A New Path Forward: A Plan for Sustainable Record Verification To address these issues, we propose a comprehensive plan to modernize the state record verification process while prioritizing fish conservation:  1. Certified Mobile Verification Teams Develop a network of certified fisheries biologists and officials trained in verifying state record fish. These teams can be dispatched to an angler’s location, equipped with specialized tools to measure, weigh, and document the fish on-site.  2. Adopt Advanced Technology Implement the use of high-resolution photography, video evidence, and certified scales as primary tools for verification. Anglers can submit detailed visual and weight data to the appropriate authorities, eliminating the need to sacrifice the fish.  3. Mandatory Measurement Standards Require the use of standardized measuring devices and certified scales for all potential record submissions. These tools can be made more readily available through local bait shops, tackle stores, or DNR offices, ensuring anglers have easy access.  4. Temporary Live Holding Solutions Encourage the use of aerated live wells, holding tanks, or other temporary fish-friendly solutions that allow the fish to remain alive and healthy during the verification process. Guidelines can be provided to anglers on how to safely store the fish until it is verified and released.  5. Education and Outreach Launch a campaign to educate anglers about the importance of conserving state record fish. Highlight the ecological benefits of releasing these fish and the role they play in maintaining a healthy fish population.  6. Pilot Program and Feedback Test the new verification process through a pilot program in select regions. Gather feedback from anglers, biologists, and conservationists to refine the system before implementing it statewide.

To Our Elected Representatives: Can you please fix the following issues created by the Santa Paula mudslide: 1. Mail-Can you please arrange for the USPS to deliver mail to the Upper Ojai residents in Upper Ojai at the Stagecoach Market? We'll pay for the cement slab and the mailboxes and we have a space ready to go. Residents are currently driving 1 hour from Upper Ojai to Santa Paula and then 1 hour back, just to retrieve their mail. This is unnecessary and unacceptable; 2. Pedestrian Path + Secure Car Parking- Can you please create a pedestrian path and a secure place to park vehicles on both sides of the slide? Mupu Elementary school students-who live 5 minutes away from school, but on the Ojai side of the slide-are either driving 2 hours to /from school or creating their own walking path across the creek and slide. This is dangerous. Santa Paula residents who work in Ojai are now commuting 2 hours instead of 15 minutes. Ojai residents who work in Santa Paula are doing the same. Residents on the Ojai side have no access to emergency services. Please immediately create a secure place to park cars on both sides of the slide and a pedestrian path that allows access to schools, work and emergency care; and 3. Meeting-Please come to Upper Ojai and speak with us. Having the Cal-Trans PIO hold his cell phone to a microphone so that a Cal Trans engineer could speak to people in Santa Paula just isn't cutting it. You've been to Upper Ojai fundraising and now we are inviting you back. Please accept our invitation and immediately fix these two issues. Thank you

Leopards are one of the “Big 5” rare species sought by trophy hunters alongside elephants, rhinos and lions. To kill elusive, shy leopards, hunters draw them in by hanging a rotting impala from a tree and then lie in wait to gun them down. It’s sickening, and it needs to end. We need your action right now to stop the import of African leopards killed by trophy hunters. Sign a petition to help save leopards. Scientists fear leopard populations in Africa are plummeting. The animals are losing their habitat and prey, they die in conflicts with humans, their skins are coveted for illegal trade, and they’re being gunned down by trophy hunters. Americans bring home more than half of all leopard trophies worldwide — averaging almost 300 leopards each year shot in cold blood as decoration for living-room walls or social media feeds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must take the following actions: -Stop permitting leopard trophy imports until the agency knows how dire the leopard’s decline is. We don’t know how many leopards remain and how many are dying each year for trophies or for their skins. Until the Fish and Wildlife Service has the basic, hard facts on leopards, it must not permit trophy hunters to import these imperiled cats’ parts. -Uplist the African leopard under the Endangered Species Act from threatened to endangered. U.S. law restricts the import of trophies from endangered species. The dangers posed to this species by trophy hunters and rampant habitat destruction can’t be ignored: The animals must be protected by the full power of the Act.

Homeless Bill of Rights We, the undersigned, herby petition the City of Wausau, Wisconsin to pass a Homeless Bill of Rights. We believe our unhoused friends and neighbors deserve the rights to: (1) Use and move freely in public spaces including, but not limited to, public sidewalks, public parks, public transportation and public buildings, in the same manner as any other person, and without discrimination on the basis of experiencing homelessness; (2) Equal treatment by all state and municipal agencies, without discrimination on the basis of experiencing homelessness; (3) Be free from discrimination while seeking or maintaining employment due to the lack of a permanent mailing address, or a mailing address being that of a shelter or social service provider; (4) Access emergency medical care free from discrimination based on experiencing homelessness; (5) Vote, register to vote, and receive documentation necessary to prove identity for voting without discrimination due to experiencing homelessness; (6) Protection from disclosure of records and information provided to homeless shelters and service providers to state, municipal, and private entities, without appropriate legal authority; and the right to confidentiality of personal records and information in accordance with all applicable limitations on disclosure, established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Federal Violence Against Women Act. (7) A reasonable expectation of privacy of personal property. (8) The right to engage in lawful self-employment in the same manner as any other person, including, but not limited to, the right to seek self-employment in junk removal and recycling that requires the collection, possession, redemption, and storage of goods for reuse and recycling. (9) The right to pray, meditate, or practice religion in public spaces.

We, the undersigned, are very disturbed by the recent allegations of abuse of prisoners in the segregation unit at Waupun Correctional Institution as revealed by the Center for Investigative Journalism on July 20 – 22, 2014 1) We call for an independent investigation of the 40 plus abuse allegations . 2) Joseph Beahm and other accused guards must be removed from the seg unit for the duration of the investigation. We are also aware that in much of the nation, prisons have become the America’s defacto mental health hospitals but they are given no support or funds for humane effective care of the mentally ill or other difficult prisoners. We believe that prison IS the punishment and that inhumane conditions have no place in Wisconsin. Therefore: 3) We demand that mental health units a like those that were mandated by the courts and effectively used in Taychedah Correctional Institution(TCI) , the women’s prison in Fond du Lac, be installed at WCI and other men’s prisons. 4) Training of all WCI guards to deal with difficult prisoners is of paramount importance. 5) Rotation of guards from Segregation to general population is used in federal prisons and is an important tool for keeping staff professional and positive. No new guards should ever be placed in segregation as her/her first term of duty. Also, There needs to be an effective and safe mechanism for staff to complain about other staff, conditions or rules. 6) Wisconsin’s Administrative confinement (AC)and general segregation rules need to be overhauled with rehabilitation and compassion in mind. The present AC rules, changed in the mid 90’s, have been used to keep people in various levels of isolated confinement for years and even decades. The United Nations has said that solitary for more than fifteen days can amount to torture.

Black elderly homeowners in Brooklyn are being targeted, displaced, and stripped of their homes through fraud and illegal evictions. We demand immediate emergency action. Black elderly homeowners in Central Brooklyn are facing a human rights crisis. Predatory actors are stealing homes through forged deeds, fraudulent contracts, coercive “family” transfers, and illegal lockouts. Black elderly women are being targeted at the highest rates. This crisis is ripping away generational wealth and destabilizing Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. If this were happening to any other group, there would already be a state of emergency. We call on: Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, the NYC Commission on Human Rights, and the New York State Division of Human Rights to take immediate action to protect our elders and stop the theft of Black homes. We demand: 1. Declare a State of Emergency in Central Brooklyn This crisis requires coordinated, immediate intervention. 2. A Moratorium on All Contested Property Transfers Including intra-family disputes — until legal review and due process are completed. 3. Enforce Assembly Bill A7019 Financial institutions must place a temporary hold on suspicious transactions when elder exploitation is suspected. 4. Enforce RPAPL § 768 (New York’s Deed Theft Prevention Law) Illegal removals of seniors based on contested deeds must stop now. 5. Investigate and Prosecute Deed Thieves Aggressively Predatory investors, real estate entities, and individuals must be held accountable. 6. Provide Support for Victims Legal assistance, housing stabilization, and financial help for elders fighting to reclaim their homes.

We call upon President Obama to utilize all the powers of the presidency to help ensure a thorough investigation of this election, including methods of examining source codes for possible electronic tampering, as well as investigating more conventional irregularities, suppression and fraud, before electors cast their votes.

Stop selling toy guns that look like assault-style weapons at Target stores.

STOP the Power of the Banks AND their Investors which include Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac who continue to put the screws to their CUSTOMERS who ARE the HOMEOWNERS of this country by forcing them to be in default (behind) of their mortgage payments (ruining their credit) while making promises to help and never delivering. TAKE ACTION - Make it Illegal!

Raghu G: Leverage Debt Reduction by Raghu-nomics There may be a simple solution to paying off $2 to $4 trillion of our national deficit in 4 to 6 months. No taxes raised or service cuts. It would payoff trillions more in debt and liability from banks and Wall Street while 401ks rise once again. It does not take gov’t intervention, nor bailouts, nor regulations. Actually, all it takes is you. And no, you don’t have to hate your neighbors for being Democrat or Republican. Nor must you send money and wait 6 months for the election. We can do all this today, for free, with just one simple question: Mr President, have banks and insurance companies been paying off the same real estate asset without realizing it? A double write-down by banks and insurance companies means we don’t have a real estate crisis, but just one big accounting mistake. It means this whole crisis was written-off years ago. Here’s a quick rundown on just 1 of 6 areas of double write-downs. At the height of the market boom, there were $65 trillion dollars of insurance policies called, ‘Credit Default Swaps or CDS.’ This insurance was for $12 trillion in residential real estate. This means there were 5 CDS insurance policies for every home in America. Paying off just 10% of these CDS means we just paid-off 50% of every home in the country. Raghu-nomics has discovered 5 other areas of write-downs. All combined, it appears that 50% to 100% of every home mortgage in American has already been paid off. We just don’t know it yet. Once we do, this whole crisis will clear up and markets will boom instantly. The $2 to $4 trillion in real estate securities Uncle Sam bought in the banking bailout can now be sold thereby paying off $4 trillion of our federal deficit as well. At Raghu-nomics, we call it Leverage Debt Reduction. We all heard of leverage financing or leverage buyouts. Basically, it means to use the same capital multiple times to make your investment. Leverage financing multiplies both the returns and liabilities of one’s investment. Here’s Raghu-nomics revolutionary new discovery. Leverage financing also multiplies any write-downs a company may have to take as well. It’s the inverse of leverage financing for we now have the debt reduction also multiplied by such write-downs. What’s a write-down? Well, there’s Lehman brothers that fell from $800 billion to just $20 billion in a matter of days. Banks, gov’ts, investment firms wrote down trillions more. They wrote-off these mortgage securities and in so doing, already paid off their corresponding mortgage – your mortgage just got paid off by them. We are asking President Obama to take a second look at the possibility we have a double write-down of our real estate market. Ask any other political, corporate or academic leaders to take a second look at this Double write-down by banks & insurance companies. Having 10,000 friends join us in asking this simple question maybe all it takes to break this riddle and solve this whole real estate crisis at long last. Today, we can change the world with one simple question. Mr. President, has there been a double write-down. Will you join us?