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    The Pacifican Novermber 20,1970

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    https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pacifican/1977/thumbnail.jp

    Newmarket Open Space Conservation Plan

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    Open spaces – forests, fields, wetlands, floodplains, salt marshes, rivers and streams – are integral to our community. These lands and waters that thread through our neighborhoods are a scenic reminder of our history, when people made their living by working the land. Yet we still depend on these open spaces for our health and our wellbeing. These places provide many “services” such as clean air, flood control, filtering pollutants and purifying drinking water, natural pest control, plant pollination, cooler summer temperatures, and areas for relaxing, exercising and recreating. Collectively these can be thought of as a “natural services network” – a minimum framework or backbone of open spaces that offer these services to all of us regardless of age, income, or points of view. New Hampshire is transforming from a largely rural state to a mostly urban and suburban one. This trend will continue at a rapid pace as the State is expected to grow by 358,000 people (or more than 28%) from 2000 to 2025. Most of this growth will occur in the four southeastern counties, with the Town of Newmarket in the heart of this growth area. The major land use trends include loss of unfragmented forestland, lack of protected lands around public water supplies and aquifers, and loss of intact wetlands and wildlife habitat (SPNHF 2005). Many communities, including the residents of Newmarket, have acknowledged these changes and the need to conserve special places and ecosystems by supporting land use planning tools, natural resource inventories, conservation funds, and stewardship of lands. Since 2001, 83 New Hampshire towns have passed open space bond issues or appropriated funds for land acquisition worth more than 135million(NHCenterforLandConservationAssistance).In2002,Newmarketresidentsoverwhelminglypasseda135 million (NH Center for Land Conservation Assistance). In 2002, Newmarket residents overwhelmingly passed a 2 million land acquisition bond. Landowners in our community have generously donated interest in land or easements to ensure that conservation values are protected in perpetuity. This support for land and water conservation that benefits all of us is a tribute to the community land ethic in our region. The Town of Newmarket boasts a rich diversity of natural habitats and associated plants and animals. The Lamprey and Piscassic Rivers, Great Bay Estuary, and Tuttle Swamp, to name just a few, all contribute to the sense of place and allure of the town (Map 1). Balancing the preservation of open space with responsible development, long maintained as a priority by Newmarket citizens, business owners and town officials, is necessary, as growth and all its requisite accompaniments present increasing challenges. Recent concerns about the availability of drinking water for Newmarket residents and businesses as well as the floods of 2006 reflect these challenges. As Newmarket continues to grow, so will concern over loss of natural areas, recreational opportunities, and the quality of life that residents have long enjoyed. Maintaining a network of rivers and wetlands, forests and fields throughout Newmarket for the health of the land and people requires vision, support, and action. In 1991, the Town of Newmarket hired the Smart Associates to prepare a Natural Resource Inventory and Conservation Plan. This was the beginning of efforts by the Conservation Commission to conserve important lands identified in the “Smart Report.” In the fifteen years that have elapsed since the Smart Report, Newmarket has undergone many changes, highlighting the need to revisit the current state of natural resources within the community. The Open Space Commission and Conservation Commission have led recent efforts to identify and protect conservation and recreation areas. The Planning Board and staff have led in creating effective land use planning tools that conserve open spaces while allowing orderly and thoughtful development. Together, Newmarket Open Space Conservation Plan Page 7 of 94 these boards applied for a grant from the NH Estuaries Project (NHEP) Technical Assistance Program in 2006 to develop an Open Space Plan. The NHEP awarded the grant of $6,200 to Ibis Wildlife Consulting to work with the Town of Newmarket to prepare this Plan

    Occurrence of Multidrug Resistant Bacteria in aquatic wildlife in Catalonia, Spain

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    TFMOne HealthMultidrug resistance on bacteria is one of the principal public health threats of the 21st century with severe social implications and high economical burden all over the world. Even if the resistance generation is per-se a natural evolutionary process, the regular and repeated release of AMR bacteria and AMR determinants into natural ecosystems imposes extra selective pressure that has leaded to an unprecedented emergence of MDR, XDR and PDR bacterial strains. Aquatic ecosystems have shown to be a major transmission media and all kinds of antimicrobials have been detected in different aquatic environment samples. On our study 96 aquatic-related wild animals (33 reptiles and 63 mammals) from the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Torreferrussa were sampled. Rectal or cloacal swabs samples were taken and cultured in antibiotic selective media for microbiological identification and antibiosensitivity testing. A total of 36 bacterial spp from invasive turtles and 22 from aquatic-related mammals were isolated. The recovered species (N=58) have clinical significance on emerging opportunistic nosocomial and foodborne infections: E. coli (N=13), Aeromonas spp. (N=10), Pseudomonas spp (N=9), Burkholderia cepacia (N=4), Citrobacter, Moraxella spp., Ralstonia picketti (N=3); Salmonella, Serratia, Klebsiella and Proteus spp. (N=2) and single Bordetella bronchiseptica, Mannheimia haemolitica, Morganella morganii, Providencia rettgeri, Rahnella aquatilis and Rhizobium radiobacter. 100% hold MDR profiles, 24% fit on the XDR category, moreover, Burkholderia cepacia (N=2) and Moraxella spp. (N=1) where PDR bacteria. All things considered, aquatic wildlife might not serve only as reservoirs and vectors for MDR, XDR and PDR, but also as highly effective surveillance targets to determine the extent of water-sources and neighbouring areas AMR pollution and the early detection of novel MDR profiles on bacteria of medical relevance

    Detection and characterization of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported reptile and amphibian meat products

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    Meat from food-producing animals play an important role in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant bacteria. Active surveillance programs target major agricultural animals but do not include niche food products. In the current investigation, we sought to (1) Identify bacterial pathogens from imported reptile and amphibian meat products and determine the presence of broad spectrum β-lactamase and colistin resistance genes, (2) determine the antimicrobial resistance profiles of Macrococcus caseolyticus isolated from imported meat products and (3) develop a culture medium for the selective isolation of M. caseolyticus. Fifty-three imported reptile and amphibian meat products were purchased from markets in Vancouver, BC and Saskatoon, SK. We found that 41.5% (22/53) of the products carried antimicrobial resistant bacteria with identifiable extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL), AmpC β-lactamase, carbapenemase and mobile colistin resistance genes. Seventy-one isolates from 7 genera of Enterobacteriaceae were recovered (from 41 of the 53 products), with none of the Salmonella isolates resistant to any of the antimicrobials tested. One multidrug resistant E. coli, isolated from a soft shell turtle, produced the CTX-M-55 enzyme and possessed the mcr-1 gene conferring mobile colistin resistance. An NDM-1 carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter spp. was also isolated from a dried turtle carapace. Gram-positive bacteria resembling Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from imported meat samples and identified as Macrococcus caseolyticus; a commensal bacterium found from animal skin and food products. All isolates were resistant to the β-lactam class of drugs, including meropenem, and possessed the mecB gene conferring methicillin resistance. As the ecological distribution of M. caseolyticus in nature is largely unknown, we developed a selective culture medium to help facilitate targeted prevalence studies. Of the prepared selective media challenged, colistin nalidixic acid (CNA) blood agar with ampicillin 0.5µg/ml and meropenem 0.5µg/ml worked the best. This medium facilitated the growth of M. caseolyticus while inhibiting the growth of Gram-negative and most Gram-positive bacteria except for Enterococcus spp. This is the first study to determine the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and identify ESBL, AmpC β-lactamase, carbapenemase, methicillin and colistin resistance genes from imported reptile and amphibian meat products. More research is required to evaluate the magnitude of the risk that these products have to public health

    Implementing Dynamic Visualization as an Alternative Interface to a Digital Mathematics Library

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    summary:This paper presents an alternative interface for browsing in the Czech Digital Mathematics Library (DML-CZ) using our Visual Browser web browsing tool. Using dynamic visualization, we have created a tool for browsing the library graphically. Visualization can help users orient themselves in complex data and at the same time reveal sometimes unexpected relationships among units; it at least speeds up browsing. This work follows the metadata processing undertaken on DML-CZ and visualizes all reasonable and useful relationships among journals, issues, articles, authors, classification, keywords, references and similar articles. We converted metadata to RDF and use a Visual Browser Java Applet that runs in a web browser. We describe briefly the metadata nature, then server and client side of the visualization including data formats and conversions. There follows a description of the interaction between visual and textual interfaces

    UMM Telephone Extensions 2007-08

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    Spartan Daily, October 19, 1951

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    Volume 40, Issue 18https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11605/thumbnail.jp

    Town of Lee, New Hampshire annual report June 30, 2010.

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    This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

    A Step Forward: Adding Linked Data Vocabularies to Digital Repositories

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    Linked data has been a recent endeavor in the library community and various libraries have experimented with linked data in their traditional library catalog and digital collections. This presentation will review the different linked data practices especially focusing on those related to digital collections in academic libraries, explore the current digital library systems’ capabilities in accommodating linked data and present how linked data vocabularies have been added to the digital repositories at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries. The UCF Libraries have been adding linked data vocabularies to its institutional repository from the Library of Congress’ authority files and the Virtual International Authority File, including personal names such as authors and thesis advisors, corporate names such as university, college and departmental names, subjects as well as person identifiers. This talk will elaborate on the libraries’ working with linked data and provide real examples. It will also discuss how OpenRefine is used to edit and enhance metadata in the cataloging process, including reconciling terms and distinguishing controlled terms from a list of terms selected from the item, adding links to the controlled terms, and cleaning up data. It will further address the benefits and challenges involved in these practices such as the enhancement of contextual information for authors, the difficulty in determining whether the matched name is the right author, limitations of the systems and how linked data can be presented to the users
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