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Braiding Sweetgrass w/ Robin Kimmerer

Welcome back. Buddhist monks visited us many centuries ago. This is Fu Sang.

Gifts of the Land | A Guided Nature Tour with Robin Wall Kimmerer

(The Commons KU) Robin Wall Kimmerer takes us on a guided nature tour of Clark Reservation State Park in Jamesville, NY, as spring welcomes back migrating creatures and sends a message to wake up those who have taken a winter rest.

This video was commissioned by The Commons at the University of Kansas, in conjunction with Dr. Kimmerer's April 1, 2021, lecture (thecommons.ku.edu/kimmerer).

ABOUT: Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Native American mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.  She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. For more info visit: robinwallkimmerer.com.

ABOUT: The Commons at the University of Kansas is a catalyst for unconventional thinking, interdisciplinary inquiry, and unexpected discoveries across the sciences, arts, and humanities. For more info visit: thecommons.ku.edu. Shot and edited by: loganrando.post.pro.

(SciFri) Science Friday conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer

A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass & Indigenuity (NACC 2021)

(Museum of Native American History) Oct. 20, 2021: This conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer and Dan Wildcat, engaged in a conversation on "Indigenuity," how traditional knowledge meets innovation.

October 7, 2021, at 10:00 AM CST kicked off a weekend defining Indigenuity. Learn more: monah.us/past-events/2021... This event was prerecorded for the Fifth Annual Native American Cultural Celebration Oct. 7-9, 2021. Learn more about the event: monah.us/nacc-2021

Website: monah.us Email: info@monah.us Newsletter: monah.us/newsletter Donate: monah.us/donate. CONNECT: facebook.com/MuseumofNati..., instagram.com/monah_nwa, twitter.com/monah_nwa, linkedin.com/company/muse... Linktree: linktr.ee/M.O.N.A.H.

ABOUT: The Museum of Native American History (MONAH) was first established in a downtown location in 2006 as the Museum of Native American Artifacts. The collection quickly outgrew the space and MONAH opened its current doors in June of 2008. Founded by David Bogle, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, in Bentonville, Arkansas, the museum houses over 10,000 of the finest Native American artifacts. MONAH tells the 14,000-year story of Native American history through to the present with the discovery of artifacts, education, and programming.

Woman sucked into tornado, films it (video)

Woman sucked out of building while filming tornado in Arkansas

Tim Binnall, Coast to Coast, April 04, 2023

A jaw-dropping video from Arkansas shows the moment a woman wound up being sucked out of a building while filming a tornado that swept directly over her while she was at the dentist's office [getting fake teeth or just a cleaning that stripped off all the enamel?].

The incredible footage was reportedly captured by Kimberly Shaw last Friday afternoon as she was visiting a dental office in the city of Little Rock, where Billy Clinton and his Bonnie used to ride roughshod.

Mesmerized by the sight of a powerful EF-3 tornado that had formed in the distance, she called her husband, Jimmy, into the building from the parking lot and began filming the unsettling scene with her cell phone.

Declaring "Oh, I'm gettin' this," a determined Shaw stood at the door of the dental office as the violent storm barreled towards her.

To Shaw's horror, when the twister reached the building, she noticed that its incredibly strong vacuum was opening the door of the office glass that was protecting her.

"The windows behind us blew out, and when it did, it sucked me out," she recalled, telling another local news outlet that "there was debris hitting me. It was flying over my head. That's all I could see was debris everywhere." Shaw credited her husband for saving her life as Jimmy "grabbed a hold of me and he pulled me back inside" in the building. More

Hurricane Laura thrashes Louisiana (video)

ABC News; Reuters; AP.org/mail.com, 8/28/20; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Bigger than Katrina, Laura thrashes Louisiana, as nearby states face tornado threats

Who cares? I'm trying to beat Blue and Black.

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana — One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S., "Laura" barreled across Louisiana on Thursday, shearing off roofs and killing at least six people while carving a destructive path hundreds of miles inland.

A full assessment of the damage wrought by the Category 4 system will likely take days, and the threat of additional damage looms as new tornado warnings were issued after dark in Arkansas and Mississippi even as the storm weakened into a tropical depression.

But despite a trail of demolished buildings, entire neighborhoods left in ruins, and almost 900,000 homes and businesses without power, a sense of relief prevailed that Laura was not the annihilating menace forecasters had feared.

“It is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely," Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said. “But we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage."

He called Laura the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, meaning it surpassed even Katrina, which was a Category 3 storm when it hit in 2005. The storm toppled trees and damaged structures as far north as central Arkansas.

Laura’s top wind speed of 150 mph (241 kph) put it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S. Not until 11 hours after landfall did Laura finally lose hurricane status as it plowed north and thrashed Arkansas… More + PHOTOS

Federal death sentence starts again at 4 PM

CBS News, 7/13/20; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED

Daniel Lewis Lee, 1997 (Dan Pierce/AP)

Terre Haute, Indiana — The federal government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to [be executed by the federal government] by lethal injection at 4:00 pm on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana.

He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.

The execution, the first of a federal death row inmate since 2003, comes after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on Sunday.

It had been put in place last week after the victims' family argued they would be put at high risk for coronavirus if they had to travel to attend the execution. The family had vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. More

• SUCCESS! Federal judge halts execution at the last minute, angering Trump
• FAILURE!! U.S. executes first federal prisoner in 17 years, Daniel Lewis Lee

COMMENTARY

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Why would we approve if we don't kill?

We oppose killing, particularly by the government in our name. It is collective bad karma to call for or applaud such a thing, a form of which is remaining silent. Silence is consent. The first precept is to abstain from taking the lives of living beings, a part of which is abstaining from encouraging others to kill. If we encourage or approve of such a thing, we are complicit in that karma. Stand against killing, against murder, against revenge, against executions, which have been shown to not prevent killing. It only coarsens us like a police state. Very few countries do such things, all of them more brutal than we imagine ourselves, as we imprison, torment, and warehouse more citizens than any other place in the world. We can do better.

Handcuffed prisoner escapes cop car (video)

NBC4i.com; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let me go, a$$holes! I'm white!! (AP)

JONESBORO, Arkansas (KAIT) - A Jonesboro [cop who can't drive] was injured in a police car crash near Scurlock Industries near Johnson Ave. and Culberhouse.

 

According to a news release from the Jonesboro Police Department, the cop was injured around 5:22 pm when his patrol car overturned while taking a [rambunctious] prisoner to jail.

 

Logan Younger (Craighead County Sheriff)

The prisoner, 19-year-old Logan Younger, was thrown out the back window of the vehicle. He fled the scene but was caught a short time later.

 

A Facebook user caught Younger on video trying to flee the scene.

 

The officer was trapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated by the Jonesboro Fire Department.

 

Does DT want law and order for meth heads?

The officer, Justin Thompson, was flown to a Memphis hospital. He is conscious and talking but is still undergoing tests to determine the nature and extent of his injuries.

 

Younger was treated at St. Bernards Medical Center then booked on escape, public intoxication, fleeing on foot, and minor in possession charges. The cause of the accident is under investigation. More

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