The purpose of this article is to re-acquaint the landowners and residents of Beaver Island with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the services the agency has to offer. The goal of the NRCS is to increase the stewardship of private lands resulting in clean water and air, improved soils and abundant wildlife habitat. This is mainly done by working with landowners to develop conservation plans which address resource concerns and meet the objectives of the landowner.
We also work with the local conservation districts to help carry out their goals of addressing local resource issues. The Charlevoix Conservation District is located in Boyne City and they have an annual tree sale in both the spring and fall where native trees, shrubs and other plants are available for re-forestation and wildlife purposes. The Emmet Conservation District has a no-till drill for planting hayfields or wildlife plantings and the Charlevoix District rents a no-till corn-planter and a tree planter. They both have access to an abundance of resource information. The Charlevoix District has a beachgrass nursery from where beachgrasss is harvested and sold by the bundle to property owners to stabilize sand dune and beach areas.
To help the landowner carry out his or her plans for the land we have several cost-share programs available and access to numerous amounts of technical information which is free of charge to the general public. In these very difficult times we find ourselves in, any financial incentives can be helpful in getting beneficial conservation projects completed. We have several cost-share programs which are briefly explained below.
Applications for these programs are accepted at any time. All applications are ranked which means it is competitive, there's no guarantee of approval, but there is usually adequate funding for most. The new 2008 Farmbill rules are not final yet, so some of the criteria for eligibility and what practices are funded will have changed. At the time of this printing the programs will most likely have had applications approved and funding obligated, but there should be funds available through the summer and un-funded applications are placed on a pending list to be approved as more funding becomes available.
Beaver Island is quite remote and physically removed from the rest of Charlevoix County, but I want to make Island residents aware of our services and to let them know that they have the same opportunity and access to the NRCS programs as everyone else. We have worked with several islanders in the past, but in the last few years there has been little contact and request for services. There can be an issue with access to the Island due to availability of funds for travel, but this can be worked out and we will respond to requests for site visits.
practices including: Animal Waste Storage Systems, Agrichemical Handling Facilities, Erosion Control Practices, Windbreaks, Prescribed Grazing Systems, Closure of Waste Impoundments, Livestock Stream Crossings, Tree/ Shrub Establishment, Well Decommissioning and many others. Cost-share is provided at an approximate rate of 50 percent and limited resource and beginning farmers receive a rate 15 percent higher. To be eligible there must be a resource concern identified and possible other criteria. Under the new 2008 Farmbill there may be some funding for developing forest stewardship plans and fish and wildlife habitat plans.
The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) – Nearly all private land is eligible and the landowner must agree to a 5-10 year contract. Approximately 75% of the cost to install the practices is cost-shared (paid by NRCS). This program has the main focus of developing and improving critical wildlife habitats using Native plant species. Several practices can be included in a contract such as Wildlife Corridor development, Tree/Shrub Establishment, Native Grass Seedings, Streambank Habitat Restoration and others including addressing specific invasive species.
The Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CCRP) – This program focuses on creating buffers such as filter strips, field windbreaks and riparian corridors. The land must meet the cropping criteria or contain marginal pastureland in order to meet eligibility requirements. There are cost-share incentives as well as an annual rental payment made to the participant who must install and maintain these practices. There are also easement programs where the landowner allows the government to put an easement on the eligible property in return for either a one time or annual payments.
The Grasslands Reserve Program (GRP) – This program is for long-term protection of grasslands and grazing lands on private or tribal lands. It is designed to maintain and improve "open space" that meet the criteria. 10 to 20 year rental agreements and permanent easements are available and a grazing management plan is required.
The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) – The purpose of the WRP is to restore and protect wetland habitats that have been altered or Degraded. The area must contain eligible soils which are considered to be poorly drained and must have been altered by tiling, ditching or pastured by livestock. Areas which are hayed may be eligible if they meet the soils and hydrology criteria. The WRP offers the landowner three different options.
Restoration Only – This would result in construction of a minimum ½ acre size push-out which is a shallow wildlife pond. The landowner would receive 75 % cost-share and would agree to keep the push-out for at least 10 years.
30 Year Easement – Under a 30 year easement agreement the landowner allows the government to place a 30 year easement on the area included and in return receives 75% of an appraised value per acre included and 75% of the cost to install push-outs in the wetland areas.
Permanent Easement – Under the permanent easement the landowner receives 100% of the appraised value and 100% of the cost to create the wildlife push-outs. The land accepted into the WRP under this easement will remain that way forever and can not be developed or have the wetlands destroyed in any way. There are many acceptable compatible uses which can be included in a contract such as leasing the land for hunting, planting food plots and many others. The rate cap for Charlevoix County is $1700 which is the maximum which can be received per acre. The land must not have changed ownership in the past 7 years to be eligible.
The Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP) –The FRPP is a program to assist landowners in placing a permanent easement on farmland by purchasing development rights so the land will remain in agriculture. Landowners eligible for this program must be actively working with a land protection entity such as the Little Traverse Conservancy and have a pending offer in the works. The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides 50 % of the agreed to appraised value and the entity and landowner come up with the rest.
There is also a new program which will be available this year that we have not had in this area before which is the Healthy Forests Reserve Program (HFRP). Its purpose is to promote the recovery of threatened and endangered species, to improve biodiversity and enhance carbon sequestration which is talked about a lot now with increasing global warming concerns. There will be easements and cost-share agreements available. Further details will become available in the near future.
There will also be a Conservation Stewardship Program (CStP) which will reward agricultural landowners for good stewardship practices that they have done in the past and are still in place. This will involve annual payments for a period of 5 consecutive years.
These programs all start with the development of a conservation plan which can be done at any time. Please feel free to call the office with any questions about these programs or any other environmental or natural resource issue.


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Amy Schumer helped set up an unforgettable video chat between her ailing father and his dream girl Goldie Hawn on Wednesday (27Apr16).
The Trainwreck star's father, Gordon, has been battling multiple sclerosis for the past 22 years, and Amy even incorporated her family's personal struggles into the storyline for her blockbuster film, in which her onscreen father, played by Colin Quinn, also suffers from MS.
Amy is gearing up to co-star with Goldie in a mother/daughter action comedy, written by Amy's sister Kim Caramele, and the comedienne didn't pass up the opportunity to introduce her new on-screen mum to her real-life father, who just happens to be Goldie's number one fan.
In a video posted on Twitter, Amy is seen sitting next to her wheelchair-bound father, holding up her mobile while she FaceTimes with Goldie.
Amy says in the video, "He keeps saying that we're playing sisters, and I'm like, 'No!' You're the love of his life - you (to her dad) can tell her!"
Gordon bashfully admits, "You're the love of my life. In real life," as Goldie responds, "I am?"
Amy also added the caption, "Face timing with the goddess @goldiehawn who made my fathers dreams come true."
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For gardeners in Zone 5, we advise planting H. macrophyllas in a sheltered location and giving them a winter mulch. This will provide protection from winds and cold temperatures that can damage flower buds.
Some Hydrangea macrophylla varieties flower on old wood, and must carry their flower buds through the winter. Early or late freezes may damage flower buds and prevent them from blooming. For example, in Zone 5, bloom may only succeed 3 years out of 5, but the plant itself is hardy there. Fortunately for gardeners in cooler zones, recent introductions will likely bloom for them, as they flower on new growth as well as year-old stems.
Light/Watering: Most varieties tolerate full sun in the North, but benefit from afternoon shade. In the South, plants require afternoon shade. Moist soils that do not dry out are best; do not plant in hot, dry, exposed sites. Mulch to conserve moisture and buffer soil temperatures.
Fertilizer/Soil and pH: Fertilize once in spring with a fertilizer designed to encourage blooms (such as 15-30-15). In many H. macrophylla varieties, flower color is determined by the pH of the soil; at low pH (acid soils) flowers will be blue and at higher pH, flowers will be pink. Generally, a pH below 5.0 results in deep, vivid blues and as the pH rises the flowers range from blue to lavender to mauve to a vivid deep pink at pH 7.0 (neutral). The pH determines the availability of aluminum in the soil; this element is more readily available in acid soils, and this availability results in the blue flower color. Since phosphorus ties up aluminum in soils, using a fertilizer low in this nutrient will aid in attaining blue flowers. If pink flowers are desired and your soil is acid, simply add lime to raise the pH and use a balanced fertilizer. Aluminum sulfate will lower pH if blue flowers are desired.
We recommend that you visit your local Cooperative Extension Service to find out about soil testing in your area. Follow this link for a directory of institutions involved in the Cooperative Extension program.
We also offer a Soil pH Meter, which allows you to test your soil and provides quick, accurate results.
For our complete selection of Hydrangea growing supplies, click here.
Pruning: If your Hydrangea is growing too large, prune to the desired size by the end of August. In spring, only prune out dead wood once the new growth has emerged. This includes H. m. 'Big Daddy,' H. m. Cityline® Mars, H. m. Cityline® Rio, H. m. Cityline® Venice, H. m. Color Fantasy®, H. m. Double Delights™ Star Gazer, H. m. Everlasting™ Amethyst, H. m. 'Lady in Red,' H. m. Light-O-Day®, H. m. 'Nikko Blue,' H. m. Pink Shira™, and Paraplu®. These varieties bloom on old wood.
For mophead varieties blooming on both old and new wood, by the end of August cut back stems by about half if plants are growing too tall. Remove some of the oldest stems at ground level to thin out the shrub as needed. In spring, only prune out dead wood once the new growth has emerged. This includes H. m. 'Blushing Bride,' H. m. Double Delights™ Star Gazer, H. m. Endless Summer®, H. m. Endless Summer® Bloomstruck™, H. m. Everlasting® Revolution, H. m. Let's Dance® Big Easy, Let's Dance® Blue Jangles®, H. m. Let's Dance® Moonlight, Let's Dance® Rave™, H. m. Let's Dance® Starlight, H. m. Mystical® Opal, H. m. Nantucket Blue™, H. m. Pistachio, and H. m. Twist-n-Shout™.
Reflowering: Regularly deadheading the spent blooms of H. macrophylla that bloom on both old and new wood helps encourage repeat bloom on the current year's growth.
Transplanting: Young plants may be transplanted when dormant in early spring.
End of Season Care: Rake up and destroy any fallen foliage that was infected by powdery mildew or other fungi. For gardeners in Zone 5, we recommend covering the stems with a 12" layer of organic material such as straw or mulched leaves to help preserve the flower buds through the cold winter. In addition, you may wrap your Hydrangea with burlap to protect it from winds and cold temperatures.
Mid-Spring: Prune out any dead wood from all varieties. Check soil pH and adjust up or down if needed for desired flower color. Feed plants with a fertilizer high in phosphorus (such as 15-30-15) to encourage blooms. Complete any transplanting before leaves unfurl. Mulch plants after soil has warmed to conserve moisture and buffer soil temperatures. Watch for powdery mildew and treat as needed.
Fall: Remove and destroy any fallen foliage that was infected by powdery mildew. In Zone 5, cover the stems with a 12" layer of organic material such as straw or mulched leaves to help flower buds overwinter. You may also wrap your Hydrangea with burlap to protect it from winds and cold temperatures.


NU comes off a big weekend getting 3 points from bc and a little bit of revenge for their beanpot ot loss. unh comes off a 3 point weekend against vermont at the gutt, should be interesting to see how NU does against another top team in the league, we've been playing very well of late, hope it continues.
Given we don't yet know the extent of NU's violations, UNH is winning this contest with 880 texts to zip (or was that 1,080 texts, or 8,880 texts... :confused: ).
UNH didn't text anyone, it was emails. As far as I remember there weren't phone calls either (anyone?).
UNH has always played NU well & given us fits on the big ice sheet. The BC series (including 'Pot), was timely preparation for us, v/s a solid squad like UNH.
We'll find out soon enough if there is payoff in Durham. I do like our chances Saturday though.
..seriously though.. UNH has 1 win in their last 4 gms.
That is not going to continue. They are a very good team & we need to keep it close Friday. If we do, we have a chance on the road. Anything less... splat!


In the settings for the game you can modify the graphics settings, adapting them to the capabilities of your device. Contact Us The current version does not represent the final quality of the game as we will keep optimizing existing content and adding new features. You can share this with your clan members. Controls are a bit tough to handle at first, but can be adjusted. These are the new things which you would be experiencing with the all-new Sanhok Map. Important: It's necessary to install this game from the official Uptodown app. It has become an immensely popular game upon release and broke numerous records.
The game is massively popular over the world with millions of its players. Google Play's Biggest Deals of the Year! Now Can Be Found Under Missions. You can enter buildings, drive vehicles, equip scopes, use first aid kits, vault over walls, etc. If you have any queries or any difficulty while downloading or installing the app then please feel free to comment below and allow us to serve you better. Oh, and you like the pan? The gameplay is easy to understand but hard to master and for that reason, you have to take care of your character and the power.
Downloading data of the game will take a few extra minutes, you have to be patient enough! Invite And Team Up With Your Friends, Coordinate Your Battle Plan Through Voice Chat And Set Up The Perfect Ambush. Availability will be announced at a later date, so make sure to keep an eye out! Seeing how popular it became in just a short amount of time, the developers planned to release the mobile version as well. You can set up ambuscades, help each other and hunt down your adversaries together. Not only other player bullets can kill you but this circle can also kill you. They are often found in houses on the island.
It is the online shooter multiplayer game. The controls have been well adapted to touch screen devices, as have the other objects and interactive elements in the game. This game is a roya le style battle game which has a next-generation graphics with smooth gameplay. Reduces Vertical Spread And Increases Horizontal Spread. The good news with this weapon is that it will be available in all maps this is not exclusive for Sanhok map. Realistic Shooting With a large selection of firearms, melee weapons, and throwables with realistic ballistics and trajectories, this is the perfect combat experience on mobile. Progress Missions — Added A Collect All Button To Collect Rewards Of All Completed Missions.
See if you can find the new vehicles and weapons! The last one standing wins! Customizable Pick-Up — Quantities Can Now Be Specified In Settings. The 3D graphics are beautiful. Complete difficult objectives to get titles and outfits. As we know all new maps and Beta versions are first available in Chinese only. Now the weather changes between sunny, rain and foggy at random.
Since this post is only for the Android platform, you can find the separate info here. I played this game on chinese version the timi and lightspeed both is awesome but I cant understand it because it's Chinese, now that the english version is released I can now play with my friends that we can understand everything keep up the good work! And this game is lastly updated on March 14, 2018. Friends this game is too good but the problem is that this game is not available in play store. In this game, survival skills, movement skills, and tactics will help you survive. This helps you pay close attention to the situation around you, do not waste time collecting weapons that lead to unjust death. The procedure must be similar to how you do it on your phone. Once downloaded, you can run the game and follow the on-screen instructions to play and set up the game.
The Android version of the game requires Android 5. Another feature which will be available with the new version 0. Player Population Pubg Has Million Of Active User Right Now In The World. It has become synonymous with the battle royale genre due to its features and gameplay. Sanhok Map will be coming with Anti-Cheats measures which will make sure the gameplay is pure and no one using any cheating plugins. Achievements — Added More Achievements. .
Anti-Cheating Measures — Improved Recognition Of Cheating Plug-Ins. You can choose to play alone or in small teams, but the objective is to become the last person or team to be alive. Get ready to land, loot, and do whatever it takes to survive and be the last man standing! But the rest of the whole world got a taste of the game the following month, on March 19. Click To Download And Install On Your Iphone Device Whats New New Map: Sanhok Sanhok Can Be Downloaded Independently, So Enter The Game And Get It Right Away To Join Your Friends In The Rainforest! The new patch is not just coming with the new map but with some improvements as well like 3D models added in vehicle and aircraft shop, animation on season page, a friendly fire accidentally will not be penalized, Chat system, Lucky air drops items that are mystery drop after a match. First Person Perspective - Now supported in custom rooms. Team Up With Friends Survive The Battle With Your Friends. You must connect to a broadband wifi network to experience the game perfectly.
To start the game, go to the Apps menu and select the icon of the game, the game will be ready for you. The gamers waited for the game like this to be available for the smartphones and windows. Well, the new is still buzz in the town. With this new theme, the game will be remodeled with new structures and new environment. When they jump, they have nothing except their clothing. You must quickly collect the weapons to be ready to face any player around you. But remember while fighting with another player you need to have an eye on the safe circle which will be reduced as the time passes.
Revan Cyril Tagupa This is what I've been waiting for! It is just one-fourth size of this map, but still, it is going to feature 100 players. And you better be quick, because the play area reduces in size every few minutes. Once you have installed it on your iPhone or iPad, you can sign up and start playing. So Let See How To Use It. Clans - Players can create or join Clans. After seeing the huge fan following developer decided to bring its mobile version and now every game lover has started playing the game on their smartphone itself.


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Are you using Windows 7/Vista and trying to access an old Windows 2000 server?
Here is how I fixed the issue.
Go into the registry of the workstation that is trying to access the server and change "RequierSecuritySignature" value to 0.
This registry value is set by default if the workstation has been setup using Windows PE or Windows MDT 2012. Its also the default value set if your security GPO settings have been set via Microsoft Security Compliance Manager.
If the above doesn't resolve your issue then here are a few different ways online I have found how to fix this error message.


With a versatile design, the Agher Recessed Grill Wall Light was designed to be recessed into a wall to use up minimal space. This grill wall light is suitable for architecturally sophisticated lighting of entrance areas, steps and ramps both indoors and outdoors. This recess wall light is installable on walls to provide side lighting for drives or spacious area in gardens, to create a wall washer effect on the ground or ceiling. It's possible to install the device with the light pointed either downwards or upwards. Suitable for a wide range of areas, this brass recess wall light will become the ideal choice for inconspicuous yet powerful precision accent lighting.


Hoping for a more coherent experience than Iron Man 2, the pacing was all over the place in that movie.
I imagine I will have a very unique take on this movie as I've yet to see the original.
The 4th installment was much better than people give it credit for. It's an action series people, not Citizen Kane.


With the Winter Olympics underway, I started thinking about what Olympic events would only be possible in Kalamazoo. There is, of course, a tremendous amount of sports science statistics and analytics that went in to a study like this...I'm kidding... a lot of alcohol went into a study like this. So, for a moment, let's put ourselves smack dab in the middle of the Olympic movement; OK movement probably not the best choice of words.
1. Beering. It could also be called Curling because Beering is simply doing 12 ounce curls with your beer. So, Beering because Curling is already taken.
2. Drake Road Uphill. We've got the Downhill in the other Olympics. The Drake Rd Uphill is a competition to see if you can make it up the hill from Parkview to Stadium in a ferocious snow storm. A few years ago I couldn't.
3. Beerathlon. This is similar to the Biathlon but without the skiing and shooting. It's a timed event to see how fast you can go to each downtown brewery, get a beer and drink it.
4. Snowplow Mailbox Repair. This is another timed event to see how fast you can reconstruct your mailbox after its violently taken out by a snowplow.
5. Downtown One-Way Street Slalom. Much like the slalom ski racing you've got to know how to navigate around other cars like gates to get into the right position to reach your destination in as little time as possible.


What do you think of when you hear the word "wilderness?" Do you envision an isolated, barren, lonely and perhaps scary place? Is it a physical space, or a state of mind? Look at the following definition of wilderness: "an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region." Further, " a neglected or abandoned area of a garden or town." Suffice it to say, for many, the wilderness is not a favourable place to be. The wilderness is and can be a place of desolation, disorientation and despair.
However, good things can and do come out of the wilderness times. Three hundred references in Scripture tell us that the bible has a lot to say about the wilderness. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years after they had been delivered from the Egyptians. In their wilderness experience, the people witnessed God's deliverance (escaping through the Red Sea on dry ground), they saw His provision (Manna and Quails).
The prophets of God were not exempt from wilderness experiences. Jeremiah, in the book of Lamentations writes "I will never forget this terrible time!" But, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness!" Lamentations 3:24-26.
One of the most significant wilderness experiences occurred in the life of our Lord. Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness following his baptism and preceding His earthly ministry. During the forty days, Jesus triumphed over Satan and demonstrated full dependence upon God.
Common to these wilderness experiences was hardship and suffering. However, and more importantly, what was also true, is that God was very close to each one who was in that place.
At the beginning of this Lenten season, where are you? Do you find yourself in a wilderness? The wilderness in which you may find yourself may not be physical space, it might be a state of mind. What lesson or discipline might God be teaching you in this place? Be assured that, as with the characters in the bible, God will meet you there and, you will sense His love and tenderness in that place. He will draw you close, as He draws you out.


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Cassava brown streak virus is a species of positive-strand RNA viruses in the genus Ipomovirus and family Potyviridae which infects plants.  Member viruses are unique in their induction of pinwheel, or scroll-shaped inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of infected cells. Cylindrical inclusion bodies include aggregations of virus-encoded helicase proteins. These inclusion bodies are thought to be sites of viral replication and assembly, making then an important factor in the viral lifecycle.  Viruses from both the species Cassava brown streak virus and Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV), lead to the development of Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) within cassava plants.

History

Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) was first described in the former Tanganyika territory of East Africa, now Tanzania 70 years ago. An endemic viral outbreak progressed throughout the Eastern African coastal cassava-growing areas from Southern Kenya, through Tanzania to the Zambezi river in Mozambique. Cassava, a tuberous, starch-rich plant (Manihot esculenta) has remained a staple food crop among countries of sub-Saharan Africa for many years, and is a primary food source for many families. Loss of such crops has a large effect on food sources and economic stability;however, the extent of the loss cannot be fully determined until the crop is harvested. Transmission is most commonly attributed to whiteflies (two whitefly species, Bemisia afer (Priesner & Hosny) and Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)). Disease spread can be rapid, resulting in incidence exceeding 50% in some coastal regions of Tanzania and Mozambique. CBSV and other related virus strains are responsible for up to $100 million USD in losses each year in Africa due to crop destruction.

Virology

Structure
CBSV is believed to be a non-enveloped virus with a capsid protein coat that is most similar to that of the ipomovirus, SPMMV (Sweet potato mild mottle virus). Similar to SPMMV, CBSV was found to have larger than average coat proteins of approximately 45 kDa in size.

Genome
As with all of the members of the Potyviridae family, the Cassava brown streak virus has a positive, single strand RNA genome. Structurally, viruses in this family are linear, non-segmented, possess helical symmetry. The CBSV genome was measured to be between 8,900 and 10,818 nucleotides in length. This is characteristic of the average genome length among potyviridae which can be anywhere from 9.3-10.8 kb. Genetic diversity on the nucleotide level among CBSV virus isolates can be anywhere from 79.3-95.5%, showing that the virus has greater genetic diversity than other similar potyviridae or CBSV strains. The Potyvirus genome is monopartite, meaning the genome is made up of a single molecule of nucleic acid, not broken up into multiple pieces.

Replication cycle

Upon viral entry into the host cell, the virus uncoats its outer protein shell and releases the viral RNA into the host cell's cytoplasm. CBSV is a single stranded RNA (ssRNA(+)) virus, therefore the virus must use the host cell machinery to translate the ssRNA(+) to a polyprotein which then can be processed by the viral proteases to produce RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and other structural proteins. The viral replication happens in the cytoplasm, where a dsRNA is made from the genomic ssRNA(+). Next, the dsRNA is replicated to provide mRNA and new ssRNA(+) which can then either pass through the cycle again to be replicated, or be used later on. With this newly produced mRNA/ssRNA(+), the virus can then assemble in the cytoplasm. The protein P3N-PIPO, a movement protein, may help to initiate cell-to-cell movement and transfer.

Transmission

Potyviruses are known to be transmitted by mites and aphids. Past research has suggested that CBSV is transmitted by insects, specifically the whitefly. Scientists have used two specific species of whitefly, Bemisia afer (Priesner & Hosny) and B. tabaci (Gennadius), to experimentally test transmission rates. B. tabaci was found to be a more successful transmitter of the virus. Infection rates have been shown to correlate with the peak of whitefly population in the months of April and May. From 2002 to 2003, low numbers of whiteflies were observed in Tanzania, as well as little CBSD recorded. Likewise, in February and March 2004 when whitefly numbers soared, rapid spread of CBSD occurred. Laboratory studies, however, suggest that CBSV is transmitted poorly by B. tabaci and indicates high rates of infection in farming fields can be attributed to cutting-borne pathogens.

Associated diseases

Cassava brown streak virus, as a potyvirus, promotes the development of disease and other ill effects within plant life, specifically in the woody Cassava shrub in particular. Both Cassava brown streak virus and the similar Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV), lead to the development of Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) within Cassava plants. It is also fairly common in infected plants to discover that they have been co-infected by both CBSV and UCBSV. This disease is the main source responsible for the loss of Cassava crops in sub-Saharan Africa.

The disease manifests itself in many ways throughout the plant structure. The most common symptom of this disease is necrotic local lesions present in multiple places throughout the plant. In the storage tissues of the tuberous roots, the necrotic lesions appear as brown and dry spots on the plant. Plants affected by CBSD may also develop symptoms in their leaves. CBSD is normally observed in mature or nearly mature leaves, yet does not affect expanding or immature leaves. These symptoms are often associated with the minor veins of leaves, including a type of feathery necrosis along the veins, as well as a blotchy yellow chlorosis. Symptoms vary depending on severity of infection, and in the most severe cases the lesions may cause death of dormant axillary buds. Death of these buds is likely to cause death of the entire branch of the plant.

Recent outbreaks

The most recent activity of this virus has not been expressly recorded in great detail. The most recent records of its activity show it continuing to cause widespread infection along areas of the eastern coast of Africa. These areas along the Indian Ocean coast of Africa include many of the areas where infections have persisted over time in sub-Saharan Africa such as Tanzania and Kenya. The most recent cases have shown a shift from the low altitude pattern of infection of areas below 1,000 meters above sea level. The most recent infections have branched into Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo where altitude levels are between 1,200 and 1,500 meters above sea level. These new areas of infection were not previously considered to be at risk.

Prevention and antiviral strategies

Evidence has been collected that suggests that cross-protection against a diverse range of CBSD-causing virus isolates can be achieved through RNAi silencing. The conserved CP gene, which serves multiple functions in the CBSV life cycle, was used as the transgene of interest. Three distinct RNAi constructs were designed to target the FL, N-terminal, and C-terminal of the UCBSV-CP gene: the FL-CP construct exhibiting the highest level of protection. In conclusion, the study found a significant positive correlation between the presence of siRNAs and viral protection against UCBSV. A negative drawback to this antiviral approach is that RNAi is highly sequence specific. Viruses with more than 10% nucleotide diversity require the development of an RNAi construct with multiple fragments from different virus species. A construct made out of such large sections of genes could be very unstable during cloning and transformation procedures. However, the study included two transgenic plant lines in which remained completely immune to viral infection against six unique isolates of both UCBSV and CBSV. RNAi FL-CP transgenic cassava lines also experienced 100% immunity when grafted with UCBSV infected cassava samples compared to nontransgenic control lines which became 100% infected with UCBSV over the 60-day period. In the fields, it is common for asymptomatic plants to carry the virus and serve as a source of transmission with the help of whitefly vectors or stem cuttings. However, the study also collected RT-PCR data that suggested all asymptomatic plants also lacked detectable levels of UCBSV.

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Jacqueline KovacsUpdated: Mar. 30, 2021
The years leading up to menopause can be fraught with uncomfortable symptoms. Here's how to manage them and get on with enjoying your life.
Managing the beast
Sometimes drinking coffee triggers them. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, heat radiating off my chest, hair damp with sweat. Either way, hot flashes are not a welcome part of my life. But it seems like they're here to stay — or at least until menopause does us part.
Unfortunately, they're just one annoying symptom of perimenopause, the five to seven years leading up to menopause, the end of menstruation. Many women also suffer with mood swings and depression, sleep disruption, heavy menstrual bleeding and memory problems. And because perimenopause may last up to a decade, these symptoms can take a serious toll on your quality of life.
Check out the top 10 quiet signs you're in perimenopause.
But the good news is that the worst of perimenopause can be managed — sometimes with lifestyle tweaks and herbal supplements, sometimes with medical intervention. Here's how.
Symptom 1: Stolen sleep
"Sleep," says Toronto's Dr. Jennifer Pearlman, medical director and owner of Pearl MD Rejuvenation, "is the Holy Grail of health." But falling levels of the hormone progesterone — characteristic of early perimenopause — can make falling and staying asleep a struggle for some women.
And if it's not menopause or perimenopause, one of these unexpected reasons may be the cause of your lack of sleep.
The lifestyle fix
You may have heard it before, but a relaxing routine is often the key to a good night's sleep. That means no electronics an hour before bedtime, or maybe having a bath and settling down in a cool dark room to help trigger rest — and that goes for everyone. When it comes to perimenopausal women, Pearlman adds that added stress management during the day can lead to more peaceful nights. "Get that to-do list out of the way so you're not thinking about it when you're lying down," she says.
These 15 diet tricks will also help you sleep better.
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Followed every restful rule, but the sleep fairy still won't come? Up your game with a supplement. "I love magnesium," says Pearlman, "It's a mineral that may help promote a better night's sleep." She also recommends taking melatonin — a sleep-inducing hormone that helps regulate the sleep cycle and can improve sleep — in low doses, such as 3 mg. Your doctor can help you figure out a dosage that would work for you. Speaking of the doctor, for sleep problems at any age it's recommended you talk to your doc to rule out conditions like sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome.
Symptom 2: Menstrual madness
Experiencing breast tenderness (ouch) or abnormal vaginal bleeding? Changing hormones during perimenopause may lead to rising (and unopposed) estrogen taht causes these symptoms.
What exactly is up with your period? Find out if you have one of these menstrual disorders.
Popping an ibuprofen can ease breast soreness (and menstrual cramps). You can also sprinkle a little flaxseed (the actual seed, not the oil) onto your morning cereal, on a salad or bake it into a muffin to get some relief, as a study found it relieved pain when taken daily for three months. In fact, The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada recommends considering flaxseed as a first line of treatment for breast tenderness. It's also a smart solution for relieving constipation.
If a heavy flow is cramping your style, see your doctor. Depending on your personal health profile, she may recommend birth control pills or hormone therapy. Taking progesterone has been shown to help bridge the perimenopause-menopause transition — and may be preferred to the estrogen-containing options (or synthetic alternatives to progesterone) that were used in hormone replacement therapy decades ago. These were shown to be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, clots and stroke. Progesterone, on the other hand, may ease all of your symptoms.
Symptom 3: Hellishly hot
Your hot flashes could warm the neighbours — if only you could use that power for good. Instead, you wake up drenched and radiating. And if that interrupted sleep wasn't enough, what about feeling the heat mid-meeting? It's professional to fan yourself at the boardroom table, right?
Turn down the heat by turning up a healthy lifestyle. That's right: being active, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking can all help reduce hot flashes and night sweats. How else can you manage things naturally? "Try dressing in layers or wear moisture-wicking clothing," says Pearlman. "At night, sleep with a fan on in the bedroom." She also recommends black cohosh, a botanical supplement that not only helps relieve hot flashes, but also mood swings, irritability and cramping. Red clover and rhubarb extract may also help cool things down. Ask your doctor what form and dosage would work for you.
Still feeling the heat? Pearlman points to acupuncture. "It helps on the stress side," she says, "and it may lead to fewer or less intense hot flashes." It's also worth investigating hormone therapy and even antidepressants. "Certain antidepressants are effective treatment for a woman who's flashing," confirms Pearlman. "Plus, they can help with mood and anxiety." Your doctor can help you figure out which options are right for you. She says there are also non-hormonal meds available from your doctor that can be very helpful with flashes and other symptoms, typically for women where estrogen is contradicted or to boost the effects of hormone therapy.
Nervous about trying acupuncture? Here's what it's really like.
And in case you're wondering: The stages of pre- and post-menopause
Early perimenopause: Progesterone levels start to fall and estrogen may rise. You may skip periods, have shorter, heavier cycles and hot flashes, wicked PMS and a fuzzy memory, among other fun (not) symptoms.
Late perimenopause: You can now blame the hot flashes on falling estrogen levels. Expect a lot more skipped periods.
Menopause: The big M is officially diagnosed after you've gone 12 consecutive months without a period, for no other biological cause. It can occur in women in their 40s or younger, but the average age is 51. Symptoms tend to disappear, but a lot of women can experience vaginal dryness.
Postmenopause: Symptoms such as hot flashes peak in the year or two after menopause and lower levels of estrogen increase the risk of health conditions such as heart disease and osteoporosis.
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There are few sights more heartbreaking than watching a baby animal become separated from its mother. But it's a fact of life in the wild, because unfortunately, there's always a runt of the litter who struggles to keep up with the group.
Which is exactly what happens in this video when a duckling is unable to jump up to join its mother at the edge of a man-made pond and becomes stranded in the water below. The mother, intent on training her young the necessary skills to survive, waits patiently for the duckling to solve the problem itself.
It is fascinating to watch this tiny creature explore the environment, trying different routes until it eventually discovers an easier path. Finally, after its roundabout journey, it rejoins its waiting mother.
While the people filming this high drama could easily have intervened, they understand that it's for ducklings to pass these small rites of passage in preparation for a life on their own.
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TUNIS, Tunisia — Two years ago, American Marines battled Al Qaeda militants in western Tunisia along the border with Algeria. A Marine and a Tunisian soldier were wounded and two other Marines were later commended for their valor in the gunfight.
Yet many details of the February 2017 clash remain murky, largely because of the Tunisian government's political sensitivities over the presence of American forces in its territory.
But in fact, the United States and Tunisia have quietly expanded and deepened their security and counterterrorism ties over the past several years, with some 150 Americans training and advising their Tunisian counterparts in one of the largest missions of its kind on the African continent, according to American officials.
And the 2017 clash, confirmed by an American official and an American security expert, was a stark example of the risks American forces face in trying to help their North African allies battle Qaeda-linked groups.
The deepening American involvement in an array of secret missions goes largely unreported because of Tunisian and American concerns that publicizing this could attract even more extremist violence. There is also a strong aversion across the political spectrum in North Africa to Western intervention in the region.
Still the growing cooperation is notable because it comes at a time when the Pentagon is reducing its presence elsewhere on the continent, especially in West Africa, as the military shifts to focus more attention on challenges elsewhere from Russia and China.
"Tunisia is one of our most capable and willing partners," Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, the head of the Pentagon's Africa Command, told Congress in February.
Among the 150 Americans operating in Tunisia is a contingent of Marine Corps Special Operations forces who were involved in the 2017 gun battle.
Unarmed American surveillance drones fly reconnaissance missions from Tunisia's main air base outside Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa, hunting terrorists who might be seeking to infiltrate through the country's border with Libya and other areas, American military officials said.
The United States had sought permission to fly from bases farther south, where weather conditions are better. But the Tunisians wanted the American presence to be more concealed, officials said.
There are other signs of Washington's increasing security cooperation with Tunisia. Body armor, rifles and night-vision goggles; reconnaissance aircraft and fast patrol boats; radios and devices to counter improvised explosives: The value of American military supplies delivered to the country increased to $119 million in 2017 from $12 million in 2012, government data show.
Tunisia was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings and is widely seen as the lone success story among countries that were swept up in the revolts. It emerged with a democratic system and a free society after the 2011 overthrow of its authoritarian president of 23 years, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Yet it has struggled to control a threat from Al Qaeda and other radical groups, which have exploited the new freedoms to radicalize followers and establish networks of cells across Tunisia.
The problem first became apparent in 2012 with an attack on the American Embassy in the capital, Tunis. Three days earlier in neighboring Libya, militants had attacked the American mission in the eastern city of Benghazi. Four Americans were killed, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Riots in Tunis and two political assassinations by a Qaeda-linked group, Ansar al-Sharia, followed in 2013. The same year, an insurgency by Al Qaeda's North African branch began to target the military in the mountains of the Kasserine region near the Algerian border, the area where the 2017 gunfight would later erupt.
Attacks on the police escalated around the country. Then in 2015, two massacres of foreign tourists captured international attention — one at a museum in Tunis and the other at the beach resort of Sousse on the Mediterranean.
In the National Bardo Museum attack on March 18, two attackers killed 22 people, mostly tourists. Four months later, the shooting on a beach and inside a hotel in Sousse killed 39.
In March 2016, jihadists mounted an assault from Libya on police and military posts in the border town of Ben Gardane, which Tunisian forces successfully countered.
Tunisia has succeeded in dismantling most of the militant networks since 2015, according to government officials, diplomats and security analysts. But it still faces threats.
Last month, a civilian was beheaded and mines were planted near his body. Soldiers were wounded in a separate mine blast, according to the Ministry of Defense.
"The jihadist cells have completely given up the playbook of gaining the sympathy of the population," said Matt Herbert, a director of Maharbal, a Tunisian strategic consulting firm. Now, he said, they are trying to terrorize them.
Last October, a suicide attack on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the main street in downtown Tunis, wounded 20 people. The only person who died was the bomber, a woman identified as Mouna Guebla who was not on the authorities' radar.
But a suicide attack in the capital set off alarm bells for the government because it came after three years of hard work and costly security investment against the terrorist networks.
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed supports the fight against terrorism. The government spends 15 percent of its budget on the defense and interior ministries for that purpose, he said recently. But he acknowledged that this had come at a cost for other pressing problems, such as poverty and unemployment.
Officials point to improvements in logistics and operations in the fight against terrorism. But the country is still struggling with its porous borders with Libya and Algeria, which serve as transit areas for Al Qaeda's branch in North Africa and as well as the remains of Islamic State cells in Libya.
The 2017 clash involving the Marines was a reminder of the resilience of the jihadists, even amid the combined American-Tunisian efforts. In the Kasserine mountain area, only a few dozen guerrillas are active at any given time. Yet because of its proximity to the Algerian border, the Tunisian Army has struggled to secure it.
The team of Marines was on a three-day mission with Tunisian forces when it got into a "fierce fight against members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," according to one of the award citations for the Marines, who were not identified. Although the Marines were said to be on a "train, advise and assist" mission, the citations made clear that they were fighting and, at times, directing events.
The United States command withheld the details of the clash for "classification considerations, force protection, and diplomatic sensitivities," according to the report by Task & Purpose, which obtained the citations, with some details redacted, through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The award citation indicates that the Tunisian forces killed one Qaeda operative in the initial gunfight, but that the unit then came under accurate fire from the rear as the insurgents tried to outflank them and a Marine was wounded.
One Marine was commended for tending to his wounded comrade while under fire and winching him to a hovering helicopter. A second was commended for coordinating air support from the helicopter and taking over behind the machine gun when the Tunisian gunner was wounded.
In an interview with The New York Times in December, Kamel Akrout, a national security adviser to the Tunisian president, was asked about what had happened that day in the mountains of Kasserine. He would neither confirm nor deny the episode.
Lilia Blaise reported from Tunis and Eric Schmitt reported from Washington and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Carlotta Gall contributed reporting from Istanbul.


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Carlton recruited former Gold Coast Suns player Matt Shaw in the 2017 NAB AFL Rookie Draft. Taken with pick No.3, the hard-running wingman is known for his ability to break the lines and take the game on. As an access pick for the Suns in the 2010 national draft, Shaw spent seven seasons on the Gold Coast and notched up 102 senior appearances. After making his debut in Round 4 against Melbourne in 2011, the 25-year-old's trademark golden locks were often seen zipping through the midfield and carrying the ball along the wing. The Patterson Lakes product had a terrific season in the NEAFL this year, consistently generating a lot of ball and setting up his teammates. Carlton's GM of List Management and Strategy Stephen Silvagni praised Shaw's hard running and his capacity to play a number of different roles. "Matts' flexibility to play on a wing, at half back, or even in the middle, is a real asset," Silvagni said. "In addition to that, his ability to play both offensive and defensive roles will provide a lot more depth to our list – we see him as a really versatile player."
Shaw played his junior football with Chelsea & Carrum Junior Football Clubs via the Dandenong Stingrays. He was also a keen cricketer who played for the Carrum Cricket Club & attended Mordialloc College. He supported St Kilda as a child. He was delisted by Gold Coast at the conclusion of the 2017 season.
At the end of the 2018 season Matt Shaw was delisted by Carlton after playing two games for the Blues. At the end of the season Shaw would head back to Queensland and play with NEAFL team the Southport Sharks. Shaw would nominate for the 2019 Mid-Season Rookie Draft in hope to rekindle his AFL career, no club showed any interest and he played the season out with Southport. The Sharks would face off against Brisbane (Brisbane Lions reserves team) in the NEAFL going down by 76 points, .Shaw was one of Southport's best players picking up 23 touches.
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Stacy and her husband, Scott, have been married for 23 years. Together they have four amazing children. Their oldest just graduated from college and the other three are following close behind. Stacy enjoys spending her free time cheering on her four children in cross country, soccer, lacrosse and track and field events, as well as reading and hiking.


The ongoing fiasco in the Middle East - murder of our ambassador and members of his staff, along with military assaults on other embassies - has been encouraged in great part by Obama's Mr. Nice Guy presentation of fecklessness and indifference toward Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. That presentation, in turn, arises from fundamental religious doctrines of liberal-progressive-socialism.
Throughout his term in office, President Obama has told Islamic leaders and mobs in the streets that he is their friend and that he foreswears all of the world's traditional diplomatic practices. In particular he repudiates past policies of the United States, which he implies amount to no more than oppressive colonialism. He praised Syria's brutal ruler for his purported friendship with us (remember Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria and her obsequious groveling?) Obama impetuously leapt to support Egypt's new jihadist rulers with no clear understanding of their probable anti-American orientation and apparently without any plans to push that new government toward policies that would preserve our national interests, including our alliance with Israel. He keeps offering peace parleys with our implacable enemy Iran, giving the mullahs more time to create operational nuclear weapons. He ignores continual military attacks against Israel in order not to upset terror-fomenting Islamic rulers.
Those brutally realistic rulers have heard the message loud and clear: we will not interfere with their support for terrorists and their fomenting of mob street action with raging vocal attacks on the United States; we will stand by wringing our hands when Iran attempts to obliterate Israel with nuclear weapons.
Islamic rulers' reaction predictably is not friendship, but contempt atop their hatred for the American paper tiger.
Obama's reducing the vast complexities of foreign policy to the simplistic level of soothing a grumpy colleague and his preference for Islamic rulers's interests over our own are understandable in light of his life-long indoctrination with the corrosive, secular religion of socialism. Obama is a doctrinal clone of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and and other student radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. Liberal-progressive-socialism is the only doctrine he has absorbed, from his youthful tutelage by left-wing extremist Frank Marshall Davis to the anti-American, socialistic internationalism encountered in his Ivy League college career.
The root of that doctrine, from the 1750s onward, is the faith, without supporting evidence, that humans by nature are benevolent when not corrupted by private property and by governments that protect the rights of private property.
The War of Independence in 1776 was waged to protect our property rights against encroachments by the British crown. Ergo, in the liberal-progressive-socialist perspective, the United States, stands condemned of crimes against the presumed inevitable course of history toward one-world socialism.
Liberal-progressive-socialists, who dominate the Democrat/Socialist Party and the present administration in Washington, sincerely believe that the so-called laws of history are impelling us along an evolutionary course toward a one-world welfare state. Karl Marx called it scientific socialism. Pursuing that goal, liberal-progressive-socialists ignore human nature and millennia of history. They confidently assume that the rest of the world will readily accede to their secular rationality, that support for the UN as our primary foreign policy channel will expedite the transformation. Foreign policy becomes a simple matter of making speeches, issuing Islamic-friendly press releases, and removing our military power that traditionally would have been used as a counter weight to protect our national interests.
The dulcet tones of Obama's many speeches were expected to soften the murderous hearts of Islamic regimes in the Middle East. To demonstrate the sincerity of his one-world socialistic faith, Obama has presided over withdrawals of military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with massive reductions in our Defense Department budget. And he has adopted a lead-from-behind foreign policy, first displayed in the Libyan revolution, that gives the UN a veto over our foreign policy.
In effect, he subordinates our historical national interests to those of anti-American countries who dominate the UN.
However one views it, being nice is not a foreign policy. Foreign policy requires identifying short-term and long-term actual and potential threats to our national security and prosperity, for example forces that threaten our access to supplies of petroleum and access for our military and commercial craft to the world's sea and air lanes. Iran's threat to close the Persian Gulf is its foreign policy thrust to push us away from supporting Israel.
Having identified those threats, foreign policy planners must work with the president to focus upon the most effective ways to forestall threats or to counter them in the least costly and most effective ways. Such ways need not involve going to war, but in every case there must be sufficient military power to threaten, through diplomatic channels, immediate counter actions or to imply future counter actions. The aim is not to win wars, but to prevent them. However, when we are attacked by Islamic jihadists, direct military retaliation may be the surest, quickest, and least costly way to re-establish an international balance that protects our national interests. Clausewitz famously observed that war is, in effect, an extension of foreign policy, which means that it must be kept within bounds and employed as a last-ditch measure.
One of our most successful long-range foreign policy stances was that of containment of Soviet aggression during the cold war. Direct military conflict was avoided, but the United States, from 1945 until 1989, met every Soviet thrust with combinations of military deployment and economic and diplomatic support for nations in the path of Soviet moves. We did engage in the Korean War to forestall socialist engulfment of South Korea, a result that would have allowed China to threaten Japan's economy and drive a diplomatic wedge between Japan and the United States.
During that long period of foreign policy containment, State Department and Department of Defense strategists worked unceasingly to anticipate threats that might develop many moves ahead in the chess match of international politics. They held no illusions about the malevolence of Soviet and Chinese rulers, but worked to impose military and economic impediments that would have made costs to the aggressors greater than the potential gains.
Such has been the way rulers have viewed foreign policy throughout history. It's a long way from playing Mr. Nice Guy and bowing submissively to Islamic dictators, hoping that they won't stab us when we turn our backs.


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East Hartsdale Avenue Multi-Family Building Proposed (near Four Corners)
MULTI FAMILY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING TO BE PROPOSED NEAR HARTSDALE 4 CORNERS AT TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION THIS TUESDAY- 4 PM
...current auto repair shop site (E Hartsdale Ave/Wilson Street--near Central Ave)
This is the first major 4 corners redevelopment proposal to be presented to the Town Board
On Tuesday May 14th at the Town Board work session (which begins at 4 PM) a presentation will be made by owners interested in redeveloping the corner of East Hartsdale Avenue and Wilson Street with a new multi-family residential building. Presently at the site (two separately-owner lots) a former gas station (and current auto repair shop) exists with two, one-family residences to the rear. A site owner approached the Town with a concept to combine the lots and develop one building fronting close to East Hartsdale Avenue. Collectively the two sites are zoned primarily M-174 (Multi-Family Residence District), with a small sliver of R-7.5 (One-Family Residence District).
The properties were planned to be rezoned to M-174 in connection with Appendix E of the Comprehensive Plan, however, this zoning map change was postponed to allow for full review of an actual redevelopment proposal for a multi-family building redevelopment. This multi-phased approach allows for an appropriate process for review of traffic, buffers, landscaping, etc., in advance of any rezoning. The meeting with the Town Board is the very first step in this process, which will entail site plan review and a zoning map amendment, all of which will include public input.
The subject site is the only property in the Four Corners Study area with present zoning (provided the R-7.5 portion is amended) that would permit development consistent with the Hartsdale Four Corners Study, which is an ongoing Town planning initiative. In addition to the site plan review and zoning map amendment noted above, it is also very important for the Engineering/Planning Consultant selected for the Four Corners Traffic/Stormwater and infrastructure study (Consultant to be selected in June) to provide input on the potential for this property to be incrementally developed, in the context of Four Corners planning.
The Town will receive copies of the rendering for the proposal at the meeting Tuesday and will then post this information on the Town website. The auto-use is a non-conforming use that is proposed to be replaced with an attractive modern building. The meeting Tuesday can be live streamed from the Town website, viewed on cable access tv or in person at the work session. The applicant will also make a separate presentation to the Four Corners Land Use Resident Committee following soon after the Town Board meeting. The input of the 4C committee is important, as will be input from all residents, in this process.
Last year the Town Board and I invited residents who are most impacted with proposed land use applicants to join land use committees that are advisory to the Town Board. These land use advisory committees have worked with the Commissioner of Planning, preparing RFPs for consultants and they have also helped interview potential consultants who analyze land use application. We want citizens to be partners in all major development review processes.
After the presentation I will post a link to the video/discussion for those who can't attend our Board meeting or watch it live.


CAF President Ahmad Ahmad was mobbed in a mosque in Accra when he met his former Vice President Kwesi Nyantakyi at the Cantonments Police Mosque during the Friday Jumuah prayers.
Worshippers at the mosque wasted no time in reaching out for pictures with the two high profile personalities as they reached out for photos at the end of the prayers.
The two Imams at the mosque took their time for photos with the duo before the public took turns to take pictures in what was the first appearance of the duo since Nyantakyi resigned from his post at the CAF 1st Vice President.
Other senior Muslim figures in the Ghana football fraternity including former GFA chairman Alhaji MND Jawula and Alhaji Abdul Karim Grunsah were all part of the congregants.
The Imam said special prayers for the CAF President Ahmad for God's guidance and protection before also saying special prayers for better times for Nyantakyi following his life ban from football by the FIFA Ethics Committee.
While many of the Muslims mobbed Ahmad and greeted him after the prayers, others many many other met Nyantakyi to show their solidarity with him after the Anas expose that led to his ban.


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Are You Ready for a Bioweapons Lab in Your Town?
Annalee Newitz
In its ongoing efforts to stamp out all things terror-related, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just released a giant report on its plans to build a mega bio-defense lab where scientists will study the Earth's deadliest diseases for humans and animals. Basically, it will be a real-life version of that lab you saw in the recent A&E revamp of The Andromeda Strain. Sounds awesome, right? The problem is that disease leaks from the lab are not entirely unlikely, according to the report.
According to UPI:
The department also assessed the possibility of a terrorist attack releasing pathogens from the lab — which will work on the most infectious animal diseases, like Foot and Mouth; and on those most deadly to humans, like the Hendra and Nipah viruses. The overall risk assessment for a release at the five mainland sites was "moderate" because of "the potential easy spread of a disease through livestock or wildlife" nearby, the statement said.
The new lab, to be built in 2010, will replace an existing bio-defense lab on Long Island. That lab, called the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, is outdated and no longer useful. DHS wants its researchers to study "zoonotic diseases" that hop from animals to people (can you say "bird flu"?), and to do that they need a facility at "bio-security level 4," the highest level. Plum Island only goes up to level 3. About ten percent of the new facility will be at level 4.
DHS is currently considering five possible sites in the mainland United States. They'd better hope nobody in those towns has read The Hot Zone or seen 28 Days Later.
New Report on Bio-War Lab Danger [UPI via Space War]


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In a subway stop, two people await, in the middle of the crowd, the arrival of the subway. Upon itsÕ arrival, the crowd disappears. On the ends of the station, both stand still, and, as the subway leaves, they walk to meet each other. They approach, join their bodies and the dance begins.
Japan is a very "unique" country. Contemporary Japan emulates the cultures and life styles of the "West" while remaining xenophobic, and feeling threatened by foreign people/things. An experimental work on Japanese right wing demonstrations.


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Media Breakthroughs: Winning Strategies From Young Entrepreneurs
Cheryl Conner Former Contributor
I write about small businesses doing innovative PR
the combination of chutzpah, elbow grease and original thinking that has gotten each of these young entrepreneurs and their clients into the press.
Research has shown that stories are 22 times more memorable than facts
Sometimes it isn't experience that wins the day. It's the combination of chutzpah, elbow grease and original thinking that has gotten each of these young entrepreneurs and their clients into the press. This week I have gathered the best ideas from three exceptionally young entrepreneurs for achieving home run PR.
Christopher Kai, international speaker and bestselling author, was hired by his uncle at a boutique insurance company in lower Manhattan at age 12 and began writing his first book at 19. Adam Khafif, now 21, began working with professional athletes, Olympians, hip-hop artists and others on cause-based clothing lines for 6 years, since the age of 15. Nineteen-year-old Ulyses Osuna, founder of Influencer Press, has been featured in tier-one publications and is a contributor to Business.com, Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur.
Christopher Kai persuaded Elon Musk to visit a homeless shelter for a story interview.
All three have succeeded by writing their own PR playbooks. Each agreed to share what they've done that's worked best, for the benefit of other entrepreneurs.
Kai, who became one of the youngest business strategy and communication managers at American Express, attributes much of his entrepreneurial success to the concept he calls "Tent pole stories."
" Research has shown that stories are 22 times more memorable than facts ," he maintains. So his first advice to aspiring founders is to create and polish the tent pole stories that can best represent yourself or your business. The result has been the Gifted Professional Speaker (GPS) online program to help entrepreneurs become professional speakers with their own tent pole stories. In the first two weeks of his launch, four of his clients used his strategies to secure seven speaking opportunities.
Here's an example tent pole tale of his own: "In Q1 2016 I attended an event at the White House, spoke at a global conference in Atlanta and was invited to Israel/Palestine through a US Consulate program teach entrepreneurs about branding and networking. In August, my 'Big Game Hunting: Networking with Billionaires, Executives and Celebrities' eBook became an Amazon #1 bestseller in small business for four days. In four weeks, I'll be giving a keynote entitled 'Catapult Your Career Opportunities' at the headquarters of Google."
The story behind each of these wins is a story pole, he says, and notes that he's succeeded at the strategy enough times that Inc Magazine has referred to him as "the billionaire networker." His advice to other entrepreneurs is to create a new tent pole accomplishment each month and to tell the stories in ways that will captivate and motivate others to accomplish their own business goals. (For perhaps his own most interesting story of all, be sure to ask him how he persuaded Elon Musk to drive to a homeless shelter for an exclusive interview.)
In the case of Khafif, he has combined the appeal of new or well known athletes and artists with cool designs and critical causes, such as sex trafficking and refugees (he's the founder of Lisn Up Clothing, which donates 50% of its profit to charity) with personal access.
For example, in the days prior his recent collaboration with the singer Yuna, Khafif posted a temporary phone number on Twitter and Snapchat, urging supporters to call for exclusive information about the next collaboration, the clothing collection, and the cause he would donate to. For the designated period of four hours, he took calls ("hundreds") from all around the country. The callers' missions were to then create a post of their own about the news with the promise that Lisn Up would repost or re-Tweet their announcement.
So Lisn Up amplified and re-posted the fan-based announcements instead of announcing the news themselves. It gave the fans a sense of exclusivity to the brand and importance within the cause, as well as creating a personal connection and an experience to remember.
As the Yuna campaign was still in progress at the time of our interview (Oct. 23), Khafif was unable to provide exact outcomes, but disclosed that in three weeks time the campaign had raised $3,000 in revenue, and that the company is in the process of setting up a pop-up shop in L.A. to continue the effort and to expand upon the progress of the five pop-up shops he's created around the country in Spring 2016 to raise money to combat sex trafficking. In all, Khafif has determined that fan involvement and exclusivity creates much more impact than a person or an organization could achieve on their own.
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Finally, Ulyses Osuna has made his own unique advances to traditional PR-marketing activities to help his public relations endeavors succeed. He is one of six founders to be featured in an Inc Magazine article on "Millennials with a Thriving Business" and has also been featured in the Huffington Post as a 19-Year-Old dominating the PR space.
Osuna uses Hubspot Sales software to schedule his email pitches, which carries the advantage of letting him see who opens and reads his pitches. (Bonus advice—he gets the best traction by scheduling his emails to land between 7-9:00 a.m. Monday through Friday in his recipients' time zones for maximum response.) The Hubspot tool also makes it easier for Osuna to scope the person's social profiles and recent Tweets, which is something every prospective PR pitcher should do.
"Give journalists a narrative," Osuna advises. His favorite strategy is to offer up a couple of bullet points on the prospective story hooks he could provide them. Make your pitch short, he says, and insightfully suggests that the headline you suggest follow a similar form and style to the titles the writer typically uses (a brilliant touch).
How to pitch the right person? Osuna uses Google searches to scope the keyword and the publication to see who's most aligned within the base of writers to your topic of choice. Refer to one or more of the writer's recent pieces to show that you've done your homework (you have done that homework ahead of your pitching, correct?)
Follow the journalists you're pitching on Twitter, Instagram, etc., to get a better feel for their interests and the kind of stories and sources they prefer. You can even comment and share their articles every now and again. Keep the tone of your emails casual. Don't address the individual as "Mr." or Mrs." You should certainly avoid approaches like "Dear Sir or Madame" or "To Whom it May Concern." And keep your missive brief. "This is a conversation," Osana reminds others, "Not an informational dump."
In all, these three founders have offered at least a few new ideas that should benefit media-seeking entrepreneurs of every demographic. Do you have other suggestions to add to this list? If so, I welcome your contributions in the comment section below.
Gallery: Teenage Millionaire Entrepreneurs
I am an entrepreneur and communications expert from Salt Lake City and founder of SnappConner PR. I am the author of Beyond PR: Communicate Like A Champ In The Digital A...


The Starling is sometimes regarded as a bit of a pest in both town and country but around 1800 it was virtually extinct in Scotland.
The Starling has a range of plumages. Its breeding plumage is shown in the first photo taken in May when the body plumage has very few spots. This is because they have worn off as the feathers brush up against the entrance to the nest hole.
Photos 2, 3 and 4 were taken in December when the plumage is fresh after moulting and shows the V-shaped spots.
Although these 3 photos were taken on the same day in December, they show a variety of bill colours ranging from the full breeding bill colour of yellow with a pale base through to dark.
The fifth photo was taken in September and shows a juvenile moving into 1st winter plumage.
In flight it has pointed wings and a short tail.
The Starling has a wide variety of songs and calls and is an excellent mimic of other birds as well as frogs, cats and other animals.
Photos 7 and 8 were taken in Shetland and are of the sub-species S. v. zetlandicus or "Shetland Starling". These are slightly larger than the nominate sub-species with a longer, broader based bill. The juvenile plumage is darker.


If you do not own a food processor, start by crushing/chopping the almond slices until they are very small crumbs. Otherwise, use your food processor to get the almonds finely chopped. Mix the confectioner's sugar, almonds, and coconut until everything is tossed well with the sugar.
Cover the dough tightly and refrigerate until cold and firm – at least 2 hours. It should not be sticky to the touch when you remove it from the fridge.
Scoop cold dough into large teaspoon-sized balls and roll between your palms to form a round ball. Place each formed ball onto a cookie sheet 1-2 inches apart. If you roll too thoroughly the balls could fall apart. Be very gentle in forming the cookies. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown slightly. Remove to cool on a wire rack.
Sift extra confectioner's sugar into a small bowl, and gently coat them with the sugar. This is where you must be INCREDIBLY delicate. The cookies are crumbly and if you press them into the sugar too hard they'll fall right apart. I've learned that this dough doesn't hold together as well as standard flour, but it still yields a delicious end product.


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Clinical and biomedical research is essential for improving the health of adults and children and for developing new and improved treatments.
Our clinicians work alongside biomedical scientists, chemists, physicists and engineers from Imperial College London to develop new ways of diagnosing, treating and preventing disease. We are part of Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre and, with our partners, our aim is to apply research discoveries to healthcare as quickly as possible so we can improve the lives of NHS patients and populations around the world.
We conduct research into common diseases that affect large numbers of people and are acknowledged as global health challenges, such as HIV infection, respiratory and cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. We also conduct research into rare conditions that affect individuals and families.
Gene sequencing has the potential to transform the future of healthcare. By sequencing patients' genomes we will be able to gain new medical insights into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of diseases such as cancer. This could allow us to deliver more personalised treatments to patients based on their individual genetic makeup. Read more about genomic medicine.
Our researchers work at the frontiers of medical knowledge – investigating health issues that might not be common today, but are likely to become more widespread in the future. We look at the safety and effectiveness of new treatments, how existing medicines can be used to treat different conditions, and develop our own drugs, devices and techniques which, through clinical research trials, become the licensed and prescribed treatments of the future.
To understand if new treatments and techniques work, we carry out hundreds of clinical trials and other studies each year. Studies rely on the willing participation of patients and healthy volunteers. All trials are conducted under controlled, safe and ethically-approved conditions which put the participant at the heart of the research.
Every year thousands of patients join our research studies and benefit from having early access to the latest treatments, and regular contact with specialists in their condition. Some studies are purely observational, rather than 'interventional'. Observational studies look at people's behaviour and how disease develops or doesn't develop, depending on different factors, like changes in diet. Interventional studies involve trialling new treatments and techniques.
As well as participating in clinical research, we actively encourage patients and healthy volunteers to contribute to the design and review of our studies. Involving and engaging patients in this way has a positive influence on the success of trials.
Through our partnership with Imperial College London, we have a global reputation for excellence and advances in clinical and biomedical research which can be translated rapidly into the clinic. The size of our joint organisation and the breadth of our experience mean we attract some of the brightest and best clinical and biomedical academics to work with us.
Research is part of the fabric of our organisation and we have an extensive portfolio of studies across many areas of healthcare. At any one time, we typically have more than 400 separate healthcare research studies underway.
Funding for our research comes from government departments, charitable organisations, the European Union, and from commercial sponsors in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industry sectors.
We have a diverse range of clinical research facilities and infrastructure across our five hospitals.
We welcome approaches from commercial organisations who are interested in conducting or collaborating on healthcare research with us.
We also champion research led by nurses, allied health professionals and other 'non-medical' experts, which focuses on how we can improve the patient care and patient experience we deliver. In the last year nurses and midwives at our Trust have led research projects looking at: improving patients' sleep; enhancing privacy and dignity for patients in hospital; managing back pain in patients; developing appropriate diets; and preventing and managing pressure ulcers.


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Bombardier chairman defends former CEO's $17.5 million severance package
The Bombardier Inc. chairman is defending former CEO Alain Bellemare's hefty compensation plan worth millions of dollars.
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The Bombardier Inc. chairman is defending former CEO Alain Bellemare's hefty compensation plan worth millions of dollars, according to The Star.
After stepping down in April, Bellemare received a package that could potentially reach $17.5 million as it involves at least $10 million in severance pay and almost $2.7 million in shares. Also if Bombardier's rail unit is sold to Alstom SA in France, he will receive another $4.9 million.
During the Quebec company's annual meeting on Thursday, Pierre Beaudoin—grandson of Bombardier's founder—told shareholders that the board "respected its (contractual) obligations" with the former executive's compensation plan and the policies were comparable to those of other U.S. and Canadian companies that are publicly traded.
Caisse de depot et placement, which manages pension plans, called the compensation plan "excessive."
The company's debt is now over $9 billion as it struggles during Bellemare's five-year tenure.
During the virtual meeting on Thursday, current CEO Eric Martel said "repeated program delays and technical challenges tarnished" the company's reputation while his predecessor was in charge.


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With strong home-ice edge, Ice Flyers hold fan appreciation night Saturday
Pensacola Blue Wahoos/Studer55
The Ice Flyers currently have the second-best home record in their league.
An appropriate time for Saturday's Fan Appreciation Night at the Pensacola Bay Center, where more then $5,000 of prizes will be given away in a post-Christmas, spirited event.
After facing the Macon Mayhem in Macon, Ga. Friday night, the teams return to play again in a game that nears midpoint of the Ice Flyers home schedule. The Ice Flyers (15-4-2 overall, 9-1-1 at home) are just three points behind Peoria for first place in the Southern Professional Hockey League.
It matches one of the best starts in franchise history.
"It's a team that just keeps the pedal down and we have done it all year," said Ice Flyers coach Rod Aldofff. "And it's impressive and says a lot about those guys. It' a focused group that just competes."
When Aldoff assembled the team in September, he figured the group of players he recruited had a chance to jell together early and be successful.
It's worked that way, including strong goaltending. Jake Kupsky, who battled through an injury to start the season, has become the No. 1 goaltender with Chase Perry on loan to the ECHL Orlando Solar Bears. Kupsky went into Friday's game unbeaten.
"It's been even better (than expected)," Aldoff said. "And not just only for our record. The thing that's impressive as a coach is how the team competes, who they are as people, how we're progressing as a team, as far as our discipline and game plans and what we want to accomplish off certain situations has been excellent.
"It is a young team that is hungry and wants to get better. I like where we're at right now and we'll only get better. "
The team is hosting its annual Fan Appreciation Night with gifts to be given away, including team jerseys, hats, shirts, sticks and gift cards.
Bill Vilona is a retired Pensacola News Journal sports columnist and current senior writer for Pensacola Blue Wahoos/Studer55. He can be reached at bvilona@bluewahoos.com