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Texas Launch Site Groundbreaking Caps Busy Week for SpaceX
By Marcia Smith | Posted: September 20, 2014 12:00 am ET | Last Updated: September 21, 2014 2:08 am ET
SpaceX will break ground for its new launch site near Brownsville, TX on Monday, September 22, 2014. It will cap quite a busy week-long period for the entrepreneurial space launch company that started with winning a CCtCAP award from NASA and, hopefully, launching a cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend.
On Tuesday, NASA awarded SpaceX one of two Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contracts (Boeing got the other). The $2.6 billion contract is for SpaceX to complete development of its Dragon V2 spacecraft for taking astronauts to and from the ISS, fly a demonstration mission, and up to six missions thereafter. NASA's goal is to have SpaceX and/or Boeing commercial crew vehicles operational by 2017. Boeing received a $4.2 billion award.
Right now, SpaceX is waiting for the weather to cooperate at Cape Canaveral, FL for the launch of its fourth operational "commercial cargo" to the ISS, Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-4. The SpaceX CRS-4 cargo mission was supposed to launch early this morning, but was postponed to early tomorrow morning (September 21, 1:52 am ET) because of bad weather. The forecast is only 40 percent favorable for launch tomorrow morning. If it is delayed again, the next opportunity is on September 23.
Both the commercial crew and commercial cargo programs are essentially public-private partnerships where NASA and the private sector each provide funding for development (instead of the government providing all of the funds), with the government serving as a market for the resulting services. SpaceX competes with Orbital Sciences Corporation for the commercial cargo launches. Its competition for commercial crew will be Boeing and perhaps other companies that are willing to proceed without government funds in the hope that the market for taking people to and from space is larger than just NASA.
Meanwhile on September 22, SpaceX will break ground near Boca Chica Beach, TX, close to Brownsville, for an orbital launch facility which it hopes will be completed by 2016. The FAA approved SpaceX's application to conduct launches from the site in July. The license allows up to 12 commercial launch operations per year of the Falcon 9 and prospective SpaceX rockets including Falcon Heavy and "a variety of reusable suborbital vehicles." The launch site is on 68.9 acres of land just three miles north of the U.S./Mexico border. Space launches from there can travel out over the Gulf of Mexico, avoiding overflight of land during the early stages of launch just like the other U.S. orbital sites in Virginia (Wallops Island), Florida (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's adjacent Kennedy Space Center), California (Vandenberg Air Force Base) and Alaska (Kodiak). By having its own launch site, SpaceX will have more flexibility in launch dates by not having to coordinate with other users. SpaceX currently launches from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg. It will continue to use those facilities when necessary and its commercial crew flights will launch from Pad 39A at KSC, which SpaceX is leasing from NASA.
Note: SpaceX CRS-4 was successfully launched at 1:52 am EDT, September 21, 2014.
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NetFlow is a Cisco protocol that lets a network manager get insight into the kind of traffic flowing on the network, and which computer(s) are sending it. NetFlow exporters (generally routers and switches) send information about the flows passing through them to a NetFlow collector for storage and analysis. NetFlow is also considered a suite of protocols that include IPFIX and J-Flow, Juniper Networks version of NetFlow.
NetFlow defines a "flow" as a unidirectional series of packets from IP A to IP B, using some protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP/?). When the packets used either TCP or UDP, then the flow is further specified by a pair of ports; for instance, 10.20.30.40:53823->50.60.70.80:443 TCP. Often, since most communications require both sides to transmit packets, NetFlow reports two flows associated with every communication, accounting for the packets and bytes that went in either direction. A proper flow collector and analyzer will correlate these with each other for you, so that you can see a report of a full conversation.
The sFlow protocol is completely different from NetFlow in that it doesn't examine every packet; it samples packets at a specified rate. As a result, it is more efficient than NetFlow, but certain short communications may go undetected.
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Have you been "Educated for Justice"?
by Ken Homan, SJ | Sep 28, 2015 | Justice
Have we Jesuits educated you for justice? You and I know what many of your Jesuit teachers will answer to that question. They will answer, in all sincerity and humility: No, we have not. If the terms "justice" and "education for justice" carry all the depth of meaning which the Church gives them today, we have not educated you for justice.
In 1973, Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe delivered his famous "Men for Others" speech to a group of Jesuit alumni in Spain.1 This seminal talk prompted Jesuit schools around the world to examine their work and their mission. Arrupe was disheartened that millions of Jesuit-educated alumni around the world had not learned to love the poor, to live a faith in service of justice.
I have been in and around Jesuit schools my entire life, and this year I have begun teaching at a Jesuit high school – as a Jesuit. I have my own answer to the question of whether the Jesuits have educated me for justice. But what about what I have done for my students? Forty-two years after Arrupe's speech, I decided to ask them.
I teach theology to first- and third-year students at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, WI. My junior course, Christian Discipleship, presents the theology behind Catholic Social Teaching, which is designed to help students think about how to live out that teaching.
The first homework assignment I gave them was to read Fr. Pedro Arrupe's famous speech, "Men for Others." As a teacher, I wondered how I could get them to engage more deeply, and personally, with the text. As I reread the speech, I came across Arrupe's question: "Have we Jesuits educated you for justice?" I assigned the students to write two paragraphs answering that question, and a third paragraph asking them what injustice they find particularly challenging, distressing, or confusing.
I expected a collective general nod of agreement, and perhaps an occasional "yeah, but we could do better." Instead, I received in-depth analyses of the injustices they see and experience in high school – and a clear desire to learn more, particularly about the injustices they found confusing.
So I gave them the question: "Have we Jesuits educated you for justice?" Their responses can be broken down into four broad categories:
1) yes, because that's what the teacher wants to hear…
2) yes, and here are the ways I'm challenged…
3) no, I have hardly been educated for justice.
Lastly there were the students who – in a way that would make Socrates proud – asked questions about the initial question, and then supplied their response.
Several of these young men answered (1) yes, mostly likely because they thought I would reward their answer. Other students answered (2) yes, and spoke movingly of their experiences. Marquette High has a yearly school-wide theme. Last year's theme was "Work for Justice." The school community reflected on and commemorated the 25th anniversary of the El Salvadoran martyrs. Additionally, the school read Enrique's Journey and had frequent discussions about the plight of immigrants in the United States.
The 2) yes students found the school theme and book to be positive, transformational experiences. Moreover, they felt empowered to have more discussions and seek new answers. One student, "Frank," answered, "I am confident that Marquette University High School has given us the tools we need to go out and work for justice."
They also related questions of justice to their experiences at Marquette High and the surrounding community. Frank hopes that "students, faculty, and administration will go out and set the world on fire throughout their daily life." His own education inspires him to aid others in getting a similar education. The hope is to help them fight poverty, thereby defeating injustices like famine and war.
I had a few students that said, 3) "No, I haven't been educated for justice." These were blunt answers that did not skirt any hard questions. These students felt like their theology classes might bring up questions of justice occasionally, but their experience as a whole left them empty.
One of my students, "Tim," said that the school had made a good start in educating for justice, but still needed to take greater action. Despite last year's theme of "Work for Justice," Tim feels that little has changed in the school. In particular, he sees the need for justice to become a normal part of who we are as school, rather than a remarkable 'extra'. He explains:
The term "radical" has such a negative connotation that people are afraid to do the right thing in fear of being deemed as such. In order for justice to be taught, the "idea" of being a radical needs to be normalized. Jesus was a radical, and definitely an advocate for true justice. So why is it so taboo to ask for justice?"
The 3) 'no' students said that for the majority of their school day, and in their homework and extracurriculars, they had been taught to think about one thing: success. "George," for example, felt that "a majority of the teaching done by Jesuits and MUHS staff has been focused more towards the preparation for college and education" rather than forming religious and justice-minded men.
Sadly, they saw justice (sometimes like theology classes) treated as a secondary venture, to be talked about occasionally, but pushed to the side for subjects like math and science. These students felt the school wanted them to stand out more for their educational prowess, not their Catholic commitment. I must admit to being pleased to see several students who wanted to challenge their comfortable setting. They wanted to see questions of justice brought up in every class and outside the bounds of classroom walls.
The final group of students did more than I had hoped. They didn't just answer, but analyzed the question. Most students in this category believed their Jesuit education helped them consider and ask questions about justice. But they want more.
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One student, "David," made a remarkably astute observation. The Jesuits had not educated him for justice. Rather, the Jesuits had educated him about justice. One little preposition, and the whole phrase takes on a different meaning. David explains that Jesuit education has done an excellent job of educating about justice. Educated for justice is another question, though. He responds,
"During my journey at Marquette University High School, I believe that my Jesuit education has yet to fully educate and prepare me to work for justice. During classes and assemblies I learn about only the ideal processes and outcomes necessary to create economic, political, and social justice even though I have not learned about the reality of the progressions and results."
David knows that we are called to live justly. He understands what a just society should look like and how it should behave. He says, correctly, that this was not the ultimate goal of Arrupe. Rather, Arrupe wanted Jesuits to educate for justice. Although thankful for his education, he feels limited, powerless, and lacking the tools necessary to make change in the world.
The excellent response forced me to pause and consider my own nine years of Jesuit education. Did St. Louis University High, Creighton University, and Fordham University educate me for justice? Have my five years of being a Jesuit educated me for justice?
Honestly, the questions makes me uncomfortable because it leaves me uncertain about my own experience and identity. I want to answer a full-hearted "Yes!" because of the teachers and mentors that helped shape me. But a nagging part of me mutters "not really," because of the work we still have ahead. As a Jesuit, I want to say that in the forty years since Arrupe, we have learned to educate for justice. But the truth is, we have a long way to go.
My hope is that as an educator and part of wider institutions, we can move from educating about justice toward educating for justice. I hope we can use tools of social analysis to challenge our comfort. I hope we can emulate Pope Francis by taking in refugees, working for economic justice, and taking action to protect the earth. I hope we can follow the challenging words of Arrupe: to truly shape our students to be men and women for others.
So, Jesuit-educated students, alumni, and friends, I ask you: Have the Jesuits educated you for justice? How can we do more? How can we never tire of living a faith that does justice?
Arrupe's speech was so-titled because nearly all of the Jesuit alumni in Europe were male. The vision Arrupe sets forth is not particular to the sex of Jesuit students, however. This explains why coeducational institutions, particularly in the United States, have adapted this phrase as "Men and Women for Others" or "People for Others." Later tweaks, emphasizing solidarity over service, have yielded "Men and Women for and with Others." ↩
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I used to avoid the gym. I wasn't averse to exercise – it was just that the thought of working out amongst others' sweating in an enclosed space on, what were to me, torturous devices never appealed to me.
So what happened? BASE 3. Created by a sister whose passion for encouraging others to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle, rivaled only by her husband's drive to create a strength and conditioning temple where all are welcome to worship. Classes were gathered: CrossFit, Conditioning, Balance, and Performance – and I was automatically a part of it, whether I liked it or not.
Of course, I immediately dumped CrossFit in the 'crazy' pile along with other 'cult-elitists', and paleo dieters, and tried another class: Balance, the ladies-only class. Nice and quiet. A good workout with no testosterone slapping me in the face. Life was good… and then it hurt. And it hurt for 3 days.
I've been to this stage a few times in life and at this point I usually lose motivation. Take a few days off to recover, get busy with something else and don't go back. However, this time was different. I was stuck at a gym, day after day with the worst motivation possible… that sister.
Eleven months down the track and I feel like the anthropology classes I took at University have finally paid off… I have somewhat successfully infiltrated this culture of gym-goers. And for any, like me, who have lacked motivation, here is what I can tell you.
Participant Observation: It still hurts. There are days that I can't tie my hair or walk without feeling pain.
Qualitative Data: Recognising actual pain from a good muscle workout, and knowing when I can keep exercising and when an actual break is required. Understanding that stretching and rolling is important to recovery – as are rest days.
Participant Observation: Routine is motivation.
Adaptation: Half the battle is just getting there. Generally, you get to the gym, do the work out – hate it, but finish it anyway – and then feel really good about completing it. The real hardship is to do that on repeat. Stop thinking about it and just do it. Sometimes you get there and you're just not feeling it and that's fine, jump on the rower or bike and knock out a few calories and call it a day, but just keep going. Eventually, training becomes part of what you do during the day.
Participant Observation: Everything can be scaled.
Qualitative Data: Unfortunately, there is no workout you "can't" do. For every exercise there is an alternative to work the same muscle, so really, you have no excuse. We all have to start somewhere.
Participant Observation: Changes don't happen overnight.
Qualitative Data: After the first three months, training 5-6 times a week, I hadn't necessarily lost any weight, but that didn't mean there weren't changes. First, it became easier (not easy, just easier). Then I became stronger. Then I became faster. And then I started noticing a difference. I had more muscle tone, was sleeping better, had less back and knee pain, more energy and I wanted to eat better, and drink more water, which in turn had its own benefits.
Participant Observation: CrossFit is CrossFit.
Qualitative Data: You know what? I don't think CrossFit is that bad. It's a great workout. It's not my personal favourite (but it certainly is for others!) and I'm not afraid to jump into classes anymore. Variety is the spice of life, right?
My point here is this – if you want to get fit / become healthier / live a better lifestyle, joining a gym is one of the best places to start. You have access to advice from professionals in the industry, you have all the equipment available to you and you will be surrounded with like-minded people. All you have to do is show up… then show up again… and eventually showing up becomes less of a battle.


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Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire Is Coming To Consoles, Collector's Edition Available
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The critically acclaimed RPG Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire is finally making its way to consoles, and the game will be available as early as next month. THQ Nordic has also announced that a collector's edition will be available at launch.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is one of the latest RPGs developed by genre masters Obsidian Entertainment. The game acts as a direct sequel to the original Pillars of Eternity, taking place five years later and once again focusing on the Watcher, controlled by the player.
The game is a modern take on the old-school PC RPGS with gameplay similar to that of the Baldur's Gate series. Players can create a character from scratch or continue their character's journey from the previous game. Where the original Pillars of Eternity was a fairly linear title–at least in terms of traveling and story locations–Deadfire's focus on sailing brings a more open-world approach to the gameplay.
As you explore the world of Eora, you will be able to recruit a slew of different companions, some new to the game and others returning from the previous adventure. One of the most notable features of the series is the open-ended approach to gameplay, allowing players to tackle quests in seemingly endless ways. Skills will open up unique dialogue options, and in many cases, combat can be entirely avoided.
After the massive success of Pillars of Eternity, the sequel was eventually announced by Obsidian with the goal to fund the game through crowdfunding, much in the same way they gathered the funding for the original. The campaign for the sequel was even more successful than the first, bringing in over $1.1 million in the first day, and eventually reaching $4.4 million by the time the donation period ended.
Until now, the game has only been available on PC, but the new console release will allow Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players to finally get their hands on this great RPG. Along with the standard physical and digital editions, a new Ultimate Collector's Edition will be available upon release. The collector's edition comes with:
Premium Box and Packaging
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire plus all available DLC: "Seeker, Slayer, Survivor," "The Forgotten Sanctum," and "Beast of Winter"
A 10″ Od Nua Statue
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is set to launch on January 28th.
A Nintendo Switch version is also coming, but THQ Nordic has not given any details on an expected release date.
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I think it would be a safe bet to say most people stick with the default ASP.Net MVC folder structure and set up whereby the project structure is organised by architectural role (e.g. models, views and controllers) and not by business feature (e.g. registration, shopping cart, order history etc. ). For small projects to me this is fine. For bigger projects however it can be cumbersome to navigate as code related to particular features are scattered over multiple folders.
This ' by architectural role' organisation goes against how in my experience software is written. Usually we build systems out feature by feature rather than writing all HTML markup, all controllers, all model classes etc. During development, this is particularly true in teams that embrace agile with its focus on delivering something that works and adds value at the end of each sprint. Imagine spending a three week sprint just writing viewModels… business value derived at end of sprint = 0. Check out this post on stackoverflow for some interesting comments on the merits of organising MVC by feature.
I'm sold… how do I organise my ASP.Net MVC project folders by feature? Well, given that MVC searches for controllers by type and name (not folder location) you can simply just start creating folders for 'Registration', 'CheckOut' etc. in the root and put your controllers, viewmodels and models in them and MVC will work fine. Views however are required to be in one of a number of predefined locations so simply creating folders won't help you here. MVC is very extensible so we can of course change view locations and I will outline all the steps required to do this later. First however let's look at MVC built in 'Areas' to see if they can meet our requirements 'out of the box'.
A downside of areas unfortunately is that within them things are still organised into three folders; models, views and controllers. Yes everything within an area is related to a particular feature (a big step in the right direction) but code within that feature is still scattered as can be seen from the image to the left.
If this project layout gives you what you need, excellent, areas is what you should use. The extra advantage of using areas is of course they are available out of the box so if you have problems with them there is likely to be a lot of help available online. Snesh Prajapati's article on areas in MVC 4 (no major changes in MVC 5 (not sure about MVC 6) except for how they are added I believe) on codeproject.com is one of the better articles on areas. In her article she notes the downsides of just creating moduleA, moduleB etc. folders under each of the root controllers, models and views folder. She also outlines the routing related code needed to wire up areas.
For my recent projects areas didn't meet my needs as I was aiming for a structure similar to the right whereby everything could be in one folder. I know I could get close to this by just putting controllers, models and viewmodels in an area root and deleting the controllers and models folders. This however means my URLs get longer (a consequence of using areas), linking between areas becomes a little more 'complicated' and of course I'm still forced to put my views in the views folder (albeit a feature specific one).
The first step to change view location in MVC is to remove existing view engines and add RazorViewModel back in and define where the views are. Below I'm instructing MVC to look in ~/Shared/Views/VIEWNAME.cshtml (which will be the new location for shared views) and ~/CONTROLLERNAME/VIEWNAME.cshtml for my normal views. After this MVC does not care about the default ~/Views folder anymore. Note to change view location in MVC you don't have to create a new ViewEngine like many places recommend.
Merge the ~/Views/web.config file with into the root web.config file. Views derive from System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage and the root web.config doesn't have this assembly referenced by default. Referencing it from root web.config means you don't have to add a web.config for each new feature folder you add. Not everything needs to be brought across as some of it is there already, just focus on sections highlighted in yellow below.
Set BlockViewHandler path to '*.cshtml' in the now updated root web.config. The web.config in the views folder had this set to '*', meaning IIS would, for security reasons refuse to serve any files from the views folder. Setting it to .cshtml means all the CSS and JS will render correctly…. but wait…..
… note this is the blacklist approach where we are explicitly blocking .cshtml files from being served. We may add a new type of file in the future to a location in the project that doesn't have it's own web.config (and hence uses root web.config) which we do not want served but if we forget to change the above it will be silently served.
A more secure approach is to whitelist and explicitly allow whatever extension we know to be safe to be served. I'm obviously recommending the whitelist approach but I've included the blacklist approach just to illustrate the differences between the two as not many articles discussing how to change view location in MVC mention this when they advise the whitelist approach.
Copy all files ~/Views/Shared to ~/Shared/Views. The original views/shared folder is now a dead duck, bring whatever views (most likely _Layout.cshtml at least) you need from there to the Shared/Views folder which hangs off the root.
Copy _ViewStart.cshtml from ~/Views to ~ and update the layout path inside it to point to new location of the _Layout.cshtml file.
Delete existing ~/Views folder as we have everything we need from it now.
Delete controllers and models folder in root when you moved all your classes to their own feature folders.
For an absolutely great overview of 'Clean Architecture' which is the underlying pattern behind the idea of organising software around business features please check out Matthew Renze's excellent video on Youtube.
Thanks for sharing this Dave. It's good to see others embracing the notion of high cohesion within a feature.
Each component is self-contained and independent and can be composed by pages view. Quite like the upcoming ViewComponents in MVC6. With some twists.
I will try this concept in my ongoing project. Great article.
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. I like your idea Pavneet to include the client side resources needed too such as CSS and HTML. Am not overly familiar with view components in MVC 6 but will review soon.


Despite uncooperative weather and a rocky project site, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis says its $60 million homeless shelter and housing project in downtown St. Paul is on track to open in summer 2019.
The Dorothy Day Place building, under construction at 183 Old Sixth St. W., has reached its full six-story height. Construction started last year. On Thursday, Catholic Charities held a "topping off" event to celebrate placement of the last beam at the top of the building.
Tim Marx, CEO of Catholic Charities, said the project has gone well despite a rough winter and a rockier-than-expected building site. Those obstacles may push the opening into mid- or late summer 2019 instead of early summer as previously hoped, he said.
"The winter took a big bite out of the schedule. … But in summary, things are going great for a building of that size and scope in the urban core," Marx said, adding that about 30,000 work hours have been logged on the project.
St. Louis Park Watson-Forsberg is heading up construction and St. Paul-based Cermak Rhoades has architecture duties.
When completed, the building will offer 177 permanent housing units and other services for people in need. It will link to the $40 million, 193-unit first project phase, which opened across the street in January 2017.
The overall $100 million project replaces the previous Dorothy Day Center, an outdated and overcrowded building that was demolished last year on the site of the current project.
The project is being built with $60 million in public money and $40 million in private money. Major donors include the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation ($5 million) and Target Corp. ($2 million).
Public funding sources include the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, the Minnesota Department of Human Services, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, the Metropolitan Council, Ramsey County, and the city of St. Paul, according to Catholic Charities.
The project received $12 million from the 2017 state bonding bill and $13.475 million from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, among other funding sources.


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Canada Jay. Photo: Rajan Desai/Audubon Photography Awards
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NEW YORK (December 7, 2022) — A delegation from the National Audubon Society, the leading bird conservation organization in the Americas, will join world leaders as they reconvene for the second part of the UN Convention on Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal this month. Audubon CEO Elizabeth Gray, will head the delegation, which also includes Chief Conservation Officer Marshall Johnson, Board Director and acclaimed wildlife advocate Jane Alexander, Senior Vice President of Audubon Americas Aurelio Ramos, and Vice President for Boreal Conservation Jeff Wells, among others.
COP15's theme, "Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth," is in full alignment with Audubon's mission and current ambitious agenda to protect birds and the places they need. Birds are the canaries in the coal mine of biodiversity loss. In 2019 Audubon scientists discovered that in North America alone, two-thirds of bird species are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change. But birds can also point the way to nature-based solutions that will deliver benefits for all life on Earth.
"Across the globe, the loss of bird populations has been a harbinger of biodiversity loss, but birds can also point the way forward," says Audubon CEO Elizabeth Gray. "Ensuring that they have healthy habitats and flyways is critical not only for birds and their ecosystems, but for all life. It is essential that conservation organizations work together with Indigenous governments and communities, local groups, governments, and the private sector. At Audubon, we are taking urgent and ambitious collective action to safeguard the future for both people and wildlife."
As Audubon scientists found in a 2021 study, critical bird habitats often overlap with key ecosystems like forests, wetlands, and peatlands, which also serve as natural carbon sinks and habitats for many species. Conserving and protecting these landscapes not only provides safe havens for birds and other wildlife, but helps mitigate the effects of climate change.
Founded in 1905, the National Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation organization — with a wingspan of over 500 nationwide chapters and 1.6 million members — that protects birds and their ecosystems. From shutting down the plumage trade, to banning the pesticides that caused the "Silent Spring," to mobilizing to pass the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act, Audubon has been at the forefront in preserving the planet for nature and people alike for over a century.
Today, Audubon works directly across the Americas and in partnership with organizations across the world to protect birds and the places they need. Audubon partners with the clean energy industry and lawmakers to ramp up renewable energy production and mitigate wildlife interactions, and leads research on the resiliency of hundreds of bird species and their habitats as well as the impact of climate change on the places they live. The Audubon Americas program brings a hemispheric approach to protecting birds over their entire lifecycle in partnership with numerous other countries and Indigenous governments and communities.
"The natural world that birds and other species are fundamentally dependent upon does not respect international borders and divisions. Environmental challenges and solutions in any part of the globe can affect us all." says Audubon Board Director and acclaimed wildlife advocate Jane Alexander, "At this conference, we must come together as a global society to overcome these divides and safeguard the common future of all living beings."
At COP15, Audubon will be engaging with world leaders, Indigenous leaders, the NGO sector, the business community, youth, and others to develop, advocate for, and help implement effective strategies for conserving and restoring biodiversity. Audubon engages its diverse membership and numerous partners in promoting the most effective nature-based solutions to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
"Conserving and protecting birds and their habitats is the answer to many of the resource challenges that will be discussed at this conference," says Audubon Chief Conservation Officer Marshall Johnson. "We must adopt strategies that are collaborative, equitable, and harmonious with nature. Audubon and our partners at the forefront of the conservation movement can help lead the way."
"Hemispheric cooperation to protect birds and biodiversity, which includes Canada and countries across the Americas as well as Indigenous governments and communities, can serve as a model for how leaders at COP15 can collaborate to protect nature anywhere in the world," says Senior Vice President of Audubon Americas Aurelio Ramos.
Audubon will also co-host three side events at the Montreal COP to which the press is invited:
"The Launch of the Americas Flyways Initiative" will celebrate a strategic alliance between Audubon, BirdLife International, and the Latin American and the Caribbean Development Bank (CAF). This groundbreaking hemispheric collaboration will drive scientific research and financing in biodiversity conservation, as well as sustainable financial investments. This innovative collaboration will also support the design and implementation of large-scale development projects across a network of linked sites shared by migratory birds along the Americas' flyways. The launch announcement will be held at the GEF Pavilion on December 16th at 10:00 AM.
"Listening to the Birds — How Indigenous organizations are co-producing acoustic research to inform conservation and stewardship," will be co-hosted alongside the Seal River Watershed Alliance (SRWA), a partnership of four First Nations to defend a healthy watershed and safeguard all life on Earth. Indigenous governments and communities have long-played an invaluable role in environmental stewardship, including ongoing efforts to establish Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) that preserve boreal lands. The event will take place in the Canada Pavilion on December 17th at 11:30 AM.
"The Global Treasure – Boreal Forests, peat bogs, and ocean" will be co-hosted with Wildlands League, Mushkegowuk Council, Weenusk First Nation, and Wildlife Conservation Society. The event will take place in the Canada Pavilion on December 11 at 2:00 PM
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Audubon works throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. State programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners give Audubon an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. A nonprofit conservation organization since 1905, Audubon believes in a world in which people and wildlife thrive. Learn more at www.audubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
Media Contact (in Montreal): Rebecca Sentner, Rebecca.sentner@audubon.org
Media Contact (in New York): Robyn Shepherd, robyn.shepherd@audubon.org
Media Contact (in Colombia): Poly Martinez, poly.martinez@audubon.org
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Just two months ago, Ariana Grande stood onstage at the 2018 VMAs, accepting the award for Best Pop, and shouted out her fiancé. "Pete Davidson, thanks for existing," she said. The zeitgeist of their relationship and subsequent engagement, which began in early June, had reached its peak. And then it was over.
Since the news that the pair had ended things a little over a week ago, Ari's taken herself off of social media for the time being — though maybe she's back now? Pete, meanwhile, has been off social media for months. But as his trademark hilarious contributions to SNL's Weekend Update consistently remind us, the dude tends to keep it real. So that's what he did over the weekend.
Pete also apparently took time to address the, uh, "permanent" reminders of his and Ari's love that he got inked onto his body during their dizzying summer romance.
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Lunine to Congress: Americans will 'walk the red soil of Mars'
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By: Blaine Friedlander , Cornell Chronicle
Cornell astronomer Jonathan Lunine suggested to Congress reasonable, practical steps – including baby steps back to the moon – to help Americans one day put boots on the oxidized dust of Mars.
At the May 8 hearing before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, "Keeping Our Sights on Mars: A Review of NASA's Deep Space Exploration," Lunine outlined basic, smart approaches to putting humans on our red neighboring planet, based on a National Academies report he co-chaired in 2014, "Pathways to Exploration: Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration."
Make Mars the horizon goal for human spaceflight, with the moon an intermediate destination, Lunine told the House members. He said international partnerships are crucial to such long-range endeavors, and currently immature technologies must be developed for: a spacecraft's entry, descent and landing; advanced in-space propulsion and power; and radiation safety.
"We must be in it for the long haul," said Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science. "An Apollo-style sprint to the moon – in and of itself – is not a stepping stone" to Mars.
If the U.S. wants to undertake a program of deep space exploration, he said, there must be a long national commitment.
"Good political support requires a steady cadence of successes, so that taxpayers can see a return on their investment in a short-enough time for the relationship between an investment and payoff to be clear," Lunine said. "It is precisely that approach which … [when] used in timely manner, will assure that Americans will return to the moon and one day walk on the red soil of Mars."
Lunine joined William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations; Mark Sirangelo, NASA special assistant to the administrator; and others to testify before the full subcommittee, which is chaired by Rep. Kendra Horn (D-Oklahoma.)
During questions, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), whose district is suburban Houston, wanted details on important factors that scientists and engineers would need to work out in the leap from a lunar mission to a Mars project. Lunine said that shielding astronauts from radiation, environmental control and life-support systems for long-term stays on the moon will be directly applicable to Mars.
Lunine addressed questions from Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virginia) about international collaborations and the long-term sustainability of humanity.
"We recognize the realities of humans living entirely independently on a planet as inhospitable as Mars," Lunine said, acknowledging that making humans a two-planet species is aspirational. "I don't think anybody is under the misapprehension that putting a base on Mars, we would avoid human extinction should our home planet [experience] catastrophe. The Mars colony would also go away."
Keeping Earth healthy is critical to human success. Said Lunine: "We must take care of our own planet, in order to survive as a species. But in living on another planet, it will change our perspective as a species and lead to a future that we might not otherwise imagine."
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Parks and Rec, Homeless Policing Win Big in Budget
$150,000 Set Aside for New Private Security Patrols
By Nick Welsh
Thu Jun 05, 2014 | 12:00am
The big winner in this year's budget deliberations at Santa Barbara City Hall was clearly the Parks and Recreation Department — much reduced during what's now referred to as the Great Recession — but drawing the most attention during Monday's special city council session were a couple of big-ticket items designed to make residents and tourists visiting downtown feel safe around the homeless. The council voted to add yet another sworn officer to the Santa Barbara Police Department's roster — at a cost of $150,000 a year — bringing the total to 143. In addition, the council set aside $150,000 to hire two private security personnel whose function would be to patrol State Street and deter obnoxious behavior by younger street people. Sergeant Mike McGrew, representing the Police Officers Association, urged the council not to contract out such services and warned councilmembers that they will find themselves on the hook for "millions of dollars" if poorly trained private security personnel triggered lawsuits down the road. "There's nothing like a cop," agreed Councilmember Randy Rowse.
With cash registers ringing and real estate values increasing, City Hall found itself $1 million more flush than initially expected. The council agreed to allocate an extra $53,000 for juvenile jobs programs targeting at-risk teens as well as $100,000 for new playground equipment at East Beach and $75,000 to replace the grass at Bohnett Park's soccer field with synthetic turf. Another $25,000 will go to designing a new playground near the city's tennis courts on Old Coast Highway. City finance czar Bob Samario said Santa Barbara's coffers were much fuller than expected because hotel owners were reaping the whirlwind of unseasonably good weather, yielding four months last year in which bed-tax revenues came in at least 20 percent higher than the previous year. Likewise, he said property taxes are on the rise, indicating that recent assessments will yield an increase of 4.5 percent in revenues, well above the 2 percent expected.
https://www.independent.com/2014/06/05/parks-and-rec-homeless-policing-win-big-budget/