text: Agnes C. Reischel age 93, of Glidden, died on Monday December 30, 2013 at Park Manor Nursing Home in Park Falls. She was born on March 6, 1938 in Glidden, the daughter of Martin and Anna (Scott) Beil. Her early life and schooling were in Glidden, where she graduated from high school. On April 20, 1938 she married Benedict Reischel in Glidden. The couple moved to Milwaukee in 1952 where Agnes worked for Square D for many years. Agnes returned to Glidden in 2009. She is survived by: (3)children: Benedict Reischel of West Bend Jane (James) Emerson of Glidden Robert (Sharon) Reischel of Glidden (2)brothers: Robert Beil Eugene Beil both of Glidden (1)sister: Anna Cartwright of Oshkosh (8)grandchildren (18)great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Benedict, her son Richard, (5)brothers: Martin, Marvin, Clifford, Ervin "Larry", and Jerry, and (2)sisters: Jeanette Mertig and Caroline Morford. Funeral services will be held on Saturday January 11, 2013 at 11;00am from Trinity Lutheran Church in Glidden. Rev. Jacob Stuenkel will officiate. A visitation will be held on Saturday from 10:00am until the hour of the service at the church. Burial will take place in the spring at Most Precious Blood Cemetery.


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Rage Against the Machine guitarist demands UKIP stops using their music
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has demanded that UKIP stops using the band's music.
The 48-year-old American musician tweeted today:
Hey UKIP & Nigel Farage: Stop using "KILLING IN THE NAME" for ur racist/rightwing rallies. We are against everything u stand for. STOP. IT.
Party leader Nigel Farage finished his address to the UKIP conference today by walking off stage to the 1992 single Killing in the Name, whose uncensored version features the repeated refrain, 'F*** you, I won't do what you tell me.'

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The 83rd annual Academy Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Anne Hathway and James Franco co-hosted the ceremony. Check out the full list of winners for the 2011 Oscars, which honor outstanding film achievements of 2010.
Art Direction
"Alice in Wonderland" - Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration:
Karen O'Hara
"Inception" - Wally Pfister
Actress in a Supporting Role
Melissa Leo - "The Fighter"
Short Film (Animated)
"The Lost Thing" -Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Animated Feature Film
"Toy Story 3" - Lee Unkrich
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Social Network" - Aaron Sorkin
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The King's Speech" - David Seidler
Foreign Language Film
"In a Better World" - Denmark
Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale - "The Fighter"
Music (Original Score)
"The Social Network" - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Sound Mixing
"Inception" - Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
Sound Editing
"Inception" - Richard King
"The Wolfman" - Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Costume Design
"Alice in Wonderland" - Colleen Atwood
Documentary (Short Subject)
"Strangers No More"
Short Film (Live Action)
"God of Love" - Luke Matheny
Documentary (Feature)
"Inside Job" - Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Visual Effects
"Inception" - Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Film Editing
"The Social Network" - Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Music (Original Song)
"We Belong Together" - from "Toy Story 3" - music and lyric by Randy Newman
"The King's Speech" - Tom Hooper
Actress in a Leading Role
Natalie Portman - "Black Swan"
Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth - "The King's Speech"
Best Picture
"The King's Speech" - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
"The King's Speech" - 4 Oscars (Writing (Original Screenplay), Directing, Actor in a Leading Role, Best Picture)
"Inception" - 4 Oscars (Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Best Cinematography, Visual Effects)
"The Social Network" - 3 Oscars (Music (Original Score), Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Film Editing)
"Alice in Wonderland" - 2 Oscars (Art Direction, Costume Design)
"The Fighter" - 2 Oscars (Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role)
"Toy Story 3" - 2 Oscars (Animated Feature Film, Music (Original Song))
"The Wolfman" - 1 Oscar (Makeup)
"In a Better World" - 1 Oscar (Foreign Language Film)
"Black Swan" - 1 Oscar (Actress in a Leading Role)
"The Lost Thing" - 1 Oscar (Short Film (Animated))
"God of Love" - 1 Oscar (Short Film (Live Action))
"Strangers No More" - 1 Oscar (Documentary (Short Subject))
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The Northern Illinois Huskies football team made history Sunday night, becoming the first team from the Mid-American Conference to qualify for a Bowl Championship Series game. They're scheduled to play in the Orange Bowl against Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State.
The team gathered together at the Yordon Center to watch the BCS selection show, when it was announced that the Huskies would be playing in the Orange Bowl. They finished 15th in the final BCS standings, having to finish in the top 16 to qualify for an automatic BCS bid.
Later that night, Rod Carey was introduced as the 22nd head coach in program history. He replaces Dave Doeren, who left the team Saturday to join the North Carolina State Wolfpack as head coach. Carey's first game as head coach will be the Orange Bowl.
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What are your thoughts? Good news/ good sign? I think this would be a great signing and a move in the right direction. Bradley paired with whiz or mcadoo would be a great team IMO. I'm more inclined to think whiz is a better choice as OC because hes proven at that position. Let's heard some feedback.
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San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis was in New York City over the past week, making the rounds to discuss a variety of topics. Wes wrote yesterday about his guest appearance for The MMQB, and his questions of Roger Goodell at the Commissioner's annual "State of the NFL" press conference. He also spent some time chatting with Larry King on his show Larry King Now.
On the post-game following Seahawks
Vernon provided some basic insight into the post-game locker room scene after the 49ers lost to the Seahawks. He mentioned that Coach Harbaugh was extremely upset with the officials and the simple fact that the 49ers lost the game.
Davis also addressed Richard Sherman's remarks. He said he thinks Sherman is a good to go, but that he needs to learn to control his emotions a little better. He talked about how he is a different person off the field than on.
On gay athletes in professional sports
Davis said he thinks we'll see notable gay athletes in professional sports in the next five to six years, and that the NFL will be the first place we see it. I do think we see major gay athletes coming out in the near future. The NFL has done a lot in recent years to try and make such players feel welcome, with teams joining the "You Can Play" movement. Of course, then we see comments like those from Chris Culliver and it sets back the optimism a little bit.
At the same time, in December there was a report that two "key" members of the 1993 Houston Oilers were gay, and the entire locker room knew about it. I'm sure there have been other such instances where teammates knew or had an idea that certain players on the team were gay. But as some have said before, as long as the player(s) will help the team win, they don't care. I imagine there were players on the Oilers (or other teams) who had a problem with a given player's sexuality, but they did not raise the issue because they knew those players could help them win a Super Bowl.
And really, that's all it should come down to: can this player help the team win a Super Bowl. As the "You Can Play" slogan goes, "If you can play, you can play."
Vernon said that he's had three concussions in his career, and that while he does think about the long-term implications, he tries to stay positive about it, and hope for the best. He said he's hidden injuries because he has wanted to play and help his team. This is not overly surprising, and one reason the health issue is so complicated in the NFL.
I think the NFL has been at fault for a variety of things related to the health issue, but I do agree that there is also an issue with players trying to hide things. You can talk about forcing players off the field when they're hurt, but sometimes you just can't tell what's going on. It creates a difficult, complex situation.
College athletes should be paid
In this segment, he talked about athletes deserving to get paid, particularly given the disadvantaged circumstances many come from. He said he didn't have as many issues when he was in college because he was mostly focused on his playing and getting to the NFL.
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Pierre, who had the second-best mark all-time, ran a 21:10.8 to place second overall in the meet. Her time passes Elsa Goshu who ran a 21:34 at the NCAA Regional in 2009.
"I am really pleased with this competition," JU head coach Ron Grigg said. "I think we learned a lot about our fitness and it should only get better from here."
Junior Svenja Meyer posted the third-fastest mark all-time in 21:51.8 (5th). Senior Morgan Keel was 23rd in 23:14.8 (13th all-time), while senior Amalia Vogler (24:17.2, 53rd) and sophomore Sarah Bailey (24:28.8, 60th) rounded out the group.
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Starting next week we'll have a daily theme for the War Room. We'll answer all questions, but in this intro we'll focus on specific topics. The schedule will look like this starting next Monday:
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Adams finished with two hits and three RBI, while Oscar Taveras added four hits for the Cardinals, who saw starter Shelby Miller last 4 1/3 innings and give up one run on six hits.
Joe Mauer had two hits and Darin Mastroianni drove in one run in defeat for the Twins, who saw starter Mike Pelfrey toss five innings of one-run, five-hit ball and strike out four batters in defeat.
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But I was also thrilled to announce an exciting partnership that will truly go a long way to grow one of this nation's oldest humanitarian organizations, and the only one dedicated to the protection of both children and animals. Lois Pope, one of America's foremost philanthropists, has a true passion for children and animals and has embraced the significance of the work of American Humane Association, particularly our Red Star™ Emergency Services teams, who have been particularly busy this spring and summer responding to a myriad of disasters affecting millions of Americans across this great nation.
Mrs. Pope presented American Humane Association with a $1 million gift, which we will immediately put to use as part of our Red Star™ National Centennial Campaign and will serve to launch a new partnership with the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation. Our teams have been wherever disaster strikes since the First World War, and thanks to Mrs. Pope, American Humane Association will be able to expand our reach in the years to come. Over the next five years, the Red Star™ National Centennial Campaign will raise funds to boost our nation's capacity to prepare for—and care for—children and animals in emergencies, as well as assist the recovery of communities through the healing power of animal-assisted therapy.
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A movie directed by Nicholas Meyer
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Paramount Pictures, 1989) is the fifth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series. It is often referred to as Star Trek 5 or The Final Frontier. The film was directed by William Shatner, following two films directed by his co-star, Leonard Nimoy. Shatner also developed the initial storyline. It was shot entirely in California.
Following the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A is enjoying some well deserved shore leave. The newly christened starship's shakedown cruise goes poorly and it is in Earth Spacedock for repairs. In Yosemite, Captain James T. Kirk faces two challenges: climbing El Capitan, and teaching camp fire songs to Captain Spock. Unfortunately, their rest is interrupted when the crew is sent on an urgent mission to rescue hostages on the desolate planet of Nimbus III.
A brash young Klingon commander named Klaa learns of the Enterprise's mission and pursues in an attempt to capture or kill Kirk. His actions are not authorized by the Klingon government, however, and he takes this quest merely to obtain personal prestige as a warrior, and is bored by his mundane assignment of neutralizing alien probes that land in Klingon Space.
Upon their arrival at Nimbus III, the Enterprise crew discovers that a renegade Vulcan named Sybok, the emotionally driven half-brother of Spock, has taken Klingon, Romulan, and Federation representatives hostage. Sybok reveals that he used the hostage situation as a ruse in order to obtain a starship, being sure the government of one of the hostages (Federation, Klingon, and Romulan) would mount a rescue mission.
Sybok then seizes control of the Enterprise, so he can reach a mythical planet named Sha Ka Ree, where a mysterious, presumably God-like entity awaits. Sybok claims to have had visions from the entity of its existence, and feels compelled to follow those visions in order to experience the entity's possible wisdom and power first-hand. However, the planet is somewhere behind The Great Barrier, a mysterious region of space that has been walled-off from exploration since time immemorial and that has never been breached (this is the "final frontier" of the title).
Sybok uses his unique ability to share with and help conquer a person's greatest emotional trauma to gain the trust of most of the crew. McCoy accepts the experience, reliving his father's death (he euthanized his father to end his pain, but learned afterwards that a cure had been developed a short time later). Spock also accepts the experience, reliving his birth (being born of a union between a Vulcan and Human, he was never fully accepted by his father). However, Kirk denies Sybok, telling him that the pain experience is what makes them Human.
Under agreement and cooperation (as long as he plays it by the book), Sybok relinquishes the helm back to Kirk, and the Enterprise successfully crosses the Great Barrier, finding a planet in this uncharted region of space. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sybok explore the planet, which seems completely barren until a strange outcropping of rocks rises from the ground in front of them and an entity appears to them. Masquerading as God, the entity asks the explorers how they got there. When told about the Enterprise, it demands to join with the starship in order to leave both the planet and the Great Barrier and to spread his knowledge to the rest of the Universe. When the skeptical Kirk questions the entity's motivation ("What does God need with a starship?"), it turns malevolent, harming Kirk. McCoy and Spock rush to his rescue, and even Spock has to ask for an answer to the question. Sybok then realizes that the alien entity is not actually God, but something sinister, seeking to escape the Great Barrier.
Realizing his mistake, Sybok sacrifices himself to delay the evil being long enough for Enterprise to launch a photon torpedo. However, while Sybok is killed, the entity isn't, and the Enterprise has only enough power to beam up two people. Kirk tells Scotty to take Spock and McCoy, leaving himself on the surface of the planet with the entity. Spock is able to convince the Klingon ambassador to order Klaa (who followed the Enterprise into the Barrier and to the planet) to rescue Kirk rather than kill him. Klaa's Bird of Prey suddenly de-cloaks and destroys the alien with a disruptor blast. Kirk is beamed aboard, where the Klingon ambassador insists upon an apology from Klaa himself, who begrudgingly does so, and admits that his attack on the Enterprise was not authorized by the Klingon government. The gunner who shot the entity was none other than Spock. The crews of both vessels and Sybok's captives enjoy a peaceful celebration of their newfound détente. The film ends with Kirk, McCoy, and Spock resuming their vacation in Yosemite National Park.
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On December 24th, 'Fashion King"s PD along with scriptwriters Lee SunMi and Kim KiHo as well as Choi MoonSuk CP participated in the first script reading exercise held at the SBS Ilsan Production Center.
Also present at the Script reading session were Yoo Ah-In who will be playing the role of YoungGeol, Lee JeHoon who will be taking the role of JaeHyuk, Yuri, who went straight to SBS Ilsan Production Center as soon as she arrived from Japan as well as the other 20 actors. In the drama, Yuri will be playing the character, Anna.
During this very first session, the actors and actresses showed their enthuasism for 'Fashion King' as they put their emotions into the reading, just as though they were acting out the actual scenes in the drama.
'Fashion King' is a story about the challenges, success, love and desires of young individuals who take on the future and the world.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure patients' mental health history and their thinking abilities may influence whether they're readmitted to the hospital within a month of discharge, a new study says.
Depression, a history of substance abuse and a history of coronary artery disease were linked with patients' hospital admissions during the previous year, the researchers found. Factors associated with readmission within 30 days of discharge included memory problems, a history of mental health treatment and/or the use of an antidepressant.
The severity of congestive heart failure was not a factor in either admission or readmission rates, according to the study, which was published online recently in the journal Psychosomatics.
"Our results agree with several recent studies in finding an adverse impact of depression on admission and readmission rates," lead author Mark Ketterer, a psychologist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, said in a system news release. "In addition, substance abuse and chronic kidney disease may also adversely impact these rates in congestive heart failure patients."
The study involved 84 patients, average age 66, admitted to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for treatment of acute congestive heart failure.
"Even severe heart disease, except in the extreme, appears to be manageable after release from the hospital unless it's complicated by one or more of the behavioral factors," Ketterer added.
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EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. – The decision to keep schools open or to close them down for a snow day all starts with Maryann Belmonte, the Transportation Supervisor with East Greenbush Central School District.
Belmonte monitors the local news forecast the night before a possible snow storm.
"Just to keep an eye on if thinks are changing. When I go to bed the last person I see is Steve Caporizzo," Belmonte said.
Early Wednesday morning Belmonte plans to wake up at 3 a.m. and will be on the road.
"At that point I make my first rounds," she explained.
After assessing the roads, Belmonte will be in contact with highway supervisors from various towns in the district.
"Hopefully by 4:30 a.m. I will have enough information to call the supervisor to make an informed decision," said Belmonte.
The final decision on whether to transport nearly 5,000 students from home to school comes down to the Superintendent.
"Large quantities of snow factor in many things, factor in if salt is doing its job," she said.
Joyce Carpinello, a bus driver for the East Greenbush CSD is no stranger to a few inches of snow on the ground. Before she heads out Wednesday, she'll have to get the final word from the superintendent on whether schools closed or not.
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25 January
Burns Night
An annual celebration of the life and works of poet Robert Burns (most famous for writing Auld Lang Syne). Some organisations will hold formal dinners that follow a traditional structure, but informal parties will be held all over, with haggis and Scotch whisky being the only requirements. A Scottish roast.
3 February
Chinese New Year
China and worldwide
To celebrate the new lunar year, the Chinese will hold family feasts full of traditional rituals. Good fortune is the principal greeting, and often the food will reflect this. Whole fish is often eaten, because, in Mandarin and Cantonese, the word echoes the sound for good fortune. Similarly, tangerines are often consumed, as the Cantonese word for the fruit sounds like gold. Ching-He Huang's Chinese menu.
14 Feb
Valentine's Day
This annual celebration of love needs no introduction, and we would never neglect it here at delicious – food and love go hand-in-hand. Lavish your love with a Valentine's Day menu.
1 March
St David's Day
A day of remembrance for the death of Saint David on 1 March in 589. In 2007, a petition delivered to Tony Blair was unsuccessful in its attempt to make St David's Day a bank holiday. It's an important event for schoolchildren, who used to officially have a half-day school holiday. Across Wales, a variety of festivals and parades mark the day, and it is traditional to wear either a daffodil or a leek on your lapel! Leek recipes.
8 March
Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day
UK (with various similar customs worldwide)
It's customary to get the crepe pan out for Shrove Tuesday, the final day before Lent fasting traditionally begins. It was originally a chance to indulge in the combination of fat, butter and eggs, which would have been abstained from during Lent. But millions of people enjoy the day outside of the religious context; in Britain, it's traditional to serve very thin pancakes with a squeeze of lemon juice and a sprinkling of caster sugar, but feel free to experiment with toppings of your choice! How to make pancakes.
17 March
St Patrick's Day
Ireland and worldwide
St Paddy's Day, the public holiday for Ireland's patron saint, is becoming increasingly popular across the world, with people of Irish descent celebrating as well as other nationalities. Expect to see pubs decorated with green ribbons and shamrocks – the colour green is seen everywhere – traditional Irish fare is served and the drinking of a pint of Guinness is practically obligatory. Irish recipes.
3 April
Mother's Day
Nationwide, UK
Always the second Sunday in Lent, Mother's Day – or Mothering Sunday – was originally a religious day, a time when congregations form small churches visited the larger 'Mother' church in the vicinity. Today, it's better known for being a day to celebrate your dear old mum and to treat her for the day. Mother's Day menu and Treats to make for mum.
24 April
Easter Sunday
Worldwide Christian celebration
Easter Sunday marks one of the most important events in the Christian calendar, marking the day that Jesus was resurrected following his crucifixion. Easter will often involve a feast, as it signifies the end of a period of fasting. More recently, Easter eggs have become an important part of the festivities, for Christians and non-Christians alike. Egg hunts are often held, and chocolate eggs have become an essential part of the celebrations for most people! Easter menus.
13-15 April
Songkran (Thai New Year Water Festival)
The principle ritual of the Songkran involves throwing clear water, but it is also the opportunity to get together with the family for a feast. The foods eaten will vary across the country's different regions, but you can expect to find Pad Thai noodles, chicken with green curry and krayasad (a sweet mixture made from noodles, oats, puffed rice and peanuts) on the menu. Quick Thai dishes.
23 April
St George's Day
The popularity of the patron saint of England's day has diminished since medieval times. The custom of wearing a red rose has given way to flying the English flag, most commonly in pubs throughout the country. There are, however, many campaigns that run to promote the event, and some even call for it to become a public holiday. Why not get involved, and seek out some St George-related festivities near you? Best of British.
19 June
Father's Day
Nationwide, UK
Cook something nice for your dear old pa – check out our recipe section for inspiration.
14 July
Bastille Day
Every year, France celebrates the La Fête de la Bastille, marking the first major event of the French Revolution of 1789. It's a huge cause for celebration in France, in Paris you're likely to see fireworks lighting up the sky and military parades. Outside of Paris, you can expect your local French restaurant to be honouring the occasion, or why not hold a French-themed party of your own? French recipes.
1-30 August
Observed by followers of the Islamic faith across the world, this is the month in which participating Muslims fast from dawn until sunset in order to develop the virtues of patience, modesty and spirituality. Eating, drinking and smoking are avoided during the hours of prayer. It is very important that only healthy, sane individuals fast, and that they take care to eat a diet suitable to fasting, being careful not to overindulge before dawn and after sunset and ensuring that normal quantities of the major food groups are consumed. More info.
17 September-3 October
Munich, Germany
This 16-day festival is one of the biggest cultural events in the Bavarian calendar, with previous festivals having attracted over six million visitors. The various attractions are divided between large tents, the most sought-after location for foodies being 'Käfer's Wies' n-Schänke'. Popular with celebrities and food lovers, this tent serves up the best in gourmet food – don't miss the Käfer-roasted duck! Website.
26 October
India and Nepal
Also known as the Festival of Lights, Diwali is an official holiday in India and Nepal. It has religious significance for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, although non-religious groups also celebrate the festival's cultural aspects. The exact date of the festival varies from year to year depending on the lunar Hindu calendar. Celebrations vary according to region across the world. In Britain, Hindus and Sikhs follow traditional rituals such as cleaning their homes and sharing sweet treats. Firework celebrations will often coincide with Bonfire Night in the UK, giving revellers a diversity of ways in which the ceremony can be enjoyed. More info.
31 October
Halloween derives from the Celtic festival Samhain which honoured the summer's end and, also, the dead. It was then adopted by the Christian faith and became All Saints' Day. In current times, the festival is more of a light-hearted celebration to dress up ghoulishly and have fun. Halloween-themed food has become a very popular part of the festivities. Halloween recipes.
5 November
Bonfire Night
Call it what you will – Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes Night, Fireworks Night – this sparkly celebration inevitably involves freezing your extremities off while standing in a muddy field. It's all in good jest, though, and brings out the big kid in most of us. Plus it's a great excuse to eat hearty, warming fare and drink hot toddys, making it a winner of an event at delicious. Bonfire Night recipes.
24 November
United States
Traditionally, this famous American feast celebrates a meal held by the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts in 1621 and 'gave thanks' to God for helping them survive a particularly harsh winter. Nowadays, Thanksgiving is widely considered to be more of a public holiday rather than a religious one, and is celebrated with traditional foods served at Thanksgiving meals. Roast turkey, mashed potato, yams, and cranberry sauce are all favourites likely to be seen on the table, with pumpkin pie an extremely popular dessert. Charitable donations of food are given out to those in need. Turkey recipes.
30 November
St Andrew's Day
Since 2006, St Andrew's Day has been an official bank holiday in Scotland. Flying the Scottish flag is perhaps the most important tradition observed on this patron saint's day. In Edinburgh, there's a range of traditional events, including live music and cookery events, whilst Glasgow will hold events such as 'Homecoming Live' and 'Shindig'. Visit the following link for up-to-date information on events taking place across Scotland. More info.
25 December
Christmas Day
Worldwide Christian celebration
Not many of us need to be reminded of this day, a wonderful (and stressful) time that traditionally celebrates the birth of Christ but these days is also a much-needed public holiday and a time of giving – and eating. Christmas lunch menu.
31 December
This traditional Scottish celebration starts on New Year's Eve and can go on until 2 January. Hogmanay customs vary greatly from region to region, though there are few common ones, including the thorough cleaning of the house on 31 December and the (now widespread) group chorus of Auld Lang Syne. 'First Footing' is a still-practiced tradition, where house are entered ritually and symbolic gifts are shared. A Scottish roast.
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Protecting your electronic items from water, cracks, and other damage
CLEVELAND - How many times have you dropped your phone and hoped it wasn't broken? As we carry around more expensive devices, protection plans may be an option to consider. We look at whether it's worth the money.
We take our electronics everywhere: on vacation, to the kitchen, even to the bathroom. Make one mistake and your gadget is waterlogged or damaged in a second.
"It was on my lap. I was getting out of the car. It hit the ground. It cracked," Brandon Repp said of his phone. Luckily, Repp had a protection plan through Best Buy and got a replacement phone.
"It's better than what you get through the carriers," Repp explained.
For years, consumers have been advised against buying an extended warranty. So, are these protection plans different?
"My children have broken every iPad I have ever brought into the house, and I've had every single one replaced under accidental damage protection," Kent State Information Technology Manager Christopher Bues said.
Bues looks for plans that offer accidental damage protection like SquareTrade, an online company that sells protection plans. For a tablet or eReader valued at up to $500, the plan costs about $100.
Best Buy's plans vary based on the price of the tablet, but they're comparable.
"A lot of times they have coupons where you can save up to 30-percent off on the warranty," Bues said.
There are other electronic protection options like canopy and Apple care. Always be sure to read the fine print and be aware of deductibles.
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Item: Use of Neural Networks in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Title: Use of Neural Networks in Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 1994 International Snow Science Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, USA
- J. Stephens
- E. Adams
- X. Huo
- J. Dent
- J. Hicks
- D. MCCart
Date: 1994
Abstract: Artificial neural networks were investigated as a tool to be used in avalanche hazard forecasting. Such forecasts are presently formulated by experts using their knowledge and experience. While the experts utilize a variety of information in their decision making process, the exact nature of the relationship between these factors and the level of avalanche hazard is unknown. The consistency and reliability with which these assessments are made may be improved, if the experts are provided with tools, such as an artificial neural networlc, that explicity utilize these various types of information. Trial networks were developed herein that act upon weather and snow condition data to generate an opinion on avalanche activity on a daily basis for a specific slide path. These networks were developed using historical avalanche data. Networks trained on a season by season basis issued correct predictions of avalanche activity as many as 78 to 91 percent of the evaluation cases considered. On days that avalanches were known to occur, these networks were correct for 36 to 100 percent of the cases considered. Networks trained over multiple seasons were less successful, correctly predicting avalanche activity for up to 82 percent of the days considered, but with a success rate on days avalanches were known to occur of only 40 percent. Additional work is necessary before a tool of this type will be useful to the avalanche expert. Improvements in network performance may. result from modifying inputs, and/or modifying the newtwork architecture, training algorithm, or output configuration.
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: avalanche activity, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, neural networks
Subjects: avalanche forecasting avalanche hazard artificial neural networks
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Neither Arsenal or Everton will be terribly happy with their performance or the result that they played to on Tuesday. A point at the Emirates is nothing to scoff at for the Toffees, but the gap between them and fourth place might increase this weekend following their 0-0 draw.
The first half was an even one, though it wasn't terribly eventful. Both sides looked more concerned with conceding an early goal than making sure they scored first and neither team generated chances in volume. Everton got the better of the very early play and created a 6th minute shot for Steven Pienaar that he put high, but Arsenal came into the half as it wore on.
Kieran Gibbs nearly scored in the 24th minute after Marouane Fellaini inadvertantly set him up with a poor clearance, but his shot was screamed over the bar. Olivier Giroud had the best chance of the half in the 42nd minute, but failed to convert. He was set up with a great cross by Aaron Ramsey and aided by some poor positioning from Tim Howard, but screwed a powerful shot wide when a simple tap-in would have sufficed.
David Moyes' team looked a bit less lively and a bit more conservative to start the second half, and it showed early and often. Santi Cazorla had a nice 20-yard half-volley saved by Howard in the 49th minute, and it was a sign of what was to come. Giroud had another excellent chance in the 57th minute, off a counter started by a Leighton Baines free kick that struck the Arsenal wall. Walcott set him up with a square ball towards the near post, but Giroud did nothing with it. He could have shot first time, turned or tapped back to a teammate, but instead simply fell over.
Arsenal attempted to change things up in the 68th minute with a pair of substitutions. Jack Wilshere, who has been working his way back to full fitness, came off for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, while Theo Walcott was replaced by Lukas Podolski. The move shifted Cazorla to the inside, though the attacking band of three players behind Giroud remained fluid.
In the 78th and 79th minutes, the Gunners had a pair of chances that they failed to make the most of. The first came on a counter, with Oxlade-Chamberlain playing a pass for Giroud that was cut out by Everton's defense when it might have been a better decision to shoot. A minute later, Giroud found the ball at his feet in the box once again, but hit a shot into Row Z.
Mikel Arteta had the game on his feet in the 90th minute when he made a marauding run forward from his deep central midfield spot, sprinting onto a through ball from Santi Cazorla, but he dwelled on the ball instead of shooting early. That allowed Seamus Coleman to recover and poke the ball back to Howard, who cleared away.
Arsenal wouldn't find another clear chance in the game, and will be rueing the ones that they missed. A draw isn't a terrible result for either team, but the door has been opened for Tottenham and Chelsea to claim the Champions League places ahead of them.
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Friday night, those who knew Grace Christian Center pastors Terry and Jan Whitley and associate pastor Steve Timmerman gathered at the Killeen church for a night of prayer and worship.
Hundreds of people in the Killeen area piled in the front doors to pray, sing and mourn the loss of their friends who were killed in a Pflugerville car accident.
FOX 7 spoke with some of the long-time church goers.
Shirley Stephenson has known the Whitleys since they were in a much smaller building in the '80s.
"We've been friends with them for, gosh at least 20 years. They're very dear to us, very dear to our family and we're gonna miss them. But we know they're in a better place," Stephenson said.
"We are feeling very distressed. We're in shock, we're in grief...we love them, we miss them. They're awesome people of God. Awesome man of God, awesome woman of God," Brenda Cuney said.
For a church who has now lost someone that usually helps them get through tough times...what's the next move for Grace Christian church? We asked long-time staffer Erik Reynolds.
"That's a hard one. Because you know we've always relied on pastor Terry and pastor Jan our senior pastors to handle that. They've always been able to lead us through that since the beginning of the church. Right now what we do is we pray, we mourn, we have the services and then we move forward from there," Reynolds said.
Church staffers tell us Sunday they will carry on with services as usual.
A longtime friend of pastor Terry will be flying in from California to deliver the message.
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Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters
It seems that every time we get some snow, another "scientist" is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming.
In the last week or so, we have had the International Arctic Research Centre announcing a study by three Chinese scientists, "Weakened cyclones, intensified anticyclones and recent extreme cold winter weather events in Eurasia ", with the headline "Climate change brings colder winters to Europe and Asia". Then, we had WWF Russia blaming the blizzards in Russia on global warming.
But let's, for one moment, remind ourselves of some of the "scientists" who have said the exact opposite.
UK Met Office
As recently as 2011, Julia Slingo and her team published an extremely thorough paper, "Climate: Observations, projections and impacts". Running to some 153 pages, it looked at recent trends and future projections, both for the UK and the rest of the world. It made the following points:-
- Analysis of mean temperatures in the UK showed a warming trend during the winter months of 0.23C/decade.
- Describing the extreme cold in December 2010, it states:-
Severe winter weather affected Western and Central Europe throughout the first three weeks of December 2010, with the UK experiencing the coldest December for more than 100 years. This extreme cold weather was due to advection of cold arctic air associated with a strongly negative Arctic Oscillation.
The UK experienced two spells of severe winter weather with very low temperatures and significant snowfalls. The first of these spells lasted for two weeks from 25th November and saw persistent easterly or north-easterly winds bring bitterly cold air from northern Europe and Siberia. This spell of snow and freezing temperatures occurred unusually early in the winter, with the most significant and widespread snowfalls experienced in late November and early December since late November 1965. a second spell of severe weather began on 16th December as very cold Arctic air pushed down across the UK from the north.
- Continuing its analysis of the 2010/11 winter, it finds that:-
The distributions of the December-January-February (DJF) mean regional temperature in recent years in the presence and absence of anthropogenic forcings are shown in Figure 7. Analyses with both models suggest that human influences on the climate have shifted the distributions to higher temperatures. The winter of 2010/11 is cold, as shown in Figure 7, as it lies near the cold tail of the seasonal temperature distribution for the climate influenced by anthropogenic forcings (distributions plotted in red). It is considerably warmer than the winter of 1962/63, which is the coldest since 1900 in the CRUTEM3 dataset. In the absence of human influences (green distributions), the season lies near the central sector of the temperature distribution and would therefore be an average season.
- The winter time-series show a decrease in the number of cool days and cool nights.
So, to summarise, the Met Office believed that winters have been getting warmer, and that the winter of 2010/11 was caused by a natural event, the Arctic Oscillation, and, but for "human influences", would actually have been a fairly average winter. (According to NOAA, similar conditions existed during the even colder winter in the UK of 1962/63).
Dr Myles Allen, and a few more!
In 2009, Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at Department of Physics, University of Oxford told the Daily Telegraph, during another spell of bad snow "Even though this is quite a cold winter by recent standards it is still perfectly consistent with predictions for global warming. If it wasn't for global warming this cold snap would happen much more regularly. What is interesting is that we are now surprised by this kind of weather. I doubt we would have been in the 1950s because it was much more common. "
The report goes on to say "a study by the Met Office which went back 350 years shows that such extreme weather now only occurs every 20 years. Back in the pre-industrial days of Charles Dickens, it was a much more regular occurrence – hitting the country on average every five years or so.
This winter seems so bad precisely because it is now so unusual. In contrast the deep freezes of 1946-47 and 1962-63 were much colder – 5.3 F (2.97C) and 7.9 F (4.37C) cooler than the long-term norm.
And with global warming we can expect another 1962-63 winter only once every 1,100 years, compared with every 183 years before 1850. "
Meanwhile Dave Britton, a meteorologist and climate scientist at the Met Office, said: "Even with global warming you cannot rule out we will have a cold winter every so often. It sometimes rains in the Sahara but it is still a desert."
Even Bob Ward, PR man for the warmist Grantham Foundation, keen to stop people thinking that cold winters did not mean global warming had stopped, said "Just as the wet summer of 2007 or recent heat waves cannot be attributed to global warming nor can this cold snap"


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Germany Plans To Raze Towns For Brown Coal And Cheap Energy
Germany's green energy revolution is in danger — and brown coal is making an unexpected return
Giant machines dig for brown coal, or lignite, at Vattenfall's mining operation near Jänschwalde, Germany, in the Lausitz region. Its planned expansion could force relocation of towns. Foto Patrick Pleul, DPA
The German village of Atterwasch is tiny, its single street lined with sturdy brick and stone houses. The village has a single church whose bells peal out at noon each day, a small volunteer fire department, and a cemetery with a special section devoted to German soldiers who died nearby in the closing months of World War II.
Atterwasch may soon be gone.
Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, hopes to relocate the village and its residents in order to strip-mine the ground underneath for lignite, or "brown coal."
"They would tear everything down, dig up the cemetery, blow up the church and cut down all the trees," said Christian Huschga, a screenwriter and father of two who has lived in Atterwasch for more than 30 years.
Billions of tons of brown coal lie buried underneath the Lausitz region, a gently rolling landscape of pine forests, farm fields, and rural villages about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of Berlin, in what was once East Germany. In the past century, the landscape has been scarred and pitted by strip mines hundreds of feet deep that sprawl over dozens of square miles.
In all, 136 villages in the Lausitz region have been destroyed to make way for massive strip mines since 1934. Most of the destruction took place after World War II, when the communist government depended on brown coal to power its cities and factories. Pollution from the mines and from primitive, dirty, coal-fired power plants was a major issue for the democracy activists whose efforts eventually helped topple the Berlin Wall. When Germany was reunified in 1989, many of the outdated plants were shut down, and locals thought the era of forced resettlement was over.
But brown coal is making an unexpected return. The development has environmentalists worried. Germany is often seen as a model, thanks to its strong push for renewable energy. Politicians here have committed to 80 percent renewable power by 2050, and strong public support and generous subsidies have seen solar and wind power grow dramatically in the past decade. Roughly a quarter of Germany's electricity today comes from renewable sources; in the United States, just 12 percent does. (See related interactive map: "Four Ways to Look at Global Carbon Footprints.")
With this commitment to the "Energiewende," or energy revolution, it's a mystery to many why villages like Atterwasch are still at risk. "The new mine is planned for 2030 to 2070—a time when coal power plants shouldn't even exist anymore," said Huschga. "It's not right to take away people's security and future for plans that shouldn't be." (See related story: "As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Abroad.")
A Revolution in Trouble
Unfortunately for Atterwasch and similar towns, experts say Germany's energy revolution is in danger—and more coal could indeed be on its way. In 2012, newly opened coal-fired power plants added 2,743 megawatts to the country's grid. (See related quiz: "What You Don't Know About Electricity.") Germany is the world's largest producer of brown coal, and 2013 was the biggest year for lignite-fired energy production in the country since 1990, with 162 billion kilowatt-hours produced, or about 26 percent of Germany's total electricity.


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As it currently stands, we're all (or almost all) meeting at Azru's house (I'll e-mail his address as well as my phone #) on Sunday morning. EvilFrog will have our shirts.
They're shutting down roads for the race at 7:00, so let's plan on being at his house at 6:45 and leaving by 7:15 so we have plenty of time to find our way to the stadium? Does this make sense?
Many of us are picking up our packets and sweet, sweet prizes on Saturday during the day. If you can't, and would like someone to pick it up for you so it's waiting for you at Azru's house Sunday morning, e-mail me.
Some people have expressed interest in hanging out after the game. This would be a good place to discuss that.


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THERE is some right gobbledegook being published in letters about King Richard III.
Firstly it is claimed that Leicester had misplaced him when in fact his remains were uncovered by virtually the first scoop of the digger. Secondly, it is claimed that his descendants wish his remains to be buried in York, yet he doesn't have any.
Thirdly it is claimed that York and Yorkshire want him back. Well it may be true of York but what little history I know says that the north supported the House of Lancaster and the bulk of the Yorkist army came from the west country.
I went to school in Pontefract and to the best of my knowledge that town is still part of the Duchy of Lancaster (as are parts of East Yorkshire).
As for the remains, I don't care where they end up. No excuse on earth justifies the desecration of his grave. In the vernacular it should have remained his "final resting place".
That such a desecration can be performed at somebody's whim is unspeakable. It is no better than the indignities inflicted on Richard at his demise.
K Barnes, NorthView, Catterton, Tadcaster.
• RICHARD III was never Duke of York. The title was introduced in the fourteenth century for Edmund of Langley, son of Edward III.
Richard III's father was Duke of York; the title was given to Prince Richard, second son of Edward IV, after his birth in 1475. Richard III acquired the title Duke of Gloucester after his brother became Edward IV in 1461. Richard III was not "a member of the Church of England in communion with the Bishop of Rome", as one letter writer believes.
In the late-fifteenth century, England was a Catholic country, with Catholic Europe, owing its religious allegiance to the Pope. The concept of the Church of England and the separation of church and state was not mooted until Henry VIII had trouble trying to divorce Katherine of Aragon, and was not enshrined in law until Elizabeth I's reign.
Richard III was well respected, the only one involved with the treaty of Picquigny in 1475 who refused a bribe from the French monarch.
Nor should his success in ruling the north be underestimated. York had been a staunch supporter of the Lancastrian monarchy.
Between 1471 and 1483 that mindset was overturned to the extent that Henry Tudor was afraid to visit York and escaped an assassination attempt while staying in the city at Christmas in 1486.
Richard preferred straight-talking northerners. He had no time for the hypocrisy and machinations of the court.
Anne Woodward, Upper Newborough Street, York.
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Talking of whom, the notion that he "founded" the Church of England is a matter of some contention. Broadly speaking, Roman Catholics and conservative evangelical Anglicans regard the CofE as Protestant. Anglo-Catholics regard it as Catholic - pointing out the continuity of episcopal succession despite Henry's breach with the papacy - whilst "broad" churchmen/women argue that it's a "bit of both". I believe any of these positions may be held with complete integrity.
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Many Pagans honor the goddess Diana in her various aspects. Particularly in feminist and NeoWiccan traditions, Diana holds a place in the heart of a number of modern magical practitioners.
Much like the Greek Artemis, Diana began as a goddess of the hunt who later evolved into a lunar goddess. Honored by the ancient Romans, Diana was a huntress, and stood as a guardian of the forest and of the animals who resided within. Despite her virginal status, Diana later became known as a protector of women in childbirth.
A daughter of Jupiter, Diana's twin brother was Apollo. There is significant overlap between the Greek Artemis and the Roman Diana, although in Italy itself, Diana evolved into a separate and distinct persona.
In Charles Leland's Aradia, Gospel of the Witches, he pays homage to Diana Lucifera (Diana of the light) in her aspect as a light-bearing goddess of the moon, and details the birth of her daughter, Aradia. Obviously, there is some discrepancy between Leland's interpretation of Diana as mother, versus the traditional Roman mythology which names her as a virgin.
Many feminist Wiccan groups, including the aptly-named Dianic Wiccan tradition, honor Diana in her role as the embodiment of the sacred feminine. She is often associated with the powers of the moon, and in some classical artwork is portrayed wearing a crown that features a crescent moon. She is typically presented carrying a bow, as a symbol of her hunt, and wearing a short tunic. It is not uncommon to see her as a beautiful young woman surrounded by wild animals. In her role as Diana Venatrix, goddess of the chase, she is seen running, bow drawn, with her hair streaming behind her as she takes pursuit.
Don't let Diana's lovely appearance fool you into thinking she's all kindness and beauty. In one myth about Diana, the goddess is out hunting in the woods and takes a break so she can bathe in a stream. While doing so, she is observed by a young man, Actaeon, who has wandered away from his own hunting party. Foolishly, Actaeon reveals himself, and confesses that Diana is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. For whatever reason - and scholars tend to vary on this - Diana turns Actaeon into a stag, and he's promptly chased and torn to bits by his own hounds.


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Everyone on the front row at fashion week was armed with an iPad or mini laptop, so make sure you protect yours in style.
Yellow was THE colour on all the catwalks and one that Hollywood stars have firmly established as a favourite.
Red is the new black. Its time to swop that LBD for an LRD. Tone it down with a neutral pair of peep toes.
All aboard the Orient express for 2013. Prada, Emilio Pucci and John Galliano did it and so can you. Update any outfit with obi belts and vivid printed skirts.
Its all about the monochrome, whether its stripes, checkerboards or squares, all stylishly demonstrated by Karl Lagerfeld. Chessboard chic has never been so fashionable.
Furs, hairy, shaggy, beads, threads, lace ... texture makes a come-back on everything from pretty prom dresses to sky-high mini skirts.
Ladies, prepare to bare. Chanel showcased a beautiful array of cropped jackets and short shorts and Zara have been quick to follow suit, so you can get leggy for less.
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Darby is Tracing Climate Cycles with Help of $1.2 Million Microprobe
The electron probe microanalyzer that anchors its own compact laboratory in Old Dominion University's Oceanography and Physical Sciences Building looks something like a photocopier, and anyone other than a scientist might underestimate what it can do. For ODU geological oceanographer Dennis Darby, the instrument has opened new research vistas, and he expects from it nothing less than major revelations about global climate change.
One of the most expensive research instruments on the ODU campus, the $1.2 million microprobe is enabling Darby to sift through climate clues dating back thousands of years. His goal is to chart natural climate cycles, and to determine how those cycles may be better understood separate from random climate changes that scientists believe are caused by man-made atmospheric pollution.
For a couple of decades, Darby has been working to piece together evidence of climate cycles that goes back 100,000 or so years in the Arctic, a region that has a surprisingly large impact on climate elsewhere in the world, and especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
He does his detective work by analyzing sediments, mostly from core samples that have been collected when researchers drill a hollow tube into the floor of the Arctic Ocean or nearby seas.
That's where state-of-the-art microprobe analysis comes in. For nearly two decades prior to the new instrument's arrival at ODU in 2009, Darby used an "ancient" probe that was difficult to operate and not as precise in its analysis as the new one. Just how ancient was the old instrument? When Penn State donated it to him in the early 1990s, it had already put in many years of service.
Darby's work is possible because of an iron-grain chemical fingerprinting technique he developed that enables him to determine the landmass where the grains originated. A speck of sand, for example, may be from a particular peninsula of Greenland, yet be found in a sea-bottom core sample many hundreds of miles away. This provides evidence about winds and currents-and therefore the overall weather patterns-that brought the grain to its resting place.
The top of a cylindrical core sample is made up of recently deposited sediments on the sea bottom; deeper down in the sample are sediments from times past. There are numerous ways to date a grain of sand depending on where it shows up in the vertical sample. Darby has worked with some samples that were deep enough to have sediments dating back more than 40 million years.
Analysis of core samples, therefore, can help identify long-standing climate patterns. These revelations are of heightened importance now because of concerns about climate change and global warming.
Even if natural cycles are responsible for some recent warming trends, this doesn't let humans off the hook for polluting the atmosphere, Darby said. Human influence may combine with natural cycles to increase global warming. Still worse, the possibility exists that his project will reveal that the frozen North should be in a natural cooling cycle now, but that man-made influences are causing it to become warmer instead.
The focus on the Arctic by climate scientists has guaranteed Darby a steady stream of research grants, one of them being the $500,000 contributed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009 to assist in the university's purchase of the new microprobe. His latest NSF grant - $433,000 for a three-year project extending through July of 2014 - is for analysis of core samples from the bottom of the Denmark Strait off Greenland. The project is titled "Do Holocene Variations in Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Icebergs Drifting Through Denmark Strait Reflect Natural Cycles?"
The Denmark Strait is outside the Arctic but directly in the path of ice drifting from the Arctic and east Greenland. It is an area where cold water and floating ice from the polar region come into contact with warmer waters that are pushed north by global ocean circulation. The melting there of sea ice or icebergs releases sediments trapped in the ice. The sediments sink to the bottom and build up layer after layer on the sea bottom.
By analyzing samples from that sea bottom, Darby can determine how much imported sediments from polar ice has been deposited in the Denmark Strait, where the sediments came from and any weather patterns that caused this to happen.
Currently, a melt-back of the Greenland Ice Sheet (covering roughly 80 percent of the surface of Greenland) seems to be speeding up and the calving, or breaking off, of icebergs is increasing. Similar melting trends have also been reported in the Arctic Ocean.
"We've all seen stories about the rapid demise of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is representing about .7 millimeter of the sea level rise of the last decade," Darby explained. "That's a good portion of the global sea level rise that we've seen - about 25 percent of it."
He said the Greenland Ice Sheet has probably been shrinking for the last 100 to 200 years. "But it has been speeding up recently and we didn't expect it to speed up so quickly. It looks like it could become an even bigger player in sea level rise, and there is a lot of concern in this area."
Another concern has to do with the creation of deep-ocean water off Greenland where polar currents run into warmer currents from the south. Just north of Iceland, deep-water is created where the same current involved in the Gulf Stream off our coast becomes cold and salty enough to sink. This acts like a "pump" that sustains global ocean circulation. Without this there would be a much weaker Gulf Stream as we know it today to warm the eastern United States before it pushes north and east across the Atlantic Ocean to also warm the British Isles and Scandinavia.
This sinking - to a depth of a mile or more - pulls warmer surface water northward and pushes deep, cold water southward, helping to maintain the global conveyor belt of ocean circulation.
Any Arctic warming or melting of Greenland ice affects this deep-water creation process by diluting the salty Gulf Stream near Iceland and slowing its descent thus weakening the global circulation and changing the climate in any region whose weather is influenced by the circulation.
"Climate change could have a big negative impact on economic growth," Darby said. "Anything that changes the weather is not good for the economy. We need to be prepared. It is my hope that we stop arguing about whether our burning fossil fuels causes climate change and start focusing on how to deal with it. Because it's real."
Darby's research is not directly involved in weighing human contributions to climate change, such as increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere brought on by combustion. "We're looking for natural conditions that are helping to cause this global warming and sea level rise. There seems to be a natural pacing to climate change. If you don't know what changes are naturally occurring over the long haul, you don't know how to deal with conditions over the short term."
Recent research by Darby has produced evidence of 1,500-year cycles in Arctic oscillations, which are broad swirls of winds and currents that switch directions and produce periods of cooling interchanged with periods of warming.
Evidence of this climate-cycle pacing is there only in broad terms, however; the pacing is difficult to pin down precisely in time. Darby's current NSF project in the Denmark Strait is designed to zero in on 50-100 year resolution for the cycles, to the point that he can determine what the natural influences are right now on Arctic/Greenland weather, and what influences we can expect in the near future.
"Is there a consistent, significant pacing that will help with our predictions?" he asks in explaining the work.
The NSF also has funded collaborative work on this project by John Andrews and Anne Jennings of the University of Colorado, two prominent paleoclimate experts. Darby's results also will be used by a project team led by Grant Bigg of the University of Sheffield in England, which is modeling iceberg calving variation around Greenland through the 20th century.
For now, the electron microprobe, which is made by the Cameca company, is performing its analysis of grains from Denmark Strait core samples, running almost continuously, day and night. "In the 27 months we've been using the instrument, we have done almost 100,000 grain analyses. In the previous nearly 18 years with the old machine, we did only 150,000 grain analyses. This new one is a beautiful instrument," Darby said.
An electron microprobe works similarly to a scanning electron microscope. A sample is bombarded with an electron beam, and X-rays are emitted at wavelengths characteristic to the elements being analyzed. This enables the prevalent elements present within small sample volumes (typically 10-30 cubic micrometers or less) to be determined.
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