This course will offer an in-depth study of a single book of the New Testament or several smaller books in their entirety which will vary from offering to offering and be selected by the instructor. Prerequisite: THL 202 or consent of instructor. This course may be repeated for credit if a different book is studied.
This course will study the fundamentals of the ancient Greek language including morphology, syntax, and vocabulary for reading simple passages of Greek prose.
A continuation of GRE 101. Prerequisite: GRE 101 or equivalent with a grade of C- or better.
This course will study the morphology, vocabulary, and syntax of biblical Hebrew for reading simple passages of the Hebrew Bible.
A continuation of HEB 101. Prerequisite: HEB 101 or equivalent with a grade of C- of better.
Readings of selected portions of the ancient Greek Biblical and classical texts with special emphasis on building translation skills through a review of morphology and syntax as well as the acquisition of the new vocabulary. Prerequisites: C- or better in GRE 101, GRE 102. May be repeated for credit.
Through the reading of selective narrative, legal and poetic passages of the Hebrew Bible, students will advance their translation skills through review and inductive study of morphology, vocabulary and syntax with attention paid to genre analysis and textual criticism. Prerequisites: C- or better in HEB 101, HEB 102. May be repeated for credit.


Carlie joined BIE in August 2009 and since then has worked closely with a variety of organisations going through change.
As Practice Manager for BIE's consulting and transformation team she manages all the back-office and operational functions for the team. She provides valuable support to our network of associate partners and management consultants, ensuring they are set up with everything they need when working with BIE, to successfully deliver the transformation programmes they are involved in.


You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy Fiddler on the Roof, Catholic to love Rudy, Hindu to appreciate Ghandi, or an evangelical Christian to be a fan of The Blind Side. Similarly, there are films about Latter-day Saints that are simply good movies. They entertain and tell compelling stories without trying to convert the audience. Here are ten films that have won over mainstream critics and are worth the watch regardless of your worldview. (Good films that appeal mostly to the Latter-day faithful, like The Best Two Years and 17 Miracles, are not included).
Click on the titles to buy the films from Amazon.
What It's About: A small Utah town is terrorized by a serial killer, leading to mistrust and suspicion in the formerly close-knit community.
The Mainstream Appeal: It's a first-rate whodunit and a bittersweet examination of the role a community plays in providing hope in times of terror. Plus it co-stars lovable Quaker Oats spokesman Wilford Brimley.
What It's About: A sister missionary from America travels to Austria to share her beliefs and serve the people but clashes with her European companion.
The Mainstream Appeal: Although the first act is shaky, once it finds its footing this is a gentle and warm exploration of the universal struggle to get along with those who are different. Plus the European locales are gorgeous.
"Poignant and moving, with an ending no screenwriter could improve on." – Nathan Ravin, AV Club.
What It's About: Charming documentary about punk rock icon Arthur "Killer" Kane of the New York Dolls. Kane nearly destroyed himself with drugs and alcohol, but sobered up when he was baptized a Latter-day Saint. Longing for the thrill, if not the lifestyle, of performance, he tries to plan a reunion show with his old band.
The Mainstream Appeal: It has an impressive 90% rating at Rotten Tomatoes and was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival. Rock enthusiasts will appreciate the history and appearances by stars like Morrissey, but this is a story anyone could love, from your teen to your grandma.
"A film that wins you over [with] good storytelling." – Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight.
What It's About: This is a true story about a missionary in the 1950's who leaves his sweetheart for three years and travels to Tonga, braving hurricanes, starvation, and wild animals on his way to embracing a foreign culture.
The Mainstream Appeal: It stars Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway just before her big break in The Princess Diaries, along with TV's Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty, Covert Affairs). The producer also made Schindler's List and Jurassic Park. The film boasts impressive visual effects and gorgeous on-location cinematography, as well as memorable characters.
"Surprisingly charming. Transforms its source material into a bubbly frolic while adhering closely to Austen's essential themes."- Scott Foundas, Variety.
What It's About: A modern version of Jane Austen's classic story. Instead of Victorian England it's Provo, Utah.
The Mainstream Appeal: It's very funny and the leads have real chemistry. The Latter-day Saint element is very light, as the filmmaker's focus is clearly on creating a solid rom-com that anyone could enjoy. Mission accomplished.
What It's About: A small group of soldiers, trapped behind enemy lines, tries to evade Nazi troups and make it back to the ranks.
The Mainstream Appeal: The acting is excellent, the action is intense, and the core message of compassion (even for one's enemies) is powerful.
What It's About: True story about two missionaries kidnapped and held for ransom in Russia and the international efforts to get them out alive.
The Mainstream Appeal: It's breathlessly intense and wonderfully human, with an admirable appreciation for people of many different faiths and walks of life.
What It's About: The lives of two Latter-day Saint missionaries, a Pentecostal preacher, a lapsed-Christian actress, and a gang-banger are intertwined and forever changed by a drive-by shooting.
The Mainstream Appeal: Gritty and emotional, with excellent acting, States of Grace takes viewers to some unpredictable places in order to display the restorative power of belief and the value of interfaith friendship.
What It's About: Protestant filmmaker Rick Stevenson follows two Latter-day Saint brothers over a decade of their life, capturing the rivalry, heartaches, and fraternal love between two vulnerable-yet-strong boys.
The Mainstream Appeal: The fact that the filmmaker isn't a Latter-day Saint gives the movie a unique perspective, and the coming-of-age story is ripe with drama, featuring natural disasters, bullying, and college football tryouts.
"In less than a decade, Mormon cinema has evolved from an easily dismissed curiosity to respectable art, and much of the credit belongs to The Work and the Glory series." – Phil Villarreal, Arizona Daily Star.
What It's About: A fictional 1800's family is torn apart, and strives for reconciliation, amidst the turbulent formation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Mainstream Appeal: Although it fails to capture the larger history of the Latter-day Saint as well as the 9-book series its based on, the family story is compelling and satisfyingly resolved. The movies are handsomely-made, with Hollywood actors and a fine attention to period detail. The first film suffers from some overwrought romantic melodrama, but once the story changes gears to the conflict between Latter-day Saints and mobs, it gains real traction.
The preceding ten films were made by primarily Latter-day Saint filmmakers, not the church itself, which does have its own film studio. Here are the five best films produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As these tend to focus more on doctrine and divine intervention than the other films on this list, they're a great resource if you want to learn the truth about Latter-day Saint beliefs.
What it's About: The final week in the life of Jesus Christ, along with His resurrection.
Watch it if: you want an emotional, skillfully-made depiction that sticks to the New Testament. The score is fantastic, the direction is creative, and the resurrection scene is perfect.
JOSEPH SMITH- THE PROPHET OF THE RESTORATION (2005).
What it's About: The life and mission of Joseph Smith, who Latter-day Saints believe was called by God to restore the Church of Jesus Christ.
Watch it if: you'd like an insider's perspective or a counterpoint to the satirical South Park/Broadway versions.
What It's About: The story of sacrifice and faith that went into the decades-long construction of the Salt Lake temple, as told by Church president Wilford Woodruff.
Watch it if: you'd like to know more about Latter-day Saint temple worship, Brigham Young, or the history of the American West.
What It's About: A lonely old man daydreams about singing Christmas carols with the Tabernacle Choir and worshiping at the manger of the newborn Christ.
Watch it if: you love It's a Wonderful Life and want to see Jimmy Stewart's other Christmas movie. No, he wasn't a Latter-day Saint, but he did star in one of our movies.
What It's About: Political intrigue, epic-scaled disasters, romance, and family redemption occur in the Americas while, across the ocean, Jesus carries out his ministry in the Holy Land. It all culminates in the appearance of the resurrected Christ to his followers on the American continent.
Watch it if: you'd like to know what Latter-day Saints believe about Jesus Christ and the relationship between The Holy Bible and The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.


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Dopo aver debuttato con il Parma nel campionato di Prima Divisione 1925-1926, dove disputa 4 partite e segna un gol nella gara di esordio contro il Milan, gioca con gli emiliani i successivi campionati di Prima Divisione Nord ed in seguito debutta in Serie B nella stagione 1929-1930. Nei tre campionati di Serie B disputati colleziona 63 presenze e 6 reti.

In carriera nel corso di sette stagioni consecutive con la maglia del Parma ha collezionato complessivamente 121 partite e 22 reti.

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Big News / Small Bytes
byVictor Tangermann
/ Blocknik
Get In Early
Coinbase Is Riddled With Insider Trading, Researchers Allege
Who could have foreseen this?
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase might have a much bigger insider trading problem than we thought.
Traders may have had access to improper info ahead of 15 to 37 listings — ten to 25 percent of the total — on the exchange since 2018, according to researchers at the University of Technology Sydney.
In their new paper, the three Australian researchers found "evidence of systematic insider trading in cryptocurrency markets," with their analysis showing "significant price run-ups before official listing announcements, similar to prosecuted cases of insider trading in stock markets."
While it's not exactly a smoking gun, it's yet another data point suggesting that insider trading is rampant on crypto exchanges — bringing the worst sins of traditional finance, in other words, to the brave new world of blockchain.
"Our findings identify cases that are yet to be prosecuted," they wrote.
Run Ups
The team looked at the average price of 146 coins 300 and 100 hours before Coinbase — the largest publicly traded exchange in the world — made the announcement that they'd be listed on the platform. On average, tokens rose another two percent over the next 100 hours.
"From visual inspection, we note that there is an evident run-up pattern prior to the listing announcement starting at -250 hours," they write, implying that insiders had advanced, non-public notice of profitable investments.
The news comes weeks after a Coinbase manager was indicted by federal prosecutors for leaking info about new crypto due to be listed on the exchange to a brother and friend, getting away with more than $1 million in profit before attempting to flee the country.
The crypto exchange is also reportedly under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is looking into whether crypto on it should've been registered as securities.
Not everybody agrees the new paper is evidence to take seriously. One expert source told Decrypt that the study "jumps to conclusions" without providing clear evidence.
Meanwhile, a Coinbase spokesperson reiterated in a statement to Decrypt that it "takes allegations of front-running incredibly seriously. We work hard to ensure all market participants have access to the same information."
Whether that kind of line of reasoning will prove to be enough to convince federal prosecutors, of course, remains to be seen.
READ MORE: Coinbase Has a Serious Insider Trading Problem, Study Claims [Decrypt]
More on Coinbase: Coinbase Reportedly Under Investigation by the SEC
FTX's New CEO Says Company Did "Old Fashioned Embezzlement"
Tulip Fever
Dutch Startup Mining Bitcoin to Grow Tulips, and We Can't Tell If They're Joking
Moving Money
Crypto.com Accidentally Sent $400 Million to a Competitor

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Student Support Services includes a team of learning specialists, school counselors, and a consulting neuropsychologist. This team works with families and faculty to monitor the development of academic, social, emotional, and behavioral skills that lead to effective learning for all students.
MCDS recognizes that children have different learning styles and rates of growth and development. Student Support Services provides instruction to all students in areas such as literacy, learning and the brain, social thinking, communication skills, and strategies for organization and self-regulation. Student Support Services also provides reading, writing, and math specialists who assist in the classrooms.
When a child struggles or does not seem to be making progress in a particular area, Student Support Services collaborates with faculty and the child's family to address concerns and facilitate progress. Student Support Services frequently consults and assists parents with referrals and options for students in and outside the classroom. Using a team approach and early intervention, Student Support Services helps all students remain engaged and enthusiastic learners.
Note: Current MCDS parents can find additional SSS resources here.
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What kinds of academic assessments are administered at MCDS?
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When a child struggles or does not seem to be making progress in a particular area, Student Support Services works with the classroom teacher to identify and address concerns. School screenings, informal assessments, observations, and student work guide our interventions.
At each grade level, the team meets regularly to gather information and to design and implement a support plan. Teams consist of teachers/advisors, division head, counselors, and learning specialists. The school team and parents communicate regularly to monitor progress.
We respect parents as key observers and advocates for their child. Parents are encouraged to contact the child's teacher/advisor with any concerns. In addition, parents may contact the appropriate grade level learning specialist, counselor, and/or division head.
If a child needs one-to-one instruction, we offer and coordinate on-campus support at an additional cost. In consultation with parents, student support services designs, coordinates, and monitors support plans that best meet student needs. One-to-one specialists work closely with the team to help students develop effective, efficient strategies for learning. In grades 6-8 we offer Transitions, an intensive program of one-to-one support during the school day for students identified with learning differences. This program focuses on the development of strategies to enable independence as a learner. The Transitions program is offered at an additional cost. The cost of one-to-one support is not included in tuition but is supported by MCDS at the same rate as the family's indexed tuition.
MCDS is committed to serving the needs of all its students. While we do our best to support students with mild to moderate challenges, the services we provide may not adequately support the needs of a particular student. When necessary, we refer families for outside intervention. In rare circumstances, after careful consideration and consultation with families and outside professionals, it may be in the best interest of the student to be placed in a more appropriate educational setting. MCDS provides information and support to help families find an alternate school.
The school counselor consults with faculty, staff, parents, division heads, and outside professionals to address students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs. The counselor meets with students one-to-one or in groups to address issues of concern. The counselor monitors student progress and maintains communication with parents, teachers, and other professionals. Parents or students may request counseling services. Parental consent is needed if a student wants to see a counselor on more than an occasional basis.
Specialists are highly trained in specific areas of education and/or programs designed to address the individual learning needs of students, including but not limited to speech, reading, writing, math, organization, attention, memory, and self-advocacy. Student Support Services staff carefully matches individual students with specialists whose experience and education best meet their specific learning needs. Specialists collaborate and work very closely with parents, student support services, and teachers. They are available to meet with your child during the school day, at a time that is mutually agreed upon with the teacher. They are also available to meet after school.
Learning specialists, counselors, and specialists who work one-to-one with students are in frequent contact with classroom teachers, advisors, and division heads. In addition, they are available to parents in person or by phone or email; meetings may be scheduled as needed. Specialists who work with small groups or one-to-one provide feedback on student progress to classroom teachers/advisors at conference times.
Counselors and learning specialists work with teachers and families to monitor any support put in place for a child and help make decisions about changes to that support. The duration of support depends on the progress and needs of the child, and the need for support can change over time. Some students require a short intervention, while others have more complex profiles and continue to benefit from additional support. The need for support will be reviewed on an on-going basis.
Throughout the school year teachers and/or members of student support services administer various screenings and assessments to all students to help determine academic readiness/achievement and to monitor student progress. The school will share results with parents when there is a concern.
In addition, the school routinely administers two standardized tests. Each February, we administer the Educational Records Bureau-Comprehensive Testing Program 4, ERB – CTP 4, to grades 3-7. In the spring of 7th grade and the fall of 8th grade, the Secondary School Admissions Test, SSAT, is administered. The computerized test results are emailed to parents.
When there are concerns that require more extensive and in depth evaluation than our observation and school screenings/assessments provide, we may recommend a formal evaluation. Professionals trained in a specific discipline administer these types of evaluations, which may include speech and language, occupational therapy, psycho-educational and neuropsychological batteries. Resources and contact numbers of evaluators are provided. MCDS encourages parents to share evaluation results with us so that we can provide and monitor effective support. The cost of these outside evaluations is not included in tuition, but is supported by MCDS at the same rate as the family's indexed tuition. If the cost of a formal evaluation is a hardship, there may be funds available.
According to the International Dyslexia Association, 15-20% of school-aged children are diagnosed with a language-based learning disability. MCDS is committed to supporting students with a wide variety of needs, regardless of whether or not they have been diagnosed with a learning disability. Each year, approximately 20% of MCDS students receive some type of support during the academic year.


Are you camera-shy? Does your blood pressure go up sky high when someone takes photos of you? I bet many of you are. My job is not only to entertain you but also to capture your shyness and make beautiful photos out of it, because that's the true and natural side of you. That also always creates more fun, too. You will see how and why in the pictures below.
Jenny and Ravi are a shy couple, too. I'm so thrilled that I was able to bring laughters and giggles during the session and sneak up on them and snap!!! Dang! How cute and fun!! So it turned out that Jenny was one of the cutest girls. No wonder Ravi fell in love with her and decided to spend the rest of his life with her!!


Over 40 artists open their studios at The Chaplin Centre SE17.
Over 3 floors, the building is the work place of a variety of creatives, including painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and more. Along with ASC Open Studios, there will be an opportunity to see ASC Gallery's current show Burning with Joy by Saelia Aparicio. The event also coincides with the Bainbridge Print Studios open event and Turps Banana Work in Progress show and open studios. There's plenty to see, all welcome.


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* Matthias Arnold (Kunsthistoriker) (* 1947), deutscher Kunsthistoriker
 Matthias Arnold (Ruderer) (* 1990), deutscher Ruderer
 Matthias Arnold (Fußballspieler) (* 1997), österreichischer Fußballspieler


These pre-cut discs made of cow rawhide are ideal for making Native American drums, Shaman drums, traditional Japanese drums, and drums in general. The thickness used produces the best sound for the size: discs 26" and below are just under 1/8" thick, while the larger discs are at or just over 1/8" thick. Rawhide is also referred to as parchment or vellum.
The translucent cow rawhide discs are relatively the same thickness as the other cow rawhide discs we carry, but with a more translucent look.
Cow rawhide is thicker than goat rawhide and is more suitable for making drums that use drumsticks. Goat rawhide is really thin and is better suited for making hand drums.
Note: When working with cow rawhide, soak the drum covers for between four and 12 hours depending upon the thickness and oiliness of the skins. The thicker and more oily the hide, the longer it should be soaked. Soaking the skins for longer than 12 hours can result in a degradation of the skins.
Elk or deer rawhide can be soaked overnight. If you do this with cow rawhide, it will fall apart.
The drum covers are NOT subject to USFWS export inspection and can be shipped overseas without any problems.


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Comic and Cartoon Art Works From the Permanent Collection
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The Society is pleased to share a collection of comic work from our Permanent Collection. Image credit: Burne Hogarth (1911 - 1996) Artist proof for King Arthur Series Lithography 1983 Donated by R. Robert Pollak
The Strength of Line: James Montgomery Flagg
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Thread: (Just wondering) when it's time to make things simpler
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My band was trying to go the route of tracking everything to a metronome and separately for isolation and so on. But what we got was the feel was not like how we play, and the drums sounded terrible when in the final mix. It ended up sounding awful compared to the demos we were doing for ourselves to study the songs in progress.
Our plan is just to get a space where the drums sound better and record everything live.
It's not because I think it's a better way to record, but that we get better results this way.
I am not good enough to make the recording decisions ahead of time to fit the final mix. But when we spend a few minutes moving mics around to get a good balance and hearing what is basically the final mix in the tests before actually playing, we get stuff that sounds like how we want to sound.
Genie, Child of God, my instrumental post-rock band, I play keyboards. We just recorded an album with Reaper!
Feelings Eraser, my electro project.
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71,000 Reasons to Think Twice About Riding E-Scooter
Aug 31, 2020 11:16 AM By Marijke Vroomen Durning
E-scooters may look like fun, but they can can cause serious injuries, even death. AFP / THOMAS KIENZLE
You can pick them up with one hand, as electric scooters only weigh 30 pounds. Their attraction is obvious: You can get from here to there, with no effort at all, as many have found.
Like Adam Roberts, a 50-year-old senior claims advisor living in Atlanta, thought when he used one for the first, and last time, in May 2019. It was supposed to be a 3-block ride home.
Since it was spur of the moment, he had no helmet or safety equipment. After 1 block, the wheel hit a pothole. "I flipped forward over the handlebar, landing in the street. I didn't realize the extent of my injury so I got up, brushed off, bent my glasses back straight, and walked home. I knew I was banged up, and both arms hurt, but it wasn't until I tried to unlock my front door that I realized my right arm wouldn't move much."
Eric R. Wagner, MD, has seen these types of accidents more often than he cares to.
A new study published today in JAMA, Emergency Medicine, found there were almost 71,000 emergency room visits related to e-scooters from 2014 to 2019. Dr. Wagner, a hand and orthopedic surgeon with the Emory University School of Medicine, also in Atlanta, told Medical Daily that "Usually there's fractures, sometimes shoulder dislocations, but it's really common, it's happening a lot. I probably do surgery on 2 to 3 people who have scooter injuries every month," he said. "And that was what spurred the idea of doing the study. … the amount of people that I treated in the last 2 years with scooter injuries has just been incredible."
Child's Play No Longer
Scooters – once thought of as a child's toy – have been turned into a popular form of transportation for adults. The e-scooters can move at a maximum speed of 20 mph, so they can move alongside traffic. Cities that had become accustomed to public-use bicycles allowed private companies to introduce similar e-scooter programs in 2017. They look like fun, harmless and environmentally friendly ways to get around congested cities, so the popularity of shared e-scooter companies quickly soared. Globally, the market was estimated at $18.6 billion in 2019. And then people started getting hurt.
And dead. People have been killed while riding e-scooters, according to news outlets. In Singapore, where e-scooters are popular, 6 deaths were related to the e-scooters. Also in the U.S.: In March 2019, a man in his 50s in San Diego died a few days after his e-scooter hit a bump and he hit the ground head first. And in the U.K. last year, popular television presenter and YouTube personality Emily Hartridge, died following an e-scooter accident with a truck.
A Plate in His Arm
After getting checked out at the ER in the Atlanta Medical Center, Mr. Roberts learned that aside from a cut above his right eye, from his glasses, he had soft tissue injuries and pulled tendons in his left arm. But it was his right arm that would be the biggest problem. "After several X-rays and an MRI, it was evident that my right upper humerus was broken through where it attaches to my shoulder. I ended up undergoing surgery to place a plate and screws in it as a means to reattach the two pieces," he said in an email. "I [missed] 10 weeks of work to recover, and [had] 12 weeks of physical therapy. I still lack some of my strength in the arm and shoulder and have regained about 85% of my range of motion."
What the researchers found shouldn't be too surprising -- with the increased public access, the increase in accidents began immediately. Accidents related to the scooters nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019. The most common injuries were of the head and half of those were traumatic brain injuries, which ranged from a mild concussion to much worse. Other injuries included fractures of the wrists and arms, as well as the lower limbs, and injuries to the chest and abdomen.
Dr. Wagner's team looked at who was getting hurt and, while accidents happened to people of all ages, they found that most injuries occurred to men aged 15 to 39 years. Earlier research found that many e-scooter accidents involved substance abuse, most often alcohol. Dr. Wagner pointed out that while his study doesn't have numbers related to alcohol use, it's apparent that it's happening. "You go around my city and you'll see scooters parked outside of bars, people obviously drinking, especially in the pre-COVID era. There's no way people aren't doing this while under the influence."
This study's findings support those of prior research published in January 2020, in JAMA, Surgery, which found that most injuries occurred to people aged 18 to 34 years old. The researchers also noted that 2 earlier studies looked at helmet use among riders: one study found only 4.8% of riders protected their head and another, only 2%. In certain cities, e-scooter companies tell the riders they must wear helmets, but the rule isn't enforced. And helmet requirements have even been dropped in some cities.
Dr. Wagner is not a fan of e-scooters and he wishes people wouldn't use them. "It's just like anything else, it's not a harmless thing and you can hurt yourself or you can hurt other people," he said. "They weave in and out of traffic, they weave in and out of people walking and running, and they're not safe to ride with."
At the very least, if people do choose to use e-scooters, they should take precautions to reduce the risk of injury:
Stay on well-paved surfaces
Do not weave in and out of traffic
Do not use it on crowded sidewalks or foot paths
Avoid heavy traffic
Drive sober
Only one person per scooter
Know the limits
And just because an e-scooter can go fast, doesn't mean you should go fast.
As for Mr. Roberts, he has not used an e-scooter since his one try. "I can't help but wonder what could have happened if a car was coming?"


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Q: Cocos2d change image of hero in accelerometer when an object hits it Hi. I am new on this website and also in cocos2d. I am a student and I need your help.
I am making a game based on one of the tutorials in a cocos2d game development book. The concept is simple; different objects are falling from the top of the screen and I have to avoid or catch them by tilting the device. The main character, which is one which has to avoid objects, has different properties which can change by grabbing different objects (e.g. the player may have a shield if it grabs one). In order to display the shield I have to change the sprite of the player. I am not sure how I can achieve this. Could anyone help me in providing some guidelines on this?

A: Use setTexture to switch the image (texture) of your current sprite with another:
[playerSprite setTexture:[[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:@"playerWithShield.png"]];

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"There are no such things as divine, immutable or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim to them."
&quotWhy Men Need Women Suffrage," New York Call ( 1915 )
"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
Frances Wright,
Course of Popular Lectures
"It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded."
Eleanor Roosevelt,
in The New York Times ( 1947 )
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
United Nations speech ( 1958 )
"... the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do."
1947, My Day, vol. 2 ( 1990 )
"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority."
Ayn Rand,
The Virtue of Selfishness
"The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats."
You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You
"The law, in our case, seems to make the right, and the very reverse ought to be done — the right should make the law."
Maria Edgeworth,
&quotThe Grateful Negro," Popular Tales ( 1804 )
"The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds ..."
Simone Weil,
"A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much."
"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
Lillian Hellman,
in Katherine Lederer, Lillian Hellman ( 1979 )
"Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, and it should be as available."
Pearl S. Buck,
To My Daughters, With Love
"What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation."
All Under Heaven
"... stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows."
Martha Gellhorn,
The View From the Ground
"Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state."
Mary McCarthy,
&quotThe Contagion of Ideas" (1952), On the Contrary ( 1961 )
"The belief that if the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights, then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights, is the only patriotism."
Jane Addams,
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"Women's rights are human rights."
Ernestine L. Rose,
"... most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word 'human.'"
Suzanne La Follette,
&quotThe Beginnings of Emancipation," Concerning Women ( 1926 )
"... where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ..."
in The Liberator ( 1860 )
"Each person born into this world has a right to everything he needs. His right, however, is bound up with that of every other creature and gives him no license to grab everything he can without allowing a share for others."
Dorothy Richards,
in Dorothy Richards with Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci, Beaversprite ( 1977 )
"Here's the thing about rights. They're not supposed to be voted on. That's why they call them rights."
Rachel Maddow,
her website ( 2013 )
"The Canadians have declared that domestic violence is not a feminist issue but a matter of human rights."
Caroline Moorhead,
in Independent Magazine ( 1991 )
"The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other."
Angelina Grimké,
1837, Letters to Catherine E. Beecher ( 1969 )
"I recognize no rights but human rights — I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ..."
"There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them."
Eleanor Smeal,
speech, National Press Club ( 1985 )
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less."
motto of newspaper founded by her and Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution ( 1868 )


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OPM revamps IT job family
By Colleen O'Hara
OPM memo about the new job family
"OPM pitches IT job family"
"Agencies fill IT pay gaps"
The Office of Personnel Management last week released a new job family standard and modern job descriptions for federal information technology workers, designed to help agencies recruit and hire skilled workers.
OPM issued for official use the new GS-2200 job family for administrative work in the IT group, a move that reflects the growing use of automation and IT, according to agency officials.
The family consists of one job series, called the IT management series (GS-2210), which replaces the existing computer specialist series (GS-334).
Employees in the GS-2210 series will be called IT specialists, and new "parenthetical specialty titles" — such as network services and security — and associated qualifications will help agencies further define the jobs.
The move should help agencies better define the responsibilities and competencies of certain jobs and, as a result, will help agencies "be able to better recruit and get the right person to fill the job," said an OPM spokesman. It will be easier for agencies to match responsibilities to the job candidate "and what that person will bring to the workplace," he said.
It will also make it easier for agencies to write job announcements that are "more targeted to what people actually do," said Fred Thompson, assistant director for consulting and marketing within the Treasury Department office of the chief information officer's customer service consulting group.
"I think it makes it clear what competencies and skills are essential for certain jobs," he said. "It helps employees know what they need to [advance] in their own career."
Agencies will reclassify any computer specialist (GS-334) under the new GS-2210 management series for IT. There are around 53,000 computer specialists in government, the majority in grades 5 through 12. Agencies also could reclassify other employees who may be performing IT work but are not part of the computer specialist series.
For instance, telecommunications workers (GS-391) may be reclassified when "knowledge of information technology, as defined in this standard, is the paramount requirement necessary to perform the primary duties of the position," OPM officials said.
As for employees in other series, they can be reclassified when "knowledge of IT principles, concepts and methods is paramount."
Eventually, it should be easier for OPM and agencies to apply larger salaries to certain categories of jobs that may be hard to fill, said Karen Hogan, acting deputy CIO at the Commerce Department. "I'm hoping by differentiating the skills we're looking for, that at some point we'll be able to be more competitive in certain categories."
More detailed job descriptions will also help the department know where and how it is spending its IT dollars in the workforce. "That's been tricky because a huge amount of our annual budget goes to pay computer specialists," Hogan said. "It would be good to have a way to classify work" to know how much different services cost, for instance.
Recruiting should get easier as well. The new family and job descriptions will help change the perception that many potential IT job candidates have about government work, said David Tittle, president of Paul-Tittle Associates Inc., an executive search firm in McLean, Va., with government clients. Titles such as "network" and "security" are clear profiles that suggest a career path, which is important, he said, because "they're looking at their future marketability of skills." Support positions, such as those in the computer clerk and assistant series (GS-335), are not covered by the new GS-2210 series. However, OPM officials are looking at other series both within and outside the IT community to see whether they belong in the GS-2200 family, the OPM spokesman said. Employees who received the special IT pay raise that began in January will continue to receive those salaries when they are moved into the new series.More like the private sector
The decade-old job family that agencies had been using to classify information technology workers is being replaced with a new standard that better reflects the positions and titles held by workers in the private sector. The standard establishes 10 specialty titles for IT work, along with descriptions of the jobs and the knowledge and skills necessary to do them.
The specialties are:
* Applications software
* Customer support
* Data management
* Internet
* Network services
* Operating systems
* Policy and planning
* Security
* Systems administration
* Systems analysis


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Avian Conservation and Ecology Home > Vol. 10, No. 1 > Art. 12
Bourque, N. R., M.-A. Villard, M. J. Mazerolle, D. Amirault-Langlais, E. Tremblay, and S. Jolicoeur. 2015. Piping Plover response to coastal storms occurring during the nonbreeding season. Avian Conservation and Ecology 10(1): 12.
Piping Plover response to coastal storms occurring during the nonbreeding season
Réponse du Pluvier siffleur aux tempêtes côtières survenant en dehors de la saison de reproduction
Nadine R. Bourque 1, Marc-André Villard 1, Marc J. Mazerolle 2, Diane Amirault-Langlais 3, Eric Tremblay 4, Serge Jolicoeur 5
1Département de biologie, Université de Moncton, 2Centre d'étude de la forêt, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 3Ecosystems Management Branch, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Region, 4Unité du Nord du Nouveau-Brunswick, Parcs Canada, 5Département d'histoire et de géographie, Université de Moncton
Piping Plover data
Aerial photographs and satellite image interpretation
Photo interpretation of storm effects
Plover abundance and storm occurrence
Effects of storms on Piping Plover habitat
Storms and Piping Plover abundance
The increase in coastal storm frequency and intensity expected under most climate change scenarios is likely to substantially modify beach configuration and associated habitats. This study aimed to analyze the impact of coastal storms on a nesting population of the endangered Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Previous studies have shown that numbers of nesting Piping Plovers may increase following storms that create new nesting habitat at individual beaches. However, to our knowledge, no test of this pattern has been conducted over a regional scale. We hypothesized that Piping Plover abundance would increase after large coastal storms occurring during the nonbreeding season. However, we expected a delay in the colonization of newly created habitat owing to low-density populations, combined with high site fidelity of adults and high variability in survival rate of subadults. We tested this hypothesis using a 27-year (1986-2012) data set of Piping Plover abundance and productivity (nesting pairs and fledged young) collected at five sites in eastern New Brunswick. We identified 11 major storms that could potentially have modified Piping Plover habitat over the study period. The number of fledged young increased three years after a major storm, but the relationship was much weaker for the number of nesting pairs. These findings are consistent with the hypothesized increase in suitable habitat after coastal storms. Including storm occurrence with other factors influencing habitat quality will enhance Piping Plover conservation strategies.
L'augmentation de la fréquence et de l'intensité des tempêtes côtières prévue dans la plupart des scénarios de changements climatiques modifiera vraisemblablement la configuration des plages et les milieux associés de façon substantielle. L'objectif de la présente étude était d'analyser l'impact des tempêtes côtières sur une population nicheuse du Pluvier siffleur (Charadrius melodus melodus), espèce en voie de disparition, dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick, au Canada. Des recherches antérieures ont montré que le nombre de Pluviers siffleurs nicheurs pourrait augmenter à la suite de tempêtes susceptibles de créer de nouveaux milieux de nidification sur certaines plages. Toutefois, selon nos connaissances, il n'y a eu aucun test de cette tendance à l'échelle régionale. Nous avons testé l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'abondance de ce pluvier augmenterait à la suite de tempêtes côtières importantes survenant en dehors de la saison de reproduction. Cependant, nous nous attendions à un décalage dans la colonisation des nouveaux milieux créés en raison de la faible densité des populations, combinée à la grande fidélité au site des adultes et au taux de survie très variable observé chez les jeunes. Nous avons analysé un jeu de données de 27 années (1986-2012) comprenant l'abondance et la productivité (couples nicheurs et jeunes aptes au vol) du Pluvier siffleur, récoltées à cinq sites dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick. Nous avons identifié onze tempêtes nous paraissant suffisamment importantes pour modifier l'habitat du Pluvier siffleur au cours de la période de l'étude. Le nombre de jeunes ayant pris leur envol a augmenté 3 ans après une tempête importante, mais la relation avec le nombre de couples nicheurs était beaucoup plus faible. Ces résultats concordent avec l'augmentation supposée du nombre de milieux de nidification propices consécutive aux tempêtes côtières. L'inclusion de l'occurrence de tempêtes avec les autres facteurs qui influent sur la qualité de l'habitat permettra d'améliorer les stratégies de conservation du Pluvier siffleur.
Key words: Charadrius melodus melodus; coastal storms; natural disturbance; nesting habitat; New Brunswick; population trends; species at risk
Among the challenges facing conservation planners, predicting impacts of climate-driven changes in habitat availability and suitability are becoming increasingly important. For example, many bird species nest in coastal areas and may face the direct and indirect effects of coastal storms and flooding (Hanson et al. 2006, Convertino et al. 2011). Some of these effects include nest loss; mortality, primarily of nestlings; and abandonment of historical sites or occupation of new areas in response to storm-induced habitat changes (Michener et al. 1997). Thus, recurrent, abiotic factors such as storms and flooding must be explicitly integrated into conservation strategies (e.g., Aiello-Lammens et al. 2011).
The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) is listed as endangered under Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (COSEWIC 2013). The 2006 International Piping Plover Census estimated the eastern Canada Piping Plover population at 460 adults, which corresponds to a decline of 4.3% since 2001 and 9.6% since the 1991 census (Goossen and Amirault-Langlais 2010). Numerous studies have described Piping Plover distribution, abundance, and habitat use, as well as factors affecting productivity throughout North America (Haig and Oring 1985, Burger 1987, Flemming et al. 1992, Loegering and Fraser 1995, Rioux et al. 2011). However, little is known about the potential influence of coastal storms during the nonbreeding season on Piping Plover habitat and breeding populations. Storms during the breeding season can flood nests, result in unfledged chick mortality, and negatively alter breeding habitat (Chiasson et al. 1994, Tremblay et al. 2006, Environment Canada 2012). Conversely, extreme storm events, particularly those occurring outside the breeding season, i.e., fall or winter, can create ideal Piping Plover nesting habitat while possibly favoring access to foraging sites for juveniles (Burger 1987, Cohen et al. 2009, Environment Canada 2012). Overwashes and breaches created during severe storms facilitate access to ephemeral pools and bay tidal flats (Loegering and Fraser 1995). Moreover, these relatively flat areas are characterized by sparse vegetation and extensive cover of sand, pebbles, and shell fragments, which are favored by Piping Plovers for nesting and raising their broods (Flemming et al. 1992, Elias et al. 2000, Boyne et al. 2014). These habitat features are often created and maintained by fall or winter storms (Elias et al. 2000). When barrier islands or sand spits stabilize, vegetation encroachment results in a narrower beach where Piping Plovers may be forced to nest closer to the mean high water line. This increases the risk of flooding during extreme high tides and impedes access to backshores and tidal bay flats.
We used a long-term data set to relate coastal storms and Piping Plover abundance and productivity along the Northumberland Strait in New Brunswick, Canada. We investigated the relationship between coastal storms and habitat creation on five beaches with suitable habitat where Piping Plovers have been monitored for 27 years. Specifically, we examined whether Piping Plover abundance changed over the short or medium term in response to storm events. We hypothesized that major coastal storms during the nonbreeding season would create suitable habitat for Piping Plover by producing optimal nesting microhabitat, i.e., sparsely vegetated beach habitat interspersed with cobble, pebble, shell, or seaweed fragments, and facilitating access for unfledged young to important foraging habitat. We also predicted a delayed response to such storms because the quantity of Piping Plover habitat available in eastern Canada is not a factor limiting recovery of the species (Environment Canada 2012). Hence, we expected that low-density populations combined with high site fidelity of adults, as well as high variability in survival rate of subadults (Calvert et al. 2006, Cohen and Gratto-Trevor 2011), would cause delays in colonization of newly created nesting habitat. Through inspection of aerial photographs, we also investigated the dynamics of Piping Plover habitat creation by storms taking place during the nonbreeding season and habitat loss by natural revegetation. A better understanding of coastal storm effects on Piping Plovers and their habitat is critical to population modeling and conservation of this endangered species.
Data were collected on beaches that are subject to regular monitoring for Piping Plovers nesting along the Northumberland Strait in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada (Fig. 1) and that were occupied by at least one nesting pair between 1986 and 2012. Six beaches, representing a total length of 25 km, were located in Kouchibouguac National Park (KNP), where annual Piping Plover surveys have been conducted since 1985 (Tremblay et al. 1992, 2006). Three additional beaches, Dune de Bouctouche (12 km), Pointe-Sapin (3.4 km), and Escuminac (12 km), have been regularly surveyed since 1991, the year of the first international census. To avoid or minimize gaps in our time series, we grouped beaches according to their proximity; orientation; beach type, i.e., sand spit, barrier island, or mainland beach; beach profile; and exposure to predators and human disturbance. Following this treatment, we obtained five sites, i.e., groups of beaches, that were considered for the analyses.
Beach orientation was calculated using the Soft Map software (http://www.softmap.com/) with digital topographic maps of Canada. Beach type and profile were identified using the provincial database on coastal erosion (Bérubé and Thibault 1996) and annual Piping Plover reports. Exposure to nest predators and human disturbance at each beach was estimated by observers and reported in the New Brunswick Atlas of Piping Plover Beaches (Gautreau and Stewart 2008).
Piping Plover nesting habitat consists of sandy beaches with little or no slope and the presence of pebbles, stones, rocks, shell fragments, and sparse vegetation or bare ground (Cairns 1982, Burger 1987, Flemming et al. 1992, Boyne et al. 2014). Although all beaches selected for the study possess one or several of these characteristics, they have different upper beach profiles (Table 1). Pointe-Sapin beach is located on the mainland; Escuminac beach is backed by a peat bog and inland barrier ponds; KNP's Pointe-Sapin Dune and Rivière-au-Portage beaches are backed by mudflats and peat bogs; North Kouchibouguac and Bouctouche dunes are sand spits; and South Kouchibouguac and North Richibouctou dunes are barrier islands. Both spits and barrier islands are backed by lagoons (Bérubé and Thibault 1996, Gautreau and Stewart 2008).
We used all available Piping Plover nesting pair counts conducted in the study area for the purposes of this study. At Kouchibouguac National Park, data have been collected by Park staff using a standardized protocol since 1986 (Tremblay et al. 2006). Elsewhere in the study area, reliable data have been available since 1991 and 1993 for Bouctouche and Escuminac beaches, respectively. We consulted annual regional survey information compiled by the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) since 1994, as well as nongovernment agency information obtained through the Piping Plover Guardian Project from the Irving Eco-Center-la Dune de Bouctouche (hereafter IEC), established in 1999 (Tremblay et al. 1992, Amirault 2005, Calvert et al. 2006, Tremblay et al. 2006). Surveys are normally performed during the Piping Plover breeding season at least once a week by trained observers. During surveys, observers walk along the length of beaches, recording each individual observed and identifying pairs based on breeding behavior. Given the continuity of the sampling effort, surveys were deemed a sensitive measure of the true number of nesting pairs and fledged young (Gautreau and Stewart 2008).
Since 2000, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates were available for all plover nests. The GPS data were mapped using MapInfo to establish nest distribution in relation to beach configuration. All nesting population data were obtained from CWS in Sackville, New Brunswick, or from annual Piping Plover reports from KNP and the IEC.
To examine the relationship between Piping Plover abundance and coastal storms, we first identified storms deemed to be severe by experts. A regional study on the impacts of sea level rise and climate change on the coastal zone of southeastern New Brunswick identified the 11 most important storm surges for Pointe-du-Chêne and Escuminac (Fig. 1), as well as the 10 highest water levels from both available tide gauge records between 1971 and 2005 (Pointe-du-Chêne) and 1973 and 2005 (Escuminac; Parkes et al. 2006). Storm data for the post-2005 period were obtained through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canadian Hydrologic Service. We identified three major storm surges between 2007 and 2010. All weather events identified corresponded to (1) an important storm surge and (2) highest water levels recorded. Storm surges that did not coincide with high water levels were not considered in this study. Eleven storms fit these criteria between 1986 and 2012 (Table 2).
The impacts of storms meeting the severe storm criteria on coastal ecosystems and beach configuration were examined using aerial photographs from 1989 to 2002 (1:10,000 and 1:12,500) and satellite imagery from Google Earth for the period from 2003 to 2007. Satellite imagery for sites Bouctouche (BOUC), North Kouchibouguac Dune (KNPn), and Portage River/Pointe Sapin (PORT-SAPI) had sufficient resolution to allow the assessment of habitat characteristics with an accuracy comparable to that of aerial photographs (see Fig. 1 for all site codes). We compared site characteristics, i.e., beach width and substrate, between aerial photographs but more specifically before and after storms events. This allowed pinpointing the effects or lack thereof of erosion, such as delta creation, overwashes and breaches, or the revegetation of Piping Plover habitat. We also searched for evidence of nesting habitat creation at the tip of spits and barrier islands.
The number of Piping Plover pairs and fledged young at each site were examined between 1986 and 2012, representing a time series enabling detection of distribution shifts related to habitat creation. We used Poisson regression with a log link and random intercepts to model the counts as a function of the occurrence of storms outside the breeding season (Gelman and Hill 2007, Zuur et al. 2009). Here, we included the site factor as a random effect to account for the nested nature of the data, i.e., observations nested within each site. Piping Plover response to habitat change may be delayed owing to the time necessary for immigration to sites altered by storms, for the re-establishment of invertebrate prey species in sites altered by storms, or for other unknown reasons. Thus, we considered the potential delayed effect of storms by modeling abundance one, two, and three seasons after the occurrence of major storms. We coded storm occurrence as a dummy variable, because the number of storms in a given year ranged between zero and three. We used a different model for each of the three scenarios, i.e., occurrence of storms one, two, or three years prior to a given year. We also considered a null model consisting of the same random effect structure as the other models, but with only the intercept as a fixed effect. Maximum likelihood estimates for the Poisson models were obtained with the Laplace approximation using the lme4 package in R (Bates et al. 2014, R Development Core Team 2014). We quantified the support in favor of each model based on the second-order Akaike information criterion (AICc) and its associated measures with the AICcmodavg package (Burnham and Anderson 2002, Mazerolle 2014).
October 2000 storm: sites BOUC, KNPn, and PORT-SAPI
In contrast to the 1995 series, 2002 aerial photographs showed recent storm-related habitat creation at all site groups (Table 3). Apart from a breach and associated storm delta that formed in 1999, all other habitat changes were observed in 2002. The 2002 habitat changes were the result of a storm that occurred in October 2000. This storm, characterized by strong northeasterly winds, resulted in the second highest water levels recorded by the Escuminac tidal gauge (2.4 m) within the study period, although the storm did not coincide with the daily high tide. This single storm event reshaped the 1999 breach in the middle section of Bouctouche Dune (Fig. 2) and in the middle portion of North Kouchibouguac Dune (site KNPn, Fig. 3). Many overwashes were created, with distinct recent sand deposits scattered on the Bouctouche Dune and North Kouchibouguac Dune as well as on Portage River Dune (site PORT-SAPI).
February 2004 storm: sites KNPs, PORT-SAPI, and ESCU
At site South Kouchibouguac Dune (KNPs), satellite imagery from 2005 showed a wide new breach on the northern end of site KNPs but few overwashes and sand deposits compared with the 2002 aerial photographs. On another portion of the same site, Kelly's Island showed signs of vegetation removal and more extensive bare sand surfaces in 2005 than were present in 2002. Vegetation had not recolonized the site by 2010, and a geomorphic study confirmed the very dynamic nature of the substrate (Young 2009).
At sites PORT-SAPI and ESCU, the 2002 aerial photographs showed overwashes and large fresh sand surfaces on Portage River Dune and Pointe Sapin Dune (site PORT-SAPI) and Escuminac (site ESCU). Aerial photographs for site PORT-SAPI after 2002 were not available and satellite imagery after 2002 for both sites did not have sufficiently high resolution to confirm habitat changes.
January and October 2000 storms: site KNPs
The 2002 aerial photographs showed newly created habitat such as sand deposits and overwashes resulting from the October 2000 storm on South Kouchibouguac Dune and North Richiboucto Dune. However, the most prominent habitat change was the creation of a channel on the northern tip of South Kouchibouguac Dune (Fig. 4), and thus the formation of Kelly's Island. The accumulation of sand deposits was also noted on the southern tip of the barrier island.
Among the five study sites, Piping Plover abundance ranged from 1 to 11 nesting pairs per year between 1986 and 2012, whereas the number of fledged young varied between 0 and 21. Within our study period, the overall numbers were low or decreased early in the study period until the late 1990s and increased gradually until the mid-2000s before decreasing (Fig. 5).
When modeling nesting pair abundance, the top-ranked model included the storm occurrence variable lagged by three years, with 60% of the weight (Akaike weight = 0.60), although the null model also had strong support (Table 4). Indeed, the top model was only 2.6 times more parsimonious than the null model, based on the evidence ratio of Akaike weights. The other two models, i.e., storm occurrence with a delay of one or two years, had less support. The top-ranked model suggested that the number of Piping Plover pairs counted three years after major storms was greater than in breeding seasons not preceded by a major storm three years earlier (βstorm.lag3 = 0.204, 95% profile likelihood confidence interval [CI]: 0.005, 0.398). However, when accounting for model selection uncertainty and the support in favor of the null model, there were no indications of changes in nesting pairs relative to storm occurrence lagged by 3 years (model-averaged effect size on log scale: 0.121, 95% CI: −0.160, 0.402; Fig. 6a).
When considering the number of fledged young produced, the top-ranked model also consisted of storm occurrence lagged three years. Although the order of the models was identical to the nesting pair abundance data set, the most parsimonious model had all the support with an Akaike weight of 1 (Table 4). Indeed, the top model had 514 times more support than the null model, which ranked second. The number of fledged young produced was higher in breeding seasons three years after major storms than in breeding seasons that were not influenced by major storms three years earlier (βstorm.lag3 = 0.289, 95% profile CI: 0.142, 0.433; Fig. 6b). Because the top model had almost the entire support (Akaike weight = 1), the model-averaged effect size for the difference in fledged young relative to storm occurrence lagged by 3 years was very similar to the beta estimate from the top model (0.287, 95% CI: 0.081, 0.493).
The number of fledged young increased three years after a major storm, but the relationship was much weaker for the number of nesting pairs. These findings are consistent with the hypothesized increase in suitable habitat after coastal storms, but the specific delay observed in Plover Plover response was unexpected.
Storms that have the greatest impact on the coastlines of southeastern New Brunswick are usually associated with northeasterly winds, i.e., extratropical storms, which typically occur during late fall or early winter (Forbes et al. 2004). Wave energy during fall storms is at its maximum, whereas the impact of winter storms may be reduced by ice cover that diminishes wave energy, thereby affording natural coastal protection. Alternatively, fragmented icefeet (seasonal accumulation of ice on the beach at high-water mark) and drift ice can potentially accentuate impacts at the coast when mobilized by high tides and winter waves. Ice ride-up and pile-up can then transport sediment landward (Forbes et al. 2004). Storms occurring between mid-January and early March often have a negligible impact on coastal habitats because of ice cover protecting the shore from surge waves (Forbes et al. 2001, Forbes 2004, Parkes et al. 2006), although our data suggest that at least three winter storms altered beaches (Table 2, storms 5-7). Aerial photographs from 1989 show various overwashes, recent sand deposits, and breaches on sand spits and barrier islands at all five study sites. These coastal features may have been the result of storms recorded in January and November 1986 or in November 1988.
Cooper et al. (2004) suggested that only a small percentage of coastal storms are potentially damaging and lead to important geomorphological changes, especially those directed onshore and occurring simultaneously with a high tide. The clustering of storms should also be taken into account (Forbes et al. 2004). Finally, a storm may have different coastal impacts depending on beach orientation, tidal evolution, onshore wind direction, and seafloor topography (Cooper et al. 2004, Regnauld et al. 2004). Such detailed storm data were not available for this study, but storm complexity and coastal orientation could explain why certain storms resulted in habitat creation whereas others did not. Future studies would benefit from such data in predicting impacts on habitat under different storm scenarios.
The impacts of specific storms, such as in January 2000, cannot be singled out because they were sometimes quickly followed by subsequent storms. In addition, some high-profile beaches may be buffered from storms by ice cover, whereas some low coastal areas are more prone to flooding (Forbes et al. 2004). According to Parkes et al. (2006), certain areas along the southeastern coast of New Brunswick had ice piled up 3 or 4 m high after the January 2000 storm, resulting in direct ice damage, whereas coastal flooding occurred up to 1 km inland in other areas. The impact of a single storm on different coastal areas is therefore highly variable.
Habitat creation resulting from storms or habitat loss due to revegetation was difficult to detect because aerial photographs were not available in a continuous time series. Several storms sometimes occurred between years when aerial photographs were available (see also Cooper et al. 2004). For these reasons, it was often difficult to isolate the effects of specific storms on beaches and dunes. Reports from Kouchibouguac National Park and the Irving Eco-Center did not provide precise information on habitat creation or habitat loss, with the exception of the October 2000 storm. Because Piping Plovers readily disperse between breeding seasons (Amirault-Langlais et al. 2014), storms could also have created suitable nesting habitat outside the study area, leading to dispersal of nesting pairs to take advantage of newly created habitat (Haig and Oring 1988, Rioux et al. 2011).
To further investigate the lagged effects of storm occurrence on Piping Plover nesting pairs and fledged young, we included an a posteriori model with storm occurrence four years before the breeding season, i.e., four years earlier, in our model set. This model was equivalent to the three-year model for the number of adults, but the two models were closely followed by the null model. For the number of fledged young, however, the model with storm occurrence three years prior to the breeding season remained the top model with the entire support even after including a candidate model with storm occurrence four years earlier.
Several factors influence nesting habitat selection by Piping Plovers, including predation risk, weather, substrate type, habitat degradation and loss due to revegetation, and human disturbance. The fact that poststorm habitat creation does not immediately coincide with local increases in abundance may reflect a delay in the recruitment of breeding pairs, especially in an endangered species whose habitat does not appear to be saturated. In New York State, Cohen et al. (2009) reported population increases lasting more than a decade. This may reflect geomorphological beach attributes including the width, slope, number of breaches, and length of beaches that exceed those of our study sites. Biological factors also appear to play a significant role in determining the impacts of storms on Piping Plover abundance. Cohen et al. (2009) demonstrated that creation of combined nesting and adjacent foraging habitat was required to observe an increase in the number of Piping Plover nesting pairs. Therefore, the creation of suitable nesting habitat alone in our study would not have resulted in an immediate increase in Piping Plover abundance. The impacts of storms on the coastal invertebrate fauna, the preferred prey of Piping Plover, cannot be discounted. Several regional studies have demonstrated that invertebrate abundance is reduced after substrate disturbance (Shepherd and Boates 1999). The impacts of storms on invertebrate populations and the time required for recolonization of coastal areas following disturbance events are unclear, because our study did not address this question. Further research would be required to clarify this fine-scale impact of storms during the nonbreeding season. The latitudinal difference and its effect on the species pool of invertebrates, the presence of ice in our study area during four to five months of the year, and differences in coastal configuration and degree days may also influence the species composition and population dynamics of the invertebrate fauna (Defeo and McLachlan 2013) and in turn, the colonization of newly created habitat (Scapini 2014). Furthermore, the dynamics of Piping Plover populations in New York State may differ because nesting densities are much higher than those in Canada and because the U.S Atlantic coast Piping Plover population has recently experienced significant increases (Amirault 2005, Cohen et al. 2009).
A 20-year banding study on the Piping Plover showed that a major storm event followed by subsequent storms created long stretches of flat beaches and formed important breaches in the sand dunes (Wilcox 1959). The newly created habitat facilitated Piping Plover nesting, and its population reached a peak three years later. The number of nesting pairs was stable for another three years, but decreased thereafter when dunes were reconstructed to their prestorm configuration and beach grass was planted. A similar phenomenon was reported at St. Catherines River Beach, Nova Scotia (Wentzell 1997), where natural vegetation regrowth during a prolonged storm-free period reduced the amount of preferred nesting habitat. In New York State, Cohen et al. (2009) studied Piping Plover response to the creation and loss of habitat. Storms and beach nourishment increased the area suitable for nesting. A decrease in habitat quality followed as beach stabilization progressed, resulting in greater vegetation cover and a decrease in areas with exposed sand and pebbles.
Cohen et al. (2009) predicted that nesting pair density would increase in relation to the area of moist sediment habitat available, e.g., mud flats, ephemeral pools. Interestingly, moist sediments are also created and maintained by storms. Beaches with a higher index of moist sediment habitat had higher densities of plover pairs and a higher density of neighbors, and individuals had smaller home ranges. Piping Plovers did not have to travel as far to forage and could reduce their home range size, thus making room for more territories (Cohen et al. 2009). If this phenomenon is applicable to eastern Canada, storms not only could recruit nesting pairs through the creation of nesting habitat, but also could increase carrying capacity and productivity if suitable foraging habitat is also created. Additional studies are needed to examine the relationship between foraging microhabitats, e.g. moist sediments, and Piping Plover densities in eastern Canada.
We did not examine either survival rates or dispersal for our specific study sites. Because the Piping Plover disperses readily on a regional scale in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, it could be argued that the population trends we observed reflected a subset of results for a larger regional population. In Long Island, New York, 37% of the nesting adults that were banded returned to their former breeding sites, and 8% of the banded fledged chicks returned. Those that did not return dispersed at a distance between 9 and 26 km (Wilcox 1959, Haig and Oring 1988). High nesting-site fidelity in Piping Plovers banded as adults has also been documented in eastern Canada (Amirault-Langlais et al. 2014). Consideration of dispersal patterns in both adult and juvenile Piping Plovers would be required to determine the influence of broader regional habitat changes on local shifts in numbers of nesting pairs. When comparing local nesting populations at the five study sites with the number of nesting pairs across the province as a whole from 1991 to 2012 (Fig. 7), we found that nesting pair abundance at our study sites followed the same general pattern as the New Brunswick population, albeit with smaller fluctuations.
Our results suggest that winter storms contribute to short-term population increases through the creation of nesting habitat. Calvert et al. (2006) detected a slight short-term increase in nesting populations of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence during the 1998-2003 period (λ = 1, 03, assuming exponential growth), and our own data suggest that habitat creation following the October 2000 storm may partly account for this increase. This study illustrates how physical factors largely beyond the control of habitat managers can drive habitat availability for species of conservation interest. Hence, storm-related fluctuations of Piping Plover numerical responses should be considered along with human-caused shifts in habitat suitability when modeling Piping Plover population viability. Storms occurring during the nonbreeding season, especially those occurring three years prior to a breeding season, had a positive effect on the number of Piping Plover fledged young, but the number of nesting pairs did not vary substantially with this variable. Assuming that storms create high-quality breeding habitat for Piping Plovers as well as adjacent foraging areas (Cohen et al. 2009), positive effects would also be expected on chick condition and long-term survival (Catlin et al. 2014). Including storm occurrence with other factors influencing habitat quality will enhance conservation strategies for Piping Plover.
We thank the numerous field workers who monitored Piping Plover populations across the study area. Special thanks to É. Tremblay for access to data from Kouchibouguac National Park and R. Stewart from Environment Canada. This project was supported by a grant from the New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund to SJ.
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Lewandowski came off the bench and scored in the 51st, 52nd, 55th, 57th and 60th minutes. It was the quickest hat trick in Bundesliga history. During that span of nine minutes, the Pole scored more goals than six Bundesliga teams have scored all season. He also scored more than Liverpool, Newcastle or West Brom have scored this season.
He was one short of Dieter Muller's Bundesliga record of six goals in a game, when Cologne beat Werder Bremen 7-2 in 1977.
Lewandowski is the third Bayern player to score five in a game — Gerd Muller did it three times, and Dieter Hoeness once.
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Johnny Depp Steps on Stage with Band in Germany Amid Amber Heard Abuse Allegations
Johnny Depp gave smirks and serious looks as he took to the stage in Germany on Sunday
By Char Adams
Updated May 30, 2016 10:20 AM
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Johnny Depp continued touring with his band, the Hollywood Vampires, on Sunday – stepping on stage in Germany amid domestic violence allegations made in court documents by his estranged wife Amber Heard.
The 52-year-old took to the stage in Herborn, giving smirks and serious looks as he performed alongside fellow band members Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
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One concertgoer gushed about the performance, telling PEOPLE that the trio played for more than two hours.
"Along with being a good performer, Johnny is really professional," Dave Gold says of Depp. "But because of his private problems he was a little shy before the show and nobody really saw him until he got on stage. It is understandable, I suppose."
Depp didn't interact with the crowd much at the show, another attendee tells PEOPLE.
"He didn't speak to the crowd at any point – or mention anything about the latest news about Amber," Steffi Hoffmann says. "He didn't really interact much with the crowd at all."
"In my opinion, he didn't let on that anything was wrong," fellow concertgoer Jacqueline Reinisch tells PEOPLE. "He had fun on stage, waved to the audience, smiled and was totally into the music. I had a totally positive impression of him."
The performance comes just days after Heard, 30, was granted a temporary restraining order against Depp on Friday, alleging that the actor physically abused her throughout their four-year relationship. They have been married for 15 months.
In court documents, Heard claims Depp hit her with a cell phone and pulled her hair last Saturday night. An LAPD spokesperson told PEOPLE that officers responded to the scene but determined that "there was no evidence of any crime." The actress submitted a recent photo of herself with what appears to be a bruise on her right eye as evidence in the claim.
Depp's divorce attorney Laura Wasser responded to Heard's restraining order request, saying that the actress is "attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse."
Now, as the couple's divorce continues, Depp is spending time with his band, making a charity appearance and taking to the stage.
The band performed on Friday in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Rock in Rio festival, and a concertgoer told PEOPLE the actor seemed "absolutely fine" despite the legal drama.
"He played a really good gig. It was like the events of the week hadn't played a part at all," the witness said.
The trio is expected to perform in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday.
While Depp has not shied away from the spotlight amid legal proceedings, Heard has kept a low profile, making her first public appearance on Saturday since heading to court to request the restraining order.