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Consumers using more media, new and old, according to ISU professor's four-year study
A four-year study led by Jay Newell, an ISU mass media professor, found large gains in the use of new media (like the Internet and e-mail), but also a slight increase in the use of traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio and television). The results are summarized in a paper that will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal on Media Management.
ISU psychologist assists in study finding babies distinguish between happy, sad music
ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile was one of the researchers on a study of 96 infants finding that babies as young as 5 months old can distinguish an upbeat song from among gloomier compositions. Their paper "Infants; discrimination of happy and sad music," will be published in the upcoming issue of the academic journal Infant Behavior and Development.
Financial crisis roundtable features distinguished alumni financial leaders, Oct. 23
Three financial leaders, whose collective expertise encompasses the regulatory and regulated sides of finance in domestic and international markets, will discuss the financial crisis during a roundtable at Iowa State. The speakers are all Iowa State alumni. "The Financial Crisis: What Now?" will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 in the Memorial Union Great Hall. The roundtable is free and open to the public.
Robert C. Brown: biofuels are best option to harness solar energy
Robert C. Brown, who studies the conversion of biomass to biofuels, will deliver this fall's Presidential University Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Sun Room of Iowa State's Memorial Union. He'll discuss, "Why are We Producing Biofuels?" The lecture is free and open to the public.
Iowa State University researcher developed forerunner of Nobel research in 1986
This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry was given to researchers for their work on illuminating living cells. An Iowa State University professor developed something similar more than 20 years ago.
Iowa State researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
Iowa State University researchers are developing wireless soil sensors that could one day help farmers maximize their production while minimizing environmental impacts. The prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground. Farmers and their equipment could work right over the top of them.
ISU economists assess recessionary conditions, give tips for tough times ahead
Meghan O'Brien, an economist with Iowa State's Regional Capacity Analysis Program (ReCAP), authored a new report titled "Retail Economics 101: Lessons and Strategies of a Recession." O'Brien and fellow ISU economist Joydeep Bhattacharya both see economic indicators that suggest a deep recession is underway, or on its way.
As good as it gets for a furniture design student
Iowa State senior Andrew Kopp's bench won Best of Show in the International Woodworking Fair's Design Emphasis '08, considered the nation's premier furniture design competition for students. The honor includes a $2,000 prize and a trophy.
ISU College of Veterinary Medicine to dedicate new Veterinary Medical Center
The new Dr. W. Eugene and Linda Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine will be dedicated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. The dedication event will be held outside of the medical center on the east side of the new complex.
Award-winning landscape architect will present P.H. Elwood Lecture Oct. 22
Gary Hilderbrand, an award-winning landscape architect and adjunct professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will present the P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture on Wednesday, Oct. 22. His presentation, "Space of Trees," will be at 6 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. The presentation is free and open to the public.
College of Human Sciences dean's search committee finalized
Wendy Wintersteen, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will lead an 18-member committee in the search for the next dean of ISU's College of Human Sciences.
Magazine features ISU furniture design students
The current issue (Dec. 2008) of Woodwork Magazine features a two-page spread of work by students of Chris Martin, associate professor of art and design. The photo gallery shows work by eight BFA and MFA students in Martin's furniture design course last year. And the magazine's back cover features a piece by Chris Martin, associate professor of art and design. Martin's article describes processes involved in creating a desk inspired by Czech Cubism.
ISU grad and Bank of Hawaii CEO Allan Landon to give Stafford Lecture Oct. 17
1970 ISU College of Business graduate Allan Landon, who is now chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of Hawaii, is the fall 2008 speaker for the Robert Stafford Lecture Series on Banking in ISU's College of Business. Landon will discuss several banking topics -- including the current financial crisis facing the industry -- during his 11 a.m. talk on Friday, Oct. 17, in the Gerdin Business Building's Stark Lecture Hall.
Alumni, working on the wild side
Alumni who work at top zoos and aquariums are featured in the latest edition of the ISU alumni magazine.
Vote for Cy
Vote for Cy in the Capital One National mascot of the Year competition.
In the news
Is Your Company Really Eco-Conscious?
U.S. News & World Report
"From the research I've done, it's clear that a firm that is proactive environmentally is going to be more progressive in general," says Frank Montabon, a professor of supply chain management at the College of Business at Iowa State University.
Ethanol could be key to Iowans on the fence
USA Today
Bob Bowman, who farms 2,000 acres, illustrates what agriculture and political experts such as Iowa State University political scientist Steffen Schmidt say is a potential lever to sway on-the-fence voters in Iowa. Ethanol might have slipped off the national radar, he says, but could grow in importance if the race in Iowa tightens between Republican John McCain and Democratic Barack Obama.
Identity-theft threats seem to be a constant, thanks to porous networks and laid-back users.
University Business
Iowa State University officials, for example, are pilot testing a two-hour online identity theft seminar that students, and even parents, can take. The material was developed through testing with law enforcement and insurance industry representatives, notes Steffen Schmidt, professor of political science at ISU and co-author of The Silent Crime: What You Need to Know About Identity Theft (Twin Lakes Press, 2008).
At home women hold the power
USA Today
Making decisions equally is the "socially desired response" forcouples today, but it's not necessarily the reality, says Megan Murphy,director of the marriage and family therapy program at Iowa State University-Ames and co-author of a study of 72 couples that also found women in charge at home.


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General Reports and Materials
Before, during and after the 2009 U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference, a variety of materials were provided to educate attendees about the Iraqi market. Please visit the links available on this page to view the materials.
National Investment Commission: Investor Guide to Iraq (PDF)
National Investment Commission: Investment Overview to Iraq (PDF)
U.S. Department of Commerce: Iraq Country Commercial Guide (PDF)
Market Research
A number of reports and information already exist about the business and investment environment and opportunities in Iraq. Links to reports on broad categories of information on the Iraq market are available on this page. Industry-specific reports will be listed on the industry sector pages provided below.

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Public defender for accused murderer Mazzaglia reviews ex-girlfriend McDonough's 'repeated lies,' ends cross-examinationBy MIKE LAWRENCE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 12. 2014 11:58AM
DOVER -- In final statements of his more than five-day cross-examination of Kathryn "Kat" McDonough, defense attorney Joachim Barth called her understanding of reality "dubious and doubtful" Thursday morning and said she has consistently failed to recognize the devastating impacts of the October 2012 death of UNH student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott.
"You have no appreciation for Ms. Marriott's life," Barth said. "Ms. McDonough, I don't have any further questions for you."
McDonough, 20, responded to Barth's statements in a choked-up voice, asking how he could make such a claim.
"You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through," she said. "You have your ideas, but I have spent so much time trying to understand this. I have spent all this time not being able to say anything to anyone."
McDonough said prior to the ongoing trial, she'd long been unable to tell the truth about what happened to Marriott on Oct. 9, 2012, in the Dover apartment she shared with accused murderer Seth Mazzaglia, 31.
"I've been locked in my thoughts – of course I think about her," McDonough continued Thursday. "This is just the beginning, where I can actually explain what really happened to her."
Earlier Thursday, Barth said to McDonough, "It seems at almost every juncture you have been a victim in this process in your efforts to tell the truth."
Mazzaglia is facing first- and second-degree murder charges in the death of Marriott, a 19-year-old from Westborough, Mass. McDonough testified last week that she was sitting next to Marriott on the night of her death when Mazzaglia began strangling Marriott from behind with a rope, and that Mazzaglia then raped Marriott's limp body.
Barth has accused McDonough of killing Marriott during a night of rough sex that could have caused suffocation and a seizure.
"We have talked about your repeated lies," Barth said to McDonough on Thursday. "Your capacity to lie and lie repeatedly and consistently, you admit."
McDonough again acknowledged, as she has since her testimony began June 3, that she initially lied to investigators, Barth's legal team, Mazzaglia and others. She said she told those lies and created a story about rough sexual contact that led to the "accident" of Marriott's death in attempts to protect Mazzaglia.
"I was willing to lie for him," McDonough said Thursday. "I was willing to do just about anything to save him."
McDonough is serving a 1½- to three-year prison term after pleading guilty last July to charges including witness tampering and hindering the investigation, as part of a plea agreement. She has testified that she helped cover up the murder and rape of Marriott, whose body has never been found.
Barth returned Thursday morning to recorded interviews and statements McDonough made in Barth's law office on Oct. 15 and 17, 2012, just days after Marriott's death and Mazzaglia's arrest Oct. 13.
McDonough, who later spoke to a grand jury in February 2013 and reached a plea deal with prosecutors in July 2013, said she was lying throughout much of the October interviews with Barth's legal team.
The different stories created a back-and-forth in Barth's questioning Thursday.
"You described to us that the kind of harness you put on Liz Marriott would make it hard to breathe if you pushed your head forward, correct?" Barth asked.
"We didn't actually put a harness on her, so it was just something I came up with," McDonough said.
"You described the encounter with Liz Marriott to us on the 15th and confirmed it again on the 17th?" he asked.
"I described a fictional encounter," she replied.
"Part of that encounter included you sitting on Ms. Marriott's face for 10 to 15 minutes," Barth said.
"That was part of the fictional encounter," McDonough replied.
"You described, literally, the feelings you had during this act of sexual domination," Barth pressed.
"That was the way I described something that didn't actually happen," McDonough said.
Barth then recounted how McDonough told his legal team that Marriott had "what appeared to you to be a seizure" and "that you freaked out" and that "you characterized this as an accident."
"To you, yes," McDonough said. "I told you that it was an accident."
Mazzaglia's defense took more than an hour Wednesday afternoon in court to play a video of McDonough in Barth's law office on Oct. 17, 2012. She had come to the office to review and revise a summary statement she had given legal staff Oct. 15.
McDonough appeared at ease in the video, smiling and laughing several times while talking with an investigator.
She said in the video that Marriott kissed both her and Mazzaglia that night. McDonough also used hand gestures to describe how she touched Marriott while Marriott was on top of her. At one point in the video, McDonough stood up to demonstrate how she straddled Marriott.
Barth asked her Thursday about her demeanor in the video.
"I can't deny the fact that I do tend to laugh when I'm nervous," McDonough said. "That was a way for me to calm down.
"By laughing, I was able to release some of that nervousness, to stay calm," she added a few minutes later.
"Does that make you a really good liar then, or a better liar now?" Barth asked.
"I'm not lying now," McDonough said. "I've been told that I suck at lying. I don't know if people actually believed my story or not."
Barth also referred to a conversation between McDonough and Rochester resident Roberta Gerkin, a friend of Mazzaglia's who has testified in his ongoing trial and who came to the Dover apartment on the night of Marriott's death. Gerkin and her boyfriend, Paul Hickok, saw Marriott's body lying on the floor that night.
The conversation to which Barth referred Thursday took place in the months after Marriott's death. McDonough didn't know that Gerkin was recording the conversation, Barth said.
Barth said McDonough described Marriott's death to Gerkin as "a stupid, stupid, stupid thing" and as a "pothole" in McDonough's life.
"It was a bump in the road in my life, but a really, really big one," McDonough said Thursday.
McDonough has maintained in her testimony that she repeatedly lied to Gerkin in conversations following Marriott's death.
"When she seemed so adamant about wanting answers, I decided to give her a story that I had already given someone else," McDonough said Thursday.
Barth again referred Thursday to McDonough's seemingly relaxed demeanor in the October 2012 interviews, and asked whether McDonough's more guarded, more hesitant answers in court over the past week have represented her "truth-telling" demeanor.
"I'm telling the truth as it is," McDonough said. "I'm trying to fix as much broken things as I can fix."
Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley, who guided McDonough through more than two days of direct testimony that began June 3, began his re-direct questioning late Thursday morning.
The trial continues Thursday afternoon.


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Coastal Dunes as Archives of Climate Change
OCCI Funded Project: 2005
Proposed Research
What are the primary questions you are trying to address with this research?
Coastal sand dunes are common landforms along continental margins and their origin, migration, and stabilization have been intimately linked to sediment availability, sea-level history, climatic shifts, and most recently, human-induced changes. One of the hypotheses being addressed in the proposed project is the potential of coastal dune sequences on the opposite sides of a large ocean basin to record large-scale climatic fluctuations as synchronous periods of dune activity and stabilization. The proposed study focuses on the responses of coastal dunes and interdunal wetlands at two sites (Aquinnah dunefield, Martha's Vineyard and Curonian Spit, Lithuania; Figure 1) to climate change around the North Atlantic over the past 2,000-3,000 years.
What is the significance of this research for others working in this field of inquiry and for the broader scientific community?
Despite the importance of coastal dunes as natural sand reservoirs along many barrier systems and buffers against storm attack, very little is known about the dynamic responses of aeolian (wind-produced) landforms and associated ecosystems to climatic shifts and perturbations in the regional hydrologic balance. As a geological continuation of the beach, linking the behavior of dune systems to specific environmental forcing factors (wind direction and intensity, precipitation, vegetation cover, sediment supply, water-level fluctuations) in different parts of the world will be of primary significance for predicting large-scale coastal responses to future changes.
What is the significance of this research for society?
Faced with predicted acceleration in the global sea-level rise and ever-increasing population pressures, it is important for coastal communities to anticipate the near-future trends in shoreline change and properly manage coastal resources. In some parts of the world, coastal residents find themselves caught between rising sea level and massive, rapidly encroaching dunes mobilized by either natural or human-induced processes. The integral role of dunes in the geological and ecological adjustment along the world's coasts underscores the need to improve our knowledge of their past behavior.
When and where will this investigation be conducted?
The project will begin in the summer of 2005 with surveys on Martha's Vineyard and several field sites on Cape Cod. Fieldwork in Lithuania will follow in the fall.
What are the key tools or instruments needed to conduct this research?
In the field, a combination of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveying and collection of sediment cores will be used to reconstruct the subsurface geology of coastal dune sites (Figure 1A). The timeframe of dune migration and stabilization will be documented using radiocarbon dating of organic deposits, dendrochronology, and optical dating of dune sands.
The proposed project is a new line of inquiry at WHOI and will be used to refine the strategy for improving success of the future research initiatives in this field.
BiographyIlya Buynevich joined WHOI's Coastal Systems Group after finishing his post-doctoral work at the Institution. Growing up in southern Ukraine along the shores of Black Sea, he always enjoyed family trips to the beach and walks along ancient seacliffs. His interest in the processes that shape the coast led him to pursue one of the few marine geology programs in the country and, upon coming to the United States, he continued his education and graduate work in coastal geology at Boston University. His most recent research projects focused on the use of sedimentological and geophysical techniques for reconstructing the record of beach erosion and the natural history of coastal landforms. He enjoys outdoors, especially a day at the beach, with his wife Vicki (also a Ukraine native) and their twin boys.


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GULLANE, Scotland (AP) – Of all the words of consolation and advice for Adam Scott after his meltdown at last year's British Open, the most inspirational came from Tom Watson.
During a practice round for the Australian Open in December, Watson waited seven holes before addressing what happened to Scott at Royal Lytham & St. Anne's.
"He said that he let one slip early in his career, and he said he would never let that happen again,'' Scott recalled on Wednesday, back at the British Open. "He would just be tough and want it so badly, and sometimes maybe that has to happen for you to realize that.''
The message clearly hit home with Scott – the Australian went out and won the very next major, the Masters in April after a playoff with Angel Cabrera.
"It was a completely different situation at Augusta. But I felt like I played tough, especially in the playoff, because no one's going to give you a major,'' Scott said.
Scott's collapse at Lytham, where he bogeyed his last four holes to let slip a four-shot lead and give away the claret jug to Ernie Els, was one of the most memorable at an Open. It didn't quite have the drama of Jean Van de Velde at Carnoustie in 1999 but it wasn't far off.
Looking back, it may just be the defining moment of his career.
"No matter how you react, it's hard to console somebody who feels so terrible about it. But I think it's all the good advice and guidance that I've been given on how to handle playing a professional sport or handle just being a person and having a decent perspective on all that,'' Scott said.
"And somehow that turned into me taking Lytham as a positive, and just pushing me harder to try to get across the line to win a major.''
The fourth-ranked Scott is one of the favorites and prominent names at the British Open at Muirfield starting on Thursday, but he's been trying to keep a low profile this week. It's nothing to do with his golf, more to do with Australia's woes in sport.
After the Wallabies' 2-1 defeat in the recent rugby test series against the British and Irish Lions, Australia's cricket team began the Ashes against England by losing the first test.
"It's a tough time being an Aussie over here at the moment, to be honest with you. I move very quietly around town,'' Scott said, with a smile.
"I'd love to get in here this week,'' he added, "and maybe spur our cricket team along to leveling the test series.''


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To mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the National Minority AIDS Council and Housing Works, with support from the Ford Foundation, have released a new report titled "Mass Incarceration, Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS," examining the intersection between incarceration, homelessness and HIV vulnerability, especially within the African American community.
Read Paul Kawata's Huffington Post article on the report here: www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-kawata/poverty-homelessness-hiv_b_2625669.html
African Americans make up only 12 percent of America's population, but account for 44 percent of new HIV infections and almost half of all AIDS diagnoses in the United States, with black gay men facing the heaviest disease burden of any group. At the same time, despite similar rates of criminal conduct, African American males are more than six times as likely to be incarcerated as their white counterparts. Loss of income, poor health, interruption of intimate relationships, and pre-existing social disadvantages coalesce to make it difficult for many people living with HIV to secure or maintain adequate housing. Histories of incarceration only exacerbate these pressures further.
While it has long been understood that incarceration increases an individual's vulnerability to HIV, many have assumed that this is the result of increased risk behavior or exposure while in prison. In reality, the evidence suggests that it is housing instability and the interruption of medical care resulting from incarceration that has the greatest impact on HIV vulnerability. With 25 percent of the world's imprisoned population, our nation's culture of mass incarceration has created a devastating and self-perpetuating cycle of poverty, homelessness, and criminal justice involvement that undermines our ability to successfully combat the spread of HIV, especially among African Americans.
The newly released report includes recommendations to address this cycle of vulnerability, such as:
- reforming our criminal justice and sentencing practices;
- allowing formerly incarcerated persons access to federal housing and homeless assistance programs;
- removing post-incarceration barriers to subsistence income and health insurance;
- improving pre-release planning for inmates living with HIV or AIDS; and
- evaluating the effectiveness of housing-based interventions for formerly incarcerated persons living with HIV.
Click here to read the report: nmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Incarceration-Report-FINAL_2-6-13_Two.pdf


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GQ pulled a fast one on its readers in its May issue.
The story of a 13-year old numbers wunderkind who manages a small town baseball team is a hoax, made up entirely from the imagination of GQ articles editor Jason Gay.
The article, "The Boys of Summer," profiles Jonathan Nettles Floyd, a child born on April 1, 1994, who is the general manager of the Ash Fork Miners, a team in the Desert Cactus Independent League. Floyd has developed a unique statistic to evaluate player's ability—the ISH and the OSH, or infield stolen hits and outfield stolen hits. Supposedly, Floyd has a 9-year-old assistant, and is being heavily courted by the New York Yankees.
But the boy, the team, the Desert Cactus Independent baseball League, and the entire story are all fake. There actually is a town called Ash Fork, population 400, just north of Phoenix, but it does not have a minor league baseball team. Instead, the players and ballpark facilities shown in the story are home to the Yuma, Ariz., Golden Baseball League, run by commissioner Kevin Outcalt. And Outcalt did more than lend his baseball field for the story. He also lent his 13-year-old son Chris Outcalt—who is photographed as young Floyd in the piece.
"Everything's 100 percent made up," admitted Gay.
Those who read the story carefully will find some signals of GQ's trickery.
Floyd's birthday is April Fool's Day; players include Irving Clifford, second basemen George Frey and James Plimpton, and manager Billy "Stack" Stackhouse. Irving Clifford is a reference to writer Clifford Irving, best known for writing an unauthorized fake autobiography of Howard Hughes; George Frey and James Plimpton are transposed names of fake memoirist James Frey and George Plimpton, author of "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch," a novel about a fictitious baseball pitcher with a 200 mile per hour fastball.
Stackhouse, meanwhile, references both "Candid Camera" and MTV's prank program "Punk'd" in an "interview" with Gay. Finally, Gay's bio at the end of the story says he is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, which he is not.
"The hard part about doing a piece like this is you want to walk that careful line between having fun with and being playful and shouting fire in a crowded theater," explained Gay. "You want to have the spoof reveal itself the deeper you read into the piece."
Gay, incidentally, also wrote a satirical presidential background check of Stephen Colbert in the same issue. But he notes that pranking the reader will not be a regular gig. "You obviously can't do this every month, because people will get irritated by you. You pick your spots."
GQ will reveal the spoof to readers in its July issue. As for the June issue, Gay guarantees, "every other word in GQ is true."


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Hucho hucho
|Scope: Global & Europe
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered B2ab(ii,iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M.
|Bogutskaya, N., & Smith, K. (IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit)
The species is severely fragmented within the Danube drainage, where most populations exclusively depend on stocking and natural reproduction is very limited due to habitat alterations and flow regime changes. The main current threat to the species is the flow regulation from hydropower dams which impact the species, and their prey's, habitat and pollution. Documented self-sustaining populations are very few. For example, these include the Drau, Mur, Melk, Pielach, and lower Gail rivers in Austria. Globally, they will have a combined area of occupancy of less than 500 km² (based on spawning areas).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Native only in the Danube drainage, where it has a very fragmented distribution. Very locally introduced in some headwaters of Odra, Vistula (Poland), Lake Constance (Germany), Tagus (Spain), Rhône (France) and probably other drainages where it apparently maintains only by stocking.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Austria; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|The species has undergone a massive decline starting over 100 years ago. More recently the majority of the stocks rely upon re-introductions (from farmed stock and ranched) for angling and conservation. It is almost impossible to identify if any stocks are self sustaining.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
Montane and submontane reaches of large streams and swift rivers with gravel beds, well oxygenated, fast-flowing water and temperatures rarely above 15°C. Prefers deep pools and shady water under overhanging vegetation. Spawns in very clean gravel in fast-flowing water, usually in small river tributaries.
Lives more than 20 years. Males reproduce for the first time at 3-4 years and about 1 kg, females at 4-5 years and 2-3 kg. Spawns every year in early spring, usually March-April, rarely early May, when temperatures reach 6-10°C. Commonly migrates upriver for spawning in upper reaches of tributaries. Males arrive first at spawning sites. Males guard females against other males. Both sexes excavate a redd about 1.2-3.0 m in diameter, 10-20 cm deep, and defend a small territory in spawning grounds against other individuals. Usually spawns during daytime. During spawning act, both sexes cover the eggs with substrate. Both sexes may defend the spawning site up to two weeks after spawning. Eggs usually hatch after 25-40 days. Larvae remain in gravel until yolk sack is absorbed after 8-14 days. Juveniles inhabit fast-flowing waters and feed on drifting invertebrates, becoming piscivorous after 1-3 years. Adults feed on fishes as well as small terrestrial vertebrates. Juveniles and adults are territorial.
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Major Threat(s):
|Historically overfishing, pollution and dam construction caused the decline of the species. Currently the main the threats are hydropower stations which heavily regulate flow regime (which impacts upon their prey and habitat), and pollution in some countries (Bosnia and Croatia).
|Conservation Actions:
|Restocking, fishing regulations. A EU LIFE project in Austria to improve habitat conditions (now finished and seems to have been successful). Listed on Appendix III of the Bern Convention.
|Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Hucho hucho. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T10264A3186143. . Downloaded on 22 September 2018.
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LONDON, March 19 (UPI) -- Britain's newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has received its massive forward island from BAE systems.
Engineering company Babcock said it lifted the structure, which weighs more than 600 tons, onto the flight deck of the carrier under construction at its shipyard in Rosyth, Scotland.
The forward island -- about 72 feet high, 42.6 feet wide 42.6 feet long. -- will house the ship's main bridge and about 100 system compartments.
"Seeing the forward island in position on the flight deck marks a highly visible achievement in the assembly program," said Babcock QEC Project Director Sean Donaldson.
"The month for lifting the island into place was set over three years ago. Since then the island has been designed and constructed, the crane put into place and the blocks that the island sits on assembled ready to accept the island -- a considerable achievement."
Babcock said system consoles have already been installed in the structure, as well as cables and pipes.
The carrier is three-quarters completed and is expected to leave the shipyard next year for sea trials.


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Situated in a safe and beautiful area, these secluded grounds provide an excellent child-friendly zone where students are looked after by trained staff 24 hours a day. With an excellent staff/student ratio, students have all the support, enjoyment and safety that they require.
There are a vast array of fantastic facilities for students to use including tennis courts, a 25m swimming pool, riding arena, cookery rooms, astro pitches and climbing wall.
Glastonbury Campus is ideal for children wanting to get their first taste of the UK as there is so much to see and do not only on campus but also within the local area.
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A full social programme is provided at each campus making every moment special. This ensures that every student is kept busy and has maximum opportunity to practise English whilst making friends with students from around the world in a fun and enjoyable environment.
The following are just some of the items in Millfield's summer social programme:
- Cross Campus Events all campuses join together for our biggest events
- Evening Activities every night is different with a variety of activities on offer
- Excursions one full day and one half day excursion every week
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- Rewards a selection of prizes awarded daily
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This accommodation is perfect for younger children, with the majority of houses being based on campus.
There are separate boarding houses for boys and girls, all unique in their style.
Staff are accommodated in the same houses, with each house allocated a Houseparent and Assistant who are responsible for the running of the house and the health and welfare of the students living there.
Wi-Fi is available for students on campus within the hours of 06.00 and 22.30 each day and each house has payphones which can receive incoming calls. Please check the individual house pages for more information on each house and to access the contact numbers during the courses.
Rooms: Two, three, four, five and six-bedded rooms.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. computer chip giant Intel said it will cut 5,380 jobs, 5 percent of its workforce, in 2014 to "better meet the needs of our business."
Intel, with a global workforce of 107,000, said it was reacting to "evolving market trends."
The company said the jobs will be eliminated through retirement or reassignment of workers, with some workers expected to leave voluntarily, CNNMoney reported Saturday.
"This is not a layoff. It's not a giant, one time action. This is a target employment rate for the end of the year," said Intel Spokesman Chris Kraeuter. "We're making decisions on how to design our resources to better meet the needs of our business."
Intel still derives most of its revenue from chips for personal computers, having failed to keep up with a consumer shift away from personal computers in favor of mobile devices, the New York Times reported.
"There's going be a significant shift in investment over the course of the year," said Intel's Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith.
Intel will put more of its money behind chips for "things like the data center, tablets, low-power systems on a chip," Smith said.
The Times said Intel earns nearly two-thirds of its revenue from chips for personal computers, although revenue from PC chips fell 4 percent in 2013 to $33 billion.
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The Allegheny County Airport Authority says that it will conduct a random drawing at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 to select 157 winners of an archery-only hunting permit.
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GORDON'S PARTY: Plácido Domingo and Frederica von Stade, along with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, joined a heady group of guests, including Nancy Pelosi and many members of the Getty clan, to celebrate Gordon Getty's 80th birthday on Monday night in San Francisco. The evening was planned and hosted by Billy and Vanessa Getty.
Gordon Getty, a long-serving member of the Symphony's board and a lifelong supporter of the orchestra, was also being honored with the world premiere performance of his new composition, "A Prayer for My Daughter," inspired by a W.B. Yeats poem. "I'm a bit nervous, as any composer would be with the debut of a new piece, but I'm in the hands of an amazing orchestra and conductor, so I'm confident," said Getty. "In any case, if I see anything amiss, like any other composer I can tweak it later."
Getty's wife, Ann, stood by his side, sporting a magnificent large emerald brooch by JAR, a recent gift from Gordon. "Gordon chose it and it was a total surprise," said Ann, who has a large collection of JAR pieces, several of them in the current Met show.
"I've known Gordon for more than 50 years, and I'm so thrilled that Gordon, who is so shy and so generous, is being honored," said Pelosi, who was accompanied by her husband, Paul, a college friend of Getty's. "I'm happy that his creativity and artistry are being recognized. Everyone loves Gordon," added Pelosi, who was heading back to Washington after the event.
Partiers Dede Wilsey, Teddy Getty Gaston, Kamala Harris, Alexander and Tatum Getty, Stephanie Ejabat, Charlotte Shultz, Peter Getty with Shannon Bavaro, Alexis and Trevor Traina, Todd Traina and Denise Hale — who noted that she had also attended Gordon's 40th birthday party — gathered around to sing "Happy Birthday."
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Like pretty much anything that Melissa McCarthy does these days, your enjoyment of "Tammy" will depend entirely on how you feel about the actress as a performer. Those who can't get enough of watching her play the same sloppy and obnoxious character over and over again will probably think that it's the funniest comedy of the year. But for those who were already sick of her tedious, one-trick pony act after "Bridesmaids" launched the actress into superstardom, sitting through McCarthy's latest movie is about as pleasant as a punch to the face. "Tammy" is so groan-inducingly dumb that it rivals some of Adam Sandler's worst comedies, placing so much faith in its leading lady's raucous, over-the-top antics that it doesn't even consider it might not be funny.
McCarthy stars as the title character, a slovenly loser who wrecks her beat-up car, gets fired from her job at the local fast food joint, and discovers that her husband (Nat Faxon) has been cheating with their neighbor (Toni Collette), all within the same day. Desperate to get out of town for a while, she agrees to let her alcoholic grandmother, Pearl (Susan Sarandon) – who has the two things that Tammy needs most: a working car and some cash – tag along with her on a road trip to Niagara Falls. But when they end up driving the wrong way, the two women decide to make the most of the mishap in an attempt to patch up their troubled past.
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Trips to face the newly relocated franchise in St. John's, Newfoundland will be featured on the Bruins' Providence (AHL) farm club's 2011-12 schedule after the league announced its realignment today.
The Eastern and Western Conference of the American Hockey League will both have three divisions, expanding from two.
Providence will play in the Atlantic Division along with Winnipeg's St. John's affiliate, San Jose's affiliate in Worcester, Los Angeles' Manchester farm club and Phoenix's new affiliate Portland. Previous Providence division rivals Springfield and Connecticut will now be skating in the Northeast Division.
The league also formally announced that eight teams will qualify for the playoffs in each conference, with the division winners being seeded one through three. The conference quarterfinals will be best-of-five, while the rest of the Calder Cup Playoffs will be best-of-seven series. The teams will re-seed after the first round.


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March 11. 2014 9:33PM
UPDATED: Rochester man shot multiple times as police attempted arrest
By JOHN QUINN
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Rochester police block off a mobile home at 28 Periwinkle Drive where a shooting took place Monday afternoon. (JOHN QUINN PHOTO)
Autopsy shows Rochester man shot by officers 3 times
ROCHESTER — Benjamin Shannon died at Maine Medical Center in Portland Monday night after being shot multiple times as officers attempted to arrest him, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.
"We're trying to determine who fired, how many times and what the direction of those shots were," Assistant Attorney General Benjamin J. Agati said.
The incident began Monday around 3 p.m. after three probation/parole officers from the Department of Corrections and a Strafford County Sheriff's deputy attempted to serve a warrant on Shannon at 28 Periwinkle Drive in the Sak's Mobile Home Park.
Rochester police received a call for shots fired inside the home a short time later, according to authorities.
Authorities said an autopsy was to be conducted Tuesday by the Maine State Medical Examiner's Office since Shannon died in Maine.
Shannon, 35, was arrested Feb. 17 after he allegedly robbed George and Ed's convenience store; the hold-up led to a "soft lockdown" at nearby Maple Street School and Saint Elizabeth Seton School.
The store clerk told police a man with a silver handgun demanded money about 8 a.m. from the register. After taking the money, he ran off, heading north along North Main Street, police said.
Video footage from the store was used to get a description of the robber; a police dog tracked down Shannon within hours.
Police charged him with robbery and obstructing government administration.
The Attorney General's Office is investigating the shooting because it involved law enforcement officers using potentially deadly force, according Agati.
None of the law enforcement officers was injured.
The investigation is ongoing.
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ROCHESTER — A man was shot after authorities arrived to serve an arrest warrant at a mobile home park Monday afternoon.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office was called to assist in the investigation because the shooting involved law enforcement officers using potentially deadly force, said Benjamin J. Agati, an assistant attorney general.
The man listed on the arrest warrant was treated for a gunshot wound at the scene, then taken to an area hospital. His name was not released.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. at Sak's Mobile Home Park along Milton Road.
According to a news release from the Attorney General's Office, three probation/parole officers from the Department of Corrections and a Strafford County Sheriff's deputy went to serve the warrant at 28 Periwinkle Drive. Rochester Police received a call for shots fired inside the home a short time later.
Agati said investigators were still trying to determine how many shots were fired and who fired them.
The probation/parole officers and the sheriff's deputy were not injured, according to the news release.
Yellow crime-scene tape cordoned off a section of the neighborhood Monday night, preventing neighbors from entering several nearby homes.
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Pedestrian killed by semi on I-75, FHP says
A pedestrian was struck by a tractor-trailer and killed on Interstate 75 in Gainesville early Wednesday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Ashley E. Lawson, 28, of Chesapeake, Va., died at the scene.
The crash was reported at 2:30 a.m. on southbound I-75 near the Newberry Road interchange, according to an FHP media release.
Truck driver Orbin E. Samples of Dry Ridge, Ky., told FHP he saw an object move in front of him from the emergency lane. He was unable to take evasive action and struck Lawson.
FHP Sgt. Tracy Pace said it has not been determined what Lawson was doing on I-75.
— Cindy Swirko
UF student robbed of his cellphone by three men
Three men accosted a University of Florida student Tuesday night, knocking him to the ground and stealing his cellphone, Gainesville Police Department Lt. Jorge Campos said.
The incident was reported about 10:15 p.m. in the 1600 block of West University Avenue. The student was walking along the street and talking on his phone when the culprits knocked him down, kicked him, took his phone and ran off.
He could offer police only an incomplete description of the culprits, noting that they were in their 20s and wore basketball-style shorts.
Police searched the area, but no arrests were made.
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Deputies report man molested 12-year-old girl
A Newberry man was arrested Tuesday on allegations he repeatedly molested a 12-year-old girl over a two-month period, according to an arrest report from the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.
Charles William Kennedy, 52, of 14849 NW 11th Place, was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior.
The three incidents allegedly happened between May and June 2012. It's alleged that Kennedy touched the girl in a lewd way. The mother of the child witnessed the last incident, according to the report.
An investigation by ACSO and the state Department of Children and Families resulted in the arrest.
Kennedy would not answer detectives' questions, the report added.
— Cindy Swirko
Couple sues Church of Scientology, alleges fraud
WEST PALM BEACH — A California couple has filed a lawsuit claiming the Church of Scientology duped them into giving hundreds of thousands of dollars for causes that were misrepresented.
Luis and Maria Garcia of Irvine, Calif., filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday in Tampa against several church-affiliated organizations. Their attorney says it is the first of numerous lawsuits to be filed by former Scientologists charging fraud.
Among the accusations leveled by the Garcias is that they were repeatedly strong-armed into supporting disaster relief efforts only to find the money never went where it was supposed to. Their attorney says it was an elaborate scheme that ultimately benefitted the church coffers and the pockets of its leader.
A spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
— The Associated Press
State to start cracking down on food stamp fraud
TALLAHASSEE — Florida officials are cracking down on fraud in the food stamp program through a new system that verifies client's identities before an application is processed.
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater said Wednesday that more than $100 million was lost to fraud in the food stamp program from 2010 to 2011.
Department of Children and Families employees who administer the program will now use the same technology as banks to verify an individual's identity. This includes asking questions about the recipient's financial history and residence.
Food stamps are delivered through electronic debit cards.
The agency is also monitoring social media sites like Craigslist to stop people from buying and selling the debit cards.
Other steps include monitoring multiple requests for replacement cards and automatically closing certain cases when benefits expire.
— The Associated Press
Fla. journalism institute faculty member is dead
ST. PETERSBURG — Paul Pohlman, a senior faculty member at The Poynter Institute, has died after a brief illness. He was 70.
Poynter Vice President Roy Peter Clark said Pohlman passed away Wednesday in St. Petersburg.
According to Poynter's website, Pohlman started teaching at the institute in 1979, joining fulltime 10 years later as head of what was then called the Management Center. Since then, he led leadership programs and coordinated international training. Pohlman was part of the team that helped establish the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Before going to work for Poynter, Pohlman was director of management development programs and newspaper management education at the University of Chicago, where he also earned a master's degree in history. His earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell College in Iowa.


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97 Parish Dr, Wayne NJ 07470, Take RT 23 in Wayne NJ to the Lincoln Park Exit. Follow the Collectible Show signs to Parish Drive and Firehouse. Winter months visit the huge flea market across the street at the PAL.
We featuring all types of Old, Rare, Vintage and Current Items such as, Comics, Toys, Movie Memorabilia, Sports, Non-Sports, Advertising, Action Figures, DVD, Music, Dolls, Paper Collectibles, Books and Magazines, Die Cast Cars and Trucks, Hot Wheels, Trains, Care bears, Webkins, Small Antiques, Monster Mags and Movies, Sci-Fi and Horror Related Stuff and more. This is a full collectibles show with always changing merchandise and dealers.
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For much of the day, the second most-read story on the Minneapolis Star Tribune web site was this one, from the Associated Press: "Bachmann: Dem connection to outbreak 'interesting.'" Here is the substance of the story:
Rep. Michele Bachmann says she finds it an "interesting coincidence" that the last swine flu outbreak in the U.S. occurred under a Democratic president — though her claim is historically inaccurate.
The last major outbreak of swine flu occurred in 1976, when Republican Gerald Ford was president. …
Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, made her comments to conservative media outlet Pajamas TV on Monday. She says she's not "blaming this on President Obama" but found it an interesting coincidence that a Democrat was running the country at the time of the outbreak.
I find this story notable in several respects. First, though, let's acknowledge this this was a rare occasion when Congresswoman Bachmann, a very smart person, said something that was both wrong and–sorry, Michele–dumb. It was dumb because even if the first swine flu outbreak had occurred during the Carter administration, it would not be an "interesting coincidence." The fact would have no significance at all.
But that isn't why I think the story is worth mentioning. Start with the fact that this is undoubtedly the first time the Star Tribune has ever mentioned PJTV. It's hard to imagine what, other than an opportunity to play "gotcha" with a Republican, would cause the paper to publicize the upstart internet news network.
That raises the next question: does the Associated Press monitor PJTV, waiting for a conservative to make a mistake so they can write a story about it? I don't think so. Rather, there are groups–web sites and far-left activists here in Minnesota and elsewhere–who monitor everything Bachmann does. They read her speeches, watch her (many) television appearances, sometimes follow her around from place to place, and now, evidently, tune in to PJTV. (I hope they paid for a subscription.) Why do they do this? Solely in hopes of catching her in an error–or, more often, an alleged error–which they then broadcast on their web sites.
So there is actually an "interesting coincidence" here. What this story illustrates is the symbiotic relationship among liberal web sites, the Associated Press and mainstream newspapers. Liberal activists do the work, digging up nuggets that the Associated Press writes stories about and papers like the Star Tribune carry as articles. All for the purpose of trying to defeat a conservative, like Michele Bachmann, in the next election.
It would be interesting to try to add up the number of times we here at Power Line have caught errors that were made by Democratic politicians. They must number in the hundreds. Yet I can't recall a single instance where the Associated Press has picked up on one of those errors and put it out as a news story so that it could be carried in the politician's home-town paper. That's the kind of error, apparently, that neither the AP nor the newspapers have much interest in.


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So far, plans for a new courthouse in downtown Stockton are on track. So far.
So far, plans for a new courthouse in downtown Stockton are on track. So far.
But in his proposed budget, Gov. Jerry Brown this week wants to eliminate an additional $200 million from the courts' budget statewide. That will at least delay some courthouse construction projects.
In October, the state Judicial Council voted to indefinitely delay seven construction projects because building funds were being diverted to keep the courts operating.
And Thursday, the council recommended that projects in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Fresno and Nevada City be put off.
The ax hasn't fallen on our project yet. Local court officials are hopeful but understandably nervous.
The $273 million, 13-story, 30-courtroom courthouse project is scheduled to get under way in fiscal 2014-15.
It can't come too soon for those who work there or members of the public called there for official business. Two of the five elevators are broken. The ventilation system is in need of cleaning. Water pours in when it rains, rendering some courtrooms unusable.
(County supervisors are trying to decide whether money should be spent to keep the building functioning until a new one can be built. If everything goes perfectly, that could be four years. So the answer to maintaining the building is obviously yes, for the safety of employees there and the public.)
And more disturbing, those appearing for trial are routinely marched in shackles through public hallways, a danger to the public and to the defendants.
This mid-20th century building is being used in a 21st-century world. Times have changed and so have needs.
But the shift of money proposed by the Brown administration is understandable, too. The budget recommends $3.1 billion in the 2013-14 fiscal year. Virtually none of the $1.2 billion stripped out of the judiciary budget in recent years is coming back.
Locally, that budget has meant the shuttering of courtrooms in Tracy and Lodi and an end to small claims court, the court that used to offer the easiest, lowest-cost access to people wanting to settle disputes. San Joaquin County is not alone; six of every 10 counties statewide have reduced hours, cut services and closed courtrooms.
What Brown proposes is to adopt 11 recommendations made last month by the Judicial Council to increase court fees and reduce services even more. The proposals are designed to offset some of the $200 million in cuts Brown warns the state's trial courts will have to make in the 2014-15 fiscal year. He plans to borrow $200 million earmarked earlier for courthouse construction to get the courts through the coming fiscal year.
What's this mean to the public?
If you want to fight a traffic ticket by mail in your home county, the fee will go to $50. The price for a paper copy of a court record will double to $1 a page. And the cost of clerks to search and retrieve multiple case files will go to $10 for every record searched.
There's also hope money can be saved by not destroying records related to marijuana possession, providing transcripts of preliminary hearings only in homicide cases, and not collecting Social Security numbers on court orders for debt collection.
Most of us never see the inside of a courtroom, save those periodic summonses for jury duty. But when we need help from our courts, delays and expense only add to the general feeling that they don't work.
By and large, they do work. They certainly beat no court system, something that seems more and more real with every budget cut.


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Amortization is the decrease in value of an intangible asset or assets over time
Amortization is an accounting term used to rectify the cost of intangible assets with the decrease in value over their useful life. Typically, amortization is used to devalue intellectual property, patents, or copyrights whose value has a limited life-span. It is reported as an expense on the income statement (usually as "amortization" though often lumped together with depreciation or sometimes in an overarching category like "other"). However, since it is a non-cash expense, amortization is never actually paid for (no cash changes hands) and, as such, is added back to the total cash from operating activities on the cash flow statement. Thus, amortization actually increases a company's free cash flow while decreasing earnings.
While in theory amortization is used to account for the decreasing value of acquired or developed intangible assets (for example, a new, patented, process for refining crude oil) in practice amortization is often used to spread the payment of one-time expenses over several years, generating a higher net income by reducing expenses on the income statement. By contrast, a highly profitable company looking to decrease their tax payments may list what should typically be an amortized expenditure as a one-time expense on the income statement, reducing their net income for the year and thus decreasing the amount of money owed for taxes.
Amortization is similar to depreciation in that the value of the asset or liability is reduced over time. The key difference is that depreciation refers to tangible assets, like machinery or buildings, while amortization refers to intangible assets such as patents.
Amortization is also a key component of EBITDA, or "Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization".


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BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The Buffalo Sabres announced Wednesday they had fired Lindy Ruff, the longest-tenured head coach in the National Hockey League.
He will be replaced on an interim basis by Ron Rolston, coach of Buffalo's American Hockey League affiliate in Rochester, N.Y.
Ruff, 53, was a player and captain of the Sabres and had coached the team since 1997. The Sabres reached the playoffs eight times under his guidance and made it to the Stanley Cup Finals once -- when they lost in six games to Dallas in 1999.
Buffalo is in last place in the Northeast Division with a 6-10-1 record. Ruff recorded a 556-442 career record with 78 times and 83 overtime losses.
"The hockey world knows how I and the entire Buffalo Sabres organization feel about Lindy Ruff, not only as a coach, but also as a person," Sabres owner Terry Pegula said in a statement. "His qualities have made this decision very difficult. I personally want Lindy to know that he can consider me a friend always."
Buffalo has not won a post-season series since 2007. Ruff won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach in 2006.
The only current coach in any of the four major North American pro sports to have coached longer than Ruff is Gregg Popovich of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.


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Baptismal names began to appear as surnames relatively late in the growth of the naming tradition. This is a little surprising, given the popularity of biblical figures in the Christian countries of Europe. Nevertheless, surnames derived from baptismal names grew in popularity during the Middle Ages, and have become one of the foremost sources for surnames.
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Arthur, William , An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. London: 1857. Print
The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 had some of the first listings of the name. There was a mixture of both personal names and surnames there including: "Sygwat Kat'bode in Norfolk; Syward and Sywardus (without surnames) in Oxfordshire; Thomas Swyat in Suffolk; and Richard Swyard in Buckinghamshire." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed Hugo Syward and Johanna Swyard.
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Participation, Inclusion and Social Change
Participation is a right held by all people to engage in society and in the decisions that impact their lives. Participation is thus a political endeavour that challenges oppression and discrimination, in particular of the poorest and most marginalised people. Participatory processes enable people to see more clearly, and learn from the complexity that they are living and working amid. Through participation people can identify opportunities and strategies for action, and build solidarity to effect change.
Those whose interests are served by exclusion will seek to co-opt or pacify participation. This is not grounds for rejecting it, but for fighting harder for it, and understanding the fields of power within which meaningful participation for transformative social change lies.
Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Cluster research specializes in the development of participatory research methods with particular emphasis on systematic social exclusion facing women, people living in extreme poverty, people with disabilities, slaves and bonded labourers and others. This requires a systemic understanding of change, and an activist approach to research. We describe such an approach as participatory practice.
Through our work, we aim to:
- Conduct and support participatory practice that is facilitative and developmental, challenging the dominance of 'external expert' knowledge in mainstream research approaches.
- Use, develop and share knowledge on participatory methods, which are a key part of participatory practice. These include systemic action research, peer research, participatory mapping, collective analysis, participatory numbers, and visual and digital approaches.
- Employ a holistic learning based approach that is 'responsive', 'reflective and 'adaptive', recognising that reality is constantly changing, and that participatory practice means continuous engagement.
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Strengthening and Broadening Community-Led Total Sanitation at Scale
The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Hub works in collaboration with practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and others in the development, sanitation and related communities, and in governments, international agencies, civil society, research institutes and other organisations. More details
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The Participation Resource Centre holds the combined collections of IDS and the International Institute for Environment and Development. More details
Poverty, Politics, and Participatory Methodologies in SDC
This Collaboration with the Quality Assurance (QA) Programme of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is now in its second phase, running until December 2018. The aim of the program is to improve the quality and effectiveness of SDC processes and operations focused on poverty. More details
Building Sustainable Inclusion: From Intersecting Inequalities to Accountable Relationships
This project focuses on the need to consider and address intersecting inequalities – the spatial, economic and identity-based drivers of poverty and inequality - if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be successful. More details
Building Sustainable Inclusion: From Intersecting Inequalities to Accountable Relationships
This project focuses on the need to consider and address intersecting inequalities – the spatial, economic and identity-based drivers of poverty and inequality - if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be successful. More details
PROKAS Participatory Action Research
In this consultancy, Danny Burns has been commissioned by the British Council to ensure high quality in the Participatory Action Research processes being applied by PROKAS and to ensure that academia is able to feed into and learn from the PROKAS approach for bringing about policy change. More details
Citizen Engagement Programme (CEP)
An empowerment and accountability programme aimed at improving the quality of health and education services in Mozambique. More details
Gender mainstreaming from the ground up for the World Food Programme
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Building Resilience and Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through Social Learning around Climate Risks
Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to droughts, floods and other climate-related stressors and shocks. This research aims to contribute to greater understanding of the underlying drivers of risk, while also identifying pathways to improve the impact that climatic information may have on building resilience through bridging the 'usability gap'. More details
Participate: Participatory Monitoring and Accountability
The Participatory Monitoring and Accountability (PMA) programme marks a new phase of the Participate initiative. It aims to foster and support PMA learning processes that enable citizen participation for accountability to be embedded in development policy and practice. More details
Community Based Peace Processes in Myanmar
Since 2013 Danny Burns has been working with Stephen Gray and Josephine Roos on systemic approaches to peace in Northern Myanmar. The work is rooted in community perspectives on the issues that face local people in Kachin and Northern Shan State. More details
Market Based Solutions for the Extreme Poor
Studies have shown that it is often wealthier people in a community who benefit from market approaches to combatting poverty – men more than women, non-disabled more than disabled. So how and to what extent can market-based solutions improve the lives of extremely poor people? More details
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Labour Regulations and Anti-discrimination Legislation
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Modern Slavery in India and Nepal
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Capitalisation of SDC Experiences in Roma Social Inclusion
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Gender, Violence and Sanitation: practices to make WASH safer08 May 2015
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Minds set in Washington DC30 Apr 2015
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The power of connecting insider and outsider relationships29 Apr 2015
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Launch of Northern India Hotspot Evaluation20 Mar 2015
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An Open Letter in response to the World Development Report 201518 Mar 2015
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Valuing Volunteering for a post-2015 era18 Mar 2015
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Participation and the post-2015 framework: rhetoric as usual?16 Feb 2015
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Thinking outside the box: Using digital to tell the story12 Feb 2015
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Re-building participatory practice as a catalyst for social change06 Feb 2015
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Integrating Men and Boys in Gender Programming in Afghanistan17 Dec 2014
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Hi, I'm Lia Espina Lopez…
… and I'm proud to be a GEEK! *wave*
My earliest memory of geek-ness was a vague memory of myself holding an Atari controller when I was probably around 3 or 4 years old. Then at 7 years old my dad introduced me to the great world of XT computers, and everything just went from there.
Now I'm fully embracing my geek-ness!
I guess I could say I'm happiest when in front of a computer, just surfing about the latest tech news all over the world (Japan most especially!), Facebooking, Twittering, Instagramming, blogging and of course (how can I forget) playing World of Warcraft!
Before you start thinking that I'm some kind of an anti-social hermit with no friends aside from little pixels running all over my computer screen, I do have other activities like yoga, shopping and drinking with friends (yes, real life human friends!)
How GeekGirlManila Came To Be
I started blogging in 2004, with my first blog on Livejournal. I had no concept of niche blogging then so my first blog was like an online diary, purely full of random thoughts and feelings, while ocassionaly linking to things I find interesting.
Fast forward to 2007 where I got my first "professional" paid blogging gig, The Gadgenista. The Gadgenista is a tech blog for women where you can read about cute things, pink gadgets and gadget reviews from a woman's perspective.
With Gadgenista, I learned a lot of things like:
- niche blogging
- back linking
- blog promotion
- blog etiquettes such as proper image crediting and the likes
- earning money from blogging via Ad Sense
- concepts like page hits, page views and CPM
… and a whole more.
In 2009, I started contributing articles to Apple Gazette and Forever Geek.
Sadly, in 2010, b5media had to let go a huge chunk of their bloggers because of the recession in the US. I was one of them. So goodbye, Gadgenista. (I already had GeekGirlManila but I wasn't as active in posting)
You can't imagine how bad I felt, because I spent 3 good long years building a brand that in the end didn't end up being mine. It felt like a part of me died (dun, dun, dun!).
Shortly after that, I had to stop writing for Apple Gazette and ForeverGeek because of The Day That Changed My Life. I had no control of my left hand and writing a simple blog post took a lot out of me. (Thank God for World of Warcraft! It's the best Occupational Therapy ever!)
Fast forward to 2011, I'm almost 100% recovered and I vowed to myself that I will build a brand that's mine, and that my friend, is the story of Geek Girl Manila.


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- old fabric from pants, shirts, blankets, etc - something of meaning is always nice
- scissors or rotary cutter
- a ruler might be handy {I winged it, but if you've read any of my posts, you would have known that already :) }
- thread of any kind - I doubled up standard thread, but embroidery thread would be ideal
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- poly fil for stuffing
- drawstring or shoelace (optional)
- embroidery letter or other embellishment of meaning (optional)
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|pocket with original pant seam at top and blanket stitched sides and bottom
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Then I filled it up to a nice, over-stuffed fluffiness and finished sewing up the opening. I could have stopped at that and left it just as a pillow, but...
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The morning after I made this and hung it on his door, we found a teeny-tiny envelope and note from the Tooth Fairy. It reminded him to brush frequently and avoid sugary foods to keep his teeth nice and healthy. He got money, too, of course. But he loved the teeny-tiny envelope with his name on it.
I could have shaped it like a tooth or car - but I knew that he would be losing teeth well into grade school and beyond. I wasn't sure how long he would entertain the idea of this, but I wanted to have a design that would not be too childish as he grew.
I was so happy with my impromptu creation. It was unique, personal, one of a kind, and FAST.
What's also kind of cool, is that every time I see it hanging in his room, I remember him playing trains on his knees like it was his "job". It is a very fond and accurate memory of my little boy.
And best of all, it made my kiddo really happy! That's the best reward ever, isn't it?


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Hi There, both of my boys are allergic to gluten and casein. I just started a blog that will have a lot of discussion on this as well as recipes for food and party foods that are pretty such as cakes and cookies. I also just started an Etsy shop for my cookies as well. Best of luck to you it can be pretty daunting. Love D
Hi!! My son is allergic to gluten as well as dairy and nuts!!! I have lots of different ideas throughout my blog!!! :)
My blog has some ideas too and recipes... http://www.nutrimommy.com
good luck. GF can be very tasty!


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An examination of gender and sex cross-culturally and in evolutionary perspective. Some of the topics we may consider include women and men in prehistory; notions of masculinity, femininity; transgenderism and same-sex sexualities; love, marriage, and family; sexual divisions of labor and economic organization; women's and men's involvement in ritual and religion; and impact of sociocultural change and globalization of sex and gender.
- Prerequisite: No prerequisite, though ANTH 150 or courses in Women's Studies are recommended.
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In conjunction with the 80th Dover Days Festival, the Dover Symphony Orchestra will perform a special concert at Calvary Assembly of God on Saturday evening.
In conjunction with the 80th Dover Days Festival, the Dover Symphony Orchestra will perform a special concert at Calvary Assembly of God on Saturday evening.
Having led DSO in Dover Days concerts for nearly two decades, the Dover Post sat down with conductor Don Buxton, who's been with the group for 23 years, to discuss the significance of playing in this year's festival, the selections his orchestra will perform and more.
Q What's it mean to you to play at the 80th annual Dover Days Festival?
A We have been doing the Dover Days concert for a long time; it's probably been 15 years. That concert has been a mainstay of our repertoire and concert season for many years.
Q How did the partnership with Calvary come about?
A We're a non-profit organization so we were looking for places that would partner with us in terms of sharing their space without causing us enormous amounts of money to do concerts and rehearsals. So Calvary stepped forward and said it'll offer its community center space and also space at its church, which is a large beautiful venue for performances. So we've been doing concerts there a few years, which has been terrific and we really have enjoyed that partnership.
Q What are some of the pieces you'll be performing in your repertoire?
A We'll be doing Mozart's "Titus Overture," Tchaikovsky's "Russian Choral," Bizet's "Carmen Suite" and Brahms' "Symphony No. 1."
Q How do you select the pieces you play in concert?
A We try to provide a well-rounded repertoire throughout the season. It's a combination of pops concerts and classical music, and it's really to promote the classical arts and classical music as an art form in the Dover area. So I pick pieces that I feel really belong together. We have a music committee that assists me with that, which comes forward with suggestions and then we choose a repertoire for each concert that complements each piece, and usually there's some kind of theme that's carried through.
Q What's this concert's theme?
A We haven't really had a theme per se, but in year's past we've done concerts which have been primarily Mozart, which we refer to as "Mozart for the Most Part" and concerts like that.
Q There are a number of orchestras/symphonies throughout the state, including the other DSO (Delaware Symphony Orchestra). What makes Dover Symphony Orchestra special?
A What makes us unique is we are here in the capital, so we're the capital's orchestra. We're not in Wilmington, so that means people don't have to travel to Wilmington to hear great music, which is a hike from here. We are your neighborhood orchestra, but it's also the capital's orchestra and something we strive very hard at to make everyone proud of what we're doing. So we work hard at being the capital's orchestra.
Q You've been conducting DSO since 1989. What's kept you coming back all these years?
A The people. I've conducted orchestras from East Coast to West Coast and I always come back to my Dover Symphony because this is like family to me. And it's a three-hour roundtrip for me from Maryland to come here every Monday night and have rehearsal. So that's saying a lot to keep me coming back, and to keep me coming back for that long. And this is an orchestra that gives everything they got for me on Monday nights and in concerts as well.
WHAT Dover Symphony Orchestra concert at 80th Dover Days Festival
WHEN 7 p.m., Saturday, May 4
WHERE Calvary Assembly of God, 1141 E. Lebanon Road, Dover
COST $20 adults; $15 military; free for children under 16 with a paying adult
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — World stock markets rose steadily on Friday after two key indicators suggested the U.S. economic expansion will continue.
The Conference Board reported that its leading indicator index for the U.S. increased 0.6 percent in April, following a 0.2 decline in March, due to recovering housing and labor markets.
"In general, the (index) points to a continuing economic expansion with some upside potential," said Ataman Ozyildirim, an economist at the private research association.
In addition, the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index rose to 83.7 in May, the highest level since July 2007 and better than analysts had expected, in part due to lower gasoline prices at the pump recently.
Wall Street recouped losses incurred Thursday due to worries the Federal Reserve may begin slowing asset purchases later in the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4 percent to 15,295.65 points, while the S&P 500 rose 0.5 percent to 1,658.50. Both are just points away from record highs.
Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.5 percent to close at 6,723.06. Germany's DAX climbed 0.3 percent to 8,398.00, while France's CAC-40 gained 0.6 percent to 4,001.27.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.7 percent to close at 15,138.12, reversing a lower open. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.3 percent to 5,180.80, pushed up by gains in BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. The stock rose 1.9 percent on bargain-hunting.
Benchmarks in mainland China and Indonesia also rose while those in Taiwan, India, Singapore, New Zealand and the Philippines fell. Markets in Hong Kong and South Korea were closed for public holidays.
Evan Lucas of IG Markets in Melbourne attributed the markets that did decline to investors there booking profits.
"There is always an uneasy feeling underlying the markets when they start making all-time highs," Lucas said.
Benchmark oil for June delivery rose 51 cents per barrel to $95.67 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2821 from $1.2907 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose to 103.04 yen from 102.06 yen.
AP Business Writer Pamela Sampson contributed to this story from Bangkok.


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Police: 3 people sold gift cards obtained through stealing merchandise
Police: 3 people sold gift cards obtained through stealing merchandise
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —According to the arrest report, 38-year-old Carl Griffin Jr., 27-year-old Dustin Johnson and 41-year-old Kimberly Jo Sweazy took merchandise from Home Depot, Kohls, Lowes and JC Penney without paying and later returned it and received gift cards since they didn't have receipts.
A man and woman are charged after police say they stole merchandise from multiple stores, returned it, received gift cards and then sold the gift cards for cash.
The value of the merchandise taken was over $500.
Police say Griffin, Johnson and Sweazy then sold the gift cards to various pawn shops and second-hand dealers for cash.
According to the arrest report, Griffin, Johnson and Sweazy both admitted to police that all of the gift cards were obtained as a result of stolen merchandise, which was returned to the stores.
All three are charged with theft by unlawful taking.


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Wisconsin Democrats push minimum wage hike
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- Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature are calling on Republicans to hold a public hearing on a bill to increase the minimum wage. Twenty six Democrats, including possible gubernatorial candidate Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, sent a letter Tuesday requesting the hearing. The bill was introduced in January. It would increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $7.60 an hour and then have it go up automatically based on inflation. The request for a hearing comes as President Barack Obama and Democrats nationally have been calling for an increase in the minimum wage. Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman says he doesn't support the bill, saying a higher minimum wage won't help his goal of finding more entry level jobs for teenagers. Grothman chairs the Judiciary and Labor Committee.
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