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Fewer than one-third of Americans are currently at a healthy weight, with the rest of the population either overweight or obese, a new report finds.
About 35% of men and 37% of women are obese. Another 40% of men and 30% of women are overweight, researchers said in the June 22 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
"Obesity is not getting better. It's getting worse, and it's really scary. It's not looking pretty," said Lin Yang, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Obesity has been linked to a number of chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, and arthritis, Yang said.
"This generation of Americans is the first that will have a shorter life expectancy than the previous generation, and obesity is one of the biggest contributors to this shortened life expectancy because it is driving a lot of chronic health conditions," she said.
The new report used data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey gathered between 2007 and 2012, involving more than 15,000 men and women age 25 and older.
Based on the data, researchers estimate than more than 36 million men and nearly 29 million women in the United States are currently overweight. About 32 million men and 36 million women are obese, the researchers found.
Overweight is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 29.9, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BMI is calculated by comparing a person's weight to their height.
Obesity is defined by the CDC as any body mass index 30 or higher. A 5'9" man who weighs 203 pounds or more is considered obese, as is a 5'4" women who weighs 175 pounds or more.
American's weight problem is an issue that will not be resolved through a purely medical solution, Yang and Antman said. Politicians and officials at the federal, state and local levels will need to weigh in with policies that increase the number of calories people burn and decrease the amount of unhealthy foods they ingest.
Policymakers also need to find ways to improve the availability of inexpensive, healthy food, Antman said. Right now, processed food and fast food that is high in unhealthy sugar, salt and fat tends to be more affordable and available in America's communities than healthier options.
"Fast foods are less expensive, so that individuals trying to feed a large family might tend to purchase them rather than fresh foods, which are harder to find and more expensive, and therefore less economically appealing," he said.
I seldom see researchers take such a strong political stand on vital health care issues and I applaud their efforts. We are each individually responsible for our own health. However, we are all responsible as a nation to support policy that improves general health rather than just drive up the cost of health care. It never ceases to amaze me that a politician cannot or will not see the health care cost savings of converting an abandoned railroad track to a bicycle trail.
Take responsibility for your general health and push your elected officials to support policies that will improve the health of our nation.


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In a large scale investigation Orb Media has revealed that more than 90% of the name brand bottled water samples they tested contained a significant amount of microplastics. An average amount of 10 plastic particles per liter were found in the 250 water bottles purchased from 9 different countries. For this measurement, each particle counted measures larger than 100 microns, or the width of a human hair.
Plastic waste is a top environmental concern around the world, but many citizens don't realize the extent to which plastic waste has filtered into our environment on a microscopic scale. According to the report released recently, plastics have become concentrated in oceans, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and even within organisms as small as plankton.
There is no verified scientific evidence that consuming small amounts of microplastics can cause health problems, but concerned citizens may not want to wait to find out before getting plastics removed from their drinking water.
Bottled water is extremely helpful to citizens in parts of the world where clean drinking water is not readily accessible, but in countries where tap water is a viable option consuming water full of plastic while also using a plastic bottle seems like a poor choice.
While only some of the brands tested admitted to the BBC that their bottled water is known to contain a certain amount of microplastics, they also defended the findings by stating that there are no current regulations in place to limit the amount of microplastics in bottled water.
In order to accurately account for the plastics within the bottled water samples scientists added a dye called Red Nile to the water. In previous studies the dye has been proven to stick to plastic particles and cause the particles to fluoresce when viewed under certain light wavelengths. Red Nile dye is already used to detect plastic waste in seawater.
In addition to the average 10 plastic particles per liter measuring larger than 100 microns, the team of scientists found an average of 314 particles assumed to be plastic that measured smaller than 100 microns in width. The composition of these particles could not be confirmed due to their size, but Professor Mason noted that they are "rationally expected to be plastic," as other options like shells or algae would not likely be present in bottled water.
The most common type of plastic found within bottled water was polypropylene, which is a plastic used in the manufacture of bottle caps. 54% of the microplastics found in the study were polypropylene particles.
Instead of drinking bottled water and exposing yourself to the possibility of plastic contamination switch to drinking fresher, filtered tap water at home. You can use a refillable sports bottle on the go to reduce plastic waste. In addition, if you're concerned about microplastics in your drinking water you can install a sediment filter to reduce particles down to 5 micron in size. Rest easier trusting Pelican Water to provide your family cleaner and safer water.


The South Korean government is eyeing more anti-speculation zones in Seoul in efforts to quell overheating flat prices, the Korea Times reported.
The government will designate such zones in addition to existing ones in the districts of Gangnam-gu, Songpa-gu, Mapo-gu, Yongsan-gu, Seongdong-gu, Yeongdeungpo-gu and Nowon-gu, according to a meeting last week led by economy and finance minister Kim Dong-yeon.
Buyers of multiple properties in the districts are subject to tougher regulations. Analysts believe Jongno-gu, Jung-gu, Dongdaemun-gu and Dongjak-gu will be set apart as anti-speculation zones in view of fast-growing price gains in the districts.
"If the housing market shows signs of overheating or the rise expands to other regions, we will come up with additional measures quickly," a land ministry official was quoted as saying.
More: Is Songdo a trailblazer or cautionary tale?
The government will also consider plans for starter homes catering to newlywed couples and young buyers, the official added.
Analysts recorded hot price rises following Mayor Park Won-soon's announcement of development plans for Yeouido and Yongsan and light rail train projects for Yangcheon-gu and Jungnang-gu.
"These are long-term plans that will take at least 10 to 20 years for completion, but it was promoted as if they will be completed within the mayor's term," said Kwon Dae-jung, a professor at Myongji University.
In the Mokdong area of Yangcheon-gu, a 95-square-metre flat recently sold for KRW1.57 billion (USD1.4 million), up from a value of only KRW1.2 billion earlier this year.


A calendar's days are numbered. (Get it?) We're halfway through August already, and I bet time passes more slowly when one is serving time in prison for mortgage fraud in Seattle and Hawaii.
"Want a Cheaper Mortgage? Go to a Smaller Bank." I am not saying whether headlines like this are true or false, but these are what the general public tends to see.
"There are two sides to a balance sheet, left and right. On the right side there is nothing left, and on the left side there is nothing right." On Friday Palos Bank and Trust Company, Illinois, was closed and First Midwest Bank, Illinois, assumed, with the help of the FDIC, all of its deposits.
The e-mails regarding buybacks continued to come in Friday and here are some.
A principal at Walzak Risk Analysis wrote, "We need to understand what mistakes and or flaws actually contribute to default and for how long that impact lasts (the 11 year old loan for example). If small to mid-sized lenders are not having problems, it is probably because they sold their loans to the big lenders and the big lenders haven't forced them back or they were smart enough to include language in their contracts about what could or could not be forced back to them. For example, I have seen contracts that say after the first year of performance, the only reason they will be required to repurchase is if the loan contained fraud that is proven to be initiated by the original lender. Whoever the attorney was that wrote those contracts was one smart puppy."
"Freddie and Fannie say that lenders were still responsible for checking the information provided by the borrower or broker. Lenders should be reviewing the customer's position, industry, and years on the job to determine if the stated income appeared plausible and accurate,"
Lenders, as I mentioned on Friday, believe that they should not be buying loans back that were originated according to the guidelines in place at the time, especially for stated income loans. And instead of suing the lender, Fannie and Freddie and other large investors have brought in auditors to pore over loan files finding other errors that can justify a repurchase request.
"I have seen few cases in the last few years actually result in buy backs or indemnifications. Companies are receiving huge numbers of buyback requests, but only a few result in an actual buy back or indemnification that results in a loss for the lender - but there is a lot of time and effort being spent to resolve these matters."
"On the repurchase front, we recently received a repurchase from the investor for the loan being a 5/1 ARM with 5/2/5 caps, and the investor sold it into a Fannie pool with 2% initial caps. We also received one from another investor that was for the first mortgage of an 80/20 combo with the only reason being that BofA sold the loan into a pool that did not allow subordinate financing. Both were easy rebuttals, but the fact that we have to spend time on these types of issues is ludicrous."
"This year, we have seen / dealt with many buyback issues / requests for files that are; a) several years old, and only recently became non-performing (hence, the request to buy back by the investor), b) fit the guidelines at the time they were underwritten and approved, c) underwritten, and approved by the investor's underwriter. With that in mind, I have a hard time believing we are alone in that respect."
And for a little venting: "If anyone wonders how they can 'trust the guidelines were using now', just use the guidelines that will be sent out 5 or 10 years from now. As long as you are following them you will be fine. And please let everyone else know what they will be. If they really want to be safe and compliant, they should do a thorough background check of the appraiser, underwriter, escrow attorney, sellers, buyers, listing agent, LO, previous owners, builders, neighbors, and immediate family members of all parties involved in the transaction or might be involved in the transaction. Income should be documented with 12 months of original paystubs along with complete federal taxes and W-2's for the last 5 years need to be in the file. 4506, 4506T, and 8821 all need to be executed. They should be initially executed by the processor. They should be re-executed by the underwriter so as to confirm authenticity. They need to be executed a 3rd time by a quality control officer as a fraud guard safety prevention. Etc."
"Help with MI rescission issues may be here. Of particular interest, following on the heels of the widely discussed lawsuit that Bank of America had filed against MGIC, is the fact that the attorneys at the American Mortgage Law Group appear to have their sights set on pursuing those mortgage insurance companies whose rescission practices the attorneys believe to have been both wrongful and the direct cause of many repurchase disputes that are facing its clientele and the industry as a whole. The AMLG is a national mortgage banking law firm with a long and successful history of assisting correspondents and secondary-market investors with their many repurchase disputes and recovery from third parties (e.g., borrowers, brokers, appraisers, settlement agents, title companies, surety bonds, builders, etc.). See http://americanmlg.com for more details, or contact Justin Vedder at jvedder@priestongroup.com."
Lenders seem to be seeing the proverbial pig going through the snake. "Turn-around times are increasing, and anyone who qualifies and has equity is trying to refi their loan - and FHA borrowers with little to no equity are doing streamline refi's which do not require an appraisal. In the case of FHA refi's, they will all close at the end of the month because with FHA loans the borrower owes the existing lender one month of interest, which creates even more of a bottleneck near month-end." But the general public seems distrustful of the origination community, this is compounded by a confusing regulatory environment, and at the same time lenders are frustrated with borrowers.
The National Information Center has just released consolidated financial statements for bank holding companies for the 2nd quarter which provides a good early estimate of changes in bank assets and liabilities. The top 50 bank holding companies shed $32 billion of residential MBS's during the 2nd quarter (agency and non-agency). This decline was led by the top four banks by total assets, whose net position in RMBS declined by the same amount. One bank dropped $22 billion of agency/conventional pass-through securities. Non-agency and commercial MBS holdings declined by $2.2 and $2.3 billion, respectively, for the top 50 banks, but GNMA holdings grew $4 billion and holdings of US Treasuries was up by $8 billion. So why did mortgage securities perform ok? Recent data suggests that banks added $40-50bn in MBS in the past month! Banks change their holdings often, and the report indicated that there was no industry-wide shift in the use of Agency MBS's.
Fannie Mae reminded its clients of its "expectation for lenders to have prudent processes and controls in place that support their ability to fully assess the borrower's financial circumstances and ability to successfully repay the loan" and sent out a bulletin that "Specified when a lender is required to re-underwrite a loan after the initial underwriting decision has been made up to and concurrent with loan closing, defined the steps required if the borrower discloses or the lender discovers additional debt(s) and/or reduced income after the initial underwriting decision was made up to and concurrent with loan closing, and simplified and expanded the DU resubmission policy, including increasing from 2 percentage points to 3 percentage points the tolerance for additional borrower debts and/or reduction of income that affect the debt-to-income ratio." HERE is the bulletin from Fannie Mae.
Mortgage prices just keep rolling along (agency MBS's, not non-agency stuff). Not only are all rates dropping, but the spread between Treasury and MBS's is still fairly tight - further helping mortgages. The demand for agency MBS cash flows is strong, but the primary market can't churn out enough supply. Investors know that, on average, current mortgages have sparkling credit quality, and that the risk of investing in them is minimal since both Treasury and mortgage securities are firmly backed by the same entity: the US Government. Whatever spread now exists is based not so much on fear of default, but more fear of early pay-off.
Larry the Lobster and Sam Crab were some fantastic musicians on the disco circuit. They jammed for many years till one night, after a gig and a few beers, they stepped out of a club and were run down and killed by a Mack truck. Larry the Lobster goes to heaven and Sam Crab goes to hell.
One day Larry says to St. Peter, "I sure miss my old buddy Sam. I hear he has his own disco down there - do you think I could go visit him and jam some, just one more time?"
St. Peter says, "I think you can have a one time, one-evening pass to hell to jam with Sam Crab."
Larry is elated and asks St. Peter for an instrument. "All we have in Heaven are harps," he says. Larry the Lobster shrugs and says, "That will just have to do!"
So Larry goes off to hell and has a fantastic time. He and Sam jam all night, just like the old days. When he comes back and sees St. Peter, he thanks him profusely for the pass. But St. Peter just looks at Larry and asks him, "Aren't you forgetting something?"
Larry thinks for a second, then smacks his forehead and says..."I left my harp in Sam Crabs Disco!"


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Bibliographies, also known as guides to research, provide comprehensive lists of books and articles on the instrument, teaching techniques, and more. Repertoire guides tell you all of the music available for the instrument and can include additional details like movement durations, difficulty ratings, pitch range, and whether extended techniques are required.
French Music for Low Brass Instruments by J. Mark Thompson; Jeffrey J. Lemke
Call Number: ML128.B73 T47 1994
Contains annotated listings of French literature for tenor trombone, bass trombone, tuba, and bass saxhorn, as well as repertoire suitable for the modern euphonium. Intended for teachers and students, this book also provides separate listings of pedagogical materials for each of these four instruments.
Twentieth-Century Music for Trumpet and Organ by Philip T. Cansler
Call Number: ML128.T78 C32 1984
The Trombone by G. B. Lane; Tom Everett (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML128.V5 L36 2007
The trombone has frequently been relegated to the status of footnotes and afterthoughts in much of the research on brass instruments. This book is designed to feature the trombone, its history, music, performers, performance practices (including jazz performance), instruments and equipment, and pedagogical topics that are of concern to those who teach the instrument. The book may be used by trombonists and the broader research community who are interested in finding material both common and arcane about the trombone. The information may be perused at three levels: browsing through the broad classifications of each chapter; checking for cross-listings in the annotations; and using the index which is keyed to the author, subject, and keyword line at the end of each annotation. The book also includes four appendixes: the first identifies relevant periodicals and journals; the second lists obituaries of trombonists not included in biographical citations; the third lists presidents of the International Trombone Association; the fourth lists recipients of the ITA Award.
Guide to the Tuba Repertoire by R. Winston Morris (Editor); Daniel Perantoni
Call Number: ML128.T8 T8 2006
Guide to the Tuba Repertoire is the most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken into the literature and discography of any single musical instrument. Under the direction of R. Winston Morris and Daniel Perantoni, this publication represents more than 40 years of research by dozens of leading professionals throughout the world. The guide defines the current status of the tuba and documents its growth since its inception in 1835. Contributors are Ron Davis, Jeffrey Funderburk, David Graves, Skip Gray, Charles A. McAdams, R. Winston Morris, Mark A. Nelson, Timothy J. Northcut, Daniel Perantoni, Philip Sinder, Joseph Skillen, Kenyon Wilson, and Jerry A. Young.
The index of French horn music by Wayne Wilkins
Call Number: ML128.H67 W5
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Thousands of New Mexicans Call for Wildlife Protections in Santa Fe and Carson National Forest Plans• Nov 6
A diverse coalition of New Mexico conservation
organizations, sportsmen and women and public land advocates, today called for stronger protection of critical wildlife habitat, clean water and wildlife migration corridors in the Upper Rio Grande Watershed and delivered more than 23,000 public comments to the U.S. Forest Service calling for improvements to the Carson and Santa Fe National Forests' land
management plans.
"Deadline nears for commenting on forest management plans" Santa Fe New Mexican Editorial – Nov 6, 20019• Nov 6
Time is running out for public comment on plans that will be used to manage our national forests for years to come. In New Mexico, national forests make up millions of acres — that's a chunk of land, important to every resident of our state.
"Opinion: Help protect wildlife for generations to come" Taos News – Oct 17, 2019• Oct 22
Our Upper Río Grande watershed – which stretches from southern Colorado down through Northern New Mexico – is considered one of the best-connected wildlife migration landscapes in the country. In this region, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, bighorn sheep, migratory birds and even fish move across federal, state, tribal and private lands and waters. Such movement is necessary for the survival of many species so they can mate, find food, adapt to changing climates and maintain genetic diversity.
"Wildlife Corridor Protection Key to New Mexico National Forest Plan" Public News Service – Oct 21, 2019• Oct 22
New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande Watershed is home to one of the best-connected wildlife landscapes in the country. But development is fragmenting the landscape and reducing habitat – creating challenges for migrating wildlife.
2019 County Resolutions Supporting Wildlife Corridors• Oct 16
A compilation of the county resolutions passed in the Upper Rio Grande region of Colorado and New Mexico supporting the protection of wildlife corridors.
"Retrofitting busy highways to let wildlife travel safely, too" Washington Post – Oct 11, 2019• Oct 14
Across the country, as development continues to encroach on natural areas, wildlife-vehicle collisions are taking a massive toll. More than 1.9 million animal-collision insurance claims were filed in fiscal 2019, a State Farm report found, with some researchers estimating the annual price tag of the resulting human fatalities, wildlife mortality, injuries, vehicle damage and other costs at almost $10 billion.
"The Rio Grande National Forest Plan Fails to Provide Adequate Protections for Wildlife" – National Wildlife Federation – Oct 02, 2019• Oct 4
The National Wildlife Federation, along with its Colorado and New Mexico affiliates, Conejos Clean Water and nearly 5,000 concerned citizens, filed a formal objection to the final Rio Grande National Forest plan yesterday. The plan, which will guide land management decisions for the next two decades, fails to protect important wildlife corridors from oil and gas development and new road construction.
"Balancing wildlife and wildfire in revised forest plans" – Taos News – Sept 30, 2019• Oct 1
The Forest Service has the difficult task of balancing its management plan for a host of diverse uses, ranging from resource management, recreational use, wildlife conservation and wildfire management.
There has been a recent push by conservation groups to protect wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity by designating more portions of the National Forest as wilderness. But the discussion on how best to protect habitat has shone a light on another important component of forest management — one that's a bit more controversial among residents: wildfire.
"Get involved, make your voice heard regarding Carson National Forest plan" – Taos News – Sept 20, 2019• Sep 23
Whether you're passionate about pursuing Río Grande cutthroat trout, an annual deer or elk hunt with family and friends, or you just care about the health of our forests and watersheds, you have a lot at stake in the rewriting of the Carson National Forest's management plan.
"States Aim to Boost Safe Passage for Wildlife While Improving Motorist Safety" Pew Charitable Trust blog – Sept 16, 2019• Sep 19
Big-game animals in the American West today are increasingly squeezed by growing suburban areas, energy development, climate change, and an expanding road network—factors that are threatening the landscape connections that wildlife need to move to and from their seasonal feeding and breeding grounds. Sportsmen, biologists, scientists, and local communities are warning that unless policymakers identify and conserve migration corridors, certain wildlife will be at serious risk.
"Finding accommodation among wildlife, growth, and oil and gas leasing" Guest op-ed in Colorado Independent Sept. 12, 2019• Sep 13
Last month, Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order that directs state agencies to prioritize protections for big game migratory corridors and winter ranges. I thank him for this much-needed action. It is sure to prove beneficial to wildlife, to motorists, and to our outdoor recreation economy. It also has important implications for how Colorado moves forward with oil and gas leasing.
"Protect our wildlife migration corridors" Durango Herald Sept 5, 2019pt 4,• Sep 5
Wildlife migration corridors and riparian areas are under threat from growing human populations. Colorado residents are fortunate to live in a state with spectacular outdoor opportunities, but we need to protect our special places and the species who live there.
"Governor's order strengthens science and policy for game migration corridors" Guest op-ed in The Daily Sentinel Sept 1, 2019• Sep 5
Colorado's sportsmen and women owe a big thank you to Gov. Jared Polis for prioritizing one of our state's most valuable assets — our wildlife. By signing Executive Order 2019-011, the governor has acknowledged that animals like elk, mule deer, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn need room to roam as our state continues to grow. The order directs the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation to prioritize management of big game migration corridors and seasonal habitats — informed by the best available science.
"Wildlife, motorists and outdoor recreation economy benefit from executive order" Guest op-ed Boulder Daily Camera Sept 4, 2019• Sep 4
Gov. Jared Polis recently took an important step to ensure that Colorado's gorgeous landscapes, robust wildlife populations and thriving outdoor recreation economy will continue for generations to come. By issuing an executive order that directs state agencies to work together to protect critical migration corridors, Polis is helping to protect our Colorado outdoor heritage.
"Wildlife corridors keep our cultural traditions alive" Guest op-ed in Albuquerque Journal Sept 1, 2019• Sep 3
"My deep connection and cultural tie to the land is what strongly impacts my drive to protect it, and the wildlife that migrate to continue to thrive. However, their migration is often impeded by the urbanization of our state, and their routes have become segmented by roadways, or fences that can also jeopardize drivers."
"Tribes are leaders in wildlife management" NM Political Report Sept 3, 2019• Sep 3
As conservation efforts around the state and the country have swelled in recent years, there's a growing need for indigenous communities to be included in discussions around wildlife management.
"Lawmakers eye protections for Southwest wildlife corridor" E&E August 26, 2019• Sep 2
The landscape is just a slice of an interconnected habitat stretching from central New Mexico to central Colorado. It's home to migrating elk, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, mountain lions, lynx and black bears, as well as a wide range of bird and fish species.
Managing the checkered corridors of federal, state and private land that wildlife uses to migrate is a complicated endeavor, and the flight over Rio Grande del Norte last week showed just how many people must be involved.
"Protecting Wildlife Migration" Taos News Aug. 29, 2019• Aug 30
Smiling broadly and gesturing overhead, Assistant U.S. House Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) told the audience about the flight he'd taken over the Río Grande del Norte National Monument: "I got a bird's eye view from above and could easily see how all the communities are connected. We're family."
It turned out that his opening remarks would set the theme for the third annual Upper Río Grande Wildlife Corridors Summit, which took place Tuesday (Aug. 20), at Sagebrush Inn and Suites in Taos.
Support for Wildlife Corridors – Las Vegas Daily Optic Editorial Board• Aug 24
We were glad to see the San Miguel County Commission show its support for wildlife corridors at last week's meeting. More so than many other places, this part of the country really cares about protecting wildlife and making sure every animal is safe. By having effective wildlife corridors that connect these populations without fear of human disturbances, all of the animals are more likely to be protected.
"State Land Commissioner 'recommits' to protecting wildlife" NM Political Report Aug 24, 2019• Aug 24
"I'm here to recommit not only myself, but the state land office, to being a partner in ensuring that wildlife corridors, wildlife crossings, are part of all of our infrastructure plans, our land management plans, our animal management plans," State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard said at the summit.
NWF poll conducted in NM & CO about wildlife corridors – April 2019• Aug 24
A poll conducted for the National Wildlife Federation shows overwhelming support for the protection of wildlife migration routes. More than 84% of respondents in Colorado and New Mexico said they would like to see increased efforts to safeguard wildlife corridors. When asked about specific proposals to provide those protections, over 73% supported every potential solution, from building overpasses on highways to preventing oil and gas development in known wildlife corridors.
"Upper Rio Grande Wildlife Corridors Deserve Protection, Panelists Say at Taos Summit" NM Wildlife Federation Aug. 21, 2019• Aug 23
Scores of people including tribal officials, federal land managers, state wildlife biologists, conservationists and ranchers gathered in Taos on Tuesday for a day-long discussion of how to identify and protect wildlife corridors in the Upper Rio Grande watershed. The National Wildlife Federation organized the Upper Rio Grande Wildlife Corridors Summit event on behalf of the Upper Rio Grande Wildlife Initiative.
"Wildlife corridors need protection" The Durango Herald guest op-ed Aug 17, 2019• Aug 23
As Colorado fills up with people and our forests evolve in response to a changing climate, what happens to our renowned wildlife? Can we make space for migrating game herds and dispersing species?
"Make Way For Deer (And Bighorn Sheep And Elk): Polis Announces An Order To Clear The Path For Safer Animal Migrations" CO Public Radio Aug 20, 2019• Aug 23
As Colorado's population booms, Gov. Jared Polis announced an executive order directing wildlife and transportation agencies to work together to protect critical big game migration corridors.
"To protect wildlife, state agencies pledge collaboration in wildlife corridors" The NM Political Report August 22, 2019• Aug 23
Decades of research have shown wildlife corridors are an important part of species survival. But large contiguous plots of land are becoming increasingly rare as development pushes into new areas. There's a need to protect those corridors if we want to limit impacts to those species.
"A veteran's journey from the hell of war to the refuge of the wilderness" Taos News August 15, 2019• Aug 16
The experience of the outdoors can bring a sense of healing and peace. A place of quiet and calm where veterans can relax and destress.
"Animal crossing ahead: protection sought for passages crucial to wildlife migration" Taos News August 15, 2019• Aug 16
Protecting wildlife requires both managing the wildlife, which is the role of state fish and wildlife agencies and some federal agencies, and managing the habitat of the wildlife. Whil much important habitat is on national forest, bears and bighorn sheep don't read signs.
New Mexico Wildlife Corridors Act – March 29, 2019• Aug 11
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed this law, which directs the New Mexico Department of Transportation and Game and Fish agency to work collaboratively with Native Tribes to create a state wildlife corridors action plan.
Draft Proposal for the Rio Grande National Forest Management Plan – 2019• Aug 11
Planners at the Rio Grande National Forest have worked with various agencies and the public to draft a new forest management plan. The plan will guide how these lands are managed for the next twenty years. You can help make sure that the natural balance of this system holds for decades to come. Please take a moment to speak up for wildlife and the protection of wildlife corridors in the Rio Grande National Forest.
Draft Proposal for the Santa Fe National Forest Management Plan – 2019• Aug 11
Planners at the Santa Fe National Forest have worked with various agencies and the public to draft a new forest management plan. The plan will guide how these lands are managed for the next twenty years. You can help make sure that the natural balance of this system holds for decades to come. Please take a moment to speak up for wildlife and the protection of wildlife corridors in the Santa Fe National Forest.
Draft Proposal for the Carson National Forest Management Plan – 2019• Aug 11
Planners at the Carson National Forest have worked with various agencies and the public to draft a new forest management plan. The plan will guide how these lands are managed for the next twenty years. You can help make sure that the natural balance of this system holds for decades to come. Please take a moment to speak up for wildlife and the protection of wildlife corridors in the Carson National Forest.
National Wildlife Federation – Wildlife Corridors Poll in NM & CO – April 2019• Aug 11
A poll commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation showed overwhelming public support for protecting wildlife migration corridors in Colorado and New Mexico.
"How New Mexicans can help wildlife survive and thrive" The Taos News op-ed May 16, 2019• Aug 11
I can do my best to try to protect the wildlife that lives in New Mexico. Protecting wildlife corridors in the Upper Rio Grande is an important first step.
"Southern Utes can protect wildlife corridors" The Durango Herald op-ed June 30, 2019• Aug 11
Tribal leaders shouldn't have to look to the states for consideration of their wildlife conservation and corridor work. They should be full partners at the table—along with state and federal land managers, elected officials, private land owners and conservation groups—in making sure our wildlife heritage is protected for generations to come.
"Use the land with love and respect" Associated Press Guest Op-Ed, May 6, 2019• Aug 11
New Mexico's wildlife is not just an integral part of who we are. Our wildlife is fundamental to our state's history, culture and identity.
Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 – May 2019• Aug 11
Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) introduced a federal wildlife corridors bill which would establish a national program to improve data collection and enhance inter-agency collaboration to ensure that wildlife corridors are protected and species are able to move between habitats.
Wildlife Doorways Report – March 2016• Aug 11
This two-day workshop was devoted to presentations on the science, planning and management activities relevant to wildlife movement and connectivity in the Upper Rio Grande. This report helped identify and compile key wildlife movement data and stressed the importance of cross jurisdictional collaboration.
New Mexico Wildlife Habitat Linkage Assessment– July 2019• Aug 11
As part of a collaboration between the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, the University of Montana and the Center for Landscape Science at the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, this project assesses wildlife habitat linkage across New Mexico for 4 key species: elk, black bear, bighorn sheep and lesser prairie chicken.
"People are helping animals cross highways– and that' great for humans, too"• Aug 11
NationSwell, June 10, 2019
Wildlife crossings are more than custom-made ways to prevent roadkill: they can play a key part in stopping the biodiversity decline worldwide.
Colorado Action Plan for Secretarial Order 3362• Jul 15
This plan identifies priority areas that are crucial for big game wintering range and migration corridors in Colorado.
New Mexico Action Plan for Secretarial Order 3362• Jul 15
This plan identifies priority areas that are crucial for big game wintering range and migration corridors in New Mexico.
Secretarial Order 3362: Improving Habitat in Western Migration Corridors• Jan 12
Feb 9, 2018 Secretarial Order 3362 was issued by the Secretary of the Interior in 2018 to improve the quality of big-game winter range and migration corridor habitat on western federal lands. It directs appropriate bureaus within the Department of the Interior to work in close partnership with the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming to enhance and improve the quality of big-game winter range and migration corridor habitat on federal lands under the management jurisdiction of Interior in a way that both recognizes state authority to conserve and manage big-game species and respects private property rights. Each state created a state action plan in response to the secretarial order.
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- Video micro HDMI female
- Dimension 80 mm x 48 mm
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Champions League Draw: Good Draw For Man Utd/Liverpool, Tough For Chelsea/Tottenham
The draw for the last-16 of the Champions League was conducted today with Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Man City finding out their fate.
The draw for the last-16 of the Champions League was conducted today with Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester City finding out their fate.
United eased in to the knockout stages of the competition after finishing top of Group A ahead of FC Basel having won five of their six group stage games.
Jose Mourinho's side have been rewarded with an exciting tie against Sevilla after the La Liga club booked their place in the knockouts having finished behind Liverpool in Group E.
Chelsea came through a tricky Group C after finishing second on goal difference to AS Roma with the Blues booking their place in the last-16 with a game to spare after finishing four points clear of Atletico Madrid.
The defending Premier League champions have been given another tough task as they'll have to take on Spanish giants Barcelona for a place in the quarter finals.
Liverpool needed to beat Spartak Moscow in their final group game to secure safe passage to the knockout rounds with the Reds eventually progressing as Group E winners ahead of Sevilla.
The Merseysiders have been handed a decent drawn as they'll take on Portuguese giants Porto after they finished second in Group G behind Besiktas.
Man City eased in to the last-16 after winning their first five games and progressed as Group F winners despite losing their final game to second-placed Shakhtar Donetsk last week.
Pep Guardiola side will be confident of progressing to the quarter finals as they've been drawn to face FC Basel after they finished second behind United in the group stages.
Tottenham produced some stunning form to win Group H ahead of reigning European champions Real Madrid with their success seeing Borussia Dortmund drop into the Europa League.
The North Londoners have been given a tough draw again after being drawn to face Serie A champions Juventus – who finished second in Group D behind Barcelona.
I think United, City and Liverpool will all be confident of making it through to the quarter finals but Chelsea and Spurs will have to do it the hard way if they're to progress to the next phase.
The first legs will be played on the 13/14 and 20/21st February with the return legs on the 6/7th and 13/14th March 2018.
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Selig's Dry Goods Company Building, also known as Morrisons/Em-roe Sporting Goods Company, is a historic commercial building located at Indianapolis, Indiana.  It was built in 1924, and is a seven-story, rectangular, Beaux-Arts style building with a white terra cotta and aluminum front facade.  It was remodeled in 1933.  The building features tinted plate glass windows and a terra cotta Roman thermal window-like screen at the top floor. The building housed the Selig's Dry Goods Company, in operation until 1933.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.  It is located in the Washington Street-Monument Circle Historic District.

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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Indiana
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
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Q: How to manipulate style/atributes in React DOM I have two components. If I hovered over one I'd like to move (by changing style proporties) the other one component.
How can I achieve that?
In pure js it's simply
let elem1 = document.querySelector('.elem1');
let elem2 = document.querySelector('.elem2');

elemt1.addEventListener('mouseover', () => {
 elem2.style.right = "200px" //or any other style property
})

So.. in react we can use "ref" and this works if I define static ref
 import React, {Component} from 'react';

class MainCanvas extends Component {

    onHover(){
        console.log(this.refs.mybtntest);

    }

    render(){
        return(

 this.onHover()}> Testing

                <button ref="mybtntest">Close</button>

        );

    }

}
export default MainCanvas

However in my case I need to each component should has dynamically added "ref" atribute.. so my code looks like below
import React, {Component} from 'react';

    class Test extends Component {

        onHover(e, dynamicRef){
            console.log(dynamicRef); //correct number of ref
            console.log(this.refs.dynamicRef); //undefined
            console.log(this.refBtnName); //button reference but eachtime is overrided
            console.log(this.dynamicRef);//undefinded

        }

        render(){

            const elements = this.props.elements.map( element => {
                let refBtnName = element.id + "btn";
                  return [
                    <ComponentElement
                        onHover={(e) => this.onHover(e, refBtnName)}
                        key={element.id} {...element}
                    />,
                    <button key={element.id*2}
                        ref={refBtnName => this.refBtnName = refBtnName}  //each time he will be overrided :(
                        className={`${refBtnName} deleteComponentBtn`} >
                        Close
                    </button>
                 ]

             })
            return(

                    {elements}

            );

        }

    }
    export default Test

A real goal is that I want to positioning the button relative to the element. I could use div for this purpose as a wrapper but I don't want it.
 So I thought to use for example this piece of code
onHover(e, dynamicRef){
    Math.trunc(e.target.getBoundingClientRect().right)
    dynamicRef.style.right = `${right}px`;
}

A: If you need dynamic object keys you shouldn't use the dot . and instead use the brackets:
ref={ref=> this[refBtnName] = ref}

Note that i changed the inline parameter to ref instead of refBtnName so you won't get variable names conflicts.
Running example:

class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    items: [
      { name: 'John', id: 1 },
      { name: 'Mike', id: 2 },
      { name: 'Jane', id: 3 },
    ]
  }

  move = refName => e => {
    this[refName].style.right = '-90px';
  }

  render() {
    const { items } = this.state;
    return (

        {
          items.map(item => {
            return (

 { this[item.name] = ref }}
                  style={{ position: 'relative' }}
                >
                  {item.name}

                <button onClick={this.move(item.name)}>Move {item.name}</button>

            )
          })
        }

    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

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A Symphony of Science, Peace...
A Symphony of Science, Peace and Education
Posted on 25/12/2017 19/12/2017 by Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
In his speech at the presentation of Peter Badge's 'Nobel Heroes' on 22 September 2017 at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Bishop emeritus Gunnar Stålsett stressed the importance of science in times of global tensions. The former Vice Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was appointed a member of the Honorary Senate of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in 2013.
Gunnar Stålsett at the Lindau Meeting in 2016. Photo/Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
"The Nobel Peace Center is like the eye of the storm. Irma, Maria, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump: in diverse ways they all wreak havoc for millions of people, and threaten disaster for our entire human habitat. To stem these destructive tides of extreme weather and human folly, we need the wisdom of science and the calm of common sense. Against hatred and intolerance we need education and civil courage. This is what Nobel science and Nobel peace is about. This is what we celebrate today: a confluence of academic knowledge and moral conviction. This is wisdom. This makes peace great again.
Every day, we are reminded of great threats to the human family and to our entire habitat. We are on the brink of a nuclear war. Hundreds of millions of lives are threatened by starvation and climatic catastrophes causing mass migration. National, ethnic and cultural extremism affect every region of the world. Violent religious extremism is seen in every religion. Hatred defeats the love of neighbours.
Against hatred and intolerance we need education and civil courage. This is what Nobel science and Nobel peace is about.
The will of Alfred Nobel emphasised fraternity, not enmity, between nations, the reduction of standing armies, not an escalation in the development of weapons of mass destruction, peace congresses, not unilateralism. His are practical steps even in the 21st century. The concerted efforts of people of good will across social, ethnic, cultural and religious divides, from one generation to the next, are what will bring about a better tomorrow. In a vulnerable world, there are victims and there are heroes. Sometimes heroes sadly fail. Sometimes victims win the day.
In the eye of the storm, it is still but not silent. Peace is dissent, expressed in loud protest. I believe we are all grieved by the tragic onslaught on the Rohingya Muslim population of Myanmar, not forgetting the tragedies of Syria and Yemen – to name but a few of the places where death and destruction reign.
Alfred Nobel wanted to strengthen those who conferred the greatest benefit to mankind. That is his legacy. That is our privilege. Here, in this centre, in the spirit of Nobel, we humbly affirm a foundation of shared human values on which to build the future. Peace is personal. The great Swedish humanist, Dag Hammarskjøld, the General Secretary of the United Nations who died in the pursuit of peace, speaks in words of prayer of the inner challenge we all face: "If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
Thank you, Countess Bettina Bernadotte, for inviting me to offer a few remarks on this special occasion. I have been greatly inspired by your leadership of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. You have continued the wise direction of your predecessors, your father Lennart and your mother Sonja. With eminent supporters and co-workers, such as Professor Wolfgang Schürer and Nikolaus Turner, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and its institutions have become the most significant academic encounter worldwide between Nobel Laureates and the new generations of scientists.
Whether Lindau or Stockholm or Oslo, we are united at the crossroads of human endeavour for peace and justice.
The occasion here today, the launching of Peter Badge's 'Nobel Heroes', connects Lindau, Stockholm and Oslo as different members in one Nobel family, all dedicated to promoting the will of Alfred Nobel, through a symphony of science, peace and education. Peter has used his personal and professional skills to promote the Nobel legacy. No one has met more laureates literally, face-to-face, than he has. Through his photographic genius, we are brought closer to personalities who have contributed to fulfil the vision of Alfred Nobel. Life itself makes it impossible to isolate academic, scientific dedication from the challenges of responsible citizenship. I share the wish of Nobel Laureate in Physics Steven Chu when he says "I hope you, the young Lindau scientists, will be moved to use your considerable talents to help enrich and save the world." In a nutshell, this is what science is about. This is what peace is about. This is the highest aspiration of the human intellect and the shared yearning of humanity. Whether Lindau or Stockholm or Oslo, we are united at the crossroads of human endeavour for peace and justice.
Let one example suffice: in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, the abolition of weapons of mass destruction has most frequently been highlighted by the Prize Committee. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in 1955 issued the Mainau Declaration against the use of nuclear weapons. In 2015, Nobel Laureates initiated the Mainau Declaration on Climate Change. Both were signed by many laureates from all sciences. And both issues are shaping the agenda of heads of states this week at the United Nations.
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Laureate 2011, at the presentation of Peter Badge's 'Nobel Heroes' at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. Photo/Credit: Nobel Peace Center
The presence here today of one of the Nobel Laureates of 2011, Tawakkol Karman, reminds us of the importance of women for peace and in the struggle for freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of faith and freedom from fear caused by oppression and war. Again, by bringing all laureates together, Peter Badge's work helps us to transcend the categories of sciences, literature and peace and to see ourselves as one mankind in one global community with one mission.
Through the images of Nobel Laureates of all prizes, Peter Badge conveys a message without words. Through his lens we sense the greatness of the human mind and the depth of the human heart. I see his work, in the words of St. Francis of Assisi, as an instrument for peace.
Congratulations on your message of hope, your testimony of perseverance and not least, your trust in the human genius for good. Your interpretation of the past offers healing for the future."
In summer 2017, renowned German publisher Gerhard Steidl released the coffee table book 'Nobel Heroes' (ISBN 978-3-95829-192-8). It compiles 400 portraits of Nobel Laureates by German photographer Peter Badge. The project, commissioned by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, is supported by the German foundation Klaus Tschira Stiftung.
This speech and other highlights of 2017 can be found in the Annual Report.
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Review - The Kid With a Bike (Le gamin au vélo)
The experience of watching a Dardenne brothers film is an experience that's unlike any other. Towards the end of their new film The Kid With a Bike, I was holding my breath as 11 year-old tearaway Cyril (astonishing newcomer Thomas Doret) found himself in a series of perilous situations. By this point, I've seen enough of the Dardennes' work to know that this is exactly what they do, and that their ability to spin nerve-grabbing drama out of seemingly humdrum situations is unparalleled in modern cinema. But the question of how exactly the Dardennes achieve this time and time again remains a mystery to me. They are capable of making us care - really care - about the fate of their characters in a manner that very few filmmakers can accomplish, and they do it without blatant appeals for audience empathy.
In fact, the sense of connection that we always feel with a Dardennes protagonist is even more surprising when you consider how often they are presented as troublesome, even unlikable characters. Think of Bruno, the irresponsible father from the Dardennes' L'Enfant, or taciturn carpenter Olivier, from The Son, who becomes unsettlingly fixated on a young apprentice working for him. In The Kid With a Bike, the main character is a child abandoned by his father and staying in a care home, but this is not a cute little moppet capable of instantly disarming the audience.
Cyril is an intense, aggressive tyke who refuses to bow to authority figures and responds with punches and kicks to any who try to keep him under control. He is a ball of restless energy who races from one location to another and hurtles through doorways, with his habit of being in a state of perpetual motion informing the pace and style of The Kid With a Bike, as the Dardennes' camera races to keep up with the young protagonist. Cyril seems utterly fearless, but there's something so vulnerable about him too, and an aching need for a father figure that he is all too aware of. Cyril refuses to believe that his father has abandoned him, despite all evidence to the contrary (he has changed his phone number and moved without leaving a forwarding address), with the child pleading, "He would have brought my bike," as he clutches onto his futile hope of a reconciliation.
Cyril's father is played by Dardennes regular Jérémie Renier (it's tempting to view The Kid With a Bike as a companion piece, if not a quasi-sequel, to L'Enfant). It is of course an awful thing for a man to reject his own child, but the Dardennes don't judge him, as they refuse to judge any characters in their films. Everyone who appears in a Dardenne brothers movie is a real person, with complicated emotions and valid reasons for behaving the way they do. As Guy washes his hands of his parental responsibilities, another character steps into the breach, with Cécile De France's hairdresser Samantha taking an interest in Cyril after he literally crashes into her during one of his many flights from school. She offers to take care of him on weekends. A tenuous bond develops between them, initially prompted by Samantha's retrieval of Cyril's beloved bike.
The fragile and complex nature of human relationships is what the Dardennes capture better than anyone else. We never know for sure why exactly Samantha feels compelled to take on this damaged, unpredictable, sometimes near-feral boy, but we never doubt for a moment that the feelings she has for him are genuine. Likewise, we fully understand why Cyril becomes so attached to Wes (Egon Di Mateo), the local dealer who exerts a Fagin-like influence over local kids. Coming from the same background as the lonely youngster, Wes is a perfect substitute father figure for Cyril, even if we can smell trouble from the moment he appears on the scene.
I won't tell you exactly what sort of trouble Cyril gets himself into, except for the fact that it develops in a fashion that feels surprising and yet entirely natural. It's also absolutely riveting, with the climactic stretch of the film causing me to gasp and reducing me to tears on more than one occasion, and the Dardennes' ability to affect me so deeply without cheapening their film with a single ounce of sentimentality is testament to their brilliance. The Dardennes invest their films with such compassion, honesty and hopefulness that it becomes impossible to not care about the story being told. They are contemporary cinema's great humanist filmmakers, and as such, they remain in a league of their own.
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import React from 'react'
import axios from 'axios';
import { Link } from 'react-router'

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      var endpoint = service.externalEndpoints[i];
      endpoints.push(
{endpoint.host}:{endpoint.ports[0].port} ({endpoint.ports[0].protocol})
);
    }
  }
  return endpoints;
};

export default React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function() {
    return {
      services: []
    }
  },

  componentDidMount: function() {
    // TODO: Change url to:
    // /api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard/api/v1/service

    // const url = '/api/v1/namespaces/' + this.props.params.namespace + '/services';

    var url = '/api/v1/proxy/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard/api/v1/service';
    if (this.props.params.namespace) {
      url = url + '/' + this.props.params.namespace;
    }

    axios.get(url)
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    )
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More Women Needed In Cyber Security
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The participation of women in tech and cyber security sectors is rising too slowly and yet cyber crime is recognised as one of the greatest threats to businesses around the world. And now, with company and government data becoming increasingly reliant on the Internet, it is critical that their computer systems are protected from malicious attacks or data breaches.
Currently more than 1 million security jobs worldwide are unfilled and of those employed as cyber security professionals, women represent only 11 percent of the workforce. These unfilled cyber security jobs aren't just a staffing issue - they're a matter of national security and women can help us solve the problem quickly.
Our current need for women in cyber security is no different from when we needed women to work in what were then considered to be stereo-typically male roles during WWII. As a result of the ongoing pandemic, the cyber security industry has continued to accelerate, and has no indication of slowing down anytime soon.
With new and innovative methods of hacking affecting businesses of all kinds, the number of cyber attacks is also increasing.
A report by the the British Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) showed that the UK's cyber security industry is now worth around £8.3 billion, but lacks female representatives for an industry so high in demand.
The industry predominantly remains male-dominated, and this lack of diversity, in turn, means less available talent to help keep up with the rise in mounting cyber threats.
Women currently represent about 20% of people working in the field of cybersecurity, and the number of women in cyber security is growing; organisations must address the diversity debt to capture and retain this new labor force. Even at the very beginning of a 'tech' based career pathway, a woman's success is already limited. Females make up only 28% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects, and are systematically tracked away from these subjects throughout their learning, and pushed towards written and creative arts, narrowing their training and potential positions to go into these fields later in life.
The (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2021, based on data obtained from thousands of cyber security professionals in North America, Europe, LATAM, and APAC regions, estimates that the global cyber security workforce is approximately 4.19 million at present, up from 2.8 million in 2019 and 3.48 million in 2020.
The average salary before taxes in the US has also increased from $83,000 in 2020 to $90,900 this year. However, the percentage of women among cyber security professionals in these regions is still approximately 25%.
Considering the cyber security industry still needs 2.72 million more professionals urgently so that organisations can fill up crucial vacancies, the lack of women in the industry is contributing to the burgeoning cyber security gap that organisations aren't able to address at the scale required. (ISC)2 said that even though 700,000 professionals entered the workforce in the past year, the workforce gap reduced by just 400,000, indicating that the global demand continues to outpace supply.
Another factor that remains to be addressed is the percentage of women in leadership roles in the cyber security industry. In 2021, women made up just 17% of Fortune 500 CISO positions and there is only one female CISO in the top ten US companies. However, it cannot be said that the participation of women isn't improving quickly. The percentage of women in Fortune 500 CISO positions was a paltry 14% last year.
STEM subjects are traditionally considered as masculine by many. All too often, teachers and parents may steer girls away from pursuing such areas, with females making up 34% of STEM graduates in 2021 but only 13% make up the overall workforce.
Furthermore, women who have been successful in entering the industry often receive different treatment compared to males who work in technology, and can occasionally be mistaken for having a less 'dominant' role. From engineers to analysts, consultants and technologists, the roles are unlimited in cybersecurity. It is clear for women entering the industry that the profession is not limited to just one type of job, and requires a range of skill sets, most of which can now be done remotely – which has been heightened due to COVID-19.
However, research demonstrates that 66% of women reported that there is no path of progression for them in their career at their current tech companies, suggesting the very reason why women tend to end up in the more 'customer facing' roles, such as marketing, sales or customer support. How can females continue to advance once they have a foot in the door into more technical or product focused roles?
Despite girls outperforming boys in maths and science, the presumption remains that women are not equipped to take on 'complex' tasks and roles.
Girls who attend an 'all-girls' school and see their female peers also participating in technology subjects, therefore do not have lower-esteem when pursuing that industry, and are in a learning environment free from gender stereotyping, unconscious bias and social pressure. Even if a female is successful within these areas, we continue to see a lack of women represented in senior leadership roles on boards, as CEOs and in STEM careers. We need to dispel the myths that women cannot take on 'tech-heavy' jobs.
Maternity leave or taking a break to raise a family is another challenge women face later on in their career. Employers might question the gap in their CV when they eventually want to return to work after taking a break from such a demanding industry to start and raise a family.
To ensure that women gain equal footing in stereotypically male-dominated industries, there is an often-overlooked factor, men need equality too.
Businesses need to offer the same level of paternity leave and support to men as they do women when it comes to looking after a family. This then leads to the need for flexibility within working hours for school runs, for example, as it needs to be understood that men have children too, and women are not always the number one caregiver. Having a diverse workforce allows for a balance of input, more creativity, new perspectives and fresh ideas. From different learning paths, to ways of approaching problems, and bringing in wider viewpoints, women bring an array of different skills, attributes and experience to cyber security roles.
Working in an industry like cyber security, where everyone is impacted and everyone is a target, we need everyone to be involved in developing solutions which work to solve the problem. This is not just limited to gender, but also includes age, culture, race and religion. To truly mitigate the risk of cyber crime, we need a solution relevant to all the people impacted by the problem.
To begin with, whether this is from a younger age during school studies or university courses, offering varied entry pathways into the industry, or making it easier to return after a break, women must be encouraged into the field of cyber security. These hurdles into the sector have to be addressed.
Every business has a part to play when it comes to ensuring that their organisation meets the requirements of all of their employees. From remote or hybrid working, reduced hours or adequate maternity and paternity support, working hours should be more flexible to suit the needs of the employee.
A "return to work scheme" would greatly benefit women if companies were to implement them. This can help those who have had a break from the industry get back into work, and this doesn't necessarily mean limiting them to roles such as customer support, sales and marketing.
HR teams must also do better when it comes to job descriptions, ensuring they appeal to a wider audience, offer flexibility and that the recruitment pool is as diverse as can be.
The UK government has started taking action by setting up a Cyber Security Skills Strategy. Businesses themselves have also started to enforce programmes to support those with gaps in their CV's and are eager to return to their careers, such as Ziff Davis's Restart Programme. This programme is committed to those who have a gap in their experience and are keen to return to their careers, providing them with an employment opportunity which emphasises growth and training, helping professionals return to the workforce. When businesses step up and take matters into their own hands, it provides more available paths into the industry for everyone.
There is more of a need than ever before for more diverse teams, as cyber security threats become more varied. Becoming part of a gender-balanced cyber workforce is an efficient way to avoid unconscious bias and build a range of solutions to complex problems.
Whilst the latest government initiatives and courses to attract diverse talent, and better the UK's security and technology sectors is a great start, the only way to progress is more investment and emphasis on STEM as a career path. This will encourage both males and females, who are treated equally and can see themselves reflected in their senior management teams.
What the industry needs to look at is that the representation of women in computer science and in engineering is very similar to the percentage of women who graduated in these fields.
According to Pew Research, women earned 53% of STEM college degrees in 2018, but formed just 22% of engineering graduates and 19% of computer science graduates. In contrast, 85% of the bachelor's degrees in health-related fields were earned by women. As far as leadership roles are concerned, the 17% share of women in Fortune 500 CISO positions sounds incredible when compared to the representation of women in leadership roles in the tech industry as a whole.
According to data collated by the Women Business Collaborative (WBC), women make up only 8.2% of Fortune 500 CEOs, 7.3% of Fortune 1000 CEOs, 5.6% of Russell 3000 CEOs, and 7.4% of CEOs at private companies with revenue over $1 billion. "While the numbers for women in leadership are moving in the right direction, with the Fortune 500 up to 8.2% from 6.6% in 2019, progress is still too slow and not reflective of the nation. Women of color hold only one percent of CEO positions across the Fortune 1000," the report said.
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce compared with their share of all workers, including in computing jobs, which have seen considerable growth in recent years.
The representation of women varies widely across STEM occupations. Women make up a large majority of all workers in health-related jobs, but remain underrepresented in other job clusters, such as the physical sciences, computing and engineering.
The cyber security industry remains an attractive and lucrative career path, but more should be done to direct female students in the right way to pursue a job role within STEM and to support those who are returning to work.
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BRIDGE THE GULF is a community media project that lifts up the voices of Gulf Coast communities working towards justice and sustainability. Through multimedia storytelling on BridgeTheGulfProject.org, an active network of community leaders, experts, and media-makers connect and share their perspectives on the places, cultures, histories, and challenges that define the Gulf Coast region. Bridge The Gulf also provides training, support, and resources to amplify the voices of those on the front lines of struggles for survival and for progressive movement-building in the region.
From the intersection of storytelling, community organizing, and new media, Bridge The Gulf:
Amplifies Gulf Coast voices, stories, and perspective often overlooked by mainstream media;
Connects media-makers, community advocates, and regional experts;
Strengthens community media production through support and training;
Advances a regional, inclusive, and intersectional understanding of the Gulf Coast region
Bridge The Gulf is built on the strategic partnership between independent media-makers, regional experts, and grassroots community leaders on the Gulf Coast. Since our launch in 2010, more than 60 contributors have shared approximately 700 multimedia stories and perspectives on BridgeTheGulfProject.org, with a core team leading editorial and operational decisions. Bridge The Gulf was founded and continues to work in close partnership with the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, a regional philanthropic, progressive movement building organization.
Our contributors include community organizers, advocates, regional experts, journalists, filmmakers, and people who are directly impacted by pressing regional issues.
Meet Our Contributors.
Core Leadership Team
Derrick C. Evans, Co-founder
Derrick Christopher Evans is the director of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives and a managing advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health. Since 2001 he has worked to help protect and revitalize his coastal Mississippi community and sister communities throughout the region. Prior to that he taught civil rights history at Boston College and social studies in the Boston Public Schools.
Cherri Foytlin
Cherri Foytlin is a freelance journalist, author, advocate, speaker and mother of six, who lives in South Louisiana – an area inundated with industrial pollution. She is the author of "Spill It! The Truth About the Deep Water Horizon Oil Rig Explosion," and regularly contributes to Bridge The Gulf, the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and several local newspapers. In the Spring of 2011, she walked to Washington D.C. from New Orleans (1,243 miles) to call for action to stop the BP Deep Water Drilling Disaster, and has been a constant voice speaking out for the health and ecosystem of Gulf Coast communities in countless forms of media. As an advocate for climate justice, she has participated in numerous actions and events across the nation and in the UK. In addition, she is a co-founder of The Mother's Project – Gulf Coast and Idle No More Gulf Coast
Shana Griffin
Shana griffin is a mother, feminist, researcher, and social justice activist—who's work explores critical issues at the intersection of race and gender-based violence; housing rights and affordability; climate justice and sustainable ecologies; sexual health and reproductive autonomy; art and space, and movement building philanthropy. She's is the co-founder of the Women's Health & Justice Initiative and serves on the governing body of Critical Ethnic Studies Association. Shana serves on the Board of Directors' of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative—a neighborhood-based community land trust, Women With A Vision, Inc; and an Advisor of the Gulf Coast Fund and Bridge The Gulf. Over the past 7 years, Shana's activism and research has focused on challenging punitive social policies, practices, and behaviors that restrict, exploit, regulate, and criminalize the bodies and lives of low-income and working class black women most vulnerable to the violence of poverty, polluting environments, reproductive legislation, and housing discrimination.
Leah Mahan, Co-founder
Leah Mahan is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. She has been a fellow at the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing and Story Lab and the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. Leah's films include Sweet Old Song (2002) and Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street (1996). In 2013 she completed Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, about a group of determined Mississippians who struggle to save their endangered Gulf Coast community in the face of rampant development, industrial pollution and disaster. She worked with Gulf Coast NGOs to develop Bridge The Gulf. Leah began her career as a research assistant for filmmaker Henry Hampton on the groundbreaking PBS series on the civil rights movement Eyes on the Prize.
Ada McMahon, Media Fellow
Ada McMahon is an independent media maker, currently working as a Media Fellow with Bridge The Gulf, and project manager with LandofOpportunity, an interactive web platform about post-crisis community (re)building in America. Previously, she worked as a blogger and online organizer at Green For All. Ada lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bryan Parras
Bryan Parras is a Houston resident and environmental justice advocate with Texas Environmental Advocacy Service (T.E.J.A.S.). Bryan has worked tirelessly to improve the health and safety of residents living in the shadows of Houston's oil refineries, particularly the residents of Manchester, one of the city's most vulnerable neighborhoods and where Valero plans to refine much of the tar sand oil shipped through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Bryan is also a Gulf Coast Fund Managing Advisor.
Karen Savage
Karen Savage is an investigative journalist currently embedded with the L'eau Est La Vie resistance camp in Louisiana. Karen specializes in long form narrative stories on juvenile justice and the environment. Her work has appeared in Climate Liability News, Project Earth, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, Bridge the Gulf, Youth Today and City Limits. A mother of four, Karen is a former middle school math teacher and has volunteered with several organizations across the Gulf Coast.
Volunteers & Pro Bono Support
Bridge The Gulf would not exist without the contributions of many volunteers and underpaid or pro bono experts, including dozens of blog contributors, NGO staff people, new media experts and lawyers. Many of these are acknowledged on this page, and we would like to also acknowledge the Harvard Online Media Legal Network for connecting the project to pro bono legal assistance from Steptoe & Johnson.
In 2001, Derrick Evans, a Civil Rights historian and teacher living in Boston, and his longtime friend Leah Mahan, an acclaimed filmmaker, began to document the history of Turkey Creek, a historic African-American community in coastal Mississippi. The Reconstruction Era settlement was founded by Evans' emancipated ancestors in 1866. When the graves of his ancestors were bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport, Evans lost his historian's detachment and moved home to Turkey Creek to fight for his community's survival. Mahan continued to document over the course of a decade, as Evans and his neighbors stood up to powerful corporate interests and politicians, and faced Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster, in their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice. Mahan's documentary, Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, premiered in 2013 at the New Orleans Film Festival, where it won the audience award for best documentary feature.
In 2006, as Turkey Creek and the entire Gulf Coast region worked to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina – Evans co-founded the progressive Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health. The innovative movement-building philanthropy – led by a team of policy advocates, community activists and organizers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas – directs critical financial, technical and collegial support to grassroots community groups across the Gulf South.
Soon thereafter, Evans, Mahan, and advisors of the Gulf Coast Fund began to dream up a community media project that would bring together the stories of communities across the Gulf Coast facing similar challenges. This platform would be a single forum for the many independent media-makers and activists who were already speaking out across the region, and encourage new media-making. Launched in the summer of 2010, Bridge The Gulf is a media resource for many of the same communities the Gulf Coast Fund supports through its movement-building work. Gulf Coast Fund advisors, including Evans, Shana griffin, and Bryan Parras, continue to play pivotal roles as advisors and contributors to Bridge The Gulf project. As the platform launched in the immediate wake of the BP oil disaster, Karen Savage, Ada McMahon, and Cherri Foytlin became involved in producing content, outreach to contributors, editing, social media, and more.
In addition to Bridge The Gulf's close partnership with the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health and with grassroots groups across the region, we have collaborated on the following media projects:
LandofOpportunity
LandofOpportunity is an experimental web platform that explores post-crisis community (re)building in America. The innovative platform merges compelling multimedia storytelling with curated data, research, and calls to action in one collaborative interactive space. Bridge The Gulf partnered on the interactive video, Surviving the Spill: BP Oil Disaster.
WTUL News and Views
Bridge The Gulf partnered with the New Orleans radio program WTUL News & Views on the Deep Dialogue series. Deep Dialogues are in-person events that brings together a diverse range of thoughtful people to speak from experience on the topics that matter to New Orleans, and are recorded to air on the radio and on BridgeTheGulfProject.org.
Institute for Southern Studies
On the two year anniversary of the BP oil disaster, Bridge The Gulf partnered with the Gulf Coast Fund and the Institute for Southern Studies on the Troubled Waters report and interview series.
Storycorps and the Natural Resources Defense Council
In October 2010, Bridge The Gulf partnered with StoryCorps and NRDC to record, share, and preserve the stories and experiences of people living through the BP oil disaster.
BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
In the spring of 2010, Bridge The Gulf participated in the BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies and worked with designer Ben Stocker Johnson of Free Range Studios to design the beta website that was developed by MIG and launched in the summer of 2010. In 2013-2014 Ben worked with Bridge The Gulf to create the new design for the site with developer Courtney Miller.
Liana LopezHouston, TX
Linda St. MartinGulfport, MS
Derek RankinsNew Orleans, LA
Karen SavageBoston, MA
Bryan ParrasHouston, TX
Molly BrackinNew Orleans, LA
Rosana CruzNew Orleans, LA
Chelsea GraysonNew York, NY
Laurie LambertBay St. Louis, MS
Leah MahanEl Cerrito, CA
Stephen BradberryNew Orleans, LA
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Two members of our team, Miranda and Lauren, were able to get together and go fill goody bags for the Marathon in the Fox Valley. The girls wore their Hortonville Robotics T-Shirts to give some basic knowledge about the team. They got asked multiple questions, on what robotics is, what FIRST is, and many more. Everyone was so pleased to hear that we were the only team in Wisconsin in that season to qualify for the World Championship and they said we represented very well, ranking 27th in the whole world.
We hope to get together for more outreach events and make FIRST known more throughout our community and state!


Professor Odoni's research interests are in applied probability theory, stochastic processes and decision-making under uncertainty, principally in air transportation system infrastructure. He looks at models and tools for exploring demand/capacity and demand/delay relationships in airports and air traffic control (ATC) and effective uses of available airport and ATC resources on a daily basis. He and his research group develop optimization algorithms for application in real-time flow management of air traffic; dynamic statistical models for predicting the occurrence of various events in real-time, such as the time of take-off from congested airports; a model to compute delays on a network of airports; computer-aided design of passenger terminals; and dynamic queueing models.
He also pursues research in risk assessment for railroads involving the development of a comprehensive safety performance index for railroad operations, as well as the exploratory analysis of data on accidents at railroad grade crossings and development of statistical models for inter-arrival times of very rare accidents. He also works in probabilistic extensions and variations of classical combinatorial optimization models such as the traveling salesman problem.
Professor Odoni is the author or co-author of three books and more than 80 professional publications, as well as co-editor of six books. He served as editor-in-chief of Transportation Science from 1985 to 1991, and is a current or past member of the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Operations Research, Transportation Science, Transportation Research C, Interfaces, and the Journal of Aircraft.