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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly[Greek letter alpha] forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determinationof metallicity for high-metallicity stars.

This book shows that: The biggest obstacle to living the life you desire is you. Nothing changes until you change. There is nothing you can't overcome when you decide to do so.This spiritual personal growth book of 88 short true life stories is about women who decided or were forced to leave life circumstances that were not serving them anymore. These disruptions in our lives are for our spiritual and personal growth. You will read traumatic stories of heartbreak, divorce, loss, grief, detrimental health issues and addiction, and how these women came out thriving on the other side. These mini memoirs of trauma healing, mental health healing and physical self-healing provide a map of possibilities of how to move from despair and fear to wholeness and experiencing personal freedom.Reading this self-help book of personal transformation will transport you right into the drama of every story where you will hurt, cry, laugh and rejoice with every woman and celebrate the resilience and resourcefulness of the human spirit. You will feel inspired by their courage and self-love. You will see a version of yourself in every story.What all these women like you demonstrate, is that change happens through personal growth that helps us to upgrade our self-love and self-worth, and surrender to God, Creator, Source, the Universe, Infinite Intelligence, or how you choose to call the Higher Power within you. With this Love, we have the courage and faith to step into the Unknown and be shown the way to create a new reality and destiny that serves us.

The Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO) is a Web-based tool developed by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture to assist Federal, State, and private land managers and planners with evaluation of climate change science implications for sustainable natural resource management. TACCIMO is a dynamic information framework focused on assisting natural resource professionals with the integration of climate change into decision-support processes. A searchable repository of peer-reviewed climate change literature on effects and management options is accessible through a Web-based tool. A geospatial mapping application provides high-resolution climate data and other spatially explicit models relevant to evaluating climate change impacts on forests through modeling. Report generators assist users in capturing outputs specific to a given location and resource area in a consistent, organized manner. For Forest Service users, science findings can be readily linked with management conditions and capabilities from national forest land and resource management plans. Collectively, the TACCIMO tools provide a fast, concise, and creditable starting point to guide critical thinking, additional analysis, and expert consultation supportive of resource management decisionmaking.