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he industrial process and potentially contaminated the site. Industrial demolition can be a complex undertaking involving sophisticated engineering, specialized rigging, and complex industrial hygiene requirements. What is a High Reach and how is it used in Demolition? High reach units can involve the use of super long boom arms with specialized hydraulic attachments mounted on excavator platforms. These units are designed to allow access to tall structures, often 20 stories or more, and safe demolition of the building within its footprint. What is Commercial Demolition? Commercial demolition is the partial or complete dismantlement of commercial properties such as office buildings, shopping malls, hotels and the like. What is Deconstruction? Deconstruction is defined as the labor-intensive demolition of a structure in order to maximize the amount of potentially recyclable materials from the building. It often involved a considerable amount of hand demolition and sort separation in preparation for marketing the structure’s components. How exactly are Demolition and Deconstruction Different? Considering that conventional demolition contractors routinely recycled up to 90% of the material generated on a typical demolition site, there is little difference between the two methods of demolition save the labor-intensive nature of deconstruction. Is Demolition a Regulated Industry? Demolition contractors are some of the most regulated construction industry professionals. As they are working on structures that are often damaged by fire, weather, or structural deficiency, most demolition projects require permit review by local municipal building departments. As demolition contractors handle hazardous materials and toxic substances there are a host of municipal, state and federal environmental regulations that govern the industry’s operations. As demolition is a dynamic craft and contractors are dealing with a variety of structures, the industry’s health and safety regulations are very strong. Many states have their own health & safety rules and the Federal Government’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) Construction Standard (29 CFR 1926) contains a specific section on demolition operations. Does Demolition Involve Historic Conservation? Demolition contractors, because of their experience and knowledge of the nature of structures, often have considerable expertise in historic preservation. They understand what structural elements can be saved and how to assure that the integrity of an historic structure can be maintained. Asbestos and Demolition Asbestos is an insulating and sound attenuating product that is used as pipe and ceiling insulation, sprayed-on fireproofing, and a variety of other uses. It can also be contained in flooring, roofing materials and some cement products. Overexposure to asbestos can cause health problems. Asbestos abatement, the safe removal of asbestos, is a major part of the demolition process. It is highly regulated and its safe handling and disposal is a major segment of the demolition market. What are PCBs? PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls are an organic chemical used as an additive in transformers and capacitors in a structure’s electrical system, in rail cars, heat transfer systems and in some coating materials. The chemical is highly stable, has a low flammability and is an excellent medium to sustain an electrical field. Unfortunately PCBs, because of their complex chemical make-up are slow to breakdown in nature and can cause some health issues. Proper handling and disposal of PCB-containing oils and fluids as well as PCB-contaminated equipment is a major part of the demolition process. What’s a Brownfield? A Brownfield is a contaminated site, often a small manufacturing, industrial, or commercial site that has less hazardous or toxic substances than a highly contaminated site regulated under the Superfund law. These brownfields can be abandoned gas stations, dry cleaning establishments, electroplating plants, warehouses, or manufacturing sites that have small amounts of pollut
alth & safety rules and the Federal Government’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) Construction Standard (29 CFR 1926) contains a specific section on demolition operations. Does Demolition Involve Historic Conservation? Demolition contractors, because of their experience and knowledge of the nature of structures, often have considerable expertise in historic preservation. They understand what structural elements can be saved and how to assure that the integrity of an historic structure can be maintained. Asbestos and Demolition Asbestos is an insulating and sound attenuating product that is used as pipe and ceiling insulation, sprayed-on fireproofing, and a variety of other uses. It can also be contained in flooring, roofing materials and some cement products. Overexposure to asbestos can cause health problems. Asbestos abatement, the safe removal of asbestos, is a major part of the demolition process. It is highly regulated and its safe handling and disposal is a major segment of the demolition market. What are PCBs? PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls are an organic chemical used as an additive in transformers and capacitors in a structure’s electrical system, in rail cars, heat transfer systems and in some coating materials. The chemical is highly stable, has a low flammability and is an excellent medium to sustain an electrical field. Unfortunately PCBs, because of their complex chemical make-up are slow to breakdown in nature and can cause some health issues. Proper handling and disposal of PCB-containing oils and fluids as well as PCB-contaminated equipment is a major part of the demolition process. What’s a Brownfield? A Brownfield is a contaminated site, often a small manufacturing, industrial, or commercial site that has less hazardous or toxic substances than a highly contaminated site regulated under the Superfund law. These brownfields can be abandoned gas stations, dry cleaning establishments, electroplating plants, warehouses, or manufacturing sites that have small amounts of pollution that need to be remediated before demolition and reuse. The clean-up of these sites is a major segment of the demolition market. What is a Superfund Site? Highly contaminated sites such as Love Canal in New York, Times Beach in Missouri, the Edison Laboratory site in New Jersey are regulated under the CERCLA or Superfund law. Remediation of these sites which often contain high levels of pollution is a major part of the demolition market. The cost of these clean-ups is born by the chemical industry through a “Superfund.” Clean-up of these sites is often a multi-year endeavor and involves a sophisticated team of demolition professionals including project managers, industrial hygienists, environmental scientists & engineers and highly trained remediation specialists. What is Environmental Stewardship? Demolition contractors take great pride in their commitment to being good stewards of the environment. As most demolition contractors work in the towns and cities where they live, they work hard to improve the quality of life in these areas. Demolition of outdated or damage structures, environmental remediation of contaminated sites, asbestos abatement, and soil & facilities decontamination enhance economic development opportunities in these communities and help beautify a city or town. What is the U.S. Green Building Council? The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is an organization made up of thousands of members committed to moving the building industry forward by promoting greater building efficiency. The goal of the organization is to enhance the quality of life by providing better, healthier places for people to live and work. The USGBC promotes energy efficiency, recycling of construction materials, and sustainability in the building process. Friable and Non-friable Asbestos One major component of the U.S. EPA’s Asbestos standard deals with the issue of whether a material contains friable or non-friable asbestos. The National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Asbestos (NESHAP) defines friab
ion that need to be remediated before demolition and reuse. The clean-up of these sites is a major segment of the demolition market. What is a Superfund Site? Highly contaminated sites such as Love Canal in New York, Times Beach in Missouri, the Edison Laboratory site in New Jersey are regulated under the CERCLA or Superfund law. Remediation of these sites which often contain high levels of pollution is a major part of the demolition market. The cost of these clean-ups is born by the chemical industry through a “Superfund.” Clean-up of these sites is often a multi-year endeavor and involves a sophisticated team of demolition professionals including project managers, industrial hygienists, environmental scientists & engineers and highly trained remediation specialists. What is Environmental Stewardship? Demolition contractors take great pride in their commitment to being good stewards of the environment. As most demolition contractors work in the towns and cities where they live, they work hard to improve the quality of life in these areas. Demolition of outdated or damage structures, environmental remediation of contaminated sites, asbestos abatement, and soil & facilities decontamination enhance economic development opportunities in these communities and help beautify a city or town. What is the U.S. Green Building Council? The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is an organization made up of thousands of members committed to moving the building industry forward by promoting greater building efficiency. The goal of the organization is to enhance the quality of life by providing better, healthier places for people to live and work. The USGBC promotes energy efficiency, recycling of construction materials, and sustainability in the building process. Friable and Non-friable Asbestos One major component of the U.S. EPA’s Asbestos standard deals with the issue of whether a material contains friable or non-friable asbestos. The National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Asbestos (NESHAP) defines friability as then ability to crush or pulverize, hand pressure, to determine whether potential asbestos-containing material (ACM) can become airborne and therefore respirable when it is handled or disturbed. If a material is determined to be non-friable it may be able to be disposed of as non-asbestos containing, dependent upon individual state or municipal asbestos regulations. What’s the difference between Demolition and Deconstruction? As the recycling rates from both conventional demolition and what is called deconstruction are generally about the same, often close to 90% of the material on a project site, the major difference between the two processes tends to be that deconstruction is usually much more labor-intensive than conventional demolition where a considerable amount equipment and technology is used. Deconstruction involves the hand dismantlement of potential recyclables and therefore in addition to be more labor intensive can be more time consuming than convention structural demolition that utilizes heavy equipment, specialized attachments and recycling equipment. The goal of both demolition and deconstruction is the same, to maximize the amount of marketable recycled material generated on a project site.
ility as then ability to crush or pulverize, hand pressure, to determine whether potential asbestos-containing material (ACM) can become airborne and therefore respirable when it is handled or disturbed. If a material is determined to be non-friable it may be able to be disposed of as non-asbestos containing, dependent upon individual state or municipal asbestos regulations. What’s the difference between Demolition and Deconstruction? As the recycling rates from both conventional demolition and what is called deconstruction are generally about the same, often close to 90% of the material on a project site, the major difference between the two processes tends to be that deconstruction is usually much more labor-intensive than conventional demolition where a considerable amount equipment and technology is used. Deconstruction involves the hand dismantlement of potential recyclables and therefore in addition to be more labor intensive can be more time consuming than convention structural demolition that utilizes heavy equipment, specialized attachments and recycling equipment. The goal of both demolition and deconstruction is the same, to maximize the amount of marketable recycled material generated on a project site.
Your Account Your Account Start or Stop Utility Service Start or Stop Utility Service Contact Us Contact Us Flood Safety and Preparedness Flood Awareness Week is July 21-27, 2018 Fort Collins is vulnerable to river and stream flooding, flash floods and urban street flooding. Flooding along rivers is a natural and inevitable element of nature. Some floods occur seasonally when spring rains and melting snow fill river basins too quickly. Most flash floods are caused by slow-moving thunderstorms or thunderstorms repeatedly moving over the same area. Urban street flooding occurs when land is converted to roads or parking lots and loses its ability to absorb rainfall. Urbanization increases runoff two to six times over what would occur on natural terrain and can cause streets to become swift-moving rivers during rainfall. To increase safety, the Fort Collins Utilities Flood Warning System provides information and emergency services. The Office of Emergency Management describes flood risk and preparation. Know How to Protect Your Property and Family \|Before a Flood\|\|During a Flood\|\|After a Flood\| \|Purchase flood insurance.\|\|Do not drive through floodwater.\|\|Check for structural damage to your building.\| \|Make an emergency plan.\|\|Move to upper floors of your home or climb to higher ground.\|\|Document all damages.\| \|Document your belongings.\|\|Don't walk through flowing water.\|\|Remove all wet items.\| \|Store valuable items (computers, family photos, heirlooms, etc.) at higher locations in your home.\|\|Listen for emergency updates.\|\|Get a floodplain use permit and a building permit before making any repairs.\| \|Sign-up for emergency messages at leta911.org.\|\|Turn off utilities at the main power switch and turn off gas.\|\|Contact your insurance agent and file a flood insurance claim.\| The 1997 Spring Creek Flood was the worst disaster in Fort Collins. - New in 2016: Fort Collins Flood Safety Tips (5:42) - New in 2016: Reflections on the 1997 Spring Creek Flood (6:11) - New in 2017: Volunteers vs. Extreme Weather – The CoCoRahS Story: From a Deadly flood in 1997, to a life-saving network of weather watchers in 2013. (Courtesy THE CROWD & THE CLOUD, CrowdAndCloud.org, made possible by NSF, the National Science Foundation. (12:13) - Turn Around and Don't Drown (National Weather Service PSA, 0:52) - Fort Collins Flood Mitigation Efforts (11:42) - Building Smart Down by the River (3:22) - The State Climatologist: Honest Broker of Information (3:48) - Tools for Flood Resilience: Lessons from Fort Collins (4:19) - Fort Collins' Flood Warning System (12:26) - Fort Collins' Flood of 1997 (9:49) - Poudre River Restoration (3:23) - Water's Fury (21:36) - Moving Water: Adventure or Danger? (14:23) *Source: Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
Consumer concern about food contaminated by radiation from damaged nuclear power plants in Japan is unwarranted at this time. The level of radiation that could potentially reach the USA is anticipated to be very low and winds will dissipate it further. The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency were a devastating blow to the people of Japan. Our hearts go out to those who continue to suffer extreme hardships as these unfortunate events continue to evolve. What is occurring is very complicated and unprecedented. These conditions are being closely monitored and the experts’ assessments are regularly relayed to us here in the United States. We have learned that health authorities in the Asia region, including the Philippines, Singapore and India have begun testing any Japanese imported fresh produce for possible contamination by radioactive fallout. The European Union is taking similar action. Japan is not a large exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables. In a March 17 public address, President Obama stated “We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or U.S. territories in the Pacific. That is the judgment of our Nuclear Regulatory Commission and many other experts. Furthermore the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health experts do not recommend that people in the United States take precautionary measures beyond staying informed. The World Health Organization has also cautioned people against self-medication with potassium iodide or products containing iodine, which they have stressed should only be taken when there is a clear recommendation from public health authorities, as in the case of an acute and direct nuclear emergency. Additional information about the risks of radiation: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. Department of State (advice for travelers) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services World Health Organization White House Blog: “We Will Stand with the People of Japan” This article, by David B. Schmidt, along with Dr. Christine Bruhn, consumer research, University of California Davis; and Dr. Aurora Saulo, extension specialist in food technology, University of Hawaii, was first published March 18 on the IFIC’s nutrition blog, Food Insight. Republished with permission.
Editorial: Components of the Language-Ready Brain - 1Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)/Department of General Linguistics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - 2Department of Philology and its Didactics, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain The Editorial on the Research Topic Components of the Language-Ready Brain Our intention in putting together this volume was to exemplify and highlight new avenues of research in the language sciences concerning the neurobiology of language. We chose the term “language-ready brain” for our Research Topic, like we did for Boeckx and Benitez-Burraco, because we think it is high time to stress, on the one hand, the importance of a brain-based description of our species' linguistic capacity, and, on the other, the need to appreciate the crucial role culture plays in shaping the linguistic systems children acquire and adults use. In this sense, the focus of neurobiological investigations should not be “language,” but our learning biases and cognitive pre-dispositions toward language (i.e., “language-readiness”). Both brain and culture considerations ought to shape research at all levels of inquiry: phylogeny and ontogeny. The contributions to this research topic break new grounds, by either revisiting long-standing issues (such as the role of Broca's region, the relevance of lateralization, the evolutionary origins of phonology, the role of basic cognitive and perceptive abilities in language acquisition, or the functions performed by language), or by examining closely issues that we are sure will rise to prominence in the near future (like the translational models of language processing into specific patterns of brain oscillations or the nature of the gene networks in which known “language genes” are found integrated). Taken together, the papers collected here shed light on language at the level of the genetics (van Rhijn and Vernes), brain connectivity (Murphy; Theofanopoulou), and physiology (Matchin and Hickok; Zaccarella and Friederici), cognition (de Boer; de Diego-Balaguer et al.), and behavior (Bouchard; Irurtzun; Reboul; Samuels). In a fast-growing field like the language sciences, Research topics cannot hope to capture all relevant aspects of the field, but we hope that the present volume offers a snapshot that some of the most exciting research taking place today, sowing seeds for future investigations. Both authors wrote the editorial. Preparation of this work was supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants FFI2013-43823-P and FFI2014-61888-EXP), as well as funds from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014-SGR-200). Conflict of Interest Statement The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Keywords: language, language development, evolution, neurolinguistics, evolutionary biology Citation: Boeckx C and Benítez-Burraco A (2016) Editorial: Components of the Language-Ready Brain. Front. Psychol. 7:762. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00762 Received: 25 April 2016; Accepted: 06 May 2016; Published: 23 May 2016. Edited and reviewed by: Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain Copyright © 2016 Boeckx and Benítez-Burraco. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. *Correspondence: Cedric Boeckx, [email protected]
Area of a Triangle - Terry Lee Lindenmuth Move points A, B, and C. Observe the length of the base and height. Observe the area of the triangle. What do you observe when you keep the base horizontal and slide point A left or right? Does the area agree with your visual count of the squares inside the triangle?
Social Change Model of Leadership Development Established in 1994, the Social Change Model approaches leadership as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change. The Model was built upon the following assumptions: - Leadership is concerned with effecting change on behalf of others and society - Leadership is collaborative - Leadership is a process rather than a position - Leadership should be value-based - All students (not just those that hold formal leadership positions) are potential leaders - Service is a powerful vehicle for developing students' leadership skills The Social Change Model of Leadership based on seven dimensions, or values, called the "Seven C's": consciousness of self, congruence, commitment, common purpose, controversy with civility, collaboration, and citizenship. All seven values work together to accomplish the transcendent "C" of change. Each dimension interacts with one another as shown below. The individual dimension consists of the values: consciousness of self, congruence, and commitment. The group dimensions consist of the values: common purpose, collaboration, and controversy with civility. Finally, the societal/community dimension consists of the value of citizenship. All of the values contribute to the ultimate goal of change. The "Seven C's" - Consciousness of self - Awareness of the beliefs, values, attitudes, and emotions that motivate one to take action. - Congruence - Thinking, feeling, and behaving with consistency, genuineness, authenticity, and honesty. - Commitment - Motivational energy to serve and that drives the collective effort. Commitment implies passion, intensity, and duration. - Collaboration - Working with others in a common effort. It constitutes the cornerstone value of the group leadership effort because it empowers self and others through trust. - Common Purpose - Working with shared aims and values. It facilitates the group's ability to engage in collective analysis of the issues at hand and the task to be undertaken. • - Controversy with Civility - Recognizes two fundamental realities of any creative group effort: that differences in viewpoint are inevitable, and that such difference must be aired openly but with civility. - Citizenship - Process whereby the individual and the collaborative group become responsibly connected to the community and the society through the leadership experience. - Change - "Hub" which gives meaning and purpose to the 7 C's. Change, in other words, is the ultimate goal of the creative process of leadership - to make a better world and a better society for self and others. The Social Change Model of Leadership has two primary goals: - To enhance student learning and development; more specifically, to develop in each student participant greater: - Self-knowledge - Understanding one's talents, values, and interests, especially as these relate to the student's capacity to provide effective leadership. - Leadership competence - The capacity to mobilize one-self and others to serve and work collaboratively - To facilitate positive social change at the institution or in the community. That is, undertake actions which will help the institution/community to function more effectively and humanly. -Astin, Helen S. and Alexander W. Astin. A Social Change Model of Leadership Development Guidebook Version III. The National Clearinghouse of Leadership Programs, 1996. -The Social Change Model: socialchangemodel.org
Doctor insights on: Does Cytomegalovirus Cause Cmv Encephalitis Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a virus member of the Herpes virus family. In immunocompetent people infection is generally asymptomatic or you can have a mononucleosis type syndrome. In immunodeficient people or in young infants, it can cause severe infection, including CMV meningitis, which is an infection of the tissue surrounding the brain or CMV encephalitis, which refers to ...Read more Yes: The epstein barr virus (ebv) causes mononucleosis. After infection, it stays in the body for life. If the infection occurs in early childhood, the illness will be similar to the common cold. Most people have been infected by the ebv virus by the time they reach adulthood. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer Yes: West nile virus is caused by an infection transmitted via a mosquito bite. Many people may be exposed to the virus but never develop symptoms. When symptoms do develop, it is typically fever and headache although more severe symptoms may occur. The cdc has info on west nile activity nationwide: http://www.Cdc.Gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/index.Htm. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer Brucella can cause acquired IgM deficiency. Can borrelia, babesia, bartonella, or mycoplasma cause this? What other chronic infections? No anyone is at risk: While severe disease is more common in babies, young children, those with chronic disease like diabetes and asthma, more serious complications, such as dengue hemorrhagic fever can happen randomly. There are 4 serotypes of dengue and if you have been previously infected with one, your risk of serious illness or death increases with infection with each new serotype. Don't get infected a first time! ...Read more Serious effects: Varicella-zoster virus can cause prematurity, encephalitis, pneumonia, intrauterine growth restriction, central nervous system abnormalities, limb abnormalities, blindness, and possibly death if birth occurs during active infection. This is one reason why the VZV vaccine is contraindicated during pregnancy since it is a live vaccine. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer Sort of: The body has different antibodies in response to any infection. The IgM antibodies usually rise during an active infection and are a sign that the body is fighting something. The igg antibodies are indicators of long term immunity and those remain elevated for the rest of your life. ...Read more Yes.: Ebv is most commonly associated with burkitt lymphoma and hodgkin lymphoma, especially in states of compromised immunity such as HIV infection. It is also the virus that causes mononucleosis ("mono"). What is encouraging, though, is that the majority of us have been infected at some point with ebv and yet most of the time we do not develop cancer. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer CMV= cytomegalovirus, a virus in the herpesvirus family that can infect anyone. CMV is spread by direct contact of body fluids, such as saliva, blood, urine, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. CMV infection can have a wide range of symptoms from no symptoms to symptoms of fever and fatigue (resembling infectious mononucleosis) to severe symptoms involving brain, ...Read more The encephalon is considered to be the gray matter of the brain. This is where all the neuron cells are located. If an infection sets in to this region it is called an encephalitis. The -itis ending just means inflammation. It is usually virus infections that like to go specifically to the ...Read more - Talk to a doctor live online for free - Cytomegalovirus cmv encephalitis - Does cytomegalovirus cause cmv hepatitis? - Does cytomegalovirus cause pneumonia? - Ask a doctor a question free online - Cytomegalovirus cmv igg - Cytomegalovirus cmv infection - Cytomegalovirus cmv retinitis - Cytomegalovirus cmv symptoms - Talk to a pediatrician online
Across the world, the vast majority of animals bred for use in the egg, meat and dairy industry are raised in conditions that maximize production. There is no regard for the well-being of the animal. In the 2008 report, 'The Welfare of Intensively Confined Animals', Humane Society International presents research relating to the welfare of animals in the food industry. Hens are frequently crammed into small wire cages with little space to stand or flap their wings, while breeding pigs are nearly immobilized within metal enclosures called gestation crates for the duration of their repeated pregnancies. Such intensive confinement causes severe physical and psychological distress, as it prevents the animal from exhibiting normal movement and other important natural behaviours. Photo Credit: HSI Billions of land animals are raised for food globally every year. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that animal agriculture will increase by approximately 70% by 2050, with most of that growth taking place in emerging economies like India. Given these predictions, investment is likely to be significant in the public and private sector of meat, egg and milk production. All producers of animal products, from the small farmer to the large agribusiness conglomerate, will benefit from a transition to more humane methods of farming. The World Bank's safeguard policies set the standard for public sector lending and investments in emerging economies. That is why NGOs around the world, including Humane Society International, have appealed to the financial institution to include enforceable animal welfare standards in its safeguard policies. In addition to meeting the ethical imperative to reduce animal suffering, the adoption of animal welfare standards by international lenders makes financial sense for the recipient and the investor. As discussed in the World Bank's own internal documents: "Animals that are healthy, well-rested, and handled in a way as to prevent stress yield products of greater quality; using practices that prevent and control disease helps animal welfare and is economically beneficial." Further, both global and domestic markets are poised to close their doors to products produced without basic animal welfare standards. An expanding number of multinational food companies are phasing out the use of battery cages, gestation crates and other abusive practices from their supply chains. Governments throughout the world--including in Asia, Latin America and Africa--have already adopted, or are considering adopting, farm animal welfare legislation in response to public concerns. Photo Credit: HSI Many small farmers already practice extensive farm animal production with high animal welfare standards. With proper support, the promotion of animal welfare standards could give these farmers a market advantage. Ultimately, all producers of animal products, from the small farmer to the large agribusiness conglomerate, will benefit from a transition to more humane methods of farming. HSI's formal submission to the World Bank asks the entity to only slightly modify the existing language on animal husbandry within the safeguards to reference a clear and simple animal welfare framework that can be implemented. This would be similar to the International Finance Corporation's Good Practice Note on Improving Animal Welfare, and would protect the welfare of all animals, regardless of the size of the operation in which they are raised. Sign the petition and ask the World Bank to include the language of animal welfare in its safeguard policies. Show the world you care... Many EU member states also have announced their support for the adoption of animal welfare standards by international financial institutions. However, this week HSI released a report showing that public funds from some states are supporting agricultural companies abroad that fail to meet the EU's farm animal welfare standards. In 2014, for example, the International Finance Corporation gave funds to Shandong Hekangyuan Poultry Breeding Company, on
ity; using practices that prevent and control disease helps animal welfare and is economically beneficial." Further, both global and domestic markets are poised to close their doors to products produced without basic animal welfare standards. An expanding number of multinational food companies are phasing out the use of battery cages, gestation crates and other abusive practices from their supply chains. Governments throughout the world--including in Asia, Latin America and Africa--have already adopted, or are considering adopting, farm animal welfare legislation in response to public concerns. Photo Credit: HSI Many small farmers already practice extensive farm animal production with high animal welfare standards. With proper support, the promotion of animal welfare standards could give these farmers a market advantage. Ultimately, all producers of animal products, from the small farmer to the large agribusiness conglomerate, will benefit from a transition to more humane methods of farming. HSI's formal submission to the World Bank asks the entity to only slightly modify the existing language on animal husbandry within the safeguards to reference a clear and simple animal welfare framework that can be implemented. This would be similar to the International Finance Corporation's Good Practice Note on Improving Animal Welfare, and would protect the welfare of all animals, regardless of the size of the operation in which they are raised. Sign the petition and ask the World Bank to include the language of animal welfare in its safeguard policies. Show the world you care... Many EU member states also have announced their support for the adoption of animal welfare standards by international financial institutions. However, this week HSI released a report showing that public funds from some states are supporting agricultural companies abroad that fail to meet the EU's farm animal welfare standards. In 2014, for example, the International Finance Corporation gave funds to Shandong Hekangyuan Poultry Breeding Company, one of China's largest duck producers, without any information or documentation about the company's animal welfare standards. More than 115,000 animal protection advocates across the world participated in HSI's online campaign to send letters to the executive directors of the World Bank asking for the meaningful inclusion of animal welfare within the safeguards policy; 883 Indians also sent letters, which were delivered to the executive director of the World Bank from India. Add your voice in favour of raising the standards for animal welfare across the world. Sign the petition and ask the World Bank to include the language of animal welfare in its safeguard policies. Show the world you care by participating in the movement to herald a positive change in the way animals are treated. Also see on HuffPost:
e of China's largest duck producers, without any information or documentation about the company's animal welfare standards. More than 115,000 animal protection advocates across the world participated in HSI's online campaign to send letters to the executive directors of the World Bank asking for the meaningful inclusion of animal welfare within the safeguards policy; 883 Indians also sent letters, which were delivered to the executive director of the World Bank from India. Add your voice in favour of raising the standards for animal welfare across the world. Sign the petition and ask the World Bank to include the language of animal welfare in its safeguard policies. Show the world you care by participating in the movement to herald a positive change in the way animals are treated. Also see on HuffPost:
Webinar recorded on 2017-02-09 Although project-based learning continues to be a popular goal in classrooms, it can be difficult to implement for many content area teachers. Join Brandi Young, INFOhio Integration Librarian, and Emily Colpi, Librarian & Digital Learning Coach at Mariemont High School, for an inside look into:Finding new ways to empower your students to be creators of their own learning by integrating digital storytelling into standards-aligned projects. Encouraging your students to gain knowledge and skills, while helping them learn to investigate authentic questions and problems for real-world learning. Exploring INFOhio's new resource, Book Nook: Gallery of Student Creations, for student examples and free resources on creating book trailers and other digital storytelling projects. Use this url to bookmark or link to Empowering Students to be Creators: Using Online Tools for Digital Storytelling in All Content Areas: https://www.infohio.org/pd/webinars/recordings/item/lwi20170209.
But in a new study, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen joins more than 200 colleagues to report that protected areas are still vulnerable to damaging encroachment, and many are suffering from biodiversity loss. "If you put a boundary around a piece of land and install some bored park guards and that's all you do, the park will eventually die," said Janzen, DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology in Penn's Department of Biology. "It's death from a thousand cuts." The international team of researchers, led by William Laurance of Australia's James Cook University, conducted 262 interviews of field biologists and environmental scientists who had extensive experience working in tropical forest reserves. In all, the interviews incorporated results from 60 protected areas in 36 countries. The researchers constructed questions to determine how the biological health of the protected areas had changed over the last two to three decades. Some queries dealt with the status of wildlife in the areas: Had large mammal or amphibian populations increased or decreased over that time period? Others asked about changes in environmental pressures: Were fires more frequent or had automobile traffic expanded? Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers report that the protected forest areas are not serving as the "arks" that some conservationists had hoped for. Four-fifths of the areas included in the survey had experienced some declines in health. About half of the areas had suffered more serious losses to biodiversity. Among the types of wildlife and plants most negatively affected were bats, amphibians, lizards, large-bodied mammals, stream-dwelling fish, amphibians and old-growth trees. And the researchers did not even attempt to monitor insects, fungi and other small organisms. The scientists further observed that environmental conditions and activities occurring outside of the reserves were strong predictors of how biodiversity inside the boundaries fared. Logging, declining forest cover and increasing fires outside the protected areas tended to pull down the health of the reserves themselves. Such losses were rampant: Eight-five percent of the reserves had their surrounding forests decline in the last few decades, while only two percent had bordering forestland increase. When Janzen and his wife and research partner, Winnie Hallwachs, became advisors for and supporters of Costa Rica's Área de Conservación Guanacaste in 1985, they worked to ensure the national park would not succumb to such threats. Janzen said that many of the features that he and Hallwachs incorporated into the park's design are "obvious": making it socially integrated by hiring only local workers, gaining political support by winning the blessing of the Costa Rican president and incorporating habitat into the park's boundaries that will allow species to cope with climate change. The park, which was included in the survey, is one of those protected areas holding up well on many markers of health and biodiversity — even improving on many measures since the 1980s. "We're atypical," Janzen said. "We used to have 100 to 200 fires a year and within two to three years [of management] we were down to five to 15." And while many protected areas have found their borders slowly chipped away by development and human encroachment, Janzen said Área de Conservación Guanacaste has "the opposite issue: the size of the original park was 10,000 hectares; right now it's 163,000 hectares, so 16 times as big as when we started." The challenge, he said, is often acquiring the political and economic will to enact sustainable management and stave off threats from development and human activity in protected areas. And conservationists can't take a cookie-cutter approach to designing and managing protected areas, Janzen said. "You have to fine-tune and tailor-make your park to the particular circumstances of a place: the nature of the people, the resources and the organisms." The study authors noted that although their findings suggest that many protected areas are in troub
outside the protected areas tended to pull down the health of the reserves themselves. Such losses were rampant: Eight-five percent of the reserves had their surrounding forests decline in the last few decades, while only two percent had bordering forestland increase. When Janzen and his wife and research partner, Winnie Hallwachs, became advisors for and supporters of Costa Rica's Área de Conservación Guanacaste in 1985, they worked to ensure the national park would not succumb to such threats. Janzen said that many of the features that he and Hallwachs incorporated into the park's design are "obvious": making it socially integrated by hiring only local workers, gaining political support by winning the blessing of the Costa Rican president and incorporating habitat into the park's boundaries that will allow species to cope with climate change. The park, which was included in the survey, is one of those protected areas holding up well on many markers of health and biodiversity — even improving on many measures since the 1980s. "We're atypical," Janzen said. "We used to have 100 to 200 fires a year and within two to three years [of management] we were down to five to 15." And while many protected areas have found their borders slowly chipped away by development and human encroachment, Janzen said Área de Conservación Guanacaste has "the opposite issue: the size of the original park was 10,000 hectares; right now it's 163,000 hectares, so 16 times as big as when we started." The challenge, he said, is often acquiring the political and economic will to enact sustainable management and stave off threats from development and human activity in protected areas. And conservationists can't take a cookie-cutter approach to designing and managing protected areas, Janzen said. "You have to fine-tune and tailor-make your park to the particular circumstances of a place: the nature of the people, the resources and the organisms." The study authors noted that although their findings suggest that many protected areas are in trouble, their intent is not "to diminish their crucial role but to highlight growing challenges that could threaten their success." The research was supported by James Cook University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation. Katherine Unger Baillie \| EurekAlert! Waste in the water – New purification techniques for healthier aquatic ecosystems 24.07.2018 \| Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Plenty of habitat for bears in Europe 24.07.2018 \| Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig New design tool automatically creates nanostructure 3D-print templates for user-given colors Scientists present work at prestigious SIGGRAPH conference Most of the objects we see are colored by pigments, but using pigments has disadvantages: such colors can fade, industrial pigments are often toxic, and... Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as "whistlers" -- very low frequency packets... Scientists develop first tool to use machine learning methods to compute flow around interactively designable 3D objects. Tool will be presented at this year’s prestigious SIGGRAPH conference. When engineers or designers want to test the aerodynamic properties of the newly designed shape of a car, airplane, or other object, they would normally model... Researchers from TU Graz and their industry partners have unveiled a world first: the prototype of a robot-controlled, high-speed combined charging system (CCS) for electric vehicles that enables series charging of cars in various parking positions. Global demand for electric vehicles is forecast to rise sharply: by 2025, the number of new vehicle registrations is expected to reach 25 million per year.... Proteins must be folded correctly to fulfill their molecular functions in cells. Molecular assistants called chaperones help proteins exploit their inbuilt folding potential and reach the correct three-dimensional s
le, their intent is not "to diminish their crucial role but to highlight growing challenges that could threaten their success." The research was supported by James Cook University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation. Katherine Unger Baillie \| EurekAlert! Waste in the water – New purification techniques for healthier aquatic ecosystems 24.07.2018 \| Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Plenty of habitat for bears in Europe 24.07.2018 \| Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig New design tool automatically creates nanostructure 3D-print templates for user-given colors Scientists present work at prestigious SIGGRAPH conference Most of the objects we see are colored by pigments, but using pigments has disadvantages: such colors can fade, industrial pigments are often toxic, and... Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as "whistlers" -- very low frequency packets... Scientists develop first tool to use machine learning methods to compute flow around interactively designable 3D objects. Tool will be presented at this year’s prestigious SIGGRAPH conference. When engineers or designers want to test the aerodynamic properties of the newly designed shape of a car, airplane, or other object, they would normally model... Researchers from TU Graz and their industry partners have unveiled a world first: the prototype of a robot-controlled, high-speed combined charging system (CCS) for electric vehicles that enables series charging of cars in various parking positions. Global demand for electric vehicles is forecast to rise sharply: by 2025, the number of new vehicle registrations is expected to reach 25 million per year.... Proteins must be folded correctly to fulfill their molecular functions in cells. Molecular assistants called chaperones help proteins exploit their inbuilt folding potential and reach the correct three-dimensional structure. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) have demonstrated that actin, the most abundant protein in higher developed cells, does not have the inbuilt potential to fold and instead requires special assistance to fold into its active state. The chaperone TRiC uses a previously undescribed mechanism to perform actin folding. The study was recently published in the journal Cell. Actin is the most abundant protein in highly developed cells and has diverse functions in processes like cell stabilization, cell division and muscle... 17.08.2018 \| Event News 08.08.2018 \| Event News 27.07.2018 \| Event News 17.08.2018 \| Physics and Astronomy 17.08.2018 \| Information Technology 17.08.2018 \| Life Sciences
tructure. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) have demonstrated that actin, the most abundant protein in higher developed cells, does not have the inbuilt potential to fold and instead requires special assistance to fold into its active state. The chaperone TRiC uses a previously undescribed mechanism to perform actin folding. The study was recently published in the journal Cell. Actin is the most abundant protein in highly developed cells and has diverse functions in processes like cell stabilization, cell division and muscle... 17.08.2018 \| Event News 08.08.2018 \| Event News 27.07.2018 \| Event News 17.08.2018 \| Physics and Astronomy 17.08.2018 \| Information Technology 17.08.2018 \| Life Sciences
The river-delineated border between western Brazil's Acre province (upper left), and northwestern Bolivia's Pando Department (lower right), demarcates a remarkable difference in land use and development practices. Brazil has opened up this part of the rain forest to farming and settlement, producing the herringbone pattern of forest cutting. This part of Bolivia, on the other hand, preserves its native rain forest, untouched by development. The image was acquired July 2, 2008, covers an area of 42 by 45 km, and is located at 10.3 degrees south latitude, 67.2 degrees west longitude. With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on Terra. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and data products. The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance. The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. More information about ASTER is available at http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/.
- Exploring common device ownership models - Using iPads with a learning management system (LMS) - Downloading apps - Setting up the master sync - Projecting from an iPad - Printing with AirPrint - Sharing content with Dropbox - Creating an iPad photo gallery - Browsing the web - Exploring the world with Maps Skill Level Appropriate for all - [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Laurie Burruss. In my role as a professor at Pasadena City College, I've implemented and overseen the prototype of an iPad classroom. This course covers how to set up your classroom for the iPad. The iPad's multi-sensory features, the onboard apps, and the ever-growing variety of apps available in iTunes provide a great platform for the teacher to discover new ways to engage students. We'll dive into topics like planning and implementing an iPad classroom; discovering how to use the iPad as a tool to collaborate, remediate, problem solve, assess, and communicate to further enhance learning; selecting apps that support your teaching style and target student group; and assessing the results of iPad projects all created and implemented on the iPad. This course is designed for teachers and others with basic computer and internet knowledge and who wish to become more skilled at developing 21st century teaching and learning for the classroom. Let's get started. iPad Classroom: Creating a Research Projectwith Laurie Burruss45m 21s Appropriate for all iBooks Author Essential Trainingwith Chris Mattia6h 55m Appropriate for all iBooks Author for Teachers: The Basicswith Mike Rankin2h 37m Appropriate for all 1. Getting Ready for an iPad Classroom 2. Setting Up the iPad Classroom 3. Getting Things In and Out of the iPad 4. Top Tips and Tricks Next steps2m 2s - Mark as unwatched - Mark all as unwatched Are you sure you want to mark all the videos in this course as unwatched? This will not affect your course history, your reports, or your certificates of completion for this course.Cancel Take notes with your new membership! Type in the entry box, then click Enter to save your note. 1:30Press on any video thumbnail to jump immediately to the timecode shown. Notes are saved with you account but can also be exported as plain text, MS Word, PDF, Google Doc, or Evernote.
WHO was a presence at the recent China Food Safety Conference. Here is too hoping more governments – FDA and USDA – spend a bit more time thinking about food safety as a global issue. Millions of adults die every year from bugs and toxins in what they eat, according to new WHO data that shows food-borne diseases are far more deadly than the UN agency previously estimated. The research faults unsafe food for 1.2 million deaths per year in people over the age of five in Southeast Asia and Africa — three times more adult deaths than the Geneva-based WHO had thought occurred in the whole world. “It is a picture that we have never had before,” WHO food safety director Jorgen Schlundt said in an interview. “We now have documentation of a significant burden outside the less than five group, that is major new information.” Ailments linked to contaminated food and water have long been seen as a major threat to young children, who can dehydrate quickly. But the Danish veterinarian and microbiologist said the risks to older populations had been grossly underestimated. Older children and the elderly are especially vulnerable to severe illness from major food and water-borne diseases such as salmonella, listeria, E. coli, hepatitis A and cholera. Food safety experts are now seeking to measure the burden of such afflictions in people over the age of five in the Arab world, Latin America and elsewhere in Asia including China. And already, Schlundt said, health officials are recognizing the need to confront the most dangerous types of contamination in their industrial regulations and trade standards. “Literally millions are dying every year and we know that a lot of these could be prevented,” he said. “There is a realization that instead of doing what we did in the past, in the future we should really focus on where the problems are.” Many of the contaminants that have made headlines in recent years in the US, such as salmonella and E. coli, also exist in poorer countries but are not monitored as carefully there, Schlundt said. Health authorities in developed countries are now much more able to document food safety risks because of tests that can quickly connect disparate cases of illness to tainted foods such as lettuce, peppers, spinach and beef. But the WHO expert said that some ailments have also become more prevalent in the food system alongside the globalization of the food supply and the rise of modern food production methods, which can propagate ailments quickly and on a large scale. “There are certain pathogens that have increased over the last 20 or 30 years. Some problems clearly have moved and become bigger because of the ways that we produce,” he said. Simple steps can cut the levels of chemicals and toxins in foods, such as avoiding conditions where mould can grow, Schlundt said. Farming techniques can also root out microorganisms from the food chain and parasites can be wiped out by targeting their hosts and transmission patterns, he said. Because it is now clear that some foods are more vulnerable to certain food-borne ailments than others, health officials are well placed to focus their energies on monitoring areas posing the highest potential disease risk, Schlundt said. Another vital part of the food-borne disease fight is having consumers take precautions in the way they prepare foods, and ensuring patients and health workers take symptoms such as diarrhea seriously as a risk across population groups. “Many of the deaths that we see in developing countries, if they had been treated at the right time, they would not have died,” Schlundt said.
Definition of the big house - He spent four years in the big house. : of great strength : of great force : large or great in dimensions, bulk, or extent : in a loud or declamatory manner : to a large amount or extent : on a large scale : an individual or organization of outstanding importance or power : a big player : a center or forward whose large size and strength are used to control play near the basket : a building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families : home : a shelter or refuge (such as a nest or den) of a wild animal : to provide with living quarters or shelter : to store in a building : to encase, enclose, or shelter as if by putting in a house (see 1house) What made you want to look up the big house? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Recreating visual reality can never be achieved by painting an image on a flat surface such as a TV screen. It requires a full-parallax display which can recreate the complete lightfield. Recent years have seen major developments and now the European Training Network on Full-Parallax Imaging (ETN-FPI) will develop a new generation of researchers trained both in the relevant physics, and in the biology of human vision. Current displays fall far short of truly recreating visual reality. This can never be achieved by painting an image on a flat surface such as a TV screen, but requires a full-parallax display which can recreate the complete lightfield, i.e. the light travelling in every direction through every point in space. Recent years have seen major developments towards this goal, promising a new generation of ultra-realistic displays with applications in medicine, informatics, manufacturing, entertainment, gaming and more. However, achieving this will require a new generation of researchers trained both in the relevant physics, and in the biology of human vision. The European Training Network on Full-Parallax Imaging (ETN-FPI) aims at developing this new generation. The research concept of the network is to depart from the notations of plenoptics, light field and integral imaging, used sometimes interchangeably, and to harmonize and advance further the research in these areas under the umbrella of the wider and viewer-centred FPI concept. Fifteen early-stage researchers will be employed on novel inter-disciplinary FPI projects. The training disciplines include theoretical and applied optics, multi-dimensional image processing, and visual neuroscience. The targeted applications range from plenoptic microscopy to interaction with visual content generated by wide field-of-view displays. Extensive studies on perception of continuous parallax and subjective tests on various displays are planned. The training program includes local training, online seminars, workshops, training schools and a conference. The researchers trained within the network are expected to gather competitive skills and become highly competent in bringing innovations to the field of ultra-realistic and interactive visual media. This will enhance their employability in a rapidly growing sector in academia and industry and position Europe as a leader in this emerging multidisciplinary field. Read more about the research action on the official website:
Growing marigolds and nasturtiums in your vegetable garden helps control insects, adds beauty and is a tasty and healthy addition to your dinner plate. I have used them in my food gardens for many years. Both plants are prolific seeders once their long flowering period finishes and I have noticed to my delight that as they re-seed, some different flower colours begin to appear. Leaf flower and fruit eaters – The pungent smell of marigold flower and leaf discourages aphids from hanging around to feast on nearby crops. Nasturtiums repel whiteflies, squash bugs, aphids, many beetles and cabbage loopers. Nasturtiums are ideal companion for tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, kohlrabi, collards, broccoli, cabbage and radishes. Favourite crops of those pesky insects. Root eaters – Marigolds are particularly helpful in minimising the attack of harmful nematodes that cause bumps on your plant roots and reduce plant vitality. A past blog of mine talks about other tactics in dealing with nematodes. Pollinators – The flowers of marigold and nasturtium attract bees to your garden, essential where you are growing crops that need pollinators such as cucumber, zuccini, capsicium and squash. Adding to your meal Marigold flowers and leaves can be eaten. They have strong flavour and are rather bitter. I feel its best to mix them with other plants. Here are the health benefits of eating marigolds. The only part of the nasturtiums you can’t eat are the roots. The flowers have a delicate and spicy flavour with red flowers the hottest and pink flowers the least spicy. Flowers can be used in salads as can the leaves. I always pick a leaf or flower to taste when I am in the garden. The seeds can be pickled and are called capers. You can read about the health benefits of eating nasturtiums here. Beauty and design There is no doubt that having flowers in your garden impacts the feeling you have when walking around the space. I feel that flowers speak much faster to the soul because of their beauty. By growing marigolds and nasturtiums, you can also create form in the garden by placing the flowers in certain positions, for example, I tend to put them at the end of my beds to create an edge. How to grow Growing marigolds and nasturtiums is quite easy. They are very hardy plants, In my sub-tropical climate they grow over long periods of time during the year. Soil should be reasonable with growing marigolds and nasturtiums and I think its best to provide them similar soil to what you provide for your vegetables. Here is a past article of vegetable garden soil. If you water them too much, you will get a lot more leaf than flower. Marigolds grow as a bush, making them easy to control, whereas nasturtiums are more of a creeper and can take over a space if you let them. For Brisbane gardeners living on the north west side of the city, we have just released an organic garden maintenance service, check it out here. Its specifically designed for people who love the beauty and function of an organic garden but do not have the time or expertise to look after it. Also check out our workshop schedule as we have a number of workshops in the coming weeks, with spaces still available. Love to see you at one of them. Authored by Peter Kearney – www.myfoodgarden.com.au
Finger Lakes National Forest The Iroquois Indian Confederacy, later known as the "Six Nations," originated in the Finger Lakes Region. These native Americans were probably the first to use the area, which is now a National Forest. The Forest has over 25 miles of interconnecting trails, including the 12-mile Interloken National Recreation Trail and two miles of the Finger Lakes Trail. Attractions include spacious pastures, cool ravines, and varied forests. The Finger Lakes National Forest currently manages 1,400 acres as shrubland, emphasizing the maintenance of brushy openings for wildlife habitat and fruit production. This habitat type is relatively uncommon in the region. A large variety of game and non-game wildlife species are dependent on shrub openings during all or part of their life cycle. These species include pheasants, ruffed grouse, turkeys, white-tailed deer, many small mammals, and songbirds. Many varieties of edible berries and tree fruits are also found in this vegetation type. Management is designed to maintain and promote fruit production in areas accessible to Forest visitors, with special emphasis on blueberry production. The Forest's scenic beauty along the ridges between Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake offer unlimited recreation opportunities any season of the year. A Recreation Management Guide gives you a great snapshot of activities. Whether you are a hiker,cross country skier, camper, fishing or hunting enthusiast, snowmobiler, horseback rider, or wildlife watcher, the Finger Lakes National Forest can provide the recreational experience you are seeking!