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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021 Delmarracing.Com
21DLM002_SummerProgramCover_ Trim_4.125x8.625__Bleed_4.375x8.875 HOME OF THE 2021 BREEDERS’ CUP JULY 16 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2021 DelMarRacing.com 21DLM002_Summer Program Cover.indd 1 6/10/21 2:00 PM DEL MAR THOROUGHBRED CLUB Racing 31 Days • July 16 - September 6, 2021 Day 8 • Friday July 30, 2021 First Post 4:00 p.m. These are the moments that make history. Where the Turf Meets the Surf Keeneland sales graduates have won Del Mar racetrack opened its doors (and its betting six editions of the Pacific Classic over windows) on July 3, 1937. Since then it’s become West the last decade. Coast racing’s summer destination where avid fans and newcomers to the sport enjoy the beauty and excitement of Thoroughbred racing in a gorgeous seaside setting. CHANGES AND RESULTS Courtesy of Equibase Del Mar Changes, live odds, results and race replays at your ngertips. Dmtc.com/app for iPhone or Android or visit dmtc.com NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS Federal law requires that customers for certain transactions be identi ed by name, address, government-issued identi cation and other relevant information. Therefore, customers may be asked to provide information and identi cation to comply with the law. www.msb.gov PROGRAM ERRORS Every effort is made to avoid mistakes in the of cial program, but Del Mar Thoroughbred Club assumes no liability to anyone for Beholder errors that may occur. 2016 Pacific CHECK YOUR TICKET AND MONIES BEFORE Classic S. (G1) CONFIRMING WAGER. MANAGEMENT ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBLITY FOR TRANSACTIONS NOT COMPLETED WHEN WAGERING CLOSES. POST TIMES Post times for today’s on-track and imported races appear on the following page. -
Norway and Its Marine Areas - a Brief Description of the Sea Floor
No.3 2003 IN FOCUS Norway and its marine areas - a brief description of the sea floor From the deep sea to the fjord floor Norwegian waters comprise widely differing environments - from the Bjørnøyrenna deep sea via the continental slope and continental shelf to the coastal zone with its strandflat, archipelagos and fjords.This constitutes a geologi- cal diversity that is unique in a European context. An exciting geological history lies Trænadjupet behind this diversity - a development that has taken place over more than 400 million years.The continents con- Vøringplatået sist of plates of solidified rock that float on partially molten rock, and these plates move relative to one another.Where they collide, the Earth's crust is folded and mountain chains are created.Where they drift apart, deep oceans form and new sea Storegga floor is created along rifts because molten rock (magma) streams up from below. A good example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, including Iceland, a which is a result of Greenland and n n e Europe drifting from each other at a r e rate of about 2 cm a year. k s r o The plates on which Norway and N Greenland rest collided more than 400 million years ago and formed mountain chains on either side of a Skagerrak shallow sea. Both Greenland and Norway are remnants of worn down mountain chains. Between these mountain chains, the shallow sea Figure 1.Norway and its neighbouring seas. gradually filled with sediments derived from the erosion of the chains.These sedi- ments became transformed into sandstones, shales and limestones and it is in these rocks we now find oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. -
Checklist of Fish and Invertebrates Listed in the CITES Appendices
JOINTS NATURE \=^ CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Checklist of fish and mvertebrates Usted in the CITES appendices JNCC REPORT (SSN0963-«OStl JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Report distribution Report Number: No. 238 Contract Number/JNCC project number: F7 1-12-332 Date received: 9 June 1995 Report tide: Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices Contract tide: Revised Checklists of CITES species database Contractor: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODL Comments: A further fish and invertebrate edition in the Checklist series begun by NCC in 1979, revised and brought up to date with current CITES listings Restrictions: Distribution: JNCC report collection 2 copies Nature Conservancy Council for England, HQ, Library 1 copy Scottish Natural Heritage, HQ, Library 1 copy Countryside Council for Wales, HQ, Library 1 copy A T Smail, Copyright Libraries Agent, 100 Euston Road, London, NWl 2HQ 5 copies British Library, Legal Deposit Office, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ 1 copy Chadwick-Healey Ltd, Cambridge Place, Cambridge, CB2 INR 1 copy BIOSIS UK, Garforth House, 54 Michlegate, York, YOl ILF 1 copy CITES Management and Scientific Authorities of EC Member States total 30 copies CITES Authorities, UK Dependencies total 13 copies CITES Secretariat 5 copies CITES Animals Committee chairman 1 copy European Commission DG Xl/D/2 1 copy World Conservation Monitoring Centre 20 copies TRAFFIC International 5 copies Animal Quarantine Station, Heathrow 1 copy Department of the Environment (GWD) 5 copies Foreign & Commonwealth Office (ESED) 1 copy HM Customs & Excise 3 copies M Bradley Taylor (ACPO) 1 copy ^\(\\ Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report No. -
Education & Conservation
2016 | JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER EDUCATION & CONSERVATION ASSISTING CORALS TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE A STORY ON CORAL page 8 JUNE WAS WORLD OCEANS MONTH page 12 RECENT EVENTS DISTINGUISHED SEA GRANT LECTURE SERIES LECTURE SERIES It was standing room only on April 7, In May, the Waikiki Aquarium hosted when Dr. Ruth D. Gates of the University members of the University of Hawaii Sea of Hawai‘i’s Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Grant College Program for a series of Biology spoke about “The Wonderful classroom presentations that were free World of Corals” as part of the Aquari- and open to the public. A number of um’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Dr. ocean-related issues were discussed, Gates highlighted the threatening including the Ala Wai Watershed, Waikiki conditions facing coral reefs in Hawai‘i Beach management and maintenance, and around the globe, the importance and King Tides, a citizen science coral reef conservation, and how the project documenting high tide events. knowledge of coral reefs could improve Photo Credit: Waikiki Aquarium the ecosystem. Held at Thurston Memorial Chapel, the lecture was supported in party by Professional DIRECT OR’S MESSAGE Programs, Punahou School. MAUKA TO MAKAI s we slip into June, preparations are in Aquarium, along with captive-bred mullet and moi, to help In celebration of Earth Day, on April full swing for the Ke Kani O Ke Kai repopulate the depleted fish populations found there. 23, the Waikiki Aquarium hosted the concert series, which has become a must-go 9th Annual Mauka to Makai Environ- Aevent on the Honolulu summer activities list. -
Change in Tropical Rocky Shore Communities Due to an Alien Coral Invasion
Vol. 438: 85–96, 2011 MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Published October 5 doi: 10.3354/meps09290 Mar Ecol Prog Ser Change in tropical rocky shore communities due to an alien coral invasion B. G. Lages1, B. G. Fleury2, C. Menegola3, J. C. Creed2,* 1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução and 2Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro — UERJ, CEP 20559-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 3Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, CEP 40170-290 Salvador, BA, Brasil ABSTRACT: To determine how benthic, tropical, rocky shore communities were affected by the invasive coral species Tubastraea coccinea and T. tagusensis, 8 sites were studied during 2 yr on rocky shores in the southwest Atlantic Ocean (Brazil) by using both fixed and random sampling techniques. Overall, mean cover of T. tagusensis was 0.7% and T. coccinea was 0.4%, (the eleventh and sixteenth most abundant taxa, respectively, throughout the sites). Forty-two major space occupying taxa were registered. In fixed quadrats there was a 76.6% increase per year in density of Tubastraea spp. over the study period. For percent cover no significant difference in cover over time was detected for T. coccinea, but for T. tagusensis and overall (both species) cover increased significantly. The random quadrats data showed subtle differences from the fixed quadrats. There was an increase in density of Tubastraea spp. through time (67.8% per year over the study period). In random samples the density of T. coccinea increased during the study but that of T. -
Volume 2. Animals
AC20 Doc. 8.5 Annex (English only/Seulement en anglais/Únicamente en inglés) REVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT TRADE ANALYSIS OF TRADE TRENDS WITH NOTES ON THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF SELECTED SPECIES Volume 2. Animals Prepared for the CITES Animals Committee, CITES Secretariat by the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre JANUARY 2004 AC20 Doc. 8.5 – p. 3 Prepared and produced by: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK UNEP WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE (UNEP-WCMC) www.unep-wcmc.org The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre is the biodiversity assessment and policy implementation arm of the United Nations Environment Programme, the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation. UNEP-WCMC aims to help decision-makers recognise the value of biodiversity to people everywhere, and to apply this knowledge to all that they do. The Centre’s challenge is to transform complex data into policy-relevant information, to build tools and systems for analysis and integration, and to support the needs of nations and the international community as they engage in joint programmes of action. UNEP-WCMC provides objective, scientifically rigorous products and services that include ecosystem assessments, support for implementation of environmental agreements, regional and global biodiversity information, research on threats and impacts, and development of future scenarios for the living world. Prepared for: The CITES Secretariat, Geneva A contribution to UNEP - The United Nations Environment Programme Printed by: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK © Copyright: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre/CITES Secretariat The contents of this report do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of UNEP or contributory organisations. -
(Medical and Mechanical) Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
130 SOP Conservative (Medical and Mechanical) Treatment of Erectile Dysfunctionjsm_12023 130..171 Hartmut Porst, MD,* Arthur Burnett, MD, MBA, FACS,† Gerald Brock, MD, FRCSC,‡ Hussein Ghanem, MD,§ Francois Giuliano, MD,¶ Sidney Glina, MD,** Wayne Hellstrom, MD, FACS,†† Antonio Martin-Morales, MD,‡‡ Andrea Salonia, MD,§§ Ira Sharlip, MD,¶¶ and the ISSM Standards Committee for Sexual Medicine *Private Urological/Andrological Practice, Hamburg, Germany; †The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA; ‡Division of Urology, University of Western, ON, Canada; §Sexology & STDs, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; ¶Neuro-Urology-Andrology Unit, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, Garches, France; **Instituto H.Ellis, São Paulo, Brazil; ††Department of Urology, Section of Andrology and Male Infertility, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA; ‡‡Unidad Andrología, Servicio Urología Hospital, Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain; §§Department of Urology & Urological Reseach Institute (URI), Universiti Vita Saluta San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; ¶¶University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12023 ABSTRACT Introduction. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the most frequently treated male sexual dysfunction worldwide. ED is a chronic condition that exerts a negative impact on male self-esteem and nearly all life domains including interper- sonal, family, and business relationships. Aim. The aim of this study -
THE LIBERATION of OSLO and COPENHAGEN: a MIDSHIPMAN's MEMOIR C.B. Koester
THE LIBERATION OF OSLO AND COPENHAGEN: A MIDSHIPMAN'S MEMOIR C.B. Koester Introduction I joined HMS Devonshire, a County-class cruiser in the Home Fleet, on 16 September 1944. For the next nine months we operated out of Scapa Flow, the naval base in the Orkneys north of Scotland which had been home to Jellicoe's Grand Fleet during World War I and harboured the main units of the Home Fleet throughout the second conflict. It was a bleak, uninviting collection of seventy-three islands—at low water—twenty-nine of them inhabited, mainly by fishermen and shepherds. Winters were generally miserable and the opportunities for recreation ashore limited. There was boat-pulling and sailing, weather permitting; an occasional game of field hockey on the naval sports ground; and perhaps a Saturday afternoon concert in the fleet canteen or a "tea dance" at the Wrennery. Otherwise, we entertained ourselves aboard: singsongs in the Gunroom; a Sunday night film in the Wardroom; deck hockey in the Dog Watches; and endless games of "liar's dice." Our operations at sea were more harrowing, but only marginally more exciting, consisting mainly of attacks on German shore installations on the Norwegian coast. We rarely saw the coastline, however, for the strikes were carried out by aircraft flying from the escort carriers in the task force. At the same time, we had to be prepared for whatever counterattack the Germans might mount, and until Tirpitz was finally disabled on 12 November 1944, such a riposte might have been severe. That and the ever-present threat of submarines notwithstanding, for most of us these operations involved a large measure of boredom and discomfort. -
The Tautra Cold-Water Coral Reef
The Tautra Cold-Water Coral Reef Mapping and describing the biodiversity of a cold-water coral reef ecosystem in the Trondheimsfjord by use of multi-beam echo sounding and video mounted on a remotely operated vehicle June Jakobsen Marine Coastal Development Submission date: May 2016 Supervisor: Geir Johnsen, IBI Co-supervisor: Svein Karlsen, Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag Martin Ludvigsen, IMT Torkild Bakken, NTNU, Vitenskapsmuseet Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Biology i Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. iii List of Abbreviations: .............................................................................................................................. iv Abstract: ................................................................................................................................................... v Sammendrag ............................................................................................................................................ vi Introduction: ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Theory ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 The geology of the fjord ..................................................................................................................... -
Local Controls on Sediment Accumulation and Distribution in a Fjord in the West Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for Palaeoenvironmental Interpretations Yuribia P
RESEARCH/REVIEW ARTICLE Local controls on sediment accumulation and distribution in a fjord in the West Antarctic Peninsula: implications for palaeoenvironmental interpretations Yuribia P. Munoz & Julia S. Wellner Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, TX 77204, USA Keywords Abstract Flandres Bay; Antarctic Peninsula; sediment We analyse surface sediment and its distribution in Flandres Bay, West Antarctic distribution; grain size. Peninsula, in order to understand modern day sediment dispersal patterns in Correspondence a fjord with retreating, tidewater glaciers. The surface sediment descriptions Yuribia P. Munoz, Department of Earth and of 41 cores are included in this study. The sediment facies described include Atmospheric Sciences, University of muddy diatomaceous ooze, diatomaceous mud, pebbly mud, sandy mud and Houston, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, mud, with scattered pebbles present in most samples. In contrast to a traditional TX 77204, USA. E-mail: [email protected] conceptual model of glacial sediment distribution in fjords, grain size in Flandres Bay generally coarsens from the inner to outer bay. The smallest grain size sediments were found in the bay head and are interpreted as fine-grained deposits resulting from meltwater plumes and sediment gravity flows occurring close to the glacier front. The middle of the bay is characterized by a high silt percentage, which correlates to diatom-rich sediments. Sediments in the outer bay have a high component of coarse material, which is interpreted as being the result of winnowing from currents moving from the Bellingshausen Sea into the Gerlache Strait. Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of glacial environ- ments often use grain size as an indicator of proximity to the ice margin. -
On the Current Status of Coastal Marine Biodiversity in Malaysia
Indian Journal of Marine Sciences Vol. 34(1), March 2005, pp. 76-87 On the current status of coastal marine biodiversity in Malaysia *A G Mazlan, C C Zaidi, W M Wan-Lotfi & B H R Othman School of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, National University of Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia *[E-mail: [email protected]] Received 1 April 2004; revised 13 July 2004 The seas surrounding Malaysia is one of the largest continental shelf areas in the world contain very productive and diverse habitat and should therefore be the centre for marine biological research and data collection. Though there have been some studies on marine biodiversity dated back to mid 30's, the data collection and information gathered are however far from satisfaction. The process of data collection is in progress by time and though the process of mega-biodiversity recording is somehow jeopardized by inadequacy of taxonomists in the country. Nevertheless, the status of marine biodiversity studies around Malaysian waters is examined towards a better approach for future prospects in research and management of this valuable yet fragile ecosystem. [Key words: Marine flora, fauna, coastal diversity, Malaysia] 1.0 Introduction to rainforest in species richness. This mega diversity Malaysia (1-8oN; 100-119oE), comprising Peninsular is a result of careful sharing of a reef by all its Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, is located in the Indo- inhabitants. They provide the fish, mollusks and Pacific region that is also includes sea areas crustaceans on which many coastal communities surrounding Indonesia and the Philippines. Peninsular depend on and, with other coastal habitats, provide Malaysia is bounded by seas on all sides except in the nutrients and breeding grounds for many commercial north where it is connected to the Asian mainland via species3. -
California State University, Northridge an Ecological
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE AN ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF TROPICAL CORAL REEF RESPONSES TO PAST AND PROJECTED DISTURBANCES A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biology By Elizabeth Ann Lenz May 2014 The thesis of Elizabeth A. Lenz is approved by: Robert C. Carpenter, Ph.D. Date: Eric D. Sanford, Ph.D. Date: Mark A. Steele, Ph.D. Date: Peter J. Edmunds, Ph.D., Chair Date: California State University, Northridge ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Peter J. Edmunds first and foremost for being my fearless leader and advisor - for the incredible opportunities and invaluable mentorship he has provided to me as a graduate student in the Polyp Lab. I am ever so grateful for his guidance, endless caffeinated energy, constructive critiques, and dry British humor. I would also like to thank my loyal committee members Drs. Robert Carpenter and Mark Steele at CSUN for their availability and expert advise during this process. Their suggestions have greatly contributed to my thesis. I would not only like to acknowledge Dr. Eric Sanford from UC Davis for serving on my committee, but thank him for his incessant support throughout my career over the last 7 years. I will always admire his contagious enthusiasm for invertebrates, passion for scientific research, and unlimited knowledge about marine ecology. My research would not have been possible without the technical support and assistance from my colleagues in Moorea, French Polynesia and St. John, USVI. I am grateful to Dr. Lorenzo Bramanti, Dr. Steeve Comeau, Vince Moriarty, Nate Spindel, Emily Rivest, Christopher Wall, Darren Brown, Alexandre Yarid, Nicolas Evensen, Craig Didden, the VIERS staff, and undergraduate assistants: Kristin Privitera-Johnson and Amanda Arnold.