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[chao-studios]

hi, I was wanting to get my girlfriend into raising chao! what kind of mods do you recommend using? are there a specific set you think really round out the chao gardens/add content?

Chao World Extended is always the safe option for adding as much content to chao world you can get.

Shaddatics Enhanced Chao World can also net you lots of new features but if you have both mods enabled you'll want to make sure to disable duplicated codes to prevent incompatibility issues such as having both CWE and SECW multisave on or more animations exc.

I'd recommend just starting out with one of them though till you're use to using mods with SA2.

~Roaxes

[female-malice]

First Nations groups on the Canadian side of the Columbia River Basin are adamant that salmon runs that have long been blocked by dams in the United States must be restored, potentially in a renewed river treaty between the two countries.

But experts say possible solutions, such as “salmon cannons” that suck fish through a pipe and shoot them out upstream and over obstacles, are all costly and potentially limited in their effectiveness.

Representatives from the Ktunaxa and Syilx Okanagan nations say they continue to bring up salmon restoration in negotiations for a modern Columbia River Treaty and will not stop until a solution can be reached within or outside a new agreement.

The U.S.-Canada treaty regulates the cross-border Columbia River to prevent flooding and generate hydro power. A key component of the 62-year-old treaty is set to expire in September 2024, lending urgency to the ongoing talks.

“I think what we are doing in the fight to bring salmon back is vital to us moving forward,” said Lower Similkameen Indian Band Chief Keith Crow, who is a member on the Syilx Okanagan Nation’s Chiefs Executive Council and the Nation’s lead in the Columbia River Treaty talks.

“And we’re not going to back down, either,” he said.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says much of the migratory salmon run in the Upper Columbia, both in Canada and the U.S., ended with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state in 1942.

While the Grand Coulee Dam isn’t among four dams built in accordance with the 1961 Columbia River Treaty, First Nations leaders say the talks offer a rare opportunity for them to directly engage American officials about restoring Pacific salmon to the Upper Columbia.

“The salmon hasn’t been a big piece of (the talks), and I’ve been trying to move it forward consistently,” Crow said.

The nation opened its own hatchery near Penticton, B.C., in 2014 to help bring salmon back to Okanagan waters.

The goal, Crow said, is the restoration of natural salmon runs throughout the Upper Columbia Basin.

“We’ve been supplying salmon back to the people for years from our hatchery from the work that we’ve done, but to be able to see them actually swimming freely and coming up the Columbia the way they’re meant to be, I think it’s something I’m hoping I’m going to see in my lifetime.”

Ktunaxa Nation Council Chair Kathryn Teneese said the loss of salmon to the Upper Columbia Basin fundamentally changed communities and their ways of life, since the fish was a staple to traditional diets and held significant cultural value.

“We now have generations of people that have grown up without even knowing that salmon was very much part of our staple diet,” Teneese said. “So, from that perspective, it’s changed who we are. Because one of the things that we say is that we have a word in our language for salmon, but we don’t have access to it.

“We just fill that void with the utilization of all of the other resources off the land that we’ve always used, but there’s just a piece missing.”

Crow said salmon may have comprised up to 50 per cent of traditional Syilx Okanagan diets prior to the region losing its fish runs.

In September, the U.S. pledged more than $200 million over 20 years from the Bonneville Power Administration for reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin.

Crow said he has spoken with British Columbia Premier David Eby about similar long-term financial commitments on the Canadian side.

“Right now, we are kind of doing the best we can with the budgets that we get every year,” Crow said. “So, a long-term commitment would be so much more beneficial. We can get so much more done, I think.”

In June, the province agreed to separate bilateral deals with the Syilx Okanagan, Ktunaxa and Secwepemc Nations so each group receives 5 per cent of the revenue B.C. receives every year from the U.S. through the Columbia River Treaty, funding known as the Canadian Entitlement.

But the challenge in bringing salmon back to the Upper Columbia Basin isn’t limited to funding, experts say.

In 2012, a group of researchers published a report on efforts to restore Atlantic Salmon and other migrating fish species to rivers on the East Coast of North America.

The report found that the effort at three major rivers did not yield “self-sustaining populations in any eastern U.S. river” despite “hundreds of millions” in investment on the construction of hatcheries and fish passages.

“It may be time to admit failure of fish passage and hatchery-based restoration programs and acknowledge that significant diadromous species restoration is not possible without dam removals,” said the report on fish that travel between salt and fresh water.

University of Victoria Biology Professor Francis Juanes was a co-author of the report, and he said that while the topic of fish passage technology among researchers is actively discussed and constantly advancing, studies have shown the only reliable way to fully restore a natural fish run may be a dam’s removal.

Juanes said that when a dam on the Elwha River was removed about a decade ago in Washington state, “you didn’t have to reintroduce (salmon).”

“They came back naturally. In a sense, that is the best way to reintroduce salmon especially to a river system.”

Results on the East Coast where fish ladders were used, particularly the Connecticut River, were not nearly as effective, Juanes said.

“It took so much effort by so many states, and you needed the hatcheries to grow these babies. So, that’s an enormous effort, and the return just wasn’t very good.”

John Waldman, biology professor at Queens College in New York, is one of the main authors of the report.

Waldman said there is rising belief among grassroots and Indigenous groups throughout North America that dam removals may be the optimal way to restore fish runs, in lieu of the poor results from alternative passages.

“I think there’s one universal theme that has emerged over the last two decades, which is that dam removal is without question the best solution to bringing these fish back again,” he said.

“Fish ladders and fish elevators provide what’s called the halfway measure.

“It looks like to the uninitiated that you have a solution and that it works, but the truth is when you look at the actual performance of many of these fish ladders and fish elevators, not that many fish pass through them.”

The biggest dam removal project in the United States began earlier this year on the Klamath River along the Oregon-California border, where four such structures will come down by next year under a budget of US$450 million.

Discussions on removing four dams on another branch of the Columbia River Basin – in the lower parts of the Snake River – have been ongoing for years, with the U.S. federal government rejecting in 2020 the idea due to possible power-grid destabilization if the hydro electricity from the dams are removed.

Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin that are “healthy and abundant.”

Biden’s order, however, stopped short of calling for the removal of the dams on the Lower Snake River in Washington state.

The Upper Columbia United Tribes, consisting of five member Indigenous nations in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, said on its website on salmon restoration that while more studies are needed, there have been “encouraging advances” in fish passage technologies such as floating surface collectors and salmon cannons to get past tall dams without the structures’ removal.

But such technology, Waldman said, is unproven in being able to support a large, natural fish migration.

“I think this is a quarter-way measure, not even a halfway measure,” he said.

“You see them emerging once in a while, and somebody gets wind of it on TV, and some late night comedians make fun of fish being shot through these these cannons. But no one’s ever ramped them up to be at a level that would sustain a natural level of migratory fish.”

But Juanes said such options may be necessary if dam removals are not possible, even if they may add stress to the salmon population and make them more vulnerable to diseases.

“For one, that’s a very costly thing to do,” Juanes said of fish-passage technology. “For two, it causes stress to the animals. I can imagine that this cannon is not a happy moment for the fish, but maybe it’s better than it dying below the dam.”

Crow, for his part, said he understands “there’s no way of getting around the fact” that dams such as the Grand Coulee remain in the migration path, posing a monumental challenge to restoring salmon migration routes.

But he said the reintroduction of salmon runs to the Upper Columbia Basin is important enough to warrant effort and funding.

“There are lots of options out there, but what is going to be the most efficient and least impactful to the salmon, and they can still get back up? That’s the key,” he said.

“I’ve been taught to think seven generations down. So, I’m looking seven generations ahead of decisions that I make today: How is it going to influence or how is it going to impact my great-great-grandkids?”

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Meet Hyper!

My SECW Hyper (Rainbow!) Chaos Chao!!

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[tepkunset]

Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.

The First Nation said the remains were confirmed last weekend near the city of Kamloops, in B.C.'s southern Interior.

In a statement, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc said they hired a specialist in ground-penetrating radar to carry out the work, and that their language and culture department oversaw the project to ensure it was done in a culturally appropriate and respectful way. The release did not specify the company or individual involved, or how the work was completed.

"To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths," Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir said in the statement.

[READ MORE]

This school reported 50 deaths of roughly 500 students. 215 children as young as three years old were just found buried under it.

It is common knowledge that the “official” statistics of death in Residential Schools are severely understated, because of so many undocumented cases like all these children. But to actually see the numbers like this from one school alone... heartbreaking does not seem strong enough a word.

[egobuzz]

SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE: 

“A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. Access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866 925-4419.

Within B.C., the KUU-US Crisis Line Society provides a First Nations and Indigenous-specific crisis line available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's toll-free and can be reached at 1-800-588-8717 or online at kuu-uscrisisline.com.”

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) can also be contacted toll-free at 1-800-721-0066. IRSSS Website* | IRSSS Twitter

*A warning from the IRSSS website: “Some information detailed on our website may stir up or trigger unpleasant feelings or thoughts. The Indian Residential School Survivors Society encourages you to take time to care for your Mental and Emotional well-being. Please contact The Indian Residential School Survivors Society toll-free 1 (800) 721-0066 or 24hr Crisis Line 1 (866) 925-4419 if you require further emotional support or assistance.”

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Amphibia Holographic Sticker!

Pre-orders will be open till July 30th & all profits will be going to the Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) more info about it below the cut

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Below is more info on Residential Schools and the current events happening in Canada TW: residential schools, and indigenous genocide

On May 27 2021, 215 buried children were found in Kamloops B.C. On June 24, 751 unmarked graves were found near the previous location of a Residential School in Saskatchewan and 182 more in Cranbrook B.C on June 30

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml%C3%BAps-te-secw%C3%A9pemc-215-children-former-kamloops-indian-residential-school-1.6043778

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cowessess-marieval-indian-residential-school-news-1.6078375

The Roman Catholic Church ran most of the residential schools in Canada, and has yet to take responsibility for their actions. Canada was built upon Indigenous oppression & genocide, and continues to take advantage of colonization on stolen land.

https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-3/role-churches

he IRSSS offers counselling support for those affected by the schools as well as cultural support and provides resources on the matter. I believe it is my duty as a Canadian settler living on stolen land to support these people and to spread awareness.

I also strongly encourage donating directly to the IRSSS

https://www.irsss.ca/

There is also the #IdleNoMore movement which calls for peaceful action towards the government’s violations of treaties and reconciliation between nations. Their website provides resources as well as more information on the movement.

https://idlenomore.ca/about-the-movement/

[midnightrose77]

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215 hearts for the 215 bodies of children found buried at a former residential school in BC

This isn't an old thing, either. The last residential school closed in Canada in 1996.

I found out today that my mother didn't even know residential schools existed until about 3-4 years ago. My brother and I learned about them in school. But it's still not enough.

We need to do better. And the first step towards building a brighter future is learning from our mistakes.

So, if this is the first time you're hearing about residential schools, I beg of you to please read about them. Then maybe you'll understand why Indigenous communities are so rightfully furious.

[baeddel]

mmmmalo

Never occurred to me but do spiders ever maintain multiple webs? Do they ever go back and forth between them for their catch?

Thats really interesting yeah, I think you can see a lot of different spiders w/ different approaches to the web... so some of them make a web and just live there for a long long time, and when they leave it they’ll actually take it down, while some make and leave webs all the time - the pholcus is like this, and they will actually inhabit old webs that others have left behind. My house is just covered in webs that have built up over the years - we dont go in corners with the feather duster - and from what I’ve seen the pholcus tend to not so much make webs but maintain the enormous, contiguous web-network that covers the ceilings and walls that has built up over time. This might make these spiders an artifact of my home, and they would regard webs differently in the house of a more fastidious human.

Anyway, hunting spiders tend to maintain a sort of food store of wrapped-up (still living, sorry to say) prey somewhere other than where they hunt. I haven’t heard of web spiders maintiang multiple webs like that but it seems in principle possible or even likely, right? With everything I’ve learned and seen about them these past few weeks you could tell me they use Google Maps to navigate and I’d believe you. W/r/t the pholcus, they dont catch prey in their webs - it isnt sticky! They use it strictly as a perceptual apparatus & otherwise hunt mano-a-mano. They wrestle other spiders and use their strong web to wrap them up (I’ve never seen one lose a fight although I imagine the heavyweight of my home biome, the Woodlouse Spider, would give them a challenge), and they grab flies out of the air with their bare hands (well, mouths). But it occurs to me, when you put it this way, that they do seem to habitually leave and return to the cohabitual SECW - are they going off to find food? Its interesting because p0 doesn’t do this - he stays in his little corner web and appears unburdened by his empty stomach.

[novellaqueen]

omg i feel left out of the "our song" thing!!!!! i want one!!! and also for what i look for in a girl: funny, social justice-y, GAY (obvi lmao), won't care if i eat in bed and watch tv all day, down for cuddles and kisses, loves cats/dogs, can make me moan (let's be honest amirite?), and doesn't mind if i touch her butt lol

alright :)

and all of those are amazing qualitifications 

[chao-studios]

hi again so with the debug mode camera it pauses everything in levels which makes it impossible to take the gifs i have wanted to take besides chao ones. would you know a fix or a mod that allows a free camera without freezing all entities?

P freezes and unfreezes time with debug mod I believe.

In the Chao Garden itself though; If you are using SECW though; you may have to rebind its little menu to another key in its settings ingame as its also opened with P.

You'll have to unplug a controller though to rebind keyboard buttons for that menu.

[news-signal100]

橋本環奈のクラスメイトに、小関裕太・瀬戸利樹ら注目の若手俳優集結！生徒を追い込む"最狂教師"に中村獅童！

橋本演じる樫村に密かに想いを寄せる、サッカー部一のモテ男・榊蒼汰役に、映画『春待つ僕ら』や NHK 連続小説「半分、青い。」など話題作への出演が絶えない小関裕太、クールな性格の持ち主でクラスメイトたちからは一歩距離を置く和田隼役に、ドラマ「偽装不倫」のピンク髪のボクサー・八神風太役で注目を浴びる瀬戸利樹、そして、生徒を絶望の淵へと追い込む担任教師・下部役には、京都南座「八月南座超歌舞伎」にて初音ミクと共演したことでも話題の中村獅童が務める。

また、生徒役のキャストには、小関演じる榊と同じくサッカー部に所属しキャンプテンを務める���間思いの西園寺聖也役に、舞台「デスノート THE MUSICAL」の主演が決まっている甲斐翔真、同じくサッカー部所属で内気ながら優しい心を持つ藤春昴役に、ドラマ｢あなたの番です｣などの中尾暢樹、同じくサッカー部所属でムードメーカーの桐野玄役に、『JK☆ROCK』などの福山翔大、 野球部に所属し彼女思いの羽柴健太役に、雑誌「MEN'S NON-NO」専属モデルとしても活躍する中田圭祐、人と関わるよりも読書が好きなクールな図書委員・園田樹里役に、雑誌「NON-NO」の専属モデルとしても活躍する 山田愛奈、樫村と共にバドミントン部に所属する親友の小泉はるか役に、ドラマ「今日から俺は!!」などの 若月佑美、ダンス部に所属するクラスのお調子者・関克美役にドラマ「あなたの番です」などの前原滉、DJ 部に所属するノリが軽い山本英司役に、ドラマ「ルパンの娘」などの栗原類、身体が弱いながらもマネージャーとして健気にサッカー部を支える箕輪紀子役に、『凪待ち』などの恒松祐里らが務める。

今注目を集める若手キャストたちが、どんな演技バトルを繰り広げるのか？また中村獅童は、生徒たちを奈落の底に突き落とす“最狂教師”をどのように演じるのか？是非ご期待ください。

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◆榊蒼汰役：小関裕太 スリリング作品が大好物な上、原作が大好きなので、出演が決まった時は嬉しくて飛び跳ねました。 何を信じていいのか。何を疑わなければいけないのか。崩れて行く人間関係。1秒1秒のその人の選択するものによって未来が変わってし���う恐怖。 そんなスリリング映画を観終わった後僕はいつも、水一滴の美味しさ、生きることへのありがたみ、自分の悩んでいることのちっぽけさを感じます。 『シグナル100』の現場では、予測不可能な展開にリアルに怯える撮影の日々でした。 是非この映画を観に来てくださる皆様には、僕たち生徒36人の「生きよう」とす��様を、一瞬も逃さず手に汗握りながらご覧いただきたいです。

◆和田隼役：瀬戸利樹 和田隼役を演じさせて頂きました。 この役は自分にとって挑戦でした！どう演じるか悩みに悩んで挑んだ役です。 自殺催眠にかけられた生徒が生き残りを賭け、足掻いている姿、人間の本性、必見です！ 撮影中は狂気的な作品ということもあって刺激的な毎日を過ごさせてもらっていました。 それと同時に毎日学校で撮影だったので、どこか高校時代に戻った気分になりました。 僕にとって初めてとなる、心の中のどこか一部分に小さな狂気を宿しているような 役柄を是非見て頂ければと思います。

◆下部役：中村獅童 教師役というのは、あまり演じる機会がなかったのでとても新鮮でした。 下部の狂気じみた行動は、周りからみれば特異ですが、彼自身はそれが正義だと思っています。何を考えているのかわからない謎めいた不気味さを出せるよう努めました。 撮影現場は、橋本さんを中心に明るく活気があり、束の間でしたが良い刺激を受けました。 ストーリーがとても面白い作品なので、映画館の大きなスクリーンで是非ご堪能いただければと思います。

＜バレー部＞ 何でも話し合える親友のふたり。学校内では常に行動を共にしている。 野島芽衣子役・工藤綾乃：『HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE』 君津早苗役・鈴木つく詩：SUBARU TVCM "Your story with"シリーズ「灯台」編 ＜不良少年グループ＞ 先生に楯突くこともある、クラスの問題児たち。 久保田純哉役・中島健： 『HiGH&LOW THE WORST』 堂上真一郎役・市川理矩：『花燃ゆ』 児玉力役・小出水賢一郎：『スマホを落としただけなのに』 ＜遅刻常習者の自由人＞ 明るい性格の持ち主だが、何度注意されても遅刻癖は治らず、先生たちには半ば諦められている。 吉川絵美役・三上紗弥：「覚悟はいいかそこの女子。」 ＜帰宅部＞ クラスの中ではあまり目立たない優等生グループ。 井沢学役・白石拳大：『いぬやしき』 森聡志役・安田啓人：ドラマ「不甲斐ないこの感性を愛してる」 米村麗華役・真崎かれん：『君は月夜に光り輝く』 渡辺望役・中島来星：ドラマ「西郷どん」 ＜イケてる女子グループ＞ クラスの中でも目立つ存在の女子グループ。みんな榊が好きで、あわよくば彼女の座を狙っている。 小宮山澪織役・北村優衣：『黒崎君の言いなりになんてならない』 朝比奈優子役・さいとうなり：『ホットギミック ガールミーツボーイ』 萩野里未役・宮下一紗：舞台「SECW(School entrance ceremony wars)～入学式戦争はモノガタリの始まり～」 佐々木萌香役・駒形咲希：『ハルチカ』 ＜ラグビー部＞ 責任感の強い爽やかコンビ。 加藤涼役・神田穣：ドラマ「クロスロード～声なきに聞き形なきに見よ～』 坂本紀人役・黒澤胤也：AbemaTVドラマ「１ページの恋』 ＜バスケ部＞ 明るくふざけてばかりいるやんちゃコンビ。 藤田陽太郎役・東啓介：劇場アニメ『薄墨桜 -GARO-』 日野匠役・宗綱弟：浅草軽演劇集団・ウズイチ メンバー ＜ダンス部＞ 関（前原滉）と水谷、江崎と小山内は、クラス公認のカップルで、ラブラブすぎて目に余ることも。 小山内夏生役・戸苅ニコル沙羅：ドラマ「相棒 Season16」 江崎大和役・吉田仁人： 『斉木楠雄のΨ難』 水谷雫役・山本彩加：NMB48メンバー ＜文化系女子グループ＞ クラスの中でも地味な部類の女子グループ。共通の趣味で毎日密かに盛り上がっている。 津島愛役・大森つばさ：ドラマ「ぬけまいる」 安西桃子役・河井つくし：舞台「some day」 鈴木みのり役・宮本夏花：AbemaTVドラマ 『1 ページの恋」

[cinderedphoenix]

Slips is a run chao this time!

[elineguillerm]

research for the identity of the SEcW - Morlaix