Dimond Gorge

Rugged and remote Dimond Gorge sits amidst the Kimberley outback near Mornington Wilderness Camp. Here, you can go bushwalking, swimming, canoeing and bird watching. You’ll be amazed by the rich colours of the 30 metre-high cliff walls and abundant wildlife.The 40 kilometre gorge was carved out by the mighty Fitzroy River which cuts through the King Leopold Range.Tucked away at the end of the Dimond Gorge is a beautiful waterfall.Mornington Wilderness Camp offers guided canoe tours to the gorge.The camp has been established to provide a refuge for the diverse range of wildlife that exists there. Accommodation-wise there are delightful safari tents available or you can camp alongside Anna Creek. Dimond Gorge is a 40 minute drive from the camp.Mornington Wilderness Camp is about 100 kilometres off the Gibb River Road, 347 kilometres north-east of Derby.

Anthony Pellicano Pleads Not Guilty To Threatening Reporter

Back in 2002 there were two investigative reporters tearing up Hollywood. Bernie Weintraub of the New York Times and Anita Busch of the L.A. Times. They dug deep and reported all sorts of stories that the movers and shakers of Hollywood didn’t like. Many were about the then super-agent Michael Ovitz. Ovitz didn’t appreciate the bad press.
Before you knew it Ovitz’s bad boy buddy - Private Detective “to the stars”, Anthony Pellicano, was being accused of hiring goons to terrorize the two reporters. He denied it all. Just as he later denied the fed’s charges of wiretapping and racketeering. Pellicano was convicted of those charges last year and is spending the next 15 years in prison.
But back to the allegations about threatening those reporters … Anita Busch in particular. Now, Mr. Tough Guy Pellicano (you can read what he did to me when I worked as a reporter in Hollywood here) is back in court facing THOSE charges.

Convict Anthony Pellicano
The case of the shattered windshield, a dead fish and a rose is finally moving forward. Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and his alleged hired hand, Alexander Proctor, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they threatened reporter Anita Busch in 2002 to scare her off a story.

DIMOND PARK CREEK,

Trickling water, scrub oaks and rock. Where light enters the ring of trees. Settles on the rock where I sit. Circle of stones. Blackberry bush. (3 boys passing a smoke at the top of the path.) Underneath shade. Contemplation. A low flying plane. Bird cracking. Butterfly. Native garden The grinding sound of a saw or jackhammer. The whirling sound of a motorbike passing. (Children’s laughter echoing from behind.) Here the tree leans from one edge of the creek and crosses over to the other side, pale green leaves hang down over the large rock––a flat space for sitting, square ledge for leaning back. Tuft of grass. Dangling branches falling through. A Blue Jay sits at the top of the tree. Nest, brown and wet looking. One singular branch, brief hammering noise, extending arms into the ground. Where a long metal tube or shaft crosses the stream. Vines, ivy, oak and dirt, the sun slowly lowering, light moving to the right.
II
On this side of the creek a path leads up to an area with even more trees. There is a road. It seems quiet there. I wonder if that is where the creek begins. Blue sky. Thin scrubby oak. Singular. There is a telephone poll up near the road. I hear a car drive past. Faint sound of people talking. Here it is an oasis and yet strangely close to all the city noises. Blue sky turning with hazy late afternoon clouds, flies buzzing about. One leaf falling to my left. A white cat with a square shaped gray patch on its back walks down the trail opposite where I am sitting. It begins to cross the iron tube that stretches across the creek, stops then walks back. It scratches its chest, then runs back up the trail. Vague remnants of a porch on the other side of the hill. Dog barking. Light hitting the tips of red leaves.

Warming Up With Julius Peppers

As a high schooler, Julius Peppers stood 6’5” and weighed 225 pounds. No wonder he dominated on the gridiron and hardwood. But perhaps even more surprising than his freakish physique was the fact that he didn’t weight train, stretch or warm up before games. “I just went out and played,” the monster Carolina Panthers D-end said of his high school career. These days, he knows better.
Before engaging in explosive training in the off-season, Peppers first performs the following vigorous warm-up routine to loosen up his hips, shoulders and core muscles. “Those are the muscles I play with, so I try to hone in on that part of the body,” he says.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a D-end working on first-step quickness or a wideout improving linear speed, prep like Peppers by tackling this warm-up series before rushing into the bulk of your workout.

Abstract: Understanding factors that influence Individuals Willingness to Act to Reduce

Understanding factors that influence Individuals Willingness to Act to Reduce Climate
Change Mitigating the impacts of climate change by reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions will require individuals to change their personal consumption choices and
political decisions. Individual’s personal and political behavior and their consumption
choices are primary causes of greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, individual behavior
and demand are primary drivers of government decisions to implement climate change
reduction policies and business decisions to offer low‐carbon products and services. In this
study we investigate factors that influence individuals’ willingness to undertake climate
change reduction behaviors. Our results suggest that positive attitudes towards climate
change reduction behaviors are the strongest predictor of individuals’ willingness to act to
reduce climate change. We also found that positive attitudes are influenced by belief that
climate change is occurring, knowledge of the causes of climate change and perceived
likelihood that climate change will have personally relevant consequences. The proposed
model explains over 75% of variation in willingness to act to reduce climate change in our
sample. These findings have important implications for policymakers, educators, and others
who are working to reduce climate change impacts. For example, campaigns aimed at
motivating individuals to increase their adoption of climate change reduction behaviors
should focus on (1) proving that climate change is occurring; (2) clarifying the causes of
climate change; and (3) portraying the impacts of climate change as both personally
relevant and likely to occur.

Experience / Training

Specialties:
Internal Medicine
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Nephrology
(HealthGrades has verified that Dr. Keith A. Dimond, MD is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine)
Information from ABMS® is proprietary data maintained in a copyrighted database compilation owned by the American Board of Medical Specialties®. © Copyright 2009 American Board of Medical Specialties. All rights reserved.
Medical School:
University Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 1966
Internship:
Grady Meml Hospital Atlanta, GA 1967
Residency:
Grady Meml Hospital Atlanta, GA 1971
Fellowship:
Grady Meml Hospital Atlanta, GA 1973

Dimond boys knock off Soldotna

Fifteen years of organized soccer for Dimond senior Connor Shuck comes to a conclusion this weekend in the Alaska School Next fall he'll be living in Missoula, Mont., a freshman at the University of Montana. He doesn't plan to try out for the Grizzlies' soccer team. He'd rather focus on getting a degree in athletic training.
So in the meantime, he's living it up at Anchorage Football Stadium and doing his part to help Dimond win its first state championship since 2002.
Shuck scored on a penalty kick Wednesday to lift Dimond to a 5-2 first-round victory over the Soldotna Stars.
"We played as a team, working with the ball and just having fun," said the defenseman, who netted his second goal of the season. "You get goals and it makes it nice."Activities Association's state tournament.