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

November 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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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.
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College of the Redwoods Eureka main campus will host a community open house on Saturday, Nov. 2

November 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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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October 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Open Letter to the Voters of the Eureka City School District

October 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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

October 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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)

#TritonsRising

Scott Flanders
Associate Athletics Director
Communications  UC San Diego Intercollegiate Athletics
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Amazing: People power beating the NRA in Colorado

September 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment

This is it, Ralph. Tuesday is election day in the NRA recalls of two Colorado Democrats and both races are neck-and-neck. Can you chip in $3 to Democrats John Morse and Angela Giron, the two Democrats targeted by the NRA, to help the get out the vote in these final two days?

The NRA pushed for these recalls. They flooded these races with big money attack ads, kicking in $350,000 according to their last spending report. They said that winning in Colorado would cause a “wave of fear” to wash across state legislatures nationwide—paralyzing any new gun laws at the state level.

But then something amazing happened. The Daily Kos community stepped up and, with the help of 12,906 contributors nationwide, we’ve almost matched the NRA dollar-for-dollar in these races.

Democrats are leading three-to-one in the early voting period, but election day turnout is expected to be anemic and both campaigns are getting ready to make their final get out the vote expenditures. Simply put, these elections could come down to just a few votes on either side.

Help beat the NRA in their own recalls: Chip in $3 right now.

Keep fighting,
Michael Langenmayr
Campaign Director, Daily Kos

P.S. We have a chance to beat the NRA’s big moneyed attacks with two people-powered campaigns. We can send a message that America is ready for common sense gun legislation—and we’re not afraid of the NRA anymore. So please chip in $3 now.  
 

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Is the Economic Well being of America tied to the Middle Class.

August 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment

   The economic well being of America is closely tied to the American Middle Class. Without the income of the middle class America has begun its current slide and decline.

When did this begin? When we graft the economic history of the last 25 year side by side with the history of the American Unions it become clear how closely they are hooked together. Where there was growth in Union membership there was an equal growth in the Middle Class of America. And so it must follows where ever there is a trend in the economic health up or down so goes America’s total economic health picture. 

 Why does a healthy middle class closely follow the growth of the American Union? The largest percentage of the American Middle Class was known to be Union members. And a huge percentage of small businesses were started by Union workers had earned higher pay and benefits until they had enough money and good credit to start those small business.

When we the American’s people began to buy into the notion that Unions were hurting America, we also believer those right to work laws were causing wages to stagnate. Nothing was further from the truth.  Twenty to twenty-five years passed and very few employees have gotten an increase in wages and most worker have lost ground and lost health package. We began to decline in mass.  It was always held over your head that: “Employer could always find someone to take you job and work for less” While we were being  told that “right to work laws” would be help us all get higher paying jobs with the notion that “more profit meant more jobs”. Right to work laws only helped the American people begin the slow protracted slide into the current decline that again is headed in the direction of Americas living under a Feudal economic system exactly like the dark ages of Europe.

Now we understand that Trickle Down theory so wonderfully talked about by the wealthy has turned out to be another nail in the coffin heads down the fast tracks to the hole we are in now.

Why didn’t we understand that it was the unions that built the middle class by fighting for a living wage; let’s not forget about weekends off, a 40 hour work week, a total health benefits package and much more. Unions put an end to many forms of discrimination and help create a safer work place.  In hind sight paying union dues was not such a burden as it is was a total benefit package. In hind sight it all is so simple to understand. We now work for less and get less Wages went down or stayed stagnant and profits sky rocketed while the Middle Class all those people that did the actual work that built this country paid the bulk of taxes. Jobs that pay a living wage always turn into more spendable cash which makes the America economy work. 

 

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Westerly Post Wants You to Sample our Favorite Blog – Truthout!

August 8, 2013 by 1 Comment

Truthout

Life at Louisiana’s Toxic Sinkhole: An Eco-Disaster Continues With No End in Sight

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: A year after a toxic sinkhole caused by one of Texas Brine’s salt caverns either drove neighborhood homeowners in Louisiana out of their houses or left them with ongoing health issues, citizens come to grips with a never-ending eco-disaster and a company planning to expand operations.

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The Courage of Bradley Manning Will Inspire Others to Seize Their Moment of Truth

John Pilger, Truthout: The achievements of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and the remarkable young people of WikiLeaks, are unparalleled in their ability to inspire a future generation of truth-tellers.

Read the Article

State-Sanctioned Rape in Texas: Business as Usual

Candice Bernd, Truthout: From police officers performing illegal body cavity searches on women to rape and sexual assault in county jails and prisons, it’s clear that misogyny is running rampant in Texas law enforcement.

Read the Article

If a Business Won’t Pay a Living Wage, It Shouldn’t Exist

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: “A living wage isn’t just something corporations owe their workers, it’s something corporations owe America. If a corporation won’t pay a living wage, then it shouldn’t have the right to exist. Period. End of story.”

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Broad US Terror Alert Mystifies Experts; “It’s Crazy Pants,” One Says

Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers: Counterterrorism experts are questioning recent security measures that US officials are enacting in an incongruous set of nations.

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The Missing Discourse in Immigration Reform

Erika L. Sánchez, Truthout: The immigration reform bills presently under consideration ignore how US policy has caused Mexican immigration and the economic benefits of making citizenship more easily accessible.

Read the Article

Judges’ “Mitigation of Damages” Doctrine Harms Injured Employees

Ellen Dannin and Ann Hodges, Truthout: Judicial amendment of the NLRA violates public and personal rights by denying wrongfully fired employees remedies to make them whole.

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: One in Eight Are Defaulting on Their Student Loans, and More

In today’s On the News segment: ALEC is holding its annual conference in Chicago; one in every eight who have taken out student loans are in default on their debt; Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott is preparing to kick minority voters off the voter rolls; and more.

Watch the Video and Read the Transcript

The Third Carbon Age: Don’t for a Second Imagine We’re Heading for an Era of Renewable Energy

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: For all President Obama’s talk of a green technology revolution, we remain deeply entrenched in a world dominated by fossil fuels.

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Egypt Under Empire: Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Hampton Institute: Real democracy in the Arab world is not in the American interest.

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Protesters Condemn ALEC’s Push to Privatize Public Education

Jaisal Noor, The Real News Network: Six people were arrestedMonday when protesters descended upon the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago to push back against the impending visit of ALEC.

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Monthly update Hide Details From Ann Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick For Arizona

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Dear WesterlyPost.com

Thank you for taking the time to read this monthly update. I want to keep my supporters

informed about what I have been working on – such as creating jobs and building strong

infrastructures for a stable economy throughout CD1!

Historic water-rights agreement 

In late July, I joined White Mountain Apache Tribe Chairman Ronnie Lupe, former Sen.

Jon Kyl and many other tribal and federal leaders as history was made for Congressional

District 1 when U.S. Interior Secretary Jewell signed the final approval enacting the White

Mountain Apache Water Rights Settlement. This was the very first bill I introduced in

Congress – it passed in 2010. It guarantees water rights for the WMAT plus $200 million

for construction of a new water system and an additional $78.5 million for fish production

, lakes, irrigation and other water projects! I grew up on the White Mountain Apache Nation

and my family had to boil our water on the stove before we could use it. So I know how much

it means to folks in this region to finally have safe, clean drinking water.

Student-loan rate compromise reached

I’m pleased to report that on July 31, the House passed HR1911, which mirrored the

Senate’s compromise legislation that restores lower student-loan rates and prevents

growing debt. This passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, and it should help

students and families in our district and across the U.S.!  I’d like to thank all of those

students at NAU, U of A, Central Arizona College and across

our district who joined me in calling on Congress to act. Your voices made a difference!

Job Creation and Strong Infrastructures in AZ01

Job creation is one of my priorities because our district and state are still recovering

from the great recession, and we need to get folks back to work. I am committed to

efforts that create good-paying jobs so we can help revive the middle class.

We have already secured a number of important grants for infrastructure, education

and entrepreneurship across our district. These grants infuse our local economies

with critical funding that creates and saves jobs as well as builds a stronger

infrastructure to help these areas grow and thrive.

Here are a few examples of grants we obtained in July:

  • A $740,000 Rural Development loan for lodging rehabilitation in Pinetop-Lakeside
  • will not only save local jobs but create new ones in the construction industry! Helping
  • revitalize this hotel will help the local economy for years to come.
  • A $600,000 award to Northern Arizona University’s College of Engineering, Forestry
  • and Natural Sciences to provide scholarships to support academically talented students
  • with financial need after transferring from community and tribal colleges.
  • A $417,600 grant that provides funding for the Eloy Municipal Airport to conduct an
  • airport drainage study and rehabilitation of the taxiway.
  • A $136,590 grant to the Holbrook Municipal Airport to improve the outdated runway
  • lighting system to enhance the safety during low-visibility conditions.

Top 5 race to watch in the Southwest and first opponent

Things certainly are heating up on the campaign trail!

Last month, we were listed on Rothenberg’s ‘Top 5 Races to watch in the Southwest.’

Click here to read the entire article. 

We also got our first opponent, Adam Kwasman, who will be running in CD1 for the

Republican Party’s nomination. Having served for only a few months as a state legislator,

this far-right, extremist candidate is virtually unknown in most of our district, so let me

introduce him!

  • He is far to the right of Governor Jan Brewer and spent months attacking her
  • bipartisan effort to expand Medicaid.
  • He fought to keep tens of thousands of Arizonans from accessing health insurance.
  • He was the campaign manager for failed Tea Party extremist Jesse Kelly, who
  • famously said he “would love to eliminate” Social Security.

You and I both know someone like this is wrong for Arizona and wrong for CD1!

Thank you for reading through this month’s update! I want to keep you as informed as

possible. Please click here to follow my campaign onFacebook or Twitter!

Sincerely,  Ann Kirkpatrick

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The Bernie Buzz News from the US Senate 1984 in 2013

June 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Bernie Buzz - News From the US Senate
June 22, 2013
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The National Security Agency secretly obtained telephone and Internet records on millions of innocent Americans using a controversial law called the USA Patriot Act. Bernie was among a small minority of House members who voted against the law in 2001. Now that the secret is out about the staggering scope of the surveillance, he wants Congress to reconsider what it did. Under Bernie’s “Restore Our Privacy Act,” authorities would have to establish a reasonable suspicion based on specific information to secure court approval to monitor a specific suspect. “We can effectively combat terrorism without sacrificing the civil liberties and constitutional protections which make us a free nation,” he said. “I believe that most Americans do not want to live in an Orwellian society where everything you do is recorded.”
Jobs, Not Jail Jobs, Not JailSenate leaders on Friday agreed to add a Bernie provision to an immigration reform bill that would put young Americans to work through summer and year-round jobs programs. Bernie argued that getting young Americans off the streets and into jobs was the least Congress should do in a bill that allows college students from around the world to take jobs that young Americans would otherwise perform. “Let us put our young people into jobs, not into jails,” he said.
Help for Seniors and Taxpayers Help for Seniors and TaxpayersBernie chaired a hearing Wednesday of his Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging on how programs like Meals on Wheels not only reduce hunger and poverty among seniors but cut Medicare and Medicaid outlays for much more expensive nursing home and hospital care. “The simple truth is that we can feed a senior for an entire year for the cost of one day in a hospital,” he said. Bernie is helping to lead the fight to significantly increase funds for the Older Americans Act.
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