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In the churchyard, ancient yew trees line the path leading up to the church. One of the trees is extremely old and twisted with a dark red liquid flowing from a gash in the trunk. The liquid is the color and consistency of blood. I read one report that indicated the substance cannot be identified.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS INVITING FORMAL BIDS AND ADVISING OF MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING COUNTY OF MONTEREY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT NO. 8520 BID PACKAGE NO. 10212 LAKE SAN ANTONIO AND SAN LORENZO PARK IMPROVEMENTS RE-ROOF BUILDINGS CONCESSIONS BUILDING, 2610 SAN ANTONIO RD., BRADLEY DEANZA BUILDING, 1160 BROADWAY ST., KING CITY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Monterey invites qualified contractors to submit sealed bids for the above project. Bids must be received and date-and-time stamped in the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors/168 West Alisal St., 1st Flr/Salinas CA 93901, no later than 2 p.m. on January 21, 2010. The bids will be opened and publicly read aloud by the Contracts/Purchasing Agent in the Clerk of the Board's Conference Room 1032, Monterey County Administration Building, 168 West Alisal St., 1st Flr, Salinas CA at 2 p.m. on January 21, 2010. No bid will be accepted from any Contractor who is not licensed in accordance with the provisions of the Contractors' State License Law, Chapter 9 (commencing with section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code. The Contractor's license number and expiration date of the license shall appear on the bid. The classification of the Contractor's License required for the project is "B." Each bid shall be in accordance with the drawings, plans, specifications, special provisions, and other contract documents prepared by Wald Ruhnke & Dost, Architects, LLC, whose address is 2340 Garden Road, Monterey, CA 93940 and shall be submitted on the bid form prescribed by the County. A MANDATORY BIDDERS' MEETING with County's Project Manager is scheduled for January 5, 2010 at 10 a.m. at the Concessions Building, Lake San Antonio, 2610 San Antonio Road, Bradley. The meeting will break, and the County's Project Manager will release the bidders to the DeAnza Building, San Lorenzo Park, 1160 Broadway St., King City, where the mandatory bidders' meeting will re-convene. Work to be done consists, in general, of replacement of existing roofing, repair or replacement of gutters where directed, reworking or replacing flashing at two facilities within the County of Monterey Park system. The Engineer's estimate for construction of the base bid is $40,000. Work to be done for base bid elements includes only the elements of the roof restoration for the Concessions Building, 2610 San Antonio Road, Bradley, except replacement of dry rotted fascia boards, roof trusses, and tongue and groove roof decking where directed. Additive alternate #1 consists of all elements of the roof restoration for the DeAnza Building, 1160 Broadway St, King City. The lowest bidder will be determined for the re- roof project by adding its base bid and all applicable additive alternates. All questions regarding the project during the bidding process must be made in writing to the attention of the Project Manager and may be submitted via E-mail, facsimile, or postal mail. Verbal questions will not be accepted. Answers to questions or any interpretation or correction of the contract documents will be made only by addendum duly issued, and a copy of such addendum will be mailed or delivered to each person receiving a set of the plans and specifications. Questions received after 2 p.m. on January 12, 2010, will not be accepted. Interested parties may examine or purchase the project manual, specifications, drawings, and contract documents for a nonrefundable fee of Fifty Dollars ($50) from the Department of Public Works' offices at: 1) 168 West Alisal St. FL2/Salinas CA 93901/(831)755-4748 or 2) Facilities office/855 E. Laurel Drive Bldg C/Salinas CA 93905/(831)755-4982. Alternately, project documents/drawings are available to view at builders' exchanges at the following locations: Builders Exchange of the Central Coast Salinas Valley Builders Exchange 100 12th Street Bldg. 2861 20 Quail Run Circle, Suite A Marina, CA 93933 Salinas, CA 93907-2345 SLO County Builders Exchange Santa Cruz Builders Exchange 3563-G Sueldo St 1248 Thompson Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Fresno Builders Exchange 1244 N. Mariposa Street Fresno, CA 93703 The Director of the Department of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which this work is to be performed for each craft or type of worker needed to execute the contract. 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- Moon phase
- UV Index and Dew Point
- Available in: English, Dansk, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Български, Suomi, Norsk Bokmål, Nederlands, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Svenska, Română, العربية, كوردى, ئۇيغۇرچە, Français, Hrvatski, Türkçe, Čeština, Español, Català, Italiano, Português, Magyar, Македонски, Pусский, Українська, Қазақ тілі, Polski, Português(Brasil), Српски, Lietuvių, հայերեն, Indonesia, Việt, 日本語, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), 한국어.
For any questions or issues, please visit FAQ page at: http://www.devexpert.net/weather
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MyObservatory (我的天文台)
Please note that:
1. Although the "MyObservatory" is a free app, user will be charged by their mobile network service provider on the use of data service. These charges can become very expensive on roaming. Please ensure that the option of "Data Roaming" have been disabled in the settings of your mobile devices. Meanwhile, the app requires user's authorization on: "full network access", "view network connections", "view Wi-Fi connections" to download weather data over the Internet.
2. The estimated location provided by the mobile device may be deviated from your actual location. Meanwhile, owing to the dissimilarity in altitude and topography between user's location and weather station, weather information displayed may be different from the actual conditions.
3. Use of location-based rain forecast notification will increase the battery usage and data download.
4. To allow user to get hold to important weather information such as weather warning, Special Weather Tips, location-based rain forecast, etc., the "MyObservatory" would automatically notify users the above information according to user's settings. This feature requires user's authorization on "run at startup".
HK District Weather
- Shows Hong Kong district weather information according to your current location.
- All weather information is provided by Hong Kong Observatory with authorization
- Most of the improvements are based on your comments, so feel free to rate and leave some comment for me ^_^
- If you have questions and want me to answer, please feel free to email / facebook me, as there is no way for me to answer if you put your questions in market's comment
- App2SD?
Will not have app2SD as if enabled, widgets and notification will fail. This is Android's design.
- Background color?
can be set in settings, you can see the samples in the screenshot session
- different screen size?
I will try my best to add different screen size support, as there are too many.
- Widgets fail to auto update?
Try to go into that widget's setting and press back
re-add the widget
- Location not accurate?
the location is the closest HKO station, may not be the district name that you are currently in
從天文台網站中取得現時各地區天氣照片 , 香港天氣溫度 , 濕度 , 紫外光指數 , 天氣概況資訊 , 未來7日天氣資訊 , 風暴圖 , 天氣插圖 , 生效警告圖示, 生效警告資訊 ,空氣污染指數
此外本程式是經過網路取得資料 , 並不能保証所取得資料準確性 , 如有任何問題 , 可以到政府的天文台或環境保護署網站取得正確資料。
Sunny HK -Weather&Clock Widget
"Sunny Hong Kong" is designed for Hong Kong People. With the weather data from HKO, "Sunny Hong Kong" can provide you an accurate regional weather condition, weather warning, air quality and forecast details. The speical one-page-view allow you to glance through the weather information in no time, and the weather condition and warning displayed in notification bar make the information available to you almost instanly!
If "My Observatory" is too old-fashion to you, "Sunny Hong Kong" is the best replacement.
• Special Weather Tips
• Today weather condition, weather forecast and warning signals
• Regional weather condition (temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and real-time weather photos
• Weather Radar and Satellite Image
• Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) and forecast
• Sun rise, sun set time and tidal information in Hong Kong
• Typhoon Track Path
• Elegant and minimalist interface
• Beautiful photos of Hong Kong as background
• Display weather condition and warning in Android notification bar
• Highly customizable (color and font size) widget with weather and clock in various size (1x1, 2x1, 3x1, 4x1, 4x2, 5x1 and 5x2)
• Dashclock Extension Support (Android 4.2+)
Professional Version:
"Sunny Hong Kong" is free to use. But you can upgrade to Professional Version which add the following features:
• Stop schedule update if network is unavailable in order to further minimize the battery consumption
• Enable the "Clock Widget - Large"
• Push Notification
• Download wallpaper only when it is connected to Wi-Fi network
Thank you for your support.
Problem report: http://on.fb.me/1fQdXcS
# All weather data come from and copyrighted by Hong Kong Observatory
# Air Quality Health Index come from Environmental Protection Department
HK Weather Widget w/ Warning
Weather for the World
- Weather forecast for the morning / afternoon / evening
- Rainfall radar images
- Value of forecast reliability
- Probability of sunshine and precipitations
- Perceived temperature
- Average, mimimum and maximum temparature
- Wind force, wind direction, gust force
- Limit of snowfall
- Limit zero degrees
- Fog
- Humidity and pressure
Find your favorite ski resorts and snow conditions for France and Switzerland
- All resorts and snow reports; Skiing - cross-country skiing - sledding
- Check the snow conditions through live webcams
- See the last snowfall in a snap
- Flash TV of the weekend weather, road weather and currents
- Alpine webcam
Exposure for 10 days in landscape mode.
Content delivered by MeteoNews
Transparent clock & weather
The application features the following:
- Many widgets in different sizes (4x1, 4x2, 4x3 and 5x2)
- Many different widget skins to choose from
- Fully customize your widget by specifying background color, opacity, text colors, icons and font
- Different weather icon skins
- Support for additional weather icon theme packs
- Different fonts for the time
- Display the next alarm, next calendar event and week number on the widget (optional)
- Several widget hot spots (most of them can be user defined to launch specific applications)
- Automatic location detection (using the cell, wifi or GPS signal)
- Manual location setup
- Automatic weather update interval (15 min, 30 min, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 hours) or manual
- Detailed current weather forecast display that includes the following:
- Local time (for current location)
- Sunrise and sunset time for current location
- Humidity, pressure, chance of rain, dew point, visibility, UV index and wind conditions
- Current condition, temperature, low and high temperatures
- Last weather update time
- View your location on a map
- Share your location or weather forecast
- Beautiful weather backgrounds according to the current weather condition and day or night
- 24 hourly weather forecast
- 24 hourly wind forecast
- 7 day future forecast
- Moon information and 30 day moon phase calendar
- Future forecast details (sunrise, sunset, moon phase, wind, humidity and chance of rain
- Add up to 10 different locations and view the local time, weather forecast, moon phases, sunset and sunrise times and more
The application is localized in the following languages:
Afrikaans, العربية, български, Català, 中文 (简体), 中文 (繁體), Hrvatski, Čeština, Dansk, Nederlands, Suomi, Français, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, , עברית, Magyar, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 한국어, Lietuvių, македонски, Norsk, Polski, Português (Brazil), Português (Portugal), Română, русский, Српски (Ћирилица), Srpski (Latinica), Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Español (Spain), Svenska, ไทย, Türkçe, Українська, Tiếng Việt
Note about time freezing problems!!!
- Make sure you have the latest update installed
- If you are using any task killers or similar applications (battery savers etc) that could be killing running tasks, exclude the application from getting automatically killed (or add the application to the 'white list')
- Make sure that your phone is not running in a power saving or stamina mode
- Make sure there is some free space on your internal storage
If you have problems after an update, remove and add the widget back on the home screen or restart your device.
Email us if you have any problems or suggestions. We are happy to help!
Hong Kong Weather Alert 香港天氣警告
This app doesn't use the HKO icons, because they are covered by HK Government copyright.
Weather HK Hong Kong & Widget
Whether stay at home or outside, BEST CHOICE EVER!
Feature 1: All weather information is provided by Hong Kong Observatory instant update
Feature 2: Real-time weather warning
Feature 3: Complete Hong Kong weather database
Feature 4: Ultra-low installed capacity
Feature 5: Gorgeous desktop widget also provided
Feature 6: Convenience notification service
Function 1: Hong Kong Weather Summary
Function 2: Fast Weather Warning
Function 3: My Location Weather
Function 4: Today's and Regional Weather
Function 5: Tomorrow's Weather Outlook
Function 6: Next 9 Days Forecast
Function 7: Ultraviolet UV Forecast
Function 8: Air Quality Health Index
Function 9: Beach Water Quality Reports
Function 10: Astro and Tidal Encyclopedia
1. Times of Rise and Set
2. Moon Phase
3. Tidal curves
4. Astronomical Forecast
5. Sky Images
6. Hourly Starmap
Function 11: Hong Kong Photos
Function 12: Meteosat Animation
Function 13: Rainfall Radar
Function 14: Lightning
Function 15: Atmospheric Pressure and Isobars
Function 16: Typhoon Path Diagram
Function 17: Visibility Distance
Function 18: Radiation Map
Function 19: World Weather Summary
Function 20: Aviation Weather and Forecast
Function 21: Earthquake Quick Report System
Function 22: Information Documents
Function 23: Support Traditional Chinese Language Simultaneously
Used 1: INTERNET - connecting to weatherhk database
Used 2: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - connecting state of weatherhk database
Used 3: READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - read of weather information
Used 4: WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - write of weather information
Note: All rights reserved.
香港天氣 WeatherHK. Copyright 2013 WSWMS.
Weather & Widgets
Weather widgets provides detailed weather for all cities worldwide , it searches your address and locates cities quickly , and provides the current temperature , current humidity , pressure and wind speed and direction , in addition , seven days weather forecast . The Widget is 100% free , and it comes with many cool widgets .
- Supports geo-positioning , retrieving the latest weather conditions for your current location .
- Add and track the weather conditions in multiple locations .
- Powerful location search, searches for all cities in the world by country and city or zip code .
- Home screen widgets .
- Virtual visual experience as well as a smooth , impressive animation effects .
- Quick access has already been saved city.
- The offline cached .
- humidity , pressure , wind speed , high/low forecast .
- Animate background .
- Swipe to change city.
skyHK Weather
Presenting accurate weather data provided by the Hong Kong Observatory efficiently with a new and simple design.
It's free and ad-free. Get it now.
- Clean and simple user interface
- Indication of heat index with background colour
- Optimized for battery life
- Reduced mobile data usage
- Resizable home screen widgets with digital clocks (1 x 1, 2 x 1, 4 x 1, 4 x 2, 5 x 1 and 5 x 2)
- Exclusive user interface for 7" and 10" tablets
- Compliance with the Android Design guidelines for better user experience
- Current weather
- Warning notifications
- 9-day forecast
- Rainfall radar images
- Astronomical data
- Tropical cyclone track
- Air Quality Health Index (AQHI)
How does it work?
The app retrieves weather data from the skyHK Server powered by Google App Engine whenever possible while a device is using mobile data. The skyHK Server obtains data from the Hong Kong Observatory's website and data feeds regularly, then serialize the data to reduce data size and facilitate data transfer to Android devices, in order to optimize the devices' battery life and reduce the mobile data usage. In case the server becomes unavailable, the app would obtain weather data from the Hong Kong Observatory directly instead.
Special thanks to the Hong Kong Observatory for authorizing the provision of weather data, the Environmental Protection Department for providing the AQHI data via Data.One, and @AdamWhitcroft for creating the delicate Climacons icons set.
The information provided by DynAPPmics ("the app developer") on the skyHK application ("the app"), including but not limited to weather information provided by the Hong Kong Observatory with authorization, is for general information only. Whilst the app developer endeavours to ensure the accuracy of this general information, no statement, representation, warranty or guarantee, expressed or implied, is given as to its accuracy or appropriateness for use in any particular circumstances. The app developer accepts no liability for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from or related to the use of such information.
This website / product / service contains information that is copied or extracted from data made available by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the "Government") at http://www.gov.hk/Data.One/ ("Data.One"). The provision of information copied or extracted from or a link to Data.One at this website or in relation to the product or service shall not constitute any form of co-operation or affiliation by the Government with any person in relation to this website, the product or the service or any contents herein. Nothing in this website, the product or the service shall give rise to any representation, warranty or implication that the Government agrees with, approves of, recommends or endorses any contents of this website or the product or the service. The Government does not have any liability, obligation or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, destruction or damage (including without limitation consequential loss, destruction or damage) howsoever arising from or in respect of your use or misuse of or reliance on or inability to use any contents herein.
HK Weather
HK Weather 9-Day Forecast
Daily&Hourly weather forecast
You can get weather conditions quickly including daily and hourly forecasts for any location.
Your best weather app on home screen!
THIS IS A FREE WIDGET THEME FOR Amber Weather
Also you need to install Amber Weather Version 0.8 or above to use this widget.
- Transparent weather widget
- Daily and hourly weather report ( 7 days and 24 hours), current detail conditions
- Intuitive information of temperature , wind speed and direction, humidity, visibility, pressure, dew point, UV etc.
- Auto-location,updated with your position
- Multi weather data source service.
- Support show current and future weather in expandable notification bar.
- Support clock & weather, forecast and current weather info widget for tablet and phone.
- Support Lock Screen Widget and DashClock extension.
- Quick-Action:You could open clock, calendar, weather, widget settings, or any other app by click different area in widget
- Support tens of thousands cities's climate around the world, also support world clock take it when you are traveling!
- Support new feature on KitKat 4.4 - Full-screen immersive mode
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MyObservatory (我的天文台)
Please note that:
1. Although the "MyObservatory" is a free app, user will be charged by their mobile network service provider on the use of data service. These charges can become very expensive on roaming. Please ensure that the option of "Data Roaming" have been disabled in the settings of your mobile devices. Meanwhile, the app requires user's authorization on: "full network access", "view network connections", "view Wi-Fi connections" to download weather data over the Internet.
2. The estimated location provided by the mobile device may be deviated from your actual location. Meanwhile, owing to the dissimilarity in altitude and topography between user's location and weather station, weather information displayed may be different from the actual conditions.
3. Use of location-based rain forecast notification will increase the battery usage and data download.
4. To allow user to get hold to important weather information such as weather warning, Special Weather Tips, location-based rain forecast, etc., the "MyObservatory" would automatically notify users the above information according to user's settings. This feature requires user's authorization on "run at startup".


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Photo Flash: First Look - George Clooney on Bravo's INSIDE THE ACTOR'S STUDIO, 1/31
Bravo's Emmy nominated INSIDE THE ACTOR'S STUDIO returns for its 18th season with star power as host James Lipton welcomes Golden Globe(R) Award-winning actor George Clooney on Tuesday, January 31 at 7pm et/pt. In the two-hour premiere event, Clooney courses through his life from his early days as Dr. Doug Ross on "ER" to his most recently acclaimed role as Matt King in "The Descendants," for which he has just received an Oscar(R) nomination.
A triple threat in the industry, Clooney has movEd Gracefully through various genres from comedy to drama in roles as varied as "ER," "Out of Sight," "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou," "The Perfect Storm," "Oceans 11" and "Michael Clayton." He garnered critical acclaim for his writing and directing talents with movies "Good Night, and Good Luck." and "Ides of March," in which he also played a principal acting role. Clooney has twice been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, Entertainment Weekly's 50 Smartest People in Hollywood and one of Time magazine's 50 Most Influential People in the World. He has been nominated for more than 100 awards, winning over 50 of them.
Quotables form the episode:
"I thought it meant acting like an adult, I didn't know what the hell it meant." - Clooney admitting to adultery in confession when he was in second grade.
"Coming off of [Batman Returns] I suddenly realized I was going to have to pick better projects." - Clooney on his future roles.
"I enjoyed the fact that I was allowed to dip my toe into an area that I am very uncomfortable with." - Clooney on his role in "The Descendants"
Bravo is a program service of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBCUniversal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.
View photos from the upcoming show below!
Photo credit: Anthony Behar/Bravo
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ABC to Premiere New Competition Series THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT, 12/9
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"The Great Christmas Light Fight" is a new competition series in which 20 families from across America will decorate their homes to the extreme for Christmas - in ways that would certainly make even Clark Griswold envious - with a total of $250,000 in prizing ($50,000 won each week). "The Great Christmas Light Fight" will air on MONDAYS, DECEMBER 9 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT), DECEMBER 16 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT) and DECEMBER 23 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT) with back-to-back episodes on those two nights. Michael Moloney & Sabrina Soto (both from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition") will serve as judges for the series.
In the first Christmas lights competition of its kind for television, 4 families will compete each week to transform their homes for the holidays in just 21 days. These 20 families were chosen through an extensive nationwide search based on their previous elaborate Christmas light displays, incredible choreography and over-the-top designs.
"The Great Christmas Light Fight" comes from FremantleMedia North America ("American Idol," "America's Got Talent"). Executive Producers for the series are Brady Connell, Max Swedlow, Thom Beers and Jennifer Mullin.
About FremantleMedia North America:
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) is the U.S. arm of global media giant FremantleMedia, which includes a distribution arm, FremantleMedia International, a digital and branded entertainment division and a kids & family entertainment business. As the world's largest independent studio, FremantleMedia's comprehensive global network has operations in 25 countries, creating over 9100 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats and managing over 400 individual titles. FMNA and its portfolio of companies produce entertaining and innovative scripted and alternative programs for network, cable, Syndicated and online platforms. Their slate includes a diverse range of both critically-acclaimed and award-winning successes including "American Idol" (FOX), "The X Factor" (FOX), "America's Got Talent" (NBC), "Family Feud" (SYN), "Let's Make A Deal" (CBS), "The Price Is Right" (CBS), "The Tomorrow People" (The CW), "Deadliest Catch" (Discovery), "Married to Medicine" (Bravo), "Ice Road Truckers" (HISTORY), "Storage Wars" (A&E) and "The Pet Collective" (blip.tv), among others.
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Product informationA pretty bracelet from Be-Jewelled featuring a sterling silver chain linking wonderful Baltic cognac amber stones. The bracelet secures with a lobster clasp.
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This 365 has been less stressful than my last. I have not been stressing about getting the "perfect" shot each day using my dslr. I just want to document her first full year. If the photos happen on my iphone, great. If they happen using my dslr, even better. It is about sharing moments in her life!
Day 22
She sure is sweet! I have to use that high voice to get her to smile, lol.
Day 23
Teeny tiny toes.
Day 24
Riding along in her pink car with a smile!
Day 25
I love moments like this.
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Daddy and his little girl!
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Poor baby has had tummy problems all day. Finally able to relax. Love those eyelashes.
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Hard to believe that she will be 7 weeks tomorrow. Slow down time!
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Prince George reaches for a butterfly at the Natural History Museum in London, with mom Catherine and dad Prince William. The little prince turned 1 on Tuesday.
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The longest-serving member of Congress is worried about the Environmental Protection Agency and its sudden Kim Kardashian fix.
U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., replied to the EPA's Office of Water and its auto-generated tweet from the celebrity's new game, wondering about the post from the federal agency that regulates the water you drink.
Dingell tweeted: "I'm the last original author of the Clean Water Act, but I have no idea who/what a Kardashian is and I rarely play games. You OK, @EPAwater ?"
The EPA replied: "Whoops?our bad. Sorry about tweet. Upside - more attention for the Office of Water (http://water.epa.gov), thanks @KimKardashian "
"Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" was cocreated by the reality TV diva and is the most downloaded free game in Apple's U.S. App Store. It has become so popular that industry analysts predict that the app will bring in up to $200 million.
Dingell, who is retiring at the end of this term, was first elected to Congress in 1955, the year Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, was born.
Prince George turns 1
Queen Elizabeth II went to Kensington Palace today to spend nearly an hour with her great-grandson, Prince George, for his first birthday tea party.
The party was private, but his parents, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, released a message of thanks for his hundreds of presents, plus a new series of photos of the little prince taken at the Natural History Museum in London.
His Le Petit Bateau Oshkosh striped shortalls are almost sold out all over the Web, according to whatprincegeorgewore.com.
Metro Detroit chef wins
The winner of Sunday's episode of Alton Brown's "Cutthroat Kitchen" was chef Tom Lin, owner of Szechuan Empire in Livonia and Commerce Township.
On Food Network's "Cutthroat Kitchen," four chefs compete to prepare gourmet dishes for a guest chef judge. Each chef starts out with $25,000 to bid on items to sabotage the other chefs' dishes.
Lin came out the winner, with $11,000.
"It's pretty challenging because you never know how things are going to turn out and it's very spontaneous. Alton names a dish and the four chefs have to come up with their own recipe and you have one minute to shop," Lin says.
Lin also competed in an episode of Guy Fieri's "Guy's Grocery Games" that will air on Food Network in several months.
Bugs eat Harrison's tree
George Harrison's memorial tree has been destroyed by beetlemania.
In an ironic twist, a pine tree planted at Griffith Park in honor of the Beatle died due to a beetle infestation, according to the L.A. Times.
Harrison died in 2001, and a sapling was planted near the Griffith Observatory three years later to pay tribute to the musician, who "spent his final days in Los Angeles" before dying from cancer at age 58.
Another tree will be planted in its place.
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Jada Pinkett Smith is taking a stand. The actress, 42, participated in the #JusticeforJada advocacy campaign earlier this month, when a story was made public about a 16-year-old Texan girl named Jada, who was raped and humiliated online.
"This could be you, me, or any woman or girl that we know," Smith wrote on Facebook.
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Protecting Ecuadorian Dry Forest
Through this blog, we will provide current up to date information on the activities of the Pro-Forest Foundation and Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.
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Thursday, December 11
The Cerro Blanco Protected Forest 25 Years Young
The Pro-Forest Foundation which administrates the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest celebrated its 25th birthday with the participation of 985 visitors on Sunday, December 7th. The celebration revolved around the event ¨Festival of Nature and Culture¨ which included an eco fair with 25 stands promoting ecological projects and products with the participation of the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment, Environmental Unit of the Ecuadorian National Police, sister ecological groups such as Cerros Vivos and Amigos del Estero as well as vegetarian food and workshops on meditation among others.
During the day, a series of activities were carried out including a special event to commemorate Cerro Blanco´s anniversary led by Eric Horstman, Pro-Forest Foundation Executive Director as well as Camila Morales delegate of the Municipality of Guayaquil´s Tourism Department and Mr. Andres Aspiazu representing the family of one of Cerro Blanco´s founders Eduardo Aspiazu X, former President of the Guayaquil chapter of Fundacion Natura, which along with La Cemento Nacional (now Holcim Ecuador) worked to create the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest. Andres Aspiazu led the participants in a toast to Cerro Blanco and happy birthday sung with birthday cake distributed to the participants.
Workshops on different themes such as recycling and composting were carried out as well as special activities for children including games and art about the conservation of birds and bats among other topics. Guest speakers gave presentations on the dry tropical forests and the birds of the Tumbesian Bioregion. Cerro Blanco´s dedicated group of guides led visitors on walks in the forest throughout the day.
Artistic presentations including a puppet show and music were very well received by visitors as well as yoga and Indian traditional dancing.
The event also marks the official inauguration of Cerro Blanco´s new installations including camping and picnic area, trails and interpretative signboards.
Wednesday, December 10
Monitoring nest boxes at Bosque Protector Cerro Blanco during the bird breeding season 2014 for management of the avian parasite Philornis downsi
The main objective of this study was to find out if the parasitic fly Philornis downsi, which is an invasive species accidentally introduced into the Galápagos Islands, occurs naturally on mainland Ecuador. In order to do this, we needed to observe bird nests after the birds finished rearing chicks and abandoned it. An easy, well-established method to follow bird reproductive behavior consists of installing wooden nest boxes with a side door that can be opened and the inside nest (and bird activities) easily monitored. The Bosque Protector Cerro Blanco is the perfect place for this study given its high bird diversity.
Nest box set in the trunk of a tree in Cerro Blanco with a Streak-headed Woodcreeper standing on it.
On November 2013, a team of biologists from the University of Minnesota (USA), Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina) and Universidad de Guayaquil (Ecuador) installed a total of 158 nest boxes inside the perimeter of the Bosque Protector Cerro Blanco.
Between January and June 2014, the nest boxes were monitored weekly in search of any sign of bird activity (nest construction, incubation, tending to the chicks, etc.). Many of the boxes were not occupied, as is normal during the first year in most studies. It takes time for the birds to get used to the presence of the nest boxes and actually use them. In some cases, nests were constructed inside the boxes but they were abandoned. In only four nest boxes, birds laid eggs and fledged chicks.
Nest constructed inside a nest box.
On March 1st 2014, we found five House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)'s eggs in a nest box. Five nestlings hatched but only three nestlings remained on March 22nd, they fledged on March 29th. We found 8 Philornis pupae in the nesting material. After examination under the microscope in the laboratory, we confirmed the presence of Philornis downsi in mainland Ecuador.
House Wren nestlings in the nest. On the bottom right there is a
Philornis downsi puparium.
Our study recorded two new host species for the genus Philornis: the Fasciated Wren (Campylorhynchus fasciatus), a common species restricted to western Ecuador and northwest Peru where it principally inhabits arid and semi-arid habitats; and the Streak-headed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes souleyetii), a furnariid found in Central and Northern South America. Our data indicate that Philornis downsi occurs naturally on mainland Ecuador and is relatively abundant in the vicinity of Guayaquil. Cerro Blanco is located approximately 15 km from the Guayaquil airport and 20 km from the Guayaquil harbor. These data support the hypothesis that P. downsi could have been introduced to the Galápagos from mainland Ecuador.
Wednesday, August 6
Two forests walled in by the growth of Guayaquil
Sunday, July 27, 2014
One coexists together with the other in between roads, parks, housing developments, wharfs and even mining exploitation. On one side, one grows fragmented in wasteland or in the high parts of the hills. The other side, the canopy of its trees rise up along the borders of the branches of the estero Salado (saltwater estuary) as a dense mass of vegetation.
Both are the home of birds such as the Red lored Amazon that in the morning flies in flocks in search of food in the higher parts of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest and in the evening come down to sleep in the foliage at the foot of the brackish waters of the estuary in Puerto Hondo. They are the dry forest and mangroves, two ecosystems that in the past dominated the geography of what is today the urban zone of Guayaquil and that coexist divided by the via a la costa, the new axis of growth.
Of the two ecosystems that characterize the natural zones of this city, the dry forest is more fragile because its species of flora grow slower, is easily accessible and is being strangled or fragmented by urban expansion.
A report as part of a consultancy prepared by Eric Horstman, administrator of Cerro Blanco and presented in December 2012 to the Ministry of the Environment, established that the areas that have some type of protection in Guayaquil face threats such as hunting, tree cutting to make furniture or charcoal, the burning of forests to later plant crops and invasions (squatter settlements).
The report identifies the possible impacts such as the construction of new roads that isolate more areas like Cerro Blanco, threatened also by mining due to its proximity to ¨the mine quarries with blasting and the production of dust that affects the flora and fauna¨, according to the report.
Horstman asserts that there lacks awareness in the citizenry about the value of dry forest. ¨There is the idea that a park should always be green and the types of plants that are used require constant irrigated water, without taking advantage of the surrounding conditions¨, he said.
The dry forest contains species that could be used with tourism value if they are integrated in the green spaces of the city, which would give a distinct character to the metropolis, with the presence of trees such as guayacanes or the pigios, according to Horstman.
He mentions an example of this in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the city that shelters the Tijuca National Park, and a forest where the Christ Redeemer monument was constructed.
In Guayaquil there are 1,892 hectares of green spaces including traffic dividers, parks, plazas, playing fields, riversides, gardens and cemeteries, according to the municipality.
Another problem is that the ecological functions of both ecosystems have not been made used of for development. The native trees of the dry forest for example have leaves that end in points so that rainwater drips off gradually, avoiding erosion, says Nancy Hilgert, environmental consultant. Here what has remained in a natural state I believe has been more of an accident than as an objective, sustains Horstman.
The mangroves on the other hand have the function to act as natural barriers against flooding, affirms Mireya Pozo, a specialist on this ecosystem.
The processes of filling (in the mangrove) to urbanize zones such as el suburbia, isla Trinitaria and Las Malvinas in the south of the city and Urdesa, Mapasingue and La Prosperina in the north, exterminated the largest part of the mangrove forest that 50 years ago had an extension of 655 hectares according to investigations carried out by students of Public Communication of Science and Technology (Department) of the ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral). Pozo says that at least 40% of the city sits on what was formerly mangrove forest, in a scenario decades ago when there was less consciousness of the value of this ecosystem.
Mauricio Velasquez, ex Director of the Environment Department of the Municipality of Guayaquil is concerned about the carrying out of extractive activities near protected areas such as Cerro Colorado, from which gravel, rock and clay are extracted for fill. They destroy hills leaving 90-degree slopes to take out material to fill the banks; ¨ says Velasquez, referring to rivers such as the Daule, which extends to another of the almost disappearing ecosystems, flooded plains.
The installation of housing developments and wharfs or parks along the riverbanks are carried out without taking advantage of the function of mangroves to control flooding. This is evidenced in sectors such as Las Malvinas in the south of the city, where the Government constructed a wharf on the edge of the estuary and planted trees from another ecosystem for ornamental purposes.
Discharges to the estuary
In addition, another threat remains to be resolved, the discharge of domestic and industrial residual water to the estuary that affects the mangrove ecosystem. There are complaints that the treatment plants for sewage in the housing developments in the via a la costa do not function in an adequate manner, ¨ says Velasquez.
The felling of trees and fill affects the flow of water that these trees need. This stress makes the mangroves susceptible to pests¨, he added.
The falling down of mangrove trees in distinctive points of the city is evidence that they are sick although there are a lack of studies to verify the causes of this phenomena, concur Hilgert and Horstman.
Perfecto Yagual, head of the park guards of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, one of the last remnants of the dry ecosystem that skirts the western part of the city has observed how the natural areas have been transformed. He arrived in the zone of the via a la costa in 1958 coming from Libertador Bolivar, in Santa Elena. He says that at that time, the dry forest began to compete with pastures in the farms that were foreign owned, such as the Hacienda Palobamba. Despite the pastures, peccaries, birds and deer where seen along the borders of the highway. Now one has to go into the higher areas to see them¨, says Yagual, who remembers when it was common to see in the streets of Guayaquil the sale of fruits such as caimito, which was extracted from the forest.
Friday, August 1
Green proposals in favor of Guayaquil
Sunday, July 27, 2014
While walking through patches of dry forest in Guayaquil in the high and deep part of the Cordillera Chongon-Colonche and let a canoe lead you on the calm current of one of the estuaries of the estero Salado that coexist with mangrove forest, Nancy Hilgert and Eric Horstman not only remember how these ecosystems were when they arrived in the city 38 and 24 years ago respectively, they also expound measures that they consider if applied could save these areas.
They are familiar with the howl of monkeys that from a distance announce that the dry forest is their home, with the crackling of the large maroon colored leaves that every six months the trees of this ecosystem drop to survive the dry season, as well as the smells, somewhat rotting of the saltwater estuary.
Although they weren´t born in Guayaquil – Eric is American and Nancy was born in Peru but became a naturalized Ecuadorian, have dedicated themselves to the conservation of these natural areas, Horstman the dry forest through the Pro-Forest Foundation that administers Cerro Blanco and Hilgert both dry forest and mangroves from a professorship, diverse NGO´s and public appointments.
This newspaper invited them to traverse these natural areas in order to evaluate them. In the visits proposals came out to restore the areas, which according to Hilgert ¨is a necessity to improve the quality of life of Ecuadorians¨. This was said while the canoe advanced through the estuary bordered by mangroves where cormorants, mangrove warblers and herons are seen.
Both propose connecting the protected forests that have become isolated in the middle of the city and to do that they propose options including canopy bridges (connecting portions of the forest through the tree canopy), subterranean tunnels so that terrestrial fauna can move through and regenerate zones that make up ecological corridors.
One is connecting the Cerro Blanco, Papagayo de Guayaquil, La Prosperina and Cerro Paraiso Protected Forests with the Cordillera Chongon-Colonche.
Another possible connection they say is to integrate what remains of Cerro Colorado where the botanical garden functions with Los Samanes National Recreation Area. This could be achieved through reforesting a parcel that borders the Los Geranios housing development.
An action that could be applied for the conservation of both ecosystems is reforestation or ¨restoration¨, as Horstman prefers to call it.
This forester says that in the case of dry forest, reforestation could be done with introduced species such as eucalyptus and teak, but restoration requires instead, endemic species such as pigio, ceibo, Amarillo and cocobolo. With this, what is returned to the city is what was formerly found there, which was cut down to drive urban development.
As for the conservation of the mangrove forest, Hilgert sustains that the current environmental legislation must be reformed to establish permissible limits to the discharges of residual waters (sewage) to bodies of water, which currently does not establish quantities (volume of discharges).
On this point, both agree that closing ¨the faucets of contamination¨ the estero Salado receives, the mangrove forests can be saved.
According to Horstman, restoration can also be done on adjacent lands to the mangroves to extend them and on the higher land plant dry forest to re establish the connectivity that once existed between the two areas.
In Puerto Hondo, he says trees such as pechiche have been seen to extend down to the waters edge, which means that dry forest once was found down to the edge of the mangroves.
Thursday, July 31
Macaw, symbolic bird of Guayaquil with an uncertain future
El Universo, Sunday, July 20, 2014
With a ´national conservation strategy´ and having been declared by a municipal ordinance the natural symbol of the city has not permitted maintaining or improving the population in its natural state of the Guayaquil Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis), in critical danger of extinction and that tomorrow, July 21st is commemorated as the Day of the Guayaquil Macaw.
This subspecies of the great green macaw (Ara ambiguus) is distinguished by its brilliant green plumage and in its wings light up with turquoise blue that at the tail mixes with orange. Before the beak begins to curve, a red crest projects out.
In 2005, the year that the ´in situ (in its natural habitat) Guayaquil Macaw´ National Conservation Strategy was released and updated and changed to ´Great Green Macaw National Conservation Strategy´ in 2009 as well as municipal council ordinance were expedited as protection measures, the Ecuadorian population of this rare bird was estimated at between 60 and 90 individuals or 20 to 30 pairs in the natural state.
Eric Horstman, executive director of the Pro-Forest Foundation, institution situated in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest and has diverse programs and actions to guarantee the future of the bird, estimates that now there are between 40 and 50 individuals remaining in the wild.
The dry forest of the Cordillera Chongon Colonche and the humid forest of Esmeraldas Province are the two principal habitats of this species, but they are in danger because of deforestation and hunting.
In captivity survive 53 individuals, the product of confiscations, and voluntarily handing over macaws to wildlife rescue centers and zoos in the country. They are distributed in ample cages in Cerro Blanco, the Guayaquil Historic Park and the Jambeli Rescue Foundation Center, that has worked since 1996 in the ex situ (outside of its habitat) conservation and captive reproduction of the bird.
This measure according to Joaquin Orrantia Vernaza, Director of Jambeli Rescue is a viable alternative for the recuperation of endangered species such as the Guayaquil Macaw. Captive reproduction also permits the eventual reintroduction of the species in its natural habitat, which according to Horstman, will help in increasing the population of Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis.
The biologist Mauricio Velasquez, who was the impetus behind the declaration of the bird as the symbol of the city during his time in the municipal environmental direction coincides in that macaws should be reintroduced in some patches of vegetation with adequate protection and follow them with radio telemetry (technique for measuring distances with radio transmitters and receivers) which is done with condors in the Andes region.
However, Horstman says that there is still much work to be done to ¨prepare the playing field¨ so that when macaws are liberated, conditions are apt and they will survive. Without these guarantees, the six birds that would be reinserted in Cerro Blanco are waiting to someday fly free.
The principal limiting factor for any initiative of this kind according to the sources that were consulted is the lack of a budget.
Without funds, says Horstman a more extensive monitoring of the species cannot be carried out, a key point of the ´national conservation strategy´ which ¨is somewhat moribund¨.
Orrantia believes that in order to set out a successful path towards the survival of the species, there needs to be a sufficient reduction or total elimination of the threats the species faces. This can be achieved with integrated strategies and acting in a coordinated manner towards the same objectives, including the general public in the process so that they will be concerned about their local environment and not buy these birds that according to Velasquez can cost up to depending on the country between $2,000 and $3,500 dollars each.
In previous rainy seasons deep in the forest a lone flock of up to 11 macaws could be seen, but in the last three or four years this has not been possible.
The 6,078 hectares (of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest) are not sufficient to guarantee the survival of the species. ¨Cerro Blanco is becoming an island. Its not that you leave the protected forest boundaries and find other forest remnants but instead you find housing developments and quarries that often do not permit the species to leave or if they do, they die. Where we still have connectivity is in the eastern part towards the via a la Costa, we are working to implement a biological corridor to connect the patches of forest¨, indicated Horstman, who began to work in the area 24 years ago when the last housing development was Puerto Azul and where it was normal to still see the cities´ symbol flying free.
That the area be recognized as a biological corridor might not occur if the construction of alternate highway to the via a la Costa, because it would go through the Cordillera Chongon Colonche.
Another problem is that some of the owners of the nearby plantations see the Guayaquil Macaws as a plague that eats their crops. In addition to eating the seeds of the cocobolo tree, the bird eats corn on the cob when it is still green. The agriculturalists shoot the macaws to avoid losing their cornfields, refers Horstman. Others cut down the pigio, the preferred tree in Cerro Blanco for the bird to nest in.
They see the tree as a threat to their lands, because within the trunk of the tree, the wood is similar to balsa, soft and spongy, a characteristic that the agriculturalist translates into the cause of droughts, when in fact it is only a strategy to store water reserves during winter rains and to be able to maintain the tree alive during the dry season.
Wednesday, July 9
The Natural Symbol of Guayaquil Is Going Extinct
By Mauricio Velasquez
For those that don´t know, the city of Guayaquil has a symbolic bird, its most distinguished brand, the Guayaquil Macaw. It is a sub species of the Great Green Macaw that is endemic to the coast of Ecuador. The distribution range of the population is very reduced and it is in danger of going extinct. This grave state is caused by the high deforestation rate of dry tropical forest and its continued burning to ¨clear the land¨ to carry out unsustainable agricultural practices. The macaws are captured for their illegal commercialization and they are often sold in both local and international markets. All of these factors have the bird symbol of Guayaquil against the ropes as we say in boxing terms and at the point of a fatal end. It is estimated that only 30 to 40 individuals currently remain in their natural state.
The progress of Guayaquil destines them to die. Nobody is unaware of the urban growth in the coastal highway, where besides the housing developments that surround the Chongon Cordillera, are also found countless mine quarries that diminish the area of the forest in its hills. Sites where our symbolic bird lives. If it wasn´t enough, the connectivity of the macaw´s habitat will be also lost for a project that is working silently and plans to construct a new periphery highway in Guayaquil through the western boundary of the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest and cut the biological corridor linking Cerro Blanco with the Chongon and Colonche Protected Forest.
In 2005, the National Conservation Strategy in situ for the Guayaquil Macaw¨ was promulgated. In the same year, the Municipality of Guayaquil issued an ordinance that declared this animal ¨the natural bird symbol of the canton¨ in addition to being the flagship species for dry tropical forest conservation programs within the boundaries of the canton. Later, a inter institutional work group was formed (where, although it sounds strange now, the Ministry of the Environment and the Municipality worked together) to initiate conservation actions, among them, the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Municipality of Guayaquil and the Pro-Forest Foundation to:
- Consolidate the Declaratory of the Protection of the Guayaquil Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis) through the monitoring of the state of the populations.
- Elaborate a Forest Fire Prevention Plan.
- Reintroduce and monitor individuals of the Guayaquil Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis) born in captivity in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest.
- Train professionals in the management of natural protected areas.
- Implement conservation activities for wildlife through the strengthening of wildlife rescue centers.
However, the year after the signing of the agreement (2009) the head of Environmental Planning in the Municipality of Guayaquil and its Environment Director, changed their priorities for action and let this important conservation initiative wilt, sentencing in this way, the destiny of the species.
Despite this, the Pro-Forest Foundation, one of the last Mohicans of conservation in Guayaquil continues practically alone in its efforts to prevent the extinction of the Macaw and has carried out reforestation efforts in more than 250 hectares in Cerro Blanco with 35 native tree species, many of these plants have fruits that constitute the food base of the symbol of Guayaquil in its natural habitat. Although this work is important, it does not guarantee that the macaw won´t go extinct.
As a Guayaquileño, I´d like a consultation to be made to the citizens of Guayaquil in which they are asked if they are in agreement that the extinction of the Guayaquil Macaw is carried out. And at the same time, this consultation also is made with the principal national, provincial and local environmental authorities.
The first step in order to act is recognizing the problem and really we are not doing anything to prevent Guayaquil from losing its natural symbol.
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MAN OF STEEL - Grading & Discussion
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June 18 2013, 04:49 PM
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Re: MAN OF STEEL - Grading & Discussion
There's some confusion on another forum I visit over what happend to all the various Kryptonian ships.
As near as could tell, there was baby Clark's ship, the scout ship in the Arctic and Zod's ship (which contained a couple of drop ships and the world engine).
My impression was that the Arctic scout ship is still sat around in Arctic at the end but others claim that Zod stole it and that was the ship that Clark destroyed with his laser eyes...
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