Taxobox name Colombian Grebe status EX status system IUCN3.1 extinct 1977 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo grebe Podicipediformes familia Podicipedidae genus Podiceps species P. andinus binomial Podiceps andinus binomial authority Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee Meyer de Schauensee , 1959 The Colombian Grebe Podiceps andinus , was a grebe aquatic bird found in the Bogot wetlands in the Eastern Andes of Colombia . The species was still abundant on Lake Tota 3000m in 1945. The species has occasionally been considered a subspecies of Black necked Grebe P. nigricollis . The decline of the Colombian grebe is attributed to wetland drainage, siltation , pesticide pollution , disruption by reed harvesting, hunting, competition, and predation of chicks by rainbow trout Salmo gairdneri del Hoyo et al. 1992 . The primary reason was loss of habitat drainage of wetlands and siltation resulted in higher concentrations of pollutant, caussing eutrophication across Lake Tota . This destroyed the open, submergent pondweed Potamogeton vegetation and resulted in the formation of a dense monoculture of water weed Elodea Varty et al. 1986, Fjeldsa 1993, as cited in O Donnel and Fjeldsa 1997 . By 1968 the species had declined to approximately 300 birds. Only two records of this bird was made in the 1970s one seen 1972, and the last confirmed record from 1977 when three birds were seen. Intensive studies in 1981 and 1982 failed to find the species and it is now considered extinct. References IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 17806 title Podiceps andinus downloaded 2007 04 25 Justification for extinct status Last confirmed record in 1977, and because intensive studies in 1981 and 1982 failed to find the species, it is now considered extinct. http www.birdlife.org datazone species index.html?action SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid 3642&m 0 BirdLife Species Factsheet Grebes Category Podiceps Category Podicipedidae Category Bird extinctions since 1500 Ca ... more details
Dablink Belterra redirects here. For the casino, see Belterra Casino Resort & Spa . Belterra is a municipal seat and rubber plantation site some 40 km south of the city of Santar m, Brazil in the federal state of Par at the edge of the Planalto at 165 m above sea level coordinates 2.637 S, 54.936 W . Belterra was founded as a rubber plantation, after the economic failure of Fordl ndia , which had been founded in 1934 by Henry Ford . The intention of the US Department of Commerce in the 1920s was to produce rubber in Brazil and to import it to USA. The advantage of the Belterra plantation over the plantation of Fordl ndia 100 km to the south is the flat topography, which enables the use of machinery. In its peak time in the late 1930s some 50 km were cultivated with Hevea Brasiliensis rubber tree . In Belterra, new breeding methods with local varieties were applied, which prevented the leaf disease, a result of the monoculture in Fordl ndia. This was very labour intensive and therefore expensive. Together with the worldwide decline on demand on natural rubber, the plantation was not cost effective anymore. Ford sold it to the Brazilian government, which is still running the plantation under EMBRAPA . Today, the area of the plantation is some 10 20 km covered extensively with mainly old rubber trees. It still gives the impression of a plantation with some 1000 2000 inhabitants mainly plantation workers and their families . At the peak time, it had a population of some 8 10,000 people. According to a 2004 census, the entire district population, including surrounding villages, is reported as 16,790. Amongst soil scientists, Belterra is famous for the underlying fertile, human impact on the environment anthropogenic soil of Terra preta , which might have been amongst the criteria for the selection of this site for the plantation. While Terra Preta soil patterns occur all over the Brazilian lowland, this site is extremely well developed and also scien ... more details
Infobox Politician name Aristeu Borges de Aguiar image caption office List of Governors of Esp rito Santo President governor of Espirito Santo elected by the people term start June 30, 1928 term end October 16, 1930 predecessor Florentino vidos successor Jos Armando Ribeiro de Paula constituency majority birth date birth place death date death place party relations spouse children residence occupation religion signature website footnotes Aristeu Borges de Aguiar Vit ria, Brazil Vit ria ES , May 23, 1892 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro RJ September 1, 1951 was a Brazilian lawyer, teacher and politician. He graduated in Laws in Rio de Janeiro in 1915 and worked in Vit ria, Brazil Vit ria as a public law attorney. In 1919 he began working as a teacher of World s History and Brazilian History at the school Gymnasium of Espirito Santo. In 1924, by invitation of the governor Florentino vidos , he occupied the functions of state s secretary for Education, for a brief time. In 1928, he was elected the 18th president governor of the state of Esp rito Santo . It was in the time of his term as governor that the Wall Street s crisis took place, which especially affected Espirito Santo s economy, mostly dependent on the monoculture of the coffee back in that days. Also, Aristeu de Aguiar supported Julio Prestes as candidate for the President of Brazil presidence of Brazil in the elections of March 1930. In spite those elections were actually won by Julio Prestes, the loser candidate, Get lio Vargas , alleging electoral fraud, launched a national rebellion in order to take the office as President of Brazil by force. Hence Aristeu de Aguiar was a supporter of Julio Prestes, he abandoned the govern of Espirito Santo due to the invasion of the state by the troops of the colonel Ot vio Campos do Amaral, supporter of Vargas rebellion. Aguiar escaped to Portugal on board of the Italian cargo ship Atlanta . As his legal successor, the vice governor Joaquim Teixeira de Mesquita, ran awa ... more details
Infobox Protected area name Horn Orava Protected Landscape Area br CHKO Horn Orava iucn category V photo Oravsk Magura Slovakia .jpg photo caption Oravsk Magura Mts. location Northern Slovakia lat d 49 lat m 34 lat s lat NS N long d 19 long m 30 long s long EW E area 587.38 km 226.8 mi established 24 September 1979 governing body Spr va CHKO Horn Orava Horn Orava PLA administration in N mestovo Horn Orava Protected Landscape Area lang sk Chr nen krajinn oblas Horn Orava is one of the Protected areas of Slovakia Protected Landscape Areas 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia . It is situated in the N mestovo District N mestovo and Tvrdo n District Tvrdo n districts, within the Orava region Orava region. History The park was created on 24 September 1979 and the law creating it was amended on 29 September 2003. Geography, geology and biology It is made of Oravsk Magura , Podbeskydsk vrchovina and Oravsk Beskydy mountains, and the Orava Basin , as well as the Orava reservoir Orava Dam , in the northernmost Slovakia. Much of the PLA s territory is made from sandstone mountain ranges. More than half of the area is covered by forests. Beech and fir trees grow in the area, along with strong presence of the spruce monoculture. Exceptions are the areas under Babia G ra Babia hora , Par and Pilsko mountains, with old growth spruce with rowan trees being represented. A specific phenomena of the park are the peat bogs, represented by the pine woods, providing shelter for many threatened species. The Orava Dam is a nesting place for many rare species of birds. The highest mountain is Babia hora at the border with Poland at unit height m 1722.9 1 External links http www.slovakia.travel entitaview.aspx?l 2&ami 108035&smi 108035&llt 1&idp 2317 Horn Orava PLA at http www.slovakia.travel intropage.aspx?l 2&ami 0&smi 0&p 99 Slovakia.travel http www.sopsr.sk index.php?page posobnost&id 20 Description of the Horn Orava PLA at The Slovak State Nature Conservancy sk ... more details
Merge school Beaconsfield, Quebec date March 2008 Infobox Education in Canada name St Edmund Elementary School image St Edmund.gif imagesize 215px streetaddress 115 Beaconsfield Blvd. city flagicon Canada Beaconsfield, Quebec province Quebec postalcode H9W 328 areacode 514 phone 514 697 7621 Country fax 514 697 7961 email website http stedmund.lbpsb.qc.ca sachoolnumber schoolboard Lester B. Pearson School Board affiliation superintendent trustee principal Susan Greenberg viceprincipal schooltype Elementary school grades KG 6 language Canadian English English , French language French mascot teamname colours founded 1968 enrollment enrollment as of St Edmund Elementary school is a public school founded in 1968. Susan Greenberg has been principal since September, 2005. It s ranked by Today s Parent Magazine as one of the top schools in the Montreal area. The teaching staff of 30 at St. Edmund is all female after its last male teacher retired in 2008. School Curriculum The school offers a two language program that includes students being taught solely in French for their beginning years, then given a balance of English and French. The courses taught are Music Susan Adams in English Art Guylaine St Georges in French Physical Education Patricia Carroll in English English Various teachers by grade level French Same as above. The school has its own personal library as well as a computer laboratory. Administration As of 2010, the school is the only school in the LBPSB with an 95 female administration. In the CTV Article, Women Rule at St Edmund s School, Principal Greenberg stated I m not quite sure why, maybe it s the Kindergarten Cop syndrome, but I think now many fathers are hands on, and I m hoping that will change over the years and they ll try out early childhood education, . one parent asks in response to that article, How can the children get a balanced education both academically and socially when they are in a monoculture? Another exclamation is Men have been made ... more details
Cleanup date June 2009 No footnotes date June 2009 Sylvia Convey is one of Australia s most distinctive outsider artists. She was born in a refugee camp at Itzehoe near Hamburg, Germany in 1948. With her Latvian parents and elder sister she sailed to Australia on the Skaugum in early 1950. They were part of the first wave of immigrants to arrive in Australia after World War II . This group of displaced persons had a profound effect on what was then an Anglo Celtic monoculture. From her childhood Sylvia had the gift of being able to transmute her joys and sorrows into poetic images which have the power to enchant and disturb. A true Outsider Art outsider artist her images are derived from her own day to day and Dream oneiric experiences. Intuitively she has tapped the richness of her ancestral heritage which adds a decorative radiance to her images. An engaging eroticism is also a dominant theme in her oeuvre. A recurring thread in her work has been the blurring of boundaries between art forms. As a painter she rejected the primacy of canvas and used non conventional surfaces. As a printmaker she has used textiles as much as paper and her sculptural muse finds expression in wonderfully exotic and exuberant cloth dolls. She approached quilt making in a spontaneous rather than formal manner as it gave her lifelong love of fabric and colour complete expression. She loves the sensual, tactile pleasure of handling cloth tearing, cutting, printing and painting it to produce shimmering life embracing forms. Since 1972 she has exhibited widely in Australia, Germany, the United States and France. Her work was part of the landmark exhibition Australian outsiders at the Halle St. Pierre in Paris in 2006. Her work has been acquired by several institutions including the National Gallery of Australia , Iwalewa Haus at the University of Bayreuth and the Canberra Museum and Gallery . References Australian Migrant ships 1946 1977, Peter Plowman Chiswick Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon Vo ... more details
coord 54.839 4.644 display title region GB scale 20000 The Doon of May is a conifer plantation in the Machars , convert 14 km west of Wigtown in south west Scotland . It was purchased from the Forestry Commission by the Tinne Beag Tinne Beag Workers Co operative . Since 1999 the co operative has been managing the woodland for sustainable use of both timber and non timber forest products, while increasing biodiversity and restoring native vegetation types where possible. Woodland The woodland comprises convert 100 acre of mixed sitka spruce plantation with a substantial area of semi natural deciduous woodland of oak , fraxinus ash , beech , birch , Scots pine , willow , alder , and sycamore . There is also convert 75 acre of peat bog wetland that was clear felled around 1998. It is being regenerated with birch, rowan and willow with planted oak. Within the sitka there are many wetland glades of derelict alder coppice and areas containing a variety of sphagnum s which give a verdant break to the monotony of regimented monoculture. Hill fort The Doon of May plantation takes its name from a vitrified fort vitrified Iron Age hill fort on the south west of the plantation. The fort is some convert 139 m above sea level http www.geo.ed.ac.uk scotgaz counties countyhistory31.html provides 457 feet and provides spectacular views of Luce Bay with the coast of Ireland in the distance. The fort or walled settlement is an irregular ellipse, measuring convert 140 ft east to west by convert 100 ft north to south. The surrounding wall is up to convert 10 ft on the south side, and the entrance was probably from the west. The facing stones of the heavily vitrified wall have almost entirely gone. Natural cliffs enhance the defensive nature of the site, and no evidence survives of outer defences. ref cite web title Doon of May url http canmore.rcahms.gov.uk en site 62203 details doon of may may work CANMORE publisher Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland a ... more details
2010 01 29 ref ref cite web title Monoculture is killing thought last Devine first Miranda publisher Brisbane Times url http www.brisbanetimes.com.au news opinion monoculture is killing thought 2008 ... more details
. But the trouble is they tend to be monoculture plantations. They are not places where birds want ... asia pacific 12112518 ref Relations to climate change China s forest scientists argue that monoculture ... more details
EnvironmentalTopics This is a list of environmental issue s. As such they relate to the human impact on the environment anthropogenic effects on the natural environment . List of issues Climate change Global warming Global dimming Fossil fuels Sea level rise Greenhouse gas Ocean acidification Shutdown of thermohaline circulation Environmental impact of the coal industry Conservation ethic Conservation Species extinction Pollinator decline Coral bleaching Holocene extinction Invasive species Poaching Endangered species Environmental issues with energy Energy Energy conservation Renewable energy Efficient energy use Renewable energy commercialization Environmental impact of the coal industry Environmental degradation Eutrophication Habitat destruction Invasive species Environmental health Air quality Asthma Environmental Asthma Environmental impact of the coal industry Electromagnetic fields Health and safety Electromagnetic fields Electromagnetic radiation and health Indoor air quality Lead poisoning Sick Building Syndrome Genetic engineering Genetic pollution Genetically modified food controversies Intensive farming Overgrazing Irrigation Monoculture Environmental effects of meat production Slash and burn Pesticide drift Plasticulture Land degradation Land pollution Desertification Soil Soil conservation Soil erosion Soil contamination Soil salination Land use Urban sprawl Habitat fragmentation Habitat destruction Nanotechnology Nanotoxicology Implications of nanotechnology Nanopollution Nuclear power debate Nuclear issues Nuclear fallout Nuclear meltdown Nuclear power Nuclear weapons Nuclear and radiation accidents Nuclear safety High level radioactive waste management . Overpopulation Natural burial Burial Water crisis Overpopulation in companion animals Tragedy of the commons Ozone depletion Chlorofluorocarbons CFC Pollution Environmental impact of the coal industry Nonpoint source pollution Point source pollution Light pollution Noise pollution Visual pollution ... more details
Refimprove date August 2008 The Land Institute is a non profit research, education, and policy organization dedicated to sustainable agriculture based in Salina, Kansas Salina , Kansas , United States . Their goal is to develop an agricultural system based on perennial plant perennial Crop agriculture crops that has the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual plant annual crops . ref cite web title Introduction and Mission url http www.landinstitute.org vnews display.v ART 2000 08 10 37a747b43 work About us publisher The Land Institute date 2009 04 07 accessdate 2009 07 08 ref File Harvesting Cycle 2 Thinopyrum intermedium.jpg thumb Harvesting a Thinopyrum intermedium breeding nursery at The Land Institute The institute, based in Salina, Kansas , was founded in 1976 by plant geneticist and MacArthur Fellow MacArthur genius grant recipient Wes Jackson and Dana Jackson who has long worked with the Land Stewardship Project in Minnesota . Wes Jackson has been the guiding figure at The Land Institute, but he has also been fortunate to have the assistance of leading figures in their fields including photographer Terry Evans, and historians Brian Donahue, Donald Worster , and Angus Wright academic Angus Wright . Perennial polyculture systems may have a variety of benefits over conventional annual monoculture s such as increased biodiversity , reduced soil erosion , and reduced inputs of irrigation , fossil fuels , fertilizers , and pesticides . ref cite journal last Simon Moffat first Anne date 1996 11 29 title Agricultural Research Higher Yielding Perennials Point the Way to New Crops journal Science journal Science volume 274 issue 5292 pages 1469 1470 doi 10.1126 science.274.5292.1469 url http www.sciencemag.org cgi content summary 274 5292 1469 accessdate 2009 07 08 ref Using gains made in scientific knowledge and ability over the past few decades, Land Institute scientists are breeding the annual crop plants wheat , sorghum ... more details
other uses Seed disambiguation Infobox block cipher name SEED designers Korean Information Security Agency KISA publish date 1998 derived from derived to related to key size 128 bits block size 128 bits structure Nested Feistel network rounds 16 cryptanalysis SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency . It is used broadly throughout South Korea n industry, but seldom found elsewhere. It gained popularity in Korea because 40 bit SSL was not considered strong enough see 40 bit encryption , so the Korean Information Security Agency developed its own standard. However, this decision has historically limited the competition of web browser s in Korea, as no major SSL libraries or web browsers supported the SEED algorithm, requiring users to use an ActiveX control in Internet Explorer for secure web sites. ref cite web author Gen Kanai date 2007 01 26 title The Cost of Monoculture url http www.kanai.net weblog archive 2007 01 26 00h53m55s 003095 accessdate 2007 01 29 ref As of late 2009, the Network Security Services NSS software security library in Mozilla s Gecko platform has implemented support for SEED and Mozilla Firefox as of 3.5.4 supports SEED. ref cite web author Mozilla Corporation date 2009 08 09 title Bug 478839 Firefox should support South Korean SEED crypto cipher suites url https bugzilla.mozilla.org show bug.cgi?id 478839 accessdate 2009 08 09 ref Unfortunately support for SEED alone is not enough to allow for secure transactions with Korean web services. SEED is a 16 round Feistel network with block size cryptography 128 bit blocks and a key size 128 bit key . It uses two 8 × 8 S box es which, like those of SAFER , are derived from discrete exponentiation in this case, x sup 247 sup and x sup 251 sup &ndash plus some incompatible operations . It also has some resemblance to MISTY1 in the recursiveness of its structure the 128 bit full cipher is a Feistel network with an F function operating on 64 bit halves, while the F ... more details
File Fayzullo Ubaydulloyevich Xojayev.JPG thumb 200px right Fayzulla Khodzhayev Fayzulla Ubaydullayevich Khodzhayev lang uz Fayzulla Ubaydulloyevich Xo jayev lang ru lang fa b. 1896 Bukhara &ndash March 1938, Moscow was an Uzbeks Uzbek politician. Khodzhayev was born in to a family of wealthy traders. He was sent to Moscow by his father in 1907. There he realized the tremendous gap between contemporary European society and technology, and the ancient, tradition bound ways of his homeland. He joined the Pan Turkism Pan Turkist Jadid movement of like minded reformers in 1916, and, with his father s fortune, established the Yeni Bukharlylar Young Bukharan Party . Seeing the October Revolution Russian Revolution as an opportunity, the Young Bukharan Party invited the Bolsheviks of the Tashkent Soviet to seize Bukhara by force in 1917. When this attempted invasion failed, Khojaev was forced to flee to Tashkent , and was only able to return after the Emir of Bukhara fled in September 1920. Appointed head of the Bukharan People s Soviet Republic , he barely escaped assassination by Basmachi Revolt Basmachi leader Ismail Enver Enver Pasha . With the reorganization of Central Asia and subsequent purge of suspected Uzbek Nationalism nationalists in 1923 1924, Khodzhayev rose to become President of the People s Commissar Council of People s Commissars of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic . However, he opposed Joseph Stalin s heavy handed control, particularly in the matter of cotton monoculture . Khodzhayev was Great Purge arrested on charges to which he confessed at trial in 1937, Trial of the Twenty One tried in Moscow as a Trotskyism Trotskyite and a Right Opposition Rightist and executed ref http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,759286,00.html Lined With Despair , TIME Magazine , March 14, 1938 ref on March 13, 1938. There is no evidence that he was forced to confess. Officially Rehabilitation Soviet rehabilitat ... more details
Tate s Hell State Forest is 202,437 acres 819 km of land in Franklin County, Florida Franklin and Liberty County, Florida Liberty counties in Florida . The forest is located near Carrabelle, Florida Carrabelle off US 98 along the coast. At one time Tate s Hell supported at least 12 major community types which included wet flatwoods, wet prairie, seepage slope, baygall, floodplain forest, floodplain swamp, basin swamp, upland hardwood forest, sandhill, pine ridges, dense titi thickets and scrub. The Tate s Hell State Forest area is an important hydrologic area which supplies fresh water into the Apalachicola Bay , the Carrabelle River and the Ochlockonee River . File Carrabelle FL river01.jpg thumb right 220px Carrabelle, Florida During a 40 year period of private ownership prior to the state s acquisition in 1994,over convert 800 mi km of forest roads and ditches were constructed on the property to accommodate intensive commercial forest management operations. Most of the area was changed to a pine monoculture and the drainage canals dried what had been previously wetlands. There was extensive loss of habitat and wildlife. Some believe that Apalachicola Bay has suffered from the loss of the previously continuous fresh water flow into the bay provided by the wetlands, adding to the effect of loss of water flow into the bay from the Apalachicola River . Many see as one of the causes being surface water use in the Apalachicola Flint Chattahoochee River Basin such as supplying drinking water to the city of Atlanta , for agriculture use in Georgia U.S. state Georgia , and for other purposes. Such debate over the use of water in this basin is the subject of a long standing feud among the three southern states over which use or which user takes precedence over the others. A recent court ruling ref http www.councilforqualitygrowth.org fileadmin files Policy Downloads Corps of Engineers Magnuson Order Denying Judgment.pdf Councilforqualitygrowth.org ref sets forth the histor ... more details
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