ADHD EXPERT WEBINAR
Get the School Year Back on Track:
Strategies for Overcoming Your Student's Toughest Daily Challenges
EXPERT: Sharon Saline, Psy.D.
Wednesday, December 4 @ 1pm Eastern Time - Register now!
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Midway through the school year, do you feel like you're taking two steps forward and two steps back? If so, you're not alone! Now is the perfect time to regroup and make necessary changes. Learn practical tools for re-thinking and overcoming common obstacles that will ensure a more successful second half of the school year for your child with ADHD.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
The expert Q&A webinar Get the School Year Back on Track: Strategies for Overcoming Your Student's Toughest Daily Challenges will take place Wednesday, December 4, 2019, from 1pm-2pm Eastern Time (12pm-1pm CT; 11am-12pm MT; 10am-11am PT).
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KUED Kids 27th Annual Reading Marathon Kickoff
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South
Saturday, November 2
9 am to 1 pm
The annual Reading Marathon encourages children to read or be read to 20 minutes each day from November 1 to 30 and to log their minutes on a special form they can get at the event or download online. Children who complete the 20 minutes a day and turn in their forms by December 15 will receive the Adventure Pass that includes free entrance for the reader to Natural History Museum of Utah, Hogle Zoo, Red Butte Garden, Thanksgiving Point, and more so that you can (wait for it) get out and about!
Tons of other organizations will be joining the event with fun activities. Tracy Aviary, Bad Dog Arts, Ogden Nature Center, Utah Symphony & Utah Opera, Clark Planetarium, Discovery Gateway, and others will be hosting activities for kids of all ages. Head Start will be engaging kids with mindfulness activities like yoga, while Westminster College will be shooting off rockets! Utah Film Center will be showing the quirky and sweet children's Swedish film "Up in the Sky" at 11 am in the theater, and Intermountain Therapy Animals will bring dogs for you to sit and read with.
This is a huge event -- last year 1,500 people attended the Reading Marathon Kickoff. Underground parking is accessible from Eastbound 400 South between 200 and 300 East. It's free for the first half-hour, then $1.50 for each half-hour after that. The Library TRAX station is just north of the library, and that's a great option, too.
Visit kued.org for more information or to print out a reading log and get started reading!
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KUED Kids 27th Annual Reading Marathon Kickoff
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South
Saturday, November 2
9 am to 1 pm
The annual Reading Marathon encourages children to read or be read to 20 minutes each day from November 1 to 30 and to log their minutes on a special form they can get at the event or download online. Children who complete the 20 minutes a day and turn in their forms by December 15 will receive the Adventure Pass that includes free entrance for the reader to Natural History Museum of Utah, Hogle Zoo, Red Butte Garden, Thanksgiving Point, and more so that you can (wait for it) get out and about!
Tons of other organizations will be joining the event with fun activities. Tracy Aviary, Bad Dog Arts, Ogden Nature Center, Utah Symphony & Utah Opera, Clark Planetarium, Discovery Gateway, and others will be hosting activities for kids of all ages. Head Start will be engaging kids with mindfulness activities like yoga, while Westminster College will be shooting off rockets! Utah Film Center will be showing the quirky and sweet children's Swedish film "Up in the Sky" at 11 am in the theater, and Intermountain Therapy Animals will bring dogs for you to sit and read with.
This is a huge event -- last year 1,500 people attended the Reading Marathon Kickoff. Underground parking is accessible from Eastbound 400 South between 200 and 300 East. It's free for the first half-hour, then $1.50 for each half-hour after that. The Library TRAX station is just north of the library, and that's a great option, too.
Visit kued.org for more information or to print out a reading log and get started reading!
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KUED Kids 27th Annual Reading Marathon Kickoff
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South
Saturday, November 2
9 am to 1 pm
The annual Reading Marathon encourages children to read or be read to 20 minutes each day from November 1 to 30 and to log their minutes on a special form they can get at the event or download online. Children who complete the 20 minutes a day and turn in their forms by December 15 will receive the Adventure Pass that includes free entrance for the reader to Natural History Museum of Utah, Hogle Zoo, Red Butte Garden, Thanksgiving Point, and more so that you can (wait for it) get out and about!
Tons of other organizations will be joining the event with fun activities. Tracy Aviary, Bad Dog Arts, Ogden Nature Center, Utah Symphony & Utah Opera, Clark Planetarium, Discovery Gateway, and others will be hosting activities for kids of all ages. Head Start will be engaging kids with mindfulness activities like yoga, while Westminster College will be shooting off rockets! Utah Film Center will be showing the quirky and sweet children's Swedish film "Up in the Sky" at 11 am in the theater, and Intermountain Therapy Animals will bring dogs for you to sit and read with.
This is a huge event -- last year 1,500 people attended the Reading Marathon Kickoff. Underground parking is accessible from Eastbound 400 South between 200 and 300 East. It's free for the first half-hour, then $1.50 for each half-hour after that. The Library TRAX station is just north of the library, and that's a great option, too.
Visit kued.org for more information or to print out a reading log and get started reading!
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Dear Editor:
Please consider this deadly serious satire from defense attorney Kary Love on the astonishing claim of divine right made by a Trump lawyer, and the existential threat to life on Earth that exists when a nuclear arsenal can take every life and can be launched by one person, in this case someone who seriously believes himself to be above the law. For PeaceVoice, thank you,
Tom Hastings
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Of course a US president can murder somebody without legal jeopardy--ain’t that great!
by Kary Love
826 words
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without losing voters.
Now, in a case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (and probably when appealed to the US Supreme Court), the president’s attorney William Consovoy told the three-judge panel that immunity would also temporarily shield Trump from prosecution for that act.
“This is not a permanent immunity,” Consovoy said, when asked by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin to respond to a police investigation in “the Fifth Avenue example.” Judge Chin pressed Trump’s attorney if he means that, during the president’s tenure, “nothing could be done?”
Consovoy emphasized. “That is correct.”
Apparently, some people are upset with this. I cannot figure that out. It has been clear that Presidents since Harry Truman have enjoyed such immunity.
“Give em hell Harry“ as he was affectionately called, began the evolution of the President from agent of the law and the people, into Imperial Caesar we all want and love. First, came the so-called Korean War. Of course, that is a misnomer—Congress which alone has the power to declare war did not do so in that case. Without a declaration of war, many thought the “war“ was illegal. If there is no legal war, then the killing committed during it was not legal (killing in legal war so long as done in accord with the law of war is legal) but arguably was homicide.
Rather than repel in horror at this, Congress not only failed to reclaim its core and most important, existential power, the power to keep America out of unnecessary wars, but it actually delegated to the President the power to unilaterally launch nuclear war—which could result not just in homicide but omnicide—the killing of all humans. Had Truman exercised this power he really would have been giving “em hell.” As JFK later said, after nuclear war “the living would envy the dead.” And, almost certainly, soon join them as the poison spread and nuclear winter killed and poisoned the crops.
Even today the USA has 6,000 hydrogen bomb weapons ready to go in a world with only 512 cities of over one million in population, or about 11.7 hydrogen bombs for each city. These “new and more useable” bombs are much more powerful than those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so one per city would probably do the trick! That would leave lots of “extras” to finish off smaller targets.
Every President since Truman has had this power. They routinely threaten it with impunity: that is what they all mean when, in times of “crisis” the White House issues the statement: “all options are on the table.” It means: “How do you like that you so and so [insert enemy d'jour here].” We can visit a “fire and a fury “on you the likes of which you have never seen. Every President since Truman has made such threats with impunity. In fact, we, their fellow citizens, cheer them on! Walking softly but carry a big stick? Hell no! Swagger around and threaten worldwide murder! That is giving em hell, ain’t I right?
Now I could be wrong, but in my study of the illegality of nuclear weapons, I have seen not a single President called to task on making nuclear threats. Rather, the making of such threats seems to have enhanced Presidential stature—somewhat ironically given the apparent usurpation of Congress's role in war-making. So, the foundation was laid for Presidential immunity and impunity in war declaring and making.
Once the foundation is there, and the people and Congress acquiesce, mission creep soon extends the immunity and impunity to other areas. As each President builds on the claims of those before, the President becomes the King. And soon the King claim “the law, that is me!” And, once the King gets away with that, in no time he claims to be “above the law.” Shocked? Nah, this is a good thing.
No more “Vietnam Syndrome!” (Another undeclared “war.”) No more liberal pantywaist adherence to treaties or laws. Nah! Now the gloves are off! Now the President has risen above the Constitution’s directive that he “take care to faithfully execute the law” and has full power to do whatever is “necessary to defend the homeland" (or anything to enrich his royal coffers despite the "phony emoluments clause"). Let us all cheerlead this! The world will not have the USA to kick around anymore! Today the President on his sole authority does war all around the world, while scarcely breaking a sweat.
Yes, the President can not only murder someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and be immune from the bar of justice—he can kill everyone on Fifth Avenue, and every other street everywhere in the world, without concern. Knowing that such power exists, and can be exercised with impunity by our Lord and King ought to make you sleep soundly tonight! God save the King! To hell with the rest of you.
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Kary Love, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Michigan attorney who has defended nuclear resisters, including some desperado nuns, in court for decades and will on occasion use blunt force satire or actual legal arguments to make a point.
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Humane Society of Utah executive director dresses like a cat, sings to promote adoption campaign
Nonprofit sets a goal to adopt 400 cats in four weeks in an adoption campaign to save lives
To draw attention to the overabundance of cats and kittens currently in shelters, Vaughn Maurice, executive director of the Humane Society of Utah, donned a cat onesie and sang a parody of John Denver’s Country Roads from the perspective of an adoptable shelter cat. Begging to “Take me home, adopt me now,” Maurice humorously portrays how stressful it is for a cat to be in a shelter waiting to be adopted. To ease the burden on Utah shelters that are struggling to handle thousands of homeless felines, the Humane Society of Utah has set an ambitious goal to find homes for 400 cats and kittens over the next four weeks. All adoption fees are being waived for felines from Oct. 20 through Nov. 16, 2019.
“The more cats that we can adopt out, the more we can transfer in from our partnering shelters,” said Maurice. “Our organization feels an urgency to save these cats and help other shelters do the same. We’ll do whatever it takes to promote adopting a cat right now, even something as embarrassing as singing in a cat costume.”
Since the adoption campaign began on Oct. 20, the Humane Society of Utah has adopted 95 felines in the first five days.
The Humane Society of Utah has transferred from other shelters that are also working hard to save the lives of the cats in their care. Shelters in Salt Lake County, Davis County, Uintah County, Grantsville City, and West Valley City transferred in the first week. “This effort isn’t’ ours alone we appreciate the network of shelters working together to address this cat crisis,” said Maurice.
Most shelters struggle to handle the thousands of cats and kittens they receive during the warmer months each year. This season has seen an increase in cat and kitten intake to shelters across the state. The Humane Society of Utah believes it may be a combination of warm weather, a lack of spay/neuter resources, and cities and counties not providing enough support for community cat programs and animal control services.
“Spaying and neutering your pet is the most important thing a pet owner can do to prevent unwanted animals from entering shelters,” said Maurice.
To view all adoptable cats and kittens, visit UtahHumane.org/adopt and visit the Humane Society of Utah adoption center located at 4242 S. 300 W. in Murray, Utah between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
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About Utah Humane Society
The Humane Society of Utah is dedicated to the elimination of pain, fear, and suffering in all animals. Since 1960, the Utah Humane Society has been sheltering homeless animals, fighting cruelty and neglect, and creating an atmosphere of respect, responsibility, and compassion for all animals. As the largest open-admission private animal resource center in the state, the Utah Humane Society welcomes any companion animal that can legally be admitted. We work hard to ensure that every healthy and treatable pet that enters the facility will be placed into a loving home. The Humane Society of Utah is a local, independent 501(c)(3) private nonprofit organization that does not receive any state or government funding and is not a branch of any national organization. It is funded by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, and foundations. Read more online at www.utahhumane.org.
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Deputy Secretary Censky Leads Trade Mission to West Africa
(Washington, D.C., October 25, 2019) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky will lead a trade mission to West Africa, October 28-31, to help United States exporters unlock new opportunities in a region where strong economic growth is driving demand for imported food and farm products.
“At USDA we are working to sell the bounty of American agriculture. West Africa is a bright spot with a growing middle class that are hungry for our delicious and wholesome agriculture products,” said Deputy Secretary Censky. “Through this trade mission and other efforts, USDA is proud to support President Trump’s Prosper Africa initiative, which is seeking to boost two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa. Prosper Africa brings together the full range of U.S. government resources to connect U.S. and African businesses with new buyers, suppliers, and investment opportunities – a win for the United States and for countries across the African continent.”
The mission will be based in Accra, Ghana, and will also include buyer delegations from Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Senegal. Following the trade mission, Deputy Secretary Censky will hold a press call back to U.S. media. More info including RSVP info for press is at the bottom of this release.
Deputy Secretary Censky will be joined by Nebraska Department of Agriculture Director Steve Wellman, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring, officials from the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and representatives from the following companies and organizations:
Deputy Secretary Censky to Hold Press Call Regarding USDA’s Trade Mission to West Africa
The good news about our oil supplies
By Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
Within days of the September attack on one of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil fields, fears of rising gasoline prices were relieved when production quickly returned to the new normal. This was largely a result of a 40% increase in U.S. oil supplies in the past three years (3.65 million barrels per day rise since the end of 2016).
Vast worldwide reserves demonstrate that oil shocks like the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s are now a thing of the past. In the U.S. alone, we are just seeing the beginning of continued increases. The West Texas Permian Basin will add another million gallons per day in the next few months as new pipelines come on board to take oil to market. Four thousand wells sit idle waiting for hydraulic fracturing once transport of the new oil is assured.
Saudi Arabia restored half their production within a week and reached out to other countries to gain oil to supply all its clients with contracted oil. They paid a premium to the construction companies helping to build back their own supply within only a few weeks.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), consisting of 30 oil consuming nations including the U.S. and Canada, coordinates their energy security. They can all release oil from their strategic reserves when necessary. Their rule of thumb is to do nothing until 7% of global supply is affected. This last happened during the Libyan civil war in 2011 when IEA ordered the release of 60 million barrels of oil collectively from its 30 nations.
At the end of September, IEA reported that crude oil stockpiles around the world had increased by 2.4 million barrels even though analysts had expected a decline. In fact, there is now considerable worry about a worldwide over-supply as a result of the U.S.-China trade war. Concurrently, natural gas prices have declined for three months.
On September 15, President Trump tweeted that, if necessary, he would have the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) drawn down but it was not necessary to hold U.S. prices down. Currently, America holds 644.8 million barrels in the SPR, valued at more than $35 billion, in four locations in Texas and Louisiana in underground salt caverns. The oil can be extracted at any time by pumping water into the bottom of the caverns and forcing oil out of the top, but it takes about two weeks to draw off significant quantities. At its peak in 2010, the SPR contained 726 million barrels. America has been selling off some of that reserve thought to be unneeded for its security in recent years.
The weakening of the OPEC cartel to drive gasoline prices bodes well for a more stable future. Although OPEC will continue trying to get its members to limit production in an attempt to boost prices, the world is starting to pay less and less attention. Commodity cartels have generally had a poor record of elevating long-term prices.
In the United States and Canada, the population is slowly waking up to the fact that we are no longer held hostage by the Middle East to have an abundant oil supply. America is again the greatest source of the world’s oil, as we were long ago. Memories of peak oil, the idea that the world was soon to run out of oil, are fading. Reasonable predictions of how long our known supplies will last at current rates of utilization range into many centuries. In the real world, short term fears generated by oil shortage shocks will soon become a thing of the past.
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Dr. Jay Lehr is Senior Policy Advisor with of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Tom Harris is Executive Director of ICSC.
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The good news about our oil supplies
By Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
Within days of the September attack on one of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil fields, fears of rising gasoline prices were relieved when production quickly returned to the new normal. This was largely a result of a 40% increase in U.S. oil supplies in the past three years (3.65 million barrels per day rise since the end of 2016).
Vast worldwide reserves demonstrate that oil shocks like the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s are now a thing of the past. In the U.S. alone, we are just seeing the beginning of continued increases. The West Texas Permian Basin will add another million gallons per day in the next few months as new pipelines come on board to take oil to market. Four thousand wells sit idle waiting for hydraulic fracturing once transport of the new oil is assured.
Saudi Arabia restored half their production within a week and reached out to other countries to gain oil to supply all its clients with contracted oil. They paid a premium to the construction companies helping to build back their own supply within only a few weeks.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), consisting of 30 oil consuming nations including the U.S. and Canada, coordinates their energy security. They can all release oil from their strategic reserves when necessary. Their rule of thumb is to do nothing until 7% of global supply is affected. This last happened during the Libyan civil war in 2011 when IEA ordered the release of 60 million barrels of oil collectively from its 30 nations.
At the end of September, IEA reported that crude oil stockpiles around the world had increased by 2.4 million barrels even though analysts had expected a decline. In fact, there is now considerable worry about a worldwide over-supply as a result of the U.S.-China trade war. Concurrently, natural gas prices have declined for three months.
On September 15, President Trump tweeted that, if necessary, he would have the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) drawn down but it was not necessary to hold U.S. prices down. Currently, America holds 644.8 million barrels in the SPR, valued at more than $35 billion, in four locations in Texas and Louisiana in underground salt caverns. The oil can be extracted at any time by pumping water into the bottom of the caverns and forcing oil out of the top, but it takes about two weeks to draw off significant quantities. At its peak in 2010, the SPR contained 726 million barrels. America has been selling off some of that reserve thought to be unneeded for its security in recent years.
The weakening of the OPEC cartel to drive gasoline prices bodes well for a more stable future. Although OPEC will continue trying to get its members to limit production in an attempt to boost prices, the world is starting to pay less and less attention. Commodity cartels have generally had a poor record of elevating long-term prices.
In the United States and Canada, the population is slowly waking up to the fact that we are no longer held hostage by the Middle East to have an abundant oil supply. America is again the greatest source of the world’s oil, as we were long ago. Memories of peak oil, the idea that the world was soon to run out of oil, are fading. Reasonable predictions of how long our known supplies will last at current rates of utilization range into many centuries. In the real world, short term fears generated by oil shortage shocks will soon become a thing of the past.
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Dr. Jay Lehr is Senior Policy Advisor with of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). Tom Harris is Executive Director of ICSC.
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USDA Announces Early Release of Select Commodity Tables for USDA’s Agricultural Projections to 2029
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2019 — On November 1, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. DST, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release selected tables prepared for the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2029 report. USDA will post online tables containing long-term supply, use, and price projections to 2029 for major U.S. crops and livestock products, and will include supporting U.S. and international macroeconomic assumptions. The short-term projections from the October 11, 2019 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report are used as a starting point.
The complete USDA Agricultural Projections to 2029 report will be released in February 2020. The complete report will include a full discussion of the commodity supply and use projections, as well as projections for farm income and global commodity trade. The early-release tables will be in MS Excel format and posted to the Office of the Chief Economist’s (OCE) website at www.usda.gov/oce.
USDA’s long-term agricultural projections represent a departmental consensus on a ten-year representative scenario for the agricultural sector. They are a composite of model results and judgment-based analyses, prepared from September through October 2019. The projections do not represent USDA forecasts, but rather reflect a conditional long-run scenario based upon specific assumptions about macroeconomic conditions, policy, weather, and international developments, with no domestic or external shocks to global agricultural markets. The Agricultural Act of 2018 is assumed to remain in effect through the projection period.
Background on USDA’s long-term projections and past issues of the report are available on the ERS website at www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/agricultural-baseline.
