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USDA announces new grants for water research
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will make $6 million in grants available this year, and up to $30 million total over the next five years as part of a new initiative to provide solutions to agricultural water challenges.
The grants are to be used to develop management practices, technologies and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and citizens to improve water resource quantity and quality.
"Cutting edge research holds the key to tackling the complex challenges posed by prolonged drought and ensuring the future food security of our nation," said Vilsack. "These grants will help arm America's farmers and ranchers with the tools and strategies they need to adapt and succeed, and build on ongoing, cross-governmental efforts to provide relief to those impacted by severe drought."
NIFA has identified three critical topics that will be funded through this new challenge area: 1) ensuring the water security of surface and ground water needed to produce agricultural goods and services; 2) improving nutrient management in agricultural landscapes focused on nitrogen and phosphorous; and 3) reducing impacts of chemicals and the presence and movement of environmental pathogens in the nation's water supply. NIFA's approach will link social, economic, and behavioral sciences with traditional biophysical sciences and engineering to address regional scale issues with shared hydrological processes, and meteorological and basin characteristics.
NIFA is expected to make $30 million available over the next five years for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) water challenge area, with the expectation that the new projects awarded this fiscal year would receive additional funding in the following four years. All additional funding is contingent on future congressional appropriations and achievement of project objectives and milestones.
More information is available at: www.nifa.usda.gov.
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Women are drawn like moths to the bright flame of his vivacity, his zest for living. And like moths, women flare briefly in his life and are gone. It won't do any good to try to pin him down. See that bright flash of color in the garden? It's a living butterfly, not a specimen in a case. Enjoy it while you can; its stay will be brief.
Ozzy loves women, which is one of his secrets of success with them. Oz is genuinely interested in what women have to say, how their minds work, what he can learn from them. But he also needs his minimum daily requirement of fun, and when the fun leaves a relationship so does he. Just as a woman begins to take him seriously he vanishes in a puff of smoke.
The truth is that Oz is made uneasy by too much emotion, by a woman who takes love too seriously. He thinks sex is fascinating because it continually renews itself; but love is terminal. Curiously, though, Oz tends to get involved with intense, emotional women. (Of course, he doesn't usually stay involved.) Something about women who live on a dramatic level, who really feel emotions and express them, intrigues and fascinates Ozzy. It's as if through them he hopes to uncover a new facet in himself.
If you ask him why he flits from one female to another, he'll tell you it's because he's searching for his own identity, or the perfect love, or some elusive goal of perfection. He is looking for his spiritual soul mate who will complete his nature and put an end to his duality.
It's all too easy for you to fall into this man's silken web. He's a past master at the art of seduction. Many a woman has begun a friendly relationship with a nice, seemingly unaggressive Ozzy only to find herself in bed with him—and not quite sure how she got there. A variation of this approach is when he seems not to be interested, or is acting cool and indifferent or is even pursuing someone else for a time. Then when you start making an effort to attract him, it's too late. He's slipped the halter around your neck.
As a lover he has imagination, assurance, and flair, but he may not seem fully committed. His attention si always partly occupied elsewhere.
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Experts more vociferous for cut in fossil fuel subsidies after IPCC Report
With IPCC report on contribution of fossil fuel combustion to rise of CO2 levels in atmosphere in mind, experts have called for a check on subsidies on these resources of energy.
''Fossil fuel subsidies are contributing to fiscal instability and undermining governments' efforts to combat serious economic and environmental challenges, such as climate change, and the transition to an inclusive green economy,'' a UN Report said.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its reports released recently has said that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes accounted for approximately 78 per cent of the total increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 1970 and 2010.
The United Nations Environment Programme in collaboration with the IMF and some international institutes organised a two-day event to highlight the problem.
Experts participating in the deliberations said reducing or eliminating harmful fossil fuel subsidies - and properly pricing energy to account for environmental impacts -was one of the most promising ways governments can promote a transition to a greener economy, and even the playing field for investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
According to UNEP estimates, fossil fuel subsidies were in the range of 500 billion dollars globally.
When taking into account implicit subsidies from the failure to charge for pollution, climate change and other externalities, the IMF estimates the post-tax subsidy figure was closer to two trillion dollars worldwide - equivalent to about 2.9 per cent of the global GDP, or 8.5 per cent of government revenues.
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Middle School
Understanding the Admission Process
ISD schedules individual visits beginning September 15, 2014 on most weekdays in the morning or afternoon. Please contact our front office or admission office to schedule your individual visit. 303.340.3647 Alternatively, you may attend one of our open houses, which are scheduled for Wednesday, October 8, 2014 and Wednesday, December 10, 2014 from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. To attend an open house, please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
For the 2014-15 school year, ISD is still accepting applications for some middle school classes. Please click here to download the application materials.
We will begin accepting applications for the 2015-16 school year on September 1, 2014 and complete application files must be submitted by December 19, 2014 to receive full consideration. An updated application for the 2015-16 will be uploaded in late August.
Parents who wish to enroll their children in grades 6-8 at ISD must submit the following to the school for consideration:
- An application form,
- A parent questionnaire,
- A language profile and choice form,
- An applicant statement
- Two teacher recommendation forms (English and math) for students applying to novice language sections, three for students applying to advanced language sections (immersion language, English and math),
- A fulfilled request for student records,
- A $150 application fee. Make checks payable to International School of Denver or ISD or call our front office where we can process credit cards (303.340.3647).
This information and the application fee may be delivered to the school's front office or mailed to:
International School of Denver
Attention: Admissions
206 Red Cross Way
Denver, CO 80230
Selection Criteria
Admission to the Middle School is based on the following:
- Level of parental interest in long-term enrollment in ISD
- Student's academic achievement as recorded in previous school transcripts
- Recommendations from the student's former teachers
- Space availability
After an complete application is submitted and reviewed, ISD schedules a full-day shadow for prospective students.
Middle School Tuition and Fees for 2014-15
We strive to keep tuition costs low. ISD remains one of the most affordable private schools in the metro Denver region. Most of its funding comes from student tuition.
Middle School Tuition Rate for the 2014-15 academic year
Full-time students: $14,000
Tuition Payment Plans
With the enrollment contract, one month of the total tuition amount is due, along with the Work Bond Deposit, the Activity Fee and the Tuition Refund Insurance Premium, if applicable.
- One Payment — The tuition deposit is deducted from the total tuition, and the balance is due by August 1 of each year or on the first day of the month in which the student begins attending ISD.
- Monthly Payments — ISD breaks the annual tuition into nine equal payments, the first of which is due with the enrollment contract. The tuition deposit deducted from the total tuition is divided into equal payments based on the date the student begins at ISD. Tuition payments are due the first day of each month, commencing September 1 of each year and ending May 1 of each year (excluding February). Purchase of the Tuition Refund Insurance Plan is required if a monthly payment plan is selected.
Tuition Refund Insurance Plan
Tuition insurance is available at an additional charge of 3.3% of the tuition amount. Families opting for the monthly payment plan are required by the insurance provider to purchase Tuition Refund Insurance. Tuition insurance is optional for families who choose a one-time payment plan. Tuition insurance is due with the enrollment contract.
The plan is administered by A.W.G. Dewar, Inc. and more information is available at tuitionrefundplan.com. The plan is billed through ISD in July or the first day of the month in which the student starts at ISD.
The first sibling of a currently enrolled ISD student will receive a 10% discount on his or her tuition. Additional siblings will receive a 20% tuition discount.
Work Bond — $400 per family
ISD successfully keeps tuition rates low because it counts on parents to help defray the school's costs. Each year, families are required to submit a $400 "Work Bond" deposit. If families complete 20 hours of service to the school during the academic year, the deposit rolls over to the next year. Twenty hours of service is easy for each family to achieve.
Activity Fee — $700 per student
This fee encompasses many of the individual costs incurred throughout the course of a school year — as well as each Middle School student's iPad, which is an integral part of the curriculum. Charging a flat fee at the beginning of the school year simplifies our processes and covers the following items: all field trips, classroom events/school supplies, one yearbook per student, one yearbook ad per class, ISD Spirit Wear (which is required for special events and field trips).
Financial Assistance
Each year, ISD's' Board of Directors designates a limited amount of financial assistance to be awarded to qualifying families whose children attend ISD full-time. Priority for awards is given to families with children who have completed at least one full year at the school. The maximum amount of assistance attainable per child (excluding extra-curricular activities, daycare, camps, bus, lunch, etc.) for returning families is 50% of base tuition.
For new families the maximum amount of assistance attainable per child is listed below:
|Grade Level
|Maximum Assistance
|Kinder 1 and 2
|Kinder 3
|Grades 1-8
The deadline for Financial Aid for the 2014-15 school year has passed; for more information, contact Seth Winnerman, Director of Administration, at 303.340.3647 or firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions regarding financial assistance.
Non-Discrimination Policy
Federal, state and local equal opportunity laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, color and national and ethnic origin. The International School of Denver intends to follow all such equal opportunity laws in the administration of its admission, hiring, employment, and evaluation practices.
The guidelines contained in this policy express the International School of Denver's intention to comply with federal, state and local civil rights laws. The International School of Denver does not intend to create a contractual agreement through this policy, independent of its intention to follow the applicable equal employment opportunity laws.


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