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Greenbelt land in Eastwood has been saved from building development and a local councillor says he is 'over the moon'.
Tony Harper made saving the greenbelt in Nethergreen his number one priority when he was elected in May 2015 and says he feels 'delighted' at the news.
"It's fantastic news for Nethergreen.
"When I was elected I made people the promise that I would save the greenbelt and I worked hard on it for 18 months."
Coun Harper organised a public protest meeting at Greasley Parish Hall that attracted over 200 people and arranged meetings with MPs, councillors, builders and developers.
"It felt fantastic to hear the news. I was over the moon. Delighted," he said.
"Housing there would have blighted peoples views and it would have been a sprawl that would have connected Eastwood with Brinsley.
"I've had lots of people contact me saying how pleased they are.
"Residents love taking their dogs for walks there and they go jogging so it would have been terrible to lose it.
"It's DH Lawrence countryside," he added.
Coun Harper said when he was canvassing it was everybody's main concern in the area.
"It was on the top of everybody's list. There was such strong feeling about it."
Wades Printers in Newhtorpe, another greenbelt site, was also proposed as a site for housing, and was also saved.
Some Greenbelt sites have however been taken in Brinsley and Kimberley.
Kimberley Depot will be relocated for housing and a development is planned for Brinsley.
Broxtowe Borough Council is currently deciding between two sites in Brinsley – both off the main road.
Coun Harper represents the Eastwood Hall ward which includes the Coach Drive Estate, Greenhills and the Brunell Estate.


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With everything which has taken place this year, from the initial accident, trying to diagnose the myriad of problems which arise from fracturing the various bones of my head and elbow, and having an exceptionally difficult tenant, I have been blessed.
Despite osteoporosis, my bones heal rapidly. Despite the traumatic brain injury, I've remained calm and dignified. Despite a constant spinning of my world, wonderful things keep happening. Despite a horrible display of human cruelty, I have seen compassion in unexpected places.
I have been forced from my home, in what can only be described as an insane sequence of events. I do not possess the capacity to understand why this is happening, and have no desire to demonize the parties responsible. I am disabled, a month from a major surgery on my cranium, penniless after a year unemployed, and people I thought were friends have tossed me to the curb; in some ways I am thankful. This crisis has revealed the kindness of others.
My ex-wife was kind enough to take some furniture I would be unable to move. Other friends, including people I only know on line have helped. One woman, who I had never met in person and who has differing political views (she attended the Women's March in Washington) provided her mini-van for a morning, and not only provided transportation, she helped move things. I learned a good deal about her during this time, and am quite pleased to call her my friend. It took a bit to process what had happened, and I found myself shaking.
Liz is a Democrat, who distinguishes herself with her recognition of "limousine liberals." She doesn't talk about people in need as she drives by, she stops and helps. This Vassar educated mother of three (two on the autism spectrum) spent her morning helping a conservative punker. Okay, neither of us fit the expectations of those descriptions, which is in many ways the point. Labels are irrelevant, souls are what matters.
We spoke about our experiences, she has children in the Princeton Charter School, which the Princeton Public Schools have declared the competition; and in what I have come to believe is a typical Princeton response the Public School Board is more interested in destroying the Charter school than improving their own students. I saw this trait expressed in a variety of issues in Princeton, ad hominem attacks rather than displays of any measure of superiority. Liz continues to attempt to bridge the divide, hosting meetings of both sides, opening her home (and sledding run) to everyone. We mourned the death of civil discourse, and although we differ in our beliefs of the cause, we share the loss of meaningful debates, recognizing the next step is authoritarianism.
Liz is what I had expected Princetonians to to be when I arrived (shortly after the picture up top was taken). Intelligent, well spoken, and civil. It took six years to find a person fitting that description, and I met her on my way out of town. My experience of Princeton was elitists, posers, and hypocrites. It is very reassuring to know people such as Liz exist in the wasteland of Princeton, reviving my faith in humanity; in a world as torn as ours is, there are still flowers growing between the cobblestones.
This month I have seen some of the best in people, and some of the worst. Life is always about balance. There is something important in there, as I configure what is left of my brain and work through increasing vestibular issues. The rose coloured glasses present an illusion, however the world is not filled with assholes clinging to hatred. There are people like Liz and I, not many, but perhaps enough to turn the tide. Perhaps, although I will never know the outcome. We accept the future is not predestined, rather it is malleable, to be improved with actions rather than curses. The core of meaningful conversations is mutual respect, the absence of respect begets rage, which I believe we can all agree is our present position. The world needs meaningful conversations, which should lead to people who will take actions rather than consider themselves virtuous because they are aware of the issue and have appropriately rebuked those who are not wearing the right colour ribbon. Hope lies in lifting each other up, not in putting each other down. Humans need hope.
There will always be the trolls, and it is altogether possible they will be the majority of the population. I may have thrown away my rose coloured glasses, but I will always believe that love outweighs hate, that one good person is more significant than one hundred bad people. They can destroy a person, but ideas live forever.


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Climate Report: Not Good
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Nicole Javorsky is an editorial fellow at CityLab.
In a week full of climate-related terrors, don't expect to find much good news in the American Meteorological Society's annual report card on the state of the planet.
For the past 28 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has published a "State of the Climate" report, an exhaustive accounting of the planet's vital signs and weather-related trends for every region worldwide. But this year's installment of the 310-page report, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society with contributions from 524 scientists in 65 countries, feels a little different, according to NOAA's Derek Arndt, one of the report's three lead editors.
"When I started as the lead of this report, we were documenting global temperature and ocean heat content and all of the numbers like you would get in an annual physical," said Arndt, who's worked on the last nine years worth of reports. "Now we're documenting things like loss of coral reef, coastal erosion, and inland flooding—things that are actually tangible and visible and affect the quality of our collective lives."
What's changed in a decade, he added, is that what were once worrisome warning signs have blossomed into full-blown manifestations of a warming world. "The symptoms—the direct interruptions of our lives—are just much more observable than they were 10 years ago," he said.
That conclusion should not exactly come as a shock—not when the biggest wildfire in the history of California fails to rank as "the week's worst climate news." (That would be the "Hothouse Earth" scenario you may have been hearing about.) But the portrait of the planet that the BAMS report draws as the Anthropocene epoch picks up speed is still plenty disturbing: The year saw record-high sea levels and upper ocean temperatures and new lows in sea ice at the top and bottom of the world. Coral reefs had "unprecedented" damage from June 2014 to May 2017, leaving more than 95 percent of coral dead in some reef areas. Greenhouse gas concentrations reached record levels in 2017: The average global level of carbon dioxide last year was the highest ever measured in the modern global record (the past 38 years) and in other records going back as long as 800,000 years.
A graph shows the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. (Blunden, J., D. S. Arndt, and G. Hartfield, Eds., 2018: State of the Climate in 2017. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), Si–S332, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1. ©American Meteorological Society. Used with permission.)
Depending on the dataset used, 2017 was either the second- or third-warmest year in history, but the hottest non-El Niño year on record. Land and sea surface temperatures surpassed the 1981–2010 average throughout much of the globe.
The map and graph show 2017's patterns of extreme heat. (Blunden, J., D. S. Arndt, and G. Hartfield, Eds., 2018: State of the Climate in 2017. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), Si–S332, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1. ©American Meteorological Society. Used with permission.)
Overall, the report shows global temperatures ticking up 0.68–0.86 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981–2010 average, part of a longer warming trend that has seen temperatures rise since 1975 at a rate of 2.7–3.2 degrees Fahrenheit per century. From 1901 to 1975, the planet's surface warmed at a rate of 1.3–1.6 degrees Fahrenheit per century—meaning the rate of global temperature rise has almost doubled since 1975.
A map shows the 2017 global temperature's difference from the 1981-2010 average. (Blunden, J., D. S. Arndt, and G. Hartfield, Eds., 2018: State of the Climate in 2017. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), Si–S332, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1. ©American Meteorological Society. Used with permission.)
For the planet's urban dwellers, the most alarming findings involve both rising global temperatures and sea levels, as well as the increase in inland flooding.
"The overall trend of a few degrees over a century may not seem like much," said Arndt. "But the reality is that doesn't happen evenly over every day or every place in the world. The ways it affects us, and particularly those of us who live in cities, are the extreme events get more extreme. They last longer, they are more intense, they are more frequent." Indeed, this summer's heat has claimed lives in cities unaccustomed to high temperatures in Canada, Northern Europe and Asia: "Just the last few weeks are a good example of the kind of heat waves that are becoming more common in a warming world."
rt singles out Hurricane Harvey—"the wettest known tropical cyclone to impact the United States"—for its "historic inland rainfall and flooding." Harvey also came with a near-record price tag, with damages estimated by NOAA at $125 billion, second only to Katrina in 2005.
It's notable that the financial toll of climate-related disasters have become part of the BAMS report's annual accounting—a sign that monitoring a warming world means tracking direct economic costs, not just weather observations. "We've moved from an era in which the numbers are alarming into an era in which the symptoms are consequential," Arndt said. "And unfortunately not unexpected."


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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Our friends Jillian and Doug gave me a very sweet birthday present, a trip to ACT for the new musical, Tales of the City. It was the perfect setting for the play … not only is it charmingly provincial that it takes place in The City, but, as librettist Jeff Whitty pointed out, it's even more specific: when a character sings about bag ladies on Geary and points into the distance, she is pointing at the actual Geary Street on which the theater is located.
I also think Bay Areans of a certain age feel provincial in a protective way towards Tales of the City. We remember reading the daily installments in the Chronicle, and think of it as "ours." What is fun about the musical is that it reminds us of the universal nature of the tales. Jake Shears and John Garden of Scissor Sisters do the music, and Shears tells of how important Tales was to him as a young gay man (who did not live in San Francisco). Jillian is from England, and she read the books when she first arrived in the Bay Area many years ago, feeling a firm connection to the basic story of Mary Ann Singleton, new to The City. And, of course, the television miniseries brought Tales of the City to a larger audience. So it's not really "ours" at this point.
Still, there was a feeling that the audience was full of people who call San Francisco "The City," and who chuckled at all the right reference points.
Yes, I hear you asking, but how was the play? I had a lot of subjective angles competing as I took it in. On the one hand, I remember the emergence of "Tales of the City" in the Chronicle, and it all came back to me … 28 Barbary Lane, Mrs. Madrigal's secret, Mona Ramsey. And there's the pleasure of being with friends on a lovely birthday excursion. Still, musical theater is not exactly my genre. And, a day later, I can only recall a few of the songs, and even in those cases, I remember lyrics, not melodies.
But I had a fine time! I think it could have been shorter by half-an-hour, and could have lost a few of the lesser songs, but the main actors were quite good, with Judy Kaye as Mrs. Madrigal and Betsy Wolfe as Mary Ann being the obvious vocal talents (which isn't to say the rest of the cast was tuneless, only that Kaye and Wolfe are top-class singers, and thus had most of the show-stopping numbers). Mona has always been my favorite character … it didn't hurt that Chloe Webb played her in the first miniseries … and Mary Birdsong was a delight in the part. (Her frizzy/curly wig had a life of its own, so I didn't really recognize her, and was thus startled when I realized later she had been a regular on Reno 911 and an occasional correspondent on The Daily Show.)
Do I think my dear readers would like it? Yes, I do. None of the flaws are fatal, the spirit is good and fulfilling (and corny, but I suppose "good and fulfilling" implies "corny"), and it's a solid production. (I should mention the set, which is a marvelous piece of carpentry and pulleys and backdrops, used in a versatile fashion.) All in all, a memorable start to my extended birthday weekend.


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Banker witness 'would never have approved' Anglo loans
A BANKING expert has told a court he would never have approved €45m in loans to the so-called Maple 10 to buy shares in Anglo Irish Bank.
The trial of three Anglo executives heard that it was not normal for a bank to approach customers to take loans and to make the borrower personally liable for just 25pc of the debt if they defaulted.
Tom Reid, who worked for Ulster Bank for 40 years until 2004, said he would never have sanctioned the Maple 10 transactions with so little recourse.
"It would have been 100pc (recourse)," he said.
Mr Reid agreed that conceptually he did not have a problem with lending money to customer clients for shares, providing that the loans were issued on commercial terms.
However, he said Anglo's position was weakened even further by a second facility letter, dated July 17, 2008, which reduced the recourse if share prices fell.
The Maple 10 loans should also have been listed as being impaired by the time a third set of facility letters – reinstating the recourse – were posted out in January 2009, Mr Reid added.
The shares were worth just €2.44m at the time, just weeks before Anglo was nationalised.
Anglo's former chairman Sean FitzPatrick (65), from Greystones, Co Wicklow; former head of finance and risk William McAteer (63), of Rathgar in Dublin; and Pat Whelan (51), of Malahide, Co Dublin, deny 16 counts each of providing unlawful financial assistance to 16 individuals in July 2008 to buy shares in Anglo.
The loan-for-shares deal involved unwinding Sean Quinn's secret 29pc stake in the bank, which had been built up through contracts for difference (CFDs).
The 16 charges relate to loans to six members of the Quinn family and 10 high-net-worth Anglo clients – who became known as the Maple 10 – who were approached by the bank.
Mr Whelan, former head of lending (Ireland), also denies being privy to the fraudulent alteration of loan-facility letters to seven individuals.
The court heard the Maple 10 were only liable for 25pc of the loans but the recourse was 100pc for the Quinn family.
Mr Reid was head of group lending and director of group risk at Ulster Bank until 2000, when he joined the board.
He accepted that Mr Quinn's CFD position and loan book were a major concern for Anglo and that steps to unwind the position and protect Anglo's asset base were of "primary importance".
However, he said a normal loan transaction would have involved a customer approaching a branch or corporate executive with a proposition.
"The customer did not approach as would be a normal course of business; in fact, it was the bank approaching."
Mr Reid said information in applications to Anglo's credit committee for the loans was "a bit sparse" and would not have been adequate to persuade him to approve the loans.
He insisted that a credit committee would also have independently assessed every personal or business loan application during his tenure, making a decision based on the risk to the bank and the customer's ability to make repayments.
The trial had previously heard that the Maple applications never went before a formal sitting of Anglo's credit committee or a non-executive board member for noting.
Mr Reid said there was "over-aggressive lending" after he had left the banking sector and that sadly "prudence" went out the window in banks – including Ulster Bank and its parent company RBS – with people being paid bonuses instead of salaries.
But he disputed that he was commenting on the Anglo loans in hindsight.
"It doesn't take away from core principles of lending," he said under cross-examination.
"Through all my career, hindsight was very valuable but you still have to address issues as they crossed your desk."
The former banker told Brendan Grehan, senior counsel for Mr Whelan, that he could not say he "would have done things different than people in the last 10 years".
"I'm going by my period of watch," he said.
"Sometimes market forces drive people to do things that are not necessarily correct."
Mr Reid added: "When a risk person or lending person is put back room because marketing has taken over, it's a dangerous position for any bank or institution."
The trial, which has heard evidence for 35 days at the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin, continues.
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With all the injuries suffered by the Rays this season, Joe Maddon has played match-up both offensively and defensively even more than he would probably like. And so far this season, he is not doing a very good job.
Here's a look at how well the Rays batters are hitting based on where they hit in the lineup, as compared to the American League average…
OK, we all know the Rays are a below-average offensive team. That's not news. But notice where the Rays have struggled and where they have excelled.
The best hitters, on average are batting fifth and seventh. And clean-up batters are only hitting better than those that bat ninth. In fact, the seventh-place hitters have an OPS that is 120 points higher than those batting fourth.
Of course, every batter must hit. And it has been shown that actual batting order makes only a little difference in runs scored over the course of a season. But for a team that values every lit edge they can find, and struggles as much at the plate as the Rays do, it is not good that the bottom of the order has been more productive.
And it is not one overachieving batter either. Fifteen different players have batted seventh for the Rays this season.
Simply put, Maddon is not getting the right guys in the right spots in the lineup.


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India is the world leader in milk production with 91 million tonnes made per year. However, per capita production levels and efficiency are low, with most cattle producing only three litres of milk instead of a possible fifteen per day. Indian milk producers are not realizing their full potential mainly because they cannot provide adequate nutrition for their cattle.
Cattle are fed through grazing in dry, desert-like conditions, and farmers typically do not have adequate access to low-cost, quality feed. Low productivity, coupled with inefficient livestock management and land use, is a recipe that can potentially keep millions of Indian farmers in poverty. In response, an engineer from Jodhpur named Nikhil Bohra has devised a way to help farmers increase their production and improve their livelihoods by creating a low-cost feed source for poor, rural farmers.
Cattle Mettle is a social enterprise created by Nikhil that uses a locally invasive plant called the mesquite tree to provide adequate feed for cattle, increase milk productivity and farmer incomes, and improve land management. Mesquite requires very little water to grow and is invasive in many dry regions, including the Thar Desert, where Cattle Mettle is based. However, it has many nutritive qualities and is consumed by people all over the world.
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Cattle Mettle's feed, derived from the pods of the mesquite plant, has proven through testing to be low in cost and high in nutritional value. Cattle Mettle provides rural households with an extra income source by employing members of local rural groups in the raw material collection and processing. The processed feed is sold at a low cost to farmers, providing safe and nutritious food to help increase their milk production. Cattle Mettle also provides training and demonstrations in livestock management to local dairy farmers. Lastly, they help to stop the spread of the mesquite tree into arable land by using its seed pods.
While Cattle Mettle is a new enterprise, their early work has led to a 20% increase in milk production in small trials. They have also been able to sell their feed in the local market for approximately a full rupee less than other feed types. They found that farmers are also eager to try their product and increase the productivity of their dairy cattle. Cattle Mettle is gearing up to start a larger commercial pilot targeting 500 rural households at over 1,000 head of cattle in the Thar Desert.
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Nikhil has also won an award from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's (UNIDO) Investment and Technology Promotion Office for his idea, and was a finalist in the 2015 Global Social Venture Competition. Cattle Mettle's hopes to provide an affordable daily supply of cattle feed to 200,000 head of cattle and 100,000 households in the Thar Desert within the next five years. They estimate that this would create over 6,000 jobs in raw material collection and processing and stop almost 40 billion invasive mesquite seeds from propagating on arable land.
For now, Cattle Mettle is focusing on starting its pilot and establishing a supply chain and collection network for mesquite pods. They will also continue to research alternate crops that would allow them to supply low-cost feed to farmers in other geographical regions of India. They plan to expand their holistic approach beyond feed supply and training demonstrations, to include animal health and breeding services and training for dairy cattle. Ultimately, once they have reached their goal in India, they hope to pilot their idea to help other farmers improve livelihoods in countries such as Kenya, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
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Mar Caribe is a band whose name leads you slightly astray. Their name might literally translate to "Carribean Sea", but their music has more of a folk, jam-band feel than a reggaeton one.
According to their website, Mar Caribe is "an instrumental band playing covers of movie themes, classical pieces, 60s ballads, surf, and cowboy songs, as well as original numbers drawn from those styles." On Eight Forty-Eight this morning, they stuck to this trend, playing songs like a take on "Jai Ho" (apparently popular around these parts) and the theme from the movie 8 1/2.
Mar Caribe performs at Lincoln Hall this Friday with JD McPherson. In the song below, Tom McGettrick plays banjo, but he showed us his pedal steel skills during the show as well. The rest of the band is Jeff Parker on Upright Bass, Brian Koehler on guitar, Steve Duncan on trombone, Greg Duncan on trumpet, Josh Bell on baritone, tenor, and soprano saxes and Evan Bivins on drums.


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UPDATE: Zach Galifianakis' manager has confirmed to E! News that "he missed the premiere because his wife is very pregnant and about to give birth and he did not want to take the chance of not being in LA if she went into labor.
The funnyman is about to be a dad!
The Hangover 3 star skipped his You Are Here premiere at the Toronto Film Festival Saturday because his wife, Quinn Lundberg, is in labor, director Matthew Weiner confirmed to E! News.


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3 p.m., Dec. 11
Amaroq Weiss and Erin Hunt of the California Wolf Center say it's possible to volunteer your way to the job of your dreams.
Let's start with some specific examples of people who have begun as volunteers at the California Wolf Center and then gone on to their dream jobs.
AMAROQ: Well, I'll take the easy one first – me. I started as a volunteer with the Center in 1997, which led to a temporary paid position with a national wildlife conservation organization, which led to a permanent paid position with them as their western regional director for species conservation, working on conservation of wolves, grizzly bears and other carnivores. After eight years in that position, I went out on my own as an independent consultant for wolf advocacy groups, and now am working for the Center as paid staff on Northern California wolf issues.
Another volunteer who started at the Center not too long after I did was a student at USD who had taken courses from one of our board members and learned about the Wolf Center that way. After one to two years volunteering at the Center, she obtained a position as a coordinator for a national wildlife conservation organization in their Washington, D.C., headquarters.
ERIN: I started out as a volunteer with the California Wolf Center in 2006. I was a biology student looking for hands-on experience working with wildlife and conservation projects, and the California Wolf Center gave me my first opportunity to be involved with an international endangered species recovery effort. My volunteer experience turned into part-time employment and then full-time employment, and I've gradually taken on more responsibilities and new roles within the organization.
Both our internship program and our volunteer program have led to paid employment for many people. Some have gone on to do field work with wolves and other species. Some have gone on to work with zoos and other wildlife centers. And still more have gone on to work with other nonprofit organizations focused on education and public outreach. The skills these people learned at the California Wolf Center prepared them to take on a range of roles in various fields.
Can you give me an idea of what these people did as volunteers, and the average length of time they remained volunteers before they found paying jobs in the field?
ERIN:Volunteers are involved in all aspects of the day-to-day operation of the California Wolf Center. They help with animal care, outreach education, facility maintenance and grounds keeping, administrative tasks, fundraising and many other things that are crucial to accomplishing our education and conservation work.
Some volunteers come to work at the Center for a short time to obtain specific training and experience, while others have devoted years and even decades to our organization. The minimum time commitment to volunteer is one day per month. Most volunteers commit to two to four days per month. Volunteers who wish to gain specific experience for their academic and professional development often devote more hours than average (sometimes as much as a few days a week) to maximize the experience they can gain through our organization.
You must have had hundreds of volunteers over the years who did not wind up with work in a similar field. What made these volunteers special?
ERIN: The volunteers we've had who have gone on to paid employment in related fields have either started out with the goal of paid employment in mind or have settled on that goal after being exposed to experiences at the California Wolf Center. Once they decide on that goal (whether before starting volunteer work or during the course of volunteering), they work hard to achieve it. They put in more hours, they ask to be trained on specific things, and they seek out additional opportunities to learn more, develop their skills and challenge themselves.
Working with wildlife is not generally a glamorous or high-paying profession, and it's a difficult profession to get into. So the people who go into this field do so because they are passionate about conservation and public outreach, and they are willing to put in a lot of hard work to get where they want to be. All of our volunteers help our cause, but those who want paid employment in this field have to be willing to devote their entire lives to it and must be willing to put in time and hard work to achieve their goals.
And did these people have experience or degrees in the same field before they came to you?
ERIN: California Wolf Center volunteers come to the organization with a wide variety of backgrounds. While some have a degree in biology or a related field, most do not. Most do not have previous experience working with wildlife either. We offer a wide array of training that gives people experience in public outreach education, animal care, non-profit administration, facility maintenance and grounds keeping, and many other skill areas.
To gain paid employment working with wildlife or working in public education, a bachelor's degree is typically a minimum requirement, and a master's and/or Ph.D. are often needed as well. So volunteers who want to gain paid employment in related fields should be prepared to seek these degrees if they do not already have them. However, previous experience or degrees are not necessary to volunteer with our organization, and many people have started out gaining volunteer experience while they obtain their degrees and work toward their broader career goals.
When a volunteer first offers their time to you, do you get a sense of whether they'll be one of those driven toward a job in the field? If so, what gave you that sense?
ERIN: Sometimes, but not always. Some volunteers come to us with clear career goals in mind, and they wish to gain specific experience and skills by volunteering with our organization. These people typically have a plan in advance, and they express their needs and expectations up front so that we can ensure that they get the training they need and want. Others may not know what they ultimately want to do for employment, but they discover a passion for working with wildlife through their volunteer work and then create a plan for getting the experience and education they will need to achieve that goal. Still others may be employed in an unrelated field but get exposed to experiences and opportunities through the California Wolf Center that cause them to seek a career change and work toward employment in a field related to wildlife, conservation, and public education.
What kind of advice would you give to someone who has zero experience or degrees in the field they're hoping to break into? Where should that person begin?
ERIN: Volunteering can be a great way to learn new skills and to explore different options for possible future employment. It gives you experience with different fields and different work environments, so you can really decide what you like the best and where your strengths lie. Many fields will require a bachelor's degree, and some may require graduate degrees. Volunteering will give you opportunities to meet people in your desired field and to seek advice about what experience, training, and education you need to get a job in that field. Volunteering also offers great networking opportunities. Whatever your chosen field, volunteering can give you a chance to learn more about the field and what you need to do to get into it.
Alright, and how about specifically for your organization? Any particular kind of person you think would be most suited to the work?
ERIN: Because California Wolf Center volunteers have the opportunity to help with a variety of tasks, there's really something for everyone. Some volunteer work is very physically demanding, but there are also a lot of opportunities to help out in the office, to help with educational tours and to help with fundraising and outreach efforts. We're truly grateful to all of our volunteers, regardless of their reasons for volunteering and regardless of what previous experience they bring to the table. To learn more about volunteer opportunities, please email [email protected], call 760-765-0030 or visit us on the web at www.californiawolfcenter.org.


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Soaking up Three Rivers: local artists and performers converge at annual Arts Festival
June 7, 2016
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People huddled around a blocked-off street in front of a stage Downtown, clapping for a partially obscured performance.
At the center was The Famtrons, a traveling break-dancing troupe of all black members in teal basketball shorts. The crew's director was a charismatic leader who answered to the nickname "Midnight."
A show like this is no surprise at the annual Three Rivers Arts Festival, a 10-day event of free music, art and dozens upon dozens of local and regional vendors. Sponsored by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Dollar Bank, the festival, currently in its 57th year, runs June 3 through 12.
Between flips and tricks, The Famtrons weren't shy to remind people that they were there — in part — for the money.
"Remember — Obama wants change, we want fifties," Midnight said, punctuating his not-so-subtle hint with a huge grin.
The Famtrons ended their show by picking out four members of the crowd and lining them up to touch their toes.
"I need to let you know — don't move. There's going to be a black guy, moving very fast, with no police behind him," Midnight explained. Then one troupe member took a long running start and flipped over all four grown men.
When their show finally came to a close, The Famtrons held hands with their volunteers and engaged in a call-and-response send-off.
"There's only one race in this world today," Midnight began.
The crew shouted a question in unison: "And what's that?"
"That's the human race."
The Famtrons' show runs several times a day, but it's not the only sight worth seeing at this year's festival.
White booths replace the bottoms of Downtown skyscrapers. Faint music echoes down the streets originating from any of the three stages, be it the Acoustic Stage, Gateway Clipper Stage in Gateway Center or the Dollar Bank Main Stage in Point State Park. Caricature artists and street musicians with upside-down hats at their feet dot the sidewalks. At the fountain just off Penn Avenue, children push model sailboats with long bamboo poles. The fountain is decorated to match the port theme with colorful, non-descript flags crisscrossing over the water.
As people meander between tents, there's always something trying to catch wandering eyes. A canvas that reads "Sock Monkeys Have Issues" in all caps, a grotesquely mystifying depiction of Alice in Wonderland, professional nature photography, bright, punchy blown glass and decorative bowls made out of ancient-looking wood all vie for passing attention.
One of the festival's Emerging Artists is Nathan Doverspike, a recent graduate of the Pittsburgh Art Institute. Doverspike says he draws from an eclectic pool of influences to create his distinct work.
"I really like Aztec … things and [Native American] influences," he said, as a banjo played nearby. "I really like comic books and children's books, so that's definitely kind of like the style I'm going for. But I really like to be decorative and have a lot of detail."
Doverspike says his biggest seller is his Pittsburgh Island print, which is an urban collage stuffed with many iconic Pittsburgh images, such as the Cathedral of Learning, an Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup can and even the brief but memorable giant rubber duck that was docked just off the Point in 2013.
"A lot of my stuff is like a spin on things. A lot of it is just for fun that then I was like, 'People might buy this,'" Doverspike said. "I try to make it my own as much as I possibly can."
Doverspike used one of his works as an example, gesturing to a print of a grey-ish purple rock-snake monster. Upon closer inspection, it reveals itself to be a reimagining of the Pokémon Onix.
From futuristic, gear-like jewelry and elaborate, rustic wind chimes to a cupcake made entirely of origami and hand drawings of recently-deceased celebrities, the festival's options are as numerous as they are authentic.
"I've always been impressed by how many local artists the festival can attract, which is great to help their exposure to the greater Pittsburgh area," said Ashley Funyak, a senior anthropology and museum studies major at Pitt. "There are also always artists that travel from out of state just to present their work at the festival, which I think speaks to how influential this festival is on the city and the arts scene."
Funyak also related the festival's purpose to her own post-college plans.
"As someone who aspires to work in a museum or arts non-profit organization after graduation, seeing free and accessible artwork for the public at the festival was super rewarding," Funyak said.
Ultimately, though, the festival's easy-going approach to summer fun is its true selling point.
"I think the festival overall is a great event for the city of Pittsburgh," Funyak said. "Ten days of free art … is music to the ears of college students and families throughout the city, and it's great to see everyone having a good time."


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The whole married budget thing is still a little up in the air. Bunny and I both have our individual data from October, but I've yet to get a hold of his cashflow information and start combining all the information and really working on the data. I'm lazy about it. I'm also a little scared. Even without putting the data together fully with what I do know I'm sure we're doing alright. Money's a big worry for me, and it always will be.
Do we have enough? Can we afford the things we want and need? Do we have a big enough emergency fund? Are we spending too much on stupid things? Will we ever have decent retirement funds and be able to afford a house? Why was I so happy to let Bunny quit the lucrative career before we took advantage of another year or two of that salary to put towards a home? (The answer to that last question of course is for both of our sanity and our relationship, and support him in doing something that he loves as a career.)
In the grand scheme of things, I'm pretty sure October was a good month. Yes, we had to pay for the root canal and that was painful. Yes, Bunny took more than a few sick days this month. Luckily we found some significant cash, in actual bills, that we had quite literally forgotten about and were able to use towards that expense. Honestly when we can forget about a few hundred dollars and not be stressed about it? We can't be doing that badly. On top of that, we were able to pay all our bills including a couple of large and irregulars that we usually don't see, throw some extra money towards the ever decreasing debt and put some significant cash in savings. All of that, and we didn't even have any freelance hours this month. That's a big deal mostly because Bunny's freelance hours are where we're able to get the biggest payout per hour and it's money that goes straight to our long term savings funds, so it's pure gravy. On top of that I had some nice paycheque surprises myself, including an extra fifty bucks on one cheque, a sweet little performance bonus in the form of a gift card (new shoes, here I come! - or not) and the news that I'll be getting somewhat of a raise next cheque which is always a great thing.
We're doing alright. We have money in the bank. We can afford everything we want or need. We could afford to live on our own if that was our priority right now, and that's a priority that's always under review. We can afford to help my mom out with some around the house things as they come up, and we intend to. Still our financial goals feel a million miles away. Buying a house? Doing so with a big enough down payment that we have an affordable mortgage? That feels almost impossible. Going to Spain in a year or two feels more doable, but that expense would seriously cut into the house fund. Even though my student loans are ever shrinking, it still feels like I'll never get out of debt.
What's particularly ridiculous sometimes is knowing that I'm the one who likes managing the money in this relationship. I'm a little bit better at it, by both of our accounts, although Bunny's pretty good with money himself. For all that I worry, always, I love coming up with budgets and paying the bills and watching the savings go up and the debt go down. It's my thing. It's such a stressful thing.
How do you feel about managing money? Do you enjoy it? Is it stressful? A combination of both?
tackling life with a spatula in one hand and a sewing needle in the other, while (hopefully) dressed to kill.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
even when you have it, it feels like there's never enough
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- Anonymous21 November 2012 at 00:34
I love managing out money. It's like, a sickness. I have spreadsheets and charts and long term plans, and I think about them when I can't sleep.ReplyDelete
I am a very, very lucky woman, in that counting my money makes me feel happy and not stressed. We're not rich, but we're comfortable, and I love that about my life.Replies
I'm jealous! I enjoy being the money manager and I love coming up with budgets and spreadsheets but there's always a little bit of stress involved in it for me.Delete
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Later this afternoon Thomas and I will fly out to Search Engine Strategies in Chicago where I'll be covering some sessions, doing more video interviews, taking lots of photos and the best parts: learning and networking. I will also be sitting in on the Social Media Optimization panel with Neil, Rand, Andy and Todd.
The session topics I am most interested in involve social media (of course!) as well as video optimization, B2B, big site SEO/SEM, regulated industries and conversions/analytics.
Thomas from TopRank (see his video on YouTube here) will be posting coverage of at least one session per day here at Online Marketing Blog and I will be posting 1-2 per day plus videos and photos. You can see post conference videos here and conference photos here.
It's amazing to think I only started blogging conferences about a year and a half ago starting with ad:tech Chicago in 2005. In that time traffic to this blog has increased dramatically right along with networking relationships and our business growth. The industry has changed quite a bit in that time as well and blogging conferences like Search Engine Strategies is a great way to share info with people who are not attending and also a valuable method of documenting some of the fast moving history in the search marketing industry.
Here's a rundown of the sessions Thomas and I will be attending at SES Chicago:
Monday, December 4
9:00am – 10:30am
– Thomas: Vendor Spotlight – latest trends, tools and technologies that are shaping the interactive marketplace.
– Lee: Video Search Optimization
11:00am – 12:30pm
– Thomas: Drive traffic to your site with Google
– Lee: Business Issues For For The Big SEM Shop
2:00pm – 3:30pm
– Thomas: Podcast & Audio Search Optimization
– Lee: Putting Search Into The Marketing Mix
4:00pm – 5:30pm
– Thomas: Working With Clients
– Lee: ClickZ Forum: Advertising In Social Media
Tuesday, December 5
9:00am- 9:45am
– Lee: Keynote: Jason McCabe Calacanis
10:15am – 11:45am
– Thomas: Link Building Basics
– Lee: B2B Tactics
1:15am – 2:30pm
– Thomas: Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
3:00pm – 4:15pm
– Thomas: Fun With Dynamic Web Sites
4:30pm – 5:45pm
– Thomas: Successful Site Architecture
– Lee: Beyond The Single Site Mentality
Wednesday, December 6
9:00am – 10:15am
– Thomas: Web Analytics & Measuring Success Overview
– Lee: Social Search Overview
11:00am – 12:15pm
– Thomas: Vendor Chat On Measuring Success
– Lee Speaking: SMO: Social Media Optimziation
2:00pm – 3:15pm
– Thomas: Link Baiting & Viral Search Success
– Lee: Converting Visitors Into Buyers
3:45pm – 5:00pm
– Thomas: Blog & Feed Search SEO
– Lee: Search & Regulated Industries
5:15am – 5:45am
– Lee: Keynote: Search In 2006 Danny Sullivan
Thursday, December 7
9:00am – 10:15am
– Thomas: Big Ideas For Small Sites & Small Budgets
– Lee: In House: Big SEO
10:45am – 12:00pm
– Thomas: Ad Copy & Landing Page Clinic
– Lee: Search Engine Q&A On Links
12:30am – 1:45pm
– Thomas: 75 Minute Search Abs
There are a good number of after conference events, although many of them require invites. It's just not viable for some of the smaller companies to host parties for several thousands conference attendees. This time SEMPO and Yahoo are having events open to everyone on Monday evening and there are two other events on Monday that are invite only. Tuesday there are two private parties and Wednesday there are two. Joe Morin maintains a thread at Search Engine Watch of post conference events.
For some great tips on getting the most out of conferences, be sure to visit Todd's posts here and here.
Thursday afternoon we'll fly back to Minnesota so we can get at least one full day of work in for the week. It should be a great conference!


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-Once you have determined that you are in interested in obtaining applied behavioral analysis (ABA) for your child, you will be assisted in completing paperwork to one or more ABA companies (depending on your insurance provider) with the assistance of Outreach autism Services Network staff (OaSN) and/or volunteers.
-You will be required to fill out additional paperwork to provide to an applied behavioral analyst or an assistant applied behavioral analyst to assist with creating a basic behavioral plan to assist parents, caregivers and teachers to aid the child with autism until ABA therapy is approved by your public, private or commercial insurance plan.
-OaSN will provide assistance through support meetings, information about other services that are offered, & referrals to other therapies or services as needed.
Please note, there is no charge to participate in this program, however, you will need to provide requested information including family income to be considered. This program is NOT income dependent, it is dependent on the need of the child you are requesting to participate in this program. OaSN is required to collect this information to receive grant funding. This information also assists us in getting more funding. Thank you. Additional note, this information is confidential & will only be shared as data without identifying names, addresses, etc.
Placement Positions Id 53 In Resume Card Template School Psd Outreach autism Services Network is pleased to offer our 6th Annual Summer Program funded by generous donations from the community. The STEAM Summer Program will be filled with fun, hands-on activities. Participants will learn about robotics (including programming robots, flying drones, and launching rockets. Participants will engage in interactive science experiments, such as making catapults, designing a maze, cooking in a solar oven or building rockets. Participants will also enjoy lots of creative and messy art projects. To wrap up each week of our amazing summer program, we will celebrate with Fun Friday with lots of fun activities! Some of these activities will include water balloon fights, tie dying, kites, water day games, pizza, popsicles and so much more!
*The STEAM Summer Program is for all children! One week scholarships will be available based on private grants & community support. Children with autism ages 3-18 (up to 19th birthday). We do our best to accommodate all campers, however, ABA support may be required depending on the needs of each camper.*
Intake Form
Our intake form is available to complete and submit online!
Please take a moment and click the button below and fully complete the intake form. You must have an intake form on file to be eligible for the programs and services that OaSN offers. Should you have any questions please contact us.
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What is autism?
Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. Individuals with autism process information differently than those not on the spectrum for autism.
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Are there higher medical costs associated with autism?
Individuals with an autism diagnosis have medical expenditures that exceeded those without an autism diagnosis by $4,110–$6,200 per year. On average, medical expenditures for individuals with an autism diagnosis were 4.1–6.2 times greater than for those without an autism diagnosis. Differences in median expenditures ranged from $2,240 to $3,360 per year with median expenditures 8.4–9.5 times greater. In 2005, the average annual medical costs for Medicaid-enrolled children with autism were $10,709 per child, which was about six times higher than costs for children without autism ($1,812). In addition to medical costs, intensive behavioral interventions for children with autism cost $40,000 to $60,000 per child per year.
Reference: Centers for Disease Control:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db291.pdf, please visit the CDC website for more information.
HUGE thanks to Howard Middle School and the Jr. National Honor Society for volunteering, choosing OaSN as their study project, and for their generous donation. Community support allows OaSN to offer low cost/no cost programs/services. We are so grateful!
The Ember911™ Child Safety Education Program is designed to teach children how to react in dangerous or life threatening situations. Ember is virtual Dalmatian who teaches fire safety along with other aspects of child safety in an interactive way with a host of animated characters.


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"What a positive role model [Barack Obama] is for young black people, for all young people," Juan Williams is telling Fox & Friends viewers this morning. We guess it depends upon what your definition of "positive role model is" (see below).
"You don't know how much this means to me, Brian," Juan Williams is telling Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends early morning. While we agree with Lawrence Eagleburger that Barack Obama is a charlatan — or more colorfully, in Thomas Sowell's words, "an ego and a mouth" — we can't help but be touched by Juan's earnest wonder and joy that a fellow man of color has
begged, borrowed and stolen won enough votes to become Leader of the Free World:
When I was a kid I didn't even dream I could be sitting on this couch with you, Brian, let alone be President. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, there was no role model for a black man in journalism. Now you have this example of a man who has been a scholar, head of the Harvard Law Review, ran an amazing campaign, excellent speaker, married, two kids. What a positive role model he is for young black people, for all young people.
"Well, if Juan thinks a cog in the Chicago Thug Machine is a good role model, so be it," imails our sis, who emailed us last night just as the fat lady began to sing:
I just had a frantic phone call from Chris. He's at a party where he is the lone McCain supporter.
I gave him a huge pep-talk, recalling the Election of '68, and it seemed to cheer him. David and I were at Greg and Marcia's, watching the election returns. David and I left their apartment at about 11:00 PM. Marcia and Greg were JUBILANT, assured by the MSM that according to "projections," Humphrey had won. David and I struggled home, downcast and downhearted. Eight hours later, we awoke to find that NIXON had won!!!!
Kate Smith was a fat lady, but when she sang, it was "God Bless America." :-)
How ironic that MLKs dream of a colorblind society has been turned upside down in this historic election. It was not colorblindness but its opposite that enabled — in the sense of enabling an addict — a candidate whose self-professed anti-Constitutional, Marx-lite fondness for "income redistribution" and lifelong alliances with notorious America haters were willfully and sometimes thuggishly suppressed over the course of a two-year campaign by fellow-traveling, white-guilt-ridden media elites who, like Obama himself, would accuse skeptics like us of racism and preferred to keep the great unwashed uninformed. It's the stupidity, stupid?


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