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Dingman granted conditional paroleBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 05. 2013 2:06PM
CONCORD – Jeffrey A. Dingman was granted tentative parole Thursday that requires him to remain in a Manchester halfway house until he meets conditions set down by the state's Adult Parole Board, including getting professional counseling and learning life skills.
"We want you to be ready to reintegrate into society and there are certain things you need to do," Adult Parole Board Chairman Donna Sytek told Dingman during the 30-minute hearing at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men.
Dingman was a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Rochester Middle School when he was first incarcerated for the 1996 murders of his parents, Eve and Vance Dingman. He spent more than 17 years in various prison facilities and transferred to the Calumet halfway house in Manchester about four months ago.
Dingman, 31, has never had a cellphone or bank account in his name, doesn't know how to drive a car or rent an apartment.
He is eligible for parole Feb. 7. The parole board acknowledged Dingman likely will not complete the conditions by that time and would have to remain in the halfway house until the board approves his parole plan.
Dingman's maternal uncle and aunt, Maurice and Elizabeth Landry of Greenfield, supported their nephew's release on parole and said they would help him.
"From the bottom of our hearts, we forgive him and we want to give him a second chance," Elizabeth Landry said.
"You have spent more than half of your life behind bars. But you have done everything that was required of you," Sytek told Dingman, a tall, lean, dark-haired man dressed in a grey suit.
"Because your circumstances are different, we are concerned about how you will succeed on the outside," she added.
Dingman's attorney, Mark Stevens, later said his client is "grateful" and is prepared to meet all conditions the parole board requires.
Dingman pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in a negotiated deal that required he testify as the state's key witness against his older brother, Robert, then 17.
Robert, 35, is serving life in prison without possibility of parole for two counts of first-degree murder.
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The 1996 murders of Eve and Vance Dingman became one of the state's first high-profile cases of teen killers, as the public learned the couple's sons had plotted the killings and cruelly taunted the wounded pair as the final bullets were fired into their bodies.
Now, more than 17 years later, younger brother Jeffrey A. Dingman, 31, has his first shot at real freedom.
Dingman has been working in Manchester since July 25 while living at the Calumet halfway house on Lowell Street, state corrections department spokesman Jeffrey Lyons said.
He was 14 when he and his brother, Robert, then 17, murdered their parents inside their Rochester home. Today the state's Adult Parole Board will consider his request to be released from prison when he becomes eligible for parole Feb. 7.
Dingman admitted he and Robert shot their 40-year-old parents with a .22 caliber handgun on Feb. 9, 1996. The negotiated plea required he testify at his brother's first-degree murder trial as the state's key witness.
In exchange, Dingman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 30-year-to-life prison sentence with 12 years of his minimum sentence suspended, provided he remain on good behavior. Dingman also had earned almost 1 1/3 years of pre-trial credit — 505 days — when he was sentenced July 2, 1997, which was deducted from his minimum sentence, Lyons said Wednesday.
Robert V. Dingman, 35, was convicted of first-degree murders for killing his parents and sentenced to life without possibility of parole in 1997. Since then, he has been incarcerated at New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord, Lyons said.
Jeffrey Dingman testified at the Strafford County Superior Court trial that he and his brother killed their parents because they "didn't like 'em." Robert resented the curfews and other restrictions his parents placed on him.
The younger Dingman said he fired first at his father when Vance Dingman came home from work. "Want another one?" he said his brother, Robert, said before shooting his father a second time.
Jeffrey testified he shot his mother "two or three times" when she came home from work, but turned his head away when his brother stood over her and fired a final round into her head, saying "Die bitch," as she tried to crawl away.
The brothers wrapped their parents' bodies in garbage bags and duct tape. They put their father's corpse in the attic and their mother's in the basement. They stayed in the house part of the weekend and went to school on Monday. Police found the bodies after Eve Dingman's co-workers called to say they were worried she hadn't shown up for work.
Robert Dingman's defense attorneys claimed Jeffrey killed the couple, and Robert only helped him cover it up.
Jeffrey Dingman and his attorney, Mark Stevens of Salem, will present their case for parole before the three-member parole board chaired by former House Speaker Donna Sytek. Mark E. Furlone, a retired New Hampshire State Police trooper, and Derry lawyer M. Kathryn McCarroll also will preside.
Corrections staff prepared a package for the board that evaluates Dingman's record in prison, whether he met all the criteria required of him and what risk he might pose to the public if released on parole, parole board executive assistant Andrea J. Goldberg said.
"Parole is a privilege, not a right," Goldberg explained. "We want to ensure that we have a proper evaluation to ensure the community is safe."
The staff's evaluation package recommends Dingman be paroled, she said.
But, she added, "that is just one piece of the puzzle."
The parole board also will want to ensure a "suitable parole plan" is in place and will listen to testimony and statements given by those representing the victims and those advocating for Dingman, Goldberg said.
Dingman served most of his prison term in Pennsylvania, corrections spokesman Lyons said.
He returned to New Hampshire in Oct. 22, 2011, where he was incarcerated at the state prison in Concord, then transferred to the minimum security facility on state prison grounds Jan. 16, before coming to Manchester in July.
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Constituents of the benchmark gauge for American stocks such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Walt Disney Co. cut interest expenses to 2.39 percent of sales in the 12 months ended Sept. 30 on average, the lowest level since at least 2002, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Strategas Research Partners. With borrowing expenses at record lows, executives are finding it harder to squeeze costs, causing profit margins to contract for the first time since 2009.
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Note: On April 2, 2014 the State Board of Education adopted new mentoring regulations (effective as of May 5, 2014). The Department is in the process of updating the following tools to fully align with the new regulations.
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|Forms | Presentations & Materials | Glossary [PDF] | Resources
The mentoring toolkit is designed as a resource guide for all school systems in New Jersey to support the implementation of the state regulations for mentoring and the Professional Standards for Teachers. The traditional and alternate route novice teachers in New Jersey are being assured that during their induction into the teaching profession they will participate in a rigorous one-year mentoring program. The resource guide will help the local Professional Development Committee (LPDC) develop and implement a mentoring plan that is aligned with the NJ Professional Standards for Teachers and complies with the current regulations for mentoring as outlined in N.J.A.C. 6A:9-8 and adopted by the State Board of Education in December 2003.
Throughout the resource guide, information pertaining to state regulations on mentoring is noted and highlighted in red. These are the minimum requirements of the state for a district-based mentoring program. To further extend the stakeholders' knowledge base and the development of a mentoring program beyond the basics, key concepts are presented throughout the guide, highlighted in blue, and linked to appropriate folders. Established effectiveness mentor training models, such as Pathwise, New Teacher Center, or BEST, are described in Folder Four for further exploration.


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Aluminiumgerüste ALUPONT F135 TORRE SERVIZIO
Scaffold length, 2,55 m. Scaffold width, 1,35 m. Maximum overall height, 14,30 m.
- 100 % aluminium structure
- Internal service ladders with deep steps, 200 mm, provided with a small entrance and exit platforms
- Robust round rungs Ø 50,8 mm. with non-slip knurling
- Quick installation of protective frame component which automatically locks into place
- Diagonal brace lock into place automatically through use of die cast hooks
- Automatic coupling of the vertical frame through use of stainless steel wrapp-around clamps
- Non-slip waterproof work platform provided with trapdoor and wooden toeboards made from Finnish birch trees
- Work platforms with wind-resistance safety against accidental lifting
- With levelling screw legs mounted into plates which are fixable to the ground providing a great structural stability
- Stabilizing outrigger for every requirement with articulated non-slide support feet
- The structure's modulation has great flexibility allowing a quick change between the different configurations
On demand: Aluminium cross hatch plate surface work platforms provided with a trapdoor and toe blocks
The Alupont service tower is a good solution for providing a quick access and facilitates the movement of workers on worksites, helping them with the movement of manual loads.
The service tower uses standard components and retains all of the same advantages in the speed, simplicity and safety during assembly as during disassembly, thanks to the automated lock off of the structural components.
Every section has regulation protection and is provided with inner and outer handrails which follow along the outline of the ladder.
The Alupont service tower can be combined with all Alupont scaffolds or structures or used as a temporary or permanent functional and autonomous access ladder, with exits on the intermediary floors.


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I don't remember if it was heat sensitivity, joint pain or the intense dizzy spells that I started to notice first. I just remember that for some reason, I was sweating a lot whenever it was above 50 degrees, and it was embarrassing. I learned how to wear layers so that I could go from sweater to tank top before my glasses could fog up. I began avoiding going anywhere when it was hot outside. I started to notice that working out hurt (a lot) and it wasn't my technique or poor shoe quality, my bones just ached and burned and screamed the minute I put them to use. And I remember thinking to myself, "What in the world? Am I diabetic now or something??" every time I had to grab on to the nearest stationary object to keep myself from falling. Those dizzy spells were intense, almost as if promising a path to freedom if I succumbed to their peripheral darkness.
The rash came next. It started with a perfectly round little splotch on my left cheek. It took up residence, unpacked and made itself at home on my face. It grew. It did not go away. I went to the dermatologist and at first they thought it could be a "GR Tumor" or ring worm. Turns out, it wasn't a GR tumor so they continued with the alleged ring worm path and took a scraping to affirm said invader.
"How in the world can it be ring worm?" I asked, "I have a fish!"
Perhaps it was one of your friends' pets...try this anti-fungal and come back in two weeks. Okay, give me the cream, if you insist.
Cream didn't work, big surprise. But they now insisted that it was 'a stubborn case of ring worm'. More cream. And the rash continued to grow. It was now about the size of a half dollar. I began to believe that fish had not adapted to life in little bowls but had perhaps evolved to spite their owners with the ability to induce bouts of mysterious and stubborn ring worm.
Then my hands changed. They swelled up like water balloons, turned blue and purple, and they hurt like hell. Every time I grasped anything, opened a door, held on to my steering wheel, I felt as if these swollen squishy fingers were simply going to burst open and gush out. They were so tight and filled with fluid. Balloon hands. Like the marshmallow guy on those tire commercials...only purple. My mornings had begun to resemble something more of a scenario you would face when you were 80, not 28. It took hours to get moving and to work through the joint pain enough to pull off a shower. I knew deep inside that something was wrong but I really didn't want to accept it-I was too young and had always been healthy, for the most part. But I knew. I began to wonder if perhaps it wasn't diabetes but rheumatoid arthritis, or maybe both...either way, it was time to go to a doctor.
I showed up for my first visit with a new primary care provider with my battle list in hand and a hint of excitement (I hadn't seen a doctor since moving to Oklahoma other than the dermatologist). Maybe she could solve the mystery ring worm rash problem while she tended to these mitten hands of mine. I had written out a list of all the symptoms I had been experiencing including the symptoms mentioned above, a low grade fever, trouble sleeping, headaches and muscle weakness. I was determined not to leave her office until I had answers, especially on my theory of fish evolution. I didn't have to put up much of a fight. She took one look at me and asked a few pointed questions that I feared were already leading away from the ring worm theory. Suddenly I really wanted to have ring worm! She noticed that I was clutching a piece of paper in my hands as if someone had thrown my a lifeline and were I to let go I would be washed down river never to be recovered.
She said, "Did you bring a list?!"
She laughed about my list (not in a mocking manner) and then asked to see the list.
"It isn't ring worm. You have lupus."
"I think you have lupus. I can't tell you for sure yet but we are going to run some tests. And stay out of the sun, it will make it worse." She explained that this massive panel of blood tests would take a while to come back and then they would have to run even more if I came back with abnormal results. If I wanted to speed up the diagnosis I should call my dermatologist and ask him do a biopsy on the rash to look for lupus. It would be a lot faster this way. As I sat downstairs in the lab wincing through the 13th vial of blood I remember thinking to myself, "What in the world is lupus??" and "What does the sun have to do with it?" I drove home in a state of shock. Deciding not to follow through on my overwhelming urge to go out and binge drink, I called my dermatologist instead.
"My primary thinks it is lupus, can we do a biopsy?"
I will never forget the sound my dermatologist made...a slow but intense and pained breath as he realized that no, it was not in fact ring worm. I couldn't see him but I could very clearly read the 'oh shit' that he must of mouthed during that labored inhale. I love him for that. They had me scheduled for a biopsy the next morning.
It was lupus. She was right, it didn't take long. They called me with the biopsy results two days later. You know it isn't ever good when they start the call with, "We have your test results, are you sitting down?" My heart sank. I already knew it was lupus-the internet had done a fine job verifying this-but it still sucked hearing it, as if being said out loud some how gave the disease permission to proceed with its takeover.
I had lupus. I was now allergic to the sun. Actually, I was 100% photosensitive. I couldn't be under fluorescent light either. I would deteriorate in minutes if I dared a trip to the store, a mall run, or heaven forbid, a walk around the block. I was now a prisoner of darkness condemned to a life of hiding in the shadows. I wore long sleeves, pants, sunglasses, a hat and even light colored gloves when I drove. It is REALLY hot in Oklahoma during the summer and heat intolerance aside, all of this 'protection' was miserable at best.
I received word from my contact at the Peace Corps that the Master's International graduate program I had hoped to attend was out. I couldn't be stationed in a jungle somewhere with a life-threatening illness, and no, I couldn't appeal. I couldn't work anywhere that had lights...tricky because there is light everywhere. I kept my job waiting tables during the day (I had just gotten this job to help pay down my credit card debt because you can't leave the country with the Peace Corps if you have any amount of outstanding debt) but I needed another job to make ends meet now that my plans for the future had been so cruelly vetoed. So I took a job bartending at night, it was dark and most people couldn't see the rash through all the smoke. They were short shifts and I could nap between. It worked.
It was startling how fast my life changed after my diagnosis. I had 7 specialists, one for every body system that lupus had invaded. I went to the doctor at least twice a week. I took a lot of drugs, up to 43 pills a day at the height of it all. Drugs you never even knew existed for problems you also didn't know existed, unless you get lupus. I went through chemo. It sucked, just like you hear that it does. Most of what I found on the internet or heard from doctors was that nowadays patients could lead 'normal' lives with lupus as long as they had adequate health care. I found this to be false. There is nothing normal about having lupus. It is an invisible disease (without the rash anyway) and it is isolating. Very, very isolating. Most of the people in my world were gone. You can only decline so many invites before they are no longer extended. And unless you are really good at asking for help, you live alone with your lupus. Maybe the drugs would keep me alive but it wasn't much of a life anymore. My hope for the future was gone and my life was now solely about survival.
Right after beginning chemo I started flying up to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. My doctors were having a hard time treating my lupus in Tulsa and I was hoping the Mayo could help. It is an amazing place, one I highly recommend to anyone needing answers or if you have a hard-to-treat or diagnose illness. They rock.
Unfortunately, lupus stumped my team in Rochester as well. I had the kind of lupus that just didn't respond to medical therapy. The rash now covered my entire face, my chest, my arms and various other places on my body. My other symptoms had progressed and new symptoms had popped up. The side effects of the drugs had started to show their ugly heads as well. I had muscle atrophy, bone loss and a really fat face. Most of my hair had fallen out. After about a year of traveling back and forth to Rochester my doctors told me that I would just have to live with my lupus, until it killed me anyway, and the lupus I had might just do that. Like the alleged ring worm, it was a stubborn case. So stubborn, even a certain diagnosis was evaded. I began to hear that it might be mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) in addition to systemic lupus...they just didn't know and at this point, it was hard to decipher what symptoms were from the disease(s) and what was due to toxic drugs. We would just have to wait and see what happened next.
This is no way to 'live'. So I began to look for different answers. Fortunately, so did my boyfriend Mike (though we weren't dating at the time). He was fascinated by my light allergy and knew that the drugs weren't working. While I lurked around on lupus blogs and read up on alternative therapies and diets, he looked for the link between lupus and light. What he found changed our world forever.
Enter Hugh McGrath, MD, the pioneer of UVA1 Phototherapy and systemic lupus.
"You may be mad at me, I don't know, but I found this book and I think you should take a look at it" says Mike as he plops a thin black and yellow book down in front of me. "I had it overnighted", he said with a smile that twitched with anxiety, "I hope you don't mind."
Lupus Underground, by Anthony DeBartolo.
"A patient's case for long-ignored drug-free non-patentable counter-intuitive therapy that actually works" I read on the cover. Then I read the introduction...
"If the demonstrated potential of UVA1 light to improve the lives of lupus sufferers were more publicly known, if research concerning both benefits and risks were accurately presented, if critics were fair, if our pharmaceutical industry didn't hold excessive power over medical research and practice...Lupus Underground would not have needed to be written. If UVA1 light didn't alleviate fatigue, it wouldn't have been."
What was this and why hadn't I heard of it??
By the next morning I had read the entire book. I was convinced. This light would work. Now we just had to figure out how to get into the light. Most clinics and hospitals do not have UVA1 equipment and in addition, most doctors are not familiar with the light nor do they know of its success in treating lupus disease activity. I found out that the Mayo Clinic had a UVA1 machine they used for scleroderma and cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. I wanted to try it, just a few sessions while I was up there for my regular check ups. Neither my dermatologist or rheumatologist had ever heard of treating lupus with UVA1 and that they didn't think it was a good idea. I could go into renal failure. I had done a lot of research at this point and not once had I come across a bad result, in fact, all of the studies I read showed UVA1 to be successful AND safe.
I spent an extra week up there in Rochester 'harassing' my doctors. I was there when they got to work, I was there when they left. I held open the elevator doors begging for just 5 minutes in the light. I would sign a waiver-I even wrote one up! I brought them cookies and waited all day every day outside their offices so that I could give them copies of my research. I had printed out studies and clinical trials for them, highlighted and flagged where I thought the most important points of discussion were, indexed the notebooks and included a copy of Lupus Underground in each 'gift' basket (also highlighted and flagged). I went to the light lab and stalked the nurses there. I took pictures of their UVA1 machine and informed all of them on the merits of UVA1 phototherapy and lupus. I almost got in, almost...
They just didn't know enough and explained that although they were a research hospital, they were slow to adopt new therapies. They just didn't know what would happen and weren't ready to let me into their light machine. Okay, I got it, I understood. I was disappointed but I understood and oh was I determined.
"Thank you for putting up with me - I am not going to take the CellCept (next drug in line), and I am tapering off my other drugs. And I am going to go home and build my own unit," I informed my doctor.
He smiled, looked down for a minute and said, "I am sure you are." After another pause, he added, "Would you like to schedule a four month follow up?" Ha! He was curious! I had at least gotten their attention and now they knew this was out there...I bet he would read those clinical trials now!
Mike built the unit. He had already ordered a used phototherapy machine off of eBay and it had been delivered by the time my plane landed back in Tulsa. Within a week he had switched out the bulbs and had finished converting it into a UVA1 machine. I was too sick to talk myself into driving over so he came over and picked me up. I guess the engineer in him was even more curious than I at the time. Or maybe I was just that sick. Either way, he saved my life.
We both stood in that garage for hours just staring at the machine. What in the world were we thinking? This was crazy! We were like mad scientists doing an experiment down in the secret dungeons. "You'll shoot your eye out...!" Or in my case, renal failure would be next. I knew he was nervous. After all, he had found the book, built the machine and delivered me to its door. I on the other hand didn't have anything to lose at this point. I was done with the drugs and we both knew what would happen next with my lupus: organ failure. So what would it matter if we were wrong and I had a bad reaction? But I was still nervous. What if he got in trouble for going far out of his way to help me?
We had done the research and we had faith in this light...screw it! I stuck my hand in for a minute. It didn't smoke or burn or turn me into a puddle of water on the floor like the wicked witch. Nor did I feel my kidneys begin their revolt. I went ahead and said one more prayer and stepped into the light.
10 minutes later we were both standing in front of his bathroom mirror watching my face. Something was different. My skin was more hydrated and my eyes were brighter. My rash appeared to be moving. Could this really be happening?? Could 3 minutes of light change my lupus when nothing else had worked? And how crazy that a wavelength of light may do the trick when other light would only hurt me!
The next morning I bolted out of bed before 8 am. I rushed into my bathroom and stared. Unbelievable! My rash was getting better and fast! It was already 50% gone, if not more. I was awake (early in the morning to boot) and present. My lupus fog had lifted and I had my brain back. I could think in full sentences. I didn't need hours to get moving and the pain in my joints wasn't as bad. I had energy. This was nothing other than mind-blowing. I thought no, this will just wear off and I'll be the same 'lupie' I was yesterday by the end of my shifts at work today. But it didn't wear off. In fact, over the next few weeks I continued to improve. I remember about 3 weeks in while taking a shower I was stunned because I realized I had just washed my foot without using the other arm to steady myself so I didn't fall. Even my balance had returned.
That was it. I just got better. I still had days where I needed to sleep and I still tired easily but the fatigue was nothing compared to before. After a few months the joint pain had improved by 95%. I could shower every morning after only a brief prep session with my warm and comforting coffee mug (in silence of course). I was even wearing less clothes, had ditched the gloves completely and only wore a hat if I was going to be out for more than a few minutes. I began accepting offers to go out for dinner or to a concert. My rash was gone and my hair was growing back. I was living again.
At my four month follow up with the Mayo Clinic my dermatologist was stunned. Not surprised so much, but definitely stunned. He asked about the drugs and verified that I was (as I had promised) not taking them. UVA1 had done this, not drugs, not diet changes. Out of the 23 prescriptions I had been taking before I was now only on one pill, Plaquenil, and my primary care physician had recently agreed to let me taper off of it as long as my progress continued. I hadn't changed anything else on purpose so that we would know it was the light doing the work. He ordered the usual lupus panel and said I should have the results the next day in time for my appointment with my rheumatologist. Then he sent me down to photography to document my now rash-free and unswollen face for the record. When I arrived the next morning, my rheumy had already discussed the whole thing with my dermatologist and was just sitting there with a smile on his face.
"Wow. You DO look better!" (I was very secretly pleased that they had already had a discussion on this...the light can be contagious).
More stunned as my lab results rolled in one after the other reporting 'normal' levels. My ANA was not elevated and all of my inflammation markers were normal. Even my platelets and white blood cell count had reversed. Not only had my symptom presentation and disease activity changed, so had my serologies. This light had done what drugs could not. I was in remission. Even better, my doctors both had read some of the research on UVA1. I knew that they now knew that this was an option for lupus patients. It may still be a fringe option, but they knew about it, had seen it work, and that made me happy.
So here I am almost 5 years later. Still no lupus. I recently had a panel done and it was clear. I still get tired when I overdo it. I have to watch my stress and make sure to keep it under control. But I go outside. Much like busting out of prison after years of captivity I feel an overwhelming sense of freedom on a daily basis. When I get dressed in shorts and a tank top, when I go out to lunch, or when I look in the mirror. For a while, as I continued to get better, I would sometimes catch myself having to remind myself that I could in fact go out to the garden or that I could in fact go to a show. I had been saying "I can't" for so many years that my reflex at times was still no. I would stop and smile and remind myself that the light had changed all of that...I could now. It has been so long now that reflex is gone. UVA1 phototherapy not only saved my life, it gave it back. It gave me back my hope, my face, my thoughts, and an ability to plan a future. I am free now and have been truly enlightened. I am on a mission to spread the word - don't be in the dark!!
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Oreamnos americanus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Oreamnos americanus (de Blainville, 1816)
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Festa-Bianchet, M.
|Festa-Bianchet, M. (Caprinae Red List Authority) & Stuart, S.N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
This species is listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, large population, and because it is not declining at anything close to the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found in southeast Alaska (USA), south Yukon and southwest Northwest Territories (Canada) to north-central Oregon, central Idaho, and Montana (USA). It has been introduced to Kodiak, Chichagof, and Baranof Islands (Alaska), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), central Montana, Black Hills (South Dakota), and to Colorado, Utah and northeastern Nevada (USA) (Grubb, 2005).
In Canada, mountain goats inhabit all major mountain ranges from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, west to the Coastal Range of British Columbia, and north into the St. Elias, Coast, Cassiar, Logan and Selwyn Ranges of Yukon; and the Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories. In Alaska, the mountain goat is generally continuously distributed along the mountains extending up the west coast to Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula. Its also occurs in the southern Wrangell and Talkeetna Mountains and the northern Chugach Mountains. Goat populations have been established through transplants on Baranof and Kodiak Islands. In the contiguous states, it is found in a relatively continuous distribution across several large mountain ranges in Washington, Idaho and Montana. Mountain goats are also discontinuously distributed to the east and south of this area, where many herds have been established by transplanting animals. In Alaska and Washington, separate herds are not always distinguished.
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Native:Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon); United States (Alaska, Colorado - Introduced, Idaho, Nevada - Introduced, Oregon - Introduced, South Dakota - Introduced, Utah - Introduced, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming - Introduced)
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|The total population in Canada is approximately 58,000 individuals, but could range from 44,000 to 72,000, distributed as follows: Alberta 2,750; British Columbia 39,000-67,000; Northwest Territories 1,000; and Yukon 1,400. Recent total estimates in the United States are 36,000 to 47,000 individuals, with more than 12,000 animals in the contiguous states, and 24,000 to over than 33,000 in Alaska.
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|Most mountain goats occur in high altitude habitats, up to the limit of vegetation. Although they sometimes descend to sea level in coastal areas, they are primarily an alpine and sub-alpine species. Throughout the year, the animals usually stay above the timberline, but they will migrate seasonally to higher or lower elevations within that range. Summertime migrations to low-elevation mineral licks often take them several or more kilometers through forested areas. This species is most active during the early morning and late evening, and grazing sometimes continues throughout the night. Their diet includes grasses, herbs, sedges, ferns, moss, lichen, twigs, and leaves from the low-growing shrubs and conifers of their high-altitude habitat. Their main predators are cougars, wolves and brown bears. The species lives in groups that can vary from a few to a hundred, and during the winter months, groups generally coalesce to form large herds. The gestation length is approximately 180 days, with a single birth typically, although twins are common in introduced populations. The age of primiparity varies from 2 to 5 years among populations. Male mortality is much higher than female mortality and very few males live longer than 10 years. Very few females survive more than 16 years (Festa-Bianchet and Côté, 2008).
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|Hunting is well managed in both range states, and this has stabilized past declines.
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|These animals are largely protected from threats due to the inaccessible nature of their habitat. The species is hunted, but there are regulations in both of its range states that have stabilized past declines. Mountain goats are more sensitive to human disturbance than most other ungulates, and are particularly sensitive to harassment from aircraft. Increasing aircraft use for industrial and recreational purposes on mountain goat habitat is a major concern for their conservation.
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In Canada, mountain goat habitat, along with more than 3,500 goats, are protected in eight National Parks (Banff, Glacier, Jasper, Kootenay, Nahanni, Revelstoke, Waterton and Yoho), Kluane National Park Reserve, and in Kluane Wildlife Sanctuary. Numerous provincial parks and wildlife reserves throughout western and northern Canada provide additional varying levels of protection. Limited hunting by aboriginal people is permitted in some northern national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, and licensed hunting is permitted in many provincial parks. Outside protected areas, goats are legally hunted under strict controls issued by provincial or territorial government agencies. Harvests are set annually for each population. In British Columbia for example, harvest rates vary between populations and range from 0.4 to 9% (Hebert and Smith, 1986), with an average of 1,100 to 1,200 goats shot by resident and non-residents each year in the Province. In Yukon, by contrast, harvests are much lower, varying between three and 15 animals per year, with the aboriginal harvest estimated to be zero. Transplants have been used to re-introduce mountain goats into many areas of its former range. Habitat management continues to play a key role in its conservation, and developments are subject to environmental screening processes on public land. Conservation measures proposed for Canada: 1) Determine the species' requirements for mature forests on steep slopes in coastal mountain ranges that are used as winter habitat in British Columbia (Hebert and Turnbull, 1977; Fox et al., 1989). Several coastal populations will be affected by current and future timber harvest operations. Ideally, much or most of this habitat should be preserved. 2) Obtain more accurate population inventories in all regions of Canada to allow more detailed management plans to be developed.
In the United States, primary conservation measures have included habitat protection, introductions and re-introductions, and harvest regulation. Eight state wildlife management departments have transplanted mountain goats from native ranges in Canada and the United States. Six of these states did not have indigenous populations. Many transplanted populations were established with only 10 to 15 founder animals. Goats are harvested in nine states under conservative regulations of the wildlife departments which monitor populations. The mountain goat occurs in nine federal protected areas: Alaska: Glacier Bay, Kenai Fjords, and Wrangell - St. Elias National Parks; and Kenai National Wildlife Refuge; Montana: Bison Range National Wildlife Refuge; Glacier National Park; South Dakota: Mount Rushmore National Monument; Washington: North Cascades, and Mount Rainier National Parks. However, most herds are in national forests including many wilderness areas). The International Order of Rocky Mountain Goats, a private organization, raises funds for research and management of the species. One state, Colorado, uses two hunting licenses in an auction and a raffle to raise funds for these activities.
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Leon Myer, 73 - April 11, 2013Leon K. Myer, 73, of Cozad died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at the Cozad Community Hospital.
Mass of the Christian Burial was conducted on Monday, April 15, at 11 a.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church in Cozad with the Rev. Don O'Brien as celebrant. Burial was at the Cozad Cemetery.
Myer was born Feb. 24, 1940, at Cozad to Lloyd "Dutch" and Maxcine (Beckley) Myer, and was raised by his maternal grandparents, W.W. "Bud" and Mary Elta Beckley.
He graduated from Cozad High School in 1958, and continued work with his grandfather on the family hay hauling business.
On Sept. 10, 1960, he was united in marriage to Sharon K. Leahy at Cozad. To this union, five children were born. The couple resided in Cozad their entire married lives.
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He had a tremendous work ethic and took pride in a job well done, the family said. In addition to Paulsen's, he partnered with his friend, Lee Whitehead, to form Tri-City Auction Service. The Myer and Whitehead families orchestrated auctions all over the area for over 20 years, their wives by their sides serving as clerks.
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For over a decade Myer coached his two sons as they competed in amateur boxing and, more recently, was content working in his garden and keeping up with his grandchildren, according to family members.
He was preceded in death by: his wife, Sharon in 2010; his grandparents and parents; two brothers—Bill and Ricky; special uncle, Fred Myer.
Survivors include: his three daughters—Anne (Eric) Seaman, Mary Myer and Ellen Myer, all of Cozad; two sons—Joe Myer and John (Julie) Myer, all of Cozad; six grandchildren—Cora-Leigh, Jacob, Jordan, Bianca, Alynne and Maddux; two special sisters—LaVon (Richard) Beans of Cozad and Jean (Cecil) Woodward of Callaway; two brothers-in-law—Michael (Molly) Leahy and Patrick (Deb) Leahy of Cozad; four sisters-in-law—Maureen (David) Lewis of Missoula, MT, Janis Hutchins and LaDonna Dannehl, all of Lincoln, and Vicki Smith of Cozad; numerous other relatives.
A memorial has been established.
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A crime wave will soon be erupting in Boonville, but don't panic; it will be the fictional creation of Role Play Media's first feature film "My Own Words". Written and directed by local photographer Greg Arendall, the film will feature several locations in Boonville and neighboring New Franklin.
Mr. Arendall describes the film as a psychological thriller, focusing on the relationship between a serial killer and the newscaster she abducts. "Those watching the film will be presented with a situation which will leave them questioning who the victim really was," adds Executive Producer Dr. John Brown.
Filming is set to begin the last weekend in October and conclude the first weekend in November. Mr. Arendall is hoping to involve the local community in this project by holding open auditions for extras, and individuals to serve as members of the Technical Crew. The auditions for extras will be held on Sunday, October 14th, 12:30pm at the Greg James Photography Studio. The studio is located at 106 East Broadway, New Franklin, MO. "We are looking for around 15 people, of all ages, to play people on the street or patrons of a local bar," stated Mr. Arendall. "No prior acting experience is required."
Dr. Brown suggests that volunteering for the Technical Crew would prove an excellent start for someone that is interested in learning the finer points of filmmaking. "Members of the crew will work on all the technical aspects of the film," says Brown. "They will assist with lighting, set construction, props, special effects, and attending to the thousands of details that make a film successful. It will be a great learning experience." For more information about available positions on the Technical Crew, contact Greg Arendall at 816.806.8599.
Mr. Arendall's previous artistic background includes video shorts and photography, but he realizes a full length film will be a huge step forward. "This will be my first feature film to direct, and although I have made several short films, this project presents many more challenges. My Own Words will require a total cast and crew of over 60 people," explains Arendall. "The story is complex and explores the very base of our value system. The question is asked; what would you do if presented with the opportunity to commit the perfect crime? In My Own Words we give you one possible answer to that question."
A talented cast has been assembled. Jennifer Davis will play the role of Carrie Craig – the victim (or is she?), Catherine Bandeko as Alma Franks – the serial killer, Drake Kreuger as Roger Hawk – Alma's criminal companion, and Derick White as Tom McCaine – the broadcaster who interviews Carrie. Local residents are encouraged to audition for the remaining roles available.
Behind the lens, the actors will be supported by William Peck of Kansas City as the Director of Photography. Ken Claypool will serve as Director of Lighting. The producers are currently searching for a Makeup Artist.
Arendall is excited about bringing a slice of the film industry to the area. "We hope this film will spark interest in local film making. Boonville and New Franklin offer great settings for storytelling. Everyone I have talked to about My Own Words has been very enthusiastic about the concept behind the film, and excited to see such a project being created in their hometown."
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Monday, April 28, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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Shelley Deane, Ph.D., Director of Brehon Advisory, will lead a discussion with interested students on preparing for a career in international development. Dr. Deane has broad experience both in academia and in the field. She has researched and written on the ending and mending of conflicts, mediation and negotiation, peace agreements, security pacts, factions, paramilitaries and parliamentarians, and crime and corruption in states in transition. Dr. Deane also has mediation and institutional transitional reform experience in Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine, the UAE and Ireland.


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CARLISLE, PA – The York College volleyball squad finished their stay at the 2012 Dickinson College Red Devil Invitational by splitting their two Saturday matches. The Spartans dropped a 3-0 decision to Lebanon Valley before besting the host Red Devils 3-0 in the second contest.
The Spartans are now 2-7 overall while the Red Devils are 1-8 and the Flying Dutchmen are 6-3.
Lebanon Valley downed the Spartans by the scores of 25-13, 25-20, and 25-22. The Spartans had leads in both the second and third matches but couldn't capture a set in the loss.
Sophomore Kristin Martinak (Hanover, Pa./South Western) continued her outstanding tournament as she tallied 10 kills as she hit a team-high .333. Three other Spartans added five kills each as the Spartans managed just 27 kills in the match. Freshman Brandi Kinard (Seven Valleys, Pa./Spring Grove) handed out 12 assists while she also had three digs and a service ace.
Senior Dani Mastroieni (Chalfont, Pa./Gwynedd Mercy Academy) paced the Spartan defense with 14 digs while she also had three service aces, five kills and two block assists. Fellow senior Ashley Rineman (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) was the other Spartan in double figures in digs.
The scores in the Spartans' win over Dickinson were 25-15, 25-23, and 25-19. Junior Jessica Moyer (Reading, Pa./Holy Name) and Mastroieni combined to pace the Green and White offense. Moyer banged out a match-high 13 kills as she hit .267 for the match. She also had 13 digs and a service ace for York. Mastroieni added 12 kills and 12 digs for a double-double of her own. Sophomore Katie Huston (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) chipped in with nine kills and a .444 attack percentage.
Freshman Allie Donahue (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) handed out 20 assists for York while Kinard contributed 17 helpers. Rineman led the defensive effort with 16 digs in the three-game win.
The Spartans return to action on Wednesday evening when they travel to Salisbury University to face the Sea Gulls in the Capital Athletic Conference opener for both squads. Game time is set for 7:00 pm at the Maggs Center.
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- B. A., M.A., Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy)
- Ph.D., Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy)
- Post-Doctoral, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane – Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze (Italy)
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Professor De Mambro Santos is an expert in Italian and European Renaissance and Mannerism. He has taught for twelve years in the Department of Art History at the University of Rome courses on Renaissance Art Literature and Visual Culture as well as classes on Methodologies of Art Criticism. In the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome, he has also taught courses on the activity of European painters in India, China and Japan from the sixteenth- to the eighteenth-century. More recently, as a Visiting Professor, he taught at the University of Washington and Whitman College classes on Northern Renaissance, Brazilian visual culture, and theories of art from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism.
His major publications are dedicated to the analysis of European Renaissance treatises on art, with particular attention to the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari and Karel van Mander. Besides his wide-ranging expertise in European visual culture from the fifteenth- to the eighteenth-century, Professor De Mambro Santos has conducted several researches in complementary fields (including art theory, film studies, textual studies, and semiotics). He is also strongly interested on problems related to the Historiography of Art and have published many articles on Julius von Schlosser, Benedetto Croce and Lionello Venturi. Directly related to this scholarly interest is his activity as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Art Historiography, recently founded by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with the Gombrich Archives.
In 2002, he has taken part in the organization of an important exhibit, Dove il Si Suona, held at the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florence, as the curator of the section entitled "The Fortune of Italian Art Literature," which featured paintings, engravings, and books from the Renaissance through the eighteenth-century. Given his interests in film studies, he has also written documentaries for the Italian Television (RAI Educational) and curated several art exhibits, including some major shows on Federico Fellini for the Museum of Rome and the University of Washington's Fellinianacelebration in 2003 (The Gladiator Nun: Fellini's Women, at the Henry Art Gallery, an exhibit of original drawings by Fellini; andThe Beautiful Confusion: Fellini and Secchiaroli on the Set of 8 ½). In 2005, he was once again the curator of an exhibit of Fellini's drawings (Fellini: Erotomachia) at the Karikaturmuseum in Krems, Austria. In 2008, he produced a documentary on Leonardo da Vinci for the Japanese Network Television.
He has just finished a study on the influence of Karel van Mander's art theory in the production and the reception of paintings, drawings, and prints in Holland between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century (Picturams Labyrinthus. Theory and Practice of the "Art of Painting" in Holland Around 1600). He is currently engaged in the completion of four major projects: a study on the collection of drawings and prints gathered by Count Alessandro Maggiori between 1788 and 1829, with the organization of an exhibit at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (scheduled on Fall 2011: The Renaissance Revival) and the publication of a critical catalogue of the artworks present in such a remarkable collection; a monograph on the activity of Leonardo da Vinci in Rome and his connections with the congregation of the so-called "Amadeits," i.e. the religious followers of the Blessed Amadeo in Rome and Milan; a study on the interplay of forgery, irony, and interpicturiality in Netherlandish Mannerism, and finally, a research on a particular kind of reception of the concept of Renaissance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian art discourses, with the introduction of a new hermeneutical category: "Meta-Renaissance."
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
de Mambro Santos, Ricardo. "'Le Trame Sospese Dell'arte. Metafore, Metalinguaggio E Natura Nella Rappresentazione Di Ragni Nelle Arti Visive' [The Suspended Nets of Art. Metaphor, Metalanguage, and Nature in the Representation of Spiders in the Visual Arts]." Bruniana & Campanelliana. Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali 2 (2015).
de Mambro Santos, Ricardo. "The Ultimate Beginning: Vasari, Van Mander and the Paradigm of Nuova Imitazione," in Vasari als Paradigm, eds. Fabian Jonietz and Alessandro Nova, Vicenza: Marsilio Editore (2016): 153-162.


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The public is invited to learn about the science behind natural hazards at the Alabama Museum of Natural History's Science Sunday at Smith Hall on the University of Alabama campus.
TUSCALOOSA | The public is invited to learn about the science behind natural hazards at the Alabama Museum of Natural History's Science Sunday at Smith Hall on the University of Alabama campus.
The event, which will be from 1-4:30 p.m. Sunday, will feature museum experts and guest presenters with hands-on activities about earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and meteorites.
"We want families to understand the science. What causes natural hazards? Where can we expect natural hazards? What's the frequency of natural hazards?" said Amanda Espy-Brown, education and outreach coordinator for UA's Alabama Museum of Natural History. "People are well-educated on tornadoes, but we are also impacted by earthquakes and hurricanes, and most people don't know a lot about those hazards."
She said that knowing how and when natural hazards occur is the key to learning how to be prepared.
"Families need to know the signs, and they need to know what to do when they see those signs," Espy-Brown said. "We want them to understand how being prepared helps limit injury and damage."
At the event, families will learn how to put together emergency kits for each type of natural hazard.
There will also be an art collection by elementary and middle school students at Holy Spirit Catholic School on display. The art pieces were created from tornado debris.
There will be scientists from various UA departments, including the department of geography, and representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey and Alabama's Emergency Management Agency, as well as fire department personnel who will show children how a fire truck works.
Admission is $2 per person. UA's Alabama Museum of Natural History is in Smith Hall near the Quad at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Capstone Drive on the UA campus.


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Knife pulled during dramatic Chinchilla getaway
POLICE are on the hunt for a group of offenders who allegedly broke into a Chinchilla business in the early hours of this morning before reportedly pulling a knife on the security guard.
The security guard from Roma Security found the alleged intruders inside the Followmont Transport building on Carmichael Street at approximately 2am this morning.
After confronting the guard with a knife, the alleged offenders jumped into one of the company's vehicles and rammed through a double glass doorway and two-and-a-half metre high wire fence to make their getaway.
Police are yet to make any arrests.
Dalby CIB officer-in-charge, Detective Sergeant Col Harvey, said in addition to the significant damage caused, a number of items were also stolen from the business.
"The vehicle- a white toll van- was located shortly afterwards in Windmill Rd," Det Sgt. Harvey said.
"Police are requesting anyone who has seen this vehicle in that area during those hours to contact police."
While the security guard sustained no injuries during the incident, Roma Security owner and managing director, Robbie O'Toole said guards were increasingly being exposed to greater risk in Chinchilla.
"It's not the first time. It was fairly serious... The guard rang me last night when it happened. It's a serious crime, pulling a knife on a security guard," Mr O'Toole said.
"We're just happy that the guard wasn't hurt. We try to keep our people well-trained in how to handle these sorts of situations."


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HogWire's Injury Report Week Two
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HogWire's Injury Report Week Two
The St. Louis Rams versus the Washington Redskins
Offensive Tackle Chris Samuels and Defensive Tackle Anthony Montgomery were both limited in practice this week and both were dealing with knee problems. The Washington Redskins have said they have to manage Samuels's knee throughout the season, because Chris had knee surgery in the offseason and experienced some minor knee problems in the preseason. Coach Jim Zorn said Anthony Montgomery "has a little roughness on his knee", and is limited in practice because of patellar tendinitis.
Tags: Anthony Montgomery, Chris Samuels, Colt Brennan, Craig Dahl, Injury Report, John Greco, St. Louis Rams, Washington Redskins


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Depends on how you learn best. I almost always use flashcards for closed book stuff.Or, if you remember things like stories better, then it actually might be more helpful to remember a case you read that applied the rule correctly.
Just a bit of warning; I have found that "memorizing" creates tunnel vision, & usu. leads to failure in issue spotting. I mean Civ. Pro. usu. can be broken into 5 Q.'s(1) What State you can sue in? (PJ)(2) What claim you may bring? (SJ-1331/32/67)(3) What Court house to file in? (Venue, Transfer, removal, forum non conveniens etc,) (4) What apllicable law? (Eerie/Hanna)(5) What's the scope of the suit? (Joinder claims/parties: Rule13,14,18,19,20 etc etc.)So if you do memorize, make sure to always ask those 5 Q.s & look deeper, e.g. u have 1404 memorized that may lead to just "Removal by D. to fed Ct." for short-hand, may be insufficient, & ur brain will be a little too conlusory about issues (at least this what i have found). This advice isn't golden or pure of course, but thought it could help!! best of luck--M.


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Brian Kunkel's weekend strolls at Middle Run Natural Area make him see red – not because he's angry but because the red admiral butterfly has been abundant at this 850-acre park east of Newark. A large, red-banded butterfly, the red admiral has been seen in large numbers throughout Delaware this summer.
"The red admiral is experiencing an irruption – a rapid and irregular increase in population numbers," says Kunkel, an entomologist with UD Cooperative Extension. "It's not just here in Delaware; this irruption also has been reported in New Jersey, the Poconos, western New York and other Northeastern locales. The last time a red admiral irruption was seen locally was 2001."
The red admiral is the bright spot for Delaware butterfly watchers this summer. All in all, it's shaping up to be just a so-so season for butterflies.
"Butterfly numbers were good at the end of May and into June but then things really backed down," says Sheila Vincent, a group program coordinator for the Delaware Nature Society who maintains Ashland Nature Center's Butterfly House.
"Mid-July to mid-August is typically the peak of butterfly activity in Delaware but we've seen fewer individuals flying," says Vincent, "Right now, I don't think we're going see a repeat of 2011 and 2010, both of which were very good years for butterflies."
Butterfly populations are influenced by a complex interplay of temperature, moisture and food supply. Different species are impacted by different factors. For example, a species that overwinters in the adult form – such as the mourning cloak — will have better survival rates in milder winters, says Kunkel. If the butterfly's host plant flourishes during a rainy spring, odds are that butterfly will do well that season, too.
"With so many factors influencing population density, I can't begin to speculate on why overall butterfly numbers appear lower this year," says Kunkel.
Delaware has about 120 species of resident breeding butterflies. Considering that most states have about 100 species, Delaware is a pretty good spot for butterfly watching.
"Delaware is home to both the Piedmont Plateau, in the north, and the Coastal Plain, in the middle and southern parts of the state. This makes for a greater diversity of butterflies," says Vincent. "For example, we don't get cloudless sulphur butterflies in the Piedmont but on occasion you see a straggler cloudless sulphur fly up from the Coastal Plain."
If you want to attract butterflies to your yard, Kunkel has two important tips. "First, get lots of plants that caterpillars like," he says. "Gardeners tend to focus on nectar plants that provide adult butterflies with energy but you also need plenty of food sources for caterpillars – the next generation of butterflies."
Most caterpillars eat only one specific plant or from one plant family. Do your research. If you love the great spangled fritillary butterfly, plant violets, the food source for this butterfly's caterpillar. If it's Eastern tiger swallowtails that you're trying to attract, plant tulip poplar, sweetbay magnolia and black cherry trees.
If you've always prided yourself on a flawless, neat-as-a-pin garden, you may not like Kunkel's second piece of advice – "tolerate insect feeding."
Caterpillars eat the leaves and stems of plants, which mean, of course, little holes on the leaves of your plants. "If you want to enjoy the sight of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly, with its brilliant blue wings, you'll have to accept that your pipevine plants are going to get chewed up a bit by this butterfly's caterpillars," says Kunkel.
At the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens, feeding the caterpillars is seen as just as important as feeding the butterflies. The gardens' Lepidoptera Trail, which opened in 2009, features a wide range of plants to attract caterpillars.
"The trail is not a butterfly garden, which is designed to attract butterflies to feed on nectar," says garden director John Frett. "It is an ecosystem to attract Lepidoptera throughout their life cycle. It's a place for them to lay their eggs, which become larvae or caterpillars before entering the inactive pupal stage and then emerging as butterflies, moths or skippers."
Besides, caterpillars are cool in their own right. "Take the caterpillar of the spicebush swallowtail butterfly. It looks like something out of a cartoon," marvels Kunkel.
This caterpillar features oversized fake eyes on its thorax and is a garish neon green color at certain stages of development. The fake eyes and bright color is supposed to make the caterpillar look like a snake and thus scare away birds and other predators.
The Lepidoptera Trail, as well as the rest of the UD Botanic Gardens, is open daily from sunrise to sunset for free self-guided trails. For more info, go to http://ag.udel.edu/udbg or call 302-831-0153.
Article by Margo McDonough
Photo by Brian Kunkel
This article can also be viewed on UDaily.


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Have you wondered about U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) disclosure regulations? Wondering whether you've been compliant?
Keep reading for a detailed understanding of FTC rules and regulations on endorsements and testimonials in social media.
Some background…
Any time the US Government implements new regulations, there is discussion, debate, information and plenty of misinformation.
Nearly 2 years ago, in December 2009, the FTC revised, for the first time in 3 decades, its rules and regulations about endorsements and testimonials in advertising.
The prior rules were made long before the Internet and needed to be updated to account for this new type of media. Since implementing the new FTC Disclosure Guidelines PDF for endorsements and testimonials in advertising, bloggers have been given a multitude of interpretations, rules, best practices and how-to's. Sadly, most of the information has been more scare tactics than useful.


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PALM DESERT, Calif. Since her death at 93, Betty Ford has been justly praised for publicizing her battles with breast cancer and alcoholism. As President Obama put it, her candor and courage gave countless Americans a new lease on life.
But long before her husband became president in 1974 and she became a national celebrity Ford spent many years in another demanding role: political wife. When she was planning her own funeral five years ago, she asked Cokie to speak about that period in her life. Here is a condensed version of that eulogy:
When Mrs. Ford assigned me the daunting honor of speaking at her funeral, it will surprise none of you to learn that the assignment came with instructions. Mrs. Ford wanted me to remind everyone of the way things used to be in Washington. I wouldnt be at all surprised if she timed her death to make sure she could convey the message of comity during this week, when it seems so badly needed.
A couple of years before he died, I came here to the desert to interview President Ford for a series on former presidents and the Constitution. When we turned the cameras off, the president turned to me and sighed, You know, Cokie, I just dont understand whats happened in Washington. When your father was majority leader and I was minority leader, we would get in a cab together on the Hill and we would go downtown to someplace like the Press Club and wed say, OK, what are we going to argue about? Now it was a real debate. We had different views about means to an end. We genuinely disagreed with each other; we were certainly partisans. But after we went at it, wed get back in the cab together and be best friends.
That friendship made governing possible. Those two leaders werent questioning each others motives, much less their commitment to country. Underlying many of those congressional friendships was the relationship among their wives. They had a tough job, more often political widow than political wife. The duties ranged from showing visiting constituents around the Capitol to helping run the social-service programs in the District of Columbia. Mrs. Ford played all those roles Cub Scout den mother sounds so sweetly innocuous, unless youve actually tried it and yet her official title, as it was for most political wives, was housewife.
It was a title she shared with many American women, and it gave her a great understanding of what their lives were like. Being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it, Betty Ford once said, giving words to the dirty little secret men always knew. As she spoke out more forcefully for womens rights, Mrs. Ford strongly defended the housewifes role: Downgrading this work has been part of the pattern in our society that downgrades womens individual talents in all areas. No wonder women all over the country have spent this past weekend remembering how much they loved her.
One talent political wives were expected to cultivate that they didnt share with most women was that of first-rate campaigner. By the time he ran for president in 1976, Ford supporters sported Elect Bettys Husband buttons, but people in Michigan had been doing that for decades. It was another activity that brought political wives together even if they were on different sides, they had the same complaints and forged tightly joined connections that extended to the men as well.
Of course, it wasnt easy, and through Betty Fords courage we later learned just how hard those years had been. But Mrs. Ford had something very important going for her: She knew who she was. Before her sudden ascension to first lady, she said, Ill move to the White House, do the best I can and if they dont like it, they can kick me out but they cant make me somebody Im not.
President Ford gave me a glimpse of the importance of that strength when he told me, The night before I took the oath of office, I held Bettys hand, and we repeated together our Proverbs. I made the mistake of failing to ask which Proverbs, but I know which one he and all of us would say today. It is, of course, The Good Wife. The last line reads: Let her own works praise her in the gates. Your works all of them over many years praise you, Betty Ford.
Steve and Cokies new book, Our Haggadah (HarperCollins), was published this spring. Steve and Cokie Roberts can be contacted by email at email@example.com.


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Gift Guide: Great Fashion Coffee Table Books
'Tis the season for gift guides, round-ups and conspicuous consumption, so here's 15 cool and sturdy fashion books–covering history, photography, models and designers–for your fashionable (but at least semi-literate!) friends.
Some are new and some are solid stand-bys… and just in case you can't drop a grand (or two) on Helmut Newton or Dior, we've ordered them from most affordable to most… luxurious.


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I'd be a lousy politician – I completely forgot to campaign. Sometime in January I posted about the CityBeat Best of Cincinnati competition. If you didn't vote then, go ahead and vote now. You can vote for your favorite everythings in the city (including best blog – so pick me please!) To vote for this particular blog, just go to the link, scroll down to Public Eye, and you'll find My Wine Education under the Blog section. Of course, you'll also find some of my best friends in the same category. You don't have to vote in every category – just the ones that interest you.
There you go. Vote for me and do it before the end of the weekend! 😉
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County supports fractional SPLOST
CANTON — Citing the opportunity for more flexibility, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners signed a resolution Tuesday supporting a fractional SPLOST bill introduced by state Rep. John Carson (R-Marietta).
A fractional SPLOST bill would allow counties to collect Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax revenues at a fraction of a percent. Currently, SPLOST money can only be collected through a 1 percent sales tax.
"You would legitimately put together a list of needs. If it turns out you need less than a penny, you charge less than a penny," Commission Chairman Buzz Ahrens said.
Ahrens said the commission has asked state legislators for tax code updates no fewer than three times in the last seven years.
Commissioners approved the resolution in a unanimous vote.
"There certainly seems to be no harm in having that flexibility," Commissioner Harry Johnston said.
Johnston said the bill could open counties up to political pressure to cut SPLOST project lists.
"It almost means we would not get the full percentage moving forward," he said.
The Cherokee County commissioners modeled their resolution after one passed by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners last week.
"I believe Cobb had a good resolution, and we could adopt this as well," Commissioner Jason Nelms said during Tuesday afternoon's work session.
Commissioners also approved joining a class-action lawsuit seeking unpaid transfer taxes from the sale of foreclosed homes.
Transfer taxes are paid when a real estate title is transferred to another owner. The tax is based on the property's sale price at the rate of $1 for property value up to the first $1,000 and at the rate of 10 cents for each additional $100 or fractional part of $100, according to the Georgia Department of Revenue. The tax is paid by the seller unless both parties otherwise agree.
"The question of law here is whether the federal agencies (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae) have to pay these transfer taxes," Johnston said.
County Attorney Angie Davis said Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties have already joined the suit.
The county will pay on a contingency basis, so attorneys will only be paid if the county recovers any money.
"This type of case is springing up all over the country," Davis said.
The commission also voted to:
* Reappoint Debra Frieden to the Board of Ethics;
* Appoint Bill Dewrell to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Commissioner Brian Poole made the appointment;
* Surplus outdated computers and other small office equipment from Cherokee County Probate Court;
* Surplus outdated computers from the Cherokee County Animal Shelter;
* Increase the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office's uniform patrol budget by $1,416 for the repair of a patrol car hit by a construction vehicle;
* Allow the county manager to execute an amendment of a professional services agreement with Convergent Technologies Inc. for the maintenance of security systems. The company has reduced the maintenance cost by 5 percent, bringing the anticipated cost for the 2013 fiscal year to $17,689;
* Award the professional service agreement to Ascension Counseling and Mental Health, LLC, for treatment and case management services at a cost not to exceed $960 per participant and a $30 evaluation fee per patient for the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit Drug Accountability Court;
* Award a softball umpiring contract to North Georgia Amateur Umpire Association at a cost of $24 per official for slow-pitch games, $40 per official for fast-pitch games and $21 per official for youth classic games;
* Approve a supplemental agreement from NJ Wilbanks Contracting Company for relocation of a detention pond with no additional cost to the county;
* Approve a Georgia Department of Transportation contract to receive six buses for the Cherokee Area Transportation Service rural transportation program at no cost to the county;
* Approve a contract with Total Care Transportation Services for off-peak transportation services through the CATS demand response program. Costs are to be reimbursed through a Department of Human Services supplemental fund contract; and
* Remain the fiscal agent for Families of Cherokee United in Service.


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Product Description 2009 Severance 138 Wakeboard:
The Severance series is Company's edgy, snappy and clean 3 stage series of boards.
These boards started as our very first prototype ever. It went through belt sanders, multiple types of riders, a pro tour, a few photo shoots, and is still standing in once piece to this very day. It has been cleaned up and modified since then multiple times to make it even better, and has an official approval rating of 94.7598215%.
It's an intermediate style series of boards that can get you up and running from the start, or can assist in perfecting your already existing samurais skills.


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July, 25 through August, 03 all of Cape Cod will be celebrating the completion Cape Cod Canal's 100th Anniversary
The canal made our fair peninsular into an island. The actual day of the completion was July 29, 1914. That was the day when the waterway officially opened to boat traffic. On July 29, 2014, dignitaries, local politicians and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be at the canal. Also, the Cape Cod Symphony Youth Orchestra will be performing an original piece that was written especially for the event.
The official Cape Cod Canal 100th Anniversary ceremony will take place from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and will include the unveiling of a ten foot tall statue. The bronze statue is of a fisherman and is designed to honor the significance that the fishing industry has had on the Cape Cod economy. It also pays homage to fishermen who have devoted their lives to the profession.
After the ceremony there will be a parade of tug boats. The tug boats will sail along the canal from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. The conclusion of the day's festivities will be a fireworks display in Buzzards Bay. The fireworks will begin at 9:00 pm.
The canal was built because prior to its construction, all shipping had to sail around the eastern most shore, (known as the backside) of the Cape, past Chatham and Provincetown. Those waters are treacherous and have sunk hundreds of ships and claimed the lives of many brave sailors. In a storm a ship could be blown onto the beach or otherwise destroyed. Today's modern ships have GPS, radar and the advantages of weather forecasting techniques, therefore the trip around the Cape is not as dangerous as it was one hundred years ago.
When the canal first opened, ships had to pay, the equivalent of $1,000 in today's money, to use the canal. It sounds like a high toll, however, when one considers the cost of loosing a ship and valuable cargo, I am sure that the shipping companies considered the toll well worth the price. Now the canal is free and is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Before becoming innkeepers Bill and I were sailors. We owned a beautiful Mason catch rigged sailboat. Her hull was white, the stripe at the waterline was red and she had a gold stripe just below the toe rail. She had been built in Taiwan and had hundreds of yards of teak trim. We took great care to keep the teak in top condition. On the dock, I was known as the "teak lady". I had my tools neatly arranged in our dock box, ready to go at a moment's notice. The boat's name was "Shanichie" which is the Irish word meaning, story-teller.
Over the years she provided us with many wonderful stories. One such story is the time that we sailed through the Cape Cod Canal on our way to explore the coast of Maine. The trip north was made during the daylight, however, the return passage was made at night. Visibility was good but as we approached the north shore of the Cape and the entrance to the canal, all that the untrained eye could see was a mass of lights along the shore. The entrance to the canal is so small when you are out in the bay. How did we find it? Well, that is when I was relieved to know that we had a top-notch navigator, spotter and helmsman on duty.
Bill, the navigator was at the navigation station below, with the radar and instruments. During that approach, he must have made fifty trips up and down the companionway. The spotter was our middle daughter Lauren, who stood on the cockpit seat and steadied her binoculars on the dodger roof. She kept us right on course as we went from one navigational marker to the next. The key bit of knowledge is that although there were hundreds of lights on the shore, only two of the lights were green. Those green lights are called "range lights". They are positioned on towers that are a few hundred yards apart. The first is on a short tower and the second is on a taller tower that is located directly behind the first. The towers are lined up beside the entrance to the canal. If the helmsman positions the boat so that the two range lights are one above the other, he knows that he is on course to enter the canal. That brings us to the third essential crew member. The helmsman was Lauren's husband Steve. He is a U.S. Marine and is as steady and dependable as they come. He kept us right on course and never wavered.
We were traveling with friends who were following us in their boat. When we pulled into a quiet cove to anchor, raft-up and get some sleep, the question was, "How did you do that?" To them it had seemed like magic.
Now you ask, "What were you doing, Pat?" Well, I am the utility member of the crew. I would stand in for anyone who needed a break and I kept them supplied with hot chocolate and sandwiches. That is a very important function. It keeps moral up and relieves tension. It was a great trip, filled with wonderful memories.
While all of the bedchambers at the Palmer House have their own seafaring charm suitable for relaxation after the most wonderful day of adventures on the Cape Cod Canal and waterways, we recommend the Harriet Beecher Stowe room, the Theodore Roosevelt room or the Emily Dickinson room. These rooms feature comfortable king beds, fireplaces, jacuzzi-style tubs for a relaxing stay before and after your day.


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Beaumont/Port Arthur
Texas hunters have it made. We have big numbers of white-tailed deer, turkeys, wild pigs, ducks and geese, as well as doves. We've got huge chunks of land that produce bobwhite and blue quail, and if that's not enough, check out a hunt for snipe since the season is open through Feb. 12.
While duck hunting on a flooded field the other day, we were just about ready to pick up the decoys when we saw a string of snow geese low on the horizon and coming our way. The wind was honking, it was drizzling and those birds were on the deck. What looked like a sure fire deal, with easy shots at possibly the most hunter-wary birds on earth, quickly turned sour. Just about the time those geese were within shotgun range, they veered off with the wind.
There seems to be one cold front behind the other now coming through Southeast Texas. For those of us that prefer staying warm, the cold is only tolerable. For those of us that enjoy the lower temperatures, the cold fronts are welcome. I'll say here that what is cold in Southeast Texas is not cold in the more northern areas. That is unless you add in the wind and humidity. That situation does close the cold gap.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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38 U.S. Code § 4331 - Regulations
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The Director of the Office of Personnel Management (in consultation with the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense) may prescribe regulations implementing the provisions of this chapter with regard to the application of this chapter to Federal executive agencies (other than the agencies referred to in paragraph (2)) as employers. Such regulations shall be consistent with the regulations pertaining to the States as employers and private employers, except that employees of the Federal Government may be given greater or additional rights.
(2) The following entities may prescribe regulations to carry out the activities of such entities under this chapter:
The agencies referred to in section 2302(a)(2)(C)(ii) of title 5.
(Added Pub. L. 103–353, § 2(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3168; amended Pub. L. 109–233, title V, § 503(14), June 15, 2006, 120 Stat. 417.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 4331 was renumbered section 7631 of this title.
2006—Subsec. (b)(2)(C). Pub. L. 109–233 substituted "section 2302(a)(2)(C)(ii)" for "section 2303(a)(2)(C)(ii)".
Effective Date
Section effective with respect to reemployments initiated on or after the first day after the 60-day period beginning Oct. 13, 1994, with transition rules, see section 8 of Pub. L. 103–353, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.
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