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Bombina bombina
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Bombina bombina (Linnaeus, 1761)
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Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Aram Agasyan, Aziz Avisi, Boris Tuniyev, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Petros Lymberakis, Claes Andrén, Dan Cogalniceanu, John Wilkinson, Natalia Ananjeva, Nazan Üzüm, Nikolai Orlov, Richard Podloucky, Sako Tuniyev, Uğur Kaya
|Cox, N. and Temple, H.J. (Global Amphibian Assessment)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found in central and eastern Europe ranging from Denmark, southern Sweden and northern Germany eastwards to the Ural Mountains of Russia, southwards to the Danube floodplain, Turkey (Thrace and the vicinity of Adapazari B. b. arifiyensis in north-western Anatolia), and the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom (one colony in Surrey). It is a lowland species that occurs from sea level up to a maximum of 730m asl (in western Bohemia).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Austria; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Kazakhstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Turkey; Ukraine
Introduced:United Kingdom
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|This species remains fairly abundant over much of its range (for example it is extremely common to the north and west of the Danube floodplain where it has benefited from increased irrigation), although many northern populations have declined (e.g., in Poland and Germany). The populations of this species in both Denmark and Sweden are low. Individual populations of this species can show significant fluctuations in numbers. There are no recent records from Greece, but its range in this country has not been surveyed for many years. The species is common in parts of European Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia, and while it is unlikely to be declining on this territory in general, many local populations are declining.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Within Europe this species is associated with lowland areas of marshy or grassy wetlands, often along river valleys, with small, shallow, often-temporary lakes and ponds. In the former Soviet Union it has been reported from steppe, forest steppe, broad-leaved and mixed leafed coniferous forests, but it also inhabits open landscapes, using drainage channels as pathways for dispersal. At the southeastern margin of its distribution, the species lives in permanent freshwater bodies in river valleys surrounded by an arid saline landscape (solonetz-solonchak complex). It is primarily an aquatic animal living in shallow (less than 50-70cm depth) stagnant lakes, ponds, pools, swamps, peat bogs, ditches, flooded rice fields and quarries. It may occasionally be found in semi-flowing waters: springs, irrigation channels, rivers and stream pools and the water must generally be clear (for example in the Carpathian region, B. bombina lives in wetlands with clearer water than the congeneric Bombina variegata); however, near the southern margin of the range (such as southeastern Ukraine and the Krasnodar Region) the species often occurs in waters that have been polluted with industrial and agricultural chemicals such as settling and sedimentation reservoirs, rice fields, polluted ponds in rural and urban areas. The species breeds by larval development in pools with a good growth of sub-aquatic vegetation. Hybrid populations of this species with B. variegata have been recorded.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Major Threat(s):
|In western and northern Europe the species is threatened by the loss of habitat through modernisation of agricultural methods, most significantly the drainage and/or pollution of suitable wetland areas. Recent declines in northwestern Europe might also be related to climate change. In Turkey it is threatened by urban development and agricultural development. Within the former Soviet Union destruction of wetlands is also the most serious threat, although industrial pollution and recreational activities also impact populations. Additional localized threats to this species include mortality on roads, entrapment in open wells with vertical walls, hybridization and replacement by Bombina variegata and collection for the pet trade. However, at a global scale this species is not significantly threatened.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species is listed on Appendix II of the Bern Convention and on Annexes II and IV of the EU Natural Habitats Directive. It is protected by national legislation in many countries, occurs in many protected areas, and is listed in many national and sub-national Red Data books and lists. This species has been successfully reintroduced to some sites in Sweden (Arnold, 2002), as of 2008 there are 10,000 adults in 3,000 breeding ponds. In other parts of this species range, mitigation measures to reduce road kill have been established.
|Aram Agasyan, Aziz Avisi, Boris Tuniyev, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Petros Lymberakis, Claes Andrén, Dan Cogalniceanu, John Wilkinson, Natalia Ananjeva, Nazan Üzüm, Nikolai Orlov, Richard Podloucky, Sako Tuniyev, Uğur Kaya. 2009. Bombina bombina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T2865A9489517. . Downloaded on 19 August 2018.
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Erythrotriorchis radiatus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Erythrotriorchis radiatus (Latham, 1801)
Common Name(s):
Accipiter radiatus radiatus Collar and Andrew (1988)
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
|Identification information:
|45-60 cm. Large, powerful, reddish-brown hawk. Adult has pale, dark-streaked head, two-tone underwing, rufous lesser and median coverts, with the remainder white with black barring. Adult male has rufous underbody. Adult female much paler and heavily streaked with black. Juvenile has rufous head. Similar spp. Distinguished from other raptors by boldly scalloped rufous upperparts and thighs, conspicuous on birds flying away from observer. Voice Variety of cries and chattering calls. Males are said to sound peevish and wheezy, females harsh and strident. Hints Search in open forest and woodlands, especially near rivers, in Top End and Kimberley regions.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|BirdLife International
|Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
|Baker-Gabb, D., Garnett, S. & Seaton, R.
|Benstead, P., Garnett, S., McClellan, R., Stattersfield, A., Symes, A., Taylor, J., North, A.
This species has been up-listed to Vulnerable because the species eastern range appears to be rapidly retracting north and it is contested that three sub-populations, each containing less than 1000 individuals, remains valid. Further, it is arguable that the entire population remains below the critical threshold of 1000 individuals with large areas suspected to be undergoing continued habitat clearance and degradation.
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|Range Description:
Erythrotriorchis radiatus is endemic to Australia. Historically, it ranged in northern and eastern Australia, north of c.33°S in the east, and 19°S in the west, but its range has contracted in the east and it is now considered at least functionally extinct in New South Wales and South-east Queensland (Cooper et al. 2014 and Seaton 2014). The full extent of the retraction in range up the East coast is currently unknown (Seaton 2014), but no breeding records are currently known from south of Cape York. The population was estimated at only 330 pairs in the early 1990s, but estimates were revised to 700 pairs in 2011 due to a suspected underestimate of nesting densities (Garnett et al. 2011). However, a current paucity of knowledge of the Western Australia and Northern Territory populations, coupled with increasing concern over habitat fragmentation and degradation across their range, brings this upwards revision into question. Consequently, a precautionary estimate of less than 500 pairs, including 100 pairs on Tiwi Islands and up to 125 pairs in Queensland appears reasonable. Further, it remains unclear whether breeding is continuous from Queensland across the Gulf into northern Australia (Czechura et al. 2011), thus although the populations are unlikely to be entirely isolated, treating them as separate subpopulations is warranted. It is therefore contested that there are three sub-populations, each containing less than 1000 individuals (Tiwi Islands, Top end & Queensland) (R. Seaton in litt. 2016).
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Because of its inconspicuousness, it is difficult to estimate the size of the population anywhere within the species range. Consequently we can only be confident in population estimates for just two regions: the Tiwi Islands where there are c.100 (unlikely to be isolated but probably a separate subpopulation) and SE Qld/ NE NSW where there are c.0. The loss of the South-east Queensland population (10-30 pairs) reduces previous population estimates in Queensland to up to 125 pairs. Considering the unknowns around these estimates, combined with a paucity of knowledge on current population trends in most regions, an estimated population size of <500 pairs appears more likley than the 700 pairs estimated in Garnett et al. 2011 (Seaton, R. in litt. 2016).
Trend Justification: The population may be declining owing to habitat loss in at least eastern Queensland; the rate of decline has not been quantified but is not suspected to be rapid (Garnett et al. 2011).
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
It lives in coastal and subcoastal, tall, open forests and woodlands, tropical savannas traversed by wooded or forested rivers and along the edges of rainforest. It builds stick nests in trees taller than 20 m within 1 km of a watercourse or wetland. It hunts in open forests and gallery forests, with a home range of up to 290 km2, taking mostly medium to large birds, but also snakes. In winter in eastern Australia, it appears to move from nest-sites in the ranges to coastal plains, where it often feeds on waterbirds taken from open wetlands. A study of Red Goshawk pairs in Kakadu National Park found the female to tend to the nest for 81% of the time, whilst males did not incubate (Debus et al. 2015). Recent evidence suggests that juveniles can disperse up to 400km from the nest (R. Seaton in litt. 2016).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Not a Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
Widespread clearance for agriculture probably caused the historical decline in north-eastern New South Wales and southern Queensland. Continuing clearance is affecting more northerly populations. Even if riparian strips are left uncleared, pairs usually nest in the tallest trees that are then exposed to storm damage and other disturbance. Clearing of forest for acacia plantations has rendered some territories on Melville Island unproductive (S. Garnett in litt. 2007). Egg-collecting may result in the failure of some nests as does the burning of nest trees or disruption of breeding by fire. Inappropriate fire regimes causing the thickening of vegetation is also considered a threat (Red Goshawk Recovery Team in litt.). Shooting by pigeon and poultry owners, and possibly pesticides, causes some mortality of individuals and may result in temporary local scarcity. Prey abundance may be reduced by loss or degradation of freshwater wetlands, loss of hollow-bearing trees in which prey breed, over-grazing by livestock and feral herbivores, and changed fire regimes.
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation Actions Underway
CITES Appendix II. Some survey work has been carried out in various parts of the species's range. The Red Goshawk Recovery Team is developing a plan to address actions in National Recovery Plan, including: establishing a central data-base of all records for the species, map essential habitat across the species whole range and determining mainland habitat-use and home-range patterns (Red Goshawk Recovery Team in litt.)Conservation Actions Proposed
From Garnett et al. (2011) & DERM (2012). Study demography, especially adult survivorship. Identify important populations and monitor key indicator sites. Investigate the impact of habitat fragmentation and fire regimes on the spatial distribution of nesting pairs, their productivity and the abundance of prey. Protect habitat through purchase or voluntary conservation agreements. Encourage landholders to protect and manage Red Goshawk territories. Promote information used to identify and protect nesting habitat. Improve knowledge of ecological requirements (e.g. habitats critical for survival) to more clearly inform management. Produce educational materials that promote the recovery process. Limit access to known nest sites.
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What is International Studies?
International Studies (ITS) is at its heart an interdisciplinary approach to studying the world. We believe that most global problems and issues are too complex to be understood through a single disciplinary perspective. Students therefore take a series of courses from many academic departments including economics, anthropology, geography, history and political science.
ITS students lead the university in receiving highly competitive scholarships such as Fulbright English Language Fellowships, Boren Awards, and Critical Language Scholarships and the major consistently sends it graduates to top graduate programs in security studies, international relations, law and international business.
What are the features of Miami's program?
Foreign language requirement
All of our students are required to complete four years of language training and study abroad as a necessary means of learning how to operate effectively in different cultural contexts and to gain conversational competency in another language.
Global context
Our interdisciplinary focus provides students with skill sets to understand the complexity of contemporary global issues and to empathize with perspectives from abroad in discussing solutions to these problems.
Study abroad
Overseas study is required for the major. Many students choose a foreign university program that includes a home stay for a deeper experience in a foreign culture. We encourage students to study abroad in a country that is consistent with their foreign language requirement.
Live in the culture
Many ITS students choose to live in the Clawson Hall Connections living Learning Community and many are engaged in campus activities that include personal engagement with the more than 2100 international students on the Miami campus.
Exchange programs
Exchanges are the traditional way to study abroad. Miami students will exchange places with a student from another country, who will come to Miami when the Miami student goes abroad. Miami has entered into agreements with many different universities around the world to exchange students, including Kansai Gaidai in Japan, American University of Sharjah in United Arab Emirates, Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico, and University of Seoul in South Korea. Miami is a member of ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs), so Miami students can do an exchange with many ISEP institutions around the world.
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Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP)
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) was founded in 1947 as a foundation designed to support and foster fine arts. Over the years, it has consolidated its position as one of the most important and respected academic institutions in Brazil with the equivalent of university status.
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Take an intensive Portuguese language course and an elective course, on sports management in Brazil.
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It is not the middle class who work at Walgreens — 180,000 of whom just lost their health insurance. It is not the upper-middle class who lost hours at their movie theatre jobs. And it is not the Top 1% stymied and demoralized in a "recovery" that no longer creates full-time jobs. There is simply no question anymore that the victims of ObamaCare are legion, and mostly the working poor-those who live in that fragile place between the shame of welfare and the promise of the American Dream. And these are the people Ted Cruz is facing Hell for.
And who is throwing all that Hell? The media and the very same rocket scientists in the Republican Establishment who told us only McCain and Romney could beat Barack Obama.
The media won't even tell the story of how ObamaCare is currently bludgeoning the working poor. Because the media stand where they always stand — against The People and with The State, and its bureaucrats, and those who grow and defend both, like Barack Obama and the Democrats. And where does the GOP Establishment stand on this day? With the media.
I was okay with the Establishment disagreeing with Cruz on tactics, but they are now joining the media in toxifying Cruz instead of aiding his righteous fight by explaining to their media pals and the American people just what exactly it is he is fighting for. This, even though the polls show the public is with Cruz in opposition to ObamaCare. Apparently, though, the Establishment only sees an opportunity to protect their shrinking turf.
As I write these very words, 180,000 Walgreens' workers are trying to figure out how they are going to fare now that they have been thrown to the wolves of government exchanges, millions can't find a job, and who knows how many are losing the work hours that define the difference between making that week's bills or not. But what are the media giddy about today? What is Joe Scarborough puffing his sanctimonious face up about? The process over Ted Cruz's fight for these people.
But the GOP Establishment are not talking about them, and the very same media that just loves to pretend they care about our society's most vulnerable have once again made their choice between the poor and The State.
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I remember the first thing I thought when I saw this video was that something looked strange and surreal about the explosion. I was immediately distracted by the flying drone like everyone else.
This is unlike anything i've ever seen.
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I ran across this yesterday, great fuel(pun intended) for another conspiracy angle. It has to do with the lithium batteries being targeted with a laser. Apparently the 1st and 2nd stages use lithium batteries which can explode. It is interesting reading. Could those small orbs be laser platforms? I am not sure if that type of beam is within the visual scale for humans.
Ian if you hit the lithium ion battery on a rocket with enough x-rays it will explode creating a small nuclear chain reaction as seen with this space-x explosion.
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Here is an fascinating interview with Jason Zweig, author of Your Money and Your Brain where he discusses how irrational most investors are, both professional and amateur alike. His experiments underscore the importance of having broad metrics on your perfomance to learn and keep yourself honest! FYI - the best tidbits are on page 2. [more]
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Here's a very interesting chart from the NY Times that compares the decline in employment across recent recessions. The relative severity of the current recession is astounding. It is interesting to note that the biggest impact on jobs has been in the blue collar sector (e.g. manufacturing and construction) and I fear that many of these jobs will not come back for many years. This unemployment/underemployment could drag on retail sales for a long time. [more]
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2L Sarah Barr started thinking about the rights of young people while in middle school in Short Hills, New Jersey.
In addition to her own parents, so many of her peers' parents were also divorcing that the school guidance counselor declared "a state of emergency" and founded a peer support circle for the estimated 65% of Barr's classmates. Amidst the chaos, Barr felt powerless while she watched her own and her friends' lives dramatically change. None of them had any influence on their parents' custody arrangements in court. Many were infuriated and felt blindsided by the imposed changes, yet none seemed to have a voice the adults thought worth hearing.
Despite this early experience, and despite growing up with a lawyer mother, it was not until her post-college job at the Children's Law Center (CLC) in Washington, D.C. that Barr realized she was passionate about pursuing a career in law. At CLC, which represents foster care youth, Barr was involved in cases that allowed families to be reunited, or placed kids in safe situations after suffering harm. Connecting personally with many of her clients reinforced for Barr how the law can be a powerful tool to improve people's lives.
After her first year at UC Hastings, during which she competed on the Negotiations Team, Barr landed an internship in the Appeals, Writs & Trials section of the Criminal Division at the California Attorney General's Office in San Francisco. This division responds to and prosecutes criminal appeals, including death penalty cases. Throughout the 10-week internship, Barr responded to appeals, handled four cases on her own, and earned the praise of her supervisor, Deputy Attorney General Dorian C. Jung, who said that Barr handled "more cases, of greater complexity, than I could have expected of any law student."
In addition to the cases she handled through written appeals, Barr was able to argue an appeal in court during the internship because she became certified with the California State Bar by taking Professor Roger Park's Evidence class. Barr believes it was her experience arguing before three judges in Moot Court with Professor Alexius Markwalder that allowed her to stay calm during the experience. "I felt I had the skills and I definitely had the tools [to argue]," Barr said, "I just had to use them."
Since Barr has a clear vision for how she wants to give back to the community as an attorney—she wants to use her time at UC Hastings to focus on getting the most thorough law education possible. With that said, in addition to working on the Hastings Law Journal, she can't resist the urge to start volunteering with The Justice & Diversity Center's (JDC) Legal Advice and Referral Clinic this year, which responds to legal concerns of the general public. As for next summer? Barr has already gotten an offer to work at a law firm, though she is not ready to disclose where.


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The wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyer is a capital ship bristling with weapons emplacements. Turbolasers and tractor beam projectors dot its surface. Its belly hangar bay can launch TIE fighters, boarding craft, land assault units, hyperspace probes, or be used to hold captured craft. In the days of the Empire, its bustling bridge would be staffed by the finest crewers in the Imperial starfleet. Its presence in a system mark matters of extreme Imperial import. Though, as is typical of the Empire, not even the Star Destroyer was enough to sate the Imperial hunger for displays of power. Larger vessels, such as the Super Star Destroyer, dwarf even these giants.
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Slither (Widescreen Edition) is a horror film that's sure to make you squirm… with laughter. In a small town, a meteor crashes in the woods. Then it opens to reveal an alien worm that goes into a guy named Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) and takes over his body and mind. Now all he thinks about is meat and sex, but that's only the beginning.
Soon the creature within Grant grows. His gorgeous wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks) notices something different as if Grant was a whole new person and seems to enjoy it. That is until she finds out the truth about him. It's not just about the alien possession and the disgusting closet, but Grant also mated with another woman, Brenda (Brenda James). Then Grant becomes hostile toward Starla. Luckily the police, lead by Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion), was there to save her. Now it's up to them to hunt Grant down and the alien that possessed him.
I remember when Nathan Fillion came to FX Convention 2008. He made a grand entrance as fans cheered for him in the autograph line and said, "This is the place for cool people." Nathan was a real nice guy and my sister was thrilled to have met him. Most of the fans there were fans of Firefly and Serenity, which was based on Firefly. To be honest, I never liked Firefly, but Nathan Fillion had other great roles like Bill Pardy from Slither and the Caleb from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Jack the Mayor (Gregg Henry) also joins in the search and he is hilarious. Jack believes that Grant's condition is Lyme disease. "You touch some deer feces and then you eat a sandwich without washing your hands, you got your Lyme disease." It's also funny when Jack complains that nobody brought any Mr. Pibb.
Starla and the police follow the trail of dead animals to a farm where Grant has become a more dangerous drooling squid worm beast. Then they follow him through the forest to an old shack where Brenda was kept. Brenda's constant hunger has made her huge. I remember back when this movie was new and the web site included a feature about feeding Brenda slabs of meat lying around. Remember that?
Disaster strikes when Brenda explodes and releases a whole bunch of baby alien worms. At first I thought they were like leeches. Then it's revealed that these worms don't bite, they only possess people by getting into their mouths. So they're not as threatening as leeches or zombies. Then again, they can also spit acid.
The worms run loose all over town and look for more victims. One of them even sneaks into a house, where Kylie (Tania Saulnier), a teenage girl, is taking a bath. Dude, what is it with monsters peeping on young ladies taking bubble baths? Although Kylie escapes the worm attack, the rest of her family wasn't so lucky.
The possessed victims are also all psychically connected to Grant for he is the source carrier. It becomes even creepier when some of the victims merge together with Grant as Bill and Starla confront him.
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STAMFORD -- Continued drunk driving patrols through the holiday season resulted in the arrest of a Stamford father who was driving with his 18-month-old son in the car while his blood alcohol was more than two times over the legal limit, police said.
Mario Aguirre-Alonzo, 30, of 54 Grant St., was charged with risk of injury to a child and driving while under the influence. He was released after posting a $1,500 bond.
The stop came Saturday about 6 p.m. while Lt. Diedrich Hohn was on patrol near Lockwood Avenue and Lillian Street. At the corner he spotted Aguirre-Alonzo in a Nissan Pathfinder not wearing a seat belt, Capt. Thomas Wuennemann said.
After Hohn stopped the car he said he saw that the car seat the child was strapped into was not attached to the rear seat.
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of the vehicle. Hohn then smelled alcohol on the Aguirre-Alonzo's breath.
After failing a series of field sobriety tests, Aguirre-Alonzo was taken to police headquarters where he submitted to a breathalyzer test. The test showed that he had a blood alcohol content of .20, which is more than twice the legal limit of .08, Wuennemann said.
Hohn said that the child safety seat should have been belted into the vehicle, but it was just placed on the rear seat and would have slammed forward had there been a sudden stop.
"The child in the seat would have been missile if there was an accident," Hohn said.
Wuennemann said the extra patrols are paid for by funds provided to the city by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Connecticut Department of Transportation to rid the city of drivers impaired by drugs and alcohol.


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After having its winning streak upset by BMW last year, a Porsche 911 once again claimed the top spot at this year's 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. As the 11th 911 to win Germany's famed endurance race outright, the Porsche Team Manthey 911 GT3 RSR also made history with its record-setting distance of 156 laps driven within the 24-hour period.
Porsche's resident hot shoes — and also two of the drivers of the number one Audi R18 TDI prototype that crashed out earlier this month at Le Mans — Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas piloted the 911 GT3 RSR this past weekend, along with fellow works drivers Marc Lieb and Lucas Luhr. Together, the quartet led 108 laps of the race, totaling 16 hours and 35 minutes at the head of the field. At the end of 24 grueling hours, the Manthey GT3 RSR had completed 156 laps and 3958.9 kilometers (2460 miles) — a record distance for the endurance race. The victory is the fifth for Manthey Racing at the Nürburgring 24 Hours in six years and also marks five wins for Porsche factory driver Timo Bernhard.
"We already knew before the start that we could only win if we worked together as a team, from the drivers through to the mechanics," said Bernhard. "And this worked very well for the entire time."
The Manthey GT3 RSR finished ahead of last year's winner, the BMW M3 GT2, which still managed a second-place finish. The third and final spot on the podium belonged to the Audi R8 LMS of Audi Sport Team Phoenix, which battled with the M3 along with the Mamerow Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 — which crashed out of the race — for second place. The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid, which took home third place in last year's race, experienced a number of technical issues along with a minor accident on track at the midpoint of the race that led to its disappointing 28th-place finish this year.
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This regards the April issue letter from Richard Evans, director of American Brahman Breeders Association, on the "Crossbreeding With Composites" article in the February issue of BEEF.
I can only say, with all due respect, that he's dead wrong in his comments regarding hybrids and heterosis.
A quick look at another dictionary, such as "Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary," provides this definition of "hybrid" — the offspring of two animals or plants of different races, breeds, varieties, species or genera.
The amount of heterosis produced in a mating is dependent on the amount of heterozygosity produced, and the most heterozygosity produced (in order from most to least) would be mating:
animals of different species,
animals of different breeds,
distinctly different inbred lines of the same breed,
unrelated animals of the same breed, and
related animals of the same breed.
The designation of genus, specie or breed is a label imposed by man; heterosis is still dependent on the amount of heterozygosity produced in a mating, as heterosis is proportional to heterozygosity. For all practical purposes, mating animals of the same breed produces almost no useful heterosis.
Mating animals of different species has generally been met with major fertility problems, i.e., mules, bison x cattle crosses, yak x cattle crosses, etc. Thus, for at least the last 60 years, crossing breeds of cattle has been the predominant practice, and extensive research has repeatedly proven heterosis or hybrid vigor (performance advantage of crossbred animals over and above the average of the parental breeds used) does exist.
Furthermore, heterosis isn't only measurable in the F1 (or first cross), but also in the F2, F3, and F4 crosses. This is borne out by the Germ Plasm Utilization project at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE.
The fact Brahman (Bos indicus) and domestic cattle (Bos taurus) mate and produce offspring with basically no fertility loss would, in the minds of some taxonomists, indicate Bos indicus isn't a distinctly different specie from Bos taurus. Reference "Animal Breeding Plans" by Jay Lush, Iowa State University Press, 1945.
While the original article in the February issue says: "maximum heterosis is realized in the first cross of distinctly different parents," it would have been more precise to say: "maximum heterosis is realized in the first cross of distinctly different parental breeds."
Jim Gosey
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Controlled burns are proven
The April issue article regarding controlled burning, "Bye-Bye, Hoppers" (page 40), pointed the many obviously negative aspects of the misguided anti-controlled burning programs.
I've spent a lifetime with livestock and row crop farming and farm-animal veterinary medicine in the coastal plain farming area of lower South Carolina. I learned early on, and it was reinforced in my veterinary practice, that luck and coincidence rarely explain things. The answer, and ultimate solution to a problem, generally lies in "cause and effect."
Regular controlled burning used to be standard practice in our area. We rarely had catastrophic forest fires, the trees grew faster and reproduced better, and natural grasses for the cattle did better. We rarely saw a tick on livestock and very little of the tick-borne diseases and parasites.
Slowly, as the years went by, and with the crusades against controlled burning, all this changed. A coincidence? Hardly so.
Earle Goodman, DVM
Turbeville, SC
Thoughts on buying bulls
Buying enough bulls ("Bullish Returns, Part II," March BEEF, page 82) to be assured of having those last few cows sought and serviced, wherever they might be, has a definite downside. Purchase price, feed — enough for at least one more cow, one more calf to sell, fighting with possible bull injuries, broken corral planks and miscellaneous annoyances, and minus the salvage value at the sales ring on several insurance bulls, all adds up.
Prices being what they are right now, those late, late calves may allow the cow to break even on her feed and pasture bill. But the time seems to be coming when it'll take the profit from another earlier-calving cow to carry her.
Those numbers hit home some time ago here. Using Baekert Gaucho Brand just-about-stretch-proof barbwire and twisted wire fence stays, I made a pasture with steel posts 60 ft. apart; and part of a second 100 ft. apart (cattle will respect the devil of out of good wire). It includes a water hole and one short stretch of creek and I use it for breeding season use only.
Toss in a second somewhat similar pasture (and some early, early crested wheatgrass acreage) and 85% of 200 cows are bred the first heat period, using five, sometimes six, bulls.
Gotta have some insurance you know.
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Klaus Pardo's Rocky Road lifted Grand Vitara
The Beautiful shots were taken in Perúvian Andes. The region known as Huraz en el "callejón de Huaylas".
In the Huascaran National Park
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Jerry Bowling having some fun on 'Rattlesnake' in his lifted Grand Vitara. If you're not sure your GV can tackle tough trails... you just need to spend an afternoon with Jerry to dispell that myth right out of your head.
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took this Grand Vitara project to the extreme for the Netherlands Auto Show
using our suspension lift, among many of their own custom modifications of
Who was the one single shop they came to for suspension equipment?
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Now we can't guarantee your Vitara will look this cool with our components
installed... but at least it won't look like the Mazda MPV mini-van anymore
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Heather Locklear is in "good spirits" after she was released from hospital in California on Friday (13Jan12).
The troubled actress was admitted to the Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, California on Thursday (12Jan12) after her sister reportedly called emergency services to the star's home.
She spent a night under the care of doctors before she was deemed well enough to be released.
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The rep also cleared up false reports suggesting the Melrose Place star had attempted suicide, adding, "Her parents wanted her fans to know this was not a suicide attempt and that she's doing really well and very good."


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Guam Shipyard, Santa Rita, Guam, is being awarded an $8,952,117 firm fixed price contract for a regular overhaul of Military Sealift Command ammunition ship USNS Shasta (T-AE 33). This regular overhaul includes cleaning, and inspecting tanks and spaces, underwater hull cleaning and painting, and numerous inspections and certifications. The ship's primary mission is to deliver ammunition, provisions, stores, spare parts, potable water and petroleum to the Navy's carrier strike groups and other naval forces at sea. The contract includes options that, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $10,929,307. Work will be performed in Santa Rita, Guam, and is expected to be completed within 55 calendar days. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was a sole source procurement. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Fleet Support Command, a field activity of Military Sealift Command, is the contracting activity (N40446-09-C-0003).


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Dr. Mark K. Fulk, assistant professor of English at Buffalo State University of New York, presented a very interesting lecture at the May Sarton Centennial in May. He is the author of Understanding May Sarton, published by the University of South Carolina in 2001. I am pleased to include his talk "Sarton As a Poet and Secular Contemplative" in today's Reflections. For further information about him visit: http://www.buffalostate.edu/english/fulkmk.xml?username=fulkmk
I was fortunate to have a chance to chat with Mark at the Poetry Celebration and Dinner the final evening of the Centennial. As we prepared to go into the informal meal, Linda Hedger snapped this picture of Mark Fulk, Lenora Blouin (see my May 18, 2012 blog) and me.
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i have been loving watching my father become a grandfather, theres a world of difference and this has that feeling.
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We thought the pricescope community would be interested in learning about a brilliant initiative that will have impacts in communities in diamond mining areas as well as communities all over the world. When we sent a message to the Diamond Development Initiative recommending that this product might be synergistic for them, we received a very nice reply from Dorothée Gizenga, Executive Director of DDI saying "We believe there is merit in the initiative 'gravity light' and we need to discuss internally how best to approach this in our work." You might say that it is a story about a different kind of light performance
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Clue in the Castle Tower is a Historical Character Mystery that is part of Samantha's books.
From the Central Series
- Charles Stallsworth
- Emily Stallsworth (mentioned only)
- Henry and Ian Stallsworth
- Mr. Fisher
- Florence Flothingham
- Mabel
- Mrs. Grissom
- Daisy
- Roger
Chapter By Chapter Summary
Chapter One: Invitation From a Knight
Chapter Two: The Ghost in the Library
Chapter Three: Missing Treasure
Chapter Four: A Surprise Announcement
Chapter Five: Unexpected Consequences
Chapter Six: Footprints in the Snow
Chapter Seven: A Chase
Chapter Eight: The Figure in White
Chapter Nine: Search for a Secret
Chapter Ten: The Letter
Looking Back
Discusses Americans traveling abroad and the differences between American and English society during the turn of the century. Topics include:
- London's status as the largest and most important city
- How wealthy Americans viewed European cities as centers of culture and sophistication
- What wealthy American families might have undertaken during a Grand Tour of Europe, such as studying history or learning foreign languages
- How American and English society were viewed by people - America as a land of opportunity for immigrants, in contrast to England's social class system
- English nobility and landed gentry, wealthy landowners who owned land but were not part of nobility
- Servants' roles in English manors and castles
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That's funny that you have pictures to prove your alibi of being gone and unable to paint! But, hey, there is always next week.ReplyDelete
I love those covers for the Chocolate Cookbooks!
Keep working but don't work to death, k? §:-))ReplyDelete
Just loving the wedding. Love weddings!
Can't wait for more of your paintings, nxt w/end.
You have been busy! I Love those Cakes!!! Sooo Cute!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!ReplyDelete
LOL!! I don't know...good thing you've got pictures LOL! You have been one very busy lady! That reunion must have been sooo interesting! Those cakes are so cute!ReplyDelete
At least you have good excuses. And photos. The cakes are just too cute. Now after your little shin dig, get painting. lol.ReplyDelete
I agree with the others that good thing you have proof of your busyness as your alibi. You must have had a great time though. I scrolled down to see what you had INTENDED to do. The chairs should look great once you get around to it. Do you have one of those? I do. It says "Round tuit" on it. LOL! Thanks for coming by my place today. I will be back to see the finished chairs. Oh, I live in California too.ReplyDelete
oh well, you were busy with something great! you can always start next week :-)ReplyDelete
The chocolate cookbook covers are beautiful! I can relate to getting busy and not being able to finish projects. :)ReplyDelete
I am a chocoholic and was an avid scrapbooker at one point. I also love brown and pink. Your book covers are so delightful. And the verse you chose is even more delightful.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your supportive comment on my blog for my procrastinator project. I did it! I do feel accomplished like you said and I am very grateful.
I think it is your twin in the photos and you just watched soap operas and ate bon bons. Actually the this would be funny on a cop show. I am glad you had fun. Life is far more important than pressure.ReplyDelete
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You'll continue to assemble elements in the composition. After importing the lightning footage, you'll adjust the image with a few effects.
Turn on the video for all the layers except HMatte.psd. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the Project window, choose Import > Footage File, select Litng.mov, and click Open.
Set the current time to 15:00 and center Litng.mov in the Composition window by dragging it from the Project window into the Time Layout window.
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