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Game on: Irvine's Great Park opens first part…
Game on: Irvine's Great Park opens first part of new sports park, which is twice the size of Disneyland
Fans watch the Orange County All-Star Soccer Shoot Out from the Soccer Stadium Skybox during the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
By Tomoya Shimura | tshimura@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. | UPDATED: August 8, 2017 at 8:49 a.m.
IRVINE — You may not know what's actually at the Orange County Great Park, except for that giant orange balloon.
That might change now. On Saturday, Aug. 5, the city of Irvine and developer FivePoint hosted a grand opening of the first phase of the 194-acre Great Park Sports Park, which is the biggest of its kind in Orange County — larger than Disneyland and Disney California Adventure combined.
"I think it's a moment that we are starting a new history for the Great Park and the city of Irvine," Councilwoman Christina Shea said. "We've had years of inability to create a park, get off the ground, and now we are finally moving forward."
Saturday's festivities included an opening ceremony — featuring Irvine officials, dignitaries and soccer greats like Landon Donovan and Amy Rodriguez — followed by a soccer match by Orange County high school all-star teams at the new 2,506-seat Championship Soccer Stadium. A free concert by the Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi was scheduled in the evening.
Five Point CEO Emile Haddad and Mayor of Irvine Donald P. Wagner lead the Orange County All-Star teams out for the opening ceremony of the Sports Park at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Five Point CEO Emile Haddad listens to the national anthem during the opening ceremony of the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Mayor of Irvine Donald P. Wagner speaks during the opening ceremony of the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Five Point CEO Emile Haddad speaks during the opening ceremony of the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Mayor of Irvine Donald P. Wagner, second left, and Five Point CEO Emile Haddad, second right, watch as former LA Galaxy Star Landon Donovan, center, flips the coin toss for the Orange County All-Star Shoot Out game during the opening ceremony of the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Mayor of Irvine Donald P. Wagner heads back to the stands after the open ceremony of the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Fans fill the Soccer Stadium for the Orange County All-Star Soccer Shoot Out during the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Construction for the second phase of the Sports Park is seen in the background as fans fill the Soccer Stadium for the Orange County All-Star Soccer Shoot Out during the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Jovohn "Jojo" Cruz plays rugby with the Rhinos Rugby Academy during the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Construction on the second phase of the Sports Park can be seen as attendees enjoy food trucks and the playing fields during the Sports Park Grand Opening at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Irvine. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)
Thousands of athletes, families and residents visited the park Saturday to enjoy clinics and exhibitions on six soccer fields, 25 tennis courts and five sand volleyball courts on 53 acres. A new 1-acre children's play area also opened.
When completed next spring, the sports park will also feature six additional soccer fields, 12 baseball and softball fields and lawn areas large enough to accommodate five more soccer fields.
"There's nothing like this in Orange County or L.A." said Brian Howard, of Huntington Beach, whose 15-year-old son plays rugby for the Rhinos Rugby Academy, which practices at the Great Park. "It has everything. Parking's great. The whole neighborhood's building around it. It's massive."
The first 53 acres of the 194-acre Orange County Great Park Sports Park include a soccer stadium, six soccer fields, 25 tennis courts and five sand volleyball courts. (Courtesy of City of Irvine)
Robert Mankin, who is in charge of sports design at architecture firm NBBJ, said the Great Park Sports Park is unique in that it offers such a variety of sports amenities in one place. The firm designed canopies into its championship stadiums to make them stand out and add a sense of scale, he said.
City officials expect the sports park to be used by various youth, community and professional organizations, though prices are set higher than other city facilities.
The city will run and maintain the new park using city staff as well as contracts with vendors. The staff is still trying to come up with figures on how much it will cost to run the sports park annually.
The Orange County Soccer Club, part of the 31-team professional United Soccer League, announced that it will begin playing home games at the new stadium on Aug. 15. The stadium features an upper deck with a VIP lounge, press boxes and patio seating.
"We have a wide variety of players … but our goal is to prepare young players to play professional soccer not only MLS but beyond," Orange County Soccer Club owner James Keston said, "and for them to have a home that's a professional stadium is an amazing experience and a huge step up for us."
The sports park is the first major facility to open at the Great Park since a new City Council in 2013 decided to change the course of the park's development.
City officials say the sports park is just the first of many features coming to the Great Park in the next few years. The 1,300-acre former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro site, which is owned by the city, could match the size of San Diego's Balboa Park when fully developed.
The city has so far developed 200 acres of the Great Park. Amenities include the Great Park balloon, a carousel, visitor center, kids rock play area, walkable historical timeline, a Hangar 244 event center, an arts complex, horticulture area and sports fields.
The new sports park is part of the 713 acres FivePoint is building for the city in exchange for approval to build more than 4,600 homes adjacent to the park. That portion will also include an 18-hole golf course, trails, agricultural fields, playgrounds, open space and a wildlife corridor. Most of these amenities, except for the golf course, are expected to be open by mid-2018.
FivePoint, which plans to spend about $250 million on these facilities, will turn them over to the city as they are developed.
"For FivePoint, this is a very important and proud moment for us because a lot of people honestly started giving up on the Great Park being built and a lot of people speculating this will be runways forever," FivePoint Chairman and CEO Emile Haddad said. "But we were telling people we are not giving up until the Great Park gets built."
Haddad said the sports park and other amenities at the Great Park will benefit residents of the adjacent Great Park Neighborhoods, which are being developed by his company.
In March, the council approved FivePointÕs proposal to open a 12,000-seat temporary amphitheater adjacent to the Great Park, while the city figures out its plan to build a permanent amphitheater. (Rendering courtesy of FivePoint)
The company also teamed up with a concert promoter to build a temporary 12,000-seat amphitheater that will open Aug. 26 on its land next to the Great Park.
FivePoint wants to create a city within a city, where people can live, work and play, he said.
"A lot of it is mixing things together and mixing people together," Haddad said. "This sports park is nothing but an element of our vision."
In addition, the Anaheim Ducks in February began construction of a 270,000-square-foot community ice complex and practice facility at the Great Park. The complex, the largest of its kind in California, is slated for a July 2018 opening.
Moreover, the city is negotiating with Wild Rivers to open a 30-acre water park with an uphill water coaster, water slides and lazy river. That could be open by summer 2019.
Not just for sports
Combining the new sports park with other amenities — such as the existing fields, the community ice complex, and the golf course — 472 acres of the Great Park will be used for sports-related activities. That makes the Great Park the third-largest multisports complex in the United States, according to Irvine, behind the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in Encino and National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn.
Some have criticized that the Great Park is turning into a jumble of commercial attractions and sport-specific activity centers, rather than a world-class urban respite like New York's Central Park and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Officials say the current plan offers ample free amenities for those who don't play sports, such as trails, agricultural areas and a botanical garden. An area designated as a 233-acre Cultural Terrace, with museums, a permanent amphitheater, a lake and a library, could be completed in the next decade or two.
"When you go on the balloon, you'll see that there's room for everything," Councilwoman Melissa Fox said. "The sports park is just the beginning of what will truly be a great park for all of Orange County."
Ed Pallotta, who lives a mile away from the Great Park, dropped by Saturday's grand opening to play tennis at the new courts. He had visited the Great Park a while back to ride the balloon but didn't bother to return.
"There was no real reason to come back," Pallotta said. "The facilities weren't developed yet. Now that it's open, now that it's available, yeah, we'll be here on a regular basis."
Residents and organizations interested in using sports facilities at the Orange County Great Park can obtain applications and information on fees at Facilities@ocgp.org or 949-724-6584.
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Tomoya Shimura covers Irvine for the Orange County Register. Prior to his stint at the Register, Tomoya had worked as a news reporter and sports writer for the Daily Press in Victorville. He won several awards for his work there, including the best business story from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Tomoya received his M.S. in sports studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He earned his B.A. in liberal arts from International Christian University in Tokyo.
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Figure 3. Four Kurixalus species of Taiwan.
A Kurixalus berylliniris sp. n. (holotype, adult, dark morph) B K. wangi sp. n. (holotype) C K. berylliniris sp. n. (sub-adult) D K. berylliniris sp. n. (adult, light morph) E K. eiffingeri F K. idiootocus.
Two new species of rhacophorid tree frog were identified in Taiwan. In both new taxa, derived reproductive characteristics of laying eggs in tree holes and oophagous tadpoles are shared with Kurixalus eiffingeri, but they are divergent from each other in molecular genetics, mating calls, and tadpole and adult morphology. The morphological characteristics and the molecular phylogenetic evidence support the hypothesis that the two new species, Kurixalus berylliniris sp. n. and Kurixalus wangi sp. n., are both monophyletic lineages.
Figure 1. Sampling localities of this study.
Localities 1 through 22 are around Taiwan island, locality 23 from Iriomote isle, locality 24 from Ishigaki isle. The two isles belong to the southern end of Ryukyu archipelago. Color refers to the geographical distribution of the three Kurixalus species. Red: Kurixalus eiffingeri; Green: K. berylliniris sp. n. (Taxon 1); B: K. wangi sp. n. (Taxon 2). Loc. 20: Ligia, type locality of K. berylliniris sp. n.; Loc. 21: Shouka, type locality of K. wangi sp. n.
Figure 10. Phylogenetic relationship of all Kurixalus species from Taiwan. A phylogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of the four Kurixalus species, obtained by a maximum likelihood search based on 1207 nucleotides from mtDNA CO1 and 16S rRNA genes. Feihyla palpebralis and Rhacophorus moltrechti were used as outgroups. The three values on each branch are maximum likelihood (ML), maximum parsimony (MP), and neighbor-joining (NJ) analyses with bootstrapping support based on 2000 replicates. Bootstrapping values below 50% are not shown. (JP: Ryukyu Islands of Japan; N. TW: northern Taiwan; C. TW: central Taiwan).
Type locality: Ligia timber trail, 1250 meters above sea level, Taitung County, Taiwan, Republic of China (Fig. 1, Loc. 20, 22°49'26.79"N, 121°00'35.45"E).
Diagnosis: A moderate-sized Kurixalus. Females average about 41 mm snout-vent length (range: 27.6–46.3 mm); males average about 35 mm (range: 29.0–42.3 mm). Iris emerald to light green. Two dark brown spots on eyelids, separated from each other and from X-shaped blotch on dorsum. Subarticular tubercles on foot rounded and flat. Belly and throat white or faintly-speckled. Prepollex in males squarish, compressed and expanded. About half-webbed between two outer toes. Anterior margin of tadpole dorsal fin extending to body. Tadpole heavily dark brown to black pigmented in gular region and on tail muscle. Upper lip of tadpole with deep transverse furrow, and prominent ridge extending from upper lip to anterior margin of nostril (key of tadpole, 3).
Etymology: The epithet berylliniris is a compound word formed from beryllin (L.), green-colored, and from iris (L.), iris of the eye, and is treated as a noun in nominative singular in opposition to the generic name.
Distribution and ecological notes: Kurixalus berylliniris sp. n. occurs in eastern Taiwan (at 225 to 1250 meters above sea level). The highest recorded elevation was on the eastern slope of the Central Mountain Range (Taitung County, 1250 meters above sea level), and the lowest recorded elevation was on the western slope of the Coastal Range (Hwalien County, 225 meters above sea level). Specimens were collected near the canopy level in moist broad-leaf forests in Taitung and on forest edges in Hwalien. The northern border of the specimen's distribution was near the Guangfu township of the central Hualien County (Fig. 1, Green stain).
Type locality: Shouka timber trail, 400 meters above sea level, Pingtung County, Taiwan, Republic of China (Fig. 1, Loc. 21, 22°13'15.58"N, 120°49'21.92"E).
Diagnosis: A small to moderate-sized Kurixalus. Females snout-vent length averaging about 34 mm (range: 30.8–37.1 mm); males averaging 30 mm (range: 28.6–31.6 mm). Iris golden-yellow. Two anterior horns of the X-shaped marking on back extending to eyelid. Webbing extensive on toes, extending to the toe disc on the inner margin of toe V. Belly and throat whitish. Anterior margin of tadpole dorsal fin extending to posterior body. Tadpole with almost no pigment on region of tail muscle. Upper lip of tadpole with shallow transverse furrow.
Etymology: The epithet is named and dedicated to Mr. Ching-Shong Wang for his pioneering work and contributions to the herpetology of Taiwan (Wang 1962). Mr. Wang discovered two rhacophorid frogs (Rhacophorus taipeianus and K. idiootocus) (Liang and Wang 1963, Kuramoto and Wang 1987) in Taiwan and suggested, in the early 1980s, that some Kurixalus specimens collected near the type locality of this new species might be different from K. eiffingeri (personal communication). The name is used in the genitive case.
Distribution and ecological notes: Kurixalus wangi sp. n. is distributed in the southern part of Pingtung County in southern Taiwan below 500 meters above sea level (Fig. 1, Blue dots). All specimens were collected in the shrubs of secondary forests or lowland broad-leaved forests at low altitudes.
Figure 4. Nesting sites of three tree-hole breeding Kurixalus species (a nest is made by the animal).
A eggs of Kurixalus berylliniris sp. n. B eggs of K. wangi sp. n.; note that the parents were present with eggs C eggs of K. eiffingeri.
As demonstrated by the high bootstrap support, the robustness of the phylogenetic relationship of the three rhacophorid genera is strong. Based on this robust phylogenetic tree, we found that the among-genera genetic distances were greater than the within-genus genetic distance (Fig. 10). Using the partial sequence of mtDNA CO1 gene as a molecular marker (Table S2), the genetic distances of the all pair-wise comparisons of the four Kurixalus species were all larger than 10% (Table S3). The phylogenetic trees constructed by Bayesian inference, NJ analysis, and MP methods showed the same topology (Fig. 10). The topology of branches was sufficiently supported by the posterior probabilities, bootstrap values, and branch lengths. The four Kurixalus species of Taiwan formed a well-structured monophyletic group with distinguishable branch length. Samples of K. eiffingeri collected from Iriomote Island, northern Taiwan, and central Taiwan were embedded in the same lineage and formed a monophyletic group (Fig. 11 below). Individuals from southern (Kurixalus wangi sp. n.) and eastern Taiwan (K. berylliniris sp. n.) were sister taxa of K. eiffingeri. Kurixalus idiootocus was phylogenetically distinct from the three Kurixalus species (Figs 10 and 11 below).
Figure 11. Geographic distribution and genetic structures of Kurixalus eiffingeri and the two newly discovered cryptic species from Taiwan and its two adjacent islands. Red: K. eiffingeri; Green: K. berylliniris sp. n.; B: K. wangi sp. n. Bold lines mark the boundaries of each species' distribution, dotted lines discriminate different genetic groups intra species. Below: a consensus ML tree to show the variation between haplotypes.
Shu-Ping Wu, Chuan-Chin Huang, Chi-Li Tsai, Te-En Lin, Jhih-Jia Jhang and Sheng-Hai Wu. 2016. Systematic Revision of the Taiwanese Genus Kurixalus members with A Description of Two New Endemic Species (Anura, Rhacophoridae).
The subfamily Murininae has high species diversity in Vietnam, but taxonomic studies are limited. In this paper, we describe a new species of the genus Murina based on a specimen collected from Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It is a medium-sized species with 'suilla-type' dentition. A taxonomic review of Murininae from Vietnam was also conducted based on combined morphological, DNA, and karyological characteristics. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the mitochondrial cytochrome coxidase subunit (COI) gene supported the subfamily Murininae, while the genus Murina proved to be paraphyletic in relation to the genera Harpiocephalus and Harpiola. Fourteen species of the genus Murina, one species of Harpiocephalus, and one species of Harpiola are recognized from Vietnam. Murina tiensa is regarded as a junior synonym of M. harrisoni; strong sexual dimorphism was observed in M. harrisoni. Relations between forearm length and total length of skullshowed different trends among species and sexes. Karyotypes of Murina huttoni, M. cyclotis, M. lorelieae, M. beelzebub, M. feae, and Harpiola isodon were 2n = 44, FN = 50, while that of Harpiocephalus harpia was 2n = 44, FN = 52.
In 2011, three specimens from an unknown species of tube-nosed bat (genus Murina) were collected in montane moist forest at altitudes between 1117 and 1682 m in the Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve of Vietnam. We sequenced the mitochondrial COI gene from Ngoc Linh bats and performed comparisons with Murina sequences available in the nucleotide databases. The results suggested that the three unidentified specimens belong to Murina lorelieae, a species recently described from a single specimen collected in southern China. Nucleotide distances between specimens from Ngoc Linh and southern China are exceptionally low for M. lorelieae (1.25%) in comparison with three other Murina species, i.e., Murina cyclotis, Murina feae, and Murina huttoni (3.9–5.5%). We suggest that M. lorelieae is adapted to montane forests, which may have facilitated long-distance dispersal events between southern China and Vietnam during glacial periods of the Pleistocene. Morphological comparisons based on body-size measurements and geometric morphometric analyses of the skulls showed differences between Vietnamese specimens and the Chinese holotype of M. lorelieae. We proposed that the Vietnamese specimens belong to a distinct subspecies, Murina lorelieae ngoclinhensis.
Vuong Tan Tu, Raphaël Cornette, Jose Utge and Alexandre Hassanin. 2015. First Records of Murina lorelieae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Vietnam.
Treeshrews are widely considered a "living model" of an ancestral primate, and have long been called "living fossils". Actual fossils of treeshrews, however, are extremely rare. We report a new fossil species of Ptilocercus treeshrew recovered from the early Oligocene (~34 Ma) of China that represents the oldest definitive fossil record of the crown group of treeshrews and nearly doubles the temporal length of their fossil record. The fossil species is strikingly similar to the living Ptilocercus lowii, a species generally recognized as the most plesiomorphic extant treeshrew. It demonstrates that Ptilocercus treeshrews have undergone little evolutionary change in their morphology since the early Oligocene. Morphological comparisons and phylogenetic analysis support the long-standing idea that Ptilocercus treeshrews are morphologically conservative and have probably retained many characters present in the common stock that gave rise to archontans, which include primates, flying lemurs, plesiadapiforms and treeshrews. This discovery provides an exceptional example of slow morphological evolution in a mammalian group over a period of 34 million years. The persistent and stable tropical environment in Southeast Asia through the Cenozoic likely played a critical role in the survival of such a morphologically conservative lineage.
Figure 1: Upper and lower dentition (in color) of Ptilocercus kylin sp. nov., compared with P. lowii (USNM 32409, in gray-scale).
(A) Crown view of the upper dentition. Fossils include the lingual half of a left M1 (IVPP V20689, reversed), the buccal half of a right M1 (IVPP V20690), a complete right M2 (IVPP V20691), and the buccal half of a left M3 (IVPP V20692, reversed). I1-2, C, P2-4, and M1-3 are shown for P. lowii. (B) Crown view of the lower dentition. Fossils include an isolated right lower canine (IVPP V20693), a right jaw fragment preserving p3-4 and the alveoli for i2-3, c, and p2 (IVPP V20694), an isolated right m1 (IVPP V20695), and a right jaw fragment preserving m2-3 (IVPP V20696, holotype). The alignment of the fossils is based on a left lower jaw fragment retaining a small portion of the i2-3 alveoli, alveoli and roots of c and p2, and p3-m3 (IVPP V20699, Fig. 2 and Supplementary Information). The i1-3, c, p2-4, and m1-3 are shown for P. lowii. (C), Lingual view of the lower dentition of P. kylin. (D), Buccal view of the dentition of P. kylin. Scale bar equals 5 mm.
Etymology: Specific epithet is derived from the name of Qilin District, in Qujing City. Qilin is the pinyin for kylin, a hoofed dragon-like beast of Chinese myth.
Holotype: IVPP V20696 (Fig. 1), a right mandibular fragment preserving m2 and m3.
Locality and horizon: Lijiawa Mammalian Fossil locality, Yunnan Province, China. Earliest Oligocene, ~ 34 Ma.
Figure 3: Summary phylogeny of treeshrews.
Figure 4: Ptilocercus treeshrew distribution in the context of southern Asia's modern geography and early Oligocene palaeogeography.
(A) Fossil locality of Ptilocercus kylin sp. nov. (blue dot) and the distribution of the living species Ptilocercus lowii (pale reddish shading). The background map is from: wikimedia.org (under the Creative Commons Share Alike license: creativecommons.org). (B) Fossil locality (blue dot) and reconstructed palaeogeographic distribution of the closed canopy of tropical rain forest and monsoonal forest (pale reddish shading) in the early Oligocene. The palaeogeographic reconstruction is from ref. 46 (Nature Publishing Group License: 3646200322068). The position of the fossil locality on the palaeogeographic reconstruction was estimated based on its distance from the Tibetan Plateau and the Sino-Burman Ranges (SBR).
The Chinese Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group is the second oldest fossil bird-bearing deposit, only surpassed by Archaeopteryx from the German Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestones. Here we report a new bird, Chongmingia zhengi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jehol Biota. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that Chongmingia zhengi is basal to the dominant Mesozoic avian clades Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha, and represents a new basal avialan lineage. This new discovery adds to our knowledge regarding the phylogenetic differentiation and morphological diversity in early avian evolution. The furcula of Chongmingia is rigid (reducing its efficiency), consequently requiring more power for flight. However, the elongated forelimb and the large deltopectoral crest on the humerus might indicate that the power was available. The unique combination of features present in this species demonstrates that numerous evolutionary experimentations took place in the early evolution of powered flight. The occurrence of gastroliths further confirms that herbivory was common among basal birds. The Jehol birds faced competition with pterosaurs, and occupied sympatric habitats with non-avian theropods, some of which consumed birds. Thus, avialan herbivory may have reduced ecological competition from carnivorous close relatives and other volant vertebrates early in their evolutionary history.
Chongmingia zhengi gen. et sp. nov.
Etymology: The generic name is from the Mandarin word Chongming, referring to a Chinese mythological bird. The specific epithet is in honour of Mr. Xiaoting Zheng for his generous contribution in the establishment of the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature.
Holotype: STM (Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature) 9-9, a partial skeleton with associated soft tissues and gastroliths, missing the skull and most of the caudal vertebrae (Fig. 1).
Locality and horizon: Dapingfang, Liaoning Province, China; Jiufotang Formation, Early Cretaceous (Aptian).
Figure 1: Photograph and line drawing of the holotype of Chongmingia zhengi gen. et sp. nov. (STM9-9).
Figure 7: Simplified Mesozoic avian cladogram showing the possible phylogenetic positions of Chongmingia zhengi.
Analysis using the coelurosaurian matrix places Chongmingia within basal avialans and as the sister group to Ornithothoraces (p1), and analysis using the Mesozoic avian matrix resolves Chongmingia as the most basal avialan, except for Archaeopteryx (p2).
Min Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang and Zhonghe Zhou. 2016. A New Basal Bird from China with implications for Morphological Diversity in Early Birds.
Fig 6. Color pattern and reproductive comparisons between Pedostibes tuberculosus from India and 'P'. hosii from Southeast Asia.
. (D) Vocalizing male of P. tuberculosus from India. (E) Amplectic pair of P. tuberculosus engaged in oviposition. (F) Film of eggs of P. tuberculosus floating in a stream pool.
The Asian Tree Toad genus Pedostibes, as currently understood, exhibits a conspicuously disjunct distribution, posing several immediate questions relating to the biogeography and taxonomy of this poorly known group. The type species, Pedostibes tuberculosus and P. kempi, are known only from India, whereas P. hosii, P. rugosus, and P. everetti are restricted to Southeast Asia. Several studies have shown that these allopatric groups are polyphyletic, with the Indian Pedostibes embedded within a primarily South Asian clade of toads, containing the genera Adenomus, Xanthophryne, and Duttaphrynus. Southeast Asian Pedostibes on the other hand, are nested within a Southeast Asian clade, which is the sister lineage to the Southeast Asian river toad genus Phrynoidis. We demonstrate that Indian and Southeast Asian Pedostibes are not only allopatric and polyphyletic, but also exhibit significant differences in morphology and reproductive mode, indicating that the Southeast Asian species' are not congeneric with the true Pedostibes of India. As a taxonomic solution, we describe a new genus, Rentapia gen. nov. to accommodate the Southeast Asian species.
Fig 1. Map showing distribution of species of Pedostibes and Rentapia gen. nov.
Both ML and Bayesian phylogenies recovered similar topologies, with the ML tree providing better resolution at deeper nodes. Pedostibes tuberculosus was recovered as part of a primarily South Asian monophyletic clade, where it forms a sister lineage relationship to the clade that contains the genera Adenomus, Xanthophryne, and Duttaphrynus (Pedostibes + (Adenomus + (Xanthophryne + Duttaphrynus))). Males from this clade tend to be small in size with the exception of the genus Duttaphrynus. Southeast Asian 'Pedostibes' were reciprocally monophyletic with the genus Phrynoidis and represent a clade that exhibits the largest body size among all South and Southeast Asian toads (Fig 4; S2 Table). Uncorrected p-distances calculated from the mitochondrial alignment demonstrate that Southeast Asian 'Pedostibes' are 13–14% divergent from P. tuberculosus and 12–13% divergent from the genus Phrynoidis. These levels of divergences are consistent with other generic level divergences among South Asian, and Southeast Asian bufonids (Fig 5; S3 Table).
Fig 4. Maximum likelihood phylogeny showing the polyphyletic relationship of Pedostibes and the proposed new genus among the South & Southeast Asian Bufonids.
Diagnosis: Large-bodied toads with a movable coccyx, eight pre-sacral vertebrae, a complete quadratojugal, and small, pigmented ova laid as strings. Interorbital cranial crests absent. Parotoid glands large, distinct; oval, circular or triangular in dorsal view. Fingers webbed at base, tips expanded into flat discs. Feet fully webbed on all toes except fourth. Nuptial pads present in males. Adults are primarily arboreal and inhabit riparian vegetation around small- to moderately-sized forest streams.
Phylogenetic definition: Rentapia is a node-based name that refers to the clade originating from the most recent common ancestor of 'Pedostibes' (Rentapia) hosii and 'P.' rugosus (Fig 4).
Content: The allopatric species of Pedostibes of Southeast Asia from the Isthmus of Kra, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo: Rentapia hosii and R. rugosus. We also tentatively place 'P.' everetti in Rentapia because of its close geographic proximity with the two Southeast Asian taxa, as well as the character state similarities it shares with R. rugosus (webbed hands and feet, finger and toe tips dilated into truncate disks, movable coccyx, eight pre-sacral vertebrae, complete quadratojugal).
Etymology: The Iban are a subgroup of the indigenous peoples of Borneo (collectively known as the Dayaks) and form the main ethnic group in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The generic epithet is selected to honor the legendary Iban warrior Libau Rentap, a great war chief, freedom fighter, and Malaysian national hero. Renowned for headhunting, the Iban were subjugated in Sarawak by the White Rajahs (English monarchy), who sought to confiscate land and impose taxes. Libau Rentap rose against the first of the White Rajahs, James Brooke, initiating a rebellion that eventually returned power to the people of Sarawak. The rule of the White Rajahs lasted from 1841 to 1946.
Pedostibes is small in size and deposits medium-sized clutches of eggs that are laid as films. The combination of these traits differentiates it from Rentapia gen. nov., which is diagnosed by its larger body size and an oviposition mode characterized by a large clutch of eggs laid as strings. Given that individual egg sizes in both genera are comparatively similar, this agrees with past studies that show a close correlation of clutch size to female body size. There are also differences in sexually dimorphic traits. Both male and female Pedostibes have the same color pattern, whereas Rentapia hosii females are vividly colored with bright markings, as compared to the duller, uniformly colored males (Fig 6A–6C). However, this color dimorphism has so far been observed only in R. hosii and we do not have evidence for either R. rugosus or R. everetti having such color dimorphism.
The most widespread Rentapia, R. hosii exhibits marked geographically based variation in female color pattern at different localities across its known distribution. Our analyses inferred a strongly supported genetic split between R. hosii populations from Peninsular Malaysia and those from Borneo. Additionally, females from these populations are phenotypically distinct. Females from Peninsular Malaysia are light green (dark gray when handled or stressed) with large, sparse, irregular yellow spots (Fig 6A–6C), whereas females from Borneo are purplish with yellow vermiculation or uniformly brown. Furthermore, a population from Danum Valley, Sabah, exhibits a phenotype that is distinct from populations from Peninsular Malaysia and the rest of Borneo. Females from Danum Valley have more dense dorsal vermiculations and broad, light-colored marbling on the flanks and posterior region of the thigh. The venter shows faint but distinct marbling whereas the venters of the former two populations are immaculate. However, the genetic divergences between Peninsular Malaysian and Bornean populations are low (2.6%) and more data are required to determine whether these populations represent distinct species.
Since several recent studies have shown Pedostibes sensu lato to be a non-monophyletic genus within the family Bufonidae, suggested uniting Rentapia with its sister genus, the terrestrial river toad Phrynoidis, as a taxonomic solution. Although this suggestion would resolve the issue of monophyly, we find the recognition of the new genus to be a preferable solution based on several lines of reasoning. First, Rentapia and Phrynoidis exhibit striking morphological differences: Rentapia has expanded and flat finger discs (dilated into keratinized, bulbous tips in Phrynoidis); is considerably smaller in size (female Phrynoidis range from 120 mm to more than 200 mm SVL); lacks supernumerary palmar tubercles (present in Phrynoidis); possesses basal interphalangeal finger webbing (webbing absent in Phrynoidis); and the oral disk of Rentapia tadpoles is half the maximum width of the body (extends the entire width of the body in Phrynoidis). Striking ecological differences are equally apparent. Rentapia is an arboreal habitat specialist, whereas Phrynoidis are terrestrial riparian habitat generalists, that oviposits enormous clutches with an average size of 12,792 eggs per clutch; Finally, we note that genetic divergences of >12.0% (Fig 5) is consistent with other inter-generic divergences within Bufonidae, suggesting that our proposition is not discordant with other, accepted taxonomic arrangements. Although merging Rentapia and Phrynoidis would remedy the polyphyly of Pedostibes sensu lato, the preponderance of differences in morphology, reproductive characteristics, ecology, and molecular characters is best acknowledged by considering these two lineages as separate genera.
Kin Onn Chan, L. Lee Grismer, Anil Zachariah, Rafe M. Brown and Robin Kurian Abraham. 2016. Polyphyly of Asian Tree Toads, Genus Pedostibes Günther, 1876 (Anura: Bufonidae), and the Description of A New Genus from Southeast Asia.
A new species of the genus Amolops Cope, 1865 is described from Nyingchi, southeastern Tibet, China, based on morphological and molecular data. The new species, Amolops nyingchiensis sp. nov. is assigned to the Amolops monticola group based on its skin smooth, dorsolateral fold distinct, lateral side of head black, upper lip stripe white extending to the shoulder. Amolops nyingchiensis sp. nov. is distinguished from all other species of Amolops by the following combination of characters: (1) medium body size, SVL 48.5-58.3 mm in males, and 57.6-70.7 mm in females; (2) tympanum distinct, slightly larger than one third of the eye diameter; (3) a small tooth-like projection on anteromedial edge of mandible; (4) the absence of white spine on dorsal surface of body; (5) the presence of circummarginal groove on all fingers; (6) the presence of vomerine teeth; (7) background coloration of dorsal surface brown, lateral body gray with yellow; (8) the presence of transverse bands on the dorsal limbs; (9) the presence of nuptial pad on the first finger in males; (10) the absence of vocal sac in males. Taxonomic status of the populations that were previously identified to A. monticola from Tibet is also discussed.
Etymology: The species name "nyingchiensis" is the Latin form of name of Nyingchi Prefecture, which includes the two localities of the new species. According to the Latin name, we suggest the English common name as "Nyingchi Cascade Frog", and the Chinese common name as "Lin Zhi Tuan Wa" (林芝湍蛙).
Ecological notes: The new species, A. nyinchiensis is found in the small to medium sized, fast flowing streams near mixed forest at relative high elevation (Figure 4). At the type locality (Gedang), the stream is much faster, and has rocky shores, while at the other locality (Zhibai) the stream is slower, and the shores are covered by vegetation and not rocky. Such distinct microhabitats suggest a wide ecological niche of the new species. In Gedang, only the new species was observed, and in Zhibai, one amphibian species, Nanorana parkeri (Stejneger, 1927) was co-distributed with the new species, and one reptile species Pseudoxenodon macrops (Blyth, 1854) was also observed. Reproductive season of the new species is unknown.
Figure 2 Different views of the male holotype (KIZ 016432) of Amolops nyingchiensis sp. nov. in life. A: dorsolateral view; B: ventral view; C: dorsal view.
The Plain-backed Thrush Zoothera mollissima breeds in the Himalayas and mountains of central China. It was long considered conspecific with the Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni, until these were shown to be broadly sympatric.
We revise the Z. mollissima–Z. dixoni complex by integrating morphological, acoustic, genetic (two mitochondrial and two nuclear markers), ecological and distributional datasets.
In earlier field observations, we noted two very different song types of "Plain-backed" Thrush segregated by breeding habitat and elevation. Further integrative analyses congruently identify three groups: an alpine breeder in the Himalayas and Sichuan, China ("Alpine Thrush"); a forest breeder in the eastern Himalayas and northwest Yunnan (at least), China ("Himalayan Forest Thrush"); and a forest breeder in central Sichuan ("Sichuan Forest Thrush"). Alpine and Himalayan Forest Thrushes are broadly sympatric, but segregated by habitat and altitude, and the same is probably true also for Alpine and Sichuan Forest Thrushes. These three groups differ markedly in morphology and songs. In addition, DNA sequence data from three non-breeding specimens from Yunnan indicate that yet another lineage exists ("Yunnan Thrush"). However, we find no consistent morphological differences from Alpine Thrush, and its breeding range is unknown. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that all four groups diverged at least a few million years ago, and identify Alpine Thrush and the putative "Yunnan Thrush" as sisters, and the two forest taxa as sisters. Cytochrome b divergences among the four Z. mollissima sensu lato (s.l.) clades are similar to those between any of them and Z. dixoni, and exceed that between the two congeneric outgroup species. We lectotypify the name Oreocincla rostrata Hodgson, 1845 with the Z. mollissima sensu stricto (s.s.) specimen long considered its type. No available name unambiguously pertains to the Himalayan Forest Thrush.
The Plain-backed Thrush Z. mollissima s.l. comprises at least three species: Alpine Thrush Z. mollissima s.s., with a widespread alpine breeding distribution; Sichuan Forest Thrush Z. griseiceps, breeding in central Sichuan forests; and Himalayan Forest Thrush, breeding in the eastern Himalayas and northwest Yunnan (at least), which is described herein as a new species. "Yunnan Thrush" requires further study.
Etymology: We name this new species for Dr Sálim Ali, in honor of his huge contributions to the development of Indian ornithology and conservation.
Status and conservation of all taxa: As the Alpine Thrush is widely distributed and its habitat is not under threat, it should be considered as being of least concern. Zoothera salimalii is locally common in West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh, India, and locally abundant at Dulongjiang, Yunnan province, China. Because it is widely distributed and its habitat is not under any imminent threat (other than forest areas in general), it should be considered as being of least concern. Zoothera griseiceps is only known to breed in a rather small area in Sichuan province, China. However, as it is locally fairly common, and occurs in several protected areas, it is probably not under any imminent threat, at least not on its breeding grounds.
Based on analyses of plumage, morphometrics, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, song, breeding habitat and geographical distributions, we conclude that Zoothera mollissima s.l. should be split into at least three species, one of which is described here as a new species: Alpine Thrush Z. mollissima s.s., Himalayan Thrush Zoothera salimalii (sp. nov.) and Sichuan Forest Thrush Z. griseiceps, all monotypic. In addition, a distinct lineage, "Yunnan Thrush", was identified genetically, but as we have no corroborating evidence that it is distinct from Alpine Thrush, we refrain from describing it here. Z. dixoni should be retained as a distinct species.
Per Alström, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Chao Zhao, Jingzi Xu, Shashank Dalvi, Tianlong Cai, Yuyan Guan, Ruiying Zhang, Mikhail V. Kalyakin, Fumin Lei and Urban Olsson. 2016. Integrative Taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals Cryptic Species, including A New Species.
: A new species of bird has been described in north-eastern India and adjacent parts of China by a team of scientists. The bird has been named the Himalayan Forest Thrush, Zoothera salimalii.
Eotrachodon orientalis gen. et sp. nov. (latest Santonian of Alabama, southeastern U.S.A.) is one of the oldest and most basal hadrosaurid dinosaurs and the only hadrosaurid from Appalachia (present day eastern North America) with a preserved skull. This taxon possesses a relatively derived narial structure that was until now regarded as synapomorphic for saurolophine (solid-crested or crestless) hadrosaurids. Maximum parsimony analysis places E. orientalis as the sister taxon to Saurolophidae (Saurolophinae + Lambeosaurinae). Character optimization on the phylogeny indicates that the saurolophine-like circumnarial structure evolved by the Santonian following the split between saurolophines and lambeosaurines but prior to the major hadrosaurid radiation. Statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis posits an Appalachian ancestral area for Hadrosauridae and subsequent dispersal of their ancestors into Laramidia (present-day western North America) during the Cenomanian.


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Last week, Michigan's tart cherry growers were disappointed by a 5-0 vote from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that dried tart cherries from Turkey are not harming the U.S. industry.
According to Audrey Sebolt, associate horticulture and industry relations specialist with Michigan Farm Bureau, to put forth one of these cases, you need to have at minimum three years' worth of data. The case against Turkey started with cherry juice concentrate, but the cherry industry had a hard time getting the numbers together. So, they switched to dried tart cherries.
"With the dry tart cherries, it came so quickly and exponentially huge numbers were being imported at 85 to 89 cents per pound, whereas we have to sell it to break even [with] production costs at $4.50 to $5 per pound," she said. "We felt like there was really good data to put forth."
In September, the U.S. Department of Commerce determined Turkey was flooding the U.S. market with subsidized dried tart cherries and sold in the U.S. at "less than fair value."
"The U.S. ITC's ruling contradicts with what the [U.S. Department of] Commerce said," said Sebolt.
Both Michigan Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow used the word "outraged" to describe their feelings on behalf of the state's tart cherry producers, as Michigan grows 75 percent of the nation's tart cherries.
The ITC will release a report on February 18 explaining why the commissioners voted against cherry growers. Once that decision is public, Sebolt said that's when the cherry industry will have to figure out what's next.
"The tart cherry industry will have to decide if they are going to repeal this decision or accept it," she said. "Right now, they're on hold until they hear exactly why [the ITC] made that determination."
On Friday, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer requesting the USTR office, USDA, and Department of commerce to hold afield hearing in West Michigan to hear from those who are being negatively impacted by these trade practices.
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Packet Delay Variation Applicability Statement
RFC - Informational (March 2009; No errata)
Was draft-ietf-ippm-delay-var-as (ippm WG)
Benoît Claise , Al Morton
draft-morton-ippm-delay-var-as
Lars Eggert
Network Working Group                                          A. Morton
Request for Comments: 5481                                     AT&T Labs
Category: Informational                                        B. Claise
Cisco Systems, Inc.
This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of
publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights
and restrictions with respect to this document.
Morton & Claise              Informational                      [Page 1]
RFC 5481                   Delay Variation AS                 March 2009
Packet delay variation metrics appear in many different standards
documents.  The metric definition in RFC 3393 has considerable
flexibility, and it allows multiple formulations of delay variation
through the specification of different packet selection functions.
Although flexibility provides wide coverage and room for new ideas,
it can make comparisons of independent implementations more
difficult.  Two different formulations of delay variation have come
into wide use in the context of active measurements.  This memo
examines a range of circumstances for active measurements of delay
variation and their uses, and recommends which of the two forms is
best matched to particular conditions and tasks.
1.1. Requirements Language ......................................5
1.2. Background Literature in IPPM and Elsewhere ................5
1.3. Organization of the Memo ...................................6
2. Purpose and Scope ...............................................7
3. Brief Descriptions of Delay Variation Uses ......................7
3.1. Inferring Queue Occupation on a Path .......................7
3.2. Determining De-Jitter Buffer Size ..........................8
3.3. Spatial Composition .......................................10
3.4. Service-Level Comparison ..................................10
3.5. Application-Layer FEC Design ..............................10
4. Formulations of IPDV and PDV ...................................10
4.1. IPDV: Inter-Packet Delay Variation ........................11
4.2. PDV: Packet Delay Variation ...............................11
4.3. A "Point" about Measurement Points ........................12
4.4. Examples and Initial Comparisons ..........................12
5. Survey of Earlier Comparisons ..................................13
5.1. Demichelis' Comparison ....................................13
5.2. Ciavattone et al. .........................................15
5.3. IPPM List Discussion from 2000 ............................16
5.4. Y.1540 Appendix II ........................................18
5.5. Clark's ITU-T SG 12 Contribution ..........................18
6. Additional Properties and Comparisons ..........................18
6.1. Packet Loss ...............................................18
6.2. Path Changes ..............................................19
6.2.1. Lossless Path Change ...............................20
6.2.2. Path Change with Loss ..............................21
6.3. Clock Stability and Error .................................22
6.5. Reporting a Single Number (SLA) ...........................24
6.6. Jitter in RTCP Reports ....................................25


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I have to say it helps when you live with an Omelette Chef, but my Dad makes the absolutely best "Kitchen-Sink" Omelettes. The reason we like to call it a "Kitchen-Sink" Omelette is because whatever we have left in the fridge, goes in the Omelette. In the summer we always have a ton of fresh veggies from our Farm Share at Good Work Farm, but we also always have a little bit of some sort of protein, like left over ground beef, some grilled chicken or anything else we can find. The combination of all of these ingredients make the best and most creative Omelettes. Since my Dad is not much of a blogger, I decided I would capture a few of his special techniques that he learned at the CIA and from several years of experience at the restaurant.
We would love you all to share your favorite ingredients you use in your omelettes.
Step 1: Check your fridge to find out what left-overs you have to use in your omelette.
Step 2: Once you have all of your ingredients, dice up all of your veggies, cheeses and proteins ahead of time and leave them laid out on the cutting board until you are ready to use. According to my Dad, this is called a "mise en place" which is a french culinary phrase, meaning putting everything in its place.
Step 3: Whisk your eggs together until they are light and fluffy. As a rule of thumb, use 3 eggs per person.
*Tip: The fluffier your eggs are after whisking, the fluffier omelette will be.
Step 4: Use a well seasoned steel pan or a non-stick pan. Pre-heat the pan over medium heat for about 3-5 minutes and then add in butter.
Step 5: Lightly sauté all of your veggies and meats for about 2-3 minutes.
*Tip: Never overload your omelette with too many ingredients, unless you plan on adding more eggs.
Step 6: Add in your eggs and swirl the eggs in the pan so they are evenly distributed throughout the vegetables. Let sit on heat until the omelette is no longer runny, but congealed.
Step 7: Flip the omelette to the other side.
Step 8: Once your omelette is flipped, remove from heat, add in your cheese and put back on the heat. Using your rubber spatula, flip the omelette half way over so you now have a semicircle. Turn your heat to low, put a cover on it until the cheese melts.
Step 9: Remove from heat and plate to serve.


Living in Vermont provides me with constant opportunities to make lots of landscape photographs. Everyday, no matter where I go I come across some picturesque scene and can't stop myself from photographing it. Sometimes even when I'm running behind or late. I hope I never become blasé to the beauty here.
There are many times of year when I do nothing but crisscross the entire state going to my favorite spots to make photographs at sunrise and sunset or wait hours at some barn until the clouds, light and shadows are "just right."
When the weather is changing and the sky is going to be dramatic I obsesses about going out to capture it and where I can work it best into some specific landscape. I couldn't care less if I get soaked in the process. All I want to do is get the image I pre-visualized.
My favorite thing though, is when I unexpectedly come across natural wildlife when shooting landscapes and working it into the scene or making it the prime subject. What kind of animals or birds it might be doesn't much matter to me.
I enjoy photographing Black-capped Chickadees, deer and voles just as much as Osprey, Bald Eagles, and Black Bears. But lately, I've gotten very serious about seeking out specific types, if not species, of wildlife to photograph rather than coming across it through happenstance and being an opportunistic photographer of it. It hasn't been easy.
I've been spending a lot of my free hours this winter freezing my toes off in a hunting blind and waiting for the wildlife. It takes a lot of patience and perseverance. Much to my own surprise I LOVE every freezing cold minute of it! I even enjoy the days where I didn't get one good image because nothing got close enough. The landscape and scenery is still breathtaking and the peace and quiet of the outdoors which is only interrupted by natural sounds like ice expanding or contracting, foot steps of animals walking through the snow or birds flying, landing, taking off or calling is sublime.
For the past couple weeks I've been photographing different species of diving ducks on Lake Champlain like the Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser, Hooded Mergansers, Lesser Scaup and Red-breasted Merganser. Up until a few weeks ago I never knew anything about them, let alone that they were here in Vermont. When I'm not working or out photographing them I've been reading about diving ducks and other waterfowl in Vermont. It's been such a fun experience observing, photographing and learning more about these fascinating and adorable birds.
Now through late April is a great time to view waterfowl in Vermont as many species stop here on their way to more northern breeding grounds. To watch them all you need to do is find open water (not ice), have a decent pair of binoculars, and keep still and quiet. (Its best to leave young children at home as they're unable to stay quiet or still long enough.) However, unfortunately to capture decent photographs of most waterfowl you need a lot of specialized gear as point and shoot cameras cannot provide the magnification (zoom), stability, or speed that is required.
Sorry, I don't have any photographs to go with this post as I don't have the time (or drive) to sort/rate and digitally process any of these shots right now. As always, I'd much rather spend my time behind a camera making photographs than spending time sitting behind my computer.


While there are many types of lesson plan designs available for teachers, I would like for you to use these three in developing your lesson plans. The first lesson plan model is TIMS (Tennessee Instructional Model), which is based off of the original Madeline Hunter model. The second model that I would like to see is the Inquiry Based Lesson Plan Model. The final model that works well with technology is the ASSURE model.
While no lesson plan model is better than the other, each have their strengths when providing flexability, key concepts, and technology integration.
Posted on April 11, 2010 by Jason Beach and tagged ASSURE Inquiry Based Lesson Plan Model TIMS Technology.


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EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR TIRELESS WORKER TURNS LIMITED MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE INTO SPRINGBOARD FOR HOSPITAL'S TOP AWARD.
BETSY HUTTON, Special to the Sun-SentinelSUN-SENTINEL
Sometimes personal tragedy is a great conductor of change.
Betsy Whisman realizes that now.
Betsy and Mark Whisman became engaged in high school, keeping their firmly set promises alive with carefully mapped-out plans for china patterns, reception menus and designs on a new home.
As soon as she had graduated with a degree in "K through eight" education from East Carolina University in North Carolina, Betsy and Mark started living out the wedding they had planned since they were teens.
Fifteen years ago in March they married, and moved to Florida.
In June of that year, the doctor discovered testicular cancer in Mark's body. Mark died that October. He was only 25.
"When Mark died, I'd never even heard of his kind of cancer," Whisman said.
Torn apart, she turned to the one person who had really pulled for Mark: his doctor. She went to work for him at his Deerfield Beach office and quickly picked up the medical terminology.
Thirteen years later, Whisman has turned her limited medical knowledge into the springboard to becoming Boca Raton Community Hospital's 1988 Employee of the Year. She beat out 1,700 hospital employees, including many who won employee-of-the-month awards this year from departments with the ring of life- or-death to them: Central Sterile, Respiratory and Emergency Room.
The woman who would rather develop a curriculum for teaching child care to novice baby-sitters than visit with a pale and languid patient, took the 394- bed hospital's top staff honor, a rewarding package including a star in her name through the International Star Registry, two days leave with pay and a parking space for the year.
"Betsy has a master's (degree) in education and is studying right now to earn a second one in health care services," said her supervisor Carol Bruno, hospital community relations director and co-collaborator with Whisman on the department's first-time community outreach projects.
"She developed our first health fair and first cholesteral screening. She designed a series of 202-minute health classes for children and wrote a baby- sitting class curriculum," Bruno said. "She organizes hundreds of volunteers by running around the hospital coaxing people to give their time and talents. She's effervescent, the epitome of organizational skills. And she's a marvelous gal."
"It's an honor. It really is," Whisman says of her new status. But she rushes her words so that she can get back into describing her work as chairwoman of the American Cancer Society's public education committee for south Palm Beach County, which involves getting teaching tools to schools to bombard the Class of 2000 with anti-smoking signals. The goal is to graduate an entire generation of children who don't smoke.
"I think it will work. I really do," she said of the Cancer Society's Class of 2000.
All her community projects today started with a little medical knowledge from the Deerfield Beach doctor and a lot of curiosity.
Fascinated even as Whisman was repelled by cancer right after Mark died, she did not hesitate when she heard there was an opening in the Boca hospital's tumor registry that admits and tests cancer patients. She worked there from 1976 until 1979.
As her skills grew, Whisman decided to move on to other departments. From from 1979 to 1987, Whisman molded the hospital's Continuing Medical Education program -- the physician's source for re-accreditation and vital current news in a field that changes daily. Whisman changed the program from one doctor's occasional talks on primary cancers into a lecture series on all variety of treatments.
Since then Whisman has devoted herself to educating people outside the hospital as associate director of the hospital's community relations.
She carried off Boca Community Hospital's first health fair in May -- testing 858 people in four hours for glaucoma, high-blood pressure, hearing and cardiac-risk among other things.
Whisman also offered the first free cholesteral screening last year and first "Teddy Bear Clinic" in September, showing 425 children why physical exams are important.
And Whisman is an outspoken believer in the therapy of humor.
So after Doc Non-Cents introduced his comical services to the hospital staff, she pushed to keep the cardiac-warming clown named Norman Ross coming several times a week to the rooms of post-op and terminally ill patients. Wearing jungle suspenders with buttons bearing punchy one-liners, pulling out woopie cushions and giving hugs, Doc Non-Cents gets grandfathers with corroded arteries and children with cancer to talk about their scars -- the emotional ones.
"We're finding more ways of giving humor back to the ill and the dying," Whisman said. "It's very important they have laughter."
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Stružná (též Kysibl) je zámek ve stejnojmenné obci v okrese Karlovy Vary. Postaven byl na konci šestnáctého století, ale dochovaná podoba pochází až z novorenesanční přestavby v devatenáctém století. Od roku 1964 je chráněn jako kulturní památka.

Historie
Předchůdcem zámku ve Stružné byla tvrz z patnáctého století, jejíž zbytky se dochovaly v severní části vesnice. Renesanční zámek zde založil někdy před rokem 1598 tehdejší majitel panství hradu Andělská Hora Linhart Colona z Felsu, který patřil k hlavním vůdcům stavovského povstání, za což mu byl v roce 1621 zabaven majetek. Stružnou koupil generál Heřman Černín z Chudenic. Jeho potomci nechali zámek upravit v barokní slohu. Na úpravách se podíleli architekti M. Ceresola v roce 1666, Francesco Caratti (1675–1676) a Giovanni Battista Alliprandi v letech 1700–1701. Černínům zámek patřil až do roku 1734, kdy jej prodali hraběti Leopoldu Hartigovi, který se svým synem zámek rozšířil a vybavil vnitřním zařízením. Dalšími majiteli se stali v roce 1794 hrabě Jan Stiebar z Buttenhaimu, od roku 1810 malostranský měšťan Antonín Hladík, za kterého zámek roku 1811 vyhořel, od roku 1829 hrabě Vilém z Neuberku a v roce 1863 hrabata Černínové-Morzinové. Posledním majitelem, kterému zámek zůstal až do roku 1945, byl Leopold Šternberk.

Stavební podoba
Tři zámecká křídla obklopují nádvoří, na kterém se dochovala renesanční kašna se sochou Neptuna nesenou medvědy. Východní křídlo s šestibokou věží v nároží má fasády zdobené bosováním, vlysem s loveckými výjevy a černínským znakem. Zbylá dvě křídla s velkou hranolovou věží jsou vybavena arkádovým ochozem a novogotickou kaplí. V průčelí se nachází portál s lodžií, balkonem a štítem.

Přístup
Zámek ani přilehlý park nejsou volně přístupné. Okolo vede zeleně značená turistická trasa z Andělské Hory do Horních Tašovic a nedaleko je po silnici třetí třídy značená cyklotrasa č. 2249 podél jižního okraje Doupovský hor.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

Související články
 Seznam zámků v Karlovarském kraji

Externí odkazy

 Zámek Stružná na webu Hrady.cz

Novorenesanční zámky v okrese Karlovy Vary
Kulturní památky v okrese Karlovy Vary
Kysibelské panství
Slavkovský les
Stružná
Ohrožené kulturní památky v Karlovarském kraji


In my post, Manager's Drunk Facebook Post Leads to Retaliation Claim, I wrote about a wage-and-hour lawsuit brought by bartenders at the famous Coyote Ugly Saloons. In that post, my focus was on retaliation claims that the employees had added by way of an amended complaint. I promised, though, to follow up with a post dedicated to the wage claim. And here it is.
The case began its life as an FLSA collective action based on an allegedly illegal tip pool. The class included current and former employees who worked as bartenders, barbacks, and waitresses. Bartenders were required to put all of the tips they earned during a shift into a pool. The pool was then distributed among bartenders, barbacks, and security guards who worked that shift. An employee's share of the pool depended on the job performed but was always percentage based. Bartenders never retained more than 85% of the total pool.
Tip pooling is a common practice and not as draconian as it may sound when it's done properly. But when it's done improperly, it can be a major source of hostility. In this case, the employees claimed that the tip pool was unlawful because security guards, who were not "tipped employees," participated in it.
The FLSA defines "tipped employees," as those who "customarily and regularly receive tips." The employer argued that security guards sufficiently interacted with customers so as to constitute employees who "customarily and regularly receive tips." This claim was based on the undisputed fact that the security guards checked the I.D.s of patrons, interacted with them, and encouraged people passing by to come inside.
But to prove that the security guards were "tipped employees" as defined by the FLSA, the employer submitted evidence of an alleged industry standard. It purported to show this standard by introducing the testimony of a couple of people who had patronized the saloons and who claimed to have tipped the security guards.
The court rejected this argument, finding that a so-called industry is never a consideration in determining the proper classification of an employee under the FLSA. In fact, if anything, the court noted, the argument was more of an admission of improper misclassification. The fact that an entire industry is getting it wrong does not mean the FLSA does not apply.
And I heartily agree. Really, since when has the claim that "everyone's doing it" been sufficient to excuse liability? In my house, that argument never worked–even when I was just a lass. So I'm hard pressed to understand why the employer thought it would work here.
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Is the End Near for Dublin's Wholesale Fruit and Veg Market?
As small farmers, Andrew Ruiter's family are used to thinking outside the box.
When supermarkets introduced below-cost selling, his father diversified the family farm in Ashbourne and opened a shop on site to sell their produce directly to customers.
Then in 2011, "we opened up a restaurant as well, so we have a restaurant and a vegetable shop now, all set on the family farm", says Ruiter, a tall young man with fair hair.
But neither father nor son can figure out what they will do when the Dublin City Council closes the fruit and vegetable wholesale market.
They can't grow everything they need for the shop and restaurant themselves, so Andrew goes to the market near the Four Courts several times a week to buy fresh local produce from a specialist wholesaler, Ciaran Butler.
Buying directly from different local farmers might be an option but it's time consuming. "I'd be on the road all day," he says. "It'll make things a lot more difficult.
"A lot of the big wholesalers don't want to deal with you because you are small fry and for the farmers sometimes it's not worth their while, putting seven lettuces aside for you," he says.
Dublin City Council has other plans for the beautiful, red-brick market building, which dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. They want to transform it into a Continental-style market, a retail market selling artisan food.
There's a possibility that the wholesalers could be included in this future, but only after a period of closure and renovation. And restaurants like Ruiter's, and independent growers and green grocers, who buy their wares from the market, as well as the wholesalers who are based there, say their businesses might not survive the changes.
Early on a recent Friday morning the Victorian market was busy.
Workers wrap crates of vegetables in clingfilm, loading them onto forklifts first and then into vans. The high ceilings amplify the noise.
There are ten wholesalers businesses in here, each using significant storage space for produce, but alot of the space is empty.
There's a bit of casual haggling over price and plenty of chat as wholesalers, grocers and farmers do deals. Everyone seemed to know each other.
Ciaran Butler, the wholesaler specialising in Irish produce, says that the market serves a critical function for growers and grocers: it provides a meeting point and also regulates the price.
"You need a market in place to have that levelling effect," he says.
The wholesalers trade with each other too, so that they can always fill their orders. Because he specialises in Irish produce, the other wholesalers often buy from him.
Ruiter mainly comes to the market to buy, but he sometimes sells excess produce from his farm too, trading it against his bill.
He says the closure will have an impact on the whole city and if people want fresh fruit and vegetables in their local grocers, they should be concerned about it.
He isn't against change – "The tallest tree must bend or it will break," he says – but he would like to see the wholesale market retained as an entity, rather than each business separated.
Another fruit and veg wholesaler, John Condon, who works next door to the market, says the closure will hit the small local growers the hardest.
"It will be very tough on the smaller Irish grower who comes in here with one truck and he is selling 20 bags of leeks to one and 10 bags to another," says Condon.
Instead of one central location, the grower will have to distribute all over Dublin and it will take him away from his farm and "take all day", Condon says.
A grower from Lusk, John Thorne, says he sells 90 percent of his produce into the market, to several different wholesalers, and it wouldn't be practical for him to do that if they were all spread out.
The council have not consulted the growers who sell into the market, he says. "You must be joking me, they don't care about growers," says Thorne.
Dublin City Council Press Office didn't respond to a query about consultation with growers and grocers.
In the US and parts of Europe there is a trend towards encouraging farmers' markets and a shift in policy back to supporting small independent growers, says Ruiter, who studied horticulture.
No one seems to be looking at the bigger picture, that as an island we should be concerned about our food security, says Ruiter.
Damien Madden runs Evergreen greengrocers in Wexford Street. "My grandparents worked from here, we all survived from here," he says.
His business is already under pressure from supermarkets that are selling vegetables at below cost, and it won't survive if the market closes, he says. He can't compete with supermarkets on price, so he has to compete on freshness and quality.
"I need to keep my produce sharp on the shelf," he says. To do that he is in the market every morning at 6am, and goes around to a number of different wholesalers to select the best and freshest fruit and veg for his shop, he says.
Thorne, the grower, says that if he picked parsnips yesterday, he would have washed them last night, delivered them to the market before 6am, and they could be sold in Madden's shop today. "Within 24 hours Damien would have them on his shelves," he says.
Thorne also sells to supermarkets, and explains that the vegetables they sell were likely picked three days ago. "If I harvest on Friday, I'd deliver it to the central distribution centre tomorrow, delivered to the supermarket on Sunday and then out on the shelves on Monday," he says.
He says he cannot buy from just one wholesaler, as he needs to choose the very best products to be "a step ahead of the supermarkets".
"There is no other market," says Madden. If this one closes, it means the beginning of the end for city-centre greengrocers he says.
When the plans for the market were approved back in 2015, it was envisaged that both the wholesale market and the new retail market could co-exist.
Initial plans in 2014 show the space divided evenly between the wholesale market and the new retail food market. They planned to improve the facility and hoped to have work completed by the end of 2015.
But Labour Councillor Andrew Montague, who chairs Dublin City Council's subcommittee on markets, says that when the council went in to paint the ceilings, it cost a lot more and took far longer because the wholesalers were working there.
For that reason, they now want the building to be vacant while they finish fixing it up. "It doesn't have to be permanent … if they [traders] want to come back, that is fine," he says.
Some of the wholesalers in the market have already left. Many of these were either nearing retirement age, or perhaps their business was not thriving, he says.
"The ones who are remaining are the ones that have been here for generations and see themselves as being here for generations to come," he says.
Sinn Féin Councillor Janice Boylan, who is on the council's markets subcommittee, says her own family are traders and her mother worked on Moore Street. She wants to see the fruit and veg market reinvigorated, and the wholesalers to be accommodated within that.
The pipes and sewerage at the market are severely dilapidated and major works need to take place, Boylan says. "We need to get it sorted as quickly as possible so that the work can get done, but we also need to keep their [the traders'] work going," she says.
Dublin City Council management has told the markets subcommittee that every possible effort has been made to negotiate with the traders, Boylan said. "As far as I'm concerned, [Dublin City Council] at face value have told us that they have done everything in their power to get these negotiations to work," she said.
2 comments – if it were the other way around, and the suggestion was that high end retail be inconvenienced to accommodate the wholesale market, you can bet that the existing tenants would not be shifted, however temporarily. Montague's example of Borough Market is telling: i knew that part of south London pre-gentrification, and if that's the scale of transformation he envisages for the markets area in Dublin, I would be very worried. It may not be the aim of the programme, but the result is social cleansing. Second comment: why not do the fancy market up in the Iveagh and reclaim it from the speculator(s)?
The market should be opened up and become a place for people to visit, buy their fruit and veg. It's a beautiful building which should be restored and displayed with pride. I work nearby and in the mornings see trucks and fork lifts and a mostly empty market. Something needs to change. Could the growers still not have a stall and see their produce to the public?
Look forward to a decent public market in Dublin. It will have no soul though if the wholesalers are pushed out. P.S. put a roof on Moore st and develop that area while you're at it.


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(With its tall columns and metallic flourishes, it would perhaps be more accurate to call this restaurant the "White and Gold Room." Jokes aside, it's considered the oldest restaurant in Amsterdam, having opened in 1885 inside the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky on Dam Square.
The wine list mixes well-known and surprising bottles, including many natural wines. Guests have the option to add wine pairings with the tasting menus.)
Librije's Zusje
Librije's Zusje is like a posh cocoon—gray walls, plush chairs, white table clothes—hidden away inside the Waldorf Astoria and overlooking a garden. The intimacy is a fitting ambiance for the sister restaurant to the renowned, three-Michelin-starred De Librije ("zusje" literally means sister in Dutch), in the northeastern city of Zwolle.
Vermeer offers a simple choice between four, five and six courses. The ingredients are all seasonal, so the dishes vary daily. Our Sommelier has selected forty top wines specially chosen to compliment your menu. For the wine connoisseur there is also a very well-stocked wine cellar, representing the whole world of wine.
Moon is the kind of place you go to impress a date or a client: Chef Jaimie van Heije's multicourse tasting menus have as much wow factor as setting on the 19th floor of the A'DAM Tower, with panoramic views of the city.
Proeflokaal A. van Wees
This brown cafe, in operation since 1973 on the Herengracht, is located inside a former distillery dating back to the 19th century.
Sandwiches, salads, soups, bar snacks, and fondue made from Dutch cheese.It's the perfect place to refuel with a snack or drink while shopping in the Nine Streets.
De Vier Pilaren
Just across the Marriott hotel near the Leidseplein,in a little beautiful park (het Leidsebosje) stands the typically Dutch Poffertjes & Pancake house. The "poffertjeskraam" used to travel the carnivals(funfairs) of Holland,but is now (almost 20 years) a favorite among tourists & locals forPoffertjes & Pancakes.For the pancake. It's been used: *organic flour *fresh fruits*Dutch cheese *Dutch bacon/ham only.
(Much like the cuisine, the design at Ron Gastrobar is stylish yet accessible—clean lines, neutral tones, and an open kitchen. It's the brainchild of chef/owner Ron Blaauw, one of the most well-known culinarians in Amsterdam. In 2013, he closed his two-Michelin-starred restaurant and reopened this more easygoing spot in its stead. Since then, the Gastrobar has been setting the tone for Amsterdam's unpretentious, next-gen dining scene.Ron Gastrobar attracts a discerning crowd of enthusiast eaters of both the local and touristic variety.
De Kas
De Kas has its own greenhouses and garden near the restaurant, where we grow vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. We also have a large field about 10 kilometres from Amsterdam in the Beemster region, where we grow seasonal vegetables outdoors.
With 8-metre high glass it provides spectacular views during the day and is beautifully lit at night. Our advanced heating and air conditioning system makes it a pleasant place to enjoy a meal in both summer and winter.
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How do the rugs work?
Our rugs are made using clever fabrics that pick up the pulse from an electric fence and transfer it directly through to the inside of the rug; this means the horse feels the same effect from the fence as they would if not wearing a rug at all and so it prevents them from walking into, leaning over or ducking under an electric fence. The whole outer layer of the neck cover is made using the same clever fabrics and design as the rug; the pulse is simply transferred to the inside of the neck cover the instant contact is made. Click here to watch a short video about the design and performance.
Will it hurt my horse?
The rug and neck covers are designed to simply act as a channel to transfer the pulse from the fence to the horse; so your horse will feel exactly the same effect from the fence as they would if not wearing a rug at all. Because there are no wires or batteries in our products, the pulse from the fence can't be increased or decreased by the rug, it simply transfers the pulse to the inside so the horse can feel the fence.
Of course we always recommend your fence has been set up according to the manufacturer's guidelines.
Does the horse have to touch the fence for the rug to work?
Because the rug only transfers the pulse from the fence through the rug – yes the horse has to make contact with an electrified fence for the rug to work. We can't stop the jumpers; but we can stop nearly every buster!
Can I put rugs underneath my electric fence rug?
Yes you can layer any brand or style rug underneath your electric fence rug. All our ranges have special inside straps designed to allow rugs to be layered inside the internal strap. The inside strap is where the pulse from the fence is transferred to; and it has been designed especially to allow layering underneath your rug as layering can be essential during colder months.
The neck covers you cant layer underneath because the area the pulse is transferred to is under the lining so the inside of the neck cover always needs to be in direct contact with the horse – if you layer underneath the neck cover you will likely block the horse from feeling the pulse. You can layer underneath the neck cover with anti-rub hoods and similar as they are made using such thin fabrics they won't block the pulse.
What are Guardian size and fittings like?
We find our sizings are relatively true to size, if anything they are slightly generous in length, and have plenty of room in the shoulder for broader horses.
The chest closure has fully adjustable buckles to accommodate for varying shapes and size chests. You of course can always swap sizes if needed, just be sure to try your rug on over a clean sheet so you can return it and swap it for another size if needed. Just give us a call if you have any questions or would like to arrange swapping a size.
Can I wash and reproof my rugs like a normal rug?
Yes! You can wash and re-proof you rug exactly as you would with a normal rug. Remember any waterproof product should be washed below 300c using a special washing powder or liquid designed for waterproof products. Normal household washing powders or liquids can strip the entire waterproof coating off in one wash – so do not use these if washing a waterproof rug. Also remember you can't tumble dry a waterproof product as you can easily melt away the waterproof coating. These guidelines apply to washing any waterproof product. If you get your rugs professionally washed, we recommend reviving the dwr Teflon coating (Fence Buster range) using an in wash Teflon or Nik Wax product. This will revive the rugs dwr coating to as new, the dwr coating is the Teflon which enhances breathability and water repellency and also helps the fabrics to dry 50% quicker than normal fabrics.
Can I Repair it like a normal rug?
For any repairs required on the main body of the rug (not the chest or neck cover with our clever fabric) can be repaired the same as any normal rug. For repairs on the chest or neck cover where our clever fabric is – you can repair it the same as a normal rug, but if you replace any fabric on the chest or neck cover, that area wont work with the fence, i.e. if you add a 6 inch patch on the chest or neck cover, that 6 inch patch of course won't work with the electric fence, but the rest of the rug will work as normal. You can always return your rug to us for a repair, just give us a call to organise sending it to us. We work to a 72 hour schedule to receive, repair and return your rug back to you.


For subtle and effective streetlighting our QESTR range is hard to match. The QESTR-LP (low pole) is ideal for car parks, cycle paths, residential streets and pedestrian areas. It features a sleek design, a one-piece cast aluminium petal head with incorporated heat sync technology to produce a high lumen output of 114 (lumens per watt). It has quick light activation and is durable to work in the toughest of conditions.
Our LED street lights are available in black, grey or white from 30W - 60W.
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The Life Cycle of the Butterfly is a Science unit for second grades in our community, so this project fit in perfectly with our curriculum. The unit includes each child having her/his own caterpillar to observe, along with a notebook in which findings are recorded. Click here for a Quick-Time movie about the unit.
Waiting for Wings Special Note: This is a GREAT book for making predictions. We ALL guessed that the title meant that the butterfly was waiting for its wings, but we were wrong! What does it mean? You'll have to read the book to find out!
LEARNING BY SEEING - Use clear, simple, and well designed visual references and aids such as posters, charts, and diagrams. Make use of the whiteboard, overheads, and computer generated imagery. Use graphic organizers and visual learning strategies. Highlight and organize information using color.
LEARNING BY SAYING ("verbalizing") - Encourage students to verbalize by explaining, summarizing, expressing personal reactions, asking and answering questions, and participating in discussions. Have students teach or explain information to another student. Work in pairs and small groups.
LEARNING BY DOING - Provide opportunities to participate in labs, do projects and field studies, role-play, and perform demonstrations and simulations. Build physical models of concepts. Capitalize on students' interests and areas of expertise. Incorporate physical activity into classwork.
LEARNING BY LISTENING - This area, sometimes a weak channel for students with learning differences, can be enhanced by teaching active listening and notetaking skills.
3.Students demonstrate learning through multiple performance and product formats. As I was planning our work for the project, I actually considered this principle first. I wanted the children to have many options in presenting their knowledge of the Life Cycle of the Painted Lady to the class and me. You can view the assignment given to my students here. It should be noted that my students came up with even more ideas than those on the assignment!
Their presentations served as an assessment, as well. Here is a sampling of the amazing work they produced.
Andrea's beautiful 3-D models using Model Magic. Each stage has typed explanations.
Giulia's lovely paintings with descriptions about each stage on the back.
Ashley's fantastic computer generated images which she used for her "Play Teacher" (Teach the Class) lesson presentation.
Sam's phenomenal "Butterfly Jeopardy" Game was not only a favorite with the class, but served as a wonderful review of many concepts, as well as incorporating math!
Stefan's board game "Metamorphosis" simply blew us away! Players used little larvae caterpillars and matching butterflies as they "morphed" their way through the board. We thought this game was so great that Stefan should consider marketing it!
Erin's spectacular "Flutter's Journal" shared the story of a painted lady's life cycle from an up close and personal point of view. See the text of this treasure below.
My Painted Lady mother just laid me on the leaf of a mallow plant. I'm waiting to hatch. It will probably take 3-5 days until I hatch from my egg. Inside, I dream about flying from flower to flower sipping sweet nectar. Also, I'm wondering what my mother looks like. Soon I'll be ready!
Hi! I'm Flutter the caterpillar. Right now I am munching on leaves. I do this all the time because I'm a growing larva. Soon I will be molting. I'll molt 2 or 3 more times before I become a chrysalis. Now I am going to climb higher in this plant and hang in a J-shape.
Now I am in the pupa stage and I have formed a chrysalis. I'm hanging from a stem and I am brown with a streak of gold. Inside my wings are forming and I'm becoming a butterfly. Making big changes like this is called a metamorphosis. When my chrysalis is very dark, you'll know I'm about to emerge. Wow! I think I'm ready!
Finally I'm a beautiful adult butterfly. My wings are folded up and damp so I have to shake them out and dry them. After I do that you'll be able to see my wings. They are orange on the inside and brownish on the outside. When I feel hungry I'll fly to a flower and sip nectar with my proboscis. Soon, I'll find a mate and lay eggs of my own. Watch for me in your garden!
This online version of Erin's journal does not do it justice. The actual journal is hand-written in Erin's precious perfect printing. Each page also includes photos of the stage with Flutter's comments beside each; for example, on the chrysalis (pupa) page there is a photo of a painted lady in a J shape and Flutter is saying "It takes perseverance to make a chrysalis."
Butterflies at Enchanted Learning - an AMAZING resource - be sure to check out entire page!
Recognize that plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death.
Recognize that animals (including humans) and plants are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, and water.
Describe ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance.
Recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.


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The 10th Pullip Sailor Moon scout part of the Groove Sailor Moon line up is Pullip Sailor Neptune.
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Following our previous success with the Euro Finance Group Property Fund in the Irish market, we are expanding our services to apply our expertise on a global scale.
Our goal is to expand our portfolio to include property and investment opportunities outside Ireland and Northern Ireland. We will drive this expansion by identifying exclusive and suitable properties that will yield high returns for our clients investments.
We perform a comprehensive analysis of each project brought to us and accept only those we determine to have the potential for success and yield a high return for our clients.
We choose property with the potential of having more than one use and plan our investment so that the long term property depreciation is minimal.
We meticulously plan our budgets so as to ensure funds are allocated cost-effectively.
We seek to build long-lasting and meaningful business relationships with our clients by working closely together on a long term basis.
We have several International real estate and construction partners with an array of investment opportunities available to our clients including shopping centers, commercial and residential development and turnkey projects.
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Joel Gibson named Raider women's wrestling head coach
July 9, 2019 /in Campus News /by mosleyj
Joel Gibson, a former Raider All-American and longtime assistant coach for Southern Oregon University men's wrestling, has been chosen to lead the SOU women's wrestling program.
Gibson will become the first full-time head coach for the team, which completed its fourth season in 2018-19.
He has spent a total of eight seasons on Mike Ritchey's men's wrestling staff, including the last two as the head assistant, since finishing his collegiate career with the Raiders in 2007. He was Phoenix High School's head wrestling coach from 2014-17.
"I'm extremely excited about the opportunity," Gibson said. "The program is still in its infancy stages and we've experienced some success, but I have very high expectations about where we can go from here both athletically and academically. I feel our team has a lot of potential and can't wait to see what this next year brings."
Gibson is a product of North Medford High and was initially a wrestling letter-winner at Oregon State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies with an emphasis in history. He then competed for SOU during the 2006-07 season, serving as a team captain and receiving SOU's Dan Speasl Most Inspirational Award after a seventh-place finish at the NAIA Championships.
Gibson graduated magna cum laude from SOU with a master's degree in health and physical education in 2011.
He began his coaching career under Ritchey in 2007 while continuing his schooling. He's contributed to 10 individual NAIA national championships and 31 total All-American performances. While at Phoenix, he produced two girls' state champions, eight boys' state placers, and six freestyle and Greco-Roman state placers.
Gibson was freestyle coach for the 2019 Oregon Women's Cadet and Junior National Team, and has earned Copper and Bronze coaching certifications from USA Wrestling. He married SOU alumna Ricci (Coultas) Gibson, a former Raider softball player, in 2013. The couple live in Medford with their daughter, Henley, and son, Everett.
"We're confident Joel will bring structure and high standards to the program, both on the mat and in the classroom," SOU Director of Athletics Matt Sayre said in announcing Gibson's hiring. "He presented a coherent plan for developing the whole student-athlete, from recruitment to graduation.
"He will also develop the SOU women's wrestling team's potential to compete for Cascade Conference and NAIA championships."
In four trips to the Women's College Wrestling Association Championships, the Raiders have placed 10th, 11th twice and 12th in the team point standings. They took eighth at the inaugural NAIA Invitational in March, with one All-American, after going 9-8 in dual matches.
The Cascade Conference announced last month that it will make wrestling its eighth official women's sport beginning with the 2019-20 season. The circuit will initially include SOU, Eastern Oregon, Life Pacific (California), Menlo (California), Providence (Montana), Simpson (California) and Warner Pacific, with Corban set to launch its program in 2020-21.
This story is based on an earlier version at souraiders.com
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