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Swaha Yoga Center presents a unique space in the heart of the Akropils, Athens, and offers Hatha, Vinyasa, Aerial, Jivamukti, and Restorative yoga retreats.
Instruction language: English
29 days / 28 nights
Instruction language: English
30 days / 29 nights
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 (Jivamukti Yoga)
Tanya Popovich is a senior teacher, teaching 200-hour and 500-hour training, yoga retreats, and workshops internationally. She is the founder of Swaha Yoga Center in Athens, Greece. She is also a Jivamukti yoga certified teacher and a Yoga Acharya (master of yoga) in the Sivananda tradition with a long background in alignment-based Anusara yoga. While keeping her base at the moment in Athens, Greece, she is mostly on the road sharing the joy of yoga across the globe.
Yoga Alliance RYT 200 (Yoga)
Echo has two 200-hour RYT training certifications with a total of 400 RYT training, and hundreds of hours of teaching under her belt. Her background began with Hatha, Vinyasa, and Power yoga. It evolved to Yin, Restorative, Sivananda, and most recently training under Baron Baptiste mentors. Like progression, her practice evolves as she does but most of her teachings are quite fluid. She focuses on alignment, breath, and flow. She tries her best to create organic movement in her individual practice as well as the practice she shares with her community.
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I loved the balance between yoga asanas, and philosophy and yoga teachings. It felt really holistic, and I learned so much more than I expected. The teachers were amazing and the location is stunning.
The anatomy section of the course could have been a bit more thorough, but I only felt that because every other section was so fantastic.
A traveler
BookYogaRetreats website
I have had an amazing experience at the Swaha yoga teacher training in Greece. It was everything I had expected and more. I have learned so much there about myself and about yoga and apparently, the program attracts amazing people as well since the group I was with was very special. Overall an experience I would not have missed out on.
Maria Macsay, United States
Swaha Yoga Center website
Throughout my yoga teacher training I was impressed and inspired by Tanya's depth of knowledge on yoga and it's philosophy. She is someone who really walks the walk and lives her practice. Her actions always expressed a deep respect for the tradition which deepened my own fascination and respect for it. Tanya really emphasized the important of alignment of each of the asanas, and how to most respectfully and effectively assist students in class. This has been a huge take away for me in my own teaching. What also struck me about Tanya, was her willingness to share from her own journey so that her students could learn from her experiences both in practice and in business. She showed us how to merge the two without compromising the tradition or ourselves. Thank you Tanya!
Evy Vourlides United States
Swaha Yoga Center website
I completed my 200-hr RYT training with Tanya years ago in Amorgos, Greece. As I continue my own practice of yoga and taken many different classes, the more I understand the value of Tanya's strong and compassionate teaching style. Tanya always made me feel safe and cared for, while pushing me to my fullest potential. She emphasized the importance of the Yoga Sutras, and always integrated asana practice with yoga philosophy. Tanya is a responsible and inspiring teacher, and her teachings continue to be a powerful force in my life.
David Dauncey United Kingdom
Swaha Yoga Center website
I completed my first 200-hr Hatha and Vinyasa training with Tanya last summer 2015 and it was incredible. The knowledge, passion, and talent of Tanya and her team provided me with a solid foundation on which to build my practice and teaching. She taught with such compassion and humility that she will always be an inspiration to me for years to come. The training far exceeded my expectations and, from my understanding, the 200-hr criteria of Yoga Alliance. Tanya's knowledge of Vedanta philosophy and yogic tradition ensured that her training was delivered in depth, whilst being sympathetic to the roots of yoga. It was inspiring to learn how eastern yogic principles can serve us in modern times and I hope to attend more training with Tanya and Swaha Yoga in the future. This training changed my whole perspective on life and I'm forever grateful for her teachings. With love and gratitude.
Katy Fernandez Pardal California, USA
Swaha Yoga Center website
I have had the opportunity to practice with different teachers in different cities and when I met Tanya in Munich I became a regular in her classes. I like her strong and creative sequences which are always challenging and rewarding. She guides you with an amazing smooth voice, to become aware of the important not so obvious alignment details of your own body. I also learned to recognize my breath patterns and to practice different breathing techniques in her breathing and meditation classes as a tool to improve my living quality. Tanya inspired my yoga practice in many levels: physical, mental, spiritual. I considered her an experienced and honest teacher, a teacher with integrity. For all these reasons I decided to do my first yoga teacher training with her and I couldn't be more satisfied with the experience that has served me to shift my life perception forever.
The program, the team and the books she chose are truly jewels of wisdom that made me an integral teacher and being.
I'm thankful that our paths have crossed and I'm looking forward to my next training with Tanya!
Shelly Grabiak United States
Swaha Yoga Center website
Tanya struck me from the moment I saw her as a powerful, knowledgeable, wise, confident and strong woman. This is the same aura she maintained and resonated steadily throughout the entire teacher training I attended with her. I was proud to know her immediately and to be in her presence throughout. I was proud that I was going to learn, grow and have the opportunity to be in an intense training with her. I wanted to emanate pieces of her aura and incorporate them into the parts of me that needed it. I truly hope and believe I did after that training in September 2014 too and continue to do so always.I feel that I'm a stronger, wiser, more diligent, dedicated, committed, aware, more courageous and enhanced of a person and yogi after her training, in major part due to her, her design of the training and who she is. She truly has the ability to move mountains and it shows. Yet, as she's teaching you how to do it, she will also remind you of how quickly they can be torn down, so you healthily stay in a good place. She teaches balance. She strives to give her work her fullest, and it shows. She understands her students, yet pushes them to achieve no less than their true potential either. She demonstrates commitment to continual growth in philosophy, discipline, learning, practicing, health, teaching and being an amazing yogi. At the same time, when the time is right, she'll laugh, dance, sing, loves people and animals and will let you know to come to her if you need anything. The breath of her knowledge is expressed greatly in her asana and text classes. I felt like I was always learning and trying something new, was always challenged by her, and I always looked forward to it and wanted to show her my best. I always felt like her knowledge was coming from vast and deep places and valued being a part of her training for a multitude of reasons I understood then and continued to grow to understand later too. She earns great respect from students and returns it when earned equally. I feel very grateful to have known her in this setting and to be able to keep in touch with her as someone to look up to always. I will always follow her many excursions and lessons learning, emanating and striving to maintain that part in me of what I so strongly admire to be like her, and that's a rare wonderful thing!
Portia Leigh
Swaha Yoga Center website
I've done a lot of research on certification programs over the years and one of the reasons why I chose this one was because of their well-rounded approach, I'm thrilled to be in a training that has not only helped me grow with asanas, but learn more about yogic philosophy, pranayama, anatomy and the many ways this practice benefits all of us, not too mention the beautiful community that has been created between us.
Hara Georgatou
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A studio with nice and friendly atmosphere, consisting of great and inspiring instructors. Many thanks to Tanya Popovich and Evangelos Aik for the unique experience of participating in such an amazing teacher training program. Swaha Aerial yoga teacher training highly recommended!
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood boasts about its terrorist activities
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, we said in a feature published on 3 January, has been largely successful in branding itself to the West as a pragmatic and moderate Islamist group, something altogether different from the global jihadists of Al-Qaeda or the Egyptian terrorist outfit of Bayt al-Maqdis. This, we said, is a fallacy, deliberately intended to fool gullible or ignorant Westerners, and we cited an article by Arab affairs analyst and broadcaster Magdi Abdelhadi, "From London to Mansoura: killing in the name of Allah", to explain why we believe this is a fallacy.
On the following day, 4 January, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the so-called "Freedom and Justice Party" (FJP), furnished us with more evidence to support our argument that the Brotherhood is a mendacious and pernicious organization that will use any means, including violence, to achieve its aim of turning Egypt into an Islamist state and forcing Egyptians – Muslims, Christians and atheists – to live strictly in accordance with its interpretation of Islam.
In a statement published on its official Facebook page, it said that in the previous 37 days its activists had burnt 73 police vehicles, four armoured cars and 18 prison vans. It described this as a manifestation of "peaceful resistance" to the "coup's terrorism" and "a war of non-violence". And that's not all. Indicating that vehicles belonging to the Interior Ministry will continue to be targeted, the statement added that "the counter is still running".
According to the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk, the toll of destruction perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood may be even higher. It quoted an Interior Ministry source as saying that the numbers cited on the FJP's Facebook page could be higher if the provinces are taken into account. And that's before even counting the destruction of public and private enterprises and the attacks on ordinary people's cars that have been carried out by participants in pro-Brotherhood marches.
Meanwhile, Western media and – bizarrely, given that the Muslim Brotherhood is a far-right political organization – large sections of the left continue to bleat in support of the Brotherhood, arguing that it is a grassroots group that was elected into office and deprived of power in a "military coup".
How quickly some people's memories fade.
The Nazi party also grew as a grassroots movement in interwar Germany, and it too was democratically elected into office. Although there are many differences between the Nazis and the Brotherhood, they do share at least one thing in common: a violent ideology that seeks to change the character of the state and impose itself on everybody and by whatever means.


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LET'S put it this way, I didn't make things easy for myself at the opening
round of the British Touring Car Championship.
On my first flying lap in qualifying, I was caught out by the cold tyres on my
eBay Motors BMW 125i and had a gentle spin coming out of Brands Hatch's
Druids hairpin.
That should have been no problem at all. But unluckily for me another car came
round the bend and smacked head-on into me.
It wasn't a high-speed or even a major impact but the damage to my Beemer was
unexpectedly severe. Worst of all, there was a big crack in the front
subframe, so a full-on rebuild was the only answer.
I felt a bit bad about it. The guys in the eBay Motors team had worked
incredibly hard to get my brand new car and those of my team-mates Rob
Collard and Nick Foster ready for Brands.
And now they faced another long and gruelling task to repair my car in time
for the following day's racing.
They finished at 3am but then presented me with a car that looked as if it had
come straight out of the showroom, for which I was enormously grateful.
Thanks again, boys.
The lack of a proper qualifying time condemned me to 25th place on the grid
for Race 1, which kind of defined the rest of my day.
For sure, I faced an uphill task from so far back and couldn't really hope to
challenge the front-runners.
It was a challenge for all of us in the eBay team as the cars were so new.
There were bound to be teething troubles and we really had to treat the
Brands event as a high-pressure test session.
But in the three races I managed three top ten finishes – an eighth and two
ninths – despite being whacked into the Paddock Bend gravel in Race 2 by
Frank Wrathall's Toyota and despite another brief trip through the same
safety trap in Race 3 after I slipped up on braking just after the start.
When I was running freely my pace was good. Dick Bennetts, the boss of the
West Surrey Racing organisation that runs the eBay Motors squad, told me it
was on a par with the leaders, which is really encouraging.
And I was staggered when the lads from The Sun told me I would actually leave
Brands in seventh place in the BTCC standings. Not at all bad, considering.
Talking of the SunSport guys, they were there with their video camera.
So if you click on the video with this column I'll tell you a lot more about
my weekend and my prospects for the rest of the year.
And you'll get to see more of my brilliant Beemer. Best paint job in the
paddock, I think you'll agree.
Talk to you again before the next round at Donington. Hope the weather warms
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Multihull designer Richard Woods is at it again. Although known primarily for his catamaran designs, Richard designed a new small trimaran model called the Strike 18 and started offering plans for it just last year. Now he is in the process of designing 2 other small tris that will bear the "Strike" moniker.
As detailed in More Small Trimarans, the Strike name is a variant of Richard's famous trailerable, high performance catamaran called The Strider. Despite his love affair with cats, Richard actually has enjoyed a lot of experience with sailing trimarans throughout his career. (This was a very cool and interesting fact that came out in my interview with him).
The newest boat will be the Strike 14 Trimaran … followed afterwards by the Strike 16 Trimaran. While he hasn't released a lot of info about these new models yet, Richard writes the following inside the NEW DESIGNS section of his website:
The Strike 16 uses parts from the Pixie or Quattro 14. Thus usually only the mainhull needs making, a great saving in time and effort. The big open cockpit is similar to the Strike 18, while the windscreen raises the boom comfortably above head height and reduces spray and wind chill.
The Strike 14, however, is a complete design and doesn't use parts from other boats. The main hull is stitch and glue tortured ply, while the outriggers are partly ply and partly solid foam, glassed over. Although it is light enough to cartop (under 100kgs all up), trailering (disassembled beam is only 1.5m, 5ft) is a much more sensible option.
In some respects it is akin to a Stealth with "training wheels". The addition of the jib and asymmetric spinnaker will easily offset the extra weight and drag from the two outriggers. So it will be a fast boat! It will take two people but is really intended as a singlehander.
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The Carker is one of Anya Hindmarch's signature bag designs. This Anya Hindmarch Carker Fringed and Beaded Bag is like an update to that favorite Anya Hindmarch bag.
For about $1,596, this shoulder bag shows so much restraint in terms of design. Usually fringes and beads do not work well together but it shows that the designer understands what it means to put two strong elements like those and make it mix together naturally.


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Many of you have wrote in today inquiring about the bag seen on Priya Marwah (John Abraham's rumored new beau). The bag in question is a Yves Saint Laurent Muse (also seen on Kareena).
P.S. Before you ask us for a face profile, look inside to see Priya in a BCBG dress and a BV studded knot clutch.
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On Tuesday the High Court quashed proceedings against Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, in a corruption case filed in 2001 involving the purchase of MiG-29 warplanes during her previous administration.
AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Borhanuddin, the bench of justices, declared this verdict on a petition submitted by Sheikh Hasina in 2008 that challenged the accusations against her. In 2001, the accusations were made against the Prime Minister and six others of purchasing eight Russian MiG-29 warplanes during the term of her party and incurring financial losses to the state of $129 million.
The court now says that the former Bureau of Anti-Corruption filed the case under the influence of the four party alliance government led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party. Therefore, it has no legal validity.


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YOU never know what you're going to get with Pete Doherty. The former Libertine has made unpredictability an art form with no guarantee that he'll even turn up, never mind be on time and on his game.
Fortunately for him, the devoted fans that sellout every show he plays clearly still feel that he's worth the gamble. Fortunately for them, tonight was one of those shows where he didn't let anyone down, far from it in fact.
Taking to the stage bang on time to a hero's welcome, Doherty absolutely smashed it, firing out a set of raucous barnstormers that had way more hits
than misses.
After a lone piper announced his arrival, the singer bounded on to the stage to a hero's welcome.
"Evenin' all? Remember us?" he asked as he launched into the clanking rhythm and blues of Delivery, its taut bassline and scratchy guitar kicking off a party atmosphere that didn't falter for the rest of the night.
He immediately slowed it down for the brilliant one-two punch of Nothing Comes To Nothing and The Blinding, the former's wistful glow the perfect counterpoint for the latter's gritty edginess.
Keeping the chat to a minimum, Doherty was obviously enjoying himself, catching the constant stream of hats, bras and other items of clothing thrown at him in mid air as he sang, before firing them back into the crowd. The Man Who Came To Stay made for an early highlight, a barreling rocker
that mixed a My Bloody Valentine-style sonic howl with an irresistible chorus, but he topped it again with a new track, Farmer's Daughter.
A gorgeous, blissed-out melody that called to mind the later Velvet Underground records, the track erupted into a real epic.
Undeniably heavy, but soaringly beautiful at the same time, the song is one of the best things he's ever written and a clear reminder how much the wayward singer still has to offer.
Of the other new material, the jagged punk rock of Fireman stood out, as did Penguins' glorious psychedelic freak-out, but it was fan-favourites like the rabble rousing I Wish that understandably got the biggest cheers.
Even bigger was the roar of approval when Doherty ripped the shirt off his back as he tore into a feral version of Pipedown, throwing himself around the stage as his band cranked out its frantic riff.
The wheels almost came off due to a 10-minutes too long wait for an encore but they quickly pulled it back with a scattershot take on Kilimanjaro, inciting absolute mayhem in the crowd.
He'd saved the best for last though, with a truly spectacular **** Forever.
Chaotic and messy, but with a defiant, irresistible charm, the song encapsulated its writer perfectly. Say what you like about him but, when he's on it, Pete Doherty is still something pretty special.


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Our walk begins with a brief orientation to our wetlands.We will stroll through heritage coastal sage scrub and historic dredge spoils, while looking for raptors (birds of prey) and a number of other species that nest in the area. As we pass the salt flats we may see tiger beetles and coyote tracks before hiking up to the Heron Pointe Cultural trail to discuss how tidal circulation shapes our local wetlands.
Our walk leaders will share their knowledge and passion for the wildlife of the wetlands. Bring binoculars, if you have them; we will observe many different kinds of interesting wildlife.
For more information or to RSVP email firstname.lastname@example.com
Our next wetlands kayakng trip will be Sunday, December 13th from 9:00am until noon. We will leave from the Leeway Sailing Center on Ocean Blvd. and kayak to Steamshovel Slough and back. Our trips are led by our partners from Tidal Influence and are open to anyone who is comfortable kayaking for a few hours and has a sense of adventure. No experience necessary. If you are interested, please send an email to email@example.com and we will send you further details.
The lovely Hellman portion of Los Cerritos Wetlands
Despite all the holiday rush of activities, it's a great time to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Join us and our partners, biologists and environmental educators from the environmental consulting firm Tidal Influence, on a wonderful hike at Los Cerritos Wetlands on Saturday, December 5th, at 8:00AM sharp. Parking lot gate will open at 7:45AM and close at 8:10AM. No late-comers can be admitted for the tour, and all participants must stay for the entire tour, which will end by 10:00AM.
A great blue heron enjoying our local wetlands. You will likely spot one if you attend our upcoming wetlands nature walk.
If you were unable to attend our recent community meeting, featuring Heal the Bay's Senior Policy Director Rita Kampalath, where we heard her presentation on the proposal to keep the AES cooling water pumps running in the Los Cerritos Wetlands, below is a little re-cap of our meeting and what we learned.
We learned that there are already many laws and regulations in place that deal with water pollution; also there are existing permits mandating how pollution is to be addressed. We heard how in the coming years those permits need to be enforced throughout the entire San Gabriel River Watershed. We learned that while the Alamitos AES plant pumps do, indeed, circulate water through Alamitos Bay, the circulation they offer provides limited benefits and comes at a great cost to marine life killed in the process. We heard about better solutions that reduce bacteria, trash and other pollution at its source, and do so without degrading the local marine eco-system.
New rules, recently adopted into enforceable permits, require up-stream cities to clean up pollution before it gets into the San Gabriel River, and other waterways, so that Long Beach will no longer be the unwilling recipient of all that is now dumped into its roughly 700 square mile watershed.
Due to regulations that prohibit once-through cooling, AES Alamitos is shutting down their pumps that use seawater to cool its generators. These new regulations are designed to protect marine life. AES plans to build newer style generators that do not require water; therefore the pumps that bring cooling water from Alamitos Bay will no longer be used by AES.
Currently AES's pumps indiscriminately kill important marine life that makes up the web of life in the ocean and our local wetlands. The cessation of AES's cooling pumps will help restore this fragile ecosystem, which will mean more abundant and diverse wildlife in Los Cerritos Wetlands and Alamitos Bay.
The conversion of AES's generators, so that they no longer harm marine life, is a slow planning and approval process, to be sure, but an important one. The Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust believes the conversion must be done in a way that maximizes environmental protection for our community and for our fragile local wetlands.
However, what will be done with the pumps when AES stops using them? There are a variety of opinions about how to answer that question. It is a common assumption that the pumps play a role in keeping Alamitos Bay clean and relatively free of pollution. That might be the case, given that the pumps running at maximum capacity pull through enough seawater to replace the water in Alamitos Bay twice a day. This recirculation explains why some people have expressed support for having the City of Long Beach continue to run the pumps.
But it's not clear if the City can "repurpose" the AES pumps for pollution control when they do so much damage to the ecosystem, the reason they are being abandoned in the first place.
Furthermore, it is unclear whether the agencies regulating pollution abatement will allow the City of Long Beach to continue discharging polluted water into the San Gabriel River, another water body that is already polluted. That is because there are smarter and better ways to ensure there will be clean water in Alamitos Bay to swim and recreate in without adding to the pollution.
These other methods may take a little more time to implement, but the multiple benefits are likely to make it time well spent. Will the City of Long Beach continue running the pumps, and what approvals does it need if it decides to do that? The permitting process would be complicated, and we aren't aware of any other City that has ever proposed doing something like this. That's why we are excited to host Rita Kampalath, Science and Policy Director for Heal the Bay, as the speaker at our upcoming community briefing. There is no one better to explain water quality science and regulations, why the proposal to run the pumps is controversial, and what better alternatives exist to keep the water clean both for people and wildlife. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us this Thursday, November 19th.
What: A community briefing about the details of the AES Alamitos conversion and pumps proposal.
When: Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 p. m.
Where: Kettering Elementary School, 550 Silvera Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90803
Who: Rita Kampalath, Science and Policy Director for Heal the Bay
Ms. Kampalath has a B. S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and an M. S. and Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, respectively, from UCLA. Prior to joining Heal the Bay, Ms. Kampalath served as an engineer at Geosyntec Consultants, where she helped manage a number of significant environmental initiatives.
To RSVP or for more information, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 714-357-8576.
Hope to see you this Thursday!
Elizabeth Lambe,
Executive Director
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
On Saturday, November 7th, we will be hosting a nature walk featuring the charismatic green sea turtles of Los Cerritos Wetlands.
Our walk will begin with a brief orientation to our wetlands. We will walk along Pacific Coast Highway to the bridge and look for sea turtles. For part of our tour we will view and discuss the Zedler marsh eco-system while keeping an eye out for local wildlife. Part of our walk will take us through the Signal Hill Petroleum oil operations where we will talk about the history of oil operations and their impact on the wetlands. We will wrap up our walk by hiking along Calloway marsh, taking the PCH bridge over to the western levee and walking past city-owned wetlands, past the Pumpkin Patch portion of Los Cerritos Wetlands and campground marsh
What: Turtle Trek nature walk of Los Cerritos Wetlands.
When: Saturday, November 7th, 2015, from 8:00AM until 10:00AM
Where: Meet us in the driveway at 1st street and PCH in Seal Beach. You may park in the driveway.
Download flyer for further logistical information about the walk and a map of where we meet. Closed toed shoes required, and kids under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
See you on Saturday, I hope!
Elizabeth Lambe
Executive Director
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
P.S. Above is interesting and compelling footage of scientists rescuing a sea turtle from the San Gabriel River that was hampered by fishing line. Hope all you fishermen out there are careful about how you use and dispose of your fishing tools.
Embedded in this decades-old zoning is language from Long Beach's own Local Coastal Program that high-density development should be concentrated downtown in order to help the south east area of our city remain low-scale and less dense to protect sensitive resource areas like Los Cerritos Wetlands. And for years the City of Long Beach has been permitting development based on that vision.
For example on page 4 of this City authored memo...they, themselves, make the case that "dense and high-rise development along the City's coastline should be focused in the downtown area along Ocean Boulevard in order to protect the down-coast areas of the City from such development pressures in the future. This planning principle is consistent with the. . .Coastal Act because it works to protect overcrowding and overuse of the more sensitive resource areas in the eastern or down-coast coastal areas of the City while encouraging higher density in the downtown area that is better able to accommodate high volume activity."
Could that balanced vision, described above, be changing? It sure looks like it, given that the initial study document outlines a much higher density proposal than was discussed in previous workshops and community meetings. That's why I plan to attend the upcoming SEADIP updating scoping hearing and hope you will too. The public scoping meeting, as well as the release of the required Initial Study (IS) and Notice of Preparation (NOP), kicks off the legally required public review process for what will eventually result in a final Land Use Plan.
The SEADIP updating Scoping Meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 4th, at 6:00 p.m.at the Best Western Golden Sails Hotel at 6285 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach. The Scoping Meeting will describe the proposed SEADIP updated project, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process, the purpose of the Initial Study/Notice of Preparation and upcoming Environmental Impact Report, and offer an opportunity for members of the public and other interested parties to comment on the environmental "scope" (or breadth of topics and issues) that should be analyzed in the eventual Environmental Impact Report.
Please make plans to join me at this meeting and share your vision for the future of southeast Long Beach. For example, if you are worried about how the proposed increased density, building heights and traffic would impact fragile wetlands and local neighborhoods, attend this meeting to help decision makers understand your concerns.
After all, whatever comes out of the SEADIP updating process will shape the future of south east Long Beach for us and for generations to come. Let's make sure it is a plan that protects our local wetlands and the character of this unique area.
To learn more check out these interesting articles in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Grunion Gazette.
There has been a lot of speculation about what will happen when the AES power plant stops using pumps that pull in sea water to cool their generators. Because the pumps suck in and kill marine life, AES must discontinue using seawater in order to comply with new State regulations to protect ecosystems and fisheries. But there are those who are concerned that shutting down the pumps may result in degraded water quality in Alamitos Bay. And there may be good reason to be concerned aboutwater quality in Alamitos Bay, Los Cerritos Wetlands, and the San Gabriel River. In fact, the City of Long Beach is considering a plan to continue running the pumps after AES abandons them to help protect water quality. However, that plan raises new questions.
How to sort through all these concerns and come up with a plan that is good for water quality in Alamitos Bay and the San Gabriel River that also protects marine life is a complicated question. That's why the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust is excited to host a community meeting featuring Rita Kampalath, Science and Policy Director for the well-respected water quality advocacy organization,Heal the Bay.
Ms. Kampalath is not only an expert on water quality issues but also on the laws that regulate water quality in our bays, ocean, and streams. So mark your calendar and plan to join us on November 19thfor what is sure to be an interesting and informative evening.
What: Informational Meeting about the proposal to run AES pumps in Alamitos Bay
When: Thursday, November 19th, 2015, at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Kettering Elementary School, 550 Silvera Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90803
Who: Rita Kampalath, Science/Policy Director for Heal the Bay.
Ms. Kampalath has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, respectively, from UCLA. Prior to joining Heal the Bay, Rita served as an engineer at Geosyntec Consultants, where she helped manage a number of significant environmental initiatives.
To RSVP or for more information, email email@example.com, call 714-357-8576.
With summer behind us, it's time to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Join us and our partners, biologists and environmental educators from Tidal Influence, on a wonderful hike at the Los Cerritos Wetlands on Saturday, October 3rd, 2015. Guides will lead us on a walking tour that will take us to Marketplace Marsh on the City of Long Beach's wetlands parcel and over to the San Gabriel River on the property held by the Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority.
We will likely come across great blue herons, which measure up to 4 feet tall. Their wing spans are huge, 5.5 to 6.5 feet. During this 2-mile urban hike, you will learn about the history of land acquisitions in Los Cerritos Wetlands, and leaders will show us some freshwater marsh habitats that few people have ever viewed. Participants will get a behind-the-scenes look at how wetlands and oil operations co-exist at Los Cerritos Wetlands.
WHAT: Heron Hike around the Marketplace Marsh at Los Cerritos Wetlands.
Great Blue Heron
A great blue heron enjoying our local wetlands. You will likely spot one if you attend our hike on
Saturday, October 3rd.
WHEN: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015, at 8:00 am sharp! Parking lot gate will open at 7:45 am and close at 8:10 am. No late-comers can be admitted for the tour, and all participants must stay for the entire tour, which will end by 10:00 am.
WHERE: Meet in the driveway/parking area at the corner of 1st Street and PCH in Seal Beach. There will be signs. Close-toed shoes are required, and kids under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
RSVP: email@example.com
If you support the protection and preservation of wetlands eco-systems, chances are you support protecting marine eco-systems also. A sad and inhumane disruption of the marine eco-system is the capture of orcas from the wild that are then sold to marine parks, zoos and other inappropriate places. While the United States has not been issued a permit for the taking of a wild orca since 1989, other nations perform hunts in order to capture orcas for display. And within the U.S., the problem of already captive orcas housed in marine parks, like Sea World, remains.
Interestingly, however, the future of captive orcas at Sea World will be before the Coastal Commission, when they meet in Long Beach on October 8th. The Coastal Commission will be voting whether or not to allow Sea World to expand the size of the tanks that house their whales. At that meeting the Commission could decide to condition their approval of Sea World's orca tank expansion so that the breeding and transfer of orcas will be phased out forever.
If this is an issue you would be interested in learning more about, I urge you to attend the upcoming Sea World Coastal Commission informational meeting featuring former Coastal Commissioner Sara Wan, co-founder of the Wan Conservancy, and Lindsay Larris, Regional Director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
This informational meeting will take place at 6:30PM this Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015, at Long Beach Main Library which is located at 101 Pacific Ave, next to Long Beach City Hall. Ever since the release of the movie Blackfish, more and more awareness has been building about the immorality of housing intelligent and sentient animals like whales in such harsh conditions. The Coastal Commission's meeting in Long Beach in October could put an end to that practice. Learn the details and how you can help this Tuesday evening. For more information or to rsvp, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Our kayaking trips to the Steamshovel Slough portion of Los Cerritos Wetlands sure have been a lot of fun. And popular too! Steamshovel Slough is one of the most pristine salt marsh areas in Southern California and a glimpse of what much of Los Cerritos Wetlands will look like once it is restored.
Our final three wetlands kayaking trips for 2015 will be on October 11th, November 15th and December 13th. I urge you to sign up for a spot by sending an email to email@example.com. We meet at Leeway Sailing Center at 9:00AM, and our trips always wrap up by noon. As with our nature walks, our kayak trips are lead by naturalists from our partners over at Tidal Influence. Cost is $13, paid directly to Leeway, which covers the cost of kayak, paddle and life-vest rental. Sure do love the photos our colleagues from Tidal Influence took during of our most recent kayak trip. They paint a great picture of what is it like to kayak through Alamitos Bay to Steamshovel Slough and back. Check them out. I think they will inspire you to join us!
The Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust for Long Beach and Seal Beach is a community based nonprofit
California corporation chartered to hold land in the public interest and dedicated to acquisition,
restoration and preservation of the San Gabriel River Estuary.
Coastal Cleanup Day is an amazing event where tens of thousands of people from up and down the state of California come together to clean up our coast. In just a few short hours, with everyone working together, our coast becomes cleaner and more inviting for people and for wildlife.
I am proud to share with you that locally, Long Beach and Seal Beach have quite a few coastal cleanup sites going on, some sponsored by close partners like Friends of the Colorado Lagoon, Save our Beach, or the Algalita Foundation.
I urge you to take a few hours out of your day this Saturday and join your fellow Californians everywhere. After all, our coast is one of California's most spectacular resources. Let's help keep it that way. Details are below.
Elizabeth Lambe
Executive Director
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
Friends of the Colorado Lagoon invites you to meet them this Saturday, September 19th, at 9:00AM at the Wetland and Marine Science Education Center at 5119 E. Colorado Street. They will provide the gloves, supplies and good times needed to pick up trash and debris around the lagoon. All ages welcome.
Save Our Beach will host coastal cleanups at two different locations. They will be at their regular 1st St. location, their other clean up location will be at the base of the Seal Beach Pier. Free parking is ONLY provided at the 1st St. location. Please be a part of the solution and attend this important event! You can register today at www.saveourbeach.org
The Algalita Foundation is participating in Coastal Cleanup Day alongside the El Dorado Nature Center at the Belmont Pier in Long Beach from 9am-12pm.
There are 7 locations where the City of Long of Long Beach will be hosting a coastal cleanup event this Saturday. Participating is easy. All you have to do is show up and sign in. For more information visit the City's website.
The Long Beach Press Telegram recently ran a comprehensive article with the latest news about the proposed mitigation bank for portions of Los Cerritos Wetlands. As you may recall, there is a proposal for a huge swath of Los Cerritos Wetlands, currently privately owned, to be used as a mitigation bank. In other words, our local wetlands would be fixed up in order to offset environmental impacts in other areas. Once the mitigation bank is wrapped up and finished, the land owner has committed to moving the restored wetlands into the pubic trust.
One important step along the way is an agreement to a "term sheet." The Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority (LCWA) voted to approve the term sheet framework at their last meeting. Term sheets don't obligate either party (the land owner or the LCWA) to anything, but serve as an outline for negotiating the details of this land deal. To check out the LCWA's recent agenda item on the matter that includes the term sheet you can click here. To read the Press Telegram article click here. It's a slow but steady process, one that could result in the vast majority of Los Cerritos Wetlands owned by the public and protected forever. But there are many steps along the way, and all of us must be vigilant to be sure that the deal that is reached is best for our local wetlands.
We had a great time at City Roots Festival earlier this month. It was a beautiful Saturday night for a concert at the Colorado Lagoon, our sister wetland, and we have to say that all of our organizational partners and vendors made an exceptional effort. Our thanks to our friends, old and new, that came out in support of natural open space and to hear some great live bluegrass under the stars.
We appreciate the support of the community for this important outreach opportunity for conservation in Long Beach. A huge thanks to Friends of Colorado Lagoon, the CSULB Mobile Science Museum,Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach Folk Revival Festival, Councilwoman Suzie Price, Congressman Alan Lowenthal, and all of our dedicated volunteers for helping to make this event possible. We hope that City Roots inspired a few newcomers to spend time in these magical vestiges of nature in the city, and to fight for them, too! Until next time. .
Dear Friend of Los Cerritos Wetlands,
Don't forget that our first ever free City Roots urban nature festival and concert is this Saturday, September 5th. What a great way to spend part of your Labor Day weekend. Not only will you get to know some of the interesting groups that are working to bring nature back to our urban environment but you will get to spend time at the Colorado Lagoon, a wonderful natural area that is also a great venue for a concert.
Most people don't know that the Colorado Lagoon was once an unbroken parcel of Los Cerritos Wetlands, before urban development fragmented and divided these once-vast natural lands. So we are excited to partner with Friends of Colorado Lagoon for this fun celebration of all that urban nature offers us here in Long Beach and surrounding communities.
The music will be great, too! Our featured band will be the Salty Suites, who will start their performance at 7PM, giving attendees plenty of time to check out the hands-on exhibits, kids' activities, and local organizations promoting natural open spaces, outdoor education, recreation, natural history, wildlife, and more. Lawn and beach seating for the free concert is limited, so I urge you to arrive at 5PM to stake out your spot with your blanket or lawn chairs.
Our valued partner South Bay Wildlife Rehab will also be there with their impressive raptors, along with two mobile science and ecology museums that can be explored for no charge. For dinner you can purchase yummy choices from the Canvas Food Truck or bring your own picnic, plus Councilwoman Suzie Price's office is hosting a fun s'mores bar.
We will be gathering on the north bank of the Colorado Lagoon. Festival attendees can enter from 6th St adjacent to the golf course, or from the south bank, crossing the pedestrian bridge over the water. Free bike valet sponsored by Representative Alan Lowenthal's office for those arriving on two wheels. Sorry, dogs have to sit this one out, they aren't permitted at the Lagoon.
See you this Saturday, I hope!
Elizabeth Lambe
Executive Director
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
Thanks to their community sponsorship, we'll be happily doling out Aquarium of the Pacific tickets to lucky winners all night at City Roots Festival. We're proud of our long partnership with the aquarium and all that they do for conservation efforts in Long Beach. Please check out all of the great upcoming events the aquarium is offering this season.
What better way to send off summer than with Ice Cream Ian! He'll be joining us at City Roots to pass out *free* treats to our guests.
City Roots is also pleased to be partnering with the Long Beach Folk Revival Festival, coming back for its third year on September 19. Enjoy picturesque views on the grassy lawns of Rainbow Lagoon Park in Downtown Long Beach from 11am to 11pm while enjoying the best in Folk, Roots, Americana, & Bluegrass music acts-- over 20 bands! In addition to the great music, all the fan favorites are back including contests, amazing gourmet food & craft beers, interactive kids' area, the "Vintage Bazaar" shopping experience & much more. Tickets are on sale now. Kids 12 and under as well as Seniors 75 or older get in free. While you're there, come visit us at the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust booth!
Our "Raptor Ramble" through the now-publicly owned Hellman portion of Los Cerritos Wetlands is one of my favorite nature walks. Not only will you get a chance to check out Los Cerritos Wetlands from the Seal Beach side, but you will likely spot a Belding's Savannah Sparrow. The Belding's love to nest in the salt marsh that is found in Los Cerritos Wetlands. And with only about 2,000 pairs of these birds left in the world, to spot one is a special treat. Another special thing about this Saturday's nature walk is the opportunity you will have to learn about the native people who once lived in and near our local wetlands. Who were they? How did they live? And what happened to them? Those are some of the questions that will be answered if you join us on our walk.
WHAT: Raptor Ramble Nature Walk of Los Cerritos Wetlands.
WHEN: Saturday, September 5th, 2015, at 8:00 am sharp! Parking lot gate will open at 7:45 am and close at 8:10 am. No late-comers can be admitted for the tour, and all participants must stay for the entire tour, which will end by 10:00 am.
WHERE AND WEAR: Meet in the driveway/parking area at the corner of 1st Street and PCH n Seal Beach. There will be signs. Wear close-toed shoes; and kids under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information or to rsvp send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Planting a wetlands plant. P.S. After our nature walk, from 12:30 to 2:30PM volunteers will be helping to restore Los Cerritos Wetlands. You are invited to join them. Meeting place is where we gather for our nature walks. For more information about restoration opportunities within Los Cerritos Wetlands, email email@example.com.
Each September electric vehicle advocates, including Plug In America, Sierra Club, and Electric Auto Association, host a national weekend of electric vehicle events. In Long Beach, at Houghton Park, there will be electric buses, cars, 18 wheelers, bicycles, lawn equipment and motorcycles, as well as information about all the benefits of electric propulsion. Also at the event you can check out interesting presentations, alternative fuel food trucks, and lots of fun discussions about the future of transportation.
This event is co-sponsored by Representative Alan Lowenthal, Congresswoman Janice Hahn, Senator Ricardo Lara, Long Beach Councilmember Rex Richardson, as well as the Sierra Club - Long Beach Group, TeslaClubLA, OC Tesla, BYD, Southern California Association of Electric Vehicles, AQMD, CARB, Audubon Society, Children's Day USA, Pedego, AGZA, Evergreene, Ameco Solar, Solar City many neighborhood associations, the Long Beach Coalition for a Safe Environment and the Long Beach Surfrider.
What: Long Beach Drive Electric Celebration
Where: Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Ave., Long Beach 90805
When: Saturday, September 12th, 2015, from 9:00AM until noon.
For more information check out the National Drive Electric Week webpage.


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I have gotten a few questions about what is where, and the functionality of this new studio project, so the easiest way to answer those seemed to be in a video! I'm taking you on a full walkthrough of Maker House and sharing a bit of the vision for each area…
We hope to be hosting our first round of workshops in March- so we are literally burning the candle at both ends. It's exciting work, and our kiddos have been total troopers. They often come with us to the studio- and while it's a little noisier and my work gets interrupted more often, most days go really well. Matt's parents have also been continual helpers and support on this, and we couldn't have done it without them!
I am so happy with how the black framed windows and chevron feature wall came together. You might have caught a glimpse of me testing colors on that big shiplap feature wall. I decided on a color…
I had originally planned on white- but I decided to go outside the box! I love how it turned out. It definitely draws the eye. I've always wanted to try an MDF shiplap wall, and I'll be sharing all the details with ya'll. It was easy! One downside is the our local HD won't cut MDF down- and they won't do strips smaller than a foot, so we had to cut everything ourselves. Initially I had considered using plywood, so I could get it cut there- but those large strips would have been too big. We ended up ripping our own strips down to about 8″.
I've started shopping for more furniture- and in case you missed the post about the tables we built- things are already looking different than they were during this video walk through!
I hope you are having a lovely week so far,
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a VirtualTourist member from Norwich
i have a friend coming to negril, this will be here 4th visit.
she is training for paris marathon and wants to run 15 miles on new years day.
she is looking for someone to run with at around 10min/mile. if anyone visiting there loves running or knows any local runners please let me know.
many thanks
Well gyals, welcome to mi Jamaica mon.....d:o)
She should be allright running on Seven Mile Beach in Negril, as it would be almost what she needs to complete 15 miles. Here is some more stuff on Negril.....
Well Negril is likely the nicest of the three main tourist areas on the north and west sides of Jamaica, the others being Mo Bay (Montego Bay) and Ocho Rios. Clearly you are leaning towards AIs (all inclusive resorts). Not my particular cup of tea, but to each his own. Further, most of them are not cheap, even the less exclusive.
The RIU on Bloody Beach is probably the nicest. Sandals and Couples are really generic. You would do just as well to go to the nearest one to you, as they are all the same. One thing about an AI, is that all is already paid for, so it does tend to make the guests stay there and not venture out.
I would rather go to a resort that is not all inclusive and have more freedom to pick and choose. But that's just me. I know Jamaica pretty well, and lived in Jah Town (Kingston) for some time back in the day, and frequently go back.
Don't worry about, finding things to do, bars and such. Plenty within reach. Here are a few: I can recommend Margaritaville, and Mi Yard.
Oh, - one thing. You may want to check out Rick's once you hear all about the cliff diving. Everyone gets caught up in that one. If you are serious about jumping off the cliff at Rick's, at Treasure Beach, perhaps you need to take a look at their fatality rate.....
Here is some stuff from our VT members about Negril, including cliff jumping.
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I would perhaps try to make a trip to the Royal Palm Reserve, a protected flora/fauna area just a few miles inland from Negril close to the town of Sheffield. It is just breathtaking. There is a a long boardwalk that you can walk deep into the reserve, and they have over 40 observation towers that give you just spectacular views over the area.
Nearby is the Lighthouse Inn, where the cusine is very good. What they do have, that in quite good, is a local "Mento" show. They used to do this once a week but if you check with them you can find out the day(s) they do this. They will also pick you up and drop you off at your hotel if you make dinner reservations.
Mento, by the way, is Jamaican folk music that is similar to Calypso but different. It predates ska and reggae, and if not for Mento, there likely would be no reggae. Well worth seeing. (Reggae is the soundtrack to my live/movie....)
Don't know if this is your style, but this is a little known hideaway on the beach in Negril, that is just beautiful, and serene. I do like this place a lot. No, it is not a huge place, but for a couple it is definately worth it. Just though I would throw it in here.
If you are interested in the "real" Jamaica, relatively unspoiled still, a drive past the Lighthous down the south western coast is the place to go. Relatively void of tourism, the people are friendly and the scenery is great.
Enjoy my Jamaica. One love gyal......d:o)
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I was working with a colleague the other day. She was flustered and frustrated. She turned to me and said, "I apologize, Mr. Dunbar, but this classroom is a zoo!"
I thought to myself, "If only that were true…"
Tales from the Terrarium
"Folwell, I've got a problem." Ms. Bailey, one of the kindergarten teachers, was definitely in a panic. She looked around my room to make sure there were no children and closed the door. "As you know," she said, "our classroom pets are two mice, Mickey and Mini. Well, apparently, they decided to start a family. Now we've got eight! Can you help me out?"
"Of course," I said. "Just tell the kids you donated them to the zoo."
Our 8th grade mascots were two speckled king snakes named Salt and Pepper. They LOVED mice.
The next day, I turned down the lights, turned up Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," and dropped the six pinkies into the terrarium. The kids shrieked as the snakes inhaled their breakfast. A few minutes later, the happy reptiles were basking on a heated rock and we were discussing FDR's New Deal.
I figured that was the end of it.
It wasn't.
Schools, regardless of their size, are small places. And kids, like adults, talk.
The eruption from the kindergarten wing rivaled that of Vesuvius in AD 79. There were deafening howls and buckets of tears. At one point things got so bad the principal actually considered calling in a crisis team.
Almost 20 years later, I ran into one of Ms. (now Mrs.) Bailey's students. The first thing she said was, "Mr. Dunbar, I still haven't forgiven you!"
"Yes," I said. "I know."
I guess it's true what they say: "All you really need to know, you probably learned in kindergarten."
The Feature Creature
Just about every teacher at our school had a classroom pet. There were hedgehogs, geckos, turtles and koi. We even had a few chickens and a pond. There were always plenty of critters stirring about.
Years later, I started working with low-performing schools in under-served neighborhoods. The schools were all under tremendous pressure to make AYP or Adequate Yearly Progress. They were to close the "achievement gap" and leave no child behind!
One of the first things I noticed was a complete dearth of animals. They seemed to have gone extinct like the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon. When I asked teachers, they told me they didn't have time.
"We have too many mandates and benchmarks," they complained. "Goldfish and hamsters aren't on the test," a second grade teacher "joked." They also mentioned allergies, liability and costs. "It's just not worth it," they said.
The notion of "animals not being worth it" got lodged, like a porcupine quill, deep in my craw. "Traumatized kindergarteners aside," I thought, "animals belong in the classroom. There has to be a way…"
So, between professional development sessions on more "impactful" topics like data-driven decision-making, the efficient use of instructional time, standards-based grading and strategic curriculum alignment, I slowly started reintroducing "symbiotic" species.
Once a month, I borrowed animals from the Audubon Zoo and brought them to the schools. I called it "Mr. Dunbar's Feature Creature." Initially, I used a KWL format: "What do you Know about spiders? What do you Want to know about them? And now, after spending quality time with these amazing arachnids, what have you Learned?"
Later, I expanded my repertoire to include visual thinking prompts ("What do you see, think and wonder?"), open-ended questions ("If you were a spider…"), brainstorming, jigsaw activities and role-playing.
I also started working with teachers to develop standard-aligned lessons and projects that incorporated animals. A couple of my favorites involved turning off the volume to David Attenborough's Life on Earth series and having the kids narrate (in highbrow British accents, of course) and designing, describing and employing hybrid species, from the Tasmanian turtle and the Himalayan snow octopus to the giraffe-necked manatee and the duckbilled bison.
We also developed 100 essential animal questions every K-12 student should be able to answer before they graduate. While they weren't on the end-of-year high-stakes test, they were challenging, helped build vocabulary and required critical thinking, i.e., they were important.
The chicken coups de grâce was the construction of ponds and outdoor ecosystems at several schools. There, young budding biologists could conduct their own fieldwork. They collected data, observed life cycles, and monitored environmental conditions like temperature, turbidity and PH.
Our efforts didn't exactly provoke a stampede toward AYP, but they did get kids fired up about learning.
Where the wild things are
Dr. Jennifer Coulson is an ornithologist, falconer and the President of the New Orleans Audubon Society. When I asked her how she ended up in such an unusual career, she said, "It all began with rolling doodle bugs across the sidewalk, keeping pet crickets, lizards, turtles, and parakeets, and peering into cardinal nests. Every childhood encounter I had with animals brought me one step closer to my hobbies and careers as an adult."
E.O. Wilson, the esteemed Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 30 books, had a similar story. He discovered his passion for bugs while traipsing around the backwoods of Mobile, Alabama.
Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, B.F. Skinner and Sigmund Freud all identified district phases of child development. The one they left out was the animal phase – where the wild things are.
During this phase, children often find their passion, and sometimes even a career. I have friends who collect and cook bugs for the Audubon Insectarium, raise and train Harris hawks, treat household pets, protect homes from termites, give birding tours, conduct research and, of course, teach biology.
For those who didn't necessarily find their passion during this phase, there are still plenty of life lessons to be gleaned from creatures great and small. Just as pets have been used successfully in prison rehabilitation programs, as part of therapy for people suffering from anxiety and depression, and to comfort the elderly and infirmed, animals in the classroom have benefits that go well beyond the curriculum and state mandates.
For kids who don't get the best care at home, caring for an animal at school can help teach compassion, empathy and responsibility. According to Coulson, "Animals are therapeutic. The squirmy kid who blurts out things and doesn't feel comfortable in his or her own skin is often the best-behaved of the class when the animals come out."
Animals can be used to build self-esteem, classroom spirit and civic pride. Additionally, research has shown that having pets in the classroom can actually improve attendance and, contrary to popular belief, reduce allergies.
And, as many of us discovered from Sendak's classic tale, animals, real and fictitious, can bring out our wildest imagination, something that can't be measured on a standardized test!
Abejas & Ovejas
Abejas or bees were my biggest failure as a Peace Corps volunteer. I kept a couple of hives at my site in Zhamar, Ecuador, and tried in vain to convince the locals to do the same. It was a tough sell. The Africanized or "killer" bees were aggressive, and honey wasn't exactly a hot commodity in the high Andes.
One day a friend and neighbor of mine appeared at my door. His name was Guillermo. He was 16 and one of the few people in the entire paróquia of Jima who had any interest whatsoever in abejas. He told me there was a swarm down by the river and asked me if I could catch it. "¡Por supuesto!" I said, "Of course! And you can keep the hive." This was the turning point I had been waiting for…
We put on our gear and headed down to the Rio Moya. The swarm was on the side of a cliff about 40 feet above the water. The plan was for Guillermo to placate the bees with smoke while I isolated the queen. Less than a minute into the operation though, Guillermo started tapping me on the shoulder. "Estoy ocupado, I'm busy," I said. He tapped even harder. I turned around and saw that his veil was filled with angry bees! He shrieked in horror as we both tumbled down the side of the ravine.
The next day was Sunday, El Dia de Mercado or market day. Everyone was there, including Guillermo. His head was the size of a beach ball and it was covered in blistering welts. From that point forward, there would be no beekeeping in Jima! It wasn't exactly the turning point I had hoped for.
Ovejas or sheep were a different story. I received a start-up grant to purchase 30 purebred animals from New Zealand. I put five rams in each of the six schools in the paróquia. I then taught the students how to care for the animals. We cropped tails, cleaned hoofs, rotated pastures, and treated the flock for parasites. At the end of the year, we selectively bred the Kiwi stock with local, smaller but hardier creole sheep. In just two years, wool production more than doubled!
As a teacher back in the states, both lessons served me well. Teaching history to reluctant 7th and 8th graders was like keeping Africanized bees: it was a tough, tough sell. If I were to be successful, I would have to find a way to make it relevant, like warm wool in a cold climate…
And yes, my classroom was a zoo!
Folwell Dunbar is an educator, artist and advocate for animals in the classroom. He can be reached at email@example.com


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the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
I've always had a feeling that connecting with people makes you healthier, happier, more understood, more able to understand your life. In fact, it's one of the 3 Pillars of Optimal Health that I created.
Whenever I spend too much time by myself I start to think I'm the only one experiencing life the way I am. And then as soon as I get around people I realize everyone is. As much as we are unique, we are also not unique. I think it's important to remember that. Our minds (and Facebook) can be powerful and convince us that everyone else is perfect and has no struggles.
Things like Facebook and social media can be a good way to keep a finger on the pulse about what people are up to, to learn and to share information and creative work, and to connect. I am, obviously, a big advocate of connecting with people on social media. I met my boyfriend on Twitter, after all. Well, technically I Googled something and he showed up. But then, I tweeted him.
But for all the connection you can have over social media, I've noticed something interesting lately. It can make people depressed. So many people tell me they feel worse about their lives after looking at social media. Many people lately have mentioned to me that they've deactivated their accounts, deleted the apps from their phone, or simply made a vow to stop scrolling.
Clearly, there's a big element missing when it comes to human connection there. Something isn't "whole" about it, maybe.
I remember studying with the brilliant Dr. Annemarie Colbin a few years ago, who passed away last year. I took a Food Therapy course with her. She used to say that when you eat "fragmented food," meaning food that has been processed and isn't the actual WHOLE food, just fragments of it, your body has cravings because it's looking for the rest.
I wonder if this is how it is with social media. We get a piece of human connection, but not the whole thing, so we feel like something's missing and we have cravings for "the rest" – i.e. real connection.
But hey listen, this blog isn't about the perils of social media on your mental well-being. I make my living online, so I'm kind of kicking myself in the butt if I tell you you shouldn't be here. ;) But, this is about the importance of getting face-to-face interactions with people, the "whole" picture, not just what you see online – which I think can have a MASSIVE impact on how we feel about life.
Someone sent me an excerpt form Matthew Lieberman's book, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Connect, the other day.
I thought these studies were really interesting related to human connection:
In one study, volunteering was associated with greater well-being, and for people who volunteered at least once a week, the increase in their well-being was equivalent to the increase associated with moving from a $20,000-a-year salary to a $75,000-a-year salary.
Another study found having a friend, whom you see on most days, compared to not having such a friend, had the same impact on well-being as making an extra $100,000 a year.
Being married is also worth an extra $100,000, while being divorced is on par with having your salary slashed by $90,000.
Just seeing your neighbor regularly is like making an extra $60,000.
I believe it.
"Many regulatory systems in the body, especially blood pressure, metabolism and stress hormones, have all shown to be affected by relationships and the quality of social interaction. Lab studies indicate that in stressful situations, a person's blood pressure and heart rate will spike less if someone is with them."
Studies also suggest that sleeping next to someone you love can lead to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, lower levels of cytokines that can cause inflammation, and higher levels of oxytocin, a hormone shown to ease anxiety.
Clearly, in-person relationships have a huge impact on our well-being. I know this probably isn't new information to you guys, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I honestly don't think studies are necessary to prove this, just go hug someone and you'll know, but people like stats and studies, so there ya go.
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But when Odom dropped two free throws with 16 seconds left in overtime for a 110-109 Lakers lead on Boston, something big was about to be theirs if they could get one more defensive stop. They did — with Derek Fisher sticking to Ray Allen like glue and preventing a clean final shot.
Despite an oft-absent defense that benefited from Boston missed many open shots early on, the Lakers stood in position to take the game after Kobe Bryant tore free from a mediocre shooting night to drop a 3-pointer on Paul Pierce for a 96-96 tie. And just when Boston seemed to be gaining control with the next four points from Pierce, the Lakers pushed back with a Pau Gasol flip and another Bryant 3-pointer.
With the score tied, 101-101, after Pierce split two foul shots, Bryant missed a 22-footer on which Pierce stopped his follow-through from going through with 9.9 seconds left. But Pierce lost the ball at the other end, and Eddie House's rushed shot at the regulation buzzer missed.
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Fundamentals of Physics
1958 · New York
by SEMAT, Henry, Ph.D.
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The socle of a projective Mackey functor for a p-group
We study the simple subfunctors of indecomposable projective Mackey functors for a p-group P. Unlike the case of group algebras, the Mackey algebra is not in general self-injective. Thus, the socle of an indecomposable projective functor is not in general simple. We first show that the simple subfunctors of a projective functor P_{H,k}, where H<P, are indexed by the normalizer in H of a subgroup of H. We then study the socle of a specific projective Mackey functor, namely the Burnside functor B^P, and we focus on the case where P is abelian. In particular, our study enables us to determine the socle of an indecomposable projective Mackey functor indexed by a cyclic p-group, an abelian p-group of rank 2 and an elementary abelian p-group of rank 3.
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Keywords: Mackey functor ; Mackey algebra ; Group representation ; Burnside ring
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