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Alaska Refuges, Friends, and the Public Suffer from Shut Down: What You Can Do
by Robbi Mixon
by Poppy Benson, Friends Outreach Coordinator
What on earth does "the wall" have to do with Tetlin's lynx research project, a school children's Discovery Lab in Homer or a snowshoe walk in Kenai? Well these programs and so much more are being held hostage to the budget fight in Washington. The federal government shutdown, now in its third week, has shuttered all Alaska Refuge visitor centers and offices, canceled environmental education and public programs, postponed meetings and agreements, delayed hiring even of volunteers, postponed commenting on the Arctic Refuge oil leasing EIS, and postponed the start of winter biology projects such as the lynx project and moose counts.
Only 21 employees in Alaska were deemed "essential" and they are working without pay mainly to protect facilities and carry out the shutdown. All others have been sent home as the Fish & Wildlife Service, without a budget, has no authority to pay employees. Two Friends events have already been cancelled due to the shutdown and several others are at risk. We can't meet with Refuge staff if they aren't on the job. Below is a list of some closures, cancellations and postponements that we know about. It is hard to get information on the scope of the cancellations when there are no refuge staff available to talk to. We also do not know if refuge wildlife and lands are suffering damage such as is reported for the Lower 48 National Parks and Refuges. All lands remain open to public use but the public is warned they are on their own.
Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center, Homer (Alaska Maritime Refuge)
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, Soldotna
Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, Kodiak
Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, Bethel
All Alaska Public Information Centers
CANCELED:
Friends Strategic Planning Workshop & "Meet the Managers" events
Environmental education programs – all Refuges
NOT MAINTAINED:
All Refuge Facebook pages, web pages and other social media communicating with the public.
Refuge trails, roads and cabins
AT RISK:
Friends Membership meeting on January 15. Won't have a speaker if shut down in effect.
Friends Discovery Trip to the Dolly Varden Cabin on the Kenai Refuge, February 1 – 3
Friends opening of the Coldfoot Visitor Center for aurora watchers, February 15 to April 15. The issue here is whether or not the extensive background checks can be completed in time.
Yukon River Fishery Decisions – State Board of Fish Meeting son the Yukon & Kuskokwim finfish – January 15 – will be no Yukon Delta Refuge staff or FWS fisheries participation
Arctic Refuge comments on oil and gas leasing of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – February 11
Alaska Marine Science Symposium January 28 – no FWS or NOAA participation if the shutdown continues.
The hiring of refuge summer seasonal staff and volunteers.
Winter biology projects.
Rural children's Migratory Bird Calendar Contest
UAF Oral History Project planned for several Native communities
Contact our Congressional Delegation and the President and tell them to quit holding Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges hostage over a budget fight. Tell them:
this shut down is costing all of us taxpayers money and opportunities to enjoy our public lands, programs, and facilities; the impact of this shut down will extend well beyond a return to work as our hardworking refuge staffs will be hard put to make up for this time lost from the job; and it is a breach of faith to not pay employees especially those who are still required to work.
It doesn't take but a minute to fill in the email forms on our delegations' web pages:
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator Dan Sullivan
Representative Don Young
Not from Alaska? Find links to your representatives and updates on the shut down at the National Wildlife Refuge Association here.
2018 Review: Friends Advocacy Initiatives
In 2018, we were confronted by many important threats to our National Wildlife Refuges and Parks in Alaska and the Nation. Friends are at the forefront of efforts to prevent the Administration from permanently damaging habitat and wildlife and giving away lands in national conservation units. Below are the major actions in which we have participated along with our many conservation partners.
Izembek Land Trade and Road
Secretary Zinke and his staff undertook a series of secret negotiations that resulted in a land trade with those who have pushed for an unnecessary and costly road through the heart of the Izembek Wilderness. The Friends organization is the lead plaintiff along with eight other conservation organizations in the lawsuit filed in the Anchorage Federal District Court that challenges the proposed land trade and road. We are represented by Trustees for Alaska that has performed excellent legal work on behalf of the conservation organizations. Everything has been submitted and argued, we and await a ruling by the Court on our motion for summary judgment.
Oil Drilling in the Arctic Coastal Plain
The criticism continues concerning the DOI fast-track goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) for oil leasing in less than six months. The environmental assessment for the proposed seismic testing has not been issued by BLM but could occur very soon. For a summary of the potential risks and impacts from seismic activity, click on the Alaska Wilderness League fact sheet here. We expect that the potential environmental impacts of seismic exploration and lease sales will not be adequately addressed and documented, which would result in extensive litigation by national organizations and Friends challenging these proposed actions.
Friends and 14 other organizations intervened in the lawsuit by the State of Alaska and Safari Clubs International that challenged the National Park Service 2015 predator control regulations. The case was put on hold until December 10, 2018, because the Park Service was ordered by the DOI to issue revised regulations. We joined the other organizations in comments drafted by Trustees for Alaska opposing the revised regulations. We await the outcome of that process.
Kenai Revised Regulations
The USFWS is preparing revisions to the regulations regarding hunting and access in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. This revision was ordered by DOI to accommodate the long-standing efforts of the State of Alaska to dramatically increase hunting and motorized access on the Refuge. As with the similar DOI orders to the National Park Service, their plan is to eliminate long-standing protections to habitat and wildlife on national wildlife refuges. We expect that the Department of Interior will require the Refuge to accept the demands of the State to allow baiting of brown bears and off-road vehicle access during the winter, but expanded hunting in the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area along the Skilak Loop Road may not be addressed until later. We are closely monitoring this process and working with our conservation partners to prevent or minimize these destructive regulations.
Hovercrafts on Navigable Waters
Together with the National Parks Conservation Association and other organizations, Friends entered an amicus brief in Sturgeon v. Masica in opposition to Sturgeon's claim that, contrary to National Park Service regulations, he can operate his hovercraft on the navigable waters of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. After the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals denied his claim, the case was accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not yet issued its decision.
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act
Senator Sullivan's bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act represents a major threat to federal conservation units in Alaska. It would revise provisions regarding land allotments for Alaska Native Vietnam veterans. Eligibility is expanded to include all Alaska Native veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975. Allotments may be selected from vacant federal lands or lands that have been selected or conveyed to the State of Alaska or an Alaska Native corporation, if the State or corporation relinquishes or conveys the land to the United States for allotment. An heir of a deceased eligible veteran, regardless of the cause of death, may apply for and receive an allotment. We are following the progress of this legislation and hope that it will not become law.
On behalf of our Board of Directors, I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season and a New Year filled with conservation victories against the forces of darkness!
by David Raskin, Friends Board President
2018 October Advocacy Report
Posted: October 17, 2018 October 6, 2018
The criticism continues concerning the DOI fast-track goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) for oil leasing in less than six months. The environmental assessment for the seismic testing has not been issued. For a summary of the potential risks and impacts from seismic click on the Alaska Wilderness League fact sheet here.
DOI is moving forward with technical administrative items to advance the land exchange, including surveying the road corridor and material sites. Notice of the survey was in Federal Register on Sept. 12th. DOJ has confirmed that BLM is going to be republishing the FR Notice because it was confusion. This will restart the clock on the 30 day review and protest period once it is republished.
The lawsuit challenging the proposed land trade and road through the heart of the Izembek wilderness is in the hands of the Anchorage Federal District Court as Trustees for Alaska performs excellent legal work on behalf of Friends and eight other conservation organizations who filed the lawsuit against the proposed land trade and road. We await a ruling by the court on our motion for summary judgment. There was little new in the government brief, and we remain optimistic that we will prevail against this destructive, costly, and unnecessary project.
The USFWS is preparing revisions to the regulations regarding hunting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. This revision was ordered by DOI to accommodate the long-standing efforts of the State of Alaska to dramatically increase hunting and motorized access on the Refuge. As with the similar DOI orders to the National Park Service, their plan is to eliminate long-standing protections of habitat and wildlife on national wildlife refuges. We expect that the Department of Interior will that the Refuge follow the demands of the State to allow baiting of brown bears, off-road vehicle access during the winter, expanded hunting in the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area along the Skilak Loop Road. We are closely monitoring this process and working with our conservation partners to prevent or at least minimize these destructive regulations.
September 2018 Advocacy Update
Posted: September 7, 2018 August 30, 2018
By Board President, David Raskin
The criticism continues concerning the DOI fast-track goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) for oil leasing in less than six months. There are serious questions about the financial health, expertise, and independence of the contractor to whom BLM has granted a permit to conduct extensive seismic exploration on the Coastal Plain. Such operations would leave lasting scars on the tundra and destroy vegetation. Seismic testing also poses a risk to denning polar bears that are increasingly coming onshore in the Arctic Refuge to build their winter maternity dens. Even with the best technology, it is not possible to identify all denning sites. The vibrations from testing can and have caused female polar bears to abandon their cubs. For a summary of the potential risks and impacts from seismic click on the Alaska Wilderness League fact sheet here.
The Bureau of Land Management has yet to post the full seismic application, only a seven-page project proposal summary document. Seismic exploration could begin as soon as this December. The BLM claims that the impacts from seismic exploration are minimal and necessitate only a brief Environmental Assessment rather than a full Environmental Impact Statement. This rushed and potentially flawed process to assess the potential damage from seismic exploration and oil development continues to raise the specter of legal action by conservation organizations that would considerably delay the government's frantic rush to develop oil in the Arctic Refuge.
The lawsuit challenging the proposed land trade and road through the heart of the Izembek wilderness continues to work its way through the Anchorage Federal District Court as Trustees for Alaska performs excellent legal work on behalf of Friends and eight other conservation organizations who filed the lawsuit against the proposed land trade and road. Trustees is preparing our reply to the Department of Justice reply brief that was filed August 22. There is little new in the government brief, and we remain optimistic that we will prevail against this destructive, costly, and unnecessary project.
The USFWS is preparing revisions to the regulations regarding hunting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. This revision was ordered by DOI to accommodate the long-standing efforts of the State of Alaska to dramatically increase hunting and motorized access on the Refuge. As with the similar DOI orders to the National Park Service, their plan is to eliminate long-standing protections of habitat and wildlife on national wildlife refuges. The State wants to authorize hunting of brown bears at bait stations, which has never been allowed on refuges, and expand hunting and access in other areas of the refuge that have been limited by extensive studies and public participation that resulted in the current regulations. We are closely monitoring this process and working with our conservation partners to prevent or at least minimize these destructive regulations.
Sturgeon v. Frost
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to rehear the Sturgeon lawsuit against the National Park Service that had prevented his continued operation of a hovercraft in a national park. This suit challenged the authority of the Park Service to regulate activities on navigable waters in the national parks, which has major implications for national wildlife refuges and other national conservation lands. We had joined an Amicus Brief submitted by Trustees for Alaska on behalf of 14 conservation organizations in support of the Park Service. The Sturgeon oral argument has been scheduled for Monday, November 5 in the Supreme Court.
There are no big changes in the government's arguments, although there has been a change in the alignment of the amici. The congressional delegation did not file this time, and the ANCSA corporations mostly dropped out, only Ahtna filed. We are in a strong position with the brief we had previously filed, which is being updated for resubmission. The U.S. brief on behalf of the National Park Service will be filed on September 11.
August 2018 Advocacy Update
Posted: August 8, 2018 August 8, 2018
There has been considerable criticism of the DOI fast-track goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) in less than six months. We participated in a meeting of conservation organizations with the BLM staff that is implementing orders from DOI. The scoping process has been completed and comments can be viewed online.
It appears that the independent contractor hired to prepare the Draft Environmental Statement (DEIS) will rely mostly on existing data and previous analyses, most of which are either incomplete or out of date. BLM was not forthcoming in response to our questions about the process and timing of actions. The Yukon government is launching its own study of drilling impacts in Alaska's Arctic refuge. The Canadian territory is particularly concerned with potential impacts to the caribou herds who calve on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain and the Gwich'in people who depend on them for subsistence.
In the meantime, BLM has accepted a permit to conduct extensive seismic exploration on the Coastal Plain. The BLM is working on an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed activities, but they provided little information about the timing of its completion, if and when a public comment period will occur, and when a decision will be made on the need for a full environmental analysis. The potential damage from such activities is great, and lasting damage from previous seismic activities is described in this article:
This rushed and potentially flawed process to assess the potential damage from seismic exploration and oil development has raised widespread concerns that legal action by conservation organizations would cause considerable delays in government plans to develop oil in the Arctic Refuge.
Under orders from DOI, the Fish and Wildlife Service granted a permit for survey work to delineate the boundaries of the lands in the Refuge that would be conveyed to build the road through the Izembek Wilderness. This legally-questionable survey that was hurriedly completed in July impacted wildlife and habitat with 80 helicopter landings and installation of 122 survey monuments. This intensive work with motorized equipment and aircraft was conducted within congressionally-designated wilderness in preparation for trading away vital public lands to a private entity to build the controversial road through the heart of the Izembek Wilderness.
The lawsuit challenging the proposed land trade and road through the heart of the Izembek wilderness is working its way through the Anchorage Federal District Court as Trustees for Alaska continues its excellent legal work on behalf of Friends and eight other conservation organizations who filed the lawsuit against the proposed land trade and road. Our legal brief was filed, and the Department of Justice reply brief is due on August 22. We remain optimistic that we will prevail against this destructive, costly, and unnecessary project.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to rehear the Sturgeon lawsuit against the National Park Service that had prevented his continued operation of a hovercraft in a national park. This suit challenged the authority of the Park Service to regulate activities on navigable waters in the national parks, which has major implications for national wildlife refuges and other national conservation lands. We had previously joined an Amicus Brief submitted by Trustees for Alaska on behalf of 14 conservation organizations in support of the Park Service. We reaffirmed our participation in this new round in the Supreme Court.
July 2018 Advocacy Update
Posted: July 9, 2018 July 9, 2018
by Board President, David Raskin and Board Member, Val Glooschenko
The Department of Interior (DOI) has completed the scoping hearings for the proposed sale of oil leases in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In spite of many formal requests to have additional hearings to allow testimony from those were not allowed time to speak at the hearings, DOI refused to extend the hearings, and the June 19 deadline for comments has passed. Conservation organizations estimated that at least a half-million comments were submitted in opposition to the lease sale and there were organized demonstrations at several hearings. We thank all of our members who submitted comments. The DOI fast-track goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) in less than six months seems unrealistic if it is intended to comply with federal law. Conservation organizations are closely monitoring this process and will respond appropriately.
The lawsuit challenging the proposed land trade and road through the heart of the Izembek wilderness is working its way through the Anchorage Federal District Court as Trustees for Alaska continues its excellent legal work on behalf of Friends and eight other conservation organizations who filed the lawsuit against the proposed land trade and road. Our legal brief is due on July 11, and the Department of Justice reply brief is due on August 22. We remain optimistic that we will prevail against this destructive, costly, and unnecessary project.
Of interest was a June 26 interchange between President Trump and Senator Murkowski during a meeting with senate Republican appropriators. Ms. Murkowski erroneously stated it is "a non-commercial road that we have been fighting about for 30 years," although she has previously stated that the road is for economic development, and the language of her own legislation includes authorization for commercial transportation. President Trump replied that in the next couple of months the appropriations "will be complete and they can go ahead and build." We have very different ideas!
Stop Alaska's War on Wolves and Bears
by Val Glooschenko
The Department of the Interior has proposed allowing unethical hunting practices on lands managed by the National Park Service?In May 2018, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke directed the National Park Service to allow extreme hunting methods in Alaska's national preserves, such as baiting brown bears, killing black bear mothers and cubs in dens, and killing wolves and pups by trapping during denning season. It is also proposed to allow gunning down migrating caribou while they are swimming and baiting of bears with garbage or donuts.
This unethical attack on bears and wolves on represents a reversal of hunting regulations finalized in 2015 by the Park Service, banning these unsportsmanlike practices. The Park Service implemented its previous 2015 wildlife management regulations after an extensive, multi-year public engagement process in which more than 70,000 Americans spoke out against these shameful hunting methods. However under Ryan Zinke, the National Park Service is being asked to reverse its previous 2015 policy. Zinke's reversal, if implemented, would force the Park Service to surrender its authority to protect bears and wolves and return to these shameful and unethical practices
Under leadership of the National Park Conservation Association, a number of conservation organizations are working together to alert the public about this matter. A strategy is being outlined to generate letters to the editor, opinion pieces, group letters and letters from individual Alaskans opposing the change in park regulations by the National Park Service. This comment period ends on July 23.
Additional information on this matter is available from the following websites provided by the National Parks Conservation Association and Defenders of Wildlife: .
Concerns about the proposed new regulations can be submitted through the NPCA or the Defenders of Wildlife websites or sent directly to the address below:
Andee Sears, Regional Law Enforcement Specialist, Alaska Regional Office, 240 West 5th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. Phone (907) 644-3410. Email: AKR_Regulations@nps.gov
Several sample letters follow:
From Members of the Public :
I am an Alaskan (personalize here if possible). Like so many of us, I came to Alaska partially for the opportunity to live in a place with bears and wolves in the wild. I am very disappointed that Secretary Zinke has proposed allowing the state to use extreme sport hunting methods like brown bear baiting to reduce predator populations on national preserves. Those lands were set aside to protect our resources for future generations, including balanced populations of predators and prey. Alaska will be worse off if our national parklands are treated like glorified game farms.
Hunter Letter:
I am a hunter. It is an important part of Alaska culture. And I am glad hunting is allowed on the 20 million acres of national preserves in Alaska. But I don't support extreme sport hunting measures like brown bear baiting, and I don't support the state of Alaska's efforts to reduce bear and wolf populations on national parklands. That is not what our country's national park lands are for. The National Park Service needs to stand strong and protect predators and balanced, healthy ecosystems for us and for our children.
Tourism Talking Points
Last year, 2.7 million people visited AK national parks and spent $1.3 billion in the state.
Those people come to see wildlife, particularly bears.
Seeing bears in the wild is a special experience that is transformative for so many visitors, and for so many Alaskans.
We need to make sure the Park Service can protect bears, wolves and balanced ecosystems so that visitors and Alaskans have a chance to experience iconic wildlife and so that our tourism economy continues to bring in money for Alaskans.
Arctic Oil Leasing Scoping FANWR Comments (June 2018)
Posted: June 14, 2018 June 15, 2018
June 2018 Advocacy Update
The 2017 tax law mandated the sale of oil leases in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The proposed oil development would devastate the biological integrity and wilderness character of the crown jewel of National Wildlife Refuge System. It would violate the 1987 signed agreement between the governments of the United States and Canada to protect the porcupine caribou herd that is critical to the subsistence lifestyle and spiritual well-being of the Gwich'in people of Alaska and Canada. The Department of Interior has fast-tracked this process with a goal of completing a draft environmental statement (DEIS) in less than six months. They have held scoping meetings in Alaska and Washington, DC to receive public comments on what should be included in the DEIS. Along with many others, I testified at the Anchorage hearing to express our opposition to the proposed drilling and to urge thorough examinations of the many issues and problems posed by oil drilling and production (see above). The deadline to submit comments is June 19. You can email them to: blm_ak_coastalplain_EIS@blm.gov
Click here to sign on to our petition demanding the suspension of this ill-conceived scheme or submit your individual comments regarding drilling in the Arctic Refuge to the BLM by clicking here. (the comment link is on the right hand side of the page under "Submit Scoping Comments" please submit comments on the Notice of Intent)
The National Park Service has proposed amendments to its regulations for sport hunting and trapping in national preserves in Alaska. The proposed rules are published at https://federalregister.gov/d/2018-10735. These new rules would remove a regulatory provision issued by the National Park Service in 2015 that prohibited certain sport hunting practices that are otherwise permitted by the State of Alaska. The proposed rules are consistent with Alaska rules that allow taking any black bear, including cubs and sows with cubs, with artificial light at den sites; harvesting brown bears over bait; taking wolves and coyotes (including pups) during the denning season (between May 1 and August 9); taking swimming caribou; taking caribou from motorboats under power; taking black bears over bait; and using dogs to hunt black bears. These methods are inconsistent with responsible wildlife management and are opposed by many biological experts, including those who formulated the rules previously adopted by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the current rules for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, which are also being revised. The deadline to submit comments on the proposed Park Service rules is July 23, 2018.
Recently, the Alaska Department of Transportation inquired about a permit for additional survey work in the proposed road corridor that would involve drilling into the substrate and construction of facilities. The Fish and Wildlife Service informed them that would not be possible as long as the land remains in federal ownership. The lawsuit challenging the proposed land trade and road through the heart of the Izembek wilderness is pending in the Anchorage Federal District Court as Trustees for Alaska continues its excellent legal work on behalf of Friends and eight other conservation organizations who oppose the proposed land trade and road. This process is working through the many necessary legal steps, and we remain optimistic that we will prevail against this destructive, costly, and unnecessary project.
Stop Arctic Refuge Drilling
Posted: June 2, 2018 June 14, 2018
The Trump administration has launched the process to lease the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. In April, the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) initiated the first step in that process with an environmental review which is preceded by a public comment period which is open until June 19th.
Read the Notice of Intent here.
Suggested Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Talking/Commenting Points from the Wilderness Society
The Arctic Refuge is an amazing wilderness area that provides essential resources for the Gwichi'in and other Alaska Natives, and recreation opportunities for the general public.
The Arctic Refuge is one of the country's most treasured and beautiful landscapes which should not be destroyed by oil and gas development.
The coastal plain is extremely important and globally significant habitat for caribou, migratory bird breeding, wolves, and denning polar bears, as well as other Arctic and Alaskan species.
Oil and gas drilling would have devastating impacts on this fragile coastal ecosystem due to the massive and polluting infrastructure needed to explore, produce and transport the oil. This includes sprawling roads, pipelines, drill pads, worker facilities and other infrastructure.
Oil drilling infrastructure likely will sprawl over vast stretches of the narrow coastal plain, adversely impacting wildlife and subsistence. Caribou females with calves often avoid infrastructure, and the narrow coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge may limit their ability to shift away from infrastructure like they can do in wider areas near Prudhoe Bay.
Oil production will produce greenhouse gases and black carbon which will further harm the Arctic, an area currently warming at twice the rate of most other parts of the planet.
The new oil and gas development purpose of the Arctic Refuge conflicts with the other purposes of the refuge. Oil and gas development will degrade subsistence resources and access to those resources including wildlife, plants, water, and air quality, among others.
The Fish and Wildlife Service in 2015, after an extensive analysis, recommended wilderness protection for the coastal plain to Congress.
The U.S. and Canada have a 1987 treaty to protect the Porcupine Caribou Herd and that treaty's obligations must be honored. The BLM needs to coordinate with the Canadian government and indigenous nations on this treaty's requirements.
The Environmental Impact Statement must not be rushed. Procedural and scientific integrity, not political expediency, should drive the timeline. The EIS must utilize best available scientific information and traditional and local knowledge, and obtain data to fill baseline data gaps.
Given the major impacts a lease sale(s) will have on wildlife, the Gwich'in people, and others with connections to the Arctic Refuge – in combination with the lack of public debate on the tax law – we request a 60 day extension to the comment period.
2018 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival
Posted: May 26, 2018 May 26, 2018
Over 1,000 participants joined us in Homer for the 26th Annual Festival: Thursday, May 10th- Sunday, May 13th, 2018.
This Festival is co-sponsored by the Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and USFWS/ Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Alaska's largest wildlife viewing festival honors the return of spring and it's breathtaking bird migration. Homer's seaside setting is perfect for spotting over 130 migratory bird species, as well as numerous other resident species. This event takes a village- the Friends and USFWS coordinated over 70 volunteers and had help from several area organizations such as Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, Cook Inletkeeper, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve, Pratt Museum, the Homer Chamber of Commerce, Homer News, and many more!
Our Keynote Speakers included Noah Strycker and Iain Campbell. Our distinguished guests presented a variety of workshops and lectures, including presentations on Strycker's new books, Birding Without Borders. Campbell offered daily photography workshops as well. This year's very popular artwork was created by Homer's own Erin Rae D'Eimon. Junior Birders learned valuable birding skills during a variety of school-aged themed workshops and presentations.
(photos by Brandon Hill, Robin Edwards, Carla Stanley)
After our Saturday Keynote Address, Friends Member Dave Aplin, along with the help of some of the audience showed support for protecting the Arctic Refuge, holding handmade signs and completing petitions:
#DefendtheSacred
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January Advocacy Report: Changes that may make a difference January 10, 2022
ZOOM Link here for: Bridging the Gap/Usguciaraq: Tuesday, 1/18, 5 – 6 p.m. (AKT) January 7, 2022
No meeting in December but we've got a great line-up for next year! December 14, 2021
December Advocacy Report: Wildlife refuges are places where a majority of our nation's animals find the habitat they need to survive. December 9, 2021
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Club awards night for 2016
By Kristina Sun 19th Feb
Hurling, Ladies Football, Mens Football, News
2016 Award winners (from left) – Ciar‡n Breen (Young Achiever of the Year, Jim Doherty Memorial trophy, Paddy Bradley (Young Footballer of the Year – collected by Peadar Doody), Thomas Hannigan (Reserve Footballer of the Year), Stephen Mullan (Senior Footballer of the Year), Kevin Cunningham (Club Person of the Year, Michael Healy Memorial trophy), Louise Moynagh (Ladies football, Senior Player of the Year), Liam Flanagan (Young Hurler of the Year), Gerard Fox (Senior Hurler of the Year), Megan McKenna (Ladies football, Young Player of the Year)
The 'Hall for All' at Healy Park looked resplendent on Saturday night when we hosted our annual awards night in the venue for the first time in many years. A large crowd thoroughly enjoyed the occasion which recognised various club members for their contribution in 2016.
As well as player awards for mens football, ladies football and hurling, the highight of the evening was the presentation of our Presidents Awards and Club Person of the Year.
Outgoing President for 2016 Andy McAleer had the honour of handing over the baton to another highly regarded member Kieran Young who will hold the reigns for 2017. As a former senior footballer and Tyrone and Ulster winning Scór Ceili dancer, Kieran was bar steward in the club for over 30 years and is still actively involved in club affairs including the management of our weeky bingo sessions.
The ultimate highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Michael Healy Memorial trophy to Club Person of the Year Kevin Cunningham, who was recognised for his huge contribution to the development of our games in 2016. As a youth football, hurling and camogie coach, Kevin who was a leading senior football and hurling player in the 90s, turned back the clock in 2016 when he played an instrumental role in restoring senior hurling to the club and went on to captain the team in their historic first appearance in the Tyrone Junior final.
Kevin, his wife Ann, and their family, epitomise what is great about St. Enda's and the GAA in general, and represents the growing number of family units in the club who have given unstinting service to our activities throughout the year.
The full list of award recipients were:
2017 President – Kieran Young
2016 Club Person of the Year – Kevin Cunningham
Senior Footballer of the Year – Stephen Mullan
Senior Hurler of the Year – Gerard Fox
Senior Ladies Footballer of the Year – Louise Moynagh
Reserve Footballer of the Year – Thomas Hannigan
Young Footballer of the Year – Paddy Bradley
Young Hurler of the Year – Liam Flanagan
Young Ladies Footballer of the Year – Megan McKenna
Young Achiever of the Year – Ciarán Breen.
Committee, General News, Ladies Football (Senior), Ladies Football (U18), Reserve Football, Scór, Senior Football & Hurling

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En tout cas sur le patch 5.0.5 la témé rend toujours insensible au contrôle "Peur"
Ne perdez pas votre temps a fear un war qui a claqué la témérité !
This is a great move to use against caster more than it is melee, oddly enough.
If I charge at a caster, I'm either stuck or feared, and I stay that way from 100% to 0%. I don't do enough damage between that brief moment of me being in their grill and me being cc'd in some way. With this, and lucky timing of my instant attacks and a heavy two-hander, sometimes I can kill them before I get pwned with deathcoil/fear or frostnova and pyroblast.
Not to say it doesn't work well on Rogues/Hunters/Paladin/etc.
This is one of the most devastating technique, both to the attackers and the warriors themselves. Make sure that there is a healer nearby, in case if the mobs/players overpower you (since you take 20% more damage). Use this spell in combination with whirlwind and cleave, in order to do maximum damage and to end the fight quickly.
You best make sure that you're either gonna end the fight quickly (for PvP) or that you don't get aggro (for PvE), because this stacked with zerker stance means you're taking 30% more damage than you would by default, and that's from all sources.
Though this is a leet-hax-pwnzorz move you pay survivability for damage.
If you pop all you have being a fury warrior (Deathwish, bloodrage, recklessness, etc.) Then in zerker stance you are taking tons of dmgz.
Oh well, atleast you killed the mage with the satisfation of knowing that you pwned him =D.
If you have the arms talent "impale" and use the fury talent "death wish" along with the Beserker power up in AV and WSG with "sweeping strikes" you should be able to get some pretty hard blows once you hit that recklessness key. whirlwind is key to this ability in pvp also.
But remmeber add all these power ups and you get a devistating 45% increase in damage done to you.
20% dmg taken doesnt matter if ur doing raidbosses, u will die anyway, the reason not to use it might be that u havent got enough threat reduction and u get aggro and you die. If your going to use this agains bosses, atleast wait until the tank has alot of aggro, maybe do it when the boss is at 20% and u start using execute. And it is also important that you have 100 rage when u activate recklessness so that u do the most damage possible in those 15 secs.
In pvp 20% doesnt matter, the thing that matters is that u get your target down fast, agains mages for example, u dont get alot of hits before ur dead, beacause he can easily cc u so u better get him down fast.
People tend to regard Improved Disciplines as useless, but, as PvE, I find it excellent, because it allows me to use this ability on every boss fight, or on something like Gruul every other attempt. Combined with the 6 sec duration increase (to 21 sec) and Death Wish, it allows me to cause a massive amount of damage in very little time.
Simply this is a face wrecking ability, a healer is recommended but it does win WSG games, if your sick of being stuck on 2 caps and they're turtling get some people go in and pop this and win the game.
Also a very nice tool to make sure your oponent knows your sick of them. If someone messes with me too much in a BG... well i rush in and pop this bad boy and see if I can't knock them out in 2 shots.
Recklessness + PVP trinket on Afflic Locks for endless fun.
In WoTLK it'll be buffed (or nerfed, depending on how you previously used it) to a 5 minute cooldown and 3 guaranteed crits on yellow attacks, white damage is unaffected by it.
It does no longer share a cooldown with Retaliation and Shield Wall, tho the three abilities do share a 12 second cooldown to prevent them from being all up at the same time. The 5 minute CD most likely means that it will be available in Arena's.
3 yellow crits every 3.5 mins (fury specced) is really too little of a buff.
and damage taken is increased by 20%?
Actually in PvP especially and also in PvE this can be a tremendous boost.
Because of Bloodsurge If you blow Recklessness, hit Whirlind, then Bloodthirst, which will crit and proc instant slam, then cast te instant slam which will also crit. I don' know about you, but nost of the time those abilities crit hard, and especially with Titan's Grip that Whirlwing will hit like a truck, +Bloodthirst which always hits like a truck, +Slam which is weapon, and if you're using Titans grip will be a 2hander and will also crit for a lot.
Bloodthirst, for me, raid buffed crits for ~3.5k (with an enh shaman), Whirlwind MH crits ~2,200 OH ~1,300, and slam should crit with a 2hander around ~2,200.
That's 9,200 damage in the space of 3 GCDs.
I don't know about you, but being able to pump out 9200 damage in the space of a few seconds would be devastating in any form of PvP situation.
A tank popping this, then using Thunder Clap, then Shockwave, then another Thunder Clap, means he has MASSIVE aoe threat, since all 3 crit.
how long is CD of Recklessness with imp. disciplines + intensify.rage?
but later Nebu stated that Improved Disciplines was placed in the Protection tree and is replacing Improved Shield Wall talent.
Does the 20% damage modifier persist after 3 special attacks are made? If so, is this a buff (such that it can be removed by right-clicking the icon)?
In other words, do you take 20% additional damage for the whole 12 seconds, or does the additional damage taken expire upon reaching 3 special attacks?
Raid buffed and versus a debuffed boss yes, you'll hit much less in PvP on high resilience targets with more armour and less AP.
Possibly interesting to note: when in a party and a mob isn't attacking you, it is quite effective to use mocking blow and/or taunt to get the attention, right before or after you use Recklessness. I use this a lot now that it only has a 5 min cooldown, but still I want the most mobs I can get on me actually attacking me.
Recklessness states that it increases your chance to critically hit with all special abilities (yellow), but it has no effect on heroic throw.
When using Whirlwind while Recklessness is active, you loose 2 charges for every enemy you hit. Might be a bug. So make sure you have only 1 charge before using WW.
I noticed that not all special ability attacks crit with this. To my disappointment concussion blow (prot tree) does not crit. Strangely, devastate does.
Would it be smart NOT to pop it when the boss is at about 30-50% hp and wait till the boss is at >20, so my executes do crits? I usually poped it mid boss fight pre-WotLK, but I'm wondering if it would be better to wait.
This is not true. I have never found WW to remove 2 charges, you probably had a queued HS that landed at the same time. In fact, in a pack of mobs if you activate recklessness and then WW, youre entire WW crits on every target for 1 total charge. for TG /w glyph, thats up to 10x crits, all for 1 charge.
I'm not sure if this is a recent change, but Recklessness actually works better than what the tooltip states.
If you have the buff active, it will only consume charges on special attacks that would not otherwise be crits.
So you get the three guaranteed crit special attacks, plus whatever crits you would normally get.
It's obvious that the mechanics involved are more complex as previous iterations of the skill, as old recklessness used to simply add 100% to crit chance on the character screen (current version does not).
This effect can have negative consequences in PVP, as if you activate reck then go on a 'normal' crit streak, the buff (and the +20% damage taken debuff) can be active for longer than you would like.
Oddly enough, it still have fear immunity in the effect list.
Does this trigger global cooldown?
Edit: Just tested it and now know that infact it does trigger the GCD. So much to macroing this skill with Mortal Strike/Blood Thirst for a fast crit button!
This counts as an enrage effect, so you can't use Enraged Regeneration while either is up.
If you need to desperately use Enraged Regeneration or Recklessness, you can use a simple macro.
You know, I never really paid attention to what the icon was, until I came across a 2 years old thread in the randomness forum (don't ask me why).
If you look on opposite sides of the red. And look closely, it's actually a blade splitting someone in half.
Doesn't work with Thunder Clap or Shockwave either. If it did, it would be ridiculously awesome for tanks (at least at the start of fights; I wouldn't want the wads more damage just for guaranteed crits).
You don't need this. Enraged regen consumes all Enrage effects on you and requires an Enrage effect to be active when activated.
Could it be that someone pwned you (not you, anyone) so hard that the blade went straight through your back and out your black chest plate?
If you have that many mobs around, 20% more damage taken as well as the extra 10% going into zerg stance is more than likely going to kill you, or at least make you take a lot of burst damage.
shield block should fix that.
I wouldn't cancel it. I would just use it. Chances are you wont use this ability if you're already low on health.
We can now use enraged regeneration without consuming enrage effects in cata. It just requires one.
In 4.0.6 PTR patch notes it is said that Recklessness will be changed to increase critical strike chance by 50% for 12 seconds instead of giving three quaranteed criticals.
v4.0.6: Recklessness is really lethal in arms pvp now. It has no global cooldown, so you can macro it to Bladestorm (just make sure you are in Berserker Stance first)... along with Sweeping Strikes you'll get a TON of 150% weapon damage crits (helps to have at least 2 targets so that Sweeping Strikes works). Just remember that you will go down easily since you are taking 20% more damage for 12 seconds (sometimes it's better to just right-click the buff to turn it off if you are taking too much damage).
In regards to PvE, fury warriors will probably not forget to use this (and time it with cooldowns). Arms however, may forget, despite this being a huge dps cooldown, increasing dps by possibly 60/70% for its duration due to the value of crit for arms warriors. With good timing, you can switch to beserker stance, use this, and switch back again, within a global cooldown to avoid delaying your rotation (or even just use an ability in beserker stance while you're there).
Depending on fight duration, you may only get to use this once, or possibly twice. Time it accordingly. Ideally, you want to use this once at the start with other cooldowns, and once during the execute phase, preferably with deadly calm, trinket procs, potions, enrage, and collosus smash to spam 100k+ execute crits.
This ability, is at the very core of Warrior burst in PvP right now. This is what allows Warrior's to disintegrate their foes, this is the most important piece of the "One Shot Macro". Blizzard is mistaken thinking that it's Colossus Smash, but no, it's Recklessness. Recklessness combined with a +STR Trinket and Colossus Smash, makes for ungodly burst, even against high Resil targets.
Currently on the PTR for 4.2 Recklessness (as well as Shield Wall and Retaliation) have no more stance requirement. I imagine it'll work well alongside Deadly Calm.
Recklessness and Deadly Calm can no longer be used at the same time. One cannot be used while the other is active, but using one does not put the other on its full cooldown.
Retaliation, Recklessness and Shield Wall no longer have stance requirements.
Worked very well for me last night as i fought a very well geared fury warrior one on one in Arena. Hope this gives some insight!
Whit Mists of Pandaria recklessness no longer increases damage taken.
The tooltip is still not up to date !
As of this patch (5.0.5) you still are granted immune to fear. I've no idea why this isn't written anymore !
Recklessness now grants you immunity to FEAR ! It is not stated in the tooltip.
Does Recklessness count as being enraged? Wondering for fury warriors.
Unglyphed, Recklessness it offers 30% crit for 12 seconds every 180 seconds.
Glyphed, Recklessness it offers 18% crit for 18 seconds every 180 seconds.
Strange things is, I didn't see this in the 5.2 patch notes...could be that I'm blind.
legion recklessness looks.... interesting. on the one hand, having every bladestorm be a reckstorm is cool, but it doesn't even last the whole duration. meh. i don't hate it actually.
Vous entrez dans une rage folle, ce qui augmente la génération de rage de 100% et les chances de coup critique de vos techniques de 20% pendant 10 sec.
Génération de rage augmentée de 100%.
Chances de coup critique de toutes les techniques augmentées de 20%.


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New Bible Reflections
Life, through the lens of The Scriptures
Bible Reading April 5 by Gary Rose
Bible Reading April 5 (World English Bible)
Apr. 5
Numbers 1, 2
Num 1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Num 1:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
Num 1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.
Num 1:4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
Num 1:5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Num 1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Num 1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Num 1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Num 1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
Num 1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Num 1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Num 1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Num 1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Num 1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Num 1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
Num 1:16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Num 1:17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
Num 1:18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
Num 1:19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Num 1:20 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Num 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num 1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:25 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
Num 1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:27 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
Num 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:29 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
Num 1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:31 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num 1:32 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:33 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
Num 1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:35 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num 1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
Num 1:37 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
Num 1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Num 1:39 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num 1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Num 1:41 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
Num 1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Num 1:43 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num 1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
Num 1:45 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;
Num 1:46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
Num 1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
Num 1:48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num 1:49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
Num 1:50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
Num 1:51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Num 1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
Num 1:53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
Num 1:54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
Num 2:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Num 2:2 "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it."
Num 2:3 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Num 2:4 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Num 2:5 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.
Num 2:6 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
Num 2:7 The tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.
Num 2:8 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
Num 2:9 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
Num 2:10 "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Num 2:11 His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Num 2:12 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Num 2:13 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Num 2:14 "The tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Num 2:15 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
Num 2:16 "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.
Num 2:17 "Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
Num 2:18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Num 2:19 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
Num 2:20 "Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Num 2:21 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Num 2:22 "The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Num 2:23 His army, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
Num 2:24 "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
Num 2:25 "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Num 2:26 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
Num 2:27 "Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Num 2:28 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
Num 2:29 "The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
Num 2:30 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Num 2:31 "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."
Num 2:32 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
Num 2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num 2:34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
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Luk 4:1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
Luk 4:2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
Luk 4:3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
Luk 4:4 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.' "
Luk 4:5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6 The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
Luk 4:7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
Luk 4:8 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.' "
Luk 4:9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,
Luk 4:10 for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;'
Luk 4:11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.' "
Luk 4:12 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.' "
Luk 4:13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
Luk 4:14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
Luk 4:15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Luk 4:16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Luk 4:17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Luk 4:19 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
Luk 4:20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Luk 4:22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
Luk 4:23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.' "
Luk 4:24 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
Luk 4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
Luk 4:26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Luk 4:27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
Luk 4:28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
Luk 4:29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
Luk 4:30 But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.
Luk 4:31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
Luk 4:32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
Luk 4:33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
Luk 4:34 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
Luk 4:35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
Luk 4:36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
Luk 4:37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
Luk 4:38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
Luk 4:39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
Luk 4:40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Luk 4:41 Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luk 4:42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.
Luk 4:43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."
Luk 4:44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
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Drug interactions with dietary or herbal supplements could be cause of hospital stays
The Pharmaceutical Journal28 NOV 2016
Around 1 in 55 hospital admissions may have been caused by an adverse event triggered by a reaction between a dietary or herbal supplement and another medicine or supplement, according to Israeli research.
As a result, the researchers say their findings suggest that medical staff need further education about the role dietary or herbal supplements may have in adverse events.
Reporting their findings in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology[1] (online, 25 November 2016), the authors looked at 947 patients admitted to 12 departments at a tertiary level medical academic centre in Haifa, Israel.
They discovered that 458 patients used supplements and that the supplements may have been the cause of an adverse event in 17 (or 3.7%) of cases.
They deemed another 14 interactions "probably" down to supplements, where another 11 cases were "possibly" down to supplements.
The team also discovered that adverse events were more common in older patients (P=0.025, 95% CI: 2.26–19.7) and patients born outside Israel (P=0.025, 95% CI: 0.03–0.42).
They were also more common in patients with ophthalmologic (P=0.032, 95% CI: 0.02–0.37) or gastrointestinal (P=0.008, 95% CI: 0.05–0.46) comorbidities and also amongst those patients who used higher numbers of supplements (P<0.0001, 95% CI: 0.52–2.48) or drugs (P=0.027, 95% CI: 0.23–3.77).
[1] Levy I, Attias S, Ben-Arye E et al. Adverse events associated with interactions with dietary and herbal supplements among inpatients. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. doi: 10.1111/bcp.13158
Citation: The Pharmaceutical Journal, December 2016, Vol 297, No 7896, online | DOI: 10.1211/PJ.2016.20202016
William LaChenal2 DEC 2016 18:46
"...supplements may have been the cause of an adverse event in 17 (or 3.7%) of cases.
They deemed another 14 interactions "probably" down to supplements, where another 11 cases were "possibly" down to supplements..."
Oh, really? That seems a little blinkered. I think we are being encouraged to come away with the wrong message there.
Did this paper work out how many of those adverse reactions, those with supplements as the 'cause', would have happened in the absence of the medication(s) involved?
And how many adverse reactions to those medications occur alongside normal healthy nutrition?
There's an impolite term for the kind of conclusion that was reached.
Yes, syllogisms occur, but it take two or more to tango.
A basic distrust of the thing that isn't the familiar pharmaceutical is hardly helpful, and comes down to prejudice and sometimes superstition.
Patients will just choose to conceal their supplement use if they meet with antipathy, which could lead to worse outcomes than recognising that it's the medications that are for the most part dangerous if used incorrectly.
If patients choose to use supplements which they find are helpful or even curative, but alongside which prescribed medications may be dangerous in combination, then clearly the total situation should be monitored and the prescripton altered or dose adjusted.
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Next you want to invest in a good jacket or proper clothing for your ride. We know that the look when riding a chopper is not about safety like it may be on a race bike, however, it is just as important that your arms and body is covered in case you should fall off the bike at any time. Leather is typically the material of choice when looking for a jacket. Not only will protect your skin should you fall but it will also keep you looking somewhat good while riding. A textile or clothe jacket may seem tempting, we know denim is popular, but they will give you little protection while on the road so be careful when looking at those.
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