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Richard Parshall removes lower buds from a dahlia hybrid he introduced, the Clearview Daniel, which he named after his second-oldest son.
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The Clearview Daniel, grown by Richard and Danielle Parshall, was a prize-winner at a dahlia show in England last year.
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A Clearview Calico, another hybrid introduced by Richard and Danielle Parshall, blooms in their Clearview garden.
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A dahlia called Camano Pet is seen in Richard and Danielle Parshall�s garden.
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Richard and Danielle Parshall�s first introduction was named after their oldest son, the Clearview David.
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Petals of a dahlia called Skipley Spot in Richard and Danielle Parshall�s garden.
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Richard and Danielle Parshall have watched their garden in Clearview be overtaken by dahlias over the years.
Richard and Danielle Parshall of Clearview used to grow asparagus and raspberries. Not anymore.
At least a half-acre of their property is devoted solely to dahlias, many of which they hybridized.
All dahlias are hybrids of tubers that produce daisy-shaped blooms in the mountains of Mexico.
The kaleidoscopic range in color, shape and size of modern dahlias is addicting to some gardeners.
The Parshalls and other members of the Snohomish County Dahlia Society plan to show off nearly 2,000 blooms at the group's dahlia show and competition Saturday and Sunday at Everett's Forest Park.
The society is 105 years old and the group's show is the longest continuously running dahlia show in North America. It's also one of the top dahlia competitions in the region.
The Snohomish County Dahlia Society began as a garden club for the wealthy women of Everett. Now it's a group of men and women who represent a cross-section of the county. What these growers share is a creative and competitive nature.
Richard Parshall, a former basketball coach at Lynnwood High School, said growing dahlias has been a labor of love for nearly 30 years, but serious participation in competition began in about 1994.
"Oh, yeah," he said. "It's competitive and it's a lot of work."
At first growing dahlias was just part of the fun of having a big garden, said Danielle Parshall, who taught math at Mountlake Terrace High School.
"Then we went to a dahlia show in Lake Forest Park. Big mistake," Danielle said. "Here we were scribbling down all the names of the blooms. It was the beginning of the end."
Richard likens dahlia competition to dog shows.
At the Everett show, all the different types of dahlias will be judged against each other and one bloom from each group will be picked to enter best of show.
The Parshalls compete in about seven shows each summer and often serve as judges at others. They plan to submit about 30 stems for judging on Saturday.
Among them will be some of the 32 dahlias they have introduced from their own cross-breeding work. The couple now sells their hybrid tubers to other dahlia collectors and growers at www.clearviewdahlias.com.
Two of their dahlias are named for their sons. Look for Clearview David and especially Clearview Daniel, which is yellow ball of delicate petals that looks as if it can't possibly be created by nature. Clearview Daniel was a notable prize-winner at a dahlia show in England last year.
The delicate nature of dahlias requires a mild growing climate. They like sun, but not heat. The most successful growers in the world are in Great Britain and the Pacific Northwest, Richard said.
About 15 societies are active between Portland and Vancouver, British Columbia. The Northwest societies are hosting this year's American Dahlia Society National Show during Labor Day weekend in Tacoma. The Parshalls plan to host a tour of their dahlia gardens during the national show.
Of all the thousands of registered dahlias in the world, none of them are blue. It may be genetically impossible, Richard said.
Still, a few of the amazing, gigantic red and purple dahlias grown by the Parshalls seem to carry a hint of blue. Earlier this week they were protected by umbrellas to keep the sun from fading that intense color
Rarely do the Parshalls cut flowers for bouquets.
The gardens are their outdoor vases, Danielle said, and each day in August and September the Parshalls are treated to a new exploding display.
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In summer
- Remove old or spent flowers.
- Water deeply every four or five days during the summer heat.
- As the blooms develop, fertilize with a low or no nitrogen fertilizer, such as one labeled 0-20-20, to encourage flower and tuber development.
- Control for slugs, snails and other pests.
- Remove two side buds at each budding tip to encourage better blooms.
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- Enjoy the flowers until the first frost kills the foliage.
- If you have good drainage, leave the tubers in the ground, cut off any dead foliage, and cover with 3 to 4 inches of mulch. Clumps should be divided every third year for bigger, better flowers and stronger stems.
- If you choose to dig the tubers, cut off the stalks to 3 or 4 inches above the ground and leave in the ground for a week or two to allow eyes to set before digging. Begin cutting down and digging by November even if no killing frost has taken place.
- Dig around each tuber clump with a shovel or garden fork and lift gently. Hose off the dirt from the tuber, clip off the feeder roots with garden scissors and let dry overnight.
Dividing and storing
- Divide clumps in half by splitting with pruning shears.
- Cut off tubers using hand pruners, garden scissors and a sharp knife. Wear protective gloves. Each tuber should have an eye you can see. The tuber eyes are located at the swell of the crown near the stem.
- Soak tubers in a solution of 1 cup of bleach and 3 gallons of water for 15 or 20 minutes to kill bacteria. Allow tubers to dry several days on newspaper in a cool, dark place.
- Label the tubers before storing with a permanent marker or no-blot pencil.
- Store cut tubers in plastic bags with a few handfuls of vermiculite, wood shavings or potting soil. Another method is rolling tubers in a long strip of plastic wrap, making sure each tuber isn't touching the others.
- Keep tubers in a dark, cool place that does not freeze, such as the crawl space under your house.
Source: The Snohomish County Dahlia Society
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The show is free; 1 to 6 p.m. Aug. 16 and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17; Floral Hall at Forest Park, 802 E. Mukilteo Blvd., Everett. More information at www.scdahlias.org.
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Sarkis Tatigian has served the U.S. Navy, both in uniform and as a civilian, for 70 years, which is nearly one-third of the Navy's 237-year existence. To put that in context, when Tatigian enlisted the modern aircraft carrier didn't exist.
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Sean F. Crean called this achievement "unprecedented" in the history of the Navy and the Department of Defense.
"From a junior radio inspector in Philadelphia to the associate director for small business in the nation's capital, where he helps steer billions of dollars that generate thousands of jobs across our country," Crean said, "he has been part of the greatest Navy the world has ever seen, in the course of time that would easily be two or three careers for anyone else."
Crean joined other senior executives, active duty and retired Navy officers, and members of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Wednesday for a 70th anniversary celebration at the Washington Navy Yard, honoring Tatigian for his long service.
After reading a letter of congratulations from Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Crean presented Tatigian with a director's coin. He also presented him with a small business acquisition award and added the award would be renamed in Tatigian's honor.
"It is indeed a great honor to be recognized in this memorable ceremony for my lifetime career in the civil service dedicated to the Navy Department entirely," Tatigian said, during the ceremony.
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Tatigian enlisted as a sailor in 1942, training in aviation electronics. He went on to work as a junior inspector of radios at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia. After that, he was transferred to a plant in Linden, N.J., where he inspected aviation parts coming off the assembly line.
Following World War II, Tatigian joined the Guided Missile Branch of the Bureau of Ordinance (BuOrd), where he worked on the development of the Navy's first guided missile — BAT — which he called one of the highlights of his long career.
He left active duty in 1946 but stayed in the Navy working for BuOrd. In 1951, he became the first small business specialist for BuOrd, an office that later became the Bureau of Naval Weapons.
Tatigian, 89, is currently the associate director of small business at NAVSEA, a position he's held since 1979. In that role, "Tat" or "Mr. T" as he is called by his coworkers, ensures that small businesses have sufficient procurement opportunities in prime contracting and subcontracting.
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"When we look back at the life, the career and the legacy of Mr. Tatigian," Persons said, "we are reminded that what we do, indeed, is service to our country."
This sentiment was echoed by the other speakers and members of the audience.
"During my 50 years in the defense business, I've seen a lot of small business representatives," said Bart Bartholomew, a consultant with VSE Corporation. "'Tat' represents the most active and has the most interest in promoting small businesses, advancing small businesses and making them successful."
Bartholomew said he didn't know anyone who had more federal service than Tatigian.
"The reason he's stayed at it so long is that he really enjoys it," Bartholomew said. "He feels like he's accomplishing a whole lot in advancing the small business program at NAVSEA and in general."
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Tatigian credited the daily challenges of the job as inspiration for staying in civil service so long with one agency.
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When Morgan Hagedorn decided to take on the challenge of completing two half marathons last year, it required several courageous strides in the run for her life.
The 14-year-old admits that she was never a fan of running, but she is now proud to be one of the youngest participants to earn medals for the Run Disney Coast to Coast Challenge, completing the 13.1 mile Walt Disney Half Marathon race on Jan. 12 in
"It's a large goal, and once you meet it you feel very proud of yourself that you made it," Morgan said. "A lot of the other runners were older than me and had done it multiple times. Everyone was really supportive; one lady started crying and I didn't realize it was a big deal until they responded to my age and my medical issues."
It was a great feat for a girl who was not considered the ideal athlete throughout her life. Morgan was born with mild cerebral palsy, possibly due to an infection that her mother Nicole Hagedorn developed during pregnancy. As a result, Morgan underwent physical and occupational therapy and wore foot and ankle braces until she was four.
"This is not the child who is out on the track team or playing soccer, this is a child who has always had physical obstacles," Nicole said.
After watching The Nutcracker for the first time when she was three, Morgan developed a love for ballet that allowed her to stretch her muscles and became a calming form of therapy. By 13, Morgan faced critical health issues due to being 17 pounds overweight and diabetic with high cholesterol and borderline high blood pressure.
"She was really going to stop ballet because everyone else was already on (pointe) shoes and had stronger ankles," Nicole said. "I knew she wanted to be a dancer, not a runner. But, I knew that running would help her to become the dancer that she wanted to be."
In addition, Nicole and her husband David Hagedorn had recently adopted their daughter Esther from
"We got so busy and stopped exercising and ate a lot of fast food," Nicole said. "She took all of my energy and Morgan and my other daughter Claire were on their own, which led to some poor eating habits."
Nicole, who is an obstetrician and certified in anti-aging and sports medicine, has participated in many marathons and Ironman triathlons over the years. Facing years of cholesterol and diabetic medication, she encouraged Morgan to take new steps towards improving her health.
Last April, Nicole trained Morgan with a combination of outdoor trail running and cross training exercises including swimming, lacrosse and tennis. Morgan became frustrated, yet determined to reach her goals.
"It was September before she could even run 25 yards and we really had to work up to it and she was not happy with me most of the time," Nicole said. "She was not a graceful runner, but now it has been a total transformation and it has been amazing."
Morgan also started a half-marathon training program developed by former Olympic marathon runner and author Jeff Galloway, who also serves as the official training director of Disney races.
"He became interested in Morgan's story and was inspired that this 14-year-old was going to change her eating habits and develop exercise goals, so he emailed her and he was at the race," Nicole said.
Morgan used her health challenge as theme for the Pride Project, an assignment that eighth graders at
"A lot of my friends were having issues and felt like they weren't good enough for their crushes," Morgan said. "A lot of people are judgmental and don't take the time to get to know you. Girls are really concerned about their looks and I felt bad and wished that there was something that I could do."
By eliminating processed foods and adding more fruits and vegetables to their meals, Morgan and her family began to enjoy their new lifestyle and embrace quality time.
"It's been a long journey to something that many adults strive to achieve," Nicole said. "It was a time that we had to talk, just the two of us. We were working so hard just for her health, and however it's still unfair that some kids don't have the parents or resources to get their in good health."
By October of 2012, she noticed a dramatic difference in her ability to run longer distances and steadily improved in ballet class. Morgan managed to drop 15 pounds and focused more on cutting out junk food instead of stressing about weight loss. By New Years Day, she was able to run 13 miles without soreness or fatigue. Despite minor shin pain and slight breathing problems in the beginning, Morgan said that crossing the finish line in three hours and running the marathon with her mom beside her was much easier than she had anticipated.
"It's the excitement of being at a marathon with all the music and people, so you don't really get as tired and it's much different from training on the trails," Morgan said. "Everyone dresses up in a Disney theme and it's fun to run around with Tinkerbell wings on. You run around and look silly and no one cares."
Morgan and Nicole have remained in contact with
"It makes you feel good and walk in your closet and put on your old jeans and they're baggy," Morgan said. "It's definitely easier and I can feel my ankles getting stronger now that I've lost weight.
"I never thought I would be a runner, but now I get to run and do things that I could never do before."
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Last night, Sarah Palin made a convert out of me.
Eight months ago, I was a registered Republican, standing in a cold room in Iowa supporting Ron Paul in the Iowa caucuses. For most of my life, I've been a believer in small government and individual liberties, the ideals that, according to what I learned in high school civics, the Republican Party stood for. I voted Libertarian in 2004, simply because I felt that the Libertarian candidate seemed to best voice those ideals at the time.
As I stood in that cold caucus room, I listened to several people stand up and talk about their candidate. For the most part, instead of giving me compelling reasons to vote for that candidate, each stump speaker (aside from the bubbly young woman who spoke about Ron Paul) spent their time not talking up their own candidate, but hurling shovels of specific insults at the people in the Democratic caucus in an adjacent building. I didn't learn much about Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney or John McCain, but I did hear a lot of talk about the negative character, poor experience, and profound ignorance of the primary Democratic candidates, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton.
Over the next several months, as the campaign season went along, I started actually opening my ears and listening to talk radio a bit. Previously, I would just listen to music in my truck during my commute, but I started tuning into a pair of local talk radio stations, which aired programs by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and the like.
And I was deeply disturbed. Instead of hearing compelling arguments for why John McCain was the right man for the job, I would hear three nonstop hours of insults levied toward Barack Obama, much of it not directly aimed towards him, but intended to serve as character assassination by association. Breathless stories about his pastor, Reverend Wright, and a guest pastor at his church, David Pfleiger. Amazing tales about William Ayers.
Very rarely did I hear a word about policy, and when I did, it was usually just deriding a specific plank of Obama's plan.
After a month of listening to a large daily dose of talk radio, I learned virtually nothing about what John McCain actually planned to do for this country.
What I did hear, though, is a lot of supposedly negative things about Barack Obama, most of which seemed nonsensical and completely frivolous compared to the problems of this nation. The worst, for me, was repeated harpings on the idea that Barack Obama was somehow "bad" because he was a community organizer.
I know what community organizers do. I have friends and family who are involved with social work and community organization. They register people to vote. They get people involved with the political process. They know the real, day-to-day problems of the people in their community like the back of their hand. They help people with their life problems, helping elderly folks keep the lights on and helping groups with a significant problem get organized enough to get the attention of an alderman or city hall. The people on the ground, the "community organizers" and very local politicians, do a ton of good work for the people of this country. And through that process, they gain a deep understanding of the real problems and thoughts of everyday people.
That brings us to last night. Until last night, I was slightly leaning towards Obama, but I hadn't firmly decided who I was voting for. I held out hope that during the Convention, I could get a real grasp on where the Republican Party was.
Last night, Sarah Palin gave a speech that was in theory meant to get people like me excited about the Republican ticket. This was one that should have gotten me back on board and excited about the McCain/Palin platform.
Instead, it sickened me in a very deep and personal way.
I could go through some of the quotes that made my stomach turn, but many others have already done a great analysis of the speech.
All I heard was a long stream of extremely bitter attacks against Barack Obama, none of which go even the slightest step towards solving the problems of this country. When I tuned in, Rudy Giuliani was firing off some attacks, but I expected that - every convention has some room for criticism of the opposition.
But Palin's speech was obviously meant to be the centerpiece, the real statement about the direction of the Republican party.
And I heard absolutely nothing about their plans for the future.
All I heard was a long, long stream of pointless attacks against Barack Obama, the Democratic Party in general, and the media.
No solutions. No real content. No anything.
There was one line at the end that really twisted things for me.
"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights?"
Every single human being has the right to a fair trial and to be treated humanely by their captors. John McCain, of all people, should understand this. He was a prisoner of war.
On the one fundamental issue that his entire campaign is centered around - the character-building experience of his POW stint - he gets it wrong.
America cannot be a shining beacon of light in the world when we condone policies of treating our enemies with the same standards as the Viet Cong treated their enemies.
Every criminal, no matter how heinous their crimes, deserves humane treatment and a fair and expedient trial. Period. That is a fundamental human right.
When you're giving the central speech of your party's convention, to make a joke out of it makes a joke out of me. Not just as a (former) Republican, but as an American.
This morning, I donated $250 to Barack Obama's campaign. Tomorrow, I'm stopping by the voter registration office to change my party affiliation to Democrat. Saturday, I hope to plant an Obama-Biden sign in my front yard.
This lack of respect for your political opponents, this denial of basic human rights to those who oppose us, this complete emptiness of policy - it ends. Right here, right now.


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Breaking ground for Ford Hall are (l–r) Allyn Ford, Carmen Ford Phillips, President M. Lee Pelton, Trustee Don Brown '68, Dean Carol Long and Trustee Jonathan Carder '68.
The thoughtful, soft-spoken demeanor of late philanthropist Hallie Ford was a reflection of her compassionate nature. She would have been gratified to see her children, son Allyn Ford and daughter Carmen Ford Phillips, gather with members of the campus community for the Ford Hall groundbreaking in May. Allyn spoke, University chaplain Charlie Wallace offered a blessing, the first shovel of dirt was turned, and construction was begun. Hallie's $8 million leadership gift, along with gifts from trustees, provided half the funding for the building. "Resourceful and frugal in her personal life, my mother reserved most of her wealth to benefit others," Allyn says. "She was a woman of few words but great vision, one who believed in the transformational value of the arts and education."
The high-tech building will feature sustainable architecture, and the new landscaping will include a significant number of trees. The building will host arts and science classes beginning in the fall of 2009. View construction progress with the web cam at www.willamette.edu/dept/facilities/projects/index.html.
Dr. Robert Seeger '62 established the Lola Dasch Seeger '31 and Mervin E. Seeger Science Scholarship Fund in memory of his late parents. A chemistry major, Seeger took after his mother, who studied biology. "My father didn't have an opportunity to go to college because of the Depression, but my mother went to Willamette with the help of a scholarship," Seeger says. Both parents strongly encouraged their sons to pursue higher education.
Seeger, who is professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California and director of cancer research at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, says the Willamette scholarship he received enabled him to obtain the education that provided the foundation for a career in academic medicine. By establishing a $200,000 endowment for the Seeger Science Scholarship, he will help generations of students with financial need who choose to pursue careers in medicine or biomedical science. "I am committed to supporting education," he says.
When Roberto Casarez, executive director of Willamette Academy, first saw his budget, with a $100,000 donation from Bob and Barb Griffin, both Class of '59, he thought he was looking at a typo. "The amount literally blew me away," he says. "This is a true blessing for us."
After Bob's retirement as president of Medtronic, a leading pacemaker and defibrillator company, the Griffins turned to golf, gardening, travel — and compassionate engagement. They founded a health care project to serve the poorest families in Tanzania, Africa, and work with an outreach project in inner-city Minneapolis to help the homeless obtain housing and gain education and work skills. Now their generosity will assist ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged teens at Willamette Academy. "I was a 'townie,' and were it not for Willamette, it's doubtful I would have gotten a college education," Bob says. "Barbara and I were the first in our families to get a college degree, so we can empathize with the Willamette Academy goals."
Trustee Brad King '74, MAd'76 graduated with Atkinson's first class. "We had no building when I started," he recalls. That first year, classes were held in the west wing of Smith Auditorium. He served as student body president as an undergraduate and then in graduate school while working three jobs to make ends meet. "I also have one of the longevity awards for choir," laughs King, who sang in the choir every year.
Now executive vice president and chief financial officer for Portland's largest employer, Oregon Health & Science University, King hasn't forgotten his alma mater. "I know it's critically important for a dean to have discretionary funds to meet urgent needs," he says of his recent $50,000 gift to the AGSM Dean's Initiative Fund. "I appreciated my time at Atkinson, and I'm happy to do anything I can to further the experience of students and faculty members."


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jrepin writes: "On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the "Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles". In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX develops its Linux-based software for a wide variety of tasks needed to put spacecraft into orbit—and eventually beyond. Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft."
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Health Interview Survey, 1978 (ICPSR 8044)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
The purpose of the Health Interview Survey is to obtain information about the amount and distribution of illness, its effects in terms of disability and chronic impairments, and the kinds of health services people receive. There are five types of records in this core survey, each in a separate data file. The variables in the Household File (Part 1) in this collection include type of living quarters, size of family, and geographic region. The Person File (Part 2) variables include sex, age, race, marital status, veteran status, education, income, occupation, and limits on activity. The Condition File (Part 3) contains variables on the incidence of illness or injury within the past year. The Hospital Episode File (Part 4) contains variables on the incidence of hospitalizations and presence of chronic conditions. The Doctor Visit File (Part 5) includes variables regarding frequency of doctor visits, type of doctor seen, and reasons for each visit. A sixth and seventh file have been provided. The Family Medical Expenses File (Part 6) provides variables including sex, age, race, marital status, veteran status, education, income, industry and occupation codes, and limits on activity. Other variables include amounts paid for personal, family, and outside family dental bills, doctor bills, hospital bills, optical bills, prescription medicine, health insurance, and other medical expenses. Other questions include total personal, family, and outside family medical expenses, including and excluding health insurance, and the sex and race of the family head. The Immunization File (Part 7) includes basic demographic variables, hospital stay length, doctor visit periods, types of immunizations received, and when they were obtained.
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Study Description
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Health Interview Survey, 1978. ICPSR08044-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-01-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08044.v3
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Subject Terms: chronic disabilities, chronic illnesses, disabilities, doctor visits, families, health, health care, health care services, health problems, hospitalization, household composition, illness
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 1978
Date of Collection:
- 1978
Universe: Civilian noninstitutional population of the United States from 1,900 geographically defined primary sampling units.
Data Types: aggregate data, clinical data, survey data
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Per agreement with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), ICPSR distributes the data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS.
Sample: Multistage probability design resulted in approximately 116,000 persons in approximately 40,000 households.
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Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
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Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-03
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Civil War Soldier's Diaries Donated To Vicksburg National Military Park
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JQ pushed very very hard in the last couple of hours to get those last few points to push SBI outta the way, but boy did we pay for it on reset :P They don't like us very much. teehee. It fills my cold, dead heart with such glee to see HoD tumbling down the ladders, I do feel bad with those who stayed with the server though. WHICH REMINDS ME, PRX, one of the mega guilds of SoS has left for the Euro matchups. So uh, tier 1 match will be interesting to watch now! (Now if we can just convince the 18 million War Machine guilds of SBI to go away, that'd be nice <_< )
Borlis Pass were interesting to watch this past week in terms of ratings cos they were miles and miles ahead of everyone else in their tier. I'mma keep an eye on them.
I feel bad for the likes of Kaineng, Devona's and Ferguson's, they're never gonna be able to fall out of their bottom pocket. Poor sods :(
Goddammit Desolation. We got so bad so suddenly. We could only hold the same bits of land in Eternal Battlegrounds, I never saw us taking anything other than what we already had.
Dea Draconis Friendship is Magic Dea Felidae
Keep trying! I know it took a guildie a few days to get in.
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|NVCC 2003-2004 Catalog
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Purpose: The curriculum is designed for persons who seek full-time employment in the communication design field. The occupational objectives include graphic designer in the communication design marketplace.
Recommended Preparation: Proficiency in high school English and a satisfactory aptitude for drawing.
Equipment and Supplies: Communication Design students are required to purchase certain basic equipment and materials necessary to achieve professionally-oriented objectives. Most of the equipment is purchased in the beginning class (Introduction to Graphic Skills) and can be used throughout the two-year program.
Total credits for the A.A.S. Degree in Communication Design = 69.
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|Scientific Name:
|Panthera tigris
|Species Authority:
|(Linnaeus, 1758)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758
|Taxonomic Notes:
|We follow Luo et al. (2004), who confirmed the division of tigers into six extant subspecies on the basis of distinctive molecular markers:
Amur Tiger P. t. altaica: Russian Far East and northeastern China
Northern Indochinese Tiger P. t. corbetti: Indochina north of the Malayan peninsula
Malayan Tiger P. t. jacksoni: Peninsular Malaysia
Sumatran Tiger P. t. sumatrae: Sumatra
Bengal Tiger P. t. tigris: Indian sub-continent
South China Tiger P. t. amoyensis (although this subspecies has not been directly observed in the wild since the 1970s and is possibly extinct)
Three subspecies previously recognized on the basis of morphology are extinct:
Bali Tiger P. t. balica Schwarz, 1912: Bali
Javan Tiger P. t. sondaica (Temminck, 1844): Java
Caspian Tiger P. t. virgata (Illiger, 1815): dry river valleys of the Takla Makan, western slopes of the Tianshan mountains, Amudarya and Syrdarya river valleys, shores of the Caspian sea, Elburz mountains, eastern Turkey, Tigris and Euphrates river valleys.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2bcd+4bcd; C1+2a(i) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Chundawat, R.S., Habib, B., Karanth, U., Kawanishi, K., Ahmad Khan, J., Lynam, T., Miquelle, D., Nyhus, P., Sunarto, S., Tilson, R. & Sonam Wang
|Nowell, K., Breitenmoser, U. & Breitenmoser-Wursten, C.
Listed as Endangered under A2bcd+4bcd. Tiger range appears to have declined by over 50% over the last three generations (21–27 years) (Dinerstein et al. 2007, Walston et al. 2010b). Comparing present Tiger population estimates (approximately 3,000) to those in the 1990s (5,000–7,000), despite the imprecision of the earlier estimate, also suggests a decline of at least 50% over this time period. The declining trend is likely to persist in the near future. The causes of population reduction may not be reversible in some areas.
Also listed under C1+2a(i), as a precautionary approach finds that the population of breeding adult Tigers is likely fewer than 2,500 mature individuals. Estimates of the Tiger populations in 42 protected source sites where there is evidence of breeding total 2,154 Tigers (see Table) (Walston et al. 2010a). Although this is not a complete estimate of the global Tiger population (for example, most Amur Tigers in Russia are found in unprotected areas), generally Tiger status outside the source sites is poor and poorly known. IUCN Guidelines (IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee 2010) define population as the number of mature individuals, defined as "individuals known, estimated or inferred to be capable of reproduction." While in general this refers to all reproductive-age adults in the population, the Guidelines also "stress that the intention of the definition of mature individuals is to allow the estimate of the number of mature individuals to take account of all the factors that may make a taxon more vulnerable than otherwise might be expected." Tigers require large populations to persist, and the survival rate of breeding adult females is a key parameter, with models suggesting population declines when mortality of breeding females rises over 15% (Chapron et al. 2008). Population declines in recent years have been most pronounced outside protected areas (Walston et al. 2010b). The IUCN Guidelines advise that "mature individuals that will never produce new recruits should not be counted." For the purposes of Red List assessment, the estimated population in the Source Sites is used as a proxy for the breeding population of adult Tigers. This population has declined by over 20% during the last two generations (13–20 years); the decline continues and may not be reversible; and no subpopulation is greater than 250 mature individuals.
|Range Description:
|The Tiger once ranged widely across Asia, from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia (Nowell and Jackson 1996). Over the past 100 years Tigers have disappeared from southwest and central Asia, from two Indonesian islands (Java and Bali) and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia. Tigers have lost over 93% of their historic range (Sanderson et al. 2006, Walston et al. 2010b). Tigers are currently found in thirteen Asian range states: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Viet Nam. They may still persist in North Korea, although there has been no recent confirmed evidence.
In 1994, the first comprehensive assessment to delineate Tiger range was carried out (Dinerstein et al. 1997). Priority areas for Tiger conservation were estimated to total 1.64 million km² in 159 Tiger Conservation Units (TCUs), roughly equivalent to discrete meta-populations, not including Russia (later estimated at 270,0000 km²: Sanderson et al. 2006) and China. While this was generally considered representative of current distribution, Tiger presence was confirmed in just 47% the TCUs, and 89% were scored as undergoing medium to high levels of poaching of Tigers and their prey.
This exercise was revised and updated ten years later, and in delineating Tiger Conservation Landscapes (TCLs), greater emphasis was placed on actual records of Tiger presence and breeding (Sanderson et al. 2006). TCLs were defined as areas where there is sufficient habitat to conserve at least five Tigers, and Tigers have been confirmed to occur in the past decade. Tiger range was estimated at 1.1 million km² in 76 TCLs (again, roughly equivalent to discrete meta-populations). This represented a 41% decline from the range described a decade earlier (in South and Southeast Asia, a drop from 1.55 million km² to 914,000 km²: Sanderson et al. 2006: 63), attributed primarily to poaching pressure (Dinerstein et al. 2007). Habitat loss due to deforestation was also to blame, notable particularly in Sumatra and Myanmar (Wikramanayake et al. 2010). In India, landscapes with Tigers found to be much smaller and more fragmented than in the original assessment (Sanderson et al. 2006: 63 and Figure 4.12).
Records of Tigers were collected over a ten-year period (1995–2004), a period which may have been too liberal for places like Cambodia which underwent a sharp rise in poaching pressure in the 1990s (Sanderson et al. 2006: Appendix 6). While 53% of the TCU survey respondents reported evidence of Tiger breeding in the time period 1995–2004, out of over 2,500 point records collected in 2005, just 8% had confirmed evidence of breeding Tigers (Sanderson et al. 2006: 11-17). Large areas of habitat were defined as Tiger landscapes based on suitability, but given data paucity on Tiger presence there were often few records of breeding and actual Tiger occupancy to substantiate these (Sanderson et al. 2006: Figures 2.3 and 4.8).
A review of land management within Tiger Conservation Landscapes described the TCLs as "potential habitat for Tigers" and found only 21% of their area to be legally protected. Management effectiveness was generally poor in the protected areas, with regulatory, budgetary and enforcement constraints, and hunting cited as the main threat. Significant portions of the TCLs are designated concessions for resource extraction (timber, oil and gas, minerals, etc.) (Forrest et al. 2011).
Tiger range was revisited again in 2009, by which time the extent of the Tiger's range collapse had become evident. "Vast areas of Southeast Asia [were] recently found to be void of Tigers and depleted of prey by hunters" (Walston et al. 2010a: 5). The exercise used a different methodology to prioritize areas for Tiger conservation. Source Sites were defined as areas with confirmed current presence of Tigers and evidence of breeding, population estimates of >25 breeding females, legal protection, and embedded in a larger habitat landscape with the potential to hold >50 breeding females. An extensive review of scientific literature as well as correspondence with Tiger scientists and protected area managers resulted in the identification of just 42 source sites totalling approximately 90,000 km². Many Southeast Asian countries, previously considered to have large areas with Tigers, are now considered, on the basis of extensive survey effort over the past decade or more, to have essentially no healthy breeding populations: Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bhutan have no confirmed source sites (although some sites with potential), and Laos just one (Walston et al. 2010a,b).
On the range map accompanying this Red List assessment, the Source Sites are delineated as Extant range, and the Tiger Conservation Landscapes as Probably Extant, as they are based primarily on "realistic inferences (e.g., based on distribution of suitable habitat at appropriate altitudes and proximity to areas where the taxon is known or thought very likely to remain extant," as defined by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species).
Native:Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; China (Anhui - Regionally Extinct, Beijing - Regionally Extinct, Chongqing - Regionally Extinct, Fujian - Possibly Extinct, Guangdong - Possibly Extinct, Guangxi - Regionally Extinct, Guizhou - Regionally Extinct, Hebei - Regionally Extinct, Heilongjiang, Henan - Regionally Extinct, Hubei - Regionally Extinct, Hunan - Possibly Extinct, Jiangsu - Regionally Extinct, Jiangxi - Possibly Extinct, Jilin, Liaoning - Regionally Extinct, Shaanxi - Possibly Extinct, Shandong - Regionally Extinct, Shanghai - Regionally Extinct, Shanxi - Regionally Extinct, Sichuan - Regionally Extinct, Tianjin - Regionally Extinct, Tibet [or Xizang], Xinjiang - Regionally Extinct, Yunnan, Zhejiang - Possibly Extinct); India; Indonesia (Bali - Regionally Extinct, Jawa - Regionally Extinct, Sumatera); Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia); Myanmar; Nepal; Russian Federation; Thailand; Viet Nam
Possibly extinct:Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Regionally extinct:Afghanistan; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Pakistan; Singapore; Tajikistan; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
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The thirteen Tiger Range Countries have come together in an unprecedented pledge to double the world's Tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger on the Asian lunar calendar, with a goal of achieving at least 6,000 Tigers. This figure was based on a baseline global population of 3,200, agreed upon at a preparatory workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal in October 2009; 3,200 Tigers was the IUCN Red List population estimate at that time. Since then, Tiger Range Countries have adjusted their baseline national Tiger estimates, finalized in the Global Tiger Recovery Program adopted at the International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg, Russia in November 2010 (GTRP 2010). These estimates now total approximately 4,000 adult Tigers (see Table, which updates the GTRP's figure for India based on its most recent national census results [Jhala et al. 2011]).
However, estimates of the Tiger populations in 42 protected source sites where there is evidence of breeding total 2,154 Tigers (Walston et al. 2010a, modified from their 2,126 to include the most recent published estimates from Nepal of Tiger populations in Chitwan, Bardia and Shuklaphanta). Although this is not a complete estimate of the global Tiger population (for example, most Amur Tigers in Russia are found in unprotected areas), generally Tiger status outside the source sites is poor and poorly known. IUCN Guidelines (IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee 2010) define population as the number of mature individuals, defined as "individuals known, estimated or inferred to be capable of reproduction." While in general this refers to all reproductive-age adults in the population, the Guidelines also "stress that the intention of the definition of mature individuals is to allow the estimate of the number of mature individuals to take account of all the factors that may make a taxon more vulnerable than otherwise might be expected." Tigers require large populations to persist, and the survival rate of breeding adult females is a key parameter, with models suggesting population declines when mortality of breeding females rises over 15% (Chapron et al. 2008). Population declines in recent years have been most pronounced outside protected areas (Walston et al. 2010b). The IUCN Guidelines advise that "mature individuals that will never produce new recruits should not be counted." For the purposes of Red List assessment, the estimated population in the Source Sites is used as a proxy for the breeding population of adult Tigers.
In 1998, the global Tiger population was estimated, less rigorously, at 5,000 to 7,000 Tigers (Seidensticker et al. 1999). Although to some extent the new numbers represent improved knowledge, it is clear that there have been substantial population declines, with Tigers all but eliminated from much of their recent forest range, particularly in Southeast Asia.
Follow the link below for further information about national Tiger population estimates.
|Population Trend:
|Habitat and Ecology:
Tigers are found mainly in the forests of tropical Asia, although they historically occurred more widely in drier and colder climes. One subspecies, the Amur Tiger P.t. altaica, persists in the Russian Far East. Photos of Tigers up to 4,500 m have been obtained in Bhutan (Wang 2008).
Availability of a sufficient prey base of large ungulates is the Tiger's major habitat requirement: "wild pigs and deer of various species are the two prey types that make up the bulk of the Tiger's diet, and in general Tigers require a good population of these species in order to survive and reproduce" (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002). Based on studies, Karanth et al. (2004) estimate that Tigers need to kill 50 large prey animals per year. Tigers are opportunistic predators, however, and their diet includes birds, fish, rodents, insects, amphibians, reptiles in addition to other mammals such as primates and porcupines. Tigers can also take ungulate prey much larger than themselves, including large bovids (water buffalo, gaur, banteng), elephants and rhinos (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
Tigers are generally solitary, with adults maintaining exclusive territories, or home ranges. Adult female home ranges seldom overlap, whereas male ranges typically overlap from 1–3 females, a typical felid pattern of social organization. Tiger home ranges are small where prey is abundant - e.g., female home ranges in Chitwan averaged 20 km², while in the Russian Far East they are much larger at 450 km² (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002). Similarly, reported Tiger densities range from 11.65 adult Tigers per 100 km² where prey is abundant (India's Nagarhole National Park) to as low as 0.13–0.45 per 100 km² where prey is more thinly distributed, as in Russia's Sikhote Alin Mountains (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
|Use and Trade:
In the early 1990s, it was feared that poaching of Tigers for the use of their bones in traditional Asian medicine would drive the Tiger to extinction (Nowell 2000). Despite strong international action to eliminate it, illegal trade persists (Nowell 2007). Tiger bone has long been considered to hold anti-inflammatory properties, with some support from Chinese medical research, but many consider the effect to be more psychological than pharmacological (Nowell and Xu 2007). Although all countries have banned use and manufacture of Tiger bone, illegal production persists in several Asian countries, especially in China, Malaysia, and Viet Nam (Nowell 2007). In China there are several operations engaged in intensive breeding ("farming" of Tigers), with the captive population reportedly reaching over 6,000. They are pressuring the government to allow them to produce Tiger products, and several have already engaged in illegal production of Tiger bone wine. Market surveys indicate that medicinal use of Tiger bone has decreased since China banned Tiger bone in 1993. Tiger farming perpetuates and threatens to re-ignite consumer demand (Nowell and Xu 2007). In 2008 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) adopted a Decision stating that "Tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives" (CITES 2008).
There are other illegal markets for Tiger products, especially skins, but also teeth and claws (particularly in Sumatra: Ng and Nemora 2007), contributing to poaching pressure. But many Tigers are also killed by people seeking to protect life and livestock. Conflict-killed Tigers can also feed into the illegal trade. Many Tiger products in trade are faked, a legal "grey area" in several countries which also perpetuates consumer demand (Nowell 2000).
Tiger poaching is driven by less by poverty and more by wealth (TRAFFIC 2008), which is putting expensive illegal Tiger products within reach of a rapidly growing group of potential consumers. TRAFFIC has documented rising levels of recent illegal trade within the Tiger range countries, with seizures and confiscations in 2007–2009 averaging the equivalent of approximately 150 Tigers per year (Verheij et al. 2010). Interdictions represent just a fraction of the true level of illegal trade, indicating that Tigers are gravely imperiled by black market demand.
|Major Threat(s):
Illegal trade in high-value Tiger products including skins, bones, meat and tonics is a primary threat to Tigers, which has led to their recent disappearance from broad areas of otherwise suitable habitat, and continues at unsustainable rates.
Asia is a densely populated and rapidly developing region, bringing huge pressures to bear on the large wild areas required for viable Tiger populations. Conversion of forest land to agriculture and silviculture, commercial logging, and human settlement are the main drivers of Tiger habitat loss. With their substantial dietary requirements, Tigers require a healthy large ungulate prey base, but these species are also under heavy human subsistence hunting pressure and competition from domestic livestock.
Tiger attacks on livestock and people can lead to intolerance of Tigers by neighbouring communities and presents an ongoing challenge to managers to build local support for Tiger conservation. In some areas there have been many human deaths - for example, 41 people were killed by Tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh during an 18-month period in 2001–2003 (Khan 2004).
|Conservation Actions:
In 2010, the Year of the Tiger on the Asian lunar calendar, Tigers were the focus of substantial conservation effort and investment. At a "Tiger Summit" held in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 2010, the 13 Tiger Range Countries adopted a Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP 2010). The goal is to effectively double the number of wild Tigers by 2022 through actions to: i) effectively preserve, manage, enhance and protect Tiger habitats; ii) eradicate poaching, smuggling and illegal trade of Tigers, their parts and derivatives; iii) cooperate in transboundary landscape management and in combating illegal trade; iv) engage with indigenous and local communities; v) increase the effectiveness of Tiger and habitat management; and vi) restore Tigers to their former range. The Tiger Summit was attended by Heads of State including Russia, China, Laos, Nepal and Bangladesh, and represents a policy commitment to Tiger conservation of unprecedented significance.
The future of Tiger range depends upon the Asian governments creating effective Tiger landscapes by conserving large areas of suitable habitat. Within these landscapes, the most urgent need is to first secure the source sites—protected areas with viable Tiger populations—where most of the global Tiger population is now clustered, and many of which are currently too threatened to deliver their potential as the wellspring of species recovery (Walston et al. 2010b).
|Chundawat, R.S., Habib, B., Karanth, U., Kawanishi, K., Ahmad Khan, J., Lynam, T., Miquelle, D., Nyhus, P., Sunarto, S., Tilson, R. & Sonam Wang 2011. Panthera tigris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 May 2015.
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