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OVER 5 MILLION LBS OF PESTICIDES ARE USED PER YEAR IN VENTURA COUNTY.
THAT'S THE HIGHEST PER ACRE IN THE ENTIRE STATE.
WE HAVE THE MOST KIDS EXPOSED TO THE WORST CHEMICALS OF ANY COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA.
Sign the Petition at https://www.regenerateojai.com/
SIGN THE PETITION IMMEDIATE RESOLUTIONS FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF OJAI
I. A moratorium on the use of all insecticides and herbicides on all land and facilities owned by the City of Ojai including: the parks, playgrounds city buildings, roads, right of ways, and all other city-owned infrastructure. (This moratorium shall include a voluntary 1,000 foot "no spray buffer zone" on all sides of these public spaces).
II. A mandatory 72-hour public notice system whereby growers within 1/2 mile of the City of Ojai are required to provide public notice via electronic means (technology TBA) 72 hours prior to spraying of location of spraying, what will be sprayed and in what quantity.
III. A committee will be established to determine locations for no less than 5 public air monitoring stations around the township of Ojai.
IV. A Healthy Soils Working Group shall be established with significant farmer representation to create guidelines and establish funding resources for growers who wish to transition to soil-health.
FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WE REQUIRE:
I. An exception for areas in the State of California for areas zoned "Rural Exclusive" to the preemptive clause in California Food and Agriculture Code Section 11501.1 which excludes California cities from authority to regulate pesticides due to Ojai's "unique mix of unusual topographical features, altitude, inversion layer and air quality conditions."
October 4, 2019 Letter to the Editor of the Ojai Valley News
Time to transition to organic farming
SUE WILLIAMSON, Ojai
Re: Emily Ayala's Sept. 27 letter, "Pesticides allow sustainable crops"It's very disconcerting to read a local farmer's letter accusing those of us suffering from the harmful effects of pesticide spraying in the valley of passing on "hysterical fear-based and nonscientific" information. Where is her scientific proof of the harmlessness of these poisons? Just reading the warning labels is proof enough to disprove her claim. She says there are many old farmers. How many have died? Why is breast cancer so prevalent in Ventura County? Due to the dominance of big pesticide companies and big ag, there have been very few, if any, studies done on the effects of massive amounts of chemicals being sprayed over the last 40-plus years on people, air, water, insects, wildlife, etc.However, we do know from local testing that people have very high levels of glyphosate, a very dangerous toxin, and that is just one of many examples of the harm to humans being caused by spraying. I personally have suffered painful symptoms of toxic poisoning here. No one wants to see the wonderful orchards of Ojai disappear. However, many have already transitioned to organics and there really are no longer valid excuses for refusing to do so.
In fact, it is required by law that alternatives must be tried before using these synthetic pesticides. Ojai is full of great resources to provide assistance to local farmers to make the transition.
The packed meeting on Sept. 28, which did include local farmers, showed how much people want to encourage those farmers still spraying toxic synthetic pesticides to start making the transition to organics. And California Department of Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross stated recently: "There has never been so many pieces going in the same direction. The opportunity to move forward together is here." Scaling up regenerative agriculture models that strengthen carbon sequestration in soil, reduce water use and preserve biodiversity is now reflected in the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Climate Smart Agriculture programs. There are no more excuses for poi-oning your community. Let's make Ojai a real Shangri La — together!
News from around the Ojai Valley
Pesticides town hall packed
Published: Friday, 04 October 2019
Josh Tickell shows a slide at the Sept. 28 town hall meeting on "Health and Pesticides," held at the Matilija Auditorium.
Austin Widger, Ojai Valley News reporter
The day before spraying pesticides for the Asian citrus psyllid began in the Ojai Valley, a town hall meeting on "Health and Pesticides" was held Sept. 28, with nearly 300 people packing Matilija Auditorium.
Actress and health activist Diane Ladd, a resident of Ojai's East End, has been spearheading an effort to raise awareness about pesticide use in the Ojai Valley and to promote regenerative farming to reduce it.
After showing preview clips for a documentary called "Kiss the Ground" by local filmmakers Rebecca and Josh Tickell, the couple showed a short film they recently made with local stakeholders.
In the short film, the Tickells say they learned that insecticides and herbicides don't just stay where they're sprayed; they drip in the air."
In the valley, neonictinoid pesticides are being used, which have been banned in a lot of places because of their negative impact on pollinator species, according to the information in the film. Rebecca Tickell said: "We here in the Ojai Valley can be a model for how we go from a degenerative way of living to a regenerative way of living. We can be that model. We pride ourselves on being this enlightened place where people can come and heal. Let's make it like that. Let's really make it like that."
In the film, Ladd says: "It's your health; it's your body. But it's not just your body. It's your kids' body. It's the next generation. What are we turning over to them? What are we leaving them? We have to clean it up now."
State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson talked about working in collaboration with farmers and ranchers, while protecting the lives of their neighbors. "I would submit that I don't think there are too many farmers or ranchers who would want to be out there saying: 'I don't care about these people. I don't care about any of my neighbors.' "
Josh Tickell gave a demonstration with four different soils from four East End farms.
The first two soils came from conventional agriculture citrus orchards. The third one was from a model orchard. It was not organic, but it mulches and has attentive farmers who really take care of their plants and trees, Josh Tickell said. The last soil came from a regenerative farm that promotes an ecosystem to build up the soil. When mixed with water, the first three soils became rocks and a dirt-like sand. The regenerative soil was black and rich.
Because of the unique geography of the Ojai Valley, there are mountain ranges on each side that cause an inversion layer much of the year, Josh Tickell said. "When you have a fan with a bunch of nozzles, it is going to fan the spray up in the air, down on the ground, and, yeah, some of it will hit the plants, too," Josh Tickell said. "But that's kind of a bonus."
He said that the first step is a voluntary buffer zone: "If you're a grower, we'd like you to go ahead and volunteer not to spray the road, and not to spray the kids, and not to spray us. Just volunteer. We want a mandatory 72-hour public notice system. If I can get a tweet from the president at 3 a.m., I should be able to get a tweet about people spraying toxic chemicals on a farm next to my house where my children live."
Agricultural business as usual is not even an option for the farmers, Josh Tickell said. "I talked to a lot of growers in Ojai off the record … I said, 'How long do you think you're going to be able to do citrus the way you're doing it right now? How long do you think you're going to be in business?' Ten years, max (was their response)."
On the panel, Steve Sprinkel, one of the farmers behind Farmer and the Cook in Meiners Oaks, said: "Using regenerative agriculture … to perhaps be a steppingstone for the certified organic market will be a really important feature for this valley, we certainly hope. I think this is such a fantastic moment."
Sprinkel said the valley can stand united behind a movement toward regenerative agriculture.
Panelist Timothy Malloy said that to do this, it is important to have a vision of clear values and collaboration,
Panelist Annemiek Schilder had a less-optimistic view about moving away from citrus. She said growers will grow what they want to grow based on the economy, and that the orchards were a natural fire break to prevent Ojai from becoming the city of Paradise during the Thomas Fire.
Local regenerative farmer Connor Jones agreed that we cannot tell people not to grow citrus. "We can say, 'Don't use something that harms me.' I think that's fair enough," he said.
The community can assist in helping growers transition to regenerative farming by helping them get started and funding some of their trial orchards or trial crops, Jones said. "These farmers have somewhat slim margins for profit, and I think if they want to move into something else, there's oftentimes great financial risk. Having a secured market and community buy-in is really important."
Rebecca Tickell said the impact of the town hall is already being seen by her and husband Josh, judging from the numerous phone calls they have received from parents wanting to get their kids tested. The main thing that's coming out of the town hall is that we now have a donor who is going to help us get kids tested who go to school in the orchards on the East End," Rebecca said. "We're going to let the facts speak for themselves, and we should have that soon."
For more information about regenerative farming in the Ojai Valley, visit www.regenerateojai.com.
Read more in the Ventura County Reporter article:"COSTLY GAME" | OJAI LOCALS CONFRONT PESTICIDE SPRAYING IN TOWN HALL MEETING
"COSTLY GAME" | Ojai locals confront pesticide spraying in town hall meeting
by Kimberly Rivers
krivers@timespublications.com
Oct 2, 2019 | Cover Story, Feature, Kimberly Rivers, News, Ojai | 0 |
Pictured: Diane Ladd, actor and Ojai resident shows the mask she wears outside to prevent health impacts from pesticide spraying on citrus orchards around her home in Ojai.
Events and experiences are converging in the Ojai Valley, starting a groundswell response to an issue that has been marinating in Ventura County for decades: agricultural pesticide use.
"What the hell is happening? Of course the farmers are scared. I don't want to hurt them, we want to help them," said Diane Ladd, the 84-year-old actor and resident of the east end of Ojai. "That is our goal, but I'm not going to stand by and let them hurt me…it is a costly game they are involved in."
Ladd is working with fellow community members organizing in the Ojai Valley to force a community conversation and action. Last Saturday, Sept. 28, about 300 people signed a petition at a town hall meeting in Ojai asking for steps to reduce pesticide spraying in the area.
In her office at her comfortable home, with her troupe of dogs at her feet, Ladd spoke about how she became acutely aware of the chemicals around her and how they are impacting her life.
"I'm healthy now, till they spray again. Do I want to take more antibiotics and steroids and be on the breathing machine again? No, I don't. I've got work to do," said Ladd, pounding her fist on the wood desk. She describes respiratory issues, scar tissue in her lungs and problems with her esophagus that required a procedure to correct. "I've got films to make, books to write. I've got a life to live and they have no right to interrupt my destiny."
"I live here on the east side, and for years I did not pay attention. Of course I knew they were spraying," she said with a subtle southern accent signaling her southern roots. Her home is surrounded by the orange orchards that make the Ojai Valley a picturesque place. She recalled an incident of spraying near San Antonio School a few years ago.
"A huge farm was being sprayed . . . and they have the sign on the ground of the skull and bones." Ladd saw mist from the machine "rising and drifting towards the school . . . and the kids were all playing at lunchtime. So I called the school and said 'get your kids inside, somebody is spraying poison.'" She couldn't do more at the time — she was traveling a lot — and the incident fell to the back of her mind.
This summer, an incident with her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Murray, brought it full circle. "On June 7, I let my dog out for maybe 10 minutes at about 11: 30 [at night] to go pee and when he came back in it was horrible," she recalled. "He moved like a train on a track and he wouldn't stop. It was like a comet. He was terrorized . . . he had something on his paws. He was trying to lick it off and he was trying to climb the walls . . . We couldn't stop him, my husband and I. Finally he turned over, with all four paws in the air, and had a seizure. Then he had a second seizure." She called the veterinarian, "I got him out of bed and he met me at the clinic [ in Ojai ]. He put Murray in an oxygen chamber that saved his life." She spoke with the vet by phone the next day to ascertain what had happened. After hanging up, "five minutes later I got a text from Rebecca Tickell . . . she sent a photo of a helicopter spraying . . . and said, 'shut your windows and your doors — they were spraying yesterday and today.'"
"So we were at home, it was June 6, and a helicopter flew over our house," said Rebecca Tickell, who lives off Cuyama Road in Ojai with her two children and husband, Josh. The Tickells are documentary filmmakers, focusing on environmental issues, but this was the first time they were experiencing something in their own backyard. "It was an aerial spraying helicopter. That morning we all started sneezing . . . our eyes got irritated, we were congested and honestly it made us feel a little confused, foggy, like it was hard to think." She said they decided to "evacuate" to Santa Barbara. "As soon as we got to Ventura we opened up our windows and we stopped sneezing. That acute allergic reaction we were all having stopped. It was obvious we were having a reaction to the chemicals that were landing in our backyard. Literally." Tickell said she reached out to neighbors, who shared a recent letter from a nearby grower.
"Our neighbors had gotten a letter from Barnard Ranch that they were going to be spraying," Tickell said, noting that the letter was needed to protect her neighbors' bee hives. "The last time they had done that they killed all of their bees. Well, our bees died right after that happened; we found a bunch of dead bees around our house." Tickell wanted to know what Barnard Ranch was spraying. She was referred to a woman named, "Anita, at Mission Produce, and after I was hounding her to tell me what was sprayed, maybe it was three requests, she finally got back to me a week later . . . it was Timectin and summer spray."
The letter from Mission Produce states that Timectin and IAP Summer Spray Oil are used as part of the "mandatory" spraying program. Summer Spray is listed as approved for "organic production" and is a "narrow range petroleum spray oil." Chemicals used for pest control are mixed with various oils as part of the application process. Directions for application state that "aerial applications only when weather conditions do not allow ground application."
"This is the annual time of the year where mandatory spraying needs to take place, the County is also conducting their spraying in the area," stated Anita Lemos, vice president with Mission Produce in an email dated May 31 notifying Tickell's neighbor about spraying scheduled for June 8. "Unfortunately, we have to spray along with the County."
Timectin is the brand name of a product containing Abamectin, an insecticide approved for use on various crops including citrus and avocado trees. The manufacturer label states possible effects from exposure include "muscular incoordination, muscular tremors," and that the product is "harmful if absorbed through skin . . . toxic to fish and wildlife . . . do not apply to water." Regarding the potential for drift, the label reads, "highly toxic to bees…do not apply when weather conditions favor drift from target areas. Do not apply this product or allow it to drift to blooming crops or weeds if bees are visiting treatment area."
"When I read that [text from Rebecca], I said, 'mother of god, my questions just got answered, my dog got poisoned,' " Ladd recalled. She began to see evidence of chemical spraying all around her. "How much spray is going into the air of California?"
"Josh and I have a long history of working on these environmental issues, especially around pollution," said Tickell. They were in Louisiana in 2010 in the wake of the British Petroleum oil spill. "Everyone was told, 'it is safe, everyone come down there, swim in the water, it is safe.' Then we come to find out after that it was not true, so many people got sick as a result of that. So this is not the first time where we've been in a community where pollution was happening and the people were told that they were safe, and the people knew that that was not the case. And this just happens to be literally in my backyard. So it's a little different than it was in the past, its more personal."
Town hall meeting in Ojai – Act local, think global
For the past ten years Ventura County joined with other citrus growing areas in ramping up pesticides spraying in an attempt to prevent first the arrival of the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP), and second, when the bug arrived here a few years ago, to prevent it's spread and stop the spread of Huanglongbing (HLB) a disease caused by a bacteria, which is transmitted by the ACP. HLB decimates citrus trees.
This summer the Ventura County Farm Bureau announced that a group of specially trained dogs had detected the deadly bacteria at farms across the county, including the Ojai Valley. This created a push by those agencies to work to get more growers to participate in the voluntary preventative spraying program across the county.
Activists calling for changes in conventional agricultural systems have responded with science data pointing to healthy soil as the answer.
"The answer is to maximize the diversity and strength of the life in the soil. When you have healthy, biologically alive soil and a healthy ecosystem, pests and disease-causing organisms don't take over and toxic pesticides are unnecessary," said Patty Pagaling, executive director of the Ojai based nonprofit organization, Transition to Organics. She is referring to data from Dr. Elaine Ingham, "a renowned soil microbiologist," as a way to combat the spread of HLB using regenerative agricultural methods. Pagaling has been working in the Ojai Valley on this issue since 2008. "Biodiversity is the key to a balanced, healthy ecosystem. From a healthy regenerative ag perspective, it just doesn't make sense to spray poisons into our air for us to breathe and into our soil where food is grown."
Johnathan Katz, a citrus grower in the Ojai Valley who supports regenerative methods, described the increased spraying in response to the ACP as a "response bungled by the regulators of conventional agriculture," and said the increased spraying has "made the situation worse," because the chemicals kill the microbes the soil needs to be healthy, in turn making the trees more susceptible to disease.
After a broad discussion about the economics of agriculture, the need to grow for local consumption, and how soil microbes are vital for human health, Eric Cutter, a biochemist and a regenerative farmer at Alegria Fresh in Irvine, spoke about how he grows 60 different plants on "2000 square feet and feed[s] five families." He pointed to some thick, dark soil on the table in front of the stage that was used in a demo showing how healthy soil holds water. The humus filled soil came from land farmed in Ojai by panelist Connor Jones, "That is black gold, you can grow anything in it."
For more information visit www.transition-to-organics.org
Information about regenerative agriculture: www.ojaicra.org
Proceeds from the sale of Diane Ladd's book, Spiraling Through the School of Life, are being donated to fund blood testing for those impacted by spraying. www.dianeladd.com
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For information about the petition presented at the town hall, visit: www.regenerateojai.com
For information about the pesticide spraying programs in Ventura County visit: www.farmbureauvc.com/issues/pest-issues
Adam Vega, Californians for Pesticide Reform.
Connor Jones, permaculturist at East End Eden farms, Ojai.
Josh Tickell and volunteers in a demonstration showing how much water healthy organic soil holds. Photo by Stephen Adams.
Eric Cutter, Alegria Fresh farms, Irvine.
Jonathan Katz, Ojai Orange Groves.
Josh Tickell
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, Chumash Leader
Citrus orchards in the east end of the Ojai Valley. Oct. 2019
Steve Sprinkle, organic farmer, Rancho Del Pueblo farms, and co-owner The Farmer and The Cook.
Senator Hannah Beth Jackson
Soil experiment. Rebecca and Josh Tickell. Photo by Stephen Adams.
Steve Sprinkel Letter dated September 10, 2019
Steve Sprinkel
Ojai Center for Regenerative Agriculture
Ojaicra.org
Steve Bennett, Ventura County Board of Supervisors
Ed Williams, Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner
John Krist, Executive Director, Ventura County Farm Bureau
Johnny Johnston, Mayor of Ojai
Greetings to all.
I hope by now you may have noted that State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson (District 19) will be a featured speaker in Ojai at the September 28th Town Hall Meeting titled Health & Pesticides, Climate Change & Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture.
This meeting promises to be a watershed moment for the future of agriculture in Ojai.
Senator Jackson's attendance notably improves the legitimacy of the effort of citizens in Ojai to educate people and thereby limit the volume of specifically named agricultural substances applied in our valleys.
The challenge to conventional agriculture has been a long time coming.
The purpose of this letter is to ask all of you to attend this meeting. I ask you to consider in advance a conscious, well-conceived response in advance to demonstrate substantive acknowledgment of the grave complaints the community raises.
After working here for twenty years towards transitioning more acreage to non-synthetic chemical production, I believe the dam has burst on public acceptance of the status quo. People are no longer willing to passively sit at home and be sprayed.
This time the core group of antagonists does not feature people so easy to dismiss as an organic farmer. It's not that they are "media-savvy". They are media. They are informed, and they understand how to use technology to be educated and to educate.
The Ojai effort is very much like others rising up nationally and internationally. Ultimately the circumstance will be a question of cessation or litigation. The effort to control the Asian Citrus Psyllid with Imidicloprid has failed. Arundo Donax survives no matter how many times we spray it with Roundup.
At this point, anyone willing to learn about our system of agriculture, especially the public sector-private industry relationship to chemical use, will conclude that initial and continued formal permission to use these materials was not merely unethical but criminal.
The concept of "regulatory capture" has now become a cliché.
Argumentation is moot. No one can prove whether or not the 70,000 annually-diagnosed cases of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma are attributable to glyphosate. No one has to. There are hundreds of lawsuits and thousands of plaintiffs. Law firms are fishing for plaintiffs on prime-time cable TV.
Defense of the chemical status-quo in agriculture is unraveling and the prospects for 36,000 Farm Bureau members to dominate public policy are diminishing. We can't argue about jobs we really have not cared enough about or a green farm-scape we adore though it's beginning to have all the appeal of a super fund site.
I knew that one day some risk-assessment manager would have to conclude that their business concern would be exposed to legal liability by using these chemicals or condoning them. The entire University of California system prohibited the use of glyphosate because of this risk, following the first plaintiff victory. The tide has turned.
I think we need to call a truce before we fight. There is very little good will left for chemical agriculture after so many years of disappointment. Let's plan for a different outcome we can all live with.
Health & Pesticides, Climate Change & Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture.
Matilija Auditorium,
703 El Paseo Rd, Ojai, CA 93023
Doors open at 2:15pm
September 10, 2019 Letter to Ojai City Council from Patty Pagaling, Transition to Organics
To Mayor Johnston and City Council Members,
We would like to invite you to a Town Hall Meeting to be held Sept 28th at Matilija Auditorium in Ojai, 3-6pm. Doors open at 2:15pm. Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson will be joining us at the event. We are asking that you all attend and participate.
From a report produced by Wishtoyo Foundation, Agritoxins: Ventura County's Toxic Time Bomb":
"Harmful and even deadly exposures can reach our farm worker community as well as our families. Toxic pesticide "agritoxin" use in Ventura County is polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink. Agritoxin refers to the toxic pesticides used in agriculture."
"This report demonstrates that (1) some of the most hazardous agritoxins are widely used in Ventura County agriculture; (2) these chemicals are extremely toxic and have been linked to numerous adverse health effects, including neurological impairment, birth defects, infertility and cancer; (3) in Ventura County, the general public, farmworkers, children, and elderly are readily exposed to agritoxins; and, (4) agritoxins pollute our air, water, and soil."
"Agritoxins can cause both short and long term adverse health effects in humans. Examples of acute health effects include severe headaches, blindness, blisters, diarrhea, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, rashes, stinging eyes, and death. Longterm (chronic) adverse health effects include birth defects, cancer, and immunotoxicity, as well as neurological and developmental impairment. Disruption of the endocrine system is another chronic adverse health effect caused by pesticides. Some pesticides mimic the effects of natural human hormones, especially estrogen and thyroxine."
One of the toxic synthetic pesticides being sprayed in Ojai in the orchards, a pyrethroid insecticide, Danitol, contains fenpropathrin, is a dopaminergic neurotoxin, linked to causing Parkinson's' disease. It is also highly toxic to bees.
Exposure Symptoms of exposure to pyrethroid pesticides include: "nasal stuffiness, headache, nausea, incoordination, tremors, convulsions, facial flushing and swelling, and burning and itching sensations."
Chemical WATCH Factsheet for Beyond Pesticides, http://www.beyondpesticides.org/mosquito/documents/SyntheticPyrethroids.pdf
This is just one of the dangerous products that are being sprayed in Ojai. There are people, including children, and animals in Ojai who are being poisoned.
A prominent lawyer that was contacted concerning this situation said that the first sign that a town is being poisoned is when dogs start having seizures.
We would like to meet with all of you to discuss this serious life-threatening situation that is going on in our county. We are asking you to protect the health and well being of the people you serve. The spraying of poisons in our beloved Ojai Valley must stop.
Patty Pagaling
The Good News is that there are healthy solutions.
According to Dr. Elaine Ingham, renowned soil microbiologist, the answer is to maximize the diversity and strength of the life in the soil. When you have healthy, biologically alive soil and a healthy ecosystem, pests and disease-causing organisms are not a problem. The link to one of Dr. Ingham's videos:
http://soilfoodwebcourse.com/what-every-farmer-needs-to-kn…/
Especially listen to section: from 11:58 to about 13:46
Stanley Thornton, a colleague of Dr. Ingham, is developing a line of soil amendments, foliar sprays and microbes that he has used to bring dying trees back to productivity.*
Uday Philar of Sequoia Bio Sciences (www.sequoiabio.com) in India and American collaborator John Peter Abt of Terawet (www.terawet.com), report that he has successfully reversed the greening disease.*
Steve Pavich, with BioFlora (www.Bioflora.com), a long time organic farmer, is experimenting with a combination of nutrients that will prevent the disease bacteria (liberobacter) from establishing in the plant.*
*References: Healthy Citrus article in Acres, USA by Ron Whitehurst, May 2015
ph: 805-646-4294 www.transition-to-organics.org
Link to September 9, 2019 letter to Ventura County Commissioners from Patty Pagaling, Transition to Organics
VC BOS letter Sept 9 2019 agritoxins
April 29, 2019 Letter to Ed Williams, Ventura County AG Commissioner and State Pesticide Regulators from Adam Vega, Ventura County Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety (VC CAPS).
Ed Williams
Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner Ed.Williams@ventura.org
RE: Request for meeting about UCLA report on Ag Commissioners
Dear Commissioner Williams:
On behalf of the Ventura County Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety (VC CAPS), I want to thank you again for meeting with us on March 7th and request another meeting with you to address the UCLA report on county ag commissioners, "Governance on the Ground", at your earliest convenience.
In "Governance on the Ground," the UCLA researchers found no evidence that county ag commissioners followed the law in evaluating environmental conditions before approving pesticide application permits; namely: a) safer and feasible alternatives and b) other pesticide applications at the same time or nearby which could increase health threats. We know that you were not the Ventura County Ag Commissioner during the period studied (2017), and we also know that the media outlets that quoted you may not have allowed for your entire responses to be heard. We want to understand how you are following the law in the instances addressed by the UCLA research. How do you evaluate alternatives and also how do you track and consider multiple pesticide applications nearby before approving or disapproving pesticide application permits?
In our last meeting, we offered numerous studies and examples of how recent chlorpyrifos use in Ventura County creates a significant risk of human exposure. We hope you have reviewed this information. Your and Mr. Lauritzen's response last month was to provide data indicating chlorpyrifos use in the county has declined in the last two years. While this is certainly good news, these data do not tell us anything about the concentrations of chlorpyrifos applications at specific locations. Overall use does not tell us how much chlorpyrifos was used near any daycares, schools, residences, parks, or any sites near vulnerable populations. We requested the Public Land Survey section data, which contain the pounds applied within each square mile of the county, but it was unclear if you or Mr. Lauritzen could provide that. Would you please provide this data?
Also since that meeting, yet another major study was published in the British Medical Journal finding that any chlorpyrifos applied within 1.24 miles while pregnant increases the odds (1.13 and 1.27 with "intellectual disability") of birthing children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
As the scientific evidence of chlorpyrifos health risks, especially the damage to babies' brains, mounts; as US EPA scientists, the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court, both of California's US Senators, and the State of Hawaii have called for banning chlorpyrifos; and as you appeared open to continued discussions on chlorpyrifos, we must call on you again to make three reasonable policy changes to help better protect our communities from chlorpyrifos harm:
1. Implement a one-mile buffer zone around schools and daycare facilities specific to chlorpyrifos applications. We noted that Imperial County denies ALL restricted pesticide ground applications within 1⁄2-mile of schools and ALL restricted pesticide aerial applications within 1-mile. We understood your response to be that Ventura County doesn't need 1-mile chlorpyrifos buffer zones because interim mitigations have been successful and use is down. Again, we do not have evidence from you that there are no vulnerable populations within a mile (let alone 1.24 miles in the above
mentioned study) of chlorpyrifos applications. Multiple applications of chlorpyrifos in conjunction with other regulated materials near these sensitive sites pose a disproportionate cumulative risk to students and staff alike.
2. Give advanced warning of nearby chlorpyrifos applications to schools and daycare facilities. We understood your response to be that a notification system has to be a system that can be applied statewide and has to go through a bureaucratic process. We believe we have misunderstood, however, as Mr. Lauritzen himself implemented a much more complicated notification program in Monterey County for 5-day advanced notification of fumigant applications near schools. Clearly, notification systems do not have to be statewide. If the "process" you mentioned is a "pilot project" like Mr. Lauritzen's, then we would be in support of a 72-hour advanced notification pilot project to schools and daycares in Ventura County.
3. Require growers to demonstrate they have used less toxic alternative pest management before resorting to chlorpyrifos. Your team suggested that recommending specific pest control measures is outside of your mandated job description. We would like to see a process in which farmers are able to receive objective agroecological recommendations for pest control. Pest management does not require pesticides, and even safer pesticides do not have to be named by brand. Our request is that the growers choose a safer method and show that they have utilized this method before you consider approving a request for chlorpyrifos as an option. That process must be documented, of course, in light of the concerns in the latest UCLA report. We would like documentation of the process for verifying that applicants considered alternative methods to control the pest before resorting to restricted use pesticides. We would like to have a better understanding of valid reasons used for rejecting alternative methods. As a community we feel economic arguments are an insufficient basis for rejection.
If we have misinterpreted your positions above, please let us know. We look forward to your response and to meeting with you soon.Sincerely,
Adam Vega, VC-CAPS Organizer
Ocil Herrejon CAUSE Organizer
Julie D. Martinez Indivisible Conejo
Barbara Leighton Gordon Clint
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Letter from Jack Weber that led to start of Petition to STOP Aerial Spring in Ojai, sign the petition HERE
To Whom it Concerns,
On the morning of February 22, 2019 I awoke to the sound of helicopter/s. Forty-five minutes later I went outside to see what the commotion was about and saw a helicopter crop-dusting the orchards next door. The helicopter was flying fewer than 100 yards from me. I watched the spray drift in the breeze; it was not a still day. I quickly ducked back inside, mortified and nervous. What were they spraying I wondered? What do I need to do? Where is that spray drifting? Is it safe to be outside? And what about my clothes that were drying on the line? What if my nieces had been visiting; is it safe for them to be outside? And what about my belongings that were also outside and uncovered; would they be covered in whatever they were spraying? Who was there to supervise this spraying to ensure the wind was not too swift, to make sure the pilot did his job impeccably, given the potential danger of his pesticide application?
Too many questions and concerns for an innocent bystander, no?
Once the commotion ended, I called the Ventura Ag department the same day where a gentleman named Scott Wilson at extension #7143 handled my call. He told me that spraying from a helicopter is the same as spraying from the ground. I quickly debunked that argument. What was he trying to hide, I wondered, to make such an illogical argument? I asked to know what was being sprayed. He said he would look into it. Next week I received a call from a new hire from the Ag Department, who ended up passing me to her supervisor, Blanca at extension #7144. She confirmed that there was no one from the County supervising the spraying that morning.
Upon receiving the ingredients of what was sprayed, I noticed Actara on the list, a neonicotinoid pesticide. The active ingredient is thiamethoxam, which is banned in the EU due to its toxic and deadly effect on bees.
(https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/european-union-expands-ban-three-neonicotinoid-pesticides)
I understand the psyllid needs to be managed, and can't we find a better way, and at the very least give neighbors ample warning and information prior to crop-dusting? It's a travesty to use this pesticide when bees are in massive decline and climate change is wiping out insects in this 6th mass extinction event. Currently an average 60% of average animal species populations have gone extinct and we are in the midst of an insect apocalypse with up to 40% of insects worldwide threatened with extinction due primarily to industrial farming methods. You can read (about) the studies here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelmarshalleurope/2018/10/30/animal-populations-have-fallen-60-per-cent-and-thats-bad-even-if-they-dont-go-extinct/ – 1613bd4c4cf1
It's unconscionable to conduct spraying like this without notice and with this pesticide. Children are particularly susceptible to pesticides and there are not adequate safeguards to ensure their safety during such sprays, especially when there is some wind, as there was this day, and no third-party supervision. Nobody should be in the position I was in—wondering and nervous—without any information as to what to do and what was okay or not.
The EPA website about Actara states:
"This pesticide is toxic to wildlife and highly toxic to aquatic invertebrates."
"This pesticide is highly toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment on blooming crops/plants or weeds. Do not apply this product or allow it to drift to blooming crops/plants or weeds while bees are foraging in or adjacent to the treatment area."
"Do not apply directly to water, or to areas where surface water is present, or to intertidal areas below the mean high water mark. Drift or runoff from treated areas may be hazardous to aquatic organisms in neighboring areas. Do not contaminate water when cleaning equipment or disposing of equipment wash waters."
Source: (https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000100-01250-20131217.pdf):
Early spring flowers and weeds were currently blooming during the application; this means bees were present. More, the stream runs directly below where this spraying took place. Was this spraying in compliance with the precautions of this pesticide? Additionally, it rained five days after the spraying took place and there is abundant run-off down the road to the creek in this area. Additionally, what safeguard is provided to wild animals and birds that are under the spray jets of the helicopters during spraying? None that I can see.
I read the "Right to Farm Ordinance," which indicates spraying of pesticides is a right in the agricultural area of Ventura County. Yet, a "right to farm" should not include a right to harass and place in jeopardy the wellbeing of unknowing residents. On page one, item 1b, the ordinance states that "agricultural activities frequently become the subject of nuisance complaints due to lack of information about such operations." Calling the unsafe and irresponsible application of pesticides a "nuisance" is a mischaracterization and dishonest. And it's not a "nuisance" because of lack of information; it's a serious concern due to the health effects of these sprayings. The spraying itself is the true nuisance.
The County's premise regarding such "nuisance complaints" is that "Such actions discourage investments in farm improvements . . . and the economic viability of the County's agricultural industry as a whole." What this says is that the County is willing to put the public's health at risk for profit and favor companies that engage in such operations over the public's health and wellbeing. I understand the desire for financial gain, but it's time we start doing so responsibly, not just thinking about ourselves and our billfold.
Additionally, under item 1d it states "An additional purpose of this ordinance is to promote a good-neighbor policy by advising purchasers and users of property adjacent to or near agricultural operations of the inherent potential problems associated with such purchase or residence." Yet, how does this clause ensure that renters and farmhands are advised? I was never advised of this upon moving onto the property. Regardless, this disclosure is not sufficient "good-neighbor" policy.
At the very least "good neighbor policy" should include a mandatory notifying of neighbors within a broad radius of the proposed spray date, the chemicals proposed to be sprayed, and an information guide to protect one's person, family, pets, and especially sensitive individuals—regardless of what the pesticide label says.
More, the County needs to be present to supervise the spraying. I practice medicine and have a strong science background; I've treated pesticide poisoning. I know the dangers of pesticides, especially to those more vulnerable such as children and the elderly and those with asthma and compromised immune systems. Who is protecting such people during sprayings like this? Nobody. We don't live in the Middle Ages or even in a Third World country where ignorant behavior like this was and is commonplace. I charge the county with negligence and demand a revision of the statutes to prohibit such irresponsible activities.
I finished my conversation with Blanca posing a hypothetical. I asked her, "I don't know if you have children (she interjected she did), but how would you feel if you were outside minding your own business early one morning, enjoying the outdoors with your children, and all of a sudden helicopter/s suddenly appear overhead spraying massive amounts of an unknown liquid from nozzles on their wings? Would you be unbothered? Would you be concerned?" She was silent. And then said, "I understand, Mr. Weber."
Thank you for your consideration, and I'd like to hear from you specifically about: 1) your willingness to get the ordinance changed to make notifying neighbors many days in advance mandatory 2) any violations that might have occurred during this spray given my description of events and label warnings 3) if you agree or are knowledgeable about the science that pesticides endanger the vulnerable population I describe above 4) what options we might work together to implement to comprehensively and mandatorily replace a neonic, bee-killing pesticide to control psyllid and other bugs and 5) the other points mentioned in this letter. Thank you.


In 1816 , a school of engineering was established in the citadel and then , another one was established in 1834 in Bolaq but it was closed as soon as it was established .
And again in 1858 , another one was established but again it was closed in 1861 .
Another ones were established and closed until 1905 when the last founded school was moved to its current location .
In 1908 , it had two departments ( Irrigation and Architecture ) then , in 1916 , another 3 departments were opened and they were ( Municipalities - Mechanics - Electricity ) .
After that , it joined Cairo University and in 1926 it became for departments which were ( Civil - Architecture - Mechanics - Electricity ) .
1- Mathematics and Physics Engineering department .
6-Electrical and Communication Engineering department .
7-Power Engineering and Electrical Machines department .
9-Mining, Petroleum & Metallurgy Engineering department .
11-Water and Environmental Engineering department .
In 1978 , the Faculty of urban and regional planning was established and began to accept students in its old building in El-Galaa street in Cairo .
And in 1991 , it had a new building in Cairo University and began to be known as Faculty of urban and regional planning as it was an institute before that .
1-Urban Development Regional department .
4-Environmental Planning and Infrastructure department .
In 1939 , an institute was established to study press and then , it was known as the institute of press and translation and it was established in the faculty of arts in Cairo University .
In 1954 , that institute became a department for press and translation in the faculty of arts and in 1969 , it became again and independent institute for mass communication .
In 1974 , the institute of mass communication became the faculty of mass communication and basically it was established in Cairo University since it was an institute .
2-Radio and Television department .
3-Public Relations and Advertising department .
5-Electronic Journalism program department .
wait for the Cairo University 4 blog .


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El Centro Medical Marijuana Rules, Budget Approved
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Medical marijuana dispensaries will officially be allowed in El Centro.
The City Council approved an ordinance to allow up to two dispensaries to operate within the city limits after more than a year of discussion.
The dispensaries will be allowed on two portions of Imperial Avenue - from Ocotillo Drive to Ross Avenue, and from Pico Avenue to the northern city limits - and two portions of South Fourth Street - from Interstate 8 to Ross Avenue, and from Heil to Olive avenues.
Two questions remained for the council from last month's discussion having to do with dealing with edible medical marijuana products and mobile dispensaries.
Food with medical marijuana can be sold in dispensaries, but there can't be a kitchen on site, said Planning Director Norma Villacana. There were issues from the county Public Health Department perspective because groups like the Federal Drug Administration don't recognize marijuana as food additives.
Mobile dispensaries will also be allowed, but only under specific instances, she said. Mobile dispensaries are required to be lawful medical cannabis dispensary in another jurisdiction and have an El Centro business license. If a mobile dispensary wants to be in El Centro it would have to be one of the two dispensaries allowed in the city.
The ordinance to allow dispensaries was approved with a 5-0 vote.
$105.7 million budget approved
Through major losses in revenue and pending cuts at the state level, the city of El Centro has a balanced $105.7 million budget.
The City Council approved its budget during a meeting Tuesday that lasted almost to midnight.
The balanced budget presented includes no layoffs or furloughs, said Finance Director Leticia Salcido.
The general fund makes up about $23.7 million of the total, she said. Most of that, about 62 percent, is for public safety.
There are both short and long term issues that look like they will have an affect on the budget, she said.
Short term issues include a reduction in revenue, possible affects from state budget cuts and required payments the city is having to make, Salcido said.
Long term challenges to the budget include an anticipated $2.5 million increase in operational cost because of projects currently under construction or planned in the next few years, she said. There are also anticipated increase in retirement costs.
If the economy continues to decline, the city will have to reduce its costs, Salcido said. However the city is already at minimum levels.
The city would have to either reduce services or cut employees, she said.
Though sales tax are expected to go up a little, federal trends are going down, said Councilman Jon Edney. It's a 'perilous situation.'
"I'm very concerned," he said. "We have nothing left open."
There's not one dollar that isn't being put toward something, except reserves, he said. It's going to be a difficult time.
Mayor Pro Tem Sedalia Sanders was more positive about the budget.
"I guess I'm just the eternal optimist, and I think it will get better," she said.
She said she sees a lot of hope in the budget, especially with some of the project coming through like the aquatic center and third fire station.
"I see a lot of hope. I really do," she said. "We're talking about things that will enhance the quality of life for the residents of this community."
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The ninth match of the T10 league will see Sindis square off against Pakhtoons at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium.
Sindhis stormed back valiantly after a 10-wicket pounding in their first game to register their maiden win of the tournament by nine wickets. Veteran spinner Pravin Tambe was at the heart of Sindhis revival as he ran through Kerela Knights' batting unit to claim figures of 5-15. At 6-21, the ignominy of an underwhelming score looked imminent but a swashbuckling 24-ball-59 by Wayne Parnell took them to a competitive 7-103 in 10 overs.
After Tambe's heist, it was the turn of Shane Watson (50) and Anton Devcich to take their side through. They did it with aplomb as an 80-run opening stand helped them chase down 104 in a mere 7.4 overs.
They'll now face Pakhtoons, who too are coming off a 9-wicket win against Rajputs after a 27-ball-68 from Andre Fletcher helped them chase down 122 in 9.4 overs. With a win apiece both sides will look to garner the winning momentum as we move on to the business end of the tournament.
Read on for SIN vs PKT team news and SIN vs PKT dream11 prediction.
Colin Munro is still unavailable as he is currently featuring in the Ford Trophy.
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Wicket-keeper – Shafiqullah Shafiq scored 18-ball-29 in the last game. Since he bats in the top-order, he's an ideal pick for your Dream11 team.
Batsmen – Shane Watson (50), Anton Devcich (49) and Andre Fletcher (68) were in swashbuckling form in the last game. You can also opt for Dawid Malan or Cameron Delport in your batting u.
All-rounder – Ben Cutting and Shahid Afridi are ideal picks for the all-rounder spot as they can turn the match around with either of their skills. Cutting is coming off a really good form in T20 leagues around the world.
Bowlers – Sohail Khan (1-20) and Pravin Tambe (5-15) were the pick of the bowlers in the last game. It is a T10 competition, select more batsmen than bowlers.
Disclaimer- Management can take any decision at the last moment. The SIN vs PKT dream11 match predictions we are providing here is based on our research and analysis. We urge you to pick your SIN vs PKT playing 11 and make your own SIN vs PKT Dream11 team if you feel so. Also, hit the bell icon to never miss an important update from us.


The purpose of this paper is to identify faculty perspectives on the integration of work-related issues in engineering education. A mixed methods approach was used to explore faculty attitudes towards work-related learning, to describe activities related to working life that have been introduced into the curriculum and to identify factors that faculty see as important if the amount of work-related learning is to increase. The results show that faculty members are positive about integrating work-related issues into the curriculum. Programmes with more extensive connections to industry offer more integrated activities, such as projects with external actors, and use professional contacts established through research in their teaching. In order to increase work-related learning in engineering curricula, faculty request clear goals and pedagogical tools. Other options to increase work-related learning include offering faculty the opportunity to work outside academia.


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Simultaneous Prediction of Ethylene Content and Melt Temperature in Melt-state Polypropylene by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
Masahiro WATARI
Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Research Center for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Sanda 669-1337, Japan
This paper reports on a simultaneous prediction method for ethylene (C2) content and the melt temperature in melt state random polypropylene (RPP) and block polypropylene (BPP) by near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometrics. The NIR spectra of RPP and BPP in melt states were measured by a FT-NIR on-line monitoring system. The predicted values of the C2 content from the RPP or BPP spectra measured at 190 and 250°C were investigated using a calibration model for the C2 content developed by using each RPP or BPP spectra set measured at 230°C. The errors in the predicted values of the C2 content depended on the pretreatment methods for each calibration model. It was found that a multiplicative signal correction (MSC) is very effective to compensate for the influence of the change of the RPP or BPP sample temperature on the predicted C2 content. By using modified MSC, it was demonstrated that simultaneous predictions of the C2 contents and the relative temperature of the melt RPP and BPP from the NIR spectra could be realized.


Opening an umbrella inside a house is commonly seen as a cardinal sin among the superstitious. If you are one and don't trust yourself not to make the mistake, or even if you just know someone who may be ignorantly be bringing misfortune upon themselves and others, you need to buy an Outside Only Umbrella.
It works using the magical technology of radar. A radio-wave emitter/receiver in the tip will try and detect if there are any solid objects (i.e. a ceiling) in the area directly above the user. If so, then the umbrella will refuse to open until it is taken out into the elements. However, once the umbrella is open, it will not close automatically, as bad luck appears to result only from the act of opening; the inside possession of an outside-opened umbrella seems to be karmically-kosher.
Obviously, the technology involved in this product requires that it be slightly more expensive than a garden variety umbrella, but this expense will surely be more than repaid in good fortune and peace of mind.
This has been a Superstitioncorp presentation. Superstitioncorp accept no liability for misfortune resulting from batteries running out.
You could interlock it such that when the batteries ran out, it would refuse to open.
I'd imagine that your umbrella refusing to open entirely would be bad luck in itself.
I'm not superstitious and never will be, touch wood.


This fun deck helps stimulate language development, improve vocabulary and basic reasoning skills. Kids of all ages love to play card games! Each deck consists of 28 match-up pairs of questions/answers (56 total), all 2 ½" x 3 ½", and stored in a sturdy tin.
Pattern Block Picture Cards are a perfect way to bring hands-on learning in the classroom. Pattern block cards are a colorful way to create familiar shapes while also building critical thinking skills and developing visual discrimination. This set includes 12 full-color cards measuring 8.5″ x 11″ each. Cards are large enough for young learners to place their pattern blocks right on top of the cards.
Create a maze of pipelines with this open ended construction set that includes 40 pieces with 4 different types of interlocking tubes.
Bring Quercetti building fun to the bathtub. Children delight in experimenting with which path the water will take.
Contents include 16 L Shapes, 4 T shapes, 4 Cross shape tubes and 16 straight tubes.
This brightly colored 22 piece wooden block set consists of six stackable disks. Included are a set of 48 picture cards which depict diagrams of different objects that can be constructed with the blocks. Children can practice sequential thinking & problem solving skills with the picture cards. Promotes creativity too!
Made of durable plastic, this clock helps children with their time telling skills.
Bring new life to pattern blocks with our exclusive designs!


The Jazz are the team just keep on giving.
They're terrible, but somehow I've figured out a way to write about them three times over the past week.
Earlier this week in New Orleans, Gordon Hayward had a terrible game. He's usually pretty good, but that night, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. It wasn't for lack of effort though. He shot 17 times. Only one of them went in. Hayward was 1 for 17 in 39 minutes and ended up with 6 points (four came from free throws). He did have 6 rebounds and 11 assists, but still, 1 for 17 is pretty bad.
Everyone has bad games and it's bound to happen over the course of a season.
The next day, former Jazz center and 3-point guru Mehmet Okur reached out to Hayward and offered him some encouragement. It was an amazing gesture and one that I'm sure Hayward appreciated.
Okur just picked the absolute worst Tweet to respond to. The wording he used didn't help a single bit, either.
The Jazz play in Dallas tonight. Yesterday, on their day off, Corbin took the team to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.


Simply dapper the Zenetti ZJK022 jacket has been designed with unmistakable modern elegance. This contemporary tuxedo has been impeccably designed to create the perfect silhouette. Crafted from Superfine Australian Merino wool the ZJK022 tailored fit tuxedo jacket will make you look effortlessly handsome. Featuring a one button closure, satin notch lapel, split 4 button sleeve and single centre vent. Designed as a three-piece dinner suit the ZJK022 is perfect for any black tie or formal event. Jacket only. Trouser and vest sold separately.


LEGO has been slowly releasing official images of the 2019 sets and here is their lineup of the Jan release of LEGO City Fire Rescue themed sets.
On top of the previously highlighted Vehicles and Sky Police, this would be the 3rd sub theme of LEGO City in this first wave.
Several new play interesting play features are shown like the light and sound brick and also the water pump which would be interesting to test out as it seems that a jetstream is simulated with a retractable hard plastic which is extended when one presses the black pump.


Hello and welcome to Year 2 CB Class Page. This page is aimed at sharing all the necessary information with parents.
Our class teachers is Mrs Bingham but we also have Mrs Crockett who teaches us on a Thursday afternoon and all day Friday. In addition our teaching assistant is Mrs Hill.
Reading is crucial in everything that children do. We aim to nurture a love of reading and encourage children to read a wide range of texts. We monitor children's reading at home through the Home School Diaries and each week we award one child as reader of the week. It is a whole school expectation that children read five times per week. In our classroom we reward this with raffle tickets. Raffle tickets are then drawn for a dip in the 'Prize Box'. We teach reading through guided reading sessions in school each day where we spend time reading and analysing texts within a small group situation.
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in Year 2 is to ensure that children become increasingly fluent with whole numbers, fractions and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This should ensure that children develop efficient written and mental methods and perform calculations accurately. Children should also develop their ability to solve a range of problems and develop mathematical reasoning. By the end of year 2, pupils should be fluent with the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables and be able to use these in a variety of situations.
Our PE day is a Tuesday and we also do Forest School on a Friday.
The red homework books will be sent home each week with a piece of English homework relating to work covered in lessons. In addition to this, Maths homeowkr will be a page from the CGP Maths book. The children will also need to learn the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables by heart to use in their Maths work this year. Reading remains a priority and we expect the children to read at least 5 times a week with an adult. It is really important that with all homework the children are encouraged to complete it independently but then supported when necessary.


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Constitutional review
The Chancellor of Justice verifies that laws, regulations and other legislations of general application are in conformity with the Constitution and other laws.
Protection of fundamental rights
The Chancellor of Justice ensures that authorities and officials performing public duties would not violate people's constitutional rights and freedoms, laws and other legislations of general application, and the practice of good administration.
Protection of the rights of children and youth
The Chancellor of Justice performs the functions of the Ombudsman for Children. The Ombudsman for Children protects the rights of children and youngsters when they interact with executors of state power.
The Chancellor of Justice ensures that all disabled persons are able to exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms on equal grounds with other persons.
Prevention of ill-treatment
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. As the National Preventive Mechanism in Estonia, the Chancellor of Justice regularly carries out inspection visits of the places of detention.
NHRI
The Chancellor of Justice is the national human rights institution (NHRI) in Estonia.
Submission of an opinion to the Supreme Court in constitutional review proceedings, initiating a disciplinary proceeding against a judge, solving discrimination disputes, etc.
Selection of opinions
English overview of the Chancellor of Justice activities in 2018/2019 now available
The Chancellor of Justice is an independent constitutional institution appointed to office by the Riigikogu (parliament) on the proposal of the President of the Republic for a term of seven years. The Chancellor's task is to make sure that legislation valid in Estonia is in conformity with the Constitution and that the fundamental rights and liberties of people in Estonia are protected. The Chancellor also fulfils the role of national preventive mechanism for ill-treatment, ombudsman for children, NHRI and monitoring authority for the CRPD. The latter two tasks were added this year.
Once a year, the Chancellor presents an annual report of his or her activities to the Riigikogu. The Annual Report 2018/2019 covers the period from 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2019. It gives an overview of the activities of the Chancellor of Justice in the areas such as the rule of law, the rights of the child, the rights of persons with disabilities, prevention of ill-treatment, protection and promotion of human rights, protection of privacy, and many others.
You can keep yourself informed of the daily work of the Chancellor's Office through the Chancellor of Justice website. The Chancellor also posts summaries on Facebook of selected debates she personally considers important and interesting.
English overview of the Chancellor of Justice activities in 2018/2019 now available 29.11.2019
Chancellor of Justice Calls on Parliament to Uphold Rights of Members of Local Councils 22.05.2019
Chancellor of Justice's Advisory Committee on Human Rights to Convene Today 26.03.2019
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New York Times - 19 Oct 96
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Nuclear Power Protest Leads to Riot in Taiwan
Published: Saturday, October 19, 1996
Hundreds of protesters battled with riot policemen outside Parliament today after legislators voted to restore money for a stalled nuclear project.
The opponents of nuclear power pelted the Parliament with gasoline bombs, fireworks and rocks and breached razor-wire barricades that closed off surrounding avenues.
As small fires burned outside Parliament, 4,000 helmeted riot police officers used water cannons to knock back the angry crowd, then slowly cleared the area. There were an unknown number of arrests by the time order was restored.
The rioting was the worst in Taiwan since it began its transition to a democracy in 1987, lifting martial law after four decades of authoritarian rule. Violence also erupted inside Parliament, where opposition lawmakers sought forcibly to prevent a vote they knew they would lose.


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The Shift Network Announce Winter Solstice Fest
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The Shift Network have announced the Winter Solstice Fest, a free and intimate livestream event, set to run from December 18th-20th, 2020. The three-day festival will bring an international line up of musicians, ritualists, artists, visionary speakers, indigenous elders, and more together with a focus on renewal. The festival features appearances by Shpongle, John Butler, Taimane, Michael Franti, and many more. Registration is open at WinterSolsticeFest.com.
KBCO Announces Studio C Volume 32
Marcus King
KBCO Studio C will release 18 new songs exclusively performed live on 97.3 KBCO starting at 6am, December 5th at nine select Colorado Whole Foods Market Front Range locations. The last KBCO Studio C session was on March 5th, 2020 because COVID-19 put an end to touring and bands visiting KBCO Studio C.
The Shift Summit & Music Festival - Featuring Michael Franti, Rising Appalachia, Nattali Rize, and more
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Shift Summit & Music Festival
The Shift Network has announced The Shift Summit & Music Festival, set to begin on September 18th and lead up to the International Day of Peace, September 21st, 2020. The 4-day event combines top-tier musicians and renowned thought leaders throughout society, focused on building a better future, including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Jane Goodall, Rep.
Michael Franti & 1st National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Honored @ 11th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala
GLIDE and the GLIDE Legacy Committee join GLIDE President and CEO Karen Hanrahan in welcoming all to the first-ever virtual edition of the GLIDE Legacy Gala and in announcing the winners of this year's GLIDE Legacy Awards.
Breck Brewery Sponsors Colorado Music Through Virtual Concert
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On Saturday, May 30, 2020, at 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM MT, The Colorado Music Relief Fund (CMRF) will launch with a virtual event, presented by Breckenridge Brewery, 'Banding Together: A Concert for the Colorado Music Relief Fund,' to generate much-needed relief funds to help all those in the Colorado music industry affected by COVID-19. People across the world can tune into the three-hour event to watch performances and storytelling by musicians, crew members, industry members, and Colorado personalities.
Collaborative Charitable Online 2-Day Festival Featuring John Butler & More
One Earth Live has announced an international lineup of high-end musicians, artists, and speakers unifying to promote a positive outlook in a world currently facing so many challenges. One Earth Live will take place online via streaming partner PORTL on May 23rd and 24th, 2020.
The Caverns announces Michael Franti, June 26
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You Can Only Invent Fire Once
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is on TNT. Though I've watched pieces of it when I've crossed its path on cable, I don't think that I've watched it from the beginning since I saw it in the theater in May 1997.
It's better than I remembered.
That initial viewing left me underwhelmed. I was with the daughter of a man who had toured as a member of Elvis' band.
(that brief liaison was less memorable than the movie)
Four years earlier, I had spoken to a friend who had seen the just-released Jurassic Park the night before.
"You spend half the movie telling yourself that the dinosaurs aren't real."
When I saw it that night, there was an audible reaction when the first dinosaur appeared – a hushed, collective "whoa" that sounded like the incoming surf at a beach.
No one had ever seen such realistic pre-historic creatures.
When the dinosaurs first appeared in the sequel, I recall a mixture of applause and cheers, but there was no wow.
We'd already been wowed and moved on.
The human that discovered fire was undoubtedly hailed as a genius, made the rounds on the major talk shows, and got the best tables in restaurants.
And then, the public waited for the next amazing trick. Maybe that turned out to be toast.
Its not difficult to imagine the carping that might have ensued. Critics might have declared that toast was "no fire" and that it was "obvious and rushed" and "a creative dead end for the inventor that warmed us and enriched the clan with his/her/its debut offering.
(I would argue the invention of toasting bread as one of the highlights of our species as who among us doesn't love a good sandwich and toasted bread, bagel, or croissant makes for a fine foundation)
Here are four songs from acts that went from unknown to everywhere all at once. Though some of them continued to have success, none of them were quite able to recapture the shock and awe (and sales) of their debut albums…
The Go-Go's – Our Lips Are Sealed
from Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's built the perfect beast with their first hit single and the one-time punk band's New Wave-tinged pop was both old and new (and complete irresistible). Our Lips Are Sealed brightened the chill of autumn in 1981 and, as I was just discovering an interest in music, The Go-Go's was one of the first bands that I was there for their breakthrough.
By summer of the next year, The Go-Go's had notched another mammoth hit, We Got The Beat – which played over the opening credits of the '80s classic Fast Times At Ridgemont High – and memorably appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in their underwear (which Jane Wiedlin and I discussed when I had the opportunity to interview her twenty years later).
Sure, the all-female band would release a couple more albums (which had their moments), but, in 1982, The Go-Go's were an unstoppable juggernaut and as popular as any band on the planet.
Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now?
from Business As Usual
As The Go-Go's run was beginning to lose steam toward the end of the summer in 1982, the world was just discovering Australia's quirky Men At Work. I first heard Who Can It Be Now? when it debuted on American Top 40 as I listened one Saturday morning.
The first time I heard it played on a station was Cincinnati's Q102 that afternoon.
By the following week, the song was everywhere and so was Men At Work. Business As Usual was selling millions of copies, the videos for Who Can It Be Now? and Down Under were familiar even to those of us without MTV, and everyone fell in love with Australia.
Cargo would be a worthy follow-up album. It might have even been stronger as a whole than the debut, but only the brilliant Overkill was as perfect or as successful as those first hits.
Tracy Chapman – Baby Can I Hold You
from Tracy Chapman
One of my housemates in college was a Dylan junkie. I came home one day and he was all but foaming at the mouth over some female singer – I think he'd seen her on MTV .
I was used to his manic behavior. I had once watched as he almost accidentally impaled himself on a sword in front of a living room full of people during the NBA Finals in '88.
But he was right on Tracy Chapman. Soon there were droves of people coming into the record store where I worked asking for her debut. Then she played on Saturday Night Live and she went stratospheric.
Terence Trent D'Arby – Let's Go Forward
from Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
Christmas '87 was the first Christmas in retail I ever experienced. And one of the albums we couldn't keep in stock was Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby. It was a stunning debut for the soulful singer and the album was strong beyond its four or five hits.
I thought that Terence Trent D'Arby was one incredibly talented guy and an interesting character. I haven't heard his post-'95 stuff aside from a handful of tracks, but I've owned his five major-label releases and dug them all. Even when his music sometimes took questionable tangents, there was always that amazing voice.
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Fuzzy Memories Of A Record Store From The Past
Thinking of record stores not long ago, I realized that I didn't have a chance to frequent indie record stores until college (at that point, there were a half dozen within a few blocks of each other).
Though my friends and I spent a good deal of time trekking to Cincinnati in high school, we usually stuck to the malls. The malls had everything we didn't have in our hometown – record stores, book stores, arcades, food courts, escalators – in one place.
And a lot of girls.
(there were, obviously, girls in our town, but we had known most of them since first grade – mall girls were exotic and mysterious)
Somehow, though, there was one record store that I have hazy memories of being an occasional stop for us. It was a funky, little store, deeper than it was wide, tucked away in a strip mall setting.
I couldn't come up with the name.
A bit of research leads me to believe it was called Globe Records and that name does sound right. There's not much info on the store, though – there is a mention of incense which I remember this store selling.
It was a low-key place, lots of simple wood bins and racks. I seem to remember an open upstairs level which must have served as a good perch to monitor potential shoplifters.
There were large posters on the walls, haphazradly arrayed. I think the store's backroom (and the stairs leading to the loft) might have been separated from the floor by a curtain of beads.
I can almost picture the place.
(I couldn't have shopped there more than a dozen times and it was twenty-five years ago)
It had to have been one of the more bohemian places my friends and I had been at that time in our lives.
It would have been the spring of '84 when my friend and I would have been hitting Globe Records as we finally had our drivers licenses. It was a time of great change in my musical interests as I had discovered alternative rock and we finally had MTV available to us.
Here are four songs from that spring that I remember hearing quite a bit…
Tracey Ullman – They Don't Know
from You Broke My Heart In 17 Places
That Tracey Ullman is quite a talent and They Don't Know was our introduction to her, especially as the video seemed to air each and every time I had the chance to vegitate in front of MTV.
Fortunately the song was an utter and complete earworm and, though I had little frame of reference at the time, it totally capture the girl group vibe of the '60s. It also was written and recorded by the late, great Kirsty MacColl, but I wouldn't become familiar with Kirsty until the following year when I heard her version of Billy Bragg's A New England on Rock Over London.
The Fixx – Deeper And Deeper
from Greatest Hits – One Thing Leads To Another
The Fixx had become fixtures on radio the year before with Reach The Beach and that album's subsequent hits Saved By Zero, One Thing Leads To Another, and The Sign Of Fire.
Personally, I always seemed to like the idea of The Fixx more than most of their music. I dug earlier stuff like Red Skies and Stand Or Fall, but most of their output was hit or miss for me (and One Thing Leads To Another grated on my nerves).
Deeper And Deeper was a keeper, though, revealing a bit more muscle in the band's sound. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the rock fable Streets Of Fire, a movie which I managed to miss that summer.
Human League – The Lebanon
from Hysteria
In the spring of 1984, my buddy Streuss was eagerly awaiting the long-delayed release of Human League's Hysteria. It had been two years since they had burst onto the musical landscape in the States with Don't You Want Me and there had been no follow-up to its parent album Dare.
In the interim, Streuss had amassed everything he could acquire by the band – much of it as imports for us – including the dub remix collection from Dare credited to The League Unlimited Orchestra.
Of course, The Lebanon was a surprise when it arrived as the first single from Hysteria that spring – the synth-pop band who had an edict declaring "no guitars" had issued a song that was built heavily around guitars.
We didn't care. We loved it and, though it might be a bit half-baked lyrical, I still do.
Nik Kershaw – Wouldn't It Be Good
from Human Racing
Wouldn't It Be Good wasn't a very big hit in the States and I don't recall seeing the video for the song. I think it was actually my friend Beej that turned us onto the song after he saw the video on the USA Network's Night Flights.
The discontented vibe of the song – kind of a New Wave take on "nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms" – tapped into our burgeoning teen angst. A couple years later, the song would reappear on the soundtrack for Pretty In Pink, but in a version by Danny Hutton, one of the vocalists for Three Dog Night.
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A Fistful Of Quarters From A Grown Man In His Underwear
The end of the school year is within the distance of one well-spat loogie for the age appropriate. As a kid, it was the annual re-opening of the campground down the road that was a tangible sign that summer break was close.
Before we were old enough to drive, the campground also served as somewhere to waste the little money we had on things like miniature golf and video games.
At that time, our town was still a couple of years away from having an actual arcade and Atari game consoles were not yet in all our homes. The campground game room was one of the few places to play video games.
Of course, there were three, maybe four games and they were always well behind the times with the selection – Space Invaders when Pac-Man was the rage, Galaga instead of Defender.
Asteroids was a hip as it got.
The couple that ran the campground was on the staff of our high school.
He was a burly fellow, taught shop, and was known to all as Bandsaw Bob.
She was on the bony side, was the school nurse, and seemed to be going for some Jackie Kennedy vibe.
I don't believe that I ever saw him without a tooth pick lodged in his teeth.
I couldn't say the same for her.
The game room was downstairs from the gift shop/concierge desk/campground office which was usually our first stop to exchange a few dollars for quarters.
Several friends and I entered one afternoon and found the gift shop vacant. We stood at the counter, growing impatient to blast space bugs and such.
A door behind the counter of the gift shop led to the proprietor's home and, as our conversation grew louder, we heard stirring from the adjacent dwelling (which was our objective).
Through the door lumbered Bob, muttering about "nobody minding the store" and "been out digging up a stump."
There he stood, his large, round face flushed and beads of sweat trickling from his forehead met his flat top.
He was wearing nothing but his underwear.
And he had his tooth pick.
"You kids need quarters?" he asked jovially. He was a jovial fellow.
Before we could offer an affirmative, wife Jackie burst through the doorway. "Bob," she barked. "Go take a shower and get cleaned up for dinner."
He shrugged. "You all have seen a man in his underwear before."
We'd seen pictures of Ted Nugent in a loin cloth in music magazines. And now, we had seen our high school's shop teacher in his underwear.
Of course, in retrospect, I realize that, had this event – which became an oft-recounted part of me and my friends childhood lore – taken place in 2010 instead of 1980, Bob might have found himself in trouble, but there was nothing dodgy.
When you grow up in a small town, everyone knows everyone else fairly well, certainly well enough to know that sometimes a man in his underwear is just a man in his underwear.
Here are four songs that might have provided some clothing suggestions…
Sparks – Angst In My Pants
from Valley Girl soundtrack
Though they never got radio airplay where I lived, I had seen Sparks duet with The Go-Go's Jane Weidlin on Cool Places in '82 on Solid Gold. And, my friend Streuss owned several of their cassettes like In Space, Whomp That Sucker, and Angst In My Pants.
Quirky and amusing, Sparks often had an uncanny knack for getting to the heart of life's truths amidst all of the melodic musical insanity.
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
from The Red Shoes
I fell hard for Kate Bush when I discovered her music. It was, like many listeners here in the States, with The Hounds Of Love. I'd read about her and was intrigued, but hadn't really had the opportunity to check out her prior albums.
Of course, subsequent albums were slow to arrive but worth the wait.
Haircut 100 – Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (extended version)
I didn't like Haircut 100 back in the day. Of course, they weren't around very long and I never heard their lone hit, Love Plus One, on the radio much.
It was years later – when the song kept popping up on '80s compilations – that I grew fond of Love Plus One. I finally snagged a copy of Pelican West on vinyl a year or so ago and it was underwhelming.
Favourite Shirts is more manic than Love Plus One and manic Haircut 100 doesn't have the same charm to me (but I didn't have a lot of "shirt" songs).
Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
from Blonde On Blonde
I hadn't heard Bob Dylan in 1980. I wouldn't begin a relationship with Dylan for a few more years.
Sartorially speaking, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat would have been a fitting suggestion for Bandsaw's wife. She did have the Jackie Kennedy thing about her.
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