Young workers aged from 15 to 24 years make up about 18 per cent of the Queensland workforce. Around 4400 young workers are seriously injured at work in Queensland each year.
Mind and body - Understanding the unique characteristics of a young person, such as their risk profile and the effect of peer influence, can help to explain why they are more likely to be exposed to risk in the workplace.
Education and learning - Developing young workers' capability to effectively assess and manage risks through education, training and work experience helps them remain safe at work.
Work design - Good work design involves ensuring that work tasks, relationships and responsibilities are designed to effectively manage safety risks and contribute to better health and wellbeing, job satisfaction and productivity.
Workplace culture - A positive workplace culture driven by leadership and effective communication is vital to engaging young workers in health and safety.
The Young worker safety toolkit helps employers of young workers, education and training providers, youth service providers and parents and caregivers engage with young people about work health and safety. It encourages actions that build the capabilities of young workers to be safe and productive at work, rather than just relying on them to speak up or ask the right questions.
The toolkit includes a range of resources such as films, presentation templates and checklists that are based on an understanding of how young people learn and communicate with others.
develop a positive workplace culture.
Consider the tasks you give to new and young workers, given their skills, abilities and experience. Before a young person begins work, a person conducting a business or undertaking should identify the gaps in the worker's knowledge and assess their ability to work safely. Competency should be tested. It is not sufficient to accept a young worker's assurance that he or she is experienced and competent.
Use the Young worker safety toolkit (PDF, 4223.94 KB) to apply these principles in your workplace.
Watch the three films for supervisors and managers to see these principles in action.
As a young worker, think about why your health and safety is important, not just for your job but for enjoying your life outside of work as well. Statistics show that you are more likely to be injured in the first few months of a new job than if you've been doing it for a while.
reporting unsafe situations, injuries or near-misses to your immediate supervisor and/or employer.
It is important to actively participate in the way that work health and safety is managed in your workplace. This means taking induction and training seriously, using the risk management process for your work tasks and asking for help before you start a task you're not familiar or comfortable with.
Find out if you have an elected health and safety representative (HSR) for your workplace and who they are. If you are concerned about your own or your workmates' health and safety, talk to your immediate supervisor, employer and/or HSR straight away. If you work through a group training organisation, labour hire agency or work experience placement, report your concerns to them as well.


Graduate students Carolyn Mottley and Zhou Ye assemble an experimental bioreactor.
Virginia Tech researchers have discovered a method for engineering surfaces on implantable devices that could help reduce deadly infections.
Health-care-associated infections are a major cause of death in the United States and add up to $45 billion in additional health care costs annually. Up to 70 percent of these types of infections are attributable to microbial biofilm growth on implantable medical devices, particularly catheters.
An article in the American Chemical Society's Applied Materials & Interfaces journal introduces a new thermodynamic-based modeling framework to solve a problem that could result in lowering the instances of biomedical-device associated infections.
The modeling breakthrough came from an interdisciplinary team of faculty from Virginia Tech's Macromolecules Innovation Institute led by Bahareh Behkam, an associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, working with Amrinder Nain and Michael Ellis, also associate professors in mechanical engineering, and Alan Esker, professor and chair of the chemistry department in the College of Science.
For many years, the gold standard for prevention of microbial adhesion and the first step to microbial biofilm formation, has been the chemical modification of the surface of these devices using antimicrobial compounds.
Non-toxic physical modification of surfaces as an antifouling strategy is a relatively new area of research.
The main problem is the absence of theoretical insight into the best surface texture parameters. Therefore, researchers test as many surface texture designs as they can afford and choose the best design.
However, is it the best design, or just the best based on the limited number of tests they have conducted?
Behkam and her collaborators found that microbiologists and chemists had focused on high-throughput testing methods — that is, designing a test that would maximize the number of results that could be achieved, instead of a mathematical model that would provide vastly more data based on probabilities and then testing those that showed the greatest promise.
After creating mathematical models and running computer simulations, the team chose the most likely candidates for testing. Using Nain's patented spinneret-based tunable engineered parameters technology, they created nanofiber coated surfaces of precise diameter and spacing and placed them in a bioreactor to assess microbial adhesion to engineered surfaces.
The live tests validated the model for the predictive design of surface patterns that optimally reduce microbial attachment. The model was applied to different medical catheters made from different primary device materials such as polyurethane, latex, and silicon. Irrespective of the material, the model shows that the texture reduces microbial adhesion and optimizes the device for surface functionality.
Equipped with the validated model and unique surface texturizing technologies, Behkam is working to determine the long-term function of these engineered surfaces. Because the process of adding textures to a device is scalable, cost-effective, and can take place at the end of manufacturing, Behkam said she believes the process can be incorporated for a minimal cost per unit and that medical device manufacturers have expressed interest in the concept.


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Lopez Island School District » Our Schools » Parent Partner Program
Alternative Learning Experience
Lopez School is committed to providing as many rich, creative and diverse academic options as possible to meet the needs and interests of our students. Our administrators and our school counselor are prepared to answer any questions a student or their parents may have and can help navigate through the many options.
Alternative Learning Experience or ALE
ALE is, according to the State of Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), "primarily distinguished by off-campus instruction. The intent of this type of program is to give schools flexibility to serve a diverse student population." The Lopez Island School District has several types of ALE's. Due to our small size, creativity and flexibility are paramount in providing a rich and varied educational experience for our students, families, and community. Under our ALE umbrella, one can find the following options:
Lopez Island Parent Partner Program (PPP)
With this option:
Parents are teaching their children at home with the support of the school district
Students enrolled in this option are students of Lopez Island School District, but may live anywhere in WA State
The support received from the district includes interaction and engagement with a certificated teacher
Receive a stipend from which to order curriculum supported by a Written Student Learning Plan (WSLP)
This WSLP is approved, monitored and coordinated by an assigned PPP certificated teacher on our staff
The family and teacher must have weekly contact to discuss the content of the WSLP, both to support the parent as teacher with instructional strategies and ideas, and to insure adherence to the integrity of the plan
The curriculum options and choices through our PPP are quite varied and broad, with a lot of flexibility
These curriculum options must be Board approved, must be educationally sound, and must be non-sectarian
Options may include online courses, textbook options, and options supported by a course/content specific certificated teacher
Lopez Personalized Education Program (LPEP)
Students must live within our District and must physically attend Lopez Island School
Students eligible to enroll in this option have scheduling conflicts that prohibit them from enrolling in courses from our regular schedule of classes at Lopez School, need credit recovery to meet graduation requirements, or have completed a written request for this option due to extenuating circumstances and received approval from Lopez Island School administration.
This option includes independent study classes that are online, textbook based, or performance based
These courses may have support from a course/content specific certificated teacher
Students enrolled in this option will have a coordinating certificated teacher who will track their progress, monitor their work, engagement, and pacing, and help them find the resources they need to complete their coursework
Examples of LPEP courses include APEX Northwest History, BYU AP Calculus, APEX Algebra I, Independent Study Yoga, etc.
Students will mainly be in a classroom setting with a coordinating teacher to do this work, but may also work on courses independently on their own time, or in the school library during a Homework period
The courses through this option are paid for either by the school district (students must finish and pass the course with a passing grade), or the student, depending on the circumstances through which they are accessing this option. School administration and the family will discuss these options.
Supplemental Education Services (SES)
Complete information on the academic achievement and AYP status of our schools are available on the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction State Report Card web page.
List of approved SES providers is available here.
The chart below provides eligibility and participation data for Public School Choice and Supplemental Education Services. No students were eligible for these surveys in the 2007-8 through 2012-13 school years.
Public School Choice
Eligible 32 31
Participated 0 0

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A crisis made worse
Bank employees during a rally in protest against banking reforms in Bhopal on August 22. Photo: A.M. Faruqui
The Reserve Bank of India headquarters in Mumbai. Photo: Bloomberg/Dhiraj Singh
On August 10, the government tabled a new Bill in Parliament with the aim of pushing through a desperate policy initiative in the form of the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Act. The Act seeks to create an ostensibly "independent" Resolution Corporation, which would take over the task of resolution of failing financial firms from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other regulators. To that end, it is to be armed with special and near-draconian powers to implement its mandate and will be given control of the deposit insurance framework currently managed by Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India.
The context in which the Bill is being introduced needs noting. Financial liberalisation over the last 25 years provided greater freedom for financial firms and reduced oversight by the Central bank. The government, in turn, encouraged public sector banks to use their freedoms and hugely expand their credit volumes so as to spur a private, debt-financed consumption and investment boom. As part of that "strategy", a significant share of incremental lending went to large corporate players investing in risky projects in capital-intensive areas like steel and infrastructure.
This was a major departure from the more conservative banking practices of the pre-liberalisation era. As a result of the change in behaviour, which exposed public sector banks to liquidity and maturity mismatches, banks accumulated large non-performing assets (NPAs), which in many cases are well in excess of 10 per cent of the advances made by them. Since a disproportionate share of the NPAs are with public banks, the government as owner and the Central bank as regulator are culpable, especially since they had the right to appoint and monitor bank chief executives and keep them pliant.
This culpability was true of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments, both of which backed and implemented measures of financial liberalisation and relied on bank credit as a stimulus for growth, thereby contributing to the increase in the volume of bad debts.
This places on the government the responsibility of helping the banks deal with defaults on large loans. Initially, this evinced two kinds of responses from the government. The first was to help restructure large problem loans through the corporate debt restructuring mechanism, which allowed for longer repayment schedules and reduced interest rates and provided additional credit to tide over the difficult times. Restructured debts could be treated as "standard assets", absolving banks of the need to provide for these loans and technically write them off. However, in many cases, this merely postponed the bad debt problem at a cost. The second response was to provide budgetary resources for recapitalising these banks to ensure capital adequacy as and when provisioning became unavoidable.
The first of these was resorted to so liberally that the magnitude of the NPA problem remained hidden, with a rising volume of "restructured standard assets" in the books of the banks. When the RBI finally decided to do away with the practice of concealing NPAs, by issuing strict guidelines on the recognition of bad assets, the volume of NPAs in the banking system rose rapidly. The increase meant that the amounts the government had allocated or planned to allocate for the recapitalisation of public sector banks turned out to be grossly inadequate to cover losses. But because the government wanted to meet self-imposed fiscal deficit targets, it was unwilling to suitably increase allocations for recapitalisation.
This meant that other ways had to be found to address the problem of large and debilitating NPAs. As a first new step to address the problem, the government recently promulgated the Banking Regulation Amendment (Ordinance) 2017, which introduced new clauses into the Banking Regulation Act (BRA). These clauses meant that the government could authorise the RBI to take special action to resolve the bad debt problem. This would involve forcing banks to launch proceedings against identified borrowers to recover their unpaid dues. If no agreement for restructuring could be arrived at between the borrower and its lender(s), liquidation proceedings against the borrower were to be launched to recover as much of the loan(s) as possible.
Initially, 12 large borrowers accounting for around a quarter of all NPAs were identified for action. Since then, an additional set of more than 25 borrowers has reportedly been identified. But proceedings at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) suggest that this effort can at best be a partial solution, since, among other things, finding assets that can cover the defaulted loans is not easy. Large write-offs are inevitable. That raises the possibility of bank insolvency, necessitating measures of resolution.
The FRDI Act defines the resolution mechanisms being pushed by the government as an alternative to recapitalisation. At the centre of the new scheme is the creation of a new independent corporation that would take over the task of resolution of bankruptcy in banks, insurance companies and identified "systemically important financial institutions" (SIFIs). The Resolution Corporation will also take over the task of insuring bank deposits, compensating depositors up to a specified maximum amount (at present Rs.1 lakh) in case of bank failure.
As part of its responsibilities, the corporation is to be mandated to classify the financial institutions under its jurisdiction under different categories based on risk of failure, varying from "low" and "moderate" (where the probability of failure is marginally or well below acceptable levels) to "material" or "imminent" (implying failure probabilities that are above or substantially above acceptable levels) and, finally, critical (being on the verge of failure).
In cases of financial firms placed under the material or imminent category, the Resolution Corporation is to be given the power to: (i) inspect the books to obtain information on assets and liabilities; (ii) restrict the activities of the firm concerned; (iii) prohibit or limit payments of different kinds; and (iii) require submission of a restoration plan to the regulator and a resolution plan to it, if necessary involving a merger or amalgamation.
In cases identified as critical, the Resolution Corporation will take over their administration and proceed to transfer their assets and liabilities through merger or acquisition or liquidation with permission from the NCLT. Closing all options, the law prohibits recourse to the courts to stay the proceedings at the NCLT or seeking alternative routes to resolution. Since liquidation involves compensating stakeholders according to their designated seniority, depending on the net assets available, any stakeholder can be called upon to accept a "haircut" or loss, including holders of deposits more than the maximum amount insured against loss.
The implications of this Act are many. To start with, while the Resolution Corporation and the regulator concerned will determine whether a financial firm is to be placed in the "material" or "imminent" category, the task of working out an acceptable restoration or renewal plan rests with the firm under scrutiny. That is, the responsibility of restoring viability is that of the bank, insurance company or SIFI, with the regulation and resolution authority retaining the right to determine whether it has managed to reduce the probability of failure.
Second, since mere categorisation in the "material" or "imminent" category will send out a signal, banks so designated can become the target of a run, as depositors fearing failure would want to move out their deposits. Instead of resolving the problem of vulnerability to failure, the mechanism may actually precipitate failure.
Third, the restoration and/or resolution plan, to be acceptable, may "force" a financial firm to accept amalgamation or merger. This would have implications for parties that are not responsible for the state of the firm, including officers, employees, creditors and small shareholders. For example, retrenchment or downgrading of the status of employees may follow merger and amalgamation. And wherever resolution requires the preferred strategy of "bail-in" of the firm (as opposed to a government "bail-out"), shareholders, creditors and, if need be, depositors, would be forced to accept a "haircut". The unstated objective of the exercise is to save the government and the regulator from carrying the costs of a "bail-out" of a failing firm.
Thus, the tabling of the FRDI Bill is a clear declaration by the government that it sees painful resolution or liquidation as an unavoidable cost of addressing the bad debt problem that currently afflicts the banking sector. It also makes clear that the Finance Ministry, the Central bank and the government-sponsored regulators will not carry any of the financial burden associated with resolution, but will rather transfer financial and other costs, such as job losses, to employees, officers and shareholders.
Since the problem of potential insolvency is currently concentrated in the public banking system, the government is obviously willing to write off capital already invested, but wants to minimise any additional costs.
Interestingly, as was made clear in the Report of the RBI's Working Group on Resolution, this resolution framework is merely the replication in the Indian context of a regime recommended by the Basel-based Financial Stability Board (FSB) in its formulation of the "Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions".
The FSB was established in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-08, which was centred round the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. However, in those jurisdictions, the resolution of the post-crisis problem of potential insolvency of banks came through government purchases of equity and liquidity infusion by Central banks. The Indian government and the RBI have, on the other hand, chosen to exploit the FSB resolution framework to pursue their own agenda of saving the state at the expense of banks and their stakeholders.
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In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in the remote Burmese elephant village. Japanese soldiers invade, and Nick's father is taken prisoner. Nick is left stranded on the plantation, forced to work as a servant to the new rulers. As life in the village grows more dangerous for Nick and his young friend, Mya, they plan their daring escape. Setting off on elephant back, they will risk their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese POW camp.


The Anthony Davis to the Celtics rumors can't be killed.
The latest round of rumblings comes from Adrian Wojnarowski's podcast with ESPN colleague Zach Lowe where the NBA insider reminded the world Danny Ainge really, really likes the New Orleans' All-Star center.
"Boston has been hawking Anthony Davis for years," Wojnarowski said. "They always hoped that it would be, whether it's the end of this season or the beginning of next before the trade deadline, that they would gather up all those assets, all those picks Danny Ainge has and young players and they'd be the team to be able to get Anthony Davis. But now you have (the Los Angeles Lakers) and if they get shut out in free agency, they're going to have to take all their young players to try to use them to get Anthony Davis."
Davis will be eligible for a "supermax" contract in 2019, which could be worth five years, $235 million. But if he doesn't choose to go that route than the Pelicans could very well attempt to trade him.
"I would predict right now, if you were to ask me right now, I would predict that he turns it down," Lowe noted.
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Carlsbad City Council designates $5.3 m for open space projects
by Christina Macone-Greene June 27, 2012 July 21, 2015 0140
CARLSBAD — More than 40 group members supporting Preserve Calavera stood their ground at the Carlsbad City Council Chambers Tuesday to echo the need and designation of funds for more open space preservation.
Their theme, "SOS for Open Space — Saving the Natural Lands of Carlsbad" first netted attention outside the chambers with friendly discussion, then moved inside for the public hearing portion of the city council meeting when it came to adopting the new fiscal year 2012-13 budget.
Over 20 speakers went to the podium to reiterate their open space pleas.
Councilmember Keith Blackburn said he was impressed as to how respectful the Preserve Calavera speakers were. Mayor Pro Tem Ann Kulchin added, "And they sang to us."
And they did, singing the lyric, "All we are saying is give open space a chance."
Following the speakers, a short break took place and city council members resumed by approving the city's proposed budget. They also agreed to designate around $5.3 million from a reserve account toward future city trails and open space projects.
The Preserve Calavera crowd burst into applause and cheer.
Preserve Calavera has a longstanding history with the City of Carlsbad.
Established in 2001, Preserve Calavera has worked with the city for more than a decade to preserve open space. Although the city and Preserve Calavera both want it, they have had different views on how to acquire it.
Diane Nygaard, president of Preserve Calavera, said voters passed Measure C in 2002, also known as Proposition C, to authorize some of the city's existing reserve funds to be allocated to open space acquisition.
"It is now 10 years later and the city still has not acquired any natural open space," said Nygaard, noting how the city council created a citizens committee a few years ago for this cause. She said the committee submitted a report listing the "key remaining" parcels, which could be purchased.
"The city council accepted the report but put it on the shelf and has done nothing and we think 10 years is enough time," said Nygaard, prior to the city council meeting.
Also before the meeting, city staff said that Proposition C did not direct the city council to spend a specific amount of money on open space by a certain time.
"Instead, it provided voter authorization to spend more than the $1 million limit if one or more properties became available and the city felt it was in the taxpayers' best interest to purchase it as open space," said Steven Jantz, City of Carlsbad Parks & Recreation Department associate engineer.
Jantz said the City has committed to making 40 percent of Carlsbad as permanent open space by teaming up with conservation organizations, developers and others.
He also pointed out that city staff regularly examines available open spaces, including the citizens' committee property list.
On that list, Jantz said, two of those open space properties were acquired by other entities saving taxpayer dollars.
"If an opportunity comes up to buy open space that the city council feels is in the best interest of taxpayers, the city council has the option to allocate funding at that time," Jantz said.
For Preserve Calavera, the city council's decision to designate $5.3 million for open space and city trail projects was a step in the right direction.
Christina Macone-Greene
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A realistic response to the climate wake-up call
By Joseph Aldy and Richard Zeckhauser, opinion contributors — 08/30/21 10:30 AM EDT
Leaders across the world raised the alarm in response to the latest assessment of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said, "This is a massive wake-up call that is sounding yet another alarm bell." Al Gore Albert (Al) Arnold GoreThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Altria - Biden unleashes on Trump and GOP A presidential candidate pledge can right the wrongs of an infamous day VP dilemma: The establishment or the base? MORE warned "There is no time left to waste," and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "A code red for humanity."
IPCC reports have often been labeled a "wake-up call" by leaders and environmental advocates, such as in 2018, 2014, 2007 and 2001. The critical question is how we should respond to such an alarm. Thus far, hope has triumphed over experience. The usual response is to call to redouble our efforts to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, without noting that prior calls have not been heeded.
An unprecedented, global emissions-cutting program is urgently needed; we agree. But that would be far from sufficient. We must also confront some exceedingly uncomfortable facts. While rhetoric has soared; the policy has flopped. Since the nations of the world agreed on a climate change treaty after the first IPCC report, global carbon dioxide emissions have increased 60 percent. The most ambitious emissions-cutting scenarios imaginable will be insufficient to avoid extreme human suffering in the coming decades, and beyond.
Meeting net-zero emission goals could avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but massive losses to life, health and property would persist. A realistic response to climate change, one that could significantly curb consequences to human wellbeing, requires objective assessment and a new policy direction. The world must get serious, urgently, about solar geoengineering.
Solar geoengineering — such as the injection of aerosols in the stratosphere to block sunlight and thereby cool the planet — first received attention as a climate change strategy in a 1965 report to President Johnson. Since these aerosols typically fall back down to the Earth's surface over months to a year or so, the injections would have to be repeated over a considerable period of time. It is not a prevention strategy, like cutting emissions. What solar geoengineering does do is reduce warming for whatever level of GHGs has accumulated in the atmosphere. Given that carbon dioxide and most other GHGs decay significantly over centuries, solar geoengineering may be the only feasible strategy for combatting the massive climate change losses associated with the human-caused emissions that have already occurred.
Solar geoengineering has two major appeals. First, volcanic eruptions have served as natural experiments enabling scientists to learn how injecting small particles high in the atmosphere cools global temperatures. Second, the development of specialized aircraft to deliver particles into the atmosphere is feasible, and its costs would be minimal relative to the damages of climate change.
For decades, some scientists, environmental advocates and policymakers have opposed even considering research on solar geoengineering. A common claim is that solar geoengineering would tilt the balance of nature and would represent an experiment with the only planet we have. Unfortunately, humans have already put that balance off tilt. The past century of fossil fuel combustion and other human sources of greenhouse gases have already massively affected what was the natural environment. Through acts of omission and commission, we will be managing planet Earth for the foreseeable future.
That solar geoengineering deployment will bring unintended consequences is a second basis for objection. The presence of any such risks is labeled a decisive concern. This is the Delaney Clause approach to food risk: no substance, however small its risk, could be added to the food supply, however great the benefits. The potential for unintended consequences is significant, we agree. But we need research to better understand them. Possibly, they can be controlled; possibly solar geoengineering should be abandoned. But given the earth-shaking risks of climate change, a significantly ameliorating technology deserves to be assessed on a risk-reduced versus risk-created basis.
The third objection to solar geoengineering is the fear that it would diminish incentives to reduce GHG emissions. The rather dismal record of cutting emissions — in the absence of solar geoengineering — suggests that emission-cutting incentives are already weak. Indeed, pursuing solar geoengineering might serve as an awful action alert that galvanizes the public's attention to the seriousness of climate change. If so, it would draw greater support for all strategies — reducing emissions, investing in resilient infrastructure, deploying solar geoengineering — to mitigate the immense risks posed by a changing climate.
Last year, Congress appropriated $4 million for research on solar geoengineering. The National Academies recently called for $100-$200 million in solar geoengineering research spending. These are tip-toe steps toward a realistic response. Beyond an up ramp in research and development spending, we need to begin conversations among policymakers, stakeholders and the worldwide public about solar geoengineering as a strategy worthy of investigation.
A changing climate will create immense losses. This year's floods in Europe, droughts in the Western U.S., intense cyclones in the Pacific and unprecedented forest fires around the globe are modest precursors. Any tool with the potential to mitigate these losses merits consideration. Solar geoengineering would be a measure to tame these harms and buy time until we approach a decarbonized world.
Time ticks, the planet warms and the losses mount. An ambitious research program on solar geoengineering is an urgent priority. Realism requires that we determine whether it should be implemented and if so how.
Joseph Aldy is a professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as the special assistant to the president for Energy and the Environment over 2009-2010. Richard Zeckhauser is Ramsey professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Q: What are the relative permeability and electrical conductivity of $\rm GaAs$? I am doing some simulations in COMSOL with the material $\rm GaAs$. The COMSOL built-in models require me to input the relative permeability and electrical conductivity of $\rm GaAs$. I have tried hard to search for these two electrical properties online, but no luck.
Could anyone tell me these?

A: GaAs is not a magnetic material, so you can probably just use μr=1, depending just exactly how accurate you need your simulation to be.
As for the conductivity, it will depend on how the material is doped, the temperature, and the  frequency of the signals you are interested in.
If you know the doping, you can estimate the conductivity from
$\sigma=ne\mu_c$,
where σ is conductivity, n is carrier density, e is the elementary charge, and $\mu_c$ is the carrier mobility. You can get estimates of carrier mobility over temperature from, for example, the Ioffe Institute. Unfortunately, depending on exactly what kind of simulation you are doing, coming up with an accurate value for the mobility can be quite complicated.
Note that n might also depend on temperature, particularly for near-intrinsic material or for very low temperatures.

A: GaAs permeability is essentially 1.  The conductivity, on the other hand, can be quite variable.  GaAs is a semiconductor whose electrical properties are easily manipulated through doping.
Your best bet might be to bound the problem from the lowest possible conductivity in GaAs to the moderately high mobility of a doped substrate.  Usually resistivity, the reciprocal of conductivity is specified.  A Google search of resistivity of semi-insulating GaAs will give you the low ball value for conductivity.  This link has lots of values for that case:
The relationship between the resistivity of semi-insulating GaAs and MESFET properties
The numbers range from 1E6 ohm cm to 1E8 ohm cm  Which translates to conductivity of 1E-6 to 1E-8 /ohm cm.
In the doped case you can take a heavy doping for GaAs of about 1E18 /$ cm^3 $ and a mobility of about 1000 $ cm^2 / V sec $.  This translates to conductivity of about 500 / ohm cm.  The plot below shows resistivity, the usually specified parameter.

If you simulate the high and the low case it should give a good idea if conductivity is a critical parameter.
A really good reference for semiconductor electrical properties is:
Properties of Semiconductor Alloys: Group‐IV, III–V and II–VI Semiconductors by Sadao Adachi

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Pope: Rich Can't Get Priority for Vaccine, Poor Need Help
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Remo Casilli/Pool Photo via AP)
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is warning against any prospect that rich people would get priority for a coronavirus vaccine.
Francis says, "The pandemic is a crisis. You don't come out of it the same — either better or worse.″ He added that "we must come out better."
In remarks on Wednesday during his weekly public audience, he said that after the COVID-19 pandemic, the world can't return to normality if normal means social injustice and degradation of the natural environment.
Said Francis: "How sad it would be if for the COVID-19 vaccine priority is given to the richest."
He also said it would be scandalous if all the economic assistance in the works, most of it using public funds, ends up reviving industries that don't help the poor or the environment.


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Michelle Branch est une chanteuse et guitariste américaine, née le  à Phoenix, en Arizona. Elle est surtout reconnue pour la chanson The Game of Love qu'elle a interprété avec le groupe rock latino Santana sur l'album Shaman en 2002. Elle a aussi fait quelques apparitions dans des téléséries américaines, entre autres Buffy contre les vampires en 2001, Charmed en 2003 et Hell's Kitchen en 2010 dans lesquelles elle interprète son propre rôle.

Biographie

Ses parents l'ont prénommée Michelle en hommage à la chanson des Beatles, elle a des ancêtres irlandais, français, néerlandais et indonésiens. Elle s'est mariée en 2004 avec son bassiste Teddy Landau, frère de Michael Landau, et a donné naissance à une fille prénommée Owen Isabelle en .

Michelle Branch a commencé à composer durant son adolescence et a chanté dans des clubs déjà en 1998 puis ce fut la parution de son premier album Broken Bracelet en 2000. Elle a ensuite signé un contrat avec la compagnie de Madonna, Maverick Records, qui a édité en 2001 l'album The Spirit Room. Le disque s'est vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires aux États-Unis et les singles Everywhere, All You Wanted et Goodbye to You ont figuré dans les hit parades de plusieurs pays. On peut aussi entendre l'une de ses chansons, Goodbye to You, dans Buffy contre les vampires, Roswell ainsi que dans Charmed (elle fait une apparition). Hotel Paper, sorti en 2003, a été certifié album de platine, et le simple Are You Happy Now? a atteint le Top 20 aux États-Unis, néanmoins les singles suivants n'ont pas rencontré le même succès.

En 2001-2002, elle participe à l'enregistrement de l'album Shaman du groupe rock latino Santana, sur lequel elle chante The Game of Love.

Fin 2004 elle a formé le groupe The Wreckers en compagnie de Jessica Harp. La sortie de leur premier album Stand Still, Look Pretty ayant été retardée, la disponibilité du disque fut alors normalement prévue pour le courant de l'année 2006.
"Way Back Home Live from New-York", un DVD live de leur tournée américaine est rendu disponible à l'achat en , et rend hommage à leur succès !

Peu après, Michelle annonce à ses fans la reprise de sa carrière solo, et fait une série succincte de concerts en première partie (dont the NorVa le  et Azalea Festival concert le ). Elle en profite pour annoncer le titre de son nouveau EP "Everything Comes and Goes".

Discographie

Albums
 Broken Bracelet (2000, Twin Dragon Records)
 The Spirit Room (2001, Maverick)
 Hotel Paper (2003, Maverick)
 Stand Still, Look Pretty  (The Wreckers, 2006, Warner Bros/Maverick)
 Everything Comes and Goes  (2010, Warner Bros/Maverick)
 Hopeless Romantic (2017, Verve)

Singles
 Everywhere (2001)
 All You Wanted (2002)
 Goodbye to You (2002)
 Are You Happy Now? (2003)
 Breathe (2003)
 One of These Days (2004)
 'Til I Get Over You (2004)
 Leave The Pieces (2006, The Wreckers)
 My Oh My (2006, The Wreckers)
 Tennessee (2006, The Wreckers)
 Together (2008, bande originale du film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2)
 This Way (2009)
 I Lose My Heart (2009, avec Chris Isaak)
 Sooner Or Later (2010)
 Getaway (2010, avec Timbaland)
 Loud Music (2011)

Participations
 2002 : Shaman du groupe Santana - Chanson The Game of Love
 2005 : All That I Am de Santana - Chanson I'm Feeling You

Filmographie
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1163535/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
 2001 : Buffy contre les vampires ; Elle-même
 2002 : Mes plus belles années ; Lesley Gore
 2002 : Une nana au poil ; DJ
 2003 : Charmed : Elle-même
 2005 : Les Frères Scott ; Elle-même
 2010 : Hell's Kitchen : Elle-même

Liens externes

 Site officiel de Michelle Branch
 Forum officiel de Michelle Branch
 Site officiel de son groupe The Wreckers

Chanteuse américaine du XXIe siècle
Chanteuse américaine de country
Guitariste américaine
Multi-instrumentiste américain
Enfant acteur américain
Artiste de Maverick Records
Lauréat du Grammy Award
Naissance en juillet 1983
Naissance à Phoenix (Arizona)

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Closing time: Stanton's stance fueling surge
Marlins slugger's home run tear lines up with change to batting stance in June
David Adler
Giancarlo Stanton had half an hour, and he was about to remake himself as a hitter.
It was June 19 in Miami, and the Marlins were preparing to host the National League East-leading Nationals. Beneath a closed Marlins Park roof, Stanton began his experiment. He had watched endless video clips, and he was ready to test what he'd envisioned: He closed his stance.
"I just said I was going to try it. Honestly, I had about 30 minutes of work, maybe 45 minutes, before the game," Stanton told MLB.com Sunday, when he crushed his Major League-leading 45th home run against the Mets at Citi Field. "And then 10 minutes before the game, I was like, 'This feels more comfortable.'"
When Stanton stepped into the batter's box in the first inning, he positioned himself in a way he hadn't all season. His front foot was closed off -- nearer to the inside edge of the box than his back foot, angling his 6-foot-6 frame acutely toward the imaginary line connecting the pitcher to home plate, rather than parallel to it. For his first 66 games in 2017, Stanton had been predominantly square to the pitcher.
The first at-bat, Stanton grounded into a double play. But then he singled in the third inning, 113.9 mph off the bat according to Statcast™. Stanton homered in the seventh, a 105.9-mph, 398-foot shot to the opposite field. Over the following games, the new stance didn't just stick, it exaggerated. By July, he was more closed than he'd ever been before. Now, well into the second half of the season, Stanton is one of the most closed off hitters in baseball.
"My best striking position is closed," Stanton said. "It's not smart to try to completely change something in the middle of the season. But if you are 100 percent committed to it ... well, you've got to be. You've got to trust what you're trying to do. If you change something, you want results right away, otherwise you try to go back. But I trusted it completely and let it ride."
You've seen how Stanton's closed his stance by now. But it's still cool to look at the different stages this season. All these are home runs pic.twitter.com/1xxFGgwIUL
— David Adler (@_dadler) August 21, 2017
Stanton's closing of his batting stance has correlated with his massive power surge. On June 18, he had 17 home runs in 282 plate appearances; since June 19, he has 28 in 236. Stanton has homered in 11 of his past 16 games, including a run of six straight last week. He's made himself into a candidate to be the National League's Most Valuable Player.
It's easy to see why Stanton might benefit from a closed stance. His swing involves a high degree of rotation -- with his hips and upper body, which carry the bat along with them. Because of Stanton's sheer size and strength, the torque he generates is unique, and it can produce some of the most dramatic home runs in the game. But through his career, he has had the tendency to rotate too early.
Stanton has generally used either a square or open stance type, vacillating between the two -- his front foot either straight to the pitcher or barely ajar toward third base. Last season, he used mainly the slightly open style that has become ubiquitous in the modern game. When Stanton hits from those positions, his front side can come open before the pitch arrives, leaving him exploitable.
The closed stance is a natural counter. When Stanton is already turned inward to start, his rotation drives him into the pitch, instead of causing him to fade away from it. His movements with body and bat upon the pitcher's delivery -- his swing -- are by and large the same. It's the starting point, the stance specifically, that's shifted. But that can make a huge difference in how a hitter like Stanton gets to the ball.
Even w/ Giancarlo Stanton's new closed stance, his swing's the same. But his feet force him in, help him stay on the ball. L: Aug. R: April pic.twitter.com/v5eXYpq5YB
Over the years, Stanton has frequently rearranged his foot position, often cycling through multiple stances within a season. Sift through old highlights and you can find them -- beginning with his rookie season, when he was wide open and crouched low ("It's like the complete reverse," he said.). None were closed off to this degree.
"Never. Never in my history of playing baseball," Stanton said. "So you don't know what you're going to get. But if you have some good key points, you should be all right."
With his adjusted stance, Stanton has been driving the ball in the air more often. His rate of fly balls and line drives, per Statcast™, has risen from 41.5 percent prior to June 19 to 50.3 percent since. Stanton's average exit velocity on those balls has increased from 97.6 mph to 100.8 mph, the highest in the Majors over that time.
"[His stance] gets him in the position he wants to be in. It looks like it's keeping him on the ball more, and he seems like he's seeing it better," said Christian Yelich, who's played alongside Stanton as long as any current Marlin -- since 2013, when he was 21 and Stanton 23. "Some guys have different problems than others. You go about fixing them or covering them in different ways. It's all about feel. That's what works for him, that feel."
Major League batting stances have tended toward sameness in this era. The slightly open stance is king, and few hitters hit from a significantly closed starting point. But at a level of the game where emulation is fundamental, success begetting imitators, Stanton found his prototypes: Nolan Arenado, Matt Kemp, Adrian Beltre, prominent hitters who do close off. He recognized past greats, too: Hall of Famer Andre Dawson works as a special assistant to the Marlins, and he hit with a closed stance in his playing career. Stanton didn't copy the technical aspects of their batting stances, but their accomplishments gave him precedent to actually make the change himself.
"I just know the guys with success," Stanton said. "Arenado and Kemp, those guys, you know you can have a high average with it. So that kind of gave me the green light to try it.
"I knew it could work. Not very many people did it. But I know people like Hawk and them did it in the old days -- and it worked for them, too."
It was a matter of taking the plunge and joining the outliers. Stanton might not stick with his closed stance forever, but the ends have been justifying the means for two months now. He's on pace to easily become the National League's first 50-homer hitter this decade -- a pace he was not on in mid-June -- and there have been whispers of 60.
"The thing about Giancarlo, he's a little bit like Big Mac when he was rolling along," manager Don Mattingly said, referencing Mark McGwire. "You felt like you could get him out if you made pitches. He strikes out enough, he swings and misses enough, that you think, 'Oh, if we can get the ball here or there, we can get this guy.' And then the danger comes."


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IMAX still selling an experience
Film festival takes viewers around the world and undersea
Kyle Wells
Gavin McKinney (director of photography)
From burning oil fields in Kuwait, to the peak of Everest, to a 370 km/h drive in an Indy car, this year's selection for the IMAX Film Festival promises to expand horizons.
For the second year running, IMAX Victoria is bringing in a selection of old favourites and new epic features for the six-week festival, which last year drew in about 49,000 viewers.
Theatre director Paul Wild said people still come to IMAX for one main reason: the experience.
"Just that big screen, and the clarity of images, and just taking you away for 40 or 45 minutes and really putting you there," Wild said. "I think people still really enjoy it."
As cinemas switch to digital format, seeing actual film projection is becoming somewhat of a novelty too, especially 70mm. Although IMAX has opened screens in many commercial movie theatres, including SilverCity Victoria and Cineplex Odeon West Shore, those screens are still significantly smaller than the mainstay IMAX Victoria and use digital projectors.
Wild said most people in the industry agree that despite digital projection being cheaper and easier to use, and the technology for it ever improving, it still doesn't look as good as film.
"One of the attributes of IMAX productions has always been high resolution and the clarity," Wild said.
One day, as technology improves, IMAX Victoria will make the switch (albeit reluctantly, said Wild), but for now prints for the festival, all in 70mm film, are being brought in from as far away as Ontario, Oregon and Kentucky.
Sharks features up-close encounters with Great Whites, Hammerheads and other species of the great predator as audiences follow a team of ocean explorers observing sharks in their natural habitats throughout the oceans of the world.
Salt Spring Island filmmaker David Douglas' Academy Award nominated Fires of Kuwait returns, taking viewers into the centre of the out-of-control oil fires that burned following the Persian Gulf War. The film follows the work of firefighters to quell the blazes after retreating Iraqi troops set fire to more than 600 oil wells.
"It was really a powerful film. It was just staggering," said Wild of Fires of Kuwait. "You could almost feel the heat coming off of the screen. It was very, very amazing."
Also opening with the festival is Mysteries of the Great Lakes, a journey through the headwaters of Lake Superior to the edge of Lake Ontario, and all the nature, landscapes and history in between.
Returning to IMAX Victoria, due to popular demand, is Everest, the dramatic true story of a team of climbers trekking to the top of the world's tallest mountain.
Super Speedway puts audiences in the driver's seat of an Indy car as they zip through the world of championship auto racing. On board cameras capture the cars in action, as Michael Andretti and his Newman/Haas racing team vie for the championship.
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Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia — региональный турбовинтовой пассажирский самолёт. Может перевозить до 30 пассажиров. Производился компанией Embraer, Бразилия. Первый полёт совершил 27 июля 1983 года.

Аэродинамическая схема

История

Конструкция
Фюзеляж имеет внутренний диаметр 2,28 м, а кресла в ряду располагаются по схеме 2+1. Самолёт оборудован двумя турбовинтовыми двигателями семейства PW100 компании Pratt & Whitney и имели первоначальное обозначение PW115, которое при запуске в серию (и дальнейших модификациях) сменилось на PW118 (также существуют модификации PW118A и PW118B с повышенной мощностью).
Данные моторы открывают линейку моторов семейства PW100 (PW118, PW120, PW121, PW124, PW127) однако в отличие от «старших» собратьев данный мотор не оснащён тормозом винта, поэтому в режиме ВСУ работать на земле не может.

Самолёт оснащён ВСУ, преимущественно Garrett GTCP36-150AA. За время производства с 1983 по 2001 гг. было изготовлено более 350 самолётов Embraer EMB-120 различных вариантов.

Модификации
 EMB-120: 30-местный пассажирский самолёт
 VC-97: VIP самолёт для ВВС Бразилии
 EMB-120ER: увеличен на 500 кг максимальный взлётный вес (доработка по сервисному бюллетеню — увеличение ёмкости топливных баков), выпускался с 1993 года, на ранее выпущенных самолётах преимущественно выполнена доработка.

Лётно-технические характеристики
Приведённые ниже характеристики соответствуют модификации EMB-120C:

Аварии и катастрофы
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Ссылки
 Самолёт Эмбраер 120
 EMB-120 Brasilia
 Региональные авиаперевозки в Уральском регионе. Фоторепортаж

Самолёты Embraer
Самолёты Бразилии
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Utah Loop 2013 Day 8 Durango to Mesa Verde National Park, CO
It was a short 36 mile drive from Durango to the Visitor Center at Mesa Verde (green table). Then it was almost the same distance in the park to the cliff dweller Pueblo Indian homes. We took the ranger tour at Cliff Palace which is the largest of the ancient towns in the park. It was built and occupied in the period from 1190 to 1270AD. Today it has been greatly restored. Our tour guide, Jo, put on quite a performance explaining each of the different buildings and what life was like. Couples married at age 12, had children at 14 and died at 35 from tooth decay. After the tour we drove alongside Soda Canyon and stopped at view points. You could look across the canyon and see the remains of cliff dwellings including one named in honor of Mary Hemenway who advocated for the protection of these sites and got Teddy Roosevelt to pass the Antiquities act in 1906. Not all the natives lived in cliff homes, some lived on the mesas. We walked around Far View which was occupied by Puebloans from 750 to 1300AD. I was most impressed with a 200 ft diameter reservoir that was named a National Historic Engineering Landmark by the American Association of Civil Engineers. It's one of the oldest engineered public works in the USA. We camped at Morehead Campground in the park and were lucky to get 1 of 15 sites with power out of 235 sites total. There was no Verizon cellphone/internet service at the campground. Tomorrow we cross into Utah and head for Monument Valley.


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Britain's Chris Froome Wins Second Tour De France
By Matt Moreno
Chris Froome battled through the final stage's rainy and wet roads to win the Tour de France again after his 2013 victory.
British cyclist Chris Froome is the 2015 Tour de France winner after weeks of dominating the rest of the field.
The cyclists battled through heavy rain, wet roads and temperatures in the 60s during what's commonly referred to as the ceremonial final stage on the Champs-Elysees.
Froome really broke away from the field in the 10th stage. He was able to hold off Colombian Nairo Quintana, who made a strong push in the later stages.
The final day got off to a bit of an odd start as French police opened fire on a car after it rammed a race barricade. The car drove away and race officials say terrorism is not suspected as a motive. No injuries were reported.
Froome, who also won the 2013 Tour de France, hasn't been able to escape doping allegations that have muddled the sport for years. Froome says in an early stage of this year's race, a spectator threw a cup of urine at him, and The New York Times reports his dominance has prompted "unsubstantiated allegations" he was doping.
The Kenyan-born Briton has long said he's clean.
"It's something that falls on my shoulders now, to change the image of the past," Froome told Sky News.
But fans are having a tough time forgetting Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner who's since had his wins stripped after admitting to doping.
"Did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance?" Oprah Winfrey asked.
"Yes," Armstrong said.
Froome says he's open to further testing after the race as proof he's clean. He is now the 20th cyclist to win the Tour de France multiple times.
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A Win for Wolves and National Parks
Today's court ruling restores federal protections for gray wolves in 44 states, including those roaming in North Cascades, Lassen and other national parks. NPCA and partners were plaintiffs in the case.
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Oakland, CA — A federal district court today struck down a 2020 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that removed federal protections from gray wolves across much of the U.S.
The Trump administration delisted the gray wolf after 45 years of protection under the Endangered Species Act despite the strong disagreement from experts who noted that the wolf's recovery hinged on continued protections. Although President Biden expressed personal concern for wolves, the Biden administration chose to defend the delisting decision.
Today's ruling throws out the Trump administration delisting rule and reinstates federal protections for wolves in 44 states.
"In a year where many wolves have been killed near national parks, today's decision provides tremendous hope for the future of these animals. Wolves are an iconic species and a key part of many national park ecosystems," said Bart Melton, Wildlife Program Director with National Parks Conservation Association. "As wolves continue to return to national park landscapes, this decision will provide protections for them for generations to come."
"Wolves need federal protection, period," said Kristen Boyles, attorney at Earthjustice. "The Fish and Wildlife Service should be ashamed of defending the gray wolf delisting, and it should take immediate action to restore Endangered Species Act protections to all gray wolves, including those in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana."
"Today's ruling is a significant victory for gray wolves and for all those who value nature and the public's role in protecting these amazing creatures," said Jamie Rappaport Clark, CEO and president at Defenders of Wildlife. "Restoring federal protections means that these vitally important animals will receive the necessary support to recover and thrive in the years ahead."
"Although we celebrate this win, my thoughts keep returning to the hundreds of wolves who suffered and died under state management," said Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "I hope this ruling finally convinces the Fish and Wildlife Service to focus on recovering wolves, not prematurely removing their life-saving protections."
"Last year we saw 8 wolves illegally poisoned in Oregon with the perpetrator still at large," said Danielle Moser, Wildlife Program Coordinator at Oregon Wild. "Restored protections are integral to making up for this devastating loss not only in our state but across the West."
"Today is a monumental victory for wolves who will now be protected from state-sponsored bloodbaths," said Kitty Block, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. "After having yet another wolf delisting overturned in federal court, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should finally learn its lesson. Instead of continuing to devise convoluted excuses to strip these beloved animals of legal protections, the agency must develop a plan for meaningful recovery across the species' range and ensure that states will not decimate their wolf populations."
"Today's ruling restoring much-needed federal protections means that wolves will have a chance to fully recover and carry out their important ecological and cultural roles across the country," said Bonnie Rice, Senior Representative for the Sierra Club. "Instead of prematurely removing protections for wolves, the Fish and Wildlife Service should once and for all commit to their full recovery, including immediately reinstating protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies."
Earthjustice challenged the wolf delisting in a lawsuit on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, National Parks Conservation Association, Oregon Wild, and the Humane Society of the United States in January of 2021; that lawsuit was joined by another coalition of conservation groups and NRDC.
Gray wolf recovery in the United States should be an American conservation success story. Once found nationwide, gray wolves were hunted, trapped, and poisoned for decades; by 1967 there were fewer than 1,000 wolves in one isolated part of the upper Midwest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act in 1978. Today there are recovering wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; wolves have begun to inhabit Washington, Oregon, and California; and unclaimed wolf habitat remains in states like Maine, Colorado, and Utah.
In 2020, 1.8 million Americans submitted comments opposing delisting. Additionally, 86 members of Congress (in both the House and Senate), 100 scientists, 230 businesses, Dr. Jane Goodall from the Jane Goodall Institute, and 367 veterinary professionals all submitted letters opposing the wolf delisting plan. Even the scientific peer reviews commissioned by the Fish and Wildlife Service itself found that the agency's proposal ignored science and appeared to come to a predetermined conclusion, with inadequate scientific support.
After the gray wolf was removed from the protections of the Endangered Species Act, Wisconsin held a tragic wolf hunt, where hunters with dogs slaughtered 218 wolves in three days–exceeding the harvest quota by nearly 100 animals. In Idaho and Montana, where wolves were stripped of federal protections a decade ago, the states have allowed increased wolf slaughter.
Since 1919, the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association has been the leading voice in safeguarding our national parks. NPCA and its nearly 1.6 million members and supporters work together to protect and preserve our nation's most iconic and inspirational places for future generations. For more information, visit www.npca.org.
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Montenegro packs a lot into its size as one of the smallest countries in Europe. You'll find everything from pristine beaches to UNESCO-listed Old Towns to stunning mountain peaks soaring over 2,500 meters in the air. You can ski in winter in Zabljak, sit on the beaches of the Budva Riviera at summer, wander through UNESCO World Heritage Sites, or see some of Europe's only flamingos in the Ulcinj Salterns.
Kotor is Montenegro's most famous town, for its beautiful bay of fjords and mountains, its walled Old Town, historic churches, and stunning fortress views. But there's so much more to Montenegro than just its most photogenic city.
There's Ulcinj in the south which has beautiful beaches to Zabljak in the north with its stunning glacial lakes and mountains. There's the deepest canyon in Europe (and second deepest in the world), the beautiful Tara Canyon. There's the quirky capital city of Podgorica, with its mix of historic buildings and newer concrete blocks. And there's no shortage of rivers, beaches, lakes, and mountains for nature lovers to enjoy.


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New Jersey Coronavirus Update: Restrictions take effect as state again tops 4,000 new COVID cases
New Jersey coronavirus update
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- New restrictions on indoor gatherings took effect in New Jersey Tuesday, part of an effort by officials to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Indoor gatherings are limited to a maximum of 10 people.
Starting on Monday, November 23, outdoor gatherings will be limited to a maximum of 150 people.
Governor Phil Murphy said some indoor gatherings may continue under the current rules - limited to 25% of a room's capacity, up to 150 people:
-Religious services/celebrations and political events
-Funerals/memorial services
-Performances
"We think those are steps, coupled with the other steps we have taken, which will hopefully begin to shake these numbers down," he told MSNBC. "This is a lot of fatigue. It's a lot of private setting transmission. Particularly with the holidays coming up, we've got to plead with people to not let their hair down, to be vigilant, social distance, face coverings, all the basic stuff we know works."
The state has now reported more than 4,000 new cases in three of the last four days. Saturday and Sunday case numbers are the first- and second-highest daily counts recorded in New Jersey since the first confirmed case when this pandemic began on March 4.
On Tuesday, New Jersey reported 4,060 new cases and 38 additional deaths. The positivity rate statewide is at 8.73%.
The seven-day average is 40% higher than a week ago and 325% higher than a month ago.
"It's gotten worse, and it's going to get worse," Murphy said. "We've got to be honest with folks that particularly with the cold weather, with the holidays, this is going to get worse. Please God, it doesn't get to the levels that we saw in the spring. I think our peak hospitalization in the spring was 8,300. We are now at about 1,900, 2,000. Thank God we are not at those levels. But it's going to get worse, so we are both pleading with people to remember their personal responsibilities, especially when they are at private settings."
Murphy said the state is very concerned about indoor sports, especially hockey. Going forward, indoor sports practices or competitions will be allowed to exceed the 10-person limit - ONLY for individuals necessary, such as players, coaches, and referees. In most cases, where those necessary individuals exceed 10 people, spectators will not be permitted.
"Indoor sports is an area of concern," Murphy said. "I've got nothing against hockey, but watch yourselves. We have that high on the list right now. And unless we see better compliance and lower levels of infection, we will take action. "
Officials blame Halloween parties for the current spike in cases, and Murphy is urging people not to have large gatherings as Thanksgiving approaches.
"These numbers are ALARMING and continue to rise," Murphy tweeted. "Take this seriously. Wear a mask. Social distance. Stay safe."
It was announced over the weekend that New Jersey counties and municipalities may now order an 8 p.m. curfew on nonessential businesses to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Toni Yates has more on the new COVID restrictions in New Jersey.
New restrictions also took effect last Thursday that limit the hours for indoor service at bars and restaurants.
Also, New Jersey is suspending in-person grand jury sessions and trials. Grand jury sessions will now be virtual.
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House Speaker says Governor is taking "pot shots"
The top Republican in the Iowa Legislature is accusing Governor Tom Vilsack of slinging pot shots at people from both parties as Vilsack rides into the sunset of his term.
During a visit to Clear Lake, Vilsack lambasted legislators on the Rules Review Committee who earlier this week objected to giving the director of the Department of Natural Resources the power to veto construction permits for livestock confinements.
House Speaker Christopher Rants, a Republican from Sioux City, is riding to the defense of that panel. "The governor made some very pointed comments to the press that I think were out of line," Rants says. Rants points out that two Democrats joined with five Republicans to object to giving the D-N-R director that new power.
"Because they believed — both Republicans and Democrats on that committee — that the Department of Natural Resources and this administration were exceeding their legislative authority," Rants says. Vilsack will leave office in early January and Rants says the governor's exit from the state is like an old western movie, but Vilsack's not riding out "to the cheers of the townspeople." He's "blazing out of town in a black hat shooting out the store windows" according to Rants.
Rants accuses the governor of trying to expand the reach of government in his last months in office.
"This administration needs to follow the law. You can't just give the Department of Natural Resources carte blanche to create law," Rants says.
During remarks in Clear Lake on Wednesday, Vilsack also criticized both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor for failing to tell Iowans where they stand on environmental issues.
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