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"With so much change happening in the industry we need good leaders, and I am super-stoked that Bruce and Coco have taken the reins," said Duke Edukas. "Being Co-Chairs with D has been an awesome ride. It's been an honor to serve. I've met great people, interacted with a lot of fine companies and am looking forward to the future."
Bruce Cromartie, owner of BC Surf & Sport. Shop-eat-surf file photo.
"Duke and D brought two unique geographical perspectives as "East" and "West" Co-Chairmen, and we felt this was important to maintain," said Mike Duncan, President of BRA. "More importantly, they served as great advisors and mentors to the entire membership as did the Chairmen before them. We are confident Bruce and Coco will continue this service both as advisors and also as liasons with the manufacturers with whom they've built such good rapport."
After showing surf movies up and down the east coast for his first few years out of high school, Bruce Cromartie opened the original BC Surf & Sport in 1977. In 1986, he and a partner opened a store in Littleton, Colorado just as snowboarding started to gain popularity. Since that time, BC has grown to 13 stores, primarily located in the Rockies and Florida.
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"I'm so honored to be a part of BRA," said Tihanyi. "The foundation that has been built by our predecessors will allow us to continue to grow and help our industry. I hope with open communication and honesty we can continue to support and nurture independent retailers."
BRA also introduced Luis Gordillo as their newest Board Member. Luis owns action sports independent retail shop Evoluzione in Puerto Rico. He is looking forward to taking the place of Luis Santori who left earlier in the year to work for a manufacturer.
New Co-Chair Bruce Cromartie said, "Being a member of BRA has been a great experience for me, and I look forward to working with Coco and the Association to help keep it moving forward. There have never been more challenges in our business, and we all have a lot to gain by working together to be sure the surf, skate and snowboard business stays strong. I want to thank Duke and D for all the work they've done over the last couple of years and for the great example they've both set."
Over the next two years, BRA plans to continue to grow its education program, enhance its exclusive member services, and to establish new ways for retailers to thrive. BRA also holds important a constant flow of conversation between independent retailers and manufacturer representatives, yielding new ideas and inspiration for the industry.
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An Analysis of State Policy Implementation on School Consolidation: Working From the Bottom Up
xmlui.metadata.dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Alan L. | |
Date Accessioned | 2006-11-14T21:24:47Z | |
Date Available | 2006-11-14T21:24:47Z | |
Date of Issue | 1995-12 | |
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Description | iii, 127 leaves. Advisor: Perry Johnston | en |
Description | The Problem: The problem of this study was to provide an analysis of Iowa's state policy on whole grade sharing and school consolidation. The study was designed to ascertain if the policies of the state of Iowa were effective in encouraging small rural school districts to whole grade share and follow up with school consolidation. Procedure: Four whole grade sharing school districts were chosen for the study. District administrators were interviewed. Questions were asked to determine the influence of state policies in aiding or impeding the districts to consolidate. Findings: The findings were that mandates from state agency levels do make a difference on how a school district may plan, but not always in the manner that the state agency may desire. Inducements from the state level could influence how school districts reacted to state mandates, but not every school district responded in the same manner. Local conditions within local school districts influenced how the local districts responded to state initiatives. Community traditions, concern for educational quality, district financial health, district facilities and the state efforts combined to produce outcomes that were desired by the state and outcomes that defied state intentions. Conclusions: Policy makers can provide mandates and inducements that cause citizens at local levels of government to make changes in the makeup of local school districts, however not all state attempts will be successful. Local control and values still play a strong part in the decision making process at the local level. Recommendations: Studies of the process of sharing, whether or not it led immediately to consolidation should be conducted five and ten years after the successful mergers to see what has changed, especially assessing whether long term conditions have changed sufficiently to support a different outcome or reinforced the present outcome. Since state policy can make a difference, mandates and support, carefully measured, can cause change, but not always. In the final analysis, this issue is like so many other state policy issues in being about how we govern ourselves in a federalist democracy. | en |
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Subject | Schools--Centralization--Iowa | en |
Subject | School districts--Iowa | en |
Title | An Analysis of State Policy Implementation on School Consolidation: Working From the Bottom Up | en |
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American tenor Stephen Costello made his Royal Opera debut in 2009 singing Carlo (Linda di Chamounix) in concert. He has since returned to sing Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Alfredo Germont (La traviata) for The Royal Opera.
Costello was born in Philadelphia and began his musical education as a trumpeter. He joined his high school chorus aged 17 in order to train his ears and improve his sight-reading, and soon afterwards decided to focus on singing for his undergraduate degree. Costello trained at the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts and made his professional debut as Rodolfo (La bohème) with Fort Worth Opera in 2006, and his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) the following year. He won the 2009 Richard Tucker Award and has performed widely throughout Europe and the USA with companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, San Diego Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. His repertory includes Rodolfo, Alfredo Germont, Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Percy (Anna Bolena), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Greenhorn (Heggie's Moby-Dick, world premiere), Tonio (La Fille du régiment) and Gounod's Faust.
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West Wycombe shown within Buckinghamshire
Population | 1,345 [1] |
OS grid reference | SU830945 |
Civil parish | West Wycombe |
District | Wycombe |
Shire county | Buckinghamshire |
Region | South East |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | High Wycombe |
Postcode district | HP14 |
Dialling code | 01494 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
EU Parliament | South East England |
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Coordinates: 51°38′35″N 0°47′59″W / 51.643143°N 0.799635°W
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West Wycombe is a small village situated along the A40 road, three miles west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
The historic village is largely a National Trust property and receives a large annual influx of tourists - being the site of West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe Caves and the Mausoleum on top of West Wycombe Hill. The Mausoleum and Golden Ball above West Wycombe village are impressive local landmarks, visually dominating the village and local landscape for miles surrounding.
West Wycombe Park, Caves, Mausoleum and St Lawrence's Church were all constructed in the mid-18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, founder of the Dilettanti Society and co-founder of the notorious Hellfire Club.
Early history[edit]
The hill above West Wycombe (now the site of St Lawrence's Church and the Mausoleum) has been continuously inhabited for centuries[citation needed]. A Bronze Age settlement is widely believed to have existed here, and research suggests there was a pagan temple in a similar style to Stonehenge[citation needed]. A Roman settlement later occupied West Wycombe Hill, and local historians believe a temple was constructed here (though the exact site remains unknown)[citation needed].
The lost village of Haveringdon[edit]
The next major influence on West Wycombe was the Saxons. The hillside was once again occupied, and the newly established settlement was named Haeferingdune (Hill of Haefer's people in Old English). The name later evolved into Haveringdon. The site retained religious importance: a church is said to have been erected by St Birnius (who later became the bishop of the West Saxons in AD 635).
A Norman watch tower is also said to have been built on top of the hill.
Haveringdon's population is believed to have been greatly reduced by the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) in the 1340s. By the 18th century the village had been resited in the valley along the Oxford Road, and renamed due to its geographical features and position: "West" because it was west of High Wycombe. Both settlements are in the Wye Valley and the word "Combe" derives from the Old English/Brythonic word for "valley". According to local records there were just two ratepayers left in Haveringdon in the 19th century.
Georgian Era[edit]
In the mid 18th century Sir Francis Dashwood commissioned an ambitious project to supply chalk for a three-mile straight road between West Wycombe and High Wycombe, now part of the A40 road, then a prominent trade route between London, Oxford, and Gloucester and onward to South Wales. The local chalk cave which had been in the village since prehistoric times was expanded into an elaborate network of tunnels and passages. The design of the caves was mostly inspired by Dashwood's Grand Tour of Italy, Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Local villagers, impoverished after a series of harvest failures, were paid a shilling per day to tunnel underground to mine chalk. The caves were all excavated by hand and even today they are viewed as an incredible feat of engineering.
Dashwood's family home, West Wycombe House, also underwent major alterations at this time. Although Haveringdon had all but disappeared by then, the church and tower had remained and a centre section was built to join the two together. The Mausoleum was also constructed, based on the design of the Constantine Arch in Rome. The new church was named Saint Lawrence's, as it was common for churches built on Pagan sites to have this name. The church and Mausoleum were also built using chalk and flint from the caves.
During this time, Dashwood and other high-powered politicians and society members formed a club then known as The Knights of St. Francis (which was later named as the Hellfire Club by a London newspaper). They first used Medmenham Abbey, eight miles away from West Wycombe on the River Thames, but the caves were later used for the club's meetings. The club was notorious in its day for orgies and black magic, but had disbanded by 1763 (according to church records). The caves fell into disuse and disrepair.
West Wycombe in the 20th century[edit]
In 1929 West Wycombe village was put up for sale by the Dashwood family to raise cash following that year's Wall Street Crash. It was bought in its entirety by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (better known as the Royal Society of Arts, or simply the RSA) as part of the Society's "Campaign for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages". In 1934, after extensive repairs, the Society handed the property over to the National Trust. The National Trust markets this property under the name 'West Wycombe Village and Hill'. The property features many buildings of architectural value which were built between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Between 1906 and 1958 the village was served by West Wycombe railway station, to the east of the village, on the Chiltern Main Line between London and Birmingham.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s the caves underwent extensive repairs under the auspices of the Dashwood family and turned into a tourist attraction. The profit earned was used to renovate the dilapidated West Wycombe Park. The caves continue to thrive as a popular tourist attraction today and have received over 2 million visitors since their reopening in 1951.
West Wycombe today[edit]
Although it is on the busy A40, the village centre retains much of its historical charm. It is mainly owned by the National Trust, and so has resisted modernisation. The High Street has a number of 'old-fashioned' shops (in appearance at least), as well as three pubs, some small offices and a well-used village hall. Just off the High Street are the village Combined School (ages 4–11) and a traditional garden centre. The population is around 1,300.[1]
The Swan is a Grade II listed public house.[2] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[3] Built in the 18th century, The Swan was refitted and extended in 1932 by Wheelers Wycombe brewery.[4]
West Wycombe is also a civil parish in Wycombe district.
West Wycombe on TV[edit]
The village and West Wycombe Park have been used as a location for numerous films, most notably The Duchess, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Capture the Castle and Dead Man's Folly. The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse. The Mausoleum was used as the set of a Roman town in an episode of the BBC Children's show Chucklevision and was used as a location in the biblical fantasy scenes for A Clockwork Orange.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census
- ^ "The Cock public house". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ^ Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. p. 20. ISBN 9781852493042.
- ^ heritagepubs.org.uk: Historic Pub Interiors, accessdate=17 August 2014
External links[edit]
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- West Wycombe Village and Hill information at the National Trust
- West Wycombe Estate Sawmill House and others. Accessed July 2007
- West Wycombe in the Domesday Book
- Photographs of Dashwood's tunnels in West Wycombe
- West Wycombe Parish Council


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For more "serious offenses," come up with a consequence other than time-out. For example, if your child persistently teases the dog and is old enough to know better, you might take away her television privileges for a couple of days.
Rewards motivate your child to do well. This could be as simple as parental praise. In some cases you might want to set up a charting system with more tangible rewards. For example, for every morning that your child is ready on time to go to daycare, she gets a star in her chart. When she racks up five stars, she gets a treat.
These brief descriptions don't tell the whole story, of course. It's not as if boundary-based discipline doesn't include preventive techniques — it does. And gentle discipline includes the use of consequences.
In fact, all of these styles overlap. The differences are more a matter of what they emphasize. Think about the primary colors — red, blue, and yellow. They contain no common elements. Discipline philosophies are more like secondary colors (orange, purple, green), which contain blends of more than one hue. Some may have a dash more red, and others may pour on the blue. What color will your discipline style be?
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ALAMÁN Y ESCALADA, LUCAS (1792–1853). Lucas Alamán y Escalada, politician and historian, son of Juan Vicente Alamán and María Ignacia Escalada, was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1792. He obtained his primary education in his hometown, the wealthiest mining site of the colonial period. When still a young man, he narrowly escaped the Alhondiga de Granaditas massacre during the Mexican war of independence against Spain in 1810. It was an experience he never forgot, and he condemned the "tumultuous" character of that early movement. He went to Mexico City and attended the Real Seminario de Minería; later he studied at Freyburg, Göttingen, and Paris. When the Constitution of 1812 was reestablished in Spain, he was elected as representative from Mexico to the Cours (parliament) in the metropolis. There, he participated in an attempt to divide the empire into three kingdoms, each one headed by a Spanish prince. Witnessing, however, the lack of interest of the peninsular politicians, he became convinced of the need for independence; therefore, he went back to Mexico and served in some of the newly established administrations. Alamán was minister of foreign affairs in the provisional government established after the failure of Agustín de Iturbide's empire, and then with the first Republican president, Guadalupe Victoria. He resigned, however, a few months later over political differences within the cabinet. In the following years he occupied himself as agent of the British-financed Compañía Unida de Minas.
In 1830 Alamán returned to politics, once again as minister of foreign affairs. Through tight control this administration straightened out the finances of the federal government. In order to promote the development of the textile industry through government loans, Alamán established the Banco de Avío. In combination with these efforts he reacted towards Manuel de Mier y Terán's warnings about foreigners in Texas by trying to direct the Texas cotton crop to Mexican factories. He established a trade network with Galveston and other Texas ports. Other sections of this law, commonly known as the Law of April 6, 1830, prohibited any further immigration from the United States into Texas. The bill favored colonization by other nationalities and proved controversial among the colonists. Finally, this restriction was derogated once Alamán was out of office in 1833. In the administration of 1830–32 he signed a treaty of limits with the United States, which ratified the borders established in the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819. Although it is probable that Alamán was involved in the centralization of Mexico in 1835–36, no evidence as yet proves it. In 1840, as member of the Council of Government, and clearly reacting to British advice, he recommended the recognition of Texas independence in order to have a stable border and to avoid any further conflict.
Five years later, as the annexation of Texas was completed, Alamán participated in a monarchist conspiracy that could have brought European support to Mexico, both to fight American expansionism and to stop the internal political turmoil. Though he and the Spanish minister, Salvador Bermúdez de Castro, preferred a pacific solution to the Texas question, the military leader that they chose opted for a bellicose demonstration against the United States. Indeed, Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga accused President José Joaquín de Herrera of being a traitor for trying to avoid a "glorious and necessary war." Thus, their plot became intrinsically connected to an open confrontation with the northern neighbor, as their newspaper El Tiempo expressed it. As it turned out, once the military defeats of the Mexican army began, Bermúdez decided to conclude the monarchist project; as a result of this Mexico fought-and lost-the war with the United States alone. With a strong mood of defeat, between 1849 and 1852, Alamán published his famous five-volume Historia de México, which condemned the early movement for independence of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and José María Morelos y Pavón. It was also a petition for help from European powers to ensure Mexico's survival.
Alamán was a strong advocate of the Spanish inheritance of Mexican society, as he argued extensively in his Disertaciones (1844). With José Fernando Ramírez, he profusely annotated William Prescott's Conquest of Mexico and became a member of various academic institutions, among them the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He also reorganized the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico. His complex thought clearly exemplifies the serious contradictions of Mexican monarchists. Even though they favored the economic development of the country through industrialization, they opposed the redistribution of church property. Thus, they specifically called for a prince who would maintain the social and economic privileges of the Catholic Church. As Maximilian's adventure proved, these expectations were misleading and unreal, since no European ruler was willing to grant such privileged status to the clergy. Alamán died on June 2, 1853.
Jaime Delgado, La monarquía en México, 1845–1847 (Mexico City: Porrúa, 1990). Charles A. Hale, Mexican Liberalism in the Age of Mora, 1821–1853 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968). Miguel Soto, La conspiración monárquica en México, 1845–1846 (Tepepan, Xochimilco: Eosa, 1988). José C. Valades, Alamán: Estadista e Historiador (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1977).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Miguel Soto, "ALAMAN Y ESCALADA, LUCAS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fal01), accessed May 05, 2015. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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Word on the street is Tara Kellerman is killing it on this website! Congradulations Tara, you've earned it!!! Let's hear it for Tara everyone. :D
Congratulations Tara Kellerman - The New Chaser of the Month!
Word on the street is Tara Kellerman is killing it on this website! Congradulations Tara, you've earned it!!! Let's hear it for Tara everyone. :D
You're the best! And the only reason I am so easy to convince is because I am in the company of FANTASTIC people. So glad to have spent the summer with you and will remember all of our adventures at Harrah's. You deserved this for all that you do and I'm so proud to call you my friend : ) Can I get a woo for fun?
Tara, you done it again! Your words ring so true and you deserve this honor. I've told you before and I'll tell you again: you are one of the most welcoming representatives of "Chaserville" soon to be "Chaserdom"! You embrace everyone not only with your smile but literally! I know for me, you made me feel like a friend the day we met and I'm so glad to have met all the other fine Chasers along the way. Nice way to start school off! Congrats again and god bless. Psst, ramen ain't so bad :).
Hey everyone! :) Thank you all SO much for your ridiculously kind words! I think I'm still a bit in shock from hearing the announcement. This summer has truly been a blessing to me, not only because I got to see a lot of shows, but more importantly because of all of the time I've spent with so many Chasers! It really has been a summer to remember!
I am so thankful for the friendships that have developed since entering 'Chaserville'. I want to personally mention every single Chaser that I have met and had SUCH a great time with hanging out, but that would take far too long and I wouldn't want to mistakenly leave someone out. :P Please know that I truly appreciate the time we've spent together.
However, I have to say that I would like to share this honor with a Chaser who has actually been to MORE shows than I have. That would be the supremely generous, loving, caring, funny and all around wonderful woman that is CINDY MUSSELMAN!!! :) My summer would not have been the same without her presence and friendship! Also of course, my recently stranded (due to the hurricane and being on a cruise--she also missed out on the earthquake!) 'partner in crime', Marna Lampe who makes me smile every single day. I don't know what I would do without her in my life. I must also give a shout out to our 'SNC Dance Team' member, Jenn Johnson, who may just be the winner of the 'easiest to convince to come to another show' award! Seriously, ladies...it has been a GREAT summer!!! :)
Most importantly, a bazillion (Marna, math woman, is that a real number?) thanks to the wonderful men of SNC, their wives/girlfriends/family members who sacrifice so much for us, Richard Korby, Blake Minor, David Britz and ALL of the wonderful staff of The Concert Venue!!! Without all of your collaborative efforts this summer would not have happened for us and have been as much fun as it was!!!
Again, THANK YOU for this honor! It has definitely made returning to school easier! :)
Yay for Tara!!!! So well-deserved. AND a bonus of your being COTM is that your fabulous sncmusic profile pic will get so much more exposure. Yes, you & Randy look fantastic in the foreground of the pic. For anyone who hasn't looked at it closely, however, take a moment to look behind Tara. You will see Mr. Ryan Ahlwardt being his entertainingly goofy self. Best. Profile pic. EVER.
What a perfect choice!! Tara and Marna were so hopeful to Mary and I our first day at Harrah's. They showed us all around the hotel and answered all our questions. They helped us in more ways then I can count. We had a blast hanging out both before and after the shows. I could not think of a better COTM!!


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Persistent atrial fibrillation associated with syncope due to orthostatic hypotension: a case report. | |
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A 40-year-old man was referred to our Cardiology Unit because of three syncopal episodes. The ECG showed atrial fibrillation with a mean heart rate of 104 bpm. The patient was unable to maintain the upright position because of marked orthostatic hypotension associated with bradycardia and presyncope. Two days later the patient underwent direct current shock with sinus rhythm restoration. After the procedure both symptoms and orthostatic hypotension disappeared. A tilt test induced marked hypotension and bradycardia only after nitroglycerine. This is the first report of a patient with persistent atrial fibrillation associated with syncope caused by orthostatic hypotension and bradycardia. The patient's clinical features and positive tilt test only after nitroglycerine lead us to hypothesize that the arrhythmia plays a more important role in the etiology of symptoms with respect to autonomic impairment and that the pathophysiological mechanism responsible for these symptoms could be mainly the baroreceptor reflex. |
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Friday, February 18, 2011
For this New Sounds, hear a string quartet that is an arrangement of a Jimi Hendrix song, along with an arrangement of the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy," by Canadian fingerstyle guitarist Don Ross. We'll also hear a jazz-ish band, Blue Cranes, taking on the Red House Painters, a sonata for violin and piano that is actually a Brian Wilson song, and music from the Jolly Boys. Plus, there'll be more Jimi Hendrix covers, perhaps by Ben Verdery & Turtle Island Quartet.
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Just ahead of his planned appearance this weekend on "Saturday Night Live," Miguel on Wednesday released a new remix of his song "How Many Drinks?" featuring Kendrick Lamar.
The two L.A.-based artists broke out in 2012 with two of the year's most critically acclaimed albums: With "Kaleidoscope Dream," which also earned nominations for several Grammy Awards, Miguel offered a sensually futuristic vision of deep-groove R&B, while Lamar's "good kid, m.A.A.d city" reimagined West Coast hip-hop for kids who might not have been born when 2Pac's "All Eyez on Me" came out.
In "How Many Drinks?," the duo team up for a lovely (if low-key) meditation on how "life is a bitch, but every dog has his day," as Lamar puts it. The song probably won't flip anyone's wig, though it's vastly more appealing than the chemistry-less duet Miguel performed with Wiz Khalifa on the Grammys in February. (To be clear, Miguel was great there; Khalifa, though, just seemed to have shown up by accident.)
Last week, Lamar announced dates for an upcoming world tour that will bring him to L.A.'s Staples Center on June 29. And both Lamar and Miguel are scheduled to play Jay-Z's Made in America festival (along with Beyoncé, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age and others) on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 in Philadelphia.
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Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
Human use of land is a major cause of the global environmental changes that define the Anthropocene. Archaeological and paleoecological evidence confirm that human populations and their use of land transformed ecosystems at sites around the world by the late Pleistocene and historical models indicate this transformation may have reached globally significant levels more than 3000 years ago. Yet these data in themselves remain insufficient to conclusively date the emergence of land use as a global force transforming the biosphere, with plausible dates ranging from the late Pleistocene to AD 1800. Conclusive empirical dating of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere will require unprecedented levels of investment in sustained interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of a geospatial cyberinfrastructure to collate and integrate the field observations of archaeologists, paleoecologists, paleoenvironmental scientists, environmental historians, geoscientists, geographers and other human and environmental scientists globally from the Pleistocene to the present. Existing field observations may yet prove insufficient in terms of their spatial and temporal coverage, but by assessing these observations within a spatially explicit statistically robust global framework, major observational gaps can be identified, stimulating data gathering in underrepresented regions and time periods. Like the Anthropocene itself, building scientific understanding of the human role in shaping the biosphere requires both sustained effort and leveraging the most powerful social systems and technologies ever developed on this planet.
Human populations and their use of land are leading causes of global changes in biodiversity (Braje and Erlandson, 2013), biogeochemistry (Foley et al., 2005), geomorphic processes (Syvitski and Kettner, 2011) and climate (IPCC, 2013; Ruddiman, 2013). These global changes form the core evidence that supports formal recognition of the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002; Steffen et al., 2007; Zalasiewicz et al., 2011; Ellis, 2011; Ruddiman, 2013; Smith and Zeder, 2013). Yet efforts to date the emergence of human use of land as a globally significant force transforming the Earth system remain incomplete and controversial (Seddon et al., accepted). Dates for the beginning of the Anthropocene range from the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary (Smith and Zeder, 2013), to the mid-Holocene rise of agriculture, approximately 7000 years BP (Ruddiman, 2013), to the industrial revolution, circa AD 1800 (Steffen et al., 2011) to the Atomic Age (Zalasiewicz et al., 2011).
Resolving this major question on Anthropocene origins will require rigorous empirical assessment of the global extent and degree of direct human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere from Pleistocene to present (Figure 1). Such study must be based on the field observations of archaeologists, paleoecologists, paleoenvironmental scientists, environmental historians and other scientists concerned with long-term investigation of human-environmental interactions.
Observations from the field
Archaeological and paleoecological evidence already confirm that humans have a long history of altering ecosystems at sites around the world beginning in the late Pleistocene (Smith and Zeder, 2013; Braje and Erlandson, 2013; Ellis et al., 2013). Site data are also being used to reconstruct population and land use histories at increasingly larger scales and levels of detail (Fuller et al., 2011; Johnson and Brook, 2011; Gaillard et al., 2010; Dincauze, 2000; Shennan et al., 2013). Nevertheless, it is clear that land-use histories and impacts of regional environments varied greatly across contemporaneous regions, which calls for more detailed local and regional studies and methods of integrating them across global scales.
Natural vegetation, largely omitting anthropogenic influences, has been reconstructed over two time slices across the continents using standardized paleoecological archives as part of the BIOME6000 project (http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/resources/Databases/BIOMES_data; Prentice and Webb III, 1998), though data quality and temporal and spatial coverage is highly variable and very limited in some regions. Interdisciplinary collaborations among paleoecologists, archaeologists, and paleoclimatologists are developing regional histories of human populations, land use, climate and ecosystem change using similar approaches (PAGES project http://www.pages.unibe.ch; IHOPE http://ihopenet.org). Cyberinfrastructure projects by archaeologists (e.g. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/) and paleoecologists (e.g. http://www.neotomadb.org) are enhancing efforts to share field data towards larger scales of synthesis. Yet all of these efforts combined will not be sufficient to date human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere from Pleistocene to present. The vast majority of archaeological and paleoecological data that are collected are still rarely shared online, are rarely described or standardized for broader use, must be scaled appropriately to serve as local components of global change studies, and must be integrated within a global statistical framework.
Spatially explicit global historical reconstructions
Great progress has been made recently in reconstructing spatially explicit long-term global histories of human populations, land use and ecosystem transformation using model-based approaches (Boyle et al., 2011; Kaplan et al., 2011; Klein Goldewijk et al., 2010; Klein Goldewijk et al., 2011; Ellis et al., 2013). These efforts combine global patterns of terrain, hydrology, soils and climate with very limited data on regional and global human populations and demographic models of land use to "backcast" historical patterns of human populations and their use of land from the present day to the beginning of the Holocene. Although these model-based reconstructions indicate that human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere was likely globally significant more than 3000 years BP, generally agreeing with existing archaeological evidence, their results have yet to be empirically evaluated with site-based observations (Ellis et al., 2013). Moreover, as these modeling efforts become progressively more sophisticated and detailed, they will increasingly require globally and temporally representative sets of site-based observations for model calibration and evaluation across regions and time periods.
Challenges in dating human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere from Pleistocene to present
Major long-term investments in remote sensing and climate modeling have enabled fundamental advances in scientific understanding of the contemporary dynamics of the biosphere and climate. However, there has been no similar level of sustained investment in collaborative scientific infrastructure capable of assessing the global state of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere based on local observations either for today or in past time periods. Some progress has been made in supporting, standardizing and synthesizing regional ecological assessments (e.g. Long Term Ecological Research Networks; The US National Ecological Observatory Network). However, at global scale, this form of assessment remains a challenge even for contemporary time periods (Vihervaara et al., 2013), with a variety of current efforts now attempting this using both experimental (Fraser et al., 2013) and observational approaches (Jetz et al., 2012; Ellis, 2012) based on collaborative online geodata cyberinfrastructure (Bernard et al., 2013; Tallis et al., 2012). As noted by those engaging in these efforts, the first and foremost challenge is in gaining and sustaining adequate long-term support, though funding agencies, including the Earth Cube program of the US National Science Foundation now appear to be moving in this direction (Bernard et al., 2013). However, true progress will require more than a patchwork of demonstration projects and ad hoc tool development, but rather a long-term international investment in developing a common vision and infrastructure.
Serious challenges remain even if adequate resources are made available to support collaborative efforts and infrastructure capable of assessing the global state of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere based on local observations. One major issue is the need to develop a culture of reciprocity that encourages data sharing freely online, with archaeologists and paleoecologists especially known for hoarding data for long periods. Systems used to share and organize data require that these be standardized, harmonized, and well described by metadata — a massive challenge even within a discipline and almost overwhelming across disciplines. One useful observation is that simply making the effort to standardize, share, and compare data using online cyberinfrastructure tends to drive fundamental changes in scientific practice, expediting communication and improving data collection and management practices to match global frameworks and stimulating broader research questions and larger scales of research (Newman et al., 2012; Karasti et al., 2006; Ribes and Lee, 2010; Lutters and Winter, 2011).
Another major challenge is the tendency of researchers to select sites that are more accessible or otherwise thought to be more promising for discovery, leading to major geographic biases and global gaps in site selection and observations (Martin et al., 2012). These site selection practices have already been shown to bias the conclusions of archaeological research on human use of land in Amazonia (McMichael et al., 2012) and on the sites of early agricultural domestications (Fuller, 2011). As with the practice of data sharing, it is likely that simply by engaging in assessments of geographic bias in site selection, the utility of more robust and representative site selection practices may be encouraged. However, the ability to make such assessments of geographic and temporal biases at global scale from Pleistocene to present requires that global data representing the global environmental and anthropogenic patterns that would reveal such biases and the statistical tools to use them are available to scientists when selecting sites for field research- which is not the case at present.
Prospects for an Anthropocene collaborative geo-cyberinfrastructure
Recently, a collaborative geo-computation cyberinfrastructure has been developed to enable real-time quantitative global assessment of geographical biases in sets of local case studies. The online system (The GLOBE project: http://globe.umbc.edu; Ellis, 2012) uses spatially explicit global data of a wide range of global environmental and social variables including climates, soils, terrain, population and other key factors relevant to assessing the global representativeness of local land use observations. Enhancing this system with quantitative tools for temporally explicit global assessments would provide a statistically robust empirical framework for evaluating the global significance of human use of land at different time periods from sets of time sequence observations obtained at field sites. A conceptual illustration of such a system is presented in Figure 2. By design, this system would incentivize and facilitate sharing, georeferencing and harmonization of existing empirical data and expertise from archaeological and paleoecological sites around the world within a robust global statistical framework. Although the existing corpus of site-based observations by archaeologists, paleoecologists, and other paleoenvironmental scientists likely incorporates major gaps in observation across world regions and time periods, the act of assessing these globally would likely stimulate further data gathering in underrepresented regions and time periods.
Both Anthropocene science and Earth stewardship will benefit profoundly from a more robust, detailed and quantitative understanding of the long-term trajectory and significance of human transformation of the biosphere. For example, human transformation of the biosphere is often portrayed as the recent disturbance of a pristine nature by industrial society, with many significant contemporary implications for Earth stewardship, including effective strategies for biodiversity conservation (Jackson and Hobbs, 2009) and the geopolitics of carbon sequestration (Pongratz et al., 2011). The general availability of spatially explicit quantitative global data on the dynamics of human populations and their use of land over the long-term would dramatically enhance efforts to manage and mitigate global climate change, global processes of species extinction and invasion, fire regimes, sedimentary processes and other long-term environmental changes of the Anthropocene. The time is ripe and the prospects are good for a major new transdisciplinary Anthropocene community to come together and make unprecedented progress in understanding the human role in shaping and sustaining the terrestrial biosphere over the long term.
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Fraser LH, Henry HAL, Carlyle CN, White SR, Beierkuhnlein C, et al.2013. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11: 147–155Finding Plant Domestication in the Indian Subcontinent
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1. I Fall to Pieces After the crash, Rayna is in a coma and Deacon is left to wait on his pending jail sentence. Teddy is still shell-shocked about Peggy's pregnancy and struggles to understand where he belongs... Is it by Rayna's side with his daughters?
2. Never No More Edgehill gets a new chief executive who's not interested in Juliette's goal to mature as an artist. Meanwhile, a rising reality-show star proves to be competition for Juliette; and Rayna mounts her comeback with Will and Scarlett attached to her label.
3. I Don't Want to Talk About It Now Juliette performs at a private party for a wealthy couple. Elsewhere, Rayna's divorce is finalized; Deacon worries that his past struggles with his father will influence his emerging relationship with Maddie; and Will and Scarlett get makeovers.
4. You're No Angel Yourself Rayna backs out of the remainder of her tour with Juliette. Meanwhile, Teddy asks Peggy to marry him, but he tries to delay breaking the news to his daughters; and Tandy unearths some unsettling info about her mom's death.
5. Don't Open That Door Scarlett dreads doing a benefit concert because Jeff orders his stars to flaunt their sex appeal, which is something she's uncomfortable doing. Meanwhile, Rayna wants to buy the rights to her music; and Gunnar and Avery work with Scarlett's pal Zoey.
6. It Must Be You Rayna does a candid interview with Robin Roberts. Meanwhile, Teddy shares his engagement news with the press. Rayna looks for investers at a polo match. Juliette, crosses paths with Charlie Wentworth. Scarlett asks Avery for advice.
7. She's Got You Maddie seeks a connection with Deacon as Teddy's wedding day approaches. Meanwhile, Rayna and Luke bond as they discuss exes and children; Juliette enrages a prominent DJ, who retaliates by promoting Layla; and Will learns that Brent is dating a new man.
8. Hanky Panky Woman Scarlett embarks on her first tour with Luke. Meanwhile, Juliette makes up her mind regarding Charlie; Deacon criticizes Rayna for overburdening Scarlett; Gunnar seeks help from Scarlett when he struggles with a song; and Jeff starts a war with Rayna.
9. I'm Tired of Pretending Maddie seeks bonding time with Deacon, which Teddy finds upsetting. Elsewhere, Lamar asks Rayna to secure Tandy's support; Juliette worries that she's paying the price for Layla's success; and Zoey and Avery try to cheer up Scarlett while she's on tour.
10. Tomorrow Never Comes Juliette headlines Teddy's music festival, but she's shocked by the bad press she receives and searches for the gossip leak. Meanwhile, Rayna considers a risky financial move; Deacon and Gunnar host an auxiliary show; and Scarlett reconnects with Avery.
11. I'll Keep Climbing A mystery emerges in the wake of someone's death. Meanwhile, Gunnar and Scarlett receive a remarkable offer from Kelly Clarkson; Juliette's public image continues to decline; and Maddie and Daphne help Deacon get over a case of writer's block.
12. Just For What I Am Scarlett's career soars as she duets with Zac Brown, but the stress of fame takes its toll on her. Elsewhere, Deacon assists Rayna with writing a song; Juliette's declining popularity on tour angers Jeff; and Zoey feels ignored by Gunnar.
13. It's All Wrong, But It's All Right Juliette decides not to apologize for her behavior during her Grand Ole Opry ceremony; Luke introduces Rayna to someone that could help with her distribution deal.
14. Too Far Gone Deacon gets ready to record his live EP, while Rayna faces the truth about not only her father, but her sister as well.
15. They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore A successful producer likes Juliette's new song and invites her to Los Angeles to record for him.
16. Guilty Street Pop labels compete to sign Juliette. Meanwhile, Rayna and Avery both struggle with finances.
17. We've Got Things To Do Juliette feels overshadowed by Rayna's new acts.
18. Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down Rayna's and Luke's kids meet during Luke's tour. Meanwhile, Juliette dislikes Avery's bond with Scarlett.
19. Crazy Maddie's news goes viral. Rayna does an interview on "Good Morning America?.
20. Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Scarlett's breakdown drives everyone to find the person responsible.
21. All or Nothing with Me First Lady Michelle Obama and Kellie Pickler guest star.
22. On the Other Hand Avery plans to serenade Juliette, but is confused when she's not present.


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