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Fall bird watching has some aspects unlike any other season in Plumas County.
This is the time of year when raptors leave their northern breeding grounds to search for food no longer available to them in areas covered in snow.
Some of these raptors come to our valleys to hunt for small mammals and other prey.
Figuring out which raptors are around can be fun, and we will provide some field marks to help you to distinguish between the various species.
Many raptors have a well-defined standard plumage whereas others, such as the red-tailed hawks, can be very variable. For instance, the juveniles of this species do not even have a red tail.
A prairie falcon and a ferruginous hawk already have been seen on the utility poles along Quincy Junction Road, joining the ever-present red-tailed hawks.
Ferruginous hawks have a snowy white breast and a pale head, and are slightly larger than red-tailed hawks, which often have a bellyband with dark streaks and a brown head. The ferruginous hawk may stay a while since a similar one was seen on these utility poles during the Christmas Bird Count last year.
Prairie falcons are smaller than red-tailed hawks and their wing tips appear pointed when they are flying. This falcon has a thin brown vertical cheek bar and its back is sandy-brown.
Prairie falcons and peregrine falcons are seen in Sierra Valley in the fall.
The peregrine falcon has a thick, dark vertical cheek bar that can merge with a dark cap giving a helmet appearance.
In addition, a rough-legged hawk recently has been seen in Sierra Valley. The hawk can be distinguished by dark wrist-patches under the wings and a dark belly.
Another hawk often seen in Sierra Valley is the Swainson's hawk, which can have a brown bib below a white face.
An occasional visitor to Sierra Valley, more commonly seen in American Valley is the red-shouldered hawk in which the adult has a reddish brown chest and shoulders.
Some small birds migrate from far away to spend the winter in Plumas County. White-crowned and golden-crowned sparrows already have been seen in Chester and American Valley having traveled from breeding grounds in Alaska and Canada.
Fall also is a good time to see some small birds that are year-round residents in American Valley more easily, such as the ruby-crowned and golden-crowned kinglets.
It can be difficult to focus binoculars on these birds because they usually are in motion as they glean tiny insects from leaves and twigs, sometimes hanging upside-down.
The kinglets' "crowns" only are present in the males and can be seen more easily from above when the birds are agitated and the crown is raised.
Bushtits also are very active and may be seen in flocks moving rapidly through bushes searching for small insects and chattering constantly in a high pitch. These are small gray birds with a very short beak.
This is the season when people put out bird feeders. Sunflower seed will attract mountain chickadees and red-breasted and pygmy nuthatches, whereas pine siskin and lesser and American goldfinch like thistle seed.
Northern flickers and hairy and downy woodpeckers are very fond of suet blocks. If you live in bear country, however, you should take bird feeders in at night or they may attract some unwelcome attention and lead astray destructive but majestic animals.
The Plumas Audubon Society will hold its annual Membership Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m., Room 107 in the science building at Feather River College.
Come and learn about participating in the various Christmas Bird Counts held in American and Sierra valleys and Lake Almanor.
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Thoracic Surgery
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Pathology
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As Program Director of the Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center (http://www.mitralvalverepair.org), he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States. He is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring), and is a senior consultant with royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences. He is also the inventor of the Tri-Ad Tricuspid Annuloplasty ring with a royalty agreement with Medtronic. He is a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the benchmark textbook in mitral valve surgery Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery. He is co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Disease Summit, and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave.
Dr. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally, and has developed one of the world's largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction. He is the author of over 200 publications, holds three patents, and is recognized as a leading surgeon scientist and medical expert, serving on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology. He is currently the co-Editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.
Dr. Adams' clinical interests include all aspects of heart valve surgery, with a special emphasis on mitral valve reconstruction. His major research interests include outcomes related to mitral valve repair, novel mitral valve repair strategies, and transcatheter valve replacement. Past research honors include the Alton Ochsner Research Scholarship from the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Paul Dudley White Research Fellowship from the American Heart Association. He has also received honorary Professorships from Capital University in Beijing and Keio University in Tokyo.
He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and completed his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor SirMagdi Yacoub. In addition, he completed a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He later served at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Brigham Primate Xeno-transplant Laboratory. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center since 2002.
In the News
Dr. Adams discusses mitral-valve repair in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up.
View the PDF.
2010 -
Best Doctors (2002 - 2010)
New York Magazine 2009 -
Award for Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine
American Heart Association 2006 -
Top 100 Minimally Invasive Surgeons
New York Magazine 2002 -
Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Endowed Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2001 -
Best Oral Presentation, Internation Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
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Honorary Professor of Surgery
Capital University of Medical Sciences Beijing 1992 -
Alton Ochsner Research Scholar
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American Heart Association 1981 -
International College of Surgeons Scholarship
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Alpha Omega Alpha
- Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair
- Novel Valve Repair Rings
- Investigation of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
Adams DH, Rosenhek R, Faulk V. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: best practice revolution. European Heart Journal 2010 August; 31(16): 1958-1966.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation: does surgery save lives?. Nature Reviews in Cardiology 2009 May; 6(5): 330-332.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Chikwe J, Filsoufi F. The Year in Cardiovascular Surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 June; 53(25): 2389-2403.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Seeking a higher standard for degenerative mitral valve repair: begin with etiology. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008 Sep; 136(3): 551-556.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Sugeng L, Lang RM. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: surgical echocardiography. Curr Cardiol Rep 2008 May; 10(3): 226-232.
Akins CW, Miller DC, Turina MI, Kouchoukos NT, Blackstone EH, Grunkemeier GL, Takkenberg JJ, David TE, Butchart EG, Adams DH, Shahian DM, Hagl S, Mayer JE, Lytle BW, Society of Thoracic Surgeons , American Association for Thoracic Surgery , European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons . Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Ann Thorac Surg 2008 Apr; 85(4): 1490-1495.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. The cardiologist's role in increasing the rate of mitral valve repair in degenerative disease. Curr Opin Cardiol 2008 Mar; 23: 105-110.
Anyanwu AC, Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Bronster DJ, Adams DH. Epidemiology of stroke after cardiac surgery in the current era. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Nov; 134(5): 1121-1127.
Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. Etiologic classification of degenerative mitral valve disease: Barlow's disease [review]. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Summer; 19(2): 90-96.
Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. The intraoperative . J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 June; 133(6): 1635-1636.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Abascal V, Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F. Large annuloplasty rings facilitate mitral valve repair in Barlow's disease. Ann Thorac Surg 2006 Dec; 82(6): 2096-2100.
Filsoufi F, Rahmanian PB, Anyanwu A, Adams DH. Physiologic basis for the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation [review]. Am Heart Hosp J 2006 Fall; 4(4): 261-268.
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Filsoufi F. Current concepts in mitral valve repair for degenerative disease. Heart Fail Rev 2006 Sep ; 11(3): 241-257.
Daimon M, Fukuda S, Adams DH, McCarthy PM, Gillinov AM, Carpentier A, Filsoufi F, Abascal VM, Rigolin VH, Salzberg S, Huskin A, Langenfeld M, Shiota T. Mitral valve repair with Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix annuloplasty ring for ischemic mitral regurgitation: early echocardiographic results from a multi-center study. Circulation 2006 Jul 4; 114(1 Suppl): I588-593.
Adams DH, Anyanwu A. Pitfalls and limitations in measuring and interpreting the outcomes of mitral valve repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006 Mar; 131(3): 523-529.
Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F, Anyanwu A, von Harbou K, Gass A, Pinney SP, Carpentier A, Adams DH. High-risk mitral valve surgery: perioperative hemodynamic optimization with. Ann Thorac Surg 2005 Aug; 80(2): 502-506.
Vassiliades TA Jr, Block PC, Cohn LH, Adams DH, Borer JS, Feldman T, Holmes DR, Laskey WK, Lytle BW, Mack MJ, Williams DO, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) , American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) , Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) , American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) , American Heart Association (AHA) . The clinical development of percutaneous heart valve technology: a position statement of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). Ann Thorac Surg 2005 May; 79(5): 1812-1818.
Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Adams DH. Current management of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Mt Sinai J Med 2005 Mar; 72(2): 105-115.
Adams DH, Filsoufi F. Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 June; 125(6): 1197-1199.
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Adams during 2012 and/or 2013. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.
- Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.
Royalty Payments:
- Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website at http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us/services-and-resources/faculty-resources/handbooks-and-policies/faculty-handbook. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
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AMITABH BACHCHAN IS THE MOST POPULAR movie actor in the world. And he can prove it: Back in 1999, he was voted the Star of the Millennium in a global poll conducted by the BBC. But if you've never heard of him, don't curse Entertainment Weekly. Bachchan is instantly recognizable only within the alternate universe known as Bollywood — a slang term, popularly credited to a Bombay fan-magazine columnist writing in 1979, for the Indian movie capital that turns out more than 1,000 films per year.
Then again, Bollywood is not just an Indian, but a global, phenomenon. "Our films have reached half the world," declares the expat Indian director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). "The Middle East, all of Africa, all of Russia, the Far East, and the Indian diaspora everywhere — the half of the world that Hollywood has not yet recognized." For many of those people, Amitabh Bachchan is Bollywood personified. He's their Robert Redford or Harrison Ford — only bigger.
It's October 2001, and Bachchan is on location in downtown San Pedro to shoot Kaante(Thorns), an unabashed Hindi-language remake of Quentin Tarantino's career-launching 1992 indie hit, Reservoir Dogs — an adaptation which, as it turns out, will open worldwide early in 2003 (and which plays next week at an L.A. Weekly-sponsored special event at the Directors Guild of America). Bachchan has signed on to this, the first Indian movie to be shot entirely in the U.S., to play the eldest of the criminals involved in Reservoir Dogs' famously bungled bank heist — the Harvey Keitel role.
Unfortunately, on the day I meet Amitabh Bachchan, the great man has a toothache. I am informed by my contact on the set that my scheduled interview with the Big B will, with profuse apologies, have to be canceled. The idol of millions is about to be whisked off to Beverly Hills to undergo a root canal. 'A slo-mo walk, familiar to Tarantino fans...'
Bearing up stoically in the face of blinding physical discomfort, the 6-foot-3-inch, 59-year-old Bachchan, dapper in a floor-length black Armani overcoat, looks a great deal like the brooding poets and doctors he portrayed in his youth in middlebrow semi-art movies — figures close to his own patrician upbringing as the son of a famous poet. He became a fixture of Bombay cinema only in the mid-1970s, when he went down-market in a string of popular action films, including Sholay (Flames, 1975), the industry-altering "curry Western" whose box-office grosses stood unchallenged in India for more than 15 years, and Mard (He-Man, 1985), in which he laid waste to hundreds of leering foes and could communicate with animals. But now, in the comeback projects of his middle years — epic melodramas like Mohabbatein (Loves, 2000) and the gorgeously upholstered superhit Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Sometimes Happy Sometimes Sad, 2001) — Amit-ji has regained all of his missing dignity, and then some, as the most imposing patriarch of the Hindi screen, reinventing himself yet again, this time as a monumental representative of Hindu family values. Twilight of the gods
Still, the brief snippets of ferocious action I witness on the set that afternoon in San Pedro suggest that Bachchan has undertaken a fairly ferocious, Mard-like role in Kaante. There is a pistol-whipping, a plate-glass-door-smashing and a brief gun battle, after which a half-dozen prop police cars are loudly detonated. A few days later, the crew repairs to Century City, where the principal cast of six tough-guy bank robbers does a slow-mo walk, familiar to Tarantino fans, across the pedestrian bridge spanning Century Park East.
Could we be talking crossover here? Stylistically, anyway, the signs — and the signifiers — all point in that direction. According to Sanjay Dutt, the droopy-eyed "Robert Mitchum of Bombay" who is Bachchan's co-star in Kaante and also one of its producers, "We guys have all grown up with Hollywood films. All the educated people in India stay up-to-date with the films made in the U.S., and we see the quality. It was always my dream to do this, to come here and work with an American crew, and shoot like they shoot here."
IF YOU'RE LIKE MOST AMERICANS, BOLLYWOOD IS at worst a tired Apu joke from The Simpsons, at best a faraway rumor, golden anklets jangling in the distance. If you've seen only a few grainy clips of Hindustani song and dance on TV shows like Namaste America, or in the opening-credit sequence of Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, or in the snide trailers for The Guru, you can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that Indian musicals (which, to judge from these glimpses, means all Indian movies) are badly crafted, garish orgies of joke-shop wigs and ill-fitting body shirts. The new faces, etc., of Bollywood
Such dismissive stereotypes, however, are at least a decade out of date. The typical Indian commercial movie today is probably handsomer than it has been at any time since the 1950s, the so-called Golden Age of Bollywood — or, more precisely, the Expressionist Chiaroscuro heyday of noir-inflected auteur directors like Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.
By the early 1970s, however, Bombay's great studios, and the giants who flourished there, had either passed on or were in steep decline. Financing had to be cobbled together from shady entrepreneurial sources (e.g., the mob got its hooks in), and a system developed known as the "heterogeneous mode of production," whereby each essential "attraction" in the standard mix of action, music, dance and comedy that defines the unique Indian format known as "the masala film" (from a culinary term for a combination of flavors) was farmed out to a semi-autonomous craft specialist. Budgets that were already small by Western standards were stretched paper thin, so that even major releases ended up looking like three-hour poverty-row B-movies into which stars and disco numbers had been unaccountably inserted. By the 1980s, when video piracy was becoming rampant and every Indian production was a long shot, actors had acquired the habit of attaching themselves to six or seven fly-by-night projects simultaneously, just to be on the safe side. Much to the detriment of continuity, the films were often shot piecemeal in two- or three-week chunks, whenever the actors happened to be available, over a period of up to two years. "In America," says Sanjay Dutt, "they plan for years and they shoot for weeks. In India they plan for weeks and shoot for years."


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Posted: Feb 2, 2013 2:46 PM by Ed Zuchelli, KSBY News
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This week is the 103rd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, and local scouts are celebrating with their fourth annual Scout-O-Rama event.
Scouts from around the central coast met at the Santa Maria Town Center Saturday, for a free fun-filled day of scouting activities.
The event included a pinewood derby, climbing wall, trading post, and a formal flag ceremony.
Troops from all over were invited to showcase their skills at booths.
"With that good program, fun events like this to come out to, cool interactions, cool stuff to see, it's really what gets kids there and is what makes scouting so fun and effective for everyone," said Eagle Scout Kevin Hays.
This was the first time the girl scouts had booths at the event. 46 troops came out for today's activities, and 12 were girl scout troops.
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Beanie Sigel will be spending the next two years in prison for failing to pay more than $728,000 in federal income taxes according to MyFoxPhilly.
The Philadelphia born rapper whose real name is Dwight Grant, earned more than $3.2 million between 1999 and 2005, but only paid $10,000 in taxes.
Sigel pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 9, 2011. He was sentenced earlier today.
U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. Dubois ordered Sigel to pay all taxes, penalties, and interest as determined by the Internal Revenue Service and to fully cooperate with the IRS. He must report to prison on September 12th.
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