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Drymarchon couperi
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Drymarchon couperi (Holbrook, 1842)
Common Name(s):
Drymarchon corais ssp. couperi (Holbrook, 1842)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Drymarchon couperi was proposed as a distinct species by Collins (1991), based on previously published (but unspecified) morphological differences and application of the evolutionary species concept. Recent checklists (e.g., Crother et al. 2000, Collins and Taggart 2002) listed couperi as a species, although no new data supporting the split have been presented.
Wuster et al. (2001) described a new species of Drymarchon from northwestern Venezuela, bringing the species total for the genus to four (five if couperi is recognized as a species). Wuster et al. (2001) did not present data on D. couperi but nevertheless accepted it as a distinct species, based on apparently consistent differences in labial scalation (Smith, 1941). They noted, however, that further study is needed to confirm the taxonomic status of D. couperi.
This database accepts Drymarchon couperi as a species, based on similar treatment in most relevant recent literature.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Hammerson, G.A.
|Cox, N., Chanson, J.S. & Stuart, S.N. (Global Reptile Assessment Coordinating Team)
Listed as Least Concern in view of the fairly large range and area of occupancy and presumed large population size. Many subpopulations exist, but a large proportion may be of low viability. Area of occupancy and abundance likely are declining but probably not fast enough for listing in a more threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is endemic to the southeastern United States. Its historical range extended throughout the lower Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States, from southern South Carolina through Georgia and Florida to the Florida Keys, and west to southern Alabama and perhaps southeastern Mississippi. Its current range includes southern Georgia (most common in the southeast; see Diemer and Speake 1983) and Florida (widely distributed throughout the state, south to the Keys, though perhaps very localized in the panhandle; Moler 1985, 1992; see also Ballard 1992). The species is apparently very rare or extirpated in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Recent reintroductions have been made in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi. One reintroduced population may be thriving in Covington County, Alabama.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:United States
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|This species is represented by many occurrences or subpopulations, but many of these may not represent populations with good viability. This species is extant in many sites in southeastern Georgia; Diemer and Speake (1983) mapped well over 100 locations in perhaps several dozen counties. In Florida, the snake is known from about 400 locations, though most records represent single specimens. The total adult population size is unknown but probably exceeds 10,000 (conservatively assuming a density of at least 1 adult per sq. kilometer in an area of occupancy of at least 20,000 sq. km). The number of occurrences and range have been reduced significantly in the past 40 years; the species underwent a population decline in the 1960s and 1970s. USFWS (1990) categorized the status as "declining." Based on current rates of habitat destruction and degradation, USFWS (1998) surmised that the range-wide population is declining, although the rate of decline is uncertain.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Its habitat includes sandhill regions dominated by mature longleaf pines, turkey oaks, and wiregrass; flatwoods; most types of hammocks; coastal scrub; dry glades; palmetto flats; prairie; brushy riparian and canal corridors; and wet fields (Matthews and Moseley 1990, Tennant 1997, Ernst and Ernst 2003). Occupied sites are often near wetlands and frequently are in association with Gopher Tortoise burrows. Pineland habitat is maintained by periodic fires. Viable populations of this species require relatively large tracts of suitable habitat. Refuges include tortoise burrows, stump holes, land crab burrows, armadillo burrows, or similar sites. Eggs may be laid in gopher (Geomys) burrows (Ashton and Ashton 1981). See USFWS (1998) for further information.
|Major Threat(s):
|Decline is attributed to loss of mature longleaf pine habitat (e.g., conversion to slash and sand pine plantation, urbanization, citrus, mining, etc.), commercial collecting for pet trade (now illegal and has declined), and former widespread gassing of tortoise burrows (to collect rattlesnakes) (USFWS 1998). In northern Florida and adjacent southern Alabama and Georgia, important refugia have been lost with the decline in the Gopher Tortoise population (fewer burrows available) and the removal of stumps by the resinous wood industry; elsewhere, habitat fragmentation is a problem (Moler 1992).
|Conservation Actions:
|Several occurrences are on managed areas (federal, state, and private), but these are still subject to some unauthorized collection. Many managed areas are too small to support a viable population by themselves.
|Hammerson, G.A. 2007. Drymarchon couperi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63773A12714602. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Nebraska Boy Scouts say they need more ammunition
Nebraska Boy Scouts say they need more ammunition
LINCOLN, Neb. —
Boy Scout leaders in southeast Nebraska are asking for donations of .22-caliber ammunition because they're thousands of rounds short of what's needed by area Scouts this summer.
Cornhusker Council district director Jerad Reimer told the Lincoln Journal Star that about 24,000 rounds are sought so the Scouts can learn gun safety and work on marksmanship. He says officials have gathered about a quarter of that amount and have tried to buy thousands more rounds. But retailers all say the same thing: We can't sell you that much now or soon.
Stores have reported heavy sales of ammunition since December's shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and the call for new gun controls.


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Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty + More Join Dave Grohl Onstage at Sundance 'Sound City' Party
In what may have been the greatest night of live band karaoke the world has ever seen, Dave Grohl premiered his 'Sound City' documentary at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday (Jan. 18) in style.
Rolling Stone is reporting that a concert lasting three hours and featuring 17 guest musicians rang out at Park City Live in Park City, Utah. With his Foo Fighters serving as house band, Grohl called up such legends as Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick to jam with him. In addition to Landslide' and 'Dreams,' Nicks sang a new song she wrote with Grohl, 'You Can't Fix This,' which was inspired by her godson's overdose.
Fogerty, with his "I won't play Creedence Clearwater Revival songs anymore" era long behind him, cranked out four classics, 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Fortunate Son,' 'Proud Mary' and 'Born on the Bayou.' Some of the other stars to join in the fun were Grohl's former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novaselic and Corey Taylor of Slipknot. Even Rick Springfield got in on the fun, singing two of his biggest hits, 'Jessie's Girl,' 'I've Done Everything for You' and another Grohl collaboration, 'The Man That Never Was.'
'Sound City' is a documentary about the legendary Van Nuys, Calif. recording studio where many classic albums were recorded, and features interviews with such names as Tom Petty and Mick Fleetwood talking about their time there. Grohl, who recorded 'Nevermind' with Nirvana inside its walls, was so enamored with the studio that, upon its closing in 2011, he bought its Neve 8028 console for his home studio.
"I consider this to be the most important thing I've ever done, artistically, of all the albums I've made, of all the bands I've had the pleasure of being in," Grohl said at the premiere. "I really feel like the 'Sound City' movie, its intention is to inspire the next generation of kids to fall in love with music as much as I did."
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Type: Enhancement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Completed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
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Send inline source map information for form evaluation
When evaluating forms from a repl it is nice to see and get errors referencing source information. To achieve that:
1. Send a sourceMappingURL with a data url using a base64 encoded source map
2. Include sourcesContent in the source map based on the form being evaluated
3. Use sourceURL to name the eval block as the generated file referenced in the source map.
The included patch (inline_source_map.patch) provides a working implementation, but some possible downsides:
1. In order to have proper line numbers, handle additional changes based on `wrap`, and present nicely formatted source from just a form, it`pprint`s to a string and reads the input again.
2. It names the generated and source files based on the System/currentTimeMillis.
3. Generating the source maps is not currently optional, and might be useless overhead for non-browser repl-environments.
This patch is mostly good however you should not be using the Clojure reader, we now rely on tools.reader as it produces much more accurate line/column information needed by source maps. The patch should be modified to use it.
Second patch attached that uses tools.reader and has some namespace cleanup.
You're still relying on bits of the Clojure reader, I suggest taking a look at cljs/analyer.clj forms-seq to see how it should be done. Thanks much!
Attached 3rd patch using everything from tools.reader.
Attached 4th patch rebased against latest master.
It appears the patch messes with the Rhino REPL, you should be able to verify this with ./script/repljs. Also can we delete the old patches when we get a new one. Otherwise it gets confusing if we have to revisit this ticket in the future.
I reviewed the patch more closely - as cool as this is, it's going to need to wait for tools.reader to preserve original string source information on the forms themselves in order to populate sourcesContent. Also the approach isn't quite right, the source map stuff should only kick in if repl-env has a :source-map flag set to true. This flag can be provided by the browser repl environment.
No problem. I'll make a new patch once tools.reader has the required functionality.
tools.reader now has the required functionality, see https://github.com/clojure/tools.reader/commit/f9e55071d82a443db3fac1c2feda059d0215bb90
A 0.8.0 version will be released soon.
Previous patches removed and new patch attached that uses tools.reader's source preservation, and checks for a :source-map field in the repl-env.
This passes all tests from `lein test`, runs `./script/repljs` without issue, and will send back sourcemap information from forms evaluated through `.script/browser-repl`.
It did require some changes in how the read-loop occurs. `forms-seq` preserves line numbers between forms and the inline source maps need to start at 0 for each form.
Reviewing the patch - I don't understand why read-form works the way it does - given that forms-seq returns a lazy seq this is bound to be a source of error. You need to capture all the stuff at the point at which forms-seq is called, anything else is a bug.
My suggestion is to leave forms-seq alone and supply read-form as a stand alone function.
Also I don't see a comment about the change to compiler.clj why do we need to (dec column) now?
In the future let's avoid whitespace changes in order to simplify reading the patch.
I expected using `read-form` in `forms-seq` would work the same with regards to bindings as `form-seq` does on master. I'm surprised to hear it might act different. I had hopes `read-form` would also be useful in piggieback/austin, but turns out it wasn't. I'll leave `forms-seq` alone and inline the binding/read into the read loop in repl.cljs. That was the other place it was used.
The `(dec column)` will be needed due to sourcemaps using a 0 index for starting column vs tools.reader using a 1 index. A similar issue to why `(dec line)` is needed a couple lines above. I did not mean for that change to be included as part of this patch, and I'll pull it out into another issue.
I'll attach a new patch with the above changes and ignoring whitespace later today.
Attached new patch with the minimal changes necessary for browser repl source maps, based on previous comment. It does include one additional change to attempt to get the original input string for forms that are only strings/primitives, and cannot have metadata.


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I Can Do That: Skansen Bench
Based on a Swedish antique, this bench uses through-tenons made with just a jigsaw.
By Christopher Schwarz
Pages: 24-25
From the April 2010 issue #182
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I've always liked things that are Swedish, impossibly overbuilt and yet somehow graceful. For example, my beloved Volvo 240DL, a certain foreign exchange student in high school and this bench from the Skansen living history museum in Stockholm.
This bench is from the Älvros Farmstead, a group of buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries that were moved to Skansen. I first spied this bench in the book "Making Swedish Country Furniture & Household Things" (Hartley & Marks). For this version I proportioned the parts so it could be built with dimensional pine – one 12′-long 2×12 and one 8′-long 2×8. Total cost: About $22.
At first glance, this might not look like an "I Can Do That" project, with its laminated top and wedged through-tenons in the seat. But I assure you, it can be built with basic tools.
Online Extras
* Download the complete SketchUp model of the Skansen Bench.
* Read a tutorial on leveling Skansen Bench feet.
* Visit Skansen's web site.
* Download the free plan for an "I Can Do That" step stool.
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Really great style and figure on this week's video update for Heidy, http://www.HeidyModel.com
To me it reminded me of a cute girl at the state fair that sells cotton candy… I don't remember her in sheer top and panties like Heidy, but that's pretty great on her own.
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Thanks guys! Great idea on the tissue paper too. He has peed more through the night so I am feeling better about it.
I am thinking one of the reasons he doesnt want to nurse is that his nose is stuffed up. I have used the syringe but it is not working at all. He is sneezing like crazy trying to clear it out himself but I just dont think he can breathe while he nurses. B/c several times he has latched on, sucked a few times, then come off. He is not real fussy just comes off. My whole household has a stuffy nose so I dont know if it is this or what. Any ideas on getting that cleared?


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Two viciously bash ex-mate for computer
A MAN was kicked, punched, beaten with a shoe and had his head rammed into a car during a vicious attack over a missing computer, an Ipswich court heard.
The victim was at his home in Silkstone when Raymond Bryan Mason, 27, came to his front door with a mate and demanded to speak with him.
Ipswich Magistrates Court heard the pair had been friends, but after a falling out Mason went to the address to confront him about some missing personal belongings.
The victim was in the backyard and Mason went back there, where he and his friend unleashed a "violent and vicious attack", during which Mason's friend did most of the beating, but he just stood by.
Mason's friend started the assault by punching the victim to the head repeatedly, and then kicked him in the chest him while he was on the ground.
While down, the victim couldn't see who was doing the most damage to him, but when he dragged himself up Mason punched him in the spine and knocked him down again.
The co-accused then grabbed him in a headlock and rammed his face into a parked car.
He picked up a shoe and repeatedly bashed the victim to the head, before his girlfriend heard a fight outside and came out to intervene.
She told both to leave the property - Mason fled first, followed shortly by the co-offender. The victim was treated at Ipswich Hospital for abrasions and lacerations to his head, mouth, back, chest, knees and elbows.
Mason pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm in company, which occurred in early 2011, and was sentenced to three months jail, wholly suspended for 12 months.
He was also ordered to pay $500 compensation to the victim and $314.50 to fix the car. Mason, who had no history for violence at all, had an impeccable work record.
Magistrate Donna MacCallum said when reading references tendered on behalf of Mason, it was if his referees were "talking about someone else".
"It was a violent and vicious attack, and you stood there - arguing over a computer is no excuse," she said.
Defence lawyer Matthew Fairclough said most of the violence had been rendered by the principal offender, but his client had "made a serious error of judgement by not stepping in to stop it".


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Before & After: Adrienne's $5,000 Fixer-Upper Kitchen
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- About my kitchen reveal:
- After a job layoff and relocation plans we needed to sell the fixer upper we had just bought in Colorado Springs. We had to do it on a budget and quickly. We reused the vintage metal cabinets (had them powder coated), got a remnant piece of granite, used some extra tiles we had from a bathroom project, and did the whole thing in two months for around $5000.
- My best tip for a successful kitchen makeover::
- Don't panic if you don't think you can do something. There's lots of info online on how to do pretty much everything.
- My favorite meal to cook in my kitchen::
- Well, we did sell the house, 10 days after listing it. But during that time I liked making salads with veggies from my backyard garden.


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by Daniel E. Schmidt
It came in like a lion. And now it appears to be going out like a liar.
The day was March 2 here in little Iola, Wis., and it was cold and blustery outside. I really wanted to go for a run, but decided to go for a hot cup of soup and lunch at our local cafe. The idea was good enough that it helped me attract two of my colleagues. We had barely settled in at a corner table when my cell phone started buzzing.
It was Ted Nugent, and he was returning my call on a Deer & Deer Hunting matter. I was hoping to interview him for a few minutes, but our call was abruptly interrupted by the telltale "bling!" sound of his call-waiting.
"Dan, I gotta go. Call you back in a few minutes," Nugent said.
I figured I wouldn't hear back from him until later in the day, so we all went ahead and ordered our lunches. The food came rather quickly, and we didn't hesitate to dive in.
Before long, my phone started buzzing again.
"Dan! You won't believe who that was," Nugent blurted out before I could even say "hello."
"It was Mitt Romney, and he called me to ask me if he could count on my support.
"I just got off the phone with him," Nugent continued. "And I told him, Mitt, I can't endorse you unless you can promise that there will be no more insane gun restrictions … no more insane ammo restrictions … no more Second Amendment restrictions. I said you also have to vow to reign in the Gestapo-like raids being conducted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service and other game agencies on honest, law-abiding, workin' hard, playin' hard Americans.
"He told me, 'Yes, I vow' and I told him that I would then support him."
Thinking it was pretty cool that I was the first media member to learn about the Nugent/Romney connection, I hurried back to the office to write a blog post on it.
Fast forward to yesterday, April 18. A few days removed from his inflammatory comments at the NRA convention, Nugent is again a marked man. For merely speaking his mind, he has drawn the ire of haters and has one-time supporters conveniently distancing themselves from his so-called "toxic message."
One of those is presidential hopeful Romney (R). In a statement issued yesterday, Romney's campaign denies that he ever reached out to Nugent for his support. Romney himself also took steps to push Nugent away from his campaign.
"Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from," Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul told Talking Points Memo. "Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil."
Divisive or not, Romney knew full well what he was getting when he reached out to Nugent on March 2.
To turn away from him is one thing. To lie about it is completely something else.


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Kim's Serenely Organized Kitchen
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- Rent
- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- I like that my kitchen has lots of little treasures from my travels. The cabinet space is nice, too, since I'm the kind of cook who actually uses the ice cream maker. A lot.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- I developed an unhealthy fear of my kitchen after I had a mouse earlier this year. To take back my life, I spent like a day studying displays at the Container Store and came home and organized all the cabinets. Now the area under my sink is so perfect that sometimes, when I feel overwhelmed, I just go stare into it until I feel more serene.
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
- Boeuf bourguignon! Though I worry it says something bad about the state of my soul that I prefer the Barefoot Contessa's recipe to Julia Child's.


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I'm proud to announce that I will participate to the SQL Pass 2006 Europe conference as a speaker!
Along with my collegue Alessandro I'll speak about advanced Reporting Services development. Here's the session abstract:
"In this session the Reporting Services will be used beyond their visible limits, creating a solution that allows people to execute arbitrary T-SQL code to create their reports. This will be done using external assemblies, leveraging the power of .NET and the flexibility of Reporting Services."
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Suburban movie theaters get swankier, expand offerings
The waiter refills your wineglass and sets down a plate of food, maybe a modern Mediterranean dish or a freshly grilled burger.
After eating, you lie back in your oversized plush chair -- a seat you selected ahead of time, online -- and put your feet up. Wrapped in a blanket, you watch a newly released movie on the big screen, enhanced by all the latest digital video and sound effects.
Welcome to suburban moviegoing in 2013.
A trip to the movies in the suburbs -- and around the U.S. -- has evolved these past few years as theaters compete more intensely with each other, and with online movie streaming and other entertainment options.
That means theaters that once offered little more than popcorn and a movie have expanded their services, upgraded their food offerings and increased the use of technology.
The changes are helping reverse the sagging trend in box office receipts and are attracting niche audiences, industry experts say.
Teens and young people might prefer megaplexes in shopping centers, with space for people to mill around afterward. But more affluent, adult moviegoers are being drawn to smaller, swankier, dine-in theaters like Muvico in Rosemont, iPic in South Barrington or the soon-to-open Star Cinema Grill in downtown Arlington Heights, where the focus is on comfort.
Other theaters emphasize technology, like IMAX, RPX or 3-D effects, or specialty interests such as independent or foreign language films, or bargain ticket prices. Still others, like the Hollywood Palms in Naperville, offer theme theaters paying tribute to undersea adventure or "The Wizard of Oz."
Bargain theaters still dot the suburbs. Even on a Friday or Saturday night, tickets to Academy Award-winning movies like "Life of Pi" or "Django Unchained" are just $1.75 at Picture Show in Bloomingdale ($1 on Tuesdays), or $5 at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove, where you also get to hear an organ concert before the show on weekend nights.
Price is less of an issue at the upscale theaters, where the focus is on the restaurant and bar end of the business. The idea behind their business, theater managers say, is to make going to the movies an all-in-one "night out" rather than just a stop. That means offering a meal and a place to hang out before or after the show.
"To compete with the biggest theater chains, the smaller, private operators had to find alternatives," said Omar Khan, CEO of Star Cinema Grill, which is in the process of transforming the Arlington Theatre in Arlington Heights into a restaurant-bar-theater combination. The new theater, set to open around Memorial Day, will have only 707 seats total -- half the number the old theater had. But it will be a more "controlled" environment with extra staff, better food and a higher level of service, Khan said.
Star Cinema Grill plans to open several more theaters like this in the Chicago suburbs.
"Convenience is a big factor of why the concept has been so successful," Khan said. "Our ticket pricing is the same as megaplexes ... but you're going to pay what you'd pay for (food) at a restaurant. Not higher than that, but competitive."
And food goes beyond burgers. At the Studio Movie Grill in Wheaton, for example, the menu includes ribs and a kale-avocado salad with lemon tarragon dressing.
An intimate, hip vibe exists at the iPic movie theater in the Arboretum of South Barrington. One theater has just 50 seats, and the largest has 76 seats. The seats are more spaced out, with tables between them, giving people room to spread out.
But the added space and luxury comes with a price. Ticket prices range from $13 to $25 per person, depending if you are an iPic member (membership is free) or if you want to kick in an extra $7.50 for "premium plus" seating. You can reserve your seats in advance online.
At luxury theaters like this, someone escorts you to your seat, like a maitre d' at a restaurant.
"It's like sitting in first class. You don't mind paying a bit more, because you're getting a lot more," iPic Marketing Manager Jamie Young said.
In iPic, there is a modern bar with pool tables, wine towers that work like soda dispensers and a menu that includes chef-prepared dishes and a $130 bottle of wine. But you can also just get a tub of popcorn and a soft drink if you want.
"It's really something that's caught on," Young said, adding that iPic is also an expanding company. The chain has a location in Bolingbrook.
Megaplex theaters are also continuing to do well, attracting teens and young adults, said Jesse Tron, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers.
"Movie theaters had to adapt and offer more," he said. "Shopping centers want to have movie theaters, because they bring people in. So movie theaters will continue to play a large role in shopping centers."


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MARTINEZ — Vicki Gordon, a longtime member of the Martinez school board, appears to have pulled off a surprising come-from-behind victory to capture a seat on the five-member Contra Costa Community College District governing board.
The race was too close to call on Nov. 7, and Gordon was a couple hundred votes out of first place. Now, with all mail-in ballots counted, she leads Tom Cleveland by 481 votes for the Ward 2 seat which represents Hercules, part of Martinez, Walnut Creek and Lamorinda.
Incumbent Tomi Van de Brooke finished in third place with 1,450 fewer votes than Gordon. Although the Contra Costa Elections Division staff is reviewing more than 23,000 provisional ballots cast in the county, it's unlikely Cleveland would gain enough votes to overtake Gordon.
Although Gordon is reluctant to claim victory until the county certifies the election results Dec. 4, on Monday, Cleveland said he planned to call and congratulate her.
"I think it's over," he said. "It's just a question of the final tally."
If Gordon wins, the four other Martinez school board members must appoint someone to finish the two years left on her term.
The Contra Costa Community College District includes Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill and satellite campuses in Brentwood and San Ramon.
Gordon grew up in Martinez and earned an associate degree at DVC before transferring to what was then known as Cal State Hayward, where she earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. After returning to school to get a teaching credential, Gordon taught at Martinez Junior High School for five years, then took a break to have two children. She ran for school board in 1997.
Gordon said she was admitted to UC Berkeley, but her mother, a teacher, didn't have the money to send her to a four-year university.
"I went to DVC and I was glad to be at DVC. I thought I faked everybody out, I thought Cal made a huge mistake accepting me and I thought I'd' be a huge failure," she said.
Her experience at DVC left a lasting impression on Gordon, who sees community college as the place where students who are not quite academically ready for a four-year institution can take some time to improve their skills and figure out what they want to do.
"I just hate giving up on anybody," she said. "I think that's the thing at community colleges, we take everybody and we give them the time to get through it.
"Community college is that area where we take those kids and we try again to figure out their pathway, we figure out how to launch them out there."
Gordon's late father-in-law, George R. Gordon, was one of the founding members of the Contra Costa Community College District and served on the governing board for 28 years. The district's administration building in downtown Martinez is named the George R. Gordon Education Center.
The last few years of state budget cuts have been challenging for the Martinez school district, resulting in furlough days, layoffs and increased class sizes in the early grades.
During the crisis, the board asked voters to approve a parcel tax and bond measure to help the district weather the economic slowdown. With the passage of Prop. 30 and a five-year extension of the school district's $50 annual parcel tax, Martinez should be on sounder financial footing in the future.
The governor's tax initiative also will help the cash-strapped community college district, which serves about 62,000 students.
During her 15 years on the board, Gordon is most proud of the district's improved test scores, the investments the board made to upgrade facilities, the Martinez Education Foundation's fundraising prowess and the strong relationships the board has forged with staff and the community.
"I'm very, very proud of all the things we've done in Martinez," she said.
Lisa P. White covers Martinez and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.


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What's wrong with the hybrid model --- being both a Series 7 and IAR of an RIA? Citi Personal Wealth Management advisors want to know. Hybrid FAs there say they are being forced into a pure RIA model, even if it be more expensive for the client. The new comp plan (team agreement) has yet to be disclosed by management, say employees of the bank. But they did say that they know they will be penalized (i.e. lower payout) on transactions. Several large FAs have left last week, two CPWM FAs told me.
Citigroup executives will argue (although I haven't spoken to them; it's Saturday afternoon) that an RIA model is better for the client, and will reduce conflicts of interest and offer greater transparency. And, indeed, the RIA model --- with a fiduciary standard --- is ascendant. And, anyway, Washington may force a fiduciary standard on retail financial advisors. (But that would create problems for broker/dealers, particularly ones that do proprietary trading and investment banking.) If I were a client, and it made financial sense, I would prefer a RIA-fee-based relationship with my FA. But, on the other hand, I can see why an FA would prefer to be able to offer both options (transactions and fees).
The CPWM advisors I spoke to today say choice --- a hybrid model offering the client a choice between commissions and fees like other custodians offer --- is a fine model. (CPWM is the 500 or so bank FAs left over after Citigroup entered into a JV with Morgan Stanley.)
This rather dire posting on Registered Rep.'s forum is an accurate description of what's going on at Citi, I hear via emails and conversations with two CPWM employees, who have been calling and emailing for, oh, weeks now. So, while, to be fair, I haven't yet heard from our friends at Citi (although a Citi spokesman was working on getting me a response), I am confident enough in the accuracy of the post below to blog it. (The new comp plan -- teams and salaries! --- reeks of communism! says one poster on our Advisor Forum.)
Here is the most recent posting from our Advisor Forum, for the whole thread, go here.
"After firing 75+ of their lowest producers and some individual movement here and there, Citi is down to about 500 FAs give or take a few. Although some have already left here and there over the last 3 weeks, the bulk of the flow of FAs out the door is about to accelerate. It's been a month+ since Citi shocked the troops with news of their new platform, team concept and compensation plan. Most smart FAs are well into the due dilligence process and offers are happening. Moving sticky bank clients is always challenging, but those I'm hearing from believe it'll be much easier now vs. later once they've integrated themselves into new teams in 2010.
"Watch this Friday 11/20 and Wed next week right before Thanksgiving. Movement on those 2 key days will start the flow out that will continue up through 12/18 when FINRA closes for the Holidays.
"Where are Citi FAs going? The masses are moving in 3 directions. Wires like Merrill and Wells Fargo Advisors are aggressively pursuing the quintile 1 & 2 producers. Regionals like Stifel Nicolaus are also taking advantage of Citi's blunder. Wells Fargo Bank and PNC are by far the top destinations in the bank channel although lower producers are finding some love at local state and regional banks. Independents like Raymond James and others are also seeing some independent minded top producers heading in their direction."
Oh, and don't say we didn't tell you this method of pay --- teams and salaries --- was a dream of some --- some, just some --- wirehouse executives. Here is an excerpt from an article we published last year:
"Should wealth management in the United States be even more profitable to firms and their shareholders? Compared to their European counterparts, the profitability of U.S. wealth-management operations has a long way to go. In September, a 100-page-plus research report by Bear Stearns International analyst Chris Wheeler took stock of the global wealth-management industry, specifically comparing the European wealth-management arms of firms like UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC to those of the U.S. wirehouse firms. The Europeans are more profitable (as measured by pre-tax operating profit margins), according to Wheeler, who writes, "The European model continues to prove its worth' and that European firms are 'pulling away from their U.S. competitors.' Wheeler did not return requests for comment, but he describes in his report a variety of reasons for this performance superiority: Chief among them is the U.S. compensation model itself, a model that allows the advisor to keep about 40 percent (in some cases more) of the revenue he generates."


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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is considering provoking a military confrontation with Syria by attacking Hizbullah bases near the Syrian border in Lebanon, according to the authoritative London-based Jane's Intelligence Digest.
In an article to be published on Friday, the journal said multi-faceted US attacks, which would be conducted within the framework of the global war on terrorism, are likely to focus on Hizbullah bases in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.
It noted that the deployment of US special forces in the Bekaa Valley, where most of Syria's occupation forces in Lebanon are based, would be highly inflammatory and would "almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops."
Such a conflict might well prove to be the objective of the US, said the journal, which described Washington's strategic benefits from a confrontation with Syria. These include:
* Pressuring Damascus into ending its support for anti-Israel Palestinian groups;
* Persuading Syria to abandon its weapons of mass destruction and to withdraw its troops from Lebanon;
* Stimulating a situation where Syrian leader Bashir Assad can be ousted;
* Crushing Hizbullah and ending its presumed connections with al-Qaida.
"The political consequences of a US attack against Lebanon. . . could result in the destabilization of a country that is still rebuilding its infrastructure a decade after a ruinous 15-year civil war," noted the journal.
"It would also fuel Muslim and Arab hostility toward the US at a time when US-led occupation forces are fighting the ongoing insurgency in Iraq.
"In these circumstances, taking on Hizbullah in the Bekaa Valley is likely to prove a highly risky undertaking.
"However," it continued, "given the Bush administration's doctrine of pre-emptive strikes, it remains entirely possible that Washington will soon launch military strikes against Lebanon, regardless of the consequences for wider regional stability."
The journal noted that the US administration has long considered Damascus "a prime candidate for regime-change," along with Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and, possibly, Saudi Arabia.
"Syria, once a powerhouse of Arab radicalism that could not be ignored, has been seriously weakened, both militarily and politically. Washington may feel that the time is coming to oust Assad and the ruling generals.
"Targeting Syria via Lebanon, the only concrete political influence Damascus has to show following decades of radical diplomacy, could prove to be a means to that end."
The journal also noted that, "there is reason to believe that Iran and the US are moving toward some form of tactical understanding as a consequence of covert diplomacy." As a result, it said, Teheran has been steadily reducing its support for the regime in Damascus.
The journal added that Bashir Assad lacks both the ruthlessness and political acumen of his father, Hafez, whom he succeeded in June 2000, and he is constrained by members of his father's old guard who are continuing to block his tentative efforts at reform.
"These factors make Damascus vulnerable to pressure from both the US and Israel, particularly since US forces are deployed in Iraq, Syria's eastern neighbor."
During the past six months, it added, Washington has increased the US military presence along the Syrian border with Iraq "and, on several occasions, has sent special forces into Syrian territory or penetrated Syrian air space.
"In one incident, US troops pursued suspected Iraqi militants into Syria and fought a running battle that left dozens of people, including some Syrians, dead.
"Israel's air-strike in southern Lebanon earlier this week," it added, "is very unlikely to be the last time Israeli forces cross the border to strike at targets alleged to be militant bases and training camps."


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Courtesy of award-winning Chef/Instructor Oonagh Williams.
If you have decided to give wheat, rye and barley the heave-ho to live a gluten-free life, there are delicious alternatives awaiting you. TV Chef Oonagh Williams of Merrimack created the following decadent cake recipe to convince you.
Makes a single 8-9 inch layer (adapted from regular flour by Scott Phillips of Fine Cooking, 2004)
3/4 cup Oonagh's gluten-free flour mix*
1/4 cup almond meal
1 ounces unsweetened natural cocoa powder (regular Hershey)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
4 ounces butter, melted and still warm
1 1/4 cups packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons gluten-free vanilla extract
1/2 cup hot water
1 cup seedless raspberry jam/preserves
2 tablespoon raspberry liqueur or brandy
Gluten-free vegetable oil spray
*Oonagh's Glute n-Free Flour Mix
1/2 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/4 cup tapioca starch
2 tablespoons amaranth or millet flour (Bob's Red Mill Millet is roughly one third the price of amaranth, is not so nutritious, but is more readily available.)
2 tablespoons sorghum flour
To make Oonagh Williams gluten-free mix in bulk:
14 ounce bag of potato starch (equals about 31/2 cups)
13/4 cups of tapioca starch
3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons amaranth or millet flour
3/4 cups + 2 tablespoons sorghum
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a gluten-free spray to grease the bottom of an 8x2-inch or 9x2-inch round cake pan or line it with parchment.
In a small bowl whisk the gluten-free flour, almond meal, cocoa powder, baking powder, xanthan gum and salt.
In a large bowl combine the melted butter and brown sugar with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula. Add the eggs and vanilla; stir until well blended.
Add the flour mixture all at once and stir just until all the flour is moistened.
Pour the hot water over the batter; stir just until it's incorporated and the batter is smooth. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes for a 9-inch pan; 35 to 40 minutes for an 8-inch pan. Let cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes. Run a thin knife around the edge and invert the cake (peel off the parchment if used). Invert it again onto the rack and let cool completely.
Put raspberry jam in microwave-safe bowl, melt gently in the microwave in 20 second bursts and carefully remove as hot jam can burn. Stir in liqueur. Brush raspberry mix over top and sides of cake. Let set.
Slightly whisk the ganache so it starts holding its shape. Spread over the cake. Top with chocolate curls, nuts, toffee, fresh raspberries, frozen raspberries or any decorations you wish.
Heat 1 cup of whipping or heavy cream to nearly boiling. Add 1 cup Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips (labeled gluten-free) and 1 teaspoon glutenfree vanilla extract. Let stand for a few minutes, then stir and microwave more if necessary until a totally smooth sauce is formed (looks like thick chocolate syrup). Add 2 tablespoons raspberry liqueur or brandy. Chill until ready to use.


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Louisiana got an F for public education achievement Thursday for the third consecutive year in an annual study done by Education Week magazine.
However, better grades in other areas allowed the state to finish 15th in the nation in the rankings, up from 23rd last year and 44th in 2008.
The review, which is called Quality Counts, assigns grades to each state in six areas, including academic performance, standards and assessments and teacher quality.
Louisiana got an overall grade of C+ for the third consecutive year.
Maryland was rated tops in the nation with a grade of B+.
The next top-scoring states are Massachusetts, New York and Virginia. South Dakota finished last.
The failing mark in student achievement here has set off alarm bells in education circles in the past.
In 2011 then state Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek called the grade "a clear wake-up call for those who insist there is no crisis in public education in Louisiana."
In a prepared statement, state leaders on Thursday stressed the positive parts of the report, including an A for education standards, assessments and accountability and an A for aligning early childhood education with training for college and careers.
The state got a C- in the category of chances for success for children; a B- in teacher quality and a C for education equity and spending levels.
Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a prepared statement that the survey shows the state's education system "has gone from almost rock-bottom to No. 15 in the country."
State Superintendent of Education John White said in a news release that the report shows that all levels of government are committed to improving public education.
"However, it also encourages us to renew our efforts to ensure all students are on the path to college or a career," White said of results of the study.
The ratings for student achievement typically include a review of 18 indicators, including gains in the classroom, poverty-based disparities and how fourth- and eighth-graders fared in math and reading on what is known as the nation's report card.


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Doctor Who's Matt Smith Will Topline Ryan Gosling's How to Catch a Monster
It's his first American production.
A day after word came that Ryan Gosling's girlfriend Eva Mendes would join his debut as a writer/director, the Gos also has a star in Doctor Who's Matt Smith. How to Catch a Monster will mark Smith's first crack an American production. He'll act alongside Christina Hendricks in a fantasy-tinted film about "the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city" and an underwater town.


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'55 Best Shop-Made Jigs'
Make your workshop a safer and more efficient place to build with this new CD collection of our 55 favorite shop-made jigs, fixtures and appliances culled from the last 12 years of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine.
On "55 Best Shop-Made Jigs" (there simply wasn't room on the cover to also fit "fixtures & appliances!") you'll find:
• Jigs to make the most of your power tools – including Glen D. Huey's Dirt-simple Router Jigs, Nick Engler's Multi-purpose Saw Sled, Jim Tolpin's Universal Rip Fence and Steve Shanesy's Router Mortising Jig
• Hand-tool Appliances including Nick Engler's Scary-sharp Sharpening Jig, Rob Porcaro's Dovetail Markers and Robert W. Lang's Shop-made Saw Vise (OK – it's technically not an appliance – but if you sharpen your own handsaws, you need a saw vise!)
• Fixtures including David Thiel's Drill Press Table, Nick Engler's Auxiliary Band Saw Table, and Robert D. Lang's No-nonsense Router Table
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But for some, the ladder of success is all about a giant leap into their own businesses. For them, the Center of Entrepreneurship offers a course of study that prepares them for that different path.
Founded in 2011, the Lipscomb Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) is the newest addition to Lipscomb's highly respected College of Business. The Center was created to serve as an academic hub for entrepreneurship, both on campus and in the community. The LCE aims to produce the next generation of innovative entrepreneurial leaders in the greater Nashville area and beyond.


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A prophet is one who speaks for God through divine revelation. Prophets in the Bible usually predict future events and the words of a prophet must always come to pass. If they do not, then he is a false prophet and must be put to death according to the book of Deuteronomy.
Prophets in the Old Testament also have the distinction of being largely ignored by the Jewish people who they are trying to reach.
A large portion of the Bible deals with prophets and prophecy, including two sections of the books of the Bible, the Major Prophets and the Minor Prophets. Note that the Minor Prophets is in reference to the length of their texts, not that they themselves were less of a prophet than the Major Prophets.
The Major Prophets:
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Ezekiel
The Minor Prophets:
- Daniel
- Deborah
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Samuel
- Zechariah
- Malachi
There are other prophets in the Bible as well that don't have books named after them, such as Elijah and Elisha. Furthermore, while discussion of prophets is less pronounced in the New Testament of the Bible than it is in the Old, there are prophets in the New Testament as well, such as Agabus.
Prophets outside the Bible
Many religions that were set up after Jesus have labeled their founders as prophets, such as Islam with Mohammed.
The Mormon Church believes in a succession of Latter Day Prophets who have come in modern times.
Charismatic preachers, especially in the faith movement, will often refer to themselves as prophets.


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The Spring 2012 Faculty Lecture Series presents: Spaces of Hope
Filmmaking in community research and activism in Hawai'iUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Teri L. Skillman-Kashyap, (808) 956-8688
Events & Communications Coordinator, Library Services
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Posted: Feb 21, 2012
The first lecture in the Spring 2012 Faculty Lecture Series, Spaces of Hope: Filmmaking in community research and activism in Hawai'i, will be held on Thursday, February 23, in UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library room 301 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided (while supplies last). The doors open at 3:15 p.m.
Join Mike Douglass, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning (DURP) at UH Mānoa and Henry Mochida, doctoral student in Urban & Regional Planning, as they discuss filmmaking as a process of discovery and as a contribution to linking knowledge to action in real world settings. The filmmakers are graduate students at DURP, Sociology and Education.
Two documentaries, "Hazel's Harvest" and "Breath of the Land, Life of the People," will be screened. Following the screening, Douglass and Mochida will introduce the filmmakers and moderate discussions with the audience.
The films to be shown are:
"Hazel's Harvest"by Ly Ngo, Jesse Hsu and Nate Hilts
Looking for spaces of hope in a forgotten Eden. Follow the homeless residents of lwiliei in the heart of Honolulu as they discover the art and skill of urban organic farming. In sharing their stories as they grow food in small plots of land, they find hope in their own lives.
"Breath of the Land, Life of the People" by Chris de Venecia and John Hagihara
In the back of Oʻahu's Kalihi Valley volunteers join together to turn a 100-acre nature preserve into a community garden of food along and native reforestation. People of all walks of life come here to share their stories and talk of their aspirations with each other. From an 84 year old battling cancer to a young man searching for his place in the world, Ho'oulu 'Aina provides a space for healing.
The Faculty Lecture Series is presented by the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, the Office of Research Relations, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library.


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MILAN (AP) — The board of La Scala voted Thursday to oust its incoming general director at the end of his first season in the latest behind-the-scenes melodrama to roil the fabled opera house.
Salzburg Festival director Alexander Pereira had been brought on for five seasons, but the board voted to oust him after the upcoming 2014-2015 season amid allegations of a conflict of interest.
La Scala board chairman Giuliano Pisapia, who is also Milan's mayor, said Pereira overreached his powers by making a deal for La Scala to buy four operas from the Salzburg Festival, where he is still director, before officially assuming his role at La Scala on Oct. 1.
"Pereira without a doubt went beyond his powers," Pisapia told reporters.
Pereira, who spent two decades at the Zurich Opera before heading to Salzburg in 2011, has said he was following common practices for European theaters.
Not since Ricardo Muti was pushed out as musical director in a worker mutiny nearly a decade ago has there been so much turmoil in La Scala's ranks. The controversy risks damaging La Scala's prestige just as Milan prepares to host Expo 2015, the world fair that will feature a concert series at La Scala.
Pereira's curtailed tenure could have consequences for La Scala's musical direction. Pereira had already brought on Riccardo Chailly, replacing Daniel Barenboim in the role of musical director. Barenboim bowed out two years early to make way for Pereira's choice.
Pereira, 66, was named last June to replace Frenchman Stephan Lissner, who departs Sept. 1 for the Paris Opera after nine seasons at La Scala. Pereira, sought after for his business acumen and fundraising ability, has been working at La Scala in the intervening period, as Lissner has been working on his own transition into the Paris Opera.
The La Scala board on Thursday sent Pereira a letter outlining its terms: that he direct the upcoming season that opens Dec. 7, and immediately signs a resignation letter effective Dec. 31, 2015. He must also agree to run any financial decision, including contracts with artists and deals with other opera houses, by the board.
Pereira has not yet responded to the letter.
"It was the only possible and practical solution to avoid a disaster at our La Scala," Pisapia said. The opera house wants to both maintain the 2014-2015 season, devoted to the Expo, "at the highest level" while avoiding possible litigation if they had moved to oust Pereira immediately, he said.
Programs at opera houses are typically laid out years in advance to secure singers and conductors, whose schedules fill up. It isn't uncommon for incoming general managers to be discussing possible runs with artists for future seasons before they actually take over.
However, the terms of Pereira's La Scala deal stipulated he could only make contacts, not reach deals, before taking full power.
After Muti's contentious departure, the opera house, which was home to Giuseppe Verdi and Arturo Toscanini, enjoyed a period of relative calm under Lissner, who nudged Barenboim into the role of musical director and diversified the repertoire while balancing the budget ever year.


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Fishermen frustrated over shrimpy shrimp seasonBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
December 06. 2012 12:58AM
PORTSMOUTH - Fisherman Stephen Lee might not even stay in the area this year for the shrimp season.
He said the total allowable catch has been cut so dramatically, and the season is expected to be so short, he is not sure it will be worth it to go to sea.
On Tuesday, the Northern Shrimp Section of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission set the total allowable shrimp catch for Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts at about 1.2 million pounds - a 72 percent reduction over last year.
The opening date has also been pushed back to late January.
Lee said he expects shrimp fishermen will only get five or six days at sea this year. Two years ago, shrimp fishermen spent about 150 days at sea. Last year, the season lasted only 21 days.
"It's not really a season," Lee said. "It's pretty small. I'm not sure if I'm even going to hang around for it."
Lee sits on an advisory panel that reviews ASMFC's findings and provides recommendations to the section before decisions are made. He said environmental factors are contributing to low shrimp numbers.
"They are not blaming it on fishing ... but fishing is the only thing they can control at this point," Lee said.
Lee said shrimp "recruitment" numbers are low largely as a result of warmer ocean temperatures.
Ocean temperatures in the western Gulf of Maine shrimp habitat have been increasing in recent years and have reached or approached unprecedented highs in the past three years, he said.
Lee said the fishery faced similar circumstances in the 1950s, with the Gulf Stream moving up and pinching off the Labrador current off Newfoundland, and preventing the cold water from running into the Gulf of Maine.
"I think next year we may see some movement, although I don't think we will see a shrimp season at all (next year)," Lee said.
Lee said there are about 18 boats in New Hampshire that fish for shrimp and the impact on them this year could be "traumatic."
"Anyone who has counted on that for part of their finances for the year is kind of ... out of luck, I'd say. It is not going to be good," Lee said.
Lee owns the Portsmouth-based F/V Kirsten Lee and has licenses to fish in both New Hampshire and Maine, which he said helped last year.
About 90 percent of the shrimp fishery is conducted in Maine.
Lee said he is a "niche" fishermen. In the spring he heads south to catch monkfish, returns in the summer for herring season and then normally, with the winter shrimp season, he gets a decent year.
But his year, the herring was "so so" he said. With the shrimp season abbreviated, he might head somewhere else.
"I don't want to leave the area, I want to stay here and fish, but for five or six days, is it worth it," Lee said.
The trawl fishery will begin Jan. 22 with landing days on Monday and Wednesday only.
The trap fishery, which largely takes place in Maine, will begin Feb. 5, with six landing days each week and an 800-pound trip limit.
Lee said there have been discussions about making changes to address challenges, including issuing a limited number of licenses for the fishery or setting trip limits per boat.
"There are a lot more tools in the toolbox than there used to be," Lee said, but added that these kinds of changes never happen quickly.
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text: Overview Print Diagnosing and treating more than 500 neurological conditions Mayo Clinic's top-ranked team of neurologists diagnoses and treats more than 500 neurological conditions, including many rare or complex disorders. The Mayo Clinic Department of Neurology is one of the largest in the world. It includes more than 100 subspecialized experts trained in epilepsy, movement disorders, dementias and other cognitive conditions, stroke and cerebrovascular diseases, neuro-oncology, multiple sclerosis and demyelinating disorders, autoimmune neurology, pediatric neurology, neurophysiology, headache, neuromuscular diseases, peripheral nerve, sleep neurology, and speech pathology. These care providers work together to evaluate and treat people utilizing the most advanced techniques and technologies. Research. Mayo Clinic's long history of pioneering medical research means patients have access to state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment facilities and numerous groundbreaking clinical trials. Mayo Clinic experts are constantly seeking new knowledge to improve diagnosis and therapies for people with more than 500 different brain and nervous system disorders. Collaborative care. Neurologists at Mayo Clinic are part of an integrated, multidisciplinary team of doctors and health care professionals who provide individualized care for each patient. Doctors in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota collaborate with experts in many specialties to provide you with comprehensive care. These experts include those trained in brain and nervous system surgery, tumors of the brain and nervous system, mental health conditions, sleep disorders, speech conditions, eye conditions, pain medicine, and physical medicine and rehabilitation among others. Focused on you. Having all this expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion — your care is discussed among the team, your test results are available quickly and appointments are scheduled in coordination. The most highly specialized experts in the world are all working together for you. What might take weeks or even months to accomplish elsewhere can typically be done in a matter of days at Mayo Clinic. Top ranked. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ranks No. 1 for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report. Neurological services are also provided to children at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Neurologists trained in treating children work in collaboration with doctors trained in treating children and adolescents as well as other pediatric specialists. Many Mayo Clinic Health System facilities also provide neurological care. Neurologists at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota also provide care for people at several regional clinics and hospitals each week. A primary care provider at the location refers individuals for appointments with the visiting neurologist. Mayo Clinic Health System clinics, hospitals and health care facilities serve more than 60 communities in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. These sites provide Mayo Clinic neurology and neurosurgery care to their local communities. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Department homeTests & procedures Sept. 12, 2018 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been recognized as the best Neurology & Neurosurgery hospital in the nation for 2018-2019 by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about this top honor NeurologyDepartment homeSectionsOverviewRequest an appointmentTests & proceduresConditions treatedDoctorsSpecialty groupsExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesCosts & insuranceNews from Mayo ClinicResources for physicians SectionsRequest an appointmentOverviewTests & proceduresConditions treatedDoctorsSpecialty groupsExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesCosts & insuranceNews from Mayo ClinicResources for physicians ORG-20117054 Departments & Centers Medical Departments & Centers Neurology


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has approved legislation designed to ensure an array of veterans programs are exempt from the threat of any future government shutdown.
Health care delivered through the Department of Veterans Affairs was unaffected during last month's 16-day shutdown because Congress funds health services one year in advance.
Now, lawmakers want to extend similar safeguards to disability payments, pensions and educational assistance, all of which would have been halted if the shutdown had continued much longer.
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs has already approved a similar measure. The Senate panel approved its version by a vote of 13-1 on Tuesday.
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Year-end stories are mostly about what a horrible year 2008 was, and how 2009 can only be better. There's certainly some truth to that, but for us, as for most people, 2008 was full of blessings, too. It's hard to say that we had less fun or, on the whole, a less rewarding year than usual. Of course, our 201(k) plans aren't what they once were, but it's only money, and, for better or worse, we have never been mostly about money.
So the new year is worth celebrating, as people around the world have been doing. In London:
Berlin, at the Brandenburg Gate:
Another more intimate shot from the same location:
Manila Bay:
And Fort Bonifacio, Manila:
Sydney Harbour:
And, finally, from Key West, a rehearsal of the "pirate wench drop" to take place at midnight:
We are enjoying a quiet New Year's Eve, even by our standards. Happy New Year to all of our readers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from California raisin producers who object to a government program that aims to stabilize prices by regulating the raisin market.
The justices said Tuesday they will review a federal appeals court ruling that dismissed claims brought by farmers in California's Central Valley. The state produces almost all raisins in the United States and about 40 percent of the crop worldwide.
The farmers complain that a Depression-era law unfairly prevents them from selling their entire crop on the open market when the government determines that there otherwise would be a glut of raisins that would drive prices down.
The issue at the Supreme Court is what court the farmers must use to mount their challenge.