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Hey! Have you heard the news?  WebRing has launched a new service called THE SHOPS AT WEBRING!

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We have finished the beta testing phase and it is now up and running and available to everyone.

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Definitely come and SEE what it’s all about!

Our fees are lower than other sites out there for those who want to sell – which means savings are passed on to those wanting to shop!  Everyone benefits from using THE SHOPS AT WEBRING!

Holiday shopping season is here  so hurry  come see, come shop and come sell!
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The Shops Team

ps – No fees through the end of 2013, and no insertion fees EVER.  You can run auctions, best offer and fixed price sales.

Colorado State University Discusses ‘Planetary Restoration: Is There a Road Map for Restoring Sustainable Ecosystems?’

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Kate Hawthorne Jeracki
Kate.Jeracki@colostate.edu

FORT COLLINS – The final panel discussion in this semester’s Managing the Planet series, sponsored by Colorado State University’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES), will be held Wednesday, Nov. 6, 5-6:30 p.m., at Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason St.. The panel is free and open to the public.

The topic will be Planetary Restoration: Is There a Road Map for Restoring Sustainable Ecosystems?

Ecosystems — streams, rivers, inland and coastal wetlands, grasslands, and forests — provide numerous benefits that support human health and well-being. This panel will explore innovative science-based strategies that are socially and culturally acceptable to create, manage, and restore these ecosystems, ensuring that society has access to ecosystem services well into the future.

Panelists will be Mark Paschke from the CSU Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship; Chuck Rhoades, US Forest Service; Michael Gooseff, CSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Chris Fisher, CSU Department of Anthropology. The panel will be moderated by John Calderazzo, SoGES Scholar and Professor in the CSU Department of English.

For questions regarding the Managing the Planet series or this panel, contact Aleta Rudeen Weller, Aleta.Weller@colostate.edu(970) 492-4160.

About the School of Global Environmental Sustainability
The School of Global Environmental Sustainability is at the core of a growing number of exciting sustainability initiatives in research and education at Colorado State University. SoGES serves as a hub to connect CSU’s community of scholars and practitioners interested in applying interdisciplinary perspectives to large-scale environmental, economic, and social questions not easily addressed through traditional approaches. The School was uniquely designed to reach across disciplines and colleges to forge new alliances and advance greater understanding of the challenges to achieving sustainability faced by our nation and global community. SoGES is meeting this challenge and continues to strengthen CSU’s reputation of being at the forefront of addressing the world’s sustainability issues through research, education, and outreach.www.sustainability.colostate.edu.

College of the Redwoods Eureka main campus will host a community open house on Saturday, Nov. 2

College of the Redwoods Eureka main campus will host a community open house on Saturday, Nov. 2 to showcase its four brand-new buildings opened in the last year.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by free admission to a CR football game vs. Los Medanos College, beginning at 1 p.m. in Community Stadium.

“This day provides an excellent opportunity for the community to see the ‘new’ College of the Redwoods,” said CR President Kathy Smith. “In addition to these new buildings, CR has many positive things going on including our excellent educational programs, new student success initiatives, improved accreditation and budget statuses. We also have new vendors running our bookstore and dining services. We want to offer local residents a chance to see what is happening with their community college.”

The day will include guided tours of the $29.5 million Science and Humanities buildings in the center of campus, as well as the $19.3 million Student Services/Administration and Performing Arts Theater. Instructors will be present in the state-of -the art science labs and academic classrooms, each outfitted with the latest in SMART Board technology. One can also meet CR faculty in career technical facilities, such as welding, construction technology, drafting technology, manufacturing technology and registered nursing.

Academy of the Redwoods, the early college high school located on the CR Eureka Campus, will also be open for tours.

Information tables for CR’s programs will be set up in the courtyard between the two academic buildings.

A special ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by refreshments, will also take place there at noon with CR President Kathy Smith, CR Trustees and other dignitaries. Music will be provided by the CR Concert Band.

For more information, go to www.redwoods.edu or contact Paul DeMark at paul-demark@redwoods.edu or (707) 476-4561.

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Open Letter to the Voters of the Eureka City School District

From: Bob Service, Chair, Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee

Linda Atkins, Chair, Campaign Services Committee
 
Here we go again. Lisa Ollivier is the Democratic Party endorsed candidate for Eureka School Board. She has the momentum and her opponent’s supporters are so desperate that they are calling voters saying that the opponent is the Democratic candidate. 
 
This is a lie! Lisa Ollivier is the Democratic candidate and the only Democrat in this race. These kinds of dirty tricks come straight out of the Karl Rove playbook and should have no place in American politics let alone in a school board race. Lisa’s opponent should be held accountable.
 
Please, if you vote absentee and haven’t yet sent in your ballot, send it in now with a vote for Lisa Ollivier. If you vote at the polls, please take a few minutes out of your day on November 5th and vote for Lisa Ollivier. 
 
Let’s show them Eureka voters are too smart to fall for this dirty trick. Vote Ollivier!

UCSD MEN’S BASKETBALL PREDICTED TO PLACE 11th IN CCAA

Oct. 30, 2013
Scott Flanders
Associate Athletics Director
Communications  UC San Diego Intercollegiate Athletics

LA JOLLA, Calif. – The California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) released its annual men’s basketball preseason coaches poll Wednesday and UC San Diego is predicted to finish 11th in the league’s regular season standings.

Cal State San Bernardino garnered 115 points and six first-place votes to take the top spot in the poll. Cal Poly Pomona, last season’s regular season champion, was just behind in second place with 112 points and the remaining six first-place votes. San Francisco State amassed 92 points to round out the league’s top three.

Chico State (91 points) was fourth, Cal State Dominguez Hills (86 points) fifth, Cal State L.A. (75 points) sixth, Sonoma State (60 points) seventh, Humboldt State (48 points) eighth, Cal State Stanislaus (40 points) ninth and Cal State East Bay (32 points) 10th.

The Tritons, who finished seventh in the CCAA last year, totaled 24 points for 11th place. Cal State Monterey Bay (17 points) was 12th.

Last season, UCSD compiled an 11-15 overall record and a 10-12 conference mark. The Tritons earned a berth in the CCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009.

First-year UCSD head coach Eric Olen returns a pair of starters in senior guard James McCann and sophomore forward Drew Dyer. McCann earned All-CCAA Second Team accolades last season after averaging 13.6 points and a team-best 4.8 assists per game. His assist average was the second-highest in the league. Dyer averaged 9.3 points and 5.2 boards a game and hit 41 three-pointers, the second-most on the team.

Lost to graduation were guard Tyler McGrath and forward Justin Brue. McGrath, also an All-CCAA Second Team selection, led UCSD in scoring, averaging 14.7 points per game. He made a team-high 52 three-pointers and led the conference in free-throw percentage (.888). Brue was the Tritons’ top rebounder (7.0/game) and shot blocker (1.0/game), while also scoring 10.7 points a game.

Last week, the Tritons played an exhibition at Pitt, which is expected to finish sixth in the uber-competitive, 15-team Atlantic Coast Conference this season. The game was tied at 49-49 with 7:46 remaining and UCSD trailed by only two points with just over four minutes left. The Panthers picked it up late and went on to win by a score of 72-59. McCann and senior MacKenzie McCullough each finished with 13 points.

UCSD plays a second and final exhibition at Grand Canyon on Nov. 1, before opening its regular season at home against Daemen College on Nov. 15.

For a complete season schedule, click here.

2013-14 CCAA Men’s Basketball Preseason Coaches Poll
1. Cal State San Bernardino (6), 115 points
2. Cal Poly Pomona (6), 112 points
3. San Francisco State, 92 points
4. Chico State, 91 points
5. Cal State Dominguez Hills, 86 points
6. Cal State L.A., 75 points
7. Sonoma State, 60 points
8. Humboldt State, 48 points
9. Cal State Stanislaus, 40 points
10. Cal State East Bay, 32 points
11. UC San Diego, 24 points
12. Cal State Monterey Bay, 17 points

(first-place votes)

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Scott Flanders
Associate Athletics Director
Communications  UC San Diego Intercollegiate Athletics

Take action to protect our communities from nuclear waste!

Dear Ralph,

Take action to protect our communities from nuclear waste!

Leslie March and her mother in 1955

I first learned about “atomic waste” in my high chair; I grew up in the fifties in Washington State and my grandfather frequently had business at the Hanford Reservation (now the most contaminated nuclear waste site in North America). I remember my mother arguing with him about the dangers of nuclear waste: she was concerned about the health of the Columbia River; he trusted that the plant would be safe.

But my mother was right: the tanks containing highly radioactive waste are leaking, and the Columbia River is at risk.1

We now have the opportunity to protect communities across the nation from radioactive waste. Please take action today!

The reactors at Hanford are now closed. But when I discovered that another nuclear reactor (the same kind used at Fukushima) now operates within miles of the Columbia River, I was motivated to take action to protect the river, and began organizing in my community. I was dismayed when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently relicensed the Columbia Generating Station for another 20 years — even though they don’t have a solid plan for storing the waste safely.

Our records indicate that you’ve taken [0] Sierra Club actions with this email account — but this is the perfect opportunity to make your voice heard.

The courts are now requiring the NRC to have a moratorium on licensing until they do an environmental impact statement on the radioactive waste. Now we have a chance to protect the river by demanding that the waste be stored safely.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now developing new rules for the long-term storage of highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear reactors. These rules will determine whether or not your state becomes a transportation route for thousands of shipments of highly radioactive waste on super-trucksor a storage site for some or all of the 70,000+ tons of radioactive waste.

The federal government is now taking public comments on these rules: please tell the NRC to enact strong rules to protect our communities and environment.

We have a very unique opportunity to have a say in how our country handles radioactive waste from nuclear reactors in the future.  If we don’t step up and comment, we will have lost our ability to protect our grandchildren, and many generations to come, from the deadly dangers of radiation.

Let the NRC know that we are not confident with the current way they have regulated radioactive waste – they need to do more.

Thank you for everything you do for the environment,

Leslie March,  Sierra Club Nuclear Program Volunteer Lead

P.S. After you’ve taken action, pleaseforward a copy of this messageto five of your friends and family. Or spread the word on your social networks with the share buttons below.

[1] “Hanford Nuclear Reservation Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste Underground, Governor Inslee Says,” AP/Huffington Post, February 22, 2013.