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As part of a research project commissioned by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, open response focus groups and workshop discussions were conducted with representatives from 15 UK elephant holding facilities, and other experts in the welfare and behaviour of captive or free ranging elephants. Participants described three broad categories of welfare indicators: behavioural, physical and physiological. Resources perceived to be of importance to elephants included aspects of the physical environment, such as feeding opportunities and appropriate substrate, and aspects of the social environment, including group size and relatedness.

13. 57108 630 648 E Washington Avenue and 12 N Blount Street; 2nd Ald. Dist.: Consideration of a demolition permit to demolish an existing mission house building and auto sales facility; consideration of a conditional use in the Traditional Employment (TE) District for a mission house; consideration of a conditional use in the TE District for community/counseling services; consideration of a parking reduction; and consideration of a conditional use in the TE district for multi family dwellings, all to allow construction of a five story building with a mission house, counseling services, health services and a place of worship along E Washington Avenue, and a separate three story, 44 unit apartment building along E Mifflin Street..

When you stay in the collapse space for long enough, you eventually come to the conclusion that global society is essentially doing nothing at all to fix this, that there are no solutions, and that this whole party is absolutely going to end, probably in our lifetimes. Or, we come up with magical infinite energy boxes that spit out replicated goods made out of unicorn farts. But that would just lead to 80B of us.

Obscured by undesirable characteristics, they incite disdain and we avoid them. And we avoid the Tenderloin. But what if we stopped to think about how they might have arrived at their current station in life? What if we saw them as what they are human beings with real human problems and stopped judging them?The words ‘tender’ and ‘loin’ speak to the vulnerabilities of not only the location, but of the individual’s condition.