Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2014

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2014

1008-003 White Oak Watershed Final Report

Whit Oak Lake was listed on the 2008 Section 303(d) List if impaired waters in four categories. The first phase of the project has already helped to affect approximately 60% of the watershed. There has been an estimated sediment reduction of 609 tons per year with phase one. The structure being planned for the South end of the lake, (phase two) will affect nearly all of the remaining 40%. If we can accomplish similar results, we can expect a sediment reduction of approximately 273 tons additional per year. We have been working with the Mahaska County NRCS office, Snyder & Associates (engineers) and private landowners in the watershed to make this project a reality.

Health consultation : Red Oak Landfill, Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa EPA facility ID: IAD980632509 (2005)

Landfill site from the National Priorities List (NPL). The EPA is inviting public comment on the proposed de-listing of the site from the NPL. The Iowa Department of Public Health in cooperation with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared this health consultation to review the current status of the Red Oak Landfill site and to provide an evaluation of any public health consequences of de-listing the site. The information in this health consultation was current at the time of writing. Data that emerges later could alter this document’s conclusions and recommendations.

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the City of Red Oak, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Adult sampling and larva rearing of the cork oak pest Coraebus undatus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Coraebus undatus is the main insect pest of cork oak worldwide. The larvae tunnel in the cortical cambium filling the bark with galleries and causing the cork to break at harvest. The first objective of this study was to test the effect of purple traps in the attraction of C. undatus because this colour is attractive to other buprestid beetles. The second objective was to develop a diet in which field-collected larvae could be reared to adulthood. Pairs of purple and clear (control) sticky traps were placed in a cork oak forest in Girona, Spain in the summer of 2008

Numerical Dominance of the Argentine Ant vs Native Ants and Consequences on Soil Resource Searching in Mediterranean Cork-Oak Forests (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

This study is focused on the dominance exerted by the invasive Argentine ant over native ants in a coastal Mediterranean area. Theimpact of this invasive ant on native ant assemblages and its consequences on total ant biomass and on the intensity of habitat explorationwere evaluated. Foraging ants were observed and their trajectories recorded during 5-minute periods in two study zones, one invaded andthe other non-invaded. Ant species detected, ant worker abundance, ant biomass and the intensity of soil surface searching done by antswere compared between the two zones. The Argentine ant invasion provoked a drastic reduction of the ant species richness. Apparentlyonly one native ant species is able to coexist with the Argentine ant, the cryptic Plagiolepis pygmaea. Ant worker abundance was also modified after the invasion: the number of Argentine ant workers detected, which represented 92% of the invaded zone, was two times higher than the number of native ant workers detected in the non-invaded zone. The total ant biomass was inversely affected, becoming four times lower in the invaded zone highly dominated by Linepithema humile. The higher number of Argentine ant workers and their fast tempo of activity implied an alteration of the intensity of soil surface searching: scanning by the Argentine ants in the invaded zone was higher than that done by the native ants in the non-invaded zone, and the estimated time for a complete soil surface scan was 64 minutes in the invaded zone and 108 minutes in the non-invaded zone. Consequently, resources will be discovered faster by ants in the invaded zone than in the non-invaded zone. The increase of the mean temperature and the decrease of the relative humidity from May to August reduced the ant activity in the two study zones but this reduction was greater in the invaded zone

Lentopahoinvointiin vaikuttavia tekijöitä OAK:lla

Ilmavoimien ohjaajakursseilla on viime aikoina tapahtunut lisääntyvässä määrin lentopahoinvointeja, jotka saattavat johtaa lentopalveluksen keskeytykseen. Lisääntyneiden pahoinvointien ja pienentyneen hakijamäärän vuoksi on alettu tutkia mahdollista valintajärjestelmän kehittämistä lentopahoinvointiin taipumuksen testauksen osalta, koska jokainen tapahtunut keskeytys vähentää yhden henkilön jatkokoulutuksesta. Tutkimuksen pääongelma: - Onko korvan kaarikäytävän sakka lentopahoinvointia laukaiseva tekijä? Tutkimuksen alaongelmat: - Onko ruokailun ajankohdalla yhteyttä lentopahoinvointiin? - Ennustavatko valintatilaisuuden testit (esitiedot) lentopahoinvointia? - Onko lentointensiteetillä vaikutusta lentopahoinvoinnin esiintymiseen? Tutkimusaineistona ovat psykofysiologiset tilastot (v. 94-04), julkaistut teokset, aiemmat tutkimukset, aikakausilehdet sekä OAK:lta 78 ja 79 kerätty materiaali. Aineiston analysoinnin menetelmänä käytettiin binomitestiä, korrelaatiokerrointa sekä sisällönanalyysiä, joita käyttämällä päästiin luotettaviin tuloksiin lentopahoinvoinnin syntyyn vaikuttaneista tekijöistä.

The sedimentology of the Bloomington fan complex: an element of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Southern Ontario

The Oak Ridges Moraine is a major physiographic feature of south-central Ontario, extending from Rice Lake westward to the Niagara Escarpment. While much previous work has largely postulated a relatively simple the origin of the moraine, recent investigations have concentrated on delineating the discernible glacigenic deposits (or landform architectural elements) which comprise the complex mosaic of the Oak Ridges Moraine. This study investigates the sedimentology of the Bloomington fan complex, one of the oldest elements of the Oak Ridges Moraine. The main sediment body of the Bloomington fan complex was deposited during early stages of the formation of the Oak Ridges Moraine, when the ice subdivided, and formed a confined, interlobate lake basin between the northern and southern lobes. Deposition from several conduits produced a fan complex characterized by multiple, laterally overlapping, fan bodies. It appears that the fans were active sequentially in an eastward direction, until the formation of the Bloomington fan complex was dominated by the largest fan fed by a conduit near the northeastern margin of the deposit. Following deposition of the fan complex, the northern and southern ice margins continued to retreat, opening drainage outlets to the west and causing water levels to drop in the lake basin. Glaciofluvial sediment was deposited at this time, cutting into the underlying fan complex. Re-advancing northern ice then closed westerly outlets, and caused water levels to increase, initiating the re-advance of the southern ice. As the southern ice approached the Bloomington fan, it deposited an ice-marginal sediment complex consisting of glacigenic sediment gravity flows, and glaciolacustrine and glaciofluvial sediments exhibiting north and northwesterly paleocurrents. Continued advance of the southern ice, overriding the fan complex, ii produced large-scale glaciotectonic deformation structures, and deposited the Halton Till. The subaqueous fan depositional model that is postulated for the Bloomington fan complex differs from published models due to the complex facies associations produced by the multiple conduit sources of sediment feeding the fans. The fluctuating northern and southern ice margins, which moved across the study area in opposite directions, controlled the water level in the interlobate basin and caused major changes in depositional environments. The influence of these two lobes also caused deposition from two distinct source directions. Finally, erosion, deposition, and deformation of the deposit with the readvance of the southern ice contributed further to the complexity of the Bloomington fan complex.

Key for the Oak Chest

The key is 4 1/2 cm long and is attached to a gold cord ending in a burnt orange tassel.

Oak Chest

Oak chest measuring 36 cm in height 45 cm in width and 32 cm in depth. The cabinet contains 5 graduating drawers and it closes with 2 hinged doors, each bearing an arch. There are recessed brass handles on the 2 sides of the cabinet and one of these handles on each of the drawers. On the top of the cabinet there is an escutcheon engraved with “S.D. Woodruff Esq., St. Catharines, 157 Ontario”. The cabinet has a lock which is still functional and opens with a skeleton key which is part of this collection. The top 2 drawers have been lined with a piece of cardboard carefully cut to size and covered with brocade. There is some scratching on the top of the cabinet and one of the front doors is missing some of the wooden trim.

Receipt from A. Cutler and Son for oak chairs in leather

Receipt from A. Cutler and Son for oak chairs in leather, Aug. 29, 1887.

Receipt from A. Cutler and Son, Buffalo, New York for oak chairs in leather and bookcase, Sept. 19, 1887

Receipt from A. Cutler and Son, Buffalo, New York for oak chairs in leather and bookcase, Sept. 19, 1887.