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Volunteering in Mexico means experiencing the country for yourself, on a deeper level, and finding out how it's different from the impression you might have from watching series or movies. Mexico has a diverse cultural make-up, and this top travel destination has a lot to offer with attractions too.
Dig your toes into the sandy shores of the Carribean coastline, and sink into the waters of the Riviera Maya. Catch a ferry beyond the coast, and find yourself out where the ocean is dotted with nearly 100 secluded islands. Feel the swaying of the island-bound ferry as it dips between the towering rock structures. Catch a glimpse of coral reefs in the blue clear waters encircling these sheltered islands. When volunteering in Mexico, there’ll always be a beach nearby.
But Mexico isn’t all beaches, it’s made up of many different types of terrains. Get ready to trek through its sun-baked red deserts and canyons, or snake through the thick vegetation of the rainforest. Mexico is also famous for its cenotes. These water-filled sinkholes are the perfect place for an inland swim while surrounded by jungle terrain.
Volunteer opportunities in Mexico offer the chance to experience these exciting attractions while making a positive contribution to global sustainable development goals.
You could choose to volunteer in Mexico on programs focusing on marine conservation. Our marine conservation programs also offer the opportunity to begin, or further, your Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) certification. While volunteering in Mexico, you could earn your PADI Coral Reef Researcher Distinctive Speciality, PADI Open Water Diver, or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
All our programs are community-led, meaning you’ll get to work with GVI’s local partners and community members on projects and interact with local people in your day-to-day life. This is a great opportunity to learn more about Mexico first-hand.
Mexico is home to more than 30 World Heritage Sites, which have been set up to preserve Mexico’s cultural heritage. Modern Mexicans have preserved many of the cultural practices of their ancestors, and each region has different cultural traditions. The culture of Mexico is as diverse as the types of terrains you’ll find here.
Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in Mexico, and while volunteering in Mexico you’ll get to listen to, learn and try this language. Being surrounded by the culture and language of Mexico can take your experience to a whole new level while volunteering abroad.
Volunteer work in Mexico means contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). There are a variety of volunteer opportunities in Mexico to choose from, with each one offering a meaningful experience.
Opportunities to volunteer in Mexico
You can choose to take part in our marine conservation expedition and work towards conserving the second largest barrier reef system in the world and by working with our local partners the projects done are instrumental in allowing us to make a sustainable impact while volunteering in Mexico. This means that GVI can make a positive impact that can last long into the future, and be maintained by the local community.
Which types of programs are available when volunteering in Mexico?
Volunteer in marine conservation in Mexico
With Mexico’s abundance of marine life, it’s the perfect place to learn about marine conservation. Marine conservation volunteer work in Mexico is all about making a positive impact on our oceans, while learning new skills.
For under 18s, there’s the opportunity to take part in the PADI diving and marine conservation teen volunteering in Mexico program. Here volunteers can learn about and participate in existing marine conservation projects in the area. They can also gain their PADI Open Water Diver certification by doing the PADI Advanced Open Water and marine conservation teen volunteer program in Mexico. This program offers volunteers who already have their PADI Open Water Diver certification to earn their PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification as part of their marine conservation program.
You could also earn your PADI Coral Reef Researcher Distinctive Speciality certification, in addition to your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification, when you volunteer on the advanced divers marine conservation expedition in Mexico.
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Where can I volunteer in Mexico with GVI?
Volunteer in Puerto Morelos
GVI’s base camp is in the town of Puerto Morelos, situated on a stretch of the Carribean coastline known as the Riviera Maya. Puerto Morelos is the oldest town on the Mexican Carribean coast.
The Riviera Maya is a top tourist destination, and there are many spots for snorkelling and diving in this area.
While the biggest industry in Puerto Morelos is tourism, fishing comes in a close-second. The fishing trade is essential to the economic well-being of this Mexican community.
Volunteer work in Puerto Morelos focuses on marine conservation. Volunteers assist the local community in planning and implementing sustainable practices aimed at making a positive impact in Puerto Morelos.
This may mean assisting the local community with beach cleans, to reduce environmental pollution. It could also involve volunteers contributing to marine conservation by running environmental awareness workshops with school children and the broader community. Another way that sustainability is promoted is through programs focused on the conservation of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, and other marine life. These programs look to find the balance between the usage and maintenance of natural resources in Puerto Morelos.
Volunteer work in Mexico that’s focused on marine conservation has an immediate effect on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, as well as on the well-being of other marine life in the Riviera Maya.
By contributing to sustainable development efforts on land and in the sea, this volunteer work in Mexico can go a long way in contributing to the sustainability of the Puerto Morelos community.
FAQs about volunteering in Mexico
Q: What’s the weather like in Mexico?
A: The weather in Puerto Morelos fluctuates little throughout the year with an average annual temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. The warmest months in this temperate climate are June, July and August. Since Mexico is a large country, the weather can vary significantly from one region to the next.
Q: Do I have to speak Spanish to volunteer in Mexico?
A: It’s not essential to be fluent in Spanish when volunteering in Mexico. GVI’s staff and partners are all able to communicate in English and will provide support before, during and after your volunteer experience. Being able to speak some Spanish when travelling to Mexico will go a long way in assisting you to communicate with local people. This may make your experience more meaningful.
Q: Is it safe to volunteer in Mexico?
A: As with travel to any country, when volunteering in Mexico, volunteers should take the same precautions they would back home. Higher crime rates tend to be concentrated in the bigger cities. Puerto Morelos is a small town where crime is much less of a concern. Volunteers are expected to take reasonable precautions to ensure their own safety when they travel outside of the hub. GVI’s staff offer 360 degree support during your stay in Mexico.
Read GVI’s health and safety policies here.
Meet the team - Senior Field Management
Miguel Angel Lozano
Miguel Angel is GVI’s Program Manager for the Marine Conservation Programs at GVI’s base in Puerto Morelo, Mexico. He has been with GVI for over a year now and loves it!
He has a background in Oceanography and a fun fact about him is that before GVI, he completed research on Bull Sharks.
Meet the team - In-Country Staff
Meet Kayla,the Science Officer for GVI’s base in Puerto Morelo, Mexico. She is originally from Canada where she obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology. She was originally a volunteer, when she completed her Dive Masters certificate. After the six months spent doing this, she was kept on as a Staff Member before becoming the Science Officer.
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Nintendo Switch's online offering isn't the most robust, and that's why it's free. But that's changing on both fronts come this September when Nintendo Switch's online paid membership launches.
When exactly in September? Well, we currently don't know, but that might be changing soon. Nintendo has announced that it will disclose more details about Switch's online paid membership sometime in “early May,” aka next month. And if you haven't checked your calendars recently, next month is really close.
According to Nintendo, information on said online paid membership will come way of its website, and presumably via a press release. Though you should never presume anything with Nintendo. They did just release a bunch of cardboard (Nintendo Labo) after all.
Nintendo has said that the online service “will provide consumers with a richness of online features that allow them to continuously enjoy Nintendo Switch,” but whether it will be akin to PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold in any meaningfully comparable way, remains to be seen.
As you may remember, Switch's paid online membership program was originally supposed to arrive late 2017, but was then delayed due to needing more time. And hopefully Nintendo has taken said time to make it as robust or appealing as possible.
Nintendo has previously said prices for membership would be $4 USD for 1 month, $8 for 3 months, or $20 for a year. This would notably make the offering $40 cheaper than what Sony and Microsoft offer with their consoles.
Given that September isn't that far away, hopefully this next information dump is exactly that, a dump, and not just a little spill. More specifically, I'd like Nintendo finally to reveal and lay out what exactly will be on offer, and what won't be on offer. Hopefully it's more than less, but given its bargain price-point, I'm not sure what to expect.0comments
If there's basic online play functionality, some type of cloud-based storage/saving system, and an offering of free games each month, I'll be happy.
In other recent and related news, the Nintendo Switch is still selling like hotcakes on national hotcakes days at the international hotcakes fair: surpassing 17 million units in just one year. And unsurprisingly its killer line-up of first-party games is also performing very well.


Despite key Melbourne Victory players facing bans, coach Ernie Merrick will not protect those in the firing line. A-League rules state that a player who accumulates five yellow cards receive a one-match ban and several key Victory players are nearing their limit at a vital stage of the season.
Winger Evan Berger is only one caution away from missing a match whilst captain Kevin Muscat and number one defender Rodrigo Vargas are both on three yellows but Merrick insists that he will continue to start his best possible line-up available.
"We'll make sure we keep going right up to the finals," Merrick said.
"It's more important to finish in the top two than worrying about yellow cards . . . We'll put out our strongest team and we've got the depth and talent to cover any suspensions."
The Victory face Central Coast Mariners this Friday night in an extremely important fixture, knowing that anything other than a win will dent their minor premiership hopes.


In Ruegg & Ellsworth v. City of Berkeley (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 277 the First District Court of Appeal decided the first published case addressing Senate Bill 35 (SB 35). The 2017 law allows qualifying projects with an affordable housing component to make use of a streamlined, ministerial approval process if they meet the applicable objective planning standards of the locality. The Court found that there was no historic “structure” within the meaning of SB 35 on the Project site, so ministerial approval of the Project was required. The Court then held that SB 35 was constitutional as applied to charter cities and that it applies to mixed-use projects. The case contains important guidance on SB 35 and may prove to be a roadmap for projects to effectively utilize the relatively new law.
The project at issue was a mixed-use development with 260 residential units, half of which would be affordable to low-income households (Project) in the City of Berkeley (City or Respondents). The Project site is within an area designated by the City as a landmark due to the presence of a Shellmound – a registered historic and sacred burial site.
Following hostility to the original iteration of the Project, the Project proponents (Petitioners) submitted a new application under Government Code section 65913.4, the statute added by SB 35. To qualify, a project may not demolish a historic structure placed on a historic register. While the law’s streamlined approval process is only available in cities and counties that have failed to provide their share of regional housing needs as defined under the Housing Element Law, the vast majority of localities in the state, including the City, have failed to do so.
The City denied the SB 35 application, stating that the Project conflicted with the its objective planning standards. It reasoned that it would conflict with the City’s Affordable Housing Mitigation Fee and Landmarks Preservation Ordinances, could require the demolition of the Shellmound, and potentially failed to mitigate off-site traffic impacts, as required by the City Code. The City further asserted that that the statute could not constitutionally interfere with the City’s home rule authority as a Charter City to regulate and protect its historic resources.
The Project proponents filed a writ of mandate and complaint against the City, seeking an order upholding the constitutionality of SB 35, requiring the City to issue the ministerial permit, and alleging that the denial had violated both section 65913.4 and the Housing Accountability Act. The trial court denied the petition, and Petitioners appealed.
Standard of Review
Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1085, the trial court deferred to the City’s factual determination that the Project would require demolition of a historic structure. On appeal, Petitioners argued that a 2019 amendment to section 65913.4, which was not effective until after the City and trial court’s decisions, established that it was Petitioners, and not the City, who were owed deference. They advanced three alternative arguments: the amendment clarified existing law, it should govern because it became effective before the appellate court ruled, and the trial court’s approach effectively nullified the legislative intent of section 65913.4.
The Court of Appeal agreed that the standard of review applied by the trial court would nullify the statute’s legislative intent, without addressing the other arguments. The Court observed that deference is owed to an agency that has discretion to impose and enforce conditions. However, in situations where an agency is merely enforcing legislatively imposed conditions, as is the case under SB 35, the agency’s duty is ministerial, and no deference owed to it.
The Court went on to hold that the issue of whether the Project would demolish a historic structure involved one question of law and one of fact. Whether the Shellmound constituted a “structure” within the meaning of the statute was a question of statutory interpretation, subject to de novo review. Whether the Shellmound existed on the site was a question of fact. However, the Court declined to articulate the appropriate standard of review for this factual question, as it found no evidence in the record whatsoever to support City’s conclusion that it was a historic structure or that it would be destroyed.
Demolition of a Historic Structure
Section 65913.4 does not define “structure.” The City argued for an expansive definition based on the language of historic preservation statutes and their legislative intent, and urged that the term should be understood consistent with how it is used and defined in those provisions. The Court, after quoting various dictionary definitions of the term and an unrelated statute defining the word for purposes of listing state-owned historical resources, disagreed. It noted that section 65913.4 is not a historic preservation statute, but merely contains a limited exception for historic structures, which cautions against giving the exception the broadest possible meaning. Further, the Court explained the distinction between historic resources and historic structures – a distinction the City had confused. While the Shellmound was undoubtably an important historical and cultural resource, the Court found no evidence that it now was present in a state that could reasonably be described as that of a structure, nor could its remnants be recognized as part of a structure. Further, the Court held that no evidence supported that a historical structure would be demolished. The potential for disturbance of remnants and artifacts was acknowledged, but this was not an issue relevant to the analysis under section 65913.4. As such, the Court concluded that the City’s determination that the Project would require demolition of a historic structure could not be upheld.
Retroactive Application of Amendments to Section 65913.4
A pair of bills passed in 2020, AB 831 and AB 168, added protections for potential tribal resources to section 65913.4. Confederated Villages of Lisjan, a Native American Tribe, intervened in the case and argued that the bills’ protective provisions should be retroactively applied to Project. Both Petitioners and Respondents disagreed, as did the Court, though its analysis is omitted from this summary as the new requirements will apply to all future projects.
Home Rule and State Intrusion into Municipal Affairs
Respondents argued that section 65913.4 could not constitutionally be applied to them, as it would interfere with the City’s home rule authority over historic preservation. Under the California Constitution and the home rule doctrine, charter cities are granted significant authority to govern themselves, free of state intrusion, as to those matters deemed municipal affairs. To determine whether a charter city’s home rule authority extends to a particular matter, courts apply a four-part analysis. The only aspect of the analysis which was disputed in this case were whether SB 35 is reasonably related to increasing the amount of affordable housing, a legitimate matter of statewide concern, and narrowly tailored to avoid unnecessary interference in local governance in pursuit of that goal.
While Respondents acknowledged that increasing the amount of affordable housing is a legitimate statewide interest, they questioned whether this translates into a statewide interest in eliminating protections for local landmarks. The Court, though, found the framing to be inapposite, as the relevant question was whether the purpose of the ministerial approval statute was a matter of statewide concern. Nor was the Court persuaded by Respondents’ argument that SB 35’s measures were overly broad and that the Legislature had overreached. The Court found a clear connection between legislative purpose of expediting and increasing approvals of affordable housing developments and the removal of local governments’ ability to deny these applications. It also found the intrusion to be narrow, given the law’s application only to jurisdictions failing to satisfy their mandated Regional Housing Need Allocation. Further, the Legislature had long lamented local governments’ activities and policies limiting the approvals of affordable housing, and expressed its frustration over the historic magnitude of California’s housing crisis. As such, the Court held that the intrusion into local authority over historical preservation was not broader than necessary to achieve the purpose of the legislation, at least as it related to the Shellmound and its site.
Application of SB 35 to Mixed-Use Developments
The trial court had also denied the petition on the basis that section 65913.4 does not apply to mixed-use developments. The Court ruled that SB 35 does apply to mixed-use developments, finding that the trial court’s interpretation was strained, unreasonable, and made no sense in light of the statute’s purpose. The Court noted its interpretation accorded with that of the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was tasked with issuing SB 35 guidelines. Additionally, amendments adopted after the Project was denied also made clear that the statute does apply to mixed-use projects. The Court also rejected the City’s argument that its home rule authority over commercial uses prevented such a conclusion.
Conflicts with Objective Standards
Section 65913.4 requires a project to be consistent with all objective zoning, subdivision, and design review standards in order to qualify for the streamlined approval process. The City argued that the Project failed to do so for two reasons.
First, the City alleged that the Project did not comply with its Affordable Housing Mitigation Fee (AHMF) ordinance. The Court held that the AHMF ordinance was not an objective standard but a mitigation fee. The Court also noted that the fee or provision of required housing need not be made at the time of the application – it must only occur prior to the first building permit. Lastly, the Court also found persuasive Petitioners’ argument that the statewide interest in ministerial approval of low-income housing should not be defeated by a local ordinance requiring a lower percentage of low-income housing than the statute (though with an included component for housing affordable to very low-income households).
The City also argued that the Project failed to comply with the City Code’s requirement to mitigate off-site traffic impacts. However, the City did not raise this until after the time in which the statute required it to identify for Petitioners the objective standards which the Project conflicted with. As such, the City was no longer able to argue that the Project did not comply with this.
The Court reversed the trial court’s judgment, remanding with directions to grant the Petition, thereby requiring the City to allow the project to move forward.
Key Points: SB 35 provides a streamlined, ministerial approval process for qualifying projects with an affordable housing component. Though the law has stringent criteria, if the requirements are met, it provides a powerful tool for securing ministerial approval from an otherwise antagonistic local government, allowing projects to proceed without CEQA review.


The newly published data shows that whale inflows into top cryptocurrency exchanges are now decreasing since mid-September.
Whale Inflows Starts Declining
Blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant finds out that whales have stopped sending crypto capital from their wallets to crypto exchanges, and the trend has begun to rise since September 16. It shows that people, who have a large amount of Bitcoin, want HODL it rather than selling over trading platforms. CryptoQuant CEO Ki-Young Ju said:
“Fortunately, whale inflows seem to be decreasing. It seems the $BTC price follows the traditional market lately. I think the only thing we can do with on-chain data at this moment is to watch whale moving. Most of the fundamental on-chain indicators are healthy.”
On September 17, Ju stated,” Exchange Whale Ratio hits the year low—the fewer whales moving to exchanges, the less dumping, and makes the higher #BTC price.”
Whales’ Role in Crypto Space
In the crypto space, Bitcoin whales have a significant influence over markets and are responsible for bullish and bearish trends. Decreasing deposits in cryptocurrency exchanges are correlated with decreasing selling pressure.
A decline in whale inflows could result in Bitcoin recovery soon. And whales can drive the price value above $11,000 if this trend continues.
A crypto data tracker WhaleMap shares a graph showing unspent Bitcoin in particular time frames. “Bubbles show locations where unspent bitcoins were accumulated. The larger the bubble, the more unspent bitcoins are located there. P.s. Unspent means these bitcoins have not been moved since they were ‘inflowed’ to a whale wallet,” It said.
Currently, Bitcoin is trading at $10,391. Some analysts believe that it should be traded at some above level. Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone recently said:
“The Bitcoin hash rate continues to increase and recently reached new highs. Also advancing are addresses used. A top metric for adoption, the 30-day average of Bitcoin addresses is equivalent to the price closer to $15,000 when measured on an autoscale basis since 2017.”


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Exposing male mice to nicotine or cocaine enables their male offspring to cope with high doses of either, which suggests that such paternal effects are generic, rather than being a response to a specific type of stress.
Does the environment experienced by a parent have an influence on the physiological condition of its offspring? Despite much research, if and to what extent such influences exist remains a matter of debate (Heard and Martienssen, 2014). When discussing this question, we need to distinguish between epigenetic effects, which are expected to remain stable across several generations (and are thought to involve chemical modifications to DNA or histone proteins; Miska and Ferguson-Smith, 2016), and parental effects, which might only apply to first-generation offspring.
The environment experienced by the mother can affect the offspring in a number of ways – by, for example, altering the fitness of the unfertilized egg, or influencing the nutrition received by the fetus – and this complexity makes it difficult to determine how maternal effects influence the offspring (Wolf and Wade, 2009). It should be easier to understand how the environment experienced by the father affects offspring because, in mammals, fathers contribute little more than the sperm cell during fertilization (Crean and Bonduriansky, 2014). However, although several paternal effects have been reported (Rando, 2012), it has been difficult to tie a crucial event experienced by the father to a specific effect observed in the offspring. Now, in eLife, Oliver Rando, Andrew Tapper and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School – including Markus Vallaster as first author – report that many paternal effects (and maybe maternal effects as well) might be much more generic than previously thought (Vallaster et al., 2017).
In an elegant experiment, Vallaster et al. investigated how exposure of male mice to a toxin affects the offspring. For five weeks, male mice received drinking water containing nicotine. The mice were then deprived of nicotine for one week, to ensure nicotine was not present in their sperm fluid, before being allowed to mate with control females. In a control experiment, the fathers were kept on a nicotine-free diet before mating.
Contrary to expectations, the offspring in both groups were equally likely to survive after being injected with a single high-dose of nicotine (Figure 1A). Thus, exposing the fathers to nicotine did not appear to have an immediate "priming" effect on their offspring. However, the picture changed when Vallaster et al. ‘acclimated’ both groups of offspring to nicotine by adding small amounts of nicotine to their drinking water for several days. Among the acclimated mice, the chances of the offspring from nicotine-fed males of surviving the injection of a toxic dose of nicotine were almost twice those of the offspring of control males. Thus, a combination of supplying nicotine to the fathers with acclimation to low doses in the offspring leads to enhanced nicotine tolerance.
In a search for a molecular explanation of this increased tolerance, Vallaster et al. found that the offspring of the nicotine-fed fathers had a higher detoxification rate of nicotine in their livers than the offspring of the control fathers. Related to this, a number of detoxification-related genes were also up-regulated in the offspring of the nicotine-fed fathers but not in the offspring of the control father. However, somewhat surprisingly, these genes were similarly up-regulated in both the acclimated and the non-acclimated offspring of the nicotine-fed fathers. It remains unclear why the increase in nicotine detoxification required exposure to nicotine in the father and in the offspring. A similar observation has been made in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, where increased tolerance towards saline conditions was achieved only after two subsequent low-dose treatments (Sani et al., 2013; Wibowo et al., 2016).
Vallaster et al. then checked if the effect was specific to nicotine. This involved exposing mice to either nicotine or cocaine before mating, and then acclimating their offspring to either the same toxin or the other toxin (Figure 1B). In all combinations where exposure of the father was followed by acclimation of the offspring, the detoxification capacity was higher. Even when fathers were simultaneously treated with nicotine and a drug that prevents nicotine dependence, the effect in the offspring persisted.
These findings show that repeated exposure to a specific toxin (nicotine or cocaine in this case) could cause a higher toxin tolerance in the offspring. This argues against a heritable acquired trait, which should be specific to the stress experienced by the parent. It will be interesting to see if these effects persist in a second or third generation of mice.
Intriguingly, only male offspring showed an increased drug tolerance after acclimation to the toxin. Further research is needed to investigate if this effect is linked to specific genes on the Y chromosome, to a process called X dosage compensation (in which genes on the X chromosomes in females behave differently to the same genes in males), or if there is another explanation. Lastly, studying the effects of nicotine on gene expression in the liver with higher cellular and temporal resolution should help us to ultimately understand the molecular mechanism underlying the potential to develop tolerance to toxins.
What are maternal effects (and what are they not)?Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364:1107–1115.https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0238

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By Rob Dubuc for EDR Blog.org
One of my great privileges these last five years or so has been to serve as attorney for, and president of the board of Friends of Great Salt Lake (www.fogsl.org). Great Salt Lake is a vastly misunderstood and unappreciated national treasure, and unfortunately many of the citizens of Utah, some living in a city named after the Lake, have no concept of just how important the Lake is.
One of the Lake’s biggest problems is that it’s downhill of everything in the watershed. Industrial waste flows down to the Lake – either directly or indirectly. So too does treated wastewater, and untreated stormwater. Fertilize your lawn and what your lawn doesn’t absorb ends up in the Lake. And as more and more homes are built along the Wasatch Front, less and less water will eventually end up in the Lake. Lakes tend not to do very well without water.
When it comes to protecting the Lake, Friends sees itself as a staunch advocate willing to do whatever it takes. The mission of Friends is to preserve and protect the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem through education, research and advocacy. And even though I’m an attorney, I believe that the order of those three approaches – education, research and advocacy – is correct.
First and foremost, we can’t expect the citizens of Utah to appreciate the Lake unless we educate Utahns how very important it is. If your perspective is one of economics – fine; the Lake contributes $1.3 billion annually to Utah’s economy. If it’s wildlife – no problem; 7 million birds a year use the Lake as a nesting and resting stopover. If what you care about is recreation – OK; when was the last time you went trail running out at Antelope Island and ran alongside a coyote, had a herd of pronghorn cross in front of you and had to run around a bison laying on the trail?
As for research, Friends consistently takes the position that policy towards the Lake must be guided by best available science. In spite of years of research, the Lake continues to mystify us. It is such a complex ecosystem that is so little understood that oftentimes decisions are made in a vacuum. That not only goes for permitting decisions made by the state, but it goes for Friends as well. And when we don’t know if something is going to be harmful to the Lake, Friends takes a very conservative approach and assumes that it will be. And that’s where advocacy comes in.
Advocacy is a tricky beast. Sure, it’s bringing legal action, but it’s also something else – it’s the art of persuading someone to help you achieve your goal. In this case, to protect the Lake. From my perspective, bringing a legal challenge to a permitting decision, for instance, should be the last resort. Unfortunately, I don’t think organizations get taken seriously unless they have access to good legal counsel and are willing to stay the course. Call it deterrence if you want, but whether we like it or not, that threat needs to be looming on the horizon. But setting that aside, if both parties are willing to be reasonable, it should be possible to find a middle ground.
Which brings me to the discharge permit into Great Salt Lake for the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District Southwest Groundwater Treatment Plant. This plant, which was built under a Superfund settlement agreement to clean up Kennecott Utah Copper’s legacy pollution on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley, is a reverse osmosis plant that plans to dump the contaminants from the plant into the Lake. This discharge permit has been, and remains controversial. Without going into the history of the plant, when this was first proposed about seven years ago, it caused such an uproar that the Division of Water Quality stepped away from the decision to permit the plant and launched a multi-year, multi-million dollar study to assess the impact of the selenium from the discharge on the Lake.
So here we are, that many years later and that many dollars shorter, and I don’t believe we’re any closer to having the answer to that question: will the discharge harm the Lake? And with the Lake this low, will the discharge across the mudflats along the south shore harm wildlife in that area? So after the draft permit was issued, we entered into discussions on what it would take to allay Friends’ fears about the discharge. The Division of Water Quality was going to require Jordan Valley to run a pretty rigorous protocol of tests on the area of the discharge to determine what impact, if any, the discharge would have. Jordan Valley will have to test water, soil, bugs, plants, even brine shrimp. They’ll have to do bird surveys and coordinate the testing of bird eggs. In short, they’ll do what should be done when you don’t know the answer to something – research.
But in order to satisfy Friends’ concerns, we wanted a seat at the table, and we wanted our expert to be a part of the team that studied the test results. To address that concern, I offered to DWQ and Jordan Valley a compromise. Friends would hold off bringing a legal challenge to the 5-year discharge permit if the parties could agree to a mechanism to work together to determine if the discharge was harming the Lake. What I proposed was for each party – Jordan Valley, DWQ and Friends – to nominate a scientist of their choosing to sit on a science panel that would oversee the annual testing done by Jordan Valley, and that would be charged with the task of reaching a consensus on whether or not the ecosystem was being harmed. If they agree that the ecosystem is being impacted, the panel will be charged with recommending what changes need to be made to fix the problem.
There are, of course, mechanisms for resolving any differences among the scientists, but I’m optimistic that the group will work together well and hopefully be able to agree on the results. For Friends, the bottom line is if best available science shows that the Lake is not being harmed, Friends will not oppose the discharge in the future. By taking what I believe is a reasonable approach to a complex problem, we can use education and research to avoid having to bring advocacy into play when it comes to this discharge. And the Lake will be better for it.
Rob Dubuc has a B.A. degree in Business Management from the University of Maryland, an M.B.A. from the University of Montana, and a Juris Doctrate degree from the University of Utah. He currently works as staff attorney for the Salt Lake City office of Western Resource Advocates, a non-profit environmental law and policy organization dedicated to protecting the West’s land, air and water. Besides his work helping protect Great Salt Lake, Rob’s law practice focuses on guarding against impacts from tar sands and oil shale development in the Book Cliffs area, ORV damage in Utah’s National Forests, and industrial air pollution along the Wasatch Front. He also practices before the Utah Public Service Commission, advocating for a move away from coal-fired electric power plants towards energy efficiency and renewable electric generation. Rob is currently President of the Board of Friends of Great Salt Lake.


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Local school officials said Thursday that some of the proposals for education in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address have merit. However, without enough funding and mandate relief, they said their schools will have a difficult time maintaining the programs they already have.
In his Wednesday message, Cuomo talked about ways to transform and modernize education including extending the school day and year and providing universal full-day pre-kindergarten starting with the highest-needs students. Others programs discussed including raising the performance of teachers and principals. While some of the programs would be funded by the state, he did not discuss specific aid to schools. That is expected later this month when he proposes his budget that will have to be approved by the legislature.
Proposals such as extending the school day and having the state pick up the costs have merit, Unatego Central School business manager Nicholas Rosas said. But he was concerned where the money would be coming from, because he said the state has been cutting state aid for several years. To close a budget gap left by last year’s shortfall, the district had to reorganize its elementary schools. Rosas said this year, everything will be on the table for what he anticipates will be another difficult budget.
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Latest Data Economy magazine hits the shelves with most in depth look at the APAC data centre and cloud market to date
LONDON and SINGAPORE, Mar. 22, 2018 – Data Economy, the leading data centre, cloud and edge computing publication, has released the fourth edition of its global acclaimed magazine at Datacloud Asia 2018, in Singapore.
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Medicine Wheel 24 hour ceremony that was held in May of 2004
The centre of the wheel was in the Grand Tetons in the States & ceremonies were held all over the world to complete the spokes of the wheel. We were the western most point in North America to take part.
"This ceremony was put on by Silverhawk & the Earthdream meditation group as a part of an ongoing series of Earthdream events. We were also extremely honored to have Randy Chipps, hereditary Nootka chief, lead a powerful fire ceremony, as a part of the day's proceedings. We give huge thanks to everyone who took part in this momentous day."
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An environmental group released a report warning vacationers to beware of contaminated beach water all around the country. So, how did North Carolina come out in the report?
It actually shows a 78% decrease in the number of days advisories were posted for beach waters from 2004 to 2005. Advisories fell from 259 to 56. For the third straight year, the Natural Resources Defense Council says there were a record number of beach closings and health warnings nationwide.
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The California Public Utilities Commission adopted major improvements for the future of its longstanding low-income energy efficiency program, incorporating an innovative multifamily whole-building model and encouraging deeper energy savings for low-income households for programs that will be launched in 2021. The decision reflects an important re-envisioning of the future of the low-income efficiency program which has historically focused on lighter-touch energy savings in single-family homes, even though more than 3 million Californians—and nearly half of all low-income Californians—live in low-income multifamily buildings that could benefit from efficiency upgrades.
A New Direction for the Energy Savings Assistance (ESA) Program
The CPUC’s new vision for its low-income efficiency program takes a bolder approach than previous tune-ups, and re-envisions the program from the ground up. The Commission declared that ESA’s original statutory goal of providing all eligible and willing low-income residents the opportunity to participate in low-income energy efficiency programs will be met by 2020, has and emphasized a need for innovative design approaches in future utility programs, focused on achieving deeper energy savings and better addressing the needs of the multifamily sector.
The Commission explicitly directed the utilities to include a new multifamily whole building program in their next ESA program applications, and to look to successful low-income program models from other California agencies and other states as models. A streamlined whole-building program process, rather than having separate in-unit and common area programs, allows affordable multifamily property owners to better plan and incorporate efficiency improvements as part of a property refinancing and apply ESA at a portfolio-wide scale. The CPUC’s decision also calls for third-party design and implementation of the new multifamily whole-building program, a notable restructuring from the historically utility-designed and utility-implemented programs. This design would borrow lessons from the CPUC’s general efficiency program as well as successful programs such as California’s Low-Income Weatherization Program (LIWP) and Massachusetts’ LEAN Multifamily Program.
The CPUC decision also emphasizes the value of having a single statewide implementer for the multifamily whole-building program and strongly recommends that the four investor-owned utilities incorporate a single-implementer model in their upcoming program proposals, which would be more efficient and less expensive than having four separate programs aimed at achieving the same program goals. This would also allow for better coordination with other statewide administrators, such as the LIWP and Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) programs, both statewide models for the low-income multifamily housing sector.
The ESA program—designed to help low-income households save money on their monthly energy bills through no-cost weatherization services while improving their health, comfort, and safety—has been in need of modernization for some time. The program has long-struggled to achieve deep energy savings and to fully spend its budget. Even after programmatic modifications by previous Commission decisions to establish formal energy savings targets and to prevent future underspending, many utility programs continued to accumulate unspent funds and fall short of their deeper savings goals.
What Does This Mean for Low-Income California Households?
Until now, the ESA program has largely focused on energy savings and weatherization in single-family homes, even though residents of multifamily housing account for at least one-third of the eligible population and multifamily housing represents a vast potential for cost-effective energy and bill savings. The Commission’s decision will go a long way toward unlocking and achieving these savings—easing the energy burden in low-income households in multi-unit apartments and improving their health and safety.
Additionally, the modernization of the ESA program would bring it in line with more successful low-income efficiency programs from other states, as well as recent policy recommendations for low-income multifamily program design and for achieving California’s ambitious climate change and energy efficiency targets.
Low-income households face a disproportionate energy burden, spending up to three times as much of a percent of their income on energy as other households and up to fifteen percent of their total income on energy alone. Over three million Californians, and nearly half of all low-income Californians, live in low-income multifamily buildings. On top of higher energy burdens, these multifamily households face additional obstacles to realizing the benefits of existing low-income efficiency programs, due to barriers to participation and an embedded bias towards single-family homes in previous programs.
The Commission’s decision sets out guidance for the utilities (Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas Company, and San Diego Gas & Electric) in designing their ESA programs for the 2021-2026 program years. Applications from the utilities will be due in November, after which a formal proceeding will be launched ahead of the CPUC approving the final design of the post-2021 program.
As the utilities prepare their applications for the next program cycle, NRDC together with the Energy Efficiency for All Coalition—which includes the California Environmental Justice Coalition, Greenlining Institute, Association for Energy Affordability, and California Housing Partnership Coalition, among others—will be working to ensure that the CPUC’s vision for the future of the ESA program is realized, and that California’s low-income households are able to benefit from the full potential of the ESA program.


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I know him best from movies like Rocky Horror Picture Show, It, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but actor Tim Curry nearly played another major role when he signed on for the Joker in animated form! According to CBR, Curry weighed in on ultimately missing out on the part during an appearance at a Fan Expo in Canada back in 2017 (listen to the audio clip here) saying he was "fired." Apparently, Curry started work on Batman: The Animated Series but had to be replaced by Mark Hamill due to unforeseen circumstances:
"I did play Joker for a while, but I had bronchitis and they fired me, and hired Mark Hamill. That’s life."- Tim Curry
Ruthless! Hamill is well known for his voice work on Batman: The Animated Series and other DC titles, and many would say he's perfect for the part. I'm sure Curry would've done a great job voicing the villain as well, but it was clearly just not meant to be.
Many iconic actors were in the running to play the Joker at some point throughout the years, and Robin Williams is no exception. The late and great comedian was actually offered the part for Tim Burton's Batman, according to Collider, before they decided to go with Jack Nicholson instead. According to the publication, Nicholson was one of the first choices but he did not want to take on the part. So, they turned to Williams.
Per the 2018 book Robin written by Dave Itzkoff (as reported by Collider), Williams was becoming a very successful and popular actor at the time Batman was being developed, having just been nominated for his first Academy Award for his role in Good Morning, Vietnam. Williams was also a Batman fan, making the casting kind of a no-brainer. Williams even accepted the role — though he didn't fully believe it was "sincere" — and Nicholson eventually changed his mind. The studio then went with Nicholson, who they wanted all along. Ouch.


"Certainly a weak link of those in competition at Cannes last year..."
As the Cannes Film Festival is well under-way at present, it is in fact a film from last years selection which is now set for a British release - in Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu's The Source - a film that won a nomination for the prestigious Palme d'Or at last years event.
Set in a remote and archaic village in North Africa, we follow a group of women determined to claim some equality in an otherwise patriarchal society. The only running water to supply the village is a lengthy distance away, and it is the women's requirement to go and fetch the necessary resource. However following yet another miscarriage amongst the women as a result of the manual labour they must go through, the young and resolute Leila (Leila Bekhti) proposes a strike, where the women will reject any sexual relations with their husbands until the men go and fetch the water.
Despite the support of her husband Sami (Saleh Bakri) and local elder Vieux Fusil (Biyouna), the men in the village rise up against Leila's proposal, and as the wives all agree to go on a sex strike, the frustrated husbands refuse to give in, seeing the women's actions as disrespectful to both their families and their religion. Few of the men start turning to violence and rape to get what they want, whilst the women refuse to back down - as they hope to turn to the visiting journalist Soufiane (Malek Akhmiss) to draw attention to their appeal and persuade the government to build some pipes that will prevent taking the exhausting journey to the wells.
Mihaileanu - whose most recent feature was the highly-respected The Concert - has presented a feature that combines joviality and harsh realism very daringly. In a sense the way the film cuts between scenes of domestic violence and tongue-in-cheek humour is intriguing, although whether it actually works is a separate matter, as one could certainly argue that the two sentiments both devalue the other as a result. What does work however is when we see parallel scenes of the women sitting around discussing their issues and plans, before cutting to the men, discussing theirs. In that respect the film almost becomes like an Arabian Grease. Ironically, the film could also be tagged as a musical given the use of original numbers sung by the women, as they project their ideas to the suffering men.
The film does have its shortcomings however, as it is far too long and bears somewhat of a lengthy spell in the middle of the feature where little is achieved. It's quite a simple premise that is already asking a lot of 90 minutes, let alone being stretched out and surpassing the two hour mark. It becomes quite boring and tedious in parts, and for a film offering so many intense themes such as social politics and religion, it's relatively tame and not enough actually occurs. You feel that The Source is always on the verge of drama, and although highlighting severe themes such as rape and potential murder - they are just mildly touched upon rather than actually acted on.
On a more positive note Mihaileanu really captures the small village mentality and atmosphere, portrayed in the fact it's difficult to know exactly when the film is set, and it isn't until a mobile phone is used halfway through that you realise it's set in the present day. Such a sentiment suits the nature of the film as it proves how traditional and behind the times places such as this can be that it's difficult to know whether the film is contemporary or not.
The Source is a film that could be brilliant, as it bears a very fascinating and potentially compelling premise, yet it mostly lingers around the outside of drama rather than actually getting to its point, failing to truly engross its audience as a result. Certainly a weak link of those in competition at Cannes last year, one hopes that this year's short-list is of a slightly higher standard.


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If your holiday season is as crazy as mine is, you’d probably like a break right about now. How about a small taste of Whirlwind? It’s coming in just 12 days!
Melissa Williams isn’t really looking forward to her best friend’s wedding, especially since she’s alone. What she isn’t prepared for is the effect one particular groomsman has on her:
Marching with new purpose toward the ribbons and balloons, I was halfway across the asphalt when two tuxedo-clad men stepped out of the shadows near the foot of the stairs.
Image by searching4jphotography via Flickr
One I recognized. At six-and-a-half feet tall with straight blond hair that constantly hung in his eyes, Chase Linwood was hard to miss. He said something I couldn’t make out, pointed at his collar, then lifted his chin.
His companion, several inches shorter, turned his back to me and went to work on Chase’s tie. His identity was a mystery. Slowing my approach, I tried to paste on the appropriate I’m-so-happy-for-the-bride-and-groom face.Held up by another passing car, I inspected Chase’s friend. Not a strand of his thick, wavy brown hair was out of place, and the tailored fit of his suit coat emphasized his broad shoulders and trim waist. The jacket didn’t have tails, but it was long enough to prevent me from checking out his ass. Beth was right: this guy was hot…and way out of my league.
I waved another car by. I wasn’t in a hurry to make a fool of myself in front of Mr. Sexy-From-the-Back. I had to pace myself.
During this crazy time of year, I think we all could use a little “Mr. Sexy-From-the-Back”! Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for an autographed copy of Whirlwind.
How’s you’re holiday season coming? Mine IS crazy–which I expected–but I checked off one huge event last night: my son’s band concert and fundraiser. The band hosts a clam chowder feed for 150 people to raise money for competitions later in the year, and I volunteered to coordinate the event…in December…between my daughter’s birthday, a family reunion, and, oh yeah–Christmas!
Thanks to Justin and Whitney at the Fish Market for their help!
Luckily, the chowder feed came off without a hitch (at least any BIG hitches), thanks in large part to the many parents, grandparents, and kids who helped out. Because of their hard efforts and a huge donation of the best-tasting chowder in town by The Fish Market, we made almost $800 in a couple hours. And now I’m due for a break!
GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK #2: Take a few extra minutes and take your next shower by candle light. I’d recommend doing it in the evening, after work and after the kids are in bed. Just a few minutes of steam and candles and quiet can do a lot to rejuvenate a person. And if that special someone happens to join you…well, happy holidays to you both!


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|Oti-Kéran National Park|
|Parc National de la Oti-Kéran|
|Location||Savannes Region, Togo|
|Area||69,000 ha (270 sq mi)|
|Official name||Parc national de la Keran|
|Designated||4 July 1995|
Oti-Kéran National Park is located in the north of Togo, in the Kara area. There is only one road going through this area. Not many tourists visit Togo as the main national parks are more accessible in Ghana.
The Oti-Kéran National Park belongs to a network of nature reserves in northern Togo that has been originally considerably expanded since the 1960s. These actions were undertaken without consent and participation of the local population. Instead of gaining income from tourism and other business opportunities potentially linked to the national parks, people were removed from their land and agricultural developments were abandoned, resulting in an increase of poverty and even hunger. Additionally, wildlife - especially elephants - from the protected but not fenced areas caused damage to fields and crops in the surrounding communities. This led to antipathy by the local population against the protected areas and the wildlife. During political turmoil in 1990 this hatred broke free by massive attacks against the protected areas and mass-slaughtering of animals, resulting in a major destruction of the environment.
As a result of widespread destruction and human invasion into the protected areas, Togolese authorities reformed the park boundaries since 1999. Peripheral areas deemed too much destroyed to be re-naturalized have been excluded from the national park and officially deallocated for human development. This shrunk the size of the national park, now named the Oti-Kéran National Park, from 179550 to 69000 hectares. What remained is planned to form part of a future biosphere reserve, linked by the Oti-Mandouri National Park to the WAP (W, Arli, Pendjari) protected area system in Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger. It is, however, still threatened by settlements, cotton-farming, charcoal production, and other human activities within the park boundaries.
Ecotourism was quite well-developed in the Oti-Kéran National Park before 1990. A South African company invested in tourism infrastructure (hotel, road, observation platforms etc.) and ecotourism created monthly revenues for protected area management in the order of 50-60 million CFA (U$100000-120000) in Oti-Kéran alone. At the time it was considered a regional model for protected area ecotourism development and photographs still exist of herds of elephants and other key tourist attractions in the Park. Today the entire infrastructure is ruined and the ecotourism sector has not really restarted in the area of Oti-Kéran after the long period of socio-political troubles. Very few regional tourists arrive from neighboring countries (WAP complex Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin), but there are no adequate facilities or accommodation in Togo to encourage them to stay longer. The national Ministry of Tourism is concentrating its efforts in the Plateau Region and considers it necessary for management of protected areas in the Oti-Keran / Oti-Mandouri Complex to be revitalized and for habitats and fauna to be re-established before ecotourism plans can be developed.
The destructions of the 1990s resulted in a reduced faunal diversity of the Togolese national parks compared to those in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Benin. An assessment in 2008 listed the following species though stating that their status is uncertain:
About 214 species of birds have been recorded, including:


RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (KABC) -- Two people, including an elementary school teacher, were arrested in connection with a 2021 murder in Rancho Cucamonga, authorities announced Thursday.
Corey Cooper died on May 6, 2021 when he was shot and lost control of his car, causing him to veer into oncoming traffic and crash into two vehicles, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Cooper, 39, died at the scene.
Authorities said their investigation led them to a vehicle believed to be involved in the shooting -- a white Jeep registered to 40-year-old Anthony Spennato and 39-year-old Beth Ullom, both residents of Rancho Cucamonga.
Ullom is a teacher at John L. Golden Elementary in Rancho Cucamonga.
The Sheriff's Department said investigators used multiple databases to track down the Jeep, which was sold about two weeks after the shooting.
After finding the vehicle, detectives said it was the same Jeep involved in the shooting.
Ullom and Spennato were interviewed Wednesday and later arrested and booked at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino, authorities said.
Ullom was arrested and held on $50,000 bail on a charge of accessory to murder. Spennato was arrested on suspicion of murder, with bail set at $1 million.
The Etiwanda School District sent a statement to parents explaining that Ullom was on administrative leave.


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Research on the cost of underage drinking conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation revealed that medical expenses, job loss due to alcohol-induced sickness, auto accidents, deaths, and arson collectively cost an estimated $53 billion annually (Meier, 2006). This cost does not include the estimated annual $116.2 billion spent on the purchase of alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, and spirits by underage college students. A common trend that is fueling the increasing rate of excessive alcohol consumption on college campuses is a form of heavy drinking known as “binge drinking”. Wechsler & Nelson (2010) defines “binge drinking” as a situation where a male consumes five or more bottles or a female consumes four or more bottles consecutively. By definition, it can be inferred that an estimated 40 percent of college students are engaged in binge drinking on weekly basis.
This paper will examine the sociocultural and environmental factors that are responsible for the high rate of excessive alcohol consumption on college campuses with the purpose of recommending effective measures that can be used to correct the problem.
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Youngsters that consume alcohol are more likely to be sexually active, engage in dangerous and unprotected sex; will likely include in a battle, carry out fierce violations, come up short at school, use different medications, and experience verbal, physical, or sexual brutality. What 's more, the individuals who begin drinking before age 15 are five times more prone to create liquor addiction further down the road than the people who start drinking at age 21. The more underage students drink, the more probable they will experience adverse outcomes. Those results can go in seriousness from having an aftereffect, performing inadequately on a test, or missing class to getting into a contention or battle, driving impaired, being harmed or harmed, or being exploited sexually. adverse results of liquor use on school grounds are far reaching and every year, drinking ways a large number of underage drinkers whether they drink or not - and additionally families, companions and whole school groups. Underage students drink alcoholic beverages because they think liquor makes it simpler to meet other individuals, unwinds their social restraints and helps them have a ton of fun. Moreover, advertisements for alcohol are all around, with smooth promoting effort including alluring, young performers, and models. ncadd (n.d.) noted

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