Developing a mariculture business in Alaska: information and resources.

This booklet provides information needed to start a mariculture business in Alaska, including agency resources and lists of publications. Everything you need to know about permits, planning, and financing is presented in an easy to follow layout. From preliminary steps to marketable product, this booklet will help the aquaculturist with all species farmed in Alaska, including oysters, mussels, scallops, clams, and seaweed. (41pp.

Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America: An Examination of Nativity, Socio-economic Status and Place

A unique pilot project conducted in America's small and medium-sized cities shows that broad-based community coalitions can proactively integrate the newcomers who are increasingly transforming Main St., USA. In the first project of its kind, a consortium of leading organizations in three mid-sized metropolitan areas undertook inclusive community-building. The project's final report contains valuable findings for policymakers, funders and organizations collectively approaching the challenge of helping newcomers adapt to their new communities and local communities welcome newcomers

"Out the Window"? Prospects for the EPA and FMLA After Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

This note considers how the heightened scrutiny standard that the Court has used in gender cases under the Fourteenth Amendment will impact the congruence and proportionality test that the Court has applied in a recent series of cases examining congressional power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The purpose of this note is twofold First it closely analyzes Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, the Court\u27s most recent decision concerning Section 5 and argues that the Court\u27s analysis in Kimel indicates that a statute that involves heightened scrutiny has a much greater possibility of meeting the standards the Court has developed under the test. Second, it examines the Equal Pay Act (EPA) as a clear-cut example of a statute that should pass the test because of heightened scrutiny. Finally, this note argues that, despite its facial neutrality, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) also implicates heightened scrutiny and should therefore pass the test as well. This note explains both wey heightened scrutiny applies to the FMLA and the reasons the FMLA should be considered a valid exercise of the Section 5 power

Engagement\u27s Possibilities and Limits As a Socioeconomic Rights Remedy

This Article first analyzes the Court‘s three engagement decisions. It then divides engagement into two different categories-litigation engagement and political engagement-and offers suggestions for transforming the process into a more effective remedy in each category

The Modern Meditation: The Effect of Video Games and Yoga on Mindfulness Scores

This study was designed to explore the positive effects of casual video games, by comparing the mindfulness and mood scores among a) active yoga participants, b) passive yoga watchers, c) active video game players, and d) passive video game watchers. Participants were all undergraduate students recruited through Northeastern Illinois University’s participant pool. Participants began the study by being assigned to one of the four conditions. Following their interaction, participants answered an adapted mood inventory questionnaire, a Player Experience Inventory (PXI), and an Engagement Questionnaire (EQ). Demographics were also collected. It was hypothesized that the active video game condition will have equal, or greater, scores in mindfulness and mood as the active yoga condition. Also, the active conditions will have higher mood scores and engagement scores than the passive conditions. Results showed that video game participants had significantly higher mindfulness of the mind scores while yoga participants had significantly higher mindfulness of the body scores. Further, there were significant differences in all three portions of the Mood and Symptom Checklist (MSC). Finally, both the PXI and EQ had a significant main effect of engagement type (i.e., active versus passive). Theories on these outcomes are discussed later in the paper

Just Plain Dumb?: How Digital Contact Tracing Apps Could’ve Worked Better (And Why They Never Got the Chance)

This essay describes how the privacy debate that emerged over digital contact tracing and Google’s and Apple’s decisions to strictly limit apps permitted to use their platforms resulted in undercutting their potential usefulness as a tool to combat the pandemic while still failing to engender trust in these tools as intended