Vol VI No. 665 Part 4

You can stop THE WRONGFUL, ILLEGAL EXTIRPATION OF PUEO @ UHWO

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Tom Berg	Aug 28 (1 day ago)
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fyi-  THE EMAIL has to be THIS long-  this is not a crisp, EASY simple matter. 

Scroll down to see latest Pueo sighting at UHWO- - 

-Feel free to share with those tracking/following the plight of the Pueo - TO THOSE PEOPLE that will help it- THE PUEO survive- get a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) there in Honouliuli Ahupua'a. 

I trust you want to help that bird-  and out to do the right thing and give that bird a place to call home.  This is about uniting for that bird- leaving our own conflicts amongst and between us humans behind. 

The "weed" Red Ilima - endangered (FED LISTED)- that grows like a weed- was thought extinct on Oahu due to farming - but in 1996 or so- on fallow ag lands NEAR UHWO- it was found again- now it got- this plant- $20 million dollars for an 18-acre parcel of land to grow on-  and three separate outcroppings elsewhere to proliferate-  a plant- that grows like a weed- needs no assistance- and just grows -   got all of that. 

All it took for this endangered plant to be found and grow- was for the farmers to get off a percentage of the land and stop plowing over 99.99% of everything and leave a patch or two untouched. 

On the same fallow ag land that the Red Ilima was found back in 1996- the Pueo was too- already there- but the Pueo unlike the plant - the plant has roots- the plant cannot fly away- so IT, the plant, it GOT THE PROTECTION- THE PLANT GOT THE HCP-   the Pueo is at UHWO because for a spell, UHWO left the landmass mostly fallow-  but now- UHWO is in a panic- a rush to extirpate that bird so the bird does not interfere with UH BOR's real estate marketing plans for the 300-acres at UHWO to be leased-  at the expense of the Pueo.  So UHWO is leasing out raw Pueo grounds /nesting sites to farmers- as we speak- and the land is for the most part- being completely cleared/wiped clean of any and all foliage.  

Farming every inch again practice at UHWO- by design to kill off that bird? You betcha. 

In contrast- however - the Pueo does FLY- it does everything in its power TO NOT GET CAUGHT- TO NOT BE SEEN-  goes from plot to plot- has no roots- puts up no mailbox-  so it gets screwed in every FEIS executed and recorded. 

This is the time to stop the horrific treatment of this sacred bird here being levied upon it by the STATE OF HAWAII- and give it, the Pueo its own OFFICIAL home- like the Red Ilima got- and we work together as a TEAM to get  A PUEO SANCTUARY-REFUGE-PRESERVE @ UHWO -  such is warranted- and more importantly, this is where the bird wants to be/stay- CALL HOME.  

Hence-  the farming there @ UHWO needs to stop- every inch is being taken right now of Pueo Country by design- using farmers as an "acceptable" END LAND USE excuse to remove and wipe clean/purge Pueo habitat from the landscape. 

Please consider helping it - THE PUEO, get that home. 

Mahalo. 

TB 

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From: Tom Berg <tomberg00@yahoo.com>

To: Melissa Price <pricemel@hawaii.edu>

Cc: Michael Lee <keakuaskahu777@yahoo.com>; Kai Markell <kmarkell@hawaii.rr.com>; Kai Markell <kaim@oha.org>

Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017, 5:52:20 AM HST

Subject: Fw: OMBUDSMAN COMPLAINT : THE WRONGFUL, ILLEGAL EXTIRPATION OF PUEO @ UHWO

Aloha Dr. Price- 

Please consider taking a moment to really think about what is stated below-  do you really trust the DLNR? I know of no one- no one - no person in the entire State who respects DLNR-  or rather, trusts them to play fair and follow the laws. This says it all about DLNR- how they treat Pueo in Urban Growth Boundaries versus State Conservation Land-  for the laws make no distinction as to where-  if the endangered thing is there- it is supposed to get equal protection rights....but for UHWO, within the Urban Growth Boundary, DLNR has decided to ignore following the same laws that protect the same bird on its State conservation lands.....why is this?

TB

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From: Tom Berg <tomberg00@yahoo.com>

To: Office of the Ombudsman <officeoftheombudsman@ombudsman.hawaii.gov>; complaints@ombudsman.hawaii.gov <complaints@ombudsman.hawaii.gov>; State Office of Environmental Quality Control <oeqchawaii@doh.hawaii.gov>

Cc: Afsheen A. Siddiqi <afsheen.a.siddiqi@hawaii.gov>; David G. Smith <david.g.smith@hawaii.gov>; Melissa Price <pricemel@hawaii.edu>; Javier Cotin <jcotin@hawaii.edu>; Sheila Conant <conant@hawaii.edu>; Eric Seitz <eseitzatty@yahoo.com>; John Carroll <johncarro001@gmail.com>; John Carroll <johncarro001@hawaii.rr.com>; Clayton Hee <senatorhee@gmail.com>; Suzanne D. Case <suzanne.case@hawaii.gov>; scase@hawaii.gov <scase@hawaii.gov>; s.case@hawaii.gov <s.case@hawaii.gov>; DLNR. CO. PublicDLNR <dlnr@hawaii.gov>; Princess Kawananakoa Foundation <apio@hawaii.rr.com>

Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017, 5:21:27 AM HST

Subject: OMBUDSMAN COMPLAINT : THE WRONGFUL, ILLEGAL EXTIRPATION OF PUEO @ UHWO

Attention Ombudsman-

This is the link to the Office of Environmental Quality Control's approval of the FEIS for UHWO /letter sent out on January 19, 2007:

http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/Shared%20Documents/EA_and_EIS_Online_Library/Oahu/2000s/2007-01-08-OA-FEIS-UH-WEST-OAHU%20W%20ACCEPTANCE%20REPORT.pdf

On page 3, under Item #G, it states:

Question:  

Since the original EIS omitted, and failed to quantify, nor list, nor identify the Hawaiian Owl- called the Pueo, which is listed as endangered on Oahu, as occupying the site, the FEIS now has a NEW CONDITION-   per the definition of the law; and

Since a Certified Ornithologist has now confirmed the inhabitation of the Pueo on the subjected property in question--- the law now requires that, when a NEW CONDITION to the FEIS is verified, such triggers the SEIS be initiated.  The Pueo is the NEW CONDITION.   

PER PAGE 3 OF FEIS approval/push for acceptance conveyed JANUARY 19, 2007 by OEQC :   "...if there is a major or substantial change to the proposed project, OR IF DIFFERENT IMPACTS ARE ANTICIPATED."

Why hasn't the DLNR and or OEQC followed the Rule of Law/HRS and acted upon Item # G illustrated/extrapolated from OEQC, FEIS, from page 3 aforementioned?  "WOULD NOT THE PUEO QUALIFY AS A 'DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANTICIPATED?'"

Your attention to this important legal matter of noncompliance by the State of Hawaii to properly protect the endangered Pueo at UHWO is greatly appreciated- and that they, the State of Hawaii, that they on their own State Land, EXECUTE THE SEIS as is warranted.  

To deny, refuse, and fail to execute the SEIS of and by the State of Hawaii, is a breach of law, and an act of noncompliance to our endangered specie laws. 

Please answer the question proposed- why is the State of Hawaii refusing to initiate the SEIS for UHWO on behalf of the "unanticipated" presence of the endangered Pueo?   

 ***The original plans as proposed in the FEIS - were done under circumstances/planned where zero endangered birds lived, per PBR Hawaii that executed the EIS for the property.   Now that we have had a Certified Ornithologist who works for the State of Hawaii confirm we do have an endangered raptor there, on property, shouldn't the development plans reflect this New Condition- recognize it? 

WHY IS THE STATE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL ALLOWED TO ADVANCE AND RETAIN A FALSE NARRATIVE OF THE PROPERTY- OF WHICH CURRENTLY, FRAUDULENTLY PORTRAYS A CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY IN WHOLE, THAT ZERO PUEO INHABIT THE PROPERTY IN ITS ENTIRETY WHEN SUCH IS NOT A TRUTHFUL REPRESENTATION NOR AN ACCURATE NARRATIVE- AND THUS RATHER, A FAKE CHARACTERIZATION OF WHAT THE PROPERTY HOLDS IN POSSESSION IS ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN PLACE?

This is wrong. Future generations will be relying on a fake, falsified FEIS for UHWO- approved by DLNR.  This is illegal, immoral, corrupted behavior and needs your immediate attention for resolve-  to bring the State back into compliance.  

OHA- Office of Hawaiian Affairs-  has reference to further- additional legal rights as is listed in HRS for cultural practices- etc., directly connected to the wellbeing of the Pueo-   and this defiance by the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to protect religious, cultural practices of Native Hawaiians, is also an affront to the Rule of Law.

Mahalo.

Tom Berg

From: Tom Berg <tomberg00@yahoo.com>

To: Melissa Price <pricemel@hawaii.edu>; Javier Cotin <jcotin@hawaii.edu>; Afsheen A. Siddiqi <afsheen.a.siddiqi@hawaii.gov>; David G. Smith <david.g.smith@hawaii.gov>

Cc: Marjorie Ziegler <mz@conservehi.org>

Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2017, 10:48:15 AM HST

Subject: Could be a Pueo Nest @ UHWO

Aloha to You folks doing the Pueo Islandwide survey-  I sent this to you to add to your data-   please see photos- 

Please confirm you got this-   as it stands, where is the report on the current sighting by Dr. Cotin at UHWO?  Is that data available yet ///or on the pueo website?

Mahalo

TB

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From: Tom Berg <tomberg00@yahoo.com>

Cc: Melissa Price <pricemel@hawaii.edu>; Javier Cotin <jcotin@hawaii.edu>; Jenny Hoskins <jenny_hoskins@fws.gov>; Afsheen A. Siddiqi <afsheen.a.siddiqi@hawaii.gov>; David G. Smith <david.g.smith@hawaii.gov>; Marjorie Ziegler <mz@conservehi.org>

Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017, 4:31:28 AM HST

Subject: NEW DATA For Your Records- Could be a Pueo Nest @ UHWO

One Pueo is lighter in color and stays in the trees nearby as a lookout-  in contrast, this darker one/Pueo sitting in the grass I have rarely seen in the trees perching as do the other(s) - it, this one, always flies out from within a hole in the ground....I know where it is. And its days are numbered. 

TB

Here is a video of the darker one that flies out of the ground-

Pueo 8.20.2017

Pueo 8.20.2017 Video Recorded AUGUST 20, 2017 / UHWO

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Irish church aims to end stigma for the children of priests
August 22, 2017, ABC News/Associated Presshttp://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/irish-church-aims-end-stigma-children...

Bishops in Ireland have created detailed guidelines to address an issue the Roman Catholic Church has tried to keep under wraps for centuries: the plight of children born to Catholic priests and the women who bear them. The policy, approved in May and made public recently ... says the mother must be respected and involved in decision-making, and that the priest "should face up to his responsibilities — personal, legal, moral and financial." The guidelines are believed to represent the first comprehensive public policy by a national bishops' conference on the issue, which has long been shrouded in secrecy. The policy is, in many ways, the fruit of a campaign by an Irish psychotherapist, Vincent Doyle, who discovered late in life that his father was a priest. Doyle launched Coping International ... to help eliminate the stigma he and others like him have faced, and educate them and the church about the emotional and psychological problems that can be associated with the secrecy often imposed on them. There are no figures about the number of children fathered by Catholic priests. The Vatican must report to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child on steps it has taken to assess the number of priests' children in the world and ensure that their rights are being respected. In a 2014 report, the Geneva-based committee called for an end to the confidentiality requirements that the Catholic Church often imposes on mothers as a condition for receiving financial assistance.

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Many Doctors Get Goodies from Opioid Makers
August 10, 2017, NBC Newshttps://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/many-doctors-get...

About one out of every 12 U.S. doctors gets money, lunch or something else of value from companies that make opioid drugs, researchers reported Wednesday. Companies are spending much more time and effort marketing opioids to doctors than they are other, less addictive painkillers, the researchers found. They say their findings help explain why doctors have played such an important role in the opioid overuse epidemic. “A large proportion of physicians received payments - one in 12 physicians overall,” said Dr. Scott Hadland of the Boston Medical Center. “Tens of millions of dollars were transferred for marketing purposes for opioids. In some cases they are money provided directly to physicians - for example, the speaking fees, the consultant fees and the honoraria. In other cases it is reimbursement for things like travel,” Hadland said. Between 2013 and 2015, the team found 375,266 payments worth $46 million made to more than 68,000 doctors. “The top 1 percent of physicians (681 of them) received 82.5 percent of total payments in dollars,” the team wrote in their report. A study published last year found that physicians who accepted even one meal sponsored by a drug company were much more likely to prescribe a name-brand drug to patients later. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says doctors are definitely helping drive the addiction crisis. The result is deadly. More than 30,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2015.

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Dying From an Opioid Overdose Is More Common Than You Think
August 7, 2017, Timehttp://time.com/4890536/opioid-heroin-overdose-deaths/

Since 2000, the number of overdose deaths from drugs in the U.S. has risen more than 137%. Deaths from opioids - which include painkillers and heroin - make up a large portion of these deaths; 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Federal numbers like these reveal a dire situation. But a new study finds that many opioid-related deaths are underreported, and that the full picture of the epidemic may be worse than even those numbers show. In the report, Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy & economics at the University of Virginia ... found that nationwide, the death rate from opioids is 24% higher than what has been estimated previously. Deaths related to heroin, which is cheaper than prescription painkillers, are 22% higher, he says. When hospitals enter the cause of death on a person’s death certificate, the drugs that contributed might not be specified, or multiple drugs will be listed as present. Between 20%-25% of the overdose death certificates Ruhm studied did not have any drug specified, suggesting that statewide estimates of deaths linked to opioids could be significantly off. Ruhm found that the overall death rates from opioids were substantially underreported across the U.S. - by more than half in Pennsylvania, for example. The growth in death rates from 2008 to 2014 - the time period Ruhm studied - was also substantially underestimated in many states.

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New ads accuse Big Tobacco of targeting soldiers and people with mental illness
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Truth Initiative, a leading tobacco-control nonprofit, has bought TV ads to run this Sunday during MTV’s Music Awards that accuse tobacco companies of purposely targeting mentally ill people and U.S. soldiers. The ads focus on this stark but little known fact: Roughly 40 percent of cigarettes sold in the U.S. are smoked by people with mental health issues, including depression, anxiety or substance-abuse problems. The ads also note that 38 percent of military smokers start after enlisting. Robin Koval, chief executive of Truth Initiative, accused tobacco companies of exploiting the mentally ill and military for profit. The latest ads from Truth cite internal tobacco industry documents that discuss ways to make inroads into the mentally ill population. They note that tobacco companies even distributed free cigarettes to psychiatric facilities at one point, and tried to sell the idea that they would help steady patients’ nerves. For years, experts say, psychiatrists and therapists often resisted counseling their patients to quit smoking. Their reasoning was that patients would be overburdened by trying to quit smoking. [A] change in approach has begun to spark new partnerships and joint programs between tobacco-control groups and groups like the National Alliance for Mental Illness. At the same time, concern has also increased about smoking among military service members, because of the [young] age when most enlist.

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Legal deal over harsh CIA interrogations marks a milestone
August 18, 2017, Los Angeles Times/Associated Presshttp://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-cia-torture-lawsuit-20170818...

A settlement in a landmark lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation methods used in the war on terror marked the first time the agency or its private contractors have been held accountable for the program, legal experts said. The deal in the lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union also makes it unlikely the CIA will again pursue the tactics, said Deborah Pearlstein, professor at the Cardozo Law School in New York. “This sends a signal to those who might consider doing this in the future,” Pearlstein said, adding, “This puts an exclamation mark at the end of ‘don't torture.’” Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but it avoided a civil trial set for Sept. 5 in federal court. The ACLU sued psychologists James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen on behalf of three former detainees, including one who died in custody, who contended they were tortured at secret CIA prisons overseas. Mitchell and Jessen were under contract with the federal government following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The lawsuit claimed they designed, implemented and personally administered an experimental torture program. The techniques they developed included waterboarding, slamming the three men into walls, stuffing them inside coffin-like boxes, exposing them to extreme temperatures, starving them and keeping them awake for days, the ACLU said. A U.S. Senate investigation in 2014 found that Mitchell and Jessen's techniques produced no useful intelligence. They were paid $81 million for their work.

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Oakland congresswoman wages lonely battle over president’s war authority
August 21, 2017, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Oakland-congresswoman-wages-lonely...

Sixteen years ago, Rep. Barbara Lee was the sole member of Congress to vote against authorizing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Throughout the presidencies of Bush and Barack Obama, Lee waged a lonely crusade to repeal the war resolution initially aimed at al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. Last month, she won a stunning victory when a bipartisan House committee voted to repeal the authorization in an amendment to the 2018 defense spending bill. But her win was short-lived. House Republican leaders stripped the amendment from the bill without a vote in a late-night maneuver that blocked Lee from leading a larger House debate on the president’s use of military force without further approval by Congress. The 2001 authorization was passed by Congress three days after the 9/11 attacks. “It was hastily written; it was overly broad; it was 60 words,” Lee said. Citing the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan arm of Congress, Lee said presidents have used the authorization at least 37 times since the initial Afghanistan invasion in October 2001. The [current] administration, Lee noted, has proposed severe cuts to domestic spending to pay for a bigger military. Escalating the Afghanistan conflict, she said, will come at the expense of “schools and infrastructure and jobs and health care - all the nation-building resources that we need here, here in my own district. “Yet they’re cutting these programs to fund these wars, and that’s ... unfair to the country,” she said.

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Julian Assange slams 'absurd' US plan to label WikiLeaks 'non-state intelligence service'
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Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks, has spoken out against a passing US Senate bill which aims to officially label his organisation as a "non-state hostile intelligence service". WikiLeaks has recently been publishing documents allegedly pilfered from inside the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), something that has led its director, Mike Pompeo, to shift from openly citing its publications to harshly criticising them. The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief ... wrote: "Media organisations develop and protect sources. So do intelligence agencies. But to suggest that media organisations are 'non-state intelligence services is absurd. It is equivalent to suggesting that the CIA is a media organisation." The day prior to the statement's release, it emerged that US senator Ron Wyden was the sole politician to vote against the intelligence committee's authorisation bill. Wyden said: "My concern is that the use of the novel phrase 'non-state hostile intelligence service' may have legal, constitutional, and policy implications, particularly should it be applied to journalists inquiring about secrets. The language in the bill suggesting that the US government has some unstated course of action against 'non-state hostile intelligence services' is equally troubling." Legally, experts warn it is largely impossible to prosecute WikiLeaks without also bringing charges against The New York Times, The Guardian or other mainstream publications. Despite this, US attorney general Jeff Sessions has still pledged to "put some people in jail".

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Texas companies penalized in less than 3% of illegal air pollution cases
July 7, 2017, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/06/illegal-air-pollution...

Texas companies involved in illegal air pollution releases were penalized by the state in fewer than 3% of all cases, according to a new report. The report, Breakdowns in Enforcement ... found that overall Texas imposed penalties for 588 out of 24,839 “malfunction and maintenance events” reported by companies from 2011 to 2016. The incidents caused the emission of over 500m pounds of pollutants and total fines amounted to $13.5m. In 2016 there were 3,720 unauthorised pollution events but only 20 times did the state regulator, the Texas commission on environmental quality (TCEQ), impose a penalty, the report found. Texas is the US’s leading oil and gas producer, making it a template for others. The analysis also claims that many polluters, such as oil and gas wells, are escaping regulators’ attention by wrongly asserting that they emit under 25 tons of sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds each year, a tally entitling them to a permit exemption under state and federal law. Allegations of slack controls in Texas come as Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ... has tried to undo, delay or block more than 30 environmental rules in his first four months in the job. Texas’ government has [also] passed laws in recent years that make it harder for local authorities to assert control and pursue cases in court. In one example, after the city of Denton, near Dallas, prohibited fracking, the state moved swiftly in 2015 to ban the ban.

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KKK leader claims hate group has grown at record pace since Trump became President
August 23, 2017, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kkk-trump...

The Ku Klux Klan has grown faster since Donald Trump’s inauguration than any time in recent memory, a Klan leader has claimed. “I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and I haven’t seen the Klan grow at the pace it’s growing now,” Chris Barker, an Imperial Wizard of the KKK, told The Independent. Mr Barker said that after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville he received 50 applications to join his group in one day. The next day, he received 80. Mr Barker leads the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, which has less than 200 members. As one of the most active Klan groups in the US, the group takes part in “activism” such as burning crosses, advocating for the murder of immigrants, and distributing leaflets claiming, among other things, “transgender is an abomination”. Mr Barker contacted The Independent about a previous article, from which he had gained notoriety for calling a Univision journalist a “n*****” and threatening to burn her out of the country. Approximately 30 KKK groups were active over the course of 2016 – a decrease from the year before. That number has since risen to 40. This summer also marked a departure from the trend of small, scattered, and sparsely attended KKK demonstrations. Several different Klan groups turned out for the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists from around the country protested the removal of a Confederate statue. The rally, which Mr Barker’s group also participated in, was said to be the largest white supremacist gathering in the US in decades.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing civil liberties news articles from reliable major media sources.

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Grandpa had a pension. This generation has cryptocurrency
August 18, 2017, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/grandpa-had-a-pension-this...

Most readers have probably heard of Bitcoin, the digital coin that dominates the cryptocurrency market. It has gained notice both because of its skyrocketing value (from less than a cent in early 2010 to around $2,600 currently). But do you know Ethereum, with a total value of coins in circulation of close to $20 billion? Then there are more than 800 lower-value and often creatively named coins among those listed on Coinmarketcap.com. After years as a niche market for technologically sophisticated anarchists and libertarians excited about a decentralised financial network not under government control, digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream. Cryptocurrency has understandable appeal to millennials, who came of age during the 2008 financial crisis. “There’s a low cost for entry, you don’t pay a lot of fees and millennials are the most tech-savvy,” said John Guarco, 22. Like most of the people interviewed for this article, [Guarco] asked that names of the coins he has invested in not be published. Unlike previous generations, many of these greenhorn investors don’t have pensions, are mistrustful of saving money in mutual funds, and are fully accustomed to owning digital assets. As traditional paths to upper-middle-class stability are being blocked by debt, exorbitant housing costs and a shaky job market, these investors view cryptocurrency not only as a hedge against another stock market crash, but also as the most rational, and even utopian, means of investing their money.

Note: The media has given surprisingly little coverage to the huge gains of bitcoin and other digital currencies. If you had invested $1,000 in Bitcoin four years ago when the price was about $110 per coin, your investment would now be worth nearly $44,000, a whopping 40 times increase. The fact that the media is covering this so little suggests that the price may continue to rise as more people find out, though this is highly speculative and uncertain.

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Sowing seeds of hope in Harlem's children
August 10, 2017, CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/08/10/health/cnn-hero-tony-hillery-harlem-grown...

Six years ago, Tony Hillery was volunteering at a New York City public school in Harlem. In the lunchroom one day, he met a kindergartner who told him that tomatoes grew in the supermarket. "It was a real conversation, and she was adamant," he recalled. "And then I did an informal poll with the other students, and they agreed. They had no idea what is healthy food or where it comes from." Many students lived at or below the poverty line, he said, and lacked affordable, fresh food. But Hillery was shocked to find that many children couldn't properly identify vegetables. Across the street from the school was an abandoned community garden, and Hillery had an idea. He made a few calls, registered it with the city and turned it into what has become a thriving urban farm. "I got this big patch of dirt in the middle of Harlem, and I had never planted anything prior to then," he said. Today, his nonprofit, Harlem Grown, has 10 urban farms throughout the neighborhood. Hillery and his staff teach children how to grow food from seed to harvest and cook healthy meals using the fruits of their labor. Yet Hillery insists that urban farming is the hook to engage the youth. Then his group further enriches their lives through mentoring and exposure to higher education and possible career paths. "The whole world can come through this little farm," said Hillery, whose programs reach more than 4,000 young people a year. "Poverty is just lack of access. We bring that access and that opportunity here to them."

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Once Shot For Advocating For Girls' Education, Malala Is Going To Oxford
August 17, 2017, NPRhttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/544191839/once-shot-for...

Malala Yousafzai was only 15 when she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for campaigning for the education of girls. Now, she has been accepted to Oxford, one of the world's elite universities. She is also the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She was co-laureate in 2014 with Kailish Satyarthi, an advocate for the rights of children in India. The Nobel committee cited their "struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." A little more than a month ago, Malala posted this on her last day of secondary school: "I enjoyed my school years and I am excited for my future. But I can't help thinking of the millions of girls around the world who won't complete their education. I was almost one of those girls." Her father, an educator, was determined she would go to school. But in 2007 Taliban militants took control of Swat and banned the education of girls. It was then that Malala began blogging for the BBC about life under Taliban domination. In 2011, Malala returned to school and began publicly advocating for girls' education. While she was going home from classes one day in 2012, a masked gunman boarded her school bus, asked for her by name, then shot her. She survived but was flown in critical condition to London for treatment. After multiple surgeries, she relocated with her family to Birmingham, England. In a speech before the United Nations on her 16th birthday, Malala urged other young women to take action. "If you want to see your future bright, you have to start working now and not wait for anyone else," she said.

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What Humpback Whales Can Teach Us About Compassion
August 18, 2017, Smithsonian.comhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-humpback-whales-teach-us...

[Humpbacks whales] deliberately interfere with attacking killer whales to help others in distress. They don’t just defend their own babies or close relatives. They intervene on behalf of other species - a gray whale calf with its mother, a seal hauled out on an ice floe, even an ocean sunfish. Humpbacks act to improve the welfare of others; the classic definition of altruism. Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist ... describes a pivotal encounter he witnessed in Antarctica in 2009. A group of killer whales washed a Weddell seal they were attacking off an ice floe. A pair of humpbacks ... inserted themselves into the action. One of the huge humpbacks rolled over on its back and the 180-kilogram seal was swept up onto its chest between the whale’s massive flippers. And when the seal started slipping off, the humpback, according to Pitman, “gave the seal a gentle nudge with its flipper, back to the middle of its chest. Moments later, the seal scrambled off and swam to the safety of a nearby ice floe.” Pitman started asking people to send him similar accounts. Soon he was poring through observations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales, recorded over 62 years. So are humpbacks compassionate? When I pose the ... question to Pitman he [responds], “When a human protects an imperiled individual of another species, we call it compassion. If a humpback whale does so, we call it instinct. But sometimes the distinction isn’t all that clear.”

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China's Clean Energy Ambition Floats on Abandoned Coal Mine
June 8, 2017, Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-08/china-s-clean-energy...

China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Shanghai. There, in Anhui province, Sungrow Power Supply Co. has built the world’s largest floating solar farm with 166,000 panels on a lake created when a nearby mine collapsed. While not an entirely unique idea - similar facilities are working in Japan, the U.K. and Israel - the project’s scale represents a step forward for China in shaping the future of energy. With plans to spend $360 billion on renewable energy by 2020, China is seeking to appear as a global leader on the environment, marking a contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump’s rebuke of the Paris Agreement on climate change. “The Chinese are really investing in the research and development side of innovation,” said Helen Clarkson, chief executive officer of The Climate Group, a non-governmental organization that works to promote clean energy technologies and policy. While Trump has said repeatedly he wants to stimulate fossil fuels and especially coal, China is funding a series of ground-breaking projects that generate power without pollution. Whether with massive floating solar farms like the one in Anhui, sprawling wind farms or ambitious plans to develop geothermal reserves, the world’s most-populous nation is asserting itself as a powerhouse of clean-energy technology.

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