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This Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
One year ago, the nation saw the end of almost eighteen years of policy that essentially forced thousands of Servicemembers and prospective Servicemembers to choose between some pretty difficult options: (1) Continue to serve but do so in silence with the knowledge that one would be turning one's back to the core value of integrity; (2) Come out to the command and risk dismissal from the ranks, disciplinary action, harassment from others or; (3) Not enlist at all.
The DADT policy started as a compromise of sorts following President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign to allow all American citizens to serve their country regardless of sexual orientation. In 1993, policy debates regarding a lift on the ban of homosexual servicemembers ensued. During that time, arguments from both sides of the issue presented cases ranging from "notoriously promiscuous" homosexuals running rampant through group showers to "little to no adverse consequences for recruitment and retention."
In 1993, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 1994 which included language requiring the military to abide by regulations similar to the 1982 policy laying out an absolute ban on homosexuals in the military. On December 21, 1993, the Clinton Administration issued Defense Directive 1304.26 directing recruiters not to ask military applicants about their sexual orientation.
Additionally, 10 U.S.C. § 654 stood as legal policy calling homosexuality incompatible with military service and that anyone who engaged in homosexual acts or stated they were homosexual or bisexual would be discharged. The stage was set for the next nearly 18 years.
From 1994 to 2011, the U.S. military upheld DADT averaging about 803 discharges a year. Over the course of the policy's time, the military would discharge over 13,000 men and women from its ranks.
As discharges continued, the fight to repeal the policy gained steam. The most prominent proponent of military equality became the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). Founded in 1993, SLDN would become the leading entity in organizing efforts to advocate an end to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the U.S. Armed Forces. The organization served military members by providing legal services and advocacy in the courts for those caught in the complexities of the military legal system because of DADT.
In the meantime, an estimated 65,000 lesbian, gay, and bisexual Servicemembers continued to serve in silence.
SLDN along with other entities like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) engaged in fighting the policy on behalf of Servicemembers who were facing discharge or were discharged under DADT. Among the most notable cases are:
- Log Cabin Republicans vs. United States of America (2006): The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) filed a lawsuit that directly challenged the constitutionality of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Specifically, the lawsuit seeks a ruling that the policy violates constitutional protections of due process and freedom of speech.
- Witt vs. U.S. Department of the Air Force (2006): The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington challenging the discharge of a much-decorated major and flight nurse in the U.S. Air Force Reserves on grounds that she has engaged in homosexual conduct. The suit seeks an injunction forbidding her discharge and a declaration that for the military to discharge Witt would violate her rights to engage in private activities without government interference.
- Almy, Loverde & Knight vs. U.S. Department of Defense (2010): SLDN and Morrison & Foerster LLP filed a complaint against the United States government asking for the reinstatement of three service members discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), the discriminatory law barring gay, lesbian and bisexual service members from serving honestly and with integrity. The filing in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California argued that law and the regulations, policies, and guidance that implement it, were unconstitutional. One of SVV's own was a plantiff, Anthony Loverde was reinstated in the U.S. Air Force in 2012.
At the local level, Sacramento Valley Veterans (SVV) reactivated on Memorial Day in 2010 at a time when the fight for DADT repeal was gathering steam again. From the start, SVV directly engaged the community by releasing information on what was going on in the process of repeal. SVV attended Pride festivals throughout the Sacramento Valley and gathered signatures for petititions urging the government to repeal the policy. From May to December 2010, SVV tracked and monitored the progress of the efforts to move repeal forward through Congress:
- May 27, 2010: Congress passes amendments containing language pertaining to DADT; specifically, to delay repeal pending results from a working group study
- September 22, 2010: U.S. Senate blocked the vote to begin debates on the NDAA containing an amendment calling for DADT repeal
- October 12, 2010: District court judge issued immediate suspension of DADT
- October 20, 2010: District court judges rejected a stay on an injunction barring the DADT suspension; gay applicant were allowed to elist. The 9th Circuit issues a temporary stay on the injunction mentioned.
- November 1, 2010: The temporary stays was extended
- December 1, 2010: The Pentagon working group conducting the study release results
- December 18, 2010: The U.S. Senate passed a stand-alone bill to enact DADT repeal
- December 22, 2010: President Barack Obama signed DADT repeal into law; a waiting period for certification begins
- July 22, 2011: President Obama, Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Admiral Mike Mullen formally issued certification of DADT repeal; a 60-day waiting period begins
- September 20, 2011: DADT repeal goes into effect
On the day of DADT repeal, SVV hosted an event celebrating the end of an era. California Assemblymembers Roger Dickinson (D – 9th) and Dr. Richard Pan (D – 5th) came out and spoke while the crowd enjoyed cake and the remarkable photography of Anthony Loverde. Veterans, Servicemembers, and Community members came out to ring in a new era of equality for our nation's military.
Since the time of repeal, two key issues remain to be addressed by the federal government: Transgender servicemembers and marriage equality.
DADT did not change the medical regulatory ban in place for aspiring or current service members who identify as transgender. As such, transgender individuals can experience issues at the time of enlistment, appointment or commissioning into the military, or while already serving. Essentially, Transgender servicemembers serve under a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy still.
SLDN has a section in the post-DADT repeal guide specifically addressing the matter of Transgender Service. See it here…
Regarding same-sex marriage, the federal government presently abides by the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) defining marriage as only between a man and woman. Because of DOMA, Servicemembers wishing to marry someone of the same-sex can technically get married; however, when it comes to benefits and entitlements, they may find themselves outside the law. These include housing, healthcare, surviving spouse benefits, the issuance of military identification cards and morale, welfare, and recreational programs.
There is a case currently in the courts challenging DOMA in which over 159 years of military service are being represented: McLaughlin v. Panetta (2011)
Following repeal and leading up to the one-year anniversary, many markers of progress have occurred showing little evidence of the anticipated decline of morality, cohesion, and readiness.
In December 2011, Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta won the right for the "first kiss" when her ship returned to port in Virginia after 80 days at sea. The kiss was captured and shared on YouTube, garnering over 1.5 million viewers, as she shared a kiss with her partner, Citlalic Snell.
In February 2012, a photo (shown) Marine Sergeant Brandon Morgan and his partner Dalan Wells' welcome home kiss in a helicopter hanger in Kaneohe Bay, HI went viral. Sgt. Morgan had returned from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan.
Forward to June 2012, Air Force Technical Sergeat Erwynn Umali and his civvie partner were united, with a Navy Chaplan presiding, in a civil union ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey.
In August 2012, Army officer Tammy Smith became the military's first only gay general in a ceremony where her wife, Tracey Hepner, had the honor of pinning on the general's stars during the pinning ceremony.
These events stand as testimony to the assertion by repeal proponents that DADT repeal did not in fact result in the decline of our military.
To mark the anniversary of repeal, the Palm Center released a comprehensive study on the effects of DADT repeal on the U.S. military titled, "One Year Out: An Assessment of DADT Repeal's Impact on Military Readiness." According to the study's executive summary:
Prior to the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) on September 20, 2011, many observers predicted that allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) troops to serve openly would harm the military. This study is the first scholarly effort to assess the accuracy of such predictions about the impact of DADT repeal on military readiness. Our conclusions are based on a consideration of all of the evidence that was available to us at the time our research was conducted, the half-year period starting six months after repeal and concluding at the one-year mark.
We sought to maximize the likelihood of identifying evidence of damage caused by repeal by pursuing ten separate research strategies, each of which was designed to uncover data indicating that repeal has undermined the military. Our research strategies included outreach to 553 generals and admirals who predicted that repeal would undermine the military, to all major activists and expert opponents of DADT repeal and to 18 watchdog organizations, including opponents and advocates of repeal, who are known for their ability to monitor Pentagon operations. In addition, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 scholars and practitioners and 62 active-duty heterosexual, lesbian, gay and bisexual troops from every service branch, as well as on-site field observations of four military units. We analyzed relevant media articles published during the research period, administered two surveys and conducted secondary source analysis of surveys independently administered by outside organizations. Our vigorous effort to collect data from opponents of DADT repeal, including anti-repeal generals and admirals, activists, academic experts, service members and watchdog organizations, should sustain confidence in the validity and impartiality of our findings.
Our study team includes distinguished scholars from the US Military Academy, US Air Force Academy, US Naval Academy and US Marine Corps War College, as well as scholars with internationally recognized expertise on the issue of gays in the military. Several members advised the Pentagon's 2010 DADT working group, and one member led the team that drafted the Defense Department's plan for implementing DADT repeal.
The findings of the 51-page study outline an outcome that repeal supporters expected would occur. Namely, that not much would change and that open service would not affect our military's ability to defend the nation.
Here's a brief rundown of the findings:
- No overall negative impact on military readiness or its component dimensions was noted;
- Levels of military readiness have not changed from 2011 to 2012
- Unit cohesion did not decline after repeal;
- Recruitment was unaffected and remained robust;
- Retention was unaffected with no mass exodus; two verifiable resignations of military chaplains were reported;
- Repeal has not been responsible for any new wave of violence or physical abuse among Servicemembers;
- Force morale did not decrease;
- No wave of mass disclosures of sexual orientation occurred and;
- Repeal has in fact enhanced the military's ability to pursue its mission
Over the course of the year, SVV has seen the nation's military take on repeal and flourish. As it turns out, the contribution to national defense by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Servicemembers has not diminished the military's efforts to secure the country.
With repeal turning one-year old, SVV looks forward to seeing what other milestones we will surpass as more proof that open service works comes to fruition.
The work is not done though. To date, our Transgender Servicemembers still face a path of uncertainty before, during, and after military service. The progress is slow-going and we cannot back down. Likewise with same-sex marriage within the ranks, military members who have married still cannot extend benefits to their spouses. To this, it appears there is some progress being made: "The Defense Department says it is studying the possibility of extending marital benefits to same-sex couples, but has announced no time frame."
We've heard this before. It only makes sense to gear up and be ready to engage in the effort for military equality as time passes. SVV plans to spread the word on Transgender service in November.
It must also be noted that many of these issues affect our LGBT Veterans who now number over one million across the United States. That number is growing and, with it, significant issues as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), military sexual trauma (MST), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and suicide. While many may not see these as LGBT-specific issues, they are signifiant byproducts of our military service and they do not discriminate.
Sacramento Valley Veterans (SVV) is proud to have engaged in the fight for DADT repeal and to see how the year has pass with little incident. We have our Veterans, Servicemembers, Supporters, and Allies to thank for bringing us this significant milestone.
Now, it's time to celebrate.
Sacramento Valley Veterans (SVV) will host a DADT repeal celebration on Saturday, September 22nd at The Bolt, 2560 Boxwood Street, Sacramento, CA from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The celebration will be a BBQ/potluck. Participants are encouraged to bring a dish/side/dessert to share. SVV will provide burgers, hot dogs, and fixings. A beer and soda bust will also be held; one price for all the beer/soda you want. Music, information, and games will also be provided.
The community is invited to come on out as we celebrate one year of a DADT-free military!


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So I thought that tonight, I'd share with you some things that I made recently, since I'm breaking barriers left and right around here. I want to warn you that the picture quality is terrible, and so these items are not yet up in my etsy shoppe. But they will be soon! So here you go!
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The Jets' 29-14 loss to the Giants on Christmas Eve turned offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and quarterback Mark Sanchez as the likely scapegoats if the Jets do not make the playoffs. But Rex Ryan said strongly today that the blame needs to be put only on him, the head coach.
Asked if Schottenheimer is coaching for his job this week, Ryan said, "No." He then laughed, and continued his answer.
"I know Brian takes a ton of the heat, he's taken heat. Sanchez has taken heat," Ryan said. "I'm taking heat, that's fine. It should be on me. It shouldn't be on coaches, players or whatever. I'm the guy that said we were the better team and we weren't that day, so that should fall on me, the criticism should be on me. And trust me, I know a bunch of it is, and rightfully so."
Schottenheimer has been criticized for the Jets throwing 59 times, and calling a total of 68 pass plays, in the loss to the Giants. Ryan has explained that the numbers are a bit misleading, because they include two-minute situations, but he also said that will never happen again.
"There is no way we are throwing it 60 times (this week)," Ryan said. "I don't see us throwing the ball 60 times ever again. I don't think any of us could believe we threw it that many times. I couldn't."
At times this season, Ryan has expressed regret over situations that have unfolded offensively: Saturday's pass attempts and becoming too "enamored" with the weapons in the passing game early on in the season. How does that happen?
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Ryan said all the coaches have a say in the Jets' weekly game plan.
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Splinter Cell: Conviction Review
Conviction manages to tweak the tried and tested formula without ruining the stealth gameplay, delivering some of the best action gaming I've played this year.
It's hard to put it into words, which is a rather big flaw for a review, but somehow Ubisoft has managed to make Splinter Cell Conviction both new and familiar at the same time. By making leading man Sam Fisher a broken mess who will do anything to seek justice, Conviction is more action oriented than previous games in the series, yet stealth and careful surveying of your environment is still absolutely essential. This is an evolution of the stealth genre, making it altogether more appealing to the masses without compromising that which made it so popular in the first place.
Without spoiling the entire plot, it's safe to say that Sam Fisher no longer works for top secret agency Third Echelon. He's going alone, on the hunt for some answers about who killed his daughter and in turn revenge. He's a man quite clearly on the edge, willing to go beyond protocol to get what he needs. He's not entirely without support, with some good friends standing by him, but he'll have to delve into the heart of the corporation to find the answers he seeks. All this essentially means you're on a man hunt, moving from informant to informant in an attempt to get closer and closer to the truth and stop a terrorist attack in the process.
Conviction is unquestionably still a stealth game, with Fisher spending much of the game skulking around in the shadows, in turn making the game completely monochrome for much of the time. When the screen turns grey you're hidden from enemies, and a useful on-screen display lets you know if you're in line of sight to a roaming guard. A white arrow indicates you could be seen, while red means you've been spotted and it's time to make a run for it. Although, as I'll explain later, being seen isn't always a bad thing.
A key weapon in your arsenal is being able to sneak up behind an oblivious enemy and take him out silently. Not only does this help your chances of making it through a level, but also grants you a Take Down, one of Sam's new moves. A Take Down lets you instantly kill any marked enemies, assuming they are within range of your selected weapon. Certain weapons provide you with more marks, but at the cost of distance, while all the mark and executes within a Take Down are used up even if you only tag a single enemy. You might feel like using a Take Down on one enemy is worth it, but it's often a bad idea in the long run.
All forms of kills that aren't weapon-based grant you a Take Down, meaning you can use the ability in a variety of ways. If three enemies are in a room and one is patrolling the outside corridor there's a very easy solution. Sneak up behind the single guy, take him out silently with a melee attack and then tag the three enemies inside the adjacent room. Wait until their markers appear red on your display and hit Y to instantly take them out. The room has been cleared and no one heard a thing – as long as you've used a silenced weapon.
Other situations are less straight forward, and the enemies are smart enough to make life harder than you might think. You often need to lure them to a different location to give yourself a better chance of taking them out. To do this you can use the game's other new system, Last Known Position. The last position you were before the enemy lost sight of you is marked by a see-through model of Fisher, and all nearby goons will actively head to that location to try and kill you. You can use this to manoeuvre enemies where you want them, as long as they don't think they're walking into a death-trap, in which case they'll refuse to move, forcing you to come to them.


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Wetlands: The Vital Link
by Walt Dietz
This article is the third in a series on the Commission's theme, "Habitat." The author explains the differences among kinds of wetlands, why wetlands are important to us, and why fish, amphibians and reptiles need wetlands.
This large wetland is Wildwood Lake, just north of Harrisburg.
It is part of the Wildwood Nature Preserve and is well-known for
its flowering lotus (a wetland plant).
photo-Art Michaels
They're wet, mushy, muddy and often thick with vegetation. Some people dislike them and others love them. Either way, you must admit that they have become a focal point of environmental awareness in recent years. Endangered species? Old-growth forests? Tropical jungles? No. I'm talking about wetlands. They have taken a top shelf when it comes to environmental issues. Punch the word "wetland" into an Internet browser and you'll come up with nearly 200,000 hits. Open a current-issues magazine and you will likely find an article or story about them. Turn on the television and you will probably find a wildlife program directly or indirectly related to wetlands.
Wetland issues are taught in schools. Today's generation is much more aware of wetlands and how they protect against flooding, trap sediment, clean water and provide food. Sportsmen's groups and environmental organizations appreciate wetlands' habitat and recreational value. Some groups build them to support and attract wildlife for hunting or watching. Wetland concerns even show up in political debates.
All this attention is for good reason. We have learned about the importance of wetlands and how to appreciate their inherent beauty, immeasurable value and function. We are concerned about their protection. We've come a long way from previous generations, who once thought of wetlands as a hindrance to human expansion, and that they should be drained for agriculture or development.
We are more informed today, but how much do we really know about wetlands? Maybe not as much as we think, because wetlands hold many secrets. Maybe it's a new species. What about a potential cure for a deadly disease? How about a new food or fuel source? To learn those secrets, we need to protect wetlands and learn much more about them.
This wetland is located in Pike County off of Route 507. Dense wetland vegetation provides important habitat for many animals. It also cleans the water by filtering out silt, nutrients and other suspended materials. photo-Art Michaels
What makes a wetland wet?
We know wetlands best as shallow, mushy waterways with lots of thick vegetation. Of course, there is more to a wetland than muck and vegetation. Wetlands really are "wet lands." Most of them are transition zones between upland areas and larger waterways like rivers, lakes or the ocean. A transition zone might include a flood plain, riparian area, delta or estuary. Some wetlands are found in low-lying areas of woods or fields. An area's geology sometimes creates a wetland because water seeps to the surface, as it does in a small spring. Wetlands can even be temporary, like a vernal pond. These ponds fill with rainwater each spring or fall, but may become dry over the summer.
We often think of wetlands only as swamps. You would be amazed at how many different kinds of wetlands there really are. And each type has unique features. Because there are so many, scientists categorize them in several groups and types. Coastal wetlands (marine or estuarine) include shrub wetlands, salt marshes, mangrove swamps, brackish marshes, Delmarva bays, deltas and lagoons. Inland wetlands (riverine, lacustrine or palustrine) include bottomlands, freshwater marshes, shrub and forest wetlands, ephemeral ponds, peatlands, springs, water seeps, bogs, mires, moors, muskegs, fens, potholes, sloughs, wet meadows and swamps. I bet you'll think twice before calling a wetland just a swamp!
Wherever wetlands are found or whatever they are called, all wetlands share some common characteristics. One is that they must support water-tolerant (hydrophytic) plants. These plants have special adaptations to survive in flooded areas and in environments with limited oxygen. Another characteristic of wetlands is the presence of saturated (hydric) soils. These soils do not drain well and are saturated long enough to create an anaerobic (low oxygen) condition. The final tipoff is the presence of a hydrological regime. In layman's terms, this means the presence of water at some point in the year. This hydrology is what causes the presence of the other two factors-hydric soils and hydrophytic vegetation. When you find these three characteristics together, then you have a wetland. Trying to figure out which type of wetland you have is another story for another day.
Healthy habitat connection
Wetlands are vital to fish and wildlife. They clean the water and provide habitat for reproduction, feeding and resting. Wetlands are like natural tubs. Their location in areas of low drainage allows them to trap water and all the suspended materials that it carries. Dense hydrophytic vegetation acts as a filter. Wetland soils also act as natural sponges that absorb and store excess flood and surface waters. These attributes reduce soil erosion, trap sediment and clean the water. And there is nothing more important to fish and shellfish than clean water.
Bottom-dwelling filter-feeders like freshwater mussels and clams can't survive if they are smothered with a layer of silt. Paddlefish can't strain food from water that looks like the chocolate pudding you had for lunch. Their gill rakers would become clogged with mud instead of the tasty zooplankton and aquatic insects they need. Clean, unsilted water is also important for spawning fish. Silt covers eggs and deprives them of oxygen from the surrounding water. The eggs of bass, trout, minnows and other fish need clean gravel to hatch successfully.
You might wonder how much difference a wetland makes in removing silt. Are they a potential solution to our siltation problems? Decide for yourself. Studies have shown that some wetlands remove 95 percent of the sediments in the water column by simply slowing the water velocity.
Wetlands clean the water in other ways, too. Wetland plants and microbes remove excess nutrients from our waters, which helps prevent eutrophication (over-fertilization of aquatic ecosystems). Eutrophication is one of the biggest problems threatening our region's most precious resource-Chesapeake Bay. Years of land development, road construction, agriculture, forest removal and wetland filling have left our river's shores open to erosion. Silt and excess nutrients eventually wash downriver to the Chesapeake. We might not be able to stop the land use trends; after all, we need places to live and food to eat. But if we were smart, we'd leave the wetlands alone to do their cleanup job.
Wetlands also provide food, vegetative cover and water. Many commercial or recreational fish breed and grow in wetlands that surround open waters. They include perch, pickerel, bass, sunfish, muskellunge, catfish and walleyes. Aquatic insects, amphibians and reptiles also live and breed in wetlands. Unfortunately, some of these species are endangered or threatened because they have lost wetland habitat.
The bog turtle is one such species. It's a "habitat specialist" that likes to keep its "feet wet and back dry." It prefers marshy sedge meadows and wet pastures. Its range is right in the middle of our state's most populated and fastest growing areas.
The endangered bog turtle is a "habitat specialist." This means that the bog turtle prefers marshy sedge meadows and wet pastures. Loss of habitat has caused its demise. Its unique wetland habitat is now given special protection.
Fortunately, the "endangered" label also means that certain wetlands are afforded special protection. It's ironic that the critter became endangered because it lost habitat, and now the habitat is protected because that animal is found there.
Even animals that live nowhere near a wetland depend on wetlands. This might not seem to make sense at first. Nevertheless, some animals live in other habitats but must return to a wetland to breed. The Jefferson salamander is a perfect example. As an adult, it lives in damp forestlands. During the spring, it returns to the same vernal (ephemeral) pond to breed. Vernal ponds fill with water in late winter or early spring. Visit them in the summer and you may never notice them because they often dry up. These pond filling and breeding cycles have continued for thousands of years in some areas. It's interesting to think how an animal hatched in a small wetland can live out the rest of its life on dry land.
The Jefferson salamander cannot reproduce without wetlands. It lives on the forest floor, but must return to temporary vernal ponds to breed each spring.
Wetland threats
You might think that all these wonderful fish and wildlife benefits and values would convince us to protect wetlands better. Historically, this was not the case. Before the arrival of Europeans, there were some 221 million acres of wetlands in what became the United States. Today, there is less than half that number. Wetlands were drained, dredged, filled, leveled and flooded for other land uses. The rate of wetland loss has slowed to about 290,000 acres per year. We are getting better at protecting them, but we are far from our potential.
There are also other threats to wetlands. One of those threats is the introduction of non-native invasive plant species, including purple loosestrife. It was brought to the East Coast from Europe and Asia in cargo ships during the 1800s. It has since spread across the country to the Northwest Coast.
This aggressive and prolific plant outcompetes with native wetland plants. It forms dense monotypic stands that are difficult to control. It is less beneficial than native plants for food, shelter and wildlife nesting sites. Purple loosestrife can be seen growing along many Pennsylvania waterways, like the shores and islands of the lower Susquehanna River.
Commission employees work with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees in a cooperative effort to establish a wetland mitigation site at the Commission's Pleasant Gap Fish Culture Station, Centre County.
Protecting the vital link
Fortunately, wetlands are protected under the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act and the federal Clean Water Act. The protection process is confusing for most of us. The easiest way to think of wetlands protection is with three simple words: Avoid, minimize and compensate.
There is nothing to worry about if you have wetland property that you don't plan to develop. It's a different story if you decide to build, fill or "encroach on" a wetland. A delineation must be completed to mark boundaries so that the wetland can be "avoided." This is the key ingredient in the protection recipe; otherwise, if a project encroaches on a wetland, a project is thrown into the permitting process. This is where the agencies come in. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Department of Environmental Protection, conservation districts, Fish & Boat Commission and other agencies all play a role. These agencies recommend methods to "minimize" the effects on a wetland. The last option is to "compensate," if a wetland must be affected. This means that the project owner has to create a wetland or make a monetary contribution to a Wetland Replacement Fund.
The Commission also helps protect and enhance wetlands in other ways. It sets rules and regulations to protect fish, amphibians and reptiles that live in wetlands. Any wetland that harbors endangered or threatened animals always receives top priority. The Commission also enforces regulations to protect those species and their wetland habitats. The Commission even enhances wetland habitats through restoration and stream-bank fencing projects. One example is a cooperative effort between the Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to establish a wetland replacement site at Pleasant Gap Fish Culture Station. This wetland will eventually become a home for fish and other wildlife.
All this attention and protection may seem extreme, but it's well worth the effort when you ponder the important role that wetlands play in our lives. You just never know when a wetland might give up another secret like a new amphibian species, a fuel source, a food item or a cure for a deadly disease. Wetlands are truly a vital link that connects everything we need to survive.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) is proposing a R55,4bn sell-off of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to accelerate the government's infrastructure investment programme and boost growth without raising the budget deficit to unsustainable levels.
Privatisation was just one of a number of proposals the DA made in its "alternative budget" for 2012, released at a media briefing yesterday ahead of the tabling in Parliament tomorrow of the budget by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. The package was aimed at expanding employment, accelerating economic growth to reach 8% over the medium term and halving poverty. It would result in a budget deficit of 5,1%, slightly below the 5,2% projected by the Treasury for 2012-13.
However, selling off assets is not a proposal likely to resonate either with the government, which is committed to the notion of a developmental state involving even more state intervention in the economy than at present. Nor is it likely to be well received by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) which is strongly opposed to any form of privatisation.
Nevertheless, DA finance spokesman Tim Harris insisted privatisation was preferable to escalating transport and electricity tariffs, which undermined SA's global competitiveness and was in line with the "Brazilian model" as seen in the recent sale of a 51% stake in Sao Paulo airport for more than R70bn.
The DA argued that it was essential for state expenditure on infrastructure to increase from 7,8% of gross domestic product to the more desirable 10% (about R330bn).
Mr Harris and his deputy David Ross said the DA's proposals would result in R115bn being spent on infrastructure by the government (R20bn more than projected by the Treasury for 2012) and R55,4bn being derived from asset sales. In addition, state-owned enterprises would raise R160bn off their balance sheets.
Included in the basket of assets which the DA believed should be sold off were SAA-SA Express (R2,9bn), 30% of Eskom's power generation capacity (R26bn), SABC (R850m), Denel (R654m), South African Forestry Corporation (R708m), Broadband Infraco (R1,6bn), 30% of Portnet's assets (R13,5bn) and assets held by the Industrial Development Corporation (R9bn).
"Many of these SOEs need regular bail-outs and massive guarantees, which place strain on the fiscus," Mr Harris said. A key DA proposal on the job creation front would be the immediate implementation of the youth wage subsidy which Mr Gordhan proposed in last year's budget, but which has since been snarled up in the National Economic Development and Labour Council process where it has met with stiff resistance from Cosatu.
Other elements of the DA package included offering small businesses R240m in tax breaks to assist with cash flow, a R300m scheme to promote share ownership for employees and providing grants to employers to fully reimburse them for training costs. It would also involve radical pruning of wasteful state expenditure. The party proposes to abolish estate duties and a donation tax at a cost of R1bn and slice R5,7bn off corporate taxes.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), of Newtown, Conn., is voluntarily recalling about 400,000 gun locks for replacement. Under certain conditions, these locks can open without the use of a key. This can give unauthorized access to a firearm.The NSSF and its lock supplier, Adstar Inc., of Merrick, N.Y., are unaware of any instances of unauthorized access by adults or children. The locks resemble a bicycle cable lock and have a red cable with a black padlock. Red vinyl bands around the top and bottom of the locks read, "PROJECT" and "HOMESAFE." "MADE IN CHINA" and "30mm" are imprinted on the bottom of the locks. The gun locks were distributed in clear plastic cylinders with Project HomeSafe literature. The gun locks were distributed nationwide by NSSF as part of its Project HomeSafe (now Project ChildSafe) Campaign for safe firearm storage. Law enforcement agencies distributed the gun locks free of charge from September 1999 through October 2000.Recipients of the Project HomeSafe (now Project ChildSafe) gun locks should call (203) 426-1320 or (203) 270-2360 anytime to receive a free replacement gun lock. Until the replacement gun lock is received, keep the original Project HomeSafe lock installed on the firearm. Consumers are reminded to never put a gun lock on a loaded gun, and to take extra precautions to make sure the gun is secure to keep kids safe. The replacement lock has an improved locking mechanism and a thicker braided-steel cable. With the announcement of this replacement lock program, NSSF is resuming Project HomeSafe (Now Project ChildSafe) and encourages communities to enroll in the nationwide program by having a law enforcement official contact the NSSF.NSSF urges consumers to comply with all state and local laws requiring the use of gun locking devices. For more information on the safe handling and storage of firearms, visit the Project ChildSafe website at www.projectchildsafe.org
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Health Minister to take positive action to protect children from second-hand smoke in cars
Responding to resounding majority support from the public, the Minister for Health and Social Services has announced she will be bringing forward a proposition to prevent smoking in cars carrying children.
The proposition concerns changes to the Restriction on Smoking (Jersey) Law 1973 to prevent smoking in cars carrying children under 18, and follows a consultation exercise, held in 2013, which sought the views of Islanders. Following this review, and taking into account the public response to the 2013 Jersey Annual Social Survey, Deputy Anne Pryke has said she is confident she has the support of the Island in introducing measures to protect children from second-hand smoke.
The public consultation findings, published last month, highlight that almost eight out of 10 people (76%) said they would support a law in Jersey to stop smoking in cars carrying children under 18. The 2013 Jersey Annual Social Survey, designed statistically to reach conclusions representative of Islanders as a whole, indicated that 81% would support such a ban, with 66% of smokers also in support.
Deputy Pryke said: "This is about protecting our children and the health of our islanders in the future, and this evidence shows the majority of Islanders support that commitment.
"I am a mother and a grandmother and I am acutely aware of the responsibilities I have to ensure the health and welfare of our future generations. I have listened to the opinions of Islanders, and I am delighted they concur with my views that our young children should be protected in this important way.
"I consider it my duty to protect Jersey's children from the harms of second-hand smoke, particularly in cars, and to fulfil my commitment I will be bringing forward an amendment to the law to the States Assembly in the very near future."
Dr Susan Turnbull, Medical Officer of Health said:
"I was pleased at the consistent results from the 2013 consultation, together with those from the Jersey Annual Social Survey, pointing to what the people of Jersey, including smokers, expect to be done to protect children who may still be exposed to toxic levels of smoke in cars.
"I am equally pleased that, in our small and responsive democracy, it should be possible to achieve the necessary changes to the law relatively swiftly, and to start protecting more children at the earliest possible opportunity."
In line with the Minister's plans to bring forward a proposed amendment to the Law, the Public Health Department will also be working to develop targeted health messages on the dangers of second-hand smoke, as well as responding to other results of analysis of the 2013 consultation.
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The life of legendary baseball star Babe Ruth is the focus of this biopic. The Danville Stadium (home to the present-day Danville Dans college baseball team) was used to portray Fenway Park and Forbes Field in the film. Wrigley Field in Chicago was used to represent all of the other baseball parks featured in the movie. Cubs fans can tell the location just by looking at how the grass is distinctively cut near first and third bases.
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The Boy On My HipThomas Beller
On his first birthday, I thought about the day of his birth. He was born with a C-section. My wife was very cold, shivering. From nerves as much as temperature, she later said. I stayed near her, held her hand. I stood to see when the boy arrived, screaming and red. I saw his bushy, furrowed brow. My first thought: "He's going to grow up to write acerbic book reviews."
Not long after that I was back in the hospital room where my wife and I had begun the day, trailed by a little gurney. I guess the nurse handed him to me, I don't recall. I only remember sitting there with him, alone, his lightness in my arms, his tiny, raging voice. I sat there cradling him, bouncing him in my arms, and singing. I realized I didn't know any songs. I sang Silent Night. But he's Jewish, I thought, or at least I am. You're making him into Jesus. At any rate, it had no effect. I made up a song called "It's all right." I was calming myself a much as him.
At a certain point, when he was four or five moths, he was big enough to sit on my hips. To straddle them, almost like he's in a saddle. He spends a lot of time there, regarding the world. He fits nicely. I'm near his face. I can hear his breath, his sounds. I can kiss his soft head, say things in his ear. Occasionally he tries to tear my nose off. Sometimes he talks. He makes very emphatic, guttural noises accompanied by a sharp slashing of the hand. It's a public speaking style that borrows heavily from Mussolini.
While he is on my hip I do things: walk, shop, talk on the phone, cook. I crack eggs into a skillet with one hand. I have broad hips, child bearing hips. 'Bearing' meaning fertile, bringing forth, and also something that "carries, supports, endures." (OED.)
Keeping him on my hip allows me to commit the great sin of modern parenting – multi-tasking. But the fact that he is there on my hip ameliorates it. He sees everything, watches everything, as though on some kind of apprenticeship. Infanthood: the ultimate unpaid internship.
If am holding him I am not really ignoring him–a rationalization, but also the truth.
To say he seems happy on his perch is not quite right; it's more that it's a condition which is part of existence for him. And from my end, it's nice to be able to see things, literally, from his point of view. I love it when he is surprised or amazed which, since he has just turned one, is often.
For example, taking a pee while standing there with him on my hip is a joy. Every single time he hears the splash it's a surprise. He leans forward with this look on his face, as though to say, 'what the hell is that?' and spends the whole time trying to see what's going on.
He's recently begun to walk. We're thrilled but I am also a bit sad, even though it's so funny to watch, because now the hip is an option, a refuge, whereas before it was pretty much the only option other than long term crawls.
It all feels calmer than how things progressed with my daughter, who I certainly did not treat to the spectacle of my taking a pee. It may be that for all the many benefits that accrue to older siblings and only children, the first one gets rushed.
There is a video stowed on a hard drive somewhere, and also in that antiquated but famously portable device, my memory, showing me walking with her just as she was learning to walk. We are in a hotel hallway. I hold her hand in mine. Her arms reach straight up. I hold them and walk in big wide steps, making a kind of A-frame beneath which she walks. She is smiling. Laughing. Delighted. Up and down the hallway we go.
My thought when I think of that video is: slow down! I am walking so fast. As though I can't wait to get her get her up and running. There is the eagerness to have her develop to alleviate my anxiety, so I know she can.
Now I know development comes very fast. No need to rush it. Now I understand the potential pitfalls of a tiny irrational beings who can walk and run. I know how fast everything goes. I am, with the second kid, possessed of less urgency towards development, change, growth.
I'm told he looks like me. Recently, at a street fair, when the wind picked up and it got cold, I lifted up my shirt and stuck him underneath. His head popped out of the collar. This caused a mild sensation. People pointed, took pictures, said things like, "Look! He has two heads!"
The best remark, for me, was a when a woman stopped in front of us and said, "there's something about him that is so familiar."
There is something about this physical contact, this riding the world together, seeing it from similar perspectives and vantage points, that is very close making. Sometimes I almost forget he is there. This, I think, must happen to an even more extreme degree with him.
Recently, I was at a picnic, standing around talking to some people with the boy on my hip. They were Ultimate Frisbee people. Eventually they started throwing around a Frisbee. The disc leaped from their hands and arrived hovering at about eye level with my son. I realized it could be dangerous if it hit him. Very dangerous. I reached out and caught the Frisbee a couple of feet from his face. I did this again and again. What would have happened if I missed?
He took it all in, as he does, with that mysteriously judgmental brow and big eyes. Every now and then he made a fascist speech. I kissed him between throws. I kissed his head, his ears, his soft, soft cheeks, his warm neck, making him squirm.
I didn't know it that day, but he was about to start walking. Already I could feel his weight getting heavier. I could still hold him, but it was getting a bit more difficult to get lost in the trance of his presence. To forget he was there. But that evening I shifted him from hip to hip with the effortless, thoughtless gestures of a running back switching hands. Our bodies were constantly touching. It went on for hours.
There is a symbiotic, unconsciously observed symmetry of breath and heartbeat when you are touching someone for that long.
Audubon Park is packed. My daughter, her friends, and about twenty other kids are climbing a statue nearby. A lot of demographic variety. It's a great New Orleans scene. The world moves and undulates all around us but we are a fixed point. The grass is green. The white disk glides through the air. We are the center of things, together. If that Frisbee hits him we will have problems. Big problems. But I am not worried and he is not worried. I catch it every time. Sometimes I have to run to catch it. His head bobbles and he laughs uproariously, monkey shrieks of pleasure.
It is clear to me in the evening light that was is going on, with him up on my hip as I move and throw and catch, is that we are expressing, innately, with our breath and heat and every molecule in our bodies, a complete faith in each other. A faith that is love.
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Last week I finally switched my primary email account over to one with my new last name. Yes, it took me almost a year, but I receive a lot of emails from various places and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of switching everything. I recently updated my resume, however, and thought it looked unprofessional to have my former last name on my email address.
Funnily enough, I'd already created the new email account. I did it shortly after MM and I got back from our honeymoon. I even set it up so all my emails were forwarded to that account, so I could begin making the transition. But then I spaced it out and got lazy and didn't want to deal with it, so I let it go. When I opened the new account for the first time in almost a year earlier this week, I almost fell over. There were over 24,000 unread emails in there. 0_o Yikes! It took me almost 4 hours to get them all sorted and cleared. About 3/4 of the way there I thought to myself, "Self, WTF are you doing? You already have all these emails saved in your other account!" Uh, yeah..sometimes I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. *facepalm*
Anyway, the biggest concern for me when switching accounts was my Google Reader. For those of you not familiar (and I hope there aren't many of you, since I think GReader is like the greatest invention ever) Google Reader is a free service offered through Google where you can subscribe to various links. I have more than 400 subscriptions in mine, ranging from blogs to news sites. Almost all websites now have an RSS feed, and GReader keeps them nice and organized and all in one place. It's grand. Or it was. But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself...
After snooping around a bit I realized you can now import/export your feeds. This made me very happy, because I wasn't looking forward to manually transferring all my feeds over. All I had to do was export my feed list and import it into the new account. Easy Peasy. Except there's an issue. For those of you who haven't used GReader before and aren't familiar, here's what it looks like:
Recently, thanks to a suggestion by Marg, I organized all my subscriptions into different folders. I think I have a total of 12 different folders, and I classify my subscriptions by type and how I often I read them. Anyway, as you can see, there are thousands of unread messages in there. What I want to direct your attention to, however, is the sidebar. See how each blog is highlighted and bold? That tells me there are unread items. In this account, the only blogs that show are ones that have unread messages in them. So my sidebar isn't cluttered up by a bunch of links that haven't been updated.
In my new account, however, that isn't the case. Now all of my subscriptions are listed on the sidebar, including the ones that haven't updated. So now it looks like this:
See how there are subscriptions in there now links that aren't highlighted? It's freaking annoying, because now I have to scroll through numerous links just to find the ones that are updated. It really disturbs my sense of order. There used to be a button that would allow you to see only the updated subscriptions, but that button is missing now. I tried going through the account settings to find a place that would allow me to fix the problem, but I've found nothing.
I realize this isn't a major issue in the grand scheme of life, but it's frustrating and annoying. It's gotten to the point now where I don't even want to open my GReader. Which means I'm not keeping up with all of you. Which pisses me off. I have blog-hopped some lately, but I don't have a lot of extra online time right now, so I'm not visiting as many of you as I would if I could read all your posts in one place. Grr.
I posted yesterday on the help board, but so far I haven't gotten a response. I really hope this is just a me issue and something that can be easily resolved. If not I may have to dump GReader all together and move to Bloglines or something.
Did you hear that, Google? I just might defect to the enemy camp! *shakes fist*
Any of you know a fix for this? I'd really appreciate any help you can offer. Or maybe you know of a better program? Bloglines or something?


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BROOKE'S SPLIT: Looks like the show?s over for Rock Star: INXS host Brooke Burke and her husband, Garth Fisher, a plastic surgeon who has worked on ABC's Extreme Makeover. The separation is amicable, the couple said, and they will continue to raise their two children together. In a statement to PEOPLE, Burke and Fisher said, "Although our careers have taken us in different directions the past few years, we have a great deal of respect for one another." Burke, a popular pinup model and former star of action travel show Wild On, and Fisher have been together for seven years and married for four years.
ANISTON AUCTION: Mementos from a summer fling that Jennifer Aniston allegedly engaged in more than 20 years ago are about to be handed to the highest bidder. Michael Baroni, a California lawyer whom the Friends actress briefly dated when the two were teenagers, is selling letters, cards, pictures and other memorabilia the couple exchanged during the summer of 1984 in an Internet auction on eBay. The minimum bid for the star's items: $100,000.
LANCE'S FAREWELL: Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong captured his record-setting seventh consecutive win of the Tour de France on Sunday. Flanked by his three young children, all dressed in yellow to match his yellow jersey, Armstrong held his trophy high and bid farewell to the Tour. He had announced even before the race that, win or lose, he would not compete in the grueling race again. "I know in my heart of hearts that (retiring) is absolutely the right decision," he said. Armstrong was the first rider to win six Tours in a row and he bettered that record this year, as he created a legacy that is unlikely to be broken anytime soon.
CAMERON'S BRIEFS: It was a busy week with the legal system for Cameron Diaz. On Monday, John Rutter, a photographer who had taken topless pictures of Diaz in 1992 before she became a star, was convicted of trying to blackmail the Charlie's Angels actress. Diaz, who was 19 when the photos were taken, said she had originally tried to work out a deal with Rutter. The 42-year-old photographer was found guilty of forgery, attempted grand theft and perjury. He faces six years in prison. On Friday, Diaz also had another legal victory. She earned an apology and libel damages from British newspaper The Sun, over a defamatory story it published in May that alleged Diaz and TV producer Shane Nickerson were having an affair and ran photos of them embracing. According to Diaz's lawyer, the newspaper accepted the explanation that the incident "involved no more than Ms. Diaz giving a friend a goodbye hug."
MTV NODS: Green Day, Gwen Stefani and Missy Elliott were among the artists leading the nominations for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, the music network announced this week. Pop-punk trio Green Day led the pack, with eight nominations, while Stefani and Elliott each garnered six. Sean P. Diddy Combs will host this year's always-exciting awards show from Miami. It will air Aug. 28.
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You'd think that it might be tough to fill a daily post about the ins and outs of the MMA twitter world. After all, how much is there to say? When your job consists of beating another man into submission, it just doesn't seem like much talk would be necessary.
Lucky for me, MMA fighters are a verbose lot. Especially the fighters in the UFC, who are incentivized to tweet by the promise of buckets full of cash if they do it right. That makes everyday and adventure in the wacky world of MMA twitter. Ready for today's oddball posts?
Porn girls, strippers and fighters have one thing very much in common: Not knowing when the gig is up...lol— War Machine (@WarMachine170) February 4, 2013
War Machine is like the gift that continues giving. Once we had to wait until some lucky MMA reporter caught him on the phone to hear his thoughts on life. Then someone taught him to use the computer and all was right in the world.
Every time he goes to prison and leaves Twitter, it's like we are all being punished. And that, friends, is likely Unconstitutional.
Drunk fat Mexican at gas station asks me to race him. I say no so then he tries to fight me. He drives after me n gets pulled over. Karma— Ian McCall (@Unclecreepymma) February 5, 2013
File this under "Things that have never happened to me or anyone I know." Sometimes it seems like certain people attract trouble. Ian McCall may be one of those people. Or maybe he just looks like a dude who would be down for some illegal street racing?
LHW- you might as well write the LHW rankings backwards because that's about as much sense as it makes without me on top of them.— chael sonnen (@sonnench) February 5, 2013
Chael Sonnen was not included in the inaugural UFC rankings. As expected, he handled the situation like a true West Linn gangster.
There is nothing in MMA that angers people more than rankings. I've learned this today. So many hateful emails.— Jeremy Botter (@jeremybotter) February 5, 2013
Speaking of rankings, my poor colleague Jeremy Botter was deluged with hate mail for his. One of 30 journalists responsible for men and women's lives, I don't envy Botter and his mailbag full of virtual poo. Why y'all want to do Jeremy like that?
Took a accidental knee to face today in training! Didn't feel great, I feel sorry for everyone iv kneed if the face! twitter.com/RossTheRealDea…— Ross Pearson (@RossTheRealDeal) February 5, 2013
Meanwhile, while everyone else was talking, Ross Pearson was getting kneed in the face. Ouch.
Remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his. -Patton— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) February 5, 2013
We'll close today with Tim Kennedy. I was shocked to learn that Mr. Kennedy, a middleweight making the transition from Strikeforce to the UFC, was a veteran of the Armed Forces. I don't think he's ever mentioned that. That's brand new information!


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