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Pluto in Cap, the climate, ecology and environment topic
Jul 06, 2012, 08:39 PM »
I am starting this new topic for posting articles about the Earth's environment, ecology, and climate while Pluto is in Capricorn, and especially now that Pluto is exactly squaring Uranus, which in astrology rules the atmosphere.
The first post is a 17 minute YouTube video called
Climate Change is Simple
. It explains all the basics one needs to know about how the environment is being impacted and what is going to happen if humanity continues ignoring the changes the collective needs to make. The end results are alarming yet in the video the thoughts are presented in an objective, grounded way without fear or gloom and doom. It simply states what is going on, and where this goes if we don't change our collective behavior.
If you are young this will change your life within your lifetime. If you are older, then the same for your children and grand kids. We need to know these things. They are presented very well in this video.
Video URL: Climate Change is Simple
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Study finds arctic ice decline set new record in June
A study released Friday by the National Snow & Ice Data Center found that arctic ice levels underwent their most rapid loss ever for the month of June this year.
According to the study, the arctic lost 2.86 million square miles of ice in June, the largest such drop since at least 1979. Citing air temperatures that hovered one to four degrees Celsius (up to about seven degrees Fahrenheit) above the 30-year rolling average, the report found that the arctic as a whole had undergone a, "period of especially rapid ice loss."
As a result, arctic ice extent reached the second-lowest point ever for the month of June, trailing only June 2010 for that title. The past three Junes all mark the three lowest such months for arctic ice extent since 1979 as well.
In addition, the study found that snow levels in the Northern Hemisphere fell to their lowest June-levels since record keeping began in 1967. The report noted how low snow levels heading into the month could have had a self-destructive force, further deteriorating the already depleted levels.
"This rapid and early retreat of snow cover exposes large, darker underlying surfaces to the sun early in the season, fostering higher air temperatures and warmer soils," the report notes.
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Jul 09, 2012, 08:01 AM »
Top marine scientists warn reefs in rapid decline
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 9, 2012 5:53 EDT
More than 2,600 of the world's top marine scientists Monday warned coral reefs around the world were in rapid decline and urged immediate global action on climate change to save what remains.
The consensus statement at the International Coral Reef Symposium, being held in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns, stressed that the livelihoods of millions of people were at risk.
Coral reefs provide food and work for countless coastal inhabitants globally, generate significant revenues through tourism and function as a natural breakwater for waves and storms, they said.
The statement, endorsed by the forum attendees and other marine scientists, called for measures to head off escalating damage caused by rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, overfishing and pollution from the land.
"There is a window of opportunity for the world to act on climate change, but it is closing rapidly," said Terry Hughes, convener of the symposium, held every four years, which attracted some 2,000 scientists from 80 countries.
Jeremy Jackson, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, said reefs around the world have seen severe declines in coral cover over the last several decades.
In the Caribbean, for example, 75-85 percent of the coral cover has been lost in the last 35 years.
Even the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the best-protected reef ecosystem on the planet, has witnessed a 50 percent decline in the last 50 years.
Jackson said while climate change was exacerbating the problem, it was also causing increased droughts, agricultural failure and sea level rises at increasingly faster rates, which implied huge problems for society.
"That means what's good for reefs is also critically important for people and we should wake up to that fact," he said.
"The future of coral reefs isn't a marine version of tree-hugging but a central problem for humanity."
Stephen Palumbi, director of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, said addressing local threats, such as poor land development and unsustainable fishing practices, was also critical.
More than 85 percent of reefs in Asia's "Coral Triangle" are directly threatened by human activities such as coastal development, pollution, and overfishing, according to a report launched at the forum earlier Monday.
The Coral Triangle covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, The Solomon Islands, and East Timor and contains nearly 30 percent of the world's reefs and more than 3,000 species of fish.
International Society for Reef Studies president Robert Richmond stressed that the consensus statement was not just another effort at documenting the mounting problems.
Instead he said it was also about making the best available science available to leaders worldwide.
"The scientific community has an enormous amount of research showing we have a problem. But right now, we are like doctors diagnosing a patient's disease, but not prescribing any effective cures," he said.
"We have to start more actively engaging the process and supporting public officials with real-world prescriptions for success."
[Red coral perch of the Red Sea, via Shutterstock.com.]
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Jul 09, 2012, 09:55 AM »
Rootworms have developed resistance to genetically engineered corn
Last fall, the Environmental Protection Agency warned that Monsanto's Bt corn, which was genetically engineered a decade ago to ward off rootworms, is now falling prey to worms that have developed resistance to the plants' built-in insecticide. The EPA also expressed concern that Monstanto's monitoring was "inadequate and likely to miss early resistance events."
At the time, a company spokesperson denied there was a problem, telling Bloomberg News, "Monsanto continues to believe there's no scientific confirmation of resistance to its Bt corn."
However, this year's corn-growing season is now well under way in the United States, and in some places the crops are suffering severe damage. Scientists have identitied the culprit as Bt-resistant rootworms.
The resistant rootworms have also appeared in South Africa, India, and China, but they may have the greatest impact in the United States, where more than half the corn grown is Bt.
According to Monsanto's critics, this outcome amounts to a "perfect storm." We're stuck with the potential risks to human health that may result from eating genetically-modified foods and we're not even getting the promised benefits. In addition, American taxpayers could find themselves picking up the tab for any crop failures, thanks to government subsidies.
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Ocean Acidification Is Climate Change's 'Equally Evil Twin,' NOAA Chief Says
AP | Posted: 07/09/2012 12:51 am Updated: 07/09/2012 12:51 pm
SYDNEY (AP) — Oceans' rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the "osteoporosis of the sea" and threatening everything from food security to tourism to livelihoods, the head of a U.S. scientific agency said Monday.
The speed by which the oceans' acid levels has risen caught scientists off-guard, with the problem now considered to be climate change's "equally evil twin," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco told The Associated Press.
"We've got sort of the perfect storm of stressors from multiple places really hammering reefs around the world," said Lubchenco, who was in Australia to speak at the International Coral Reef Symposium in the northeast city of Cairns, near the Great Barrier Reef. "It's a very serious situation."
Oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increasing sea acidity. Scientists are worried about how that increase will affect sea life, particularly reefs, as higher acid levels make it tough for coral skeletons to form. Lubchenco likened ocean acidification to osteoporosis — a bone-thinning disease — because researchers are concerned it will lead to the deterioration of reefs.
Scientists initially assumed that the carbon dioxide absorbed by the water would be sufficiently diluted as the oceans mixed shallow and deeper waters. But most of the carbon dioxide and the subsequent chemical changes are being concentrated in surface waters, Lubchenco said.
"And those surface waters are changing much more rapidly than initial calculations have suggested," she said. "It's yet another reason to be very seriously concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere now and the additional amount we continue to put out."
Higher acidity levels are especially problematic for creatures such as oysters, because acid slows the growth of their shells. Experiments have shown other animals, such as clown fish, also suffer. In a study that mimicked the level of acidity scientists expect by the end of the century, clown fish began swimming toward predators, instead of away from them, because their sense of smell had been dulled.
"We're just beginning to uncover many of the ways in which the changing chemistry of oceans affects lots of behaviors," Lubchenco said. "So salmon not being able to find their natal streams because their sense of smell was impaired, that's a very real possibility."
The potential impact of all of this is huge, Lubchenco said. Coral reefs attract critical tourism dollars and protect fragile coastlines from threats such as tsunamis. Seafood is the primary source of protein for many people around the world. Already, some oyster farmers have blamed higher acidity levels for a decrease in stocks.
Some attempts to address the problem are already under way. Instruments that measure changing acid levels in the water have been installed in some areas to warn oyster growers when to stop the flow of ocean water to their hatcheries.
But that is only a short-term solution, Lubchenco said. The most critical element, she said, is reducing carbon emissions.
"The carbon dioxide that we have put in the atmosphere will continue to be absorbed by oceans for decades," she said. "It is going to be a long time before we can stabilize and turn around the direction of change simply because it's a big atmosphere and it's a big ocean."
In this Jan. 23, 2006 file photo provided by Centre of Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, fish swim amongst bleached coral near the Keppel Islands in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.(AP Photo/Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, File)
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Scientists to directly link extreme weather to man-made climate change
By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 14:19 EDT
Climate change researchers have been able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on the planet's climate systems for the first time, marking a major step forward in climate research.
The findings make it much more likely that we will soon – within the next few years – be able to discern whether the extremely wet and cold summer and spring so far experienced in the UK this year are attributable to human causes rather than luck, according to the researchers.
Last year's record warm November in the UK – the second hottest since records began in 1659 – was at least 60 times more likely to happen because of climate change than owing to natural variations in the earth's weather systems, according to the peer-reviewed studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US, and the Met Office in the UK. The devastating heatwave that blighted farmers in Texas in the US last year, destroying crop yields in another record "extreme weather event", was about 20 times more likely to have happened owing to climate change than to natural variation.
Attributing individual weather events, such as floods, droughts and heatwaves, to human-induced climate change – rather than natural variation in the planet's complex weather systems – has long been a goal of climate change scientists. But the difficulty of separating the causation of events from the background "noise" of the variability in the earth's climate systems has until now made such attribution an elusive goal.
To attribute recent extreme weather events – rather than events 10 years ago or more – to human-caused climate change is a big advance, and will help researchers to provide better warnings of the likely effects of climate change in the near future. This is likely to have major repercussions on climate change policy and the ongoing efforts to adapt to the probable effects of global warming.
Peter Stott, of the UK's Met Office, said: "We are much more confident about attributing [weather effects] to climate change. This is all adding up to a stronger and stronger picture of human influence on the climate."
But the researchers also said that not every extreme weather event could be attributed to climate change. For instance, the extremely cold British winter of 2010-11 – starkly exemplified by the satellite picture of the UK and Ireland covered in white on Christmas Eve, as snow gripped the nations – was owing to variations in the systems of ocean and air circulation. Although such cold winters are now only half as likely as they were several decades ago, owing to a generally warming climate across the world, extremely low temperatures of this type are still possible depending on circulation effects – in this case, a negative North Atlantic Oscillation, the circulation system that is a key determinant of European weather.
Floods in Thailand last year, another example studied in the research, were also not judged to be due to climate change but to other factors such as changes in the management of local river systems.
Following and predicting temperature rises tends to be much less complex than predicting – and attributing the causes of – changes in precipitation patterns.
This year's weather in the UK is an example. The Met Office has said the record wet conditions, which have brought serious flooding to regions from Yorkshire to the south-west, were owing to "a particularly disturbed jet stream". That is the weather system across the north Atlantic that normally lies at higher latitudes during the British summer, but has been lower in latitude than usual for several years running, bringing wet and sometimes cold conditions. Some research has suggested that the massive melting of Arctic ice has been responsible for this effect – by changing the patterns of warmer and colder winds in the upper atmosphere.
But the key question – of whether man-made global warming is putting a dampener on British summers – will take several years to solve, according to Stott. "This is an open question in terms of research – it is too early days to be able to say," he said.
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Jul 12, 2012, 07:08 AM »
Australia's mining boom may doom Barrier Reef
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:56 EDT
Asia-bound ships queue for weeks outside the Australian port of Newcastle as an endless stream of coal trains wind their way from mine to port.
Environmentalists say the nation's unprecedented resources boom, which will see some US$500 billion pumped into gas, oil and mining projects in coming years, has come at the cost of the environment.
The United Nations has warned the Great Barrier Reef is at risk, while some scientists say it may already be too late to save it due to surging levels of shipping, offshore gas and oil exploration and port expansion.
By 2020 an estimated 7,000 ships will traverse the reef every year, up from 5,000 in 2010, of which one-fifth were coal freighters from Newcastle — the world's biggest coal export hub in New South Wales state.
The nearby Hunter Valley has seen a six-fold increase in the number of open-cut mines in the past 30 years and locals say they are already feeling the impact as their health declines.
Asthma and respiratory illness have increased as explosive charges blast open new coal seams, and trains — uncovered and streaming dust — cross the pitted landscape 24 hours a day. Roads are grid locked.
Huge mine pits have slowly edged out what was once a thriving dairy industry and the community fears that farming could be wiped out altogether if plans to triple Newcastle port's coal output are allowed to go ahead.
"It's a big expansion," said local environmental campaigner Simon Fane, adding that the mining rush was impacting farmland, food production and thoroughbred horse breeding.
"It's globally significant what's happening in Newcastle in terms of the coal."
The port estimates that it will export some 139 million tonnes of the key energy and steelmaking fuel this financial year (July 2012-June 2013) and has unveiled plans to expand output to 330 million tonnes with a fourth terminal.
Environmentalists and sustainability experts have questioned the scale of the development, saying it is at odds with government policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with international efforts.
Australia, among the world's worst per capita polluters, has pledged to reduce its emissions by at least five percent of 2000 levels by 2020 and recently introduced a corporate pollution tax as part of that push.
But the tripling of Newcastle coal output alone will see coal exported and burned equivalent to 1.5 times Australia's annual emissions, and there are similar port expansions planned all along Australia's booming northeast coast.
Mark Diesendorf, an ex-government scientist now based at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), has warned that the mining-rich nation faces the loss of natural heritage such as the Great Barrier Reef if the rampant development continues.
"We are greatly expanding coal mining, coal exports, coal seam gas production and other industries which are likely to have very huge impacts, not only on our environment but ultimately on our whole economic future," said Diesendorf, deputy director of the UNSW Institute for Environmental Studies.
"It's really a clash between long-term goals, which are sort of treated as political aspirations rather than real programmes, and what (the government) see as short-term necessities."
UNESCO recently delivered a stark report on the Barrier Reef, warning it faced a downgrading of its World Heritage status due to an "unprecedented" local development boom.
Offshore gas and oil exploration, port expansions and increased ship traffic were some of the major threats outlined by UNESCO, along with run-off and climate change, which was warming the ocean and making it more acidic.
Ports on the Barrier Reef coast currently export 156 million tonnes of coal per annum (mtpa) and there are plans to expand that to 953 mtpa within the next decade.
UNESCO called for a ban on any new port works near the reef until 2015, saying the scale and pace of proposals "appear beyond the capacity for independent, quality and transparent decision making".
There was an immediate backlash from the Queensland state government, which declared itself to be "in the coal business" and said it would not put the environment before economic development.
Australia's Environment Minister Tony Burke condemned the remarks and said the government was "committed to ensuring the best possible protection and management" of the reef, which as the world's largest coral reef system is a major tourist attraction.
But Burke also warned that he could not "take away the rights at law that applicants have" where approval bids for major mining and port projects were already underway, and said the largest would not come under the UNESCO ban.
"My view is you want (the coal) industry to be able to continue in a way that is sustainable," the minister said last month.
"That means putting the right conditions around, that means making sure that it's sensitive to the environment."
In Diesendorf's view the time has passed for strict conditions on development, and even a total crackdown may be too late.
"I can't see us saving the Barrier Reef to be honest," he said.
"If we really pulled out all stops, not just in Australia but around the world, we probably could save it. But it will likely come too late to stop some very serious impacts."
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Work resumes at huge Amazon dam site
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, July 12, 2012 22:37 EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO — Some 1,600 workers resumed work Thursday after 150 indigenous people agreed to end their three-week occupation of a construction site for a huge hydro-electric dam in the Brazilian Amazon.
"The chiefs of several tribes have agreed and the others have followed," said Cleanton Ribeiro, a spokesman for the Indigenous Missionary Council in the nearby town of Altamira.
He said the natives have been waiting "for more than a year" for promises made by the public consortium Norte Energia, which is in charge of the Belo Monte project.
The activists, including members of the Xicrin, Juruna, Arara, Aweti, Assurini and Parakanawa tribes were demanding the presence of Norte Energia chief Carlos Nascimento.
After two days of hard-nosed negotiations, Nascimento pledged to "respect past commitments by respecting the culture of these peoples" affected by the construction of the dam across the Xingu River, a statement said.
Norte Energia notably agreed to build schools and health clinics for the indigenous people and to provide them with transport vehicles.
The consortium said it could not determine the financial loss caused by the work suspension, the longest since construction began a year ago.
Norte Energia says some 17 socio-economic and environmental projects worth $117 million have already been launched in the region.
The third largest dam in the world, the 11,200-megawatt Belo Monte is one of several hydro projects meant to provide Brazil with clean energy for its fast-growing economy.
Work began a year ago, despite fierce opposition from local people and green activists.
Indigenous groups fear the dam will harm their way of life while environmentalists have warned of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and irreparable damage to the ecosystem.
Belo Monte is expected to flood an area of 500 square kilometers (200 square miles) along the Xingu and displace 16,000 people, according to the government, although some NGOs put the number at 40,000 displaced.
The federal government plans to invest a total of $1.2 billion to assist the displaced, by the time the dam is completed in 2019.
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Brazil puzzled by 512 penguins found dead on beaches
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, July 13, 2012 19:30 EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 500 penguins have been found dead on beaches of Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, authorities said Friday.
The Center of Coastal and Marine Studies (Ceclimar) said veterinarians were investigating the deaths of the 512 marine animals which beached on the coast between the towns of Tramandai and Cidreira, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the state capital, Porto Alegre.
Some 30 samples from the penguins were being analyzed at Porto Alegre University and results were to be released within a month, it added.
Ceclimar officials told Globo's G1 website that veterinarians were puzzled by the large quantity of animals found and by the fact that they appeared well fed, not exhausted and without injuries or oil stains.
These Magellenic penguins, named after the Magallenes region in which they breed, mate in large colonies in southern Argentina and Chile.
They traditionally migrate north between March and September along the Rio Grande do Sul coast to head up to Sao Paulo.
Their diet consists mainly of small fish and marine crustaceans and their chief enemy is the southern sea lion.
Photo of Magellanic penguin by David [CC-BY-2.0 (
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Brazilian species set for extinction even if Amazon deforestation halts
By Ian Sample, The Guardian
Friday, July 13, 2012 9:51 EDT
The destruction of great swaths of the Brazilian Amazon has turned scores of rare species into the walking dead, doomed to disappear even if deforestation were halted in the region overnight, according to a new study.
Forest clearing in Brazil has already claimed casualties, but the animals lost to date in the rainforest region are just one-fifth of those that will slowly die out as the full impact of the loss of habitat takes its toll. In parts of the eastern and southern Amazon, 30 years of concerted deforestation have shrunk viable living and breeding territories enough to condemn 38 species to regional extinction in coming years, including 10 mammal, 20 bird and eight amphibian species, scientists found.
The systematic clearance of trees from the Amazon forces wildlife into ever-smaller patches of ground.
Though few species are killed off directly in forest clearances, many face a slower death sentence as their breeding rates fall and competition for food becomes more intense.
Scientists at Imperial College, London, reached the bleak conclusion after creating a statistical model to calculate the Brazilian Amazon's "extinction debt", or the number of species headed for extinction as a result of past deforestation. The model draws on historical deforestation rates and animal populations in 50 by 50 kilometre squares of land.
It stops short of naming the species most at risk, but field workers in the region have drawn attention to scores of creatures struggling to cope with habitat destruction and other environmental threats.
White-cheeked spider monkeys, which feed on fruits high in the forest canopy, are endangered largely because of the expansion of farmland and road building. The population of Brazilian bare-faced tamarins has halved in 18 years, or three generations, as cities, agriculture and cattle ranching has pushed into the rainforest. The endangered giant otter, found in the slow-moving rivers and swamps of the Amazon, faces water pollution from agricultural runoff and mining operations in the area.
Writing in the journal Science, Robert Ewers and his co-authors reconstructed extinction rates from 1970 to 2008, and then forecast future extinction debts under four different scenarios, ranging from "business as usual" to a "strong reduction" in forest clearance, which required deforestation to slow down 80% by 2020.
"For now, the problem is along the arc of deforestation in the south and east where there is a long history of forest loss. But that is going to move in the future. We expect most of the species there to go extinct, and we'll pick up more extinction debt along the big, paved highways which are now cutting into the heart of the Amazon," Ewers told the Guardian from Belém, northern Brazil.
Under the "business as usual" scenario, where around 62 sq miles (160 sqkm) of forest are cleared each year, at least 15 mammal, 30 bird and 10 amphibian species were expected to die out locally by 2050, from around half of the Amazon. Under the most optimistic scenario, which requires cattle ranchers and soy farmers to comply with Brazilian environmental laws, the extinction debt could be held close to 38 species.
Ewers said the model reveals hotspots in the Brazilian Amazon where conservation efforts should be focused on the most vulnerable wildlife. "This shows us where we are likely to have high concentrations of species which are all in trouble, and that becomes a way for directing our conservation efforts. We are talking about an extinction debt. Those species are still alive, so we have an opportunity to get in there and restore the habitat to avoid paying that debt," Ewers said.
The Brazilian Amazon is home to 40% of the world's tropical forest and one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. About 54% of the area is under environmental protection, and in the past five years, stricter controls and better compliance have driven deforestation rates down to a historical low.
The trend towards less deforestation might not last though. Under pressure from the financial crisis, the Brazilian government has proposed a rapid development programme in the Amazon to fuel the economy. The move foresees the construction of more than 20 hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon basin and an extensive push into the rainforest.
Environmentalists are further concerned about an overhaul to Brazil's Forest Code, which is widely expected to weaken the protection of the rainforest, and potentially speed up deforestation once more, according to an accompanying article in Science by Thiago Rangel, an ecologist at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil. "Extinction debts in the Brazilian Amazon are one debt that should be defaulted on," he writes.
Reducing the rate that extinction debts build up is not enough to preserve the Amazon's biodiversity, Rangel argues. "The existing debt may eventually lead to the loss of species. To prevent species extinctions, it is necessary to take advantage of the window of opportunity for forest regeneration. Restored or regenerated forests initially show lower native species richness than the original forests they replaced, but they gradually recover species richness, composition and vital ecosystems functions, reducing extinction debt and mitigating local species loss," he writes.
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Lemurs the world's most threatened mammal: study
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:01 EDT
Lemurs, the furry apes brought to fame by the Disney animation film "Madagascar", are the most endangered mammals on Earth, an International Union for Conservation of Nature conference found.
An IUCN workshop met in Madagascar this week to discuss the world's 103 lemur species as conservation deteriorates amid political turmoil that has lasted three years.
"Madagascar has, by far, the highest proportion of threatened species of any primate habitat region or any one country in the world. As a result, we now believe that lemurs are probably the most endangered of any group of vertebrates," said primatologist Christoph Schwitzer, one of the conference organisers.
Over 90 percent of the world's lemur species — found only on the Indian Ocean island — were upgraded to critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable on the IUCN's Threatened Species list.
The destruction of the primates' tropical forest habitat and an upsurge in bushmeat hunting have depleted lemur numbers since conservation efforts broke down after a coup in 2009, the body said in a statement late on Friday.
"Following this coup, there has been a serious breakdown of protective measures, with two key protected areas in northern Madagascar, Masoala National Park and Marojejy National Park, both of them part of a UNESCO complex of World Heritage Sites."
"Political uncertainty has increased poverty and accelerated illegal logging. Hunting of these animals has also emerged as a more serious threat than previously imagined," it found.
The bush meat trade also affected tortoises and other species.
Madagascar's lemurs represent 20 percent of all primates, concentrated in an area less than one percent of global land area where apes roam.
These include the world's smallest primate at 30 grams, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, and the blue-eyed black lemur, the only ape species with blue eyes besides humans — both endangered.
Since 2000, 40 new lemur species have been discovered.
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I thought I'd share a link to a site that has some awesome photography that gives a visual message about what we are doing to our planet in relation to plastic bottles, garbage and cigarette butts.
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In the USA ..........
2012 Drought Rivals Dust Bowl
Nick Wiltgen
The 2012 drought disaster is now the largest in over 50 years, and among the ten largest of the past century, according to a new report released by the National Climatic Data Center today.
As The Weather Channel reported in an exclusive preview of the report Sunday, data computed from the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows that 54.6 percent of the contiguous 48 states was in drought at the end of June, the highest percentage since December 1956, and the sixth-highest peak percentage on record.
The June State of the Climate drought report from NCDC, released today, shows that in records dating to 1895, only the extraordinary droughts of the 1930s and 1950s have covered more land area than the current drought.
And by a slight margin, the current drought actually covers more area than the famous 1936 drought, though other droughts in the Dust Bowl years – particularly the extreme drought of 1934 – still rank higher.
However, when excluding areas in "moderate" drought, the historical rankings change a bit. Some historical droughts were extremely intense, but more focused on specific regions rather than sprawling across large swaths of the country.
For example, infamous droughts in 1988, 2000, and 2002 each included over 35% of the country in the "severe" to "extreme" drought categories on the Palmer drought scale. By comparison, severe to extreme drought covers 32.7% in June 2012.
In short, the overall 2012 drought now covers more territory than any drought since the 1950s; but the more severe drought categories don't cover quite as much land now as did the droughts of 1988 and the early 2000s.
That being said, the 2012 drought still ranks as the 10th-largest severe drought since 1895, even by that stricter definition.
And with July typically being the hottest month of the year, the drought may yet worsen. Note that among the top ten largest "severe" droughts on record, five of them peaked in the months of July and August.
Different Drought Measures
In recent months, we have updated you on drought statistics from the U.S. Drought Monitor report. This weekly report is a collaboration between multiple government agencies that incorporates field reports, stream flows, soil moisture, snow pack, and other indicators to give a qualitative overview of drought conditions across the United States.
The Drought Monitor report debuted in 1999, and the period of detailed records began in January 2000.
One of the many inputs in the Drought Monitor report is the Palmer Drought Severity Index.
The weekly Palmer Drought Severity Index for July 14, 2012.
This index, developed by meteorologist Wayne Palmer in the 1960s, uses mathematical equations incorporating precipitation and temperature data to estimate evaporation, runoff, and soil moisture recharge.
Since these are fixed mathematical formulas, they can be applied retroactively to historical data, and the NCDC maintains a database of monthly Palmer drought indices dating to 1895. Some researchers have even calculated Palmer drought indices for the U.S. and other countries as far back as 1870.
Because of this much longer period of record, the Palmer index can be used as more of an "apples to apples" comparison between recent weather conditions and those from past decades, at least on a meteorological basis.
That being said, differences in land use and farming practices since the Dust Bowl make the comparison of real-world impacts more complicated. Erosion-control practices and drought-resistant crop hybrids are just two examples of ways in which modern agriculture attempts to mitigate the impacts of severe drought.
The Weather Channel team of meteorologists is currently analyzing the newly-released NCDC report. Stay connected with weather.com and The Weather Channel for more details and expert analysis as this story develops.
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Tropical butterfly discovered in Quebec a sign of warming
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 16, 2012 15:41 EDT
Caterpillars belonging to a species of butterfly previously unknown as far north as Canada have been discovered in Montreal, in a sign that this country's cool climate is warming, researchers said Monday.
The city's botanical garden and insectarium said the giant swallowtail butterflies (Papilio cresphontes Cramer) were recently found for the first time on a prickly ash plant there.
"The butterfly's arrival in Montreal is a very clear example of the impact of climate change," said a statement.
"In recent decades, milder temperatures in Nordic zones have enabled it to survive the winter and colonize new habitats. Giant swallowtails have gradually moved into Quebec, and the first native chrysalises are about to undergo metamorphosis at the botanical garden any day now!"
Giant swallowtails normally live in Central and South America. Starting in the late 1990s, they began showing up in North America as far north as the southern tip of Canada.
While other butterfly species are also edging northward at a rate of 16 kilometers (10 miles) per decade, the giant swallowtail is moving into new habitats at a rate 15 times faster than average.
Its range now extends a full 400 kilometers (248.5 miles) into areas previously too inhospitable to support a viable population.
With a wingspan of up to 15 cm, or the size of a dinner plate, it is the largest butterfly in North America.
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Mississippi Levels 'Absolutely Not Normal' After Drought
By Susie Madrak
When you see some of the crazy "issues" being raised in this presidential election instead of leadership on climate change, doesn't it make you want to scream? Not only are we going to have massive crop failures as a result of this ongoing drought, we aren't even able to ship the crops we have when shipping channels like the formerly-mighty Mississippi are drying up:
Companies operating along the Mississippi River are seeing a drastic cut in business as severe drought lowers water levels and makes shipping increasingly difficult.The drought, which now covers more than 1,000 counties across the US, has dropped water levels 50 feet below last year's levels in some places. Last winter's lack of snow, the absence of any major tropical storms from the Gulf of Mexico, sweltering temperatures, and the lack of rain this spring and summer are to blame for the shallow water.
The Mississippi is a major trade conduit through the central U.S. Barges, which are often cheaper to operate than trains or trucks, carry goods such as grain, corn, soybeans, steel, rubber, coffee, fertilizer, coal, and petroleum products in and out of the interior of the country.
As the water levels fall, barges have run aground near Vicksburg, Mississippi, where the water is already less than 5 feet deep, and shipping companies have been forced to curtail their business. The Wall Street Journal reports:
'It's causing headaches all up and down the river system right now,' said Martin Hettel, senior manager of bulk sales for AEP River Operations, a St. Louis-based barge company.Mark Fletcher, owner of Ceres Barge Line of East St. Louis, Ill., said about 70% of his 220 barges aren't being used now. First, the drought cut crops, reducing demand for shipping. Now, low water levels are making it more costly to ship.
'It's not good if you are in the barge business right now,' he said. 'In the last 60 days, you've watched a whole lot of money go out the window.'
Some river ports have been forced to close temporarily or shut down parts of their operations because of the low water levels. At the port of Rosedale in the Mississippi Delta, port director Robert Maxwell Jr. said water levels are about 50 feet below what they were last year, when flooding shut down the port. If the water falls any lower, there was a 'high likelihood' he would have to close, he said. One of the port's public loading docks is inoperable, with equipment normally in the water now hanging the air. The Army Corps of Engineers is supposed to come this week to dredge, where heavy equipment is used to dig out sediment from waterways to make them passable for shipping.
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Shortly after President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, we heard Sotomayor's now famous words: The sentiment struck me as racist."
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The Berkeley Law School speech in which judge Sotomayor made the comments - that a "wise Latina" would make a better judge than a white male - has been widely cited. The White House is now claiming that critics are taking Judge Sotomayor's comments in that speech out of context. Respected legal scholars who have concluded that the speech as a whole isn't as damaging as the judge's "wise Latina" comment. However I contend it is worse.
Here are some excerpts from the speech.
"I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that."
"Whether born from experience or inherent psychological or cultural differences... our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
"Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases .... I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
The central principle of American justice - and perhaps the single, great idea of America - is equal justice for 'all' before the law. This idea is expressed in the words "all men (and today we would say all men and women) are created equal." It means that Americans stand before the law, not as members of groups, but as individuals. "Equal justice under law" is in fact chiseled in stone on the front of the Supreme Court building and for good reason.
When a judge disregards the rule of law and applies a different standard to certain groups, or, as the President would say, shows "empathy," he or she violates this central American principle.
When a judge views Americans as members of groups and not individuals, one group's "empathy" becomes another group's injustice. And this is apparent in three separate cases where in the past the Supreme Court has over overturned Sotomayor's rulings.
Nowhere is the injustice that results from judging Americans as Sotomayor's ruling in the case involving Frank Ricci, a New Haven, Conn. firefighter.
Frank Ricci and 16 other white firefighters including one Hispanic firefighter sued the city, claiming they were denied promotions on the basis of their race. A district judge dismissed the case, and a three- judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. One of those judges was Judge Sotomayor. The Supreme Court is currently hearing the Ricci case, and a ruling is expected next month, likely in the midst of hearings on judge Sotomayor's nomination. Legal authority has predicted this ruling will be over turned also. But however the high court rules, this is a moment for America to have a full, honest and open debate, not just about the impartiality of our judges, but about equal justice before the law for Americans like Ricci.
On the high court, Judge Sotomayor will not have to worry about a higher court overturning her rulings. As a Supreme Court Justice, she will do the overturning.
Has President Obama nominated a conventionally liberal judge to a lifetime tenure on our highest court?
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That's right - those "crazy" people you see standing on the ice at waters across Utah in the winter aren't so crazy after all. They know a layer of cold ice means hot fishing in the water just under it.
"You can set your watch by it," says Drew Cushing, warm water sport fisheries coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "When ice starts to form on a body of water, the fish under the ice get very active. And they're eager to bite."
Cushing says that eagerness to bite often continues through the winter.
You can stay updated on where fishing is best in Utah this winter at wildlife.utah.gov/hotspots.
Cushing says fishing on the ice gives anglers several advantages:
If you're willing to walk, you can reach any part of the lake or reservoir you want to fish.
Cushing calls ice "the great equalizer." "In the winter," he says, "you don't need a boat or a float tube to reach certain parts of a body of water. If you have a rod and a reel, and you're willing to walk, you can reach any part of the water you want to fish."
Catching fish in the winter doesn't require the skill needed to catch fish during other times of the year. Just drop your bait in front of the fish, and wait for the fish to take it.
You don't need a lot of expensive equipment. A short rod and reel, some hooks and wax worms or meal worms, and a digging bar or an ice auger are all you need to get started.
If you like to fish with lures, you may want to include a few ice flies and small jigs in your tackle box too.
Because you can dig two holes close together, ice fishing is a great way to double your fun by fishing with two poles. Just make sure you have a two-pole permit before you dip your second line in the water.
In addition to catching fish, you and those you're fishing with can talk and socialize. Just drill your holes close together, and have fun. "Most ice anglers really look forward to the social side of ice fishing," Cushing says.
Sounds great. But isn't it hard to drill a hole through the ice?
One thing that surprises many first-time ice anglers is how easy it is to drill a hole through the ice.
Cushing says if you have a hand auger, you can drill through six to eight inches of ice in about a minute. "It'll take a little longer if you use a digging bar," he says, "but not much."
Digging bars cost between $5 and $10. Manual ice augers cost about $50.
Great! But how can I have fun if I'm cold?
Temperatures can be cold during the ice-fishing season. But that doesn't mean you have to be cold. You can stay warm simply by dressing for the conditions.
Cushing says one piece of equipment that anglers often forget is a pair of waterproof boots. As the day warms, slush can develop on top of the ice. "Having a pair of waterproof boots will keep your feet warm and dry," he says.
Sounds good. But how do I know if the ice is safe to walk on?
Most anglers wait until the ice is at least 4 inches thick before walking on it.
Ice is usually thinnest near the shore. Before you walk out, Cushing says you should stay close to the shore and dig or drill a test hole to see how thick the ice is. You may also want to dig or drill some additional holes as you walk out.
If you find that the ice in your test holes is at least four inches thick, you can be almost certain that the ice farther out is at least four inches thick, or thicker.
Ice cleats and ice spikes are two ice-related items you may want to consider buying:
You can strap the ice cleats to the bottom of your boots. The cleats will give you better traction as you walk on the ice.
Ice spikes are two short pieces of metal. They're often attached by a short cord that you can drape over your neck.
If you fall through the ice, you can pull yourself out by jabbing the spikes into the top of the ice near the edge of the hole and then using the spikes to pull yourself out.
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Musings about models
With the blogosphere all a-flutter with discussions of hundredths of degrees adjustments to the surface temperature record, you probably missed a couple of actually interesting stories last week.
Tipping points
Oft-discussed and frequently abused, tipping points are very rarely actually defined. Tim Lenton does a good job in this recent article. A tipping 'element' for climate purposes is defined as
The parameters controlling the system can be transparently combined into a single control, and there exists a critical value of this control from which a small perturbation leads to a qualitative change in a crucial feature of the system, after some observation time.
and the examples that he thinks have the potential to be large scale tipping elements are: Arctic sea-ice, a reorganisation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, melt of the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice Sheets, dieback of the Amazon rainforest, a greening of the Sahara, Indian summer monsoon collapse, boreal forest dieback and ocean methane hydrates.
To that list, we'd probably add any number of ecosystems where small changes can have cascading effects – such as fisheries. It's interesting to note that most of these elements include physics that modellers are least confident about – hydrology, ice sheets and vegetation dynamics.
Prediction vs. Projections
As we discussed recently in connection with climate 'forecasting', the kinds of simulations used in AR4 are all 'projections' i.e. runs that attempt to estimate the forced response of the climate to emission changes, but that don't attempt to estimate the trajectory of the unforced 'weather'. As we mentioned briefly, that leads to a 'sweet spot' for forecasting of a couple of decades into the future where the initial condition uncertainty dies away, but the uncertainty in the emission scenario is not yet so large as to be dominating. Last week there was a paper by Smith and colleagues in Science that tried to fill in those early years, using a model that initialises the heat content from the upper ocean – with the idea that the structure of those anomalies control the 'weather' progression over the next few years.
They find that their initialisation makes a difference for a about a decade, but that at longer timescales the results look like the standard projections (i.e. 0.2 to 0.3ºC per decade warming). One big caveat is that they aren't able to predict El Niño events, and since they account for a great deal of the interannual global temperature anomaly, that is a limitation. Nonetheless, this is a good step forward and people should be looking out for whether their predictions – for a plateau until 2009 and then a big ramp up – materialise over the next few years.
Model ensembles as probabilities
A rather esoteric point of discussion concerning 'Bayesian priors' got a mainstream outing this week in the Economist. The very narrow point in question is to what extent model ensembles are probability distributions. i.e. if only 10% of models show a particular behaviour, does this mean that the likelihood of this happening is 10%?
The answer is no. The other 90% could all be missing some key piece of physics.
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When I flew, I had a patch which read Infidel that I wore on my flight suit. I picked it up in Baghdad at the airport once known as Saddam Hussein International Airport, but now referred to as BIAP. Or Baghdad International Airport. The problem with the patch is that they spelled out infidel in Arabic along with the English translation. But they did not use the Arabic word, kaffar, rather they phonetically spelled it out in Arabic script. Still, I liked the patch, messed-up Arabic and all. Plus it kept me out of trouble with the Arabs I used to work with. They had no clue why this American had a patch on his shoulder with gibberish. So I could look tough without having to answer for my toughness. (In all fairness to me, I did not realize this for months.)
At my current job, I have some of my flight patches up in my cubicle. And one day, a woman who was a prior Marine officer came by to chat with me about something. She looks at the patch and says: that is not right. I am giddy, because no one at work has noticed the jacked-up writing.
You speak Arabic? I ask.
No, but I have the real word, kaffar, tattooed on my body. So I know what it looks like.
Ah, Marine females. They are irreplaceable.
Speaking of patches, check out this spec-ops "Harley-Davidson" patch:
It is in Afghanistan, Mangrah. Extra points if you know what country the door-kicker is from. Do check out his cool Taliban patch too, Jolly Roger and all. (While we are playing name-dat-soldier, take a peek at this WWII warrior feeding a kitty. My guess would be Australia, considering the camo.)


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Considering how popular forum battles are to this forum, it really is a shame that the list of forum battles hasn't been updated since early 2010, especially since most of the forum battles since then have continuing storylines and are relevant to the Immortal War and AN-TA conflicts, while the pre-2010 reports were generally stand-alone.
I vote either Colette or Silva trawl thorugh the Forum Battle archives and make a complete, updated list of every (finished) battle, sorted by start date. Mostly because both of them have enough time on their hands (and know enough about this forum's history) to be able to do it.
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Florida Panther 93 awakens from sedation in Big Cypress National Preserve in 2006.
Wildlife biologist Dennis Giardina directs his tracking antenna in search of Florida panthers in the Big Cypress National Preserve in February. With Giardina are biologists John Kellam, left, and Deborah Jansen.
Big Cypress National Preserve veterinarian Emmett Blankenship holds open the jaws of a panther so researchers can document the condition of the cat's teeth after it was captured in Ochopee in rural Collier County. As land becomes increasingly scarce near the coast, groups like Habitat for Humanity are looking farther inland toward panther habitats for opportunities to build affordable homes.
Biologists release Florida Panther 120 with a tracking collar in Big Cypress National Preserve. The female was laid up to nine months after being hit by a vehicle on U.S. 41.
A female panther and her two nearly grown offspring walk on a path in southern Golden Gate Estates.
Wildlife biologist Deborah Jansen places a new radio collar on a panther captured near Ochopee as veterinarian Emmett Blankenship, right, and other researchers from Big Cypress National Preserve observe. Rocky McBride, in sunglasses, tracked the cat with his hounds and immobilized it with a dart. The male panther was captured earlier that morning after it fed on chickens and a turkey taken from a nearby campground.
Three-week-old Florida panther kittens — Nos. 236, 237 and 238 — cuddle in their Big Cypress National Preserve den during a medical checkup conducted by wildlife biologists in April. The kittens are the offspring of Nos. 103 and 127.
FP147 is one of about 40 panthers whose movements are being tracked with radio collars by state and federal biologists in Southwest Florida.
As subdivisions in Florida multiply, so do panthers' problems. Development sprawling eastward from Naples encroaches on habitat that was once the Florida panther's range. Springing up northeast of U.S 41 East and Collier Boulevard is Verona Walk, shown here.
A dead female lies on the shoulder of State Road 29 nearly three miles north of Oil Well Road in October 2004. The panther was believed to have been about 2 years old.
Ryan Knutson, a law enforcement officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, checks the speed of drivers heading south along the section of State Road 29 that passes through the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.
Doyle Cook, a law enforcement officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, issues a speeding ticket to a driver on State Road 29. During the day the speed limit is 60 mph through the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, but it drops to 45 mph after dark.
Traffic heads north along Collier Boulevard past a panther sign. Wildlife advocates say underpasses may be an answer to the panther's losing battle with vehicles.
Front-paw tracks of Florida Panther 150 are seen in the soil during a tracking of the cat on Feb. 7 in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Mark Lotz, a wildlife biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, takes a dead female Florida panther out of a freezer and loads it onto a truck for transport to the commission's office in Gainesville for a necropsy exam. The panther was killed June 21 by a car while crossing County Road 832 in Hendry County.


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|Marty, me, Matthew; March 2011
"Hey," I reminded him. "Your bathroom never smelled so good!"
Then came my tears and the "I'll miss you/I love you/I'll call you/I'll be back if you need me"s. He hugged me and shed a few tears, too, then Matthew poured me in his truck and told Marty, "Don't worry. She'll be back. Her and her big suitcase."
|Colton and me; a few weeks ago
Sure enough, I got off the train from the gates and Colton was there holding a sign with my name on it. I laughed and threw my arms around him and cried. I'd missed him. I'd missed my kids. I'd missed my grandkids. I'd missed my life. I didn't realize how much until I saw Colton's sign and the big grin on his face. I didn't have a lot of time for introspection while I was in Minnesota, you know?
When I arrived in Pittsburgh, I was wiped out, tired, worried, and needed someone to take care of me. That hardly ever happens. I mean, I can take care of myself no matter what, right? But you know what? Sometimes surrender is the best option.
Colton took my computer bag and we went to baggage claim. He grabbed my suitcase off the carousel with only a small "Ugh" and we walked out of the airport and to the parking lot. He opened the car door, handed me flowers and chocolate, gave me a kiss, and said, "Welcome home."
When I got home, this was on my front door:
Cassie had taped drawings from the kids all over my apartment, and she left me a note:
Except for condiments, my refrigerator was bare. Cassie knew I'd need something to eat for breakfast, so she brought me 3 eggs, a half a bag of spinach and an apple. My plan had been almonds and canned carrots, but her breakfast was much better.
The next day I went to see the grandbabies. They are young – 3½, 2 and 5 months – so I worried they'd forgotten me or wouldn't be excited to see me again. I walked in the door, expecting them to look at me like, "Um…I know you from somewhere," but no. Luca yelled, "Grammy!" as always. I picked him up and kissed his mass of blond hair and he giggled his Luca giggle.
Claire walked up to me in her shy way and looked up at me. Her big brown eyes were so full of love. I put my hands under her arms and told her to jump. She wrapped her legs around my waist and her arms around my neck and she whispered, "I missed you, Grammy. I love you so much." Oh...you KNOW I cried.
Miss Mae was in her seat attached to her play table and she gave me a smile as wide as the Allegheny River. Yes, I know she smiles at darn near everyone, but I like to think she remembered her old Grammy just fine.
If we all loved ourselves the way the people closest to us love us – if we treated ourselves with the same kind of innate care that others express through flowers, chocolate, notes and great big hugs – imagine how much easier it would be to make our own health goals a priority?
I've not been the best Weight Watcher or exerciser the last two weeks. OK…months. I've put myself on the back burner and my body is paying the price. No more. After such a perfect homecoming, I know I need to get back to giving my body the same kind of love and attention I did when I started this journey 6½ years ago.
It's easy to lose ourselves when we're caring for our families and jobs. We put ourselves on hold, saying "one day" we'll have the time to make ourselves a priority. Marty told me that he had a hard time accepting help when he first had his seizure. Then he realized he had to allow others the same kind of joy he experienced when he helped people. He also said this experience has shown him humility.
"Humility: the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc."
We're not so important that we can't find a way to take care of ourselves as much as we take care of ers. When I put myself on the back burner, I can't give my best attention to the people I love. It seems counterintuitive, I know, but taking care of ourselves is the best way we can take care of others. Like MizFit reminded me, you have to first put on your own oxygen mask on the plane before you can help others.
I've got my oxygen mask on. Do you?


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Great for storing pasta I've bought four of these storage jars specifically for storing pasta in. The largest is perfect for spaghetti or similar size noodles. Unless you refrigerate, pantry moths get into any grain product if it sits on the shelf too long. July 22, 2013
Space saving, but not airtight Although these canisters look great on my counter and save space, they are not quite big enough to store sugar and flour, and they are also not airtight. They will be good for storing pasta or beans, but I wouldn't recommend them for any other purpose. December 11, 2012
Not Airtight!!! I ordered 6 of these canisters and in the first shipment only got 3, and one was cracked. I called right away and VCS was great about sending out 4 more, 1 to replace the cracked one and the other 3 that I hadn't gotten. I just washed the two and neither one is airtight, even after I struggle to adjust the tops. I put some soapy water into them and shook them to clean them, and water just kept fizzing out of the tops at the seams where the rubber ring was. I am still going to try to use them for food storage and hope that the bugs don't get in as I can't find any other in the large size for pasta and I think it would be too much of a hassle to return them, but am disappointed that they are not airtight, as it says in the description. November 9, 2012
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Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Fog early. High of 75. Breezy. Winds from the WNW at 15 to 20 mph. Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy with rain showers. Low of 55. Winds from the WSW at 5 to 10 mph shifting to the South after midnight. Chance of rain 20%.
EVENT OF THE DAY: A Celebration of Queens Composers
At the Center for Mediation Services in Jamaica, the Quintet of the Americas will present a program featuring Wind Quintet by Beata Moon (Forest Hills), Quintet No. 2 for Winds by James Cohn (Douglaston), The Stuff of Comets by Dylan Glatthorn (Astoria) and Sincerita by Christopher Caliendo (Jackson Heights). Starts at 1 p.m. Free. Click here for more info or to submit an event of your own
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A Queens public school teacher has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student that started when the girl was 13 years old , according to police and published reports. Read more: The Queens Courier
Queens Councilman Dan Halloran can't dole out council funds, but makes it look like he can
Busted by the feds last week, City Councilman Dan Halloran is moving ahead with an effort to dole out $1 million in discretionary funds after soliciting recommendations from constituents. Read more: New York Daily News
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The embarrassing corruption scandals that took down a state senator and two assemblymen may finally lead to ethics changes. Read more: CBS New York
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42 U.S. Code § 5196b - Contributions for personnel and administrative expenses
(a) General authority
To further assist in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter, the Administrator may make financial contributions to the States (including interstate emergency preparedness authorities established pursuant to section 5196 (h) of this title) for necessary and essential State and local emergency preparedness personnel and administrative expenses, on the basis of approved plans (which shall be consistent with the Federal emergency response plans for emergency preparedness) for the emergency preparedness of the States. The financial contributions to the States under this section may not exceed one-half of the total cost of such necessary and essential State and local emergency preparedness personnel and administrative expenses.
(b) Plan requirements
A plan submitted under this section shall—
(1) provide, pursuant to State law, that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State and be mandatory on them and be administered or supervised by a single State agency;
(2) provide that the State shall share the financial assistance with that provided by the Federal Government under this section from any source determined by it to be consistent with State law;
(3) provide for the development of State and local emergency preparedness operational plans, including a catastrophic incident annex, pursuant to standards approved by the Administrator;
(4) provide for the employment of a full-time emergency preparedness director, or deputy director, by the State;
(5) provide that the State shall make such reports in such form and content as the Administrator may require;
(6) make available to duly authorized representatives of the Administrator and the Comptroller General, books, records, and papers necessary to conduct audits for the purposes of this section; and
(c) Catastrophic incident annex
(1) Consistency
A catastrophic incident annex submitted under subsection (b)(3) shall be—
(2) Consultation
In developing a catastrophic incident annex submitted under subsection (b)(3), a State shall consult with and seek appropriate comments from local governments, emergency response providers, locally governed multijurisdictional councils of government, and regional planning commissions.
(d) Terms and conditions
The Administrator shall establish such other terms and conditions as the Administrator considers necessary and proper to carry out this section.
(e) Application of other provisions
In carrying out this section, the provisions of section [1] 5196(h) and 5197(h) of this title shall apply.
(f) Allocation of funds
For each fiscal year concerned, the Administrator shall allocate to each State, in accordance with regulations and the total sum appropriated under this subchapter, amounts to be made available to the States for the purposes of this section. Regulations governing allocations to the States under this subsection shall give due regard to
(1) the criticality of the areas which may be affected by hazards with respect to the development of the total emergency preparedness readiness of the United States,
(4) such other factors as the Administrator shall prescribe. The Administrator may reallocate the excess of any allocation not used by a State in a plan submitted under this section. Amounts paid to any State or political subdivision under this section shall be expended solely for the purposes set forth in this section.
(g) Standards for State and local emergency preparedness operational plans
In approving standards for State and local emergency preparedness operational plans pursuant to subsection (b)(3), the Administrator shall ensure that such plans take into account the needs of individuals with household pets and service animals prior to, during, and following a major disaster or emergency.
(h) 2 Submission of plan
If a State fails to submit a plan for approval as required by this section within 60 days after the Administrator notifies the States of the allocations under this section, the Administrator may reallocate such funds, or portions thereof, among the other States in such amounts as, in the judgment of the Administrator, will best assure the adequate development of the emergency preparedness capability of the United States.
(h) 2 Annual reports
The Administrator shall report annually to the Congress all contributions made pursuant to this section.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "sections".
[2] So in original. Two subsecs. (h) have been enacted.
Source(Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 613, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3),Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3106; amended Pub. L. 107–188, title I, § 151,June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 630; Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 631,Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1420; Pub. L. 109–308, § 2,Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1725; Pub. L. 111–351, § 3(c)(2),Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3864.)
Section 631(2) ofPub. L. 109–295, which directed amendment of this section "by redesignating subsections (c) through (g) andsubsections (d) through (h), respectively", was executed by redesignating subsecs. (c) to (g) as (d) to (h), respectively, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2286 of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 3412(a).
2011—Pub. L. 111–351substituted "Administrator" for "Director" wherever appearing.
2006—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 109–295, § 631(1), inserted "including a catastrophic incident annex," after "plans,".
Subsecs. (c) to (f). Pub. L. 109–295, § 631(2), (3), added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsecs. (c) to (e) as (d) to (f), respectively. Former subsec. (f) redesignated (g). See Codification note above.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 109–308, § 2(2), added subsec. (g). Former subsec. (g) relating to submission of plan redesignated (h).
Pub. L. 109–295, § 631(2), redesignatedsubsec. (f) as (g). Former subsec. (g) relating to annual reports redesignated (h). See Codification note above.
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 109–308, § 2(1), redesignatedsubsec. (g) relating to submission of plan as (h).
Pub. L. 109–295, § 631(2), redesignatedsubsec. (g) relating to annual reports as (h). See Codification note above.
2002—Subsec. (b)(7). Pub. L. 107–188added par. (7).
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see section 315 (a)(1) of Title 6, Domestic Security.
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) andsections 551 (d), 552 (d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
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Romance? A colander? And W. Fritz Bean, farmer? HELP!!!
Don't panic. These are just examples of the genres, props and characters that you may be assigned for your film. And don't forget the required line of dialogue. In the very first Project, the line was "I made you who you are, and I can just as easily break you."
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Overheard from Fresno
Posted by Kevin Arnovitz on Fri, 10/10/08, 07:09am:
There's something a little jarring about seeing a reassembled team in box score form for the first time. Minus Marcus Camby, who sat out last night's game in Fresno, what you saw [heard?]
¹ last night is a pretty close approximation of what the Clips will unveil on the 29th in their regular season opener. It's still far too early to gauge what kind of product the Clippers will produce night in and night out, but the assembly of players up and down the box score reveals a balanced mix of guys in their prime, capable scorers, skilled grown-ups, and a smattering of young talent. Again, there's no telling whether this is a unified NBA roster or merely a jumble of spare parts. But scanning that box score, what stands out is depth, something the Clippers – either due to stinginess or bad planning – have traditionally lacked.
Clips fans who want to see the team outrun the opposition and push the ball in transition had to be impressed. Baron Davis paced the Clips early; Jason Hart worked a bit more deliberately – but was effective; then Mike Taylor went to the races. Taylor has always produced glowing scouting reports. In Ames, Iowa State fans gushed that the CC-transfer might surpass Jamaal Tinsley in sheer athleticism and raw talent. But Taylor flunked out of school and found himself on the Idaho Stampede for the 2007-08 season. Last night was a good encapsulation of Taylor's game – minus the 3PMs. Taylor's instinctive ability to weave his way through the defense en route to the hole was on full display. So was his tendency to cough up the ball in transition. Taylor is still extremely young – just 22 – and he demonstrated last night that he offers the Clips a solid option – if tenuous handle – off the bench.
Whatever they get or don't get from the bench, the Clippers will succeed or fail this season on the shoulders of Baron Davis. Last night, Davis dispensed, in the words of Lisa Dillman, "a heavy dose of vocal leadership." He also dished out seven dimes – three to Tim Thomas, two to Al Thornton, and one each to Ricky Davis and Chris Kaman -- and only two turnovers in a mere 18 minutes.
Paul Davis returned and produced 15 minutes of solid basketball – hitting a couple of shots just the left of the basket and another face-up jumper, inexplicably, from 20 feet. Nice to see.
You think maybe, just maybe, there's a measurable television audience for a Clippers-Lakers preseason game in which Baron Davis makes his debut? I mean, the game was in Fresno…not Fairbanks.


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Creighton Softball Announces 2012 Winter Instructional Camp
Creighton softball will host its biannual instructional clinic the weekend following Christmas. The dates for this year's Creighton Softball Winter Instructional Camp will be December 29th - January 1st.
There are seven different sessions available for players ages 8-and-up that will cover every area of the game from defensive fundamentals and advanced positional play, to base running, pitching, hitting, and advanced hitting techniques.
Each individual session will be instructed by the Creighton Softball coaching staff and assisted by members of the 2013 Creighton Softball Team. All hitting clinics will be held in the Kitty Gaughan Pavilion which houses the indoor batting cages for the CU Softball and Baseball teams located directly next to the CU Sports Complex.
All of the defensive and pitching clinics this year will be held in the Rasmussen Center, which is the brand new, multi-million dollar indoor facility next to Morrison Stadium and the Ryan Center and DJ Sokol Arena. The breakdown for each day of camp is as follows:
December 29th1:00-3:30 pm - Pitching (all ages)**
**Due to space availability, this session will combine the younger and older age groups. However, specifics for each of the beginning and advanced groups will be addressed and drill work will be adjusted and tailored to each experience level to provide an educational and challenging clinic for each camper.
December 30th
9:00-11:30 am - Jr. Jays Hitting
1:00-3:30 pm - Jr. Jays Defensive Fundamentals
December 31st
9:00-11:30 am - Sr. Jays Hitting 1- Hitting Fundamentals
1:00-3:30 pm - Sr. Jays Hitting 2- Slapping/Short Game for Lefty Slappers and Stand Still Hitters
January 1st
9:00-11:30 am - Sr. Jays Defense 1 - Defensive Fundamentals and Base Running
1:00-3:30 pm - Sr. Jays Defensive 2- Positional Play
The fee for each session is $50 per camper, which includes the cost of instruction as well as a camp t-shirt (one per camper for the week).
Online registration is also available at www.creightonsoftballcamps.com. To reserve a space for your daughter or one of your players, or if you have any other questions, please contact Abby Johnson via email at email@example.com or by phone at 402-280-5806.
The Creighton Softball Winter Instructional Camp is open to any and all entrants, limited only by number, age, grade level and/or gender.