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the new swimming pool pump will be installed Friday.
The pond guys were talking thousands of dollars for pumps, another thousand for bridge, hundreds for paint and plants and such, and it was just getting too out of hand, especially at Christmas/tax season. Thanks for all the input and advice everyone. I'm going to have to stick to my little beta pond for the time being.
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You have such aa gorgeous pool and back-yard, so peaceful and private, if you really have your heart set on a larger pond you could always expand your beta pond, maybe put a new one next to the old one and connect them and put a small bridge, sort of like Monet's, with a small filter if you needed it, would not be expensive like converting the big pool.....or maybe build some rocks at the end toward the fence and put a small pump there for a water-fall, coming down over the rocks.... so many options and ideas, that changing the big pool is not needed.... sally |
- Posted by ibarbidahl 9 tampa-ish (My Page) on Thu, Dec 8, 11 at 10:56
Well, it's a shame that they have dissuaded you so easily. It should not be so expensive to turn your pool into a pond, especially where your goal is not for it to be extensively for fish husbandry. :-( I'm sorry. On the sunny side - a new swimming pump shouldn't bee too expensive and before you need to remarcite (you mentioned it will need it sooner rather than later) you can revisit this idea. I'm sure that one day you'll get your larger pond. :-) Barbie |
- Posted by alexcortez 10b (My Page) on Fri, Dec 9, 11 at 3:36
This is a great idea. I saw some conversions before on the web and TV but no ideas about costs. You could maybe simply start with those little fished that clean the water and go from there. It seems to be anywhere from $3k to $50+k. Some cool links that you may have already seen: All labor and little money: http://sites.google.com/site/pool2pond/home A little money and lots of labor: Some cool pics: Best in your deciding. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pool to POnd conversion
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The response of hydrophobic organics and potential toxicity in streams to urbanization of watersheds in six metropolitan areas of the United States
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Semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) were deployed in streams along a gradient of urban land-use intensity in and around six metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Georgia; Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina; and Denver–Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2003; and Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; Milwaukee–Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Portland, Oregon, in 2004 to examine relations between percent urban land cover in watersheds and the occurrence, concentrations, and potential toxicity of hydrophobic compounds. Of the 142 endpoints measured in SPMD dialysates, 30 were significantly (alpha = 0.05) related to the percent of urban land cover in the watersheds in at least one metropolitan area. These 30 endpoints included the aggregated measures of the total number of compounds detected and relative toxicity (Microtox® and P450RGS assays), in addition to the concentrations of 27 individual hydrophobic compounds. The number of compounds detected, P450RGS assay values, and the concentrations of pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were significantly related to percent urban land cover in all six metropolitan areas. Pentachloroanisole, the most frequently detected compound, was significantly related to urban land cover in all metropolitan areas except Dallas–Fort Worth. Petrogenic PAHs and dibenzofurans were positively related to percent urban land cover in Atlanta, Raleigh–Durham, Denver, and Milwaukee–Green Bay. Results for other endpoints were much more variable. The number of endpoints significantly related to urban land cover ranged from 6 in Portland to 21 Raleigh–Durham. Based on differences in the number and suite of endpoints related to urban intensity, these results provide evidence of differences in factors governing source strength, transport, and/or fate of hydrophobic compounds in the six metropolitan areas studied. The most consistent and significant results were that bioavailable, aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists increase in streams as basins become urbanized. Potential toxicity mediated by this metabolic pathway is indicated as an important factor in the response of aquatic biota to urbanization.
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- Title
- The response of hydrophobic organics and potential toxicity in streams to urbanization of watersheds in six metropolitan areas of the United States
- Journal
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Volume 157, Issue 1-4 , pp 419-447
- Cover Date
- 2009-10-01
- 10.1007/s10661-008-0546-5
- Print ISSN
- 0167-6369
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2959
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Semipermeable membrane devices
- Hydrophobics
- Microtox®
- Urbanization
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Wade L. Bryant Jr. (1)
- Steven L. Goodbred (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. U.S. Geological Survey, 3850 Holcomb Bridge Road, Norcross, GA, 30092, USA
- 2. U.S. Geological Survey, Modoc Hall, 3020 State University Drive East, Sacramento, CA, USA


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A sample Renegade Archetype from the CE, one Rictor Kaeso (!) boasts the following Talents:
Combat Sense, Deadeye Shot, Disarm, Heavy Weapon Training (SP), Hip Shooting, Jaded, Quick Draw, Rapid Reaload, Weapon Training (Chain, Las, Primary, SP, Bolt).
No Weapon Training (Bolt) or Weapon Training (Shock).
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Should your GM be able to tax you? {WoW}
Sep 5th 2008 9:53AM What is the guild bank for?
If your guild is a small, friendly, non-raiding bunch of people, you will use it to share your unwanted green drops, surplus reputation items, whatever. So it is just a place to store items too valuable to vendor but not too valuable to bother AH-ing, etc. (like my mum says: "It will be useful later for something...", and you realize after 20 years, that it was not.) In this case guild tax does not make too much sense.
If you are in a HC raiding guild, guild bank is for storing epic stuff, and gold for repairs. If you take a closer look, just consider one MH run. You got items from bosses (Void crystals after a few run..), receipes, BoE epics, and tons of epic gems as well. Even if you give anybody 2-3 gems for all of his new loot to socket, and enchant the gear as well, after a while you will end up with hundreds of unused epic gems, void crystals etc. in the guild bank. Sell 2-3 gems and a couple of void a week in AH, and all your costs are covered for a weeks raiding including repair, food, flask, potions and other consumables. It is much better since everybody was there when your guild got its hands on this loot, and nobody will ask a def warrior to put in 200g in form of any tax, when his repair bill is huge while in the meantime a hunter got a 10g bill.
If you are in a guild, especially in a raiding guild, and you actually reached something, you do not need tax to be financially sorted. On the other hand, i think you've never heard about GM transfering with the GB in a SERIOUS raiding guild. Pointless to mention the guilds made up by wannabe brainless kiddos.
I am against the tax.


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Today, I went to see director Joe Berlinger's new documentary Crude, about the toxic mess left behind when Texaco withdrew from the Ecuadorian Amazon in the 1990s. I listened to a man talk about how his little boy died 24 hours after a Texaco oil spill tainted the water supply. I watched mothers crying about their 17- and 18-year-old children with cancer.
People ask me, if one person or family tries to use fewer planetary resources--in this case, oil--what difference does that really make? Well, whether it saves the planet or not, who can say for sure? But doesn't it make you feel better to use less of something when you know that the result of producing that something causes the kind of suffering shown in the photos (courtesy of Chevron-Toxico.com) below?
For Amazon Watch's list of everyday actions you can take, click here. To donate to Amazon Watch, which is fighting to help recover the costs of a clean up--estimated to be in the billions of dollars--from Chevron (who took over Texaco), click here.
Rainwater runs off unlined waste pits of crude oil like this one, left behind in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Texaco, into the water supplies. The health effects are catastrophic.
Maria Machay holds a photo of her husband who died when a small sore that "grew and grew" turned out to be cancer.
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I found this site by looking for a knitted scarf that tucks into itself. I once had this pattern and in a frenzy of cleaning threw it away. There are two patterns. Once has blunt edges and the other tapers. It is the tapering one that I am looking for, although I realize I can adjust the blunt edged one. Thanks! |
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I made one for my 6 yr old daughter last winter called a Keyhole scarf that tucks into itself. She love it! It uses the feather and fan pattern. It is about midway down the page. Rebecca |
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Bible Verses About The Black People
Bible verses related to The Black People from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance
Jeremiah 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 3:16 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Acts 17:26 - And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts 13:1 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Genesis 40:1-23 - And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. (Read More...)
Genesis 3:1-24 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (Read More...)
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This is the website of the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project, a partnership between Buccleuch Estates, Scottish Natural Heritage, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Natural England.
More project details can be found here.
Seven Year Review
See here for more information about the Seven Year Project Review.
Simon Lester tells it like it is in Radio 4 interview
Simon Lester was a key contributor to the half hour programme 'Hen Harriers: Trust in Conservation', part of BBC Radio 4's 'Shared Planet' series. More here.
2014 Raptor Monitoring Report
The 2014 report on which and how many breeding raptors there were at Langholm this year is available here.
2014 grouse shooting season
There will be no grouse shooting at Langholm Moor this year; more here.
Hen Harrier Breeding Season Update: Summer 2014
The update on the 2014 Harrier breeding season including the final numbers of harrier chicks fledged can be found on the Raptor pages here.
Position Statements for project up to 2013
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The spring grouse counts at Langholm suggested an increase in grouse density with the northern part of the moor in particular, holding good numbers. The overall grouse density, across all areas, was 87 grouse per 100ha after 'distance sampling' corrections. Analysing data from both the counts and also the radio tracked birds, also suggest that the winter survival rates, while still low when compared to other moors, were better at Langholm than in the previous years. Details can be found here.
Upland moors of heather and blanket bog are important for nature conservation, landscape and recreation. Grouse shooting, as well as supporting the rural economy in the uplands, has helped to retain heather by holding back plantation forestry and, less successfully, over-grazing by sheep. Grouse moors are good areas for breeding waders like curlew and golden plover, but are poor for some birds of prey like the hen harrier.
On grouse moors breeding hen harriers can kill many grouse chicks and so they are still not tolerated on many moors, in spite of legal protection.
Langholm Moor was the main study site of the Joint Raptor Study (1992-1997) which measured the effect of hen harriers and other raptors on red grouse numbers. This study's report, and subsequent published research papers, document this.
Subsequently Langholm Moor became part of the Newcastleton Hills Special Protection Area (SPA) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which are notified principally for the hen harrier population.
The Langholm Moor Demonstration Project is a partnership between the moor owner, Scottish and English conservation agencies, and conservation and research charities. It is an outcome for Scotland's Moorland Forum and will link with the Environment Council discussion on reconciling bird of prey conservation with grouse shooting.


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A photo-centric preview of the new Linger
We've seen a succession of restaurant openings over the last several months, but Linger, the second restaurant from Justin Cucci, the owner/chef of Root Down, may very well be the most anticipated new arrival of the year. And after a remarkably good dinner there last week, at which Cucci, along with executive chef Daniel Asher and pastry chef, Samm Sherman, trotted out plate after plate after plate of things I want to eat again, preferably every day, for the duration of my livelihood, it's a good bet that Linger -- like its name -- is a food temple with major staying power.Lori Midson
Cucci's board is a magnificent interstate of globetrotting street foods, flavors and ingredients, and while there are a myriad of restaurants throughout the city that single out the cuisines that Cucci's menu represents -- Asia, Eurasia, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Morocco, Indonesia, Europe and the Americas -- he's created a singular menu that embraces them all, without overextending his reach.
And the two-tiered space, which resides in the old Olinger Mortuary, is just as much of a conversation piece as the food; the sleek-retro bar is illuminated with Lite-Bright bulbs; there's a shrine of Jesus funeral fans that greets you just beyond the front door; the wallpaper is 1960s vintage; the hostess stand is an old church pew; the furniture, most of it reclaimed, was often rescued from dumpster diving; and since the quarters reside in a former funeral parlor, Cucci played off its morbidity by incorporating a Harold and Maude theme that extends from the bathroom doors to the mural above the kitchen -- all that's missing is a hearse.
Linger opens to the public tomorrow, beginning at 5:30 p.m. (dinner hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 5:30 p.m. to close; happy hour is from 4 to 6:30 p.m.), but before you go, take a romp through our photo essay -- and bring an appetite.
The new bar at Linger, flanked by a retro bar surfaced with Lite-Bright bulbs and walled with windows overlooking the cityscape.Lori Midson
Love the fact that the kitchen delivers a bowl of spice-scented popcorn to each table to snack on while diners peruse the menu. The popcorn changes on a whim, but on the night I was there, it was a delicious heap of popped kernels dusted with curry. Lori Midson
A partial glimpse of Linger's new menu, which draws from Asia, Eurasia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia and the Americas. Lori Midson
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1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? | 1 How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? |
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? | 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? |
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; | 3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; |
4 Lest mine enemy say , I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved . | 4 my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," and my foes will rejoice when I fall. |
5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. | 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. |
6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. | 6 I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me. |
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Macros are designed to allow a player to combine commands and modifiers (targeting, non-GCD abilities) with regular abilities in a quick and efficient manner. Macros can't make decisions for you. There is no macro that will automatically switch between Mutilate and Dispatch for you on the fly. There is no macro that will use Revealing Strike when it fades and Sinister Strike otherwise. Macros aren't intelligent – they have to be told what to do.
Pure classes tend to have fewer abilities than hybrids, and after the merging of spells like Envenom and Eviscerate, our action bars are sparse. The average raiding rogue might only need a dozen or so abilities per encounter, and that's including defensive cooldowns. A typical assassination rotation consists of Mutilate or Dispatch, Rupture and Envenom, and a few Feints or Cloaks per fight. Rogue macros tend to focus less on day-to-day rotation assistance and more on strategic abilities and cooldowns.
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Has anyone tried maca for hot flashes? I've read several articles where this really is suppose to work. I picked some up at Walmart today and am going to give it a try. Wondering if any one else has tried it? Nothing else has worked in the past. |
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Hate to sound ignorant (even if I am!) but what on earth is maca? And what would it be called in French?!? |
Me too. Please let me know what maca is? Thanks Lou |
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Maca is a root used by the Inca Indians for a variety of reasons including hormone balance. If you do a search on maca supplement, you can find a lot of information on it. I don't recall everything I read except the part that it is suppose to relieve hot flashes. I just started yeterday on them so will post again in a week or so and let everyone know if it works or not. Just thought maybe someone else has tried it. |
Thanks so much. I will research it. I am off of HRT for two months and I having some hot flashes at night. I take Remefemin twice a day, but I still get warm sometimes at night. Good luck and keep us posted. Lou |
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Just want to let everyone know that I have been taking the maca root supplement for two weeks now. My hot flashes are virually gone. I take them twice a day. If I miss a dose I sometimes get a little warm. It works for me but may not work for everyone. It's worth a try. |
Could you tell us the dose of Maca that you take? Thanks |
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I've been taking 3 500MG tabs in the morning and 3 at night. It sure works for me. The best deal I found on these was at herbsdelivered.com. Even with the shipping it is less that Walmart. |
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I haven't noticed any side effects with the maca. I did notice that I don't have as much vaginal dryness. Hasn't done anything for libido so far but it sure has helped with the hot flashes. |
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Over at the Atlantic earlier this month, Heather Horn reported on Europe's perception of the Trayvon Martin shooting and the fiery debate it kicked off about race relations in America. The view in Europe, it seems, is that the Martin affair is merely part of America's "pervasive and enduring problem of … racism."
Reading Horn's observations, one gets the impression that more than a few Europeans are staring down their noses, contemptuously regarding America as a deeply racist nation that lags far behind virtuous Europe when it comes to tolerance and multiculturalism. The European perspective, Horn wrote, is that "it's not just that Trayvon Martin's death involved racism … but that this racism is uniquely American."


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Four pieces of beautifully soft solid cherry wood make up the open cubby which acts as a tabletop and a short storage compartment below. The upper surface is ideal for the placement of lamps, mugs, clocks and other knickknacks white the shallow shelf provides the perfect place to flat stack novels, newspapers and magazines.
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The bride is the daughter of Jane Bartolo and stepfather Tony Bartolo and Michael Skelly, all of Cleveland.
The bride was attended by her maids of honor, Mary Jane Skelly and Brooke Everett. Bridesmaids were Emily Skelly, Elizabeth Jackson, Rachel Skelly, Colleen Skelly, Helen Todd and Bright Dickson.
Best men to the bridegroom were John Frazier and Sam Peeples. Groomsmen were Andrew Hunt, Paul Shannon, Phil Haigh, Brian Maurer, Jeff Tanz, Dan Allende and Nate Beck.
Flower girls were Alexia Jackson and Gracelyn Jackson. Ring bearers were Madelynn Hale and Kaleb Jackson.
The couple will reside in Philadelphia.


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About Bryan
Bryan C. Binkholder, better known as The Financial Coach is a published author, dynamic speaker, syndicated radio show host and business advisor. The driving force behind his business comes from helping others identify and break through the barriers that are holding them back in their own lives. Sometimes these barriers are financial, due to a poverty mentality or from a poor, conflicted perspective framed by today's media and Wall Street's games. Bryan has a way of identifying the problem, exposing the misconceptions, and providing clear, useful information that has placed countless individuals on the path to financial success.
Other times, the barriers holding people back from success have to do with their perspective, or how they are viewing the situation at hand. Whether the problem is business related, personal, spiritual, or all of the above, Bryan helps individuals cut through to the true source of the problem, make the appropriate adjustments, and experience success.
Bryan is also the acclaimed author of The 401(k) Conspiracy: How Companies and Employees are Being Robbed by Wall Street as the Government Looks the Other Way as well as contributing author with Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) in Mastering The Art of Success. He is also creator of the investor series, The Seven Deadly Investor Traps, Six Pitfalls of Retirement Planning and The Case Against Mutual Funds. Out of all his writings and creations however, Bryan is most excited about his upcoming book on life and leadership--What You See is What You Get: How to Create & Live The Life You Want along with his two new books for youth & college students called Teenagers Guide to Succeeding in Life and his book for college students From College to Real Life: Succeed and Conquer in the New Economy.
Bryan believes having the right information and applying it correctly is the key component to most issues any of us face.
"Good Decisions are Hostage to Good Information™" has become his slogan, and rightly so, with the wealth of information he continues to provide on a daily basis.
So who is the Financial Coach in real life? Really, just a regular guy who came from humble beginnings until he came upon a few of his own barriers, which helped to frame his thinking and bring him to where he is today.
Bryan finished college in 3 ½ years with three majors and two minors. He then followed this by earning his Masters in Educational Administration and served as teacher and principal for 5 years before the entrepreneurial field caught his attention. Today Bryan is actively involved in Real Estate Investing and owns many homes and commercial properties in the St. Louis Area and in Florida along with managing The Financial Coach, LLC–a company dedicated to financial educational and training.
As a noted speaker and John Maxwell certified instructor, Bryan is sought after by numerous organizations and professional groups including Associations, Schools and church groups. He regularly speaks on finances, leadership, and motivational topics bringing real, workable solutions to the table. His passionate and engaging teaching style, common sense approach, life experiences, and knowledge bring every presentation to life.
One of Bryan's favorite accomplishments is as the host of his weekly, nationally syndicated radio show which airs on KYRO 1280 Am St. Louis on Saturdays from 10am to noon and affiliate stations in the midwest. As an author and noted expert, Mr. Binkholder has also been quoted and published his releases mentioned in a variety of respected publications including the Wall-Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Kiplinger's, Investment Advisor Magazine, US Senior News, Investment News, Financial Advisor Magazine, and hundreds of radio stations.
On a personal note, Bryan and his wife, Lisa, reside in the St. Louis area with their three children—Faith, Nicholas, and Daniel. They are currently adopting a daughter from the US and support many adoption causes. The Binkholder's have been life-long residents of St. Louis and are active in various local and national organizations along with their local church.


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Traffic Safety Evaluation of
Nighttime and Daytime Work Zones
This project was initiated to objectively determine and document how nighttime and day-
time work zones affect traffic safety. More and more, agencies are doing roadway work on
high-volume facilities at night to reduce adverse traffic impacts and complaints by the pub-
lic that typically occur when the same work is being done during the day. Nighttime travel
is commonly characterized by lower traffic volumes, a higher percentage of truck traffic,
higher operating speeds, reduced visibility, and higher concentrations of drowsy and
impaired drivers. Arguments exist on both sides of the question as to whether working at
night is more or less safe than working during the day.
Previous literature indicates that increased crash risks at a given project location are a
combination of temporary changes in geometrics and influences due to work activity. Work
activity influences can be from drivers distracted by work operations and equipment, tur-
bulence created by work vehicle or equipment access to and from the work area, and tem-
porary lane closures that increase traffic densities (possibly to the point of congestion) and
require drivers to maneuver around the closure. However, efforts to better understand the
relative contributions of work zone design and work activities to the increased crash risk are
fairly limited in the literature.
One of the key issues that had to be addressed early on in this research was the choice of
appropriate measures of crash risk when assessing and comparing the safety implications
of nighttime and daytime work. Traditional crash rates normalize crashes on the basis of
vehicular-miles of travel or similar measure of exposure. This rate reflects a level of risk to
an individual driver traversing that particular roadway segment. Percentage changes in this
rate or similar indicators, such as the percentage change between actual and expected num-
ber of crashes in a given time period, thus indicate how individual driver risk is affected by
the presence of the work zone. Certainly, this indicator of motorist risk is an important
consideration. However, from the practitioners' perspective, when making the decision
whether to work at night or during the day, they must also consider the consequences of
increased crash risk to the driving population as a whole. Whereas the increase in crash risk
to an individual motorist may, in theory, be greater at night than during the day, the much
lower traffic volumes (and thus, vehicle exposure) that typically exist at a given location at
night may more than offset this incrementally higher risk. Higher traffic volumes during
the day mean that the same number of crashes will produce a much lower crash rate per
million-vehicle-miles (mvm). If the day versus night decision is for a given work zone, then
it would appear that the practitioner will want to minimize the number of crashes (assuming
equal severity). Thus, crash rate per mile of work zone was deemed an important compar-
ison metric. Certainly, differences in the severity of the increased crashes may also exist
between daytime and nighttime work operations, which also must be considered in the
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analysis. Together, this implies that the use of additional crash costs, normalized on the
basis of amount of work activity required at a given project location, most closely reflects
the information that highway agencies must weigh in their decisions of whether or not to
work at night.
A two-pronged investigation was adopted for this research project. The first prong uti-
lized the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Work Zone Accident
database. This database is a one-of-a-kind resource developed in the 1980s and expanded
over the years, specifically for use in tracking all types of work-zone-related traffic crashes
and worker accidents on NYSDOT construction projects statewide. For this study, relative
differences were examined in the types and severities of traffic crashes and worker
construction accidents during both daytime and nighttime work operations on New York
freeway and expressway facilities. Even more importantly, the database included specific in-
formation on various types of worker-involved traffic crashes and construction accidents
sustained during both day and night work activities, something that is not available at the
present time nationally in any other database.
The second prong of the research effort was the collection and analysis of crash experi-
ences of work zones performed in California, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington. For
some of the projects, work activities were done predominantly during the daytime; for other
projects, work activities were done mainly at night. For other projects, some work activities
were done during the day (mainly those activities that did not require the temporary closure
of travel lanes), and other activities that required travel lanes to be closed for several hours
were performed at night.
The results of these investigations were very insightful. Overall, working at night does not
result in a significantly greater crash risk for an individual motorist traveling through the
work zone than does working during the day. The percentage increases in crash risk for work
operations requiring the temporary closure of travel lanes were essentially identical when
done at night or during the day. In addition, traffic crashes that occur in nighttime work
zones were not necessarily more severe than those that occur in similar daytime work zones,
again when compared across similar work operations. The implications of these findings are
that work activities that require temporary lane closures have substantially lower total safety
impacts to the motoring public if the work is done at night. The lower traffic volumes pres-
ent at night result in a much lower number of crashes occurring over a work operation of a
given duration.
Although the increased risk of a crash is similar, differences do exist in the types of crashes
that occur at nighttime and daytime work zones. For example, based on the NYSDOT work
zone traffic crash and worker accident database, those traffic crashes involving workers, con-
struction vehicles or equipment, and construction materials and debris (both intrusion and
non-intrusion crashes) comprise a greater percentage of crashes at night than during the
day. Although the relative percentage of these crashes was higher at night, it should be noted
that they were only a small proportion of the total work zone crashes experienced in either
time period.
The recent National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 500 Report,
Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Volume 17:
A Guide for Reducing Work Zone Collisions, recommends a systematic process intended to
reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes during roadway work zone operations.
A number of specific strategies are named in that report that are believed to offer the
potential to reduce work zone crashes, but information on the possible magnitude of such
crash reductions was generally unavailable at that time. Using the findings from this
research, a critique of those strategies was undertaken, and recommendations were made
as to which strategies have the greatest potential to reduce work zone crashes. Strategies
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that appeared to offer the greatest potential for crash cost reduction included the following
� Practices to reduce the number and duration of work zones required,
� Use of full directional roadway closures via median crossovers or detours onto adjacent
frontage roads,
� Use of time-related contract provisions to reduce construction duration,
� Movement of appropriate work activities (i.e., those that require temporary lane closures)
to nighttime hours,
� Use of demand management programs to reduce volumes through work zones, and
� Use of enhanced traffic law enforcement.
Strategies that appeared to offer a moderate work zone crash reduction potential included
the following:
� Design of adequate future work zone capacity into highways,
� Use of full roadway closures that require traffic detours onto adjacent surface streets,
� Use of intelligent transportation system (ITS) strategies to reduce congestion and improve
� Improvement of work zone traffic control device visibility,
� Efforts to reduce flaggers' exposure to traffic, and
� Efforts to reduce workspace intrusions and their consequences � primarily at long-term,
high-volume work zones.
Although these strategies appear capable of having positive impacts on work zone safety,
determining the extent to which they meet these expectations can only be determined
objectively through the improved collection and use of work zone crash data. Highway agen-
cies have access to their state crash reporting databases and can usually develop some fairly
basic metrics such as total work zone fatalities or injuries. Beyond that, however, the data
are generally not sufficient to be useful for many of the potential applications. Although no
work zone crash data system currently in use fully addresses the needs of effective work zone
safety management, it appears that such a system can be developed by combining the desir-
able features of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) guidelines that
have been developed nationally with an agency construction accident reporting program
similar in concept to the one now in use in NYSDOT. However, revisions and improvements
to both of these are considered essential to achieving the goal of providing comprehensive,
timely, and consistent data for crashes, construction accidents, and other harmful events in
and related to highway work zones. In addition to enhancing the actual crash data being col-
lected, the collection of exposure data at work zones is particularly needed to improve
process-level work zone crash analysis.


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Informational: Federal Court Arraignments
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on January 6, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, the following individuals were arraigned:
AARON WAYDE BESTON, a 22-year-old resident of Wolf Point, and KENNETH DEVEREAUX, a 19-year-old resident of Poplar, appeared on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second degree murder. They are currently detained. If convicted of these charges, they each face possible penalties of life in prison, a $250,000 fine and 5 years supervised release. Assistant U.S. Attorney Paulette L. Stewart is the prosecutor for the United States. The investigation was a cooperative effort between Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Peck Tribes Criminal Investigation Division.
The defendants pled not guilty to the charges.
The charge, an indictment, information or complaint, is merely an accusation and all persons named as defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. A pre-trial conference and a trial date will be set and the United States will be required to prove the allegations set forth in the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt.


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International Convergence of Accounting Standards—
The FASB's mission is to improve U.S. financial accounting standards for the benefit of present and potential investors, lenders, donors, creditors, and other users of financial statements. The FASB believes that pursuing convergence – making global accounting standards as similar as possible – is fully consistent with that mission. Investors, companies, auditors, and other participants in the U.S. financial reporting system should benefit from the increased comparability that would result from internationally converged accounting standards. More comparable standards would reduce costs to both users and preparers of financial statements and make worldwide capital markets more efficient.
What Does "International Convergence of Accounting Standards" Mean?
The phrase international convergence of accounting standards refers to both a goal and the path taken to reach it.
- The FASB believes that, over time, the ultimate goal of convergence is the development of a unified set of high-quality, international accounting standards that companies worldwide would use for both domestic and cross-border financial reporting.
- Until that ultimate goal is achieved, the FASB is committed to working with other standard setting bodies to develop accounting standards that are as converged as possible without forgoing the quality demanded by U.S. investors and other users of financial statements.
- From 2002 to 2013, the path toward convergence has been the collaborative efforts of the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to both improve U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U. S. GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and eliminate or minimize the differences between them.
- As the FASB and the IASB complete their work on the last of their joint standard-setting projects initially undertaken under the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), that process will evolve to include cooperation and collaboration among a wider range of standard-setters around the world.
- Moving forward, the FASB will continue to work on global accounting issues with the IASB through its membership in the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum (ASAF), a newly established advisory body comprising twelve standard setters from across the globe.
- For issues of primary interest to stakeholders in U. S. capital markets, the FASB will set its own agenda. As the FASB initiates its own new projects based on feedback from its stakeholders, it will reach out to all who have an interest in improving financial reporting for companies and investors that participate in U.S. capital markets, including U.S. capital market stakeholders who live and work outside the United States.
As early as 1999, the FASB outlined its support for the dual goals of converging global accounting standards while continuing to improve U.S. GAAP.
The FASB and the IASB have been working together formally toward convergence since 2002. The two Boards have described what convergence means and their tactics to achieve it in two different documents—the Norwalk Agreement issued in 2002 and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the IASB and the FASB, originally issued in 2006 and updated in 2008 and 2010. The Boards have completed several major converged accounting standards, including those on business combinations, non-controlling interests, and fair value measurement.
More recently, in early 2013, the IFRS Foundation, which oversees the IASB, created a new Accounting Standards Advisory Forum (ASAF) to broaden the scope of the IASB's collaborative efforts. The FASB will participate in the ASAF as one of its 12 members.
During the past ten years, the FASB and IASB collaborated through joint projects to develop common standards. The FASB has issued those standards as U.S. GAAP and the IASB has issued them as IFRS. Over time, the two sets of standards are expected to both improve in quality and become increasingly similar, if not identical. The four remaining joint projects are: revenue recognition; financial instruments; leases; and insurance. (For detailed information about the current status and plans for the FASB's and IASB's joint standard-setting activities, please refer to the FASB's Technical Plan and Project Updates.)
Revenue Recognition
Revenue is an important indicator for users of financial reports in assessing a company's performance and prospects. However, revenue recognition guidance differs in GAAP and IFRS, and many believe both are in need of improvement. To that end, the Boards embarked on a joint project aimed at establishing the principles to report useful information to users of financial statements about the nature, timing, and uncertainty of revenue from contracts with customers. On May 28, 2014, the FASB and the IASB issued converged guidance on recognizing revenue in contracts with customers. The new guidance is a major achievement in the Boards' joint efforts to improve this important area of financial reporting.
Leases are an important source of financing for many companies that lease assets. However, many lease transactions currently are recognized off-balance sheet. The objective of the leases project is to increase transparency and comparability among organizations that lease assets by recognizing assets and liabilities that arise from lease transactions on a lessee's balance sheet. The Boards issued for public comment a revised Exposure Draft on Leases in May 2013.
Financial Instruments
The objective of the joint project on accounting for financial instruments is to provide financial statement users with a more timely and representative depiction of a company, institution, or not-for-profit organization's involvement in financial instruments, while reducing the complexity in accounting for those instruments. The Boards are conducting this project in three phases, and both have issued proposed standards on the first two phases: accounting for credit losses and recognition and measurement of financial instruments. Both Boards have proposed expected credit loss models to replace the current incurred loss model, but their proposed models differ on when those losses should be recognized. Following the conclusion of the comment period on credit losses, the Boards will determine if there is common ground in developing a converged standard. On the issue of classification and measurement, the Boards are converged on the major decisions, and expect to deliberate during the second half of 2013. The third phase of the accounting for financial instruments project looks at hedging. The IASB issued its proposal on hedging in September 2012. The FASB is expected to begin its deliberations on hedging during the second half of 2013.
Existing U.S. GAAP comprehensively addresses insurance accounting. However, IFRS currently lacks specific accounting requirements for insurance contracts. The Boards undertook the Insurance Contracts project to develop common, high-quality guidance that will address recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure requirements for insurance contracts (including reinsurance), even if the contracts are not issued by an insurance company. In general, the Boards are developing a model that would reflect current estimates of the amount necessary to fulfill an insurance obligation. However, they have not reached consistent conclusions about some elements of the model. The FASB published an Exposure Draft in June 2013.
What is the Role of the SEC and What is its Current Policy on Convergence?
The SEC has directed the FASB to consider international convergence as it develops new accounting standards. In its 2003 policy statement reaffirming the FASB as the designated private-sector standard setter for the U.S., the SEC said that it expects the FASB to consider, in adopting accounting principles, the extent to which international convergence on high-quality standards is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors. The FASB believes that working cooperatively with the IASB to develop common standards that improve financial reporting in the U.S. and internationally and that foster global comparability fulfills that expectation.
Sometimes, as in the case of responding to the financial reporting crisis that began in late 2008, the FASB has taken timely actions to improve U.S. GAAP while also working with the IASB on longer term global solutions in the same area. Unless and until a decision is made to adopt IFRS in the U.S., or until we have achieved substantial convergence between U.S. GAAP and IFRS, the FASB will need to continuously manage the challenging task of balancing the demand for improved U.S GAAP with the desire to eliminate differences between it and IFRS.
In July 2012, the SEC staff issued its final staff report on the "Work Plan for Consideration of Incorporating International Financial Reporting Standards into the Financial Reporting System for U.S. Issuers." The report was the final phase of a work plan, initiated in February 2010, to consider specific issues relevant to the Commission's determination as to where, when and how the current financial reporting system for U.S. issuers should be transitioned to a system incorporating IFRS. The 2010 work plan followed the release by the Commission in November 2008 of a proposed rule, Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared In Accordance With International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. Issuers.
The 2012 staff report summarized the staff's findings regarding key issues surrounding the potential incorporation of IFRS into U.S. financial reporting, but did not make any recommendation to the Commission. "Additional analysis and consideration of this threshold policy question is necessary before any decision by the Commission concerning the incorporation of IFRS into the financial reporting system for the U.S. issuers can occur," the report said.
In the report, the SEC staff examined a number of unresolved issues relating to the potential incorporation of IFRS into the U.S. financial reporting system. These issues include, among others, the diversity in how accounting standards, including IFRS, are interpreted, applied and enforced in various jurisdictions around the world; the potential cost to U.S issuers of adopting or incorporating IFRS; investor education; and governance.
The FASB and IASB remain committed to improving US GAAP and IFRS and achieving their convergence.
Toward those ends, the FASB encourages its constituents to participate in the IASB's standard-setting activities, including projects that the IASB is undertaking independently of the FASB. Please see the IASB Work Plan on the IASB's website for a description of and timetable for all active IASB projects. Please refer to the Open to Comment portion of the IASB's website to review or submit a comment on a particular IASB proposal.
For more information about the history of the convergence effort, please refer to International Convergence of Accounting Standards—A Brief History, which describes the major events in the evolution and development of international accounting standards.
IASB-FASB Update Report to the Financial Stability Board Plenary on Accounting Convergence [April 5, 2012]


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