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[2]Anyone who thought Colts owner Jim Irsay would take the high road following his team's victory over Peyton Manning in his return to Lucas Oil Stadium hasn't paid much attention to Colts owner Jim Irsay.
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— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) October 21, 2013 [4]
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AIDS vaccine facility won't be here: Ottawa
OTTAWA -- The federal government is still seriously considering building an HIV vaccine manufacturing facility with the Gates Foundation but the Winnipeg-based International Centre for Infectious Diseases (ICID) is officially not going to be part of that plan.
ICID chief executive officer Heather Medwick told the Free Press she had a debriefing with the Public Health Agency of Canada Thursday -- nearly two weeks after PHAC head Dr. David Butler-Jones informed her by phone ICID's bid was being rejected.
The debriefing was delivered by Steven Sternthal, director of the Office of HIV Vaccines within PHAC and Jane Billings, senior assistant deputy minister of PHAC. But Medwick said it included little specific information about why the bid had failed.
"They gave us some general comments," said Medwick. "They said we'd be getting further information in the next 10 days."
Medwick said she didn't want to release any details she was given so far until she gets the written information and can discuss it with ICID's board and the other partners in the proposal.
"We still don't agree with their assessment," she said.
Medwick said she was also told the facility itself could still be built even though it's believed all four finalists who bid for it were told last month they didn't win.
"They did say the whole project is being assessed, that they are working with the Gates Foundation and that they will have an announcement in the next few months," she said.
She said she was not given the impression ICID would be invited to participate when or if the government does decide to go forward with the project.
The other bidders were from the University of Western Ontario in London, Trent University in Peterborough and Laval University in Montreal. All but Laval have publicly confirmed they didn't win. That raised fears in some quarters that Ottawa is looking for a way to funnel the project to Quebec, which is home to more than a dozen big pharmaceutical companies.
The vaccine facility was to be the centrepiece of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, a $139-million collaboration between Ottawa and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The manufacturing plant would be built for about $88 million and was to give researchers from around the world a non-profit, single location to manufacture potential HIV vaccines for clinical trials.
ICID's proposal had the backing of four Canadian universities, Winnipeg-based biopharmaceutical giant Cangene Corp., the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in New York City, and the Serum Institute, the largest generic vaccine manufacturing company in the world. Last summer, ICID was told informally its bid had been judged to be the winner by a group of peer reviewers.
But then former ICID CEO Terry Duguid decided to seek the nomination to run for the Liberal Party in Winnipeg South and things started to go sour. Several sources, including Duguid, say his candidacy for the Liberals was cited a number of times to ICID officials as being an impediment to ICID's bid on the vaccine plant.
Manitoba NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis, her party's health critic, plans to get the House of Commons health committee to delve into this issue when Parliament resumes next month.
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1. Idaho: County Commissioners Support Wilderness
2. Maine: Public Land Becomes Epicenter in State Fight
3. Oregon: Legislation Seeks to End Elliott State Forest Commercial Logging
4. New Jersey: Stockton Burning Out the Forest to Restore Ecosystem
5. Massachusetts: State Forest Officials See Silver Lining in Loss of Red Pines
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1. Under Secretary Highlights Forest Restoration Effort in Testimony before Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
2. BLM Halts Logging near Shotgun Creek
3. Opinions Differ on Suitable Timber in Flathead Forest
4. Big Thorne Timber Suit Chopped Down
5. Aid to Timber-Dependent Oregon Counties Is Revived by House Leaders
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1. Softwood Lumber Export Tax Trigger Reached; Rates Begin April 1, 2015
2. Report: Expanded Forestry Sector Could Be Boon to Eastern, Southern Kentucky
3. State Tackles Steep Challenges to Step Up Logging Oversight
4. Manistique Mill Closure Confirmed
5. State Ban on Environmentally Friendly Construction Advances
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2. Tilting Trees Causes Them to Produce More Sugars for Biofuel
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4. Colorado Plant Built to Turn Beetle-Killed Trees into Electricity May Not Re-Open until Summer
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2. Battling Spruce Beetles
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2. Chippewa National Forest's Marcell Ranger Station Exemplifies 1930s National Parks Service Architecture
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2. SAF Forest Policy News
3. Forest Science Seeks Submissions on Data-Driven Predictive Modeling in Forestry
4. SAF State Society Meetings
5. 2015 SAF National Convention News
6. SAF Welcomes New and Returning Members
1. Idaho: County Commissioners Support Wilderness
Billingsgazette.com (March 25) - Commissioners in Idaho's Bonner County unanimously passed a resolution calling for the US Congress to designate the Idaho portion of the Scotchman Peaks as a wilderness.
The entire 88,000-acre wilderness area proposal straddles the Idaho-Montana border in the Kaniksu and Kootenai national forests.
The steep, rocky, mountainous area northeast of Lake Pend Oreille has been recommended for wilderness by Forest Service management plans that were debated for more than a decade and approved in January.
2. Maine: Public Land Becomes Epicenter in State Fight
Pressherald.com (March 22) - In many ways, Nahmakanta Public Reserved Land epitomizes the multiple-use philosophy that has guided Maine's management of more than a half-million acres of state-owned land for decades. But there is growing debate about whether Gov. Paul LePage wants to tilt that balance more toward timber harvesting and away from outdoor recreation.
The outcome of the political fight over the public reserved lands could have major implications for conservation projects statewide and the future of the popular program that helped protect Nahmakanta plus dozens of other parcels in Maine.
SAF members Doug Denico, CF, and SAF Fellow Bob Seymour are quoted.
3. Oregon: Legislation Seeks to End Elliott State Forest Commercial Logging
Pamplinmedia.com (March 16) - Environmental groups hope a bill in the Oregon State Legislature will permanently end commercial timber harvest on the Elliott State Forest and rule out its sale to private investors.
Legislation introduced earlier this month would establish a system to protect state trust land such as the Elliott State Forest, by allowing officials to transfer the land to a state agency that will manage it for conservation.
4. New Jersey: Stockton Burning Out the Forest to Restore Ecosystem
Shorenewstoday.com (March 23) - Stockton University began active management of its more than 1,500-acre forest March 19 to protect and restore its Pinelands forest ecosystem from threats such as the Southern pine beetle, and to cultivate a future of enhanced education, recreation, and healthy habitat.
The university's stewardship plan is the state's first comprehensive forest management plan on public land within the Pinelands region and was developed by Robert (Bob) Williams of Pine Creek Forestry, a certified forester with 40 years of experience who was hired by the university as a consultant.
The New Jersey Pinelands Commission has approved the 10-year plan.
SAF member Bob Williams, CF, is quoted.
5. Massachusetts: State Forest Officials See Silver Lining in Loss of Red Pines
Bostonglobe.com (March 23) - Over the past several years, the flightless insects called scales have bored deep into the bark of red pines throughout the region, ravaging the ramrod straight trees from New York to Maine.
But the trees' deaths could be a form of salvation for the Plymouth forest, where the red pines were planted in massive numbers after a catastrophic fire burned through the forest and surrounding communities in 1957. The new trees thrived at the expense of indigenous shrubbery and the wildlife that live in their shadows.
Pennsylvania's Firefighting Aircraft to Go on Contract to Fight Wildfires
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California Drought Making Wildfires a Year-Round Threat
Santacruzsentinel.com (March 17)
"Dismal" Snowpack May Be New Normal in Northwest
Union-Bulletin.com (March 23)
Bill Would Give Citizens More Ability to Fight Fire
Dailyrecordnews.com (March 19)
Why Forest Managers Want to Set Fires but Can't
Futurity.org (March 23)
Fighting Forest Fires: Lessons for Corporate Risk Management
Blogs.wsj.com (March 23)
1. Under Secretary Highlights Forest Restoration Effort in Testimony before Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
US Forest Service (March 24) - In testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, US Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resource and Environment Robert Bonnie said the Obama administration continues to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and management on public forest lands, but the shift of funds from management, recreation, and conservation programs to fight wildfires threatens to cripple the agency.
Bonnie said the Forest Service is achieving results despite the fact that since 1998, National Forest System staff has been reduced by over a third. Last year, he said, the Forest Service met or exceeded all of its targets related to forest management on the national forests.
2. BLM Halts Logging near Shotgun Creek
Registerguard.com (Oregon, March 25) - The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says it will put on hold any timber harvesting and construction of new roads on federal land along Shotgun Creek, about 25 miles northeast of Springfield, while it revises its environmental assessment of the project.
A pair of environmental groups that had filed suit to block timber harvests on the land greeted the announcement with applause, saying the proposed harvest would have been "the largest clearcut on federal lands in Lane County in 20 years," involving almost 260 acres near the Shotgun Park and Recreation Area.
Seneca Sawmill Company in Eugene bought the timber on the land for $4.2 million from the BLM in December, and got the green light to begin logging preparations this winter, the BLM said.
3. Opinions Differ on Suitable Timber in Flathead Forest
Flatheadbeacon.com (March 24) - Local timber executives are generally supportive of the initial targets for logging that are proposed in the US Forest Service's revised management plan for the Flathead National Forest, while environmental groups are criticizing the agency's increased levels.
SAF member Paul McKenzie, CF, quoted.
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Rattlesnake Legal History Casts Commercial Logging Plan in Doubt
Missoulian.com (March 19) - Proposed logging in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area would violate the law that created it, according to people involved in shepherding the legislation through Congress.
The Lolo National Forest's Missoula Ranger District put its final draft of the Marshall Woods Project up for public review this week.
The project envisions about 4,000 acres of treatment to improve forest health, such as prescribed burning, slash removal, tree thinning, and replanting. It also includes about 225 acres of commercial logging, entailing about 80 truckloads of timber coming out of the main Rattlesnake Creek corridor.
4. Big Thorne Timber Suit Chopped Down
Juneauempire.com (March 24) - An Anchorage judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservation groups to stop a timber sale on the Tongass National Forest.
Last year, a coalition of groups sued to stop the US Forest Service's Big Thorne timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. The sale spans more than 6,000 acres of old-growth and 2,000 acres of young-growth timber near Thorne Bay and Coffman Cove. The Tongass spans approximately 17 million acres in southeast Alaska and is the United States' largest national forest.
The majority of the timber would go to Viking Lumber Company in Klawock, the winning bidder on the sale. A small portion of the sale would go to the region's "mom-and-pop" mills.
USFS Celebrates Big Thorne Decision as Environmental Groups Weigh Options
Alaskapublic.org (March 23)
5. Aid to Timber-Dependent Oregon Counties Is Revived by House Leaders
Oregonlive.com (March 24) - Federal aid that has provided a financial lifeline for timber-dependent counties in Oregon may soon start flowing again after a key congressional deal was announced March 24.
House Republican and Democratic leaders agreed to include the timber aid-which will pump about $100 million a year into the economy in mostly rural parts of Oregon-in a must-pass bill to prevent deep cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors.
1. German Engineered Wood Industry Faces Familiar Challenges
WoodWorkingNetwork.com (March 23) - About 10 percent of forest wood in Germany goes into engineered wood products. Manufacturers produce an average of some six million cubic meters of particleboard, four million cubic meters of fiberboard, and one million cubic meters of waferboard.
The German engineered wood industry is the sector's largest producer in Europe and shows extensive innovation potential.
2. SCS Global Certifies Large Forested Area in South Asia under FSC Standard
SCSGlobalservices.com (March 25) - SCS Global Services has announced that Uttar Pradesh Forest Corporation (UPFC) has achieved certification under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard. The forest management certification encompasses 13 forest divisions covering a total forest area of 349,296 hectares. This area represents roughly 40 percent of the FSC-certified forest area in South Asia.
3. What Sustainable Development Means in the Tropics
CIFOR.org (March 20) - Is a tropical forest a source of resources to be cleared for profit? Or is it an integral part of a human landscape: relied on by people for clean water, timber, forest foods, wood fuel, a haven for animals and plants, and a carbon sink for the health of the climate system?
Forestry experts argue that the latter is closest to the true nature of forests and, in September, the UN will finalize a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) designed to provide a pathway for all countries to a future that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable.
1. Softwood Lumber Export Tax Trigger Reached; Rates Begin April 1, 2015
IHB.de (March 19) - Under the terms of the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA), the trigger for an increase in the export tax rate for Canadian softwood products going to the United States has been reached. Export taxes on softwood from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec will be enforced as of April 1, 2015.
2. Report: Expanded Forestry Sector Could Be Boon to Eastern, Southern Kentucky
Kentucky.com (March 22) - Forest industries have the potential to provide thousands more jobs in eastern and southern Kentucky, as leaders in the region search for ways to improve the economy, according to an analysis.
Expanding the forestry sector could provide $1.49 billion in new revenue and nearly 7,500 additional jobs in a 54-county region that includes areas hit hard by a sharp decrease in coal jobs, researchers in the Department of Forestry at the University of Kentucky concluded.
SAF member Jeff Stringer, CF, mentioned in article.
3. State Tackles Steep Challenges to Step Up Logging Oversight
SeattleTimes.com (March 19) - In public statements during the past year, Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) officials have downplayed the possibility that logging could have contributed to the Oso slide.
But during that time, the agency has scrambled to beef up oversight of timber harvests on unstable slopes.
Last spring, the department's forest-practices division amended harvest applications to gather more information about logging on or near unstable slopes. In a June memorandum, a DNR division manager asked staff to identify not only homes and highways that might be at risk, but also trailhead parking lots, picnic areas, campgrounds, and even hang-gliding launch sites.
4. Manistique Mill Closure Confirmed
MUpperMichiganssource.com (March 18) - FutureMark Manistique has confirmed the company is shutting down its paper mill. FutureMark says that, due to the significant financial cost of repositioning the mill, it would close on or around March 24.
The company recently started marketing the mill, which employs 147 workers.
5. State Ban on Environmentally Friendly Construction Advances
AJC.com (March 23) - State buildings would be effectively banned from using environmentally friendly construction standards known as LEED certification, under a measure passed by a committee in the Georgia Senate.
The "wood wars" battle over the national certification system comes as the state's timber industry claims it discriminates against the use of local wood products that aren't registered through the Forest Stewardship Council. According to the Georgia Forestry Association, only about 32,000 acres of the timber industry's 20 million acres in Georgia currently meet that standard-since much of the industry in the state uses competing guidelines.
Georgia May Ban Green Certification for State Buildings
WABE.org (March 24)
1. UGA Researchers Create Fast-Growing Trees that Are Easier to Turn into Fuel
News.UGA.edu (March 18) - Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that manipulation of a specific gene in a hardwood tree species not only makes it easier to break down the wood into fuel, but also significantly increases tree growth.
In a paper published recently in Biotechnology for Biofuels, the researchers describe how decreasing the expression of a gene called GAUT12.1 leads to a reduction in xylan and pectin-two major components of plant cell walls that make them resistant to the enzymes and chemicals used to extract the fermentable sugars used to create biofuels.
2. Tilting Trees Causes Them to Produce More Sugars for Biofuel
Agriland.ie (March 23) - Medical imaging techniques have been used by a team of researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with Rothamsted Research, to explore why making willow trees grow at an angle can vastly improve their biofuel yields.
3. Commercial Port, Pellet Plant Considered for Northwest Ontario
Biomass Magazine.com (March 24) - At the site of the former Norampac paper mill in Red Rock, Ontario, on Lake Superior's north shore, plans are in the works for a torrefied wood plant and commercial deep-water port for pellet exports.
Two subsidiary companies, the Port of Algoma of Essar Ports Global Holdings and North Port Canada of Riversedge Developments Inc., signed a 15-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 18 to design, build, and operate a port facility at the site.
4. Colorado Plant Built to Turn Beetle-Killed Trees into Electricity May Not Re-Open until Summer
GreenfieldReporter.com (March 23) - A plant built to convert beetle-killed trees into electricity in western Colorado is still shut down three months after a fire and likely won't open until the summer.
The plant in Gypsum was built by Provo, Utah-based Eagle Valley Clean Energy using about $40 million in federal loan guarantees. The aim was to provide about 7 percent of the electricity provided by Holy Cross Energy, an electric cooperative that serves five Colorado counties, including the Aspen and Vail areas.
5. Groups Laud Biomass Heat Inclusion in Federal Greenhouse Gas Executive Order
Biomass Magazine.com (March 23) - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council and the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) are praising the President's Executive Order "Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade."
The order calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across federal operations by at least 40 percent through 2025 through a broad host of measures, including building energy conservation, energy procurement inclusive of renewable thermal technology, and fleet management.
1. Redwood's Removal Sparks Dismay
Paloaltoonline.com (March 22) - It's happened again: A long-standing redwood that residents in one Palo Alto neighborhood have come to love has been cut down to make way for development, causing some to question why the city's Heritage Tree ordinance didn't protect it.
The city's Heritage Tree ordinance specifically prohibits removal of trees of a certain size and species, including those with a trunk diameter 18 inches or greater, which the La Para tree had.
The debate over personal property rights and broader city obligations to protect the city's mature trees has grown in recent years as owners opt to build out their properties.
2. Orlando's Tree Showdown Could Be Just a Beginning
Orlandosentinel.com (March 21) - A quiet spot in downtown Orlando has become the latest flash point in Central Florida's struggle to balance growth with the environment.
A proposed development has rallied opponents who worry that a massive live oak on the site could be cut down.
How much the city can do within its legal authority remains to be seen. Orlando and other jurisdictions around Central Florida have a patchwork of tree ordinances of varying strength-laws that are likely to be tested more frequently amid the economic recovery.
3. Boulder County Prepares for Potential Spread of Emerald Ash Borer Invasion
Timescall.com (March 22) - State and local officials are continuing to check for signs that the emerald ash borer has infested trees outside Boulder's city limits, and to try to prevent the devastation that could occur if it does.
Thus far in Colorado, ash borer beetles and beetle-damaged trees have only been confirmed inside several areas in Boulder, where the invasive pest was first identified in September 2013.
1. Sierra Nevada Pine Tree Die-Off Worsens as Beetles Thrive in Drought
Fresnobee.com (March 22) - A massive die-off of pine trees in the southern Sierra Nevada caused by beetles attacking drought-stressed trees is turning forests brown and creating a fire tinderbox.
From El Portal in Mariposa County to Kernville in Kern County and beyond, stands of dead trees are striking fear in the hearts of mountain residents.
About the only hope in halting the die-off is for the drought to end, an unlikely occurrence this year as winter ended with perhaps the lowest Sierra snowpack on record.
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Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Be a Good Thing
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DurangoHerald.com (March 18) - The spruce beetle, which has significantly damaged the Rio Grande National Forest, is rapidly making inroads into the San Juan National Forest.
The US Forest Service held a meeting last week to kick off a planning process for how to deal with the beetle and the trees it kills while feeding.
3. Invasive Insect Anticipated
Daily American.com (March 21) - Maple producers and others who have hardwood trees on their property are asked to be on the lookout for another variety of destructive insect.
The Asian long-horned beetle was identified in Clermont County, Ohio, in 2011, and it is anticipated that it will spread.
1. Study Finds Climate, Not Pine Beetle, Drives Western US Wildfires
Denverpost.com (March 23) - University of Colorado scientists investigated western US forests that burned over the past decade and compared them with forests infested with beetles.
They concluded that beetle-killed forests are no more at risk of burning than healthy forests. The beetle outbreaks, which since 1996 have turned 15 million acres of green forest gray from Alaska to Arizona, don't drive wildfire, said University of Colorado at Boulder ecologist Sarah Hart, author of the study, which is poised for publication this week.
New Study Analyzes Climate Change Impacts in Colorado
SummitDaily.com (March 19) - A bill passed by the state legislature in 2013 spurred the report, "The Colorado Climate Change Vulnerability Study," which was released in February and analyzes the climate-related challenges state residents and leaders will deal with in coming decades.
The report specifically mentions Summit County as being vulnerable to increased wildfire risk because so much of the county is surrounded by forest and residents live, work, and play in what's called the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
Researchers at Colorado State University project a 300 percent increase in Colorado's WUI, from 715,500 acres in 2000 to 2,161,400 acres in 2030, as more land is developed near the forest.
2. How "Remote Sensing" May Help Prevent Huge Wildfires
News10.net (March 19) - With wildfire season not far off, officials at the US Forest Service are working on the next big thing to stop big fires before they start.
It's called "remote sensing." Data is collected from aircraft and satellites to pinpoint areas where reforestation should be done or mulching is needed.
The Forest Service remote sensing group is working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to study data on what happened at the Rim Fire around Yosemite National Park two years ago to better prepare for the next big conflagration.
3. Competition between Trees the Main Driver of Forest Change
Uofa.ualberta.ca (March 19) - Contrary to conventional wisdom, new research reveals that it is competition, not climate change, that has a greater impact on the changing composition of forests in western Canada.
1. A Top Weedkiller Could Cause Cancer: Should We Be Scared?
NPR.org (March 24) - An international committee of cancer experts shocked the agribusiness world a few days ago when it announced that two widely used chemicals-glyphosate (better known by its trade name, Roundup) and malathion (an insecticide)-are "probably carcinogenic to humans." The International Agency for Research on Cancer published a brief explanation of its conclusions in The Lancet and plans to issue a book-length version later this year.
Monsanto Lashes Out at Cancer Agency's Finding on Glyphosate
StLtoday.com (March 24) - Monsanto took the offensive against the International Agency for Research on Cancer, days after the organization declared that glyphosate may be a carcinogen.
2. Chippewa National Forest's Marcell Ranger Station Exemplifies 1930s National Parks Service Architecture
Minnpost.com (March 24) - Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1934 and 1935, the Marcell Ranger Station exemplifies the core principles of the National Park Service's architectural philosophy: minimalist construction and use of native materials.
3. At "Sapsuckers," Syrup-Making Is Science
EFredericksburg.com (March 23) - Like wines from different regions, maple syrups vary according to microclimates and soils.
1. Gregory Award Scholarship-Application Deadline Extended
The Gregory Award is a scholarship which helps bring students and young professionals from outside the US and Canada to the SAF Convention. Please help us get the word out about this great opportunity. See the SAF Convention website for more information. Applications are due May 1, 2015.
SAF Issues Press Release on New USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis Strategic Plan
From the release: A broad coalition of conservation, forest products, natural resources groups, and state agencies welcomes the US Department of Agriculture's release of the new strategic plan for the USDA Forest Service's (USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. The Agricultural Act of 2014, also known as the Farm Bill, requires the USDA to submit an updated plan report to Congress.
The report provides lawmakers with information on funding needs to achieve the provisions for the FIA program as outlined in the 2014 Farm Bill. Its release is valuable to FIA stakeholders because it serves as a framework for understanding how the Forest Service envisions implementing the program and the funding levels necessary to do so.
To read the release in its entirety, visit the Forest Policy page on the SAF website and see the first item under "Featured Policy Items."
3. Forest Science Seeks Submissions on Data-Driven Predictive Modeling in Forestry
In the past decade, applications of predictive modeling have nearly exploded in their use and capabilities for producing data-driven solutions in fields ranging from business analytics to computer science to bioinformatics. Although predictive modeling techniques are known by many different names-machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, pattern recognition, and data mining are among the most commonly used-their use has become well established when it comes to solving complex and challenging problems based on large and complex data sets.
The tools of predictive modeling are too numerous to catalog exhaustively here, but an abbreviated list would include methods such as artificial neural networks (ANN); bagging and boosting; bootstrapping and cross-validation; classification and regression trees (CART); the elastic net; generalized additive models (GAM); multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS); random forests; support vector machines (SVM); and wavelet analysis. As these and other methods gain in their use and importance in modeling and analysis in a range of forestry sub-disciplines and data sets relevant to forestry applications, the goal of this special issue is to present an exemplary set of research and review articles that shed new light on applied predictive modeling as an essential component of modern research and scholarship in forest science.
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 1, 2015
Full Papers Due: November 1, 2015
Anticipated Publication Date: October 2016
For more information or to submit your abstract, contact Special Issue Associate Editor Phil Radtke.
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Washington SAF-Washington Chapter of The Wildlife Society Joint Annual Meeting
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5. 2015 SAF National Convention News
The 2015 SAF National Convention — Recreating Forestry — "The Confluence of Science, Society, and Technology" — will highlight a variety of contemporary forest resource management issues, including the trends, influences, and technologies that are facilitating the profession's progress toward the future.
The meeting will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where attendees will enjoy fabulous hospitality, the charm of Louisiana's capital city on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, and world-renowned cuisine alongside a scientific and technical program that provides an intrinsic opportunity for exploring the many links between the social, economic, and ecological considerations that form modern forest stewardship. Visit the SAF Convention website for full event details.
Abstract submission is now open for individual presentations and panels in the scientific and technical concurrent sessions or poster symposium. Submit Your Presentation or Poster.
New for 2015! The "Boots on the Ground" concurrent track is designed to present case studies and research that can help field foresters find solutions to management problems they face on a regular basis. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
New for 2015! The SAF Matters concurrent track is designed to provide a forum for members to discuss various issues, share best practices for State Society management, or learn about and promote ongoing and upcoming initiatives.
We encourage your submissions on these and other topics: Recreating Forestry through Science, Recreating Forestry through Society, Recreating Forestry through Technology, Recreating Forestry through Education and Outreach, Agroforestry, Consulting Forestry, Entomology & Pathology, Economics, Fire, Forest Ecology, Geospatial Technologies, History, International Forestry, Inventory & Biometrics, Policy, Recreation, Silviculture, Social Sciences, Soils & Hydrology, US Forest Service National Silviculture Workshop (NSW), Urban & Community Forestry, Utilization & Engineering, and Wildlife Management.
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If we don't "go to the movies" in any form, our minds wither and sicken.
If we don't "go to the movies" in any form, our minds wither and sicken.
Originally published on April 7, 1967.Georges Lautner's "Galia" opens and closes with arty shots of the ocean, mother of us all, but in between it's…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
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An FFC reviews Jodoroswky's The Dance of Reality.
Our Far-Flung Correspondent Brings Explosive Polish 1980s Sci-Fi to NYC
A recap of the 2015 TCM Film Festival.
NBC's American Odyssey attempts to woo viewers who have given up on the networks for cable but it misses its mark.
Dave Bunting's video essay on the cinematography of "Breaking Bad" Season 1, with an essay by Nick Schager.
• "The Outer Limits" (original series) is available on Netflix (DVD), Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video. • "In Cold Blood" is available on Netflix (DVD and Blu-ray) and Amazon Instant Video. • "Cool Hand Luke" is available on Netflix (DVD and Blu-ray) and Amazon Instant Video. • "American Beauty" is available on Netflix (DVD and Blu-ray) and Amazon Instant Video. • "Road to Perdition" is available on Netflix (DVD and Blu-ray).
by Jeff Shannon Eyes Wide Open: A Single Artist's Vision
Ask anyone who's devoted their life to the study and appreciation of movies and they can probably tell you exactly when they were "bitten by the movie bug," that moment of personal epiphany that sparked an all-consuming passion for what is arguably the greatest, most powerful medium of artistic expression.
In my case, it was Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" that literally changed my life. That's an influential milestone I share with many cinephiles who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, especially those "movie brats" (among them James Cameron, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg) who were drawn to imaginative visions of the future. Because I'd spent most of my childhood outdoors or casually enjoying Disney films and other kid-friendly fare, I didn't see Kubrick's visionary masterpiece until it played a return engagement at Seattle's glorious Cinerama Theater, in 1971, when I was nine years old.
(With its huge, curved Cinerama screen, the Cinerama is still the only theater in Seattle capable of showing "2001" as Kubrick intended. It exclusively hosted the film's original 77-week Seattle run beginning in April 1968, and the fully restored 70-millimeter print of "2001" had its world premiere there, appropriately enough, in 2001, two years after the aging cinema was purchased and beautifully renovated by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It's now one of only three theaters in the world -- along with the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles and the Pictureville Cinema in Bradford England -- equipped to exhibit three-panel Cinerama, requiring three synchronized projectors for the only seven films created in the three-strip Cinerama process, including 1956's "This Is Cinerama" and 1962's "How the West Was Won." Starting this week [Sept. 30th] and running through mid-October, Seattle's Cinerama is hosting a "70mm Festival" of 15 films, including "2001," that originally premiered there.)
Like no other film before it, "2001" opened my eyes to the power of a single artist's vision and led me to understand the supremacy of a great director. I didn't know it then, but I'd discovered the basis of auteur theory, and while it would be foolish to deny that film is (to echo that award-acceptance cliché) the most collaborative of all art forms, it's no contradiction to embrace the Kubrick quote that greets all visitors to kubrickfilms.com, Warner Bros.' authorized Kubrick website: "One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential for one man to make a film." (Disregard "man"; Kubrick would've been the first to include female filmmakers in his statement.)


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Julianne Moore, Zach Galifianakis to Star in Drama 'Freeheld' (Exclusive)
Julianne Moore is attached to star opposite Ellen Page in the indie drama Freeheld, and Zach Galifianakis is poised to tackle a supporting role in the indie drama.
Based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary short of the same name, the film chronicles the true story of the late Laurel Hester (Moore), a New Jersey police detective whose world was shattered when she became terminally ill and government officials prevented her from assigning her pension benefits to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree (Page).
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Laurel's conservative detective partner Dane Wells was shocked when he learned of her sexual orientation, but he became the leader in the fight for the same-sex couple's rights. That role has yet to be cast.
Galifianakis is onboard to play Garden State Equality activist Steven Goldstein.
Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) will direct from a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia, The Painted Veil). The filmmakers are eyeing a summer start date.
Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg are producing alongside Kelly Bush Novak of Vie Entertainment, Jim Stern of Endgame Entertainment, Jack Selby of Incognito Pictures and Cynthia Wade, who directed the 2007 documentary short.
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Moore, who can next be seen opposite Liam Neeson in the action film Non-Stop and David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, is currently filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2. She is about to begin production on a big-screen adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice. The actress also is attached to star opposite Greta Gerwig in the Rebecca Miller-helmed Maggie's Plan.
The Hangover's Galifianakis has two films in the can: Muppets Most Wanted and the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu comedy Birdman. He also is working on an FX pilot that he created and will star in that is being co-written by Louis C.K.
Moore and Galifianakis are repped by CAA. Moore is additionally handled by Management 360's Evelyn O'Neill. Galifianakis also is handled by Brillstein Entertainment and attorney Jared Levine. Sollett is repped by CAA, Oasis and Morris Yorn.
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A volume type lung exerciser consisting of a light bellows made of a stack of flat sheets of plastic film welded together and having an inner support skeleton of semi-rigid sheets. The bellows is hung from a collapsible leg stand which slides into a movable platform to limit the bellows extension. The platform is in the form of a shallow box which can accept the folded assembly for storage.
1. A device to provide volume exercise for a patients lungs said device comprising a lightweight bellows made up of a plurality of vertically spaced pairs of square layers of plastic film, each pair of layers being joined at their peripheral edge, each layer having an opening at the center thereof, the peripheral edge of one of said openings on each layer of said pairs of layers being sealed to the peripheral edge of an opening on an adjacent layer of an adjacent pair of said layers, said openings in each layer defining an interconnecting passage between each pair of layers, a solid bottom layer sealed to the peripheral edge of the lowermost layer of said pair of layers, a top layer sealed to the peripheral edge of the uppermost layer of said pair of layers, said uppermost layer having an outlet opening therein, whereby a closed volume is formed with a passage out the upper most layer and being readily collapsible with very little resistance to collapse due to the lightweight and high flexibility said bellows an outlet fitting connected to said outlet opening adapted to be connected to tubing and thereby allow a patient to exercise by drawing air from the bellows into the lungs, the maximum volume capacity of said closed volume being greater than the amount, and means to reduce the volume of said bellows by partially collapsing the bellows or limiting its extension including a support system for the bellows, said support system comprising a foldable hanger in the shape of an inverted U having its bridge section connected to the outlet fitting and its legs extending downwardly on opposite sides of said bellows, the distance the bellows could extend being directly related to the volume in the bellows, a movable platform slidably mounted to each leg of said hanger adjacent the lowermost layer of said bellows wherein the extension of said bellows is limited in an adjustable fashion by a movable platform into which the legs of the U shaped hanger could slide, the position of the platform up or down the hanger being calibrated to bellows volume for prescribed lung volume exercise, said platform being an open top shallow box with opposing slots in which the legs of the hanger slide, wherein said box could act as a storage container for the collapsed bellows and folded hanger when not in use, the bellows further being provided with a skeleton made up of flat sheets of semi-rigid material, each sheet having a hole at the center for air flow and being inserted into each pair of layers of the bellows, whereby the bellows, when evacuated, will reduce in volume by the bottom moving up rather than having the sides cave in, said size of said sheets being also a free extension limit by limiting the amount the bottom could drop since the sides must move in a certain amount to have the bottom and top move apart.
2. A bellows type lung exerciser as in claim 1, wherein said pairs of layers of said bellows made by stacking and sealing interconnected thin plastic pillows or bags of square or other shape, each bag containing a piece of flat semi-rigid material to maintain an expanded horizontal shape when said bellows is empty of air and contracted vertically.
3. A lung exerciser as in claim 1, wherein said U-shaped hanger, semi-rigid flat material is sized to partially or fully enclose the extended bellows on the top and two sides, said support may be folded flat with the collapsed bellows within, said hanger having a at the top to allow said outlet fitting to pass through which fitting may also provide the means to hold the bellows assembly to the hanger.
4. A lung exerciser as in claim 1 wherein said uppermost layer includes a flat sheet of semi-rigid material having a hole therein into which is connected said outlet fitting, said outlet fitting being provided with suitable barbs to lock the assembly together.
5. A lung exerciser assembly as in claim 1 wherein said outlet fitting includes a first laterally extending port being sized to fit common breathing tubing or other patient connecting means and an additional port extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of said bellows providing a passage to the inside of the bellows assembly to make it accessible for a counter to contact the moving bellows.
6. A lung exerciser as in claim 1 having little resistance to volume changes due to its low weight and extreme flexibility and thereby being truly a volume measurement device rather than a spring force for the patient to overcome or deal with at the end of each stroke.
Patients with severe illness or those having been operated on recently are often weak to the point where they find it difficult to breath deeply. The human lung is a labyrinth of passages that get increasingly smaller deeper into the lung. If the small passages are not used at least occasionally over a period of time, they tend to clog and could atrophy. A normally healthy person will sigh or yawn on a fairly regular basis which exercises the small passages of the lungs. Deep breathing exercises or activities that require heavy breathing, such as running, are good for the lungs.
Since lung problems with inactive patients are a well known phenomenon, therapists have for some time used various devices to get the patient to use or redevelop their lungs. Among these are blow bottles which require a patient to blow water out of a bottle, ball type flowmeters which force a patient to draw or expire breath at a higher than normal rate, and volume related devices that measure the vital capacity of the lung and encourage deep breathing. There are also a number of positive pressure devices which force pressure into the lungs to expand them with the patient being passive.
The volume related devices that require a patient to inhale a set amount of air and repeat the exercise a number of times are currently the most popular. Generally they are a collapsible container with a calibrated, preset and adjustable volume that the patient must displace by inhaling 10 to 20 times a treatment. Bellows are commonly used as are folding bags and boxes. It is important that the container offer as little resistance as possible when being emptied since it is the inhaled displacement of volume that is important and not the force needed to do it. Some bellows are so stiff that when the required volume is taken from them they have such a memory for their original shape that they create a negative pressure. More expensive or elaborate devices use counterweights or float a chamber in water to eliminate weight or negative pressure. Electronic devices coupled to flow meters can do the job very well.
What is proposed here is a simple, inexpensive device that can be readily understood and used and can be thrown away after one patient uses it. Materials used are common in both manufacturing and in hospital use. The design offers the therapist the opportunity to prescribe varied treatments to suit the patient.
When designing a disposable device it is important to use inexpensive materials and as little material as possible. It also must be possible to assemble the unit with a small amount of labor or machine time. A bellows to enclose a given volume (4 liters for example) could be made of rubber in a dip molding, or plastic in a blow molding. Welded bellows made of sheet plastic also can be used.
One of the cheapest ways to enclose a volume is with a plastic bag. Plastic such as polyethylene can be easily extruded into sheet or tubing and readily welded into a closed shape. If a series of sealed bags are stacked and sealed together near their center with interconnecting holes a bellows can be made.
If the volume of a bellows is known, a breathing tube or hose can be connected to it and a patient instructed to collapse the bellows by inhaling. It is best to have a stand to control the bellows and also to allow it to be adjustable as to volume.
Polyethylene bags with a thickness of 0.001 to 0.002 inch have adequate strength to hold positive or negative pressure in small amounts and are easily sealed to other materials and other thicknesses may be used. When negative pressure is applied inside a bellows made of thin polyethylene bags, the bellows tends to collapse from the sides rather than the bottom. The bellows should collapse from the bottom to make calibration practical. To prevent side collapse a series of cards (one in each layer) can be added. These cards (which may be cardboard or semi-rigid plastic) must be sized slightly smaller than the inside of the bag to allow the sides to come in a little when the bellows extends.
The U-shaped support from which the bellows hangs can be made of inexpensive cardboard or rigid plastic. Graduations representing the volume of the bellows can be printed or labeled on the sides. If the support is sized to fit into a tray or box top and the tray can be slid up and down, the bellows can be volume sized for different patients.
If the U-shaped support is made of corrugated cardboard and the top card in the bellows also is, the output fitting can be snap fitted into a common hole in the two and used to hold the assembly together. Corrugated cardboard is easily scored and bent and can be folded flat with the bellows collapsed inside. The bottom movable tray can be used to hold the collapsed assembly and with the addition of a box top or a cover sleeve, the assembly is packaged. The bottom box or tray can be made from a common box design that folds together. With the addition of two slots the box will work as the movable support. Either or both the box and the hanger could be made of other materials such as thermoformed plastic.
As with any exercise, counting the number of times the exercise is done is important. If the output connection is an elbow with a cleanout cap (making the elbow a tee) a means for getting to the moving bellows to sense the cycles is provided.
These and other objects will be apparent from the following specification and drawings in which:
FIG. One shows a plan view of the bellows portion of the device.
FIG. Two is a perspective view of the entire assembly.
FIG. Three is a perspective view of the bottom tray of the device.
Referring now to the drawings, in which like reference numerals denote similar elements, FIG. One shows a bellows 2 formed by welding together a series of six plastic bags 4, said plastic bags being two sheets of plastic closed around all four outer edges. The weld area 3 may be made by heat sealing, adhesive bonding or other suitable means and is shaped as a band around an unsealed area. Within the unsealed area a hole is cut to interconnect the inner air space of each of the layers or bags 4. The interconnecting hole shall be large enough to allow any air passed through top port 5 in either direction to move without restriction in volumes associated with breathing. A top fitting 5 of 22 mm diameter is a commonly accepted breathing tube connector. The top fitting 5 is attached to the top layer by suitable means such as heat sealing, adhesive bonding or by snap fitting into a flange ring or sheet provided inside the top bag. Each bag 4 becomes an element or layer of a belows. Said bellows could be any number of layers suited to the end use.
Using the thinnest practical material for bags 4 to save cost will result in a bellows that is too flexible to withstand even a slight vacuum. Instead of the bottom of the bellows moving up and down, the sides will fold in. To prevent this, support cards or inserts 6 may be added. These cards are simple sheets of a semi-rigid material such as cardboard, plastic sheet or heavy paper and are cut with a small clearance fit to the bag 4. Without a clearance the layers would be stretched tight when the bellows was folded and the bellows could not extend. The amount of clearance controls the maximum extension of the bellows. The weight of the cards 6 adds to the weight of the assembly 2 and governs how quickly the bellows expands upon release after having been drawn up by an inhaling patient.
Each card 6 except the lowest or bottom card must have a center hole at least as large as the hole between layers to allow free passage of air. The lowest card 6 could also be heavier to improve the smooth working of the bellows by makng the bellows expand bottom first.
Given the bellows assembly 2 of FIG. One, it is necessary to provide a means of hanging or supporting the bellows so it can be easily used. In FIG. Two where the entire assembly is referenced generally by 7 the bellows assembly 2 is shown installed in a U-shaped hanger 8 and suspended by fitting 5. Hanger 8 could be made of semi-rigid material such as fluted cardboard or thin plastic. Fitting 5 has a suitable barb or fitting to allow it to be caught by a hole in hanger 8.
Hanger 8 is made narrower than bellows assembly 2 so that the bellows 2 is easily seen from any angle. By putting calibrations on the upright sides of hanger 8, as the bellows 2 contracted, the bottom most layer would be used as an indicator of the volume left in the bellows or the volume displaced by the inhaler.
A tray 9 is shown at the bottom of assembly 7 which serves to hold the open end of the hanger 8 in place. The tray 9 has the form of a shallow box open on one side. The closed side of tray 9 may be placed either up or down in the assembly depending on the volume or space needed. The tray 9 would have slots 10 corresponding to the width of the legs of hanger 8 which would allow the tray 9 to be slid up and down the hanger 8 further adjusting the volume limit of bellows assembly 2. This adjustment would be necessary to allow the therapist to adjust the treatment to the patient's needs.
The tray 9 could be a simple vacuum formed plastic box or preferably a folded cardboard box. Making cardboard boxes by die cutting, scoring and folding is commonly done. If the tray 9 is formed by folding a single sheet as shown in FIG. Three, two sides 11 are folded double thickness around two tabs tucked in from the remaining sides of the tray. Most often a slot 10 is provided in the bottom of the tray to accept a tab 12 sticking out of side 11 to allow the assembly to be locked together. In the present design the slots 10 are made somewhat wider in the narrower dimension so an extra layer of material could be slid through. A corresponding slot 13 is cut at the opposite edge of the fold on the open side of the tray so the leg of hanger 8 can slide all the way through.
Tray 9 is made large enough in all dimensions so the bellows 2 can be contracted, the legs of hanger 8 folded inward over each other and bellows 2 and the entire assembly fitted into the tray. Since fitting 5 takes more height than the rest of the assembly 7 a space will be left into which accessories such as connecting tubing can be fitted. The entire assembly of folded bellows 2 with hanger 8 in tray 9 can be covered with a sleeve, bag, or sheet of material to form a closed package.
Fitting 5 could be anchored firmly to bellows 2 or if it is snapped in, may be allowed to swivel. The swivel action would be a preferred feature. If an elbow shape is used for fitting 5, it would be easy to provide a port 14 at the bend that would be normally closed by a cap or plug. This passageway or port could be used to reach the inside of the bellows 2 particularly to the bottom layer so a counter or indicator could be provided to indicate the bellows had been completely emptied.
To make use of the device the therapist or patient would open the package and remove the hanger bellows assembly. The legs of hanger 8 should fall open and the bellows 2 extend itself. The legs of hanger 8 would be inserted through the slots 10 and 13 in tray 9. The choice of whether the open side of tray 9 was up or down would depend on the calibration or on the maximum volume desired. With the open side of tray 9 up towards the bellows, the maximum volume would be greater than the case with the closed side up by an amount proportional to the greater distance the bellows can travel. The tray 9 would be positioned up or down on the hanger 8 to set the maximum volume desired for bellows 2 according to the calibrations provided on hanger 8.
A breathing tube would be connected to fitting 5 so the patient could put the opposite end in his mouth (with the addition of a mouth piece) and communicate with the interior of bellows 2. To exercise, the patient would try by sucking air out of the breathing tube attached to the fitting 5, to empty the bellows completely. The therapist or physician would prescribe the number of times the exercise should be done and to what volume.
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