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Moir's Environmental Dialogues June 1, 2017
June 1, 2017
Hosted by Rob Moir
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Moir's Environmental Dialogues
Thursdays at 12 Noon Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel
With the knowledge of Carson and the courage of Achilles, individuals are steadfastly going the distance to defend wildlife and ecosystems from assaults of environmental degradations and destructions. Join environmental studies scientist Dr. Rob Moir for lively dialogue and revealing narrative inquiry into how individuals are overcoming the obstacles turning forlorn hope into effective actions for oceans, rivers, watersheds, wildlife and ecosystems. Discover how listening to individuals, thinking locally, and acting in concert with other, you can act to save ecosystems. Got environmental stewardship? Become an Eco-steward. Act to bring about a greener and blue Planet Earth. Moir's Environmental Dialogues is broadcast live every Thursday at 12 Noon Pacific Time on The VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.
Rob Moir
Rob Moir is director and founder of the Ocean River Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Moir, an educator and scientist, has been a leader of citizen science and efforts to clean up Salem Sound and Boston Harbor, as founder of Salem Sound Harbor Monitors & Salem Sound 2000, later president of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, and through his appointment by the Secretary of Interior to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. He was formerly Curator of Natural History at the Peabody Essex Museum, Curator of Education at the New England Aquarium and Executive Director of the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA. Dr. Moir was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation, and the James Centorino Award for Distinguished Performance in Marine Education by the National Marine Educators Association, which he later served as president. He was Sea Education Association's first assistant scientist to work consecutive voyages of the R.V. Westward in 1979 and 1980, an advancement officer for his alma mater, Hampshire College and serves today on the boards of his alma mater, Cambridge School of Weston, Ocean Champions, and the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters. Dr. Moir has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and a Masters of Science and Teaching from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH and certificate of studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
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Bert 'Washasha X' Lettsome
Bert Lettsome, Reggae artist a.k.a. 'Washasha X', is Chief Conservation Officer of the British Virgin Islands. He advised formation of the Virgin Island Environmental Council. Talking with Rob in Road Town, Bert describes why nature in the British Virgin Island is more diverse than anywhere else in the Caribbean. To protect it and maintain pristine, undisturbed nature in the Virgin Islands, we must all make choices. We also get to hear his songs. "Choices" and "Ras Mangrove" enlightens us and forces us to examine our actions and the resulting impact on the natural environment. It clearly explains the benefits, functions, uses and importance of the coastal mangrove forest. He became a local sensation when dressed as mangrove he danced in the street. "A hard-hitting, unique, educational, inspirational and cultural dub poetry. In Ras Mangrove, Washasha X delivers again showing his uniqueness and creativity as a Reggae artist and Producer." (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/washashax3) View Guest page
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Peter Alexander
Peter Alexander is director of Talking Conservation (www.talkingconservation.org). He is the lead architect of a government and private initiative to forge a comprehensive ecosystem restoration and conservation strategy for the Gulf of Maine (www.gulfofmaine.org/gomrc).Peter has worked for the Healing Our Waters®--Great Lakes Coalition, a group of more than 100 zoos, aquariums, agencies, and conservation groups working to restore the Great Lakes. Peter holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from Antioch New England Graduate School and lives in Portland Maine. His Op Ed pieces appear in newspapers throughout Maine. A well-respected singer-songwriter and guitarist, Peter has performed for audiences all over and shared the stage with luminaries of rock and folk music, including Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tim Hardin, Chuck Berry, the Animals, and others. He is an expert sailor and avid boatman, spending as much time as possible on Casco Bay. View Guest page
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Lenni Armstrong
Lenni Armstrong is a visualization professional in the Boston area with over twenty years of experience in visualization design and teaching. Her educational interactives have informed thousands across the country, appearing in museums and on-line, as well as health care web sites and videos. Passionately committed to acting as a steward of Earth, she excels at conveying information about structures and events outside the range of human perception: from the nanoscale to the global scale, and from events occurring in a nanosecond to changes occurring over geological time. Lenni gets to the heart of what needs to be conveyed and how to use visualization to convey it. She is currently documenting climate change and ecosystem restoration through interactive data visualization.www.informmotion.biz With Somerville Climate Action, she organizes de-paving events that bring people together to improve their environment. See: TEDxSomerville - DePAVE the WAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTG0Y_zknc View Guest page
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Skylar Bayer
Skylar Bayer is currently working on her PhD at the University of Maine's Bigelow Marine Laboratory and studying scallop reproduction. Due to a mishap involving a fisherman, jars of gonad samples, and an unlocked blue Chevy four door, she lost all of her intended research samples. Rob met Skylar last summer at the Society for Conservation Biology's International Marine Conservation Congress in St. John's Newfoundland. View Guest page
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Captain Nancy Beaver
Captain Nancy Beaver directs Sunshine Wildlife education programs mostly by taking individuals, families and groups out onto Indian River Lagoon and by providing a platform for researchers to study local wildlife in particular dolphins, manatees, turtles, wood storks, ibises and magnificent frigate birds. She is a certified Coastal Master Naturalist by Florida Atlantic University and has been directing education programs since 2000. Sunshine Wildlife is an ORI partner (http://www.oceanriver.org/SunshineWildlifeFL.php). Sunshine Wildlife can be reached for more information at http://www.sunshinewildlifetours.com/ View Guest page
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Prescott Brownell
Prescott Brownell works within the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Office of Habitat Conservation in the Habitat Protection Division to protect and conserve habitats important to NOAA trust resources. The Division's primary mandates focus on ensuring that living marine resources have sufficient healthy habitat to sustain populations. Those mandates emphasize wetlands, corals, diadromous fish habitat, and habitat of other marine and estuarine species. These efforts frequently include close partnerships with state and federal agencies, industry, environmental groups, and academia. The Habitat Protection Division is based in Charleston, SC http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatprotection/index.htm View Guest page
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Katherine Carscallen
Katherine Carscallen is third generation commercial fisherman in Bristol Bay. Born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska, Katherine was raised in the salmon gill net fishery, and now captains her boat, the F/V Sea Hawk. In the off season, Katherine works to protect the Bristol Bay fishery from threats like the proposed Pebble Mine. She is works as an organizer with the group Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay, and also sits on the Board of Directors for the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association. View Guest page
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Raffi Cavoukian
Raffi Cavoukian, known to millions as Raffi, is a renowned songwriter ("Tweet Me Right") and Founder of Child Honouring (http://childhonouring.org/). A recipient of the Order of Canada and the United Nations' Earth Achievement Award, Raffi has honorary degrees from UVIC and UBC. A generation saw him perform Down by the Bay and Baby Beluga. Now adults,"Beluga grads,"tell him that they are raising their children with his music. Raffi is a passionate advocate for a child's right to healthy environments. He has become a "global troubadour", lecturing and networking to help create a viable future: a restorative, child-friendly world for us and for those to come. His new works are: Child Honouring: How To Turn This World Around; a cd: Resisto Dancing and Communion, and dvd: Raffi Renaissance, Raffi's commitment in word and song to the world's children. Raffi comes to the world stage as a catalyst for change at a defining point in human history—with an idea whose time has come. View Guest page
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Alison Chase
Alison Chase is an oceans policy analyst in NRDC's New York office. She has worked for and volunteered at agencies and organizations including the U.S. Department of the Interior, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club. Alison has also served as a senior associate for the strategic consulting firm of GMMB. Alison received her master of public administration degree in environmental science and policy from Columbia University and her bachelor's degree in political science from Colgate University. View Guest page
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Sarah Chasis
Sarah Chasis is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's ocean initiative. Her work focuses on promoting the protection, maintenance and restoration of healthy ocean ecosystems, including healthy ocean fish populations and habitats. She is a graduate of Smith College and has earned a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law, where she is now an adjunct professor teaching an environmental law clinic. View Guest page
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Yingying Chen
Yingying, coming form China, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science in 2007. After graduation, she worked as a consultant in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a consulting company in Beijing which aims at developing renewable energy projects that can generate CO2 Emission Reductions (CERs) that can be traded with the European countries under the supervision of United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She had been engaged in developing several wind power and hydro power projects in Southern China. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the Environmental Science and Policy program at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and has just finished her first year's study. She likes swimming, biking, hiking, walking, and reading in her spare time. She is excited that New England Climate Sumer has supplied a great chance for her to work within non profits to take action as well as working with communities to address climate change. View Guest page
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Jana Chicoine
Jana Chicoine is spokesperson of the Concerned Citizens of Russell, an all-volunteer grassroots community group formed four years ago in response to a biomass power plant proposal in the town of Russell Massachusetts. Mrs. Chicoine is working to dismantle the greenwashing which allows biomass incinerators and other combustibles to out-compete truly clean technologies such as wind and solar, gobbling up valuable subsidies and ramping up carbon emissions while threatening public health and river and forest ecology. View Guest page
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Cris Costello
Cris Costello is a Regional Organizing Representative for the Sierra Club. She coordinates the Water Sentinels – Protecting Florida's Waters Campaign to prevent harmful algal blooms in coastal and inland waters by eliminating point and non-point sources of nutrient pollution; part of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Resilient Habitat Campaign. Cris has mobilized concerned citizens, civic organizations, homeowner associations, waterfront businesses, religious institutions and partner organizations around many related issues: urban fertilizer management policies and ordinances, state-level fertilizer management policies, local control versus state preemption of urban fertilizer regulation, numeric nutrient criteria for Florida's waters, and water quality monitoring. Cris has also been involved with the Sierra Club Florida Panther and Phosphate Mining Campaigns. Cris serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. View Guest page
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Dr. Jamie M. Cournane
Dr. Jamie M. Cournane, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) and Environmental Defense Fund (Boston, MA), currently serves on the Atlantic Herring Plan Development Team of the New England Fishery Management Council. She has worked most recently on mapping "hot spots" of river herring bycatch by trawlers and seiners that target Atlantic herring. For her doctoral work, she assessed spatial patterns of groundfish (e.g. cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder) biodiversity in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank over the past 100 years and emphasized that historical perspectives provide baselines to measure success in the current spatial management of fisheries. View Guest page
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Benjamin D. Cowie-Haskell
Ben Cowie-Haskell serves as the deputy superintendent for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary located in Scituate, Massachusetts. In that capacity he is responsible for vessel and facility operations, diving, maritime heritage, and information technology. Ben has been with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 17 years working to conserve special ocean places such as the Florida Keys and Stellwagen Bank. Prior to coming to the Stellwagen Bank sanctuary, he served as the science coordinator for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 1995 to 2000 where he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Tortugas Ecological Reserve, then the Nation's largest no-take marine reserve. Since 2000 he has been working at the Stellwagen Bank sanctuary where he led a team in the confirmation of the location of the historic steamship Portland- New England's Titanic. He has worked at a variety of marine labs on the East Coast and received his Masters degree in marine policy from the University of Maryland. He lives in Marshfield, MA with his wife and two sets of twins. View Guest page
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John D. Crawford
John D. Crawford, PhD. Jud is a biologist with the Pew Environment Group (PEG) where he manages science and policy matters for the group's Northeast fisheries campaigns. John came to the PEG in 2008 from his position as senior scientist for Conservation Law Foundation. He directed the Initiative on Marine Ecosystem Conservation for six years, managing an international collaboration with WWF-Canada and mapping marine areas of high value for protection of marine biodiversity in the Gulf of Maine region. Jud entered the environmental arena as a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focused on the behavior and physiology of fishes. He has published numerous peer reviewed papers and taught biology in several academic programs. He maintains his ties to academic science through an active affiliation with the Boston University Marine Program. Jud holds degrees from Duke University (BS), University of Pennsylvania (MS) and Cornell University (PhD). He is a native of New England where his first hand observation of ecological changes have fueled his passionate interest in marine conservation and the region's heritage. View Guest page
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Ryan Czekanski-Moir
Ryan Czekanski-Moir is Education Manager for the Ocean River Institute. You may have met Ryan at ORI events, working our table at festivals, or in Washington attending a National Marine Sanctuary Foundation dinner in Bermuda shorts and Great Gatsby jacket. Ryan has been working for ORI for seven years. Ryan curates ORI's display window by the Mt Auburn Post Office in Harvard Square. Ryan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he studied Art History and assisted with putting together art exhibits at the U. Mass Art Gallery. Ryan has completed academic studies at Hampshire College and Merrimack College, and spent a summer in Prague, the Czech Republic, studying history, culture and politics at Charles University. Ryan enjoys mountain climbing, skiing, kayaking, and sailing. View Guest page
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Sharon M. Day
Sharon M. Day is an Ojibwe woman from Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota near the Mississippi River. Ms. Day was an active participant in the saving Camp Coldwater in Minneapolis in 1998-2000. She is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force; which is a health care advocacy and service agency for Native Americans in the area. View Guest page
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Richard F. Delaney
Richard F. Delaney is Executive Director of the Provincetown (MA) Center for Coastal Studies www.coastalstudies.org Mr Delaney is founding Director of the Urban Harbors Institute at U. Mass, Boston; former Director of MA Coastal Zone Management; and past Chair of Coastal States Organization in Washington, DC. View Guest page
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Dyan DeNapoli
Dyan deNapoli, a former Senior Penguin Aquarist at Boston's New England Aquarium, has worked with and written about penguins since 1995. Known as The Penguin Lady, she travels internationally to teach audiences about penguin biology and conservation. She has been the onboard penguin expert on nature cruises to the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, including CNN's Situation Room and BBC Radio. In 2000, she worked as a rehabilitation supervisor during the largest and most successful rescue of animals ever undertaken following the Treasure oil spill in South Africa. DeNapoli's newly released book, The Great Penguin Rescue, chronicles this extraordinary effort, during which 12,500 volunteers labored for 556,000 hours to save 40,000 African penguins. Dyan is donating 20% of the proceeds from her book - called "an eco-thriller with a happy ending" by the New York Post - to penguin rescue and Gulf oil spill relief efforts. View Guest page
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- Encore: The Great Penguin Rescue Saving a Species from Extinction
- The Great Penguin Rescue Saving a Species from Extinction - Special Encore Presentation!
- The Great Penguin Rescue Saving a Species from Extinction - Special Encore Presentation!
- The Great Penguin Rescue Saving a Species from Extinction
George Divoky
Studying the Black Guillemots of Cooper Island has largely been a solitary venture for George Divoky. While the discovery and initial years of the study were part of governmental research related to oil development in northern Alaska, for the past four decades the work has been conducted with occasional grants and much personal dedication. It is precisely this type of extended data set that is needed to monitor the long-term cycles and trends related to climate change and other atmospheric variation. George Divoky is the founder of Friends of Cooper Island and serves as its director in collaboration with a governing board. George has been studying seabirds in arctic Alaska since 1970 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is a Research Associate at the Institute of Arctic Biology. Research priorities and directions are set with the advice of a Scientific Advisory Board composed of prominent arctic researchers from a number of disciplines. View Guest page
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Eric Dolin
Eric Dolin has a BA and BS from Brown University; Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in environmental policy and planning from MIT, where Eric's dissertation focused on the role of the courts in the cleanup of Boston Harbor. Eric Dolin has held a variety of jobs, including stints as a fisheries policy analyst at the National Marine Fisheries Service, a program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental consultant stateside and in London, an American Association for the Advancement of Science writing fellow at Business Week, a curatorial assistant in the Mollusk Department at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and an intern at the National Wildlife Federation, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and the U.S. Senate. View Guest page
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Eric Dolin
Eric Dolin has a BA and BS from Brown University; Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in environmental policy and planning from MIT, where Eric's dissertation focused on the role of the courts in the cleanup of Boston Harbor. Eric Dolin has held a variety of jobs, including cook at the Fish Monger Café Woods Hole, stints as a fisheries policy analyst, a program manager at the U.S. EPA, an environmental consultant stateside and in London, an American Association for the Advancement of Science writing fellow at Business Week, a curatorial assistant in the Mollusk Department at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and an intern at the National Wildlife Federation, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and the U.S. Senate. View Guest page
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Mike Dunmyer
Mike Dunmyer is the Executive Director of Ocean Champions. Before joining Ocean Champions, Mike created, developed and led strategy, finance, marketing and operations organizations as a Vice President in the Fortune 500 world. During the past three years, Mike also served on the Ocean Champions Board of Directors. During that time he led a successful strategic planning and implementation effort and also managed the Board's Executive Committee. Mike has an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and a BA in Economics from Washington and Lee University. Mike has a great love for the ocean that comes from growing up in California and Hawaii, and the Delaware shore. He is a surfer and a grassroots activist for the Surfrider Foundation's Capitol Chapter. View Guest page
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Amazon John Easterling
Olivia Newton-John and her husband Amazon John Easterling talk about their work to save the Amazon Rainforest. Olivia tells why this rainforest is so important for the planet. Amazon John has spent over 30 years there. He explains the remarkable health-giving properties of the Camu-camu fruit (www.DrinkCamu.com). This indigenous fruit is harvested from shallow boats and is a source of income for local peoples. In addition, proceeds from sales benefit the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (http://www.wcupa.edu/aceer/) . Besides the Amazon Herb Company, Olivia has opened the GAIA Retreat and Spa (http://www.gaiaretreat.com.au/). Olivia explains why she named it so and the healing properties one can experience there. Her newest CD is to benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center (http://www.oliviaappeal.com/). Olivia and John conclude with suggestions on what we each can do for a greener planet. View Guest page
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Margaret Fetzer-Rogers
Margaret is from North Carolina and is going to be a sophomore at Simon's Rock College this coming year. Last fall, she became involved in the Massachusetts youth climate movement through Students for a Just and Stable Future where she participated in the sleep-outs on the Boston Common. She hopes to spread the climate movement and she is thrilled to be working in New England, which is setting the precedent for environmental consciousness and legislation. View Guest page
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Sara Finkle
Sara comes to New England Climate Summer ready to get things done in Massachusetts! Hailing from North Andover, Ma., she is so excited to be making changes in the local community. Sara just finished her freshman year at Williams College in Williamstown, Ma. where she was involved in her campus garden, Students for Social Justice, and The 'Nvironmental Group. This is where she first became involved with Students for a Just and Stable Future, a path that led her to Climate Summer. Sara is a religion major and plans to work in farming, food systems, and environmental and social activism. View Guest page
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Terry Gibson
Terry Gibson is a Senior Editor and writes Fly & Light Tackle Angler's STEWARDSHIP column. Terry also has contributed to leading fishing, hunting, surfing and dive publications since the late 1990s. Terry has fished abroad in ten countries plus the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, and in more than 40 states. As a multi-lingual journalist covering the issues, or as an advocate working them, Terry Gibson has engaged in conservation issues in more than 20 countries, including the frontlines of water-management, habitat and fisheries management issues in the U.S. View Guest page
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Tanya Grady
Tanya Grady is Communications Coordinator for the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Tanya works closely with volunteers, on field walks, events and forums. www.coastalstudies.org View Guest page
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Larry Graff
"Airy" Larry – Banana Slug String Band Rhythm and lead guitar, beat box and vocals Larry Graff graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Environmental Education and Environmental Advocacy in 1981. Larry initially worked as a teacher and naturalist for a heralded environmental education program in San Mateo County, CA, and then for six years as a teacher and director at the San Mateo County and Exploring New Horizons Environmental Education Program. Larry and his wife have one daughter, Kayla. In 1985 Larry co-founded the Banana Slug String Band and by 1987 was working full time with these environmental troubadours! http://www.bananaslugstringband.com View Guest page
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Doug "Dirt" Greenfield
Doug"Dirt" – Banana Slug String Band bass guitar, vocals, harmonica, ice bag & percussion Doug "Dirt" Greenfield, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (home of the currently undefeated Bengals), graduated from Ohio University (summa cum laude) with an individualized, self-designed curriculum with a emphasis in environmental education, creative problem solving technologies and communications studies. After a very enriching and short lived three weeks at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Dirt reconsidered and then reorganized his life path to obtain a Multi-Subject Teaching Credential through Hayward State University. Doug served as program director for (in succession) Venture West School of Outdoor Living and Exploring New Horizons, and later created individualized week-long science camps, taking students from several northern California schools on visits to many of the state's pristine habitats. As fate would have it, these days Doug enjoy life with is wife and two teenaged daughters and continues the 24-year adventure as co-founding artist and co-manager of the Banana Slug String Band. http://www.bananaslugstringband.com View Guest page
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Pam Lyons Gromen
Pam Lyons Gromen is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC), a public advocacy group dedicated exclusively to conserving ocean fish since it was founded by conservation-minded anglers in 1973. Currently, Pam heads NCMC's Forage First! campaign, which urges fishery managers to implement strategies that provide adequate prey for predators. This campaign covers menhaden, river herring, shad, sea herring, mackerel, butterfish and squid along the Atlantic seaboard, and sardine, anchovy, krill, squid and mackerel on the West Coast. Pam has authored technical reports, including Preserving the Northeast Forage Base and Taking the Bait: Are America's Fisheries Out-competing Predators for their Prey?, in order to generate awareness of the threats to the ocean forage base and to offer solutions. Pam spends much of her time researching and writing position papers on proposed regulatory actions and participating in fishery council and commission meetings. View Guest page
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Lara J. Hansen
Lara J. Hansen is co-founder, chief scientist, and executive director of EcoAdapt. Dr Hansen focuses her work on the redesign of conservation to incorporate responses to climate change. She is the lead author on the issue of natural system adaptation to climate change, Buying Time: A User's Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems. This manual lead to the development of an engaged stakeholder process to help resource managers create applicable adaptation strategies. She serves on the Nobel peace prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is a Switzer Environmental Fellow & a United States Environmental Protection Agency Bronze Medalist. Dr. Hansen has a PhD in Ecology from the UC Davis and a BA in biology from the UC Santa Cruz. She lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. Lara loves being in or on water. She is an equal opportunity swimmer of ocean, lakes, rivers, & pools, a kayaker and tags along with a sailor. View Guest page
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David Helvarg
David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign (www.bluefront.org) and the author of four books - Blue Frontier, The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean and Rescue Warriors. He's editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide, organizer of several 'Blue Vision' Summits for ocean activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine's 2005 Leadership Award and the 2007 Herman Melville literary Award. Helvarg began his career as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. He became an award-winning journalist and produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Sierra, and The Nation. He's done radio work for Marketplace, AP radio, and Pacifica. View Guest page
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Michael Hopper
Michael Hopper is president of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition. He has been involved in stream restoration in southeast Mass. since the 1980's, first at the Quashnet River in Falmouth and later at Red Brook in Wareham. SRBTC in partnership is private and government groups has demonstrated that given a chance with stream improvements and dam removal, salter populations can grow to a typical 12-14" size in a few years, providing excellent angling opportunities once again. Michael grew up in Wellfleet on the outer cape graduating from Nauset Regional High School in 1978. Michael was a commercial fisherman, assistant shellfish warden and operated a two acre shellfish grant in Wellfleet harbor. He now lives further from the sea in Salisbury CT with wife Ainslie and two children Zoe and James. View Guest page
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Don Hudson
Don Hudson, PhD, is President of Chewonki in Maine. He is a founder of the International Appalachian Trail and the Maine Green Campus Consortium, Chair of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Advisory Council and served on the Citizen Advisory Panel for the Decommissioning of Maine Yankee (1997-2005). View Guest page
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Edward Humes
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Edward Humes' latest book is Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution (Harper Collins, May 2011). His other books include the PEN Award-winning No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court, the bestseller Mississippi Mud, and Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul, now under development at HBO. Backstory: When I was six I decided I wanted to be a writer, and I've been at it ever since. I started my writing career in newspapers, and I think I probably would have paid them, instead of the other way around, for the thrill of seeing my byline in print. When I left newspapers to write nonfiction books, I suddenly had weeks or months, rather than hours or days, to immerse myself in the inner workings of the places, characters and events I seek to understand and write about. I had found the greatest job I can imagine. View Guest page
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Madelynn Huntjens
Madelynn Huntjens studied and worked in Holistic and Mental Health, and Eco-Tourism. She is an advocate for peaceful resolutions and environment protection, where she met her husband while working together at protecting Water. Mother of three children, Madelyn lives along the St Croix River on Passamaquoddy Land in Eastern Canada. Since 2006, Madelyn has traveled West to Wisconsin every season learning and walking the road of the original teachings of her Ancestors and of the people of this Land. I am most grateful to Madelyn for contacting me and for bringing to my attention this most amazing walk. View Guest page
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Ben Kalina
Ben Kalina is associate producer of the documentary called "A Sea Change" and is working on another documentary about developing barrier islands titled "Shored Up." Ben sounds like a surfer and understands better than most the surfer's challenges, but he is hales from Vermont. This may inform his clear-eyed vision for New York/New Jersey barrier islands. "Maybe beach replenishment is not the answer here," says Kalina. "In order to avoid massive casualties and loss of life and loss of property in the future, we need to start taking a little bit different look at how we develop these islands." View Guest page
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Dawnis Kennedy
Minnawaunigogeezhigoak is an Ojibwe Marten Clan woman from Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation and a first degree Midewiwin of the Three Fires Lodge. Also known as Dawnis Kennedy, she is a Trudeau Scholar, a SJD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and a visiting scholar at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig. Her dissertation, Onaakonigewin: Rekindling the Fire Within, asks how we might strengthen our selves by learning to work with the laws given to Anishinabe. Dawnis, like many of her colleagues at Shingwauk is busy doing what she can for the Mother Earth Water Walk 2011. Dawnis is the main contact person for the Western portion of the Water Walk 2011, connecting walkers, hosts, support walkers, fundraisers, volunteers and donators from and for the West. View Guest page
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Howard Krum
Howard is Communications/Outreach Manager for the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership. His primary responsibility is the development and administration of the overall MOP Strategic Communications Plan. He works closely with the Strategic Communications/Outreach Committee, including RFP development; manage media communication/relations in coordination with the Executive Director; prepare and deliver presentations; draft press releases and op-eds; assist in report preparation; and, assist in expanding the partnership in number and diversity. Trained as a marine biologist (MS in fish physiology, Southern Illinois U), aquatic animal veterinarian (veterinary medicine degree, U Penn), and science communicator (MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins), Howard has worked at several ocean institutions including NE Aquarium, National Aquarium, Georgia Aquarium, and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center where he helped to develop comprehensive communications and outreach programs. View Guest page
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Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, J.D.
Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, J.D. (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is Longhouse Director at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. Tina has served as the founding director of the Longhouse since 1996, when the Longhouse's public service work first began with the launch of the Native Economic Development Arts Initiative, with funding from the Northwest Area Foundation. View Guest page
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Boyd Kynard
Boyd Kynard was born in Mississippi, MS from MS State and PhD in Fisheries UW, Seattle, where he studied three-spine sticklebacks; Studied desert pupfish in AZ and Mexico; Started the fisheries program at the UA, Tucson. In 1978 moved to U Mass Amherst; Studies migratory fish life history and fish passage in the CT and Merrimack Rivers, focus on American shad and shortnose sturgeon. Efforts to build a research lab for migratory fish on the CT resulted in the Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center. He has studied all species in North America & 4 foreign species: 3 Asia, 1Russia. He assisted with research on migratory fish and fish passage at hydroelectric dams in big rivers in China (Yangtze R), Brazil (Sao Francisco & Madeira R, a headwater trib. Amazon) & Danube R in Romania. Assisted the 3 countries to build migratory fish laboratories. Retired from the USDept of Interior (USGS) in 2007 and has a private business, BK-Riverfish. View Guest page
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Tom Lalley
Tom Lalley is the communications director for the EDF Oceans program which focuses primarily on improving the management of fishing. Prior to EDF, he worked at World Wildlife Fund for more than six years as the director of program marketing and the director of media relations. His background includes reporting for public radio stations in California, Washington, D.C., Albany, New York and Denver. His stories aired regularly on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Living on Earth. In 1997, he received an Associated Press award for exposing an illegal toxic waste dump in the Adirondack State Park. Tom was also the first reporter in the national broadcast media to cover the deregulation of the electric utility industry, which he did in a 6-part series for NPR. Before he came to WWF, Tom worked for Environmental Media Services directing media activities on biotechnology, natural resources and other issues. He graduated from Guilford College, a Quaker school in Greensboro, North Carolina, majoring in Religion. Tom lives in Washington, D.C. He is an avid bluegrass and rock musician, an ultimate Frisbee player and a voracious reader of natural history. View Guest page
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Christine Larkin
Christine Larkin works with Genesis Global Radio as a Host, Producer & Interviewer. Christine began a career as Voiceover Artist, Actress and Jazz Singer after many years on the business side of entertainment with companies such as HBO, MTV and CBS. She booked her first radio commercials as the voice of Fortunoff and went on to record for Sex & The City, Club Monaco and PBS, among other brands. She also enjoys acting in television, film, commercials, and video. Christine is also a singer with her band, Skylark. She got her start on the streets of Manhattan with American folk legend, Pete Seeger and The New York City Street Singers. They went on to perform at prestigious venues including Lincoln Center and Central Park Summer Stage. Christine's repertoire includes American and jazz standards, popular songs and some originals, too. Whether accompanied by a full band or a single musician, it's all about the song and inspiring her audience. View Guest page
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Amanda Leland
Amanda Leland is Environmental Defense Fund's National Policy Director for Oceans. She oversees a team of advocates in DC, CA, and FL, and leads all of EDF's federal ocean initiatives, including sustainable fisheries, habitat conservation, and ocean funding. She focuses on achieving ocean policies that are well-grounded in science and economics, and she builds support among diverse ocean stakeholders, policy-makers, and others for shared strategies for enhancing ocean stewardship. One of her major recent successes was her instrumental role in securing the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which protects some of the most pristine corals reefs in one of the largest protected areas in the world. Amanda has a Master's in Marine Biology from the University of Maine, where she studied sea urchin ecology and engaged fishermen in her research. She was previously the Ocean Policy Director for Ocean Policy Project, a coalition initiative of Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Ocean Conservancy (2004-2005). Before that, she was a Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow for U.S. Representative Sam Farr (2003). The picture with crab and urchin was taken when Amanda was doing her master's research in Maine. View Guest page
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Craig D. MacDonald
Craig D. MacDonald, Ph.D.-- Superintendent, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; ext. 202; email@example.com View Guest page
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Josephine Mandamin
Josephine Mandamin has walked around the five Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River along with her supporters. With the support of many people, and with financial assistance from many donations, they accomplished a great feat of awareness of the critical water shortage, political and spiritual issues around water for those whom they met along the walk. Women led the walk in demonstration of the important role women play in the protection of the waters. In her great love for the water, Josephine speaks about that connection. She shares how her vision came to be what it is today and what it will mean to the future. Josephine has pledged her life to the environment and always emphasizes the importance of the protection of the water View Guest page
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Shesha Manning
Charles Mayo
Charles "Stormy" Mayo is co-founder of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, senior scientist and director of the Right Whale Habitat Studies Program at PCCS. View Guest page
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Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor and American Studies Coordinator, University of Connecticut, Avery Point. He took his PhD in Maritime History from the U New Hampshire in 2003. As a PhD candidate, he worked with UNH's Gulf of Maine Cod Project, an interdisciplinary team of historians and fisheries scientists exploring ecological change in the 19th century Scotian Shelf cod-fishery. In 2003, McKenzie began teaching Maritime Studies at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass., during which time he sailed offshore in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At sea, he taught while also filling in as Assistant Engineer, deckhand, and science deck lackey. He came to UConn's Avery Point campus in August, 2006, where his position as American Studies Program Coordinator has pulled his interests closer inshore. McKenzie's book is Clearing the Coastline: The Nineteenth Century Ecological and Cultural Transformation of Cape Cod (University Press of New England, 2011). View Guest page
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Alanna Mitchell
Alanna Mitchell is journalist who travels with ocean scientists and marine biologists to discover how we live with oceans and depend on marine life. With her clear-eyed immediacy she writes in the style of Rachel Carson, yet more personable. View Guest page
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Kelly Mitchell
Kelly Mitchell is a Coal Campaigner for Greenpeace USA, based out of Chicago, IL. She is part of Greenpeace's Quit Coal campaign - an ambitious effort to shut down some of America's oldest and dirtiest coal plants and expose corporate polluters poisoning our communities and corrupting our political system. Prior to taking on this role, Kelly worked as a grassroots organizer for Greenpeace, and helped manage and develop Greenpeace's national Field Organizing program. View Guest page
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William Moomaw
Dr. William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy and has been the Director of the International Environment and Resource Policy Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, since 1992. In addition to his work at the Fletcher School, he is also Director of Tufts Institute of the Environment, which coordinates a variety of environmental programs in research, education, activism, outreach and service at all of Tufts University's varied schools and colleges. View Guest page
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Mark Musaus
Mark Musaus is former Refuge Manager of the Loxahatchee NWR.
An invasive plant, Old World climbing fern, is smothering about 72% of the Refuge. This tenacious vine with 100-foot-long tendrils kills plants by either blocking out light or by causing trees and other native plants to collapse under the weight. Because aerial spraying kills all plants, the climbing fern stems must be hand-cut. Then the lower portions are sprayed. Crews, brought to each island by air boat, often stand in nearly waist high water.
Climbing ferns are remarkably quick to release spores and propagate. So quick that the crew must return to the site for the next two years to fully eradicate the ferns. Five or six insects have been identified to eat Climbing ferns in their native soils. They are being researched to keep the ferns at bay provided they only chew on the invasive plant and not others. Water quality and the quantity of water flowing into the Everglades are issues no less pressing. View Guest page
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Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John and her husband Amazon John Easterling talk about their work to save the Amazon Rainforest. Olivia tells why this rainforest is so important for the planet. Amazon John has spent over 30 years there. He explains the remarkable health-giving properties of the Camu-camu fruit (www.DrinkCamu.com). This indigenous fruit is harvested from shallow boats and is a source of income for local peoples. In addition, proceeds from sales benefit the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (http://www.wcupa.edu/aceer/) . Besides the Amazon Herb Company, Olivia has opened the GAIA Retreat and Spa (http://www.gaiaretreat.com.au/). Olivia explains why she named it so and the healing properties one can experience there. Her newest CD is to benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center (http://www.oliviaappeal.com/). Olivia and John conclude with suggestions on what we each can do for a greener planet. View Guest page
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Mark Nolan
"Marine" Mark – Banana Slug String Band Rhythm, lead & slide guitar, mandolin, fish lips and vocals Mark Nolan is a graduate of UC Davis with a BS in Zoology and a Secondary Science Teaching Credential and Administrative Credential from San Jose State. Mark taught as a Naturalist for twelve years, founded and directed the Pigeon Point Environmental Education Program, and served as the Executive Director for Exploring New Horizons Outdoor Schools. He is currently Director of San Mateo Outdoor Education, which provides hands-on environmental education for fifth and sixth graders. Mark is one of the original and active members of the Banana Slug String Band. The father of two children, Mark also likes gardening, cooking and reading books on natural history. http://www.bananaslugstringband.com View Guest page
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Randy Olson
Randy Olson is a scientist-turned filmmaker and faculty member in marine biology at USC. Most of his films draw on his science background, involve humor, and address major science issues such as the decline of the world's oceans, the controversy around the teaching of evolution versus intelligent design, and the attacks on global warming science. His works include a barnacle sex music video, "Barnacles Tell No Lies," and the feature documentary, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus" "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" premiers Oct 23 www.sizzlethemovie.com His company, Prairie Starfish Productions, is based at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. He is currently the Director of the Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project www.shiftingbaselines.org/index.php View Guest page
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Rolf Olson
Rolf Olson is Refuge Manager of the Loxahatchee NWR, Palm Beach County, FL.
Collaborative management with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service working in partnership with the South Florida Water Management District has failed to eradicate the invasive climbing fern. The federal agency spends $2 million a year, with the state spending approximately the same amount in recent years. This is woefully inadequate. Water quality and the quantity of water flowing into the Everglades are issues no less pressing than is the spread of invasive plants. There is still work to be done by concerned advocates to save the Loxahatchee.
Home of the endangered Everglades Snail Kite, Wood Storks, Mottled Duck, White-tailed Deer, Bobcat, Peninsula Cooter and Florida Softshell, the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is worthy of your attention. View Guest page
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Vicki Osis
Vicki Osis is a retired professor of Fisheries and Wildlife from Oregon State University and worked for 31 years as a Marine Education Specialist in the Oregon Sea Grant program. She developed the K-12 education program for the center and presented many workshops and training programs for K-12 teachers in Marine Science. Through OSU She developed and managed a Masters of Science program in Education with an emphasis in Marine Science for K-12 teachers. Vicki Osis participated in the first meeting of the National Marine Educators Association in Rhode Island. She has received national and state awards for her work in Marine Education. She currently is retired and for the past two years has taught an on-line climate change workshop for teachers. She lives on a small farm on the central Oregon coast with her husband Laimons. View Guest page
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Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer of Bethlehem, PA, worked as a dental assistant for 32 years. Working with dental mercury Karen thought she was taking all the proper precautions only to discover at great health costs that her office had failed to offer her adequate protection and she had 12 ¾ times acceptable exposure to mercury. Karen suffers from neurological damage, severe parasthesia, peripheral toxic neuropathy, loss of tendon reflex, and other symptoms of demyelination that are the hallmarks of progressive neurodegenerative autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue and memory loss. Disabled, Karen successfully fought Workman's Compensation in 2005 and was awarded full disability in 2006. Karen testified at FDA Hearings in 2006 and active in city & state legislations, OSHA Petition, and attended Congressional Hearings that involved the EPA, FDA and ADA. Karen is currently a Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions coordinator and an affiliate of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Mercury Free Dentistry. View Guest page
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Captain Patrick Paquette
Captain Patrick Paquette is a Recreational Fishing Advocate, Outdoor Writer, Charter Captain (USCG Master's License),Tournament Fisherman and is a past president of the 60 year old MA Striped Bass Association with over twenty five combined boat & shore tournament awards on his resume. Born in the city of Boston Massachusetts, Paquette was taught to fish by his father as a young child in the middle of the Striped Bass collapse. He mated on head boats and surf fished with brothers growing up. He is today an accomplished outdoor writer and has penned the Traveling Surfcaster Column for On the Water Magazine. Patrick has designed an exclusive "how to" seminar based solely on the species, equipment and techniques used to fish the waters of Massachusetts. He includes a range of information that promises to educate all anglers from the first time beginner to the seasoned veteran. View Guest page
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Piotr Parasiewicz
Piotr Parasiewicz, PhD (Natural Resources Management and Water Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria) directs the Rushing River Institute in Amherst MA. Renowned member of the River Management Society, Piotr developed the MesoHABSIM model, a multiscale approach to instream habitat modeling that surveys physical properties, biological and ecological river elements including fish community structure, diversity and population dynamics, assessment of ecological integrity and comprehensive river management. View Guest page
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Bliss Parsons
Bliss is a rising sophomore at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. Her home is in Newbury MA on Plum Island. Bliss is still exploring her options for a major, but is interested in political science and theory, critical social thought, social justice, French, and most recently, environmental studies. She first heard about New England Climate summer through a friend who biked last year, Leila Quinn, in her a cappella group on campus. Bliss does not consider herself a avid biker or athlete, but thought the idea of traveling around New England in small groups of students her age spreading the word of the climate movement sounded like a great idea, because she has always cared deeply about the environment. This also gave her the stepping stone she needed to take on her first big role as an activist. View Guest page
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Noa Randall
Noa Randall graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Massachusetts last spring. Noa is currently interning at the Ocean River Institute and will attend Smith College in the fall. Summer of 2013, Noa spent three weeks in California with the Sea Education Association Summer Program for High School Students. Ten days were aboard the SSV Robert C. Seamans sailing ship and ten days were on the shores of Catalina Island at the USC Wrigley Institute. View Guest page
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Joanne Robertson
Joanne Robertson is Coordinator, Central Communications Post, Water Walk 2011. Joanne works for Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig in Sault Ste. Marie, ON www.motherearthwaterwalk.com Facebook: Water Walk 2011 "Ni guh Izhi chigay Nibi onji" - "I will do it for the water". View Guest page
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Joe Rogers
Joe Rogers, M.S. is Geoscience Technician, GIS and Geospatial Imagery Specialist at the Rushing River Institute. Rushing Rivers' mission is to prevent further destruction of our powerful and beautiful riverscapes by raising public awareness and delivering leading edge, ecologically sound technology to conservationists and resource managers. About one third of freshwater fish species are already extinct or on the verge of extinction. They are disappearing five times faster than those on land. Habitat loss is the single greatest threat affecting 94% of fish species in the United States. www.rushingrivers.org View Guest page
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Laura Henze Russell
Laura Henze Russell has suffered for twenty years from mercury poisoning that vaporized from dental amalgam (silver cavity fillings) in her teeth. Laura describes regaining her health. She will present 3 articles at her town meeting in Sharon, MA. Laura's goals are 1, to learn the health impacts and health disparities associated with mercury poisoning; 2, to reduce the hidden river of toxic mercury in people; and 3, improve general health & lower health care costs. Laura is directing the Hidden River SafeAMER project at the Ocean River Institute. The goal is to pass the state Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals bill. This will set up a process where use of safer chemicals will be mandated. This is an entrepreneurial incentive that rewards the development of alternatives to toxic chemicals. By giving alternatives greater market share costs are brought down. Massachusetts can become a national incubator for less toxic, eco-friendly chemical compounds, "Safer Chemical Valley." View Guest page
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Carl Safina
Carl Safina is president of Blue Ocean Institute, He has written five books—Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival; Voyage of the Turtle; Nina Delmar: The Great Whale Rescue; The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, and due out in April, A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout. Safina has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ecology from Rutgers University. While observing foraging terns for his doctoral degree, he noticed declines in creatures that shared the terns' realm–striped bass, tuna, marlin, sharks, and other fish, as well as sea turtles. Carl Safina lives in Amagansett, on Long Island, with Patricia Paladines and her daughter Alexandra. They have several pets, including a rescue dog, a king snake, a rose-haired tarantula, a rabbit, and a goldfish. Safina's leisure activities take him outdoors; besides fishing, he enjoys snorkeling, scuba diving, clamming, kayaking, and bird watching. View Guest page
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Darren Saletta
Chatham resident, Darren Saletta co-founded with fellow fishermen the Massachusetts Commercial Striped Bass Association and works part time for the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen Association. For 20 years, Darren has commercially fished for groundfish, shellfish, lobster, and migratory species: tuna, dogfish, striped bass and bluefish. He owns Monomoy Sportfishing, offering custom fishing charters and eco-tours. A 1999 graduate of Cornell University, Darren holds a B.S. in Marine Sciences. He has studied in Woods Hole and sailed with Sea Education Association aboard the SSV Cramer (148) in the Caribbean. View Guest page
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Elizabeth Saunders
Elizabeth Saunders is the Massachusetts State Director for Clean Water Action (www.cleanwateraction.org/ma) and is a Campaign Organizer working with the New England Zero Mercury Campaign and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow. Since 2001 she first served as Environmental Health Legislative Director and became State Director in 2012. Notable victories from her work at Clean Water Action include passage of the MA Mercury Management Act, phase out of BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and passage in the state Senate of the Safer Alternatives Bill and Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Bill (2012). Elizabeth currently coordinates the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow coalition and the Multi-state Mercury Products Campaign. Elizabeth has a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. She has always called Massachusetts home and currently lives in Jamaica Plain. View Guest page
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Roz Savage
Roz Savage is a British ocean rower who uses her trans-oceanic rowing voyages to inspire a movement towards sustainable living at both grassroots and global levels.Roz first gained attention in 2005 by rowing solo across the Atlantic after 11 years desk-bound as a management consultant. Continuing to use her seafaring adventures to motivate others to take action on environmental issues, Roz is currently engaged in an epic effort to row solo across the Pacific Ocean that began in CA. Roz launched stage two of her Pacific Voyage on May 24, 2009 with a mission to target climate change. The third, and final, stage to Australia will take place in 2010. If successful, Roz will be the first woman in history to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. The Ocean River Institute will host Roz at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge on October 17, 2009 to raise much needed funds for her brave endeavors www.oceanriver.org View Guest page
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Lee Shepard
Lee Shepard is creator of Intracoastal Eco-Systems. Lee lives in Palm Beach County near the shoreline of Lake Worth Lagoon and where natural mangrove forests once thrived before seawalls were built for the sake of the million dollar views. The natural mangroves were never to be replanted. There was always shrimp for bait and eating, clams and oysters, blue crabs and large resident bait schools from herring to sardines and mullet. Snapper, Trout, Redfish, Snook, Tarpon, and Grouper, including the amazing Goliath Groupers were aplenty. When used together, Lee's eco-friendly products will help return the barren seawalls and semi-barren areas under docks to once again healthy, self-sustaining and thriving intracoastal ecosystems. If we all work together, we can obtain these goals through natural restocking. View Guest page
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Anne I. Smrcina
Anne I. Smrcina – Education Coordinator, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; ext. 204; email@example.com View Guest page
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Bryce Stewart
Bryce is a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist whose work has ranged from temperate estuaries to tropical coral reefs and the deep-sea. The central thread in his research has been to gain an increased understanding of the factors regulating marine populations and communities so as to ensure their sustainable utilization. His work on deep-sea fishes was among the first to demonstrate their extreme longevity, and on coral reefs he provided new evidence for mechanisms of community regulation of prey fish by predators. More recently his focus has been on how to improve the management of fisheries through the use of predictive recruitment models, marine protected areas and stock enhancement. Bryce has also been especially active in promoting the sale and consumption of sustainable seafood by working with everyone from government ministers to fishermen, restaurants and supermarket chains. View Guest page
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Craig Strang
Craig Strang is Associate Director of Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is founding Director of MARE: Marine Activities, Resources & Education, a K-8 interdisciplinary professional development and curriculum development program focused specifically on implementing schoolwide marine science programs that increase learning and language acquisition for English Language Learners. He is the lead Principle Investigator and Director of the multi-institution, NSF-funded Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence--California (COSEE). He is a member of the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) Board of Directors Executive Committee. He has co-led the Ocean Literacy Campaign in the US since 2003 resulting in the development of Ocean Literacy: The Essential Principles of Ocean Sciences Grades K-12. He is co-author of three multi-volume sets of science & environmental education curriculum materials for grades K-8. doug photo attached View Guest page
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Jim Toomey
Jim Toomey writes and draws the daily comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, syndicated to over 250 newspapers. Jim has just completed his sixteenth book, Confessions of a Swinging Single Sea Turtle. Sherman's Lagoon combines two of his life-long passions: art and the sea. In addition to drawing his comic strip, Jim is active in marine conservation. The conservation message in his comic strip earned him the Environmental Hero Award, presented by NOAA "for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage." He has contributed his comic characters and other illustrations to educational materials published by NOAA. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Duke University, a Master of Arts from Stanford University, and recently went back to Duke to earn a Masters of Environmental Management through its Environmental Leadership executive program. Jim currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and two children. View Guest page
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Brett Veerhusen
Brett Veerhusen, originally from Homer, Alaska, grew up commercial fishing throughout Alaska and currently owns and operates the F/V Finnegan in Bristol Bay. He has extensively fished throughout the state, from the Aleutian Islands to Southeast, for salmon, halibut and herring. Brett is active on the campaign to stop the proposed Pebble mine, which threatens his livelihood along with the ecosystem that supports thousands of fishermen and subsistence users. He is attaining his Masters in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington and lives in Seattle. He is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked in Nicaragua and Spain. View Guest page
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Jaco Vienings
Jaco Vienings hails from South Africa. He is an energetic, fun and lively host, working his way up in the broadcasting world. Jaco's newest project is a video series called "Nature's Voice". Nature's Voice is co-produced by Serena Vienings. Jaco writes: Loving the outdoors, science and working with my hands, I graduated with a double major in Viticulture and Oenology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. I next decided to travel the world using my University skills to work and also explore 15 other countries. Seeing the unique beauty in all of them, I felt the need to share this passion I had for the environment. I decided to devote my time to a career in broadcasting, focusing on the beauty that surrounds us. My goal is making people realize how essential it is for everyone to be environmentally responsible, and to change a common mindset of "I have to make a difference" to "I want to make a difference". View Guest page
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Serena Vienings
Serena Vienings is from Ohio. Serena was on location in Fiddletown, CA doing costume design for a crew shooting a short western film when out stepped Jaco. You can hear Serena describe what followed and how they ended up together. Serena handles the video camera and much of the logistics, as well as coaching Jaco before the camera. Clearly, based on Nature's Vision videos, Serena is very good. She is producing a second series of a few shows that have already been filmed and is planning future trips and videos in Peru. View Guest page
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Max Wagner
Nathalie Ward
Nathalie Ward -- Sanctuary Advisory Council Coordinator, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; ext. 206; email@example.com View Guest page
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Lori Wark
Lori Wark has been in the Web business almost since Al Gore invented the Internet. A short career in radio production and a quick stint in TV, morphed into all things Web at Discovery Channel where she produced history games and the occasional uplifting story (The Black Death, The Dustbowl and the Flu Pandemic of 1918). Somehow writing about death and destruction led to environmental reporting. After leaving the security of the corporate world, she is on her own and hoping to make a footprint (not of the carbon kind) in the world of climate change understanding. View Guest page
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Barbara Warren
Barbara Warren is Executive Director of Salem Sound Coastwatch (formerly Salem Sound Harbor Monitors and Salem Sound 2000) in Salem MA www.salemsound.org . Barbara has a Masters of Science from Antioch New England Graduate School. She developed the Wetland Health Assessment Toolbox with scientists from the Massachusetts Bays Program and Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Office. SSCW trains volunteer citizens to assess the health of regional wetlands using WHAT. This toolbox provides protocols to assess wetland health by measuring seven parameters: birds, fish, plants, water chemistry, land use, tidal hydrology, and benthic macroinvertebrates. Over 200 volunteers have been trained to date. Barbara has monitored North Shore salt marsh systems since 1999 to evaluate salt marsh restorations. With her husband, when not out on the water, they build sea kayaks. View Guest page
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David Wiley
David Wiley, Ph.D. -- Research Coordinator, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; ext. 211; firstname.lastname@example.com View Guest page
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Elinor Williams
Elinor Williams currently serves as president of Friends of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Palm Beach County, Florida. View Guest page
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David Wilmot
David Wilmot, PhD (Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) is Co-Founder and President of Ocean Champions. OC, the only political voice for ocean health, take a non-partisan approach in working with the U.S. Congress to ensure ocean health through electoral and legislative action. View Guest page
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Lisa A. Wong
Lisa A. Wong is serving her second term as Mayor of the city of Fitchburg. She was first elected to that office in November of 2007 at the age of 28, and is the first minority mayor in Fitchburg and the first female Asian American mayor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During her first two and a half years in office, she consolidated 22 city departments into 10, built up a stabilization fund from $10,000 to over $3,000,000, and balanced the budget. As a result, the city's bond rating, a measure of financial health, has increased twice. By managing more effectively in lean times, Mayor Wong has been able to lower crime, make significant capital improvements, and attract private investment. She is also a leader in conservation efforts, setting aside over 1,700 acres for permanent conservation and building parks and trails along the Nashua River, allowing for more tourism, as well as enjoyment by the citizens of Fitchburg. View Guest page
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Owen Worth
Susan Yochelson
Susan Yochelson is Outreach Coordinator for Salem Sound Coastwatch (formerly Salem Sound Harbor Monitors and Salem Sound 2000) in Salem MA www.salemsound.org Susan coordinates events including the Race for Salem Sound and SSCW member's night at the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead with ocean rower Roz Savage. Susan promotes citizens' awareness and understanding of their connections to the Salem Sound Watershed and their role in restoring and protecting its health. She coordinates programs that include volunteer monitoring programs (Clean Beaches & Streams, Coastal Habitat Invasives Monitoring Program, Wetland Health Assessment Toolbox, Stream Teams), on-the ground restoration projects (salt marsh and anadromous fish habitat restoration and stormwater remediation), public education (beach water quality and stormwater education), and municipal assistance (technical assistance and grant writing). View Guest page
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Steve Van Zandt
"Solar" Steve – Banana Slug String Band Rhythm guitar, banjo, jaw harp and vocals Steve Van Zandt is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies /Geography. He received a multiple subject teaching credential from San Francisco State and an Administrative Credential from San Jose State. Steve worked as a naturalist at San Mateo Outdoor Education and at Exploring New Horizons as well as at Youth Science Institute, and as a Co-Director/Intern Coordinator at Hidden Villa. Steve was also a Co-Manager for the Pigeon Point Youth Hostel. He has been a classroom teacher for kindergarten, third and fourth grade and a Life Lab and ESL teacher K-7. The father of three boys, Steve is one of the founding and active members of the Banana Slug String Band. In addition to music, Steve enjoys writing, poetry, ping-pong, vegetarian/vegan cooking, surfing and swimming under waterfalls. http://www.bananaslugstringband.com View Guest page


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How Old is the Priest?Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
A very bright and sunny day
The priest did to the verger say:
"Last Monday met I strangers three
None of which were known to thee.
I ask'd them of their age combin'd
Which amounted twice to thine!
A riddle now will I give thee:
Tell me what their ages be!"
So the verger ask'd the priest:
"Give to me a clue at least!"
"Keep thy mind and ears awake,
And see what thou of this can make.
Their ages multiplied make plenty,
Fifty and ten dozens twenty."
The verger had a sleepless night
To try to get their ages right.
"I almost found the answer right.
Please shed on it a little light."
"A little clue I give to thee,
I'm older than all strangers three."
After but a little while
The verger answered with a smile:
"Inside my head has rung a bell.
Now I know the answer well!"
Now, the question is:
How old is the priest?
AnswerThe puzzler tried to take the test;
Intriguing rhymes he wished to best.
But "fifty and ten dozens twenty"
Made his headache pound aplenty.
When he finally found some leisure,
He took to task this witty treasure.
"The product of the age must be
Twenty-four hundred fifty!"
Knowing that, he took its primes,
Permuted them as many times
As needed, til he found amounts
Equal to, by all accounts,
Twice the verger's age, so that
He would have that next day's spat.
The reason for the lad's confusion
Was due to multiple solution!
Hence he needed one more clue
To give the answer back to you!
Since only one could fit the bill,
And then confirm the priest's age still,
The eldest age of each solution
By one could differ, with no coercion.
Else, that last clue's revelation
Would not have brought information!
With two, two, five, seven, and seven,
Construct three ages, another set of seven.
Two sets of three yield sixty-four,
Examine them, yet one time more.
The eldest age of each would be
Forty-nine, and then, fifty!
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Samuel Gregg, Acton's Director of Research, continues to promote his latest book, Tea Party Catholic, via radio interviews across the nation. This morning, he made an appearance on San Antonio's KTSA radio, speaking with host Jack Riccardi about the Catholic (and broader Christian) case for limited government, a free economy, and a system of ordered liberty. You can hear the exchange via the audio player below.
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In Tea Party Catholic, Samuel Gregg draws upon Catholic teaching, natural law theory, and the thought of the only Catholic Signer of America's Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the first "Tea Party Catholic"—to develop a Catholic case for the values and institutions associated with the free economy, limited government, and America's experiment in ordered liberty. Beginning with the nature of freedom and human flourishing, Gregg underscores the moral and economic benefits of business and markets as well as the welfare state's problems. Gregg then addresses several related issues that divide Catholics in America. These include the demands of social justice, the role of unions, immigration, poverty, and the relationship between secularism and big government.


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I used the Life Sign computer to quit. Well, actually I used several things to quit, but that was the one that finally worked. It gradually weans you off the cigarettes. It's a chunk of change, but if it works it will definitely pay for itself.
metulburr wrote:interesting. Is it like general stats, how many smokes you have not smoked, how long since you quit, etc. Does it have anything else?
Quit Date: 02/16/2013 02:30 AM
Cigarettes avoided: 1924
Money saved: $82.77
Since last smoke: 48 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes, 12 seconds
Life saved: 14 days, 16 hours, 53 minutes, 13 seconds
You are on day: 49
[#################################] 100% 20 minutes: Your blood pressure, pulse rate, and the temperature of your hands and feet are returned to normal
[#################################] 100% 8 Hours: Remaining nicotine in your bloodstream has fallen to 6.25% of normal peak daily levels, a 93.25% reduction
[#################################] 100% 12 Hours: Your blood oxygen level has increased to normal and carbon monoxide levels has dropped to normal
[#################################] 100% 24 Hours: Anxieties peak in intensity and within two weeks should return to near pre-cessation levels
[#################################] 100% 48 Hours: Damaged nerve endings have started to regrow and your sense of smell and taste are beginning to return to normal. Cessation anger and irritability peaks
[#################################] 100% 72 Hours: Your entire body will test 100% nicotine-free and over 90% of all nicotine metabolites (the chemicals it breaks down into) will now have passed from your body via your urine. Symptoms of chemical withdrawal have peaked in intensity, including restlessness. The number of cue induced crave episodes experienced during any quitting day will peak for the "average" ex-user. Lung bronchial tubes leading to air sacs (alveoli) are beginning to relax in recovering smokers. Breathing is becoming easier and the lungs functional abilities are starting to increase
[#################################] 100% 5-8 days: The "average" ex-smoker will encounter an "average" of three cue induced crave episodes per day. Although we may not be "average" and although serious cessation time distortion can make minutes feel like hours, it is unlikely that any single episode will last longer than 3 minutes. Keep a clock handy and time them
[#################################] 100% 10 days: The "average ex-user is down to encountering less than two crave episodes per day, each less than 3 minutes
[#################################] 100% 10 Days - 2 Weeks: Recovery has likely progressed to the point where your addiction is no longer doing the talking. Blood circulation in our gums and teeth are now similar to that of a non-user
[#################################] 100% 21 Days: Brain acetylcholine receptor counts up-regulated in response to nicotine's presence have now down-regulated and receptor binding has returned to levels seen in the brains of non-smokers
[#################################] 100% 2-4 Weeks: Cessation related anger, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, impatience, insomnia, restlessness and depression have ended
[############################-----] 85% 8 Weeks: Insulin resistance in smokers has normalized despite average weight gain of 2.7 kg (1997 study)
[#################----------------] 52% 2 Weeks - 3 Months: Your heart attack risk has started to drop. Your lung function is beginning to improve
[#################----------------] 51% 3 Weeks - 3 Months: Your circulation has substantially improved. Walking has become easier. Your chronic cough, if any, has likely disappeared
[#####----------------------------] 17% 1-9 Months: Any smoking related sinus congestion, fatigue or shortness of breath have decreased. Cilia have regrown in your lungs, thereby increasing their ability to handle mucus, keep your lungs clean and reduce infections. Your body's overall energy has increased
[####-----------------------------] 13% 1 Year: Your excess risk of coronary heart disease, heart attack and stroke has dropped to less than half that of a smoker
[---------------------------------] 1% 10 Years: Your risk of being diagnosed with lung cancer is between 30% and 50% of that for a continuing smoker (2005 study). Risk of death from lung cancer has declined by almost half if you were an average smoker (one pack per day). Your risk of pancreatic cancer has declined to that of a never-smoker (2011 study), while risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus has also declined. Your risk of developing diabetes is now similar to that of a never-smoker
[---------------------------------] 1% 13 Years: Your risk of smoking induced tooth loss has declined to that of a never-smoker
[---------------------------------] 0% 5-15 Years: Your risk of stroke has declined to that of a non-smoker
[---------------------------------] 0% 15 Years: Your risk of coronary heart disease is now that of a person who has never smoked
[---------------------------------] 0% 20 Years: Female excess risk of death from all smoking related causes, including lung disease and cancer, has now reduced to that of a never-smoker. Risk of pancreatic cancer reduced to that of a never-smoker
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Quote:this is not very related but, i have been experimenting with my ki (i actually prefer spelling it chi)
Quote:for the past... 15 minutes.
Quote:i discharged a ki ball into some water and it has been vibrating since.
Quote:i am absolutly sure it exists (IT IS NOT A BUNCH OF HOCUS POCUS.)
Quote:i need some help though:
Quote:i was drawing ki from the earth and air to create a ki ball in each of my hands. once i accomplished this i began spining and compressing the ki balls. then, i merged them by putting my hands together. the closer my hands got the more pressure i felt in between them. when i finally put my hands completely together.
Quote:i started feeling the tingling sensation ki generates (still feeling it,)
Quote:The following comment was self-censored by Kempoman
Quote: so i concluded there was ki trapped within my aura meaning i did not absorb all of the ki into my "sea of Ki." my hands are cramping and twitching now as i write. could i have damaged my hands?
Quote:P.S. how can i discharge the ki "resedue" in my aura? (or in my hands)
Quote:EDIT:im going to post this in a seperate thread
Quote:And where in the heck have you been?
Quote:What in the hell is this?
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Self-Regulation Theory or SRT is a system of conscious personal health management. As people adjust to their illness and construct their own representations of the new threats to their identity and autonomy, this can generate motivation to get better, to take personal control and responsibility for maximizing their recovery.
Although a doctor may give a patient sound medical advice, the theory states that only with self-regulation will the patient appropriately implement that advice. For medical treatment to be effective, the patient needs to be interested in improving one's own health.
SRT consists of several stages. First, the patient deliberately monitors their own behavior, and evaluates how this behavior affects their health. If the desired effect is not realized, they change their personal behavior. If the desired effect is realized, the patient reinforces the effect by continuing the behavior. (Kanfer 1970;1971;1980)
Another approach is for the patient to realize a personal health issue and understand the factors involved in that issue. The patient must decide upon an action plan for resolving the health issue. The patient will need to deliberately monitor the results in order to appraise the effects, checking for any necessary changes in the action plan. (Leventhal & Nerenz 1984)
Psychological interventions in physical health are often aimed at facilitating these processes
Other aspectsEdit
Outside of health management, self-regulation theory is used to explain the cognitive bias known as illusion of control. To the extent that people are driven by internal goals concerned with the exercise of control over their environment, they will seek to reassert control in conditions of chaos, uncertainty or stress. Failing genuine control, one coping strategy will be to fall back on defensive attributions of control—leading to illusions of control (Fenton-O'Creevy et al, 2003).
Another factor that can help the patient reach his/her own goal of personal health is to relate to the patient the following: Help them figure out the personal/community views of the illness, appraise the risks involved, and give them potential problem-solving/coping skills. These factors can help the patient modify their behavior through internal motivation as opposed to motivation from the health care provider (external motivation).
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- Cameron, L.D. & Leventhal, H. (Eds.) (2003). The self-regulation of health and illness behaviour. New York: Routledge.
- Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Nicholson, N. and Soane, E., Willman, P. (2003) "Trading on illusions: Unrealistic perceptions of control and trading performance." Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology 76, 53-68.
- Kanfer 1970;1971;1980
- Leventhal & Nerenz 1984
- Leventhal, H., Brissette, 1. & Leventhal, FA. (2003). The common-sense modell of self-regulation of health and illness. In L.D.Cameron & H. Leventhal (Eds.) The self-regulation of health and illness behaviour.New York; Routledge.
- Leventhal. H.. Meyer, D. & Nerenz, DR. (1980). The common sense representation of illness danger. In .S. Rachman (Ed.). Contributions to Medical Psychology(vol. 2, pp.7-30). New York Pergamon Press.
- Medley,A. & Worthington, A. (2007) Keeping up with our clients:Self-regulation in brain injury. Clinical Psychology Forum, 175, 37-40
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Well done yesterday by Lowell, who provided some great analysis on our tops guys, and stole some of my thunder in the process. Building on that, here are some thoughts from the Rangers final match of pool play on Tuesday.
o The Rangers lost 4-3 in overtime in a pretty underwhelming effort from most of the top guys. Carolina won it on a Justin Shugg goal during 3-on-3 in the second overtime period. More on that later.
o What can be said collectively about the group is that the passing, puck possession and decision making has been a mark ahead of all three opponents thus far, regardless of the bonus point loss tonight.
o Everyone's favorite new All-Star Tim Erixon probably had his worst game of the tournament so far, but nonetheless has looked like an NHL player overall. I don't have the stats, but he and Captain Dylan McIlrath seemed to play a ton of minutes again. During one forgettable shift, both were caught out of position leaving Scott Pitt open in the slot for the first Carolina tally. It should be noted how great Erixon has been on the power play. He has solid vision, and isn't afraid to shoot the biscuit. He also took a penalty in the first period which was called a "hook." Really he was just battling his man hard in front and outmuscled him to the ground. Good for him.
o Some attention should be paid to Jonathan Audy-Marchessault. Not because he is tied for the tournament lead in scoring, but because he's had limited ice time in the process (or at least it seems).
o Shane McColgan was impressive again. I really had no idea what this guy was about heading into the tournament but he's been fun to watch. He's a small 18-year-old kid who had another strong game on the forecheck and tallied a couple points in the process.
o Ryan Bourque has been great so far in the tournament, but couldn't get going tonight. I actually forgot he was playing until he drove hard to the net and drew a great penalty with three minutes to go. He has excellent speed and is a pretty solid two way player with some raw skills.
o Aside from one mistake Christian Thomas had a strong game, particularly in the first period. He directly led to the second Rangers goal with a hard forecheck and turnover in the offensive zone, and then sniped one past the Carolina goaltender with less than a second left in the period. Unfortunately his only real blunder cost the Rangers the game. In overtime Thomas gained the offensive zone, stopped, and attempted to make a cross ice pass–one that he fanned on leading to the game winning breakaway goal. Regardless, I've really taken a liking to this guy over the last three games. The son of former NHLer Steve Thomas spoke with Dave Maloney moments after his goal and said his father had great words for the Rangers "organ-eye-zation." Hard to believe considering he played for the Devils and Islanders through the majority of the 90's.
o Carolina's Jared Staal looked really good out there. He lacks the natural offensive talent Eric and Jordan have, but takes the body well, and is really strong on his skates.
o Speaking of the Staals: Henry Staal was on air live in the third period. When asked which son is the "meanest," he came back with a gem. He said Eric is probably the meanest, Marc is "sneaky mean," paused a minute, then said "Jordan isn't mean enough — It's his moms fault." Classic. Never gets old hearing from a guy who helped procreate four pros.
o The power play has looked pretty solid, with the usual suspects you'd expect on the ice for most of them. Much like the big club, this team hasn't been the greatest at planting bodies in front of the net, which is particularly frustrating for me. Through three games the power play is 5 for 21.
o Our behemoth goaltending prospect, Jason Missiaen, was fun to watch. He had a fairly average day, but came up with his fair share of strong stops. He looked a bit shaky and off his angle at times, but is a pretty raw talent considering his size and age. He looked quite athletic and is also pretty sound down low, which is saying something for a 6'8" guy. When he's down in the butterfly he looks as tall as Darren Pang did standing up.
o Michael St. Croix has probably been the Rangers best two-way player in the tournament. Kid plays hard, wins battles, and in Tuesday's game alone made a couple of great defensive plays on the backcheck, all good signs for a centerman prospect.
o Much like the first match on Saturday, I thought JT Miller was average. He allowed an easy 2 on 1 opportunity to slide off his stick, and wasn't much to speak of in terms of the two-way game and has a long way to go. A bright spot occurred in third period when he stuck up for Tim Erixon when he was dropped after the whistle. It was an uneventful fight, but good stuff. This tournament has been my only opinion of JT, and he doesn't seem to have the greatest raw skill and hands in the world. He is however extremely strong on the puck in corners and works hard in the offensive zone. He keeps possession well down low, is 6'1" 190 lbs and only 18 years old.
o Maybe it's the cameras inside the room, or the fact it's just a prospects tournament, but Ken Gernander seems like a calm and composed guy — an interesting contrast to the guy behind the big club's bench. Overall he seems to have good hockey sense, gets right to the point, and works well with young guys. Good stuff for Hartford. Reminds me of watching Dan Bylsma on HBO last year.
o Echoing Lowell's thoughts from the other day, you'd have to think with all the assets on the blueline some type of deal is at least going to be discussed in the front office. I'd like to see a repeat effort from Sauer and McDonagh through the first few months before we decide to do something. Many of us were probably thinking the same thing a year ago with the assumption Del Zotto wouldn't have the lack of progress he did.
o Regardless of the outcome, The Rangers knew they would play in tonight's championship against Buffalo. Perhaps this contributed to the sluggish effort. Staal, Dubinsky, Anisimov and Sauer were on the squad the last time we won it in 2007.
o With the score tied 3-3 after regulation, the teams played one overtime period of 4-on-4 hockey, and then one period 3-on-3. Both periods were four minutes long. Apparently the extra minute would have been too taxing. The 3-on-3 play was absolutely ridiculous, and I hope the league is not considering actually bringing it to the NHL.
o Towards the end of the game the whole Buffalo Sabres prospect team was watching behind the Rangers goal dressed only in lowers. Pretty old school.
o In between periods MSG aired a clip in which John Giannone interviewed Glen Sather on a local Traverse City golf course. I'm not kidding, the majority of Glen's comments were about the golf course.