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Good Afternoon,
As the sun shines we are excited to be preparing for our second Annual Urban Adventure Festival at The Junction Ogden on Saturday, May 4th!
Ogden Downtown Alliance started this event last year after many requests from independent businesses owners in The Junction to have their own street festival. In considering The Junction's theme of "where adventure meets downtown" we built out Urban Adventure Festival to give the community an opportunity to explore Ogden's off mountain adventures. We feel lucky to live in a downtown city nestled so closely to stunning mountains, trails and adventures right outside our doors and this festival is a celebration of that uniqueness which Ogden is known for.
This year, Urban Adventure Festival will bring a new focus on urban arts, more adventure themed activities and a full festival lineup of local musicians!
What you can expect:
URBAN ARTS DEMO
Local artist, Richard Ramos, will be spray painting live throughout the festival! Rich will be painting a tribute portrait of his friend Abby which he hopes will highlight "her zest for life in all of it's magical beauty" while portraying "an inculpability that she always maintained towards adventure and playfulness."
OUTDOOR YOGA CLASSES
Heal Yoga Studio (Live Natural) will be hosting a 1 pm AND a 6 pm class on the plaza grass - both classes will be an hour long and free to the community!
LIVE MUSIC BY LOCAL ARTISTS
We are excited to announce a full main stage lineup!
12 - 12:45 PM | Nicholas Garn
1 - 2 PM | Caleb Wendt And The Canvas
2:20 - 3:50 PM | Silence the Critic
4:20 - 5:50 PM | Nuthin Special
6:20 - 8 PM | Morgan and the Mountain
ADVENTURE THEMED ACTIVITIES
Dartside | Get active with an outdoor dart shooting and throwing course!
Fat Cats Ogden | Hang out with Thunder the mascot and spin the wheel to win FatCats passes and swag!
Gaia Henna | Stop by and get beautiful henna body art!
Swift Fix Mobile Bike Shop | Ride/bring your bike down for free safety checks, gear adjustments and a bike valet!
Additional activities for all ages will be available by local businesses such as Drifterwagons, IFLY UTAH, Gold's Gym, Paul Mitchell the School - Ogden, Weber State University Army ROTC, Social Axe Throwing, The Sign Garage, Treehouse Children's Museum, Visit Ogden, Weber State Outdoor Program, The Local Artisan Collective and more!
FOOD VENDORS
Enjoy delicious food available from local vendors: Credible Edibles, Fry me to the Moon, Menchie's 24th Street and The Corn Dog Company!
ART POSTER CONTEST AND DISPLAY
We are asking local artists of all ages to create an 11" x 17" poster depicting how they view The Ogden Junction's theme of "Where Adventure Meets Downtown!" The winner of this poster art contest will receive $300 and the top 15 artists will have the opportunity to be featured at the event!
LOCAL BUSINESSES
Don't forget to check out all of the awesome businesses that call The Junction Ogden home!
We hope you get a chance to join our adventure downtown!
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Most Americans Reject Trump’s “America First” Policy
By Lawrence Wittner
962 words
As president, Donald Trump has leaned heavily upon what he has called an “America First” policy. This nationalist approach involves walking away from cooperative agreements with other nations and relying, instead, upon a dominant role for the United States, undergirded by military might, in world affairs.
Nevertheless, as numerous recent opinion polls reveal, most Americans don’t support this policy.
The reaction of the American public to Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from key international agreements has been hostile. According to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll conducted in early May 2018, shortly before Trump announced a pullout from the Iran nuclear agreement, 54 percent of respondents backed the agreement. Only 29 percent favored a pullout. In July 2018, when the Chicago Council on Global Affairs surveyed Americans about their reaction to Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate agreement, it found that 66 favored remaining within the Iran accord, while 68 percent favored remaining within the Paris accord―an increase of six percent in support for each of these agreements over the preceding year.
Most Americans also rejected Trump’s 2019 withdrawal of the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia. A survey that February by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reported that 54 percent of Americans opposed withdrawal from this nuclear arms control treaty and only 41 percent favored it. Furthermore, when pollsters presented arguments for and against withdrawal from the treaty to Americans before asking for their opinion, 66 percent opposed withdrawal.
In addition, despite Trump’s sharp criticism of U.S. allies, most Americans expressed their support for a cooperative relationship with them. The Chicago Council’s July 2018 survey found that 66 percent of Americans agreed that the United States should make decisions with its allies, even if it meant that the U.S. government would have to go along with a policy other than its own. Only 32 percent disagreed. Similarly, a March 2019 Pew Research poll found that 54 percent of American respondents wanted the U.S. government to take into account the interests of its allies, even if that meant compromising with them, while only 40 percent said the U.S. government should follow its national interests when its allies strongly disagreed.
Moreover, despite the Trump administration’s attacks upon the United Nations and other international human rights entities―including pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council, withdrawing from UNESCO, defunding UN relief efforts for Palestinians, and threatening to prosecute the judges of the International Criminal Court―public support for international institutions remained strong. In July 2018, 64 percent of Americans surveyed told the Chicago Council’s pollsters that the United States should be more willing to make decisions within the framework of the UN, even if that meant going along with a policy other than its own. This was the highest level of agreement on this question since 2004, when it was first asked. In February 2019, 66 percent of U.S. respondents to a Gallup survey declared that the UN played “a necessary role in the world today.”
But what about expanding U.S. military power? Given the Trump administration’s success at fostering a massive military buildup, isn’t there widespread enthusiasm about that?
On this point, too, the administration’s priorities are strikingly out of line with the views of most Americans. A National Opinion Research Center (NORC) survey of U.S. public opinion, conducted from April through November 2018, found that only 27 percent of respondents thought that the U.S. government spent “too little” on the military, while 66 percent thought that it spent either “too much” or “about the right amount.” By contrast, 77 percent said the government spent “too little” on education, 71 percent said it spent “too little” on assistance to the poor, and 70 percent said it spent “too little” on improving and protecting the nation’s health.
In February 2019, shortly after Trump indicated he would seek another hefty spending increase in the U.S. military budget, bringing it to an unprecedented $750 billion, only 25 percent of American respondents to a Gallup pollstated that the U.S. government was spending too little on the military. Another 73 percent said that the government was spending too much on it or about the right amount.
Moreover, when it comes to using U.S. military might, Americans seem considerably less hawkish than the Trump administration. According to a July 2018 survey by the Eurasia Group Foundation, U.S. respondents―asked what should be done if “Iran gets back on track with its nuclear weapons program”―favored diplomatic responses over military responses by 80 percent to 12.5 percent. That same month, as the Chicago Council noted, almost three times as many Americans believed that admiration for the United States (73 percent) was more important than fear of their country (26 percent) for achieving U.S. foreign policy goals.
Unlike the president, who has boasted of U.S. weapons sales to other countries, particularly to Saudi Arabia, Americans are also rather uncomfortable about the U.S. role as the world’s pre-eminent arms dealer. In November 2018, 58 percent of Americans surveyed told YouGov that they wanted the U.S. government to curtail or halt its arms sales to the Saudi Arabian government, while only 13 percent wanted to maintain or increase such sales.
Finally, an overwhelming majority of Americans continues to express its support for nuclear arms control and disarmament. In the aftermath of Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the INF treaty and announcement of plans to build new nuclear weapons, 87 percent of respondents to a February 2019 pollby Chicago Council said they wanted the United States and Russia to come to an agreement to limit nuclear arms.
The real question is not whether most Americans disagree with Trump’s “America First” national security policy but, rather, what they are willing to do about it.
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Dr. Lawrence Wittner, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. He is the author of Confronting the Bomb(Stanford University Press).
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PANIC DIVISION
Announces New Album
Touch
Due Out June 14, 2019
Music Video for "Graveyards" Premiering Today
"The video is vibrant and whimsical, and skillfully disguises the song's
heart wrenching and introspective lyrics." - PopDust
Touch Available for Pre-Order Now
April 26, 2019 - San Antonio, TX - After a 3 year binge of refining his sound and a thousand-yard-stare from his present and past, Colton Holliday's dreamy, atmospheric pop project Panic Division, is proud to announce the highly-anticipated release of Touch, an 11-track album due out June 14, 2019.
In addition to the announce, Panic Division teamed up with PopDust to exclusively premiere the music video for lead single "Graveyards" today. On the track, Holliday shares that the song is about that moment "when two people in a relationship can't get past each other's baggage, obsessing over the other's secrets. It's metaphorically told as if both people are in a graveyard digging up the others grave to see who's hiding the most shit." The bright colors of the video and synth-driven energy of the song are a perfect juxtoposition to the darker subject nature of the track and are an example of how Holliday confronts very real life issues through the bright lens of pop music. Fans can check out the music video and exclusive interview with PopDust today at https://bit.ly/2ZEv7oL.
Inspired by the golden age of 80's pop, Touch is a vibrant re-emergence of Panic Division. The emotional melodies and lyricism that fans have always cherished is not only still abundant on this release, but matured to a whole new level. Mixed by Grammy Nominated Taylor Larson, the album delivers a diverse universe of synths and chiming guitars paired with monstrous, groove inspired drums.
Touch Track Listing
1. Feather
2. Graveyards
3. Touch
4. Wild Nights
5. Still In Motion
6. Mother, Father
7. Sugar High
8. Kill The Lights
9. Sundown
10. Out Of My Head
11. Oceans
Fans can begin pre-ordering Touch now via iTunes and Apple Music. Stay tuned to https://www.instagram.com/panicdivision/ for more news about Panic Division.
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Executive Director Mike Styler to Retire from Utah Department of Natural Resources
SALT LAKE CITY (Apr. 26, 2019) – Gov. Gary R.Herbert announced today that Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Executive Director Mike Styler is retiring after more than 14 years of service with the department, effective June 1.
Styler leaves DNR as the agency’s longest-serving executive director.
“Mike’s leadership has been invaluable both to the Department of Natural Resources and to our state,” said Gov. Herbert. “I will greatly miss having him as part of my cabinet, and I wish him the very best.”
Under Styler’s leadership, DNR launched the Watershed Restoration Initiative, a statewide effort to improve ecosystem health and biological diversity, water quality and yield, as well as sustainable uses of Utah watersheds. To date, nearly 2,000 projects and 1.6 million acres of land have been restored.
Among other accomplishments, Styler has proved instrumental in the forming of the Utah Water Task Force, the creation of the state’s water rights adjudication process, and the signing of two hunter access agreements with the State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
“My opportunities to serve took unanticipated paths, but it has been incredibly rewarding to work with Governor Herbert, the good people of Utah and over 1,300 DNR employees that work so hard to meet the natural resource needs of our state,” said Styler. “Utah faces a number of difficult opportunities moving forward with water, wildlife, recreation and fire particularly. DNR has amazing and dedicated people. They are up to the task of meeting those challenges.”
Styler served in the Utah House of Representatives before joining DNR. In the legislature he served as chair of both the Legislative Water Task Force and Natural Resources Appropriations Committee. He also served as a member of the Executive Appropriations Committee and the Legislative Management Committee.
A farmer from Oasis, Utah, he also served as a Millard County Commissioner and an eighth grade U.S. history teacher at Delta Middle School before joining the legislature. He still farms 400 acres of irrigated land on his family farm.
Deputy Director Darin Bird will serve as Interim Executive Director for the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
The governor is completing the interview process for Styler’s replacement and will appoint a new executive director on Monday, April 29.
