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On the same day the report was listed, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Napa Valley) introduced legislation to attempt to solve the water crisis in the Klamath Basin. Thompson’s legislation, the Klamath River Basin Restoration and Emergency Assistant Act, would allocate $200 million to landowners and tribes throughout the Klamath Basin who participate in water conservation projects.
“The only way we are going to solve this mess is by buying back water rights and reducing the demand for water,” said Wendall Wood of the Oregon Natural Resources Defense Council.
McCracken stated that Federal Judge Oliver Wanger, at the Bureau’s request, ruled that in the event of similar conditions on the Klamath as last year, the Bureau would have the ability to release 50,000 acre feet of cold water down the Trinity.
He also cited the establishment of a water bank of 50,000 acre feet of water to benefit Klamath fisheries, under the management of NOAA Fisheries. “We hope that people recognize that we’re trying to meet both the obligations to both the upper and the lower river basins,” said McCracken.
Masten emphasized that if the problems of the river’s current water management aren’t addressed, the dramatic decline in coho salmon, a federal and state “endangered” species, will be followed by further declines in the rivers’s fall chinooks, spring chinooks, steelhead and green sturgeon populations.
For more information about the Klamath and other endangered rivers, contact www.americanrivers.org. Through this website, you can also easily send a letter telling your Representative in Congress to support Congressman Thompson’s Klamath River Basin Restoration and Emergency Assistance Act.
Canada's largest school board is phasing out the word "chief" from senior staff job titles, saying the move is being made out of respect for Indigenous peoples.
The Toronto District School Board's decision raised eyebrows in some quarters, but a spokesman said the action was taken "in the spirit" of recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
However, Ryan Bird said that to his knowledge no Indigenous people had reached out to ask the board to remove the phrase from its job titles.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spent years documenting the long-standing impacts of Canada's residential school system and made many recommendations to further reconciliation with Indigenous people.
For the TDSB, tackling the word "chief" was a proactive move, Bird said, explaining that the term has come under fire in certain contexts in recent years.
"It may not have originated as an Indigenous word, but the fact is that it is used as a slur in some cases, or in a negative way to describe Indigenous people," he said in an interview Wednesday. "With that in mind, as it has become a slur in some cases, that's the decision the administration has made to be proactive on that."
The board's effort has been underway for a few years and is close to completion, Bird said.
From here on out, the word is being replaced with terms like "manager" and "executive officer" within the school board. For instance, Bird said, the person once called the chief of social work is now the manager of social work.
Word of the TDSB's efforts drew questions from observers online who wondered if the board may have gone too far. Some questioned the need for the move while others pointed out that the word "chief" is widespread in job titles across the world.
Mark Morton, who works at the University of Waterloo's Centre for Teaching Excellence and studies the origin of words, said the root of the word "chief" is believed to predate Latin, and also spawned words such as "captain."
The word "chief" in its modern sense was first used to describe leaders of Irish and Scottish clans in the 1570s, and it wasn't until the 18th century that it was applied to the leaders of First Nations, he said.
The TDSB's effort was the first time Morton had heard of the word being thought of as offensive to First Nations people, but if it was considered truly hurtful, it was fair to phase it out, he said.
"If that usage is going to genuinely hurt a group of people, then I would say yes, by all means, let's see if we can find an alternative," he said. "On the other hand, the word originated outside of the context of First Nations cultures ... and the First Nations associations that it has, I don't think are negative."
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, the director of the teacher education program at the University of Ottawa, wasn't familiar with the TDSB's efforts but noted that in a broader context where sports teams, for example, use derogatory images of Indigenous people alongside the term "chief," disassociating from the word makes sense.
"Even though the etymology and history of chief in terms of administrative positions wasn't necessarily linked to the appropriation of ... the tribal chief appointed, the fact that there might be a connection in light of sports teams being named 'The Chiefs' and having as a mascot a chief, that they would want to disassociate themselves from the possibility."
Ontario's education minister said boards were allowed to have their own discussions over such matters.
"School boards have the flexibility to engage in their own conversations around the steps that should be taken to reflect the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," a spokesman for Mitzie Hunter said in a statement.
The US Department of State has chosen hard-partying rocker Andrew W.K. to serve as Cultural Ambassador to the Middle East, inviting him to visit the island nation of Bahrain to promote — what else? — "partying and world peace."
In a statement on his website, situated just to the right of his familiar bloodied face, W.K. says he feels "very privileged and humbled by the chance to represent the United States of America and show the good people of Bahrain the power of positive partying."
Stops on W.K.'s goodwill tour, which will kick off next month, include "elementary schools, the University of Bahrain, music venues, and more."
If this all sounds like an international incident waiting to happen, then you're obviously not partying hard enough otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear a goddamn thing.
UPDATE: A party-pooping Department of State spokesperson has put the kibosh on reports that Andrew W.K. will travel to Bahrain as an official ambassador of culture, peace, and partying. Though an invitation was extended by the U.S. Embassy in Manama, the State Department quickly rescinded it having determed that W.K. "was probably not a best choice and didn't meet our standards."
A choice of four properties on the market in the popular Harold's Cross area.
Number 12 Armstrong Street is a handily-situated pied-à-terre not much more than 100 metres from the Grand Canal and Clanbrassil Street. It measures 538 sq ft in what is essentially a two-up, two-down layout, although the ground-floor living space is an open-plan sitting room, dining room and kitchen with a gas-fitted fireplace. Off this there's a small rear hallway with a shower room and a door to a rear yard. The first floor has two bedrooms, a double and a single, and the double has a cast-iron fireplace.
Larkfield Grove might occasionally be described (not least by Google Maps) as being in Kimmage. It's well within the historical townland of Harold's Cross West, however, and 10 minutes' walk from Harold's Cross Park. Number 18 Larkfield Grove can call a sizeable chunk of the townland its own, having a 108ft garden out the back - very nicely treated, with hedging, gravel pathways and a deck. Inside, the house is 1,001 sq ft, not including a 96 sq ft converted attic with a skylight. Below that are two first-floor bedrooms and a bathroom, while the ground floor has a kitchen at the front and two interconnected reception rooms at the back.
Parkview Avenue is a T-shaped cul-de-sac opening from Harold's Cross Road, just across from Harold's Cross Park. There's also a pedestrian exit from the end of the street next to Number 8 onto Grosvenor Lane. Number 8, at the end of the terrace, is 1,216 sq ft and has period features including decorative plasterwork and original cast-iron fireplaces in three of the four bedrooms. The lounge and living room downstairs also have fireplaces, and there's another in the breakfast room, which has a kitchenette off it. The back garden is west-facing and surrounded by stone walls.
Having already been extended, 108 Harold's Cross Cottages still measures only 603 sq ft - all on one polygonal-shaped floor. It gives a reasonable appearance of space, however, because there are high ceilings on the ground floor and a bright, open-plan layout. To the front is a living room with a gas-fitted fireplace and the kitchen is through an archway beyond that, with French doors to a gravelled back yard with a timber cabin. There are two bedrooms, one at the back and the other in the middle of the house - landlocked but lit by a skylight, and hence officially a study.
1. Philip Pettit offers some opposition to this common view about trust (1995, 208).
2. Other uncontroversial elements of trust are that trust can be unconscious or tacit (Lagerspetz 1998) and that trust and distrust are “contraries but not contradictories; between them lies a neutral space” (Jones 1996, 16). Elements of trust that specifically concern its epistemology, its value, or what sort of mental attitude it is appear under The Epistemology of Trust, The Value of Trust, and Trust and the Will, respectively.
3. Accounts of trust as a three-place relation can vary. For example, Baier describes the relation as “A trusts B with valued item C” (1986); in other words, A entrusts B with C. (For objections to Baier’s entrusting model, see Jones 1996, 10, 17–19.) Interestingly, in “Trust and Terror,” Karen Jones objects to “three-place analyses” of trust for failing to account for a basic kind of trust that terror often undermines: what Jones calls “basal trust” (2004).
4. To return to a previous example: a sexist employer might truly care about his female employees, even though his caring attitude is informed by sexist stereotypes about female intelligence. Such stereotypes may prevent him from giving women hard tasks that he thinks would frustrate them, but that they would welcome. His female employees might recognize that he means well, but still fail to trust him.
5. Insofar as they see trustworthiness as a moral disposition, philosophers have modeled it on theories other than Aristotle’s, including Kant’s moral theory and consequentialism (see e.g. Hardin 2002, 36–40).
6. Points of convergence among philosophical theories of trustworthiness have to do with assumptions they make about the influence of social norms or conventions on who can be trustworthy. Philosophers tend to agree that if society is set up in such a way that it is difficult for people to be trustworthy, people are less likely to be that way. Feminist philosophers in general concur that in oppressive societies, oppressed people are stereotyped as untrustworthy, making it difficult in many contexts for these people to be trustworthy (because they are rarely trusted) or to be acknowledged as trustworthy (see e.g. Friedman 2004, 228; Webb 1992, 390, Daukas 2006).
7. Notice that the end to which the trust is directed need not be the trusting person’s end alone. Trust may be rational in an end-directed way because it contributes to ends shared by people in relationships or even in whole communities. While some philosophers assume that trust is rational only if it conforms to what a rational egoist would do (i.e. someone who acts on a conception of the good that is purely individual), others say that the trust of socially embedded agents (who act on conceptions of the good that are social as well as individual) can be rational, and indeed more rational than the trust of egoists (Hollis 1998).
8. Pettit offers such an explanation as well, although McGeer is not satisfied with it. He argues that people “who desire the good opinion of others” will respond favorably to being trusted, which can give other people reason to think they will be trustworthy without having independent evidence of this fact. But McGeer claims that trust grounded in the “esteem-seeking mechanism” of wanting others’ good opinion is not rational because it is not dependable; as soon as the trustees see it for what it is—a cunning attempt to get them to behave in a certain way—they will refuse to live up to it (252).
9. For simplicity’s sake, I do not distinguish here between trust that is well-grounded and trust that is justified. I assume that to benefit overall from trusting, or from being trusted, the trust only needs to be justified.
10. Another good often associated with trust is language, or the ability to acquire language (Hertzberg 1988, 308; Webb 1993, 260). This good is only available if one can trust people to use words correctly.
The head of the Roman Catholic church calls on his followers to pray for a peaceful end to a political standoff in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Diane Hodges reports.
Thousands gathered around a giant Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square for the final Sunday prayer and blessing before Christmas. As the Christian holiday celebrating peace approaches, Pope Francis urged the crowd to pray for an end to conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) POPE FRANCIS SAYING: "I ask you all to pray that the dialogue in the Democratic Republic of Congo is conducted with serenity to avoid any kind of violence and for the good of the whole country." DRC President Joseph Kabila's term in office expires Monday. But he says elections to choose his successor can't be held until 2018. Political opponents in the central African nation are vowing to stage massive demonstrations in protest. A group of Catholic bishops have been trying to resolve the standoff, and delegates say the talks will resume on Wednesday. ...likely hoping they will now be supported by the prayers of thousands of these Catholic faithful who will heed the Pope's call.
One of The Voice's favourite singers looked crushed when it seemed she had been eliminated after a tight battle round.
But minister's daughter Jess Berney was saved at the last moment by a shock twist, and so instead of going home she found herself at the centre of a different kind of battle between coaches will.i.am and Joel Madden — who had both used their save power to offer her a second chance.
Berney faced off against a fellow fan favourite, opera teacher Elly Oh, in a spectacular sudden death sing-off that featured the two belting the opera classic 'O mio babbino caro'.
Ricky Martin, who coached both Berney and Oh, agonised over which young singer to keep and which to send home.
"You guys were both so amazing," he gushed after their performance earned a standing ovation.
But ultimately he chose to keep Oh.
Berney looked gracious but crushed by defeat — until both Madden and will.i.am tried to use their save power to snap her up for their own team, once again giving her the power to decide who would coach her.
She decided on Madden, who welcomed her "big voice" to his team.
This is the first year the coaches on The Voice Australia have been given the opportunity to save other coaches' singers by poaching them for their own team.
Earlier in Sunday night's episode, Martin used his save power after Jackson Thomas and Robbie Balmer's battle.
Berney, who has never had formal vocal training, told ninemsn she was surprised that she and Oh were given such a "big, classic song" for their battle.
"The (Italian) language was really tough," she said. "Because I don't have that training, I don't really know how to pronounce a lot of the words."
Despite besting Berney in their head-to-head, Oh says she believes her rival has what it takes to win the competition.
"She's got a beautiful voice," Oh told ninemsn. " I don't have that kind of pure voice I think she has the potential to be (the winner)."
Oh rocked the blind auditions with her performance of 'Mama Knows Best', while Berney won over all four judges with her angelic 'Pie Jesu'.
Author: Sam Downing with Chloe Ross.
Sarah Silverman gets candid about Hulu canceling her series ‘I Love You, America.’ On the inaugural episode of The Daily Beast’s new ‘Last Laugh’ podcast, Silverman revealed that the network exhibited some ‘cheap’ behavior while she fronted a show.
It’s been more than two months since Hulu canceled Sarah Silverman’s enigmatic series “I Love You, America.” Now, the star herself is laying into the streaming network for pulling the plug on one of its only shows garnering Emmy Awards attention.
The reality series debuted in October 2017 and sought to send the 48-year-old comedian around the country to not only speak to her more liberal-leaning audience but to try and meet those on the American right halfway across the aisle to find common ground on issues like abortion, immigration and religion. It earned itself both an Emmy and Writers Guild nomination during its 21-episode run.
Speaking in the inaugural episode of The Daily Beast’s new “Last Laugh” podcast with Matt Wilstein, Silverman got candid about Hulu’s decision to ax the show, noting that she was "super-bummed about it" and even revealed that the network exhibited some “cheap” behavior while she fronted a show.
However, the star’s diplomacy with regard to Hulu was short-lived. Silverman, who is known for going off-book in interviews in the past, debated whether she should tell a particular story about her time working at the network. Finally, she concluded that she would “burn this one down” and discussed a surprising bill she received after the Emmys.
After noting that “I Love You, America” was one of the only shows on Hulu that garnered awards attention besides the highly-popular “Handmaid’s Tale,” she explained that the network billed her $1,500 for her hair and makeup at the Emmys.
Silverman also discussed her 2018 Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. At the time, Netflix, a company she hadn’t worked with in more than a year, sent her roses and made a donation to a charity that the comedian supports. However, she revealed Hulu didn’t even send her an email to congratulate her despite her being an active star on its network.
Yahoo unveiled two new advertising formats Monday as the company continues to battle quarterly declines in ad revenue.
One, called "Stream Ads," are ad units that appear in-line with — and in the same format as — stories in Yahoo's news feed. The ads run across desktop, tablet and mobile. The aim, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a blog post, is to provide advertising that is both "unobtrusive" and "enhance[s] content discovery in a seamless and effective manner." Advertisements are tailored to various users, à la Yahoo's general news feed, which allows users to customize their stream according to the topics they're most interested in.
The second ad unit, "Yahoo.com Billboard," is a large display unit that runs across the top of Yahoo's desktop homepage. Like this billboard ad from The New York Times, Yahoo's new unit allows advertisers to add an extra layer of interactivity. An ad for an upcoming film could include a widget for purchasing tickets within the ad, or include multiple links to third-party websites.
Though both units are likely to attract some advertiser interest, it's unlikely they'll be able to fully reverse Yahoo's continued declines in ad revenue. Search revenue increased 6% last quarter to $342 million, but did not make up for the 11% fall in display revenue to $402 million, nor the price-per-click revenue decrease of 7% year-over-year. Overall Q1 2013 revenue was down from $1.22 billion to $1.1 billion from the same quarter a year earlier.
The catch: You must buy something else (“any purchase,” the fine print says) and show this coupon on your phone or by printing it out.
Firehouse Subs: The sub shop is giving away one medium sub with the donation of an unopened 24-pack of bottled water on Saturday, August 6. One per person.
Fresno has one Firehouse Subs restaurant at 128 W. Nees Avenue, across Blackstone from In-N-Out Burger.
Shila Korean BBQ: This one is a completely free entree for law-enforcement officers and firefighters.
With all the recent shootings involving officers, owner Lee Zhang wanted to do something for them.
“I saw all the news of what’s going on with law enforcement and I just want to show my support,” he says.
On the first day of each month starting Sept. 1, people who show their badge will get a free meal. Beverage and desserts will need to be purchased.
Shila has two locations: at 1205 Herndon Ave. in Clovis near Sunnyside Avenue and 2760 W. Shaw Ave. near Marks Avenue in Fresno.
Ciudad Real (Spain): The Indian market is fast opening up to wine, both domestic and imported, with changing social norms, a middle class with disposable incomes and prospects of the government reducing taxes, an Indian wine expert said here Wednesday.
Subhash Arora, president of the Delhi Wine Club, asked delegates at the Spanish Wine Fair 2007 (Fenavin) to be "price sensitive" while seeking Indian market, which did not necessarily mean selling cheapest wine.
India already has a well-developed domestic industry that also exported the commodity, he cautioned them. But there was good scope for good brands of wine in the niche market.
The best way to come to India was enter into partnerships in trade and production. French, Italians, Australians, Germans and others were already marking their presence, Arora said.
While India regularly participates in Vinexpo, at Bordeaux, France, Vinitaly at Verona, Italy, Prowein, Dusseldorf, Germany and the London Wine Fair in the UK, the participation in Fenavin is the first one with a dozen importers here.
Arora drew a contrasting picture of the Indian situation, calling it "The Indian Paradox", where millions drank despite religious and social taboos. There was more consumption of 'hard' liquor - 120 million cases of whisky, vodka and other hard liquor and 105 mill cases of beer every year.
"Add 200 million cases of country liquor and a sizable number that is unaccounted for, 500 million cases of liquor are annually consumed. This is the Indian paradox," Arora said.
At the same time, wine, treated as part of food in the West, was shunned because of its alcohol content. Even so, 170,000 cases of wine were consumed every year and the market had grown by 40 per cent last year.
"You can vote at the age of 18. The girls can even get married at the age of 18. Yet the legal drinking age is 25. This is the Indian Paradox," he said.
"Our finance minister (P. Chidambaram) and the commerce minister (Kamal Nath) are both connoisseurs of fine wine and do not mind breaking bread and sharing a glass of wine. The minister of agriculture (Sharad Pawar) is a big grape farmer and has gone on record saying that wine should be treated as food item, like in Italy and Spain. But he had to backtrack due to anti-alcohol lobby and the wine continues to be subject to VAT at 20 percent," Arora said.
However, he said that with a nine per cent-plus growth rate, of taxes being reduced and a rapid expansion of organised retail, India offered bright prospects.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Support of utility rates and attracting consumer use of alternative energy offerings requires brand trust among residential electric and natural gas utility consumers, according to a new Cogent Reports™ study by Market Strategies International. This annual study highlights a statistical relationship between brand trust and rate support, and shows customers expect utilities to expand support for new offerings and community outreach as a result of rate increases. The study’s findings, which designates 44 utilities as “Most Trusted Brands,” can be found in the 2017 Utility Trusted Brand & Customer Engagement™: Residential study.
“Building a brand that customers trust and offering products and services customers will use are the new utility challenges. Brand trust is truly the difference between customers supporting or resisting new utility income opportunities,” said Chris Oberle, senior vice president at Market Strategies International.
High brand trust scores are required to attract customer use of alternative energy offerings and to increase the preference to use utilities as providers of these products. Additionally, customers who trust their utility are twice as likely to recommend those alternative energy products to other customers.
The study’s brand trust index has declined by one point this year to 692 (on a 1,000-point scale). The study, now in its fourth year, benchmarks brand performance of 130 utilities on a quarterly basis among 59,823 utility consumers. The brand trust index is based upon 35 rating questions that relate to a suite of emotional attachment and management performance factors.
This year, Cogent has designated 44 utilities as 2017 Most Trusted Brands. This group of utilities scores 40 points higher on brand trust than their industry peers. As a result of the brand trust garnered among customers, Most Trusted Brand utilities experience a 7 percent improvement in support for rate increases and a 27 percent boost in positive customer comments than industry peers. Additionally, Most Trusted Brands are viewed by customers as better stock investments.
The following four tables show benchmark scoring among the utilities surveyed.
* Most Trusted Brand designation is awarded to utilities that score in the top quartile, or achieve top two regional designation or are within 20-points of the top regional score.
Cogent Reports conducted surveys among 59,823 residential electric, natural gas and combination utility customers of the 130 largest US utility companies (based on residential customer counts). The sample design uses US census data and strict quotas to ensure a demographically balanced sample of each evaluated utility’s customers based on age, gender, income, race and ethnicity. Utilities within the same region and of the same type (e.g., electric-only providers) are given equal weight in order to balance the influence of each utility’s customers on survey results. Market Strategies will supply the exact wording of any survey questions upon request.
Market Strategies International is a leading provider of research and consulting services to utility management, trusted by the world’s most successful organizations to help them thrive. We blend primary research with data from our syndicated, benchmarking and self-funded studies to provide clients with exceptional research insight that helps solve their challenges. Our research specialties include brand, communications, CX, product development and segmentation. Our syndicated products, known as Cogent Reports, help clients understand the market environment, explore industry trends and monitor their brand within the competitive landscape. Founded in 1989, Market Strategies is one of the largest market research firms in the world. Read Market Strategies’ blog at FreshMR, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.