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About The Ardmore Initiative
The Ardmore Initiative is the business district authority responsible for physical improvements and economic development in downtown Ardmore. Over the years, we have worked with Lower Merion Township to plan a number of streetscape improvement projects, which have included new sidewalks, curbs, trees, and street furniture. Another major phase of these improvements was completed last year. We also install and maintain streetscape amenities, such as benches and trash receptacles, banners and signage, flower baskets, and ground cover plantings. Over the past five years, we have installed a new community bulletin board, two "Historic District" signs on the edges of our historic district along Lancaster Avenue, and banners. In spring, summer, and fall, "seasonal" banners are hung on our light poles throughout town. Our snowflake holiday lights are up much of the winter. We also plant trees when necessary and plant flowers each spring. The Ardmore Initiative has also worked for years to keep Ardmore's streets clean and has a Green Machine for sidewalk cleaning. You will see Harry Williams using the machine on the district's sidewalks most days, weather permitting. We also respond to the various needs of the business community, keeping them informed about local issues and work with the Ardmore Business Association to plan events and activities to draw shoppers to the area.The Ardmore Initiative has begun a major campaign to recruit new and appropriate retailers to our downtown district. We work closely with the Township's Retail Coordinator, Heidi Tirjan. If you are interested in starting a new business in Ardmore, please peruse our available real estate listings and our business directory (navigation bar on left) to see how your business will fit with our mix. Heidi can be of great help in explaining Ardmore's incentive programs, available space for rent or purchase, and Lower Merion Township's building code requirements.
Here are some of the many ways the Ardmore Initiative can benefit potential and existing Ardmore business and property owners:
- Façade Matching Grant Program
- The Ardmore Initiative , with funding from the Montgomery County Revitalization Program, has developed a matching grant program for facade improvements. You may be eligible to receive up to $5,000 for renovations to the exterior of your building, including signage, windows, awnings, lighting, etc. Call the Ardmore Initiative office (610-645-0540) for information on funding availability. Learn More...
- Business Development Seminars
- The Ardmore Initiative strives to increase retail sales and business opportunities for Ardmore business owners by offering occasional seminars to local businesses on a variety of topics such as e-commerce, advertising, marketing, customer service, business planning, exit strategies and more.
- Business to Business Mailings
- Introduce your fellow businesses to all you have to offer! We keep an up-to-date database of businesses in Ardmore, which we can print out on labels you provide or we can provide you with printed labels for a nominal fee ($10). These have been used for grand opening announcements, newsletters, sale announcements, etc. We will also fax out notices about new businesses to the community at-large. This service is only available to new and existing businesses in our district.
- Publicity
- The Ardmore Initiative publishes a quarterly newsletter that goes out to all business and property owners in Ardmore, as well as other interested parties. In each issue, we devote a page to information on new businesses. Click on "Newsletters" to the left for recent editions. We can also help you with grand-opening or ribbon-cutting ceremonies, by inviting local media, Township officials, and interested parties from the business community. We frequently publish directories and guides to Ardmore services, such as our Restaurant Guide, an Antiques guide and a full annual business directory booklet.
- Events
- The Ardmore Initiative works closely with the Ardmore Business Association to plan events designed to draw shoppers to our business district. These can include an annual Easter Egg Hunt, sidewalk sales, the Ardmore Dog Show, and holiday tree and menorah lighting ceremonies. Our strong business community also enjoys planning social outings for members, such as dinners, symposiums, and barbeques. Click on "Events" to the left for more info.
- Keeping You Informed
- We try to effectively communicate relevant Township information, policy changes and other local news to Ardmore business and property owners, on an as needed basis, using our broadcast fax system and our quarterly newsletter. Our community bulletin board in the Schauffele Plaza is also a great way to keep informed about events and businesses in our town.
The Ardmore Business District Authority, known as the Ardmore
Initiative, was incorporated October 1993 and began operations
in January 1994 with the goal of improving and enhancing
the Ardmore commercial district. For the past 15
years the Ardmore Initiative has worked to make the commercial
district more attractive and welcoming to investors, business
owners, residents, shoppers and visitors. It has provided
comprehensive planning and management for the district, and
worked with Lower Merion Township and other public and
private entities to coordinate resources in the most efficient
way for Ardmore's benefit. It has also promoted the district
through the media and its own publications and provided a
voice for Ardmore business and property owners.
The east-west boundaries of the district extend from Wyoming
Avenue and 333 West Lancaster Avenue on the western end to
233 East Lancaster and 218 East Lancaster Avenue on the eastern
end. The northern boundary follows the railroad tracks, and the
southern boundary proceeds along Rittenhouse Place up to and
including 30 East Athens Avenue, and along Cricket Avenue up
to 123 Cricket Avenue.
The Ardmore Initiative is governed by a Board of Directors, 11 to 17 in number, representing the property owners and a cross-section of business interests. In addition, two representatives of Lower Merion's Board of Commissioners and the Ardmore Initiative's Solicitor serve as ex-officio members of the Board. Board members are nominated by the Ardmore Initiative and appointed by the Lower Merion Board of Commissioners for 5-year terms. The day to day operations of the Ardmore Initiative are overseen by an Executive Director working under the direction of the Board.
The projects and services undertaken by the Ardmore Initiative are funded in part by a special assessment on each commercial property within the district based on the assessed value of each property. The payment of the annual assessment is enforceable in the same manner as municipal real estate tax assessments.
When the Ardmore Initiative was approved in 1993, it contained a "sunset" provision requiring property owners within the district to reauthorize the Authority after five years of operation. This Five Year Plan addresses the Ardmore Initiative's request for reauthorization.
The Ardmore Initiative
Christine Vilardo, Executive Director
56 E. Lancaster Avenue
Ardmore, Pennsylvania 19003
Phone: 610-645-0540
Fax: 610-645-0662
E-mail: email@example.com


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Very interesting bits about the contrast of modern society to the natural sleep cycles. Those types of studies have always fascinated me.
Sleep deprivation is really a silent killer in our world, and your bit at the end about sleep-related traffic accidents from the NTSB is very conservative number-wise. Dr. Dement and Mark Rosekind, newly appointed to the NTSB, give estimates closer to 1-2 million drowsy driving related accidents annually. Dr. Dement and his Sleep and Dreams class at Stanford University have been trying to raise awareness of the dangers of sleep deprivation for 40 years now, and hopefully we can get those numbers down in the foreseeable future.

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Recovering Crown land and money owed government over the last 18 months has been successful, but it will take another 12-18 months to recover "several hundred millions of dollars of land" for the government, the Civil Recovery Team says. "Trials will likely have taken place on all the major cases within this time frame, and we would hope to have completed work on many of the smaller claims," said Laurence Harris of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. The international law firm was hired by government to take back Crown land wrongly granted and to recover money owed to the government. "Appeals, where they take place, inevitably lengthen the process, but we are doing everything we can to move cases along as quickly as we can," Harris explained. The team led by Harris has made 29 separate recoveries of land and/or cash, including more than 600 acres of Joe Grant Cay sold to developer Cem Kinay for $7.7 million. The property had been valued at $178 million, but Kinay bought it at a fraction of that price shortly after giving $500,000 to former Premier Michael Misick. Harris recently won a judgment of $975,000 against Emerald Cay Ltd. and Worldwide Commercial Properties for stamp duty that was underpaid in the $28 million sale of Emerald Cay to American billionaire Timothy Blixseth. A judge ruled the transaction was "a carefully crafted scheme of tax evasion" and will consider awarding the government even more money damages in a continuing legal battle. Blixseth denies any wrongdoing. He is fighting the TCI proceedings and is suing Worldwide Commercial Properties in U.S. District Court in Miami. Among cases set for trial is the government's request to halt the development of Salt Cay and return 239 acres of Crown land that was leased for $1 per acre. The claim alleges that Misick, his brother Chal Misick, and former Minister of Natural Resources McAllister Hanchell all benefited from the deal. In addition to the recovery of Joe Grant Cay, another 17 parcels of property have been recovered across the islands, ranging in size from less than a half acre up to 10 acres. The total value of the land recovered is said to be "many tens of millions of dollars." "By the time the programme comes to an end, we now expect to have recovered several hundred million dollars of land for the government," Harris said. "This land bank will, I hope, help to provide a more secure long-term future for the islands." "As the Civil Recovery programme gathers pace, we are starting to see settlements in some claims," he explained. "We strongly encourage settlements where possible. It saves time and money for both the government and the potential defendant." Harris has said that the team will not reveal the names and conditions of settlements to encourage people and businesses to settle out of court. "It is encouraging to see the Civil Recovery programme beginning to gather pace," said Attorney General Huw Shepheard. "The programme was one of the key recommendations of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry, and its successful implementation is an important milestone for the government. The importance of the recoveries to the long-term future of the islands cannot be overstated." Sir Robin Auld's 2009 commission report also recommended criminal investigations of Misick, several of his former ministers and others on allegations of corruption. The Special Investigation and Prosecution Team has been at it for more than a year without making any charges, though lead prosecutor Helen Garlick has estimated that action could be taken before the end of the year. In 2010-11, the government spent about $4.6 million on the SIPT and about $4.2 million on Civil Recovery, but the U.K. picked up the tab for both. This year the government has budgeted $6 million for SIPT and $4.5 million for Civil Recovery.
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Cleveland=OSU. You're not all bad, but more Buckeyes there than Columbus. Buckeyes are my enemy, Cleveland is their friend, so the friend of my enemy is my enemy, and the enemy of the friend of my enemy is my friend.
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Well it wouldn't be the first time in this country that lethal action was used to defend oneself from a snowball-chucking mob: that's what sparked the Boston Massacre. |
23 hours 31 min ago | I posted this in a Dear Diary |
I posted this in a Dear Diary recently. Yes, the athletic department canceled the alumni pep band, and thanked them for not making a big deal about it. |
4 days 26 min ago | I've got a high tolerance. |
I was never very bothered by those guys. M-Wolverine read and posted on everything on this site, so of course things had meaning to him. He also came to every MGoEvent, bought every MGoThing, and participated in as many MGoActivities as we'd let him. Mejunglechop wrote some good diaries in the day and I don't remember him being an outright asshole to me ever, or to anyone else ever except about the Brandon Brown shit. If I could pick any guy to not ban it's chitown. So what if most of the time he posted with quibbles; his quibbles were very informed and more often than not when he chastised me (his favorite target) he was right and it made the post better for that. Brian makes these calls, not me. But my main concern with sending the committedcontrarians on their way is we're giving up on anything they contributed, which wasn't nil. Various people had problems with me--especially since I was one of the first to detract from the site being all-Brian--and gave me shit in the comments. Those worth answering I answered cordially and took their concerns seriously, and eventually even guys who hated me (jg2112 comes to mind) seemed to get used to me and could appreciate what I posted. People have been shits to Brandon and BiSB--and I've been telling those guys to just ignore the shits as sad internet people and treat the good people being shitty as such. I guess banning is an answer. The best answer with non-useless people is to win them over. |
4 days 5 hours ago | try hitting refresh. links |
try hitting refresh. links get loaded badly occasionally. it seems to be working for me. |
4 days 8 hours ago | Dammit. I wish I knew it was |
Dammit. I wish I knew it was my fraternity playing; I would have been there (not that I know a single person in Phi Psi now, and if they're competing in the Mud Bowl they're probably nothing like the collection of stoner-intellectual-comedians I joined, but still: dammit). 1386... |
4 days 8 hours ago | They're still a pretty awful |
They're still a pretty awful company. 99% of the time if you see it on BR it's been stolen from somewhere else. ALWAYS check to see if you can find the same article or video elsewhere first. They don't attribute so it takes a little googling, but not that much. |
4 days 9 hours ago | when did you graduate W&M? I |
when did you graduate W&M? I have a bunch of friends who went there '98-'02 ish |
4 days 9 hours ago | Ah, that glorious day on |
Ah, that glorious day on campus every year when the co-eds emerge from their long hibernations under North Face jackets, and play with frisbees. |
5 days 22 hours ago | Because doing the same thing |
Because doing the same thing we've done the last 18 times in a row is so insane it's the absolute LAST thing they'll expect us to do! I got nuthin' man. Sometimes our offense does things that are really stupid. |
5 days 23 hours ago | Because 98% of plays (and |
Because 98% of plays (and 100% this year) that guy's job is to accept a snap and quickly have it down right before the kicker arrives. That's hard to learn, and Michigan's backup quarterback this year is a freshman whose time is better spent learning the offense. Last year the backup quarterback was a receiver. Why not Cleary (or last year: Bellomy?) Because Dileo asked for the job and was good at it, and those guys were just trying to move up the QB depth chart. I think most teams have a QB in there not because you really need a guy to be a passing threat, but because you need a guy with large, good hands and a sure temperment to not screw up holds, and that's a lot like a quarterback. FG fakes should get a guy wide open out of surprise, since it's a terrible formation to pass out of if the other team is expecting that. And finally you'd be surprised how many of the other guys can actually throw pretty accurately--they are major athletes after all--even if they've never developed the ability to read defenses, etc. This isn't a play where you need to read a coverage and pick apart a defense; it's one where you need to lob it to a tight end. Michigan probably doesn't do much fake field goal-ing because their edge blockers aren't big receiving threats. If Jake Butt wins a job on the field goal team maybe we'll do that more, but this year the eligible receivers in our field goal formation are Joe Bolden, AJ Williams, and Brennan Beyer (the last edge guy is Schofield, who's ineligible by number). None are going to quickly out-run a safety or be particularly likely to catch the ball even if they're open. By the way, if Dileo wasn't the holder they never would have gotten that play off at Northwestern. He was the far side receiver, and that was important because he only had to run half the field instead of all of it. |
6 days 3 hours ago | 98 kid? Jesus we're talking |
98 kid? Jesus we're talking about the college destination of a kid born when I was in college. |
6 days 21 hours ago | I'd like to get a deeper |
I'd like to get a deeper response when I got the time but wanted to mention quickly that I had to narrow the scope of this by taking out a lot of how the bubble game affects the regular running game. They've found running room from the same formations. So I don't mean this to be an indictment of all the things they do. Just that it shouldn't take 20 times doing a thing and getting bashed before bringing out a constraint. I love that they are repping the base play because it is a great fit for them. But a constraint to it is really easy for them since they've done more pass patterns than anything. I did wonder if this is a post-snap read. |
1 week 1 hour ago | No. And by the way it has a |
No. And by the way it has a name: the "Transcontinental." It's a play they pulled from the old Lloyd days, back when Charles Woodson or Steve Breaston was the receiver-quarterback. I looked at it and that was out of a completely different look than they've been using to run the bubble game. Only similarity was that the receiver stepped back like he's getting a bubble screen, but only after taking a step forward to get the defense backing off. Ultimately the action and situation didn't seem to match the downhill bubble game--it was closer to Michigan's shotgun passing game where Borges bunches lots of receivers to one side then runs triangle rouotes and floods with them. |
1 week 22 hours ago | Taylor Lewan |
Some of the greatest |
1 week 1 day ago | Okay I changed the wording |
Okay I changed the wording around because people apparently found this confusing. 1. If you go to Amazon you can buy ANYTHING and we will get some $$$ as a referral. 2. If you go to the MGoStore you can buy anything for 20% off today. |
1 week 1 day ago | I've asked insiders. Next to |
I've asked insiders. Next to zero. He allows his coaches to coach--he makes suggestions to them. Except interior DL where he is very very involved. Most of the Heininger Cetertainty Principle can be traced to Hoke's personal positional coaching. I asked a guy who would know directly whether Hoke's MANBALL comments were a demand on the coaches, and the answer came back (too late for the article) a major "no." Borges discusses what he's doing and Hoke trusts him to make that call. However redshirting decisions go through Hoke. He was the one who refused to let them burn Kalis's shirt last year. |
1 week 1 day ago | That IS generic Amazon. You |
That IS generic Amazon. You can buy anything on Amazon and we get credit for sending you there. It's their way of advertising w/ us. 11 Warriors has a similar thing up. |
1 week 1 day ago | In an hour or so we'll have |
In an hour or so we'll have the MGoStore cyber monday thing set up. |
1 week 1 day ago | Jeremy Gallon |
Where did you come from |
1 week 1 day ago | I'd say it was about 3 yards |
I'd say it was about 3 yards short. |
1 week 2 days ago | Anyone else=Bryan (Blue in |
Anyone else=Bryan (Blue in South Bend), Brett (Mathlete), Brandon (Coach Brown), Chris Cook (server wrangler) and the mods and liveblog mods and the community. |
1 week 3 days ago | I made a reference to this in |
I made a reference to this in dear diary yesterday. They changed up the strategy from one stupid thing to another. This year: CMU/Akron: 2/3rds under center, 1/3 shotgun, try to establish manball. ND: Spread it out, 20% pistol. (THIS WORKED WELL THEN WAS ABANDONED) UConn: Back to CMU/Akron strategy until that wasn't working, then back to ND strategy but Gardner had an awful day. Minnesota/PSU: Response to Devin's bad day is panic and go to that Tackle-Over crap. PSU adjusted. Indiana/MSU/Nebraska/NW'ern: Changed up O-line, tried to do max protect, using lots of AJ Williams and Joe Kerridge blocking and going to very simpleton blocking that puts more emphasis on everyone doing their jobs. Indiana left Gallon open, MSU and Nebraska and NW'ern blitzed their safeties like crazy, taking advantage of the blocking schemes to make Lewan and Schofield irrelevant. Iowa: Tried to make a game out of that bubble/zone paired play but never showed a counter and shotgun 3-wide passing. Day of receiver dropsies and bad downs/distances from tiping the under-center stuff hid the effectiveness of the 3-wide game.
The Iowa gameplan was the best since ND, with the caveat that there were about 50% of downs burned by totally tipping things the opponent has on tape, and there were zero counters to opponent adjustments, so once Iowa saw what we were doing it was dead. Running into stacked boxes wasn't the only problem. It was one problem. There are many, and a good number of those are Borges's terrible playcalling. |
1 week 4 days ago | Weird. You can also go right |
Weird. You can also go right to http://atimetohelp.org/ and click on things to start an account. |
2 weeks 1 day ago | Um...this team is under |
Um...this team is under construction; we thank you for your patience. /ducks. |
2 weeks 3 days ago | Well there's one way to get |
Well there's one way to get mentioned in TWIS |
2 weeks 3 days ago | Wrigley |
I will take that, Mr. Iowa football man. I have no words for your offense. Did he really just run two reverses in a row? Yes, I am forsaking your teams and going back to root for the Cubs. At least they can score more than 3 points a game. This is my squeaking toy. There are many like it but this one is mine. CHEW ALL THE TOYS! I'll come back to the living room just as soon as the defense is back on the field, buddy. I'm sorry I ruined the screen. Oh...wait...you meant the other kind of screen. What was I talking about? Oh, nothing. Just that tunnel screen. Yeah. I love yards too. This is a Purple Burrito Human. We are pulling Lewan right and running left. The entirety of existence is invalid. Shedding? I do not shed on your couch. Those are your hairs that you pulled out when Borges ran into another 9-man front; don't you remember? This is my bed. It is MY territory. I want you to think of the edge of my realm as a goal line and you are Michigan's offense. You SAY it's to stop me shedding, but I know you are just building a giant stuffed Borges suit that you will stuff Heiko into or something. I am on to your schemes. Ha! A baby petting a puppy. I bet the defense won't be prepared for that! I will protect this house. I am not napping; I am reacting to a fumble. #FIRETHEFROGTOY Is it safe to come out now? I am done. |
2 weeks 3 days ago | It was me in Chicago, Nick, |
It was me in Chicago, Nick, not Heiko. |
2 weeks 4 days ago | Very hard to get full-length |
Very hard to get full-length video of those games. |
2 weeks 4 days ago | Suggestion: build a sample |
Suggestion: build a sample out of recruiting data. Take the teams that have appeared at least X amount of times in Rivals' Top 25 recruiting classes since 2002 and use just those teams in your study. You'll end up with some variance (Alabama and Illinois will both be in there) but not so much as that between Bama and Illinois. And then at least you're working with a sample of athletes who are relatively close to each other in expectation. |
2 weeks 4 days ago | I think Pervis Ellison is the |
I think Pervis Ellison is the standard you gotta beat here. Was injured most of his career. I am trying but having trouble summoning much sympathy for this for two reasons. |


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June 6, 2012
by Lee Smith
It was quite a week for cyberwarfare. First came the revelation that Iran was suffering from a virus called Flame—apparently the most powerful spyware ever created, turning computers into virtual double-agents—which has already infected at least 1,000 computers, nearly all of them in Iran, the Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon.
Two days later, the New York Times published an explosive story by David Sanger detailing the collaboration between Israel and the United States in its cyberwarfare campaign against Iran's nuclear weapons program. The program started under the Bush Administration, but according to Sanger "Obama decided to accelerate the attacks," code-named Olympic Games, including the Stuxnet worm that set back the Iranian nuclear program by as much as two years.
The story, adapted from Sanger's forthcoming book, is richly reported and heavily sourced to "current and former American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program." The story reveals that both the Bush and Obama Administrations have used cyberwarfare to wage campaigns—political and strategic—on various fronts. Stuxnet, for example, was not intended simply to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program. It was also meant to convince the Israelis that Washington recognizes the urgency of the problem and thus Israel need not attack Iran. The Times article is evidence of the Obama White House's efforts in yet another campaign: the 2012 elections.
Given that this was the second such cyberwarfare story that the Obama Administration has fed the New York Times—the first appeared in January 2011—it is obvious that this White House, like so many others before it, is using journalists to shape its image. While a number of analysts have criticized the administration for jeopardizing U.S. national security by leaking sensitive material to the press, the reality is that the story is not really about the details of this ongoing intelligence operation. It's a political narrative, intended to shape public opinion about the competence and muscularity of this White House.
The nature of the story is given away in a quote from Vice President Joe Biden, exasperated after Stuxnet mistakenly appeared on the Web in the summer of 2010, exposing the code. Biden laid the blame at the feet of the administration's ostensible partner. "It's got to be the Israelis," said Biden, according to an unnamed source. "They went too far." In other words, the Obama White House wants it both ways—to claim credit for the successes of the cyberwarfare campaign and to shift blame on the Israelis in the event that things go wrong.
Biden's quote dovetails with a theory that's been circulating for a few years among security experts that the Stuxnet virus was the product of collaboration between first-rate professionals and rank amateurs. On this reading, the programming team was top-notch while the implementation team was less than capable.
Applying the Biden thesis, it would seem that the Israelis are the incompetent partners, responsible for the Stuxnet leak.
If the Israelis are in fact incompetent at waging cyberwar, then that's real news, since the Israelis have always been reputed to be the best in the business. "If Israel is incompetent then why was Stuxnet successful?" journalist Yossi Melman, co-author of the forthcoming book Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars, responded when I asked him about Biden's comment. "A thousand centrifuges were disabled, which makes it a very successful campaign."
Melman said that according to the Israeli officials he's spoken with, it was Israel that initiated the idea of utilizing computer viruses. "They've been doing cyberwarfare slightly longer than the Americans. Military Intelligence Unit 8200 [Israel's equivalent of the National Security Agency in charge of signals intelligence] has been exploring the potential for offensive as well as defensive cyberwarfare capabilities for at least a decade."
As some critics have noted, a cyber-attack that spread to thousands of computers unrelated to Iran's nuclear program is at odds with the Obama Administration's "International Strategy for Cyberspace," a policy laid out a year ago. "The digital world," reads the document, "is a place where the norms of responsible, just and peaceful conduct among states and peoples have begun to take hold." So, perhaps the administration, and Biden in particular, is eager to shift the blame to avoid charges of hypocrisy: The Americans do the good stuff, it's the Israelis who do the bad stuff.
This is the flip side of the political narrative. "It's a disinformation campaign to present Israel's behavior as without discretion, without patience," a former Israeli intelligence official told me. He recalls another New York Times story about a war game that starts with an Israeli strike against Iran in which thousands of Americans are killed. "The idea," said the official, "is to present Israel as gung-ho and ready to go to war, and America has to stop it from doing something disastrous."
It's hard to imagine that the two sides walked into the Stuxnet campaign ignorant of each other's abilities and limitations. "I don't believe for a moment that such 'teams'—if they existed as 'teams'—didn't have the chance to review or test each other's code in some meaningful fashion," said Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business. "I suppose it's possible that complementary teams worked independently and then released an uncoordinated worm into the wild, but that's a pretty poor way of trying to kill or disrupt or gain intelligence around the most difficult nuclear challenge America and Israel face. If I were an Israeli or American cyber-warrior, I would want to know the other's code and protocol or doctrine for attack."
In other words, the chances that the White House was really blindsided by Israel, like Biden says, are virtually nil.
But Israelis, said Melman, understand that the point of this story was to enhance the president's image. "Israeli officials know that it's an election year," says Melman. "They believe the information was leaked to glorify the Obama Administration. Israeli officials are not going to rock the boat and ruin the party."
The Times story is part of a larger narrative being driven by the Obama team, meant to enhance the president's image in the middle of an election campaign where, according to some polls, the Republican candidate has pulled even with the incumbent. Forget the fact that Syria is burning, that the Russians have been emboldened by American impotence in the Middle East, or that the Iranians are tip-toeing across the finish line to get a nuclear weapon while American diplomats sit helplessly at a negotiating table. Focus rather on the image of a cool superhero commander in chief ordering clandestine attacks.
"Obama's problem," says the former Israeli intelligence official, "is that on one hand the administration has to show that they are doing something about Iran. But on the other hand, they can't abandon their left-wing base. So, it's better to shift blame to Israel. No Israeli government is going to be criticized for releasing a virus. We know we are at war, and America does not know it's at war."
Lee Smith is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and is the author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics and the Clash of Arab Civilizations (Doubleday, 2010).
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Ohio's forests have undergone dramatic changes since the late 1700s (presettlement), a time when nearly 95% of Ohio was forested. Rapid settlement of the Ohio countryside resulted in a steady decline of forest cover to a low of 12% in 1940. This massive loss of forest habitat was instrumental in the extirpation of many animals from Ohio including white-tailed deer, elk, timber wolf, mountain lion, black bear, bobcat, and wild turkey. Others, like the passenger pigeon, became extinct. Settlement also resulted in the introduction of exotic diseases such as Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight. These diseases inflicted heavy mortality on the American elm, resulted in the demise of the American chestnut, and altered the composition of Ohio's remnant forests. Ohio's forest land has been increasing since 1940 and, as of 2001, comprised approximately 33% of the state's land area. This represents a 2.5-fold increase over 61 years and has been the major factor leading to the successful reintroduction, return, or resurgence of many forest-dependent species like deer, wild turkey, beaver, and black bear. Although forest land has increased dramatically, there are still wide differences in the amount of forest cover among the geographic regions of the state. In the western glaciated farmland region, most counties are <15% forested, with much of the forest occurring in small isolated patches of 20 acres or less. The northeastern glaciated counties average 30% forest cover and most are heavily urbanized. The east-central, southeastern, and south-central unglaciated counties (hill country) are the most heavily forested. Forest cover in these counties ranges from 35-80%. This distributionof forest land is a key determinant of the distribution and abundance of Ohio's forest wildlife. Species like fox squirrel and other forest edge species require, and can prosper in, the patchy woodlot habitats of western Ohio. Forest interior birds, like the cerulean warbler, that are area sensitive, require the relatively large, contiguous expanses of forest present in the unglaciated hill country. Ohio's forests are changing in other ways as well; they are maturing and their composition is changing. The recent increase in Ohio's forest land was due primarily to the reversion of abandoned pasture to brush and ultimately mature forest in eastern Ohio. This brushy stage of forest succession is declining as Ohio's forests mature (there was a >80% decline in the seedling-sapling stage from 1968 to 2001). As a consequence, we can expect species like the ruffed grouse and yellow-breasted chat that require early successional habitats to decline and those requiring more mature forest types like hooded warblers and wild turkey to increase. Forest composition is also changing. Forests once dominated by oak and hickory are becoming increasingly dominated by red maple. Acorns and hickory nuts are staple foods of many forest wildlife species. Consequently, as forest composition shifts from oak and hickory dominance to red maple, declines in mast-dependent forest wildlife species are likely. Return to Top
Ohio's first modern day deer hunting season was held in 1943. Since that time, season closure, either-sex, buck-only, antlerless-only, and multiple bag limit regulations have been used to manage our deer herd. While deer harvests and populations have grown and management strategies and landscapes have evolved since 1943, the goal of our deer program has remained the same: a deer population that maximizes recreational opportunity including viewing, photographing, and hunting while minimizing conflicts with agriculture, motor travel, and other areas of human endeavor. In short, we attempt to provide enough deer to hunt and enjoy, within limits defined by the habitat, but not so many that they cause undue human hardship. This is accomplished by annually comparing a county's deer population status with its corresponding population objective, or target level. Consistent with the Division of Wildlife's (DOW) deer management goal, these target levels represent minimum conflict levels, derived from either deer-vehicle accident (DVAs) rates in urban counties or farmer tolerances in rural counties.
Harvest—Since 1962, Ohio hunters have been required by law to register their deer at an official check station where information such as date, county of harvest, sex of deer, hunting implement used, and permit type are recorded. A total of 252,017 deer was harvested during the 2008-09 hunting seasons, 8% more than the previous season. During the 2008-09 deer hunting seasons, hunters harvested 134,231 deer during gun, 85,856 deer during archery, 20,966 deer during muzzleloader, and 9,699 deer during the youth hunts. For historical deer harvest data see Publication 304.
Deer Age, Sex, and Condition—Each year during the gun season, DOW personnel will age approximately 5-7% of the harvest. Typically, this amounts to between 6,000-8,000 deer. A total of 5,938 deer was examined at 21 check stations in 2008. For historical deer age-sex-condition data see Publication 304.
Deer-vehicle Accidents—Because they represent a significant cost to the public, the DOW has monitored deer-vehicle accident trends since the 1940s. Additionally, if changes in traffic volume can be accounted for, and there is little annual variation in reporting rates, deer-vehicle accident trends should be a reflection of changes in the actual size of the deer herd. For historical deer-vehicle accident data see Publication 304.
Deer Crop Damage Complaints—Because target levels for most of Ohio's counties are based on farmer tolerances, the likelihood of widespread agricultural problems should be minimal when deer populations are at target. However, some localized crop damage is still likely to occur and in these instances producers may be eligible for a Deer Damage Control permit. For historical deer damage complaint and kill permit data see Publication 304. Return to Top
The ruffed grouse, an inhabitant of extensively forested areas, is a long-time Ohio resident dating back to the Ice Age. Prior to European settlement, both forests and grouse occupied about 95% of Ohio's land surface. By 1940, forest land had been reduced to 12% of Ohio's land area; grouse became greatly reduced in eastern Ohio and were totally absent from western Ohio by 1908. Abandonment of hill farms in eastern Ohio during the period 1930-1950 resulted in the gradual reversion of farmland to brush and forest. This reforestation helped bring grouse populations back so that today they can be found in 40 eastern Ohio counties.
Grouse abundance, while fluctuating dramatically, has generally been declining since the early 1970s. From 1983 to the present, grouse abundance has been consistently low and averaged well below the long-term mean. The reason for this decline is thought to be loss of quality habitat. A rapid increase in quality grouse habitat occurred in eastern Ohio through the early 1970s as abandoned farms reverted to brush. Since then, good quality grouse habitat has declined as brushland has grown to more mature forest. U.S. Forest Service inventories show an 80% decline in the seedling/sapling (brushland) size class from 1968 to 2001. Overall, timber growth exceeds harvest in Ohio's grouse range and timber harvesting has been insufficient to halt the successional trend away from quality grouse habitat and toward more mature forests. This, coupled with possible regional influences (grouse populations in neighboring states exhibit trends similar to Ohio's), is probably responsible for the consistently low abundance experienced since the early 1980s.
Population and Harvest Surveys Roadside Drumming Counts—Routes consist of 10 listening stops spaced at least 0.5 mile apart. Routes are run on 2 nonconsecutive days between ½ hour before and 1 hour after sunrise. Observers record all grouse heard and/or seen as well as the total number of drums during a 4-minute listening period at each stop. In order to minimize the effect of weather, the survey is not conducted during heavy rain or when the wind exceeds 8 mph. Routes are conducted in 37 counties and results are summarized range wide as grouse heard per 100 stops. Historical data can be found in the Grouse Spring Population Table.
Grouse Hunter Cooperator Results—Approximately 300 cooperators are mailed a "Grouse Hunting Diary" just prior to the Ohio ruffed grouse season. The list of cooperators remains quite constant from year to year, although a few new cooperators are added annually to replace those no longer wishing to participate in the survey. Hunters are instructed to keep a record of their grouse hunting trips by recording the date, county, hours hunted, grouse flushed, and grouse harvested in their hunting diary. Hunters are also instructed to not count reflushes or birds flushed by others in their hunting party. Immediately following the close of the grouse season, cooperators are sent a diary recall notice. Those not responding to the initial recall are sent a second notice after approximately 3 weeks. Summaries of total gun hours, flushes per hour, and harvest per hour are obtained for county, region, and total occupied range. Detailed information and historical data can be found in the Grouse Fall Population Table.
Cooperative Grouse Observation Reports—Ruffed grouse were added to the wild turkey observation report cards in 1999 to obtain an index of reproductive success. June, July, and August observations are summarized by county and township, observation date, and number of adult and young grouse. Data collected since 1999 can be found in the Grouse Summer Population Table. Return to Top
Black bear remains have been recovered from Indian mounds and other excavations throughout Ohio. Old historical records of settlers and naturalists also indicate widespread occurrence before 1850. Bears were still reasonably common in southern Ohio in 1820 with 46 reported killed in Athens County during that winter. Continued habitat destruction resulting from human settlement accompanied by shooting and trapping of bears to protect crops and livestock resulted in their extirpation from Ohio. The last bear reported from southern Ohio was from Jackson County in 1831. In northern Ohio, the last report was of a bear killed in Paulding County in 1881. Occasional reports of black bears occurred in the early-mid 1900s. Beginning in the 1980s, sightings of black bear in northeastern and eastern Ohio became more common as bear populations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia increased in abundance and expanded westward.
Population Survey Black Bear Observations—Since 1993, the Division of Wildlife has formally documented black bear observations in Ohio. This procedure provides for standardized documentation of bear observations as bears travel and establish residency in Ohio. Division employees are to investigate, attempt to confirm reported bear sightings, and complete a "Black Bear Observation Report." The report includes the following information: date of sighting; location; initial observer; number of bears; their age, sex (if known), estimated weight; behavior; last known fate of the bear; and whether the report could be confirmed. A confirmed report is one where there are tracks, photos, or other reliable evidence that provided the Division of Wildlife investigator with reasonable assurance that a bear was present. A code number is assigned to the initial observation. All subsequent reports of what are believed to be the same bear are given the code number of the initial sighting. Black bear sighting data collected since 1993 are presented in the Bear Population Table.
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Bobcats were found throughout the Ohio country in early settlement times. They were concentrated primarily in the large, lowland areas of the north and unglaciated Allegheny Plateau region of the southeastern portion of the state. As forests were cleared and swamps and lowlands drained to make way for settlements and cropland, the bobcat population declined. By 1850, they were considered extirpated from the state. From 1850 through the 1960s, there were occasional reports of bobcats, mainly in eastern Ohio. Since 1970, there have been 464 verified reports of bobcats in Ohio, 436 (94%) of which occurred since 2000. In general, bobcats showed the first signs of recovery in Ohio in the 1990s, after which numbers of sightings have steadily increased. See Bobcat Population Table for annual numbers of verified and unverified bobcat sightings. Currently, the bobcat is officially classified as an Ohio endangered species and provided full protection under the law.
Population Surveys Verified Reports—These reports represent positive identification of a bobcat, usually as a result of the animal either being killed on the road, photographed, or incidentally trapped. In situations where the bobcat carcass is available, the age, weight, reproductive status of females, and various body measurements are obtained. This provides information regarding the health and reproductive status of Ohio's recovering bobcat population.
Unverified Reports—Bobcat reports are received from a number of different sources. The annual Bowhunter Survey is conducted by the Waterloo Wildlife Research Station. In November, volunteer deer archery hunters report their observations of various wildlife, including bobcats, while deer hunting. Approximately 50,000 observation hours are logged annually. Additionally, a number of observations by the public are received via email (email@example.com), 1-800-WILDLIFE, and Endangered/Uncommon Species Observation Cards. Return to Top
Prior to settlement, the gray squirrel was abundant across the entire state. Gray squirrels were apparently so numerous and such a menace to crops that taxpayers were required to pay a quota of squirrel scalps in addition to their regular taxes in 1807. By 1940, Ohio's forests had been reduced from 25 million acres to 3.7 million acres. The gray squirrel, which requires large, relatively unbroken expanses of forest, was virtually eliminated from the western and northeastern portions of the state where forest land had been reduced to small, isolated woodlots. Today, primary gray squirrel range is limited to the unglaciated hill country.
The fox squirrel is not native to Ohio, but historically occurred in the oak savannas of the humid prairie region. However, as early settlers cleared forestland in Ohio, they created a patchwork of agricultural fields and small tracts of timber (woodlots) favorable to fox squirrels. As settlement expanded westward across Indiana and into the humid prairies, fox squirrels moved eastward into this new habitat. Fox squirrels first occurred in western Ohio about 1830 and reached the eastern boundaries of Trumbull and Ashtabula counties about 1885. Today, the fox squirrel is found in all of Ohio's 88 counties. In primary gray squirrel habitat, fox squirrels represent approximately 15% of the total squirrel population.
Oak-hickory forests are capable of supporting the highest densities of squirrels in Ohio. Densities in these habitats average about 1 squirrel per acre in mature timber stands and are due primarily to the abundance of favored squirrel foods, especially acorns and hickory nuts. Other forest types are capable of supporting both squirrel species, but at lower densities.
The amount of forested habitat in primary fox and gray squirrel ranges increased markedly in the past century, but the total acreage of oak-hickory forest has remained unchanged since 1979. Concerns over the conversion of oak-hickory to forests dominated by maple and tulip poplar have prompted research into new silvicultural systems that provide for oak regeneration in Ohio forests.
Population and Harvest Surveys Squirrel Hunter Survey—Each year, we mail squirrel hunting diaries and nut crop rating forms to cooperators just prior to the Ohio squirrel season. Despite annual fluctuations, long-term harvest trends suggest that Ohio's squirrel population has remained relatively stable across both the primary fox and gray squirrel ranges (see Squirrel Harvest Table and Squirrel Hunter Success Figure). However, squirrel hunter numbers have declined approximately 20% since the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The wild turkey once inhabited forested areas in every Ohio county and was an important food source for the early settlers. Extensive loss of forest, coupled with unregulated hunting, led to the extirpation of the wild turkey in 1904.
By 1950, large tracts of forest land had returned to southeastern Ohio. From 1952-1957, the Division of Wildlife reared 1,400 game farm turkeys and released them in several southeastern forests. Attempts to establish a turkey population using game farm birds failed. From 1956-1963, wild turkeys trapped in West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, and Florida were transplanted into Ohio. In state trapping and transplanting of wild turkeys was conducted from 1963-2006. In spring 2008, Ohio's wild turkey population was estimated to number 200,000 birds. Wild turkeys are once again present in all of Ohio's 88 counties.
Population and Harvest Surveys Spring Turkey Harvest—Since the first spring turkey hunting season in 1966, Ohio has used a mandatory registration system to determine hunter harvest (see the Turkey Spring Harvest Table). Checking stations are established in each county and hunters are required by law to register their bird by 2:00 p.m. on the day of harvest. Check station data provide relatively precise information such as total harvest, harvest by county, harvest by permit holder type, proportion of juvenile and adult turkeys in the harvest, daily and weekly distribution of harvest, and hunter effort. These data are used to determine turkey distribution and abundance, evaluate success of stocking efforts, evaluate performance of hunting regulations, and provide the basis for future hunting season recommendations.
Fall Turkey Harvest—Fall either-sex wild turkey hunting was initiated in 1996. Counties with at least 20% forest cover, a spring gobbler harvest of 200 or more birds for at least 2 consecutive years, and adjacent to at least 2 other open counties are open to fall turkey hunting. Historical fall harvest data are presented in the Turkey Fall Harvest Table.
Roadside Gobbling Counts—This annual survey provides an index to breeding abundance of turkey throughout Ohio's occupied range. Routes consist of 10 listening stops spaced at least 0.5 mile apart. Routes are repeated on 2 non-consecutive days between ½ hour before and 1 hour after sunrise. Observers record turkeys heard and/or seen as well as the total number of gobbles heard during a 4 minute listening period at each stop. Additionally, turkeys seen between stops are recorded. In order to minimize the effect of weather, the survey is not conducted during heavy rain or when the wind exceeds 8 mph. Historical data are presented in the Turkey Spring Population Table.
Cooperative Turkey Observation Reports—Since 1962, wild turkey observation cards have been distributed to Division of Wildlife personnel, park rangers, foresters, and other interested individuals frequenting Ohio's turkey range. Reports are summarized by county and township, observation date, and turkey sex and age. June, July, and August observations of hens and young are summarized to provide an annual index (young per hen) to reproductive success. Historical data are presented in Turkey Summer Population Table. Return to Top
Acorns are an important food source for many forest wildlife species. Numerous studies have linked the abundance of acorn mast crops to body condition, winter survival, and reproductive success of wildlife including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, black bears, gray squirrels, and ruffed grouse. This information is helpful to hunters to locate good areas that may improve hunting success.
In late summer – early fall 2010, the 6th annual acorn mast survey was successfully completed on 38 wildlife areas throughout Ohio. Results showed that an average of 59.4% white oaks and 74.5% red oaks bore fruit (Table 1). White oak acorn production increased on 31 (82%) Wildlife Areas compared to 2009. Similarly, most Wildlife Areas reported an increase in red oak (n = 29; 76.3%) acorn production compared to the previous year. Overall, there was a 32.9% and 33.1% increase for white and red oaks, respectively, in the number of trees bearing acorns in 2010 relative to 2009. Last fall represented the highest percentage of fruit-bearing white and red oaks recorded over the past 6 years (Fig. 1).
The mast survey procedure was modified during 2007 to provide an indication of acorn relative abundance on survey trees. In addition to determining presence or absence of acorns, observers estimated the percentage of each tree's crown that was covered with acorns. Average acorn crown coverage of white oaks was 23.9% in 2010 as compared to 5.2% in 2009. Average acorn crown coverage of red oaks increased from 12.7% in 2009 to 36.8% in 2010 (Table 2). Crown coverage exhibited a similar pattern as that of the percentage of trees producing acorns (Fig. 2).
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Approximately 175 bird species nest in Ohio and about 100 of these species are dependent on some stage of forested habitat. Changing patterns of land use have altered the distribution of forested habitats and the abundance of forest nesting birds in Ohio. Forest fragmentation has been associated with reductions in abundance and distribution of birds throughout the Midwestern United States. Species restricted to the interiors of mature woodlands may disappear from fragmented forests or suffer high rates of nest predation or parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird. Species dependent on early successional habitats have declined as Ohio's forests have matured into sawtimber size classes. Various other factors, including West Nile Virus, extreme weather conditions during the nesting season, and loss of habitat on the wintering grounds, continue to influence population levels of forest birds. Population Surveys Ohio's forest bird species are monitored by the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). This continental survey is cooperatively coordinated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Data have been collected in a standardized manner on nearly 3,000 routes since 1966. The BBS is a roadside survey conducted on permanent routes annually in June. Routes are 24.5 miles long and have 50 stops spaced at 0.5-mile intervals. Surveys start one-half hour before local sunrise and last for 4 to 4.5 hours. All birds seen or heard during a 3-minute observation period at each stop are recorded. Data are summed over all stops for each route by species. Representative forest songbirds with reasonable data for Ohio include the cerulean warbler, scarlet tanager, Acadian flycatcher, yellow-breasted chat, and blue-winged warbler.
The American burying beetle, also commonly referred to as a carrion beetle, was once distributed throughout Ohio as well as in 34 other states, the District of Columbia, and 3 Canadian provinces. The last American burying beetle reported in Ohio was in 1974 near Old Man's Cave in Hocking County. The American burying beetle was listed as a state and federally endangered species in 1989. Although this is the largest beetle of its kind, smaller members of the genus Nicrophorus remain widespread and abundant in the U.S. The American burying beetle has declined throughout the 20th century and today can only be found in the wild in Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island. Successful reintroduction has returned the beetle to 2 Massachusetts islands (Penikese and Nantucket).
About 1.5 inches long, the American burying beetle can be identified by its striking, distinctive coloring. Its body is shiny black, and on its wing covers are 4 scalloped, orange-red markings. Smaller relatives look similar but most distinctively, the American burying beetle has an orange-red marking on its pronotum, the large shield-like area just behind the head. The American burying beetle has an orange facial marking and orange tips on the antennae. The beetles are strong fliers, moving as far as 1.5 miles a night. Current information suggests this species is a habitat generalist, living in many types of habitat, but with a slight preference for grasslands and the open understory of oak-hickory forests. However, the beetles are carrion (animals which are dead) specialists in that they need a carcass the size of a dove or chipmunk in order to raise their young. Carrion availability may be a key factor to where the species can prosper. Highly unusual for an insect, both the male and female burying beetles take part in raising the young. Male burying beetles often locate carcasses and then attract a mate. Beetles often fight over the carcass, with the largest male and female individuals usually winning. The victors bury the carcass, the pair mates and the female lays her eggs in an adjacent tunnel. Within a few days, the larvae develop and both parents feed and tend to the young. The average brood size is 12-15 but ranges from 1-30 young. The larvae spend about a week in the tunnel being fed by their parents then move to the adjacent carcass where they feed and then crawl into the soil to pupate (develop into adults). Mature American burying beetles emerge from the soil in 45-60 days after their parents initially bury the carcass. Adult burying beetles live for just 1 year. They are secretive nocturnal insects that are seldom seen by people. Reasons for the decline and disappearance of American burying beetle are unclear and speculation has ranged from increased competition and predation by scavenging mammals to prevalence of outdoor lighting and habitat disruption including increased use of insecticides. Population Surveys Since 1993, the Division of Wildlife, in cooperation with entomologists at The Ohio State University, has been intensively surveying for remnant populations of the American burying beetle in Ohio. Unfortunately, this intensive sampling effort using carrion-baited pitfall traps failed to uncover any American burying beetles. The first mainland reintroduction of the American burying beetle to its native habitat in the U.S. occurred in Ohio. In July 1998, 35 pairs of beetles were collected from the wild at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas in cooperation with the Oklahoma Biological Survey. The beetles were flown to Ohio and immediately placed under protective covers with fresh carrion on public land in southeastern Ohio. A total of 102 wild-caught beetles from Arkansas were released from 1998-2000. While no releases occurred during 2001 and 2002, intensive pitfall trapping surveys occurred to locate previously released beetles. Eighty pitfall traps baited with putrid chicken were installed in 8 linear transects of 10 traps, 4 different times for 1 night each during 2002. Traps contained numerous Nicrophorus species but no American burying beetles were captured. In 2002, a captive colony of beetles, representing only the second in the country, was established with our Ohio State University (OSU) partners in this endeavor. As a result, 98 pairs of captively reared beetles were released on public lands in southeastern Ohio in July 2003. An additional 78 pairs were released in July 2004. In June 2005, 140 pairs of captively reared beetles were released from the OSU colony. In June 2006, 193 pairs of captively reared beetles and 6 males were released from colonies at OSU and the St. Louis Zoo. 127 pairs of captively reared beetles were released in June 2007 from the St. Louis Zoo colony. An additional 228 pairs were released in 2008 from the OSU and St Louis Zoo colonies. In June 2009, 448 pairs of captively reared beetles were released from the OSU, St. Louis Zoo and The Wilds colonies. This was the highest number of beetle pairs released and the first year beetles were produced and released from three captive colonies. 80 pairs of captively-reared beetles from the OSU and the St. Louis Zoo colonies were released on public land in Southeastern Ohio in June 2010.
The timber rattlesnake is a state endangered species associated with mature forest habitat. Within these mature forests, timber rattlesnakes use regenerating clearcuts for feeding sites and other openings, downed timber, and rocky outcrops for basking. In the 1800s, the species was found in about 24 counties from the Ohio River to Lake Erie. As a result of direct killing, unregulated collection, and habitat destruction, today the snake can be found in limited numbers in Adams, Hocking, Jackson, Meigs, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton counties. Viable populations of this species (>50 individuals) persist in Vinton and Scioto counties. The Division of Wildlife's management plan for this species is to protect existing populations as opposed to increasing their occupied range.
An adult rattlesnake is about 40 inches in length and 8 inches in diameter. Colors range from gray, brown, tan, or yellow with transverse black bands shaped in chevrons, v-shaped bands, or ovals. Timber rattlesnakes can live more than 20 years. Typically 8 young are born in each litter, but only 2 or 3 will survive their first year. Ohio timber rattlesnakes utilize high, dry ridges throughout the summer. Individuals are occasionally seen crossing bottomland roads as well as high, dry ridge roads. Timber rattlesnakes found crossing the lower elevation roads are believed to be moving from 1 high ridge to another. Population Surveys Since 1993, rattlesnake surveys and research have been limited to gathering biological data, movement patterns, home range, and reproduction status, as well as characterizing habitat preferences and verifying occupied areas within their historical range. Specific information on their distribution and biology is vital to the development of a sound conservation plan to ensure that the timber rattlesnake remains a viable component of the state's wildlife diversity. The principal investigator of this species in Ohio has been herpetologist Doug Wynn. Timber rattlesnakes are surveyed by walking potential habitats in the early spring as well as examining potential dens in winter. Where suitable habitat exists, more intensive surveys are conducted during the snake's active season (mid-May through September). In late summer, efforts are made to survey open habitats that contain nearby shelter. Such habitats are often utilized by pregnant females who seek warmer conditions for development of embryos. When threatened or faced by unfavorable weather conditions, these females can then find escape cover. Eight public observations of timber rattlesnakes were field reviewed in 4 counties. Timber rattlesnake sightings by the public are a valuable tool used in identifying areas of possible snake occupation. Twenty-one live timber rattlesnakes were found during the 2009 survey season. Since 1998, Doug Wynn has served as a liaison with the Division of Forestry and loggers to evaluate possible impacts of timber sales, placement of skidder (logging) roads, and prescribed burns in critical rattlesnake habitat. Proposed harvest units are evaluated to determine potential impacts to known or suspected rattlesnake denning and/or basking sites or if the cut may proceed unmodified. Return to Top


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Creating a Bedroom Oasis
by: Kathy Witt
From a tropical paradise to a retro hippie pad, a teen haven, or even Grandma's attic, these readers share how they created their own bedroom oasis—you can too with budget-savvy and expert advice
What does your bedroom oasis look like? A tropical paradise that puts you back in the moment of favorite family vacations? A groovy retro room that your inner hippie digs? If you're a teenager, maybe you envision a place that looks more like your grownup future than your little kid past. Or perhaps you prefer to take a sentimental journey by way of cherished family heirlooms.
Several readers shared their bedroom makeover stories. Working from various wish lists, themes, and budgets, each transformed space into a distinctive room of their own.
Tropical paradise
Through a sleight-of-hand designer trick, DIYer Kay Jessie, a member of Salt River Electric Cooperative and Shepherdsville resident, repurposed a ho-hum bedroom into a tropical oasis with island colors (think breezy blue) and lush foliage, including hibiscus and seashells found on the seashores while on various family vacation destinations.
"I'm all about reusing things," says Jessie, whose island motif gets a boost via a pink and white afghan her mom made for her, a sea turtle emerging from his shell, and a wall hanging fashioned from Hawaiian shirts. "It's called Southern ingenuity."
Playing up the theme are sailboat and woven basket accents, porthole windows in the bathroom over the two-person Jacuzzi, and palm trees swaying on the shower curtain and in a picture above the dresser. Inspired by the towels typically used in spas, Jessie chose white for her fluffy towels and rugs, a color repeated in the bedspread, woodwork, and shutters.
"There are lots of different things you can do if you let your mind go," says Jessie.
Helping transform the room into an island haven is a sunroom, accessible by French doors opposite the four-poster bed, where Jessie and her husband, Ron, watch TV or stargaze. The sunroom's textured tile with sand-colored grout lends a note of authenticity.
"When my husband smoothed the grouting, some had fallen into the depressions in the tile. To me it looked like sand had blown in, so I said, 'Leave it.'"
Off the sunroom is a porch surrounded by wrought iron fencing that leads to a garden with butterfly bushes, roses, vibernum, and different kinds of bark.
"You can take a short walk and enjoy the flowers and butterflies," adds Jessie.
Crash pad
"Come on, get happy!" That's what Karla Hammer's hippie-style bedroom transformation, with its flower-power bedding and slip covers, peace and love signs, flip flops and daisies art, smiley face and metal VW van, seems to be singing.
Hammer and her husband, Jim, live in Louisville and have a summer home at Barren River Lake, served by Farmers RECC. Here, the couple tricked out a 12x24-foot barn-style gardening shed, transforming it into a bunkhouse that sleeps 10 people.
"My oasis is a bit unusual, but I have had so many compliments for such a fun idea," she says.
A moderately priced DIY conversion, Hammer notes the biggest expense was the shed with its two lofts—picked up from a yard sale. She and her husband modified its construction with staircase and portable ladder, installed drywall, and then painted and tiled. The couple added an electric faux fireplace and shopped for flooring and furniture bargains; Karla finished the look with hippie-inspired flourishes.
A red Volkswagen perches on the mantel. A small retro desk—another yard sale find—was painted and covered with decals. Funky frogs strike a groovy pose. One almost expects to find the Partridge Family practicing in one of the lofts.
"We love our retro hippie hideaway and the children are fighting over who gets to sleep there."
Teen haven
"I'll be 14 soon and I've had a little girl room all my life," Jaclyn Jewell, a member of Jackson Energy Cooperative in London, wrote in her letter to
Kentucky Living
. Jaclyn's need for a change became the impetus for her bedroom makeover.
A sponge-painted room at her grandmother's Columbia home sparked love at first sight for the teen, who immediately envisioned this faux finish in her bedroom. The Impressionistic-like effect in burgundy to soft pink was the perfect way to transition from childhood themes of Noah's ark, butterflies, and polka dots to a young adult-worthy retreat.
The makeover became a family affair, with Jaclyn's father, Jackie—a woodworking hobbyist—making the furniture; her grandmother providing instruction on the painting technique; brother Josh and Dad teaming up to paint the base coat on the walls; and Mom, Karen, organizing the shopping excursions.
"My Nana got me started by showing me how to rotate the sponge to get an unequal look," says Jaclyn. "I did the majority of the sponge painting, though, and thought my arm would fall off.
"When it was done, it was almost the perfect room. All I needed was some new furniture."
Enter Dad, who constructed a new bed, lighted vanity, chest of drawers, and shelves from his bountiful collection of recycled wood based on designs Jaclyn found on the Internet. The cost? "A hug," says Jaclyn. Then Mom and daughter drove to Lexington in search of bedding and accessories, including curtains, mushroom chair, rug, accent pillow, and a thick, cream-colored comforter found "at the most unlikely place, Big Lots."
"Even though I'm still working on accessories, my new room already has the feel and look that I wanted," says Jaclyn, noting that actual dollars spent equaled about $255. "I couldn't have done it without my family."
Grandma's attic
Kathy and Ted Jackson of Cannon, members of Cumberland Valley Electric cooperative, created a tribute to her grandmother, Cora Gambrel Mills, in an unused bedroom in their home. The 1930s room holds family heirlooms and memories.
"My family came to the mountains of Kentucky over 200 years ago," says Jackson. "Some of my most precious memories are of my grandmother. Her home had changed very little since the 1930s."
This old-timey oasis with its fireplace backdrop features a "mantel that was handmade in 1910 of old tin ceiling tiles painted black," has a four-poster bed, handmade mountain rocker, a 1930s radio and trunk, a dresser that belonged to Jackson's husband's grandmother, and a china cabinet from Ted's mother that is filled with old and new quilts. A circa 1910 handmade mantel surrounds a hearth trimmed with homemade toys. Displayed on the mantel are cherished mementos from Jackson's grandfather, Addison Mills, including "a lunchbox he used when he worked in the deep mines."
The re-created bathroom with its claw-foot tub has a sink made from an old dresser and is decorated with crocks and kerosene lamps. A cane-bottom chair sits before an antique cherry table, a coal bucket is used for towels, and a working reproduction, crank-style telephone adds a touch of whimsy. Hanging neatly from the towel racks are Jackson's grandmother's handmade linens.
"I have many dear memories of my grandmother," says Kathy.
Most bedroom transformations focus on wall color, window treatments, furniture, and artwork, but the most critical first step is making sure you get a good night's sleep.
"A full one-third of your life is spent in bed—and the quality of the sleep experience affects the other two-thirds," notes Kentucky native Kim Knopf, founder of Innovative Mattress Solutions, the parent company of family-owned Sleep Outfitters.
A certified sleep consultant can help you find the best mattress for your custom needs, and prove even more beneficial to those who suffer from back pain, insomnia, sleep apnea, and other conditions that interrupt a good night's sleep.
So how do you choose the mattress that will deliver you to the land of Nod and give you those eight hours of restful sleep recommended by sleep experts?
"The single most important thing to keep in mind is that the mattress must be comfortable and supportive," says customer experience specialist Karrie Knopf.
Knopf notes that a good mattress should give slightly under the heaviest parts of your body and feel like it is rising up to support your lighter parts, keeping your body well-aligned. "A great mattress will be designed to accomplish this night after night for years to come," she says.
Certified interior decorator Liz Toombs, who owns Polka Dots & Rosebuds Interiors in Lexington and works with clients all over central Kentucky, offers these DIY bedroom transformation tips for any budget:
• Create a focal or accent wall at the head of the bed with paint or wallpaper. The cost of primer and paint to cover one wall is minimal. Wallcovering prices vary but only a small amount is needed.
• Add a headboard with personality: stained wood, scrolling ironwork, an upholstered piece, trompe l'oeil (perfect when space is an issue)—even an old door made new with paint.
• Mix custom pillows with inexpensive ones. For example, add a dramatic black monogram to white pillow shams and layer them with a custom-covered bolster and toss pillows found at home goods stores. The cost? About $100.
• Use a rug as a foundation piece; it adds warmth and offers another layer to complete the room.
• Dress your windows: floor-to-ceiling drapery panels make the window and the room feel larger. (Store-bought treatments often cost $50 per panel.)
• Veer away from showroom floor matching sets. Use small chests and interesting side tables in place of nightstands. Mix and match pieces with purpose by having elements of continuity: wood tone, hand-painted features, coordinating drawer pulls.
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Just letting you know about a new group for parents who are new to Phillip Island.
Moving towns can be really exciting but it can also be a stressful and emotional experience as we leave behind familiar places, friends and even family but relocating with a baby or toddler can add to that stress tenfold and throw your emotions completely out. We're here to help by providing you with a safe place to meet new parents who just like yourself have moved to Phillip Island and want to meet other parents, make friendships and offer support and advice. If you are new to Phillip Island and have a child between 0 and 5years of age and you're interested in joining our New Parents to Phillip Island Group please either call or e-mail us for more details about our next meeting. Phone: 0400323667 E-mail: email@example.com
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