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Partner with the proven leader
Solving the largest data analysis problems demands powerful supercomputing solutions. That's why HPE is the world's leading provider of supercomputing1. We have the most comprehensive, purpose-built portfolio for production supercomputing, and our commitment to innovation will propel our leadership well into the future. Only HPE has the combination of proven expertise and skills, comprehensive portfolio, partner ecosystem, and deep commitment to innovation to be your strategic supercomputing partner.
The race is on to build exascale computers that will be many times more powerful than today's supercomputers. HPE is leading the way. Our exascale innovation has led us to work with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop an exascale prototype.
Supercomputing that's going to get us to Mars
Listen in to the amazing story of the installation of the first real supercomputer in space. It's going to take us one small step closer to a crewed journey to Mars.
Why HPE supercomputers
Only HPE has the expertise to build and manage all of your supercomputing resources across traditional, private and public cloud environments.
Our unparalleled portfolio and partner ecosystem for supercomputing is purpose built to solve the most complex scientific, engineering, and national security challenges and builds on close relationships with key industry leading technology providers.
We are committed to continually finding better ways to solve the significant data analysis problems of today and tomorrow through innovative technologies to enable ever increasing performance, scale, and efficiency of large HPC clustered solutions.
Unleash performance
Only HPE offers industry standard servers with firmware anchored into the silicon to enable the highest level of security for top secret or highly confidential information on the world's most secure industry standard servers.
Dynamically configure server resources to match specific workloads and achieve higher levels of performance, efficiency, and control in your server environment. Intelligent System Tuning dynamically tunes your servers to match the unique needs of each workload.
HPE and Sandia National Laboratories will deliver Astra, a new Arm system, to the National Nuclear Security Administration. Astra – which advances the technology roadmap for achieving exascale – offers optimal memory solutions, greater density and power efficiency to run advanced modelling and simulation workloads.
Supercomputing case studies
Ghent University in Belgium speeds research
The University supports bioinformatics, engineering, and statistics research, while keeping costs down and enhancing operational efficiency.
PSC revolutionises supercomputing
PSC created an entirely new approach to supercomputing by combining high performance computing and big data in a fully integrated computing resource.
- Steve Conway, Hyperion Research Holdings, LLC
"The addition of SGI has strong potential to accelerate HPE's strategy while also jump-starting the company's entry into promising new HPC market segments."
Supercomputing portfolio
HPE Superdome Flex
New! Solve complex, data-intensive HPC problems at unparalleled scale by leveraging 4-32 sockets and 1-48 TB of in-memory computing capacity in a single system.
Leverage engineering innovations to deliver the best performance, scale, and efficiency for an industry-standard clustered HPC system, including liquid cooling and the latest GPU technologies, highest speed interconnect topologies, and tuning of the Message Passing Interface (MPI).
HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10
Take advantage of outstanding configuration flexibility, redundant power, simplified administration, and rack-scale efficiency to lower the TCO for large scale HPC deployments. This is the most secure HPC server in the world.
HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10
This high-density, scalable two-unit server gives you greater performance and workload capacity than standard one-unit servers – at a comparable cost.
HPE Integrity MC990 X
Solve complex, data-intensive problems holistically with in-memory HPC, leveraging flexible modularity and extreme scale-up capacity.
HPE Integrity Superdome X
Meet the most demanding SLAs for large business processing and data analytics workloads with in-memory HPC and single-system simplicity.
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HPE Pointnext
Accelerate your digital transformation across your enterprise with innovative IT services for supercomputing, Hybrid IT, and the Intelligent Edge.
HP-CAST Computing Users Group
The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing group is an organisation of HPE customers and partners that meets world wide.
High Performance Computing Software
Flexible, comprehensive, and reliable software from HPE and partners that helps deploy and operate HPC systems faster and accelerates performance.
Bringing supercomputing to more industries
We're making supercomputing available and affordable to government, business, scientific, and academic communities of every size – everywhere.
Reduce risk and operational expenses, meet statutory compliance requirements, improve citizen services, and increase efficiency with the help of a trusted partner.
Manufacturing and engineering
HPE delivers CAE solutions that speed product design by enabling advanced simulations and fast prototyping of even the most complex models.
Financial services
Financial institutions can take advantage of HPC to gain more insights from data, shave milliseconds off trading time, and comply with challenging regulations.
Life sciences
Deploy high performance connectivity for HPC clusters, by adding switches from Intel and Mellanox that provide more bandwidth for demanding workloads.
To locate promising petroleum fields and study fluid dynamics, geoscientists and engineers use HPC for geologic visualisation and large data set processing.
With HPE, higher education labs can harness supercomputing performance to do research on massive data sets, including true artificial intelligence and deep learning.
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Video : NCAR deploys HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer
NCAR deploys HPE SGI 8600 Supercomputer
Article : HPE signs big supercomputer deal with defence department
The Defence Department is paying $57 million to Hewlett Packard Enterprise for supercomputers that it plans to use for tasks like designing helicopters and weather forecasting.
Brochure : Evolving the supercomputer
HPE Apollo 70 is a new model for innovation in the HPC market.
Article : Supercomputing in the space station
Supercomputing in the space station
Press Release : HPE delivers faster business insights and industry-leading security with new high performance computing solutions
HPE delivers faster business insights and industry-leading security with new high performance computing solutions
White Paper : Exascale: A race to the future of HPC
As a leader in the HPC market, Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides unique capabilities for driving innovation into the future. Learn how HPE is approaching the many challenges on the path to Exascale – the future of HPC – the next generation of computing. Register and download the Technical White Paper.
Blog Post : HPE and Tokyo Institute of Technology build the world's most powerful green supercomputer
HPE and Tokyo Institute of Technology build the world's most powerful green supercomputer
Press Release : U.S. Dept. of Energy taps Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Machine Research Project to design memory-driven supercomputer
U.S. Dept. of Energy taps Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Machine Research Project to design memory-driven supercomputer
Blog Post : Developing a supercomputer to process more than a quintillion calculations per second: Q&A with HPE's Bill Mannel
Developing a supercomputer to process more than a quintillion calculations per second: Q&A with HPE's Bill Mannel
Video : Dr. Eng Lim Goh on the recent HPE Pathforward award for exascale computing
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on the recent HPE Pathforward award for exascale computing
Video : Meeting the challenges of exascale computing: Labs notebook
Meeting the challenges of exascale computing: Labs notebook
Press Release : The latest prototype of the world's largest single memory computer
The latest prototype of the world's largest single memory computer
1. Based on number of systems on Top500 list.
2. Based on new silicon root of trust technology and other comprehensive security features, verified by InfusionPoints.(press release)
3. 1SPEC and the benchmark name SPEC MPI are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). All rights reserved. The stated results are published as of 12 May 2017; see spec.org. For results details: SPEC MPIM2007 (https://spec.org/mpi2007/results/res2016q3/mpi2007-20160727-00524.pdf) and SPEC MPIL2007.


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Notre Dame of Maryland University (formerly College of Notre Dame of Maryland), which opened in 1895, is a Catholic liberal arts institution located in Baltimore. In 1899, Notre Dame became the first U.S. Catholic women's college to award a four-year bachelor's degree. It is also the first women's college to start a pharmacy school. Notre Dame operates a Weekend College and an Accelerated College, both co-ed programs for part-time students.
The school also opened the English Language Institute in 1983, which offers English as a second language and American culture classes. In addition to the other programs, Notre Dame has the Renaissance Institute, a noncredit program for people 50 years old or older. Annual events include 100 Nights, a day of reflection for seniors, and Lantern Chain, where sophomores carry lanterns and sing to graduating seniors. Students can earn a bachelor's degree in 27 majors; the school also started offering master's degree programs in 1984.
The Division III Notre Dame Gators are in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, and the Gators compete in basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball. Notre Dame's 40-plus clubs include the Columns newspaper, honor societies, cultural organizations and performing arts groups. Notable Notre Dame alumnae include Elizabeth Hoisington , the first female brigadier general in the Army, and Sherry Davis, the first full-time female public address announcer for major league baseball.

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Business occasionally tapers off, but with right strategy you can keep your company healthy during economic slumps. The following discussion explains how you can anticipate downturns and what you can do to keep the work coming.
By Mike Ukena
Long-time readers of this publication may remember that I addressed the issue of business slowdowns a few years ago. Well, I'm at it again—with a slightly different twist—because I feel that it is one of the most important issues screen-printing business owners face. Businesses in general, but especially screenprinting businesses, have a tendency to forgo planning for non-seasonal business cycles. I speak from personal experience. I too was blindsided by a credit crunch/ business downturn in the early 1990s. I hope that this article will help you avoid the major trauma that these downturns can cause.
As you may have noticed, the doom-and-gloom group is getting a lot of press time these days. The mortgage crisis, the sinking dollar, the stock market, and other factors are creating an edginess that has infected the media and is starting to trickle down into the general public. I hate this self-fulfilling prophesy garbage myself. Most of the time, the only thing really wrong in the economy is the people who want to see it collapse. But the media loves a story, and they will make one if they cannot find one on their own.
What does this mean to screen printers? It means quite a bit actually. But it does not have to be negative. Every time there is an economic slowdown, companies and individuals look for ways to conserve capital and stay afloat. At the same time, your customers cannot just shut off the ad budgets, or they will die. What they must do is find the most effective ways to advertise and cut down on the frills. Since screen printing represents one of their advertising sources, the key for us is to make sure we are chosen as a place where they continue to spend their promotional dollars.
Most printers are now heading into their slower season. What better time to take a few minutes to think about how efficient your business is running instead of being slapped with a slowdown during peak times, when you are trying to make the profits necessary to support the business for the rest of the year?
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6 Advices On Home Remodeling Additions In Madison
Home renovation is one of the major things that families do to keep their house clean, safe and will suit their everyday needs. Re-modelling the house is a big but well-planned decision. It will pay-off in the long run. When you do home renovation, you will add something that will increase the value of your home.
Home renovation is one of the major things that families do to keep their house clean, safe and will suit their everyday needs. Re-modelling the house is a big but well-planned decision. It will pay-off in the long run. When you do home renovation, you will add something that will increase the value of your home.
1.Make a wish list. Before you jump into a decision of remodelling your home, you should start to do a wish list. In the list, you can write about the problems you need to solve during the project like if you need more space on the kitchen. You can also list down the goals you want to achieve like better outdoor access to your entertainment room. If you are done with the list, rank them according to your priority. You can help the professional contractors, like the one who offer home additions in Madison, to plan accordingly for stuff like plumbing and location.
2.Check the property rules. There are things you need to take into consideration when doing home remodelling. First, you have to check the legal restrictions of what you can do or built on your property area. Most of the cities today have restrictions when it comes to property lines, building area ratios and even the historic -district prevention rules.
3.Be positive on your plans. You should always open to any new possibilities. If you hire company that offers home remodelling, then they will recommend some additions to your home. A good example of this is deck additions in Madison. They will add a new deck so you will have a better view of the property.
4.Check on the available space. If you decided to add something to your house, make sure that you are ready to relocate some rooms to new space so you will be able to give way to additional space for your chosen home addition like bathroom. There are companies like bath additions in Madison who offer this service so you won't have to stress yourself with lots of preparation. Find out all your options that will definitely meet your home addition.
5.Choose materials wisely. Materials are important because it will help your home stay strong and safe over time. Example is a siding that matches your deck. Choose materials that are the same vintage and tonal range but with a little difference on texture. You can look for companies in Madison bath additions that will help you to choose materials for your bathroom addition.
6.Be detailed as much as possible. Tell your contractors what you really want to achieve and what are the things that will make you happy to see inside the house. You can look for companies in that will help you to choose the design and structure for your new bathroom.
You should always maximize your investment by choosing the best reliable home renovation contractors, perfect materials, detailed plans and the passion to renovate your home. Now, read some tips to execute your plan!


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Stability Implications of Financial Interconnectedness under the Capital Markets Union
30 April 2019, Justus Inhoffen
Roundup 129
In the run-up to the European elections in May 2019, the European Commission is trying to advance the initiatives laid out in its action plan for a European Capital Markets Union (CMU). In order to diversify financing sources and to increase private risk sharing, the CMU aims at deepening the integration of European equity and debt markets. While there are benefits associated with more cross-border investments, the intensification of connectedness between financial market participants in the Eurozone and beyond can also engender systemic risks. This article reviews the debate about the link (...)
Measuring the effect of foreign exchange intervention policies on exchange rates
25 April 2019, Lukas Boer
Roundup 128
Central bank intervention in foreign exchange markets is a common tool to influence exchange rates. Although central bankers are convinced of their policy's effectiveness, econometric estimates of precise effects differ across studies. The difficulties with estimations mostly result from a lack of adequate data. This article highlights different econometric approaches that aim to mitigate estimation problems. Techniques comprise control and matching approaches, event studies, as well as the use and imputation of high-frequency data. Their comparison reveals a trade-off between clear (...)
Innovative Business Models for Clean-techs
14 November 2018, Carlotta Piantieri
Roundup 125
The energy transition plays a critical role in climate change mitigation, yet it is not occurring at a speed that effectively meets greenhouse gas reduction targets (IPCC, 2018). Policy makers are confronting the challenge to unlock flexibility and efficiency of energy systems. Among others, the European Commission (2016a, 2016b, 2017a, 2017b), the German Ministry of Economics and Energy BMWI (2017) and the former British Department of Energy and Climate Change DECC (2015) call for new business models (BMs) to overcome the inertia prevalent in the system.
Environmental Regulations: Lessons from the Command-and-Control Approach
4 September 2018, Puja Singhal
Roundup 124
Policy makers have long favored command-and-control (CAC) methods to tackle environmental damage. The number of CAC policies devoted to environmental protection has increased steadily since the 1950s and have been a large part of the overall portfolio of environmental laws and regulation in the industrialized world. Schmitt and Schulze (2011) document that between 1970 and 2011 the two most prevalent EU air-pollution control instruments were CAC in nature. Over 50% of the policy instruments were of the CAC type (regulatory, interventionist, and top-down), with emission limits and technical (...)
Linking Cap-and-Trade Systems
3 July 2018, Aleksandar Zaklan
Roundup 123
Linking cap-and-trade systems promises gains in cost effectiveness and signals a strong commitment to carbon policy. Linking is also seen as one possible way of converging from regional climate policy initiatives toward a global climate policy architecture. Two linked systems have been established recently, one in Europe and one in North America. However, linking also comes with challenges, such as increased exposure to shocks originating in other parts of the linked system and a greater need for policy coordination. We first consider the benefits and challenges of linking conceptually. We (...)
Regulatory differences and international financial integration
18 May 2018, Tatsiana Kliatskova
Roundup 122
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) – an initiative of the European Commission – aims to unify and deepen capital markets across EU Member States by removing existing barriers to cross-border investment and, in particular, harmonizing financial and business regulations. However, harmonizing institutional frameworks across the EU Member States that historically have different legal traditions is difficult and requires time. This article summarizes important steps to harmonizing business and financial laws in the EU and discusses empirical and theoretical literature on the role of legal (...)
The macroeconomic effects of exchange rate movements
20 February 2018, Pablo Anaya
Roundup 121
The macroeconomic effects of exchange rate movements have been subject to an extensive debate in international economics. Traditionally, much of the discussion was focused on the relation between the effective exchange rate and the trade balance. However, the process of financial globalization has led to a sharp increase in foreign asset and liability positions across countries and also to a greater dispersion in foreign currency positions, with many countries being either large net creditors or net debtors in foreign currency. This has shifted the focus of the discussion from the trade (...)
What determines the Costs of Fiscal Consolidations?
19 February 2018, Mathias Klein
Roundup 120
Recent studies have proposed several factors that determine how fiscal consolidations affect the economy. This Roundup focuses on several of these determinants. Namely, it discusses how the composition of the consolidation measure, the state of the business cycle, the level of private indebtedness and the amount of fiscal stress during which the measure is implemented influences the consequences of austerity. It seems reasonable to consider these factors more carefully when deciding about the type and timing of fiscal consolidation plans.
Monetary Policy Normalization in the Euro Area
30 January 2018, Malte Rieth
Roundup 119
The ECB announced in October 2018 that it would begin to cut back the amount of monthly asset purchases starting January 2018 while extending the duration of the purchases until at least September 2018. At it latest Governor's Council meeting in January 2019 it decided to remain on this track despite a sharp appreciation of the euro in the meanwhile. These steps were just two on a longer and potentially slippery path back towards standard monetary policy. Market turbulences like the so-called "Taper Tantrum", which followed the Fed's 2013 announcement that it was (...)
International Investments and Current Account Imbalances: The Importance of Valuation Changes
7 December 2017, Thore Schlaak
Roundup 117
Global capital flows have strongly increased from the 1980s until the outbreak of the financial crisis. As a result of this development, Germany's foreign investment has risen to around 250 percent of gross domestic product while foreign investments in Germany have increased to about 200 percent of Germany's gross domestic product. This positive difference between Germany's assets and liabilities is a result of the country's continuous current account surpluses, which represent net financial flows – the difference between outflows and inflows. Investments abroad offer (...)
Capital market integration and macroeconomic stability
17 November 2017, Franziska Bremus
Roundup 116
After the establishment of the Banking Union, the European Commission is working on measures to foster capital market deepening in Europe. Key goals for a European Capital Markets Union are to provide firms with alternative funding sources to bank credit and to make economies more resilient to local shocks through better international risk sharing. While open capital markets can improve portfolio diversification, growth and welfare, the recent financial crisis was a reminder that capital market integration also carries risks in terms of economic stability. This article summarizes pros and cons (...)
The use of financial market variables in forecasting
15 November 2017, Stefan Gebauer
Roundup 115
Financial market indicators can provide valuable information for forecasting macroeconomic developments. In response to the global financial crisis of 2007/2008, the role of financial variables for forecasting has been revisited, and new empirical and theoretical forecasting methods able to explicitly incorporate financial market information have been developed. This roundup discusses characteristics of financial variable movements and the relation to business cycles. It furthermore summarizes some of the new theoretical and empirical approaches at hand for forecasting macroeconomic variables (...)
Microenterprises in Developing Countries: Is there Growth Potential?
13 October 2017, Helke Seitz
Roundup 114
Microenterprises account for a large fraction of employment in developing countries and they are likely to increase in importance in the future. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, around 8 million additional jobs need to be created annually in order to cope with the increasing number of new entrants into the labour market (The World Bank, 2013). As microenterprises typically only provide subsistence income to few individuals the question remains whether they have the potential to grow and to contribute to the creation of jobs. Studies suggest that many businesses do indeed have the potential (...)
Does more education protect against mental health problems?
28 September 2017, Daniel Graeber
Roundup 113
Mental health conditions are a leading cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and health costs worldwide: They account for 199 million DALYs or 37 percent of healthy life years lost from non-communicable diseases. The sum of direct and indirect costs worldwide were estimated to amount to 2.5 trillion US dollars in 2010 and projected to increase to 6 trillion US dollars in 2030 (Bloom et al., 2010). The heavy financial and societal burdens of mental health impairments also mean that prevention measures to alleviate these problems will have high financial and societal returns. Education (...)
Wind power: mitigated and imposed external costs and other indirect economic effects
27 April 2017, Alexander Zerrahn
Roundup 111
Since the 1990s, (onshore) wind power has become an important technology for electricity generation throughout the world. The economic rationale is the mitigation of negative externalities of conventional technologies, in particular emissions from fossil fuel combustion. However, wind power itself is not free of externalities. Wind turbines are alleged visual and noise impacts as well as threats to wildlife. Further indirect economic effects comprise costs for integrating variable wind electricity into the power system. Economic outcomes, such as employment and GDP, can be positively or (...)
The Natural Rate of Interest and Secular Stagnation
30 January 2017, Guido Baldi
Roundup 110
In many advanced economies, there has been a declining trend in interest rates over the past thirty years. Since the financial crisis, interest rates have remained particularly low. Though a decrease in inflation explains part of the fall in nominal interest rates, there is also a clear downtrend in real interest rates. Against this backdrop, a debate has emerged over the factors that might have contributed to this decline. Potential persistent factors discussed under the heading of "secular stagnation" include a decline in profitable investment opportunities and high global (...)
The Natural Rate of Interest II: Empirical Overview
30 January 2017, Philipp König
Roundup 109
The concept of the natural rate of interest (NRI) dates back to Wicksell (1898) and has since then been highly debated in the economic literature. In practice, estimates of the NRI can be employed as a versatile tool for macroeconomic analysis and are a core element within the popular neo-Wicksellian (or New-Keynesian) framework. The real rate gap, i.e. the difference between the actual interest rate and the NRI, provides valuable information about the state of the economy and can help policy makers to adjust the monetary policy stance. However, the NRI cannot be directly observed and has to (...)
The Natural Rate of Interest I: Theory
27 January 2017, Philipp König
Roundup 108
The term natural (or neutral) real interest rate refers to the equilibrium value of the real interest rate. As this equilibrium is usually conceived as a situation where inflationary or deflationary pressures have abated, the natural real interest rate is a key concept for central banks seeking to stabilize the general price level or targeting the rate of inflation. The present roundup provides a brief historical review of this concept and explains the relevance of the natural real rate for monetary policy analysis.
The Inflation Targeting Debate
9 January 2017, Malte Rieth
Roundup 107
Inflation targeting has become one of the most prominent monetary regimes around the globe. Proponents argue that it reduces the dynamic inconsistency problem of monetary policy and thereby stabilises prices, which in turn promotes growth. Opponents, on the other hand, say that by focusing on price stability inflation targeting neglects other important policy objectives, such as financial stability, and thereby contributed to the built up of the global financial crisis. This roundup summarises the arguments made in the debate. It concludes that no consensus has emerged in the empirical (...)
Tax evasion and the impact of international regulation: a summary of empirical results
29 November 2016, Jakob Miethe
Roundup 104
While combating tax evasion ranks highly on the international policy agenda and journalists are covering leak after leak, the economics profession at large has somewhat neglected the subject until recently. In the last years, however, a combination of better international financial data and ingenious identification strategies in several pioneering studies has made the subject popular in empirical economics. These contributions are summarized below.


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Florida Panther
Protecting and Restoring Panther Habitat
Wide-ranging animals, panthers need vast territories to survive. But the ongoing development of Florida's natural and agricultural lands continues to shrink what little natural panther habitat remains. To sustain and grow the existing panther population, it's critical to find places the big cats can call home.
The Problem
Habitat loss reduces the panther's ability to find prey, mates and suitable resting and denning sites. It also contributes to the two greatest causes of panther death, aggression between panthers and collisions with motor vehicles.
How We're Helping
Defenders is on the steering committee of the Florida's Water and Land Legacy campaign, working to promote Florida's Water and Land Conservation Legacy Constitutional amendment. The amendment, which if approved by the voters would take effect July 1, 2015, sets aside one-third of the existing documentary stamp tax (paid when real estate is sold) to restore the Everglades, protect drinking water sources, and revive the state's historic commitment to protecting natural lands and wildlife habitat through the Florida Forever program. The amendment will provide more than $10 billion for water and land conservation in Florida without any tax increase.
Defenders is also deeply invested in seeing that a Habitat Conservation Plan for panther and other imperiled species (currently being developed under the Endangered Species Act for Eastern Collier County) achieves substantial conservation benefits. We have been working for years with landowners and other conservation organizations on landscape level protection for the Florida panther on approximately 196,000 acres of rural, agricultural and wild lands. The habitat conservation plan is intended to secure a contiguous range of panther habitat connecting the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Big Cypress National Preserve through Camp Keais Strand and the Okalaocoochee Slough with Corkscrew Marsh and adjacent lands in the region. Habitat Conservation Plans aim to reduce conflicts between listed species and economic activities through a framework that allows private development yet benefits threatened and endangered wildlife by encouraging "creative partnerships" among conservationists, landowners, government agencies, and other interested parties. Established through a public process, these plans are legally binding long-range visions for the permanent protection of wildlife habitat.
Defenders and our conservation colleagues are also working to raise support to move forward with land acquisition, conservation easements and restoration of agricultural and wild lands that would expand the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. We are urging federal agency leadership to return to a broad, science-based vision for expansion of the national wildlife refuge system in south Florida, and support staff, conservation group and landowner proposals for the Florida Panther, Everglades Headwaters and Fisheating Creek National Wildlife Refuges and Conservation Areas.
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Can you feel that? Can you feel the warming rays of automotive passion crack the icy bonds of frigid winter months?
About three weeks ago, I spent some time in Daytona Beach, Fla., living among the Rolex 24-hour race fanatics, and my car jones started to get satisfied. That's about the best way to describe 'em—fanatics.
I couldn't have had a better 36 hours in the winter, unless of course it was that period of time from when this year's Daytona 500 was supposed to start until it actually did. By all accounts, the day-and-a-half rain delay was good for NASCAR, good for the nascar.com Web site and good for Fox television, because of ratings.
Oh, and the fire delay was good for Brad Keselowski's Twitter feed.
The fun doesn't stop there. In fact, it picks up speed. Down on Florida's Amelia Island this weekend, you'll find some of the most elegant cars and car people at Bill Warner's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Despite its growing success, the event remains cozy and comfortable, small and intimate, and filled to the brim with what we need to make the automotive downtime of winter seem so past tense.
Sadly, I won't be in Amelia, where I could see friends and the SPF 30 dotting their noses. I will be headed to Geneva for the best—the ne plus ultra—international auto show, in my humble opinion. It earns that title because of its small size, its neutral geography and the semi-whack-job car exhibitors (such as Rinspeed and Ssangyong). Most important, when I'm in Geneva, it is my groundhog that signifies that spring is around the corner.
And when there's spring, I know more car flings can't be far off.


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Requirements for admission vary depending on the type of student applying, and we encourage you to take a look at the page that matches your situation.
If you have additional questions about admission requirements for Marian University, please contact us.


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Originally posted on the Billings Gazette by Tom Lutey. December 22, 2012.
Every month 17 million people play Farmville on Facebook. Another 2.6 million have logged onto Netflix to rate the film "Food, Inc." which casts a critical eye on the food industry and promises "you'll never look at dinner the same way again."
And then there are folks like Don Steinbeisser Jr., a farmer, Twitter user, a man in the crowded public square of social media without so much as a galvanized bucket on which to stand. If he's sitting in a feed truck waiting to get loaded, Steinbeisser pulls his smartphone from his shirt pocket to see what's being said about the crops he grows and maybe enlighten people about why he does what he does. Steinbeisser farms sugar beets, which in the United States are almost all genetically modified. He tells anyone willing to listen that sugar beets designed to survive spraying the herbicide Roundup aren't bad.
"I just want people to know that we're not out here trying to design 'frankenfoods,' or things like that. We're actually making food safer," Steinbeisser said. "The chemicals we're using now are 50 or 60 times safer than the chemicals we were using before."
With 80 followers on Twitter, Steinbeisser is no Food Inc. But he is part of a growing movement by farmers to capture some of the media narrative about agriculture.
Farmers and cowboys readily acknowledge that their business is smarting from negative stories about animal treatment, food processing and "factory farms," a smokestacks-and-cogs connotation that makes aggies bristle. Forrest Roberts, National Cattlemen's Beef Association president, calls the people disseminating those stories "informers," a relatively small group of about 5,000 people interested in food use as a resource.
Roberts told the Montana Stockgrowers Association gathered last Friday in Billings that it's important that farmers and ranchers enter the social-media stream and join the food conversation.
The beef industry needs to win over the next big generation of consumers, known as millennials, Roberts said. The future depends on it.
Millennials are the generation born between 1980 and 2000. They are 80 million strong, roughly twice the size of Generation X, which separates millennials from baby boomers — the aging, post-World War II generation that because of its size has driven American shopping decisions for 60 years. Baby boomers number about 70 million.
Baby boomers are reliable beef consumers. Millennials are the next big wave of consumers, Roberts said. And millennials are now at an age where the eating habits they establish are likely to determine what they eat for the rest of their lives.
"We've got about five years to turn the tide," Roberts said. Price is important to millennials, but so is the way animals are raised and whether the environment has been negatively affected. Personal stories told by actual ranchers raising beef could be the difference.
"We have to tell our stories. Yes, consumers are asking more questions about where their food comes from," said Lauren Chase of the Montana Stockgrowers Association.
The Stockgrowers hired Chase two years ago to help its members tell the Montana ranch story to an audience unfamiliar with agriculture. Fewer than two percent of Americans farm today, according the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's down from 38 percent in 1900. Because few consumers know anyone involved in agriculture, there is a growing disconnection with the general public, Chase said.
This year, the Stockgrowers launched its most aggressive social outreach yet. The group published a coffee table book about Montana ranching, complete with quick response codes for mobile phone scanning. The tags link smartphone users to online videos that compliment the book.
"My ultimate goal is to get this book in the hands of a random mom in Chicago that goes to the market to buy her beef and doesn't know where it comes from," Chase said.
Chase has her rancher board of directors posting on Facebook and Twitter, no small task given that the average rancher is pushing 60. The Montana Stockgrowers Facebook page is updated daily with photos and video. On Twitter, Chase is tweeting the rancher narrative 140 characters at a time. She is a big advocate of Pinterest, a sort of online bulletin board where members post recipes and other items of interest.
Pinterest appeals to women, who are still the predominant grocery shoppers in American culture.
"Pinterest is basically geared toward women. I feel like it's a way for people to organize various things — home decorations, clothing, and recipes. If we can get those beef recipes posted, make it appealing and easy," Chase said. "If you want to talk about what a cowboy wears, put it on the fashion board. We need to reach out to people. We can't preach to the choir."
Since hiring Chase, the Stockgrowers have increased their Facebook followers threefold to 3,442 people. Their next goal is to get those followers to share the page with other friends.
"If everybody pushed the 'share' button to share our content, we have the potential to reach approximately a million people," Chase said. "I'm trying to get everyone to hit the share button."
The one thing the Stockgrowers don't do is blog. Chase said it's hard to hold people's attention long on the Internet. She prefers photos and video.
It was a viral video of an old dairy cow, unable to walk, being dragged through a slaughter plant by a forklift that prompted Mariah Shammel to start blogging her story. The video, which led to the plant's closure and exposed a major source for school lunch meat, angered the public. It angered Shammel, too.
"Consumers are more interested now in what they're eating and what's going into their meals," Shammel said. "As a mother, I'm always wondering about whatever I feed my son."
The food in her cupboards are free of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener regularly targeted by both groups concerned about childhood obesity and those concerned about genetically modified food.
Shammel's blog, "The Kleenex Chronicles," gives readers a ranch wife's perspective on a life that's both rewarding and arduous. A city girl who married into the farm life, Shammel has bad hay fever and never goes anywhere without a tissue in hand, which is the back story to her blog title. Her posts have been on hold of late as she adapts to motherhood, but she says she will get back into it if she can balance the blog with her ranch work and looking after her son, Colter. Her husband, Lyle, can use her help.
She also writes a column for the Montana Farm Bureau Federation.
She had blog followers from Washington D.C., and Nashville, and they are telling her they'd like to see more posts like this one about February calving:
"I still tend to spend the majority of my time talking to an eight-month-old and being on Little Man duty (or doody, more like it) so I can usually be found wrangling him around the house until he naps. And then I run outside to take care of our replacement heifers, feed the baby bulls and horses and check on the new pairs that have been brought up from down below. And sometimes, if I'm lucky, I even get a shower. It's a big day when that happens!
"Luckily, Lyle doesn't seem to notice the status of my clean or dirty hair since we see him awake for about 20 minutes each day. He has the night check on the calves so he gets up at 2 a.m., heads down to the calving barn (3 miles away) and stays there until his last check, which usually ends around 5:30 a.m. Generally, he isn't able to go back to bed because after chasing cows around in the cold, he's wide awake. But he tries, so he jumps in bed with his freezing body and lays there, telling me all about what happened on his check (that's usually when the crazy cows come out). For the next hour he falls asleep in between waking up and telling me that he really needs to get up and feed the cows while I tell him to stop worrying about it and just sleep!"
What Shammel wants more than anything is for consumers pulling T-bones from the refrigerated supermarket case to realize that there are real people on the far end of the equation who care deeply about the food that's raised.
"It's important to know that as rancher, I'm concerned as well," Shammel said. "They talk about corporate farms and think they're going after the big businesses, the big corporations. In the agriculture community were always saying that ag is 98 percent family-owned."
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"Big Sky Boots" book highlights Montana farm and ranch life
Posted: Dec 20, 2012 9:46 AM by Art Taft (Great Falls)
Updated: Dec 20, 2012 9:46 AM
In October, the Montana Stockgrowers Association released Big Sky Boots: Working Seasons of a Montana Cowboy, a coffee table photography book featuring the work of Lauren Chase, the organization's multimedia outreach specialist.
Carl Mattson of the MSGA visited Art Taft on "Montana This Morning" to talk about the book and what went into creating it.
Chase spent the a year and a half gathering photographs for the book, traveling to ranches across Montana.
The book takes the reader on a journey through a year in the life of Montana's cowboys – through calving, branding, and shipping, and everything in between.
Chase said, "Our goal with this project has been to create a unique, fun, engaging and interactive way to tell the story of Montana's ranching families that raise the beef that consumers all across the world enjoy. There seems to be a growing disconnect as people, even here in Montana, are losing touch with what goes on at ranches and farms, and where our food comes from."
Big Sky Boots is part of a larger project that uses social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to tell the stories of Montana's ranching families through photo albums, audio slide shows, and videos.
Chase says that one hallmark of the book is that the photos are largely untouched or enhanced by photo editing software.
Chase noted, "A lot of books that are out there right now depict a romanticized view of the West and of the cowboy lifestyle. We wanted to make sure to show life as it really is on Montana's ranches. I think there is a tremendous amount of natural beauty in the pictures and it gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a real cowboy in Montana."
Big Sky Boots is the first book in a series of five books that MSGA will develop over the next five years. The next book, already in production, will feature the women that are an essential part of today's ranching families.
I Am Angus: Lauren Chase, Montana Stockgrowers Association
Lauren Chase profiles Montana ranchers
BY MADDY BUTCHER GRAY for NickerNews.net
Originally posted on Dec. 8, 2012.
Proud grandparents can be better at promotion than the best public relations experts.
That's how I learned about Lauren Chase, multimedia outreach specialist for the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Her grandpa, Dave Dohnalek, farmed for decades on his Iowa land. Now retired, he and his wife stop into the Kava Houseregularly. That's where I served them lunch and learned about Lauren.
The recent University of Iowa graduate has worked to bring the association into the social media world. She maintains many platforms (facebook, YouTube, etc.) and put together a large coffee table book, celebrating the ranch life.
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Montana Stockgrowers Association book profiles cowboy life
Posted: Aug 24, 2012 2:36 PM by Evan Weborg (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Updated: Aug 24, 2012 2:43 PM
In early October, the Montana Stockgrowers Association will releaseBig Sky Boots: Working Seasons of a Montana Cowboy, a coffee table photography book featuring the work of Lauren Chase, the organization's multimedia outreach specialist.
Chase has spent the past year and a half gathering photographs for the book, traveling to ranches across Montana.
The book takes the reader on a journey through a year in the life of Montana's cowboys – through calving, branding, and shipping, and everything in between.
Chase said, "Our goal with this project has been to create a unique, fun, engaging and interactive way to tell the story of Montana's ranching families that raise the beef that consumers all across the world enjoy. There seems to be a growing disconnect as people, even here in Montana, are losing touch with what goes on at ranches and farms, and where our food comes from."
Big Sky Boots is part of a larger project that uses social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to tell the stories of Montana's ranching families through photo albums, audio slide shows, and videos.
Chase says that one hallmark of the book is that the photos are largely untouched or enhanced by photo editing software.
Chase noted, "A lot of books that are out there right now depict a romanticized view of the West and of the cowboy lifestyle. We wanted to make sure to show life as it really is on Montana's ranches. I think there is a tremendous amount of natural beauty in the pictures and it gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a real cowboy in Montana."
Big Sky Boots is the first book in a series of five books that MSGA will develop over the next five years. The next book, already in production, will feature the women that are an essential part of today's ranching families.
Click here to learn more about the project.
Stockgrowers book highlights Montana ranches
By Kristin Cates, Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer
Originally posted on Nov. 29, 2012 by the Great Falls Tribune
Upset by the negative connotations national programs such as "Food Inc." were making about agriculture and the cattle industry, the Montana Stockgrowers Association set out to tell its story in a new way and with the help of a city girl.
"Big Sky Boots: Working Seasons of a Montana Cowboy" has been published and features full-page photographs detailing many of Montana's ranching families taken by Montana newcomer Lauren Chase.
"It's been a long process, but I'm very excited about it," said Chase, originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The book is scheduled to be the first in a series of five that will highlight the different aspects of Montana's many ranches, according to Carl Mattson, program developer with the Montana Stockgrowers Association.
While this book focuses on the men of the ranches and the many seasons of ranching — from calving to summer grazing to trailing and more, Mattson said the next book will focus on the women of the ranch, followed by the children and young animals, then the environment, and the fifth book will be determined at a later date.
Not only does the book feature Chase's photography skills honed in journalism school at the University of Iowa, it also has QR codes on some of the pages that can be scanned on a smartphone and will link observers to the Montana Stockgrowers website, where they can watch video and see extended stories on the families profiled, according to Mattson.
The book is available for purchase online or in the Montana Stockgrowers Association office for $75. Mattson said they timed the release of the book around the holidays. He sees this being a good gift for someone who has moved away from the ranch and is interested in reminiscing.
"It's ready to have some wrapping on it," Mattson said. "We think this has great appeal to the extended families."
Mattson said the Montana Stockgrowers Association originally hired Chase as an intern in the summer 2010, but soon realized that in order to tell the Montana ranching family story, they needed to hire her full time.
Using a grant from the MSA's Research, Education and Endowment Foundation, along with sponsorship from a number of banks, the Stockgrowers were able to bring Chase back to Montana in February 2011 to get started on the project.
"She was a city girl able to mix with ranchers," Mattson said. "She was comfortable sitting at their kitchen tables."
Chase said her first visit to a ranch was just outside of Harrison during calving season. It was 20 degrees below zero and her eyes were watering because of the cold, which caused her eyelashes to freeze, and her camera lens also fogged up. But she took it all in stride.
"I thought it was an adventure," she said.
Since her arrival she's traveled 35,000 miles and visited ranches from Sidney to Chinook. She brought along with her not only a camera, but her phone to make videos, as well as a separate video camera so that the stories could also be captured for the Stockgrowers' website as well.
"Sometimes I even had an audio recorder duct-taped around my arm," Chase said.
She watched as the ranchers were perpetually busy checking on newborn calves or feeding the cattle. Most of the ranchers and ranches that appear in the book are members of the Montana Stockgrowers, but sometimes Chase said she would have to make a cold call to a ranch. She found most were willing, and if they weren't, they took her over to their neighbor's place to get photos. Chase said she averaged 300 to 800 photos per ranch.
"My goal is to educate as many people as possible about ranching and how beef is produced," Chase said.
Reach Tribune Staff Writer Kristen Cates at 791-1463 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @GFTrib_KCates.


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Patrick and Jessica were taken to different hospitals but have spoken by phone. Both work in health care. Jessica, 32, is a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Patrick, 29, is finishing a graduate degree at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
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Friends posting messages to the couple remind them they still have strong minds, bodies and arms for hugging. Some offer dinners. Others urge Patrick and Jessica, who are both runners, to get back on the road with expected prosthetic legs. Treacy, from Manhattan, is among the friends headed to Boston to help map the coming weeks, months and years.
"Given where we are," says Treacy, "and the fact that we're only four days into what's going to be a pretty long road, I think there are a lot of reasons to be positive."
Not the least of which, adds Treacy, is that Patrick and Jessica will face rehab, and all the challenges of the future, together.
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During September, Dodge had five teams crisscrossing the country demonstrating its new half-ton Ram pickups. As a previous Ram purchaser, I received an invitation to the traveling event, called "Truckville." I debated about going because the trucks had changed so little in appearance. But when I arrived, I found out that the trucks had been completely redesigned from the tires on up with all the engineering expertise that DaimlerChrysler could cram into them.
Employees from the Skip Barber high-performance driving school were in each truck to coach drivers on how to push the trucks to their limits. That led to lots of smoking tires and pounding pulses. There was an off-road mud course that was a lot of fun, too. I noticed that even though the new trucks have a lower step-in height, they seem to have higher ground clearance than the older models.
In previous years, the automotive press had concluded that the old Rams were not exactly nimble on the road. One article stated that the Ram "handled like a truck," and was "worse than any car we've tested." But the 2002 Rams have flatter cornering, better brakes and more precise steering than any of its truck competitors.
The new Rams also bested the other trucks in a tug of war. The new motors include a 3.7-liter V-6 and a 4.7-liter V8, supplying more torque, faster acceleration and better fuel economy than the larger motors they replace. But if you prefer big, last year's 5.9-liter V8 is still available as an option. The Rams are equipped with standard 17-in. tires or optional 20-in., low-profile tires to get their power to the pavement.
The entire frame of the new track is "hydroformed," a process in which water pressure is used to form the frame instead of stamping. First used in race cars and German luxury cars, hydroforming enhances durability and performance by making the frame 450% stiffer, allowing closer tolerances on body panel fit, suspension and power-train mounting joints.
In the event of a crash, the front end of the truck is designed to crumple accordion-style to absorb impact. Side-curtain air bags further protect passengers during side collisions.
The large cab is loaded with conveniences. My favorite was the plastic, full-length tool tray behind the seat. This area has enough space for three 5-gal. buckets. I also liked the instrument panel, which features large white-background gauges similar to the ones used in the Chrysler 300M and Dodge Intrepid automobiles.
In my view, the new Dodge Rams now handle and ride as good as or better than many cars on the road. At their heart, though, they are still all truck, made for hauling and pulling. Anyone who buys one will appreciate that the cross-member at the rear of the frame can receive a Class III hitch. A Class IV hitch is also an option. A wiring outlet for a trailer is standard, so drivers behind you will know when you step on the large four-wheel disc brakes.
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|NASA has postponed a planned repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope after a new problem developed with the orbiting observatory. Last Saturday, the telescope stopped sending science data. While a repair mission had originally been slated for launch on October 14, the space agency is now planning to put off the repair mission until February of next year at the earliest. In the meantime, Hubble operators will attempt to transfer the data-sending operations to a backup system. In this segment, we'll talk with Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters about the servicing mission and plans for Hubble operations.


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Louise's imagination has always been roused by behind the scenes activity at the Museum as well as the histories of the millions of specimens it houses. She added her very own story when she found a dead fox outside the Museum and added it to the zoology collections! Louise always pursued her interests in natural history, and she first joined the Museum as a volunteer aged just fifteen. She later became a tour guide in the newly built Darwin Centre, giving her a unique insight into the collection upon which she was able to draw when she became Curator of Mammals in the Zoology Department.
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By Alan Ohnsman - Dec 13, 2010 3:52 PM ET
California, the U.S. state that buys the most cars and trucks, set up an alliance of state agencies, utilities and automakers aimed at creating a charging network to handle 1 million electric vehicles by 2020.
The California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative said today at a conference at Universal Studios in Los Angeles that it will work to simplify the process of installing home-chargers and seek to ease restrictions on vehicle charging in apartments and condominiums. The group, made up of 30 agencies, organizations and companies, will promote installation of public charging equipment and off-peak charging rates.
Nissan Motor Co., General Motors Co. and other automakers are set to begin delivering tens of thousands of rechargeable vehicles in California and nationwide. A decade ago, California's program requiring the largest carmakers to sell electric vehicles in the state failed in part because of inadequate charging infrastructure.
"By 2025, to meet our air quality emissions goals we're going to need to have about 250,000 battery and plug-in hybrids being sold in California every single year," Mary Nichols, head of the state's Air Resources Board, told reporters today.
The timing of the release of Nissan's Leaf, GM's Volt and the plug-in Prius from Toyota Motor Corp. and other rechargeable vehicles coincides with California's so-called zero-emission vehicle mandate requiring the six biggest automakers to sell battery-powered vehicles in the state starting with 2012 models.
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While federal and state incentives are helping spur a market for plug-ins, creating a charging network for 1 million electric autos requires private-sector investment as California lacks the funds to do it alone, said Nichols and Jonathan Read, chief executive officer of ECOtality, a San Francisco-based renewable energy company that's setting up charging networks in 16 U.S. cities.
"This has to be led by private investment," Read said.
Nissan last week delivered its first electric Leaf hatchback to a San Francisco-area driver, and has 20,000 initial orders for the car that goes about 70 miles powered by lithium- ion batteries. GM this month begins delivering its rechargeable Volt sedan that goes about 40 miles on a charge.
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan and affiliate Renault SA of France, has set a goal of leading the auto industry in vehicles powered solely by electricity, targeting sales of at least 500,000 battery cars worldwide within the next few years. Ghosn has estimated that electric cars may account for 10 percent of global auto sales by 2020.


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