text: 31 July 2014 Help Wildlife Survive Winters in our National Forests Posted by: Kylie Paul | 30 comments | Share: New rules governing over-snow vehicles in national forests need to better balance the needs of wildlife and recreation. While it's full-on summer across the country, it's time to think about winter for a few minutes. Winter can really make a person feel alive – snowflakes seemingly hanging in the sun, crisp air making one aware of every breath, the feel of snow crunching beneath the feet. Enjoying the outdoors during wintertime in the backcountry lands of our national forests offers a great opportunity to take part in various snow sports, view amazing sceneries, and track the comings and goings of wildlife in the snow. It's time for us to act to protect those opportunities and wildlife habitat in our national forests! On June 18, the United States Forest Service released its long-awaited draft federal rule that determines how national forests decide where over-snow vehicles (OSV) such as snowmobiles are allowed to go. It's critical that we plan where and how we travel through national forests. Before this rule, in many places there was an 'anything goes' approach to these kinds of decisions, giving an almost free reign to these vehicles, and making it difficult for wildlife to find quiet refuges away from areas where the vehicles are used. By designating specific trails and areas where visitors may use vehicles like snowmobiles, we have an opportunity to bring balance to the backcountry, and minimize any potential damage to the environment or to wildlife security before they occur. Creating this rule is an important first step. Unfortunately, as it is currently written, we don't think it will accomplish much. Thankfully, since this is a draft with a public comment period, there is time to ask the Forest Service to make some changes: Snow covers Sequoia National Park (Credit: Barry Klein) Closed Unless Designated Open In the proposed rule, land managers can choose to either manage areas of national forests as "open unless designated closed" (the current status quo for some existing winter management) or "closed unless designated open." The latter is how they manage all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), so it makes sense to take the same approach to over-snow vehicles. Allowing land managers to choose between two options will mean major inconsistency across seasons (OSVs in winter, ATVs in other seasons), and confusion for visitors when one national forest selects one approach to managing OSVs and the neighboring forest selects the other. An "open unless closed" policy also assumes that OSV use does not harm wildlife. Instead of making this assumption, the Forest Service should decide where OSV is compatible with wildlife conservation, and limit use to those areas. The final rule should follow the "closed unless designated open" approach. In addition, the proposed rule allows the Forest Service to designate massive OSV cross-country use areas, and ignore the impacts of specific OSV trails within those areas. Doing this undermines wildlife conservation in many ways, including weakening the ability to protect key wildlife habitats. The final rule should be changed to reduce the scope of OSV areas to a more manageable scale and require land managers to consider the impacts of individual trails. Scrutinize all Snowmobile Use – No Grandfather Clauses The draft as currently proposed would grandfather-in a range of past management designations for OSVs. The draft goes too far by allowing past OSV use decisions to stand, even if they did not adequately address the impacts to wildlife, winter ecosystems, and other users. Dated or non-comprehensive OSV plans may not adequately address wildlife concerns, or even meet legal requirements for motorized use planning. When planning for these kinds of vehicles, the Forest Service must follow a specific policy called Executive Order 11644, which requires them to minimize harassment and disruption of wildlife and their habitat. This proposed OSV rule must be consistent with this Executive Order – so the Forest Service must make sure any previous OSV management designations incorporate these "minimization requirements" before they are grandfathered in. Canada lynx, wolverines and other sensitive wildlife species can suffer negative consequences from noisy winter recreation. The Forest Service should make sure that the final rule helps those animals better survive harsh winter conditions. We have until August 4 to let the Forest Service know that we value quiet winter landscapes for ourselves and for wildlife, and we want to see consistent management of motorized vehicles across all seasons. Your Comments Are Needed! Your comment is essential to help shape the future of our National Forests and will help make a difference across millions of acres of public land. By submitting comments to improve the draft rule you can show the Forest Service a better way to manage over-snow vehicles. Submit a comment in two simple steps: 1) Use this blog to help draft a comment for the Federal Register. Add your personal experience of how you enjoy winter on National Forest lands. (This is the most important part! Personal comments are proven to have the biggest impact on decision-makers.) Add any extra concerns or comments you have. 2) Head over to the Federal Register TODAY to review the rule and submit your comments directly to the Forest Service. At the top right of the page, click on "Comment Now" and then copy and paste your letter into the comment box. If your letter is too long you can also upload it as a separate file. Comments are due by August 4, 2014. Kylie Paul is the Rockies & Plains Representative at Defenders of Wildlife 30 Responses to "Help Wildlife Survive Winters in our National Forests" Kris Azzarello July 31st, 2014 As someone who loves winter in national Forest lands, I would hate to see all the pristien beauty marred and possiblly destroyed by the use of snowmobiles there. It impacts wildlife adversely, too, and the noise really ruins the peaceful setting. Please don't allow this to happen! Respectfully, Kris Azzarello Reply Lauren Devine July 31st, 2014 Scrutinize all Snowmobile Use – No Grandfather Clauses The draft as currently proposed would grandfather-in a range of past management designations for OSVs. The draft goes too far by allowing past OSV use decisions to stand, even if they did not adequately address the impacts to wildlife, winter ecosystems, and other users. Dated or non-comprehensive OSV plans may not adequately address wildlife concerns, or even meet legal requirements for motorized use planning. When planning for these kinds of vehicles, the Forest Service must follow a specific policy called Executive Order 11644, which requires them to minimize harassment and disruption of wildlife and their habitat. This proposed OSV rule must be consistent with this Executive Order – so the Forest Service must make sure any previous OSV management designations incorporate these "minimization requirements" before they are grandfathered in. Canada lynx, wolverines and other sensitive wildlife species can suffer negative consequences from noisy winter recreation. The Forest Service should make sure that the final rule helps those animals better survive harsh winter conditions. We have until August 4 to let the Forest Service know that we value quiet winter landscapes for ourselves and for wildlife, and we want to see consistent management of motorized vehicles across all seasons. Our wildlife deserves peace in their own habitat. Reply Alexandra July 31st, 2014 Great comments, did you submit them through the link given? lorraine barratt July 31st, 2014 The wild life have a very precarious road a head, they need all the help they can get! Please help with spreading the word, a donation or signing all petitions & sending emails.. They desperately need your help & your voice. Reply Carlos Nunes July 31st, 2014 PLease keep our wilderness areas and animals free of human activity. Let naturedo Is thing. Reply Elizabeth Windham July 31st, 2014 We sacrifice the livelihoods of wild animals for our own selfish pointless pleasures. If we keep this up, there won't be any wild left to enjoy! Please don't allow this kind of selfish human consumption continue! Reply Scott Bartlett July 31st, 2014 There is enough pollution, noise or other already! Reply Nancy Reyering July 31st, 2014 Please preserve our forest lands and parks as quiet, pristine wildernesses. Protecting wildlife and habitat should be the priority of our park services, not making playgrounds for noisy vehicles that wi disturb terrain, wildlife and visitors. Thank you for the preservation of these world-class wilderness spaces. Reply Katrina July 31st, 2014 Here's what I posted: Hello! Having grown up in Southern California, going somewhere with snow was always a treat. It's particularly wonderful to spot wildlife amongst the snowy trees when staying up at a mountain cabin or cross country skiing over a silent, white landscape. What isn't wonderful are snowmobiles. When living in Seattle, I was shocked at how many snowmobiles I encountered up in the Mt. Baker – Snoqualmie National Forest. I couldn't believe it was legal to be so loud and disruptive in such a pristine conservation area. It ruined several hiking and skiing experiences for me. Because of this and other experiences, I'm very much in favor of changing rules for winter activities to "closed unless designated open." I also believe that ALL snowmobile use should be scrutinized, with criteria considering wildlife and habitat conservation being favored – and no grandfather clauses. The criteria should be examined and updated frequently, again with conservation as a priority. It's easy to destroy habitat and cause species to go extinct. It's not as easy – indeed, sometimes it's impossible – to undo the damage. Please take the long view and be "pound wise", rather than "penny wise and pound foolish". Your grandchildren and their grandchildren will thank you. Reply Kirsten Lassen-Smith July 31st, 2014 The less noise the better in our last refuge, Wilderness! Reply CJ Neidlinger July 31st, 2014 Why was snowmobiling even ever allowed??? These lands are to preserve and protect the natural beauty and wildlife. Absolutely no recreational vehicles should be allowed, ever, only park rangers when needed. Human greed and self righteousness needs to stop. Wildlife comes first, now and forever!! Reply Rochelle Willis July 31st, 2014 Enough with the human footprint, national forests are no place for crazy manic snowmobilers to wreak havoc on all that is pristine and natural. Let these people find other places to go nuts as on their own property or on someone's property they may know. Something has got to be kept sacred in this crazy world. Reply Roxane Rothstein July 31st, 2014 I love to spend the winter in national Forests and my family and I have grown very concerned over the years with the pollution by noise from snowmobiles. We can't see any wild animals anymore, these poor things, and we are ourselves stressed out by the noise. Something quite radical needs to be done about this, keep the noise in the cities and let's make sure it stays there! Forests are the few natural habitats left to wildlife who already barely survives, introducing noise in these natural environment is extremely dangerous to their health and well-being as well as to human's health. Thank you. Reply Kaylee Stebbins July 31st, 2014 If any of these animals are at all bothered by the sound of these OSV's, we should restrict them and all other vehicles from being on the property. There are plenty of other places that allow you to legally drive these vehicles. Please protect the wildlife now before we do any more harm. Reply Matt Kline July 31st, 2014 I've observed first hand the effects that OSVs can have on wildlife. Animals react to these things always in a negative way. Let's first adequately address wildlife concerns! Wildlife seem to always get the short end of the stick. Their voices are drowned out in the endless cacophony of humanity's quest for fun. More and more and more recreational opportunities we are continuously told is a good thing. A good thing for businesses, a good thing for jobs. Well I do not agree with this gross over statement. Less OSVs, ATVs and CRVs, snowmobiles and jet skis, mountain bikes, and toy drones to start would be much better for our wild places! The thinking should be a little bit more balanced I think, a little more pro-life, more wolverines re-establishing themselves wherever they can! More wolves and lynx in our great and healthy? land. How about the birds that haven't migrated from their wintry home or the rodents that would also like to roam. Healthy populations of species the priority instead of some family vacation Go-Pro recordings. Every where I go, more and more people worrying about what's in it for them, never thinking outside the box and realizing other species are fighting for EXISTENCE. Let's first adequately address wildlife concerns! Then let's think about that person who wants to take a stroll through a winter landscape without the constant sound of another darn mechanical plaything… only after that should we worry about another way for us humans to have play time. Reply Samantha Lurey July 31st, 2014 Dear Forest Services Representative: I've been advised you are seeking public comment on an upcoming new policy for use of over-snow vehicles on public forest land. As a member of the National Parks and outdoor enthusiast, I am eager to provide my opinion on the upcoming policy. Overall, I think your policy is a good first step in protecting forest land during winter months. However, I would like to suggest some changes to the draft as follows: – Change the designated land to be 'Closed Unless Designated Open' instead of open unless designated closed. I understand that there are a lot of people that want to 'roam free' in these public places in the winter, but your summer policy with ATV's should be the same as your winter policy for OSV's. – No Grandfather clauses: You need to ensure compliance with Executive Order 11644 with respect to your actions. Further, allowing some areas to remain under old policies or actions will create confusion for the public and an administration problem for your staff. One change in the rule and everyone moves forward with a clean slate. Thank you for reading my suggestions. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at: Samantha Lurey (*******@yahoo.com). Thank you, Samantha Lurey Reply Dick Thorpe July 31st, 2014 I don't think off road vehicles or even over snow vehicles should be outlawed only goverened with limited use. After all how would we lovers of nature be able to get in deep to see the beauty that is nature.. The problem is there's always somone that abuses a rule or law…they'll chase game, tear up shrubs, scar the landscape, cause fires…so perhaps restricted 'permit' passes with photo I.D and time stamps like hunting permits/tags are in order Reply GuySweeney August 2nd, 2014 Nah, Dick you shouldn't be lazy! Like someone suggested, hop on a horse & get with mother nature on HER terms!!!! Gary Feemster July 31st, 2014 The only reason for a snowmobile in a national park or forest is for emergency rescue. Reply Ramona sahni August 1st, 2014 Wildlife deserves concern from us.Why do we as a human race ignore every other creatures need? We have to coexist.Let us not be selfish forever Reply Christian W. Olson August 1st, 2014 All motorized vehicles, whether electric or combustion, need to be banned from all our national parks and wildlife management areas. Take a horse or rent a horse from the park or wildlife management area. If you don't like mother nature's terms, keep your SISSY bottoms out of these areas. It's that simple. YOU can't handle what mother nature has to say or how it expresses itself, so you are the WEAK one. Reply Susanah August 1st, 2014 We have encroached enough on various animals' roaming territories. OSVs and ATVs have many other places to enjoy. Protect our wildlife! Reply Donna Vance August 1st, 2014 Ban snowmobiles and four wheelers out of National Parks and Forrest's. There's too many selfish thoughtless two legged monsters with them. They don't understand nor care about wildlife and wildlife should not have to suffer because of them. Reply Alexander Yeung August 1st, 2014 I think banned every snowmobile and four wheeler from National park is the only way to keep the species peace and quiet. I believed forest service and ranger must be very extremely cautious of anyone try to do this. Reply Ryan August 1st, 2014 Please, protect our wildlife and minimize ATV and OSV use. We, as humans, have our homes to turn to for safety and security, dont wildlife and animals deserve the same? As visitors to their home ie the outdoors, surely we should treat them and nature habitats in general with more respect? Reply Fred August 1st, 2014 The public has a right to use public lands for recreation but greenie groups like your want to eliminate as much recreation especially OHV use and hunting from public lands. Reply Kaari Jaason August 1st, 2014 Protect our wildlife! Protect animals, trees, birds! Reply P. Dyer August 1st, 2014 Once motorized vehicles are allowed into any wild area, then it's no longer wild. Reply Marcia August 7th, 2014 I wish I had the funds to donate to every wildlife and animal rescue organization in the world. Sadly, I do not. But I heartily support the efforts of every single one of them. Trying to save the land and it's wonderful creatures from the depravity of humans is no easy task. It costs. Thank you for all your efforts. 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My plan for this month's edition of Mazz-INT was to discuss with you new House Permanent Select Committee for Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Mike Roger's statements about throttling back the size and influence of the Office the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). We will actually get to this indirectly, but the vortex of events in Egypt since 25 January trivializes, in the short run at least, any other Intelligence Community (IC) topics.
Without making a judgment about the Administration's response(s) to the political upheaval in Egypt, I believe it is fair to say that official Washington seemed unprepared at first for the pressure the popular street demonstrations put on the Mubarak government. As a matter of self protection this quickly lead to surrogates in the Congress and media questioning how much warning the IC provided the President's national security team and our allies in Egypt and Israel. This played out most directly at the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence (SSCI) confirmation hearing on Feb 3rd for Stephanie O'Sullivan to be Principal Deputy DNI (PDDNI) (http://www.c-span.org/Events/Senate-Select-Intelligence-Cmte-Hearing-on-National-Intelligence-Dpty-Director-Nominee/10737419390-1/), where the nominee was asked what the President was told about Egypt and when Chairwoman Feinstein said the IC had let the President down regarding Tunisia.
The more telling question, though, is what did Hosni Mubarak know and when did he realize his government was in danger of being threatened? Here I believe Fred Armisen's Mubarak satire on the January 29th Saturday Night Live (SNL) episode of Weekend Update is as accurate as it funny. He tells us, "Egyptians have never been great with signals. Read the Bible – we needed ten plagues before we let the Israelites go!" ( http://www.videosurf.com/video/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-hosni-mubarak-1257522761 ) To SNL's point, I am not sure King Farouk anticipated the Colonel's Coup in 1952 that drove him into exile and Egypt, if not the world, was shocked by Anwar Sadat's chilling assassination in 1981 that brought Mubarak to power. Conversely, with only three leaders since 1952 (Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak) and all connected to Nasser, expecting the status quo has been the money bet for domestic Egyptian politics for the last 30 years.
It should not be forgotten that Israelis, who are usually pretty good at perceiving signals and arguably with the most at stake if a new Egyptian government moves away from the Camp David Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, were also surprised by the intense Cairo demonstrations calling for Mubarak to leave office. I would assert that no mainstream politician in Israel would welcome the unpredictability that would come with regime change in Egypt, especially if it results in a democratically formed government. To wit: Hamas winning elections in Gaza.
In defense of the US IC, it is reasonable to ask what it should have known if the two intelligence services closest to and whose governments are most impacted by the Cairo Demonstration missed or dismissed the indications of serious unrest in the "Egyptian Street?" I suspect that the post mortems will determine that Egyptian, Israeli, and US intelligence were all relying on mostly the same sources, providing the "accepted wisdom" that there was no serious domestic threat to Mubarak's power and through circular reporting this "accepted wisdom" was being "confirmed" as still valid.
This, however, does not mean there were not strong voices inside of the US IC saying that Mubarak was becoming unacceptably unpopular with the "Egyptian Street." How could he be popular given Egypt's economic and cultural discontinuities? Moreover, anybody who has read Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" knows the Mubarak regime was providing stability by forcibly suppressing political opposition, so I don't think the IC missed the macro dangers to the Mubarak regime; rather, it just didn't know what would ignite the kindling and when. Here we get to an inherent limitation of intelligence: warning with precision because of the number uncontrollable variables. Despite all of its resources, the IC can warn the building superintendent that there is a gas leak in the basement, but there is actually little such a warning can do to keep someone from entering the basement and inadvertently or otherwise striking a match.
So I am willing to accept that the US IC did as well as could be reasonably expected with regard to warning about the dangers faced by the Mubarak regime. That said I am not sure, based on the following unresearched list, that US IC is much better at interpreting signals than Armisen's SNL Mubarak caricature when it comes to anticipating regime change in authoritarian states with strategic implications for US national security.
Ø Various leaders over the course of the Vietnam War
Ø Shah of Iran
Ø Marcos in the Philippines
Ø Chun Doo-hwan in South Korea
Ø The collapse of the Soviet Union
Ø The Balkans post Tito
Ø Iraq post Saddam
My sense is that the IC understood broadly that all of these leaders and their governments had serious internal opposition which they were ruthlessly suppressing that could lead to open revolt with little notice and/or massive instability if they left the scene due to natural or unnatural causes. The reason for this persistent IC blind spot is well documented in my view: the IC lacks deep historical, cultural, political, and economic knowledge about countries of importance to the United States. Part of this is caused by the IC's historic interest in the immediate and reliance on technology. The balance of this blindness is the result of the IC not being willing to seek or trust the deep country knowledge that exists in academia and the media. Even more frustrating is that at least some of this academic expertise is already on the government payroll at places such as the Naval Post Graduate School, the war colleges and the military academies.
Getting back to the ODNI and Chairman Rogers, the Congressional oversight committees would be well served to take a hard look in light of the IC's performance on Egypt at the organizational changes DNI Clapper is making and support them. Establishing a Director of National Intelligence for Integration along with various National Intelligence Manager (NIMs) for specific countries, regions, or topics strikes me as a sound organizational approach for improving IC situational awareness on strategic issues that can be conveyed to policy makers without spending more money for sensors, collectors or analysts.
That's what I think; what do you think?
Egypt is another example of a problem no one wanted to happen and certainly didn't want to expend time and resources on given other pressing issues. The IC's larger problem is not understanding and managing capacity for it's mission - providing decision advantage - and being able to communicate to decision makers (at operational and policy levels) what intelligence can not be provided. No amount of technology or even people will enable the IC to avoid surprise, but a new focus on mission management would help.
Tony thanks! Besides agreeing with you,I hope I was clear that I am optimistic about the mission management changes Jim Clapper and Robert Cardillo are bringing to the IC joemaz
Joemaz, Same problem, same challenges, different station. While we cannot predict the future as suggested by then Secretary Rumsfeld (tell me what I need to know before I need to know it) in 2001, another restructuring of IC analytical nodes is unlikely a fix. We have been through this so many times before your list plus other strongmen in areas vital to our long term security, such as eastern Europe and Latin America and we still cannot provide the advance warning to our leadership for not just decision advantage, but also for our security. We, as an IC (over the past 40-plus years in my direct experience), continue to analyze developments in other countries and regions through a biased US lens. This is not a fault, but it must be an understanding. We look at Egyptian/Romania/Soviet/Balkan/etc developments based on our American experiences and not from within the perspectives, experiences and ideals of those in the countries/regions in evolution/revolution. Can a US raised and educated IC Egyptian analyst, say with an MA in Middle Eastern studies from a mid-western university, really understand the dynamics involved within the Egyptian population and on the streets of Cairo? Even the best, most accurate reporting, will be biased in collection, translation to the written and in analysis. We know how to fix this, have known for years. This includes hiring people who have been raised on the streets of foreign countries (we say its a clearance issue); dedicating years, even decades, of education actually on the streets of countries in question; 5/5 truly native fluency in street language(s); and creating career paths for IC analysts which reward this type of knowledge and experience. So far, we have been unable to accomplish this and its not the ICs fault. American social system, in part, stresses advancement over experience and skills in understanding other cultures. A Soviet style American charm school or long-term illegals are impractical. State Departments system for career diplomats that also stresses advancement and diverse assignments while developing language skills suitable for policy level intercourse is also not suitable for an IC analyst. We do some of this in the military FAOs, attaches, Special Ops with in-country experience but again compromised by the need to advance and requirement for career breadth both understandable. Until we resolve how to educate and develop a country/regional analyst who is in total empathy with the people of a country we will continue to be lacking in understanding political transitions like that happing in Egypt. We will asking the same questions when North Korea implodes and surprises us overnight.
Ted, thank you. Your comments are thoughtful and constructive as usual. We both know regional expertis requires investing people in a country or region or at least ready access to those who spending lots of time in a country region. Retired MG Scales refers to these kinds of people as intelligence scouts joemaz
Thanks for the great thoughts Joe. More recent events show there is something fundamental going on. Maybe President Bush had it right on some level when he stated the peoples of these countries too deserved, would long for, and somehow in their own way seek freedoms. Leads to a real hard question - what do we do about it? I'm not sure the average person on the street loves the US or the US Gov, nor would welcome our involvement. What a great set of real life real time lessons in the need for, methods of, use of, and inherent limitations of intelligence.
Dan, thanks! You are right the hard question is what to do. President Bush was right about the fundamental urge for representative if not democratic government in the middle east. Tom Friedman warned years ago in "The World is Flat" that the US was on the wrong side by supporting autocratic Muslim regimes to keep the oil flowing. Bin Laden too was targeting these regimes because of their secularity and involvement with the West. The conundrum here for the US has been the conflict between our national values (human rights, personal and political freedom, capitalism) and our national interest (stability in the oil producing regions of the world and keeping the Arab world from attacking Israel. Thanks again for the comments Dan joemaz


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Rosh Hashanah is known as a holiday that loves sweetness–after all, that's what the whole dipping apples in honey thing is all about. And traditionally you'd find a honey cake on the holiday table–sweet and spicy. But personally, I never really liked that honey cake. I'm a fan of apple cake. This is my mom's recipe and I think it's delicious. I hope you like it too.
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"Forgiveness (is) that attitude of mind that sets us free when we are able to claim our wisdom and move on." - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Forgiveness of ourselves and others is a powerful tool we can use to move forward when we are feeling blocked, when our energy seems to be stuck in a holding pattern. Is there someone or something you need to forgive?
Maybe you aren't consciously aware of what or who might need to be forgiven. Maybe it is even something within you and has nothing to do with someone or anything else. When you are feeling like you are not moving forward, maybe it's time for some self-inquiry to see what needs to be uncovered and healed. Maybe there is something in the dark caves of your deepest truths that needs some light shed on it, and just maybe that is forgiving someone or something dormant there.
If a room has been dark for 10 years and someone turns on the light, it is as luminous as the room that has been dark for 10 minutes and someone turns on the light. When you make the decision to turn on the light and really look for what it is that is holding you back, miracles will happen. All it takes is a choice, followed by action and willingness - willingness to really explore, no matter how uncomfortable it might be.
We all have the ability to self-heal. It doesn't matter what we've done, we can be forgiven. Our true essence is innocence; that is who we truly are. And it doesn't matter what someone else has (perceivably) done to you, you can forgive them. Their true essence is also innocence. Forgiveness paves the way to balance and harmony, squaring your inner and outer experiences and allowing for the healing to take place that will make you whole once again.
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In "A Course In Miracles" one of the lessons states, "Forgiveness is the key to happiness." It goes on to say, "Here is the answer to your search for peace. Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last." The power of forgiveness!
As you go about your week, I challenge you to look in depth at forgiveness. Think about the qualities of the unforgiving mind such as darkness, fear, sadness, misery, doubt, confusion, anger and despair. Now, contrast these to the qualities of the forgiving mind such as joy, peace, love, harmony, balance, clarity, hope and light. Which would you choose? Which will you choose? If we all practiced forgiveness, imagine what our world would look like!
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Although the boring-machine digging the Highway 99 Tunnel remains at a standstill, work is moving ahead on the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project.
Looking south toward Bertha's "launch pit" at the Highway 99 tunnel construction site. Photo: Bill Lucia
The South Atlantic Street Overpass will open on Monday. The bridge will allow truck traffic to bypass a set of railroad tracks that separates South Atlantic Street from a busy freight terminal at the Port of Seattle. The BNSF Railway Company uses the tracks when linking together train cars, which can cause delays up to 20 minutes, according to Washington State Department of Transportation deputy program administrator Matt Preedy.
Map of the South Atlantic Street Overpass, which will allow truck traffic to bypass a busy set of BNSF railroad tracks when delivering freight to the Port of Seattle. Source: WSDOT
South of the tunnel's entrance, two tiers of concrete roadbed, which will eventually help connect the deep-bore section of the project with an existing portion of Highway 99, are about 40 to 50 percent complete, Preedy said. The approximately 1,000 foot section of roadway will sit beneath a "cut and cover" tunnel and will contain about 18,000 cubic yards of concrete.
Unfinished and finished concrete walls mark the divide between Bertha's "launch pit" and a segment of the "cut-and-cover" approach tunnel that is nearing completion. Photo: Bill Lucia
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Of course work continues. The primary goal behind this project is to remove the viaduct to enhance the property of some speculators and developers. The secondary requirement of providing a transportation asset for tens of thousands of regional commuters is way down the list. Remember that even if Bertha grunted to life and dug the tunnel in the next two weeks the resulting project will still only provide about half of the viaduct's capacity and virtually none of the access.
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It's long past time for an investigation as to who owns those properties, including names of owners for LLC's, partnerships and holding corporations, etc.
Shine some light on the facts, inclusive of who stands to gain financially.
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This official US record made by direct interrogation of comfort women captured on the battlefield is one of the most important source materials related to documenting the real comfort women.
THE NEW KOREA by Alleyne Ireland, F.R.G.S,
Author of "Democracy and Human Equation","An Adventure with a Genius", etc. published by E. P. Dutton & Company, New York in 1926. Sakuranohana Shuppan, Tokyo reprinted it with Japanese translation in 21013.
A comprehensive study on Japanese rule of Korea with intention how one civilized race ruled another civilized race.
"BETWEEN INCOMPTENCE AND CULPABILITY: Assessing the
Diplomacy of Japan's Foreign Ministry from Pearl Harbor to Potsdam"
by Seishiro Sugihara (University Press of America, Inc.)
Review by Date Kunishige, journalist
Translated by Norman Hu
Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburo and the
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Want to go to the MET for free this weekend? How about the Whitney? The Rubin? The Hall of Science? They're all free this weekend, but only for Bank of America customers. (Boo.) Yep, BoA foots the bill for museum goers during the first weekend of every month. Think of it as their way of saying sorry for that whole debit card fee thing. The rest of you non-BoA customers will have to pay like the plebes you are.
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The Coppola Family legacy continues in "Palo Alto," a brand new film that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. NY1's Frank DiLella filed the following report.
The new indie drama "Palo Alto" brings together two famous Hollywood families and a Hollywood star who seems to be everywhere these days.
The film is the feature directorial debut of Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, niece of Sofia Coppola and cousin of Nicholas Cage.
Coppola adapted the movie from a short-story collection written by none other than James Franco.
"Palo Alto" is a gritty, realistic and dark portrayal of the lives of teenagers.
"When I met James, he kind of really wanted to make 'Palo Alto' into a movie, and I had showed him some of my photographs, and we wanted to collaborate in some form or another," Coppola said. "But when I read his book, I fell in love with it. It just really depicted teenagers in a realistic way that I hadn't seen in a long time, and so I was really excited to have that opportunity. And I was sort of reflecting back on my youth, and I had enough separation to look at it nostalgically."
"I just kind of gave her as much space and freedom as possible to make the kind of movie she wanted to make," Franco said. "I hired her because I really liked her artistic taste, and so I just wanted her to have the space to really bring that to the project."
The film stars Emma Roberts, daughter of Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts. Emma was drawn to the project because her character in the film was so out of character.
"My role is April, and she's very much the more reserved one in the movie," Roberts said. "I mean, there's a lot of craziness going on, and she's kind of the more introverted of everybody, which, for me, was fun to play because I'm very talkative and outgoing and I'm so not like that, so it was fun to get to do something completely different."
"Palo Alto" opens in theaters on May 9.
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Clinton Global Initiative University -- Information Session for Interested Participants for 2013
The Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship is seeking students from multiple majors, programs, and activities to attend the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U). CGI U is a great opportunity for Pacific's student leaders to be challenged, network, and address the needs of our community, country and the world.
The Center will be hosting an informational session on the application process and the program on November 19, at 6 pm in DeRosa University Center, Room 211B. Applications are due December 14. If you know of students interested in participating, please encourage them to attend the info session.
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President Clinton launched CGI U in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world to take action on global challenges. Each year, CGI U hosts a meeting bringing together students, youth organizations, topic experts, and celebrities to work to make a difference in CGI U's five focus areas: Education, Environment and Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health. CGI U 2013 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis from April 5 - 7.
Students and youth organizations develop their own Commitments to Action: a specific plan of action that addresses a pressing challenge on campus, in the community, or around the world. Commitments range from manufacturing wheelchairs for developing countries to establishing campus bike share programs, from creating free vision clinics to mentoring youth through chess. CGI U is proof that young people have the power to make a significant impact by confronting some of the world's most urgent challenges.


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A Summer Visit from Girls Group
Much to the surprise of director Sue Schooner, the Ann Arbor-based "Girls Group" was given a statewide "Hometown Health Heroes" award during Michigan Public Health Week in spring 2012. "So then I decided I'd better figure out what public health was," Schooner declared, only half in jest.
Because the Girls Group was founded to mentor and empower teenage girls for better health and education outcomes, a day at the University of Michigan School of Public Health was a natural destination for one of the after-school group's outings. Schooner and her Girls Group assistants worked with SPH's former Director of Academic Diversity Initiatives Chanel DeGuzman to plan a multipurpose visit for 20 group members in August 2012 that would:
A half-dozen faculty, staff, and recent graduates from U-M SPH were enlisted to describe their career paths and answer questions from the girls about the challenges they had encountered and overcome. Research Investigator Belinda Nelson, for example (at left in photo above), explained that she gone from being the first person in her family to graduate from high school to earning four university degrees and doing important work with asthma, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Key to her academic success was always believing that she could move forward with each goal, rather than giving up or succumbing to doubts, she explained.
Other activities during the visit included a scavenger hunt through the school, a web tour of school social media channels, and a lively in in-depth discussion of the nine-portion U.S.D.A. fruit and vegetable recommendations. "The girls received such a diverse spectrum of experiences and views of public health," reflected SPH's DeGuzman after the visit, noting that follow-up activities are being planned to further explore their interests in nutrition, higher education, and public health as a career.
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From U-M President Mary Sue Coleman:
"We know that diversity makes us a better university – better for learning, for teaching, and for conducting research.
"Welcome to the University of Michigan, one of our country's great public universities. One of the many reasons I am thrilled to be part of this university community is because of its long-standing commitment to diversity. I firmly believe that we can learn some of life's most important lessons from each other. The more varied the perspectives represented, the richer our education. Our differences—whether they be the academic questions that engage us, age, economic background, gender, or race, to name just a few—bring a buoyancy to our campus community and help create the intellectual vitality that makes Michigan internationally renowned.
"Several years ago, Michigan's faculty, through the University Senate, reaffirmed its commitment "to recruiting and maintaining a culturally and racially diverse student body and faculty that are representative of contemporary society, and to assuring that these diverse influences are respected and incorporated into the structure of the University."
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The Tudor Yard: Chatham Chest
By October 1588, the threat of invasion from the Spanish Armada was over and the English fleet once again returned to Chatham to over-winter on the Medway. Nine months of active service in the small ships of the Elizabethan Navy had, however, exacted a dreadful toll on their crews, with ship-fever (most probably Typhus) ripe throughout the fleet. The consequent death toll was large and had a profound impact on Elizabeth's naval commanders.
In 1590, determined to help, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake founded the Chatham Chest a national fund for the relief and support of injured and disabled sailors from contributions taken from the wages of all English seamen. The Chatham Chest (as seen in the Museum of the Royal Dockyard in the above right photograph) continued in being until its amalgamation with the Greenwich Hospital in 1802. From 1623 the funds were kept in a large iron strapped chest with five locks, each key held by a different person. This chest, on loan from the National Maritime Museum can be seen in the Museum of the Royal Dockyard.
The Chatham Chest was not the only naval charity founded in the aftermath of the Spanish Armada campaign. In 1594, Sir John Hawkins founded the Hawkins Hospital in Chatham (see left photograph) – now the world's oldest surviving naval charity the original building can still be found in Chatham itself.


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July 8, 2002
Alarm Testing
Facilities Management
will be testing campus fire alarms on Saturday, July 13,
from 7 a.m. to the end of the day. Fire alarms will be tested in
all major buildings except for residence halls, the University Union,
Kellogg West and the CLA Building. For more information, call (909)
Horse Camp
A summer horse camp will be held at the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse
Center from July 15 to 19 for children from 10 to
17 years of age. Campers will learn all aspects of equine care and
will also receive riding instruction. Lunch is included. The cost
of the camp is $200. For more information or to make reservations,
call (909) 869-4988.
Seeks New Members
The Native American
Outreach Committee is seeking new members and a new secretary. The
previous secretary, Nancy Rivera, recently retired. For more information,
contact Judy Moore at (909) 869-2748.
Wysocki Memorial Contributions
Memorial donations
in honor of Adolph Whysocki, a 28-year veteran of the Animal &
Veterinary Sciences department at Cal Poly Pomona, can be made to
the Gene Keating Horse Show Rodeo Scholarship Fund or the American
Cancer Society in his honor. Donations may be forwarded to Gail
Larsen in the AVS department. For more information, call (909) 869-2216.
Summer Quarter Campus
The Visitor Center
will be conducting summer quarter campus tours from June 24
to August 30. Tours are available on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday tours will be offered on June 29, July
27 and August 24 at 9:30 a.m. Appointments are required.
For reservations or more information, call (909) 869-3529; e-mail
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Art Classes at Downtown
Summer art classes for children will be held at the Cal Poly Pomona
Downtown Center. Beginning drawing (ages 8 to 12) will run from
June 26 to July 24 and advanced drawing (ages 14 to
17) will run from July 31 to August 28. Classes will
be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Painting courses will be
taught on Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. with beginning painting (ages
8 to 12) running from June 28 to July 26 and advanced
painting (ages 13 to 17) running from August 2 through August
30. For more information, call (909) 469-0080.
CALPERS Long Term
CALPERS Long
Term Care open enrollment period will end on June 30. For
more information or for an application kit, call (800) 758-7070.
The CALPERS Web site is also a good resource for information. Go
to www.calpers.ca.gov/longtermcare.
McNair Scholars Program
Summer Symposium
The Ronald
E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program scholars will present
their research projects on July 25 in Building 9, Rooms 239,
251, 263 and 283. The symposium will run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. For
more information, contact Joan Hill at (909) 869-3381.
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