text: Blog China's Response to Air Pollution Poses Threat to Waterby William Hua Wen, Tianyi Luo and Tien Shiao - October 23, 2013 Record-setting levels of smog this week shut down Harbin, a city of 11 million people in northeast China. Officials blamed increased coal consumption during the first days of winter heating, underscoring the urgency of the China State Council's recently announced initiative to address persistent smog in major cities. But while the Air Pollution Control Action Plan has ambitious goals—cutting air particulates and coal consumption—it may create unintended problems for the country's water supply. Read more Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategiesby Tien Shiao and Paul Reig - October 01, 2013 Water risks such as floods, scarcity and pollution are increasingly chipping into corporate bottom lines. The financial sector is taking notice--and taking action. Calvert Investments asked Hanes Brands to evaluate its losses from cotton-supply shortages due to the 2011 US drought, determining that the company lost $5.2 billion. Read more Water Risk on the Riseby Andrew Steer - September 20, 2013 This article first appeared in Project Syndicate Water is never far from the news these days. This summer, northern India experienced one of its heaviest monsoon seasons in 80 years, leaving more than 800 people dead and forcing another 100,000 from their homes. Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube. In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado. Businesses are starting to wake up to the mounting risks that water – whether in overabundance or scarcity – can pose to their operations and bottom line. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, experts named water risk as one of the top four risks facing business in the twenty-first century. Similarly, 53% of companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project reported that water risks are already taking a toll, owing to property damage, higher prices, poor water quality, business interruptions, and supply-chain disruptions. The costs are mounting. Deutsche Bank Securities estimates that the recent US drought, which affected nearly two-thirds of the country's lower 48 states, will reduce GDP growth by approximately one percentage point. Climate change, population growth, and other factors are driving up the risks. Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water-scarce areas. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in the absence of more sustainable water management, the share could rise to 45% by 2050, placing a significant portion of global economic output at risk. Read more Managing the Earth from Space: Satellite and Sensing Technology in Water Managementby Andrew Maddocks - August 29, 2013 WRI experts Betsy Otto, Charles Iceland, Tien Shiao, and Paul Reig will attend World Water Week in Stockholm next week. Among other activities, they'll co-host a session on using satellite data to map global water risks. Here, Andrew Maddocks explores the role that satellite data can play in improving water management. Learn more about WRI's World Water Week Activities. Read more Majority of China's Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Located in Water-Stressed Regions by Tianyi Luo, Betsy Otto and Andrew Maddocks - August 26, 2013 To maintain its economic growth and provide for its massive population, China must reconcile two powerful, converging trends: energy demand and resource scarcity. One prime example of this tension is the country's coal use and water supply. According to a new WRI analysis, more than half of China's proposed coal-fired power plants are slated to be built in areas of high or extremely high water stress. If these plants are built, they could further strain...Read more New Study Raises Question: What Don't We Know About Water Scarcity?by Betsy Otto - May 29, 2013 A new study from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reveals troubling news: The aquifers that millions of Americans rely on for freshwater are being depleted at an accelerating rate. In fact, aquifer depletion in the years between 2004 and 2008 was nearly triple the historical average. Population growth and increasing demand—in particular for irrigating crops—are straining these underground freshwater sources. In many cases, aquifers have accumulated over the course of millions of years. There are two lessons we take away from this USGS study: Growing demand is increasingly coming into conflict with our finite global water supply. Even in places that are historically water-abundant, growth in water demand is outstripping available supply. (That's why WRI's Aqueduct project focuses on water stress – the ratio of water supply and demand – more than measures of water quantity.)Read more Step-by-Step Guidance on Corporate Water Disclosureby Tien Shiao and Paul Reig - May 21, 2013 Investors need to understand a wide variety of business and market risks facing the companies in which they invest. In the 21st century, that includes water risks. An increasing number of companies are experiencing detrimental water-related business impacts, including operational or supply chain disruptions and property damage from flooding, to name a few. These impacts can be costly--in 2011 they cost some companies up to $200 million--and have caught the attention of investors around the world. As a result, the movement toward increased Corporate Water Disclosure is gaining speed. The deadline for companies to respond to the CDP 2013 Water Disclosure Questionnaire is six weeks away. To make the reporting process easier, WRI has aligned our Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas with CDP's water questionnaire. Together, we are providing step-by-step guidance on how to measure and report exposure to water-related risks. Read more Nearly Half of U.S. Fracking Sites Overlap with Water-Stressed Regionsby Robert Kimball - May 02, 2013 A new report from CERES draws a connection between water risk and hydraulic fracturing in the United States. The report adds an important dimension to the conversation about how energy use and water stress will play out in the years ahead. The report, Hydraulic Fracturing & Water Stress: Growing Competitive Pressures for Water, brings together Aqueduct's high-resolution water stress maps with FracFocus.org data on the location and water use of U.S. shale oil and gas wells. The complete map (see below) shows where potentially water-intense hydraulic fracturing is happening in water-stressed areas. The results of the study are eye-opening: Almost half of the more than 25,000 oil and gas wells mapped by Ceres are in water basins with either high or extremely high water stress. Read more Navigating the "Vast Sea of Unknowns" of Water Riskby Andrew Steer - March 22, 2013 This piece was co-written with Dr. Larry Brilliant, president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund. This piece also appeared in McClatchy News and the Huffington Post. We know less about one of world's most pressing challenges today than we did 10 years ago. It's no secret that water - or the lack thereof - will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. And yet, the United Nations World Water Report, in 2009, stated that when it comes to water, "less is known with each passing decade." The World Economic Forum recently named the water supply crises as one of the top risks facing the planet - edging out issues like terrorism and systemic financial failure. Water risks permeate almost every aspect of global society. We got a taste last year with crops scorched by drought, shipping lanes threatened and energy plants shut down by low water levels, and coastlines devastated by flooding. Exacerbated by climate change and population growth, such crises will become more common and costly. Yet, the world largely lacks the data we need to monitor, understand, and respond to these water challenges. We are flying blind when it comes to global water issues. Read more In the Face of Growing Risks, Every Day Is a World Water Dayby Betsy Otto - March 22, 2013 Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first World Water Day, an international celebration designed to draw attention to the importance of freshwater resources. However, for a large and growing proportion of the world's population, every day is a World Water Day. Difficult, complex water challenges including drought, groundwater depletion, pollution, and clean drinking water availability are growing in urgency and seriousness all around the world. Some even argue that we should boycott World Water Day – that our water problems are too serious to try and confine to a single day. Although it's true that we must keep water in mind during the other 364 days of the year, World Water Day can be useful. It helps raise awareness and serves as an annual reminder of the water problems we must collectively solve. Plus, picking a single theme – this year's is cooperation – helps break down a very complex topic into more accessible, comprehensible pieces. 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Prior to serving on Vancouver City Council, Pat Campbell was best known locally as a wannabe politician. He had failed in four bids for elective office in five years. Now, since his upset election to the council in 2007, Campbell has done little to shed that old baggage, keeping a low profile and sidestepping opportunities to emerge as leader, innovator or motivator.
By contrast, Anne McEnerny-Ogle, is one of the busiest and most forward-thinking civic activists in Vancouver. More than just the chair of the Shumway Neighborhood Association for 16 years, she is current chair of the Vancouver Neighborhood Alliance, for which she's attended 31 meetings in two years. McEnerny-Ogle's selfless contributions of time, energy and ideas to her community have drawn The Columbian's endorsement in the Aug. 16 primary race for Vancouver City Council, Pos. 6. The third candidate in this race is Bill Turlay, who ran unsuccessfully for Vancouver City Council in 2009 and returns this year with his same opposition to most ideas and proposals that come before the council.
Many readers might be surprised that the primary is "here," but it's true. Primary ballots were mailed Friday, with city council, school board, port, fire district and other races affecting about half of the registered voters in Clark County. Turnout likely will be lower than what's seen in general elections, perhaps lower than the 23.2 percent turnout in the 2009 primary, which included the race for Vancouver mayor. The top two vote-getters in each primary race will advance to the Nov. 8 general election, for which ballots will be mailed on Oct. 19.
There is only one Vancouver City Council primary race. In the general election, council incumbents Bart Hansen and Larry Smith will face Josephine Wentzel and Cory Barnes, respectively.
In the political world, incumbency typically wields great clout, but not in Campbell's case. His dossier is not much bulkier after four years on the council. He told The Columbian's editorial board that serving on the council "is not fun," and he complained about the betrayal of a former mentor on the council, whom he declined to identify. McEnerny-Ogle properly presents a stark contrast. She's an effervescent and eager public figure who has thoroughly prepared for this race by researching all major issues and attending dozens of meetings.
This is not McEnerny-Ogle's first run for office. She lost in 2009 to Vancouver City Councilor Jeanne Harris. In that race, The Columbian endorsed Harris, but we complimented McEnerny-Ogle as "an engaging and well-known civic activist who has gathered an impressive support base for a rookie candidate." This year, she has the support of the police and firefighters unions, which could help her in the vote-gathering process but could haunt her if she wins and ventures into the deep, dark forests of budget cuts.
All three candidates share similar views on most of the city's major issues, except for the Columbia River Crossing and light rail. Campbell strongly supports both, McEnerny-Ogle is less supportive and remains concerned about impact on downtown neighborhoods, and Turlay adamantly opposes both proposals. But there's a clear distinction among these three candidates, and it's McEnerny-Ogle's obvious superiority in these issues both in research and civic service. She has moderated community meetings on the CRC and light rail, and her extensive understanding of the two issues is rooted in her prior membership on the I-5 Trade and Transportation Task Force and five years' service on the City of Vancouver Planning Commission.
Neither Campbell nor Turlay come close to McEnerny-Ogle when it comes to record of civic service and rich storehouse of ideas for improving the city.


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Sceptics launch legal challenge over climate change data
- From: The Courier-Mail
- August 17, 2010
SCIENTISTS have hit back at climate change sceptics, with a paper affirming the case that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the main cause of warming.
The Australian Academy of Science yesterday went on the front foot to clear up confusion after challenges to warming theories.
It came as New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research faced a legal challenge by sceptics group Climate Science Coalition.
The coalition has launched high court action over the institute's climate data.
Academy past president Kurt Lambeck said the scientific statement aimed to boost climate change understanding.
The role of CO2 in the atmosphere was well understood and unless greenhouse gas emissions were reduced, an upward trend in global temperatures would continue.
"The available evidence implies that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the main cause (of warming)," Prof Lambeck said. If emissions continued at business-as-usual rates, temperatures would rise significantly.
Records over millions of years showed that a stable climate could not be taken for granted. Measurements over the past 100 years showed that as CO2 levels rose, the Earth also warmed.
Scientists say it is important to have debate on climate change, but spurious attacks were taking up an increasing amount of time to debunk.
In NZ, the coalition's statement of claim calls for the country's temperature record to be set aside and for NIWA to produce a "full and accurate" temperature record.
NZ Climate Change Research Institute senior researcher Professor Andy Reisinger said NIWA had checked its records, validated long-term trends with thousands of meteorological stations around the world and answered innumerable queries.
"The coalition has not put forward any clear and consistent scientific arguments against this local or global temperature trend; has not published its views in scientific peer-reviewed journals; has not disclosed its own scientific methods by which it claims to show that there has been a cooling rather than warming; and its members have little credibility," Prof Reisinger said.
"The High Court action will cost taxpayer money to defend the obvious against the obscure and ridiculous."
Massey University's Ralph Sims said he had yet to find a recent peer-reviewed paper authored or co-authored on climate science by coalition commentator Bryan Leyland.


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Membership, Registry, Shows and so much more - and you don't even have to have a Saddlebred to enjoy benefits of being a member. Whether you show American style or English style, just have your Saddlebred for fun, have a pure or a partbred we can help you get more and put you in contact with like minded enthusiasts. Ownership of a Saddlebred is not required to be a member, just the combined interest in the breed or way of showing.
Our most popular forms are shown to the right, but for more details of all that we offer see our menu on the left.
We offer registrations for all Saddlebreds, pure or partbred, including National Show Horses as well as ID passports for ANY equine. See our Registrations menu for any form you might needs, from passport applications to transfer of ownership. All horses applying for a passport from January 2016 MUST use the new application form. All equines must be micro-chipped & the ID section completed by a Vet. Covering certificates, or proof of parenrtage (by DNA) isrequired for all Saddlebred registrations.
Many awards available for you to win with your Saddlebred, both at individual shows and in our Year End Awards, with points earned going towards your horse's Championship Status. We even have awards for members with Non-Saddlebreds!
If you don't compete, then we have awards for you to win in our Promotional Scheme and our Hacking Scheme - there is something for everyone.
Our May Festival Show (including the USA-UK European Championship Show for Saddlebreds) is the largest show in the UK catering exclusively for Foreign/World Breeds. Held traditionally on the 4th Sunday in May (usually this is the Whitsun Bank Holiday Weekend), it is open to all - spread the news and come along and try out to win our exclusive American rosettes (ribbons), scrumptious flower garlands and a host of prizes and awards. Schedule can be found on the RIGHT hand side of this page (2017 schedule will be posted towards the end of 2016 - come back and check). The 2016 event was a qualifying show for: HOPE Best of the Best, BPS Cream of the Crop, OTT Championships, Royal London Show and the BMHS Road Hack Championships.
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Mids Couldn't Match It: Cameron
Leon Cameron says his midfielders were disappointed they were unable to match it with a fired-up Adelaide for the first three-quarters during their 22-point loss at Adelaide Oval.
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SANTA ROSA -- Early indications of improved fourth-quarter sales of fine wine could partly offset significant declines in sales growth this year, and 2010 could bring some upswing for the segment as trade buyers place orders to maintain new, lower inventory levels, according to a report released today from Silicon Valley Bank's Wine Division.
However, the trend for a minority of fine wine vintners toward more "bargain transitions," or sales of distressed wineries, will continue next year "as the realization sets in with financially weaker wineries that a rapid and full recovery in high-priced wine sales is not in the cards at this time," wrote Rob McMillan, author of the report and founder of the bank's St. Helena-based wine division.
In a report early this year, Mr. McMillan noted that only the most established brands selling for $50 to $125 a bottle managed to stay outside of a "dead space" of limited sales and distribution activity.
Sales of fine wines, or those selling for more than $20 a bottle, in 2009 could dip 2 percent to 8 percent from the year before, following a dramatic slowdown in sales growth for the segment, according to the report. Overall, 2009 U.S. wine sales, propelled by sales of wines under $10 a bottle, are expected to have a few percentage points of positive growth.
Year-over-year sales growth slowed from 22.3 percent at the end of 2007 to 11.6 percent in the third quarter of 2008 just before the financial-market crash to 2 percent at the end of 2008. Fine-wine sales in the second quarter of this year were 11.2 percent below those of a year prior.


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Sanner Wins Fourth Ivy League Rookie of the Week Honor
PRINCETON, N.J. (10/1/12) - Princeton men's soccer freshman Thomas Sanner has been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the week ending Sept. 29. Sanner has received the honor four of the five weeks it has been presented. The Tigers are the first team in Ivy League history to earn four such honors in a five-weeek span since the award was created in 1990.
Sanner continued his offensive prowess into the Ivy League season as he factored into both Princeton goals in a 2-1 overtime win against Dartmouth on Saturday. Sanner scored the game's first goal in the 18th minute when he picked up a through ball, raced past his defender and shot to the opposite side of the goal. Sanner also earned an assist on the game winner as he chested down a long ball and pushed it to teammate Cameron Porter who scored for the Tigers.
Sanner is the team's leading scorer with three goals and five assists for 11 points. He is tied for fourth in the Ivy League in points and is the top scoring rookie in the league.
Sanner is the first four-time Rookie of the Week recipient since Dartmouth's Lucky Mkosana in 2008 and the first Tiger to earn four Rookie of the Week awards since Jason White in 1999.


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The Tabernas Desert (in Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert in Spain. It is located in the province of Almería about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the capital, Almería, in the Tabernas municipality. It is protected as a wilderness area (paraje natural) spanning 280 square kilometres (110 square miles).
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The little rainfall that occurs is usually torrential, so that the ground, consisting of marls and sandstone with little vegetation, is unable to retain moisture. Instead, the rain causes erosion, forming the characteristic landscape of badlands. Arroyos formed by torrential rain harbor the scarce vegetation and fauna such as Swifts, Hedgehogs, Jackdaws, Pin-tailed Sandgrouses, Blue Rock Thrushes, Stone Curlews, Trumpeter Finches, and Crested Larks.
The Desert of Tabernas, because of its similarities with the North American deserts like the Far West of the American West, northern Africa, the Arabian deserts, and its lunar landscape, served from 1950s and is still used today for the shooting of many films and westerns. The spaghetti westerns were shot at the three main studios, Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood, and Western Leone.
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"The Nunavut Capital" Iqaluit by jamiesno
Iqaluit Travel Guide: 63 reviews and 132 photos
I was fortunate to visit this far north destination for work attending a tradeshow called the Nunavut Tradeshow. It's a display of everything Canada's newest territory had to offer.
I even got to fly relatively direct with just one stop from Happy Valley - Goose Bay into Kuujjuaq, Quebec.
I spent an entire week there attending the tradeshow and exploring the town and nearby Apex. As you can see in the pictures it was the middle of winter but I wouldn't have enjoyed it any other way in such a northern destination!
Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) is Inuktitut for 'place of many fish'. It is located near the mouth of the Sylvia Grinnell River that empties into Frobisher Bay - named after Martin Frobisher who sailed into the bay in search of the Northwest Passage.
Frobisher believed that he had discovered gold on an island in the bay, but it was only fools gold that he took home to England.
I have to say for me Iqaluit was a great experience, despite living in a northern climate in Labrador there was still much to learn in this further north environment!
Ranging from government, to politics, to art, to culture and way of life! I hope you enjoy all my photos and tips on Iqaluit!
April 19, 2001 - Iqaluit receives it's Order of Official Status as a City
In December 1995 Iqaluit was selected by a plebcite of the residents of Nunavut to be the Capital of the new Territory. On April 19th 2001 Iqaluit received the order of City status making in the most northerly Capital City in Canada.
Although Iqaluit is the smallest Capital in Canada with only 6000 residents, it is the largest community in Nunavut, almost three times the size of the next largest Rankin Inlet, with 2200 people, and growing at a pace double that of Southern Canada. Iqaluit is a transportation hub for jet flights from our National Capital, Ottawa, Montreal, Yellowknife, Rankin Inlet and Greenland, as well as daily services between other Nunavut communities.
Infrastructure and services found in other cities can also be found here, some may not be in the form that might be expected elsewhere but they are here just the same; services such as a Hospital, Legislative Assembly, College campus, International airport, walking trails, museum, visitor services, research facilities, hotels and restaurants, theatre, swimming pool, racquet club, curling and ice arenas. Also, as is the case in other Capital Cities, services, government and government agencies and industry groups representing the territory have offices located here. The City also has imagery and information services, Arts and Crafts, and other displays representative of many of the areas and special qualities of the Nunavut Territory.
- Pros:The Inuit people and remoteness.
- Cons:Very expensive to travel to and stay in Iqaluit.
- In a nutshell:I challenge you to try your best to experience such remote towns! It's worth the effort!
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Nice tips!
Hi Jamiesno - I have been enjoying your photographs of Iqaluit. I lived there when it was Frobisher Bay and worked at the old airport and the "Yellow Submarine". The airport opened in 1986 - I had been working there before being posted in Montreal. Heidi
Top page on Iqualuit ;-)))
Absolutely amazing and so informative about places that most Vters would never have the opportunity to visit! Your descriptions make it all come alive.
Impressive! I've wanted to see Nunavut since I found the Nunavut gift shop in Toronto waterfront. Gd to hear there are polar bears here. When is the best time to visit the bears? I know they have them in Churchill but the tours are highly expensive!
Hi Jamie, lovely looking place, but boy does that look cold Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Great page! Now if I can just teach my missus to throat sing, it may stop her talking...
This is an amazing and highly informative page.
a really interesting page, ld have no need to play dead if l met a Polar bear, ld faint on the spot !
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Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut-offs for thinness, overweight and obesity
Version of Record online: 19 JUN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00064.x
© 2012 The Authors. Pediatric Obesity © 2012 International Association for the Study of Obesity
Pediatric Obesity
Volume 7, Issue 4, pages 284–294, August 2012
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How to Cite
Cole, T. J. and Lobstein, T. (2012), Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut-offs for thinness, overweight and obesity. Pediatric Obesity, 7: 284–294. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00064.x
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- Issue online: 6 JUL 2012
- Version of Record online: 19 JUN 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 19 MAR 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 14 MAR 2012
- Manuscript Received: 8 DEC 2011
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- reference values;
- LMS method
The international (International Obesity Task Force; IOTF) body mass index (BMI) cut-offs are widely used to assess the prevalence of child overweight, obesity and thinness. Based on data from six countries fitted by the LMS method, they link BMI values at 18 years (16, 17, 18.5, 25 and 30 kg m−2) to child centiles, which are averaged across the countries. Unlike other BMI references, e.g. the World Health Organization (WHO) standard, these cut-offs cannot be expressed as centiles (e.g. 85th).
To address this, we averaged the previously unpublished L, M and S curves for the six countries, and used them to derive new cut-offs defined in terms of the centiles at 18 years corresponding to each BMI value. These new cut-offs were compared with the originals, and with the WHO standard and reference, by measuring their prevalence rates based on US and Chinese data.
The new cut-offs were virtually identical to the originals, giving prevalence rates differing by <0.2% on average. The discrepancies were smaller for overweight and obesity than for thinness. The international and WHO prevalences were systematically different before/after age 5.
Defining the international cut-offs in terms of the underlying LMS curves has several benefits. New cut-offs are easy to derive (e.g. BMI 35 for morbid obesity), and they can be expressed as BMI centiles (e.g. boys obesity = 98.9th centile), allowing them to be compared with other BMI references. For WHO, median BMI is relatively low in early life and high at older ages, probably due to its method of construction.


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