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A biome /ˈbaɪoʊm/ is a formation of plants and animals that have common characteristics due to similar climates and can be found over a range of continents.[1] Biomes are distinct from habitats, because any biome can comprise a variety of habitats.
A biome contrasts with a microbiome. A microbiome is also a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space, but on a much smaller scale. For example, the human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present on a human.
- 1 History
- 2 Classification
- 2.1 Holdridge
- 2.2 Whittaker's biome-type classification scheme
- 2.3 Walter system
- 2.4 Bailey system
- 2.5 WWF system
- 2.5.1 Freshwater biomes
- 2.5.2 Realms or ecozones (terrestrial and freshwater, WWF)
- 2.5.3 Marine biomes
- 2.5.4 Summary – ecological taxonomy (WWF)
- 3 Anthropogenic biomes
- 4 Dermal biome
- 5 Other biomes
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
The term was suggested in 1916 by F. E. Clements, originally as a synonym for biotic community.[2]
Biomes are defined by climate regimes and biogeography.
A 1978 study on North American grasslands[3] found a positive logistic correlation between evapotranspiration in mm/yr and above-ground net primary production in g/m2/yr. The general results from the study were that precipitation and water use led to above-ground primary production, while solar irradiation and temperature lead to below-ground primary production (roots), and temperature and water lead to cool and warm season growth habit.[4] These findings help explain the categories used in Holdridge's bioclassification scheme (see below), which were then later simplified by Whittaker. The number of classification schemes and the variety of determinants used in those schemes, however, should be taken as strong indicators that biomes do not fit perfectly into the classification schemes created.
Holdridge classified climates based on the biological effects of temperature and rainfall on vegetation under the assumption that these two abiotic factors are the largest determinants of the types of vegetation found in a habitat. Holdridge uses the four axes to define 30 so-called "humidity provinces", which are clearly visible in his diagram. While this scheme largely ignores soil and sun exposure, Holdridge acknowledged that these were important.
Whittaker's biome-type classification scheme[edit]
Whittaker classified biomes using two abiotic factors: precipitation and temperature. His scheme can be seen as a simplification of Holdridge's; more readily accessible, but missing Holdridge's greater specificity.
Whittaker based his approach on theoretical assertions and empirical sampling. He was in a unique position to make such a holistic assertion because he had previously compiled a review of biome classifications.[5]
Key definitions for understanding Whittaker's scheme[edit]
- Physiognomy
- The apparent characteristics, outward features, or appearance of ecological communities or species.
- Biome
- A grouping of terrestrial ecosystems on a given continent that are similar in vegetation structure, physiognomy, features of the environment and characteristics of their animal communities.
- Formation
- A major kind of community of plants on a given continent.
- Biome-type
- Grouping of convergent biomes or formations of different continents, defined by physiognomy.
- Formation-type
- A grouping of convergent formations.
Whittaker's distinction between biome and formation can be simplified: formation is used when applied to plant communities only, while biome is used when concerned with both plants and animals. Whittaker's convention of biome-type or formation-type is simply a broader method to categorize similar communities.[6]
Whittaker's parameters for classifying biome-types[edit]
Whittaker, seeing the need for a simpler way to express the relationship of community structure to the environment, used what he called "gradient analysis" of ecocline patterns to relate communities to climate on a worldwide scale. Whittaker considered four main ecoclines in the terrestrial realm.[6]
- Intertidal levels: The wetness gradient of areas that are exposed to alternating water and dryness with intensities that vary by location from high to low tide
- Climatic moisture gradient
- Temperature gradient by altitude
- Temperature gradient by latitude
Along these gradients, Whittaker noted several trends that allowed him to qualitatively establish biome-types:
- The gradient runs from favorable to extreme, with corresponding changes in productivity.
- Changes in physiognomic complexity vary with how favorable of an environment exists (decreasing community structure and reduction of stratal differentiation as the environment becomes less favorable).
- Trends in diversity of structure follow trends in species diversity; alpha and beta species diversities decrease from favorable to extreme environments.
- Each growth-form (i.e. grasses, shrubs, etc.) has its characteristic place of maximum importance along the ecoclines.
- The same growth forms may be dominant in similar environments in widely different parts of the world.
Whittaker summed the effects of gradients (3) and (4) to get an overall temperature gradient, and combined this with gradient (2), the moisture gradient, to express the above conclusions in what is known as the Whittaker classification scheme. The scheme graphs average annual precipitation (x-axis) versus average annual temperature (y-axis) to classify biome-types.
Walter system[edit]
The eponymously-named Heinrich Walter classification scheme considers the seasonality of temperature and precipitation. The system, also assessing precipitation and temperature, finds nine major biome types, with the important climate traits and vegetation types. The boundaries of each biome correlate to the conditions of moisture and cold stress that are strong determinants of plant form, and therefore the vegetation that defines the region. Extreme conditions, such as flooding in a swamp, can create different kinds of communities within the same biome.
- I. Equatorial
- Always moist
- Little temperature seasonality
- Evergreen tropical rainforest
- II. Tropical
- Summer rainy season and cooler "winter" dry season (tropical seasonal forest)
- Seasonal dry forest, scrub, or savanna
- III. Subtropical
- Highly seasonal, arid climate
- Desert vegetation with considerable exposed surface
- IV. Mediterranean
- Winter rainy season and summer drought
- Sclerophyllous (drought-adapted), frost-sensitive shrublands and woodlands
- V. Warm temperate
- Occasional frost, often with summer rainfall maximum
- Temperate evergreen forest, somewhat frost-sensitive
- VI. Nemoral
- Moderate climate with winter freezing
- Frost-resistant, deciduous, temperate forest
- VII. Continental
- Arid, with warm or hot summers and cold winters
- Grasslands and temperate deserts
- VIII. Boreal
- Cold temperate with cool summers and long winters
- Evergreen, frost-hardy, needle-leaved forest (taiga)
- IX. Polar
- Short, cool summers and long, cold winters
- Low, evergreen vegetation, without trees, growing over permanently frozen soils
Bailey system[edit]
Robert G. Bailey nearly developed a biogeographical classification system for the United States in a map published in 1976. He subsequently expanded the system to include the rest of North America in 1981, and the world in 1989. The Bailey system, based on climate, is divided into seven domains (polar, humid temperate, dry, humid, and humid tropical), with further divisions based on other climate characteristics (subarctic, warm temperate, hot temperate, and subtropical; marine and continental; lowland and mountain).[7]
- 100 Polar Domain
- 200 Humid Temperate Domain
- 210 Warm Continental Division (Köppen: portion of Dcb)
- M210 Warm Continental Division – Mountain Provinces
- 220 Hot Continental Division (Köppen: portion of Dca)
- M220 Hot Continental Division – Mountain Provinces
- 230 Subtropical Division (Köppen: portion of Cf)
- M230 Subtropical Division – Mountain Provinces
- 240 Marine Division (Köppen: Do)
- M240 Marine Division – Mountain Provinces
- 250 Prairie Division (Köppen: arid portions of Cf, Dca, Dcb)
- 260 Mediterranean Division (Köppen: Cs)
- M260 Mediterranean Division – Mountain Provinces
- 300 Dry Domain
- 310 Tropical/Subtropical Steppe Division
- M310 Tropical/Subtropical Steppe Division – Mountain Provinces
- 320 Tropical/Subtropical Desert Division
- 330 Temperate Steppe Division
- 340 Temperate Desert Division
- 400 Humid Tropical Domain
- 410 Savanna Division
- 420 Rainforest Division
WWF system[edit]
A team of biologists convened by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) developed an ecological land classification system that identified fourteen biomes,[8] called major habitat types, and further divided the world's land area into 882 terrestrial ecoregions (includes new Antarctic ecoregions by Terrauds et al. 2012). Each terrestrial ecoregion has a specific EcoID, format XXnnNN (XX is the ecozone, nn is the biome number, NN is the individual number). This classification is used to define the Global 200 list of ecoregions identified by the WWF as priorities for conservation. The WWF major habitat types are:
- 01 Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (tropical and subtropical, humid)
- 02 Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests (tropical and subtropical, semihumid)
- 03 Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests (tropical and subtropical, semihumid)
- 04 Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests (temperate, humid)
- 05 Temperate coniferous forests (temperate, humid to semihumid)
- 06 Boreal forests/taiga (subarctic, humid)
- 07 Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (tropical and subtropical, semiarid)
- 08 Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (temperate, semiarid)
- 09 Flooded grasslands and savannas (temperate to tropical, fresh or brackish water inundated)
- 10 Montane grasslands and shrublands (alpine or montane climate)
- 11 Tundra (Arctic)
- 12 Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub or sclerophyll forests (temperate warm, semihumid to semiarid with winter rainfall)
- 13 Deserts and xeric shrublands (temperate to tropical, arid)
- 14 Mangrove (subtropical and tropical, salt water inundated)
Freshwater biomes[edit]
According to the WWF, the following are classified as freshwater biomes:[9]
- Streams and rivers
Realms or ecozones (terrestrial and freshwater, WWF)[edit]
Marine biomes[edit]
Marine biomes (H) (major habitat types), Global 200 (WWF)[edit]
Biomes of the coastal and continental shelf areas (neritic zone – List of ecoregions (WWF))
- Polar
- Temperate shelves and sea
- Temperate upwelling
- Tropical upwelling
- Tropical coral[10]
Realms or ecozones (marine, WWF)[edit]
Other marine habitat types[edit]
- Hydrothermal vents
- Cold seeps
- Benthic zone
- Pelagic zone (trades and westerlies)
- Abyssal
- Hadal (ocean trench)
Major habitats, nonglobal 200 (WWF)[edit]
Summary – ecological taxonomy (WWF)[edit]
- Biosphere (List of ecoregions)
- Ecozones or realms (8)
- Terrestrial biomes (major habitat types, 14)
- Ecoregions (867) vbn,
- Freshwater biomes (major habitat types, 12)
- Ecoregions (426)
- Ecosystems (biotopes)
- Ecoregions (426)
- Terrestrial biomes (major habitat types, 14)
- Marine ecozones or realms (13)
- Continental Shelf biomes (major habitat types, 5)
- (Marine provinces) (62)
- Ecoregions (232)
- Ecosystems (biotopes)
- Ecoregions (232)
- (Marine provinces) (62)
- Open & Deep Sea Biomes (major habitat types)
- Continental Shelf biomes (major habitat types, 5)
- Endolithic biome
- Ecozones or realms (8)
- Biosphere
- Ecozone: Palearctic ecozone
- Terrestrial biome: temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Ecoregion: Dinaric Mountains mixed forests (PA0418)
- Ecosystem: Orjen, vegetation belt between 1,100–1,450 m, Oromediterranean zone, nemoral zone (temperate zone)
- Biotope: Oreoherzogio-Abietetum illyricae Fuk. (Plant list)
- Plant: Silver fir (Abies alba)
- Biotope: Oreoherzogio-Abietetum illyricae Fuk. (Plant list)
- Ecosystem: Orjen, vegetation belt between 1,100–1,450 m, Oromediterranean zone, nemoral zone (temperate zone)
- Ecoregion: Dinaric Mountains mixed forests (PA0418)
- Terrestrial biome: temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Ecozone: Palearctic ecozone
Anthropogenic biomes[edit]
Humans have altered global patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem processes. As a result, vegetation forms predicted by conventional biome systems can no longer be observed across much of Earth's land surface as they have been replaced by crop and rangelands or cities. Anthropogenic biomes provide an alternative view of the terrestrial biosphere based on global patterns of sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems, including agriculture, human settlements, urbanization, forestry and other uses of land. Anthropogenic biomes offer a new way forward in ecology and conservation by recognizing the irreversible coupling of human and ecological systems at global scales and moving us toward an understanding of how best to live in and manage our biosphere and the anthropogenic biomes we live in.
Major anthropogenic biomes[edit]
- Dense settlements
- Croplands
- Rangelands
- Forested
- Indoor[11]
Dermal biome[edit]
The dermal biome is the living ecosystem that animals (including humans) have evolved, that permits them to live symbiotically and in balance with the microbes on and in them (the microbiome). This ecosystem consists of skin, follicles, hair, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, arrector pili muscles, peptides, proteins, lipids and its associated microbiota. A healthy dermal biome has several functions: it resists infection of pathogens, protects against moisture loss and water damage, dynamically regulates body temperature and supports the healthy renewal of skin through the epidermal cell life cycle.
- Infection Resistance: Commensal microbiota assist the dermal biome resist infection for pathogenic bacteria by i] out-competing pathogens for resources, ii] training or stimulating the host's immune system to defeat the pathogen, or iii] expressing substances that are directly hostile to the pathogen.
- Water-barrier regulation: The dermal biome regulates the water barrier – preventing moisture from escaping (except when expressed as sweat) and preventing environmental water from permeating the skin. Because environmental water can have a chilling effect to mammals and warm-blooded animals when kept in close proximity to the epidermis, the dermal biome also produces hydrophobic lipids that repel water.
- Temperature regulation: The dermal biome is responsible for thermoregulation. To regulate excess heat, the dermal biome activates the sweat glands, allowing for evaporative cooling as sweat evaporates. To regulate cooler temperatures, the arrector pili muscles contract, causing hairs to "stand up" (goosebumps), and thereby trap an insulating blanket of air close to the skin.
- Skin renewal: a healthy biome supports the replacement of skin through the life cycle of epidermal cells as they proliferate in the basal layers of the epidermis until they die and are shed (desquamation).
Other biomes[edit]
The endolithic biome, consisting entirely of microscopic life in rock pores and cracks, kilometers beneath the surface, has only recently been discovered, and does not fit well into most classification schemes.
Freshwater biomes[edit]
The drainage basins of the principal oceans and seas of the world are marked by continental divides. The grey areas are endorheic basins that do not drain to the ocean.
See also[edit]
- ^ The World's Biomes, Retrieved August 19, 2008, from University of California Museum of Paleontology
- ^ Clements, F. E. 1917. The development and structure of biotic communities. J. Ecology 5:120–121. Abstract of a talk in 1916, [1].
- ^ Sims, Phillip L.; Singh, J.S. (July 1978). "The Structure and Function of Ten Western North American Grasslands: III. Net Primary Production, Turnover and Efficiencies of Energy Capture and Water Use". Journal of Ecology. British Ecological Society. 66 (2): 573–597. doi:10.2307/2259152.
- ^ Pomeroy, Lawrence R. and James J. Alberts, editors. Concepts of Ecosystem Ecology. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
- ^ Whittaker, Robert H., Botanical Review, Classification of Natural Communities, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan–Mar 1962), pp. 1–239.
- ^ a b Whittaker, Robert H. Communities and Ecosystems. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1975.
- ^ http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/index.html Bailey System, US Forest Service
- ^ Olson et al. (2001); Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth, BioScience, Vol. 51, No. 11., pp. 933–938.
- ^ "Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: Major Habitat Types" [2]. Accessed May 12, 2008.
- ^ WWF: Marine Ecoregions of the World
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (March 19, 2015). "The Next Frontier: The Great Indoors". New York Times. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in:
External links[edit]
|Look up Biome in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- "Biomes". Encyclopedia of Earth.
- Biomes of the world (Missouri Botanic Garden)
- Global Currents and Terrestrial Biomes Map
- WorldBiomes.com is a site covering the 5 principal world biome types: aquatic, desert, forest, grasslands, and tundra.
- UWSP's online textbook The Physical Environment: – Earth Biomes
- Panda.org's Habitats – describes the 14 major terrestrial habitats, 7 major freshwater habitats, and 5 major marine habitats.
- Panda.org's Habitats Simplified – provides simplified explanations for 10 major terrestrial and aquatic habitat types.
- UCMP Berkeley's The World's Biomes – provides lists of characteristics for some biomes and measurements of climate statistics.
- Gale/Cengage has an excellent Biome Overview of terrestrial, aquatic, and man-made biomes with a particular focus on trees native to each, and has detailed descriptions of desert, rain forest, and wetland biomes.
- Islands Of Wildness, The Natural Lands Of North America by Jim Bones, a video about continental biomes and climate change.
- Dreams Of The Earth, Love Songs For A Troubled Planet by Jim Bones, a poetic video about the North American Biomes and climate change.
- NASA's Earth Observatory Mission: Biomes gives an exemplar of each biome that is described in detail and provides scientific measurements of the climate statistics that define each biome.


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Trace the tragedies, trials and triumphs of The Allman Brothers Band
On Oct. 15, 1971, The Allman Brothers Band was on top of the world. Years of hard work paid off with popular success as "At Fillmore East" achieved Gold Record status. The band was hard at work on its next studio album. Fourteen days later, the band's path took a devastating turn: Lead guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle crash. Somehow, the group still managed to complete the incomparable "Eat A Peach."
For The Allman Brothers Band, jamming 'was a very natural thing'
Deluxe collection chronicles Duane Allman's career
Gregg Allman gets gritty with 'Low Country Blues'
Losing his brother and bandmate, going through a liver transplant — Gregg Allman has plenty of life experience with the blues, both onstage and off. It seems only natural that "Low Country Blues," Allman's new solo blues music cover project with famed producer T-Bone Burnett, has struck a chord with music lovers.


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I have sometimes contemplated the theory of "ballet programming as suicide note". Companies arrive in London, and for reasons of internal politics or directorial caprice rather than artistic merit, schedule lurching choreographic grotesques to introduce themselves to their public. There ensue sulks, self-justification, bitter words about about public incomprehension, about everything except the wrong choices.
So, alas, I felt about last week's offering from Birmingham Royal Ballet. The initial triple bill I thought below the standards of the company's valuable repertory, most persuasive performances. Thursday's second bill began badly and continued too vehemently (and for too long) for my taste. Happiness came at the end. The revival of Joe Layton's 40-year-old and pretty-leaden-when-it-was-new The Grand Tour, which offers the unlovely prospect of caricatured 1920s celebrities (from Mary Pickford to Alice B. Toklas) on a cruise and is the apotheosis of a cliché, defeats its cast, offers nothing to them except empty posing.
David Bintley's new Faster is set to a boisterous, unrelenting score by Matthew Hindson, and is given amusing costumes – the gauzy T-shirts might be Piet Mondrian at M&S. It comments on every sort of recent Olympic activity, lasts for 37 energetic (and too long for its own good) minutes. The cast is tireless, and deserves medals.
And at last, Ashton's The Dream, with Birmingham's dancers on best form, playing with delightful enthusiasm, bring this masterpiece to happy life. César Morales is a fine Oberon, Momoko Hirato a delicate Titania, the quartet of lovers well done – I much admired Matthew Lawrence's Demetrius as a military cliché – and Jonathan Caguioa was a nicely innocent Bottom, with pointes of steel. BRB's artists gave the best of themselves, and this ravishing ballet lived with not a breath less delight than at Covent Garden. We rejoiced.
I rejoiced even more at the presence of the girls' voices from Birmingham Cathedral Choir. Their account of Mendelssohn's choruses was clear, true, sensitive, a welcome change from the usual tots pecking at top notes at the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden should employ these Birmingham voices for future performances.
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German goalkeeper urges gay players to come out
Manchester Utd target Manuel Neuer says fans will come to accept homosexual players
German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has called on gay footballers to come out - and to ignore the reaction of fans. His remarks come not long after Fifa president Sepp Blatter was accused of homophobia over comments he made about gay fans wanting to watch the World Cup in Qatar, and after the sexism row at Sky Sports led to accusations that the game in England was still living in the dark ages.
The 24-year-old Schalke 04 player, who could be in line for a big money transfer to Manchester United in the summer, made his comments in an interview with German celebrity magazine Bunte. He said: "Yes, those who are gay should say so. It relieves a burden... And the fans will get over it quickly. What matters is the performance delivered by the player, not his sexual preference."
Neuer is not the only player to have voiced such opinions in Germany. Speaking to the same magazine last November, Bayern Munich striker Mario Gomez pointed out that many senior politicians in Germany are gay and that an openly gay player "would play as if they had been liberated". He added: "Being gay should no longer be a taboo topic."
Neither Neuer nor Gomez are gay themselves, they're simply anti-homophobia. They were part of the young multi-racial German team that impressed at the World Cup in South Africa last year, and knocked England out in the last 16.
If Neuer does end up joining United as a replacement for retiring keeper Edwin Van Der Sar then the FA could finally find a player who is prepared to make a stand against homophobia.
Liberal attitudes are hard to come by in English football, where players appear terrified of being branded gay. Some have sued newpapers for insinuations about their sexuality and last year the FA searched in vain to find a player who was prepared to front a campaign against homophobia in football.
In the end they agreed to produce a viral video that didn't feature any players, but even that proved too much for some people and the FA ended up cancelling the official launch of the film.
However, the game in Germany is not entirely free of anti-gay sentiment. There was an outcry when the agent of injured German midfielder Michael Ballack, who missed the tournament, put the team's free-flowing style of play, and the fact they did not make the final, down to the fact that the team contained a "bunch of gays".


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The nightly developments continue as we learn next that Tsarnaev is in serious (or critical according to Bloomberg) condition in the hospital, with a gunshot wound to the neck and leg, and that perhaps just as importantly, he will not get his Miranda warning, instead the FBI is overruling due process and using the "public safety" exception instead. The wound speak for themselves. Those wishing to learn in what circumstances the Miranda Rights can be overruled, read on. From the FBI: The "Public Safety" Exception to Miranda After 44 years, the Miranda decision stands as a monolith in police
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Calling all ladies!!
Pickles and Ice Cream Social hosted by Sarah Stokes
Thursday, July 26 from 6:30-9 P.M.
Action City banquet rooms, Eau Claire
(tucked away near the go kart track)
$5 admission gets you in the door, signed up for door prizes and of course you get a free serving of ice cream and pickles!
A fun ladies event featuring a silent auction, seminars, "mocktails", spa treatments and much more to benefit the
"Fostering the Future Fund"! Help area foster kids by attending this ladies night!
Register for door prizes like a Gigi Hill bags gift certificate, Valley Fair Tickets, Water park passes and floral arrangements!
A few of you have asked about bringing your daughters. We will not have "children's activities" but if your little girl is old enough to enjoy a spa treatment or the like... we'd love to have you there! There will be no child care on site so you need to accompany your child as we have designed this as a ladies' night event. Hope that makes sense!
List of FREE Seminars:
How to Use Pinterest
6:40 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.
Pinterest pro Paula Bonnin shows you step-by-step how to best use the site and benefit from the amazing ideas on this newer social media site! She'll show you how to find things that will inspire you! There's something for every woman on this site!
What's Hot in Accessories
7:30-8 p.m.
May's Floral shows you the new and trendy items that can freshen up and "cute up" your current wardrobe! There's even jewelry for your plain black boots you wear all winter!
A portion of any purchases made at end of seminar benefit the "Fostering the Future Fund"
The How-to Secrets of Fun Hair
8:15-9 p.m.
Bravo SalonSpa's team of stylists will be looking for models in the crowd so they can show you how to do your own fabulous hair!
Learn the tricks the pros use! Learn how to properly flat iron your hair, how to use the right round brush, how to do "beachy waves" and a cute braid!
A portion of any product sales at the end of the seminar benefit the "Fostering the Future Fund" and a bonus! If you make a $5 donation to the fund, you can get a private consultation after the seminar! You'll also get 10% off a future visit to the salon!
List of vendors:
Straighten-Up Organizing - talk to a home organizing pro! Nancy Rothwell will be there to inspire you!
Interior Decorator and Home Staging Expert - get inspired to reinvent your home! Bring Glenda Stokes a picture of your problem room to get some ideas. She's donating a portion of all new client bookings to the fund!
Dina Aasen Photography - she's donating a portion of the session bookings to the fund!
The BeautiControl Spa Team will do makeovers, mini pedicures and hand scrub treatments for donations! 100% of the proceeds from this goes to the fund!
Picture This will have a crew on hand to help you get inspired and make scrapbook pages and cards with 100% of the donations going to the kids!
WEAU 13 News and www.momseveryday.com will have a special free giveaway to all guests!
A Tastefully Simple consultant will have product on hand for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to the fund!
Celadon Road will donate 50% of the proceeds from event sales to the fund! It's an eco-friendly company making everything from cleaning supplies to pet products.
Scentsy will be represented at the event as well! More details to follow!
Bravo SalonSpa will have two massage therapists in house to help you ease away the stress through a chair massage and who doesn't love to get the tension out with a hand massage!?! Donations go to the kids!
Metropolis will have a beverage station with fun mocktails and soda available for purchase. A portion of the proceeds benefit the fund.
Massage therapists from Advanced Massage Therapy will be there to teach free infant massage and to give chair massages for donations to the fund!
Silent Auction Items:
Scentsy products
Action City gift card
Metropolis – Room with 4 water park passes
Festival -- $50 gift card
Cute baskets of merchandise from www.italwaysfits.com
Dina Aasen photography package
YMCA – 1 year family membership Chippewa Falls and E.C. locations
Angela with Advanced Massage Therapy – gift certificate
Tarina with Advanced Massage Therapy -- gift certificate
Swimrite – pool cue
Kathryn Rose photography – pkg
KandiKakes -- cake pops
The Living Room -- gift certificates
Dreamhouse Interiors -- $500 toward hardwood floor refinishing/installation
Fur 'N' Feathers Pet Salon -- gift certificates
Gigi Hill -- bag
Kids movie night tub from Schaumberg Law Firm
Pregnancy essentials gift basket
Jamberry Nails products
BeautiControl Instant Manicure package
Visalus, a line of nutritional products basket
Tastefully Simple products
A basket from Visit Eau Claire
Coordinated canvas paintings
Crayon art creations by Jenna O'Donahue
Massage and Healing Certificate from Jean Kowalski LMT, ATP® ~ Colors of Joy Healing Arts Center
At Home America products
$500 certificate for web design from Green Gear Designs
$100 certificates for web design from Green Gear Designs
Pampered Chef products
A month of Yoga from Capture Life Wellness
Twin Cities weekend getaway package
Massage certificates from Eau Claire Massage
Scrapping Adventures -- scrapbook basket
And much more!
If you'd like to donate a silent auction item, contact firstname.lastname@example.com thank you! Donations are tax-deductible.
What's the "Fostering the Future Fund"?
It's a new way to help the kids! Sarah Stokes is partnering with Lutheran Social Services to raise money for the incidentals and special situations families sometimes run into.
Imagine being forced to leave your home as a child and not even having a suitcase to put your clothes in. Some of these kids move with garbage bags. Then there are the missed opportunities when foster families just don't have enough money to go around for the stuff kids truly benefit from. We want the kids to have access to some of the things they need, but there isn't always money to get. This ranges from sports fees to yearbooks to camps. There are so many needs!
Funds will be managed by the local LSS team.
A special thank you to our sponsors:
Lutheran Social Services
WEAU 13 News
IFD Warehouse
May's Floral
Bravo SalonSpa
Action City and Metropolis Resort


text: Public Information Statement National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 800 AM EDT Fri Mar 16 2012 ...Tornado Safety Procedures... DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WATCHES AND WARNINGS WATCH: time to pay attention to the weather WARNING: time to take action * A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes. When under a watch, prepare yourself and others for possible tornadoes - considering possible sheltering options if a Tornado Warning is issued. * A Tornado Warning means to take immediate precautions. A tornado has been reported, or detected by meteorologists. When a warning is issued, ACT QUICKLY - seconds save lives! SAFETY PROCEDURES FOR TORNADOES Remember: Get In, Get Down, Cover Up. * If a warning is issued for your location, and before the arrival of a tornado, get inside a sturdy structure, putting as many walls between you and the tornado as possible. * Get underground if you can. Otherwise, the safest place to be will be a small, windowless interior room or hallway on the lowest level of a sturdy building. * Those outdoors or in vulnerable locations like a mobile home should attempt to seek shelter in a nearby sturdy structure. Mobile homes can be seriously damaged by ALL tornadoes, even those perceived to be weak or small. * If you cannot quickly walk to a sturdy shelter, immediately get in a vehicle, buckle your seat belt and try to get to the nearest sturdy structure. * If you can see the tornado making a close approach, or flying debris occurs while you are driving, you have the following options as a LAST RESORT: 1. Stay in your vehicle with the seat belt on. Put your head down below the windows, covering with your hands and a blanket if possible. 2. If you can safely get noticeably lower than the level of the roadway, exit your car, and lie in that area, covering your head with your hands. -- Your choice should be driven by your SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES * If swimming or on a boat, get out of the water and return to land as quickly as possible. Once on land, follow the safety procedures listed above. If out over the water, stear clear. PROPER SAFETY RESPONSES TO COMMON TORNADO MYTHS * Do NOT open doors or windows. This action will waste precious seconds that could be used to find proper shelter. Opening windows or doors will allow the tornado winds to more easily penetrate your home and cause damage. * Do NOT shelter under a highway overpass. The area under an overpass is very dangerous in a tornado. Sheltering there will make you a stationary target in an open area. The confined space under the overpass will accelerate winds and debris. * Geographical features such as lakes, rivers, and mountains, as well as urban areas do NOT protect a location from tornadoes. Tornadoes have been recorded in a wide variety of locations. * Tornadoes have been recorded at all times of the year and at all times of the day and night in the Gulf Coast and Southeast region. FORMING A PREPAREDNESS PLAN IN ADVANCE * It's advisable to have a plan of action in your business, school, or household prior to the threat of tornadoes ever arriving. Everyone should be aware of the plan and how it is implemented. * Consult the latest forecast information and know the risk for the area in which you live or visit. -- Check our Hazardous Weather Outlook, updated daily, at: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php?pil=TAEHWOTAE * Timing is important. If the forecast says that the threat of tornadoes will be highest at a certain time of day, think about where you will be at that time and what you will be doing. This can help you prepare in advance. * If there is a threat of tornadoes on a given day, try to plan to be around a sturdy structure or have a shelter available as an option. Those who are outdoors or are in mobile homes are most at-risk from tornadoes. The latest forecast information can be found on our website at: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tae -OR- http://weather.gov/tallahassee Additional resources can be found at the following websites: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/safety.php http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/brochures.shtml $$


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DJ Prostyle
#ProNews: Chris Brown & Karrueche Officially Broken Up ? (DETAILS)
Posted July 8th, 2014 @ 5:14pm
Chris Brown & Karrueche calls it quits again ?!
Both took it to their Instagram to delete all photo's of them together, no trace of Chris Brown on Karrueche page and no trace of Karrueche on Chris Brown page. Sources say that the two broke off because Chris posted a photo of her booty on his page, and she was upset about the photo.
Lets see where this goes ..
Is it official over for the two ?
Photo Credit: Getty Images
Inspired By: @DJProstyle
Written By: @IamJasmineG, @IIIghtCuddy


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Retail Marketing Manager
- Recruiter
- Better Placed Recruitment
- Location
- Leeds
- Salary
- £33000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
- Posted
- 13 Nov 2012
- Closes
- 11 Dec 2012
- Ref
- Contact
- Dean Bartle
- Business Type
- In-house / Client-side
- Sector
- Retail
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is a specialist clothing/household goods retailer with predominantly a northern based store network. 2013 is going to be a year of investment and they are looking to take the number of outlets to over 50 and the business is looking to increase their headcount significantly with some key new appointments. One of these new roles will be a Retail Marketing Manager that will be required to strategically lead the marketing of their store network and new store opening programme. This role will require a candidate with the necessary retail marketing experience but also the appreciation of brand and customer insight. You will lead on tactical promotions and customer engagement strategies and will be commercial aware, being able to react to trading conditions and able to make the necessary strategic changes to maximise revenue and margin. Candidate will also need to ideally understand a data driven approach to marketing, as the business also has a mail-order operation that is driven through its catalogue and e-commerce site. If you feel you have the right personality, approach and drive to do justice to this Retail Marketing Manager position and are looking for an exciting and challenging role then this company and opportunity could be for you.


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NEW! Homemade Laundry Soap
Homemade Laundry Soap is here. I've been using this for years and have found it works great for all my laundry needs. Ingredients: Tapaahsia Farm Natural Soap, Washing Soda and Borax.
NEW! 100% Natural Goat Milk
Soap - Lemon-Lime - $5.00/each
It's finally here! Goat Milk Soap with all it's
moisturizing and skin softening capabilities.
This first soap is scented Lemon-Lime, one of
my most popular scents.
Anise Surprise - $4.50/each
Love black licorice? How about black jelly
beans? Oh my, then this one you'll just
have to try!
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'Cinnamon Spice' as a substitute.
Baby Soft - $4.50/each
One of the most moisturizing bars I have with
added Shea Butter, Castor Oil, and Calendula
Petals infused in the Olive Oil. Unscented,
uncolored, very mild and gentle. Especially
for babies but anyone can enjoy!
Christmas Memories - $4.50/each
Bring the smell of Christmas into your home
with this blend of Scotch Pine, Cinnamon and
Mandarin Essential Oils. Seasonal only.
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'Cinnamon Spice' as a substitute.
Cinnamon Spice - $4.50/each
A mildly spicy bar with clay to make a great
shaving soap. Give to the guys in your life.
Earth Medley - $4.50/each
A floral, earthy and citrus blend. Reminds me
of the outdoors.
Foot Smoothie - $4.50/each
After a long day, who can resist a Spearmint
pumice scrub on the feet?
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French Lavender - $4.50/each
French Green Clay, a marvelous clay for
skin. French lavender is just luxurious!
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The best relaxant I know, a hot bath with Lavender
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A contradiction that works! Relaxing Lavender
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Lemon-Lime - $4.50/each
For all you citrus lovers. This is the perfect
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A blend of oatmeal and honey along with sweet
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A must for all those Patchouly fans out there.
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A definite "wake me up". Stimulating
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Wow, if you like Lavender, you're going
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Farm Facts
Did you know that Montgomery County is the number one pumpkin-growing county in the state and the number two berry-grower? The county also ranks second in the state in its number of horticultural enterprises. Here are some more farm facts compiled in the 2012 Ag Census:
Montgomery County Farms
Total Land in Montgomery County: 316, 800 acres
Total Land in Farms: 63,493 acres
Total Number of Farms: 540
Check out more stats in the Montgomery County Ag Census (and compare to 2007 stats)
According to the Agricultural Services Division
"Agricultural activities occupy about one-third of Montgomery County's land area. Over half of the 93,000-acre agricultural reserve is preserved through transfer of development rights or easement purchase initiatives. The County's diverse agricultural industry—577 farms and 350 horticultural enterprises—produce millions of dollars in economic contribution from farm products and operations. The majority of Montgomery County farms are family-run operations, many reaching back several generations, which employ more than 10, 000 residents." Fifty percent of the County's farmers work full time in farming.
"Montgomery County's agricultural reserve is an important environmental resource for future farm enterprises. A strong agricultural heritage provides a diverse business community and a strong economic base. Combining these strengths with the commitment for farmland preservation makes Montgomery County an attractive place to live and work."
Washington, DC Area Farm Statistics from National Capital Farms


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Your cheese never sounded so fine. $10.00 at Gama-Go.
Box Crafts
Don't throw away those shipping boxes! Come see the genius ideas to make them into toys for your kids over at my blog at Discovery Health.
Greek Mac 'n Cheese
Dang this looks good! Greek Mac and Cheese recipe over at Saveur.
Elm Bowls
Beautiful centerpiece, handmade. JL Wood Turning on Etsy.
Perfect Prime Rib Recipe with Red Wine Jus
Step by step photos for perfect prime rib – the secret is the hot sear and then slow and low roast.
Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
How can you have a Prime Rib dinner without the traditional accompaniment, Yorkshire Pudding? This Yorkshire Pudding Recipe makes poofy, airy pastry popovers! The pancake-thin like batter and the beef fat from cooking the Prime Rib Roast is used to make these breads. Instead of buying a popover pan, I just used a muffin tin. My goal was to get Yorkshire …
S'mores Marshmallow Pops
S'mores on a stick….these look so fun to make! Go check them out on my good friends Todd and Diane's site White On Rice Couple.
How to Make Christmas Tree Yo-Yo Ornament
Every year, the kids and I hand-make several ornaments for the Christmas Tree. One of the most touching moments of the holiday is to admire the tree each year and giggle and reminisce "remember when we made this ornament!?" It serves as our scrapbook and the ornaments will surely be passed down through the generations of our family (I hope!) …
If only customer service was this easy
This is a sponsored review from BlogHer and Kenmore. Am I so bored that I'm talking with my washer? Well, no, but my washer is talking to a Sears tech. Yup, you read right, my Kenmore washer and dryer communicates via phone to help the tech diagnose the problem through Kenmore Connect. Sure beats calling and waiting for a tech …
Chopstick Glasses
Never leave home without your chopsticks! Chopsticks Glasses via One Inch Punch — see 12 other funky chopsticks at Oddee.
Prawns with Coconut Milk and Preserved Crab Fat (Ginataang Hipon with Gata and Taba ng Talangka)
Recipe for Prawns with Coconut Milk and Preserved Crab Fat (Ginataang Hipon with Gata and Taba ng Talangka) by Trissa Lopez at my other site, New Asian Cuisine.
Pressure Cooker Split Pea and Ham Soup
Only takes a few minutes of active time and 4 minutes of cooking time in pressure cooker! Pressure Cooker Split Pea and Ham Recipe over at my column on TLC.


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March 7, 2011 Approval Letter - DECAVAC
Our STN: STN 103921/5143
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.
Attention: Joseph Quinn
Discovery Drive
Swiftwater, PA 18370
Dear Mr. Quinn:
We have approved your request to supplement your biologics license application (BLA) for Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed (DECAVAC®), to revise the package insert to include additional safety and immunogenicity data obtained from the DECAVAC group of study Td506.
Please provide your final content of labeling in Structured Product Labeling (SPL) format and include the carton and container labels. In addition, please submit three original paper copies for carton and container final printed labeling. All final labeling should be submitted as Product Correspondence to this BLA at the time of use (prior to marketing) and include implementation information on FDA Form 356h.
In addition, please submit the final content of labeling (21 CFR 601.14) in SPL format via the FDA automated drug registration and listing system, eLIST, as described at http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/DataStandards/StructuredProductLabeling
/default.htm. Information on submitting SPL files using eLIST may be found in the guidance for industry titled, "SPL Standard for Content of Labeling Technical Qs and As" at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatory
You may submit two draft copies of the proposed introductory advertising and promotional labeling with an FDA Form 2253 to the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch, HFM-602, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448. You must submit copies of your final advertisement and promotional labeling at the time of initial dissemination or publication, accompanied by Form FDA 2253 (21 CFR 601.12(f)(4)).
All promotional claims must be consistent with and not contrary to approved labeling. You should not make a comparative promotional claim or claim of superiority over other products unless you have substantial evidence or substantial clinical experience to support such claims (21 CFR 202.1(e)(6)).
Please submit an amendment to all pending supplemental applications for this BLA that include revised labeling incorporating a revised content of labeling that includes these changes.
This fulfills your commitment to submit a Supplement with a revised package insert incorporating additional safety and immunogenicity data obtained from the DECAVAC group of study Td506, entitled "Safety and Immunogenicity of Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed Combined with Component Pertussis (TdcP) Vaccine Compared to Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed (Td) in Adolescents and Adults 11 – 64 Years of Age," as stated in your commitment in the December 9, 2008, approval letter for STN 103921/5095.
Postmarketing Studies subject to reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70.
We acknowledge your written commitment as described in your amendment of March 4, 2011, as outlined below:
1. To submit a supplement to the biologics license application for Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed, DECAVAC, to revise the package insert to include safety and immunogenicity data on use of DECAVAC in persons 65 years of age and older from completed Study Td515 "Safety and Immunogenicity of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (Adacel®) in Persons >65 Years of Age".
- The final study report and supplement will be submitted by February 2012.
Please submit clinical protocols to your IND, with a cross-reference letter to this supplement to your BLA, STN BL 103921. Submit nonclinical and chemistry, manufacturing, and controls protocols and all study final reports to your BLA, STN BL 103921. If the information in the final study report supports a change in the labeling, the final study report should be submitted as a supplement. We may also request a supplement if we think labeling changes are needed. Please use the following designators to label prominently all submissions, including supplements, relating to these postmarketing study commitments as appropriate:
- Postmarketing Study Commitment Protocol
- Postmarketing Study Correspondence
- Postmarketing Study Commitment – Final Study Report
- Supplement Contains Postmarketing Study Commitments – Final Study Report
For each postmarketing study subject to the reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70, you must describe the status in an annual report on postmarketing studies for this product. Label your annual report an "Annual Status Report of Postmarketing Study Commitments." The status report for each study should include:
- information to identify and describe the postmarketing commitment,
- the original schedule for the commitment,
- the status of the commitment (i.e., pending, ongoing, delayed, terminated, or submitted), and
- an explanation of the status including, for clinical studies, the patient accrual rate (i.e., number enrolled to date and the total planned enrollment).
As described in 21 CFR 601.70(e), we may publicly disclose information regarding these postmarketing studies on our Web site (http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Post-marketingPhaseIVCommitments/default.htm). Please refer to the February 2006 Guidance for Industry: Reports on the Status of Postmarketing Studies – Implementation of Section 130 of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (see http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatory
Information/Guidances/UCM080569.pdf) for further information.
We will include information contained in the above-referenced supplement in your BLA file.
Sincerely yours,
Wellington Sun, M.D.
Division of Vaccines and
Related Products Applications
Office of Vaccine
Research and Review
Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research
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ASPEN - David Hidalgo recently finished recording sessions for a new Bob Dylan album, at Jackson Browne's Los Angeles studio. Hidalgo, who has played on two previous Dylan albums, wasn't expecting to add his Mexican instruments to the new project. But there were Mexican instruments around the studio, and Hidalgo, who grew up in a Mexican-American environment in East L.A., was as attracted to the accordion, and the tres - a guitar-like instrument whose six strings are separated into three groups of two - as he was to the electric guitar when he was a kid. Dylan heard those sounds, and welcomed them into his music.
"He'd say, 'Wow, what's that?'" Hidalgo said from a tour stop in Fort Collins. "He liked the sound. So we'd get it in there."
Hidalgo appreciated Dylan's embrace of the Mexican sounds. But he has an even bigger appreciation of Dylan's outlook on music generally. The recording session, he said, was nothing like the earlier ones he had done with Dylan.
"It was a great experience. And different. Each one has been different, all completely different approaches. It's an amazing thing, how he keeps creativity. I don't see how he does it."
Hidalgo may not understand it exactly. But that hasn't stopped him from embodying that same sort of constant reinvention. In the main gig he has had for nearly 50 years, as a member of Los Lobos, Hidalgo and his mates - Louis Perez, Cesar Rosas and Conrad Lozano, all founding members of the band, and Steve Berlin, a Jewish Philadelphian who joined the group in the mid-'80s - have remained creatively restless and ambitious, refusing to fall into well-worn grooves.
"That's always been the philosophy of this band - it's still alive, I guess, the band, the attitude," the 57-year-old Hidalgo said. "We don't move as fast as we used to, but trying to do something that we haven't done before - that's something we pay attention to. That's important to us."
When Los Lobos play the Wheeler Opera House on Saturday, March 10 at 8 p.m., they will, indeed, be doing something new. Their current tour is an all acoustic show - unlike their last Aspen appearance, in 2009 at Belly Up, which was billed as acoustic, but found the band switching to full electric mode before the halfway point. And while Los Lobos has done acoustic tours before, this one has a twist. In the past, going acoustic meant that the setlist would be devoted to old Mexican songs. But beginning with some shows in the Midwest last week, Los Lobos have tried playing their English-language rock 'n' roll on acoustic guitars, stand-up bass and a smattering of Mexican folk instruments.
This doesn't quite compare in magnitude to some of the moves Los Lobos tried early on in their careers. The band members started out like any American kids who grew up in the '60s - anxious to separate themselves from the music of their parents, dying to plug in electric guitars and get loud. Hidalgo worshipped Hendrix and Cream; he and his friends had little interest in the Spanish-language norteno and cumbias their parents played on the radio.
But at a certain point something snapped, and Los Lobos found themselves challenged by the Mexican styles. They traded in their Fender six-strings for bajo sextos and requintos, and for nine years did their best impersonation of a Mexican folk band. When they released the 1978 album "Just Another Band From East L.A.," under the name Los Lobos del Este de Los Angeles, the songs were "El Pescador Nadador" and "La Iguana."
Then came another monumental change: for the 1983 album "... and a Time to Dance," they emerged as a plugged-in band, singing American-style rock.
Since then, Los Lobos - with the same lineup of musicians - have settled more or less into a certain style that mixes English and Spanish lyrics, American rock with South of the Border rhythms and themes. But they haven't stopped experimenting. The 1988 album "La Pistola y El Corazon" was devoted to tejano and mariachi styles. The highly praised 1992 album "Kiko" found them discovering the wonders of the recording studio; "Colossal Head," from 1996, moved closer toward the avant-garde. "The Ride," from 2004, was heavy with guest singers: Elvis Costello, Mavis Staples, Tom Waits, the Mexican band Cafe Tacuba; "Los Lobos Goes Disney," from 2009, was a set of recordings of songs from classic Disney movies. (That one can be explained by the fact that Los Lobos were signed to the Disney-owned Hollywood Records.)
The most recent album, 2010's "Tin Can Trust," was, at last, a throwback.
"We played straightforward, like we used to - just capture the performance. Like we did before we learned how to use the studio. It's like 'How Will the Wolf Survive' [their 1984 breakthrough album] - really pure, simple," Hidalgo said. "I guess we're recycling our old stuff, in a way."
How have Los Lobos avoided making a habit of falling into old patterns? Hidalgo isn't sure. Answering that is as difficult as saying how Bob Dylan has reinvented himself as a country singer, as a fire-and-brimstone gospel singer, as an old-style folkie, as a crooner.
"It's a mystery sometimes," Hidalgo said of Los Lobos. "Bottom line is, we still believe in what this band means to us. So we're still here to keep it alive."


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The major tools that companies have to protect their intellectual property rights in the Social Media Age were created before and during the Internet Age of the late 1990's. Under current law, copyright and trademark holders have several different remedies available to go after cyber-squatters and those who utilize copyrighted material and trademarks without permission. Some of the tools available include the Lanham Act and the Anti-Cyber Squatting Protection Act, The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and ICANN's Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy.
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, (scroll down to the Copyright Policy), and YouTube all have policies in place for companies to report theft of their intellectual property. Even though some of these companies, (Ex: Facebook) appear to have a policy in place that addresses the problem when a company's trademarks are being used by a third party as a screen/user name, there appears to be no legal tools available that specifically applies to screen/user names. Therefore, it is at the sole discretion of an online service provider to determine if a screen/user name infringes on a trademark.
Screen/user name intellectual property infringement is a major problem. For example, on Facebook there is a popular page that at first glance appears to be Nike Shoes. Upon closer examination, even though this page has over 2.2 million "likes" it does not appear to be a valid Nike Shoes Facebook page. In addition, if you type in www.facebook.com/nikeshoes you are directed to an entirely different Facebook page that appears to be another user. Visiting MySpace's "Nike Shoes Page" demonstrates the same problem. If you type in www.myspace.com/nikeshoes you will notice that you are directed to the page of a Nike shoe collector/seller.
Through a quick check of the United States Patent Trademark TESS search system it appears that "Nike Shoes" is not trademarked. However, "Nike" was trademarked in 1972 for "ATHLETIC SHOES WITH SPIKES AND ATHLETIC UNIFORMS FOR USE WITH SUCH SHOES" and "ATHLETIC SHOES WITHOUT SPIKES AND ATHLETIC UNIFORMS FOR USE WITH SUCH SHOES". Therefore, Nike has a very strong claim that the term "Nike Shoes" infringes on its trademark.
The bottom line is that intellectual property law needs to catch up with the Social Media Age and/or social media companies need to be willing to provide the contact information of those who are charged with determining if a screen/user name infringes on a trademark or if posted material violates a copyright. Providing forms for intellectual property rights holders to complete when an alleged violation occurs is a start but does not adequately address the situation. More accountability is needed.
To learn how to combat the theft of your company's intellectual property via social media you may contact me at http://www.shearlaw.com/.
Copyright 2010 by the Law Office of Bradley S. Shear, LLC. All rights reserved.


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Please see my blog or website for more information. http://www.trulia.com/blog/david_chamberlain/2008/11/hombuyi
As for getting pre-approved in general, it's a great idea! Truth is, the really good Realtors, the ones that are serious about finding you a home that you will love and enjoy are going to work with you when they know that you are serious about buying. The best way to prove this is to show them you are ready to buy and that is only confirmable when you have money to spend.
Not to mention, due to the economy these days, sellers do not take buyer seriously unless they can prove they got money guaranteed by a lender. In other words, you may be able to put in an offer on the home of your dreams but, without that pre-approval letter guaranteeing funds, the seller may pass up your offer and move on to someone they can confirm has the money now.
All in all, pre-approval letters are for everyone in the process. They let buyer's search homes they know they can afford. They tell Realtors they are working with legitimate buyers and, they tell sellers they are dealing with a Ready, Willing and Able buyer.
Having a considerable down payment and good credit are very positive factors.
Our recommendation is to begin the process of collecting inforamtion about financing. This does not necessarily mean to be prequalified, right now. The important thing is to become knowledgible about the different programs and options they present for you.
Additionally, as yur March date nears, it would be a huge advantage to be pre-approved. This will be one less thing that will need to be done at that time and it will provide you with the numbers you need to work with while house shopping.
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The The 10th Annual Lil' Wrangler Barn Dance is made possible by the Lil' Wranglers & the Elite Wranglers.
It will be held on Sunday, November 18th at the Brazos Center.
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The CIP is a key component of the CIGSS architecture. It provides the processing of all sensor data into NITFS 2.0 imagery for output to the CIGSS LAN. The primary objective of the CIP development is to achieve a hardware and software architecture that is scaleable, extensible, and portable. Underlying these objectives is the philosophy of distributed hardware procurement--with a portable software package, users can select whatever hardware they wish for their processing needs.
The CIP interfaces with the collection element, dissemination element, and management element via local area network(s) (a site infrastructure element). The CIP receives unprocessed imagery from the collection element and transfers processed imagery to the dissemination element which controls the flow of data via a local area network to the archive and exploitation elements, and creates reduced resolution sets (R-Sets). The applications within the CIP include sensor specific processing algorithms which interface with the collection element, the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) file format and compression methods, and the dissemination element applications necessary to organize the data stream according to the protocol defined by the selected LAN technology.
The CIP operates on the data stream according to a prescribed set of algorithms to produce a radiance corrected image with support data extensions in NITF 2.0 format. The services provided by the CIP in the creation of the processed imagery include format conversion; compression and decompression; transformations and filtering; and removal of anomalies. Format conversion, compression and decompression, transformations and filtering are services provided by a dissemination element application resident in the CIP. The CIP also provides support data services that preserve information about the image that is needed for exploitation, archiving, dissemination, and transfer of the processed imagery in allowable standard forms and formats. The resultant image is transferred to local storage media (if private data) or to the archive element for storage and on-line retrieval.
The CIP development is divided into two phases. In the first phase, the portable software architecture will be developed. Included in this will be the capability to process all modes of the following censors:
The second phase is production and sustainment, providing software to users and updating the CIP to accomodate new sensors or modifications to existing sensors.
The RFP for the first phase CIP development was released in early April 1996. The deadline for proposals was 20 May 1996. Contract award was made to Northrup Grumman on 24 Sep 1996.


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All Vital Choice seafood is sustainably wild-harvested
Wild Alaskan Salmon: A model of sustainability
The wild Alaskan salmon runs and and nearby British Columbian salmon runs that supply all of our flash-frozen salmon fillets and smoked salmon and canned sockeye salmon are among the healthiest on earth.
Every year, tens of millions of Alaskan Salmon return to spawn in their natal rivers. And when their journeys end, the nutrients they provide feed the people, animals, soils, and plants surrounding each of these hundreds of migratory rivers. (Some call this delicate web of life. Their pristine habitat and strict fisheries management practices have combined to preserve this precious natural resource.
The top watchdogs agree:
Wild salmon is sustainable and safe
In addition to the MSC, leading environmental organizations agree that the wild Alaskan Salmon fishery is thriving and fully sustainable:
Oceana"The United States has some of the best-regulated wild fisheries in the world, especially in Alaska, where stocks of wild salmon, halibut and other fish are all generally well managed. Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless, in his book, Perfect Protein (page 184).
World Wildlife Fund"The world's seas have sustained and nurtured humanity for millennia ... But today we are plundering the blue planet in a manner one observer has likened to the last buffalo hunt. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) was founded in 1997 to promote responsible fishing practices worldwide. Alaskas Salmon fishery was the first in the U.S. to meet the MSCs environmental standard."
Blue Ocean Institute
Alaska Salmon are abundant, management is good, and their habitat is fairly healthy. In contrast, most Pacific Northwest salmon have problems with serious depletion and degraded habitat from dams and logging.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
"We believe wild Salmon from a well-regulated fishery is the most environmentally sound choice. Alaska's wild salmon fishery is healthy and well-regulated".
"You might be surprised to learn that it's more ecologically sound to eat certain stocks of wild Salmon than it is to eat the ubiquitous farmed variety. Salmon farming is doing more to threaten our native salmon populations than well-regulated harvests from the wild."
Oceans Alive/Environmental Defense
"Salmon caught in Alaska (chinook/king, chum, coho, pink, sockeye) are among the better-managed fish stocks in the United States. Alaskan Salmon populations are mostly healthy, and fish are caught with gear that does little damage to the environment."
Wild salmon beats farmed for nutritional quality
Few consumers are aware of the nutritional inferiority of farmed salmon.
While farmed salmon has about as much omega-3 fat as wild salmon does, farmed salmon are also (unlike wild salmon) high in pro-inflammatory omega-6 fats, derived from the grains and vegetable oils they are fed.
This matters both because omega-3 and omega-6 fats compete for absorption into our cells, and because the average American's diet is already extremely high in omega-6 fats, excess consumption of which has been linked to cancer risk and a range of health disorders.
Vital Choice seafoodranks high on a leading sustainability scorecard
The Monterey Bay Aquarium rates the sustainability of wild and farmed seafood from various locales.
You can look up our offerings on their Seafood Watch page. The results of should prove reassuring!
Farmed Salmon:Aquaculture gone wrong
Aquaculture is increasingly needed to help provide the world's people with healthy protein and fats.
Fish and shellfish farming can be done sustainably without risk to the environment and wild fish. And it is being done responsibly, especially with regard to US-based shellfish and fresh water fish farms.
But to date, the mostly Norwegian-owned farmed salmon industry has often devastated wild salmon stocks and eco-systems critical to the ocean food web ... harm verified by Norwegian government scientists, among others.
Even the former CEO of the world's largest salmon farming firm calls for removing farms from salmon migration routes, to prevent transfer of disease.
We recommend a video report concerning risks to wild salmon in British Columbia posed by salmon farms.
For more information, see that video and others at CallingfromtheCoast.com.


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There is something cozy about the soft plopping of water on the roof. I noticed this again the other night when I momentarily woke at about three. Usually this restful sound prompts an easy return to slumber, but not that night.
Rather than a sense of peace, I experienced a disconcerting wave of displacement. Something was amiss, and it took a few moments to clear my head and realize what. It was the first week of March, the middle of the night; the moon was shining, the stars were out, and here I was, 6,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of Idaho, listening to the sound of rain.
In 1993, The Nature Conservancy, in association with a group of both public and private organizations, contacted the University of Idaho and Charles Brockway to commission a study of the Wood River Valley's water resource system. Initially, the study was to concentrate on the portion of the drainage below Hailey, with a special focus on Silver Creek. As data was collected, however, it became apparent that limiting the study to only part of the system would leave many important issues unexamined, so a second phase of information gathering, analysis, and model building was undertaken in 1995. The results of these efforts were finally consolidated in a summary report written by A. Lee Brown, Ph.D., and released in May 2000.
The report, using April 1993 to April 1994 as its reference year, looks at the dynamics of the entire watershed complex and explains in general terms where the Wood River Valley gets its water, how much it gets, when the water is used, and what factors affect historical patterns. Dr. Brown, unlike some professional hydrologists, takes great care to advise the reader that hydrology is "a developing physical science" and that the facts, numbers, and conclusions in the report are best interpreted in a relative, rather than absolute, context. With this in mind, one can read the report confident that, while specific numbers may occasionally be off the mark, the relationships and patterns described represent a sound basis for understanding the behavior of this Valley's dearest commodity.
The most obvious and in many ways most important component of our watershed is the Big Wood River itself. From Titus Lake to the Picabo Hills, the river travels over fifty miles—collecting tributary drainages, feeding irrigation canals, providing fish and wildlife habitat, removing treated wastewater, supplying recreational activities, increasing property values, and creating an overall sense of wellness. Commingling with the visible, surface flow on its journey south is the other main component of the watershed, the ground water. The unseen, hard-to-measure nature of ground water and its medium, the aquifer, presents challenges for this study and keeps it from being pure science. Yet it is also the very interaction of the visible with the invisible that defines hydrology as a science and allows it to be studied.
The Big Wood River watershed drains an area of about 880 square miles, including mountains and valleys, and receives on average, in various forms of precipitation, the equivalent of about 56 billion cubic feet of water a year. Forty percent of this water, both above and below ground, eventually collects in the main Valley anywhere from below Galena Summit to the Bellevue Triangle. At its start, near the headwaters, and in the higher elevations where the Valley is narrow, the river is fed by rivulets and, through its bed and banks, by seeping and percolating ground water. The pattern continues until such place and time that the topmost fully-saturated ground (the water table) falls below the riverbed. The point at which this occurs is, of course, highly variable and not particularly scientific. Moreover, there is apparently a transitional section where water table and riverbed alternate elevation supremacy. Generally, however, the river from the headwaters to Hailey pulls water from the ground. Then, from Hailey south, the aquifer takes water back from the river.
Roughly 1.3 million acre-feet (af) of water falls in the whole watershed on average each year, with 1.1 million falling in the upper (Hailey and north) Valley. Of this upper Valley precipitation, almost 700,000 af are consumed, actually used up, through evapotranspiration (ET), a combination of evaporation and transpiration (plants and animals). Landscaping and agriculture consume another 18,000 af. This represents just 1/3 of the nearly 55,000 af diverted for human activities (most of the diverted water returns by one means or another to the watershed). About 25 percent of the 55,000 af total, including all the water (8,800 af) for the municipalities of Hailey, Ketchum, and Sun Valley, comes from underground. And of the 41,000 af diverted from surface waters, almost 90 percent goes to irrigation. In most years by the time the watershed leaves Hailey, after hydrating 625 square miles and nearly 75 percent of the total Valley population, there is somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 af still in the system, 10 percent as ground water, 90 percent in the river. >>>
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The Christmas tree shone bright with thousands of lights and ornaments at the official lighting ceremony for Sparkle at the Hilton Anatole.
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Hole 6 at The Wynn Las Vegas is a tricky par 3 over the lake. The secluded golf course is harbored between Wynn and Encore Luxuriant. Landscaping, meandering streams and strategic shrubbery buffered the tumultuous traffic outside.
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New Intel CEO: Stay Tuned for Much Cheaper Portable PCs
Why does new Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sound so upbeat amid the personal computer market's contraction? His first earnings call Wednesday supplied some clues, including a bet on the impact of much lower PC prices.
The chip giant's profits fell 29% in the second period, and Intel predicted its revenue will be flat for all of 2013, down from a prior prediction of growth "in the low single digits."
But Krzanich is betting that some new chips–particularly those stemming from an overhaul of its low-end Atom line–will have a big impact on demand later this year and into 2014.
Historically, Intel showed a tendency to emphasize its flagship Core line of chips, which can sell for hundreds of dollars. Atom chips, by contrast, sell for tens of dollars.
Krzanich has vowed to change that bias, through steps such as shifting Atoms production to new Intel manufacturing processes once reserved for Core chips.
A key part of his strategy is based on a forthcoming Atom model that is code-named Bay Trail. The company expects the chip to offer performance approaching that of mainstream PCs but at much lower prices.
Results, Krzanich said, will include clamshell-style laptops with touchscreens–which are now pretty rare at less than $500–that will be priced at $300 or lower.
"PCs, especially with Bay Trail, are going to move down to $200 to $400 range," Krzanich said.
And devices that function in both clamshell and tablet style, which are even more expensive now, will fall to the $400 range, he said.
Intel also expects Bay Trail to be used in tablets priced at $199 or even below $150, he added. Getting Intel technology into those kinds of prices points opens up major opportunities to drive large volumes of chip sales, Krzanich said.
The Intel call touched on many other topics, including:
–Capital spending. Intel came into 2013 expecting to spend a whopping $13 billion on factories and equipment to make chips, a commitment not popular on Wall Street amid gloomy prospects for PC sales.
About $2 billion of its spending was earmarked for early investments to get ready for a major change in production technology, shifting to 450-millimeter silicon wafers rather than the 300-millimeter variety to reduce costs of producing each chip.
After the first quarter, Intel lopped $1 billion off that estimate, and on Wednesday it cut another $1 billion, reducing Intel's spending projection for the year to $11 billion.
Stacy Smith, Intel's chief financial officer, said only a small amount of the savings is associated with spending related to the new wafers. Generally, he said, Intel is just able at current unit sales expectations to spend less on new equipment than it had planned, he said.
With demand relatively low now, are Intel's factories running fairly empty? Not at all, Smith said.
"We are running healthy levels of utilization in the second quarter, and expect to run the factories healthy in the back half of 2013," he said in an interview.
–Unit chip sales. At first blush, Intel's estimate that unit chip sales in its PC client group declined just 5% from the year-earlier quarter seems a bit puzzling–at least when you compare it to Gartner and IDC statements last week that second-quarter PC sales fell about 11% in the second quarter.
But Smith said there are some key differences in what is counted.
IDC and Gartner factor in falling shipments of the low-end PCs called netbooks, which caused a big bulge in sales volume several years ago but fell off dramatically after tablets arrived with the iPad in 2010. Intel, however, no longer puts sales of netbook chips in its PC client group.
Instead, the company includes netbook chips sales in a group called "other Intel architecture," which also includes businesses such as still-nascent sales of chips for smartphones. Revenue for that segment was off 15% in the second quarter, and it posted an operating loss of $608 million.
The PC client group also includes some products that IDC and Gartner do not–including chips for Microsoft's Surface Pro tablets, Smith said.
When you consider such factors, Intel's view of the PC market is pretty close to that of the two research firms, he said.


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Drync'ing around the world…
December 7, 2008
It's been about 3 weeks since we launched Drync Wine, and so far the response has been amazing. Never in our wildest dreams did we expect to get picked up in 56 (!) countries and so many thousands of users – especially not this quickly. We've heard from hundreds people with useful suggestions who are passionate about wine, and committed to making Drync the best wine app on the iPhone.
For grins (and because we think it's so cool), here's the list of Drync'ing countries:
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Unknown, Brazil, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Puerto Rico, Poland, Spain, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Argentina, Czech Republic, New Zealand, China, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ireland, Turkey, Austria, Unknown, Costa Rica, South Africa, Macao, Finland, Egypt, South Korea, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Monaco, Ukraine, Portugal, Peru, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Latvia, Indonesia, Greece, Chile, Malta, Venezuela.
So, from the Drync Team, we send a huge 'THANK YOU' all of our users.Oh, and keep a lookout for our upcoming release, due out any day, that incorporates a lot of the feedback we've gotten (including photos).


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The young and the restless: A new caucus
The new young is 40, according to lawmakers.
With the largest freshman class in four decades, many of them on the uphill side of the age slope, it was decided the time had come for some young juice.
And with caucuses representing Republican, Democrats, Hispanics, African-Americans, the tea party and other subsets, they decided to build their own clubhouse to look at issues that affect the younger generation.
Enter the newly formed Young Texans Legislative Caucus. It elected sophomore Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, to head it. The vice-president is Rep. Chris Paddie, R-Marshall.
The caucus is for anyone in the House who is 40 or under, or who represent a district that is made up of mostly young people.
From the caucus' first press release: "The Caucus will utilize Facebook, Twitter, and other electronic means to communicate with young Texans around the state."
Well, duh.