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Chattanooga Area Pollinator Partnership
Restoring pollinator habitat in the Chattanooga Area
CHAPP Statement
Bee Conservation
Map Your Garden
Pollinator Garden Map
Pollinator Gardens
Native Plant Bloom Season
Beyond Basics
Seeds for Education
SFE Criteria
SFE Application
Why should we care about pollinators?
Three-fourths of the world's flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world's food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. Some scientists estimate that one out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of animal pollinators like bees, butterflies and moths, birds and bats. Perhaps the most critical pollinator groups are bees: bee pollination is responsible for more than $15 billion in increased crop value each year in the United States. Bees of all sorts pollinate approximately 75 percent of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in this country, and one out of every four bites of food people take is courtesy of bee pollination.[1]
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation puts it in an ecosystem framework:[2]
Pollinators are essential to our environment . . . Beyond agriculture, pollinators are keystone species in most terrestrial ecosystems. Fruits and seeds derived from insect pollination are a major part of the diet of approximately 25% of all birds, and of mammals ranging from red-backed voles to grizzly bears. In many places, the essential service of pollination is at risk from habitat loss, pesticide use, and introduced diseases.
Honey bees get all the press
We often think of honey bees as the primary pollinator of food crops. Honey bees (genus Apis) were brought over by European colonists in the 17th century, possibly as early as 1622. According to early American writers like Thomas Jefferson, Native Americans called honey bees "white man's flies" since the appearance of honey bees in America was associated with the arrival of European settlers. And like many insects, once introduced, they increased their range both by swarming and travelling with the settlers as they moved across the country. Today, honey bees are considered a critical pollinator for food crops and as a result, much of the recent focus of pollinator decline has been on their demise because data are being collected and the news is alarming. In the United States, beekeepers have lost around 30% of their colonies every year since 2006, with total annual losses sometimes reaching as high as 42%.[3]
Native bees are important and often overlooked
Carpenter Bee on Spotted Bee Balm
Native pollinators face similar population declines with some species like the rusty-patched bumble bee threatened with extinction. Across the U.S., there are an estimated 4,000 native bee species with the greatest diversity found in the western states, [4] from the Quarter-sized carpenter bee (Xylocopa spp.) to the tiny sweat bee Perdita minima, a rarely seen specialist that nectars on wildflowers in the spurge family. Native or "wild" bees pollinate native plants like cherries, blueberries and cranberries, and were here long before European honey bees arrived. Honey bees are well known for pollinating food crops like almond and lemon trees, okra, papaya and watermelon plants. But native bees are estimated to pollinate 80% of flowering plants around the world. New research shows that at least 120 species of wild bees like the blue orchard, mason, bumble and even sweat bees were found in Pennsylvania orchards during the growing season, and are more efficient pollinators than honey bees. When farmers provide good adjacent habitat[5], orchards adjacent to wild bee habitat can be fully pollinated without using honey bee hives.[6]
Bees are vegetarians who descended from wasps about 125 million years ago when the first flowering plants evolved. Some wasps switched from hunting prey to gathering pollen, evolving to become bees. Many modern wasps do feed on nectar and pollen during different phases of their lives. Bees feed on both nectar and pollen – the nectar is for energy, and the pollen provides protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used by bees as larvae food, but bees also transfer it from plant-to-plant providing the pollination services needed by plants and nature as a whole.
Butterflies, moths, beetles, wasps and hornets are also important pollinators although playing a relatively smaller role than bees. Many wasps, hornets, and beetles provide additional services by preying on pest insects and help to keep crop and garden pests in check. Population changes in these pollinator species have not been as closely tracked as honey bees. There are several hundred thousand species of pollinators and tracking all of them is not possible. However, surveys have documented disturbing population declines and even local extinctions of select pollinator species across the U.S. and Europe. [7]
Reasons for pollinator declines
Chief reasons for pollinator decline are (1) loss of basic habitat requirements in our landscapes such as floral resources (nectar and pollen) other than flowering crops, (2) pest and diseases affecting managed pollinators like honey bees that can spread to the wild populations, (3) introduced species that change ecological systems, and (4) our heavy reliance on broad spectrum pesticides by both agricultural industry and individual homeowners and other property managers.[8] Land management practices, in other words, have led to this result.
Engaging private and public landowners to help pollinators
In 2016, TVWO decided to focus on what we can do to help pollinators of all stripes that make the Tennessee Valley area home. Inspired by the Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership (GAPP)[9], we launched the Chattanooga Area Pollinator Partnership (CHAPP)[10]. CHAPP's mission is to improve pollinator habitat for butterflies, bees, moths, hummingbirds and other pollinators with the overarching vision that we will restore habitat corridors across the mid-south by connecting landscapes that provide food, water, shelter and avoid using pesticides. Furthermore, we would map a growing habitat corridor and connect this corridor with other regional pollinator habitat corridor projects like GAPP to help measure, display and promote these habitat connections.[11]
As educators and advocates, our chapter members spread the word through our public meetings, presentations to garden clubs and master gardener groups, tabling events, newsletters and websites. Wild One's mission is to promote sustainable landscaping practices and the establishment and restoration of native plant communities.
Our message is:
Your yard is an important ecosystem. Because of the widespread destruction of native habitat, Doug Tallamy, author of "Bringing Nature Home" and University of Delaware entomologist emphasizes the importance of native plants and the insects that feed on them. "We must look at our yards in a different way. We must turn from an agricultural desert made up of green chemically treated lawns with shrubs and trees from Asia, to yards that are pesticide free and contain native flowering plants that bloom from spring to late fall. Americans have a misplaced love affair with the lawn, Asian plants, and biologically inactive plants. It is a problem easily ten times larger than that caused by modern agriculture," writes Tallamy. Therefore, restoring native plant communities is crucial.
We have been taught to hate and kill insects, not realizing that they support the entire human and wildlife food web. Plants convert the sun's energy into food, and insects move that energy through food webs. Killing insects deprives other members of the ecosystem an essential food source.
Most plant-eating insects are specialists,[12] having a relationship with specific native plants in their life stages without which the insect will perish, as opposed to being generalists that feed on a variety of plants. One insect specialist is the Monarch butterfly caterpillar that only feeds on milkweed (Asclepias spp.). There are many other butterflies and moths whose larvae will only feed on specific native plants. Specialist insects and native plants have evolved together and plants from other regions cannot supply these ecosystem services. Some native bees are floral specialists like blueberry and squash bees that pollinate their native plant namesakes. As these host and nectar plants disappear from the landscape, so do their specialist insect. This point underscores why it is so important to have plant diversity and particularly native plant diversity.
Keys to improving pollinator habitat
CHAPP promotes four strategies you can use to improve pollinator habitat:
Provide native host, pollen and nectar plants from early spring through late fall when pollinators are active;
Offer a safe place for pollinators to reproduce and raise their young;
Provide water, and
Avoid using pesticides, especially pesticides deadly to insects.[13]
Choosing native plants can be confusing and frustrating because there has been so little information available in gardening magazines, newspaper feature articles and other information sources. We have aimed at filling that void by providing plant lists of easy to grow native plants that flower across the long growing season in the Southeast as well as more detailed lists of native plants that grow in different conditions (sun-shade, dry-moist, et al). Our goal is to build tool kits that are informative and easy to use. This information is posted on this website.
We also provide grants to schools for to purchase native plants and seeds for pollinator gardens through a new Seeds for Education initiative modeled after the Wild Ones' national program by the same name. Schools, churches, parks are all fertile ground for expanding pollinator habitat and connecting habitat corridors. And our members consult with those schools to help them design functional and sustainable pollinator garden installations. We want everyone to pitch in and help save the pollinators!
[1] USDA https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plantsanimals/pollinate/
[2] https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/
[3] https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/3867).
[4] At this writing, there is no exhaustive listing of bee species native to Tennessee although the www.discoverlife.org database might be useful.
[5] "Good habitat" as defined by the USDA NCRS and Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and a growing number of state extension services is plant native wildflowers that provide a diversity of floral resources through the entire growing season, provide shelter, and minimize pesticide use.
[6] https://extension.psu.edu/wild-bees-in-orchards
[7] https://beeinformed.org/
[8] Status of Pollinators in North America, National Academy of Sciences, 2006.
[9] www.gapp.org
[10] www.chapollinator.org
[11] The CHAPP map can be found here: https://chapollinator.org/map-your-garden/chapp-map/
[12] The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores, Forister, et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol 112, no 2, 442-447, January 13, 2015, http://www.pnas.org/content/112/2/442.full?tab=author-info
[13] See Xerces for comprehensive research regarding the safety of a particularly lethal class of insecticides called "neonicotinoids" http://xerces.org/neonicotinoids-and-bees/
The Chattanooga Area Pollinator Partnership is a volunteer effort started by the Wild Ones Tennessee Valley Chapter to restore pollinator habitat.
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The Department is publishing a proposed planning rule to guide development, revision, and amendment of land management plans for the National Forest System, accompanied by a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (DEIS), a Civil Rights Impact Analysis and a Cost Benefit Analysis. Through publication of this Proposed Planning Rule, the Forest Service is requesting public comment to help create a final rule for management of the National Forest System to meet modern and future needs.
A planning rule is a statutory requirement that outlines the procedures to amend, revise, and develop land management plans. The requirement for a planning rule is set out in the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 USC 1604 (g)).
The National Forest System consists of 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands. Land management plans for each forest and grassland provide a framework for integrated resource management and guide project and activity decision-making on the unit. The National Forest System planning rule provides the overarching framework for individual forests and grasslands in the National Forest System to use in developing, amending, and revising land management plans. Forest and Grassland Supervisors use these procedures to develop land management plans that set forth desired conditions and guidance for forest health and resilience, recreational opportunities, protection of threatened and endangered species and their habitats, sustainable communities and other multiple uses.
On June 30, 2009, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California invalidated the 2008 planning rule, holding that it was developed in violation of National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. This latest ruling followed other attempts to rewrite the 1982 planning rule. The Department has determined that a new planning rule is the best way forward.
National Forests and Grasslands are a vital part of the solution to a number of environmental and social challenges facing the nation, including restoring forests, protecting watersheds and habitat, addressing climate change, sustaining local economies, improving collaboration, and working across landscapes. A new planning rule provides the opportunity to help protect, reconnect, and restore national forests and grasslands for the benefit of human communities and natural resources.
The 1982 planning rule procedures have guided the development, amendment, and revision of all existing Forest Service land management plans. However, since 1982 much has changed in our understanding of how to create and implement effective land management plans, and in our understanding of science and the land management challenges facing Forest Supervisors. Because planning under the 1982 rule is often time consuming and cumbersome, it has been a challenge for units to keep plans current. Instead of updating plans as conditions on the ground change, units often wait and make changes all at once during the required revision process every 15 years. This can result in a drawn-out, difficult, and costly revision process. Plans in the interim lose much of their utility because they no longer reflect the reality on the ground.
The instability created by the history of the planning rule has had a negative impact on the Agency's ability to manage the NFS and on its relationship with the public. At the same time, the vastly different context for management and improved understanding of science and sustainability that has evolved over the past three decades creates an urgent need for a planning framework that allows the Agency to respond to new challenges and management objectives for NFS lands.
The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) requires regulations "under the principles of the Multiple-Use, Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, that set out the process for the development and revision of the land management plans, and the guidelines and standards" the Act prescribes (16 USC 1604 (g)).
In 1979, the Department first issued regulations to comply with this statutory requirement. The 1979 regulations were superseded by the 1982 planning rule, which has guided the development and revision of all existing land management plans. Recommendations from a review of the 1982 rule and the Agency's experiences with planning led the Agency to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for a new rule in 1991, and two proposed rules, in 1995 and 1999. In 2000, after working with a committee of scientists, the Department issued a final rule to replace the 1982 regulations. However, this rule was litigated, and at the same time, internal review in the spring of 2001 concluded that the 2000 rule would be too difficult to implement. The results of the review led the Department to issue a new planning rule in 2005, and a revised version again in 2008, but each of those rules was held invalid by a Federal District. The 2000 rule, including transition provisions allowing the Agency to continue to use 1982 rule procedures, legally came back into effect when the 2008 rule was set aside in 2009.
The Agency now has an urgent need to establish a stable, modern planning rule that is consistent with the current science and that protects, reconnects, and restores national forests and grasslands for the benefit of human communities and natural resources.
The proposed rule creates a framework that will allow the Forest Service to meet modern and future needs, taking into account new understanding of science, land management, and the all-lands context for managing resources. The proposed rule would help units identify their unique roles in the broader landscape and create land management plans to guide proactive contributions to ecological, social, and economic sustainability.
A more effective and efficient framework that would make planning more adaptive and responsive to the needs of the land and communities. Because planning under the 1982 rule is often time consuming and cumbersome, it has been a challenge for units to keep plans current. The agency expects planning to be more efficient under the proposed rule.
Increased requirements to strengthen the role of public involvement and collaboration throughout all stages of land management planning, while also retaining the traditional notice and comment procedures under NEPA.
Improved ability to respond to climate change and other stressors through new provisions to restore and maintain the structure, function, composition, and connectivity of healthy and resilient ecosystems.
Increased protections for water resources, aquatic ecosystems, and watersheds, including by identifying watershed for priority restoration and protecting riparian areas, public water supplies, groundwater, rare aquatic communities, lakes, streams, wetlands, and other bodies of water.
More effective and proactive requirements to provide for diverse native plant and animal species, including by focusing on providing healthy, resilient and connected habitat conditions, targeting additional provisions for at-risk species, and recognizing the need to work across land management boundaries to protect a species across its range.
New provisions to guide the contributions of a forest or grassland to social and economic sustainability, taking into account the social, cultural, and economic conditions relevant to the area influenced by the plan and the distinctive roles and contributions of the unit within the broader landscape.
Updated provisions for sustainable recreation, considering opportunities and access for a range of uses on land, water and in the air.
Requirements to provide for integrated resource management of range of multiple uses and values on National Forest System lands, including timber, mining, grazing, energy, outdoor recreation, water quality, habitat, and ecosystem services, as well as cultural and historic resources, special designation areas (like wilderness and wild and scenic rivers) and areas of tribal importance.
New requirements for a local and landscape-scale monitoring program that are based on the latest science, strengthening the role of monitoring so that units can better track changing conditions and determine whether they are making progress toward their desired conditions and objectives.
There are 127 land management plans for National Forest System lands. Sixty-eight of these plans are past due for revision; most of which were developed between 1983 and 1993 and should have been revised between 1998 and 2008.
There is a commitment in the rule to contribute to social and economic sustainability. The resulting management from this requirement should enhance jobs and income opportunities for local communities and rural America.
Plans written under the proposed rule would provide opportunities and access for a range of uses, including sustainable recreation, which would contribute to the social and economic health of communities. Planning would consider the full suite of multiple uses, including ecosystem services, energy, minerals, outdoor recreation, grazing, timber, watershed, wildlife and fish, wilderness, and other resources, uses and values relevant to the plan area.
By managing for sustainable uses of forests and grasslands, national forest management provides opportunities for businesses that benefit from goods and services associated with NFS lands. National forest management also provides opportunities for sustainable uses of forests and grasslands with land management activities, such as highly diverse public recreation opportunities, woody biomass utilization, timber harvesting, and restoration opportunities.
Management activities can directly contribute through contracting with local enterprises for services, such as campground construction, road and trail maintenance, streambed restoration, hazardous fuel reduction, and other types of services. The public's use and enjoyment of National Forest System lands greatly contributes to local economies through the revenue generated by the more 173 million recreational visits made annually to national forests and grasslands.
Finally, the proposed rule would create a more efficient and effective process through an adaptive framework for land management assessment, planning and monitoring. This framework would allow us to use resources more effectively and focus on implementing plans.
The rule proposes a framework for adaptive management and planning that reflects key themes from the public, as well as experience gained through the Agency's 30-year history with land management planning. The framework is intended to move the Agency toward a more adaptive system with more frequent amendments that can keep plans current between revisions.
(3) Monitor to detect changes on the unit and across the broader landscape, to test assumptions underlying management decisions, and to measure the effectiveness of management activity in achieving desired outcomes.
Through this framework, the proposed rule would create a collaborative and science-based planning process so that plans and their amendments reflect public values and the best available scientific information. It is intended to ensure that managers understand the role and contribution of their units and the context for management within the broader landscape. It is also designed to facilitate adaptation in response to climate change and other impacts to resources on the unit, allowing responsible officials to respond to new information and changing conditions.
The objective of the proposed rule is to guide the collaborative and science-based development, amendment, and revision of land management plans that promote healthy, resilient, diverse, and productive national forests and grasslands. Restoration and resilience are highlighted throughout the proposed rule, and would be a main focus throughout the land management planning process.
Land management plans would include components to maintain or restore the structure, composition, processes, and connectivity of healthy and resilient terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and watersheds in the plan area, protect key ecosystem elements (including water resources), and provide for plant and animal diversity, taking into account the potential impacts of climate change, wildfire, and other stressors on the unit.
Comments from and discussions with the public as part of this rule-making effort revealed growing concern about a variety of risks and stressors impacting resources, services, benefits, and uses on NFS lands. Issues included, for example: climate change; insects and disease; recreation, timber, and shifts in other local demands and national market trends; population growth and other demographic shifts; water supply protection; and other ecosystem support services. Addressing these types of issues and risks requires a larger landscape perspective, information from a broader spectrum of sources and users, and a framework that can facilitate adaptation. The new requirements in the proposed rule should increase Agency and unit capacity for adapting management plans to new and evolving information about risks, stressors, changing conditions, and management effectiveness, in order to promote resilient systems on the unit.
One of the original purposes for establishing the NFS was to protect our Nation's water resources. National Forest System lands contain 400,000 miles of streams, 3 million acres of lakes, and many aquifer systems that together serve as the source of drinking water for more residents of the United States than any other source. The Agency protects and improves habitat for more than 550 rare, threatened, and endangered aquatic species; provides outdoor recreation to more than 130 million visitors per year near streams, lakes, and other water resources; and supports access and operations for more than 200 hydroelectric facilities. National forests alone provide 18 percent of the Nation's water and over half the water in the West. The Organic Act, Weeks Act, MUSYA, and the NFMA all discuss the protection of water and/or watersheds.
The requirements of this proposed rule recognize the importance of maintaining those watersheds and aquatic resources that are in good condition and restoring those that are not. The proposed rule would require all plans to include direction to maintain or restore the structure, function, composition, and connectivity of healthy and resilient aquatic ecosystems and watersheds in the plan area, taking into account potential stressors, including climate change, how they might affect ecosystem and watershed health and resilience. Plans would be required to include components to maintain, protect or restore public water supplies, groundwater, rare aquatic communities, lakes, streams, wetlands, and other bodies of water. Plans would also have to include components to maintain, protect, or restore riparian areas.
The proposed rule would require that plans identify watersheds that are a priority for restoration. Assessments would be required to include information needed to provide plan components for water resources, and the monitoring program would include a requirement to monitor watershed conditions.
Specific decisions for how to protect and restore clean water and watershed health would occur at the local level. Each unit would collaborate with the public and use the best available scientific information for that area to protect and enhance water resources, reflecting the unique ecological features of the watershed.
The proposed rule addresses the diversity requirement by focusing on factors within agency control and using the best available scientific information to design a robust and achievable diversity standard. The proposed rule strongly protects species and wildlife, and in many ways goes further than did the 1982 rule by extending provisions beyond native and non-native vertebrate species to all plant and animal communities, and by updating diversity protections to reflect new science.
To maintain the diversity of native species, the proposed rule requires plan components for maintaining or restoring structure, function, composition, and connectivity of healthy and resilient terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and watersheds. The proposed rule also requires that plan components provide the ecological conditions to contribute to the recovery of threatened and endangered species; conserve candidate species; and maintain viable populations of species of conservation concern on the unit, where it is within agency authority and the capability of the land area to do so.
These requirements represent a "coarse filter/fine filter" approach to providing for plant and animal diversity. This is a well-developed concept in the scientific literature and has broad support from the scientific community and many stakeholders. The coarse filter would provide habitat for the long-term persistence of the vast majority of species within the plan area. The fine filter would identify specific habitat needs of species with known conservation concerns or whose long-term persistence in the plan area is at risk, and for which the coarse filter protection is insufficient.
The proposed rule also recognizes that there are limits to what the Agency can do related to maintaining species diversity. These limits arise from the fact that some factors influencing ecosystems and species are outside the Agency's control, such as climate change, extreme disturbance events, and urbanization on lands outside of or adjacent to NFS lands. At times, these factors could prevent the Agency from being able to maintain a viable population of a species of conservation concern within the plan area. In such cases, the proposed rule requires that the Agency provide plan components to maintain or restore ecological conditions within the plan area for that species, to contribute to the extent practicable to a viable population across its range. Additionally, the responsible official would reach beyond NFS boundaries to land managers who have authority where the species exists, to coordinate management for the benefit of a species across its range. These requirements reflect the need for an all-lands, cooperative approach to address the needs of some species.
Monitoring of both ecosystem and watershed conditions, and of a select group of focal species, is required by the proposed rule. Information about these ecosystem, watershed, and species conditions would also be considered during the assessment portion of the planning framework and used to develop plan components to provide for diversity.
The proposed rule also includes two additional provisions for habitat protection for species, beyond those included to provide for diversity. To the extent doing so is consistent with the diversity requirements, plans would also be required to protect rare aquatic and terrestrial plant and animal communities, and to consider habitat conditions for wildlife, fish, and plants commonly enjoyed and used by the public, such as species that are hunted, fished, trapped, gathered, observed, or needed for subsistence.
The proposed rule creates a framework that would allow adaptive land management planning in the face of climate change. Each phase of the framework addresses climate change. In the assessment phase, the proposed rule would require evaluating the potential impacts to the unit of climate change and other stressors, in order to understand the context for planning. In the planning phase, managers would be required to develop components to maintain or restore ecosystem and watershed health and resilience. In developing those components, land managers would need to take into account potential system drivers, stressors, disturbance regimes, including climate change and how they might affect ecosystem and watershed health and resilience and the ability of the systems on the unit to adapt to change. Plans would also include requirements to monitor measurable changes on the unit as a result of climate change, as well as carbon stored in above ground vegetation. These requirements will help build national forests and grasslands address climate change in planning and in management.
Use of the Forest Service Climate Change Performance Scorecard, administered annually to each National Forest, will also support the planning framework and bolster the ability of forests and grasslands to address climate change. The Scorecard would support each phase of the planning process: vulnerability assessments, carbon assessments, and integrated science and management are relevant for the assessment phase; adaptation activities, carbon assessments and management, sustainable operations, and integrating science and management are relevant for the plan revision and amendment phase; monitoring for the scorecard will support unit monitoring plans; and requirements to build organizational capacity and external partnerships around climate change will provide a foundation for management.
The high value placed on recreation has been a common theme throughout the public participation process leading to the proposed planning rule. Americans make over 170 million visits to national forests and grasslands each year. These visits provide an important contribution to the economic vitality of rural communities as spending by recreation visitors in areas surrounding national forests amounts to nearly 13 billion dollars annually. Recreation is also a critical part of social sustainability, connecting people to nature, providing for outdoor activities that promote long-term physical and mental health, enhancing the American public's understanding of their natural and cultural environments, and catalyzing their participation and stewardship of the natural world.
The proposed rule recognizes the importance of sustainable recreation as a multiple use, and integrates recreation concerns and provides for the unique needs of the recreation resource throughout the planning process, including in the assessment and monitoring phases. The proposed rule would require the responsible official to assess recreational needs and uses, and to monitor visitor use and progress towards meeting recreational objectives.
Plans would be required to include plan components to provide for sustainable recreation, considering opportunities and access for a range of uses. Plans should identify recreational settings and desired conditions for scenic landscape character. Sustainable recreation is defined in the rule as the set of recreational opportunities, uses and access that, individually and combined, are ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable, allowing the responsible official to offer recreation opportunities now and into the future. Recreational opportunities can include non-motorized, motorized, developed, and dispersed recreation on land, water, and air.
NFS lands provide economic, social, and cultural sustenance for local communities; for Tribes; and for people across the Nation. Products and services generated on NFS lands continue to sustain traditional livelihoods, provide for subsistence uses, and provide new economic opportunities or benefits generated through sustainable recreation and tourism, restoration activities, ecosystem services, and renewable energy. National Forest System lands are also of immense social and cultural importance, enhancing quality of life; sustaining scenic, historic, and culturally important landscapes; sustaining traditional life ways; and providing places to engage in outdoor recreation, improve physical and mental health, and reconnect with the land.
Under the proposed rule, national forests and grasslands would continue to provide a diverse range of resources and benefits for the American people. The proposed rule would require the development of a set of plan components that provide for integrated resource management. The proposed rule would require plan components to help units contribute to both social and economic sustainability. Plans written under the proposed rule would consider the full suite of multiple uses, including ecosystem services, grazing, timber, watershed, wildlife and fish, wilderness, renewable and nonrenewable energy and mineral resources, and the sustainable management of infrastructure on the unit, such as transportation and utility corridors. There are additional requirements in the multiple use section that require components to provide for sustainable recreation.
Under the proposed rule, timber is addressed in a separate section, reflecting the specific direction included in NFMA for timber management. Management and use of timber harvest on NFS lands continues to evolve. Today, harvest of timber on NFS lands occurs for many different reasons, including restoration for ecological resilience, community protection in the wildland urban interface, habitat restoration, protection of municipal water supplies, biomass energy, and wood production. Timber harvest also supports economic sustainability and provides employment and tax revenue in many counties throughout the country. The proposed rule includes requirements that will guide management of timber on NFS lands.
The proposed rule was developed using an open, collaborative process. The proposed rule was informed by 26,000 comments to the Notice of Intent, a science forum, regional and national roundtables held in 35 locations with over 3,000 people in attendance, national and regional tribal roundtables, 16 Tribal consultation meetings, Forest Service employee feedback, and over 300 comments posted to the Planning Rule blog. The agency considered the feedback received through these efforts, and used public input, science, and agency expertise to develop the proposed rule.
The public will be able to review the proposed rule and DEIS and submit comments during the 90-day public comment period. The agency will also host public meetings to discuss the proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement. These meetings will be held across the country during the public comment period. Comments received during the comment period will be considered and used to develop the final rule.
The proposed rule would require the responsible official to take into account the best available scientific information throughout the planning process and document how this was done in the assessment report, the plan decision document, and the monitoring evaluation reports. In doing so, the responsible official would determine what information is the most accurate, reliable, and relevant to a particular decision or action.
Through this requirement, the Agency seeks to ensure that scientific information is considered throughout the planning process and used to increase understanding of the risks, assumptions, and uncertainties involved in land management decisions. The requirement would also provide transparency and an explanation to the public as to how scientific information was used and how the responsible official arrived at important decisions.
While the appropriate interpretation and application of scientific information would provide the foundation for planning, the Agency recognizes that other forms of information, such as local and indigenous knowledge, public input, agency policies, results of monitoring, and the experience of land managers must also be taken into account.
The proposed rule would require the responsible official to reach out to a diverse group of individuals and communities and provide opportunities for public involvement and collaboration throughout all stages of the planning process.
More specifically, the responsible official would be required to reach out to individual members from the public and entities; private landowners; youth, low-income populations and minority populations; and other Federal agencies, States, counties, and local governments. Non-federally recognized Indian Tribes would be included in these public participation opportunities. The public would be provided opportunities to be engaged in all phases of the planning framework (assessment, revision or amendment, and monitoring).
Additionally, the responsible official would be required to provide public notice and invite participation at least four times during the planning process: at the beginning of an assessment; when development of the plan proposal begins; to provide comment on DEIS prepared for the plan proposal; and at the beginning of the objection period on the final plan proposal. The responsible official would also be required to involve the public in the development of the monitoring program.
The proposed rule would honor the trust and treaty rights of Tribes and would recognize the government-to-government relationship between the Federal government and Tribes by requiring the responsible official to offer opportunities for Tribal consultation during the planning process. Tribes would also have opportunities to participate in the public participation opportunities that would occur throughout the planning process.
The responsible official would be required to conduct consultation with federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations and meet the requirements of Executive Order 13175, which establishes consultation requirements for the Federal government. In addition, the responsible official would be required to encourage participation by Tribes in the overall public involvement effort throughout the planning process and request information about native knowledge, land ethics, cultural issues and sacred and culturally significant sights to be used in the planning process. Federally recognized Tribes would also be encouraged to seek cooperating agency status, which would provide them with further opportunities to be engaged throughout the land management planning process.


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import React from 'react';
import pure from 'recompose/pure';
import SvgIcon from '../../SvgIcon';

let NotificationSimCardAlert = (props) => (
  <SvgIcon {...props}>
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  </SvgIcon>
);
NotificationSimCardAlert = pure(NotificationSimCardAlert);
NotificationSimCardAlert.displayName = 'NotificationSimCardAlert';
NotificationSimCardAlert.muiName = 'SvgIcon';

export default NotificationSimCardAlert;

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set -e

# Extract project parameters from _oasis
NAME=`oasis query Name 2> /dev/null`
VERSION=`oasis query Version 2> /dev/null`
PREFIX=$NAME-$VERSION
ARCHIVE=$(pwd)/$PREFIX.tar.gz

# Clean setup.data and other generated files.
make clean
make distclean

# Create a branch for the release
git checkout -b release-$VERSION

# Generate files
oasis setup

# Remove this script and dev-files
rm -f dist.sh opam .travis-ci.sh .travis.yml

# Commit
git add --all --force
git commit
git tag "v$VERSION"

git checkout master


Every big organisation once started with a small idea!
Brothers Interactive was founded in year 2017, we are a couple of passionate 3D art Designers that collaborated to become part of something bigger and stronger and most of all highly reliant.
Idea of brothers came as lightning to us, back than we were a couple of ex-colleagues, working as freelancers when suddenly we entertained the idea of working together as a unit. To make that operational and check the functionality of the whole idea we started dedicating our time as a team on various projects and the results were outstanding. And thus we became Brothers Interactive. Some of these projects have global recognition are now part of our esteemed portfolio section.
We had our first breakthrough in the end of 2017, when local, national and international projects started flooding in. we started putting our work online and suddenly we were everywhere, substantial projects and opportunities were knocking our door. We started gaining pace and here we are Brothers Interactive no more just an idea but fully functional, potentially successful 3D art Content service provider company.
WHAT IS BROTHERS INTERACTIVE FOR ?
Gaming being our speciality, we have years of knowledge and expertise in delivering high-end 3D art content for PC, Console games.
We help you move ahead in your business domain by adding new technology stuff like AR/VR that makes you stand out from your competition.
Our team is experience essential where we have a team character artists with senior level experience which is 5-10 years.
With our kind of experience and eye to see the minute requirements of Movies and Commercials we are able to reach deep down where your imaginations go wild.
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Our team is on continuous growth, we respect talent and passion for 3D art and thus are always hiring to maintain a full-fledged team of expert animators, sculptors, generalists, modellers etc. Furthermore, currently we maintain a team of 3D artists with each holding minimum experience of 5 years.
Arun is the Art Director and when it comes to work he is awesome at 3D characters.
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Q: Given $(a_n)$ and $(b_n) \in \mathbb{R}$,if we have $|a_n - b_n| < \frac{1}{n} \forall n \in \mathbb{N}$ Given $(a_n)$ and $(b_n) \in \mathbb{R}$,if we have $|a_n - b_n| < \frac{1}{n} \forall n \in \mathbb{N}$, I think it is possible to find an $N$ such that $\forall n \ge N$, we have $|a_n-b_n| < \frac{\epsilon}{2}$. I think we can definitely find that $N$ where we pick $N= \frac{2}{\epsilon}$. Then we will have for $n>N$, we will have $N> \frac{2}{\epsilon} \Rightarrow |a_n-b_n| <\frac{1}{n}< \frac{1}{N}< \frac{\epsilon}{2}$
I think my argument is correct though, point out if there is any flaw. I need to use it as a lemma for other proof.

A: This has nothing to do with $a_n$ or $b_n$; you're just saying that you can always find an $N$ such that $\frac1n\lt\frac\epsilon2$ for all $n\gt N$. This is the Archimedean property of the real numbers.

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In the United States, two dozen chief executive officers are in charge of companies that own 728 out of the 1,522 existing coal-fired generating units. The total capacity of these 728 plants is 235,927 MW, or 70 percent of total U.S. coal-fired power capacity of 335,891.
1 Rolling Stone Magazine calls out so-called "Climate Killers"
Rolling Stone Magazine calls out so-called "Climate Killers"
In the January 2010 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine, journalist Tim Dickinson profiled the top 17 United States "polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming". Below are excerpts from the article.
Despite being a key adviser to Obama during the financial crisis, America's best-known investor has been blasting the president's push to curb global warming — using the same lying points promoted by far-right Republicans. The climate bill passed by the House, Buffett insists, is a "huge tax — and there's no sense calling it anything else." What's more, he says, the measure would mean "very poor people are going to pay a lot more money for their electricity." Never mind that the climate bill, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would actually save Americans with the lowest incomes about $40 a year.
But Buffett, whose investments have the power to move entire markets, is doing far more than bad-mouthing climate legislation — he's literally banking on its failure. In recent months, the Oracle of Omaha has invested billions in carbon-polluting industries, seeking to cash in as the world burns. His conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, has added 1.28 million shares of America's biggest climate polluter, ExxonMobil, to its balance sheet. And in November, Berkshire placed a huge wager on the future of coal pollution, purchasing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad for $26 billion — the largest acquisition of Buffett's storied career. BNSF is the nation's top hauler of coal, shipping some 300 million tons a year. That's enough to light up 10 percent of the nation's homes — many of which are powered by another Berkshire subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy. Although Berkshire is the largest U.S. firm not to disclose its carbon pollution — and second globally only to the Bank of China — its utilities have the worst emissions intensity in America, belching more than 65 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2008 alone.
As a savvy investor, Buffett would only buy a coal-shipping railroad if he felt certain that Congress will fail to crack down on climate pollution. "Whatever hurts coal also hurts the railroad business," observes Peter Gray, a corporate climate attorney at the international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge. "Mr. Buffett must believe that efforts to adopt cap-and-trade legislation will fail."
That's a strange position for the billionaire to take, given that he's promised to donate more than 80 percent of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "As someone who is giving so much money to international development, Buffett ought to know better," says Joe Romm, who served as an assistant energy secretary under Bill Clinton. "He ought to have spent a great deal of time considering the greatest threats to developing countries — which would have quickly educated him about climate change."
In an age when most CEOs are canny enough to at least pay lip service to the realities of climate change, Blankenship stands apart as corporate America's most unabashed denier. Global warming, he insists, is nothing but "a hoax and a Ponzi scheme." His fortune depends on such lies: Massey Energy, the nation's fourth-largest coal-mining operation, unearths more than 40 million tons of the fossil fuel each year — often by blowing the tops off of Appalachian mountains.
The country's highest-paid coal executive, Blankenship is a villain ripped straight from the comic books: a jowly, mustache-sporting, union-busting coal baron who uses his fortune to bend politics to his will. He recently financed a $3.5 million campaign to oust a state Supreme Court justice who frequently ruled against his company, and he hung out on the French Riviera with another judge who was weighing an appeal by Massey. "Don Blankenship would actually be less powerful if he were in elected office," Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia once observed. "He would be twice as accountable and half as feared."
On the national level, Blankenship enjoys a position of influence on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has led the fight to kill climate legislation. He enjoys inveighing against the "greeniacs" — including Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Al Gore — who are "taking over the world." And he has even taken to tweeting about climate change: "We must demand that more coal be burned to save the Earth from global cooling."
In more unguarded moments, however, Blankenship confesses that his over-the-top rhetoric is strategic. "If it weren't for guys like me," he says, "the middle would be further to the left." He also admits that his efforts to block climate legislation are ultimately self-serving: "It would probably cut our business in half."
↑ 1.0 1.1 "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005", Energy Information Administration website, accessed April 2008.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The Climate Killers" Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Magazine, January 2010.
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Bloodline: The True Story of John Turnipseed
by John Turnipseed, Cecil Murphey
Paperback|Oct 2014
Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized and empty cupboards. A.C. Turnipseed's alcoholism and womanizing started a chain reaction...
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life (10th Anniversary Edition)
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
The Bowden Dynasty: A Story of Faith, Family and Football - An Insiders Account
Charlie Barnes, Bobby Bowden
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Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey
Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized and empty cupboards. A.C. Turnipseed's alcoholism and womanizing started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations.
From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp to one of the nation's most respected pioneers of community restoration, John Turnipseed's story of transformation and restoration is told with unflinching honesty and contagious hope.
Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized and empty cupboards. A.C. Turnipseed's alcoholism and womanizing started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations. From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp to one of the nation's most respected pioneers of community restoration, John Turnipseed's story of transformation and restoration is told with unflinching honesty and contagious hope.
Category Biography
Publication Date Oct 2014
John Turnipseed
John Turnipseed, a former gang leader and drug dealer, is a community leader, pastor, speaker, facilitator, and has written parenting curriculum. For more than 15 years, John was the director of the Center for Fathering at Urban Ventures in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was promoted to vice president in 2014. Overcoming the deadly effects of a violent, absent father and the downward spiral of gang life, John is passionate about helping rebuild relationships and successful living.
Cecil Murphey
New York Times? best-selling author and international speaker CECIL (CEC) MURPHEY has written or co-written more than a hundred books, including the runaway bestseller 90 Minutes in Heaven (with Don Piper) and Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (with Dr. Ben Carson). His books have sold millions of copies, have been translated into more than 40 languages, and have brought hope and encouragement to countless people around the world
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Wild weather causes problems on land and sea
Weather to blame for slips, flooding, traffic woes
Russell Blackstock, NZ Herald,
Sun, 18 Sep 2016, 6:45AM
Flooding on Te Horo Rd on the Kapiti Coast yesterday (Supplied)
UPDATED 12.45PM: A large slip has blocked State Highway 3 in North Taranaki and a tree has fallen on an Auckland home as wild weather continues to batter the country.
Central fire communications confirmed firefighters were at the scene on SH3 at Mokau, just south of the bridge.
Both lanes of the road are currently closed due to the size of the slip and contractors were working to get it re-opened.
New Zealand Transport Agency also confirmed the road was currently closed and were asking people to avoid the area or delay their journey.
Meanwhile, earlier today, flooding and slips have also closed roads in Wellington and cancelled World War I centenary events.
The conditions have seen several flights diverted or delayed in Wellington, though flooded rivers are starting to drop.
The usual Sunday brunch will likely be an indoor affair for many with wet weather expected to continue till later today.
Central parts of the country are the worst affected by the heavy rain and winds; with the most rain, 71.5mm, having fallen in the Eastern Bay of Plenty during 12 hours overnight.
Meanwhile weather stations in other parts of the central North Island recorded between 30 to 40mm of rain within the same time period.
MetService meteorologist Claire Flynn said a flood watch had been issued and would be in effect for parts of the central North Island until later this evening.
"We are looking at scattered rain or showers across much of the North Island, though the concentration is in the central part, with heavy rain and larger accumulations," she said. "For other parts we expect some scattered rain or showers over much of the island."
The rain and winds have caused havoc in parts of the country. Early this morning the Fire Service reported a tree had fallen on a house in West Auckland, while flooding and slips closed roads near Wellington.
The spring downpours had also caused flooding in other parts of the lower North Island overnight.
Late yesterday a slip had blocked the southbound lane of State Highway 2, on Rimutaka Hill Road, just west of Featherston. The road was also closed at Melling in Lower Hutt due to flooding.
By 9am the New Zealand Transport Agency tweeted an update that the block at Melling had since been cleared and the road was now open.
Wellington regional emergency management organisation on-duty officer Trevor Farmer said across the region it was pretty wet.
"Council roading teams are out, trees have fallen in some places, minor slippages, flooding in areas.
"The weather forecast is we are going to have this rain until lunchtime, but at the moment rivers are dropping, but dropping very slowly.
"I expect flooding to subside by this afternoon."
Farmer said the usual messages applied; to call 111 if the situation was life-threatening, or if it was something non-urgent and related to council space they could contact their district council.
The coastguard was also kept busy, yesterday with at least two people needing medical treatment after going out in the rough seas.
In the first incident a person had to be pulled from a sinking jet-ski in a Whangaparaoa bay and aside from being wet, cold and mildly hypothermic wasn't seriously hurt.
Another man received a head injury and was treated by Westpac Rescue paramedics later on Saturday afternoon, after the yacht he was on turned abruptly in the wind and he was hit by a moving beam.
However, the worst of the weather was expected to be behind us.
Of the main centres, the capital was expected to be the wettest, with heavy falls easing to showers later in the evening accompanied by strong southerly winds. The temperature in Wellington was expected to only reach a cool 13 degrees.
However, a number of flights to and from the capital were expected to experience some minor delays due to the poor visibility as a result of the low cloud and poor weather.
Two flights, one from Fiji and one from Sydney, were last night diverted to Auckland due to low lying cloud, however, a Wellington Airport spokesperson said no other flights had been seriously affected.
"Passengers should expect potential delays throughout the day and just check with our website and the airlines really."
An Auckland Airport spokeswoman said none of its flights were affected by the weather and everything was running "as per normal".
The rain had also put a dampner on a number of events around the city, with the ceremony of remembrance to mark the centenary of WW1 in France being moved inside.
The ceremony at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park was due to begin at 11am, but has since been moved inside to the Hall of Memories.
As a result the Defence Force said seating would be more limited.
The outside France in the Park segment of the commemorations has also been cancelled.
However, children could still head indoors to make a poppy, and see some historical monuments on display.
While the weather wasn't as bad further north, Auckland too was getting a little bit of rain, though these were lighter with the showers expected to easy by midday, giving way to clear skies in the evening. The city of sails would reach of high of 17 degrees this afternoon.
Christchurch was the driest of the lot, with only clouds expected today with a few southerlies developing and a high of 15 degrees.
Flynn said the wet weather in the North Island wasn't unusual for this time of year.
"We've got this low that's crossing over the country. This time of year we do get these from time to time," she said. "Spring weather is often quite changeable, it just depends what kind of weather systems come our way."
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This Ian Brown Monkey Business T-shirt has been drawn in coloured pencil by Mark Reynolds.
This Ian Brown Monkey Business T-Shirt is available in a wide range of colours and sizes. It is exclusive to Mr Art and can only be purchased from this website.
Ian Brown was proclaimed God Like Genius at the 2006 N.M.E awards. Ian was said to be over the moon with his N.M.E award and the judges said they were proud to honour him with it ..
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Home - Rollover Crashes Still a Big Danger
Rollover Crashes Still a Big Danger
If you were asked to name the types of crashes that cause the most deaths, you might say head-on collisions. Or, if you know something about traffic statistics, you might expect intersection crashes or left turns to be high on the list, or even single-vehicle crashes off the road.
You might not expect that rollover crashes are still one of the crash configurations with a high number of fatalities each year, but they continue to rank near the top.
Increased Concern
The popularity of SUVs, beginning in the mid-1980s, led to both an increase in rollover crashes and concern about the design of these vehicles. The problem was real: When the US Department of Transportation took a hard look at the data in 2002, they found that rollover deaths had risen 9 percent across the 1990s, despite a decrease in passenger car rollovers. The reason? A more than one-third increase in incidents involving light trucks and SUVs.
Other interesting information was revealed, including that victims in rollovers were noticeably less likely to be wearing seat belts than the average driver. And yes, the data showed that SUVs had a higher chance of rolling when their drivers tried to maneuver before a crash, but that more than half of all drivers in multi-vehicle crashes that included a rollover fatality made no attempt to avoid the crash at all.
Improved but Not Removed
In 2005, more than 10,800 people died in rollovers, about 27 percent of all crash fatalities, and around four in ten of those rollover deaths were in passenger cars (not SUVs). Those numbers have been on a mostly steady (but slow) decline for some time.
By 2014, rollovers accounted for under 19 percent of crash deaths (nearly 7,600), and in 2016, the estimate was below 7,500 total, with tens of thousands more injured. But that was nearly one-third of fatalities that year, while rollovers only made up a few percent of all crashes.
Single- and Multi-Vehicle
It's true that the majority of rollovers are single-vehicle crashes. But they still happen in crashes with other vehicles. In February, a pickup in Lakewood was left on its roof after causing a crash at an intersection. A day rarely goes by without news of a crash of this type, like the one earlier this month in El Cajon, where a two-vehicle collision left one on its roof.
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It doesn't matter what type of crash you've been in, when you're the victim of someone else's careless driving, it's critical that you take all the steps necessary to ensure that you are compensated for all damage and injury caused. Your medical expenses and lost wages need to be recovered—and without the right legal assistance that can be difficult.
Contact the experienced automobile accident attorneys at Kohan & Bablove, LLP today at 1-844-404-2400 or contact us online through the form below to schedule a free consultation to discuss your case. We've helped hundreds of clients settle their cases successfully, and we're ready to help you.


The Organ is situated in the West gallery. It is a Willis 3 Manual Organ and originally came from St George's Church, Charlotte Square in Edinburgh. It has now been restored, with additional pipes and new casework being added after a 9 year fundraising campaign and a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded in 2014 for a 3 project of organ restoration, research, music programme, education and outreach. The first phase of works to rewire the instrument completely and refurbish the console took place in 2011. The final phase of restoration was completed in 2016.
Music for all at SMSG runs a variety of regular events for fundraising and musical enjoyment. Further information about the organ and the music programme can be found on the Music for all at SMSG website.


Here it is at last, well-documented investigation that shows how we have all been manipulated into bad health by the food industry; people who have literally made a killing off us by getting us hooked on synthetic food. The real corruption began a long time ago getting its real energy during World War II when government oversight of food processing grew weak (to naught), when money was directed toward industrialization in the war effort, when investors became powerful and rich. Then came TV. The new capitalists became the prophets of "modernism" and the golden age. Still, it took many more years and a lot of government program invention to destroy our independent small farm culture and our truly American (Jeffersonian) democratic idea about food.
Michael Moss's article, "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," appeared in The New York Times Magazine, February 20, 2013. It is adapted from Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us to be published later this month by Random House. Moss is an investigative reporter for the Times and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for his investigations into the Meat Industry.
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food is a lengthy read (it prints out on 21 pages) but especially salient since it highlights a significant change in attitude about food in the US after World War II; an attitude deeply influenced by advertising through the new media, especially TV. And it is directly pertinent to me since it validates a lot of my personal conflicts having grown up on a small organic farm on the southwest fringe of Minneapolis in the 1950s with a mother dedicated to health and natural food. I was not allowed pop; she spiked my orange juice (more often our own apple/cherry juice) with brewer's yeast; she put extra wheat germ in our oatmeal.
Later, I remember too well my mother-in-law's anguish as a Wisconsin cheese maker being directed to add artificial flavors and fillers to her prized Mayville Cheese. Mayville is still a small, picturesque, farming town in east-central Wisconsin on the Rock River. I got married there in 1966 (when it had a population of about 4,000). Verna, my mother-in-law, worked at the Mayville Cheese Company. I remember the day she came home in tears because the company was being taken over by Kraft and the new regime was causing her to have to add "chemicals" to the cheese.
Those of us who experienced the post war years growing up in the new society remember the many TV commercials and the audacity of media stars like Ronald Regan hawking for General Electric; delivering the modern commercial epiphany! From that point, all our "new living" sermons started coming from Hollywood.
Perhaps we are experiencing a new reality regarding the short but intensive commercialization of food and the ills industrialization has brought. There may be a change in the making. Will it really address the deep systemic problems inherent to American Capitalism? I don't know.
Whatever the outcome, I challenge you to read "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food" and think about a government that places the power of profits above public health to the degree that it will legally allow a corporate body to add chemicals to food and market that food in ways that cause a significant number of its citizens to become terminally ill.
Think hard about your next "food craving" – a craving as strong as that for cigarettes, and brought to you by the same bedfellows. Not a laughing matter, but it's a problem that just can't be fixed with a bag of Bunny Luv baby carrots.
Vending machine – tom.w, used with permission under Creative Commons license.
Sports drinks – Andy on Flickr, used with permission under Creative Commons license.


ALL Heading For A May Cycle Low?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will shares of Allstate Corp. manage another run higher after its recent consolidation, or is the downward pull of multiple price cycles going to be the determining factor in the stock's near-term direction?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A high-probability bullish breakout setup has appeared in shares of Allstate Corp.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Australian All Ords Index ($AORD) has been one of the top performers over the last 12 months, but the index just met a major resistance level with slowing momentum.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks in the refining industry group have taken a hit since making their major highs in mid-2007. Signs of life remain, however, and Valero Energy Corp. appears to be preparing for a move higher.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is there a fixed-income investment for every economic climate?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The current setup in the All Ords looks similar to the June-July flag and breakout that preceded an 8% surge.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the S&P 500 down, January has been a grim month. However, Avon has a different story to tell.
For Analog Devices, All Systems Go?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here it comes -- a significant trend reversal in the broad markets. Will Analog Devices join in the rally?
Gold - Is it All Glitter?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The advance in stocks since mid-August has certainly been impressive when looking at the point gains, but a look beneath the surface reveals a one-sided market.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of USO may be breaking out of a Fibonacci fan pattern.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The uptrend in oil appears to be all dried up.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you want to trade a system successfully, you need to stay in the game to come out a winner.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are bear market rallies worth the bother?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a strong run, the stock market looks toppy to some. However, by many measures this seems like the start of a new bull market.
SUNE: All Clear For More Gains?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Already up by more than 1400% in the past two years, shares of SunEdison Inc. appear to be breaking sharply higher again.


12/12/2016 05:15 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.
The world of securities regulation and litigation is about to confront significant change. With the new Trump Administration about to take office, a major insider trading case pending before the Supreme Court, plaintiffs racing to file Section 11 claims in state court rather than in federal court but rushing to file merger claims in federal court rather than state court, and evolving potential claims by private parties and state authorities over carbon capture disclosure, anyone responsible for the operation of a publicly traded corporation has much to be concerned over. This expert panel will attempt to provide some reasoned guidance regarding likely changes in the regulatory landscape and how corporations and counsel can prepare.


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Violinist Ivry Gitlis is one of many artists from the Golden Age whose name is slowly being forgotten. This DVD of some of his more stunning performances becomes all the more valuable. Ironically, if Gitlis were to enter the concert stage today, he could very likely be dismissed as an overindulgent, hyper-romanticized showoff
FAMOUS & RARE CLASSICAL PIECES performed by the INSPIRED Ivry GITLIS, Violin and Shigeo NERIKI, Piano. Recorded in Japan, Tokyo, ARAKAWA PUBLIC HALL, (July 1985) FULL ALBUM, Total Time : 7. 3 mn. Hope you enjoy this work of genius ; incredible gitlis ! TRACKS : ( Titles in French) in English in the video.
a view years ago we were able to make a documentary about the famous violin player Ivry Gitlis. For more than 2 years we went to his house in Paris to try to capture the magic about Inspiration. Where did it come from, how can you catch it and what if there is no inspiration. For me this adventure was a inspirational rollercoaster. Created by Crossmarkpictures PRO 7 years ago. Browse This Channel.
Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
Yitzhak-Meir (Isaac) Gitlis was born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate to Jewish parents, who emigrated in 1921 from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia, now Ukraine. Gitlis acquired his first violin when he was five years old and started lessons under Mme Velikovsky together with his friend Zvi Zeitlin. He then studied privately with Mira Ben-Ami, a pupil of Joseph Szigeti. When he was eight, she arranged for him to play for Bronisław Huberman, which prompted a fundraising campaign to allow him to study in France.
Ivry Gitlis was born in 1922, in Haifa, Israel, to Russian parents. Ivry Gitlis was born in 1922, in Haifa, Israel, to Russian parents. He received his first violin at the age of five and gave his first concert at age ten. When violinist Bronislav Huberman heard him play, he sent him to study at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won a first prize at age 13.
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HomeCollege Sports JournalNCAA Division I SportsFCS FootballHBCU Coaches Poll: North Carolina A&T leads preseason rankings
HBCU Coaches Poll: North Carolina A&T leads preseason rankings
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — After a 2015 season which saw the North Carolina A&T Aggies finish as BOXTOROW national champions and win the inaugural Celebration Bowl 41-34 over Alcorn State, it's no surprise the Aggies sit atop the preseason BOXTOROW Coaches poll.
MEAC co-championships Bethune-Cookman and North Carolina Central – North Carolina A&T was MEAC co-champions as well – follow at No. 2 and No. 4, with Alcorn State sandwiched between them at No. 3.
Each is expected to also contend for the HBCU national championship and a spot in the Celebration Bowl – that pits the MEAC champion against the SWAC champion – taking place Dec. 17 in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome.
Like last year the Celebration Bowl will open the bowl season and will be televised on ABC.
Although Grambling and Prairie View A&M are No. 6 and No. 7, respectively, both teams are also expected to challenge. GSU is the defending SWAC Western Division champion, while PVAMU finished second last year, its only conference loss coming at the hands of the Tigers. The Panthers were 8-2 in Willie Simmons' first year as head coach.
Delaware State and Jackson State kick off the 2016 HBCU football season on Thursday, September 3; DSU is on the road against Delaware and JSU is at UNLV.
In its eighth season, the BOXTOROW HBCU FCS coaches poll is administered by FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW and is voted on by the HBCU Football Championship Subdivision coaches.
2016 BOXTOROW FCS HBCU Preseason Football Coaches Poll
No. Team W-L Pts. 2015 Final Poll
1. North Carolina A&T (15) 10-2 184 1
2. Bethune-Cookman (2) 9-2 161 3
3. Alcorn State (1) 9-4 140 2
4. North Carolina Central 8-3 124 5
5. Grambling State 9-3 114 4
6. Prairie View A&M 8-2 97 6
7. South Carolina State 7-4 77 7
8. Alabama State 6-5 47 10
9. Southern 6-4 45 8
10. Hampton (1) 6-5 32 9
Other receiving votes: Tennessee State (4-6) 11, Norfolk State (4-7) 8,
Morgan State (4-6) 3, Jackson State (3-8) 1.
(1st place votes in parentheses)
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Stricter rules are being imposed on gambling advertising, especially for online gambling ads.
From April 1st, gambling operators in the UK will have to make sure that they do not target any individuals under the legal age of 18, as a ban has been imposed on the use of young celebrities and sports stars in advertising materials has been imposed. As revealed by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), the new requirements have been specially designed to protect children from irresponsible gambling advertising practices.
Gambling operators which operate on the territory of the UK will have to use every available targeting tool in order to make sure that their online ads and promotions are not accessed by individuals under the age of 18. What is more, bookmakers will also have to avoid placing gambling ads on social media and other websites which are found attractive by minors. Under the new standards, gambling operators will not be allowed to use animated or licensed characters known from film and television and celebrities who "appear to be" under the age of 25.
In 2018, local authorities have revealed that stricter regulation is to be imposed in order to ensure better protection to customers and especially to underage individuals who could be lured into dangerous betting. As a result, the UK gambling industry confirmed that it would engage in a voluntary ban on betting adverts during live sports events before the 9:00 PM watershed.
The voluntary ban, however, is not able to stop children from seeing gambling adverts during football matches, as for the time being, it is exactly gambling companies which prevail as Premier League football clubs shirt sponsors.
The stricter measures have been taken after a recent study in the UK showed that about 450,000 children from 11 to 16 years old gamble on a regular basis.
The changes, which are set to come into force in April, have been designed in a way to bring more clarity to the existing standards at a time when the Government has been worried over the prevalence of gambling advertising in all forms of media. The new standards have been announced after five years ago CAP carried out a review to check the impact which gambling advertising could have on children.
The above-mentioned review included the results of a number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on adverts which have been considered to be of particular appeal to children. A number of cases in which ASA ruled that the adverts should not be displayed any more, including a William Hill promotion which appeared within a Kario Kart application, the "Lucky Wizard" game of Coral, which depicted an animated wizard that could be particularly appealing to children, and a gambling website which featured an animated version of the Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel fairy tales.
The presence of gambling advertising in computer games which are popular with local children has been found concerning, as more underage individuals are put under the detrimental impact of gambling. Earlier in February, the ASA banned gambling adverts which appeared in the "I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here" application of ITV, as it found it breaking the rules designed to prevent children from being encouraged to bet.


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BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese government Monday promised to increase the education budget for disabled children and welcomed private funds.
A proper special education system is of great significance to equality of disabled people in social affairs, to improve the happiness of disabled families and to safeguard social justice, said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in a written instruction to a national conference on special education held here Monday.
All levels of government must improve the special education system so that disabled children receive as good an education as others. An inclusive special education system without discrimination is a must, according to Vice Premier Liu Yandong's address to the conference.
The government will improve the capacity of existing special education schools with more investment in facilities, teaching programs and teacher training, Liu said.
It will also encourage ordinary schools to enroll more disabled children. More budget will go to special education schools and financial assistance programs that cover all disabled students.
Seven departments, including the education, civil affairs and finance ministries, issued a plan to improve education for learners with special needs on Jan. 20.
The plan set a target of at least 90 percent of children with visual, hearing and intellectual disabilities in free primary and middle school education by the end of 2016.
Compulsory education only covered 71.9 percent of disabled children by the end of 2012, while 99.5 percent of eligible children without disabilities are in primary education and 98 percent in middle school.
Local governments should work out how to carry out this plan as quickly as possible and issue detailed policies, said State Councilor Wang Yong, who presided over the conference.


The University of Potsdam stands for excellence in research as a modern and innovative institution. The chair for Military History / Cultural History of Violence is the only one of its kind in Germany. We cooperate with think tanks and numerous research institutions, which focus on military history, sociology or political science. Thereby manifold research methods and interdisciplinary approaches are combined to create knowledge transfers and a truly international atmosphere. The new master program "War and Conflict Studies" is modeled on these ideals and our students research causes, dynamics and the contexts of violent struggles from the early modern age until contemporary conflicts. Historical and sociological methods and subjects will be studied concurrently to offer a wide range of views and interpretations.
The chair's research focus lies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hence, coming from the long nineteenth century, a comprehensive and intertwined approach can be pursued. By combining military history, memory studies and changes of culture and mentalities we research the development of the German Bundeswehr, the Austrian Bundesheer and the Italian Esercito during the Cold War. Our aim is to assess specific military cultures in context with the societal developments. Also the factor of peacekeeping missions as new forms of military deployment and its effects on the various armies, their traditions and soldierly self-understanding is studied. Future projects will include additional European countries to offer a comprehensive picture.
The study of intelligence cultures marks the second vital research area. The project "Kulturen der Intelligence", sponsored by the Gerda Henkel-Stiftung, the Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz and the Arts & Humanities Research Council, primarily investigates the development of intelligence cultures in Germany, Britain and the US. However, it is envisaged to widen the country-specific scope of the project and also to extend the time span under consideration to the second half of the 20th century.


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Christy Clark's victorious drive up Main Street, B.C.
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – May 21, 2013
On May 14, in plain sight of millions of witnesses, Christy Clark drove through a stoplight.
The symbolic stoplight of her political career. The red light that was supposed to stop dead Clark's bouncy, smiley-face premiership, mirroring her real-life drive through a light at 5:15 a.m. at a silent corner during her election campaign.
But the confident scenario of B.C.'s weighty political class somehow went ludicrously awry.
Dainty foot to the floor, Clark drove through the presumptions and predictions of B.C.'s all but 100% wrong thumb-sucking punditry, its pollsters unanimously crashing from lofty heights who should have started re-examining their wacky methodology before the polls closed, the anonymous Internuts and Twits using the supposedly rising influence of the so-called "social media" – beautifully described as the vehicle for people expressing first thoughts who never have second ones.
What the above suspects missed was that the metaphorical street along which Clark steadily progressed was Main Street. Not the mean streets where the New Democrats proposed more social housing subsidizing failure – some poignant and unfair, but some squarely authored by people's own stupid choices – paid for by the successful, struggling heroically to pay their own mortgages (and in no mood for more taxes on the "rich" that would have hit many a unionized-worker household). Not the Chancellor Boulevards leading to the overwhelmingly leftist universities where nostalgia for the good old Soviet Union still lurks, as I, a present part-time student, can attest.
No, Clark, albeit with a trunk full of high-smelling Liberal political baggage that should have bowed the suspension, and to which she had generously contributed with personal bungles, bafflements and gassy budget balloons, drove along the Main Street where what are called "ordinary people" – a disgracefully condescending term but maddeningly difficult to replace – live. She spoke about collective values – not collectivist government. She talked about families – not the fashionable newly defined families, though she's not hostile to them and is a single mom herself, but clearly she evoked the traditional family.
She connected. She felt. She conquered.
Clark played Franklin D. Roosevelt to Adrian Dix's Al Gore. Her unspoken words matched FDR's "nothing to fear but fear itself" – a demonstrably fatuous statement at a time when there was plenty to fear including fear itself, but a torch in a black decade. She would not know – and I've forgotten the author myself – the observation that hope makes a poor guide but a good companion. What else does fallen mankind need above all? What else has inspired our confused rise over millennia up a precarious and unexplored path, the footing loose and the summit cloud-wreathed?
And let us not overlook what I superstitiously call – I'm strong on superstition – The Curse of Carole James. I believe that when the New Democrat backroom thugs dumped this principled woman, whose fine character was perceived by the more loutish businessmen and penetrated even stone hearts like mine, the NDP brought upon itself a curse as doomful as that which afflicted Oedipus.
I am especially troubled by my own trade. Above all by the reporters who smeared journalism's noble escutcheon by not ratting on the 8:01 Club – the Demerals, Liberal Judases plotting Clark's defeat, delighting the New Democrats. What a fine time and cause for reporters to protect their sources! They had licence to betray. Should have.
The NDP laments that its message didn't get through. Oh, but it did, it did.
Having repeatedly predicted Liberal victory since last August in these pages and elsewhere, if you think the undersigned will modestly pass up the opportunity to gloat, you greatly overestimate my character.


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