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Original Van Halen Bassist Mark Stone Passes Away
September 26, 2020 —by VHND Leave a Comment
Later lineup of Mammoth: Mark Stone, Alex & Eddie Van Halen, David Roth
Very sad news in the world of Van Halen today.
Van Halen's original bass player, Mark Stone, has passed away from cancer. We've heard from his wife that, sadly, he's been in hospice recently. Then today, the news of his death has been confirmed by his brother on Instagram.
Mark's history with Van Halen goes way back to 1972… which you could say was the year of the birth of the earliest form of the band.
In 1972, a musical trio called Genesis began their world conquest, playing high school gigs, backyard parties, weddings, wet t-shirt contests, and everywhere in between. The group was comprised of Eddie Van Halen on guitar, Alex Van Halen on drums, and Mark Stone on bass.
As the band's popularity grew, they changed their name to Mammoth, and with a repertoire in excess of two hundred songs, became the party band of southern California. One of the regular fixtures at many outdoor gigs was the police, often resorting to bringing in helicopters to break up gigs, as kids from every corner came to catch a show, much to the dismay of the hosting neighborhood. Before the Van Halen lineup that came to worldwide fame in 1978, there was Mammoth, consisting of Eddie as both lead singer and guitarist, Alex was the drummer, and Mark Stone on bass.
Roughly a year after the band formed in '72, David Lee Roth was hired as the lead singer. The four members eventually agreed to go with Dave's idea to change the name to Van Halen.
So, for a period of time, Van Halen was Mark, Alex, Eddie and Dave. At some point in 1974, Mark Stone parted, and Michael Anothony was hired as the bass player.
Mark described what led to him leaving Van Halen: "I was a straight 'A' student, and doing the band, and I was split between these two things, and basically I couldn't keep up with them.
"We met one day, and they actually asked me to leave. For a long time it was really tough. It was really tough leaving that band because I knew they were destined for greatness.
"They say, 'Don't leave before the miracle happens.' And I did."
RIP Mark Stone. Our condolences go out to his wife and family.
You can watch Mark Stone reminisce about his days in Mammoth and Van Halen in the 2003 documentary The Van Halen Story: The Early Years, embedded below:
The book 'Van Halen Rising' goes into a lot of detail about the era of Mammoth/Van Halen with Mark Stone.
Mark Stone at the 'Van Halen Rising' launch party. Photo by Kevin Estrada.
My beloved brother Mark passed this morning. #markstone #vanhalen #fanhalen
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(Berlin) – Russian President Vladimir Putin "can be dangerous" and will always push other political leaders as far as he can, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton told reporters. "A man like Putin always goes to the limits. He always tries to find out how strong the others are" and then re-positions himself accordingly, she said.
"His latest aggression in Ukraine must be answered with a joint reaction by the West," she said during a ceremony marking Berlin launch of her book "Hard Choices".
"I believe he can be dangerous," she added, in response to questions about Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and Russia's tactics in the east of the ex-Soviet state.
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Why There's A Gender Pay Gap For Uber Drivers
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There's A Gender Pay Gap For Uber Drivers, But It's Complicated
Madeline Buxton
Photographed by Erin Yamagata.
Is your female Uber driver earning as much as a male Uber driver? Probably not. But the reasoning isn't as simple as you might think.
Professors from Stanford University and the University of Chicago joined with economists at Uber to study the earnings of over one million of the app's drivers over roughly two years. The results of their study, published online yesterday, showed that there is about a 7% earnings gap, with male drivers coming out on top. However, this gender pay gap is different from other industries.
First off, pay is completely standardized: Every Uber driver earns a base fare as well as a per-mile and per-minute rate which can vary by city. Additional money comes through incentives, which have included a bonus for completing a certain number of rides in a week, and surge pricing for rides given in a specific area and timeframe — but those incentives are not tied to gender.
Second, the algorithm that assigns rides to drivers is gender-blind.
Yet when the researchers broke earnings down by the hour and week, they found significant disparities: Men earned about $1 more per hour and about 50% per week than women. The researchers concluded that these differences can be attributed to three factors: a driver's location, speed, and experience.
Men tend to drive in areas with lower wait times and higher surge pricing. They also drive faster, meaning they finish rides more quickly, and the faster you complete one ride, the sooner you can start another.
But it's the experience piece that's especially interesting. Men tended to drive more hours every week and, in doing so, picked up key skills — such as knowing when to accept and cancel rides — faster than female drivers. For example, when drivers are first assigned a dispatch in the app, they're told a rider's location and how long it will take them to get there. From there, they can accept or reject a ride.
"If a driver has reason to think that, by rejecting a ride, he or she will be offered a closer dispatch shortly, that driver may be able to increase expected earnings by not accepting the first dispatch," the study says.
Uber says that it may use the study's findings to offer tools that will help drivers master those skills more quickly, evening the playing field for those who choose not to drive as often.
Why There Is A Gender Pay Gap For Uber Drivers
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This responds to your letter requesting an interpretation of whether aftermarket tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) would be subject to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 138, Tire pressure monitoring systems. I apologize for the delay in responding.
You state that your company is a testing laboratory and that you have a client who is distributing TPMS as an aftermarket item. Specifically, you state that your client produces both mechanical systems (where the vehicle operator would look at a gauge installed on the tire stem) and electronic systems (where there is a device which can be mounted or stored in the vehicle which alerts the operator to low pressure). Based on the information you have provided and the analysis below, we have concluded that the aftermarket products you describe would not directly be subject to FMVSS No. 138. However, if these aftermarket TPMS devices are installed on vehicles already equipped with TPMS, installation of the devices could be subject to the statutory prohibition against making items of motor vehicle safety equipment inoperative.
By way of background, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is authorized to issue FMVSSs that set performance requirements for new motor vehicles and items of motor vehicle equipment (see 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301). NHTSA does not provide approvals of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment. Instead, manufacturers are required to self-certify that their products conform to all applicable safety standards that are in effect on the date of manufacture. NHTSA selects a sampling of new vehicles and equipment each year to determine their compliance with applicable FMVSSs. If our testing or examination reveals an apparent noncompliance, we may require the manufacturer to remedy the noncompliance, and may initiate an enforcement proceeding, if necessary, to ensure that the manufacturer takes appropriate action.
As noted above, some FMVSSs apply to motor vehicles, some apply to motor vehicle equipment, and some apply to both. FMVSS No. 138 is a vehicle standard, specifying performance requirements for tire pressure monitoring systems on new vehicles. The standard does not apply to aftermarket TPMS. However, there are several provisions of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (49 U.S.C. 30101 et seq., the Safety Act) that have a bearing the manufacture and sale of aftermarket TPMS.
If the vehicle in which the aftermarket TPMS is being installed was not originally certified as meeting FMVSS No. 138, under our regulations the aftermarket TPMS could be installed without regard to FMVSS No. 138 requirements. On the other hand, if a compliant TPMS that had been installed in the vehicle in compliance with FMVSS No. 138 were removed and replaced by the aftermarket TPMS, the removal of the compliant TPMS would violate the render inoperative prohibition unless the vehicle, as equipped with the aftermarket TPMS, meets the performance requirements of FMVSS No. 138.
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The Penguin Pool at London Zoo. Photo: Frederick William Bond, 1934, UK. © ZSL.
In the summer of 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool. Designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Company, and in collaboration with Ove Arup, the elegant, interlocking concrete spiral ramp on which the penguins "showcase their social talents" was met with universal acclaim.
The redesign of the London Zoo took place in the context of political, intellectual and artistic debates of the 1930s: against the backdrop of a critique of the inhumane living conditions of the majority of the world's population, its proponents argued that human-nature relations were to be reformed through scientifically based architecture and planning in the interaction of biology, technology and design. Such a modernity would not be about subjugation, but about attaining a harmonious relationship to nature. It was this milieu where Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a fervent enthusiast of "biotechnology," met like-minded people whilst in exile.
The 2023 edition of the Bauhaus Lab takes the London Penguin Pool as the starting point for a multidisciplinary investigation of the international ecological discourses in which the project and its reception were situated. Through archival research and excursions, the eight international participants will explore the epistemologies and materialities of modernist zoo design. What are the conceptions of human-nonhuman relations structuring the display culture of the Penguin Pool? What are the notions of environment and habitat accompanying the design discourses around the London Zoo? The collective research to be conducted in the framework of the Bauhaus Lab thus critically reflects on the far-reaching constellations, conceptual instrumentalities, geographical imaginaries, design discourses, and material entanglements of this multispecies environment, while at the same time proposing alternatives of contemporary gestures of co-habitation.
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Bauhaus Lab is a three-month research programme for scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, design, and curating. Participation is free, and all participants will be provided with workspaces in the Bauhaus Building. Furthermore, participants receive a contribution toward their housing expenses, and a modest per diem. The programme includes field trips (both national and international); the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation covers travel and accommodation expenses incurred during these excursions. The process of collective research will culminate in an exhibition presented in the Bauhaus Building. Participants are expected to be present on site during the entire period of the programme, to contribute to the collective research, and to meet regularly with the programme organizers for follow-up and feedback. The programme is conducted in English.
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8 February 2010• Written by Malcolm MacLean
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Despite being brought up in landlocked Surrey in England, Patrick says that he's wanted to work with superyachts since the age of 10. He formerly worked for the British Marine Industries Federation, marketing the London and Southampton Boat Shows before joining Boat International as assistant editor and overseeing the launch of the first edition of The Superports annual supplement. Patrick says: "The luxury yacht world and marketing have always been my passions and the directorship at Yachtique is the realisation of a lifelong aim."


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The Fire District faces unique challenges in keeping pace with the changing world in which we live and work. We will continue to build on the traditions and people who brought us to this point. However, we must adapt, be flexible, and be progressive in order to continue to be successful. The following paraphrased statements will provide us with a vision that will enable us to continue to be an exceptional organization.
We will strive to always put the safety of our personnel and equipment uppermost in our priorities.
We will strive to be perceived as good stewards of community property: we will be fiscally responsible, providing good value for the money spent; we will have a plan in place to govern growth; we will establish priorities in line with department needs; and we will always live within our means, always able to pay our bills.
We will strive to build community support and trust through frequent, open and honest communication, being transparent in everything we do.
We will strive to nurture and develop relationships with outside agencies so that we develop cooperative support and expand our ability to respond to emergencies. We will strive to foster a spirit of continuous improvement, achieving excellence in everything we do.
We will strive to be customer friendly: we are service providers, we treat our customers with respect, we have a service mentality—"What can I do to help you?", and we let customers know that serving them is the most important job we have.
We will strive to be a fire department that is a community focal point for everyday community activities, not just fire department operations and emergency response.
Fire Chief David Rodriquez
Administrative Assistant Roxie Allen
Equipment information coming soon
We are so happy with our new Fire Station!
Property Map with Hydrant Locations
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In July 1975, a petition was circulated and signed by 16 registered resident voters requesting to form a Volunteer Fire Company within Forest Lakes Estates and one mile within the outer perimeter of said subdivision. An Election was held on February 27th 1976 and votes cast for membership for the Forest Lakes Estates Volunteer Fire District Board. A total of five candidates for membership were placed on the ballot. Candidates were as follows:
Aldrich, Raymond C.
Callahan, Robert W.
Edgar, Barrett D.
Ledford, James R.
Williams, LeRoy B.
On March 15th 1976, the Coconino County Board of Supervisors canvassed and tallied a total of 34 returns of the Forest Lakes Estates Volunteer Fire District Election. Votes on record as follows:
Aldrich, Raymond C. ———— 24
Callahan, Robert W. ———— 21
Edgar, Barrett D. ————— 14
Ledford, James R. ————– 16
Williams, LeRoy B. ————- 20
Upon motion and approval by the Coconino County Supervisors it was declared official authorizing the organization of the Forest Lakes Estates Volunteer Fire District and appointing three of the five member candidates for membership on the Forest Lakes Volunteer Fire District Board. The newly elected board of the District was Aldrich, Callahan and Williams. Our Fire District was formed.
Through the years the District has seen many faces within their realm. Leadership of all ages & backgrounds, bringing to the District their expertise, their compassion and love for the mountain and the community in which the district serves. The Forest Lakes Fire District is the center of the Forest Lakes Community and we are honored to serve.
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The Sporting Scene
Jason Collins Comes Out
By Ian Crouch
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." With these three short sentences in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, Jason Collins, with the help of writer Franz Lidz, told the sports world two things it already knew, and one that it didn't, and in doing so has made history, becoming the first active male player in any of the big four of American sports leagues—baseball, hockey, basketball, and football—to come out as gay.
You may not have heard of Jason Collins before today. Even dedicated basketball fans might have confused him with his twin brother, Jarron, who is about an inch shorter, and who played with Jason at Stanford and also had a long career in the pros. Jason played for the Boston Celtics this year, before being traded to the Washington Wizards. He is a free agent this summer, and is nearing the end of his years in the league, but he says he hopes to get picked up by another team next season. If he does, he may be the only openly gay player, but as he notes at the end of the piece, he will surely not be the only gay player: "Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out."
Family, and its different manifestations, runs through this story. It is about Jason's own family: his parents, who, he writes, taught Sunday school and "instilled Christian values" in their children. And about an aunt, Teri, a judge in San Francisco, whom he first came out to; and an uncle, Mark, who is gay and is in a long-term relationship, and to whom Jason spoke about his sexuality last summer. It is about his maternal grandmother, who grew up in Louisiana and who, before and during the civil-rights movement, "saw great bravery play out amid the ugliest aspects of humanity." And it is about Jason's twin brother, Jarron, to whom he came out a year ago. Despite years spent in each other's shadows on and off the basketball court, Jarron was "downright astounded"—but, as Jason adds, "by dinner that night, he was full of brotherly love. For the first time in our lives, he wanted to step in and protect me."
And then there is the N.B.A., the brotherhood to which Collins refers. This morning, the league offered a statement on its official Twitter account: "We have known the Collins family since Jason and Jarron joined the NBA in 2001 and they have been exemplary members of the NBA family. Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate throughout his career and we are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue." The series of tweets ends with the hashtag #NBAFamily.
In a way, this kind of coming out, on the cover of a national magazine, seems anachronistic. It was, like many forms of social evolution, somehow unimaginable—until it happened and then, a moment later, one wonders how it took this long. But, for years, male pro sports appeared to be one of the great holdouts against progress: a place where big-money machismo ruled over the variations of human sexuality. Locker rooms were said to be dangerous places, and silence was the only option. This was a common trope, perhaps even perpetuated out of a kind of ignorance. Its repitition even started to rub some athletes the wrong way. In 2011, Charles Barkley, a man known for his common sense but never for his tact, said plainly that he was sure that "every player has played with gay guys," and went on: "It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play."
Still, the fact remained: no current player had come out. And despite whispers and hopes, and mounting signs of support from all four leagues and from many current players, it was not obvious that an announcement would be met with widespread acceptance. Collins has done something truly brave. When the center John Amaechi came out in 2007, three years after he had retired from the league, the former All-Star Tim Hardaway said, "First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team. Second of all, if he was on my team I would really distance myself from him because I don't think that's right and I don't think he should be in the locker room when we're in the locker room." Hardaway later apologized, and it is hard to imagine such comments being made or finding much public support today, but they surely hung over Collins's announcement—and will continue to do so for other male athletes that follow his footsteps.
The announcement also echoes a statement made last week in Nevada, when state senator Kelvin Atkinson came out during a floor debate on a same-sex-marriage bill: "I'm forty-four years old. I have a daughter. I'm black. I'm gay." The same order of the statement is notable—and it tells us something not just about the ways in which racial and sexual identity remain complicated issues but about the historic continuity many see in the struggle for civil rights in America. This is another step on a long path forward.
Gender matters, too. Brittney Griner, who may turn out to be the best woman ever to play basketball, came out a couple of weeks ago, and few people managed even a shrug. There is a longer record of high-profile female athletes being gay—Martina Navratilova came out in 1981—and, in a way, the lack of publicity was refreshing, a sign of where we'd already arrived. Griner is more interesting because she can dunk than because she is a lesbian. Still, just because Griner didn't turn the sports world on its ear—her story is no less one of courage and pride. She is at the pinacle of her sport; she was just selected No. 1 in the W.N.B.A. draft, and signed a high-profile endorsement deal with Nike. If Collins is a hero, then so is Brittney Griner.
"I'm glad I'm coming out in 2013 rather than 2003," Collins writes, because of the way public opinion has shifted. Ten years ago, he might not have had politicians and other players, from Bill Clinton to Kobe Bryant, responding with statements of support. But that silence cost him, too: "No one wants to live in fear. I've always been scared of saying the wrong thing. I don't sleep well. I never have. But each time I tell another person, I feel stronger and sleep a little more soundly."
Collins's statement is as much a call to arms as a personal confession: "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation." That conversation has already started, and will be fascinating to follow in the coming hours and days. Who will support him? Who will criticize him? And who might be next to follow his example?
Photograph by Jonathan Daniel/Getty.
Ian Crouch is a contributing writer and a member of The New Yorker's editorial staff.
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While a divorce case was pending, the judge overseeing the case sent the wife a Facebook friend request. The wife did not accept the request. Thereafter, the judge entered a final judgment that was more favorable to the husband. After the wife found out about other cases in which the judge had reached out to litigants through social media, she filed a motion to disqualify the judge. The judge refused to disqualify herself.
Moreover, the court found the problem of friending a party in a pending case "of far more concern" than a judge's Facebook friendship with a lawyer. Forbidding judges and counsel to be Facebook friends, especially in smaller counties with tight-knit legal communities, would be unworkable. But with a friend request from the judge, a party has a "well founded fear" of not receiving a fair and impartial trial.
This entry was posted in Litigation, Miscellaneous and tagged facebook, social media on January 27, 2014 by Evan Brown (@internetcases).


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NY amateurs hope legalizing pro MMA will help them, too
WRVO | By Marguerite Jones
Published August 2, 2016 at 4:46 AM EDT
Bret Jaspers
WSKG News
Tom Grinnell (left) and Glenn Mix got at it in the first official fight at an April MMA event at Magic City in Binghamton.
Screaming fans crowded Magic City Music Hall in Binghamton one night in April to cheer on their favorite fighter at an amateur mixed martial arts match. It was hard to tell who was more invested: the fighter, or their families.
Dillon Yarka of Steuben County won the title fight that night. He was excited about the legalization of professional mixed martial arts, or MMA, which passed the New York legislature in March after a nearly 20-year ban. The New York State Athletic Commission released draft rules last month for the sport. Once the final rules take effect in September, professional MMA companies like UFC and Bellator can put on events in the state.
Yarka hopes regulated fights can help him and other amateur fighters get the attention of those larger promotion companies. But he knows there's a big gap between amateur fights and professional ones. "Someone like me isn't just gonna jump right into UFC. I mean unless they pick me. Which is tough," Yarka said.
Some people in the business say with outfits like UFC and Bellator being so dominant, it might be harder for new, struggling fighters to make the transition from amateur to professional. Cost, for example, can be a big factor. With professional legalization comes more extensive rules, insurance, and pre-fight testing for amateurs. Those higher standards will likely cost an amateur fighter more money.
Erik Gillette owns 5 Element MMA in Elmira. He put on the Magic City event through his promotion company, Art of Combat. Gillette said legalization is good for fighters who are already professional, but not so good for amateurs. He thinks if bigger promotion companies like UFC push out local events, and if New York regulates the sport more closely, amateur fighters will not compete as much.
"They need the small shows. They need [the] smaller venues so we can keep developing our young fighters," Gillette said.
Right now, there are no state rules for amateur MMA fights. Though it is not yet mandated by New York State, Gillette had his fighters provide clean blood results, including tests for HIV and hepatitis. Gillette also required his fighters to be drug tested and to stay off caffeine on fight day. Fighters got a doctor's exam before and after the fight, he said.
But legalizing MMA will make blood testing a requirement, as opposed to an choice.
The state Athletic Commission's proposed rules would make promoters have insurance policies worth up to $1 million, so they could cover a serious brain injury. An insurance policy of this kind will likely be a steep investment for small companies.
Across the border in Pennsylvania, amateur and professional MMA fighting has been legal for two years.
Greg Sirb, executive director of the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission, said regulating MMA events has improved the sport.
"These kids, you know, don't wanna have the shin pads on. They just want to go out and kill each other," he said. "It's my job to make sure it's regulated."
Sirb developed rules that help determine a fighter's experience level, so fighters can be matched more evenly and avoid injury. If a fighter is registered as an "advanced amateur" in Pennsylvania, it means he or she has fought in at least three matches. In that case, some rules can be waived: fighters don't have to wear shin guards and can use punches that are usually illegal in amateur bouts.
Back in New York, fighter Dillon Yarka said it would be great to have a "middle man," some kind of level in between amateur and UFC.
Whether or not New York will develop a middle level, similar to Pennsylvania, the life of an amateur MMA fighter in New York will certainly change.
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A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals
Ulrich E. Stegmann
Ethological theory standardly attributes representational content to animal signals. In this article I first assess whether Ruth Millikan's teleosemantic theory accounts for the content of animal signals. I conclude that it does not, because many signals do not exhibit the required sort of cooperation between signal‐producing and signal‐consuming devices. It is then argued that Kim Sterelny's proposal, while not requiring cooperation, sometimes yields the wrong content. Finally, I outline an alternative view, according to which consumers alone are responsible for conferring representational status and determining content. I suggest that consumer‐based teleosemantics reconstruct the content of both cooperative and noncooperative signals and explain how a given trait can mean different things to different consumers.
Teleosemantics
Representational Content
Stegmann, U. E. (2009). A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals. Philosophy of Science, 76(5), 864-875. https://doi.org/10.1086/605820
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Biographical Information: Alastair was born on 06 June 1923 in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. He is believed to have been an only child. Following the death of his parents (when he was an infant), Alastair was raised by his grandmother, Mrs John MacDonald in Blairgowrie. He attended the Springfield Primary and Bell Baxter High in Fife. He joined the Navy at age 15 (his grandmother relocated to 61 High Street, Perth at this time). He was 17 years old at the time of his loss. We have no additional information.


I first learned about nonviolence from a bull.
My childhood copy of Ferdinand was beautiful—the red cover, the flowers, even the lettering. I remember very clearly the way the light and dark shading of the font played together in perfect harmony in the title on the cover.
Ferdinand's mother doesn't appear in the new film Ferdinand, but her kindness and understanding are reimagined in the character of a little girl named Nina. Devotees of the original book will find many remembered elements present in the movie—the cork tree, Ferdinand's height measurements as he grows, the flowers at the bullfight, and of course, the bee—but on the whole, what Ferdinand has to offer audiences is so much more.
I'll admit I went into the movie a bit skeptical. From the trailers, I feared an hour and a half romp through size gags ("Have you seen these hips?" Ferdinand asks), poop jokes ("I can't wait to show you to the rest of the guys," Lupe the goat enthuses, "They're going to fertilize the yard!"), and a nonstop loop of a Ferdinand version of The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird. What I experienced, however, was a wonderful entré into a child-friendly discussion of nonviolence, with additional themes of intentional family and animal welfare running throughout.
The film's reimagining of Ferdinand's story starts in a bullpen, where Ferdinand, the flower-loving youngster, is bullied by his peers (the root for "bully," as the movie points out, is of course "bull.") It's hard not to fall in love with Ferdinand's big-eyed character as he looks the bully in the eyes and simply states, "I won't fight you." Ferdinand's character in the movie is more intentional in his commitment to nonviolence than his counterpart in the book—rather than being a lover of flowers for whom fighting just isn't on the radar, the film version of Ferdinand is explicit about his beliefs. He is not made to fight, and he will not fight—anyone, anywhere, at any time. Even when his life is on the line.
Ferdinand's beloved cork tree grows on a flower farm in the movie, where Ferdinand arrives unexpectedly in the middle of profound loss. The human flower farmers become family for him, along with their dog Paco, who denies the affinity he soon feels for Ferdinand.
The most intense scene in the move takes place not in the bullring, or even the bullpen, but a slaughterhouse. Known as the "chop house" among the bulls, I was unsure at first whether the movie was trying to play the scene for laughs—because I wasn't finding it funny. When one of the bulls is sent to the chop house, though, it quickly becomes apparent that this isn't intended to be humorous. As the camera pans from an ominous-looking, dark building set in the background right up to the chop house doors and inside, the grim machinery clanking away on the screen caused one young moviegoer in the audience with me to lean in toward a parent and ask, "Mommy, is that actually how they kill them?" An excellent moment to start a conversation on being CreatureKind.
Although Ferdinand concludes (spoiler alert!) with a happy ending, it's clear throughout that Ferdinand's practice of nonviolence isn't rooted in the ends justifying the means. He isn't refusing to fight because he thinks it's easier or safer. On the contrary: at multiple points throughout the film, Ferdinand stares danger in the face and renews his affirmation that he was not created to be a fighter. With strong messaging around nonviolence, chosen family, and being who one was created to be, Ferdinand is not only a fun and engaging family movie, but an excellent touchpoint for family conversations afterward.
Elrena Evans is Editor and Content Strategist for Evangelicals for Social Action. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Penn State, and has also worked for Christianity Today and American Bible Society. She is the author of a short story collection, This Crowded Night, and co-author of the essay collection Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life. She enjoys spending time with her family, dancing, and making spreadsheets. This post is reprinted with kind permission from Evangelicals for Social Action.


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Docday at ATTD2021
June 4, 2021 in Advocacy, Awareness, Community, Conferences, Diabetes, DOC, Engagement, Peer support, Social media
Last night, all tucked up in my study at home, I participated in my eleventh (I think?) #docday° event. (A refresher: #docday° is a place for diabetes advocates from the diabetes community to come together, meet, mingle and share the work they are doing. The first #docday° was in a tiny, overheated backroom of a cafe in Stockholm that served outstanding cardamom buns. It coincided with EASD that year. After that, the events were moved to rooms at the conference centre where the diabetes meeting is being held, and an invitation is open to anyone and everyone attending, including HCPs, researchers and industry reps. I'll link to previous pieces I've written about #docday° events past at the endow today's post.)
The first #docday° for 2020 heralded in a new phase. It was at ATTD in Madrid, #dedoc° voices had been launched and that meant that there were even more PWD at the conference, attending #docday° and sharing their diabetes advocacy stories. All #dedoc° voices scholarships had been awarded to advocates from Europe because the budget wasn't huge, and didn't extend to flying in and accommodating people from other continents.
And then, the world changed, and flying and accommodating people at diabetes conferences didn't matter anymore. And that meant that we could open up the scholarship program to people outside of Europe, and provide people from other parts of the world with registration to attend the EASD and ISPAD conferences. It means that mine wasn't the only Aussie accent heard at #docday°. And it meant that people from further afield found their way to a seat at the table. These advocates – like the others I'd heard before them – were remarkable and doing remarkable things. I think perhaps the thing that has linked everyone who has been involved – wherever they are from – is their determination and desire to make things happen. It's a common thread – that hard work and not expecting anyone to hand us opportunities that stands out.
A few years ago there was a discussion during a tweetchat about diabetes and advocacy, in particular about getting involved in advocacy efforts. In response to one of the questions posed – something do with how to get more people involved in advocacy – someone said something along the lines of 'If someone gave me an opportunity to be an advocate, I'd take it.' I remember being absolutely flabbergasted by that tweet, because, in my experience, that's not how advocacy works. When I think of all the people who are visible in the diabetes advocacy space (and probably many that are not all that visible) no one was 'given an opportunity to be an advocate'. It reminded me of the very first bloggers summit I went to at EASD in Berlin in 2012. As is usually the case when there are a group of PWD at an event together, there were questions online, asking why those people were there. Someone pointed out that it was a group of bloggers – people with diabetes who write and share their experiences about diabetes – and someone who was rather annoyed at not being invited said 'Well, I'd like to have been invited. I don't have a blog or write or anything, but I'd still like to be invited.' Even then, relatively new to this all, I remember thinking 'That's. Not. How. This. Works'.
While no one is handing out 'opportunities to be an advocate', #dedoc° voices is helping in other ways. The program is open to everyone, and takes care of many of the barriers that make attending difficult. No one needs an invitation, or to be involved in a diabetes organisation, or work with industry, or to be invited. Every single person who is part of the diabetes community is welcome to apply. And if you are successful, you are given an opportunity to speak at #docday°. Actually, EVERYONE is welcome to speak at #docday°! Again, it's just a matter of contacting the team and letting them know you are doing some great work that benefits your community.
At last night's #docday°, I was (as I always am) in awe at what people are achieving and what they are doing. Tino from Zimbabwe is one of the most amazing advocates I've ever come to see, working alongside his local diabetes organisation to improve access to education in his country and beyond. Nupur, Snehal and Rohan from Blue Circle Diabetes Foundation in India are running a NFP, raising diabetes awareness with just one example of their work being a hotline they've set up to provide psychosocial support for PWD. And Sadia from Meethi Zindagi spoke about all the work the organisation is doing, with a special focus on the health needs of women with diabetes. We heard from Ines who built and grew a program that supports kids with diabetes to participates in sports, and Delphine who started and runs a club specialising in supporting runners and walkers with diabetes. Both women are from France and their talks last night made me put my runners today and beat the pavement around my neighbourhood! Still in France, Leonor and Nina spoke about one of the more recent additions to the #LanguageMatters movement with their new position statement.
There were others, but instead of reading about them here, why don't you watch them. The video from the whole event is available for you to watch. I know you'll be inspired. And I hope that if you have something you want to share you'll think about joining in next time!
More about #docday°
docday° at EASD 2016
#docday° at EASD 2019
I am an advisor to the #dedoc° voices program. I do not receive any payment for this role.
I applied for and received a press pass to attend ATTD 2021. Thanks to the Tadej Battelino and the ATTD team for making this possible to press accredited folks.
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Beautifully written. The platform of #Dedoc is one of it's kind and the way it thought to connect everyone in this time of social distancing is phenomenal!
Rick Phillips
I hope I can attend next year. It sounds great.
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Time flies at this time of year. Its been nearly two weeks since I posted about the Chiffchaff, so here is a little update of what I have been seeing since then.
On the 19th it was a very mild 15 degrees so the moth trap was put out. I was pleased to catch my earliest ever Hebrew Character as well as a Chestnut. A Red Squirrel dashed across the road at our lane end, the first I've seen here for a little while.
The 23rd brought an early Christmas present when a nice Merlin dashed past me while I walked Bunty. It perched up on a fence a couple of hundred yards away giving good binocular views. This brings the patch year list to a round 150 species.
On 24th a hint of de ja vu came when a Peregrine over flew the exact same flight line as yesterdays Merlin. A Barn Owl hunted for half an hour outside our kitchen window and 2 Bramblings were with 100+ Chaffinches in the rectory stubble field.
No white Christmas this year though and on the big day only a lone Siskin and 8 Pink feet flying south made it into the notebook.
Last night while returning home from visiting the 24 hour long rain deluge had finally stopped leaving us with seriously flooded roads. No sooner had the rain abated the owls came out, with a nice Long eared Owl sitting on a hedge lit by the car headlights, then a Barn Owl near home sitting the same way.
Thats us up to date. Today I popped out to see John at Warkworth for a wander around the estuary area. Apart from the usual crack, it was uneventful bird-wise until a group of 19+ Twite flew in to the salt marsh. This was a regular traditional site for them some years ago but now they seem to prefer the Druridge Bay links.
I've taken a day off today to give Jane a lift to the station where she will get the train to Peterborough to visit her sister. The day is very overcast and dark, one of those that makes you long for the sight of a snowdrop or something, just a hint that spring isnt too far away, but, in reality, we are in the middle of winter for a long time yet.
As I went out with Bunty at lunchtime I thought I heard a Chiffchaff calling in the wood next to our garden, so, on our return, I grabbed bins and camera and hung around at the end of the house to see if it would emerge. I waited for a good 15 minutes and was about to give up when up it popped just next to our garden wall. It then fed the same circuit as my various other garden migrants recently, venturing along the sheltered SW corner, around my small sallows and brambles especially planted for the purpose.
It looked to be a dark individual but called just like our own Chiffs, so I assume its a 'collybita'?
Regardless of its race, it was a welcome reminder of autumn to punctuate these grim winter days.
Well that was a relief. I drove straight to the Volks Centre in Blyth, a garage that deals only with VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat. I've been going here for the last 7 years and have found it to give excellent service. So much so, that this may even effect my decision on car species when I next change! I used to hate and distrust all car dealerships but this small family run firm is excellent.
The day started with heavy rain and a strong wind, but this soon eased to a calm day with patchy sunshine.
As the sun rose, almost our first bird of the day was a first winter Glaucous Gull flying into a group of Great black backed Gulls on the Coquet Estuary. It was a real lunker too, in flight equal to the Great black backs. It only stayed for about 15 minutes just giving us time to go back for the camera before it flew off north. It probably roosted on Coquet Island with the other gulls and came in to the fresh water to bath and drink.
Also here were 3 Black tailed Godwits and the usual selection of waders. We checked up at the harbour to see if anything else had arrived but it was very quiet. The Eiders looked nice in the calm water, when not fighting for bread, so I took a few snaps.
I like this one. It is a full frame, uncropped pic. 300mm with 1.4x converter f7.1 , 1/320, ISO800, as the bird steamed towards me.
While wandering the harbour, a Snow Bunting flew along the north pier and off north along the beach. 25 ish Whooper Swans were along the river in fields opposite the wier.
From here we checked the north side, old water area, where a nice Kingfisher gave us the runaround on the tiny trackside pool by flying off and returning later when we tried to get a photo. I think John did ok.


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But he gets white people and raisins.
SNL saw the return of Black Jeopardy over the weekend, and the sketch's usual format got a bit of a welcome shake-up with the king of Wakanda, T'Challa, starring as the third guest alongside Leslie Jones' Shanice and Chris Redd's Rashad.
Chadwick Boseman reprised his Black Panther role as a contestant on the show, making for the "blackest Black Jeopardy yet," and bungled his way through the categories before finally getting a handle on things at the end.
Categories included "Aw Hell Naw," "Fid'na," and "White People," which saw T'Challa finally get the hang of the game.
"Your friend Karen brings her potato salad to your cookout," read Kenan Thompson's Black Jeopardy host, Darnell Hayes.
The skit is up there with Tom Hanks' appearance on the show as Doug.
Back in February, Natalie Portman returned to SNL for another bout of rapping and creatively colourful obscenities, this time defending the Star Wars prequels and Jar Jar Binks' 17 manhoods. Or Gungan-hoods. Which is a different kettle of fish altogether.


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LIVERPOOL will not make a move for Arsenal defender Kieran Gibbs, according to reports.
Football Insider claimed earlier this month that the Reds were eyeing a move after monitoring Gibbs' situation.
However, the reported move is now off, according to Italian journalist Emanuele Giulianelli.
He reckons Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has lost interest in the 26-year-old.
However, Giulianelli revealed Arsenal are keen to get rid of defenders this summer.
"The deal cooled down. But Arsenal want to sell in that part of the pitch," he told Sport Review.
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Case Name Huff v. CoreCivic PC-KS-0007
Docket / Court 2:17-cv-2320 ( D. Kan. )
State/Territory Kansas
Case Type(s) Prison Conditions
On June 1, 2017, former detainees at a private detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc. (the facility's operator) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (its phone and video services provider) for ... read more >
On June 1, 2017, former detainees at a private detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc. (the facility's operator) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (its phone and video services provider) for violations of the Kansas, Missouri and federal (18 U.S.C. §§ 2510, et seq.) wiretapping statutes. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and sought monetary relief and attorney's fees. The plaintiffs claimed that throughout the time they were detained, defendants improperly and without authorization recorded confidential phone calls and meetings between them and their attorneys. Magistrate Judge James P. O'Hara was assigned to the case.
On November 13, 2017 an individual tried to join the case as a member of the class, but this motion was denied because class certification had not been granted.
CoreCivic and Securus moved to dismiss Count I (the violation of the Missouri wiretapping statute), and this motion was granted because none of the allegedly unlawful interceptions took place Missouri. Securus also moved to dismiss Counts II and III (the violations of the Kansas and federal wiretapping statutes). The court granted in part and denied in part this motion. Specifically, the court found that the plaintiffs had not adequately alleged that any of their intercepted communications had been disclosed but had adequately alleged that their communications had been unlawfully intercepted and a statutory business use exception did not apply because intercepting conversations between detainees and their lawyers was not part of the defendants' ordinary course of business. 2018 WL 1175042 (Mar. 5, 2018).
The parties began settlement negotiations in August, 2018. These negotiations continued until August 23, 2019, when the plaintiffs moved to certify the class and for preliminary approval of class action settlement. The court granted this motion on September 26, 2019. Five members of the class filed objections to the settlement, but the court overruled these objections and approved the settlement on January 28, 2020.
The certified class included:
All detainees at Leavenworth Detention Center who, during the period of June 1, 2014 through June 19, 2017, had their attorney-client telephone calls recorded by Defendants: (a) after the detainee requested privatization of his or her attorney's phone number (subclass A); (b) after his or her attorney requested privatization of the attorney's phone number (subclass B); (c) after Judge Robinson's cease and desist order on August 10, 2016, in the case styled U.S. v. Black, Case No. 2:16-CR-20032 (subclass C); or (d) after the detainee or his or her attorney otherwise notified one or more Defendants in writing of their attorney-client relationship and provided written notification of the attorney's phone number at issue (subclass D).
The settlement agreement created a Settlement Fund of $1,450,000.00, of which CoreCivic agreed to fund $1,100,000.00 and Securua agreed to fund $350,000.00. The plaintiffs' attorneys received about $500,000 of the settlement funds. The settlement did not provide for relief besides damages.
As of April 5, 2020, the court has retained jurisdiction for the administration of ongoing settlement payments.
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Defendant(s) CoreCivic, Inc
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Plaintiff Description Former detainees at Leavenworth Detention Center (a private detention center in Kansas) whose attorney-client telephone calls had been intercepted on behalf of a class of all detainees at that facility whose attorney-client calls had been intercepted between June 1, 2014 and June 19, 2017.
Class action status sought Yes
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Unopposed Motion of Plaintiffs for Order Conditionally Certifying Settlement Class, Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Directing Distribution of Class Notice [ECF# 140]
Unopposed Motion of Plaintiffs for Order Conditionally Certifying Settlement Class, Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Directing Distribution of Class Notice, Setting Hearing for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement [ECF# 140-2]
Order Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Certifying the Settlement Class and Providing for Notice to the Settlement Class [ECF# 146]
Order Granting Final Approval of Class Action Settlement, Granting Motion for Attorney Fees, Overruling Objections [ECF# 177] (2020 WL 430212)
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Will The Blind Be Able To See Again? There Is Hope For Millions
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The darkness descends slowly for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects 2 million people worldwide. The condition is typically diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, but it can take until middle age before a person's vision has deteriorated severely enough that they are fully or effectively blind. When the lights finally do go out, however, they stay out.
Or that's the way things used to be. In a breakthrough study published today in Nature Medicine, investigators report a relatively simple yet remarkably effective way to restore partial vision to RP patients—one that, with further study, may soon have wide application.
The key lies in the rod-shaped photoreceptors that principally govern peripheral vision and the cone-shaped receptors that give us our central view of the world. In people with RP, mutations in more than 70 genes cause slow deterioration of the rods, leading to tunnel vision, and later the cones, leading to blindness. Light still streams into the eye through the unaffected lens, and that light could still make its way to the brain via the optic nerve. But the retina, which lies between the two, no longer works.
A team of researchers, led by Dr. José-Alain Sahel, professor of ophthalmology at Sorbonne University and the University of Pittsburgh, however, thought they might have a way to bring the retina back into the game: ChrimsonR, a protein that opens electrical channels in neurons and makes them reactive to light. The trick was finding a way to deliver the protein—and the answer was to genetically manipulate a harmless adenovirus so that it carried ChrimsonR; the virus was then injected into the fluid-filled portion of the eye behind the lens.
"The ChrimsonR sparks electrical activity," says Sahel. "It transforms the cells and makes them able to absorb light, though it takes a while—about four months—for the cells to take up the virus and the protein with it."
Nonhuman primate studies showed that the technique did not harm the eye, and also helped the researchers establish the proper dose of Chrimson4 to sensitize the retinal cells. For the human trial, Sahel and his team worked with a 58-year-old man who had been diagnosed with RP 40 years earlier and whose vision was limited to rudimentary light perception. They treated the poorer functioning of his two eyes—in order to spare the marginally healthier one if anything went wrong with the experiment—and injected it with a single dose of the altered virus.
Assuming the experiment worked, the next steps would not be nearly so simple as waiting the required four months or so until the man's vision simply returned in the treated eye. ChrimsonR is not remotely sufficient to restore the exquisitely complex interplay of rods and cones that give healthy eyes their rich, colorful, three-dimensional view of the world. Rather, it sensitizes cells mostly in the amber spectrum, making shapes and shadows discernible at that color frequency. What's more, a healthy retina reacts in real time to the amount and intensity of light striking it, becoming more reactive in low-light conditions and less reactive in bright light, to prevent damage to retinal cells. To see at all through the treated eye, the patient needs to wear a pair of goggles that shifts incoming light to the amber spectrum and regulates it to a safe intensity.
"The eye needs a lot of light, but there is the danger that it could be a toxic level," says Sahel. "Without the goggles it could be like the patient looking directly into the sun."
While waiting for the ChrimsonR to take effect, members of Sahel's team worked with the patient, training him with the goggles and running tests to see if he could distinguish objects placed on a table, point to them, count them, and pick them up. Over repeated trials, there were no results—until finally, as Sahel recalls it, he got a call from one of his team members with a simple message: "He sees."
At right around the four-month mark, the subject began achieving remarkable results on all of the lab tests. And in the months since that breakthrough, he has become able to navigate his world in new ways: he can detect the crosswalk at an intersection and count the number of white stripes demarcating it; perceive objects like a plate, a mug and a phone; spot a piece of furniture in a room and see a door in a corridor. "He can also," adds Sahel, "detect where people are."
Sahel believes the results will be long-lasting, or even close to permanent. "We think this could last at least 10 years or it could be for a lifetime," he says. "If not, we can always go back and re-inject."
As to whether the treatment is ready for practical application beyond the one patient, Sahel says the answer is "a small yes and a big no." The small yes is that the work was merely a feasibility study (but by any measure, it succeeded spectacularly). The big no is that a great deal more research must be conducted to learn more about dosing levels, to improve both the goggles and the training patients go through to use them, and to figure out when in the course of a person's RP is the right time to begin the treatment—Sahel notes that for now, at least the procedure is only for people with very advanced disease. "People with RP can retain central vision for many years," he says. "You always have to weigh the benefit versus the risk."
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North Dakota solar project would be state's largest
Written By Andy Balaskovitz April 23, 2018
UTILITIES: The bankruptcy of FirstEnergy's coal and nuclear subsidiaries could shed new light on the relationships among the parent corporation, its regulated utilities and the generation affiliates. (Midwest Energy News)
• A timeline of events spanning two decades that have led FirstEnergy to seek support for its struggling coal and nuclear plants. (Midwest Energy News)
• Residents in an Iowa town take on major utility Alliant Energy in their effort to create a municipally owned power company. (Des Moines Register)
• A merger between Vectren and Houston-based CenterPoint Energy is expected to close in 2019. (Evansville Courier & Press)
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EFFICIENCY: A bill to allow residential Property Assessed Clean Energy financing in Minnesota has bipartisan support, though critics oppose the way it prioritizes loans. (Midwest Energy News)
SOLAR:
• A planned 200 megawatt solar project in North Dakota would be the state's first major utility scale project. (Forum News Service)
• Minneapolis-based Target ranks among the top corporate users of solar, according to a new industry report. (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)
OIL AND GAS:
• Michigan officials approve a permit for DTE Energy to build two natural gas-fired turbines near Detroit despite neighbors' pollution concerns. (Detroit News)
• Gas and diesel fuel shipments into Wisconsin's Port of Green Bay were up 124 percent in 2017 due to a pipeline shutdown. (Wisconsin Public Radio)
GRID: Three power companies file plans with Wisconsin regulators for a high-voltage transmission line between Middleton, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa. (Wisconsin State Journal)
EMISSIONS: Minnesota regulators revisit the potential costs for utilities to comply with greenhouse gas regulations. (E&E News, subscription)
PIPELINES: Michigan activists will host a "retirement party" for Enbridge's Line 5 this week. (MLive)
RENEWABLES: In Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Dane County are both taking steps to address climate change through increased investments in renewable energy. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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BIOFUELS: U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds is concerned about ethanol waivers given to companies and how it impacts corn growers. (Forum News Service)
SUSTAINABILITY: A building in eastern Iowa achieves net zero status, producing more power than it uses. (Radio Iowa)
About Andy Balaskovitz
Andy has been a journalism fellow for Midwest Energy News since 2014, following four years at City Pulse, Lansing's alt-weekly newspaper. He covers the state of Michigan and also compiles the Midwest Energy News daily email digest. Andy is a graduate of Michigan State University's Journalism School, where he focused on topics covered by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and wrote for the Great Lakes Echo. He was the 2008 and 2009 recipient of the Edward Meeman Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Environmental Journalism at Michigan State.
Biden cancels Keystone XL pipeline on first day in office
PIPELINES: On his first day in office, President Biden cancels a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which had already halted construction in anticipation of the move. (Inside Climate News, Associated Press)
• A Keystone XL pipeline official says in an internal company email that 1,000 jobs would be cut in the coming weeks.
Ohio communities plot a future without large coal plants
SOLAR: A new online marketplace hopes to accelerate community solar development by connecting developers and potential subscribers in nine states, including Illinois and Minnesota. (Energy News Network)
• Dominion Energy acquires a 150 MW solar project in northwestern Ohio.
Biden administration may move quickly to cancel Keystone XL permit
PIPELINES: President-elect Joe Biden is expected to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit early on in his administration. (New York Times)
• Top Canadian officials hope to at least discuss the proposed pipeline with Biden amid reports that it would be canceled.
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