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George Hinshaw Scholarship
Professor George Hinshaw devoted thirty years to teaching and research at Northwest Missouri State University. Dr. Hinshaw received his B.S. in Education from Hasting's College in Nebraska, his Masters of Arts Degree from the University of California and Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Nebraska. Professor Hinshaw was a rhetorician; his doctoral dissertation was the Analysis of the Rhetoric of Frederick Douglas, a Black political leader during the Civil War era. He developed his wisdom from his diverse interest in literature varying from the works of the Classics, works of Plato, Aristotle and Cicero, to the writing of Willa Cather. He honorably served in our nation's military in the South Pacific during World War II.
Dr. Hinshaw was Northwest's forensic/debate coach for many of his 30 years beginning in 1956. At the community level, he was actively involved in recruiting and training American Legion Oratorical contestants; he was actively involved in Kiwanis Club, Community Theatre, Civil War Round Table and the First Presbyterian Church.
The Hinshaw Memorial Scholarship is intended to recognize and honor those students who participate in forensics/debate activities and/or those seeking a degree in Speech/Theatre Education.
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The British Ecological Society awards an annual prize to the best paper by an early career researcher in each of the Society's journals. Journal of Applied Ecology awards the Southwood Prize in memory of Prof. Sir Richard Southwood. The winner is selected by the Editors of Journal of Applied Ecology at the end of each year and an announcement is made early in the New Year following.
The Southwood Early Career Researcher Award is given each year to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. In the absence of extenuating circumstances, 'Early Career' is defined as less than 5 years post- Ph.D. or -D.Phil. experience according to the date of your graduation certificate. The winner of the Southwood Prize Early Career Researcher Award will receive £250, membership of the British Ecological Society, a year's subscription to Journal of Applied Ecology, and a contribution to the costs incurred in attending the BES Annual Meeting in the UK if they wish to give a presentation on their work. The winner is selected by the Editors of Journal of Applied Ecology at the end of each year and an announcement is made early in the New Year following.
If the first author of a paper considers that they are eligible for this award they are invited to nominate themselves during the submission process of Manuscript Central.
Read the Virtual Issue bringing together the winning and shortlisted papers for 2021.
Winner of the Southwood Prize 2021
Chinmay Sonawane
Public health and economic benefits of spotted hyenas Crocuta crocuta in a peri-urban system. Chinmay Sonawane, Gidey Yirga, Neil H. Carter (Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021; 58:12, pp. 2892 – 2902).
Research on interactions between people and wildlife has traditionally concentrated on the negative impacts on human life. To flip this narrative, our research explored a case study of how animals provide tangible benefits to humanity. Aligning conservation and human development goals in such a manner can mediate coexistence between local communities and wildlife.
In their winning paper, Sonawane and colleagues studied why spotted hyena presence has been tolerated in urban areas of East Africa for at least the last 500 years of recorded history. These hyenas often reside on the outskirts of cities and villages during the day, and scavenge through the organic waste discarded by people inside the city during the night.
By observing hyena feeding and recording the hyena population size in Mekelle, Ethiopia, we estimated that these hyenas annually consume 207 tonnes of livestock carcass waste. Furthermore, by integrating this field data into disease transmission models, we found that hyena scavenging in Mekelle prevented 145 anthrax and bovine TB infections in humans and livestock, and saves over USD 50,000 in treatment and livestock loss costs each year.
Due to these substantial sanitation and disease control services, local people tolerate the presence of hyenas in their communities. We also argue that these public health and economic benefits of hyenas contribute to achieving three of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: ensuring good health and wellbeing, providing clean water and sanitation, and promoting terrestrial biodiversity.
Valuations of the beneficial contributions from wildlife promote innovative "nature-based solutions" to societal challenges, and bridge conservation and development goals in rural and low-income areas. Studies doing so are rare, and in an increasingly urbanising world, human-wildlife conflict is only expected to increase. Thus, understanding how the ecological functions of wildlife provide tangible benefits to humanity can mediate coexistence between local communities and potentially problematic species.
Chinmay is currently a first-year PhD student and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. the ecology and evolution of animal behaviour: how do ecological interactions shape behavioural adaptations, and how do these behavioural adaptations consequently affect ecosystems, including human communities?
This paper tackles the second question on how the scavenging behaviour of spotted hyenas benefits humanity and based on Chinmay's undergraduate thesis, which was guided by Prof. Neil Carter (University of Michigan) and Prof. David Haig (Harvard University).
Pu Jia
Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant-soil feedbacks. Pu Jia, Jie-liang Liang, Sheng-xiang Yang, Sheng-chang Zhang, Jun Liu, Zhi-wei Liang, Feng-mei Li, Qing-wei Zeng, Zhou Fang, Bin Liao, Wen-sheng Shu, Marc W. Cadotte, Jin-tian Li (Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020; 57:7, pp. 1258 – 1270).
While the ecological literature on the linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem function is rich, the application of this field of research to reclaiming contaminated lands has been strangely depauperate.
There is little guidance on whether we should be planting diverse plant assemblages on contaminated lands, or if we ought to simply plant the most productive species or those that provide efficient phyto-removal of contaminants. This issue is of fundamental importance to places like China – and with China's commitment to improving its environmental health, biodiversity research has the ability to impact policy and management at a national scale.
To answer this question, Jia and colleagues performed a land reclamation experiment on a heavily degraded mine wasteland in China, and assessed land reclamation efficiency by examining several criteria of ecosystem function.
Their results show how diverse plant assemblages are better able to spur plant-soil feedbacks, and that increasing plant diversity is an effective strategy to enhance land reclamation after contamination. The findings demonstrate that the key for reclamation is to build high-diversity plant assemblages to ensure that soil processes, like decomposition and nutrient cycling, can support a self-sustaining ecosystem.
Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Institute of Ecological Science, South China Normal University, China, Pu previously spent 3 years at Sun Yat-sen University, China and 1 year at University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada, completing a PhD in 2018. Their PhD investigated the strength of the above-ground-below-ground interactions, which formed the basis for the winning paper.
Pu continues to work on forest ecosystems, agro-ecosystems and heavily degraded mined land across mainland China and, as a continuation of the paper in Journal of Applied Ecology, is currently conducting similar field trials and research in three demonstration sites of metalliferous mine wastelands in southeast China.
Ségolène Humann‐Guilleminot
A nation‐wide survey of neonicotinoid insecticides in agricultural land with implications for agri‐environment schemes,
Ségolène Humann‐Guilleminot, Łukasz J. Binkowski, Lukas Jenni, Gabriele Hilke, Gaétan Glauser, Fabrice Helfenstein (Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019; 56:7, pp. 1502– 1514).
From ten years of being marketed in the mid-1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides became the most used insecticides worldwide. They were soon identified as a potential cause for the massive decline of domestic bee populations and invertebrates in general.
Two years after a ban on a subset of neonicotinoid insecticides in Europe and Switzerland, Ségolène and colleagues conducted a study to assess the extent to which neonicotinoid insecticides were still present in Swiss agro-ecosystems and their potential detrimental effects on non-target invertebrates.
Based on 700 samples of soil and vegetation, collected in more than 60 farms, they found that neonicotinoid insecticides were ubiquitous in the Swiss agricultural landscape. Soil, crop and wild vegetation samples of all conventional and integrated-production farms contained at least one neonicotinoid insecticide. More than 90% of soil, crop and wild vegetation samples of organic farms also contained at least one neonicotinoid insecticides. Combinations of two or more neonicotinoid insecticides were also detected in a majority of samples. The team estimated that such neonicotinoid residues may have significant negative impacts on non-target invertebrates with little benefits in terms of crop protection against pest species.
On the basis of their results, Ségolène and coauthorscall for a reduction in the dispersion and overuse of neonicotinoid insecticides worldwide in order to prevent any detrimental effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with agroecosystems.
The journal's Executive Editor describes the work as a worthy winner in a very competitive field. It is a rigorous study, as the authors examined 169 fields from across lowland Switzerland, and their laboratory analysis identified five different neonicotinoid pesticides in both the soils and crops. It is also a very significant study for policy. Not only does it show that many above-ground invertebrates are likely to suffer lethal or sub-lethal concentrations of insecticides following conventional practices, it also suggests these insecticides may be jeopardising populations of beneficial invertebrates in organic farms and ecological focus areas. Studies like this are crucial in guiding national and international farming policies, and could allow natural predator populations to play a more important role in the control of damaging pest species. In particular, Humann‐Guilleminot et al. provides robust evidence supporting the continued implementation of the EU ban on most neonicotinoid pesticides.
Ségolène was born in 1990, in Bordeaux, France, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in organismal biology and ecology in 2012. She then went on a one-year sabbatical to Canada, where she worked as a volunteer in wild fauna rehabilitation centres before joining University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland's laboratory of evolutionary ecophysiology in 2013 to run a three-year Master's project.,. Ségolène was awarded a Master's degree with honours in 2016 and is currently working on a PhD in the restoration of alpine grasslands at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Simon Clulow
Elevated salinity blocks pathogen transmission and improves host survival from the global amphibian chytrid pandemic: Implications for translocations,
Simon Clulow, John Gould, Hugh James, Michelle Stockwell, John Clulow, Michael Mahony (Journal of Applied Ecology, 55:2 pp 830-840)
Clulow et al.'s paper shows that manipulating environmental salinity in landscapes where amphibians are translocated can mitigate the impacts of the amphibian chytrid disease by lowering infection rates and thus improve the probability of population persistence for amphibians currently affected by chytridiomycosis. More broadly, Simon and his co-authors provide support for the paradigm that environmental manipulation can be used to mitigate the impact of emerging infectious diseases.
The journal's Senior Editors describe the work as a clear and striking study that gives hope for tackling one of the most pernicious of contemporary threats to biodiversity: that of chytridiomycosis. The paper demonstrates, for the first time, that the probable primary mechanism of a previously demonstrated beneficial effect of salinity on survival of green and golden bell frog is reduced disease transmission, and not increased survival of infected frogs. The paper thus combines clear new contributions to scientific knowledge and impactful management recommendations, making it a worthy winner of the Southwood Prize. It is well-written for a broad audience while also being immensely topical. The findings are important and could have widespread practical applications.
Simon Clulow is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. He received his PhD from the University of Newcastle for studies investigating ways in which environmental stressors can be used to mitigate the impacts of emerging wildlife diseases via the environmental mismatch paradigm between host and pathogen, which formed the basis for his Southwood Prize winning paper. His current research spans the fields of ecology, disease, behaviour and reproduction, primarily on frogs and reptiles and he often integrates these under an applied conservation umbrella. He has conducted extensive work on the threats posed to the biota and ecosystems of northern Australia (especially guilds of the apex varanid predators) from the expanding distribution of the invasive toad, Rhinella marina and on the impacts of the amphibian chytrid disease throughout Australia and New Guinea. He is particularly interested in developing novel, modern approaches to mitigating impacts of seemingly unstoppable threatening processes (e.g. emerging diseases, invasive species) including through environmental mitigation, genome storage, assisted reproduction and de-extinction. He is passionate about conserving not only genetics and biodiversity, but also a belief that, for conservation to be most effective, it is important to understand and conserve ecological and evolutionary processes, such as behaviour, which are often neglected. Due to his passion for amphibians in particular, he recently completed a comprehensive field guide to the frogs of Australia of which he himself descried a new species from the genus Uperoleia.
Dominik M. Behr
Combining human acceptance and habitat suitability in a unified socio‐ecological suitability model: a case study of the wolf in Switzerland, Dominik M. Behr, Arpat Ozgul and Gabriele Cozzi (Journal of Applied Ecology, 54:6 pp 1919-1929)
It's an unfortunate reality that conservation actions are often most needed in locations where they are least wanted. This unhappy correlation can seriously undermine conservation outcomes, making management actions more expensive and less likely to succeed. Nowhere is this more apparent than where conservation scientists reintroduce apex predators into ecosystems. Although some humans who live among predatory wildlife view them with reverence and worship, others treat them with a mixture of fear and antipathy. Apex predator reintroductions have consequently sparked some of the most long-running and vitriolic conflicts in environmental management. The reintroduction of grey wolves within the United States, for instance, has led to lawsuits, illegal poaching and decades of bad blood between conservationists and ranchers.
Behr et al.'s article, chosen for the 2017 Southwood Prize, maps a careful path through this difficult socio-ecological challenge. The paper, 'Combining human acceptance and habitat suitability in a unified socio‐ecological suitability model …', is based around a case-study of wolf reintroduction in Switzerland. The authors use spatial statistical modelling to create both social and ecological suitability maps for wolves in Switzerland, searching for locations that both satisfy the habitat requirements of the species and which contain human communities that are more likely to accept the presence of wolves in their landscape. The editors liked the rigorous, integrative approach used in this study, combining sociological and ecological data to better understand the observed pattern of wolf recolonisation in Switzerland, and to make recommendations for future management. The paper highlights significant obstacles to large predator recolonisation but also shows how interventions might be targeted to produce cost-effective reductions in human-wildlife conflict.
Dominik is studying a PhD in Ecology at University of Zurich in collaboration with the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust. His current research focuses on dispersal and its demographic consequences in the endangered African wild dog. Specifically, he aims to acquire movement data of dispersing individuals, which will be merged with existing data on resident groups in a demographic model to assess population viability. His background lies in engineering, having received a MSc from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Having worked in the private sector for a few years, he decided to return to academia but this time with a different focus. He studied environmental sciences at University of Zurich where he obtained a second MSc. It was during the course of his masters that he conducted the above-mentioned study (Behr, Ozgul and Cozzi 2017), integrating human acceptance and ecological components in a unified framework to better assess suitable wolf habitats in Switzerland. Dominik's general research interests cover population ecology, movement ecology, biodiversity conservation, and human-wildlife conflict.
The highly commended papers for 2017 are:
Every restoration is unique: testing year effects and site effects as drivers of initial restoration trajectories
Katharine L. Stuble, Stephen E. Fick, Truman P. Young
Fire prevents woody encroachment only at higher-than-historical frequencies in a South African savanna
Madelon F. Case, A. Carla Staver
Michael Becker
Sixty-year legacy of human impacts on a high Arctic ecosystem Michael S. Becker, Wayne H. Pollard (Journal of Applied Ecology, 53:3 pp 876–884)
Despite the warnings of conservation scientists, there is a widely-held and persistent belief that ecosystems are fairly resilient to human disturbance and that they will eventually 'bounce back'. In their study, Becker and Pollard assessed a region of the Canadian high Arctic that had been disturbed in the 1940s by the construction of a small airstrip. After 5 years of use, the airstrip had been abandoned; consequently, it has had over 60 years to 'bounce back' to its original state. Using a carefully-designed, stratified random sampling approach, Becker and Pollard surveyed the vegetation, soil and abiotic characteristics of the former airstrip and neighbouring, undisturbed patches of terrain. They found that, far from bouncing back, the disturbed landscape reflects a disturbance-initiated succession towards a different stable-state community. The study is an excellent example of how carefully-conducted work can expose the long-term effects of human land uses, and also leads to clear management recommendations. In particular, Becker and Pollard were able to advise about how managers can lessen their impact on high Arctic environments, by being sensitive to the micro-topography of disturbed areas and by reseeding those areas with native species. The Editors were impressed with the thorough and careful study design, and with the clarity of the implications for applied ecology. We congratulate Michael on an excellent piece of work by an early career author and wish him every success in his future career.
Michael works at the BBC Natural History Unit, developing the Antarctic episode of a landmark wildlife documentary following up the recent Planet Earth II. He is also a visiting researcher at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate at the University of Copenhagen. Michael earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology at McGill University and spent the next three years working in Antarctic, Arctic and other research programs. For his PhD at McGill University, his work focused on the intersection of geomorphology and ecology in the cold, periglacial environments of the high Arctic. Specifically, he examined how coupled feedbacks between permafrost and plant life adapt and change with a warming world. He is passionate about public outreach and journalism on climate change, landscape impacts, and environmentalism.
Dustin Ranglack
The 2015 Southwood Prize has been awarded by the Editors to Dustin Ranglack for his paper Competition on the range: science vs. perception in a bison–cattle conflict in the western USA co-authored with Susan Durham and Johan T. du Toit (Journal of Applied Ecology, 52:2, pp 467–474)
The paper by Dustin Ranglack and co-authors provides an excellent example of the type of work Journal of Applied Ecology aims to publish and the Senior Editorial team was unanimous in its decision to award the Southwood Prize to Dustin. This interdisciplinary study tackles a clear management issue using adequately designed experimental approaches, contributing to improving our understanding of human–wildlife conflicts in rangelands. Importantly, this case study illustrates the need for science-based management of social–ecological systems in which even long-term resource users might underestimate the complexities of trophic interactions. This paper represents a substantial amount of work and is likely to be very well received by the community. The Editors would like to congratulate Dustin on an excellent piece of work by an early career author and wish him every success in his future career.
Dustin earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Science from Utah State University in 2008. He then spent several years working as a research technician in Montana and Colorado before returning to Utah State University for his PhD studies in Ecology, focusing on American bison ecology and bison–cattle interactions in the Henry Mountains of southern Utah, which he completed in 2014. He has since worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Montana State University using spatial ecology to evaluate and inform elk and elk habitat management in western Montana. His research focuses on applied large mammal ecology and conservation, spatial ecology and human–wildlife conflict.
Katharina Gerstner
The 2014 Southwood Prize has been awarded by the Editors to Katharina Gerstner for her paper Effects of land use on plant diversity – A global meta-analysis co-authored with Carsten Dormann, Anke Stein, Ameur Manceur and Ralf Seppelt (Journal of Applied Ecology, 51: 1690–1700).
The paper from Katharina Gerstner and colleagues provides a comprehensive analysis that helps to resolve the debate surrounding human land use and its effects on biodiversity. It has been proven that human land use is a major contributor to the global biodiversity crisis, but this does not seem to be repeated at smaller scales. Much of the current disagreement regarding the impacts of human land use on biodiversity may be due to variability according to region, scale of analysis, and the specific land use being examined. This paper overcomes this issue by directly testing the effects of these factors using a meta-analytic framework and a global dataset extracted from 375 studies. The careful analyses of the contexts in which land use impacts on biodiversity provides a useful template for the study of important emerging questions.
This paper represents a substantial amount of work on a key topic that is likely to be very well cited. The impacts of land-use change on biodiversity are known to be scale-dependent and vary according to a wide range of factors. This paper provides an overview that reports the negative impacts of changes in land use for plants, but crucially highlights the context-dependent sensitivities that point the way for further work in a clear manner. The Editors would like to congratulate Katharina on an excellent piece of work by an early career author and wish Katharina every success in her future career.
Katharina is currently finalising her PhD studies at the Helmholtz-Centre of Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig. Her research focuses on investigating the effects of land use on global biodiversity patterns of vascular plants. She uses the countryside model to study species-area relationships and at the global level she finds research syntheses such as meta-analyses particularly helpful. Her background is in mathematics, having received a diploma in Mathematics at University of Jena, Germany and she is broadly interested in the application of sophisticated statistical methods for ecological problem-solving.
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
The 2013 Southwood Prize has been awarded by the Editors to Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi for his paper People, predators and perceptions: patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves published with Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Stephen Redpath and Charudutt Mishra (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 50, issue 3, pp. 550-560).
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi's paper combines robust social science with cutting edge ecological research to generate novel insights with direct lessons for management of human-wildlife interactions. Papers that contain each of these four components areas are still very rare and are exactly the type of research that the Journal of Applied Ecology aims to promote. The paper compared people's perceptions of the risk factors for predation by snow leopards and wolves on their livestock with data on actual predation incidents. The research also involved the authors in substantial ecological fieldwork to estimate wild prey numbers. Fascinatingly, the correlates of people's perceptions of risk were not the same as those of actual predation mortality. The paper's findings call into question the suggestion that snow leopard killing of livestock would reduce if wild prey numbers were increased, and suggest that work is needed better to align perceived and actual risk and to engage better with people about how best to address carnivore depredation of their livestock. There is a lot of literature on human-wildlife conflict, but the careful and thorough interdisciplinary approach taken to the issue by Dr Suryawanshi and his colleagues is still far too rare. The Editors congratulate him on his excellent paper.
Kulbhushan is currently working as a Regional Ecologist with the Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, US and as a Research Scholar with the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), Mysore, India. For his PhD with the NCF, he worked on the impact of wild-prey availability on the population and diet of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) with implications for livestock predation by this endangered carnivore. He is interested in the application of science-based problem solving to conservation conflicts. He is also interested in the applications of Population and Behavioural Ecology to species conservation.
Andrew Olds
The 2012 Southwood Prize winner is Andrew Olds for his paper Synergistic effects of reserves and connectivity on ecological resilience published with Kylie A. Pitt, Paul S. Maxwell and Rod M. Connolly (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 49 issue 6, pp. 1195-1203)
Understanding the effect of reserve connectivity on mobile organisms and how this influences ecosystem function is vital for effective reserve management. The editors were impressed by this well-conducted experimental study by Olds et al. which addressed a highly important question in applied ecology. The study was able to produce specific management recommendations for improving ecosystem resilience. Olds et al. linked processes at both the landscape and local scales, taking an ecosystem approach to habitat management.
Andrew is a Research Fellow in the Coast and Estuaries section of the Australian Rivers Institute and School of Environment at Griffith University in Queensland. In his PhD at Griffith University (2013), he examined the effects of connectivity on marine reserve performance across the western Pacific Ocean. Andrew worked previously as an environmental consultant and a conservation practitioner. His research focuses on marine community ecology, seascape ecology, conservation planning and the impacts of global change on marine ecosystems. Current projects continue to examine the effects of marine reserves on ecological processes, ecosystem services and socio-ecological resilience in tropical Australian and Pacific seascapes.
Nicholas Beeton
The 2011 Southwood Prize has been awarded by the editors to Nicholas Beeton for his paper with Hamish McCallum Models predict that culling is not a feasible strategy to prevent extinction of Tasmanian devils from facial tumour disease (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 48 issue 6, pp.1315-1323).
The Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii is currently threatened by the infectious cancer Devil Facial Tumour Disease (or DFTD). The disease has affected the devil population to the point where the species is now endangered. Beeton and McCallum use a suite of mathematical models to investigate the effectiveness of culling of infected devils as a tool to control DFTD. Though they found that more regular removal was more likely to be effective, their main conclusion was that the removal rate necessary to successfully eliminate disease may be too high to be achievable. This research demonstrates the importance of modelling in gauging the appropriateness of management actions, and suggests that culling is only appropriate for controlling wildlife diseases in a limited set of conditions.
Nicholas is currently finalising his Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Tasmania, studying the Tasmanian devil and DFTD from a modelling perspective. This includes the above study (Beeton and McCallum 2011), predicting spatial patterns of abundance, modelling the spatial spread of the disease, and estimating model parameters using novel techniques. His background is in Applied Mathematics, having received his BSc (Hons) in Advanced Mathematics from the University of Sydney with a thesis studying nonlinear dynamics in biomedical ultrasound. He has a broad interest in applied problem-solving, having also completed various mathematics- and physics-based research projects as an undergraduate, including studying photonic crystals in a butterfly wing, modelling magnetic fields in the solar corona, and helping to design terahertz-frequency detectors.
Nicholas is a worthy recipient of the Southwood Prize for 2011 and we wish him every success in his future career.
Stephanie O'Donnell
For the 2010 publication year, the editors are pleased to award this prize to Stephanie O'Donnell for her co-paper with Jonathan Webb and Richard Shine 'Conditioned taste aversion enhances the survival of an endangered predator imperilled by a toxic invader' (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 47, pp.558-565).
The post-colonization history of Australia has been one of repeated extinctions due, in large part, to the fact that imported non-indigenous species seem to have a disproportionately large impact on the native biota. Currently, cane toads Bufo marinus are spreading rapidly across Australia and, due to their toxicity, have been the cause of a multitude of population declines in predators. O'Donnell and co-authors use conditioned taste aversion (CTA) as a tool to make predators wary of cane toads. In a clever experiment, the researchers laced dead toads with a nausea-inducing chemical and fed them to a subset of male northern quolls Dasyurus hallucatus -a predator rapidly declining in the presence of the toads. Upon release, toad-averse quolls had much higher survival than toad-naive ones. This research shows that in situations where stopping an invasion is impossible, management activities can focus instead on altering the behaviour of native animals, thus reducing the immediate risk of extinction.
During her two years in the Shine lab, Stephanie was based in northern Australia where she worked closely with a captive breeding programme for the endangered northern quoll. Her work with captive-bred animals was focused on refining the CTA technique for training quolls to avoid toads as prey, with the ultimate aim of producing a bait for training wild populations of quolls. Stephanie was also involved with the longer-term monitoring of released 'toad smart' quolls into areas of Kakadu National Park. This work has produced some exciting results. Most encouragingly, some toad-trained female quolls have survived for 12 months in the field, and have successfully raised litters of young. This ongoing collaborative project involves a team from the University of Sydney, the Territory Wildlife Park, and Kakadu National Park, and is funded by the Australian Research Council.
After completing her honours and research assistant role with the Shine lab., Stephanie joined an environmental consultancy specialising in the forest carbon sector. She works on projects to prevent the logging of native forests, thereby avoiding significant carbon emissions from deforestation. These projects also yield immense benefits for conserving biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem services and both generating and diversifying income for local communities that traditionally depend on timber harvests. Stephanie is particularly responsible for carbon modelling and vegetation stratification, although she has the opportunity to contribute to each stage of a project's development. She is thoroughly enjoying working in such a dynamic and cutting-edge field, particularly the fact that the environmental benefits of these projects are immediately evident.
Christian Kerbiriou
The 2009 Southwood Prize is awarded to Christian Keribiriou for his co-paper 'Tourism in protected areas can threaten wild populations: from individual response to population viability of the chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax' (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 46, pp. 657-665).
The paper combines careful observation with stochastic modelling to demonstrate that relatively minor disturbance from tourism has dramatic effects on population viability, even when breeding individuals are not directly affected. In addition to its important contribution to protected area management, the paper demonstrates that the full impact of tourism may be overlooked, with direct consequences for the assessment of sustainable levels of human disturbance in national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas. Few studies have quantified the link between ultimate factors of species decline, stochastic processes and extinction risk for a given population or species. By demonstrating how tourism pressure is related both to individual response and population dynamics in an endangered species, this study takes a significant step forward.
Christian Keribiriou worked as a conservation practitioner in the National Regional Park of Amorique in France where he was involved in monitoring and survey work, and raising public awareness of environmental issues. During this time, he completed his PhD with the Museum of Paris on the population viability of chough on the protected island of Ouessant off the west coast of Brittany, France. He went on to do postdoctoral research working on the development of a national biodiversity monitoring scheme, focusing particularly on bat monitoring. In June 2009, he moved to a permanent position as a Lecturer at Paris University where he teaches ecology and statistics. His research continues to focus on population viability analyses through interdisciplinary approaches. Christian is a worthy recipient of the Southwood Prize for 2009 and we wish him every success in his academic career.
Tiziana Lembo and Katie Hampson
The 2008 Southwood Prize is awarded jointly to Tiziana Lembo and Katie Hampson for their paper 'Exploring reservoir dynamics: a case study of rabies in the Serengeti Ecosystem' ( Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 45, pp. 1246–1257). The paper combines long-term data and modelling to demonstrate that the reservoir for rabies in the Serengeti is a multi-host community where domestic dogs are the only population necessary for persistence but wild carnivores contribute as non-maintenance populations. In addition to making a significant contribution to understanding the dynamics of multi-host diseases, the work has also had a major impact on management policy, suggesting that control strategies that target domestic dogs should have the greatest impact on reducing risk of infection to humans, livestock and wildlife. The paper is exemplary in combining academic rigour with management relevance and the authors are worthy joint recipients of the 2008 Southwood Prize.
Tiziana Lembo's PhD, based at the University of Edinburgh, focussed on the identification of reservoirs for rabies and canine distemper virus in the Serengeti. The study posed several major challenges relating to the complex and elusive problem of reservoir identification for pathogens infecting multiple host species, which Tiziana successfully addressed using a suite of phylogenetic and epidemiological approaches. Tiziana followed her PhD with a BBSRC fellowship on bovine tuberculosis in Tanzania, and currently holds a joint position as a post-doctoral fellow at Lincoln Park Zoo (USA) and the University of Glasgow.
Katie Hampson's PhD from Princeton University focussed on understanding the transmission dynamics of rabies in the Serengeti. During this study, she pioneered the use of contact-tracing methodology and applied a range of quantitative methods for elucidating the epidemiology of rabies, generating invaluable information on the infection parameters and transmission patterns of rabies in domestic animals, human, and wildlife hosts. Katie has developed these approaches further as part of her post-doctoral fellowship from the Wellcome Trust which is currently held at the University of Sheffield.
The Journal of Applied Ecology published a number of excellent papers by young authors during 2008 and we should also like to mention the contribution from Lian Pin Koh entitled 'Can oil palm plantations be made more hospitable for forest butterflies and birds?' (Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 45, pp. 1002–1009). The Editors thought this was a very important and timely contribution from a young author and offer their congratulations for a well-executed piece of work.
Jonathan N. Pauli
The 2007 Southwood Prize is awarded to Jonathan N. Pauli for his co-paper with Steven W. Buskirk 'Risk-disturbance overrides density dependence in a hunted colonial rodent, the black-tailed prairie dog Cynomys ludovicianus' (Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 44, pp. 1219-1230).
This paper is exemplary in its use of a carefully designed empirical study to address an important issue in applied ecology, within a very clear theoretical framework. In the review process it was identified as extremely well written, with clear management relevance and as making a strong contribution to general theory about the effects of hunting disturbance on colonial species. The study results were very interesting, demonstrating the importance of indirect effects of hunting on vital rates, and showing that these effects (principally reduced fecundity in succeeding years) swamped any potential positive compensatory effect of hunting on population growth rate. Jonathan Pauli is a very worthy recipient of the Southwood prize for 2007, and we congratulate him on this excellent piece of work.
Jonathan is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology at the University of Wyoming. For his dissertation research, he is investigating the population dynamics, structure, and dispersal capabilities of American martens on islands off northwestern North America. He received his MSc in Zoology and Physiology from the University of Wyoming, where he studied the effects of plague and recreational shooting on black-tailed prairie dog biology. He received his BSc at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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With the Skyrim Workshop, finding and installing your favorite mods is easier than ever before. Mod-makers will also enjoy a streamlined process for uploading mods directly to Steam. Mod-makers will also enjoy a streamlined process for uploading mods directly to Steam.... Sided with stormcloaks and eliminated imperials Because they almost executed me. So wanted to make them know they made a fatal mistake Now I need to back stab the stormcloaks and take over skyrim
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It's highly unlikely for a mod this old to still be worked on if there's been no word about it for this long. While It could've just been put on ice, I find that highly unlikely since I would believe a notice about that would've been dued a long time ago.... I find it hard to believe that there are not any good mod tutorials for making armor. However, assuming you have searched with correct search terms and read various FAQs, tutorials, maybe the modders have not encountered your needs.
28/01/2014 · George takes a look at a Skyrim mod in which you can found your own city and become a lord. There's a lot of contractors in the world of Skyrim. There's a lot of contractors in the world of Skyrim. how to read critical t value table 28/01/2014 · George takes a look at a Skyrim mod in which you can found your own city and become a lord. There's a lot of contractors in the world of Skyrim. There's a lot of contractors in the world of Skyrim.
Any good mods that allow you to build your own faction
Sign in using your Bethesda account. To make it to the mod menu, you'll need to sign in using your Bethesda account. If you don't have an account, you'll have to go to bethesda.net and create one how to run windows 7 in xp mode I just wanna make a preset that looks good for me when using the mods that I use. If the end product is good, I might release it as a specific ENB preset for the combo of my favorite mods. I'm glad that I managed to fix the skin issue on my own but the neck-seam is an issue that's popped up as well. I remember back when ENB 102 was in use, the neck-seam did appear on a few presets but I can't
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Sign in using your Bethesda account. To make it to the mod menu, you'll need to sign in using your Bethesda account. If you don't have an account, you'll have to go to bethesda.net and create one
If you've exhausted The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, making your own mods is one way to get more our of the game. While Skyrim has supported modding from the outset, the Skyrim Creation Kit is the official tool.This application requires a copy of...
I just wanna make a preset that looks good for me when using the mods that I use. If the end product is good, I might release it as a specific ENB preset for the combo of my favorite mods. I'm glad that I managed to fix the skin issue on my own but the neck-seam is an issue that's popped up as well. I remember back when ENB 102 was in use, the neck-seam did appear on a few presets but I can't
This mini guide will show you how to port your Skyrim mods to Skyrim Special Edition (SSE). I am assuming that you know how to make mods for Skyrim and use the Creation Kit. I am assuming that you know how to make mods for Skyrim and use the Creation Kit.
It's highly unlikely for a mod this old to still be worked on if there's been no word about it for this long. While It could've just been put on ice, I find that highly unlikely since I would believe a notice about that would've been dued a long time ago.
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BCA has published half-year data from its Pulse database that highlights some of the longer-term trends that are otherwise disguised within the monthly figures. It shows that the overall average age and mileage of cars sold has risen during the recession, and that values have recovered significantly.
The average value used car in the first half of 2010 was £5,834, equivalent to nearly 97% of CAP. In value terms this is behind the second half of 2009 by 4.2% but ahead of the same period from last year by 3.5% and ahead of the first half of 2008 by 5.5%.
Looking at the half year in more detail, values were firmer in the early months, with January and February being particularly strong. Overall however, 2010 has a much more traditional feel than certainly the previous year had done. Elements of seasonality have come into play broadly when they would be expected.
Comparing that with the same period in 2009, a price structure can be seen that is recovering dynamically from the ravages of the previous year (2008).
The data also provides further impetus to the notion that the overall car parc is 'ageing', due to fewer new cars being sold over the past two years. The stock mix within each half-year period will include fleet, lease, PX and other sources of vehicles, but there appears to be a general move towards cars being older and higher mileage when they are sold in the wholesale arena. In fact, this may become a fact of life for the used market over the next two or three years, as the available car parc becomes 'older', due to the lower numbers of new cars being sold.
Drilling in to the fleet & lease data, however, reveals an interesting development. The average age of fleet cars when they were sold actually reduced throughout the back end of 2008 and throughout 2009. In fact, age only began to rise in 2010 – reaching its highest point in the past 30 months.
The downward trend for fleet & lease mileage at remarketing over the past 30 months is surprising – fleet & lease cars sold by BCA are covering around a 1,000 miles less in 2010 than they were in 2008. Possibly this is due to reduced business mileage for company car drivers, alongside some self-imposed 'private mileage' cutbacks as fuel prices rose.


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As a report has it, the gaming retailer, GameStop has unveiled a new web portal for a non-fungible token (NFT) platform on the Ethereum blockchain.
The page declares as follows:
"We are building a team. We welcome exceptional engineers (solidity, react, python), designers, gamers, marketers, and community leaders. If you want to join our team, send your profile or something you've built to: [email protected]"
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At the moment, the scope of the project is not clear, but a link to an Ethereum address is featured on the page, which indicates that the Ethereum blockchain is the base chosen by the GameStop team for the project.
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«Свінгери» () — копродукційна українсько-латвійська комедійна мелодрама 2018 року. Стрічка є українською кіноадаптацією латвійського фільму 2016 року «Svingeri» і розповідає про любовний трикутник між жінкою і двома чоловіками. У головних ролях Даша Астаф'єва, Олексій Вертинський, Любомир Валівоць.

Уперше фільм продемонстрували 1 січня 2018 року в широкому кінопрокаті в Україні.

Сюжет
Заможний бізнесмен Ігор нудьгує в компанії своєї дівчини Ілони — гламурної «світської левиці», яка більше за нього самого любить його гроші й хоче стати дизайнером піжам за його рахунок. Тим часом у хрущовку повертається з роботи лікар-пульмонолог Андрій. Його дружина працівниця паспортного столу Ірина в халаті та бігуді вимагає сексу, на який у нього немає ані сил, ані бажання. 10 років рутини в шлюбі вбили будь-яку пристрасть у цієї пари. Аби втамувати свої сексуальні потреби Ірина мастурбує на фото відомого українського співака Олега Винника.

Ігор та Ірина підбурюють своїх партнерів вдатися до сексуального експерименту — свінгерського вечору. Що буде, якщо ці пари поміняються партнерами?

Тим часом 30-річну вчительку англійської мови Свєту виставив оголеною на балкон коханець, коли його дружина раптово повернулася до квартири. Урятувати й обігріти її може тільки сусід по балкону Денис. Але вечір перестає бути млявим, коли на порозі в Дениса з'являється продюсер Едуард.

У ролях
У фільмі брали участь такі актори:

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Відгуки кінокритиків
Фільм отримав змішані відгуки від українських кінокритиків.. Так Ярослав Підгора-Гвяздовський у своїй рецензії для «Детектор медіа» відгукнувся про фільм схвально й написав, що «сглядач отримує коктейль, придатний для вжитку. Не всіма, очевидно, але тими, хто може подібним зацікавитися». Оглядач Geek Journal різко розкритикував фільм, відзначивши низький рівень акторської гри, несмішні жарти та нелогічний сценарій.

Касові збори
Під час показу в Україні, що розпочався 1 січня 2018 року, протягом першого тижня на фільм було продано 128,7 тисяч квитків, фільм був показаний на 227 екранах і зібрав ₴10,8 мільйона, що на той час дозволило йому зайняти 2 місце серед усіх прем'єр.

Протягом другого вікенду на стрічку було продано 44 850 квитків, фільм був показаний на 186 екранах і зібрала ₴ 3 616 660, довівши загальні збори за два тижні до ₴ 17 846 030, що на той час дозволило йому зайняти 4 місце серед усіх прем'єр ($630 тис.).

Протягом третього вікенду на стрічку було продано 18 376 квитків, фільм був показаний на 83 екранах і зібрала ₴ 1 420 172, довівши загальні збори за два тижні до ₴ 20 411 845, що на той час дозволило йому зайняти 8 місце серед усіх прем'єр ($710 тис.).

Протягом четвертого вікенду на стрічку було продано 7 050 квитків, фільм був показаний на 46 екранах і зібрала ₴ 564 994, довівши загальні збори за два тижні до ₴ 21 383 711, що на той час дозволило йому зайняти 10 місце серед усіх прем'єр ($749 тис.).

Загалом стрічка протрималася 17 тижнів в українському прокаті і заробила ₴22,2 млн. ($0.85 млн.)

Сиквел
5 грудня 2018 року на українські екрани вийшов сиквел Свінгери 2. Українським дистриб'ютором другої частини стала компанія Вольґа Україна, хоча прокатом першої частини в Україні займалася UFD.

Нагороди та номінації

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 Список найкасовіших українських фільмів
 Список найкасовіших фільмів (Україна)

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Фільми Латвії
Українські фільми 2018
Кінокомедії України 2018
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Q: Generate URL to Maps application in Windows 8 I have the coordinates of the position and I would like to generate a URL / Request for Maps in Windows 8, so that on the basis of the position of the coordinates it show given position. Is this possible, and if so, do you have any ideas how to do it;)

A: Use protocol activation via LaunchUriAsync.  Check the Uri Scheme for maps applications to see the various options for formatting the URI
e.g.,
await Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("bingmaps:?cp=40.726966~-74.006076"));

opens the map app centered on New York City.

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Bill Homeier
(1918-08-31)August 31, 1918
May 5, 2001(2001-05-05) (aged 82)
Formula One World Championship career
Nichels, Kurtis Kraft, Kuzma, Kupiec, Lesovsky
6 (3 starts)
Career points
1953 Indianapolis 500
Bill Homeier (August 31, 1918 Rock Island, Texas – May 5, 2001 Houston, Texas) was an American racecar driver.
He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1953–1955 and 1958–1960 seasons with 14 starts, including the 1954 and 1960 Indianapolis 500 races. He was a relief driver for Walt Faulkner in the 1955 Indianapolis 500 He finished in the top ten 5 times, with his best finish in 5th position, in 1959 at Sacramento. He holds a unique record from the 1954 Indianapolis 500; he finished in last place, but completed 74 laps, the most for a last place finisher.[1]
Indy 500 results[edit]
Qual
51 18 138.948 11 33 74 0 Crash Pits
77 - - - 5 ? ? Running*
39 31 141.248 32 13 200 0 Running
Totals 274 0
* shared drive with Walt Faulkner
World Championship career summary[edit]
The Indianapolis 500 was part of the FIA World Championship from 1950 through 1960. Drivers competing at Indy during those years were credited with World Championship points and participation. Bill Homeier participated in 3 World Championship races, scoring 1 World Championship point.
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ML: -286
CLE 6.5, O/U 215.5
ML: +230
Bogdanovic, Oladipo lead Pacers past winless Cavs 119-107
STATS AP
CLEVELAND (AP) Victor Oladipo and the Indiana Pacers didn't have to worry about LeBron James on this trip to Cleveland.
Oladipo scored 24 points, Bojan Bogdanovic led the way with 25 points and Indiana kept the Cavaliers winless on the season with a 119-107 victory on Saturday night.
The teams met for the first time since Cleveland defeated Indiana in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs last season. James scored 45 points in Game 7 and the Cavaliers survived their toughest test in reaching the NBA Finals for the fourth straight season.
Oladipo hasn't forgotten anything about that game.
''Every time I play here, I sit here in this same locker,'' he said. ''Every time I land in Cleveland, I think about it. I watched it all summer, probably about 75 times. It's all I thought about.''
The Pacers had no such troubles this time. Indiana took control midway through the fourth quarter and followed up its 20-point win in San Antonio on Wednesday with another road victory.
Cleveland (0-6) is off to its worst start since losing its first seven games in the 1995-96 season. The Cavaliers are struggling to adjust without James, who signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency. Cleveland also missed forward Kevin Love, who was out for the second straight game because of a sore left foot.
Cleveland committed 18 turnovers that led to 30 points and helped Indiana shoot 65 percent (48 for 74) from the field.
''Our margin for error is slim,'' Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said. ''It's very slim.''
Cleveland cut a 15-point lead to 97-91 early in the fourth quarter before Indiana regained control with four straight baskets. Darren Collison scored on a layup and a jumper, Oladipo hit a 12-footer and Domanta Sabonis scored in the lane.
Sabonis made another layup and Oladipo's 3-pointer with 3:58 left pushed the lead to 113-98.
Indiana (4-2) placed six players in double figures. Collison, Myles Turner and Sabonis each scored 15 points while Thaddeus Young added 10.
''We didn't want to make it a trap game,'' Collison said. ''Every team in the NBA is respectable, regardless of who is out there. They played as hard as we did tonight.''
Rodney Hood led Cleveland with 17 points while Larry Nance Jr. came off the bench to score 15.
Cleveland has struggled without James, who signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency while Love leads the team with 19 points a game.
Indiana went ahead for good midway through the second quarter. Oladipo scored on a layup, a dunk and a jumper as Indiana turned a four-point deficit into a 60-55 halftime lead.
The Pacers' run continued in the third quarter. Oladipo and Bogdanovic hit 3-pointers, and Collison knocked down a jumper from the corner and scored in the lane, to lead 81-66.
Indiana guard Tyreke Evans sat out the game because of a violation of team rules. In a tweet posted by the team Friday, Evans said he was late for practice. He's expected to play Monday against Portland.
LOVE UPDATE
The five-time All-Star, who leads the team scoring 19 points a game, also missed Thursday's game against Detroit. Love missed three of the Cavaliers' four exhibition games because of the injury, and it's uncertain when he'll return.
''He tried to play through it understanding we hadn't won a game and we were struggling a little bit,'' Lue said. ''He wanted to be on the floor and try to make a difference. We applaud him for that. We just hope he can get healthy soon.''
TEAM WIN
Coach Nate McMillan was pleased with the way the Pacers played in the final two quarters.
''In the second half, we got stops when we needed to and really just wore them down,'' he said. ''We did a good job recognizing where we had matchups.''
Pacers: Indiana's depth has been a major factor in the early going. Six players average in double figures and two others scored nine points a game. ... Evans is averaging 12 points in five games in his first season with the team.
Cavaliers: Rookie Collin Sexton was assessed a technical foul after swatting away Cory Joseph's hand as the Pacers guard was battling for position on an inbounds play. Sexton, taken with the eighth pick in the first round of the draft, had 12 points but was 2 of 8 from the field. ''There's going to be ups and downs,'' Lue said. ''I just don't want him to get down on himself. He's going to make mistakes and that's just part of the game.'' ... F Sam Dekker started in place of Love, scoring six points with five rebounds in 24 minutes.
Pacers: Host Portland on Monday. Indiana is 2-0 at home with an average margin of 20 points.
Cavaliers: Host Atlanta on Tuesday. The Hawks were a 133-111 winner in Cleveland on Oct. 21.
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V. Oladipo
4 SG
J. Clarkson
8 PG
22.6 Min. Per Game 22.6
17.0 Pts. Per Game 17.0
1.2 Ast. Per Game 1.2
3.2 Reb. Per Game 3.2
49.0 Field Goal % 50.6
46.2 Three Point % 50.7
53.6 Free Throw % 91.7
+ 1 Collin Sexton made 2nd of 2 free throws 0:08
Team rebound 0:08
Collin Sexton missed 1st of 2 free throws 0:08
Shooting foul on Alize Johnson 0:08
+ 2 Aaron Holiday made layup, assist by Cory Joseph 0:24
Bad pass turnover on Cedi Osman, stolen by Cory Joseph 0:28
+ 1 David Nwaba made 2nd of 2 free throws 0:53
+ 1 David Nwaba made 1st of 2 free throws 0:53
Shooting foul on Doug McDermott 0:53
Defensive rebound by Sam Dekker 1:01
Alize Johnson missed 1st of 2 free throws 1:03
Field Goals 48-74 (64.9%) 40-86 (46.5%)
3-Pointers 5-13 (38.5%) 7-25 (28.0%)
Free Throws 18-26 (69.2%) 20-22 (90.9%)
Offensive 4 16
Defensive 20 23
Team 13 6
Fouls 15 20
Technicals 2 1
V. Oladipo SG 4
24 PTS, 3 REB, 6 AST
L. Nance Jr. PF 22
15 PTS, 12 REB, 4 AST
1 2 3 4 T
Pacers 4-2 30 30 28 31 119
Cavaliers 0-6 30 25 28 24 107
Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, OH
Pacers 4-2 91.8 PPG 40.3 RPG 20.8 APG
Cavaliers 0-6 PPG RPG APG
B. Bogdanovic SF PPG RPG APG FG%
R. Hood SG PPG RPG APG FG%
B. Bogdanovic SF 25 PTS 3 REB 2 AST
R. Hood SG 17 PTS 5 REB 3 AST
64.9 FG% 46.5
38.5 3PT FG% 28.0
69.2 FT% 90.9
B. Bogdanovic
D. Collison
M. Turner
T. Young
Starters PTS REB AST FG 3PT FT PF MIN STL BLK TO OREB DREB +/- FPTS
B. Bogdanovic 25 3 2 10/14 2/5 3/4 1 31 1 0 3 0 3 +15 30
V. Oladipo 24 3 6 10/15 2/4 2/6 3 36 3 0 2 1 2 +16 40
D. Collison 15 2 6 5/8 1/1 4/4 3 29 3 0 2 0 2 +15 30
M. Turner 15 2 1 7/10 0/1 1/1 2 27 0 3 2 1 1 +6 20
T. Young 10 2 5 5/8 0/0 0/0 0 32 2 0 1 0 2 +16 23
D. Sabonis
C. Joseph
D. McDermott
A. Holiday
E. Sumner
A. Johnson
T. Leaf
K. O'Quinn
I. Anigbogu
B. Moore
Bench PTS REB AST FG 3PT FT PF MIN STL BLK TO OREB DREB +/- FPTS
D. Sabonis 15 5 1 6/9 0/0 3/3 0 21 0 0 2 1 4 +3 20
C. Joseph 7 5 5 3/4 0/0 1/2 1 28 3 0 1 0 5 +5 24
D. McDermott 6 0 2 1/2 0/1 4/4 2 17 0 0 1 0 0 -5 9
A. Holiday 2 0 0 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -4 2
E. Sumner 0 1 0 0/1 0/0 0/0 2 5 1 0 0 1 0 -2 2
A. Johnson 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
T. Leaf 0 1 0 0/2 0/1 0/0 0 5 0 0 1 0 1 -4 0
T. Evans - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
K. O'Quinn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
D. Reed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I. Anigbogu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
B. Moore - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 119 24 28 48/74 5/13 18/26 15 233 13 3 15 4 20 +60 200
R. Hood
G. Hill
C. Osman
T. Thompson
S. Dekker
R. Hood 17 5 3 8/15 1/6 0/0 2 29 2 0 1 0 5 -19 29
G. Hill 14 2 2 5/11 1/3 3/3 3 28 2 1 2 2 0 -13 21
C. Osman 10 4 3 4/13 2/8 0/0 1 31 0 0 6 1 3 -14 14
T. Thompson 6 6 0 3/5 0/0 0/0 2 21 0 0 1 6 0 -12 11
S. Dekker 6 5 1 3/7 0/0 0/0 1 24 2 0 0 3 2 -10 15
L. Nance Jr.
C. Sexton
D. Nwaba
K. Korver
J. Smith
A. Zizic
K. Love
B. Preston
C. Frye
L. Nance Jr. 15 12 4 6/8 0/0 3/3 4 22 1 0 0 3 9 -3 36
J. Clarkson 12 1 1 5/10 2/4 0/0 2 19 1 0 1 0 1 -6 15
C. Sexton 12 1 4 2/8 0/1 8/9 1 22 1 0 2 0 1 +1 20
D. Nwaba 7 1 0 2/5 1/1 2/2 0 14 0 1 0 0 1 +13 9
K. Korver 4 0 2 2/4 0/2 0/0 2 15 0 0 2 0 0 -1 6
J. Smith 3 1 1 0/0 0/0 3/3 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 +1 6
A. Zizic 1 1 0 0/0 0/0 1/2 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 +3 2
J. Holland - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
K. Love - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
B. Preston - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
C. Frye - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 107 39 21 40/86 7/25 20/22 20 234 9 2 15 16 23 -60 184
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South32
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South32 2019/20 - Summer Vacation Program - Illawarra, NSW
We are South32. We are making a difference with the work we do. Join us to begin your future with 12 weeks of paid vacation work.
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South32 is a globally diversified mining and metals company. We produce bauxite, alumina, aluminium, energy and metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, silver, lead and zinc at our operations in Australia, Southern Africa and South America.
We are also the owner of high-grade zinc, lead and silver development option in North America and have several partnerships with junior explorers with a focus on base metals.
Our purpose is to make a difference by developing natural resources, improving people's lives now and for generations to come.
We are trusted by our owners and partners to realise the potential of their resources.
Our Illawarra Metallurgical Coal operations are in the Illawarra and Wollondilly regions of the southern coalfields of New South Wales, about 75 kilometres south of Sydney. Our underground mines at Appin and Dendrobium produce high-quality metallurgical coal used for steelmaking. As a by-product, we also supply small amounts of coal for energy.
About the Summer Vacation Program
Running over a 12-week period, participants will be given a unique opportunity to learn and excel in their chosen career while being exposed to high-quality operations.
The Summer Vacation Program will offer you unique opportunities to:
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Our Vacation Program acts as a pathway to our Graduate Program
Our program runs from the 25th November 2019 to the 14th February 2020.
We're targeting penultimate year students for roles based in Wollongong, NSW who are studying:
You will need to be in your penultimate year of a relevant university course and have the right to live and work in Australia. You will be willing to complete a medical assessment and available to commence work for a 12 week period from the 25th November 2019.
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The Greek island of Mykonos is one of those places that people from all over the world love to visit. They come here in search of capturing some of the magic that can be found on the islands in this country. Some come specifically for the parties, others want to enjoy the beach or the historical sites.
The Rarity Gallery is one of the most unique museums in all of Greece. Located in Mykonos Town, this gallery features beautiful works of art that are completely unique. Though the pieces are all for sale, you are more than welcome to come to this gallery just to browse the pieces. For many, this gallery tops their lists of things they must do while on the island. Visitors report that not only are the pieces unique, but they're laid out in a way that enhances the experience.
If you want a place to observe contemporary Greek culture, you won't want to miss the chance to visit the Dio Horia gallery. Known as the Dio Horia Contemporary Art Platform, this gallery showcases some unique pieces that have been created by some outstanding and talented artists. Each featured artist has a unique voice and uses their art to express themselves.
The Minima Gallery is also located in Mykonos Town, and it is also devoted to showcasing work from contemporary artists from Greece and also throughout the world. This gallery is laid out much like a museum, but some of the art is also available for purchase. If you want to experience the works of some of the best artists in the world, you really should spend time here.
Located in Ano Marie, the Audio & Art Galleries offers an entirely different artistic experience. By incorporating audio sounds, equipment, and art together, it enables visitors to use more than one sense when viewing and enjoying the art. Listen to music while viewing the pieces, or simply consider the audio and stereo equipment to be works of art in their own right. The pieces are all carefully selected to offer a full experience.
Another great place to visit is the Triciclo Art Shop, which is also located in Mykonos Town. This shop showcases objects such as sculptures and pottery, but also has original paintings up for sale. It is a beautiful shop and gallery to poke around in and all the pieces were made by local sources.
While on the island of Mykonos, you will want to experience some of the beautiful art. There are plenty of galleries, and most of them are located in or near Mykonos Town.


When you marry your partner, you are really marrying their entire family. For some, the additional family members are a blessing, with more participants for game night or more money to throw at a group vacation. More common, though, are the insufferable in-laws who you may come to hate.
There are also some people that don't share any interests or common ground with you.
Maybe it's a pain to be around those people, but civility is still possible. This is your spouse's family, after all, so you may as well try to connect with them. Don't disparage their interests, either; maybe you do not agree on everything pop culture, but there is no need to have a public debate about it.
Some cases are more extreme than others. Maybe you have simply not adjusted to their in-jokes or how the members of their family speak to one another. They may not mean to offend but you interpret their behavior as rude or off-putting.
The solution to this would be to address their comments head-on. No need to be rude back; instead approach the conversation calmly. You could say, "Your comment doesn't sit well with me, and I would appreciate if you didn't say things like that around me." Try to come to a resolution, even if you don't agree. That doesn't mean feigning forgiveness.
That means agreeing to disagree and committing to respecting one another. They will have to learn how to be around you just as you will have to learn how to be around them.
You cannot control how other people act, and sometimes they will set you off without realizing it. Or perhaps they did it intentionally—either way, retaliation is not the answer.
Keep open (and private) communication with your spouse about why their family gets under your skin. They may be able to give you some insight into the situation that you would not have been privy to earlier. This should make it easier to reconcile and move on with your relationship with your in-laws.
Be careful not to bad mouth or criticize your in-laws to your spouse. Instead of saying, "Your brother is a real jerk," say, "Your brother and I approach life differently." Instead of saying, "I hate hanging out with your family," say, "I want to hang out with your family sometimes because I know it's important to you, but sometimes it makes me feel overwhelmed." Some call this sugar coating, but marital diplomacy is also important. There's no need to hurt your partner's feelings, especially if the problems you're having are with your in-laws and not your partner.
There are couples who get married and move away to avoid their in-laws. This may be going to the extreme, especially if you are the only one having issues with your spouse's family. Instead, try giving yourself some distance. If you normally attend every family function, tell your partner that you would like to sit a few of them out.
You and your spouse can create guidelines about when you can stay away. Maybe, the two of you will agree that you should join the family for major holidays, but you can stay home for minor ones or events, such as celebrating your niece's first steps. Whatever you decide, you should discuss the issue together – and you should both be satisfied with the compromise. In addition, your spouse might lay the ground work for an improved relationship between her family and you.
While you don't always have to participate, you should still remain civilized and try not to hold a grudge. Allowing resentment to build and having this tense relationship with the in-laws will eventually influence your wife and, as a result, your marriage. It could cause tension between the two of you, and that's exactly what you don't want.
On the other hand, this doesn't mean that you have to become best friends with your in-laws.
Your in-laws are your family now, too. Family doesn't always get along. Personalities clash. People misbehave and don't treat each other well. You both grew up in different circumstances, which shapes your experiences and expectations. But you're still family and that brings with it some responsibility. Your wife's siblings will be her siblings forever. One way or another, you have to learn to live peacefully with them, if for no other reason than you love your wife.


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Rock Out With The New T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition January 19, 2010
Posted by David W. King in Guitarists, Guitars, iPhone, mobile entertainment, Music, Uncategorized.
Tags: Avril Lavigne, Eric Clapton, Fender, Google, Inc., T-Mobile, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Fender, Wyclef Jean
T-Mobile USA, Inc. announces the upcoming launch of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition, and a partnership with legendary musician and Fender guitarist Eric Clapton to help unveil the exclusive new phone.
As part of the myTouch 3G marketing campaign, which has featured a variety of iconic artists including comedians, musicians and sports figures, Clapton's commercial will debut on national TV on January 20, supporting the availability of the device nationwide in select T-Mobile retail stores and online at http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com. In the ad, Clapton will showcase a personalized myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition.
The Fender Limited Edition puts a rock-and-roll spin on the original T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google, offering a fresh design and enhanced features to create a unique mobile music experience. The device will ship with preloaded Clapton classics including "Layla," "My Father's Eyes," "Rock 'N' Roll Heart," and "Wonderful Tonight," and T-Mobile is a proud supporter of Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Designed in partnership with Fender, the new limited edition myTouch has a Fender guitar sunburst-finish inspired design. The Fender Limited Edition comes equipped with an array of features for an enhanced music experience — a 16GB microSD card to house thousands of songs/videos, a 3.5mm headset jack for headphones and an enhanced music player. The music player, developed by HTC, offers an intuitive user interface that allows for toggling between different views or for changing a song or album by simply touching the album art. It also allows customers to create ringtones from songs that are playing.
"In a modern culture that forms an essential bond between music, mobile devices and one's individual lifestyle, Fender is very proud to partner with T-Mobile on the exclusive new T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition," said Mark Van Vleet, senior vice president of Business Affairs, Fender Musical Instruments. "This is an exciting and innovative way to connect people to their passion for great music wherever they go, and we are thrilled to share this news with our customers and fans."
Content preloaded on the phone includes popular Android Market applications, Guitar: Solo and Musical Light. To accompany the preloaded Clapton tunes, the device also will ship with songs from Wyclef Jean, Avril Lavigne and Brad Paisley. New accessories allow further customization and usability, including additional Fender-branded shells, a Fender carrying case, screen protector, and Rock Dock, a docking station equipped with speakers.
"The myTouch 3G, which runs on Android, gives us an open, highly customizable platform to create truly unique experiences that go beyond what's possible on proprietary platforms," said Andrew Sherrard, vice president of product development, T-Mobile USA. "The new limited edition myTouch is a perfect example of this innovation and personalization, and we are excited to bring our customers this special limited edition, feature-rich, music-inspired device".
With the myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition, T-Mobile is introducing a customized multimedia sync solution in partnership with Silicon Valley startup doubleTwist, allowing customers to easily take advantage of the phone's advanced media features. doubleTwist is a free software application that enables users to easily manage and sync their music, videos and images from a Windows-based PC or Mac directly to their mobile device. doubleTwist automatically finds all of the music already on the computer and allows customers to import their iTunes playlists, providing full media management functionality.
An exclusive T-Mobile version of the software will be pre-loaded on the new limited edition so customers can simply connect their device to their computer for a seamless installation experience. The software offers a sleek, intuitive interface for syncing and managing music and other media. T-Mobile also will offer the customized version of the software to customers using other T-Mobile Android devices.
The new limited edition myTouch also offers the popular features and same great technology as the original T-Mobile myTouch, including a highly personalized experience, with home screen customization and more than 16,000 applications available from Android Market. The device also offers customers one-touch access to the Google mobile services that millions use every day including Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, YouTube and Picasa. The Fender Limited Edition, which runs Android 1.6, is expected to be updated to Android 2.1 this spring.
November Sees Number Of U.S. Videos Viewed Online Surpass 30 Billion For First Time On Record January 6, 2010
Tags: comScore, comScore Video Metrix, Google, Inc., online video, Youtube
comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, released November 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 170 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month.
Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in November with nearly 31 billion videos viewed during the month, and Google Sites accounting for 39 percent of all videos viewed online in the U.S.
Top 10 Video Content Properties by Videos Viewed
Google Sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property in November as it delivered 12.2 billion videos viewed with YouTube.com accounting for nearly 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 924 million videos viewed (3.0 percent) followed by Viacom Digital with 500 million (1.6 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 480 million (1.5 percent).
In November, Tremor Media ranked as the #1 video ad network with a potential reach of 85 million viewers, or 49.8 percent of the total viewing audience. Advertising.com Video Network ranked second with a potential reach of 80 million viewers (47.1 percent penetration) followed by YuMe Video Network with 73 million viewers (43.0 percent).
Other notable findings from November 2009 include:
* The top video ad networks in terms of their actual reach delivered were: Tremor Media Video Network with 20.0 percent penetration of online video viewers, BBE with 17.5 percent, and BrightRoll Video Network with 16.6 percent.
* 84.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
* The average online video viewer watched 12.2 hours of video.
* 128.1 million viewers watched more than 12 billion videos on YouTube.com (94.3 videos per viewer).
* 38.6 million viewers watched 333.4 million videos on MySpace.com (8.6 videos per viewer).
* The average Hulu viewer watched 21.1 videos, totaling 2.1 hours of videos per viewer.
* The duration of the average online video was 4.0 minutes.
Real-Time Search Reaches Online Radio With RadioTuna.com December 18, 2009
Tags: Google, RadioTuna, Twitter
LONDON, December 15 — A tiny UK start-up may just have stolen a march on the online music industry by launching the first real-time search engine for internet radio.
RadioTuna.com is a new website that tracks 20,000 stations around the world in real-time and uses complex algorithms to make finding them easy.
Real-time search is the latest development in internet technology, with Twitter leading the revolution and Google introducing real-time results very recently. RadioTuna is the world's first real-time search engine for radio, giving up-to-the-minute results about the music being played across the globe.
The data collected illustrates the incredible range of music available through internet radio to an extent not possible before, providing a game-changing level of search fidelity. Stations can be found either by artist or genre, and a unique profiling process shows the breakdown of music played on each. Exploring the Long Tail of radio has never been so much fun.
About RadioTuna
RadioTuna.com was created by three music fans who loved internet radio but were frustrated by the search for new stations.
Co-founder William Jenkins said, "We built RadioTuna because we were fed up with other radio search engines. The site is kind of a cross between Spotify and Google, and it's been likened to both."
Beneath the cute branding and simple interface sits serious technology that captures and processes data about the music as it is played. It's a place for fans of every genre to find out what's going on right now, with relevant results for every artist in their 10 million-track database.
No accounts, profiles or subscriptions required – just search for an artist or genre and click on a search result to start the music.
About Online Radio
Online Radio has a vast global audience attracting tens of millions of listeners around the world. It is unique in its ability to serve niche audiences with highly specialised content, and the diversity of music on offer is unmatched by any other service.
Although there are large stations with thousands of listeners, there are many more tiny ones broadcasting to only a handful of people at once. These small stations often cost more to run than they ever make and are run purely for the love of the music.
Site: http://radiotuna.com


October, 2009 - Event FX Productions, Inc.
Event FX provides event and entertainment design and production for a private Halloween Party. From 400 feet of Cob webs to 400 pounds of Co2 tanks for low lying fog, from 14 moving lights filled with bats, spiders, and fire to performances by I AM PHRESH and Side Show Diva's, the night was filled with twisted surprises, endless fun, and haunting ambiance.
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