in the separate sub-catchment of the Albertine Rift lakes and from Lake Turkana in the 1950s. It was brought to the lake to enhance the fishery and make large fish more available to the many millions of peoples of the lake shore. Nile perch was hardly seen for twenty years after its release but has increased so much over the past two decades that it now dominates the fish biomass of the lake as well as the fishery. This invasive alien species has now reduced many other species of lake fish to remnant populations and may have caused several species extinctions and other as yet-undefined changes to the biodiversity of the lake and its fringing wetlands. It has also changed the nature of the Lake Victoria fishery so that many other species are not available to local fishers, and it is the basis of a large export industry which takes much of the available fish biomass away from the area into the markets of Europe, North America and other faraway consumers. This biomass export has had serious consequences for local people's livelihoods and diets and may be affecting the nutrient status of the lake, as there is no return of some of the components of fish flesh among the hundred's of thousands of tonnes exported each year.
Organisms that can become invasive in wetlands
13. Below are some likely wetland candidates or contenders for the role of invasives in water-dependent ecosystems:
Lower Plants
- Cyanohpyta - blue/greens such as Anabaena, Microcystis
- Chlorophyta - Green algae; Spirogyra & friends, red "blood" and orange waters of the Volvox series, Chara and Nitella,
- (Floating) liverworts such as Ricciocarpus.
- (Floating) ferns - Salvinia, Azolla,
- (Emergent) ferns of many freshwater and brackish wetland species,
- (Floating, emergent and bank-rooted) grasses - Vossia and many, many others,
- Sedges - Cyperaceae in all its forms,
- Typhaceae - bulrushes and reeds,
- Araceae - especially Pistia,
- Pontederiaceae - Eichhornia, Pontederia, etc.,
- Limnocharitaceae - Hydrocleys,
- Hydrocharitaceae - Elodea, Lagarosiphon, Stratiotes, etc.,
- Lemnaceae - the various "duckweeds",
- other (small) families of flowering wetland plants, especially monocots and some dicots such as Lythraceae - Lythrum salicaria
- Many "big" families such as Legumes, Umbellifers and Polygonaceae.
- Molluscs - especially freshwater (and brackish) bivalves and snails, not forgetting disease vectors,
- Crustaceans - freshwater crayfish, freshwater crabs, prawn-farm escapes
- Insects - especially flies, mosquitoes, not forgetting disease vectors
- Fish - deliberate introductions to lakes, rivers and dams - exotics and species indigenous to the region but not to the water body or wetland of concern:
- accidental escapes from aquaculture, aquariums
- movement from introductions
- non-accidental escapes from pets, ponds, aquaria
- escapes from mariculture
- Amphibians - such as the notorious Cane Toad
- Reptiles - snakes and lizards in island situations
- Birds - such as exotic mynahs, crows that displace waterbirds
- Mammals - such as the coypu and some smaller semi-aquatic rodents.
Methods of control
14. Control of invasives in wetlands follows the normal methods for other ecosystems but does have a special involvement of water in many cases.
- Mechanical Control by removal, destruction, trapping or catching; this involves finding and handling the invasive organisms and physically removing them from the ecosystem. This can be effective but rarely results in sustainable control, as it requires continuing effort and is usually not capable of removing all individuals from an invasive population - i.e., eradication is not an option in most cases, so that this form of control usually needs to persist for as long as the invasive is a problem.
- Chemical Control by pesticides, herbicides and poisons - few of which are specific. This method is fraught with problems of application and effects on non-target species, but may the only solution in some cases. Chemicals with short half-lives or minimal residues are most desirable and those with specificity to the target invasive most valuable of all.
- Biological Control, especially for exotics and usually with exotic biocontrol agents. This method is based on the belief that most invasives are "kept under control" in their native (and so non-invasive) habitat by a range of parasites, pathogens and predators - those agents which keep every species in harmony with its surroundings and balance its growth and spread. When an invasive establishes itself in a new habitat or ecosystem, often in another part of the world remote from its home range, it is without those controlling parasites, pathogens and predators and so can grow and spread accordingly. Biological control requires that some of those controlling organisms from the invasive species' home range be found, bred and released to control the exotic in its new habitat and thus reduce its growth and spread and impact in its "new home".
- Ecosystem Manipulation (management) such as watershed management, water management, pollution control, competition with crops or local species. These techniques remove other advantages that an invasive may have in its "new home" and so reduce its growth, spread and effects.
- Integrated Management and strategies using some or all of the above in strategic combinations.
- Prevention and Control using quarantine and regulation of exports, imports and markets. This requires that the invasives are recognised and that there is agreement between states and mechanisms to ensure vigilance and action to stop the movement of species concerned.
15. What do wetland managers and wetland programme operatives need to understand invasives and manage infestations?
- AWARENESS - general understanding of invasives and the threats they pose, with special attention to wetlands and water-dependent ecosystems of all types.
- INFORMATION and TRAINING - recognition, expertise, management options, control details - general principles for invasives with specialised information and training for invasive species of wetlands and the effects they have on wetlands.
- EXPERIENCE - recognition of impending infestation or invasion, ability to predict from first signs, exposure to the reality of the effects of invasives, practical experience of control options; general principles for invasive with specifics for both tropical and temperate wetland systems.
- WILLINGNESS to be vigilant and to monitor existing and potential invasions and infestations. This needs to come not only from the wetland managers, but also from their institutions and the policy-makers and decision-makers who determine their direction.
16. Role of countries and government organizations in wetland invasives
- AWARENESS - of the issues and the seriousness of wetland invasions and their consequences to wetlands, people and biodiversity, as well as the costs of control, the time needed for effective control, and the risks of lack of control.
- MECHANISMS - to address potential and actual invasions and quarantine facilities to prevent their spread. This requires that there be mechanisms to mobilise opinion as well as resources and finances to manage existing invasions and be prepared to reduce the risk of new wetland invasions.
- WILLINGNESS - to recognise and act on developing and threatening invasions.
- POLICIES and REGULATIONS to implement management mechanisms for invasions - to support the wetland managers, as above.
- QUARANTINE and other REGULATIONS to prevent and limit the spread of wetland invasives once they have become established. This requires understanding of the role of water in the dispersal and growth of wetland invasives as well as a recognition that they can spread downstream and across borders.
- RESEARCH and MONITORING to back up the efforts at control and to measure their effectiveness - as well as to measure the effects of the invasives on wetlands, biodiversity and people and to estimate the costs of their control or otherwise to provide information for future strategies.
17. Role of NGOs and civil society in combating wetland invasives
- AWARENESS and EDUCATION on the importance and effects of wetland invasives and the needs for management and control.
- LOCAL ACTION and COMMUNITY RESPONSES to existing and threatening invasives - from community action and awareness-raising to landcare and cooperative wetland management.
- NOVEL SOLUTIONS to invasive control and utilisation of invasives. NGOs can have the capacity and interest to develop new uses for invasive species and different control mechanisms that take time and innovation to develop and so find ways of invasive management that would not be possible through the traditional pathways of government and established research.
- EXPERTISE in control and monitoring of invasives in wetlands and their effects on people and biodiversity which has been developed as a livelihood or as a commercial enterprise.
- SUPPORT TO GOVERNMENTS in their efforts to manage invasions and prevent their occurrence.
18. Role of the Ramsar Convention in wetland invasive management
- COOPERATION with other agencies and organizations involved in global, regional and national efforts to understand and manage invasive species in wetlands. In particular IUCN's Global Initiative on Invasive Species, The Global Invasive Species programme of SCOPE, IUCN, CAB International and UNEP and the Regional Invasive Species Programme of SPREP in 24 countries of the South Pacific region.
- AWARENESS and the preparation of TOOLS for recognition and management of wetland invasives and the use of the Ramsar networks and those of their technical partners for their distribution.
- DOCUMENTATION of case studies and development of INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on the sources and spread of wetland invasives - with dispersal of the information through the Contracting Parties and other Ramsar networks and those of their technical partners.
- POLICY and LEGISLATION development to implement management of invasives both nationally and internationally.
- RALLYING OF SUPPORT to member states to manage wetland invasions and prevent new infestations - and the relationship of invasives to international trade, transport and tourism.
19. Refer to draft decision Ramsar COP DOC 15.14 on Invasive species and aliens. [Resolution VII.14].


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In order to obtain assistance in the development and implementation of the purposes of this chapter including air quality criteria, recommended control techniques, standards, research and development, and to encourage the continued efforts on the part of industry to improve air quality and to develop economically feasible methods for the control and abatement of air pollution, the Administrator shall from time to time establish advisory committees. Committee members shall include, but not be limited to, persons who are knowledgeable concerning air quality from the standpoint of health, welfare, economics or technology.
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[2] See References in Text note below.
Source(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 117 formerly § 6, as added Pub. L. 88–206, § 1,Dec. 17, 1963, 77 Stat. 399; renumbered § 106,Pub. L. 89–272, title I, § 101(3),Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 992; renumbered § 110 and amended Pub. L. 90–148, § 2,Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 498; renumbered § 117 and amended Pub. L. 91–604, §§ 4(a), (d), 15 (c)(2),Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1678, 1689, 1713; Pub. L. 95–95, title I, § 115,Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 711; Pub. L. 95–623, § 13(c),Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3458.)
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Section 7412 (b)(1), referred to in subsec. (c)(2), was amended generally by Pub. L. 101–549, title III, § 301,Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2531, and, as so amended, no longer contains a subpar. (A).
Subsec. (c) was originally enacted as subsec. (f) but has been redesignated (c) for purposes of codification in view of the failure of Pub. L. 95–95to redesignate subsec. (f) as (c) after repealing former subsecs. (a) and (b) and redesignating former subsecs. (d) and (e) as (a) and (b).
Section was formerly classified to section 1857e of this title.
1978—Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 95–623substituted "7411" for "7411(b)(1)(B)" and "7412" for "7412(b)(1)(B)".
1977—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–95, § 115(1), (2), redesignatedsubsec. (d) as (a). Former subsec. (a), establishing an Air Quality Advisory Board in the Environmental Protection Agency, was struck out.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–95, § 115(1)–(3), redesignated subsec. (e) as (b) and substituted "The members of any other advisory committees" for "The members of the Board and other advisory committees" and "conferences or meetings or while otherwise serving" for "conferences or meetings of the Board or while otherwise serving". Former subsec. (b), setting out the duties of the Air Quality Advisory Board, was struck out.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 95–95, § 115(1), (2), struck out subsec. (c) which related to clerical and technical assistance for the Air Quality Advisory Board, and redesignated subsecs. (d) and (e) as (a) and (b), respectively.
1970—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–604, § 15(c)(2), substituted "Environmental Protection Agency" for "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare" and "Administrator" for "Secretary".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–604, § 15(c)(2), substituted "Administrator" for "Secretary" wherever appearing.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 91–604, § 15(c)(2), substituted "Environmental Protection Agency" for "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare".
Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 91–604, § 15(c)(2), substituted "Administrator" for "Secretary" wherever appearing.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 91–604, § 4(d), added subsec. (f).
1967—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–148substituted provisions establishing in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Air Quality Advisory Board and providing for the appointment and term of its members for provisions directing the Secretary to maintain liaison with manufacturers looking toward development of devices and fuels to reduce pollutants in automotive exhaust and to appoint a technical committee and call it together from time to time to evaluate progress and develop and recommend research programs.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90–148substituted provision setting out the duties of the Air Quality Advisory Board for provisions requiring the Secretary to make semi-annual reports to Congress on measures being taken toward the resolution of vehicle exhaust pollution problems.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 90–148added subsecs. (c) to (e).
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Amendment by Pub. L. 95–95effective Aug. 7, 1977, except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 406(d) ofPub. L. 95–95, set out as a note under section 7401 of this title.
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KREM 2's Katie Boer continued her trek across the Inland Northwest visiting schools around Spokane and Coeur d'Alene to talk about the weather and how it works.
Thursday Katie visited about 60 second graders from Mrs. Towne's and other teachers' classrooms at Greenacres Elementary in the Spokane Valley.
The students were particularly interested in "extreme" weather, like how tornadoes form, where we see hurricanes and how far the earth is from the sun. To put this into perspective, Katie and several of her student volunteers demonstrated the distance in terms of football field.
If you'd like Katie to visit your school connect with her on Facebook (search "Katie Boer KREM") and Twitter @KatieBoerKREM or just schedule a visit through email: email@example.com.


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12 U.S. Code § 5220a - Application of GSE conforming loan limit to mortgages assisted with TARP funds
In making any assistance available to prevent and mitigate foreclosures on residential properties, including any assistance for mortgage modifications, using any amounts made available to the Secretary of the Treasury under title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 [12 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.], the Secretary shall provide that the limitation on the maximum original principal obligation of a mortgage that may be modified, refinanced, made, guaranteed, insured, or otherwise assisted, using such amounts shall not be less than the dollar amount limitation on the maximum original principal obligation of a mortgage that may be purchased by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation that is in effect, at the time that the mortgage is modified, refinanced, made, guaranteed, insured, or otherwise assisted using such amounts, for the area in which the property involved in the transaction is located.
Source(Pub. L. 111–22, div. A, title II, § 205,May 20, 2009, 123 Stat. 1654.)
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SANFORD – After four days of testimony detailing the witness accounts and forensics in the case against George Zimmerman, an unusual topic stole the show at times on Friday: Combat sports.
The state and defense battled repeatedly on mixed martial arts, the multi-discipline boxing-like sport usually practiced in an octagonal ring, with regard to both Zimmerman and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
After two days' testimony by the state's star witness ended Thursday, prosecutors on Friday called the man expected to be the defense's star: John Good, a Zimmerman neighbor who told Sanford police that on the night of the shooting he'd seen a black man on top of a lighter-skinned man "just throwing down blows on the guy, MMA-style."
On the witness stand, Good said he was watching television in the living room of his Retreat at Twin Lakes townhome when he heard noises outside. He opened his glass sliding door and stepped out onto his porch.
It looked like a "tussle," Good said, adding "I yelled out, 'What's going on?' and 'Stop it,' I believe."
Good said two people were wrestling, in a straddling position — which defense attorney Mark O'Mara acted out on his knees in court, and Good described with MMA terminology: The "ground and pound."
The one on top was wearing dark clothes, he said, and the one on the bottom had lighter skin and was wearing white or red.
Pressed further by O'Mara, Good said he could identify them: "The person who you now know to be Trayvon Martin was on top, correct?" O'Mara asked.
"Correct," Good replied.
"And he was the one who was raining blows down on the person on the bottom, George Zimmerman, right?" O'Mara followed.
Good's response: "That's what it looked like."
However, Good vacillated on two points that could benefit the state. He said he couldn't say with 100 percent certainty who it was calling out for help — though he thought it was Zimmerman. And he also acknowledged that he didn't see the punches connect, he just saw "arm movement going downward."
"I couldn't tell 100 percent that there was actually fists hitting faces," he said.
The MMA-style testimony continued in the afternoon, but this time the Zimmerman team was on the defensive.
Lindzee Folgate, an Altamonte Family Practice physician assistant who treated Zimmerman Feb. 27, 2012, the day after the shooting, was called to testify on his medical records. Reading a medical history taken Aug. 19, 2011, Folgate testified that due to difficulty sleeping, Zimmerman had "started to exercise intensely with MMA."
Another record from Sept. 23, 2011, indicated Zimmerman was in MMA training "three days per week."
Folgate also gave Zimmerman's measurements from the day after the shooting: 5-foot-7.5, 204 pounds. His body mass index rated him obese, she said. The medical records also described Zimmerman, whose mother is Peruvian and who self-identifies as Hispanic, as a white male.
Zimmerman had two lacerations on his head Feb. 27, Folgate said: 2 centimeters and 0.5 centimeters. Neither needed stitches, she said. Of Zimmerman's nose, Folgate said: "I would say likely broken, it's hard to say definitively."
No X-rays were taken to confirm that, she said.
On cross examination, Folgate testified that the cuts, scrapes and bruises to Zimmerman's head could be consistent with having his head slammed into a concrete sidewalk, as Zimmerman says Trayvon did before the shooting.


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Dr. Ogbru received his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in 1995. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Arizona/University Medical Center in 1996. He was a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and a Regional Clerkship Coordinator for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy from 1996-99.
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SIDE EFFECTS: The most common side effects reported by patients taking lamotrigine are dizziness, somnolence, headache, double vision, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, and rash. Severe, life-threatening rashes have occurred with lamotrigine. The risk of rash is increased if the dose is increased faster than recommended or if patients also are taking valproic acid. Patients taking lamotrigine should report any rash to a physician immediately. Multiorgan failure, including fatal liver disease rarely has been observed during lamotrigine treatment.
Reduced white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets also may occur.
Lamotrigine increases the risk of developing aseptic meningitis.
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