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On an early spring day in Silver Creek, 18 first-graders are busy counting numbers, pronouncing words and reviewing colors – in Mandarin Chinese.
At a time when most schools are strapped for cash and cutting language classes and beloved electives, a handful of local schools have begun offering classes in Chinese language and culture through the Confucius Institute at the University at Buffalo.
The UB-based program was introduced to Western New York in 2011, and now eight schools – four public and four private – have it in place.
The local appetite for Mandarin is flourishing, with another four schools to start the program in the fall – bringing Chinese into classrooms from Buffalo to the suburbs and beyond.
Leaders at schools where the program is offered are thrilled at giving their students such an opportunity.
"It's preparing our students for the future," said Silver Creek Elementary Principal Scott Rudnicki. "We want them to be as prepared, and then some, in the global market, and this is one way we can do this. We're one of few schools that have introduced Mandarin at the primary level. For me, it's getting our kids to think about living beyond Silver Creek and know that they're a bigger part of the puzzle in the world."
The Confucius Institute program mixes language instruction with a strong cultural component. It's being taught as early as kindergarten and, in some schools, through 12th grade. Some schools offer it after school to reach more children or are holding a summer camp.
For Eric Yang, executive director of the Confucius Institute at UB, the program is loaded with merit and appeal.
"To speak another language is a gift," Yang said. "If you can speak Chinese, you can speak to one-fifth of the world population. With many interested to go to China to study, work, travel, or do business in China, people need to learn the language and culture."
The Confucius Institute carefully selects and trains teachers from Beijing. The teachers are assigned to a host school, and housing is found for them in the community.
The teachers stay for three years in their assigned districts.
For the most part, it comes at a minimal cost to American schools. The schools typically pick up the discounted cost of the teacher's visa application fee of $750 for the first year, and extensions for each of the following two years, along with the cost of supplies and providing a workspace.
The teachers' housing and salaries – about $42,000 – are provided through the Office of Chinese Language Council International, which also runs the institute. It is a nongovernmental, nonpolitical organization affiliated with China's Ministry of Education.
After the three years are over, it's the institute's hope that the district will want to continue offering Chinese. But the district would have to fund that mostly on its own.
Students embrace it
In the Silver Creek first-grade classroom, Zhao Shuo, 26, is crouched like a cat, gesturing with her hands to represent whiskers.
It was time for the kids' favorite game in Chinese class: animal bingo. She would say the Mandarin word for cat, fish, horse, bird and dog.
Students excitedly searched for the animal on the game boards in front of them, in the hope of being rewarded with a Chinese sticker.
For 7-year-old Jorge Hasbun, learning Chinese is a fun challenge – not too confusing and, yet, something different.
"I've learned lots of words in Chinese. My favorite thing is you learn lots of words and play some of these games they do in China," he said.
Classmate Stephanie Vancheri, 7, is sold on it.
"I think it's kind of exciting because I only spoke English before and never spoke another language," she said.
Tiny Silver Creek is not alone in bringing Chinese language and culture into the classroom.
The other two public school districts offering it are Depew and Lewiston-Porter in Niagara County. Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo also has the program.
St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Tonawanda, Canisius High School, Sacred Heart Academy and St. Benedict School in Eggertsville are the private schools offering the program.
Plans for expansion
Next school year, Canisius High School will begin its third year in the program, as well as add its own full-time Chinese teacher by hiring the former assistant director of the institute at UB. Canisius will offer three levels of Mandarin instruction.
That's not to say that other school-based partnerships and exchanges between Buffalo-area schools and Chinese ones don't already exist, but the Confucius Institute program is securing a strong foothold here.
Just as interesting as the unique educational offering itself is where it's being offered and by whom.
Depew schools liked the idea of starting their students young when the program began last fall.
"The younger they are – they're like little sponges," said Depew Superintendent Jeffrey R. Rabey. "It's a very, very difficult and complex language, so we wanted to start as early as possible."
Rabey wants it to grow.
"I don't want it to be a one-time shot. I want it to be sustainable. If we were able to get another teacher, we would be interested in growing it," he said, explaining that it would enhance the foreign language offerings in Depew schools, not replace the French and Spanish currently taught there.
Giving kids 'a leg up'
The growing momentum seems to be contagious. This fall, more schools will offer the Confucius Institute program. The expanded lineup includes East Aurora schools, Buffalo private schools Nardin Academy and Elmwood-Franklin School, and Niagara Catholic Junior-Senior High School in Niagara Falls.
East Aurora High School Principal Jay Hoagland is eager to bring the Chinese program to his district, with preliminary plans to offer one elementary class and a couple of classes at the middle school and to integrate it into the high school's two-year international studies program, having it replace Japanese instruction.
"We certainly recognize the impact that China has on the world economy. Most of our kids are college-bound, and of the Asian countries and economies, we believe China will play the biggest role, and we need the kids to recognize this," said Hoagland, who recently completed a principal exchange program in China. "If you go there, you can see how the economy is booming. It's just incredible. If our kids are going to function in a worldwide economy, they have to know about China."
As many East Aurorans travel on business to China, Hoagland thought his school community was a perfect fit for the program.
"It's crazy not to expose our kids to this stuff. If you can speak the language, you really have a leg up on job applications," he said.
Hoagland also has a keen sense of the business side of the equation.
"We're competitive. We saw that Nardin was doing it, and some of our kids go to Nardin. So we figured we better offer it, too," he said. "You can't stay the same and keep offering the same-old, same-old curriculum at a time when school budgets are tight."
Districts see success
The Confucious Institute is not the only means by which students learn Mandarin in public school. The Buffalo Public Schools has been offering Mandarin language classes at several of its schools – elementary through high school -- for many years.
Buffalo's City Honors School offers the largest Mandarin program in the region with more than 300 students taking the language, said Principal William A. Kresse. Students there are also eligible to take International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Mandarin exams. While City Honors works cooperatively with the Confucious Institute, it has its own full-time Mandarin teachers, One of them has full state teaching certification, and the second is on track to receive certification, Kresse said.
Mandarin is also offered at Makowski Early Childhood Center and Olmsted School at Kensington.
In Niagara County, Lewiston-Porter has achieved success with the Confucius Institute-driven program and is believed to have been the first local public school to offer the program, beginning in the 2011-12 school year. Now, it's offered districtwide, spanning kindergarten through 12th grade, and is broken up in eight-week segments. It's also offered after school.
"I think it's one of the most important things that we can do for our students right now," said Paul Casseri, Lew-Port's high school principal. "Obviously, we'd like them to walk out speaking Mandarin fluently, but we hope we let them see the importance of themselves within the global economy, and China, too."
Lew-Port already is enjoying the success, with its high school winning special designation by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, making it eligible for up to $10,000 in starting funds and up to $20,000 of materials to continue the program past the first three years.
On the North Buffalo border, Chinese teacher Si Baohong, 42, teaches boys in their senior year at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute. The school already knows it wants to offer an after-school component to reach more grade levels. Since fall, Si has been teaching not only the basics to 12th-grade boys, but also how to sing in Chinese and to cook fried rice and other Chinese favorites. They also are learning how to type in Chinese and celebrating the "Year of the Snake."
"In seven months, I think the boys have made great progress," Si said in English, noting how the boys recently interacted in Mandarin with her visiting husband. "They've learned Mandarin beyond my expectation."
After the three-year program through the Confucius Institute-provided teacher ends, St. Joe's Principal Jeffery Hazel hopes the effort can continue.
"In three years, we really want to make it permanent. The interest is there among the students and teachers to see it continue," said Hazel, who approached the Confucius Institute about starting the program. "It's a genuine opportunity to learn something new."
Cost is always a factor
Not every school district seems ready to embrace the Chinese program offered by the Confucius Institute.
"It's a very difficult environment to start new programs," said Williamsville Superintendent Scott G. Martzloff. His district has discussed the Chinese program, but a survey within the district a few years ago showed limited interest.
"For us, as a bigger district, it's a challenge because we have six elementary schools, four middle schools and three high schools. You're talking about 13 schools. It's a pretty significant investment."
If financial strain eases in a few years, Martzloff said, he'd like to see foreign language opportunities offered as young as kindergarten.
"The first thing a superintendent will look at is, 'Do I have the budget capacity, and is it sustainable?' " said Donald Ogilvie, district superintendent of Erie 1 Board of Cooperative Educational Services. "Offering Mandarin would definitely seem to justify itself. I don't believe it would be offered if it weren't for a high level of interest by a patron organization.
"At some point, the districts that have not joined in will watch the other districts to determine how these programs become sustainable."
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The case involves a 54-year-old former teacher who raped the teen, who later committed suicide.
District Judge G. Todd Baugh said Wednesday he "deserved to be chastised" for his comments about the victim, who he had said was "older than her chronological age" and had as much control of the situation as the Billings Senior High School teacher who was in a sexual relationship with her.
Baugh, 71, said he stood by his decision Monday to sentence the former teacher, Stacey Rambold, to 15 years in prison, with all of but 31 days of that term suspended. He gave Rambold credit for one day already served.
Baugh, 71, wrote an apology Wednesday in a letter to the editor to the Billings Gazette. He said his comments were demeaning of all women and not reflective of his beliefs.
The judge later told reporters he was "fumbling around" in court trying to explain his sentence and "made some really stupid remarks."
"I don't know how to pass that off. I'm saying I'm sorry and it's not who I am," Baugh said. "I deserve to be chastised. I apologize for that."
Protests PlannedProtesters planned a Thursday afternoon rally outside the Yellowstone County Courthouse to demand that Baugh resign. Organizer Sheena Rice said it's important for the community to show it is not going to stand for victim blaming.
"I'm glad he apologized, but he should have known better as a judge," Rice said. "The fact that he said it makes me think he still believes it."
If Baugh doesn't resign, protesters will try to defeat him in an election in 2014, Rice said.
Baugh was first elected to the bench in 1984 and has been re-elected every six years since then without an opponent. He said he has not decided whether to run again in 2014.
Rambold was charged in October 2008 with three counts of sexual intercourse without consent after authorities alleged he had an ongoing sexual relationship with Cherice Moralez, starting the previous year when she was 14. Moralez killed herself in 2010 at age 16 while the case was pending.
Yellowstone County officials agreed to defer Rambold's prosecution for three years and dismiss the charges if he completed a sexual offender treatment program. The case was revived in December after prosecutors learned Rambold, 54, was kicked out of the program for having unsupervised visits with minors who were family members and not telling counselors he was having a sexual relationship with a woman.
"She wasn't even old enough to get a driver's license. But Judge Baugh, who never met our daughter, justified the paltry sentence saying she was older than her chronological age," the girl's mother, Auleia Hanlon, said in a statement to the Gazette after Monday's sentencing.
"I guess somehow it makes a rape more acceptable if you blame the victim," said Hanlon, "even if she was only 14."

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Deanna Joyce Jacoby, 73, of Sycamore, passed away at 1:01 p.m., Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo.
She was born July 8, 1939, in Tiffin to Arthur Noble and Helen Irene (Bish). On Feb. 1, 1958, she married George Jacoby at First Lutheran Church, Tiffin, by Dr. Janson. They divorced after 30 years and she never remarried.
Surviving are two sons, Shawn (Mary) of Pemberville and Shane (Jodi) of Tiffin; 11 grandchildren, Denver Fox, Dani Spawn, Bo and Cy Wright, Stefany, Alyssa, Jena and Zachary Jacoby, Kyle (Jenny), Wes (Kara) and Jack Jacoby; and five great-grandchildren, Shelby and Kaclee Jacoby, Allie Fox and Lukas and Ried Jacoby.
She was preceded in death by her parents; ex-husband; twin daughters, Dona Lynn Chester in 1992 and Dana Lee Wright in 1998; and her sister, Beverly Bussell.
She graduated from McCutchenville High School in 1957 and attended Bliss Business College in Columbus. She loved to read and bowled for many years. She started the first Melmore Mother's Club. Her first jobs were at Woolworth's in Tiffin, the office at National Machinery, the telephone company and admissions at Mercy Hospital.
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Arts and culture add immeasurably to the quality of life in Western New York.
You hear it all the time. Advocates say it when county cuts to arts funding are proposed, Visit Buffalo Niagara representatives make the point when touting the benefits of living here. It's heard from people who have become immersed in the region's varied cultural offerings.
Several people involved in local arts and culture were asked what it adds to the region's quality of life. Here's what they said:
Valerian Ruminski, Nickel City Opera's founder and artistic director, speaking from Seattle, where he was rehearsing for a role in the Seattle Opera's performance of "Cinderella":
"The arts bring paychecks and jobs and tourists, but there is a bit of shortsightedness as to their value in Buffalo. I think the people in general don't really know the quality we have in the context of other cities.
"One of the main reasons of having the culturals is not only to appeal to the people of Buffalo. I built Nickel City Opera so that people in New York want to come up, or as in Toronto, want to come down. That should be the main purpose of a lot of the culturals. If we don't have a national and sometimes international appeal, then Buffalo doesn't benefit as much."
George Scott, musician and Colored Musicians Club president:
"If you don't have a culture, you don't have a town or a city, because all of that is important. Culture can touch a lot of different things. Educationally, it helps in understanding how things came to be the way they were.
"In our museum, we have a lot of people who were locally known, but also on a national level. For the kids we work with, we say that if you work hard, you can accomplish things like these people were able to do."
Ron Ehmke, writer and performer:
"The arts are the reason I've stayed here for 30 years. If you travel around the rest of the country at all, you start to realize there are very few places that have the kind of mix of cultural institutions and small organizations that Buffalo has. I've seen other cities of comparable size, and even larger cities, that just don't have as vibrant an arts scene as we do.
"The economy has a lot to do with it. It's very, very easy to find cheap studio or rehearsal spaces, and there's a freedom to do just about anything here. The downside is it may often feel as if no one cares, and you don't feel like you're making much of an impact on the larger society."
Constance McEwen Caldwell, actress and Buffalo History Museum communications director:
"We have an amazing and vibrant theater scene, with something for everyone from Torn Space to Shea's Performing Arts Center and everything in between.
"There also seems to be a burgeoning jazz community, where there's something going on almost every night. Then there's the fine arts: I just went to A.J. Fries' exhibition and was blown away. It's all there – a vibrant arts and cultural scene, period. There is never nothing to do in Buffalo. It's all accessible. It's affordable and, in many cases, free."
Polla Milligan, puppeteer:
"I think the arts in general are brain food and every bit as important as anything you put in your stomach. Buffalo is superior in its love and pursuit of the arts. There are so many talented, creative and wonderful people here. It's like Madison Avenue hasn't infiltrated and destroyed everything. There is still a very pure desire to create and share beautiful things.
"I really think that in this day and age, when so much art and creativity is manufactured, Buffalo stands apart."
Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Ujima Theatre director:
"Western New York has a large and diverse arts community and has coalesced in recent years to be in the driver's seat in determining its future. The opportunities are great, and I hope diversity and variety in programming, technological innovation and training will play central roles.
"The arts generate revenue, with recent data in Western New York suggesting the return on investment is 9 to 1. They are integral to economic development in the region and create the framework for creative place-making that helps grow and retain the population."
Marty Boratin, music promoter:
"There are thousands who come to see whoever is playing at the arena, but there are also hundreds who come in for smaller shows. You have people driving in from Erie or Syracuse or Hamilton who, if they're not getting a hotel room, are at least getting dinner somewhere. It adds up.
"Buffalo is just a perfect stopping point between Toronto and New York, or Chicago and Boston, and the booking agents have finally figured that out. I know people from Cleveland who come here frequently [to hear music] and people in Rochester who come up two to three times a month.
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TOKYO, Feb. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT; TSE: 9432, NYSE: NTT) revealed on February 4 the "Edge-computing" concept which can reduce the cloud application response time by factor of 100 at most, and demonstrated its first research outcome, the "Edge-accelerated Web platform" prototype. The research and development effort leading up to the announcement has been carried out as a part of the company's strategic plan, "Accelerating Innovation and Collaboration for the Next Stage" (*1) , and is expected to open up a new era of applications for "Smart Life and Smart Work".
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Although cloud services and their use by devices such as smartphones have become quite the norm today, they are increasingly and inevitably facing the problems of poor scalability and slow response time due to their dependence on sole remote servers that may be located far away, possibly across an ocean and on the other side of the planet. Because of the finite speed of light, it takes several hundred milliseconds to interact over the Pacific Ocean, for example. These problems hinder the most promising applications to be widely deployed, such as intelligent transport control systems (ITS) and games that necessitate real-time response time, and the M2M services that will impose huge data traffic loads on the data center.
The edge computing platform solves the problems by the simple idea of locating small servers called edges-servers in the vicinity of the users and devices and passing to the servers some of the load of center servers and/or user's devices. The following benefits are expected.
- Executes real-time applications that require high-speed response at the nearer edge-servers which will satisfy the severe real-time requirement. The communication delay is shortened to a few milliseconds, not a several hundred milliseconds.
- Locally confines regional data processing of M2M/big data applications that incur large data traffic to edge-servers, and reduces network bandwidth.
- Offloads some of the computation intensive processing on the user's device to edge servers and makes application processing less dependent on the device's capability. It is possible to run applications faster and improve the user's experience.
As a result, the edge-computing platform makes it possible to implement new and attractive applications that require real-time responses along with regional M2M/big data transactions.
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Typical applications that have the former requirement include ITS or AR and those that have the latter requirement include smart buildings/houses and city management.
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Through the spread of the edge computing platform, we will accelerate collaboration with ICT partners and aim at activating the market for new applications.
As the first instance that realizes the edge-computing concept, we have developed the "edge-accelerated Web platform (EAWP)"; it enables Web applications to run on edge severs. EAWP is a Web application execution framework that takes full advantage of the features of the edge computing. This platform relieves the user's device from having to process the entire Web application by distributing processing loads to the edge server close to the users and devices. In consideration of the background that Web applications and their developers are rapidly increasing, our development of this platform allows Edge-computing developers to use HTML standards to develop high performance applications.
The following are the key features of EAWP
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- The loads of heavy web application processes such as Web content evaluation and rendering are split and distributed among edge-servers and the user's device. This distribution yields high-speed Web applications whose performance is made less dependent on the capability of the user's device.
- The distribution method and data transfer method are optimized according to the user's environment, such as device capability and the networking environment, such as fixed or mobile. For example, the processing of objects, such as images and sounds, are dynamically allocated to devices or edge-servers to suit the user's environment, and resolution and frame rate are controlled to suit the networking environment.
- EAWP provides an execution environment equivalent to other Web engines that conform to HTML standards. Therefore, existing Web applications can be run in this distributed Web-based platform without being rewritten.
We will aim at business development from 2014 in Japan toward the realization of our vision. In addition, we will explore new applications, and extend the edge-computing platform. In parallel, we will establish the edge-computing market at the global level by forming alliances with network carriers, content providers, cloud business, etc.
Our future activity is shown in http://labolib3.aecl.ntt.co.jp/cec_en/index.html.
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Hi Portal Developers,
A new reference is available that lists ALL public portal APIs, and provides the following information:
Class/interface name
Package name
JAR file for compilation
Location of JAR file
Required sharing reference for portalapp.xml (runtime reference)
The list is provided as a spreadsheet in XML, enabling you to sort and filter as needed, and to get a quick overview of the available classes, packages and JARs.
Click here for the spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet also provides similar information for using the built-in tag libraries.
Feel free to respond to this post, or email the author, if you have any suggestions.
Daniel Wroblewski
That is really very nice that we have such a reference now,This will really save lots of time of portal developers,i too have spent lot of time searching for various JARs.But why we are not putting this file available right away on SDN itself??We can provide a link or put it in Downloads so that this reference will be easily availabe.
hey , that looks like a great work done...now we dont need to waste lot of time in searching necessary JAR files for deployment...Great..
But where can we access this Support data and that XML sheet
Shailesh Nagar
Hi there,
Except for defining the "official public" APIs in one sheet, this definitely shoud not save any time, as evereyone has the possibility to use ClassLocator -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/classlocator -- which does the job definitively faster than manually looking up some table!
Daniel, of course you know that this is not against you; I'm just estonished that people think this should save time (in such a case, please install ClassLocator to really save time...). Also look out for other threads about it to get some extra ideas how to use it... Also see Pimp Up My NWDS Part 1
Hope it helps to clarify this
Hi Detlev,
I agree that the classlocator tool is the way to go. However...
Despite its existence, people still ask for JARs and sharingreferences, perhaps they do not want to use the class locator tool or just want the information before starting to develop.
Class locator is not an official SAP tool so, technically, I am not supposed to point people to it. So I have to provide something that describes the extent of our APIs, and how to make use of them.
I use the classlocator, and it certainly is faster than manually figuring out where the JAR is and then adding an external reference. The spreadsheet does help with the sharing reference, as well as listing the built-in tag libraries.
P.S.: Hope to see you at Tech Ed, Munich. We can have a debate on this there.
Hi Daniel,
> Despite its existence, people still ask for JARs and sharingreferences
I think the reason is more that these people do not know ClassLocator instead of not wanting to use it... These who have used it once within the SAP/Java/Portal world will never give it away again...
> The spreadsheet does help with the sharing reference,
> as well as listing the built-in tag libraries.
As said before, I didn't want to say anything against your sheet, I would never say anything against anything produced by yours
> Hope to see you at Tech Ed, Munich. We can have a debate on this there.
That seems to be a promise that you will be there Very nice to hear, and I'll be there, too!
Best regards
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Prem Mascarenhas
The spreadsheet is available at a link in the blog:
This is great!! It saves a lot of time. I have been using the jar finder plug in from IBM to find jars. This list helps.
There is a new project online to search for SAP Jars in a database:
Current state is NW 2004s SPS 09, SAP API Doc is SPS 10, mainly portal JARs, more added on the fly.
It's planned to include a "report missing classes" function to include the community to improve the quality of this database.
concerning the hint to use "sapjarfinder.com" - this is really the wrong way to go (again; see my statement above). If you need the class for build-time issues, you'll need a copy of the JAR locally (through a locally deployed server or just as a copy of the JARs from some server in your company). And having these at hand, one definitely should use ClassLocator, as this directly extends the .classpath file.
Using "sapjarfinder.com" just means you don't know the way to got... A short introduction for ClassLocator can be found here: Pimp Up My NWDS Part 1
This is really strange how people run in masses into the wrong direction...
Hope it helps (to turn around)
if u want to find availble JAR files in eclipse or jboss server u
just click on
File ->Buildpath -> Add External JARs
there u can find available JARs
venkat p
Hi ALL,
Thanks for such a great effort taken. I got the xml file, but how can I get an excel file from it?
Please let me know.
Thanks In Advance,
Yogesh Varma
HI Yogesh,
Just open the file with Excel, that's it...
Hope it helps
jar file reference was very helpful.


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Nov. 1 is fast approaching, the first legal day to have studded tires on your car, truck or SUV in the state of Oregon.
This year. tire stores will be checking for pressure sensors, and it could be spendy to get them installed or fixed.
Some stores in Central Oregon say it's becoming more and more of a common practice to enforce the 2007 law requiring vehicles with a tire pressure monitoring (TPMS) system to have pressure sensors in the tires.
"Some of the early dealerships and other stores were allowing customers to put snow wheels and snow tires on without it," Bob Burks of Nelsen Tire Factory in Bend said Monday. "I wouldn't say everyone. but some."
Burks says the regulation is similar to when snow tires started to become popular. Traction tires were just put on the front of front-wheel-drive cars. But it became dangerous for the driver. as the back end of the car would slide around.
"Other stores would put them just on the front," Burks said, "Well, after legal situations, now everyone puts them on (all four wheels)."
Because of lawsuits, many tire stores are refusing to change over tires without the sensors in them.
"If a car comes in and they have a separate set of wheels, and they don't have the TPMS system in the wheel, we won't put it on the car," Burks said.
The law affects vehicles made in 2007 and newer -- those are the ones required to have the TPMS system.
"It is a safety system, and it does work, and it does make the car safer. It is a valuable thing in your car," Burks said.
If your car is equipped with TPMS and your snow tires are not, the cost to have sensors put in ranges from $40 to $70 a tire on the High Desert.
Studded tire season approaches - with a twist
Nov. 1 is fast approaching, the first legal day to have studded tires on your car, truck or SUV in the state of Oregon.
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quote: If these people didn't want electricity they can cancel the contract if they want. That's what these people essentially did.
quote: Yes, customers can cancel at any time (subject to any provisions that may exist in the contract such as paying any unpaid balance; the fact that one party initiates a contract doesn't mean that they automatically get to terminate the contract at any time for any reason) provided that they give adequate notice of their intention to cancel.
quote: I believe that in the USA the telco's are not considered infrastructure? so have no rights beyond being a service so are very different in power to the electric companies.
quote: Bills typically average $500-1000 a quarter for a family of 4.
quote: But after a few months, they revert to their pre-smart meter usage patterns. Largely because it's a royal pain to schedule your life around off-peak usage. People just pay the higher rate.
quote: ...So what you're saying is that people should simply be allowed, for their own ease and convenience, to be lazy, because...well, because they're lazy. Is that it?
quote: I can't really tell if you have a valid point somewhere in your post, but this seems to be what you're stating. Unfortunately many americans seem to reason the way you do these days, you're complacent and selfish, and protest vigorously as if you've been insulted or greatly harmed if asked to adjust your squandering way of life, because doing so would require the slightest bit of effort.


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Seventeen years ago today my life changed. Seventeen years ago I asked Kolette to marry me. As I think about this day and what it means to me I think about what led up to that day and how decisions I made then make me the luckiest man in the world.
In 1992, as we approached mid-March Kolette and I were in two different places when it came to marriage. We spent every open waking minute together. I picked her up every morning for school and from that point to the point I dropped her off at night we are together. This togetherness brought with it an ample amount of kissing. As far as I was concerned all was well with the world. I liked seeing Kolette and loved kissing her and figured we could just stay put in our little bubble of time forever.
Kolette on the other hand had enjoyed our time dating but felt that the time for moving on to the next step had come. Both then and now Kolette has been a woman of checklists. And as far as engagement went, her pencil sharpened and she was aching to fill the empty box.
As has usually been the case she was right. Not that there is any specific timeline on how long a couple should date, or that we had dated for an excessively long period of time, but we had spoken often about how marriage was our next step.
On a side note, I think it's interesting how this subject gets broached by most couples. It seems like generally it happens the same for everyone. First, in conversation you start saying things like, "If we were ever to get married, not that we ever would, but if we did then we would…" Then it begins to turn to "If we were ever to get married, not that we would for a long time, then we would…"
Not long after this is a part of regular conversation, the sentence seems to evolve further to something like, "When we get married, not that that wouldn't be for a long time, but when we did, then we would…" For me, this was the sentence that seem to have the shortest lifespan. As before I knew it, we were saying just regular old, "When we get married."
The first time we went to look at rings I was so nervous I didn't even set one foot in the store. Kolette looked at rings with the salesman who, knowing that I was the buyer, shouted through the store so that I could hear him while I was sitting just outside the doorway.
This went on until one day I dropped Kolette off at school and she had a look on her face that broke my heart. Her eyes told the whole tale. They said, louder than any words ever could, "We are never going to get married."
That was it. I knew I had to make a decision. I had to decide whether I was going to ask her to marry me and move forward, or simply break things off. Staying where we were at and causing her that kind of disappointment was not an option.
I packed my bag full of books written by wise men on the subject of living life well and headed to a local hotel. I checked into the hotel with the help of a bellman. The bellman took my bag, unpacked the books, helped me order dinner through room service and left. When he did, I shut the door so I couldn't leave, and dropped the remote on the floor so TV was no longer an option. This way, it was just me, my books, my God, and my big decision.
(In case you're wondering, my cousin who had a date that night with his future wife, agreed to come to the hotel and lay me down around one o'clock. I know there are some out there thinking that if he was locked in his hotel room how did he ever get out. My cousin also stayed the night and help me get up the following morning.)
I ate my dinner and began some deep reading and heavy prayer. Not long into the evening I called my dad to get his advice. He said he couldn't understand what I was doing since it seemed to him I already knew the answer.
I remember thinking, "Thanks a lot, Dad!" and went back to reading and praying.
The more I read and the more I prayed the more I realized my Dad was right. I already knew the answer to my question before I even went up to the hotel. As I thought about it I knew she loved me, and I knew I loved her. But, I let doubt and nerves get in the way of that knowledge. Luckily, what my fear questioned, my heart had figured out a long time ago.
I loved her.
I called the bellman, had him bring up some dessert, open the door and hand me the remote. My decision was made and all that was left was the asking.
I returned home put together a plan and with the help of a lot of family and friends pulled off this extravagant plan. I was able to rent a place at Sundance, convince Kolette that we had a meeting with the president of the University (I had just been elected BYU's Student Body President), get her to wear my favorite dress, get a candlelight dinner set up in the room at Sundance, and get the ring (a few weeks earlier I had actually found the courage to go into a jewelers with Ko).
On our way up the canyon, from Provo to Sundance, Kolette asked me if I had made any headway on getting the ring. She knew that there was no way I was going to be able to afford the ring we had looked at without some help. I was just a poor college student. I told her that I was going to meet about financing on the following Monday. Her face got all sad and frustrated because she knew that once I met with the people about financing it would take at least a week to get the money for the ring.
She told me that she had a conversation with her Dad earlier that day and he was beginning to wonder if I had commitment issues. What she didn't know was a miracle happened just days before and not only had I ended up with a check for nearly the entire cost of the ring, but that the ring was waiting for her up at Sundance (I knew I wasn't going to be able to pull the ring out of my pocket when I asked her so when they set up our candlelight dinner I had them set the ring box open on the table).
We got to Sundance and it was great. She was right with me believing the whole thing. She had taken the bait and bit hook, line, and sinker.
We opened up the door to the room and with romantic music playing in the background I led her to the table and in front of the candlelight dinner took her hand and said, "Kolette, will you marry me and make me the happiest man alive?"
She looked at me and quizzically asked, "Are you kidding?"
I remember thinking that this was not the response I expected. My mind raced and I wondered if I'd read the whole situation wrong. I thought maybe the best answer was, "Yeah! Ha Ha! Funny Right?" But, as often happens my mouth got in front of my brain and I exclaimed, "No, I'm not kidding. the ring's right there."
She looked at the table and saw the ring that she had missed before and said, "Yes." Immediately after I started to breathe again and we kissed.
If I remember right, we kissed so long the food got cold. But, we were in love and none of that mattered. The next day we went to school and told all of our friends that we were engaged.
There's not many days that aren't good ones for asking the one you love to marry you. But, the 31st of March is one of those days. For, the day that follows is April 1st more commonly known as "April Fools' Day." This made it difficult to convince many of our friends that we actually were engaged. But on April 2nd everyone knew we were telling the truth in nearly three months later we were married.
It's been the ride of a lifetime. Any happiness that has been a part of my life since that day is in some way or another a direct result of Kolette. She is the love of my life and the joy of my journey. She is my best friend and my heart is hers forever.
When I think about all the good that has come into my life because of Kolette I think about how it would have all been lost if that day in the hotel room had I decided to doubt things I knew were true. It's like I was over thinking and under feeling–so worried I was going to make the wrong decision, I was making no decision at all. Fear that I might fail, or be wrong kept me in a holding pattern. Those emotions of anxiety and apprehension cause us to hesitate moving forward with answers we know to be right.
We have to do all the we can do to get the best information out there. We have to study and learn to gain wisdom and understanding. But there will always be more to learn and more to understand. We have to get all the knowledge we can crammed into our head, but at the end of the day that won't be enough. Our gut has to be included in the conversation, our heart has to be given a place at the table. Along with the knowledge we gain we have to have the courage to act, the courage to trust what we know in our heart is right. There is a reason God gave us not only a head, but a heart to go with it.
There is little question that we're at our best when we use all the tools at our disposal. When we use our heads with our hearts we gain the courage to go with what we know.
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Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder and his wife, Kirsten, have welcomed their first child, his rep tells PEOPLE.
The baby girl, Evan Jane Heder, is "safe and sound and healthy," says the rep, who did not reveal the baby's date of birth.
In March, at the Los Angeles premiere of Heder's comedy Blades of Glory, he told reporters that his wife, who was with him at the event, was due any second.
Heder, 29, met Kirsten when they were both students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. They announced in September that they were expecting their first child.
Heder, who is from Salem, Ore., burst onto the scene playing the memorable oddball Napoleon Dynamite in the 2004 film. He also starred in Just Like Heaven, Bench Warmers and School for Scoundrels.
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Dear Ann, This lopapeysa pair landed in Lincoln, Nebraska today. The Mr. is Riddari (my third) and the Mrs. is Verur. I did the same neck mods to Verur as I had done for my two previous Riddari, to make the neckline less masculine and crew-y. My modification was blunt: I skipped half of the last round of decreases on the yoke, and skipped the neckband decreases altogether. But when my niece tried it on, it was too wide, it stuck up, it...Read More


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Something that is very... very... fancy-shmancy. That is totally using the word to define itself but ssh. Umm anyway it is also having to do with something like, ":O WELL!! I see I'm not good enough for this." hoity-toity attitude that is had by people in beverly hills.
You want to eat this plateful of caviar and then vomit on your mom, hoity-toity boy?? Huh? HUUUHH?!?!?!
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af Adrienne 28. april 2004
acting as if you are important
The hoity-toity girl walked by holding her Prada bag with her nose in the air.
af anonymous 25. april 2005
A person whom assumes that they are above you in any way without cause or reason. This person normally has to find flaws in others to make them feel better. They really enjoy labels are always made up.
Jennifer just bout a D&G bag - She acts a little too hoity toity for me.....
af Star Burger 11. september 2009
An (un)deserved impression of superiority from one person to another.
An adjective for a haughty or supercilious place or person.
An adjective for a haughty or supercilious place or person.
"Why don't we go to McDonald's?"
"I thought we were going somewhere hoity-toity!"
"I thought we were going somewhere hoity-toity!"
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Streets that are safer and easier to travel, commercial areas that bring new development and beautiful new neighborhoods may just be dreams for now, but Buckhannon city leaders hope to create a plan that could make those and other dreams a reality.
The Buckhannon City Council met in special session Monday morning to discuss creating a 10- or 15-year plan for the city's future and what studies would be needed to formulate such a plan. The comprehensive plan elements would include housing, traffic and land use studies. The studies would help officials come up with a realistic plan.
"The reason this is important is (because) the city should have some sort of vision to move it forward," West Virginia University Extension specialist Michael Daugherty said. "You can do that with a comprehensive plan."
Mayor Kenneth Davidson said, "If we don't develop some kind of controls along our corridor, we're going to be sorry that we didn't do that."
A strategic plan for the future of Buckhannon is required if officials want to amend the zoning ordinance for the city.
"What we really want to do as a community is have a housing study, traffic study (and) a land use study that's usable," Davidson said. "That's information that we can use to look into the future and develop a plan for it."
Daugherty, who specializes in community planning and development, said that the comprehensive plan provides a dream or goal for the city without locking Buckhannon into a contract. It also provides a means for ensuring that those goals are met. Input and ideas are welcome from residents, business owners, youth and even nonresidents, officials said. Involving local youth allows officials to discover what the younger generations would like to see in the future for the town.
"They are the future. The leaders of tomorrow are the school children of today." Davidson said. "If we don't do what's right by the next generation, we are failing. If we don't plan, we are failing. For us to just keep kicking the can down the road, I think is a big mistake. It's not going to affect us."
Children can provide input about what they think Buckhannon does or doesn't need. Officials said it could be a part of class projects and photo essays.
"A very important thing in public planning is to involve the public," Daugherty said.
Input does not have to be limited to those living directly within the city limits.
"We have a lot of people and businesses just outside the city limits," Davidson said. "We have to plan for our community."
Davidson said the three studies need to include all of Upshur County. College students outside of Upshur County will get to study what Buckhannon has to offer. Those students will be able to provide a perspective from an outside glance.
Daugherty will be instructing a spring semester class at West Virginia University that will involve his students in the studies that city council hopes to have completed by 2014. Daugherty said it would be a learning experience for the students, while saving the city money. Daugherty said that rough estimates of the project range between $2,000 to $2,500.
Not all council members were present at the meeting. Pam Cuppari, John Waltz and Scott Preston were unable to attend. The councilman present passed a motion to allow student involvement from WVU.
"I think it would be an excellent opportunity for groups at the (West Virginia Wesleyan College) as well," zoning officer Rich Clemens said.
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Follow The MoneyMonday, December 3rd, 2007
News of Hugo Chavez's narrow referendum defeat brought a decidedly unexpected relief. His proposals, in line with his former policies and stated goals, would have moved the Chavez administration toward a Castro-style dictatorship. But whereas Castro possesses an enduring charm, even if warped and spoiled by time and power, Chavez has all of the charm of a pit bull. At the conclusion of CNN's story on the referendum result, the reporter offers a fascinating financial footnote: Venezuela's oil-fueled prosperity, which has helped enrich Chavez's popularity and solidify his power (the country's wealth allows him to fund his social programs) accounts for as much as 90% of the country's export economy. Two guesses as to who buys most of venezuela's oil… Us. Apparently, the United States is one of the few countries that can refine Venezuela's low-grade crude and we pick up about a million barrels per day. So, America then, Chavez's nemesis, has been funding his regime.
A so-called National Intelligence Estimate issued today — a consensus view of "all 16 American spy agencies" (but who's counting?) — concludes that Iran quite probably stopped its weapons program (if it had one) back in 2003, and that as of the middle of this year had probably not resumed that program (if it ever existed). Although couched in all kinds of provisos and qualifications, perhaps the most striking conclusion of the NIE is the estimate that sanctions and international pressure probably caused Iran to halt its program (if it did and if it had one). Of course, the White House has been quick to point out that this makes the President right again in seeking to maintain and increase pressure on Iran, rather than being wrong to pressage military action, since military action would have been not his error but someone else's error for issuing a National Intelligence Estimate like the one that got us into the Iraq war. (Not that that was a mistake, but if it had been a mistake it would have been someone else's mistake, too.) In any case, money seems to have been a key factor in making bringing to a halt the Iranian weapons grade fuel enrichment centrifuges (if they weren't just nuclear energy centrifuges).
In Malawi two seasons of good crops have helped prevent famine. After the country's most recent miserable crop failure in 2005, the president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, decided to ignore the financial strings attached to foreign subsidies and to subsidize himself the use of fertilizer and good seed. The U.S., Britain, and the World Bank have disfavored fertilizer and seed subsidies in countries such as Malawi because… wait for it… "foreign-aid fashions in Washington [and elsewhere] featured a faith in private markets and an antipathy to government intervention." Let me get this straight, while the U.S. government subsidizes fertilizer purchases for our own farmers it's been preaching and practising free-market 'no subsidy' religious policies overseas that have effectively been starving millions of people in Africa and elsewhere. The shamefulness of such self-righteous arrogance seems reprehenisble.
(There's also a good op-ed piece about Goldman Sachs along similar lines, but I don't have space to write about that.)
Money, money, money… But what about principles, what about good sense, what about logic and reason, why does money seem to lurk behind everything like a pesky accountant with an irrevocable pen poised to fall?
Allow me a quick detour into energy and matter. When Einstein equated mass with energy he unlocked a mysterious secret about the universe. The question: What is this stuff that things are made of? Einstein's answer: Call it what you will, but you may as well call it energy.
A similar, humbler equation exists of course between money and power. Money and power are two ways of thinking about the same thing. You can convert one into the other and vice versa.
(My wife and I, for another instance, were discussing the presidential race and my wife pointed out to me the reason Mike Bloomberg could still run for president having skipped the abrasion of the primaries: He doesn't need the money.)
Rather than just throw up my hands at this point, I'm struck by the question of what we as observers of the machinations of money and power can we do to make a difference? It seems to me that armed with the awareness that money churns away like a sump pump in the basement of every important political edifice, we'll always be better able to judge things for what they are if we pop our head down the stairs and take a sniff. "Follow the money," as Deep Throat apparently said, and we'll be richer for it.
And if we doubt that paying attention to this will be enough to make a difference, we can be heartened by another discovery of science, famously encapsulated by the thought experiment of Schrodinger's cat, that observation by itself is enough to change the outcome of a process. (more…)


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Lowcountry summers are notoriously steamy, but as tempting as it is to stay locked inside your climate-controlled house until September, that would mean missing out on some of the season's greatest opportunities for fun. Whether you've got a small patio downtown or a rambling house with a pool in the 'burbs, you've got the setting for a memorable summertime event.
We turned to a handful of local experts for entertaining tips and tricks: blogger Chassity Evans, children's photographer Gray Benko, and event planner and stylist Calder Clark. With their five simple steps, you'll be ready for any outdoor party from a Fourth of July block party to a family reunion.
Choose Your Menu
Clark is best known for planning elegant, elaborate weddings, but she has some surprising advice when it comes to entertaining at home. "Keep it simple, silly," she says. "Summer is not the time to channel your inner Sean Brock and attempt anything that hates humidity — save the homemade gaufrettes and gelato for another time. Summer menus should be five things: comforting, light, room temperature or chilled, and family-style." Southern favorites like barbecue, fried chicken, pimento cheese and pasta salad always work well, and there's no harm in stopping by your favorite deli or caterer for a little help—the less time you spend in front of the stove, the better.
A self-proclaimed "sucker for comfort food," Clark hits up places like Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Kudzu Bakery and Goat Sheep Cow for supplies. "I usually think French," she says. "Most of my friends, and even their children, actually prefer a beautiful spread of fromage and charcuterie, with local honey, stone ground mustard, tiny pickled goodies, fresh French bread, and great chilled Burgundies and champagnes to anything else."
Evans swears by Hamby's Catering's tea sandwiches (chicken salad, pimento cheese, and shrimp salad), and she's also a big fan of potlucks. "I recently hosted a lunch for some girlfriends that I like to call a 'PLOP' (potluck on the porch)," she says. "Each family brings a dish, that way everyone feels like they're contributing something meaningful and the host doesn't get too stressed out about the menu. … Potlucks are a great way to entertain friends, and setting up the lunch on a porch helps create a laid-back atmosphere."
Be sure to have plenty of beverages on hand to keep your guests hydrated. The kids will appreciate lemonade and juice boxes, while the adults will typically enjoy a selection of ice-cold beer, crisp white wine or a fun, fruity signature cocktail.
Making It Pretty
Choosing how to decorate your event really depends on your personal style. Benko, who has two kids under the age of four, likes to keep it simple with small gatherings but go all out for birthday parties. "Birthdays only come around once a year, and the kids love getting to see all of their friends and I think really enjoy the excitement of a big gathering on their special day," she says. Using Pinterest and Etsy as sources of inspiration, she likes to work around a theme and add an element of surprise to kids' parties. For her daughter's Sesame Street-themed party, she rented an Elmo costume. All of the kids were thrilled.
Another option: just let the beauty of your natural surroundings shine while accenting them with simple, affordable decorations. If it's a nighttime affair, drape a few strings of globe lights overhead. During the day, paper lanterns hung from tree branches give a fun, whimsical feel. Invest in a few flower arrangements, or just pot up some pretty plants for color that will last long after your last guests have left.
Fun For All Ages
Any parent knows that if the kids aren't having fun, no one's having fun—so it's important to keep the little ones entertained for the duration of the party. "I think that the most important thing is to create a fun and comfortable environment where the parents are able to relax and not feel like they have to be chasing their children around the entire time," Benko says. She sets up different stations for games and crafts in the backyard to keep the kids entertained and encourage them to interact with each other.
Clark usually makes a kids' table for her events, and she admits it's one of her favorite things to put together. "My guests are often drawn to the kids' table like moths to a flame," she says. She recommends creating a simple tablecloth from chalkcloth and providing little tin pails with colored chalk. "Outline each child's place setting with a hand-drawn 'charger' and their name. Boxes of old-school animal crackers can serve as delineation between seats, add a few cake tiers full of candy as a centerpiece, and voil�!"
If you have a pool, like Evans, entertaining all ages is even easier, but be sure that a few parents are on pool duty watching the kids—or even consider hiring a lifeguard. Evans stocks extra towels, sunscreen, floats and toys when she has friends over, and she offers alternate entertainment options as well. At a recent pool party, she set up corn hole and a slip 'n' slide. "The slip 'n' slide was like the shiny object we used to ward off meltdowns," she says. "When the kids tired of that, we took them to the screen porch and turned on a movie so that the parents could relax."
Have a Back-Up Plan
Lowcountry summers are nothing if not unpredictable. Afternoon thunderstorms, mosquito swarms and debilitating heat waves can threaten to ruin even the best-laid plans, so it's important to have a contingency plan. "It rains so frequently here during the summer that it's really important to be prepared so that all of your efforts aren't thwarted by a sudden summer shower," Benko says—and she's speaking from experience. "In case of a real downpour, it's a good idea to keep in mind that your party may need to be moved indoors (sometimes mid-party in my case) so make sure that you have some fun things set up indoors as well and that the most important elements of your party are close enough to the door so that they can be moved in quickly without getting soaked!"
As for bugs, try tiki torches, strategically placed fans, and organic bug spray. Clark also suggests Mosquito Squad spraying services.
Beyond the Backyard
What do you do if you don't have a backyard, or if you just don't love the space you've got? There are still plenty of options for an outdoor affair. Invite your friends to meet in a public park or at the beach—we love the idea of a tea party under the oaks at Hampton Park or a sunset bonfire on Sullivan's (with the proper permits, of course). Just be sure you're prepared in the event of rain.
Chalk cloth makes and easy tablecloth for the kids' table---attractive and interactive.×
Assign one or two parents to watch the pool for the children's safety. Or consider hiring a lifeguard for the party.×
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To aid landowners in the middle Trinity River basin and similar areas, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service has produced a publication with step-by-step instructions on how to restore native grasslands. Topics addressed in the publication include the use and benefits of native grasslands, site selection and preparation, establishment of native vegetation, seed selection, reseeding methods, seed... read more
Steve Whisenant, Chair of the SER Board of Directors, recently began and new chapter of his life in South Sudan. Check out SER's Board Member Highlight on this exciting new chapter in his life. Board Member Highlights are a unique opportunity for the Society to highlight the continuing commitment of the members of SER's board of directors to their environmental pursuits and the field of ecologi... read more
Restoration Ecology is the Society's bi-monthly scientific and technical peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The journal publishes on all aspects of ecological restoration, defined as "assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed" (SER Science and Policy Working Group, 2002). Restoration Ecology fosters the ... read more
Ecological Restoration is published four times a year by the University of Wisconsin Press. The journal is made available to SER members at a discount by a special arrangement with the University. Ecological Restoration provides a forum for people interested in all areas of ecological restoration. It features articles on a broad range of topics including the technical, biological and social a... read more
Ecological Management and Restoration is a peer reviewed journal published three times a year by Wiley Blackwell on behalf of the Ecological Society of Australia. The journal aims to bridge the gap between the ecologist's perspective and field manager's experience. Publishing peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, news items, reviews and letters on the science and practice of ecosystem res... read more
Ecotrust released data on August 23rd that demonstrates how watershed and fish habitat restoration in Oregon creates jobs. Ecotrust found that restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and as many as 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010. A recent national study published in Marine Policy analyzing job creation and other economic impacts from NOAA restoration projects found ... read more
Tidal Marsh Restoration by Charles T. Roman and David M. Burdick is the latest title in the SER-Island Press book series The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. The book provides the scientific foundation and practical guidance necessary for coastal zone stewards to initiate salt marsh tidal restoration programs. Compiling a synthesizes and interpretation of the current state of kno... read more
SER, along with the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 20th offering their expertise to the recovery of the highly endangered Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). Current recovery efforts are still being guided by a plan from 1982, and the three scientific societies are urging the... read more
SER, along with the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 20th offering their expertise to the recovery of the highly endangered Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). Current recovery efforts are still being guided by a plan from 1982, and the three scientific societies are urging the FWS ... read more
This contribution to the Rio+20 agenda from The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB), and reviewed and contributed to by Sasha Alexander and James Aronson from SER, highlights the role of nature in the transition towards a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. read more
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Well, in the meantime, I'd really like you to save the date for an awesome Mom's Nite Out event we're having on Thursday May 7. If you live in Northwest Indiana, we'd love for you to come.
A special pre-event will be held at Butterfly Kisses boutique from 5:30-7pm.
And then please join us at Evelyn Bay Coffee Company from 7-9pm for the main event!
I'm still gathering all the details- there will be giveaways and specials and all sorts of goodies as well as just time to hang out! (This is Mom's Nite Out, so nursing babies only.)
Follow Butterfly Kisses on Twitter here. And Evelyn Bay Coffee here.
Spread the word! This is open to all Moms! You don't have to be a blogger or on Twitter to join in!
Visit the official Mom's Nite Out website to find events going on in your area and enter to win great prizes!
And if you have questions or would like more details, please email me stephanie.precourt [at] gmail [dot] com.
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