As a project leader I provide scientific leadership for a cadre of dedicated scientists and staff involved in the development of forest science and related applications that improve our understanding, monitoring, and management of northern forest ecosystems from Maine to Minnesota. A number of world-class research forests are maintained by this research unit that provide a plethora of opportunities for engaging partners (states, universities, NGOs) in research of mutual interest.
In addition to my leadership of the research unit, impactful research assigned to me includes refining our quantification and understanding of the role of forest dead wood in forest stand dynamics, production, and carbon cycles. In addition to dead wood exploration, I investigate the refinement of forest stand dynamics metrics, such as stocking indices, to accomodate emerging theories of tree functional traits and related stand development processes. Finally, as a former Forest Inventory and Analysis scientist and Lead Scientist of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory of US Forests, I identify ways to upscale research results from experimental forests to the population level with a focus on forest carbon accounting and management.
My research, leadership, and analyses fill critical information needs regarding forest ecosystems to the general public, resource managers, scientists, policy makers, economists, and a wide range of other natural resource specialists. Success in this mission is crucial to assessing the sustainability of not only forest ecosystems in the northern United States, but also the health of our Nation's forests. Research outputs provide Forest Service customers and clients with crucial information and provide improved techniques for data application to a range of resource inventory and monitoring needs (e.g., national carbon stock assessment and national forest stand relative density).
Ducey, Mark J.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Bravo-Oviedo, Andrés. 2017. Climate and species functional traits influence maximum live tree stocking in the Lake States, USA.
Zhu, Kai; Woodall, Christopher W.; Ghosh, Souparno; Gelfand, Alan E.; Clark, James S. 2014. Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history.
Woodall, C.W.; Oswalt, C.M.; Westfall, J.A.; Perry, C.H.; Nelson, M.D.; Finley, A.O. 2009. An indicator of tree migration in forests of the eastern United States.
Woodall, Chris W.; Miles, Patrick D.; Vissage, John S. 2005. Determining maximum stand density index in mixed species stands for strategic-scale stocking assessments.
Woodall, C.W.; Russell, M.B.; Walters, B.F.; D'Amato, A.W.; Fraver, S.; Domke, G.M. 2015. Net carbon flux of dead wood in forests of the Eastern US.
Campbell, John L.; Green, Mark B.; Yanai, Ruth D.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fraver, Shawn ; Harmon, Mark E.; Hatfield, Mark A.; Barnett, Charles J.; See, Craig R.; Domke, Grant M. 2019. Estimating uncertainty in the volume and carbon storage of downed coarse woody debris.
Woodall, C.W. ; Westfall, J.A. ; D'Amato, A.W. ; Foster, J.R. ; Walters, B.F. . 2018. Decadal changes in tree range stability across forests of the eastern U.S..
Warziniack, Travis W.; Elmer, Matthew J.; Miller, Chris J.; Dante-Wood, S. Karen; Woodall, Christopher W.; Nichols, Michael C.; Domke, Grant M.; Stockmann, Keith D.; Proctor, John G.; Borchers, Allison M. 2018. Effects of climate change on ecosystem services Chapter 13.
Deo, Ram K.; Domke, Grant M.; Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Andersen, Hans-Erik . 2018. Evaluating the influence of spatial resolution of Landsat predictors on the accuracy of biomass models for large-area estimation across the eastern USA.
Kubiske, Mark ; Woodall, Christopher ; Kern, Christel C. 2018. Increasing Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Stand Development in Trembling Aspen Forests: Are Outdated Density Management Guidelines in Need of Revision for All Species.
Ma, Wu ; Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Walters, Brian F. 2018. Stand age versus tree diameter as a driver of forest carbon inventory simulations in the northeastern U.S..
Ma, Wu ; Domke, Grant M.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Walters, Brian F.; Deo, Ram K. 2018. Using matrix models to estimate aboveground forest biomass dynamics in the eastern USA through various combinations of LiDAR, Landsat, and forest inventory data.
Oberle, Brad; Ogle, Kiona; Zanne, Amy E.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2018. When a tree falls: Controls on wood decay predict standing dead tree fall and new risks in changing forests.
Clough, Brian J.; Curzon, Miranda T.; Domke, Grant M.; Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2017. Climate-driven trends in stem wood density of tree species in the eastern United States: Ecological impact and implications for national forest carbon assessments.
Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2017. Development of a downed woody debris forecasting tool using strategic-scale multiresource forest inventories.
Deo, Ram; Russell, Matthew; Domke, Grant; Andersen, Hans-Erik; Cohen, Warren; Woodall, Christopher. 2017. Evaluating Site-Specific and Generic Spatial Models of Aboveground Forest Biomass Based on Landsat Time-Series and LiDAR Strip Samples in the Eastern USA.
Puhlick, Joshua; Woodall, Christopher; Weiskittel, Aaron. 2017. Implications of land-use change on forest carbon stocks in the eastern United States.
Russell, Matthew B.; Westfall, James A.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2017. Modeling browse impacts on sapling and tree recruitment across forests in the northern United States.
Domke, G.M.; Perry, C.H.; Walters, B.F.; Nave, L.E.; Woodall, C.W.; Swanston, C.W. 2017. Toward inventory-based estimates of soil organic carbon in forests of the United States.
Deo, Ram K.; Russell, Matthew B.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Falkowski, Michael J.; Cohen, Warren B. 2017. Using Landsat Time-Series and LiDAR to Inform Aboveground Forest Biomass Baselines in Northern Minnesota, USA.
Woodall, C. W.; Walters, B. F.; Russell, M. B.; Coulston, J. W.; Domke, G. M.; D'Amato, A. W.; Sowers, P. A. 2016. A Tale of Two Forest Carbon Assessments in the Eastern United States: Forest Use Versus Cover as a Metric of Change.
Harris, N. L.; Hagen, S. C.; Saatchi, S. S.; Pearson, T. R. H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M.; Braswell, B. H.; Walters, Brian F.; Brown, S.; Salas, W.; Fore, A.; Yu, Y. 2016. Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United States.
Stokland, Jogeir N.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fridman, Jonas; Ståhl, Göran. 2016. Burial of downed deadwood is strongly affected by log attributes, forest ground vegetation, edaphic conditions, and climate zones.
Clough, Brian J.; Russell, Matthew B.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Radtke, Philip J. 2016. Comparing tree foliage biomass models fitted to a multispecies, felled-tree biomass dataset for the United States.
Domke, Grant M.; Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Walters, Brian F.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Russell, Matthew B.; Smith, James E. 2016. Estimating litter carbon stocks on forest land in the United States.
Babcock, Chad; Finley, Andrew O.; Cook, Bruce D.; Weiskittel, Aaron; Woodall, Christopher W. 2016. Modeling forest biomass and growth: Coupling long-term inventory and LiDAR data.
Clough, Brian J.; Russell, Matthew B.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2016. Quantifying allometric model uncertainty for plot-level live tree biomass stocks with a data-driven, hierarchical framework.
Russell, Matthew B.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W. 2015. Comparisons of allometric and climate-derived estimates of tree coarse root carbon stocks in forests of the United States.
Domke, Grant M.; Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Walters, Brian F.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Nave, Lucas E.; Swanston, Chris. 2015. Estimating carbon in forest soils of the United States using the national forest inventory.
Woodall, C.W.; Russell, M.B.; Walters, B.F.; D'Amato, A.W.; Zhu, K.; Saatchi, S.S. 2015. Forest production dynamics along a wood density spectrum in eastern US forests.
Clough, Brian J.; Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M.; Radtke, Philip J. 2015. Hierarchical models for informing general biomass equations with felled tree data.
Russell, Matthew B.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W. 2015. Incorporating climate into belowground carbon estimates in the national greenhouse gas inventory.
Walters, Brian F.; Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2015. Leveraging FIA data for analysis beyond forest reports: examples from the world of carbon.
King, A.W.; Andres, R.J.; Davis, K J.; Hafer, M.; Hayes, D.J.; Huntzinger, D.N.; de Jong, B.; Kurz, W.A.; McGuire, A.D.; Vargas, R.; Wei, Y.; West, T.O.; Woodall, C.W. 2015. North America's net terrestrial CO2 exchange with the atmosphere 1990-2009.
Russell, Matthew B.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Albers, Michael A.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Puettmann, Klaus J.; Saunders, Michael R.; VanderSchaaf, Curtis L. 2015. Performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator in managed white spruce plantations influenced by eastern spruce budworm in northern Minnesota.
Zhu, Kai; Woodall, Christopher W.; Monteiro, Joao V.D.; Clark, James S. 2015. Prevalence and strength of density-dependent tree recruitment.
Russell, Matthew B.; Fraver, Shawn; Aakala, Tuomas; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Ducey, Mark J. 2015. Quantifying carbon stores and decomposition in dead wood: A review.
Deo, Ram K.; Domke, Grant M.; Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Falkowski, Michael J. 2015. Using landsat time-series and lidar to inform aboveground carbon baseline estimation in Minnesota.
Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Domke, Grant M.; Saatchi, Sassan S. 2014. Beyond mean functional traits: Influence of functional trait profiles on forest structure, production, and mortality across the eastern US.
Valle, Denis; Baiser, Benjamin; Woodall, Christopher W.; Chazdon, Robin; Chave, Jerome. 2014. Decomposing biodiversity data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a probabilistic multivariate statistical method.
Potter, Kevin M.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2014. Does biodiversity make a difference Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across US forests.
Joyce, Linda A.; Running, Steven W.; Breshears, David D.; Dale, Virginia H.; Malmsheimer, Robert W.; Sampson, R. Neil; Sohngen, Brent; Woodall, Christopher W. 2014. Forests Chapter 7.
Russell, M.B.; Woodall, C.W.; D'Amato, A.W.; Fraver, S.; Bradford, J.B. 2014. Linking climate change and downed woody debris decomposition across forests of the eastern United States.
Clark, James S.; Gelfand, Alan E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Zhu, Kai. 2014. More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from joint species distribution models.
Russell, Matthew B.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Schulz, Bethany K.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M.; Bradford, John B. 2014. Quantifying understorey vegetation in the US Lake States: a proposed framework to inform regional forest carbon stocks.
Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fraver, Shawn; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Domke, Grant M.; Skog, Kenneth E. 2014. Residence times and decay rates of downed woody debris biomass/carbon in eastern US forests.
Westfall, James A.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Hatfield, Mark A. 2013. A statistical power analysis of woody carbon flux from forest inventory data.
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A.; Zhu, K.; Johnson, D.J. 2013. Assessing the effect of snow/water obstructions on the measurement of tree seedlings in a large-scale temperate forest inventory.
Harmon, Mark E.; Fasth, Becky; Woodall, Christopher W.; Sexton, Jay. 2013. Carbon concentration of standing and downed woody detritus: effects of tree taxa, decay class, position, and tissue type.
Russell, Matthew B.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fraver, Shawn; D'Amato, Anthony W. 2013. Estimates of downed woody debris decay class transitions for forests across the eastern United States.
Walters, Brian F.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Piva, Ronald J.; Hatfield, Mark A.; Domke, Grant M.; Haugen, David E. 2013. Forests of the Black Hills National Forest 2011.
Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Walters, Brian F.; Smith, James E. 2013. From Models to Measurements: Comparing Downed Dead Wood Carbon Stock Estimates in the U.S. Forest Inventory.
Wilson, Barry Tyler; Woodall, Christopher W.; Griffith, Douglas M. 2013. Imputing forest carbon stock estimates from inventory plots to a nationally continuous coverage.
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2013. Indiana's forest resources, 2012.
Woodall, C.W.; Luppold, W.G.; Ince, P.J.; Piva, R.J.; Skog, K.E. 2012. An assessment of the downturn in the forest products sector in the northern region of the United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Perry, Charles H.; Westfall, James A. 2012. An empirical assessment of forest floor carbon stock components across the United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Ince, P.J.; Skog, K.E.; Aguilar, F.X.; Keegan, C.E.; Sorenson, C.B.; Hodges, D.G.; Smith, W.B. 2012. An overview of the forest products sector downturn in the United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M. 2012. Appendix 2: Risk-based framework and risk case studies. Risk case study: a framework for assessing climate change risks to forest carbon stocks.
Domke, Grant M.; Becker, Dennis R.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Ek, Alan R.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. Carbon emissions associated with the procurement and utilization of forest harvest residues for energy, northern Minnesota, USA.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Westfall, James A. 2012. Curious or spurious correlations within a national-scale forest inventory.
Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. Down woody material.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Luppold, William G.; Ince, Peter J.; Piva, Ronald J.; Skog, Kenneth E. 2012. Effects of the "great recession" on the forest products sector in the northern region of the United States.
Zhu, Kai; Woodall, Christopher W.; Clark, James S. 2012. Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change.
Previant, Wilfred J.; Nagel, Linda M.; Pugh, Scott A.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. Forest Resources of Isle Royale National Park 2010.
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2012. Indiana's forest resources, 2011.
Morin, R.S.; Woodall, C.W. 2012. New Hampshire's forest resources, 2011.
Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Smith, James E. 2012. Recent changes in the estimation of standing dead tree biomass and carbon stocks in the U.S. forest inventory.
Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Bradford, John B.; Finley, Andrew O. 2012. Stand density index as a tool to assess the maximization of forest carbon and biomass.
An, Hong Su; MacFarlane, David W.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. The improvement of precision for estimating the abundance of standing dead trees using auxiliary information under the FIA pot design.
Woodall, Christopher W.; MacFarlane, David W. 2012. The zero inflation of standing dead tree carbon stocks.
Woodall, C.W.; Walters, B.F.; Westfall, J.A. 2012. Tracking downed dead wood in forests over time: Development of a piece matching algorithm for line intercept sampling.
Potter, Kevin M.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. Trends over time in tree and seedling phylogenetic diversity indicate regional differences in forest biodiversity change.
Liknes, Greg C.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Walters, Brian F.; Goeking, Sara A. 2012. Unlocking the climate riddle in forested ecosystems.
Liknes, Greg C.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Perry, Charles H. 2012. Using inventory data to determine the impact of drought on tree mortality.
Morin, R.S.; Woodall, C.W. 2012. Vermont's forest resources, 2011.
Woodall, Christopher William. 2012. Where did the US forest biomass/carbon go.
Perry, Charles H.; Everson, Vern A.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Dahir, Sally E.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea L.; Domke, Grant M; Gormanson, Dale D.; Herrick, Sarah K.; Hubbard, Steven S.; Mace, Terry R.; Miles, Patrick D.; Nelson, Mark D.; Rodeout, Richard B.; Saunders, Luke T.; Stueve, Kirk M.; Wilson, Barry T.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2012. Wisconsin's Forests 2009.
Domke, Grant M.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Smith, James E. 2011. Accounting for density reduction and structural loss in standing dead trees: Implications for forest biomass and carbon stock estimates in the United States.
Harmon, Mark E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fasth, Becky; Sexton, Jay; Yatkov, Misha. 2011. Differences between standing and downed dead tree wood density reduction factors: A comparison across decay classes and tree species.
Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Bradford, John B.; Finley, Andrew O. 2011. Effects of stand and inter-specific stocking on maximizing standing tree carbon stocks in the eastern United States.
Crocker, S.J.; Woodall, C.W. 2011. Illinois' forest resources, 2009.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Webb, Mark N.; Wilson, Barry T.; Settle, Jeff; Piva, Ron J.; Perry, Charles H.; Meneguzzo, Dacia M.; Crocker, Susan J.; Butler, Brett J.; Hansen, Mark; Hatfield, Mark; Brand, Gary; Barnett, Charles. 2011. Indiana's Forests 2008.
Woodall, C.W.; Webb, M.N. 2011. Indiana's forest resources, 2010.
Heath, Linda S.; Smith, James E.; Skog, Kenneth E.; Nowak, David J.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2011. Managed forest carbon estimates for the US greenhouse gas inventory, 1990-2008.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Heath, Linda S.; Domke, Grant M.; Nichols, Michael C. 2011. Methods and equations for estimating aboveground volume, biomass, and carbon for trees in the U.S. forest inventory, 2010.
Miles, Patrick D.; Heinzen, David; Mielke, Manfred E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Butler, Brett J.; Piva, Ron J.; Meneguzzo, Dacia M.; Perry, Charles H.; Gormanson, Dale D.; Barnett, Charles J. 2011. Minnesota's Forests 2008.
Woodall, C.J.; Nowak, D.J.; Liknes, G.C.; Westfall, J.A. 2010. Assessing the potential for urban trees to facilitate forest tree migration in the eastern United States.
Woodall, C.W. 2010. Carbon flux of down woody materials in forests of the north central United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Morin, R.S.; Steinman, J.R.; Perry, C.H. 2010. Comparing evaluations of forest health based on aerial surveys and field inventories: Oak forests in the Northern United States.
Fasth, Becky; Harmon, Mark E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Sexton, Jay. 2010. Evaluation of techniques for determining the density of fine woody debris.
Woodall, C.W.; Webb, M.N.; Crocker, S.J. 2010. Indiana's forest resources, 2009.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Smith, James E.; Miles, Patrick D. 2009. Attributes of standing dead trees in forests of the United States.
Woodall, Christopher; Westfall, James. 2009. Can live tree size-density relationships provide a mechanism for predicting down and dead tree resources.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Rondeux, Jacques; Verkerk, Pieter J.; Stahl, Goran. 2009. Estimating dead wood during national forest inventories: a review of inventory methodologies and suggestions for harmonization.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Rondeux, Jacques; Verkerk, Pieter J.; Ståhl, Göran. 2009. Estimating dead wood during national forest inventories: a review of inventory methodologies and suggestions for harmonization.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. 2009. Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Webb, M.N.; Gallion, J. 2009. Indiana's Forest Resources, 2008.
Pugh, Scott A.; Hansen, Mark H.; Pedersen, Lawrence D.; Heym, Douglas C.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Meneguzzo, Dacia; Perry, Charles H.; Haugen, David E.; Woodall, Christopher; Jepsen, Ed. 2009. Michigan's forests 2004.
Haugen, David E.; Kangas, Michael; Crocker, Susan J.; Perry, Charles H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Butler, Brett J.; Wilson, Barry T.; Kaisershot, Dan J. 2009. North Dakota's forests 2005.
Liknes, Greg C.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Perry, Charles H. 2009. Predicting forest attributes from climate data using a recursive partitioning and regression tree algorithm.
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A. 2009. Relationships between the stocking levels of live trees and dead tree attributes in forests of the United States.
Morin, Randall S; Woodall, Christopher W.; Steinman, Jim; Perry, Charles H. 2009. Use of damage surveys and field inventories to evaluate oak and sugar maple health in the northern United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Liknes, Greg C. 2008. Climatic regions as an indicator of forest coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks in the United States.
Oswalt, Sonja N.; Brandels, Thomas J.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Contribution of dead wood to biomass and carbon stocks in the Caribbean: St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A. 2008. Controlling coarse woody debris inventory quality: taper and relative size methods.
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A.; Lutes, D.C.; Oswalt, S.N. 2008. End-point diameter and total length coarse woody debris models for the United States.
Perry, C.H.; Woodall, C.W.; Liknes, G.C.; Schoeneberger, M.M. 2008. Filling the gap: improving estimates of working tree resources in agricultural landscapes.
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2008. Indiana's Forest Resources, 2007.
Woodall, C.W.; Heath, L.S.; Smith, J.E. 2008. National inventories of down and dead woody material forest carbon stocks in the United States: Challenges and opportunities.
Woodall, C.W.; Miles, P.D. 2008. Reaching a forest land per capita milestone in the United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Liknes, G.C. 2008. Relationships between forest fine and coarse woody debris carbon stocks across latitudinal gradients in the United States as an indicator of climate change effects.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. 2008. Sampling protocol, estimation, and analysis procedures for the down woody materials indicator of the FIA program.
Woodall, Chris W.; Morin, Randall S.; Steinman, Jim R.; Perry, Charles H. 2008. Status of oak seedlings and saplings in the northern United States: implications for sustainability of oak forests.
Woodall, C.W. 2008. When is one core per tree sufficient to characterize stand attributes Results of a Pinus ponderosa case study.
Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Everson, Vern A.; Brown, Ian K.; Cummings-Carlson, Jane; Dahir, Sally E.; Jepsen, Edward A.; Kovach, Joe; Labissoniere, Michael D.; Mace, Terry R.; Padley, Eunice A.; Rideout, Richard B.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Liknes, Greg C.; Morin, Randall S.; Nelson, Mark D.; Wilson, Barry T. (Ty); Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Wisconsin's forests, 2004.
Harmon, Mark E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fasth, Becky; Sexton, Jay. 2008. Woody detritus density and density reduction factors for tree species in the United States: a synthesis.
Woodall, Christopher W. 2007. Down woody materials as an indicator of wildlife habitat, fuels, and carbon stocks of the United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Nagel, L.M. 2007. Downed woody fuel loading dynamics of a large-scale blowdown in northern Minnesota, U.S.A..
Woodall, Christoper W.; Perez, Judith A.; Thake, Thomas R. 2007. Forest resources of the Hoosier National Forest, 2005.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Westfall, James A. 2007. Improving coarse woody debris measurements: a taper-based technique.
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2007. Indiana's forest resources, 2006.
Westfall, J.A.; Woodall, C.W. 2007. Measurement repeatability of a large-scale inventory of forest fuels.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Nagel, Linda. 2007. Relationships between the attributes of standing live and dead down trees in forests of the Lake States.
Morin, Randall S.; Liebhold, Andrew M; Gottschalk, K.W.; Woodall, Chris W.; Twardus, Daniel B.; White, Robert L.; Horsley, Stephen B.; Ristau, Todd E. 2006. Analysis of forest health monitoring surveys on the Allegheny National Forest (1998-2001).
Woodall, C. W.; Nagel, L. M. 2006. Coarse woody type: A new method for analyzing coarse woody debris and forest change.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Charney, Joseph; Liknes, Greg; Potter, Brian. 2006. Linking Fuel Inventories With Atmospheric Data for Assessment of Fire Danger.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Miles, Patrick D. 2006. New Method for Determining the Relative Stand Density of Forest Inventory Plots.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Perry, Charles H.; Miles, Patrick D. 2006. The relative density of forests in the United States.
Woodall, C.W.; Grambsch, P.L.; Thomas, W. 2005. Applying survival analysis to a large-scale forest inventory for assessment of tree mortality in Minnesota.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Grambsch, Patricia L.; Thomas, William. 2005. D.B.H. and Survival Analysis: A New Methodology for Assessing Forest Inventory Mortality.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Leutscher, Bruce. 2005. Extending and Intensifying the FIA Inventory of Down Forest Fuels: Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
Woodall, Christopher; Johnson, Dan; Gallion, Joey; Perry, Charles; Butler, Brett; Piva, Ron; Jepsen, Ed; Nowak, Dave; Marshall, Phil. 2005. Indiana's forests 1999-2003 (Part A).
Perry, Carol H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Schoeneberger, Michele M. 2005. Inventorying trees in agricultural landscapes: toward an accounting of working trees.
Perry, C. H.; Woodall, C. W.; Schoeneberger, M.M. 2005. Inventorying trees in agricultural landscapes: towards an accounting of working trees.
Woodall, Christopher. 2005. Sampling protocol, estimation, and analysis procedures for the down woody materials indicator of the FIA program.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Lutes, Duncan C. 2005. Sensitivity Analysis of Down Woody Material Data Processing Routines.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Fiedler, Carl E. 2005. Simulating Silvicultural Treatments Using FIA Data.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Nagel, Linda. 2005. Species Composition of Down Dead and Standing Live Trees: Implications for Forest Inventory Analysis.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Charney, Joseph J.; Liknes, Greg C.; Potter, Brian E. 2005. What's the fire danger now Linking fuel inventories with atmospheric data.
Fiedler, Carl E.; Keegan, Charles E., III.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Morgan, Todd A. 2004. A strategic assessment of crown fire hazard in Montana: potential effectiveness and costs of hazard reduction treatments..
Woodall, C.W.; Graham, J.M. 2004. A technique for conducting point pattern analysis of cluster plot stem-maps.
Chojnacky, David C.; Mickler, Robert A.; Heath, Linda S.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2004. Estimates of Down Woody Materials in Eastern US Forests.
Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. Coming soon: a national assessment of fuel loadings..
Fiedler, Carl E.; Keegan, Charles E.; Morgan, Todd A.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. Fire hazard and potential treatment effectiveness: a statewide assessment in Montana.
Woodall, C.W.; Fiedler, C.E.; Milner, K.S. 2003. Intertree competition in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands.
Woodall, C.W.; Fiedler, C.E.; Milner, K.S. 2003. Stand density index in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands.
Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. The National Inventory of Down Woody Materials: Methods, Outputs, and Future Directions.
Woodall, Chris. 2002. Point pattern analysis of FIA data.
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My family is coming for an eight-day stay at the end of March. We have made 19 different dining reservations! My question is: what is the latest date/time we can cancel a dining reservation without penalty?"
Hi Steven!
Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel.
In the same way that dining reservations can be made online, or by using your My Disney Experience account, cancellations can be made in the same way. 19 dining reservations! How will you decide which ones to cancel?! Each restaurant has its own cancellation policy, and you will see details of this on the confirmation email you received when you made the booking. Typically you would need to cancel no later than 24 hours in advance, otherwise you will be charged a fee for each guest. This may be around $10 per person, but this is always subject to change, and will also be charged for no-shows.
Please ensure you keep a track of your reservations and those which you intend to cancel, not only to avoid a cancellation charge, but also out of fairness to other guests who may be trying to secure a reservation at that particular restaurant. Some restaurants are so popular, especially character dining such as Be Our Guest Restaurant, 1900 Park Fare, Storybook Dining at Artist Point with Snow White and The Crystal Palace, or signature dining at California Grill at Disney's Contemporary Resort or Narcoossee's at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. Cinderella's Royal Table at Magic Kingdom Park is probably the most sought-after reservation at Walt Disney World Resort.
Please come back and visit us if you have any further questions. We will be happy to help you plan your magical vacation.
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Hi, I'm Sue from England, and am very proud to be a member of the 2012 Walt Disney World Moms Panel. I love visiting Walt Disney World and I look forward to answering your questions when you are planning your magical vacation to Walt Disney World. Learn More About Susan
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You may know Gerych's Flowers And Distinctive Gifts as your local premier floral studio where you can find gorgeous arrangements for all occasions or the perfect housewarming gift for a special someone. In addition to their stunning floral arrangements and excellent gift selection, Gerych's can also masterfully plan and create an extraordinary event that you and your guests will rave about for many years to come.
Gerych's floral department can create any centerpiece or floral arrangement that you can imagine, from unique to traditional, and offers delivery and a greenhouse. The many gifts they provide include decorative items, housewares, candles and seasonal items as well as greeting cards and stationery. You are guaranteed to find something any recipient would be thrilled to receive. As you stroll through the shop you will be so captivated by the beautifully displayed furniture, dishes and collectables, you might even find something to add to your own "Must Have" list.
Whether for an intimate gathering or a grand event, Gerych's Special Events & Floral Design will help you create the perfect atmosphere that will linger in your guest's mind long after the last goodbyes. If you can imagine an event that holds all your dreams and expectations, Gerych's professional and experienced event team will work closely with you to help deliver your vision. If you are hosting a fundraiser, gala or promotional event, Gerych's can help you set the stage for an evening that you and your guests will enjoy, allowing you to be the perfect host and leaving your guests mesmerized. Gerych's creates stunning events from start to finish. They manage as much or as little of the event as the client wants from finding a site, hiring a caterer and equipment rental to arranging the menu, the setting, the flowers and the entertainment. They have an extensive list of professionals they can call on to help make your event the best it can be. As for planning your wedding, Gerych's Special Events & Floral Design offer a variety of specialized services that start from the moment of your engagement to the moment you leave for your honeymoon. You can relax and enjoy your momentous occasion knowing that every detail is in order and perfectly executed. Be sure to ask about their newest arrivals including Organic Table Settings.
Gerych's Flowers And Distinctive Gifts offers several different classes and is currently in the process of planning their next class schedule. Mark your calendars for the "Spring Fling" on Saturday, April 27th, which will include local vendors, light refreshments, as well as an activity for the kids.
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Case Study: Drug and Alcohol Support team training
Breakaway Skills, Conflict Management, Verbal Defense and Influence
alcohol, chaotic lifestyles, Conflict Management, drugs, ejection from a building, homelessness, interventions, safety for others
Drug and Alcohol Support Team Personal Safety and De-Escalation Training Project
Drug and Alcohol Support Team Case: A team of hostel supported-living staff were experiencing a variety of aggressive and sometimes violent behaviour from service users with chaotic lifestyles.
Who engaged Dynamis: The Drug and Alcohol Support team service manager had engaged Physical Intervention training some years earlier for her staff. At this time, she was looking for training with more relevance for her team, who were experiencing feelings of stress, fear and sometimes anger over the incidents that were occurring as they worked with their client group out in the community in often stressful or isolated situations.
Why Dynamis was asked to help:
Key Issues identified by the Drug and Alcohol Support team staff and managers:
conflict often erupted due to a 'Status Threat' perceived by individuals
possible lack of boundaries and inconsistency on rules, between shifts
office layout, where many high-stress interactions take place, not optimal
staff under direction from an old policy that the service is a 'no restraint' service, despite evidence and incidents pointing to the occasional high-risk need for physical intervention
Training Delivery:
All staff were introduced to a stress-based model of understanding conflict triggers and defusing conflict scenarios, using our Curve model and the SCARF domains. The SCARF domains in particular were helpful to staff in determining the driving forces behind many of the difficult behaviours they were seeing in their Drug & Alcohol Support team service.
Staff were trained to understand and utilise natural body language positions and movement to increase their safety as they interact with clients in their facility. Many of their interactions were happening in confined spaces such as offices and bedrooms which do not allow for traditional positioning strategies.
Staff were trained to use protective motions to survive and escape from a number of common assaults ranging from the more serious to less serious types. These were based on natural responses to close danger, relying on the speed of the body's own reflexive motion to initiate the rapid-reaction tactics of staff.
It was felt that our emphasis on behaviours related to stress as a bedrock for the training helped the staff to understand both their clients and their own Drug and Alcohol Support team reactions to certain events.
We also specifically analysed the physical environment and operational procedures for the service and matched the physical training outcomes to this. This was a refreshing approach compared to the previous training company's "cookie-cutter" training method.
Our personal-protection and escorting procedures have been refined through many years of working in sensitive environments and are designed to offer the greatest degree of flexibility to the staff while being robust during operational use for the Drug and Alcohol Support team and readily defensible in legal proceedings after the event.
https://www.dynamis.training/lone-worker-personal-safety/
https://www.dynamis.training/personal-safety-tips-for-lone-workers-or-anyone/
https://www.dynamis.training/lone-worker-training-story/
Conflict Management in the Emergency Department: Like it or Not, Patients Crave Attention
Conflict Management in the Emergency Department: Managing Expectations
Conflict Management in the Emergency Department: The Magic Door
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Around Oklahoma College OSU Cowboys OU Sooners
Reband, Eckroat team up in tonight's PXG College Golf Showcase on Golf Channel
Photo: Left to right, Austin Eckroat, PXG founder Bob Parsons and Garett Reband.
Oklahoma redshirt senior Garett Reband and Oklahoma State senior Austin Eckroat will be featured in the College Golf Showcase on Wednesday night in a made-for-TV charity exhibition that features four of the nation's best collegiate golfers and a star-studded celebrity group. The event, which airs on the Golf Channel at 6 p.m. CT will raise $1 million for different military foundations.
The inaugural showcase, taped earlier, is hosted by Scottsdale National Golf Club and splits the group into two four-man teams – Team Rubicon and Team Semper Fi.
The format is a scramble skins shootout with $1 million in total prize money that will be awarded to each team's respective charity by The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation. Parsons is the founder of OU golf outfitter Parsons Xtreme Golf (PXG) and is the owner of Scottsdale National.
Reband and Eckroat are joined by Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerome Bettis and Brian Urlacher. Team Semper Fi is comprised of SMU's Mac Meissner, Arizona's Trevor Werbylo, Grammy-award winner Darius Rucker and comedian Rob Riggle. Each college player was caddied by their head coach.
Reband is the No. 7 player in the latest PGA Tour U rankings, sitting just two spots off automatic status to the Korn Ferry Tour. The Oklahoma All-American is a member of the United States' team for the 2020 Palmer Cup and owns the all-time Oklahoma record for career scoring average versus par. Eckroat, who finished tied for 12th in his PGA Tour debut in Mexico, is third in the rankings.
Each college golfer competing in Scottsdale ranks inside the top 10 of the PGA Tour U rankings. The rankings are a new system created by the PGA to create a bridge between professional and collegiate golf, rewarding the top five seniors in the nation with automatic status on the Korn Ferry Tour after the NCAA Championships, while players ranked No. 6-15 can earn status on other professional tours.
The showcase will re-air on Sunday, December 20 from 2-4 p.m. CT.
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Often asked: Why Did Morisot Not Exhibit At The Fourth Impressionist Exhibition?
1 Why was Impressionism not accepted?
2 How did Berthe Morisot die?
3 Where were many of the early Impressionist paintings displayed?
4 What is the most popular subject in Impressionism?
5 When was Impressionism a dirty word?
6 Who taught Berthe Morisot?
7 Who did Berthe Morisot marry?
8 What's the difference between Monet and Manet?
9 Is Starry Night an Impressionist painting?
10 What was a lingering effect of the Fauvist movement quizlet?
11 How did early impressionists violate the rules of academic painting?
12 How is Impressionism different from other art?
Why was Impressionism not accepted?
The critics and the public agreed the Impressionists couldn't draw and their colors were considered vulgar. Their compositions were strange. Their short, slapdash brushstrokes made their paintings practically illegible.
How did Berthe Morisot die?
Van Gogh spent time with the Impressionists in Paris from 1886 to 1888. This was at the tail-end of the impressionist period, following the death of Edouard Manet in 1883.
Where were many of the early Impressionist paintings displayed?
The First Impressionist Exhibition took place in April-May 1874 in a gallery on Rue du Capucines in Paris. Organised by Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, Sisley and Berthe Morisot, the exhibition displayed 165 works by 30 artists.
What is the most popular subject in Impressionism?
Everyday life was Renoir's preferred subject matter, and his portrayal of it is drenched in optimism.
When was Impressionism a dirty word?
The name was originally meant as a derogatory term, but it was soon adopted by the painters, and by 1877 they were using it as an identifier of their style and their exhibitions.
You might be interested: What Was The Exhibition Of Degenerate Art?
Who taught Berthe Morisot?
Artistic Background. In 1841, Berthe Morisot was born in Bruges, France. At the age of 11, she and her family moved to Paris, where she—like most other wealthy young girls—received private art lessons from Joseph Guichard, a French painter.
Who did Berthe Morisot marry?
Dr Peyron determined that Van Gogh was suffering from a form of epilepsy, accompanied by acute insanity and hallucinations. He based this on the diagnosis of the doctors in Arles and Vincent's own description of his attacks.
What's the difference between Monet and Manet?
Manet's work often features people, often with harsh contours and abrupt contrasts of light and shadow that help carve out his subjects. Monet usually paints landscapes and seascapes, with brief strokes of paint used to dissolve solid forms into a shimmer of light and color.
Is Starry Night an Impressionist painting?
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
What was a lingering effect of the Fauvist movement quizlet?
What was a lingering effect of the Fauvist movement? Artists were free to use color without feeling bound to nature.
How did early impressionists violate the rules of academic painting?
Radicals in their time, early impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. Impressionist painters could not afford to wait for France to accept their work, so they established their own exhibition—apart from the annual salon organized by the Académie.
You might be interested: What Is Exhibition Dance?
How is Impressionism different from other art?
Before impressionism, landscapes in art were often imaginary, perfect landscapes painted in the studio. The impressionists changed all that. They often painted thickly and used quick (and quite messy) brush strokes. In most of the paintings before impressionism you can't really see the brushstrokes at all.


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Watch Jack White Finger-Tap on Eddie Van Halen-Designed Guitar
Jack White honored Eddie Van Halen on Saturday Night Live by playing a finger-tapped guitar solo on an instrument designed by the late virtuoso himself.
White tipped his cap to the legend during a lean, funky power trio version of his 2014 song "Lazaretto." Around the 2:45 mark, he incorporates a brief section of tapping — the flashy technique Van Halen popularized on his band's early albums. Watch the clip below.
Earlier Saturday on Instagram, the former White Stripes member saluted Van Halen, who died four days earlier at age 65 after battling cancer. He also detailed the history of his blue EVH Wolfgang guitar.
"i thought it could be a nice gesture for me to use this blue eddie van halen model guitar for one of the songs tonight on SNL," he wrote. "the guitar was designed by eddie (with a few customizations i had added). eddie was very kind to me and saw to it that this guitar was made for me to my specs. i wont even insult the man's talent by trying to play one of his songs tonight. thanks again. eddie for this guitar and rest in peace sir."
White appeared on the sketch show as a short-notice substitute for country artist Morgan Wallen, who violated COVID-19 protocols. Along with "Lazaretto," he played a wild version of the White Stripes' "Ball and Biscuit" that weaved in Blind Willie Johnson's "Jesus Is Coming Soon" and a portion of his Beyoncé collaboration "Don't Hurt Yourself."
Saturday Night Live also paid tribute to Van Halen by airing a brief segment of his 1987 performance on the show prior to the standard closing curtain call.
The guitarist issued his most recent solo LP, Boarding House Reach, in 2018. This week, Third Man Records announced the first White Stripes Greatest Hits collection, out Dec. 4.
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Austin, Texas has really seen a major boom in tourism over the last few years. Known for its famous South by Southwest festival, the city seems to get more and more vibrant every year, and offers loads of active travel options. If the Texas capital's popularity has piqued your interest, guest contributor Cheryl Rodewig is here with a list of top things to do in Austin.
Austin isn't so much a destination as an attitude. It's community-focused, eco-friendly, creative. It's comfortable in its own skin, a place where you fit in when you stand out, a little flamboyant, a little hipster—and yes, definitely weird.
That makes it perfect for active boomers looking for something outside the ordinary. Even as a tourist, it's hard to ignore the offbeat atmosphere that makes the Texas capital unexpected and exciting.
The Austin skyline may be small, but there is plenty to see and do in between those buildings!
"Austin is forever reinventing itself," Harrison Eppright explained to me. A native East Austinite and Visit Austin evangelist for the past 25 years, he says he loves the city for its diverse cultures and its spirit of cooperation, art and innovation. It's the people that make the place.
That might be why you can't "do" Austin the way you would some cities, checking off landmarks on a bucket list. Instead, set out and explore, street by street, meet the locals, linger over drinks. After getting to know the city on a brief visit, I came home with this list of what to do in Austin.
Travel at a slower pace. True to its green mission, Austin has plenty of places you can rent an easy-to-use bike for a few hours or days. Its bike-share initiative, Austin B-cycle, is handy if you want a set of wheels available nearly anywhere in the greater downtown area (they have a whopping 50 stations). They're good for all skill levels and affordable: only $12 for an Explorer pass that gives you 24-hour access. Download their app to easily find available bikes and docks.
Austin is a very bicycle-friendly town. Make sure to take advantage of the bike sharing system!
The bike gave me freedom to get places quickly while making frequent stops for a closer peek at a mural or scenic view. Austin is a bike-friendly town with dedicated lanes, racks and general courtesy for cyclists quite the norm. There's a wealth of greenspace to choose from, like Mayfield Park with its free roaming peacocks or the 10-mile Lady Bird Hike and Bike Trail and Boardwalk. Explore Zilker Park, a 351-acre urban playground near the river, and stop into the Zilker Botanical Garden to see roses, succulents, even a waterfall. Go in summer to enjoy the blooming water lilies. Or sign up for the digital scavenger hunt. See, I told you Austin offers quirky fun.
And…make sure to make time to stop and smell the flowers along the way!
With all that outdoor activity, you'll work up an appetite. The city's food scene is vast. Vegan and vegetarian options proliferate alongside generous helpings of barbecue, tacos and pizza.
While biking around the city, I wanted something fresh, food that would fill me up without weighing me down. Snap Kitchen fit the bill. The Austin-based company has a simple goal — handmade, balanced meals for almost any diet: gluten-free, paleo, pescatarean, you name it. They have the classics, Tex-Mex bowls and turkey Bolognese that's deeply satisfying, and funky twists on favorites, turning broccoli into fried rice and cauliflower into grits. It's both delicious and healthy, which we all know isn't possible, so just another sign of Austin breaking the rules and being weird.
The city's culinary profile has a bit of everything for any taste.
Most entrees are under $10, so you can add in a few sides (splurge on the coconut shrimp!) and a refreshing drink or two, like the date-sweetened chai cashew shake. Pop it in your bicycle's basket, and you're set for a lakeside picnic. And, yes, they have an app, too—order lunch from your iPhone, peddle by to pick it up and off you go.
Of course, when in Austin, you have to visit a food truck. Snap Kitchen has its own mobile trailer on West 3rd Street, just two blocks from the Colorado River. You can also try The Picnic, a food truck park with ample selection.
Inspired to explore more of Austin? Start your search for hotels in Austin with us.
I also recommend Kebabalicious. An Austin mainstay since 2006, Kebabalicious was so beloved as food truck that they opened a brick-and-mortar site with a beautiful backyard patio. That's where you want to go to order the "kuzu," their own creation of halal lamb, feta and veggies dressed with a zesty red sauce and tzatziki. Or opt for the traditional shawarma beef and lamb kebab, their most popular wrap. Both are richly flavorful, indulgent but not greasy, letting the quality ingredients and spicing shine through. They also have the best falafel I've ever tasted. Grab a table in the sunshine and dig in.
Yum, that looks good, doesn't it?
Where do the locals hang out? Eppwright suggests a few places around Austin: the underground Elephant Room for jazz, the historic, swanky Driskall Bar Lounge, swimming at Barton Springs. You can't go wrong with a walk along Sixth Street. Listen for a song you like and go on in. With more than 250 live music venues, the city is probably playing something you'll love.
Walk a little further to a very different venue, the downtown Blue Cat Cafe. In true Texas style, the first cat cafe in the Lone Star State is spacious and friendly. Order a coffee or dinner and schmooze with the coolest cats in town. The workers there will gladly tell you about their residents, some with checkered pasts, a few on their ninth life, all incredibly Instagrammable as they climb, tunnel and lounge. It's an unusual way to spend an evening, but with its sense of community and earthiness, the Blue Cat Cafe is distinctly Austin.
Cat lovers will love this place!
So go and say hello to Austin. You'll be glad you did.
Join an electric minibike tour.
Disclaimer: Snap Kitchen and Kebabalicious hosted my meal, but all opinions expressed here are my own.
Have any tips on things to do in Austin, Texas? Come join the conversation at the My Itchy Travel Feet page on Facebook. Or send us an email with your thoughts.
Cheryl Rodewig is a storyteller. She tells stories on behalf of brands through digital marketing and shares tales from around the world as a published travel writer and photographer.


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Margarete Kollisch (geboren als Margarete Moller 9. Dezember 1893 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben 11. Oktober 1979 in Staten Island in New York City) war eine austroamerikanische Schriftstellerin.

Leben und Wirken
Margarete Moller war die Tochter des Wiener Rechtsanwalts Ignaz Moller (1859–1937) und der Hermine Bunzl-Federn (1870–1928). Sie studierte in Wien Neue Philologie und machte 1917 ihre Lehramtsprüfung. Anschließend arbeitete sie als Journalistin, Lehrerin und Übersetzerin. 1923 heiratet sie den Architekten Otto Kollisch, das Ehepaar hatte drei Kinder: Eva, Peter und Stephan. Anfang der 1930er-Jahre erschienen erstmals literarische Arbeiten in Zeitschriften und Anthologien (Badener Auslese 1930). Margarete Kollisch war Mitglied des 1928 von Richard Kühnelt in Baden gegründeten Alpenländischen Schriftstellerverbandes.

Im Juli 1939 konnten die Kinder mit einem Kindertransport nach England, im November des gleichen Jahres konnten Margarete Kollisch und ihr Mann in die USA flüchten. Im April 1940 kamen die Kinder in die USA nach.

Sie jobbte als Sekretärin bei einem Antiquar, machte eine Ausbildung als Heilmasseurin und arbeitete 25 Jahre in dem Beruf. Auch gab sie französischen und deutschen Sprachunterricht. Sie schrieb Gedichte, Erzählungen, Märchen und hatte Lesungen im Austrian Institute, Austrian Forum und in der Social Scientific Society sowie Veröffentlichungen in Aufbau, Literatur und Kritik, Lyrica Germanica, New Yorker Staatszeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, German-American Studies und etlichen Anthologien.
1969 erhielt sie die Medaille für fremdsprachige Dichtung des York College der City University of New York. Ihr Nachlass befindet sich an der University at Albany, Special Collections and Archives.

Ihre Tochter ist die in New York lebende Schriftstellerin und Literaturwissenschaftlerin Eva Kollisch.

Werke
 Wege und Einkehr. Ausgewählte Gedichte. Wien 1960.
 Unverlorene Zeit. Gedichte und Betrachtungen. Wien 1971.
 Rückblendung. Gedichte und Prosa. Wien 1981.

Beiträge in Anthologien
 Minna Lachs (Hg.): Und senden ihr Lied aus. Wien 1963.
 Mimi Grossberg (Hg.): Kleinkunst aus Amerika. Wien 1964.
 Österreichisches aus Amerika. Wien 1973.
 Geschichte im Gedicht. Das politische Gedicht der austro-amerikanischen Exilautoren des Schicksaljahres 1938. New York 1982.

Literatur
 Gabriele Kreis: Frauen im Exil. Düsseldorf 1984, S. 103–106.
 Gert Niers: Frauen schreiben im Exil. Zum Werk der nach Amerika  emigrierten Lyrikerinnen Margarete Kollisch, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Vera Lachmann. Frankfurt/M. 1988. (Judentum und Umwelt. 23.)
 Siglinde Bolbecher, Konstantin Kaiser: Lexikon der österreichischen Exilliteratur. Wien 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1.
 Kollisch, Margarete, in: Renate Wall: Verbrannt, verboten, vergessen. Kleines Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftstellerinnen 1933 bis 1945. Köln : Pahl-Rugenstein, 1989, S. 93f.
 Olena Komarnicka: Österreichische Dichterinnen im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Beginn der 1980er Jahre. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2017

Weblinks

  German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection im M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany Libraries

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Really Focused or Hocus POCUS?
1. In a single center study riddled with limitations, a fairly comprehensive echo exam was specific for cardiac disease in patients with chest pain.
2. Based on this weak data, point of care echo is not sensitive enough to rule out serious cardiac causes of chest pain in the emergency department.
Have you ever worked in an acute care setting? If not - you are missing out on a lot of people with chest pain. Suffice it to say, this is a common complaint and obviously the etiology of this pain ranges from incredibly benign to immediately life-threatening. Ultrasound is pretty good at finding a bunch of these serious causes (wall motion abnormalities in acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pericardial effusion, cardiomyopathy, pneumonia) and can be somewhat helping in looking for others (aortic dissection). This is a similar concept to many studies that have been done in undifferentiated dyspnea. The idea in the present study is that we can apply a point of care ultrasound protocol to these patients with chest pain, especially focusing on ischemic causes and cardiomyopathies. If this is accurate, it might be able to help in the decision of who needs to be admitted to the hospital and who can be discharged with close follow up.
Can a focused echo protocol in the emergency department be used to determine cause of acute chest pain?
Can a focused echo protocol in the emergency department be used to determine the need for hospitalization?
Primary outcome was accuracy of ultrasound for final diagnosis based on stress test (if discharged) or diagnosis by admitting team using any subsequent imaging or testing (if admitted).
If everything negative → they were discharged and scheduled for follow up in 24-48 hrs. Determined if +stress or not.
If positive → admitted. Further testing confirmed or denied the diagnosis.
Non-ischemic heart disease (asymmetrical septal hypertrophy, SAM, small LV cavity, septal immobility, premature closure of aortic valve). Left atrial volume >48mm, left atrial fractional shortening).
Mentions other findings but not clear if these were part of standard exam. Reversal of flow across MV and TV for restrictive CM? Focal Valve thickening for aortic stenosis? Aortic valve velocity and pericardial effusion also mentioned.
The POCUS Atlas - Echo Pathology!
85% of positive studies in High risk were ischemic (22% acute MI, 62.6% angina), Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was 8.2% of patients.
Low risk group - 1 patient had angina, 1 had AMI.
80 patients (32%) were discharged (all were high risk) → stress tests showed 35% (28 patients) had AMI, with ECG abnormal and elevated CK.
Single center, single well trained operator.
External validity. This is outside of the US. The population seems different than typically described. There was a 79.2% prevalence of disease in this study. This high prevalence would certainly affect the accuracy of the results. Furthermore, many etiologies of chest pain were not even considered in their diagnostic pathway. It is not clear if anyone got a chest xray (or lung ultrasound). What about pneumonia, pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, esophageal perforation, etc?).
Limited gold standard. How the accuracy was determined is not well described. We don't know the exact confirmatory testing being done when the patients were admitted. We do know that if they were discharged, they just got a stress test, which is not always the best determination of acute coronary syndrome (not to mention using CK instead of troponin).
Dangerous protocol? It seems, based on the information provided in the manuscript, that this study took all comers with the same symptoms, did the same work up and discharged home if it was negative. I would find it hard to believe this could actually be the case. Clearly, there needs to be an aspect of individualized care to the patient in front of you. There was deviation from the protocol, but it is only mentioned in the example of low risk patients who got early cardiac perfusion imaging and then a discharge instead of otherwise being admitted. There is no mention of patients getting admitted despite a normal (somewhat limited) work up. Remember that we always advocates for using ultrasound in conjunction with A) your brain and B) the rest of your diagnostic information (history, exam, and whatever other tests might be appropriate). I fear that this article is advocating for a more blindly binary use of POCUS - if positive → admit, if negative → discharge, instead of a more nuanced use of this modality as a helpful tool in your tool belt. I think that the unacceptably high rate of missed MI's (for the United States anyway), is likely a result of this cookie-cutter protocol.


Security is a top priority for the technology industry, especially now that mobile devices are used for payment and hold valuable private information. With so much sensitive data flying around our devices, platforms and systems, it becomes more and more vital for device manufacturers to be able to reassure both customers and regulators that they're doing everything they can to protect this data.
the allowed algorithms for encrypting and authenticating code and/or data (for example, prohibiting the use of deprecated algorithms, which were found to be too weak).
As an IP provider, silicon designer or OEM, you are expected to identify the services your product is offering to customers, and then test these services against a specific set of rules set by the standards body.
With this in mind, Arm took CryptoCell-712 through the FIPS 140-2 certification process, ensuring that certification is something partners can get directly from Arm before beginning their own engineering efforts. This means that with Arm IP, not only do partners get the best in class for hardware, software and firmware, they also get a pre-certified security sub-system that allows them to cut out years of engineering effort and get their products to the market faster. Moreover, Arm offers a comprehensive certification package including documentation that is free to reuse, as well as best practices on how best to utilize our certification for specific needs.
The certified services offered by Arm (full list available on the NIST website, notably table six) are much more than just crypto primitives – usable platform security services such as code loading (a.k.a. Secure Boot), authenticated debug, secure timer and others have all been included. Silicon designers or OEMs would be able to reuse these certified services as part of a more complicated feature that they want to certify, for example, user authentication required by an enterprise's BYOD policy (see figure 2 for the high-level description). The comprehensiveness of this certification could also come in handy in case the plan is to certify the entire Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), such as one built around TrustZone.
By joining the Arm ecosystem, all of our partners from SIPs to OEMs can capitalise on the efforts we've made to simplify the certification process, bringing huge savings to the customer and an added level of reassurance right down the line to the end user. This means that they can rest easy that their data has the best possible protection that the industry has to offer.


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Kvars Promontory är en udde i Antarktis. Den ligger i Östantarktis. Australien gör anspråk på området.

Terrängen inåt land är kuperad söderut. Havet är nära Kvars Promontory åt nordost. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  kilometer söder om Kvars Promontory. Trakten är obefolkad. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten.

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Aston Villa's Lucy Keeling shares her passions about using football to tackle social injustice
Posted byAshwyn Lall September 22, 2020 Posted inExclusive InterviewsTags:Aston Villa FC, Diversity, Equality, Exclusive Interviews, sport and society, Sport for development, sporting community, Sports Career Advice
Lucy Keeling is Aston Villa's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer who has always had a passion for supporting underrepresented groups. Lucy fell in love with football at a young age being an Arsenal fan and had a desire to work in the industry. Throughout this interview, Lucy discusses her sports career journey, her work at Villa and what more the sports industry can do to promote equal opportunities.
Q1) Lucy, thank you for joining me on this exclusive interview. Could you kick this off by sharing how your sports industry career began?
It all began about five years ago. I've always been an Arsenal fan, and I was the type of girl to be playing football in the playground, which was when my passion for the game started.
My career started after I went to University and I studied something completely unrelated to sport which was film and literature. I have a lifelong love for learning which I developed at University, but I went off on different tangents, including pursuing jobs in retail.
I eventually got a job as a learning mentor in education, where I worked in a secondary school with young people experiencing social and emotional barriers to learning. This inspired me to follow an educational path, and I enjoyed helping students get through their various obstacles to learn in a challenging environment. This opened up more opportunities to work in teaching.
But on the 'back burner', I wanted to work at a football club. Not necessarily at Arsenal, but I went for different roles in some of the Midlands clubs and an opportunity came up to be an administrator in the Aston Villa FC Foundation. I decided to go for it and enjoyed the role for four years before I became the Club's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer in 2019 after working closely with the local community.
Q2) At what point did you feel that promoting inclusion was essential for your career, also, why sport in particular?
Naturally working in the community department at a club like Aston Villa, in a city full of diversity would allow me to encounter different backgrounds, experiences and attitudes. Whether it be through religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation, football was the platform to have these discussions. Despite what environment someone's from, I'd always be able to have a conversation with somebody about football.
I soon began to identify what opportunities there were in football to drive forward diversity inclusion. For example, in 2017-18, a fair amount of football clubs had an LGBT supporters network or group. However, Aston Villa didn't have one at the time, which inspired me to have discussions with Villa fans who were from the LGBTQ+ community. From these conversations, I noticed that LGBT Villa fans wanted to feel comfortable and accepted in the ground and we helped to facilitate the beginning of 'Villa and Proud', who is now one of the biggest LGBT sports group in the country.
At Aston Villa, we've always had a robust community initiative, which is excellent. And when I first started, we had five staff working with the charitable arm whereas now we have over 30 full-time staff.
I started to incorporate equality initiatives into my role, which I was lucky to have as an opportunity. For example, I delivered a transgender session where we were one of the first football Clubs to do so. This was when I started to enjoy developing equality initiatives and work on various campaigns such as Kick It Out.
When Villa re-entered the Premier League again, it was a fresh impetus on the equality standard which all Premier League Clubs must follow. I was confident and passionate about enhancing equality at a community level. Still, I wanted to scale up to deliver this at a Club level which is what I'm doing now. Again, I'm massively lucky to have this opportunity.
Q3) What transferable skills have you picked up throughout your career that have helped you stand out in the football industry?
I've learned a lot from other people in similar roles across the industry. I've always been quite value-driven, but I wasn't necessarily comfortable with making decisions at the start of my sports career. However, trusting your values is an essential part of the football industry, and it is an area I've developed in.
Communication is a massive one, especially for equality and diversity. When working in football, you need to make a case for your ideas, whether it's a moral or business orientated. Learning to have conversations with a wide range of stakeholders is essential, such as fans, partners and players. My job would be difficult if I couldn't clearly articulate my views about what I think we should be doing next and why. We also need to explain things from an economic perspective through a measured approach. It's fundamental to showcase why something is important, why we need a particular element to our delivery, consider accessibility or changing our reporting mechanisms to empower those calling out discrimination.
Passion is another one. It's a role where you must care about what you do. Networking has also been essential, in and out of football. It's incredible how much we can learn from other industry's.
The only other thing I would say is project management. There's a lot of different departments in a football club, and they all have equal value in embedding equality. Plus, from my experience as a business administrator, being able to prioritise is imperative in such a fast-paced sector.
Q4) You've had a variety of roles throughout your time at Villa, from Team Support Coordinator, Community Administrator to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer. What values have been integral to your career development?
On a personal level, having trust in the direction I want the club to go for equality and diversity has helped me to progress alongside gaining the confidence I have now. Naturally, working in the same place for a few years but learning about the broader issues there are around discrimination has led me to trust my initiative more.
We've made good progress this season under our three-year equality action plan and will continue this work moving forward.
Q5) From your experience at Villa. How far have the club come with promoting equal opportunities across sport? Plus, how does your role at Villa contribute to the bigger picture?
The National game dictates the bigger picture and where we are in society as well; football reflects society. We've had a very turbulent year, and currently, there's a massive spotlight on football to drive inclusion forward, and I'm very proud to work where I can have open conversations about diversity and contribute to this.
That broader picture is about holding difficult conversations about race, homophobia and sexism that we still see, unfortunately. I've always got one eye on what other stakeholders are doing in response to societal injustice. Inequality had always interested me since I was younger, so it doesn't take me long to start talking about it. I also grew up in a small town with my grandparents, who I love dearly, but occasionally had quite outdated views about things.
Q6) On top of the essential work the sports industry is doing currently to tackle social injustice, what more do you believe could be delivered by the sector to enhance further inclusion?
It's something I ask myself, and I have conversations with people within football and different sports to understand if they can work together. Sport England and The FA are doing a lot of fantastic work which I try and have a look into as much as I can.
Sports is massively influential, and it has the power to educate in innovative ways. Educating at a community level is essential as it utilises the power of the badge. The Foundation puts on anti-racism days and awareness sessions around Rainbow Laces for example. So what we always like to do is when we engage with a campaign, we want that to be entirely holistic. So we'll run workshops in the community, we'll do staff awareness and then fan-based interventions.
Q7) In your position, what challenges have you faced with promoting inclusion at the club? Also, how have those adversities benefitted you in the club long-term?
Generally speaking, I've been supported well, for example, our kit supplier designed us with some fantastic player warm-up tops to support the Rainbow Laces campaign. The challenges I face are similar to the broader societal challenges I mentioned around discrimination and perception. Being able to open up these conversations with the community and fans has been really important in driving inclusion.
Q8) The final question to wrap this up, what is your key piece of advice for someone wanting to pursue a career in the sports industry?
Follow your passion and enjoy it; it's a massive privilege to work in football. Know what your values are, understand who you are and follow those through. Talk to as many people as you can and don't stop learning.
Wow, this interview with Lucy was just excellent. So many themes resonated with me about her sports career journey, particularly with how she came from an external background and still managed to pursue her primary passion for utilising football for societal development. The sports industry has come a long way with its diversity and equality remit, and that's thanks to its invaluable industry staff like Lucy Keeling.
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Linda Dessau is a music therapist and author of the creative sourcebook, Ten Ways to Thrive as a Creative Artist. Read Linda's creativity and self-care articles on Creativity Portal.
A: My first job was babysitting. I also worked as a teacher in our religious school.
Q: How did you make the leap from day job to dream job, and find this fabulous career? What life experiences led you to explore such an interesting career option?
A: As a teenager I had two volunteer jobs in music — the first was singing in a women's ensemble that my singing teacher put together. We performed for seniors and it was so wonderful seeing how the music brought them to life, and being part of such a caring group. It was a wonderful musical experience, and I went on to seek out lots of other opportunities to sing in harmony with others. The second volunteer experience was through my high school arts program. We were introduced to the concept of music therapy by someone in the field, and we had the opportunity to be part of a music therapy program at a neighboring high school for students with physical and developmental disabilities. We got the opportunity to create and lead activities and it was incredibly rewarding. Both of those experiences led to my connection with the Canadian Association for Music Therapy. I joined as a student member and by the time I finished high school I already knew that's what I wanted to do.
Q: Describe the work you do. What is a typical music therapy session like?
A: In one my of typical music therapy sessions, I sing songs while accompanying myself on the guitar. Since I work with both adults and seniors, the music I choose may vary from the Beatles to Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Stephen Foster, and anything in between. Aside from playing and singing, there is a lot going on "behind the scenes", as I'm striving to assist my clients in meeting many different non-musical goals such as improved communication skills, enhanced self-esteem and confidence, cognitive stimulation, relaxation, teamwork and joyful creative expression.
Q: What advice do you have for people wanting to break into this field? What kind of education or experience are needed to become a music therapist?
A: Music therapy is a health care profession and it requires specialized undergraduate and sometimes post-graduate studies. In Canada, the Canadian Association for Music Therapy is the self-regulating body for music therapists that approves music therapy educational programs). In the United States, it's the American Music Therapy Association. Both sites provide excellent information about training. I also recommend volunteering or job shadowing with a practicing music therapist to get a true sense of the work. You can find music therapists working with virtually every type of person with special needs, of all ages, as well as those who work with the general population, to help people with wellness goals such as relaxation, stress management and creative expression.
Q: What is the most rewarding aspect of this work? Why do you enjoy it, and what keeps you excited about coming to work each day?
A: My clients keep me coming back. I am rewarded every time I see them breaking past the barriers of disability and shining the beauty of their spirits for all the world to see. And it's the music that helps them to do it. I'm just lucky to be able to be the conduit for that.
Q: What are some of the challenges inherent in this type of work, and how do you deal with them? Are there any frightening aspects to this work, in helping others to heal and face their demons?
A: It can be challenging and sometimes sad to spend time with people who are dealing with loss and disability. However my focus is on ability, not disability. I am connecting with the part of the person who is well, whole and beautiful. I don't see the disability. If I do find myself challenged by a particular client and the issues they're having, I have avenues of support such as supervision, peer supervision and therapy.
Q: Many people suffer from stress and over-work. Can you recommend simple techniques they can use at home to relax and wind down after a hard day?
A: Most people know exactly what relaxes them the most, it's just a matter of giving themselves the gift of doing it. Take a few quiet moments to jot down some ideas about what is most relaxing, and then book time for those things. For some people, listening to a certain kind of music will work. For others, a bubble bath. For others, a few moments reading a book or magazine just for pleasure. Calling a friend, getting some exercise and/or fresh air or practicing breathing and meditation techniques are some other ideas.
Q: What is your favorite type of music to listen to? What singers or songs help you feel inspired, creative, juicy, and full of ideas?
A: I enjoy so many styles of music it's difficult to narrow it down! And I also find that I must use the principle of entrainment — I need to match the mood I'm in first, before I can gradually lead myself into a different mood. So the music I choose will depend on where I'm starting out and where I want to go. If you sign up for the special report at SingOutYourStress.com, you'll receive our Top 10 Songs to Sing Out Your Stress. Those are all songs that I find inspiring. And, just to satisfy your curiosity, some of the CDs in my collection are by the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Vinx, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Chicago, Sheryl Crow, Annie Lennox, Jann Arden and Blue Rodeo. I also love discovering and supporting local singer-songwriters.
Q: I've read a lot lately about the healing qualities of certain sounds. Can you recommend resources for those who may be interested in the healing qualities of music?
A: David Gordon has some good resources at SpiritSound.com.
Q: Are there healing qualities associated with certain notes, or certain musical instruments. For example, when playing a drum, do you receive a different healing energy than someone who works with bells or flutes?
A: There definitely are. Sound healing is a profession that's separate from music therapy. I would direct your readers to sound healing professionals to learn more. Gary Diggins has some resources at GaryDiggins.com.
Q: Tell us a little bit about your other creative projects. You wrote, Ten Ways to Thrive as a Creative Artist. What kind of a response have you had from the public? What are your plans for the future?
A: I'm incredibly pleased with how "Ten Ways to Thrive as a Creative Artist" turned out. I hope that it's been useful to those who've purchased it. I'm not thinking too far into the future — I'm really enjoying how things are right now.
how do you cope with creative blocks? What do you do to inspire yourself when you're feeling stuck or unmotivated?
A: I try to take my own advice! I'm blessed to have supportive people in my life who gently remind me to do that. My sister, who edited virtually every article I wrote for the Everyday Artist newsletter, will often quote me back to me when she feels that I need to hear it. I also recognize now that I need to be in those stuck places sometimes and that's ok. They always pass.
Q: What is your greatest source of inspiration? What makes you shine and glow inside?
A: My greatest source of inspiration is my spiritual connection. When I feel that I'm being a clear channel for the gifts I was born to express, that's when I'm glowing the brightest.
Q: Who is your favorite Muse? What is your relationship like? Can you describe her?
A: I love your inventive and unique descriptions of the Muses. I think I have a piece of each of them inside of me, but it's God who helps me make the connection and draw on them. I like the concept of the Inner Artist, the most creative, beautiful, whole and undamaged part of myself.
Q: What are some of the "guilty pleasures" you indulge in?
A: Television, by far! I like the companionship and I truly think of some characters as my own friends. But I'm much better these days at making conscious choices about my TV watching. I'm not a slave to a network schedule.
Q: What is a typical day at work like for you? What is your schedule? How many hours do you work per week?
A: I have a lot of variety in my week, which I absolutely love. Monday is a full day in my home office, where I work on my freelance writing projects for clients (YouTalk-IWrite.com), as well as marketing activities for that business. Tuesday, I work all day on-site as a music therapist. Wednesday, I have a morning music therapy contract and an afternoon music therapy contract (2 hours each), and I'm home in between for lunch (I love that!). Thursday and Friday I have one (1 hour) music therapy session and the rest of the day I'm in my home office.
Q: What types of illness or disease can music therapy heal? How does it work on a physical and mental level? How does it work on an emotional and spiritual level?
A: As I mentioned earlier, music therapists are working with virtually every type of disability and illness, as well as with people who have wellness goals. Music affects the physical body at the cellular level — there are research studies you can read about on the REMO website — they have an amazing program called Health Rhythms. Music also touches us deeply on an emotional and spiritual level, and your readers need to look only as far as their own experience to see the evidence of that. My colleague Jennifer Buchanan just featured a nice article in her newsletter about music therapy and relaxation. The article also happens to feature Louise Montello, founder of Performance Wellness, who I have studied with.
Q: Do you believe that music therapy can happen anywhere? Can playing drums with a few friends around a campfire, listening to music, attending a concert, or even singing in the shower be transformational healing experiences, too?
A: Absolutely! Music is healing, therapeutic and transformative in all of those cases — but I prefer not to use the term music therapy for that. Music therapy is a health care profession, and using that term implies that a trained and certified music therapist is present.
Q: Describe a few simple techniques we can try at home to experience the healing benefits of music therapy.
A: Take note of the effect that specific songs, singers, instruments and styles of music have on you. Notice any changes to your mood, physical sensations, memories, thoughts, images or feelings. Then experiment with using that music when you want to bring on those moods, physical sensations, memories, etc.
Q: Music has long been known to possess a tremendous power to heal, inspire, and create change. Can you discuss the role of music in the rituals of the ancient world? Can you speak to the importance of music in your own healing journey?
A: Music has certainly always been recognized as a powerful healing force. In my own experience, music has helped me to cry when I needed to cry, wail when I needed to wail, and dance when I needed to dance. Most importantly, it allows me to channel the beauty of my spirit into the world. My role as a music therapist allows me to enable others to channel the beauty of their spirits into the world through music; for those gifts, I am truly blessed.
Learn more about Linda Dessau at www.lindadessau.com. Read her creativity articles on Creativity Portal.


#Growns we couldn't think of a better way, or day to premiere this great new inspirational track from Tiffany Bynoe which features none other than her uncle Howard Hewett! Talk about bridging the gap, not only through the familial ties but, "All Things New" also accomplishes the concept of uniting generations through music with a nod to the 1973 Stylistics classic "You Make Me Feel Brand New".
It makes sense considering that these types of relationships inform the artistry of Tiffany Bynoe who states that she feels blessed and thrilled to be working with her Uncle Howard as Family and Music are the two most important things in her life. Tiffany declares "I'm back and I'm ready to show the world ME!". "All Things New" is from Tiffany's forthcoming album ME . #Growns we invite you to share the good news of "All Things New" today by pressing play below and telling your closest 100 or so friends about this great word and music from Tiffany Bynoe feat. Howard Hewett.


Almost as it turning towards the viewer young to old.
Those faces look really sad or is it just me?
a solemn bunch of clouds if I may say so.
I see two faces. One female and one male.
Cool, I like faces in clouds. I think those kind of interesting things happen a lot in this world, but people are not good at seeing them. They cannot comprehend what the power of many minds can do when in sync.
Sorrry, but I don't see anything that resembles a face in those pictures. All I see are just random swirls of color in the 2nd photo, that I clicked to enlarge. I see more "faces'" in my curtain fabric, as the sunlight shines through them. Nothing more than pareidolia.
How can you not see the face with the hair, it looks like a girl with a hairstyle from an old beach party TV show. I saw it immediately. I do not know if it is real, it could be photo shopped or computergenerated, but I see the profile.
I seen it immediately in the first picture.


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Retirement Benefits Denied Due to Substantial Evidence Presented by New York State
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In the Matter of Stephen C. Caruana v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al..
Petitioner, Stephen C. Caruana, sought to review a decision of Respondent which denied his application for accidental disability retirement benefits.
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Performance of Duty Disability Retirement Benefits Application Denied; Petitioner Suffered from Various Risk Factors Before Heart Attack.
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Article 78 petition dismissed; Petitioners granted judgment based upon Collective Bargaining Agreement
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Petitioner sought to appeal an order form the Supreme Court which granted petitioner's application to terminate health insurance benefits to petitioner current wife, Patricia Giblin. This was a combined proceeding pursuant to Article 78 and an action for a declaratory judgment.
Court Stands Firmly on Decision to Deny Petitioner's Application for Accidental Disability Retirements Benefits
Matter of Brian A. Herlihy v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, as State Comptroller
In this Article 78 case, the court reviewed a decision of the State Comptroller which denied the petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits.
In 1995, petitioner started working as a police officer for the Town of Bedford, Westchester County. From 2001 to…
Court granted petition, reinstating service credits from Comptroller
Matter of David A. Hoover v Thomas P. DiNapoli, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al.
In this Article 78 case, petitioner sought to rescind a determination of Comptroller terminating petitioner's service credits in New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System.
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Petitioner granted sick leave pursuant to CPLR Article 78
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This Article 78 appeal was brought about to review a determination of the Comptroller denying petitioner his application for accidental disability retirement benefits. Petitioner was a corrections officer who injured his back in 2004 by falling on stairs in a correctional facility. Following the…
Nurse is granted Article 78 appeal for denial of disability retirement
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In this Article 78 case, petitioner, a 42-year-old pediatric Registered Nurse, sought a judgment annulling the Board of Trustees (Pension Board) for New York City Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS) which denied her application for disability retirement. Petitioner…
Municipal lawyer granted retirement benefits but denied additional relief
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Petitioner in this Article 78 case is an attorney who worked part time as counsel for several municipalities and school districts in addition to maintaining a private law practice. In 2000, he retired from municipal service and began receiving public retirement funds. In April of…
Maintenance worker denied ordinary disability retirement benefits
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Petitioner, Rosina Bautista, was as a maintenance worker at New Rochelle High School in Westchester County. She sustained various injuries occurring between 1994 and 2001 and ceased working in May of 2001 due to these injuries. She then applied for ordinary disability retirement benefits and was denied on the grounds that she was not permanently…


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Pirates Claim Brandon Wood
By Charlie Wilmoth Apr 22, 2011, 2:10pm EDT
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Ken Rosenthal tweets that the Pirates have claimed shortstop/third baseman Brandon Wood from the Angels. They'll need to drop a player from both the 25-man roster and the 40-man roster to make room for him. Sending Rule 5 pick Josh Rodriguez back to the Indians would be one way to do that; optioning Steve Pearce to Indianapolis and dropping a minor-leaguer from the 40-man would be another.
No one is happy with Ronny Cedeno, who is currently batting .170 and has made several glaring defensive mistakes. Unfortunately, Wood is probably even worse. He has considerable power but no clue what to do with it, and his struggles against major-league pitching have been epic - he's hitting .168 in 464 career at bats, mostly due to massive problems with the strike zone, which have caused him to rack up 153 strikeouts and 13 walks in his career. He has superficially nice-looking minor-league numbers, but those were compiled mostly in Salt Lake City and Rancho Cucamonga, which are two of the easiest places to hit in professional baseball (not so much because those ballparks are themselves great places to hit, but because those teams play tons of road games in places that are). Also, he's a dreadful defensive shortstop.
I can't blame the Pirates for wanting to find a legitimate alternative to Cedeno, but they are arguably taking a situation that was very hard to make worse, and making it worse. Rodriguez or Chase D'Arnaud or Pedro Ciriaco or any number of other players would have been better. If the Pirates' scouts see something they can fix here, then fine, but if not, I don't like this move at all, even at the cheap price of a waiver claim.
UPDATE: The Pirates have designated Josh Rodriguez for assignment, which almost certainly means he's gone for good. They have also recalled Pedro Ciriaco, perhaps just for a couple days until Wood reports. None of this is a particularly big deal, but I would have preferred to keep Rodriguez.