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By JOHN KLINE
THE GOSHEN NEWS
Legalize marijuana? Not in our town.
Such was the general opinion expressed Friday by three area law enforcement officials following a recent statement by Indiana State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell indicating he would be in favor of legalizing and taxing marijuana.
Whitesell’s statement, made Nov. 27 during a meeting of the State Budget Committee, referenced three main points in its support of legalization, the first being what Whitesell sees as the drug’s prevailing presence in the state over his 40 years in law enforcement despite strong and consistent attempts to curb its use. In his statement, Whitesell essentially took the stance that marijuana is here, has been here for decades, and isn’t going away anytime soon.
Whitesell also pointed to the recent voter-passed measures in Colorado and Washington that allow adults to legally possess a small amount of marijuana as indications of what he feels is a growing national shift toward support of legalization. Whitesell then referenced what appears to be a growing concern among some state legislators that valuable state prison space is being increasingly filled with non-violent, first-time marijuana offenders, leaving less room for those offenders who’ve commit serious, violent crimes.
So how do local law enforcement officials feel about the issue of legalization?
If you ask Elkhart County Prosecutor Curtis Hill, Whitesell couldn’t be further off base.
“The thing about marijuana is, there’s a growing sheep mentality out there that suggests marijuana isn’t so bad, but the thing they’re missing is that marijuana is the gateway drug to just about every other drug out there,” Hill said. “There’s virtually noone doing drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine right now that didn’t first start with marijuana. So from the standpoint of stemming the tide on the so-called more dangerous drugs, the best, most effective method is keeping people off of those drugs in the first place, and that means keeping them off of marijuana.
“If you’re looking at it from the standpoint that it’s not dangerous, that’s just not true. It’s a gateway drug, clear and simple,” Hill said. “So if you start to legalize marijuana, you’re essentially saying it’s OK for your kids to use marijuana, a mind-altering substance that could ultimately create more hazards on the roadway and in the workplace.”
As for Whitesell’s comments on what he sees as a national shift toward support of legalization, Hill again said he feels Whitesell is out of touch, at least when it comes to a majority of Indiana voters.
“I’ll certainly do what I can to advocate that it not happen in Indiana,” Hill said. “I don’t support that and I don’t think we need to be heading in that direction. There are lots of solid reasons to certainly not go the way of states like Colorado and Washington, and living in the state of Indiana, I don’t believe that the vast majority of voters in Indiana would support something like this.”
Noble County Prosecutor Steven T. Clouse took a similar stance when commenting on Whitesell’s recent statement.
“I believe there is no legitimate reason to legalize marijuana,” Clouse said. “No one can show that the legalization of marijuana will make our community safer or better in any way. Marijuana is a controlled substance, and it does affect a person’s body. If someone ingests marijuana and then operates a vehicle, that’s a problem. It impairs the body in a lot of ways, and it has also been shown to be a gateway drug to other, even more dangerous drugs.”
Taking a slightly less black and white approach than Hill and Clouse in reaction to Whitesell’s comments, Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers noted that while he is not going so far as to advocate legalization of the drug, he is not above considering all options on the table in order to determine the most effective method for dealing with the drug in the future.
“Although only the superintendent can tell you what was on his mind, I believe that law enforcement, in general, is observing that the current social policy on marijuana and drugs in general, is not working,” Rogers said. “Society and law enforcement are frustrated and are looking for solutions. The drug problem is far worse than the general public knows.”
Rogers pointed to an informal survey conducted in the Elkhart County jail recently which revealed approximately 70 percent of inmates are addicted to some type of drug or alcohol.
“Is marijuana use dangerous? Yes. But so are alcoholic beverages, and yet we allow alcoholic beverages to be sold with restrictions,” Rogers said. “Alcohol kills more people than marijuana. This is a complex issue. We need to be careful of what kind of message we are sending to people when we de-criminalize marijuana and what ramifications occur as a result. There is still significant evidence that marijuana is a ‘gateway drug’ and people who use marijuana are likely to move on to more addicting drugs. The mere legalization of marijuana is not a panacea. There will still be issues of addiction, treatment and public safety.”
When asked whether he might be in favor of easing the penalties associated with marijuana possession, rather than outright legalization, Rogers said he personally has been a longtime advocate of alternatives to incarceration for non-violent marijuana users.
“I believe the superintendent’s statement has been a catalyst for discussion on this topic,” Rogers said. “I believe in personal liberties and that government has intruded too far into citizens’ lives. However, when public safety is involved, we need to approach this cautiously and make sure we are not creating more of a problem on the other side of legalization. I have always said that marijuana users (as opposed to dealers) should not go to jail, but rather have alternatives to incarceration. Practically, those alternatives are occurring today. I support these alternatives.”


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The law clinics at Fordham’s School of Law got a nod from the Chronicle of Higher Education this past week:
The Securities Arbitration Clinic, at Fordham’s law school, recently won $23,000 in compensatory damages and $44,000 in punitive damages for an elderly couple who had been defrauded out of $25,000. Their broker had “basically stolen” their money by making phony investments with it, says Paul B. Radvany, a clinical associate professor who directs the clinic. Ten students juggle about a dozen cases there now.
From “Amid Downturn, Law Students Give Aggrieved Investors a Day in Court” (subscription required)

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7 Ways To Reduce Premature Skin Aging
Updated: Jul 26, 2021
Aging is inevitable. The older you get, the longer it takes your body to complete its internal processes. This results in those dreaded signs of aging: wrinkles, sagging, skin dryness and sunspots.
Genes dictate when these changes occur, so it’s largely out of your control. But when they happen earlier than you expect, it’s referred to as premature aging. You can’t avoid premature aging completely, but there are some things you can do to slow down the process. Here are seven ways to reduce premature skin aging.
Protect your skin from the sun
Unfortunately for those who love being outside, at the pool or at the lake, the sun plays a huge role in prematurely aging your skin. No matter what activity you are engaging in — gardening, running errands or swimming — you should protect your skin from the elements. This means sunscreen (at least 30 SPF), a wide-brimmed hat, protective clothing and sunglasses.
Drink lots of water
Hydration is key to keeping your skin looking and feeling healthy. Wrinkles show up faster when you are dehydrated, so try to drink at least eight cups of water every day.
Moisturize your skin
Using a moisturizer on your skin traps water in, resulting in a more youthful appearance.
Remove all your makeup before you go to bed
Wash your face at least twice a day with a mild cleanser, and after sweating heavily. Perspiration can irritate your skin, especially if you are wearing a hat or helmet. Be sure to take off your foundation and eye makeup before you fall asleep each night.
Get enough sleep
Sleep benefits your body’s organs, including your skin. Try to get between 7-9 hours of sleep every night.
Eat a balanced diet
Eat meals that include a healthy serving of fresh fruits and vegetables. Research suggests that these healthy choices can prevent damage that leads to premature skin aging. Sugar and refined carbohydrates do the opposite. They can actually accelerate the signs of aging.
Being active — whether it’s taking a walk, going for a run, or lifting weights at the gym — boosts circulation and your immune system, which keeps your skin looking healthier. You’ll feel healthier, too!
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Just one month after over 100,000 homes in the city of New Orleans were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Representative Richard Baker was overheard telling lobbyists outside Congress, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”
Baker later tried to put a positive spin on his statement, saying that he simply hoped that the disaster would give the city a chance to construct cleaner and safer public housing. But regardless of what the Republican Congressman really meant, the city of New Orleans had been trying to decrease the number of public housing developments for decades. Katrina, a category 5 hurricane that many locals refer to as “The Lady,” left tens of thousands injured, homeless, or dead, and caused $108 billion in damages.
Thousands of the city’s poorest inhabitants were suddenly homeless, uprooted from residential areas that would later be repopulated by wealthier and whiter residents. “For years, the city and speculators have been trying to get the tenants out of these apartments,” author and investigative journalist Greg Palast said in an interview with Democracy Now. “Katrina, the perfect storm, was the perfect excuse.”
In the neighborhood of Hollygrove, a largely black community where Lil Wayne and Mack Maine grew up, there were only around 1,100 families left in 2010, compared to the 1,800 families living there before their homes were flooded. After the storm hit, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that post-Katrina New Orleans “is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.”
Most of the city’s public housing survived the storm with minimal damage, but instead of rebuilding them, HUD chose to tear them down. MIT architecture professor John Fernandez inspected hundreds of the damaged housing units and found that “justifications for demolition on the grounds that these buildings can no longer function as safe and humane housing for the people of New Orleans are not credible.” Regardless, the city tore down more than 3,000 public housing developments on grounds that they were too badly damaged to rebuild. In place of public housing, mixed-income housing developments were constructed, allowing wealthier tenants the opportunity to gentrify traditionally black neighborhoods.
10 years after Katrina drowned 40 of the city’s neighborhoods under 10 feet of water, most of the city is in a state of recovery. Of the 72 neighborhoods in the city, 40 have regained more than 90 percent of their pre-Katrina population, and 15 neighborhoods are now more populated than they were before the storm. Violent crime rates have fallen, the entrepreneurship rate in the city is 64 percent higher than the national average, and efforts have been stepped up to convict corrupt politicians. Mayor Nagin, who presided over the lethally ineffective response to the storm, is now in jail for corruption. President George W. Bush, whom Kanye West famously blasted on live TV during a Katrina fundraiser, is now an amateur painter, specializing in portraits of world leaders.
Race and economic status had a huge influence in how city residents were affected by the hurricane. Out of the approximately 150,000 households that were damaged or destroyed, 79 percent of them were affordable housing. The Lower Ninth Ward, an impoverished and predominantly black neighborhood, suffered the most damage from the hurricane, which knocked entire houses off their foundations and flooded even the highest ground in the Ward. Much of the neighborhood is still in ruins, and less than 3,000 people lived there in 2010, considerably less than the 14,000 who lived there a decade earlier.
New Orleans officials reduced the number of units from over 13,000 in 1996 to around 5,000 in 2005. Only 7 percent of the families displaced by the city’s destruction of public housing units were able to return to the mixed-income housing that was constructed to replace them. Only around half of the people evicted from these public housing developments were even able to return to New Orleans at all.
The rebuilding of the city ushered in a new era of “disaster capitalism,” as major corporations received federal funds to rebuild the city. Former President Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon minimum wage law for federal contracts, allowing contractors to bring in underpaid immigrants to rebuild the city. This influx of cheap labor deprived lower-income NOLA residents from an opportunity to be fairly paid to help rebuild their city. Residents of flooded neighborhoods with no homes and no jobs often had no choice but to leave the city entirely, while wealthier residents were able to stay and rebuild.
All told, there were 118,526 fewer African-Americans living in New Orleans in 2010 than in 2005. And as the number of affordable public housing units decreased, the number of homeless people in the city rose by 70% in the years following Katrina. Rebuilding of the city commenced almost immediately, but one of the highest priorities for city officials was the restoration of tourist destinations.
Tourism has always been one of the city’s largest sources of income, and today is no exception. Katrina struck a major blow against this industry, with only 3.7 million people visiting the city in 2006, compared to over 10 million in 2004. But by 2014, the number of tourists ramped back up to 9.5 million, and hotel occupancy rates finally surpassed their pre-2005 levels last year. New restaurants have begun to open, as well as new parks, bike paths, and docks for Mississippi cruises.
After Katrina, a new kind of tourist began to explore the city—one more interested in seeing the devastation and ruined houses than the bars on Bourbon Street. A permanent exhibit on Katrina opened at the Presbytère Museum, and the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum was opened to tell the story of the neighborhood’s destruction. Disaster tourism, as it became known, began to flourish in the city shortly after the hurricane, and it didn’t take long for tour bus companies to offer tours with names like “Hurricane Katrina – America’s Greatest Catastrophe.”
As the Six Flags theme park destroyed by Katrina continued to lay dormant after attempts to rebuild it floundered, the Lower Ninth Ward became its own sort of theme park showcasing the destruction of the city. From dusk to dawn, buses rolled through the neighborhood on an hourly basis, full of tourists snapping photos of ruined buildings where residents drowned and livelihoods were destroyed. “I felt like an animal in a zoo,” one resident said. “Videos of me are all over YouTube.”
“They fixed everything that you want to go down there to see,” says New Orleans rapper Curren$y. “Some things they didn’t fix, so you could come down there and see them too. The Lower Ninth Ward’s a theme park now. They bring motherfuckers through there in a bus and show them, ‘This is what Katrina did,’ as opposed to fixing it and letting people live there again. That’s a theme park, essentially. Fucking KatrinaWorld. And Six Flags, they shooting a movie over there right now. But it would be cool if they made it a theme park again. It did give us something to do. It’s cool to shoot movies, that’s what’s up, but they just taking a big L on that, in my opinion.”
Responding to residents’ complaints, New Orleans officials began to crack down on the tours in 2012. Police began turning back tour buses, and began to fine the bus companies for trespassing in the neighborhood. Unwilling to completely cut off the income-generating tours, however, the City Council negotiated to allow smaller tours under more specific regulations. Tourists can still take the “America’s Worst Catastrophe” tour for $49 a head.
Despite the city’s efforts to limit the bus tours, technology has allowed disaster tourism to flourish on a smaller scale. For some visitors to the city, traditional tourist areas like Bourbon Street feel staged and inauthentic, driving them to seek out the “real” New Orleans. Savvy homeowners have started offering rentals through Airbnb which pander to tourists’ desires to have “an authentic-to-unpleasant experience” in “real, underground NOLA.”
One Lower Ninth resident renting a room of his shotgun house on Airbnb said that tourists love the chance to experience a night in his infamous neighborhood. “There’s broken down houses on either side of me,” he explained, and tourists “get to be like ‘I spent a night in the hood.’” A study by the Alliance for Neighborhood Prosperity found that around 100,000 tourists rented rooms via Airbnb or similar services in 2013 in New Orleans.
Similar to many other tourist cities, the increase in popularity of Airbnb has had the side effect of raising rents across the city, as homeowners decide to become B&B-operators rather than landlords. The percentage of renters paying more than a third of their pre-tax income on rent has increased from 43 percent to 51 percent between 2005 and 2013, while the percentage of homeowners paying unaffordable housing costs has remained stable at 27 percent. The increased scarcity of affordable housing has made it nearly impossible for lower-income residents displaced from the city to return. This, in turn, has allowed gentrification to thrive, giving wealthy investors the ability to pounce on properties that poorer residents have had to abandon.
Even the French Quarter, already one of the city’s most gentrified districts, has seen a transformation from a diverse middle-class neighborhood to a high-rent area packed with corporate tourist establishments. The city’s Faubourg Tremé neighborhood, popularized by the HBO drama Tremé, has also seen an increase of whiter and wealthier residents over the past decade. In the neighborhood of Bywater, the family-based black population that lived there in 2000 declined by 64 percent over the next decade, to be replaced by locavore restaurants, art lofts, coffee shops, and yoga studios.
Although there are definite signs of progress in the city’s reconstruction, the benefits of this success have not been distributed equally to its residents. Employment is on the rise, but only white males have seen this increase, while unemployment for black males remains stagnant. In 2013, black New Orleans households earned 54% less than comparable white households. The city’s public charter schools, whose students are primarily from black and economically disadvantaged families, enroll almost half as many students as they did before Katrina.
“This is the new New Orleans, stripped down, downsized, not too Black, just right for tourists,” Palast said. “You could call it Six Flags over Louisiana.”


Webster’s dictionary defines the word "driven" as: "-adj. being under compulsion, as to succeed or excel." Was "drive" what it took for Lars Eric Mattsson to take on such a massive project as War, or was it ambition? War is defined by Mattsson as "A non-fictional rock opera about the state of this planet we call the Earth.” Mattsson not only commanded eight plus musicians (including Mark Boals, Vitalij Kuprij, Irene Jansson, Björn Jansson, Lance King, Andre Vuurboom) but also several Choirs, the Astral Chamber Orchestra, and also played all guitars, bass, accompanying keyboards, and composed, mixed, and produced this opus. Whew, talk about a full day’s work. The question is, of course, does this ambitious project justify commandeering the world's attention? For the most part, the answer is "yes," but it’s unclear how often one will come back for more than a handful of spins.
War contains eight tracks, with half the tracks being over eight minutes in length individually. Within the eight tracks, seven different lead vocalists are used, which leads to potential questions of continuity. Thankfully, for the most part, the music makes up for any potential discontinuity issues related to the multiple vocalists. Most of the vocalists employed have similar singing styles, which doesn’t hurt.
The compositions are best described as Progressive Rock with dashes of Opera and Classical influences. There are peaks of instrumental inspiration sprinkled throughout, especially on the lengthier tracks, but nothing extremely long to become too annoying.
Some highlights include "Where’s Our Chance," with its galloping pace and multi-tracked choruses by Irene Janssen, followed by "Deep In The Shadows," with its keyboard-based introduction, Classical-sounding bridges, and a fine vocal performance turned in by Mark Boals (other than the forced-sounding highs he tries to reach at the track’s end). Three of the tracks feature keyboard solos by one of Rock’s premier keyboardists, Vitalij Kuprij, who always puts in a fine performance wherever his musical cameos appear. Mattsson himself does an adequate job on guitar, but Yngwie doesn’t have to lose any sleep at this point. On "Smoke And Mirrors," Mattsson can be heard trading licks with Vitalij, which is an interesting diversion.
"War Suite Concerto" seems to begin the downfall of the release as it weighs in at a hefty fourteen minutes. The track takes a while to get ramped up, with its passive vocal opening, and then gives the listener a few fleeting moments of musical instrumental grandeur. The track is broken up into eight vignettes, of which most are slower, Opera-like movements. From here, the release concludes with the equally sullen "Requiem." This track, while employing three vocalists, turns the adrenaline down to a meager 1 on a scale of 10.
This was certainly an ambitious project; unfortunately sometimes that "special spark" is missing, causing this release to lose some of its repetitive playback value. Actually, without the uplifting performances by some of the bigger names mentioned above, this release would have been mediocre at best. There certainly is a mystique about this album when you read the impressive line-up, as well as all of the work Mattsson must have put into it. This is by no means a substandard CD; it just might be a hard buy for a listener on a very tight budget.
Lars Eric Mattsson: All Guitars, Bass, Keyboards (except for solos) and Production
The Astral Chamber Orchestra: Strings
Eddie Sledgehammer: Drums and Percussion
Yoshi Watanabe: Additional Percussion
Recording Quality: B
Overall Rating: C+
Release Date: May 2005
To find out more about Lars Mattsson, visit the label’s site at www.LionMusic.com, or Lars’ official site at www.LarsEricMattsson.com.


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I’m Still Seeing Breen – Amazing music video featuring stunning action footage from the Half-Life 2 game, the G-Man on ‘vocals’, and of course the compulsory nu-metal soundtrack.
I also learned something new; this relatively new concept of making animated videos from computer games is called Machinima and apparently there is a whole sub-culture dedicated to this special artform:
Machinima’s a new form of filmmaking that uses computer games technology to shoot films in the virtual reality of a game engine. Rather than picking up expensive camera equipment, or spending months painstakingly tweaking even more expensive 3D packages, Machinima creators act out their movies within a computer game.
Once in a while a piece of software comes along and just blows my mind – lately it’s been NASA’s World Wind software which has captured my imagination. This amazing software uses NASA Landsat 7 satellite images to let you zoom in to almost any place on the globe and view the surrounding area in 3D. It also allows you to play around with lots of scientific information for visualization of weather systems or temperature data.
NASA World Wind
The very best thing about this is that it’s totally free of charge to download and use. Be warned though – the data it needs will require several gigabytes of diskspace and you’ll need a decent internet connection (512kbps+)(or a lot of patience) to be able to download all the data for the high-resolution images. But it’s still worth it to be able to explore countless places around the globe from the comfort of your home!

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Passively mode-locked laser with an ultra-narrow spectral width
journal contributionposted on 2023-06-09, 05:01 authored by Michael Kues, Christian Reimer, Benjamin Wetzel, Piotr Roztocki, Brent E Little, Sai T Chu, Tobias Hansson, Evgeny A Viktorov, David J Moss, Roberto Morandotti
Most mode-locking techniques introduced in the past focused mainly on increasing the spectral bandwidth to achieve ultrashort, sub-picosecond-long coherent light pulses. By contrast, less importance seemed to be given to mode-locked lasers generating Fourier-transform-limited nanosecond pulses, which feature the narrow spectral bandwidths required for applications in spectroscopy, the efficient excitation of molecules, sensing and quantum optics. Here, we demonstrate a passively mode-locked laser system that relies on simultaneous nested cavity filtering and cavity-enhanced nonlinear interactions within an integrated microring resonator. This allows us to produce optical pulses in the nanosecond regime (4.3 ns in duration), with an overall spectral bandwidth of 104.9 MHz—more than two orders of magnitude smaller than previous realizations. The very narrow bandwidth of our laser makes it possible to fully characterize its spectral properties in the radiofrequency domain using widely available GHz-bandwidth optoelectronic components. In turn, this characterization reveals the strong coherence of the generated pulse train.
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Official Rating: 4 stars
Marmot Basin has over 1000 acres of slopes, is great value and provides good skiing for all abilities. It is particularly suitable for better intermediates, who will enjoy the several black pistes that the resort has to offer. The ski school, based in Jasper, has a great reputation, as well as offering snowboard clinics for those who want to spend less time on their bums. The scenery is wonderful and the skiing is typically North American - stress-free and user-friendly. Boarders have a particular soft spot for the place.
Jasper, which is 30 minutes from the skiing, is a world-famous resort in its own right, with great access to some of the best scenery and mountain terrain in Canada. It has plenty of quality accommodation for all budgets. The nightlife is reasonable, although some boarders seem to disagree! Because of its location, access to a car is invaluable. Then if you don't feel like skiing or travelling to other ski domains (for example Panorama), you can hit the open road and explore this stunning area. There is also the Jasper in January festival, which often has cheap deals on lift passes.
Overall, Jasper/Marmot basin is a wonderful place to experience Canadian mountain life and scenery, with plenty of great skiing – if you're into that sort of thing…
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Racism, Transphobia, Sexism, Ableism, Homophobia and every other form of bigotry are deeply ingrained in our society. While over time, such ideas have become less acceptable, the sheer volume of hate has arose as apologists continue to give excuses as justification. Because of this rise of rooted ideals, individuals, institutions and communities are given a choice: ignore and deny it or face it head on.
To say that Washburn University has only recently been affected by such forms of discrimination would be misleading and inaccurate. Unfortunately, Washburn has a rich history of reported incidents that have resulted in mistrust and the questioning of the validation of the experiences of individual students or faulty members courageous enough to report injustices. Unsurprisingly, students and faculty watched their reports lead to inaction, and many in the Washburn community were left feeling unheard, undervalued and scared. As a result, a recent trend on Washburn University has materialized and caught the eye of other students, faculty/staff, administration, and the community. The idea that through all of this hate and tension, #WUCanDoBetter.
As recent events concerning unacceptable behavior targeting marginalized groups made their way to social media, students began to combat this hate and rally allies with #WUCanDoBetter. This statement began to take over the “Washburn Twitter World” as many members of the Washburn Community came together to validate, mourn and educate others of their experiences and stories, inspiring faculty members and other students to acknowledge that issues need to be addressed so that all students feel safe and welcome on campus.
An important consequence of #WUCanDoBetter is that it has inspired a plethora of marginalized groups to speak out about their experiences in a different way, destroying the facade of inclusion that has been promoted to the outside world.
In light of recent events and similar to the campaign on Twitter, a group of students created a survey that has made its way around campus, reaching over 130 responses and asking members of the community if they have experienced forms of hate while attending Washburn University. The goal of both #WUCanDoBetter and the survey is to make sure that individuals in the Washburn community are heard and to be the #VoiceoftheVoiceless for the students who are afraid of the consequences that come with speaking their truth. Both WBSU and Halo have expressed their aggravation and disappointment as, on numerous occasions, people have tried to discredit them and invalidate their stories, while others have continued to ask for the retelling of their experiences at “town halls” with no action taken to make Washburn University more inclusive.
Here are the results of the survey:
When asked if they had experienced racism on Washburn University’s campus, 75% of the participants said yes, with 23% saying no, and an additional 2% saying they were not sure.
As for transphobia, participants responded with a 49% yes, 39% no, and 13% not sure.
Homophobia and ableism were also covered: 56% of the responders had witnessed or experienced homophobia, 33% hadn’t, and 11% weren’t sure. As for Ableism, 43% confirmed they had some form of contact or witnessed it with it, with 28% saying no, and 28% being unsure.
In addition to this survey, many heartbreaking and, frankly, rage-inducing stories and poignant statements were shared. Here are just a fraction of those, not accounting for the stories still being collected:
“I was told by faculty to stay silent about the adversity I’ve faced on campus.”
“While discussing what transgender means, a man said it was a mental illness. We had a transgender classmate.”
“My religion isn’t scary!”
“When I tell you it is racist, don’t second guess me.”
“I reported a sexual assault by another woman and the Title IX Director asked if I had a voluntary lesbian experience and suddenly regretted it.”
“My black brother was kicked off campus without a fair trial.”
“My Latina based sorority was invited to a social with a frat, and they made racist remarks about our food, drinks and music.”
“I have been told that I need to speak English.”
“I have to work 10 times harder than my peers. “
“I was attacked by a student for wearing a Jilbab on my way to campus.”
“I have to work 10x harder than my peers.”
“Many times sororities have been caught with racist intents with very little backlash.”
“Students at Washburn call other students the N-word and call Mexicans wetbacks.”
“Just because I choose to wear my hair natural, that isn’t invitation to touch it.”
“A professor saying students with low ACT scores should not have the same opportunities as other students.”
“You want my culture but not my struggle.”
“I didn’t come to class after the campaign ‘Punish Muslims Day.’ I went to admin and they said they couldn’t say anything about it.”
“I was pulled over by WUPO and I was harassed and then accused of having drugs because of my skin color. I’m an athlete.”
Many of these stories were displayed at the listening session conducted by administration on March 18, 2019. While an hour is not nearly enough time to discuss concerns on campus, administration has begun to take steps in the right direction; however, these complicated issues must continue to be discussed in order to hold administration accountable and keep history from repeating itself. To see the list of administrations solutions go to https://washburn.edu/diversity/multicultural/index.html.
My voice may be the author of this article; however, I am just a mouthpiece for my fellow students who continually face discrimination for nothing more than living their truth. While I empathize, I can never begin to understand the feeling of mistreatment at the level they deal with every day. All I can do is be an ally, use my privilege and platform, and let them know that I care. Change is hard, but change for the better is essential. It is never too late to fix your heart.


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Listen as we sat down with Mary Kay von Brendal and Tom Abbett to talk about the Best Summer Concerts in 2021 at the Lake of the Ozarks. Nestled in the heart of the Lake of the Ozarks, the Ozarks Amphitheater has been voted Best Live Music Venue in Missouri. Ozarks Amphitheater is a premiere concert and entertainment venue located in Camdenton, Missouri. We have hosted world class acts such as The Charlie Daniels Band, Miranda Lambert, Foreigner and many more.
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Photographing Wright with Andrew Pielage – Beginner Level (Sold Out)
November 22, 2019 – November 24, 2019
Hone your photography skills at Taliesin West — one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most personal creations, with photographer Andrew Pielage. Learn the basics of photography and more, including creative approaches to composition, image framing, and the challenges of light and shadow.
The landmark architecture of Taliesin West is the backdrop for this photographic journey. Local Arizona photographer Andrew Pielage will guide students in capturing the Sonoran Desert as well as the National Historic Landmark and UNESCO World Heritage site.
Students learn the tools needed to best utilize a camera including aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, while applying creative approaches to composition, image framing, and the challenges of light and shadow.
Requirements: Students must provide their own fully manual camera and tripod.
Registration will close at 8 a.m. the Thursday prior to the workshop date. The workshop is subject to cancellation if minimum enrollment has not been met.
Session fees cover all materials and include a $50 non-refundable registration charge. You will receive an optional our of the historic home. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation members receive a 10% discount on the workshop. Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday is provided. Must be 18+.
Dates & Times
Friday, November 22 — 3:30 – 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 23 — 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 24 — 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
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‘RI Generous Hearts is a CSR project launched by Royal Institute to mark its 50th anniversary. The initiative is in collaboration with Foundation of Goodness – a charity organization that empowers the less privileged rural communities. The project aims at providing 5000 underprivileged children in the rural parts of Sri Lanka with essential school supplies pack, each worth of LKR 4000 that will cover all their educational requirement for one full year. If you would like to make a difference in uplifting the future of deprived young learners, heed this call and donate towards the worthy cause.

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Stephen Moyer: Wife Anna Paquin Lets Me Bite Fans' Boobs
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Anna Paquin isn't the jealous type.
In the July/August issue of Men's Health, her husband of 10 months (and "True Blood" costar) Stephen Moyer reveals that he's not afraid to get up close and personal with fans -- with his wife's permission, of course.
"I get to sign boobs a lot. I get to bite boobs, occasionally, when I'm allowed," Moyer, 41, says. "If my missus is there and she approves of the person I get to bite boobs...and necks."
In the interview, Moyer also recalls the time he first realized his feelings for Paquin, 28 (who plays his love interest on the HBO vampire drama).
"I was intrigued by her. She was very open about work. But she was withdrawn [personally]," he says. "I was like, 'Here I am; here's everything I got.' I remember leaving the screen test and thinking, 'God, I'd like to spend more time with her.'"
Two months later, while filming the show's the pilot, Moyer got his chance. "I remember getting back to London [after the pilot] and just going, 'I have to keep speaking to this person,'" the actor says. "We began speaking every night on Skype for two or three hours." Two years later, the couple tied the knot at a private residence in Malibu, Calif.
His love life aside, Moyer notes that unlike his costars Alexander Skarsgard, Ryan Kwanten and Joe Manganiello, his body wasn't always built for nude scenes.
"I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen," he says. "My working out was with my right arm and it involved a pint glass."
To get in shape, Moyer began working out with a trainer. "I find that I don't go at it if I don't have someone making me. You'd be amazed at how quickly I let it all go," he tells the mag. "I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up."
Still, Moyer points out that there are perks to having a ripped physique. "I didn't want my kids to look back at the show in 20 years' time and go, 'Who's that slobby git? Oh, it's you, Dad.'"
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We’ve been tracking Stephen Strasburg news all morning and will continue to do so this week as the Nationals make an important decision on his immediate future with the club.
Strasburg, 22, was lifted from his start against the Phillies on Saturday night after feeling pain in his right elbow during a fifth-inning pitch to outfielder Domonic Brown. He was later diagnosed with a strain of the flexor tendon in his forearm, but all signs so far point to him being just fine.
According to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson, the right-hander played catch on Sunday morning before heading back to Washington, D.C. for an MRI. The results of that examination will determine whether he is shut down for the rest of 2010 or kept active. But he did play catch, and that’s a major positive.
Nationals GM Mike Rizzo denied a report from Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus stating that the team has already decided to shut Strasburg down. For what it’s worth, we’re finding it hard to believe that the kid is going to throw another pitch this season. Even if everything checks out fine, he topped out at 109 innings last year with San Diego State and is up to 123.1 total frames between the minors and majors this season. Strasburg is too valuable to that organization in the long term and, for all intents and purposes, 2010 is a done deal for the Nats.
The D.C. medical staff would be wise to tell the young phenom to shut it down and aim to get himself back to full health by the start of spring training next February.
“Work fast and throw strikes” has long been the top conventional wisdom for those preaching pitching success. The “work fast” part of that has increasingly gone by the wayside, however, as pitchers take more and more time to throw pitches in an effort to max out their effort and, thus, their velocity with each pitch.
Now, as Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer reports, the “throw strikes” part of it is going out of style too:
Pitchers are throwing fewer pitches inside the strike zone than ever previously recorded . . . A decade ago, more than half of all pitches ended up in the strike zone. Today, that rate has fallen below 47 percent.
There are a couple of reasons for this. Most notable among them, Lindbergh says, being pitchers’ increasing reliance on curves, sliders and splitters as primary pitches, with said pitches not being in the zone by design. Lindbergh doesn’t mention it, but I’d guess that an increased emphasis on catchers’ framing plays a role too, with teams increasingly selecting for catchers who can turn balls that are actually out of the zone into strikes. If you have one of those beasts, why bother throwing something directly over the plate?
There is an unintended downside to all of this: a lack of action. As Lindbergh notes — and as you’ve not doubt noticed while watching games — there are more walks and strikeouts, there is more weak contact from guys chasing bad pitches and, as a result, games and at bats are going longer.
As always, such insights are interesting. As is so often the case these days, however, such insights serve as an unpleasant reminder of why the on-field product is so unsatisfying in so many ways in recent years.


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Eight centuries before Christ, a Mayan civilization began in the lowlands of Guatemala. For more than seventeen centuries its population grew steadily until suddenly, around A.D. 900, the society collapsed. Within decades the population fell to one-tenth its previous level. The apparent reason: soil erosion.

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Yowch. Major blow to the ego.
Inspired by a zinger of a comment from a customer of mine about pricing because- "it's just a __________. I didn't expect it to be that much".
I price my labor based on two things- the first being what the average going rate is for sewing/tailoring/working with specialty fabrics, and the second being what I believe that my time is worth.
Based on what I sell most of my work for- I know that I'm not asking too much. This project happened to be rather large and time consuming- thus the "high" price.
So, now I'm curious. How much would you sell yourself for? This pertains to any skill-set at all. Whether it's playing/writing music, baking the best cookies ever, being really good at doing laundry, or anything else that tickles you the right way. How much do you feel your skills are worth?
Me? I'm priceless. But that breaks down to about $33/hr on an invoice.

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Putin's hyper-masculine performance has been praised by Chinese social media users who view him as a "macho" man.
Men are more likely than women to seek help with their relationships online, according to a new analysis of Reddit posts
The findings suggest men may flock to online forums like Reddit for relationship advice due to social stigma tied to men sharing emotions in-person.
China's boys are too 'effeminate' and need to channel the ancient spirit of 'yang' to rediscover their masculinity, government says
Claims by top government officials that China faces a masculinity crisis that could impact national security spark outrage and disbelief.
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Military vets may have worse PTSD symptoms if they conform to 'masculine traits' like suppressing their emotions and having more sex
The study including more than 3,500 veterans also found that veterans often try to double down on their masculinity after trauma by having more sex.
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The sociologist Michael Kimmel studies masculinities. He says men can turn to violence to "restore" or "reclaim" power.
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The actor who plays Jon Snow on the hit HBO series spoke to The Sunday Times about his thoughts on masculinity and the way young boys and men are affected by it. He has a problem with the way masculinity is taught.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Neil Young's Greendale
In the end everything gets wrapped up in a neat little box (almost). The main character does some crazy hallucinogenic drugs and goes on a spirit quest. She defeats the curse of her birth... fine. I was just a little bored. The only thing I really cared about in the end was what happened to Earth. That dude our heroine Sun made it with in the old volkswagon?? Yeah he totally turned into a deer or sumpthing.. went galloping off into the woods and ran into Sun's anthropomorphic plant aunt. Yeah man, what happened to Earth!!??!
At any rate, the artwork is very pretty and somewhat reminds me of these old hippie posters for rock bands back in the 60s, like the Greatful Dead. Bob Masse!

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WWF´s recent Deforestation Front report shows that we are losing forests at an alarming rate: over 414,398.098 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of California, were lost in the deforestation fronts between 2004 and 2017. Two-thirds of global forest cover loss occurs in the tropic and subtropic regions of the world.
Many of these forests have disappeared to make place for the production of commodities like pulp & paper and packaging. This is particularly the case in Indonesia, once one of the richest and most diverse tropical natural forests in the world. Pulp, paper and packaging production is still a significant driver of deforestation, forest degradation, and social conflicts in several countries.
WWF believes that all companies in the supply chain from forest managers, processors, traders, and buyers, should be responsible for their business and use their power to halt deforestation and forest degradation. WWF supports as sustainable transition of the sector by offering recommendations on buyers and investor´s sourcing policies.
Since the early 2000s, WWF and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been closely monitoring the impacts of deforestation caused by pulp and paper companies in Indonesia, founding Eyes on the Forest to investigate those companies in the sector that are clearing forests and grabbing land in Indonesia. In particular, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group (SGM), and Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), a subsidiary of Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Group, have been found to be continuously involved in illegal logging practices, human rights violations and corruption for land expansion.
WWF has engaged with the two company groups and their stakeholders including buyers and investors, following their pledge to stopping deforestation and addressing their legacy but the companies haven´t made any progress on their commitments to date.
Among WWF´s key demands are to remedy, restore and conserve important forest and peat landscapes, and compensate local people who have been affected by their operations.
WWF has been issuing recommendations and advisories to pulp and paper buyers and investors of APP/SMG and RGE/APRIL as a way to turn the tide of deforestation by both company groups. In addition, WWF launched a specific SMG/APP advisory and RGE/APRIL advisory for the buyers and investors of these companies and continues to monitor and report on any further violations and increased deforestation activities.


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Controversy over National's tax cuts: a clarificationby Keith Rankin, 12 December 2008
In my Scoop article Controversy over National's tax cuts (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00214.htm) I inadvertently suggested that the fiscal cost of extending the Independent Earner Tax Credit (IETC) in 2011 into the $14,000 to $24,000 income bracket would be only $5 million.
The correct estimate is $100 million. If the IETC is incorporated into the independent earner tax scale that I suggested, there will be about 250,000 persons affected. On average they would be about $400 per year better off. Multiplying these two numbers gives $100 million.
In Parliament on Wednesday, Michael Cullen suggested (and Bill English conceded in National admits tax package costs Kiwi workers) that it would cost $730 million to ensure that nobody was worse off in 2011 under National's Tax Cuts than they would have been under Labour's tax cuts. Only $100 million of that $730 million relates to persons defined as 'independent' who will earn less than $24,000. The remaining $630 million relates to persons not defined as independent and who will earn less than $50,000 in 2011.
There are ethical and semantic problems in trying to separate 'independent' persons from 'dependent' persons. However these problems are not nearly as great as the problems faced by the previous government in deciding who was 'in work' and who was 'not in work'.
Currently, as a result of Labour's Working for Families programme, people working 29 hours per week who live with a non-employed partner are defined as 'not in work'. People not employed at all but supported by a partner working 30 hours per week are defined as 'in work', but not if the supporting partner is providing that support via the Child Support scheme.
Ideal solutions will avoid separating citizens into distinct sub-categories of citizen (such as 'in-work' versus 'not in-work'; 'independent' or 'dependent'). In the meantime, National can easily and affordably correct its egregious error in denying an Independent Earner Tax Credit to independent earners who earn less than $24,000 per year.

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Today was another medical mission to yet another batey.
This day had its own gifts.
Starting with our first patient of the day, Adelle.
The batey was more primitive than the one yesterday, and the ground was uneven and littered with trash. Preparing to walk into the house that was to be our clinic, Adelle fell and injured her knee and ankle. She was in a great deal of pain and dizzy and nauseous.
Adelle spent the day with her feet propped on a chair, ice packs placed to keep swelling down. If you have to be injured, doing it on a medical mission is handy. On the other hand, being injured on an medical mission miles from anywhere in stifling tropical heat is not so good.
However, here is the gift. Adelle, a Spanish speaker, spent the day on the porch unable to leave her chair, surrounded by children as she created her own impromptu VBS with only a box of crayons and paper airplanes and a heart for Jesus.
No tshirts. No schedule. No Bible except what Adelle had in her heart. She taught them St. Mary’s Good Morning, God prayer in Spanish, and it was the batey children’s prayer that blessed our food at lunch.
We had lunch of sandwiches and juice to share with the children. As I looked into each child’s eyes, and handed him and her a sandwich, in my mind I said, the body of Christ, the bread of heaven. As the cup of juice was given, in my prayer heart I said, the blood of Christ, the cup of salvation.
It was the Lord’s meal. All were welcome there.
After my time of praying with the patients before their clinic visit, I once again walked the dirt streets of the batey. Everyone welcomed me into their very simple home for a blessing. Everyone said yes to a prayer. Folks had visited the clinic earlier and children who had been blessed by Adelle were met again in their homes.
It was truly The Body of Christ. All were fed the true Bread of Jesus’ love. All were welcome. So very welcome. Christians from America. Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. Everyone.
One thought on “The body of Christ. The bread of heaven”
Praying for y’all!

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Participants in Global Warming Express, the Sierra Club science and civics education program by and for kids, speak at the New Mexico Legislature. In February, some of the GWEers in Albuquerque meet with new Mayor Tim Keller, who promised them he would ban plastic straws from Albuquerque city buildings.
In a surprising move, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke cancelled a March BLM lease auction of 4,454 acres in Greater Chaco to oil and gas companies. After protests from New Mexico’s congressional delegates, the Frack Off Chaco Coalition, the Navajo Nation and All Pueblo Council of Governors, National Congress of American Indians, 15 Navajo chapter houses, the Legislature and thousands of concerned citizens, Zinke instructed the BLM to defer the sale pending analysis of cultural resources in the lease area.
The Sandoval County Commission approves a Citizens Working Group composed of 14 county residents and led by geologist Don Phillips. Members were responsible for developing an oil and gas ordinance that included meaningful tribal consultation and water protections. The working group ended up splitting; only one committee’s proposal was recommended to the commission, and that proposal was significantly altered.
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission approves Southwestern Public Service’s 1.2-gigawatt wind-energy project in New Mexico and west Texas. Rio Grande Chapter activists called and emailed commissioners to urge passage of the proposal, which included prioritized hiring of local contractors on construction workers.
The New Mexico Supreme Court issued a stunning decision, allowing New Mexico’s industry-written Copper Rule to stand. The court’s decision came despite the fact – acknowledged by the industry, the Environment Department, and the court – that copper mines will “inevitably” pollute large areas of groundwater that will become increasingly important in our arid climate.
The Albuquerque City Council passes a resolution to condemn coyote-killing contests.
Despite less than two days’ notice, more than 400 residents around the Gila National Forest attend a meeting with the Air Force and protest rally opposing a possible plan by Holloman Air Force Base to run 10,000 test flights a year over Gila National Forest. Not one person spoke in favor of the Holloman proposal.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposes to eliminate Bureau of Land Management rules that would reduce methane pollution on public lands.
HB161, an ALEC bill that would have stopped any local government from, for example, requiring labeling of genetically modified crops or imposing public-health restrictions like setbacks or pesticide-drift regulations, died in committee. Many grassroots activists contacted their legislators to stop the bill.
The House passes a bill renewing the 10% tax credit for residents and small businesses who install solar panels. Gov. Susana Martinez failed to sign it by the deadline (also called a pocket veto).
The Counselor Health Impact Committee installs monitors to measure indoor and outdoor air quality within 1 mile of oil and gas wells in Navajo Nation Counselor Chapter. Sierra Club funded the 20 monitors the team installed April 15 and paid for lab analysis and reports to each household, church and chapter house being monitored.
U.S. District Judge James Browning, presiding over a 2015 lawsuit against the BLM Farmington Field Office, ruled that the BLM did not violate the National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act by opening Greater Chaco to horizontal fracking under a 2003 management plan that doesn’t analyze the impacts of horizontal fracking.
Eight wolf pups are cross-fostered from captive litters into wild ones this past spring. In late April, two pups were placed into a wild den in Arizona and two into a wild den in New Mexico. In May, four more were placed with another New Mexico pack. The purpose is to increase the genetic diversity of the wild population. The hope is their wild families will teach them what they need to know about avoiding humans.
The Las Cruces City Council passed a resolution to obtain 25% of the city’s electricity from renewable energy by 2022, 30% by 2030, and 100% by 2050.
Global Warming Express kids meet with the mayors of Las Cruces, Albuquerque and Santa Fe to talk plastic straws, climate and solar-powered cities.
In reaction to a proposal by Holtec to build a storage site for high-level nuclear waste between Carlsbad and Hobbs and ship all the nation’s radioactive waste there, activists tour the state with a mock radioactive-waste canister to highlight how risky the shipment and storage of the nuclear waste is. Rio Grande Chapter volunteers organized opposition among community members in southeast New Mexico
Thanks to citizen lobbying, 30 legislators signed on to letters objecting to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadequate public-comment period on a proposed dump for high-level nuclear fuel rods between Carlsbad and Hobbs. The NRC held public meetings in southeast New Mexico. At every location, the overwhelming majority of commenters expressed concern about the risk to New Mexicans and West Texans. The attendance in Roswell was so high, the fire marshal would not allow all members of the public to attend.
To protect the communities and environment of the border Southwest, more than 400 people gathered to protest at All Against the Wall on June 2, at the construction site of the newest border wall at Santa Teresa, just west of El Paso.
Groups including San Juan Citizens Alliance, Diné C.A.R.E, Amigos Bravos, WildEarth Guardians and Sierra Club win a legal challenge against the BLM Farmington Office’s attempt to lease minerals on 19,788 acres of Santa Fe National Forest land encompassing Greater Chaco region.
Results from air monitors placed at homes and schools near oil and gas wells on Counselor Chapter, Navajo Nation, show that the open air is widely contaminated with chemical-laden particulate matter and formaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
The El Paso Group of the Rio Grande Chapter delivers more than 10,000 letters and 5,000 petition signatures to the Texas Parks and Wildlife executive director to support a plan to return endangered gray wolves to the wilds of Texas.
Installing solar gets a lot more affordable for Eastern New Mexico residents when the Public Regulation Commission kills a montly fee that Southwestern Public Service had imposed for years on homes and businesses that invested in solar.
President Trump reverses two of the key promises the U.S. made to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement that would drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, revoking two methane-reducing rules.
The Mexican government announces that there are 30 Mexican wolves in the wild in Mexico. This is in addition to the 114 in the U.S. as of 2017.
In Nov. 6 elections, Sierra Club-endorsed candidates sweep statewide offices, including governor, secretary of state, land commissioner and attorney general, as well as 19 of 25 legislative races and every local race. See facing page for how you can use this opportunity to create environmental progress.
After more than 1,100 Rio Grande Chapter supporters emailed the agency, the U.S. Forest Service revokes the grazing permit of a rancher who trapped an endangered Mexican gray wolf and bludgeoned it with a shovel. Also in November, an Arizona man is sentenced to five years probation and revokation of his rifle for intentiolly shooting a gray wolf.
Sandoval County Commission rejects a weak oil and gas ordinance with insufficient protections.
El Paso Group collaborates with El Paso Environmemtal Services Department on informational decals for recycling bins to reduce cty’s contamination rate, 10 times that of neighboring Las Cruces.


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The Nike Kobe X EXT Mid receives a makeover with a new mid cut and minimalist design. This edition of the Kobe X features an all-white leather upper with all over X-shaped perforations. Adding more lux to the white on white, are gold eyelets and a large gold Kobe emblem on the tongue. The lifestyle sneaker is finished off a clean gum outsole.
The Nike Kobe X EXT Mid is now available in-store and online for $225. Buy here!

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Imagine these three scenarios…
- An avid F1 fan watching a live feed of the race and experiencing the adrenaline rush as the cars zoom past
- A remote employee watching a live feed of CEO’s all-hands meeting remotely and getting excited about company’s strategy and future
- A student taking a class online, watching the professor explain complex concepts through live video
What is the common factor in all of these?
The answer is easy: All these scenarios rely on live video feeds generated from one source but consumed by many end-users as well as various applications. In business, application where video is important include collaboration, broadcast messaging, training and video on demand. As these video distribution scenarios become part of our daily experience, the traditional unicast (one-way) video distribution and routing mechanisms where each data packet is transmitted to a single user, fall short. While this method of data transmission may be sufficient for a small number of users, it is not efficient enough to ensure the service delivery for a large group of users, especially when real time data transmission is required. This is where multicast-designed networks deliver efficient communications. Multicast uses network infrastructure efficiently by requiring the source to send a packet only once, even if it needs to be delivered to a large number of receivers. While multicast protocols and operation has been around for more than 10 years, Network administrators have not implemented it widely due to lack of performance and deployment complexity.
In simple terms, the multicast model consists of group of transmitters (or senders) and receivers. A typical multicast group contains one transmitter and one or more receivers. The receiver sends a “group join” message to network switches and routers via the Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP). Multicast routers use PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) protocols to keep track of active multicast receiver(s) and use this information to configure routing. The switches and routers then forward multicast traffic only to the receivers that have joined the multicast group, thus minimizing network latency and traffic impact.
With new Multicast functionality present in the upcoming Dell Networking OS 5.1 Release for select Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, organizations can scale and overcome many performance challenges without the need for complex configurations, thanks to an improved, efficient implementation of the PIM and IGMP snooping features. Building efficient video distribution networks to support the scenarios outlined above can be easily accomplished with these enhanced feature sets. A new whitepaper from Dell Networking solutions team lays out sample blueprints to help companies accomplish and design their network for optimized multicast delivery of communications and video.
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Life should be enjoyed to the fullest. It is a part of human nature to extract mirth from every piece of work, they do. Moreover, if we talk about art, the funniest thing in it is cartoon drawing. Dating from the stone ages, we have seen men depicting its surroundings in funny ways, like a man with a dog’s head and likewise. These little diversions from real life give us some extra amusement.
So, whenever we are talking about the drawing of cartoons, we must be thinking about distortions as it is considered to be one of the easiest ways to draw. As the name suggests, it refers to drawing things disproportionately. You can always make your girlfriend laugh by drawing your face on a Johnny Bravo figure. Beware too many distortions can make things turn out real ridiculous wounds. 4anime
A completed drawing may look very complicated on a first sigh t, but if you analyze it further, you would find that it is not that complicated. There are certain rules which can really help anybody or rather any ‘immature’ drawer to make a very appealing cartoon. Every drawing starts with a few simple shapes- circles, lines, etc. Before going into any details the outlines must be dealt with first. Now, consider a few things about the character that you are about to draw, like is it a person or an animal or a bit both. Then determine what type of personality your cartoon is going to have. This helps in determining the gestures that will be added afterwards.
For example, consider that you want to draw a cartoon cat. This can be broken into very simple steps. After all, cartoons are unique because they are very simple and yet very expressive.
1. First break your cartoon cat into its basic parts. Start with drawing a simple oval shape that is the base for its head.
2. Draw two triangles on the two upper sides of its head to make the ears.
3. Draw circles to show its eyes. Draw vertical and horizontal ellipses respectively to show its nose and mouth.
4. Then draw its eyelashes and moustache with the help of straight lines.
5. Then you can also give some shades to make the gestures more expressive.
Now these cartoon drawings are not only sources of fun personified, but it also has some other utilities. They are very appealing and expressive nature of these cartoon drawings make them vividly useful in advertising. These cartoon characters not only make people laugh but also makes them inclined towards the consumer goods which are very simply yet powerfully represented via these cartoon drawings.


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Singapore, Hong Kong on track to match Swiss offshore cash
Singapore and Hong Kong together will hold as much overseas wealth as Switzerland in four years, according to a study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
It underscores the boom in private wealth in the Asia Pacific region as well as the impact on Switzerland from the clampdown on tax evasion after the financial crisis.
Banks in Switzerland stored $2.4 trillion (CHF2.33 trillion) in offshore riches in 2016, the highest in the world, BCG wrote in its annual global wealth report published on Tuesday. BCG expects this number to rise to $2.8 trillion by 2021.
However, Singapore and Hong Kong together are on track to match Switzerland’s expected 2021 total thanks to their proximity to Asia Pacific’s swelling population of millionaires and billionaires, BCG said.
In 2016, Singapore had $1.2 trillion and Hong Kong $800 billion in offshore wealth.
“Switzerland remained the largest offshore centre with a 24% share,” BCG wrote in its report. “But that share is projected to decline through 2021.”
Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse have made major pushes to expand in Asia Pacific and are the region’s biggest and fourth-biggest private banks respectively, according to Asian Private Banker.
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State to benefit from recycling grants
11/01/2008 7:40 PM
The Carpenter Government has awarded almost $800,000 to local government, industry and community groups across the State for innovative waste reduction initiatives.
Environment and Climate Change Minister David Templeman today announced that10 businesses and organisations would each receive as much as $297,000, under the latest round of funding through the Strategic Waste Initiatives Scheme (SWIS).
“As we prepare to confront the challenges of our changing climate, it is important that we put more effort into reducing our waste and increasing our recycling,” Mr Templeman said.
“The projects recognised under this round of funding will help engage the community in acting now for the future and preserving our unique environment.”
Grants include $53,000 to the Westralia Airports Corporation to undertake a major waste audit at the Perth Airport estate; $297,025 for the expansion of the Hazelmere Wood Recycling Centre; and $30,000 for a
collaborative project between the Department of Environment and Conservation and the Southern Gateway Alliance, to deliver recycled content road-base to be used in a section of the new Perth-Bunbury highway.
Six community groups have also been awarded a further $42,000 worth of grants as part of the Community Grants Scheme (CGS) for local, small-scale waste minimisation and recycling projects.
The grants of up to $20,000 are for State-wide projects, including $2,500 for the establishment of a facility in Kununurra to recycle cooking oil into a bio-diesel and $2,500 for the operators of Alexandra Bridge Camping Ground in Margaret River to install recycling stations.
The Minister said the funding was part of the Carpenter Government’s commitment to move the State closer to the vision of ‘Toward Zero Waste’ by supporting waste and recycling initiatives across government, business and community.
“The benefits of recycling in combating climate change are now widely acknowledged and projects like these make it easier for everyone to join this fight,” he said.
Mr Templeman said more than $750,000 had been awarded to organisations in the recent round of grants from the Strategic Waste Initiatives Scheme and the Community Grants Scheme.
“This is on top of the more than $5million in waste reduction grants we distributed last year,” he said.
“The Carpenter Government is acting now for the future by tackling critical waste issues.
“We are taking the levy collected for all waste dumped in urban landfills and using it to support waste reduction and recycling initiatives.
“Late last year, we saw the passage of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Bill through Parliament. This important legislation will see the establishment of a separate Waste Authority which will develop a comprehensive strategy for managing waste across Western Australia.”
The next round of SWIS and CGS is expected to be announced shortly.
Further information on the schemes is available from the Zero Waste website at
or by contacting Paul Ward on 6467 5320
Minister's office - 9220 5050


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I created this recipe years ago, using some of my favorite vegetables with a TexMex twist. This recipe is so easy and fun to make. Because it's so simple and flexible, you can remove ingredients you don't like or add additional ingredients depending on your own tastes.
Black beans, 1 can 15 oz./410g
Corn, 1 can 15 oz./410g
Tomatoes, 1 ½ cups chopped, whatever type you prefer
Cucumbers, 1 cup chopped
Avocados, 1 cup chopped
Jalapenos, 2 to 3 finely chopped and/or purple onion ½ chopped
Fresh cilantro (coriander), handful roughly chopped
Lime juice,1/4 cup
Drain the black beans and corn, if using can corn. Chop and deseed the tomatoes. Slice cucumber lengthwise, scrape out the seeds then chop into small bite size pieces. Chop avocado. Choice either or both jalapeno or purple onion depending on your heat likeness. Finely chop jalapeno, roughly chop red onion. Roughly chop cilantro.
Mix in a bowl the black beans through jalapeno/red onion. Once mixed, add cilantro and lime juice then mix again. Add salt and pepper as you like. Serve as a salad or with chips as a dip, enjoy!
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Prep 20 mins
Cook 50 mins
This goes great with a turkey or chicken dinner, I also add in 2 tablespoons fresh minced garlic with the onions, I suggest to have your broth very hot when adding to the rice :)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 1⁄2 cups diced small winter squash (butternut, acorn, etc.)
- 3 1⁄2 cups good quality chicken broth (or more if needed)
- 1 cup arborio rice
- 1⁄2 cup white wine
- 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Saute onion in the olive oil over low heat, about 10 minutes.
- Add the squash and 1/2 cup broth.
- Cover the pan, and cook until the squash is tender (about 10 mins).
- Add rice and wine, and cook until the wine is absorbed.
- Add 2-1/2 cups more broth, and simmer, uncovered until the liquid is absorbed (about 30 minutes).
- Add 1/2 cup more broth, and stir until rice is tender and creamy (about 5 minutes).
- Mix in the Parmesan cheese, and serve.
This was a pretty good risotto, not my favorite, but a good out of the cupboard meal. I made it more traditional style, heating up the broth on the side, and gradually adding 1/2 -1 cup at a time, letting it absorb, and adding more. I will make it again if I find I have to cook dinner without going to the store.
I was concerned that this recipe would not have enough flavor, and added some garlic as was suggested in the description, perhaps some rosemary would be a good touch as well? I think that cooking the rice in the olive oil (traditionally olive oil and butter together) is an important step that is missed in this recipe. It took about an extra cup of broth at the end to reach the creamy/tender texture of risotto. However, I was impressed with how the squash blended in with the rice, as it was very cooked by the time you're done. When I make this again, I will probably cook the squash in some broth for about 10 minutes in a separate pan, add the rice to the olive oil and onion(after the onion is cooked, cook rice about 2 min). I would put the squash/broth mix in after the wine step, letting the liquid be absorbed before adding more. I used vegetable broth and followed the risotto directions I'm used to in terms of adding broth--1 cup the first time and 1/2 cup each time after that. Even though I'd make it different next time, this was a great recipe for our Christmas Dinner of family favorites. My goal that led me to this recipe was a squash risotto that didn't involve roasting the squash first, to keep the day simpler. Thanks Kittencal!
I get tired of the typical bake in over with brown sugar winter squash recipes and this is wonderful. What a delicious way to combine squash and risotto. Delicious.


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Bowling Alone? Erskine Bowles Goes Off the Deep End
|Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:22|
When the co-chairman of President Obama's deficit commission gets his deficit numbers off by 100 percent, you would think this would be worth a little media attention. But apparently this is not the case.
Therefore when Erskine Bowles warned the National Governors' Association that the country would be spending $2 trillion a year in interest on the debt in 2020, virtually no reporters thought it was worth mentioning that he had exaggerated the interest burden by a factor of more than 2 the Congressional Budget Office's "alternative scenario" (Table 1-2).
It is difficult to believe that if Speaker Pelosi or some other prominent Democrat argued for a stimulus package because the unemployment rate is 19.0 percent that the media would ignore their disconnect with reality. It is hard to understand why neither Mr. Bowles nor his co-chair, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, are not held to comparable standards of accuracy.
(Thanks to Jed Graham who got it right.)


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A man livestreamed the rescue of a dog from a burning home in Lindsay Tuesday (Feb. 2) morning.
John Macdonald says he was walking in the area near Melbourne Street West when he smelled something burning.
He ran three blocks — arriving first at the scene — and called 911 before starting the livestream.
As captured in the video, Macdonald heard the dog barking and noticed the fire was perilously close to a propane tank at the rear of the home.
After asking the owner for keys, Macdonald asks permission to kick in the front door.
Joined by other residents, he eventually smashed a window to gain access to the home.
The dog was not injured, Macdonald noted in a social media post.


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Southwest Florida's early transport ran on hay - not gas
Before Ford's Models A and T rolled into Southwest Florida, feet — or hooves — were what made inland travel possible.
Oxen, mules, horses and donkeys hauled people and their goods around the region. And though some settlers arrived by boating down the coast, many early residents came in carts and wagons.
One of those was the English family of Georgia, whose plantation and fortunes had been ravaged by the Civil War, which had also claimed the life of its patriarch, John Cornelius English. On Dec. 1, 1875, his widow, Margaret, her seven children and two orphans packed up and headed south in an ox cart.
"It took them six weeks to reach the banks of the Caloosahatchee," says her great-grandson and Alva resident Jim English. "They arrived sometime in the middle of January.
Though oxen did much of the heavy hauling, people relied on horses as well, and many of the oldest homes in Fort Myers were built with stables and carriage houses that have been since converted to cozy mother-in-law cottages or to garages to house the four-wheeled beasts that supplanted the four-legged ones.
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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to fix California's homelessness problem. This is a noble goal, and an urgent issue in his state — nearly a quarter of homeless people in the U.S. are in California — and it's the top issue of concern to residents polled, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Newsom's proposed method of addressing the issue, and the mental health factors that often contribute to it, however, is questionable — and confusing.
"Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics," Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. "We need to start targeting social determinants of health. We need to start treating brain health like we do physical health. What's more fundamental to a person's well being than a roof over their head?"
Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.— Gavin Newsom (@Gavin Newsom)1582301864.0
Mental illness can indeed lead to homelessness. Few people, if any, would argue that. But the governor's apparently serious assertion that the solution to that is for doctors to prescribe a home as a treatment for mental illness unfortunately doesn't seem to make much sense.
It doesn't take a medical professional to determine that someone without a home, whether they're mentally ill or not, needs somewhere to live in order to get their life together. The issue has always been how to accomplish that goal.
Part of the problem, suggested Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, are the Democratic leaders who have controlled California for years, and the policies they've implemented.
"While poor policies in the past have gotten us here, it's time we look forward to address homelessness, mental health, substance use and incarceration issues one person, one family at a time," Waldron said, according to the Times. "The governor is right that building more housing is needed. Unfortunately, Democratic policies have stood in the way of housing production for years. That needs to change."
In his recent State of the State address, Newsom suggested that laws should be modified to make it easier to subject people deemed to be mentally unfit to care for themselves to involuntary mental health treatments, a proposal which some fear could infringe on civil liberties.
"What's the difference between that and a county jail?" Democratic state Sen. Jim Beall said, in expressing concern about that method.


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