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The Border Wall: Disastrous For Wildlife
By Animal Legal Defense Fund | September 18, 2017 | Comments 1 comment
— Our thanks to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the ALDF Blog on September 14, 2017.
The United States is rich in biodiversity, but the wildlife and ecosystems we share with Mexico are continually endangered by climate change and human encroachment on wildlife habitats. In January, the federal government announced that it would replace the San Diego border wall with a staggering 30-foot wall — potentially made of impermeable concrete—as well as building multiple sections of new prototype walls near the Otay Mesa border crossing. These projects are the first of the government's recently funded border wall construction.
In an effort to evade compliance with vital environmental laws and regulations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security invoked the waiver components of a 2005 immigration law known as the REAL ID Act with regard to the San Diego wall construction as well as an area of wall near Calexico, California. The agency asserts that this law provides it a waiver for compliance with numerous laws enacted to protect both our environment and endangered species, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Migratory Bird Conservation Act. But the scope of the Real ID Act's waiver provision was very limited, authorizing waiver only for very specific portions of wall that were required to be "expeditiously constructed" within a few years of the passage of that 2005 law.
The waiver of these decades-old environmental laws threatens the animals living in habitats that transverse the U.S.-Mexico border. To protect our ecosystems and the animals that call them home, the Animal Legal Defense Fund joined litigation brought by a coalition of wildlife protection groups that include Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Biological Diversity against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit argues that the agency's attempt to waive the laws is illegal—and it is overreaching with its interpretation of the act.
This Is a Critical Case to Protect Environmental and Animal Laws
These wall construction projects—which are now slated to begin as early as November—are the first attempt to use the REAL ID Act of 2005 to waive environmental protection laws to allow construction of the border wall. The determination of the legality of the agency's effort to waive animal and environmental protection laws will have implications—as this project proceeds—across the more than one thousand miles of the proposed border wall. Further, this decision will impact how the federal government is required to treat animals and the environment in future policy decisions.
The Wall's Victims
The border wall would divide animal families, interfere with breeding and migratory patterns, and potentially result in the extinction of many of the more than one hundred endangered or threatened species that call the border area their home. To thrive, animals need access to the full range of their habitats. Barriers that isolate groups of animals also lead to inbreeding, which decreases genetic diversity and ultimately puts species at risk of extinction. Unimpeded migration is essential to gene flow. Additionally, many animals will suddenly find their natural migration routes impassable. Species across the animal kingdom are genetically programmed to migrate to find more hospitable weather and food or to mate. Disrupting or permanently severing natural migration routes would be disastrous for countless species, some whom travel thousands of miles every year.
The Specific Animals Impacted
The impact on the San Diego area alone includes wetlands, meadows, and coastal land. Just a few of the species jeopardized by construction include the western snowy plover, a threatened shorebird, as well as the endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly and California least tern.
A full wall extending across the border between the United States and Mexico would additionally compromise dozens more endangered or threatened species. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, over 100 endangered, threatened, or near-threatened species would be impacted. Animals including Mexican gray wolves, jaguars, and ocelots may go extinct as a result.
For example, Sky Islands, a region that straddles the Arizona-Mexico border, is home to over 7,000 different animal and plant species, including black bears and mountain lions. It is one of the most biologically rich areas in the country. Some fencing already exists in the region, and additional construction would further imperil the Sky Islands. The endangered Sonoran Pronghorn is another victim of humanmade barriers, and its future is uncertain. The Sonoran Pronghorn exists at a critically low number, and they require the ability to migrate across country borders to survive. Additional construction in the Sonoran Desert would fatally compromise their ability to forage for food and find mating partners.
Respect Our Laws
The federal government must respect its own laws and consider the impact that construction will have on our environment. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is committed to protecting our native wildlife and will continue to fight to keep their habitats safe.
Only Known Wild Jaguar in the U.S. Spotted in Arizona
By Earthjustice | February 26, 2016 | Comments 3 comments
by Noa Banayan
— Our thanks to the organization Earthjustice for permission to republish this post, which was first published on February 24, 2016, on the Earthjustice site.
El Jefe is the United States' only known wild jaguar, and earlier this month he was caught on video for the first time. He was filmed in the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona, just southeast of Tucson. Over the past several years, El Jefe has been photographed on a few rare occasions, but this footage offers considerably more insight about this mysterious animal and his vulnerable habitat for researchers, conservationists, and the interested public.
In 2011, El Jefe (which means "the boss" or "the chief") was photographed in the Whetstone Mountains in Arizona, east of the Santa Rita Mountains. To map the scope of this animal's habitat, the Whetstone and Santa Rita Mountains are about 50 miles apart. On the other side of the Whetstone Mountains is the San Pedro River valley, a massive and richly diverse wildlife corridor where scientists say El Jefe and smaller, endangered ocelots may roam. The 2011 photos and this new video give us a glimpse of the areas El Jefe—along with a myriad of other animals and plants—calls home. It's hard to imagine just how far this jaguar can travel, but El Jefe has most likely made his way throughout the valley and surrounding mountain ranges many times, taking advantage of abundant resources and the protection of undeveloped land around the San Pedro River.
Plundering Eden, Part Three: Andean Bears and Jaguars
By Johnna Flahive | February 8, 2016 | Comments 0 Comment
—by Johnna Flahive
— This article on wildlife trafficking in Latin America is the third and final installment in a series. Part One can be found here. Part Two is here. Our thanks again to the author for this eye-opening and informative series.
Throughout South America's biologically rich terrains, trappers illegally hunt some of the continent's most iconic mammals to fulfill local demands and supply commercial merchandise to an illicit global economy. Local markets thrive on traditional beliefs that animal body parts like gallbladders, claws, bones, and teeth are essential for traditions, witchcraft, products, adornment, and food. Wildlife is frequently targeted for the local pet trade as well. Local markets may seem innocuous, yet unsustainable uses of wildlife can lead directly to extinction in some cases, creating a trophic cascade (dramatic changes to an ecosystem caused by the removal of top predators) that can affect the health of the environment and the livelihoods of the people. Poaching for subsistence or the local pet trade can be as devastating to wild populations as the international black market. In fact, hunters in a remote Kichwa community in Ecuador where sustainable hunting may be the norm can also now participate in the global black market. Through digital connections and existing and emerging criminal networks on the ground in South America, local markets are propelled into the clandestine world of international animal trafficking.
The International Institute for Environment and Development published a briefing paper in February 2014 that compels readers to decide whether sustainable uses of wildlife are congruent with conservation. Well, what can a society do when faced with internal and external pressures that result in illegal poaching? Can science and community-based management be effective when laws are failing to protect species? The conservation status and search for solutions for two iconic South American species, Andean bears and jaguars, offer some valuable insight into this discourse and illuminate the effects that illegal poaching and trafficking have on the diverse fauna of South America.
Spectacled bear, Smithsonian National Zoological Park–© Johnna Flahive
Many people who have read the children's story of Paddington, the bear from Peru who moves to London, are surprised to learn that he represents the only extant bear species in South America. Andean bears, Tremarctos ornatus, (also known as spectacled bears) live in six countries, from Argentina to Venezuela, in areas running along the ancient ridges of the Andean mountains. These elusive creatures tend to spend as much time in tall trees building nests, eating, and sleeping as they do lumbering around on the ground. They are often illegally killed as a livestock nuisance and for local illicit black markets in order to meet the demand for bear parts. Andean bears, listed as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List, "are among the Carnivores that are most likely to move toward extinction." …
By Gregory McNamee | April 15, 2014 | Comments 0 Comment
by Gregory McNamee
The borderlands between Arizona and Sonora, a state in northwestern Mexico, are altogether too busy, territory claimed by mining trucks, border guards, migrant workers, criminals, tourists, ranchers, and environmentalists—to say nothing of jaguars.
As we've written here, the big cat, extirpated from the region, seems bent on making a return to the increasingly urbanized and developed border zone. To accommodate them, against the expectations of many environmental activists and against well-organized lobbying on the part of the mines, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a finalized plan for the protection of 1,194 square miles in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico as critical habitat for the jaguar, which has endangered species designation. Official materials related to the decision can be found here, and they're worth reading.
Worth considering, too, is the fact that the plan coincides with an ongoing effort on the part of the U.S. Forest Service to allow open-pit mining square in the heart of that critical habitat, in the northern portion of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. Money having always spoken louder than a jaguar yowls, it remains to be seen whether the USFWS allotment will stand. Suffice it to say that it's going to make for an interesting fight. …
By Gregory McNamee | September 11, 2012 | Comments 0 Comment
You would hardly know it to listen to the news these days, but it is possible—perhaps not likely, but possible—for members of the two ruling political parties to cross the aisle and do something together.
American eel (Anguilla rostrata)--Grant Heilman/EB Inc.
A case in point is the Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act, which is now in committee in the U.S. Senate. Introduced by Senators Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC), the bill provides for the care and management of a herd of wild horses on North Carolina's Outer Banks whose ancestors have been there since the first arrival of Spanish explorers to those shores more than four centuries ago. It's a good and necessary bit of law, and plenty more like it needs to be enacted.
The Jaguar Returns to the Southwest
By Gregory McNamee | December 26, 2011 | Comments 2 comments
Al Kriedeman wanted a lion. Which is to say, the Minnesota contractor and avid sport hunter wanted to kill a mountain lion in the Arizona high country and thus add Puma concolor to his collection of trophies.
Jaguar in northern Mexico, Nov. 2010--©2010 Sky Island Alliance/El Aribabi
So, late in 1995, Kriedeman hired rancher Warner Glenn, himself an accomplished hunter, and Glenn's daughter and partner Kelly to guide him into the Peloncillo Mountains on the New Mexico–Arizona line, just north of the Mexican border, and help him bag his prize.
On the morning of March 7, 1996, four days into what was to have been a ten-day journey into the rugged range, one of Glenn's dogs sniffed out a fresh cat track and tore off with the rest of the hound pack in pursuit.
Kelly, who was seeing to the dogs, radioed Glenn and Kriedeman, who were working their way up the range a canyon away. Following the yelping hounds, they quickly picked up the twisting cat track. Glenn later recalled that it "looked different from any lion's we'd ever seen." They pressed on, sure that they had found Kriedeman's lion, and caught up with the pack.
The dogs had cornered their quarry—that much was plain to see. But what they had chased down was a surprise. "Looking out on top of the bluff," Glenn told me at the time, "I was completely shocked to see a very large, absolutely beautiful jaguar crouched on top, watching the circling hounds below." …
By Gregory McNamee | November 15, 2011 | Comments 0 Comment
The news about animals is often grim—very grim indeed. It's a pleasure, then, to be able to declare this, without Pollyannish pretensions, to be a good-tidings edition of "Animals in the News," starting with a recent census of jaguars in a national park in the Bolivian jungle.
Jaguar (Panthera onca)--Tom Brakefield—Stockbyte/Thinkstock
Reports the World Conservation Society, hidden cameras recorded 19 of the elusive big cats in a recent "trap survey," an increase over previous surveys. The jaguar is endangered everywhere it lives—a range that extends from southern South America to the American Southwest—so if these numbers cannot strictly be interpreted to mean an upsurge in population, at least they suggest that the numbers in that region might be holding steady. And, for the jaguar, that might be as good as the news gets.
By Gregory McNamee | July 13, 2010 | Comments 0 Comment
On one side of the street, a fast-food restaurant, a shrine of dripping fat, crispy tubers, and slathered salt. On the other side of the street, a juice bar, redolent with the aromas and curious colors of lake algae and root vegetables. You have a choice. Which one do you enter?
According to scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research, and doubtless our mothers as well, a sensible organism will choose a diet that best offers nutrition in balance with needs. A lion will snack on gazelle to keep its motor revving; a gazelle will browse on high-octane grasses to outrun said lion. …


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Category B - Bowhunters who have shown Excellence in the Design and Manufacturing of Archery Equipment
Bob Lee has been an active lover of archery & bowhunting all of his life. In his early adult life he started an archery manufacturing company that later became Wing Archery Company.
Wing Archery Company at it's peak - produced 300 bows per day - Bob pioneered and produced the first three piece detachable limb bow on the market, the Wing Presentation II take down bow. These three piece bows have become the most popular design of traditional bows in the archery world to date.
Bob has always had an intense love for bowhunting and shared this love with many bowhunters through the years. He has many hunting trophies to his credit and at eighty-five years of age is still active in bowhunting and archery manufacturing with Rob, his son and partner.
Together Bob & Rob produce a fine line of traditional bows, marketed under the name of Bob Lee Archery Co. Bob was active in the early stages of AMADA "Archery Manufacturers & Dealers" which later became AMO, "Archery Manufacturers Organization" and was instrumental in setting manufacturers standards. He was also one of the charter members and founders of the Pope & Young Organization.
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Have Your Say- PSPO Extension
Since the Council first implemented the town centre cycling PSPO in 2016, over 3200 tickets have been issued to those cycling illegally through pedestrianised areas of our town centre.
This PSPO is set to expire next year, and the Council is consulting on continuing it for a further three years and including additional restrictions on e-scooters and skateboarding.
PSPOs give Councils the powers to carry out enforcement actions such as issuing fines against those who commit these anti-social behaviours.
Cycling in the pedestrianised part of the town centre can endanger pedestrians and discourage shoppers. The Council is proposing to continue the existing PSPO, which restricts cycling in pedestrianised areas of the town centre between 9am and 6pm.
The Council has received increasing complaints about the use of e-scooters in both the pedestrianised area of Bedford town centre and in local parks and open spaces. Currently the Council has no powers to enforce against them, even though they are currently not legal on public land.
The proposed extension to the PSPO would give Council officers these powers to enforce against those riding e-scooters in the pedestrianised area of the town centre and many of our parks.
The Council would also gain powers to tackle irresponsible skateboarding, and related noise and damage that is being caused to benches and other street furniture in the main pedestrian area of Bedford Town Centre at all times.
To view the locations where restriction are being considered please visit www.bedford.gov.uk/pspoconsultation
Cllr Charles Royden, Portfolio Holder for Environment said, "Without this PSPO, our officers would not have been able to issue any of these over 3200 tickets, enforcing against this offence which endangers pedestrians and shoppers in our town centre.
"The Council does not have powers to enforce against nuisance riding of e-scooters or damage-causing skateboarding in pedestrianised areas. By bringing in this PSPO, focusing on specific problem areas we are enabling our officers to tackle these anti-social behaviours.
"Please have your say on this consultation."
Find out more and have your say at www.bedford.gov.uk/pspoconsultation, you can also email: consultingbedford@bedford.gov.uk or write to: Consulting Bedford, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford MK42 9AP. Hard copies are available at all Bedford Borough libraries or on request.
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Whether you are keeping notes, a daily journal, or a secret diary, this item is perfect for writing down anything that you need to. This is a little larger than most small notebooks and the pages have lines to write on. This also includes a handy reference section with information that will help anyone in a technical, networking, or computer related field.
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Napster Confusion SOLVED!
One of the Big Four music services is Napster. I'd consider the largest to be the iTunes Music Store (which I shall refer to as iTunes from now on even though I understand the difference between the software and the service), followed by Rhapsody, Amazon.com, and Napster. Recently, Napster revamped their pricing and membership plans, and it seems to have created a great deal of confusion. As a Napster subscriber myself, I've taken the time to sort it out and perhaps I can explain what's changed more clearly that Napster themselves has done.
First, let's talk about how the service USED to work. Previously, you could create a Napster account for free, called Napster Light, that allowed you to listen to a limited number of full length songs and then buy whichever ones you liked for 99 cents per song. After you'd used your allotment of full length previews, you were limited to the same 30 second previews that iTunes Music Store has made famous.
For a while, these were DRM-protected Windows Media player format files that prevented you from playing the songs in your iPod or MP3 player (although you could burn audio CDs and re-rip the songs as long as you accepted the drop in quality). Eventually, however, Napster began selling MP3 files not encumbered by DRM protection, allowing you to use purchased tracks in any manner you wish. Play them on your computer, put them in your iPod or MP3 player, burn audio CDs, whatever you'd like.
Napster also offered two subscriptions. The basic Napster subscription charged you a monthly fee and then removed the limit on the number of full length songs you could listen to. You could still purchase albums or individual tracks as MP3 files, but you could ALSO download the PROTECTED songs, without limit, and play them offline. The catch was, the protected subscription downloads would play ONLY on your computer. You could not play them in your iPod or MP3 player, nor could you burn an audio CD with them. So, pay each month for the ability to play unlimited full length songs, download those songs without limit or additional charge as long as you accept the restrictions, and buy unprotected MP3 versions when you want to do more with the music.
Simple enough, right?
Napster-To-Go was the same plan EXCEPT that your downloaded subscription tracks could also be played in MP3 players that were compatible with the style of protection Napster used (something called "Plays4Sure"). iPods were not supported. You could still buy unprotected MP3 files, of course, and do as you please with them. But as long as you kept your subscription current and connected your computer and device with the Napster service on a regular basis, you could play as much music as you wanted, offline, for one flat monthly rate.
So what are the plans, now?
Napster Light has discontinued the ability to play full length songs. This free plan now lets you listen ONLY to 30 second previews, and then purchase any MP3 albums or tracks that you like. In doing this, Napster Light has become exactly the same as iTunes or Amazon.com. It all boils down to which service you prefer using now, as the value is precisely the same. Each will tell you their service offers better reviews, recommendations, and whatnot, but that's really for you the consumer to decide.
The base Napster subscription has been replaced by Napster Pass. This new plan costs $5 per month, sold either by the month or in three month and one year packages. You can listen to an unlimited number of full length songs while connected to Napster.com, and you will get MP3 credits to download tracks equal to the amount of your membership. That is, the monthly plans get 5 credits per month, the three month 15 credits for that period, and the annual plan gets 60 credits for the year. On the surface, that seems like a good deal, right? You can get your full length songs and you get MP3 credits for your membership price! What's not to like?
What you've lost is the ability to download files to your computer and play them offline. Subscribers who traveled with laptops full of music that they would play while not connected to the Internet are affected, as are those who downloaded songs to their computers serving as jukeboxes to their home entertainment systems. The latter preferred the downloaded songs, since those were immune to Internet slowdowns or hiccups.
Napster-To-Go is unchanged, but includes no MP3 credits for the $15 per month you pay.
So if you've been a Napster subscriber who downloaded large numbers of songs to your computer for offline playback, you can choose between upgrading to the slightly more expensive Napster-To-Go plan, or accept that your offline playback will no longer work.
If you're someone who has been using iTunes or Amazon.com to listen to 30 second song previews before purchasing the albums or individual songs, then Napster Pass does have something new to offer you. If you essentially prepay for some MP3 downloads, you get access to full length song previews in exchange.
Users of the Napster Light free service have lost something, as have Napster subscribers (other than the "To Go" versions). They will have to decide how angry this makes them, and whether they will continue to use Napster.
Oh, and why have three separate prepayment deals? Because your credits don't roll over. If you are on the monthly plan and don't download five songs, you lose those credits. People who are a little more sporadic in their music downloading habits should consider the longer periods to avoid losing credits.
Thus we have the new Napster. Is it a good deal or not? You tell me.
Posted by Mark Lautenschlager at 6/21/2009 04:52:00 PM
Labels: Amazon.com, computers, digital music, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody
Strom said...
No, this is not a good deal. I liked being able to download songs for offline play. This allowed me to use Media Player for auto-playlists.
Not a good deal.
I want to play offline.
Thanks for the article,
With the way these companies restructure and ultimately give the consumer less and less, it was particularly helpful for you to review what Napster used to be like.
I'm very much against this change.
Facebook apps and the Myth of Privacy
Vista Service Pack 2: Where'd the space come from?


Drow TWF, Great Saves and DPS.
+2DEX - by lvl 18.
+2INT - at lvl 1.
Lay on Hands 1x/Day for 96.
Smite Evil 1x/90s for +13 Damage.
Could probably use some more con by going 16 str instead of 18.
Umm...you two DO realize that this thread is over a year old, correct?
There are so many flaws with this build, I don't seriously have the time to point them out.
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A few years ago, someone left a dog at Saint John's. It is a mystery how it got into the fully fenced playfield. The dog had no tag or chip. An incredibly friendly dog, his paws were sore and worn maybe from walking a long way on pavement or, more likely, from being chained on a concrete pad of some kind. Our business manager, Sally, took him home which eventually became his forever home. She named him George. He was a kind and loving animal. One weird thing is that he considered himself human. George sat on the couch like a human – on his rump with his legs spread out in front and his left paw on the armrest.
Another mystery is our church cat, Sassy. She's been at Saint John's more than 15 years. Sassy showed up one day and stayed. She's in poor health and is not very kind or warm; she no longer hunts mice but instead sits around in the sun on the floor of the maintenance office, swears, spits, tells us what to do and says mean things about our mothers.
I am sorry to report this past weekend George was sick. His vet diagnosed him with a terminal liver condition. He was put down. Sassy, on the other hand, is still alive.
It's not fair; not fair at all.
God is just, truthful and faithful. God is great, glorious and incredibly forgiving. Fair, however, is perhaps not a suitable word to describe God. My thought is that God is just but not necessarily fair.
When I say it is not fair that Sassy is alive and George is not, I base it on what I believe is morally right in human terms. George was a pleasant dog who was a good friend. Sassy is not. But God's morality is different from mine. God knows what is right and what is wrong and quite often he does not consult me for my opinion on the way to run things.
Someone close to me has had cancer pop up, again. I don't think that is fair at all. And, frankly, I'm a little mad at God for letting this happen. Yet, I know that God heals and saves through the working of the Holy Spirit. I have faith that this will all turn out well and good. Yet, I'm still a little mad at what I perceive as the unfairness of the situation.
Near the end of his life, Moses recited a poem to the Israelites as they were poised and ready to cross the river Jordan into the Promised Land. Moses said, "The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he; yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation." (Deuteronomy 32:4-5). The Rock, which is better translated as The Mountain, is defined as just. The Hebrew word translated as just, tsad-deek, is used to describe a judge or king who maintains the right and dispenses justice. In the Old Testament, this word is used for both punishing and rewarding.
Every Good Friday, there's a tugging at my heart that says this is not fair. It's not fair at all that Jesus was crucified. But luckily, determining fairness is not up to me.


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Andrzej Raszyk
In Boston for TransCultural Exchange
In Conference, Moderator
Two clicks, if you move left from the center, it is me, somewhere at the back, trying to snap an image and capture the feeling of the opening gala of the TransCultural Exchange 2016 (super sharp effect of my tries is to see below). First of all I would like to express my gratitude to Mary Sherman, the mastermind behind the concept of biannual meetings, for inviting me to moderate a panel, and meet all this amazing makers and cultural gurus. Secondly, through out the conference I could speak with some old and newly made friends. The conversations made me realized that I really miss producing and being actively in the field. Lets see what kind of changes will bring the next months of 2016 ;)
As a recap of the intensive days filled with presentations, workshops, discussions, food&drinks I have set together stories of people I had a pleasure to meet in hope you can meet them as well (scroll down).
"TransCultural Exchange's 2016 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts exceeded all expectations. More than 600 people attended from every corner of the globe, offering exciting possibilities for artists to embrace different cultures, mindsets and technologies. Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi presented an inspiring talk on the Sharjah Foundation; Mischa Kuball unveiled his new workPara; Raffael Lorenzo Hemmer provided an interactive installation; MIT, the Harvard Art Museums and Biomedical Modeling offered tours and the Goethe Institut hosted a concert of new music. Panelists spoke about their international residency programs, provided practical advice, discussed how art can play a vital role in social or political interventions and promoted possibilities for artists to collaborate with those in other disciplines, including medicine, architecture, conservation and engineering. Tours, Workshops and Round Table discussions also gave artists with similar interests the chance to meet, network and talk about their work; and portfolio reviews supplied additional venues for artists to showcase their work." (Featured image credit: Jie Yan)
Michelle Atherton is an artist based in London. Her work objectifies cultural phenomena as a means to investigate structures, systems and indeterminate preoccupations. She is interested in the resistance of space through the image and the construction of an insubordinate aesthetic. Most recent exhibitions include at RAF Cosford and the Tatton Park Biennale in the UK, the Zeppelin Museum and Kino Babylon in Germany, Linergallari Tallinn in Estonia and Dagmar de Pooter Gallery in Antwerp. Her work has been supported through the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and she is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/people/michelle-atherton
TC McCormack is an artist based in London. His multidisciplinary practice is a creative and discursive site, considering a constellation of preoccupations, ranging from the shifting identity of materiality, the absence of human agency, the phenomenon of resistance space to language's ability to delineate the relational affinities of forms. His work takes a variety of outcomes, often combining film, assemblage, publications, events and curation. His work has been shown at Platform in Istanbul, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Goethe Institute in New York, FACT in Liverpool, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast and LoBe in Berlin. He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/people/tc-mccormack
Rebecca Noone is a Canadian artist and a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Her performance-based interventions and active archiving situations interrogate the banal futilities and the muted hopes implicit in our everyday encounters and interactions with information, systems and technologies. In her work, she has asked theoretical physicists how they cope with the mundane, compiled maps of hand-drawn directions collected from helpful passers-by, archived detritus in demolition-slated homes, built interactive library cataloguing systems and bartered the periodic table of elements at art shows. She has contributed to spaces and exhibitions in Canada, the US and Europe.
http://rebeccanoone.com/
Bojana Panevska is artist, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the Audio-Visual Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She later received an MFA from the Sandberg Institute. For the past ten years, she has been developing the interdisciplinary project entitled "12 steps towards enlightenment." Segments of it have been exhibited and published widely. In addition, since 2009, she has served as a project manager for international collaborations and a workshop facilitator at TransArtists, a leading web resource for artists around the world.
http://artnews.org/artist.php?i=3888
Hamdy Reda is a visual artist and curator, living and working in Cairo. Alongside his artistic career, he is the founder, Managing Director and Curator of one of Egypt's most well-known art spaces artellewa, a residency for domestic and international artists. Artellewa is a haven for the formation and activation of dialogue between artists and communities. His own work is as a painter and experimental photographer. He is well recognized in the North African and Middle Eastern region for his collaborative projects with other artists from Egypt and abroad. The recipient of various artistic awards, he seeks to further the creative dialogue within the public sphere while simultaneously informing his personal practice.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-watson/five-things-to-know-about_hamdy-reda_b_6811710.html
Kira Simon-Kennedy is the Co-Founder of China Residencies, a directory and regional network of artist residencies in China. She is also a French and Mandarin translator for contemporary art publications and an independent film producer focused on projects centering around music and human rights in China, Iceland, France, Mali and Mississippi. She is currently a part of the inaugural Arts & Culture Social Impact Strategy program at Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice.
http://www.chinaresidencies.com/
Trishla Talera is the Director of TIFA Working Studios, a platform dedicated to exploring alternate avenues of art education in India. As the Director, she focuses on introducing student mentorship programs and residencies for young artists and designers to promote contemporary art and collaboration. A fiber artist from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she is also the artistic director at Varsha Talera (a luxury bridalwear brand dedicated to the revival of Indian textile crafts), the chair of education at Young Indians (Yi CII) Pune and a shaper at Global Shapers Community Pune, an initiative by the World Economic Forum.
Matej Vakula is a multi-media artist, educator, theorist, programmer, and a DIY enthusiast with a specialty in data visualization and urban issues. His work explores the impact of culture, technology and location on personal experience and social interrelationship. He is creating new methods of artistic research to produce models as places where multiple publics meet and interact, proposing new cultures or cultural experiences. He is observing roles of public knowledge in culture and technology, alongside with methods of how information is turned into knowledge and action, using art as a vehicle for this exploration. He has exhibited throughout Europe and the USA and, previously, was a faculty member at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. In 2012 was nominated for the prestigious Young Visual Artists Award in Slovakia. In 2013 he exhibited at the 6th Prague Biennial and was selected by the International Association of Art Critics as one of Slovakia's best artists.
http://vakula.eu/
Pau Cata has been working in the cultural field as a facilitator and curator for more than 10 years, including at the British Museum and at the White Cube Gallery in London. He has an MA in Critical Arts Management from London South Bank University, where he was awarded the Course Director Prize for Outstanding Achievement. He is currently the Coordinator of the artists-in-residency program at CeRCCa. As part of his job, he has developed numerous research projects in the field of artists-in-residencies in the Balkans and North Africa and has curated more than 12 exhibitions.
https://paucata.com/
Yannick Franck is Belgium based sound artist, performer and curator. He is the Artistic Director of the art center Les Brasseurs in Liège, Belgium and owns the record label Idiosyncratics. Additionally he is part of the industrial-noise duo Orphan Swords and Founder of electroacoustic improvisation combo Y.E.R.M.O., which, among others, provided the sound for Pavilion of Luxembourg at the Venice Biennial in 2009.
http://www.yannickfranck.com/
Marta Gracia is from Barcelona, Spain. She is the author of the research project Spanish Artist in Residence Programmes: an Overview, granted by the Catalan Arts Council in 2009, and the Founder and Director of Art Motile, the first platform for resources on Spanish artist-in-residence programs. She has a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona and is responsible for the artistic research program at Hangar, one of Spain's principle centers for art production. She has previously worked on the design, development, coordination and evaluation of art projects, organizations and networks in Albania, Italy, Japan and Spain.
http://artmotile.org/
My trip to NYC and Boston was
New York Residency Network Hub for Cultural Intermediaries
International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Expanding Worlds
AIR WRO TALKS 3.0 – international cooperation : network : mobility
In Conference, Cultural Manager
Wrocław – Berlin Platform for creative sectors
In Conference, Speaker
Pola Dwurnik – GIRL ON CANVAS
In Exhibition, Moderator
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Under 20s plans go down the Pans during incident packed clash | The Spartans FC Official Website – Live together. Play together. Win together.
Seven goals, 4 penalty attempts, one red card and tropical rainfall (ok, we made up the tropical bit) kept the supporters entertained at Ainslie Park as Spartans under 20s lost 2-5 to an older and physical Preston Athletic on Friday night.
There was a debut between the Spartans sticks for Cameron Feather whilst Paul Dickson watched on from the stands as he continues to recover from his knee injury.
The game burst into life after 9 minutes when the visitors opened the scoring through Aaran Currie. A bouncing ball that failed to attract any players in white and red finally fell to the Preston man who drilled low past Feather.
Spartans responded almost immediately when Jack Smith pounced in the box after reacting quickest following the crossbar having temporarily saved Preston's lead. The defender didn't need an invitation to shoot and the outcome was never in doubt.
On the half hour mark, Connor Brydon restored Preston's advantage as the rain began to sweep across Ainslie Park directly into the faces of the Spartans defence.
Just two minutes later, Brydon bagged a brace after benefitting from a collision between the home keeper and one of his outfield colleagues.
A frantic eight minute spell for Brydon ended in dramatic fashion when Referee Calder sent the striker for an early shower after he appeared to kick out at Alex Imlah, who received a yellow card for his troubles.
Spartans almost pulled one back within 60 seconds of the restart when Jonny Grotlin's effort crashed downwards off Ryan Forsyth's bar that was so far leading a charmed life, but simply refused to bounce the correct way over the line!
Against the early run of play, Preston all but sealed the destination of the three points at stake after Gavin Stevenson netted after Feather lost out in aerial combat.
If the sending off in the first half offered the punters something to chat about over a half-time Bovril, then the sensational scenes in the 75th minute would give them plenty to discuss long into the night.
The man in the middle irked Preston stopper Forsyth after awarding a spot kick following a trip in the box. The keeper launched the match ball towards the dugout area in frustration, earning him a caution in the process.
Once the initial excitement died down and order was restored, Forsyth was penalised for encroaching from his line no fewer than three times in quick succession, with Jonny Grotlin finally finding the net from the fourth attempt from 12 yards out.
Any hopes of a Spartans late recovery were dashed as the game entered injury time and Aaran Currie rounded off a fruitful evening in the capital for the Panners by scoring his team's fifth goal of the game.


With Super Fun TV Hour off to the printer, and Gen Con now a week behind us, it's time to look ahead at our next projects.
First, the thing I'm most exciting about is working with Zeal+ Studios to create the Visual Novel "Robo Rinku's Kissy Kissy Adventure Game!" You may recognize the art style in the following screen caps because Zeal+ partnered with us to provide most of the art in Super Fun TV Hour. Now it's our turn to pay it back, by managing this project and making sure it get's out the door by Q2 of 2017. That and it will be my first attempt and software development!
Our next RPG project is a scenario we'll be constructing with the Savage Worlds engine. Currently, I'm just referring to this as "Project Chi"; a long form scenario set in an eastern flavored apocalypse where power belongs to those with the strongest kung fu! Currently we're only in the brainstorming stages, but I hope to have a deliverable project done by the end of January!


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import logging

import json
from webob import Response

from ryu.base import app_manager
from ryu.controller import ofp_event
from ryu.controller import dpset
from ryu.controller.handler import CONFIG_DISPATCHER, MAIN_DISPATCHER
from ryu.controller.handler import set_ev_cls
from ryu.ofproto import ofproto_v1_0
from ryu.ofproto import ofproto_v1_2
from ryu.ofproto import ofproto_v1_3
from ryu.lib import ofctl_v1_0
from ryu.lib import ofctl_v1_2
from ryu.lib import ofctl_v1_3
from ryu.app.wsgi import ControllerBase, WSGIApplication, route

patch_instance_name = 'patch_app'

LOG = logging.getLogger('ryu.app.patch.patch_rest')

'''
1. Set port-to-port connectivity

REQUEST
PUT /patch/flow
{
    "dpid": <int>,
    "inport": <int>,
    "outport": <int>,
    # optional
    "mirrorport": <int>
}

RESPONSE
Status Code:
200 OK
400 Bad Request
404 Not Found

2. Delete port-to-port connectivity

REQUEST
DELETE /patch/flow
{
    "dpid": <int>,
    "inport": <int>,
    "outport": <int>,
    # optional
    "mirrorport": <int>
}

RESPONSE
Status Code:
200 OK
400 Bad Request
404 Not Found

2. Get all flows
REQUEST
GET /patch/flow

RESPONSE
Status Code: 200 OK
[
    {
        "dpid": <int>,
        "inport": <int>,
        "outport": <int>,
        #optional
        "mirrorport": <int>
    }
]
'''

class PatchPanel(app_manager.RyuApp):

    OFP_VERSIONS = [ofproto_v1_0.OFP_VERSION,
                    ofproto_v1_2.OFP_VERSION,
                    ofproto_v1_3.OFP_VERSION]
    _CONTEXTS = {
        'wsgi': WSGIApplication,
        'dpset': dpset.DPSet}

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(PatchPanel, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.dpset = kwargs['dpset']
        wsgi = kwargs['wsgi']
        wsgi.register(PatchController, {patch_instance_name: self})
        self.patch_flows = []  # list of dict(flow)

    @set_ev_cls(ofp_event.EventOFPSwitchFeatures, MAIN_DISPATCHER)
    def switch_features_handler(self, ev):
        datapath = ev.msg.datapath
        LOG.info('connected datapath: dpid=%d', datapath.id)

    def set_patch_flow(self, req_flow):

        # Check before send flow-mod
        dpid = req_flow.get('dpid')
        dp = self.dpset.get(dpid)
        if dp is None:
            return Response(status=400)
        inport = req_flow.get('inport')
        outport = req_flow.get('outport')
        mirrorport = req_flow.get('mirrorport')
        for flow in self.patch_flows:
            if dpid == flow['dpid'] and inport == flow['inport']:
                LOG.info('Requested inport is already used (dpid:%s, inport:%d)', dpid, inport)
                return Response(status=400)

        new_flow = {
            'match': {
                'in_port': inport
                },
            'actions': [
                {
                    'type': 'OUTPUT',
                    'port': outport
                    }
                ]
            }
        if mirrorport is not None:
            new_flow['actions'].append(
                {
                    'type': 'OUTPUT',
                    'port': mirrorport
                    }
                )

        if dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_0.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_0.mod_flow_entry(dp, new_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_ADD)
            self.patch_flows.append(req_flow)
        elif dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_2.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_2.mod_flow_entry(dp, new_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_ADD)
            self.patch_flows.append(req_flow)
        elif dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_3.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_3.mod_flow_entry(dp, new_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_ADD)
            self.patch_flows.append(req_flow)
        else:
            LOG.info('Unsupported OF protocol')
            return Response(status=501)

        return Response(status=200)

    def delete_patch_flow(self, req_flow):

        # Check before send flow-mod
        dpid = req_flow.get('dpid')
        dp = self.dpset.get(dpid)
        if dp is None:
            return Response(status=400)
        inport = req_flow.get('inport')
        outport = req_flow.get('outport')
        mirrorport = req_flow.get('mirrorport')
        for flow in self.patch_flows:
            if dpid == flow['dpid'] and inport == flow['inport']:
                break
        else:
            LOG.info('Requested inport is not used (dpid:%s, inport:%d)', dpid, inport)
            return Response(status=400)

        del_flow = {
            'match': {
                'in_port': inport
                }
            }
        if dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_0.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_0.mod_flow_entry(dp, del_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_DELETE)
            self.patch_flows.remove(req_flow)
        elif dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_2.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_2.mod_flow_entry(dp, del_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_DELETE)
            self.patch_flows.remove(req_flow)
        elif dp.ofproto.OFP_VERSION == ofproto_v1_3.OFP_VERSION:
            ofctl_v1_3.mod_flow_entry(dp, del_flow, dp.ofproto.OFPFC_DELETE)
            self.patch_flows.remove(req_flow)
        else:
            LOG.debug('Unsupported OF protocol')
            return Response(status=501)

        return Response(status=200)

    def get_patch_flows(self):
        body = json.dumps(self.patch_flows)
        return Response(content_type='application/json',
                        body=body,status=200)

class PatchController(ControllerBase):

    def __init__(self, req, link, data, **config):
        super(PatchController, self).__init__(req, link, data, **config)
        self.patch_app = data[patch_instance_name]

    @route('patch', '/patch/flow', methods=['PUT'])
    def set_patch_flow(self, req, **kwargs):
        LOG.debug("start set_patch_flow")
        patch = self.patch_app
        try:
            flow = eval(req.body)
        except SyntaxError:
            LOG.debug('invalid syntax %s', req.body)
            return Response(status=400)

        result = patch.set_patch_flow(flow)
        return result

    @route('patch', '/patch/flow', methods=['DELETE'])
    def delete_patch_flow(self, req, **kwargs):
        patch = self.patch_app
        try:
            flow = eval(req.body)
        except SyntaxError:
            LOG.debug('invalid syntax %s', req.body)
            return Response(status=400)

        result = patch.delete_patch_flow(flow)
        return result

    @route('patch', '/patch/flow', methods=['GET'])
    def get_patch_flows(self, req, **kwargs):
        patch = self.patch_app
        result = patch.get_patch_flows()
        return result


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Du Plessis hopes Global League can halt South Africa talent exodus
South Africa T20 league
By Cricingif Staff
Players don't have to look outside anymore, from an opportunity point of view and from a financial point of view -- they don't need to go overseas and look for other stuff
Faf du Plessis is optimistic the creation of a new Twenty20 Global League in South Africa will help prevent the country's top cricketers leaving in search of greater financial opportunities.
The combination of a relatively weak economy and the lure of the English county game has seen a number of Proteas cricketers all call time on their international careers.
South Africa has a trade agreement with the European Union which means players in England are regarded as 'home' selections under the Kolpak rule.
The likes of Kyle Abbott, Rilee Rossouw, Dane Vilas, David Wiese, Simon Harmer, Hardus Viljoen and Stiaan van Zyl have all opted to play county cricket rather than continue to represent South Africa, sparking fears of a mass exodus.
While financial security has been the often cited reason, there have been concerns transformation targets designed to correct the legacy of apartheid, when non-white players were effectively barred from representing South Africa, could have played a part too.
But Test and Twenty20 captain du Plessis, who played for Lancashire under the Kolpak rule and has appeared in Twenty20 leagues around the world, said he hoped the new tournament would help provide opportunities currently only available outside of South Africa.
'Huge step'
"I spoke about it when the Kolpak thing started happening in South Africa -- it was probably important that South Africa looked at different ways to try and keep players in the country," explained du Plessis at the eight-team Global League's launch in London on Monday.
"I think this is a huge step towards that," the 32-year-old batsman added.
"Players don't have to look outside anymore, from an opportunity point of view and from a financial point of view -- they don't need to go overseas and look for other stuff.
"This is going to be really important to keeping most of the players in the country."
The November-December time frame for the new event will also mean South Africa's leading players are available for the whole of a domestic Twenty20 competition.
Marquee players
"We've always come back from long tours and there was a lot of important cricket coming up so we haven't always been around to play as much domestic cricket as was needed," said du Plessis, a veteran of 40 Tests.
"For the whole South African team to be available to play in this tournament is the most important thing."
Each one of the teams, six of whom have overseas owners, has been assigned a 'marquee' South Africa player, based on a connection with the city concerned.
" South Africa is no different to any other place. The fans would love to see Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and all those players. "
Hashim Amla (Durban), Quinton de Kock (Benoni), AB de Villiers (Pretoria), du Plessis (Stellenbosch), JP Duminy (Cape Town), David Miller (Bloemfontein), Kagiso Rabada (Johannesburg) and Imran Tahir (Port Elizabeth) are the players who fall into this category.
Meanwhile there will also be eight international marquee players, with England (Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen and Jason Roy) and the West Indies (Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard) providing three apiece in a list that also includes Sri Lanka paceman Lasith Malinga and former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum.
Their teams have yet to be assigned.
"You are starting to see different T20 leagues taking up different gaps during the year and current international players can't participate in all of them -- it's just not possible," said du Plessis.
"What that does is bring in your ex-players, as Brendon (McCullum) talked about, your 'mercenaries'.
"South Africa is no different to any other place. The fans would love to see Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and all those players."
- AFP
#South Africa


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High On The Hog: That New Car Smell
By sgadmin October 14, 2014 1060 No comment
The Rockford IceHogs got the 2014-15 season underway this past Saturday at the BMO Harris Bank Center. The Milwaukee Admirals cast a pall on the festivities for the 5,228 fans in attendance, besting Rockford by a score of 3-2.
With just one contest in the books, I'm putting this opening game under a bit of a microscope. Here's how the puck bounced for the IceHogs as they threw open the doors on the new campaign.
Recapping Opening Night
Rockford got on the board late in the opening period. Ryan Hartman finished a play that started with Phillip Danault gaining possession of a loose puck in the neutral zone. Danault hit Matt Carey at the left circle. The resulting shot skidded under goalie Marek Mazanec pads before coming to a stop a few inches from the goal line. Hartman got to the puck and got enough stick on it to send it across the line.
Rockford's 1-0 lead barely lasted through the intermission. The Ads tied the game 21 seconds into the middle frame and took the lead in the sixth minute. Hartman picked up his second goal of the contest at the 16:12 mark when he took a pass from Zach Miskovic at the Milwaukee blue line. Skating toward the top of the right circle, he sent a wrist shot toward Mazanec that deflected off of an Admiral skater and into the net.
Milwaukee broke the tie in the eight minute of the third period when Fredrick Gaudreau won a puck from Adam Clendening behind the Hogs net. Gaudreau hit Joe Pendenza, who slung in the game-winner before Michael Leighton could get across the crease.
My Best Shot At Some Relevant Thoughts
Clendening failing to pick up the puck behind his net was the impetus for the Admirals third goal. To be fair, however, it was his hustle on a breakaway by Milwaukee's Brendan Leipsic late in the first that prevented a shot attempt and started the chain of events that led to Rockford's first tally.
Nordstrom came to the defense of T.J. Brennan after he was laid out by Triston Grant during a Rockford power play early in the second period. Grant was called for kneeing Brennan and it looked like the Hogs were about to get 75 seconds of 5-on-3 time.
Before Grant could be escorted to the penalty box, Nordstrom skated over and engaged the veteran winger in fisticuffs. Nordstrom's heart may have been in the right place, but his head was in the line of fire against a guy with 133 AHL fights. Though the scrap wasn't much to speak of, Grant definitely got the best of the young Swede.
Nordstrom took fighting and instigation penalties as well as a ten-minute misconduct that kept him out of action for the remainder of the period. More importantly, a chance to break what was a tie game at that point was squandered.
Cody Bass and Pierre-Cedric Labrie (and now Brandon Mashinter) are in town for a reason and likely could have sent a more eloquent message to Grant, preferably after the Hogs had taken the lead with a power play goal. I guess the silver lining is that Nordstrom had the stones to stick up for a teammate (and a pretty new one at that). However, he could have done more damage on the scoreboard.
Hartman was named the game's second star (Mazanec was first star) and the West Dundee native had himself a two-goal performance in his first game as a professional. I know that I have said this before, but I am really looking forward to seeing him play at this level. In his brief stint with the team last spring, Hartman seemed to have a knack for being in the middle of the action. He was in the right place at just the right time to get Rockford's first goal of this season.
Rockford's first power play unit featured both Clendening and Brennan, along with Teravainen, Nordstrom and Garret Ross. That combo could prove to be a handful to stop when shorthanded as that unit features the AHL top two scoring defensemen up top. On the other hand, Clendening was just fine quarterbacking the first power play unit last season. Putting two skilled players side by side could result in a too-many-cooks type of situation.
The IceHogs were 0 for 5 on the power play. On the other hand, the penalty kill that was abysmal a year ago also held Milwaukee without a tally in five attempts. Clendening and Brennan both served on the penalty kill-though not together, thank goodness.
Quest For The C
Traditionally, the IceHogs take their sweet time naming a captain each season. It wasn't until the middle of January that coach Ted Dent tabbed Jared Nightengale with the captaincy. Most years a captain is named in the first two months of action.
Saturday night two players, Klas Dahlbeck (who wore an A last season) and Cody Bass, were designated assistant captains. Miskovic and F Mark McNeill are two Hogs who I could have also seen earning a letter on their sweater, but past seasons have indicated that this is going to be a work in progress.
Return Of Mashinter
F Brandon Mashinter is joining the IceHogs after clearing waivers over the weekend. Mashinter was injured late in the Blackhawks training camp. This is a plus from the perspective of the Rockford franchise. Mashinter has been a productive player with physical presence throughout his AHL career.
There is no roster limit in the AHL, so management isn't duty bound to move any of Rockford's 24 players. However, Ryan Schnell is the lone forward solely on an AHL contract and it wouldn't be shocking if he was loaned to Indianapolis.
Hitting The Road
Having kicked off the season at the BMO Center for the first time in three years, the IceHogs will be traveling East for the next two weeks. Rockford gets the road trip underway Thursday in Adirondack and is in Ontario over the weekend.
The Hamilton Bulldogs are the Saturday opponent and the Toronto Marlies await Sunday afternoon. Last year Rockford used an additional assistant captain on the road, so we'll see if that is the case this week.
The IceHogs stop in Rochester next Wednesday before coming home October 25 to tangle with the always physical Chicago Wolves.
Lines-October 11 vs Milwaukee Admirals
Joakim Nordstrom-Dennis Rasmussen-Ryan Hartman
Peter Regin-Teuvo Teravainen-Mark McNeill
Pierre-Cedric Labrie-Alex Broadhurst-Garret Ross
Matt Carey-Phillip Danault-Cody Bass
Adam Clendening-Klas Dahlbeck
T.J. Brennan-Zach Miskovic
Steven Johns-Viktor Svedberg
Michael Leighton (Scott Darling was the backup)
Scratches-D Dillon Fournier, D Ville Pokka, F Drew LeBlanc, F Ryan Schnell
Tags: Adam Clendening AHL Brandon Mashinter Cody Bass Joakim Nordstrom Klas Dahlbeck Mark McNeill Matt Carey Michael Leighton Phillip Daunault Rockford Icehogs Ryan Hartman T.J. Brennan teuvo teravainen Zach Miskovic
Morning Links 10/14/14


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In the wake of recent reports of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, the Obama administration is preparing for air strikes against Syria.1
MoveOn members are reacting strongly, including many folks who are deeply concerned about the path we seem to be on, and wondering what we can individually do.
Here are three steps you can take.
1) Educate yourself—and others—through our Video Teach-In on Syria. We raced to pull together an emergency video briefing on Syria yesterday with several noted progressive thought leaders. The discussion provided context on what's happening in Syria, explored reactions in the U.S. and around the world, and outlined some of the major concerns with—and alternatives to—military strikes.
Click here to watch the Video Teach-In on Syria and pass it along:
2. Speak out on how you feel about U.S. strikes against Syria.
MoveOn members and partner organizations have started circulating a wide range of petitions responding to the looming threat of military strikes. Just a few hours ago, President Obama committed to seek approval from Congress for military action—so we WILL have a chance to make our voices heard with our elected representatives in Washington.2
This petition from MoveOn Council member Rachel Royce in North Carolina is one you might find compelling:
We urge you to show real leadership in protecting the people of Syria with a more creative, effective, and prudent approach than military action.
Galvanize world leaders to demand a multilateral cease-fire
Arrange to evacuate people who choose to flee harm's way
Care for the evacuees
Assist with re-settlement once the civil war has ended
Do not be fooled into thinking that war-making will protect or defend a population.
Click here to add your name to the petition.
(If this approach doesn't speak to you, remember: anyone can start their own petition at moveon.org—take a look at other MoveOn member campaigns on Syria here, or start your own!)
3. Contribute to organizations providing emergency assistance to the Syrian people.
The group Doctors Without Borders is providing emergency healthcare inside Syria through six field hospitals. They have also worked with the victims of the reported chemical weapons attacks.
Click here to make a donation to Doctors Without Borders.
Thanks for your care and concern—and for all you do.
–Anna, Matt, Susannah, Joan, and the rest of the team
1. "Key Questions on the Conflict in Syria," The New York Times, August 27, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=293006&id=74199-10220574-SY_uPFx&t=7
2. "Obama Will Seek Syria Vote in Congress," The New York Times, August 31, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=293053&id=74199-10220574-SY_uPFx&t=8
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Obamacare up in smoke?
URGENT: We're about to launch a big, ambitious push to take on right-wing lies on Obamacare. We've set a new fundraising goal of $250,000—and extended our deadline to Sunday. Will you donate now? Click here to chip in.
Urgent: Right-wing groups have launched a multi-million-dollar misinformation campaign to convince young people that they're better off uninsured than participating in Obamacare. Their goal is to make Barack Obama's signature achievement fail, no matter what the cost. Can you donate $5 to help fight back?
Chip in $5
Starting on October 1, America will take a huge step towards universal health care. That's the day that 22 million uninsured Americans will be able to start getting affordable health insurance under Obamacare.
But now, with just weeks to go, right-wing groups have launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to torpedo Obamacare before it even gets started.1
Their plan: Mislead young people about how the law works so they get scared and don't enroll. The problem is that it really could work because if younger, healthier people don't participate, then costs will skyrocket and Obamacare will fail. Period.
It's disgusting—people could actually die because they don't get the health insurance they need, and our entire health care system would be thrown into chaos. But these groups are so blinded by hate for Barack Obama that they'll do anything to make his signature program go up in smoke.
To fight back, MoveOn is launching an urgent campaign of our own to debunk right-wing lies and go after Republican politicians and media outlets that spread misinformation—but we need to raise at least $250,000 in the next 72 hours to make sure we have the resources to set the record straight.
Can you donate in $5 to fund our urgent campaign to save Obamacare?
Yes, I can contribute $5.
Conservatives are so desperate to stop Obamacare from succeeding that they're literally telling people to "burn your Obamacare card"—even though these cards don't even exist.2
Our plan is to counter their misinformation campaign with a laser-like focus on social media and the websites where young people spend the most time. Young people live on the Internet today, and reaching them online is far cheaper than with traditional TV advertising.
Just for starters, we'll be able to put an ad on the Facebook pages of 18- to 35-year-olds across America, and we'll also run ads in college newspapers—right as students return to school—explaining the truth about what Obamacare means for young people.
We've seen these kinds of right-wing scare tactics work before—lies about Social Security have convinced an entire generation of young people that that program won't be around in the future. And polling shows that awareness about the new program is dangerously low among the young people who need health insurance most.3
We can't just sit back and hope for the best. And the clock's ticking. We've got just weeks to fight back—and we've got just 72 hours until Sunday, when we'll look at what's come in, decide how big we can go with this campaign, and get started. Can you chip in?
Yes, I'll chip in $5 to make sure right-wing extremists can't kill health care reform.
We know from the past that MoveOn can run effective campaigns to debunk lies and misinformation. During the last election, we lampooned Mitt Romney's lies with truth and humor, and it worked.
So, can you help us debunk the lies again?
We've reached a critical moment. Summer's ending. School's starting. And with just weeks to go, young people are starting to tune in. We've got a plan. We're literally ready to wire money to our ad vendor and get started. But we're 100% member-funded—and we can only do this campaign the right way if enough MoveOn members chip in.
MoveOn members were integral in passing the Affordable Care Act. We've come too far and fought too hard to let right-wing extremists succeed at making sure health care reform fails. Can you help out? Click below to donate $5 and help fund our urgent campaign stop the right-wing effort to kill Obamacare before it gets started.
–Mark, Rosy, Manny, Eric, and the rest of the team
1. "Inside the Obamacare resistance," The Washington Post, August 1, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292769&id=74086-10220574-2BbYt0x&t=7
3. "Young Adults' Obamacare Awareness Low Ahead of Rollout, Survey Says," The Huffington Post, August 21, 2013
Do this for Trayvon Martin
Dear New York MoveOn member,
I'm Jason Lee, a MoveOn member in Hollywood, CA, and I started a petition to the United States Congress and President Barack Obama, which says:
The End Racial Profiling Act seeks to make racial profiling illegal and train law enforcement officers to act based on behavior instead of race or religion in their jobs. Now is the time for us to move closer to a society without blatant prejudice. No one should be mistreated, wrongly arrested, harassed, or killed based on their racial identity. Pass this legislation right away #forTrayvon.
Sign Jason Lee's petition
As we live in the aftermath of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's unexpected death at the hands of George Zimmerman, I want to encourage each and every one of you to use your voice for change. Millions of people across the nation witnessed the injustice of Zimmerman's subsequent acquittal of all charges in trial—something we must fight to prevent from happening again. We at the I AM READY Foundation and One Million People United for Change movement, have teamed up with Trayvon's family to directly benefit the Trayvon Martin Foundation and Change For Trayvon in our efforts to keep Trayvon's legacy alive. We believe joining MoveOn.org's campaign to end rampant racial profiling in our nation's law enforcement through the End Racial Profiling Act is the first step to balancing the system. We cannot make a powerful impact that will last and spread our message, hope, peace, and justice, without your help.
We need each of you to stand with us #forTrayvon and join our One Million People United for Change campaign as we continue to reach the masses across the nation. We have already garnered the support of celebrities passionate about change, including Meagan Good, Chris Brown, Ledisi, Tank, Omari Hardwick, Dawn Richard, and so many more. With your support and action, there's nothing we can't accomplish to ensure Trayvon's legacy lives on for decades to come.
Can we count on you to stand with us #forTrayvon and act to effectively end racial profiling in America?
This petition was created on MoveOn's online petition site, where anyone can start their own online petitions. Jason Lee didn't pay us to send this email—we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.
Killing Obamacare?
We can't just sit back and hope for the best. And the clock's ticking. We've got just weeks to fight back—and we've got just 72 hours before until Friday afternoon, when we'll look at what's come in, decide how big we can go with this campaign, and get started. Can you chip in?
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292769&id=73923-10220574-X23WQZx&t=6
Got an idea for a petition?
Got an idea for your own campaign? Click below to start a petition on MoveOn's petition website.
Ever heard that famous Frederick Douglass quote? "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." That's as true today as it was 125 years ago—and it's what MoveOn is all about.
In 1998, our founders started a simple online petition demanding that Congress stop obsessing over a sex scandal and "move on" to more important issues. They shared it with friends and within days, they had hundreds of thousands of signatures. Then the story blew up in the media and helped shift the focus at the time in Washington away from scandal towards more serious issues.
Today, we're seeing progress on issue after issue—marriage quality, immigration, NSA wiretapping, and more—progress that would be impossible if people hadn't stepped up and demanded change.
But there are countless fights that still need to be won, and that's why we're so excited about MoveOn's public petition website, where you demand the progress you want to see by starting your own petition. It's easy to get started—just click here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/create_start.html?source=monthly&id=73782-10220574-xPdoEhx&t=2
–Steven, Anna, Elena, Ilya, and the rest of the team
P.S. If you get 20 signatures on your petition, we'll email it to at least 1,000 people in your area to help it grow (assuming of course that it's consistent with MoveOn's progressive values).
This is what stopping fracking looks like
On Thursday, MoveOn members joined Americans Against Fracking—and actress and activist Daryl Hannah—at the White House to deliver 650,000 public comments to the Bureau of Land Management demanding a ban on fracking on public and Native American lands. All told, concerned Americans submitted more than 1 million comments—the largest unified outpouring ever from Americans calling for a change in course on fracking:
While that was going on in D.C., the president met boisterous crowds in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, all calling on him to say no to fracking. Activists in New York have succeeded in keeping fracking out of the Empire State, and they're following Governor Cuomo—who joined President Obama in Syracuse—everywhere he goes, to make sure he keeps New York frack-free:
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the dangerous practice of injecting cancer-causing chemicals, sand, and massive amounts of water at high pressure deep underground to release hard-to-reach oil and gas deposits.
President Obama says he is serious about curbing climate change. But he's also overseen the near-doubling of natural gas production, using fracking, from 2010 to 2012.1 Methane, which is released in fracking for natural gas, is at least 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over the critical 100-year period, and scientists have called fracking a "gangplank to a warm future."2 That's why MoveOn members have joined our allies to take the message directly to President Obama: "Yes we can ban fracking!"
But not just President Obama! We're fighting back on multiple fronts. Earlier this month, twenty-two-year-old community college student and MoveOn leader Ashley Williams delivered more than 16,000 petition signatures to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, demanding that he block a mining project near Illinois' most popular state park—Starved Rock State Park—for the special silica sand used in fracking that threatens the park, Ashley's hometown of Ottawa, Illinois, and workers' health. Here's Ashley, right before she met with the Governor's chief of staff for legislative affairs:
Last week, MoveOn members and our friends at CREDO rallied in Ventura County, California—where fracking is happening now—calling for a statewide ban on fracking, and earning headlines in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Ventura County Star. California has 15 billion barrels of heavy crude oil buried underground—that if fracked and burned, would create nearly as much global warming pollution as the Keystone XL pipeline:3
That's not all. Also this month, Kentucky MoveOn member Corlia Logsdon made headlines and got Governor Steve Beshear's attention when she and 200 supporters delivered thousands of petition signatures to Governor Beshear, calling on him to stop the construction of the Bluegrass Pipeline that would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, and destroy her community's land:
I could go on and on. MoveOn members in 37 states have launched local campaigns to protect our climate and our communities from fracking, and hundreds of thousands from across every state submitted comments to President Obama. I wanted to make sure you got a glimpse of the amazing leadership among our ranks.
Can you share this image on Facebook to inspire more people to rise up to ban fracking?
Click here to share this image on Facebook—and keep rising!
–Victoria, Bobby, Carinne, Matt B., and the rest of the team
1. "As Obama Visits Upstate New York, the Fracking Debate Takes Center Stage," Time, August 22, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292836&id=73739-10220574-NwOVKux&t=5
2. "Gangplank to a Warm Future," The New York Times, July 28, 2013
3. "California's Fracked Up Oil: Nearly As Bad as Keystone XL?" Daily Kos, February 18, 2013
1. Americans Against Fracking
2. Mike Hersh
3. New Yorkers Against Fracking
4. Ashley Williams
5. Victoria Kaplan
6. Dylan Buell, The State Journal
Join a briefing with Rep. Keith Ellison and Anna Galland
☆YOU'RE INVITED!☆
Special Briefing With Rep. Keith Ellison
and MoveOn Executive Director Anna Galland
When: 9 p.m. ET (8 CT/7 MT/6 PT) on Tuesday, August 27
What: The Republican leadership in the House has made this the most do-nothing Congress in history, but thousands of MoveOn members across the country are fighting back by organizing in their communities and demanding that decision makers at every level get back to work for the American people.
Congressman and progressive champion Keith Ellison will join MoveOn Executive Director Anna Galland on Tuesday evening for a special discussion with MoveOn members on how we can work together in every city, state, and district to get Congress and our other elected officials back on track.
Where: By telephone (RSVP below for the call-in number.)
Can you join us on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET?
Click below for more details and to RSVP.
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Re: New York Times stunner
MoveOn member—Just making sure you saw this email. MoveOn members have already pitched in over $140,000, but we need to raise $250,000 for this campaign. Will you donate now? Click here to chip in.
Republicans are trying to steal control of the U.S. Senate by making it harder to vote.
Pitch in to help defend the right to vote and stop Republicans from stealing the 2014 election.
This is stunning: The New York Times' data wizard Nate Silver—who predicted the 2012 election results state-by-state with uncanny accuracy—is now projecting that, "Republicans [are] close to even-money to win control of the [Senate] after next year's elections."1
It's the worst-case scenario: Republicans win a majority in the Senate, and we can kiss the rest of President Obama's agenda goodbye.
To make things worse, they have a plan to steal the 2014 election starting right now by making it harder for seniors, students, poor people, and African-Americans to vote.
Back in May, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Since then, Republicans in key states have been racing to purge voter rolls, eliminate early voting, and require new photo IDs to vote—anything they can do to make it harder to vote.
And in an election as close as this one will be, even 1-2 percentage points could turn the tide.
You think the fights over the budget, Obamacare, and immigration are bad now? Imagine Mitch McConnell in control of the U.S. Senate. Try getting any pro-choice judge confirmed for the Supreme Court against a GOP majority. Or stopping cuts to Social Security. Forget it.
The 2014 election is hugely important—and we can't let Republicans steal it now. So if you think you'll want to get involved sometime next year, I ask you: Please get engaged right now.
We're raising $250,000 this week to launch a 'Let Us Vote' Campaign to fight back right now—while it can make the greatest difference. Will you help?
Yes, I'll contribute $5 so we can fight back.
How blatant are the GOP's efforts? North Carolina just passed what's widely being called the most extreme voter suppression law in the country. It requires Voter ID, reduces early voting, and ends same-day registration.2
Why there? Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina is just one of four Democrats up for re-election next year in a state won by Mitt Romney. If Republicans can reduce turnout in North Carolina and defeat her, it'll drastically improve their odds of taking the Senate.
To reverse the effects of this effort, we have a 3-pronged plan of attack:
1. We'll launch state-by-state campaigns to roll back discriminatory voter suppression laws, rules and regulations when state legislatures are back in session.
2. We'll prepare a traditional and online media blitz, highlighting both the actions of extreme politicians like North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and the stories of heroic individual voters whose rights are being trampled.
3. We'll organize an aggressive counter-intimidation campaign to mobilize the very same voters who are being disenfranchised. This tactic was proven to work last election, when showing voters what Republicans are really up to actually motivated unlikely voters to overcome barriers to get to the polls.3
We helped beat back the GOP voter suppression machine in 2012—and we can do it again—but all of us need to help. And we can't afford to wait until next year. Are you in to support our "Let Us Vote" campaign?
Yes, I'll contribute $5.
–Anna, Alex, Jessica, Nick, and the rest of the team
1. "Senate Control in 2014 Increasingly Looks Like a Tossup", The New York Times, July 15, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292665&id=73597-10220574-XjFO9Qx&t=6
2. "Hagan demands review of NC voter law," The Hill, August 13, 2013
3. "How Voter Backlash Against Voter Suppression Is Changing Our Politics," The Nation, April 29, 2013
Tell Rep. Jared Polis to stand up for immigration reform
House Speaker John Boehner is stalling comprehensive immigration reform. But there is a way to bypass him. House Democrats can introduce the broadly supported Senate bill and file what's called a "discharge petition." We need just 218 votes—every Democrat and 17 Republicans—and then the House can vote on comprehensive immigration reform.
MoveOn members across the country are signing this petition from Michelle Medina, a fellow MoveOn member in Boulder, CO, asking Rep. Jared Polis, a leader within the New Democrat Coalition, to stand up for comprehensive immigration reform by supporting a discharge petition. Click here to sign the petition.
Dear Inwood MoveOn member,
I'm Michelle Medina, a MoveOn member in Boulder, CO, and I started a petition to Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2), which says:
A discharge petition is the most viable option to pass comprehensive immigration reform this fall. It only takes 218 votes to file a discharge petition—that's every Democrat in Congress and 17 Republicans. Support for the discharge petition is growing in the media and among members of Congress. Therefore, I am requesting that you sign on as a supporter of the discharge petition for comprehensive immigration reform . Sincerely,
Sign Michelle's petition
–Michelle Medina
Re: Obama's first big fracking decision
Hi there—The deadline to submit comments on the Obama administration's draft rules for fracking on public lands is this Friday, August 23—and on Thursday, we'll join allies in Washington, DC at a rally to deliver these comments to the Bureau of Land Management.
More than 125,000 MoveOn members have already submitted comments calling on President Obama to ban fracking on public lands. Can you help us reach 150,000 comments today by signing this petition from our friends at Food & Water Watch, calling on President Obama to ban fracking on public and Native American lands?
President Obama: Don't frack our public lands
The Obama Administration is proposing new rules for oil and gas fracking on federal lands, including those in the national forest system, federal lands that are near many treasured national parks, and Indian lands.
One of the things that makes America great is our vast and cherished spaces. Millions of acres across our beautiful country are public, but now this land—and many of our favorite iconic landscapes—are under threat from fracking.
That's why I started a petition to President Barack Obama and Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior, which says:
I am calling for a ban on fracking on all federal lands.
This land is our land and should be managed for the good of the people, not corporate profits for the oil and gas industry.
The Bureau of Land Management's proposed rules for regulating hydraulic fracturing on Federal and Indian lands are not only weak, but they do not take into account all of the harmful processes required to frack for oil and gas.
The best way to protect our air, water, wildlife, climate and public health is simply to prohibit this inherently dangerous form of fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
The Obama administration is accepting comments on the new fracking rules until August 23. On August 22, we'll join allies to deliver hundreds of thousands of comments, including yours, to President Obama and Secretary Jewell. Please add your name today!
This petition was created on MoveOn's online petition site, where anyone can start their own online petitions. Food & Water Watch didn't pay us to send this email—we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.
Obama's first big fracking decision
Below is an email from Sarah Alexander of the organization Food & Water Watch. Sarah started a petition on the MoveOn website, where anyone can start their own online petition.
New York Times stunner
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=292665&id=73265-10220574-qVesIKx&t=6
Call Representative Gregory Meeks and ask him to support a discharge petition
Can you call Representative Gregory Meeks? Tell him: "Please don't let Speaker Boehner continue to stand in the way of Comprehensive immigration reform. Introduce the bipartisan Senate bill in the House and support a discharge petition."
Representative Gregory Meeks
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Arverne: 347-230-4032
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Report Your Call!
Dear fellow MoveOn member,
My name is Stephanie Hamm, and I've lived in Texas for 38 years. As someone from a border state, I'm 110% committed to the fight for comprehensive immigration reform, which includes protections for family unity, and a clear roadmap to citizenship.
And we could have reform right now. But so far Speaker Boehner, who has the power to bring the bipartisan Senate bill up for an an up-or-down vote, has refused to do so.
We can't wait for Speaker Boehner any longer.
This August recess marks a critical moment for immigration reform. The pressure on the House to take action coming out of the recess is mounting. And if comprehensive immigration reform doesn't pass in the fall, the opportunity could be lost. I've joined other MoveOn immigration leaders to do everything I can to make sure that Congress hears us loud and clear.
That's why this week, MoveOn members and allies across the country are calling Democratic members of Congress and asking them to bypass Speaker Boehner to save immigration reform. We want them to introduce the Senate bill, which passed with broad bipartisan support, then use a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote in the House.
Filing a discharge petition is the best option we have to pass comprehensive immigration reform this fall. It only takes 218 votes to file one—that's every Democrat in Congress and 17 Republicans. Support for the discharge petition is growing in the media and among members of Congress.
Here's where to call:
Then, please report your call by clicking here:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FHNY_05&cp_id=1968&dofcs=1&id=73132-10220574-2Iqow0x&t=2
It's essential that members of Congress hear our voices loud and clear. Last Saturday, I joined other MoveOn members and immigration allies to participate in a town hall event for Representative Blake Farenthold here in Texas. Rep. Farenthold is a Republican who may support comprehensive immigration reform. Our presence at the town hall made an impact especially when one of our members shared a story about how she had waited 20 years to gain citizenship because of how broken the system is.
During the rest of August, we need to make sure that we are calling members of Congress' offices, visiting them, and attending town halls so that they take our message back with them to Congress in September.
Click here to make and report your call today.
–Stephanie Hamm, MoveOn member
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Nearly 200 nations agree on climate change draft plan at Paris Summit
Representatives of 195 nations have adopted a blueprint to address climate change at the COP21 conference. Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio spoke to mayors attending the talks in Paris about pushing for local actions to fight climate change.
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Bill Chappell | NPR | December 5, 2015
Negotiators at COP21, the U.N. climate change conference in Paris, have settled on a rough blueprint for approaching the complex and contentious task of reining in emissions and reducing global warming. But many issues will need to be resolved by the summit's end next Friday.
"It always seems impossible until it's done," French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal told the conference Saturday, quoting Nelson Mandela. She then added, "We will do it."
You can read the 48-page draft accord farther down in this post.
From Paris, NPR's Christopher Joyce reports:
"Negotiators today turn a draft text over to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will then set the rules for week two. That's when senior ministers from nearly 200 countries will try to clean it up and forge something that governments can sign.
"Numerous loopholes and caveats remain. Many involve how much money the wealthier countries will provide to developing countries to help them adapt to climate change and also lower their own emissions of greenhouse gases.
"Outside of the official proceedings, however, private groups, banks and some corporate CEOs have pledged to invest in new green technology to help developing countries. Also there's been progress in designing a way for heavily forested countries to get paid for saving forests that absorb carbon dioxide and slow warming."
At the conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a range of partnerships with organizations from the World Bank to the University of Maryland. That group will hold a summit in Washington next May, to work on "concrete deliverables in specific high-value areas," according to a UN release, which lists some of those areas as cities, transportation, and finance.
"I am heartened by the significant and growing coalitions that are emerging to tackle the challenges of climate change and realize new opportunities," Ban said.
As it's currently written, the draft agreement lays out three broad goals:
"To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5 °C] [or] [well below 2 °C] above preindustrial levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions;
"To Increase their ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change [and to effectively respond to the impacts of the implementation of response measures and to loss and damage];
"To pursue a transformation towards sustainable development that fosters climate resilient and low greenhouse gas emission societies and economies, and that does not threaten food production and distribution."
And it adds that the agreement will be implemented in a way that takes into account differences in responsibilities and capabilities, as well as human rights and gender equality.
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