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Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ciconiidae
Genus/Species: Ciconia ciconia ciconia
White Storks are tall (1 m., 2.3-4.4 kg) long-necked wading birds with long bare red legs and a straight pointed red bill. The white plumage of the head, neck, and body contrasts with the black wing feathers highlighted with a sheen of purple and green iridescence. The contour feathers of the lower neck and chest are elongated to form a fluffy ruff that can be erected during courtship displays. A small patch of bare black skin surrounds their brown eyes. Sexes are similar in appearance, though males are slightly larger.
Juvenile birds are duller in coloration than adults. The black primaries are tinged with brown. Their blackish bills and dull brown legs slowly acquire the red color of the adults as they mature.
Though storks are considered to be largely silent birds, most species perform some variety of a bill-clattering display. This display reaches its most advanced form in the White Stork. They begin by throwing their heads straight back to create an amplifying resonance box in the gular pouch of the lower neck. As they clatter their upper and lower mandibles together rapidly they produce a loud machine-gun-like rattle that rises and falls in pace.
The European subspecies of the White Stork breeds in several discontinuous populations across much of Europe, the Middle East and west-central Asia. They are found in southern Portugal and western Spain; along the northern coast of Africa in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria; in The Netherlands and southern Denmark west to St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland, south to Turkey, northern Greece, the former Yugoslavia, and Azerbaijan. A very small population breeds in extreme southern Africa in Cape Province, South Africa.
Storks are large birds that rely heavily on energy efficient soaring flight during migration. Soaring requires the presence of thermal air currents that are not found over water. White Storks are therefore reluctant to fly across large bodies of water such as the Mediterranean Sea to reach their wintering grounds in tropical Africa. They solve this problem by having the bulk of the European population split into two distinct migratory routes. Western birds cross the Mediterranean at the Straits of Gibraltar, while most of the eastern birds cross the Bosporus and circle around the Mediterranean through the Middle East. Migration is highly synchronized and flocks contain as many as 11,000 individuals. Birds migrating from Denmark to South Africa and back again may cover a total distance of 20,000 km. Small numbers of birds cross the Mediterranean directly by flying south from the southern tips of Italy and Greece. Some western European White Storks join the Asiatic subspecies C. ciconia asiatica to winter in India.
Wintering birds may congregate in large numbers as they utilize a locally abundant food source such as locust or grasshopper swarms. One hundred thousand white storks were reported in one 25 km2 area in Tanzania during a severe infestation of army-worms. These wintering birds occupy dry savannahs and open grasslands but tend to congregate around lakes, ponds, and rivers.
Breeding White Storks prefer lowland open habitats of wet pastures, flooded meadows, and shallow lakes and marshes with scattered trees for roosting and nesting. They have adapted to nest on man-made structures and forage in freshly plowed fields.
White Storks are highly opportunistic feeders who will consume a wide variety of prey items including insects, frogs, toads, tadpoles, fish, rodents, snakes, lizards, earthworms, mollusks, crustaceans, and, rarely, the chicks or eggs of ground-nesting birds. Foraging storks search for prey visually while walking deliberately with bill pointed toward the ground. When prey is spotted, they cock their necks back, then jab the bill forward to grasp their victim. Wintering birds in Africa will congregate around the edges of grass-fires to capture small prey fleeing the flames.
White Storks form loose informal colonies while breeding. Several pairs may nest closely together within sight and sound of one another while appearing completely oblivious to their neighbors. Nine pairs have shared one rooftop in Spain. Though storks form monogamous pairs for the duration of the breeding season, they do not migrate or over-winter together. If the same pair reforms in successive years it is largely due to their strong attachment to their nest site.
Males usually arrive at the nest-site first. A male will greet a newly arriving female with the Head-Shaking Crouch display, as he lowers himself on the nest into the incubating posture, erects his neck ruff and shakes his head from side to side. If the male accepts the new arrival as his mate they will cement their pair bond with an Up-Down display. In this display the birds hold their wings away from their sides and pump their heads up and down. This is often accompanied by bill-clattering. Shorter courtships may indicate that the male and female were paired in previous years.
Nests are huge, bulky affairs constructed of branches and sticks and lined with twigs, grasses, sod, rags, and paper. Though they may be reused year after year, breeding birds will add to the structure each season. Particularly old nests have grown to over 2 m in diameter and nearly 3 m in depth. Some nests have been in continuous use for hundreds of years. Both sexes participate in nest construction with the male bringing most of the material. Completion of the structure is often signaled by the addition of one leafy branch to the edge of the nest.
European Storks have been building their nests on man-made structures since the Middle Ages. They can be found on rooftops, towers, chimneys, telephone-poles, walls, haystacks, and specially constructed nest towers. Many homeowners will add embellishments such as wooden wagon wheels to old chimneys to encourage storks to nest on their houses. Nests can also be found in trees, on cliff-ledges, or occasionally on the ground.
The female usually lays 3-5 eggs, more rarely up to seven. Parents share incubation duties for 33-34 days. Young chicks are covered with white down and have black bills. Both parents feed the young on the nest until they fledge at 8-9 weeks of age. Fledglings may continue to return to the nest site each evening to beg for food from their parents. Young birds reach sexual maturity in their fourth year. Banding records indicate that wild birds can live and reproduce successfully past 30 years of age.
The overall population of White Storks has declined steadily over the last half century. The decline in Western Europe has been the most pronounced. Pollution, pesticides and wetlands drainage have severely reduced suitable foraging habitat across the breeding range. Storks no longer breed in southern Sweden, Switzerland, western France, Belgium or southern Greece. In The Netherlands the number of breeding pairs has declined from 500 in 1910 to 5 in 1985. Denmark was home to 4000 pairs in 1890, but only 12 in 1989. Captive propagation and reintroduction efforts have been hampered by their tendency to produce overly tame birds, which over-winter in Europe without migrating normally.
The legend that the European White Stork brings babies is believed to have originated in northern Germany, perhaps because storks arrive on their breeding grounds nine months after midsummer. Northern Europeans of Teutonic ancestry encouraged storks to nest on their homes hoping they would bring fertility and prosperity. This tradition of welcome and protection did not exist in the portions of France where the White Stork disappeared first.
Though White Storks are protected by popular opinion over most of their range, they are persecuted in other areas. Large migrating flocks circling the western end of the Mediterranean are vulnerable to shooting in Syria and Lebanon, where several thousand are killed each year. They are also subject to hunting pressure in many parts of Africa, where their large size and tendency to flock in large numbers make them attractive targets.
The great locust swarms of tropical Africa that provided sustenance for wintering birds have been largely reduced through modern pest control efforts. Drought in the Sahel and chronic overgrazing has also contributed to poorer wintering habitat and lower survival rates. Birds that do manage to arrive safely back in Europe are often in sub-optimal condition at the start of the crucial and demanding breeding season.
Conservation efforts that focus on the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity seem to hold the most promise for halting the decline of this and other stork species.
Elliott, A. Family Ciconiidae (Storks) Pp. 436-455 in: Del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and J. Sargatal. eds. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1. Ostrich to Ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Hancock, J.A., Kushlan, J.A. and M.P. Kahl. 1992. Storks,
Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. Academic Press Limited,
Please note: There are no longer any of these birds at the Zoo.


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Dumping in Tahoe, A good day for the TB172
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Boot Dryer Says:
March 9, 2011 at 3:29 pm |
Wow that looks awesome
Chad Kroeger Says:
May 24, 2011 at 5:29 pm |
I was there that four days from Hawaii and had to break out my old Summit 170 made by Steve Link back in the day! Would have been great to have the swallowtail! I can't wait to try the 172 split next season! What a perfect timing trip! It was blower!
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Dear Tom. I used to ride and old school winterstick with glass beads for boot grip and the soft bindings. The bindings were always pulling out but I soon up graded to a hard binding. I loved my old school stick and it took the most abuse out of all my friends boards. It was unusual and I was picked on for having it but I rode it with pride knowing I had the only one on the mountain. I'm on a diet to loose weight and purchase one of the newer boards for my goal to ride the mountains in Alaska. Its very pricey but I'll make it happen since I miss the riding and freedom. I work for Carlile transportation in Alaska as a driver that runs all over and including the Dalton highway. Can't wait to get a hold of this board! I'm 346 lbs now and have lost 24 lbs this last two weeks and shooting for a goal weight of 235 lbs then onto the mountains again by next winter. I would love to be sporting a new winterstick again.

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what could I do after BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC SERVICES ? Uni,employment etc ...
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Probably a better question is: "I want to do x. How do I get there?"
If you want to go to uni, then you will be better off doing A Levels. If you want to go straight into employment, and you know what sector you want to work in, then a BTEC may be better. If you want to go straight into employment after college, then the broader base provided to you by A Levels may be a better option, as it will close fewer doors to you.
In direct answer to your question, I believe a BTEC in Public Services is meant to lead you into careers in areas including the emergency services. However, I've only ever met one person who had that qualification, and they were working in a call centre selling double glazing. It's only anecdotal, but you'll have to find out about the employment statistics (and not just if they have a job - what that jobs is) for that course. Those people who I know who work within the police / NHS etc. have gone down a more traditional academic route (A Levels followed by uni) and then applied for a job in those sectors.
Not much.
Well that depends, what are you interested in?
There is a lot you can do with Public Services, a few of my friends are doing it at the moment.
One of the most popular routes is into any of the armed forces, in fact you'll probably find this course is mainly geared towards the armed forces in its content which disappointed my female friend who was aiming more for the police service so if you don't have an interest in the military or joining it, you might want to think about this a bit more.
Also, it can commonly lead to a Paramedic Science degree but you'll have to check which universities take this and which don't if you're interested.
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what could I do after BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC SERVICES ? Uni,employment etc ...(Original post by Redheaded_Dancer)
One of the most popular routes is into any of the armed forces, in fact you'll probably find this course is mainly geared towards the armed forces in its content
Never been a better time to get into public services!!
(Original post by threeportdrift)
You may want to check this with the Armed Forces Careers Office. Last time I heard, they thought it was a joke. They'd much rather GCSEs and A levels.
I've just checked the RAF website and it says here that they accept this as equivalent to A-Levels, see http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/rafcms...E0E0F85D83.pdf for more details, you'll have to scroll down a bit to find the bit that involves BTECs.
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It largely depends on what you want to do but, at the end of the day, Level 3 BTECs are equivalent to 3 A-Levels if I remember correctly and still count for UCAS points if you wanted to go to uni.
I've just checked the RAF website and it says here that they accept this as equivalent to A-Levels, see http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/rafcms...E0E0F85D83.pdf for more details, you'll have to scroll down a bit to find the bit that involves BTECs.
(Original post by Origami Bullets)
Before OP gets too confused - although it is often stated that BTECs are equivalent to A Levels, the reality is rather different. The better universities certainly prefer A Levels, and some will not take BTECs at all, so by taking a BTEC they would be limiting the choices that they have in terms of going to university.
Any university that considers BTECs to be inferior to A-Levels is not a university you want to go to... that's just elitism.
I'll be studying a btec extended diploma in public services in september and hopefully be going to university after it to study criminology or physcology
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I'll be studying a btec extended diploma in public services in september and hopefully be going to university after it to study criminology or physcology
It's not too late for you to change your mind and I would actually highly recommend you did. If you want to go into social sciences at uni then you'd be much better off either doing science or even health and social at BTEC. As far as I know, public services BTECs aren't particularly respected and ironically it seems to be the course that's being affected the worst by the cuts in the education system. At the college I went to it's practically been cancelled. Universities want to see proof of scientific knowledge for studying psychology so you really are better off doing a science BTEC even though it might seem slightly irrelevant.
I recommend forensic science which is what I did and I'm now going on to study psychology and criminal behaviour at bedfordshire. It has quite a bit of science in it but not as much as medical or applied and you learn about the legal system, criminology etc. depending on what units you do. I could have gone to Portsmouth which is supposedly more respected than bedfordshire. I got the offer and the grades but I just didn't like the uni. They wanted DDM which I got and before they made me the offer they e-mailed me asking me for a list of my units because they wanted to know the scientific content of my course. In theory I could have actually got into any uni in the country that offers forensic psychology. I wasn't too worried about my options being narrowed down a bit because the stuffy universities don't seem to offer the course I want to do anyway.
Basically... by doing a BTEC you're generally limiting yourself to the mid range universities and lower. However, this is only a negative thing if you're able and prepared to do A-levels and learn a load of useless rubbish that you'll never use bearing in mind you're expected to excel in learning this useless information. BTECs are actually applied to the industry, they're much more specialised. This means that you can do forensic science for instance and be in a better position for a forensic science degree (in theory) than someone who did all 3 sciences at A-level and got straight As. They have more proof of intelligence but they've had to learn an awful lot of irrelevant information in order to prove their level of intelligence. You wouldn't have to learn all the stuff that they've had to thats irrelevant to forensic science and you'd have the advantage of relevant information. You'd already hopefully be capable of thinking like someone working in the field whereas they wouldn't know the first thing about crime scenes etc.
If I'd wanted to go to Portsmouth and I did A-levels then I would have needed AAC/ABB at A-level. I would have had to get at least B in a science subject and get decent grades in two other subjects. No matter how you look at it, I would have had to learn a lot of stuff that I'd NEVER use. I probably won't ever use some of the stuff I learnt on my BTEC but I'd say about 90% of it was useful and at least it was interesting and relevant to the real world, not just a school subject gone too far and into unnecessary detail. When it came to the bits I hated I still had to learn and understand it but I could forget about it after writing the assignment. I didn't have to keep going over it for an exam to test my useless knowledge bank.
However, you can't just pick any old BTEC. Psychology is an academic subject so if you want a chance to get into a mid-range university then you need to pick an academic BTEC. Public services is not an academic BTEC. It might be ok for doing Criminology at certain universities but I doubt ANYWHERE would take you for psychology unless you wrote a really good personal statement, had amazing GCSEs and got DDD.
In short... By doing a BTEC you're committing yourself to learning far less useless information which is a plus and most people will get higher grades in a BTEC than they will in A-levels BUT with A-levels the sky is the limit and with BTECs there is a ceiling... You're not going to get into the top 10 unis with a BTEC. In psychology you're highly unlikely to get into the top 40 because of how competitive it is. You're more likely to fail A-levels though and then you wouldn't be going anywhere. Just make sure you choose the right BTEC. The subject is incredibly important and you're closing an awful lot of doors by choosing public services.
Also what grades did you get in your GCSEs? Mainly interested in your grades for maths, english lang, english lit, sciences. I know Portsmouth wanted a B in GCSE maths from me and apparently practically half of psychology is statistics so it's important to be good at maths.
(Original post by Origami Bullets)
Before OP gets too confused - although it is often stated that BTECs are equivalent to A Levels, the reality is rather different. The better universities certainly prefer A Levels, and some will not take BTECs at all, so by taking a BTEC they would be limiting the choices that they have in terms of going to university.
For instance... Although I changed my mind and I'm not going there.. I'm going to use Portsmouth (my highest offer) as an example. If I had wanted to go there with A-levels I would have had to achieve ABB/AAC (320 UCAS). Even if I chose the most relevant subject combination I could think of I'd still have to learn, retain and revise a huge amount of useless information which I wouldn't be prepared to do because I find it a little bit soul destroying. I don't have the right attitude for A-levels because I'm more of a practical thinker and I find it impossible to motivate myself if I really have 0 interest in a topic.
I never would have got ABB at A-level but I got DDM at BTEC because the topics were interesting and even though I had to practically cram the whole course into one year, (self teaching a lot of it) and spend around 80-90 hours a week doing coursework - I was motivated to work really hard because I loved 90% of what I was learning because it was interesting and relevant to the real world. I wasn't having to learn the tiny details of plant biology in order to learn about the human body like I was at AS biology.
BTECs also encourage independence in a way that A-levels don't. I carried out my own individual scientific investigation and planned an experiment to test it using a combination of techniques I'd learnt etc.
I recently said on a BTEC forum to a BTEC hater that if you put a good BTEC science student and a good A-level science student in identical laboratories and gave them each a sample of a known compound of an unknown concentration, the BTEC student would find the concentration the quickest. To be honest I was expecting something at least mentioning Beer's law which is the obvious way of working it out to anybody who has ever been given that task before. He replied something along the lines of "it's not that hard to read off a conical flask". Classic example of a spoon fed A-level student.
With BTECs there is a ceiling in so far as not all universities accept them but in my case, none of the anti-BTEC universities offered courses I wanted to do anyway and A-levels weren't for me.
Doing a BTEC was the best decision I ever made.
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what could I do after BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC SERVICES ? Uni,employment etc ...
Can this qualification lead to university? Yes, in my experience, completing this qualification as opposed to (traditional) a levels has not limited my opportunities to attend university. I have successfully applied to and have been accepted on a BSc undergraduate course starting in September 2013, at The University of Surrey (ranked 8 in the guardian league table and 13th in the complete university guide). Many friends of mine, who decided to go down the traditional a level route, have failed to secure places in universities ranked remotely close to Surrey. Thus, this myth that BTEC's hold far less value than a levels is clearly inaccurate.
A decision to complete either a levels or a BTEC should come about from an individuals preference of study, not from a swayed opinion purely convinced through reading naive individuals inaccurate and irrelevant opinions on TSR.
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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch reported on July 2 that they found no link between testosterone therapy and heart attack risk.
Their findings are directly opposite those from a study in January. Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and other institutions said the therapy can double the risk of heart attack in men with existing heart disease.
The FDA, in a review published Sept. 3, said it could find no evidence of either risk or benefit in men prescribed testosterone therapy. It hasn't been shown that symptoms such as a decrease in energy level and sexual function stem from an age-related decline in testosterone, the review said, and "the need to replace testosterone in these older men remains debatable."
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Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement for the Chicago, Illinois, to Omaha, Nebraska, Regional Passenger Rail System
Notice Of Intent To Prepare An Environmental Impact Statement (Eis).
FRA is issuing this notice to advise the public that FRA with the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) will jointly prepare a Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate potential passenger rail improvements for the Chicago, Illinois to Omaha, Nebraska regional passenger rail system in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The Tier 1 EIS will evaluate environmental and related impacts for reasonable corridor-level passenger rail route alternatives between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska. The route alternatives will support proposed conventional locomotive-hauled, passenger train service, operating on track used jointly with freight trains, at an initial maximum speed of seventy-nine (79) to ninety (90) miles per hour (mph). The Tier 1 EIS will also examine passenger rail service levels.
FRA is issuing this Notice to alert interested parties, including the public and resource agencies about the EIS, to provide information on the nature of the proposed action, including the purpose and need for the proposed action, and possible route alternatives to be considered in the preparation of the Tier 1 EIS. To ensure all significant issues are identified and considered, all interested parties are invited to comment on the proposed scope of environmental review. Comments on the scope of the EIS, including the proposed action's purpose and need, the route alternatives to be considered, the impacts to be evaluated, and the methodologies to be used in the evaluations will be accepted online and in writing up to thirty (30) days following the publication of this Notice.
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Iowa DOT will host an online, self-directed public scoping meeting during the months of March and April, 2012. The online public scoping meeting will be available for thirty (30) days following the publication of this Notice. Detailed information on the public scoping meeting is also available on the following Web site: http://www.iowadot.gov/chicagotoomaha. Interested parties, including the public and resource agencies can provide written comments on the Tier 1 EIS up to thirty (30) days following the publication of this Notice, by writing Ms. Tamara Nicholson, Director, Office of Rail Transportation, Iowa Department of Transportation, 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa 50010.
If a member of the public wishes to participate in the scoping process and does not have access to a computer or the internet, they can request an informational scoping package and comment form by contacting Ms. Tamara Nicholson at the above address or by telephone (515) 239-1052 or (800) 488-7119.
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Ms. Andrea Martin, Environmental Protection Specialist, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast, (Mail Stop 20), Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 493-6201; or Ms. Tamara Nicholson, Director, Office of Rail Transportation, Iowa Department of Transportation, 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa 50010, telephone (515) 239-1052 or (800) 488-7119. Information and documents regarding the environmental review process will be made available for the duration of the Tier 1 EIS process on the following Web site: http://www.iowadot.gov/chicagotoomaha.
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The FRA, in cooperation with Iowa DOT, will prepare a Tier 1 EIS to evaluate passenger rail service improvements from Chicago, Illinois to Omaha, Nebraska. The agencies will use a tiered process, as provided for in 40 CFR 1508.28 and in accordance with FRA's Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts (64 FR 28454) (Environmental Procedures), in the completion of the environmental review. Tiering is a staged environmental review process applied to environmental reviews for complex projects. The proposed Tier 1 EIS described in this Notice is a service level analysis that will examine a range of reasonable corridor route alternatives between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska and will consider improvements necessary to support additional passenger trains while accommodating the anticipated growth in freight rail traffic. The Tier 1 EIS will assess potential track improvements, a potential increase in the number of higher-speed passenger trains, potential corridor route alternatives between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska, and the associated transportation and environmental impacts. It is anticipated that the route alternative analysis will involve a screening process to identify reasonable and feasible alternatives for evaluation in the Tier 1 EIS. Potential route alternatives include the former Illinois Central route, the former Chicago and North Western route, the former Milwaukee Road route, the former Rock Island route, and the former Burlington route. The No-Action (or No-Build) Alternative will also be considered.
The Tier 1 EIS will also appropriately address Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (see 36 CFR part 800), Section 4(f) of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966 (49 U.S.C. 303) and other applicable Federal and state laws and regulations. The result will be a Tier 1 EIS NEPA document that addresses broad overall issues of concern for corridor decisions including, but not limited to:
- Describing the purpose and need for the proposed action.
- Describing the environment potentially affected by the proposed action.
- Developing evaluation criteria to identify route alternatives that meet the purpose and need of the proposed action and those that do not.
- Identifying the range of reasonable route alternatives that satisfy the purpose and need for the proposed action.
- Developing the no-build alternative to serve as a baseline for comparison.
- Describing and evaluating the potential environmental impacts and mitigation associated with the proposed route alternatives.
- Identifying component projects for Tier 2 NEPA evaluation as described below.
Follow-on Tier 2 assessment(s) will address component projects of the overall rail corridor improvement alternative selected in the Tier 1 EIS, and will incorporate by reference the data and evaluations included in the Tier 1 EIS. The Tier 2 NEPA evaluations will concentrate on the site-specific issues and alternatives relevant to implementing component projects of the selected Tier 1 alternative; and identify the environmental consequences and measures necessary to mitigate environmental impacts at a site-specific level of detail.
Study Area: The Chicago to Omaha corridor extends from Chicago Union Station, in downtown Chicago, Illinois on the east to a terminal in Omaha, Nebraska on the west. The study area consists of the five previously established passenger rail routes between Chicago and Omaha that pass through the states of Illinois and Iowa. Each route is approximately 500 miles long. In Illinois, the study area runs generally west from Chicago Union Station, which is the hub for the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative (MWRRI) to the Mississippi River and, depending on the route, is a distance of between 150 and 250 miles. In Iowa, the study area runs west from the Mississippi River across the entire state to the Missouri River, a distance of approximately 300 miles. The study area terminates in Omaha, which is located at the Missouri River, the eastern border of the state of Nebraska. The location for the terminal in Omaha will be identified as part of the Tier 1 EIS.
The five previously established passenger rail routes are numbered from north to south. For each route, the counties that are traversed in Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska are listed east to west, as follows:
- Route 1, Illinois Central: Canadian National Railway via Rockford, Illinois, and Dubuque, Waterloo, and Fort Dodge, Iowa through Cook, DuPage, Kane, DeKalb, Boone, Winnebago, Stephenson, and Jo Daviess counties, Illinois; Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Butler, Franklin, Hardin, Hamilton, Webster, Calhoun, Sac, Crawford, Harrison, and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa; and Douglas County, Nebraska.
- Route 2, Chicago and North Western: Union Pacific Railroad via Clinton, Cedar Rapids, and Ames, Iowa through Cook, DuPage, Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, Lee, and Whiteside counties, Illinois; Clinton, Cedar, Linn, Benton, Tama, Marshall, Story, Boone, Greene, Carroll, Crawford, Harrison, and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa; and Douglas County, Nebraska.
- Route 3, Milwaukee Road: Canadian Pacific Railroad from Chicago to Sabula, Iowa, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway from Bayard, Iowa, to Omaha, and abandoned except for several small stubs in between through Cook, DuPage, Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, and Carroll counties, Illinois; Jackson, Clinton, Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama, Marshall, Story, Boone, Dallas, Guthrie, Carroll, Crawford, Shelby, Harrison, and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa; and Douglas County, Nebraska.
- Route 4, Rock Island: CSX Transportation from Chicago to Utica, Illinois, and Iowa Interstate Railroad via Moline, Illinois, and Iowa City and Des Moines, Iowa through Cook, Will, Grundy, La Salle, Bureau, Henry, and Rock Island counties, Illinois; Scott, Muscatine, Cedar, Johnson, Iowa, Poweshiek, Jasper, Polk, Dallas, Madison, Guthrie, Adair, Cass, Pottawattamie counties, Iowa; and Douglas County, Nebraska.
- Route 5, Burlington: BNSF Railway via Galesburg, Illinois, and Burlington and Ottumwa, Iowa through Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, La Salle, Bureau, Henry, Knox, Warren, and Henderson counties, Illinois; Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Wapello, Monroe, Lucas, Clarke, Union, Adams, Montgomery, Mills, and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa; and Douglas County, Nebraska.
Purpose and Need: The Chicago to Omaha Regional Passenger Rail System would provide a competitive passenger rail transportation option between Chicago and Omaha to help meet current and future demand for travel in the study area. The proposed action would create a competitive rail transportation alternative to automobile, bus, and air service and would meet the need for a rail travel option by:
- Decreasing travel times
- Increasing frequency of service
- Improving service reliability
- Providing safe and efficient service
- Providing amenities to improve passenger ride quality and comfort
- Promoting environmental benefits: reduced air pollutant emissions, improved land use options, and fewer adverse impacts to surrounding habitat and water resources
The need for the proposed improvements in the study area stems from travel demand and increasing congestion, resulting from population growth and changing demographics along the corridor from Chicago, Illinois to Omaha, Nebraska as well as the lack of competitive and attractive travel alternatives to highway and air transportation.
Midwest Regional Rail Inititive (MWRRI): The MWRRI is a cooperative, multi-agency effort that began in 1996 and involves nine Midwest states (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin) as well as the FRA. MWRRI elements include: Use of 3,000 miles of existing rail right of way to connect rural and urban areas; operation of a hub and spoke passenger rail system; introduction of modern, high-speed trains operating at speeds up to 110 mph; and multi-modal connections to improve system access. The goal of the MWRRI is to develop a passenger rail system that offers business and leisure travelers shorter travel times, additional train frequencies, and connections between urban centers and smaller communities. The proposed EIS will evaluate one aim of the MWRRI "to meet current and future regional travel needs through significant improvements to the level and quality of passenger rail service" (Transportation Economics & Management Systems, Inc., September 2004).
Alternatives to be Considered: The Tier 1 EIS will evaluate preliminary alternatives including a No-Build Alternative and various Build Alternatives. The No-Build Alternative is defined to serve as the baseline for comparison of all alternatives. The No-Build Alternative represents the transportation system as it exists, and as it will exist after completion of programs or projects currently funded or being implemented. The No-Build Alternative will draw upon the State Transportation Improvement Program and existing freight and passenger rail plans.
The Tier 1 EIS will assess environmental and related impacts for a range of reasonable Build Alternatives. The Build Alternatives are corridor-level route alternatives between Chicago, Illinois and Omaha, Nebraska for a conventional locomotive-hauled, passenger train service, operating on track used jointly with freight trains, at an initial maximum speed of seventy-nine (79) to ninety (90) miles per hour (mph), and infrastructure improvements to support the additional passenger trains. Several route alternatives were identified for the Tier 1 EIS based on review of previous studies. In addition, the Tier 1 EIS will consider ideas or concepts that are suggested by resource agencies or the public during the scoping process. Potential route alternatives for the corridor were identified by the MWRRI and the Iowa DOT 10 Year Strategic Passenger-Rail Plan. The previously established primary passenger rail routes are the Illinois Central, Chicago & North Western, Milwaukee Road, Rock Island, and Burlington and are nominally oriented from north to south and east to west. The MWRRI considered these five routes as well as a combination of the Rock Island and Burlington routes to provide a different approach into Chicago, Illinois. Tier 2 component projects will also be identified during the Tier 1 EIS process. Tier 2 project component assessments will incorporate by reference the data and evaluations included in the Tier 1 EIS.
Possible Effects: The FRA and Iowa DOT will evaluate direct, indirect and cumulative changes to the social, economic, and physical environment, including land use and socioeconomic conditions, ecology, water resources, historic and archaeological resources, visual character and aesthetics, contaminated and hazardous materials, transportation, air quality, noise and vibration. Potential for disproportionate and adverse impacts to environmental justice communities will be examined for all alternatives, and accommodations made for limited English proficiency and Title VI requirements. The evaluation will take into account both beneficial and adverse affects and identify measures to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse community and environmental impacts. The analysis will be undertaken consistent with NEPA, CEQ regulations, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, FRA's Environmental Procedures, Iowa DOT guidance, and Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966, along with other applicable Federal and state regulations.
Scoping Process: The FRA and Iowa DOT are inviting comments and suggestions regarding the scope of the Tier 1 EIS from all interested parties, to ensure that all issues are addressed related to this proposal and any significant impacts are identified. Comments or questions concerning the proposed action and the Tier 1 EIS should be directed to the Iowa DOT at the address above. Letters describing the proposed action and soliciting comments will be sent to the appropriate Federal, State and local agencies, Native American tribes and to private organizations who might have previously expressed or who are known to have an interest in this proposal. Federal agencies with jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to potential environmental issues will be requested to act as a Cooperating Agency in accordance with 40 CFR 1501.6.
Iowa DOT will lead the outreach activities, beginning with the online scoping meeting described above in DATES. Public involvement initiatives, including public meetings, newsletters, and outreach will be held throughout the course of this study. Opportunities for public participation will be announced through mailings, notices, advertisements, press releases and a project Web site: http://www.iowadot.gov/chicagotoomaha.
Issued in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2012.
Paul Nissenbaum,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Policy and Development,Federal Railroad Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-6304 Filed 3-14-12; 8:45 am]


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Thursday afternoon saw a joint statement and press release issued by the Boonville Fire Department and Cooper County Emergency Management Agency announcing the city's fireworks celebration, scheduled for Wednesday July 4, has been postponed until a "suitable date later this year." Tim Boggs, technician for the event, also joined in signing the statement.
The still-scheduled event is sponsored by the City of Boonville, Dave's Country Market and KWRT Radio. Boonville has a no-fireworks policy within the city limits, fireworks celebration aside.
"We hope the public understands and we wish to remind everyone that discharging fireworks in the city limits is prohibited and would be extremely dangerous at this time," they said.
Tom White, Cooper County EMA Director, suggested that using fireworks in any setting, because of the high-drought conditions currently being experienced in this part of the state, is unwise, regardless of the various regulations and ordinances found from county to county and city to city in central Missouri.
"In Cooper County, there is a burn-ban in effect. By token, if someone sets off fireworks – and those fireworks start a fire – one can be held liable," he said.
Each area municipality is entitled to enforce its own laws concerning the use of fireworks or the ability to make use of a controlled burn. Cooper County, though it has enacted a burn-ban, has not outlawed the use of fireworks. Drought conditions, however, currently make for an extremely dangerous environment.
According to the National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Home office, the Boonville area is experiencing a D1 category drought. This level of dryness is classified as moderate. Sedalia, for instance, from the beginning of April until June 27, received only 8.23 inches of rain. Normal readings climb to 13.17 inches.
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Children at a Beverley primary school have seen their artistic skills put on public display as part of an innovative arts-in-business programme.
Pupils at the St Nicholas Primary School - some as young as four - spent some of last term taking part in the 'Future Me' project, giving them a direct input to the town's biggest commercial development for decades, the Flemingate regeneration scheme.
All 330 pupils at the school, which is adjacent to the scheme, worked with arts consultant Elaine Burke and artist Simon Crook to produce drawings for display on hoardings around the site.
Organised in association with the Flemingate developers, the Hull-based Wykeland Group, this is one of two bespoke arts and engagement initiatives involving Elaine and the company, the other being based around the Bridgehead Business Park at Hessle.
Elaine said: "The aim of these projects is to take an innovative approach to making a positive impact on children and young people. Wykeland is keen to support the aspiration and potential of the next generation and this project is an excellent example of how companies can use art to engage meaningfully with communities
"At St Nicholas Primary, artist Simon Crook taught the pupils to create cartoon-style self-portraits. The children thought about how they see themselves in their adult life, for example as an engineer, builder, footballer, fashion designer or an artist. Simon then incorporated all 330 drawings onto three large hoardings erected along part of the site boundary".
Head teacher Liz Pollard said: "This was such an unusual and exciting exercise for the children and it has really had an impact on them, not least in raising their awareness and understanding of the Flemingate scheme, what it involves and the impact it will have on their town, especially in terms of job opportunities".
Guy Evans, Head of Development at Wykeland, said the company was delighted to be involved in the Flemingate and Bridgehead arts projects.
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In the 1990s, Warner Bros. and Tim Burton secured the rights for both Mars Attacks! and Dinosaurs Attack!, the 1962 and 1988 Topps collectible bubblegum card series, the premises of which is screamed aloud in their titles.
With both the commercial and creative success of Steven Spielberg's 1993's Jurassic Park scaring away others from tackling dinosaurs, Warner Bros. and Burton opted instead for Mars Attacks, ironically releasing their alien-invasion movie the same year as Independence Day, which, despite the wildly different tone, is nearly beat for beat the same movie, to the extent that Mars Attacks scans like a parody of ID4.
Dinosaurs Attack! may not have made it to the big screen (yet, he typed, with his fingers crossed), but it did get adapted into an unfinished Eclipse comic series … which was completed, cleaned up and re-released by IDW last year for the 25th anniversary of the card set. And it's now available in graphic-novel form.
The comic adaptation is written by series creator Gary Gerani, and is an expanded version of the parody of an unlikely B-movie plot: The world's greatest scientist has invented something called "Timescan," a process that will bombard the Earth from an orbiting space station with a special ray that will allow he and those aboard to see into planet's past using a huge view screen.
The world's second-greatest scientist, who just so happens to be his ex-wife and the mother of his child, doesn't think the process is safe and is virulently opposed to it.
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Divergent Allusions and Cultural References
When authors give shout outs to other great works, people, and events, it's usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
If you wanted to make a list of things people are no longer doing in the future, we could include
(1) Reading any old literature
(2) Watching TV/movies
(3) Referring to past historical events
(4) Doing anything to refer to the past at all
If you wanted to make a list of Shout-Outs for Divergent, it would be a much shorter list. Basically, there aren't any Shout-Outs except for some geographical and architectural Shout-Outs that we cover in "Setting" because they're part of the setting. That's just how we roll.


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Eastern Care Medical Services is a 24 hours full service ambulance and mobility assistance company operating in the State of Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2004. EasternCare Specializes in long distance transports though out the United States of America.
EasternCare Medical Services was formed by a company called PA Paramedics. PA Paramedics was founded by a group of four paramedics.
Our company services hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, medical centers, as well as private residents for instate and out of state transports.
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EasternCare Medical Services was founded for the sole purpose of improving the patient's experience of transport. EasternCare pledges to improve the quality of the patient care by using a patient focused business philosophy.
EasternCare Medical Services, provides livery, chair car also known as invalid coach, and ambulance transportation. It is our intention to provide the patient with the best possible experience while in our care. Each of our vehicles is specifically designed with the safety of the patient and crew in mind. Our hours of operation are twenty-four (24) hours a day seven (7) days a week three hundred and sixty-five (365) days a year.
Ambulance Transportation
We provide multiple levels of transportation including Specialty Care. Specializing in Long distance transports and Cancer Care transports.
It is important to understand that ambulance transportation is medically necessary only if other means of transport are contraindicated or would be potentially harmful to the patient.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
These ambulances are fully equipped with the latest medical equipment and are staffed by two professional, well trained Emergency Medical Technicians. Typical transports include "Interfacility" meaning between healthcare facilities for reasons such as; diagnostic testing and treatment, dialysis, and basic hospital discharges to patients' residences. These transports can be local in nature or long distant.
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
These ambulances are also fully equipped with the latest medical equipment. Our professional staff in these ambulances consists of at least one highly trained Paramedic and a well trained Emergency Medical Technician. The "Advanced" nature of these ambulances has to do with the training level of the Paramedic and the acuity level of the patient. A Paramedic has a skill set that allows them to practice a higher level of medicine which includes a more in depth patient assessment, ECG interpretation and intervention, obtain IV access, and medication administration to name a few. ALS ambulances also perform both "Interfacility" transports and 911 emergencies.
Specialty Care Transport (SCT)
These ambulances are equipped to the same level as an ALS ambulance.
The difference in this level of care versus ALS is again related to training. Paramedics with additional training perform these "Interfacility" transports. The training could include specific types of equipment and or medications.
Chair Car Transportation
Our chair cars are staffed by a professional, courteous uniformed driver that has gone through Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training. These employees also go through an Emergency Vehicle Operators Course even though chair cars are not considered emergency vehicles. The course provides our employees with a better understanding of how to drive a vehicle of this size. Our chair cars all have side wheelchair lifts and can safely transport multiple wheelchairs. A patient being transported at this level must be transported in a wheelchair.
Livery Transportation
This level of service is provided by the same staff that provides our chair car transportation. It is also done in the same vehicle. Livery patients are ambulatory but require transportation to and from medical appointments.
We are growing and aggressively looking to supply services for Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Medical Centers, etc. Please contact us, let us know what is important for your facility, describe any specific needs and concerns you might have and we will do our best to develop a service plan to address them.
Mobility Assistance
As a part of our service, Mobility Assistance Vehicles (Wheelchair Coaches) are provided for individuals with special needs, to insure their maximum safety and comfort. This door to door service is especially important for individuals who need assistance and/or supervision. This service is available within the State of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and out of state trips are also available.
Service is provided in a fleet of specially equipped, late model vehicles.
All drivers are MAVT and CPR certified. Each crew member is a PA state certified EMT and CPR certified.
We will make an every effort to accommodate our clients, and make every trip as comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
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As an essential part of our commitment to you, PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services maintains the privacy of certain confidential health care information about you, known as Protected Health Information or PHI. We are required by law to protect your health care information and to provide you with the attached Notice of Privacy Practices.
This Notice outlines our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. It not only describes our privacy practices and your legal rights, but lets you know, among other things, how PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services. is permitted to use and disclose PHI about you, how you can access and copy that information, how you may request amendment of that information, and how you may request restrictions on our use and disclosure of your PHI.
PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services. is also required to abide by the terms of the version of this Notice currently in effect. In most situations we may use this information as described in this Notice without your permission, but there are some situations where we may use it only after we obtain your written authorization, if we are required by law to do so.
We respect your privacy, and treat all health care information about our patients with care under strict policies of confidentiality that all of our staff are committed to following at all times.
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PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services. is required by law to maintain the privacy of certain confidential health care information, known as Protected Health Information or PHI, and to provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. This Notice describes your legal rights, advises you of our privacy practices, and lets you know how American Ambulance Service, Inc. is permitted to use and disclose PHI about you.
PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services. is also required to abide by the terms of the version of this Notice currently in effect. In most situations we may use this information as described in this Notice without your permission, but there are some situations where we may use it only after we obtain your written authorization, if we are required by law to do so.
Uses and Disclosures of PHI
PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services. may use PHI for the purposes of treatment, payment, and health care operations, in most cases without your written permission. Examples of our use of your PHI:
For Treatment
This includes such things as verbal and written information that we obtain about you and use pertaining to your medical condition and treatment provided to you by us and other medical personnel (including doctors and nurses who give orders to allow us to provide treatment to you). It also includes information we give to other health care personnel to whom we transfer your care and treatment, and includes transfer of PHI via radio or telephone to the hospital or dispatch center as well as providing the hospital with a copy of the written record we create in the course of providing you with treatment and transport.
For Payment
This includes any activities we must undertake in order to get reimbursed for the services we provide to you, including such things as organizing your PHI and submitting bills to insurance companies (either directly or through a third party billing company), management of billed claims for services rendered, medical necessity determinations and reviews, utilization review, and collection of outstanding accounts.
For Health Care Operations
This includes quality assurance activities, licensing, and training programs to ensure that our personnel meet our standards of care and follow established policies and procedures, obtaining legal and financial services, conducting business planning, processing grievances and complaints, creating reports that do not individually identify you for data collection purposes, fundraising, and certain marketing activities.
Reminders for Scheduled Transports and Information on Other Services
We may also contact you to provide you with a reminder of any scheduled appointments for non-emergency ambulance and medical transportation, or for other information about alternative services we provide or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
Use and Disclosure of PHI Without Your Authorization
American Ambulance Service, Inc. is permitted to use PHI without your written authorization, or opportunity to object in certain situations, including:
Any other use or disclosure of PHI, other than those listed above will only be made with your written authorization, (the authorization must specifically identify the information we seek to use or disclose, as well as when and how we seek to use or disclose it). You may revoke your authorization at any time, in writing, except to the extent that we have already used or disclosed medical information in reliance on that authorization.
Patient Rights
As a patient, you have a number of rights with respect to the protection of your PHI, including:
The Right to Amend Your PHI
You have the right to ask us to amend written medical information that we may have about you. We will generally amend your information within 60 days of your request and will notify you when we have amended the information. We are permitted by law to deny your request to amend your medical information only in certain circumstances, like when we believe the information you have asked us to amend is correct. If you wish to request that we amend the medical information that we have about you, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
The Right to Request an Accounting of Our Use and Disclosure of Your PHI
You may request an accounting from us of certain disclosures of your medical information that we have made in the last six years prior to the date of your request. We are not required to give you an accounting of information we have used or disclosed for purposes of treatment, payment or health care operations, or when we share your health information with our business associates, like our billing company or a medical facility from/to which we have transported you.
We are also not required to give you an accounting of our uses of protected health information for which you have already given us written authorization. If you wish to request an accounting of the medical information about you that we have used or disclosed that is not exempted from the accounting requirement, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
The Right to Request that we Restrict the Uses and Disclosures of Your PHI.
You have the right to request that we restrict how we use and disclose your medical information that we have about you for treatment, payment or health care operations, or to restrict the information that is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your health care. But if you request a restriction and the information you asked us to restrict is needed to provide you with emergency treatment, then we may use the PHI or disclose the PHI to a health care provider to provide you with emergency treatment. American Ambulance Service, Inc. is not required to agree to any restrictions you request, but any restrictions agreed to by American Ambulance Service, Inc. are binding on American Ambulance Service, Inc.
Internet, Electronic Mail, and the Right to Obtain Copy of Paper Notice on Request
If we maintain a web site, we will prominently post a copy of this Notice on our web site and make the Notice available electronically through the web site. If you allow us, we will forward you this Notice by electronic mail instead of on paper and you may always request a paper copy of the Notice.
Revisions to the Notice:
PA Paramedics LLC d/b/a/ EasternCare Medical Services reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time, and the changes will be effective immediately and will apply to all protected health information that we maintain. Any material changes to the Notice will be promptly posted in our facilities and posted to our web site, if we maintain one. You can get a copy of the latest version of this Notice by contacting the Privacy Officer identified below.
Your Legal Rights and Complaints
You also have the right to complain to us, or to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services if you believe your privacy rights have been violated. You will not be retaliated against in any way for filing a complaint with us or to the government. Should you have any questions, comments or complaints you may direct all inquiries to the privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice. Individuals will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint.
If you have any questions or if you wish to file a complaint or exercise any rights listed in this Notice, please contact:
Privacy Officer
Pa Paramedics LLC
2731 Hulmeville Road
Bensalem, PA 19020
1 (877) 662-9911 (Toll Free)
(215) 331-9911 (Office)
(215) 331-9912 (Fax)
Effective 5/20/2006
Motion Picture and television productions which portray emergency medical personnel in action usually want to "get it right." That's where Production Medics can help. We can provide consultation services to help your performers portray emergency medical personnel accurately. We can also provide you with specially-trained EMTs and paramedics to act as extras.
We can provide real emergency medical equipment to be used as props. We can show your actors how to use equipment properly.
If your production involves the portrayal of emergency medical personnel, "getting it right" is as simple as having PRODUCTION MEDICS on the set.
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Vivchar, AV, Moiseenko, KB, Pankratova, NV (2010). Estimates of carbon monoxide emissions from wildfires in northern Eurasia for airquality assessment and climate modeling. IZVESTIYA ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC PHYSICS, 46(3), 281-293.
AbstractThe emissions from fires in the boreal zone of northern Eurasia significantly contribute to the global emissions of greenhouse gases, their precursors, and aerosols. These emissions are an important component of the global carbon balance, and they significantly affect both seasonal and long-term variations in the chemical composition and radiation properties of the atmosphere on both regional and global scales. The atmospheric emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) from biomass burning have systematically been estimated for the entire territory of northern Eurasia over the period of 2000-2008 on the basis of satellite (MODIS MCD45A1) data on burned vegetation and the Seiler-Crutzen emission model with consideration for both regional and seasonal features. On the whole, for Russia, the annual emissions of CO from biomass burning ranged from 10.6 to 88.2 Mt/y over the indicated period. Depending on fire activity, the atmospheric emissions of CO from natural fires and agricultural work may yield from 25 to 200% of the total technogenic emissions according to the EDGAR-2000 model. In this case, the dominant contribution is made by boreal forest fires (8-57 Mt/y), whose portion amounts to 63-76% of the total emissions from biomass burning. This relatively short observational series does not allow one to reliably estimate long-term variations; however, on the whole, a stable increase in burned areas has been observed in forest, steppe, and agricultural regions over the last decade. Our analysis suggests significant spatial and seasonal variations in the large-scale fields of fire emissions, which are determined by the physical, geographic, and climatic features of individual regions. The calculated fields of emissions can be used in transport-chemical models, studies of the regional transport and quality of air, and climate models.
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Sending letters to Santa in care of the North Pole is a time-honored tradition. Sometimes those letters make a few stops in their magical journey, and they land in the hands of helpful elves before eventually connecting with St. Nick.
That is the case with two letters from local families this holiday season. The pleas to Santa arrived here, at The Inter-Mountain. Just like post offices and community outreach services, the newspaper is a place where those in desperate need sometimes turn for help.
The Inter-Mountain was moved by the simple wishes of the children and the families. We hope our readers will be, too, and will offer whatever assistance they are able to as part of the paper's Empty Stockings Fund inaugural campaign.
The initiative aims to provide a helping hand to those in need in an effort to bring them a merrier holiday season.
The letters have been vetted and their credibility verified along with confirmation that a need truly exists. The two families have fallen through the cracks of other assistance-based organizations, because deadlines already have passed for this Christmas.
Yet, their need is no less great. Therefore, The Inter-Mountain is reaching out to members of the community to see whether enough elves in our region can help Santa and those stationed in the North Pole.
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Empty Stockings Fund
Family 1
4-year-old girl:
- Loves the Monster High dolls
- Anything very girlie, such as makeup and dress-up items
- Barbies
- Bratz
- My Little Ponies
- Warm clothing in size 4T and size 8 boots
Family 2
3-year-old boy:
- Play-Doh sets
- Trucks and cars
- Kids movies, such as Rugrats and Scooby-Doo
- Chalkboard and/or easel
- Little Tykes toy box
- $10 to purchase a Tonka Truck on Black Friday
- Sit N Spin
- Pajamas size 4-5T
18-month-old girl:
- Electronic noise toys
- Baby cell phone or smart phone
- Size 5 boots
- VTech story books that talk
- Little Tykes toy box
- $50 to purchase a Little Tykes Kitchen on Black Friday
- Play pots and pans as well as other items for use in the toy kitchen
- Pajamas size 18 months
* This family indicates quantity will mean more to the children in terms of the number of things to unwrap versus the quality of the items, as this will be their first Christmas-morning
3-year-old boy:
- Toy guns
- Trucks and cars
- Superheroes
- Warm clothing in size 3T and size 8 boots
To donate, please bring or mail unwrapped gifts, gift cards, etc., to The Inter-Mountain's main headquarters at 520 Railroad Ave., Elkins, WV, 26241, or our bureau office at 3 Traders Alley, Buckhannon, WV, 26201.
For more information, contact Publisher Heather Goodwin Henline at 304-636-2121, ext. 104, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Letter (marked confidential) to Isabel from J.D. Tait
Letter (marked confidential) to Isabel from J.D. Tait in which he talks of vindictive slander which he feels is false. He refers to a statue which he believes absolutely belongs to him. He says that he will see Isabel ...
Letter to Isabel [Woodruff] from J.D. Tait
Letter to Isabel [Woodruff] from J.D. Tait which lists a number of items that "mama" asked for. He says that he will come over at lunch and give her a receipt for the things that "she is desirous of having". The letter ...
Letter - Elizabeth Cudney to Mr. Woodruff
Letter to Mr. Woodruff from Elizabeth Cudney in which she accepts Mr. Woodruff's offer. She will give $1,100 and turn her land as payment for three hundred dollars and give a mortgage for $800, Feb. 3, 1893.
Letter to Isabel from J. D. Tait
Letter to Isabel from J. D. Tait in which he says he feels better after "looking out all the books, folios and engravings etc. that mama wants, Nov. 12, 1896.
Clippings - Death
Clipping of the obituary for Amy Constance Woodruff Miller, daughter of the late W. Henry Miller and Amy Woodruff Miller. The funeral was at St. George's Church and Interment at Victoria Lawn Cemetery on Feb. 8, 1949.
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Clipping of the obituary of Francis Woodruff, n.d. Clipping of the announcement of the engagement of Gladyse Wanita Palling to Lieut. Samuel DeVeaux Woodruff of the 176th Overseas Battalion, n.d.
Wine for Sale at Garraway's Coffee-House in Cornhill
A list of wines for sale "by the candle at Garraway's Coffee-house in Exchange Alley, Cornhill..." six pages in length. The list begins with four conditions of sale and then lists types of wines, lot numbers and how many ...
Member's Pass House of Representatives 1917
General Orders, 28 February 1919
A letter from General John J. Pershing to his "fellow soldiers" as service comes to an end. He thanks the soldiers for their "splendid service to the army and to the nation".
Port Dalhousie Municipal Records collection, 1863-1940, 1943, n.d.
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THE SHADOW is a character that has lasted through decades on the pages of pulp magazines, over the radio airwaves, thru the silver screen, and in the panels of comic books. Shrouded in mystery, his origins have been explored and hinted at over the yearsâ¦but never fully revealed. Much is known of Kent Allard/Lamont Cranstonâs years spent in the Orient and Central Americaâwherein he gains his powers and purposeâ¦but not how he first developed his persona as the Master of Darkness. Eisner Award-winning author, Matt Wagner is joined by artist Wilfredo Torres in an exhilarating limited series that will explore the dynamic events that first drew Cranston back to the States, how he first met his companion and lover, Margo Lane, how he began to assemble his vast network of agents and how he first adopted the famous black hat and cloak as his alter-ego's disguiseâall secrets that, up until nowâ¦only The Shadow knew
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A forester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the state's supply of locally-grown Christmas trees should not be affected by this year's drought.
Dennis Adams of the Nebraska Forest Service said in a statement Monday that an estimated 25,000 Nebraska-grown trees will be available this year.
He says more than 25 Christmas tree farms are located around the state, and most will open in the days around Thanksgiving. They allow customers to select and cut their own trees, which Adams says ensures better quality, minimizes the threat of fire and even adds a better aroma.
Adams says buying pre-cut trees from Nebraska is also a better option than purchasing those shipped from western and northern states because they will be fresher.


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Definition of bamboo shoot in English:
bamboo shoot
A young shoot of bamboo, eaten as a vegetable.
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- A single mushroom can sell for nearly $400; one peach, $25; a bamboo shoot, $38; two eggs, $12 and you can get square watermelons grown that way to make them easier to stack for $200.
- It takes only about 14 days for a bamboo shoot to turn into a tall tree.
- At lunch time, chefs from Anji will prepare a healthy bamboo shoot feast, where 100 dishes will be available to choose from.
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