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02 Oct 2014:
Large Sediment Plumes Flowing
From Greenland Glaciers, Images Show
Plumes of sediment-laden meltwater from southwest Greenland's glaciers are easily recognizable in this
Sediment plumes off the coast of Greenland
NASA satellite image
captured in early September. Meltwater at the top of the ice sheet starts out relatively clean, but as it flows through glacial channels down to the ground and out into the ocean, it picks up large amounts of sediment — a byproduct of the glacier scraping the bedrock. As a result, plumes like the ones that appear light-blue in this photograph, are good markers for estimating the amount of meltwater leaving the ice sheet, researchers say. Melting from the Greenland Ice Sheet could result in global sea level rise of 2 to 8 inches, according to the most recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
01 Oct 2014:
Scientists Photograph Gathering
Of 35,000 Walruses on Alaskan Beach
In one of the largest gatherings of walruses documented in recent years, Alaska biologists photographed a
Gathering of walruses
congress of roughly 35,000 animals
resting on a beach
in northwestern Alaska. They swam to shore to rest, a walrus researcher explained, after the last remaining traces of sea ice melted in mid-September. Walruses typically rely on sea ice to provide a platform for resting and caring for their young as they swim to find clams, worms, and shrimp offshore, near the edge of the continental shelf. When no sea ice is available, as has been the case in the Chukchi Sea six of the last eight years, the walruses must make their way to shore. Besides taking them farther from their feeding grounds, the beach gatherings are dangerous for young walruses because they can be trampled, biologists say. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering granting Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific walruses.
30 Sep 2014:
Half of the Planet's
Animals Lost Since 1970, Report Says
The number of animals on the planet has fallen 52 percent in the last 40 years,
according to an analysis
Animal population trend since 1970
the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The group's Living Planet Index, which tracked the populations of more than 10,000 vertebrate species from 1970 to 2010, revealed major declines in key populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. The situation is most dire in developing countries, the report said, where wildlife populations have fallen on average by 58 percent. Latin America saw the biggest declines, with more than 80 percent of the region's animals lost since 1970. Globally, freshwater populations have plummeted 76 percent. This year's numbers are worse than those calculated in the last report in 2012, which found declines of 30 percent since 1970. The organization attributed this to new statistical weighting, which it said better represents each region's biodiversity, though other researchers
have been critical
of the new methodology. Habitat loss and degradation was cited as the primary cause of biodiversity loss.
Cashes Ledge: New England's
Rich Underwater Laboratory
A little over 70 miles off the coast of New England, an unusual undersea mountain range, known as Cashes Ledge, rises from the seabed. Regulators are contemplating lifting a 12-year-old ban on commercial groundfishing in some parts of this area, sparking a roiling debate. What's not in question, however, is that the highest peak in the range, Ammen Rock, teems with kelp forests, sea sponges, and a wide variety of fish and mollusks — much of it captured by ocean photographer Brian Skerry during dives made earlier this year.
View the gallery.
09 Sep 2014:
Ocean Acidification May Dull
Sharks' Ability to Smell Prey, Study Finds
Ocean acidification, which is driven by rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, may cause sharks to
Smooth dogfish shark laboratory testing
be less interested in hunting prey,
according to
research published in
Global Change Biology
. In laboratory experiments emulating CO2 concentrations as they are expected to be by the middle and end of this century, scientists from the U.S. and Australia found that the smooth dogfish shark became uninterested in squid odors — sometimes avoiding them altogether. Sharks in control waters pursued prey scents four times more often than sharks in waters with high CO2 levels, the study found. Rising ocean acidity can disrupt the proper firing of neurons, the scientists say, because it interferes with a specific receptor present in most marine organisms with a nervous system. A study earlier this year found that fish in waters with increased acidity were also less able to detect predator odors.
15 Aug 2014:
New Citizen Science Software
Aims to Document and Curb Illegal Fishing
Citizen scientists can now report — and potentially help stop —
illegal fishing
with the snap of a photo
thanks to
Illegal shark fin catch
a new smartphone app developed by the Nature Conservancy. The software, called
, was developed this summer during a "Fishackathon," a series of workshops hosted by the U.S. State Department to foster technology development and collaboration among computer programmers. ShipWatch allows users to upload photos of illegal fishing activities to a database, where they are labeled with date and location information and plotted on a central map. The developers hope the data will help authorities enforce existing fishing laws by, for example, developing flight maps for surveillance drones or strategically deploying enforcement authorities. "There are laws in place to say [the fishing] is illegal. The problem is they lack any kind of reporting mechanism," developers told Fast Co.Exist.
07 Aug 2014:
Mercury Pollution in Oceans
Has Tripled Since Industrial Revolution
Globally, oceans contain roughly 60,000 to 80,000 tons of mercury pollution,
according to
a report published this week in
detailing the first direct calculation
Ahi tuna has very high mercury concentrations.
of mercury pollution in the world's oceans. Ocean waters shallower than about 300 feet (100 meters) have tripled in mercury concentration since the Industrial Revolution, the study found, and mercury in the oceans as a whole has increased roughly 10 percent over pre-industrial times. North Atlantic waters showed the most obvious signs of mercury pollution, since surface waters there sink to form deeper water flows. In contrast, the tropical and Northeast Pacific were relatively unaffected. "We don't know what that means for fish and marine mammals, but likely that some fish contain at least three times more mercury than 150 years ago," and possibly more, the lead researcher said. "The next 50 years could very well add the same amount we've seen in the past 150."
23 Jul 2014:
Earth Observation Satellites Help
Scientists Understand Global Change
Global warming is affecting more than just atmospheric temperatures — it is also changing
water cycles
, soil conditions, and animal migrations. Earth observation satellites aid scientists in measuring and monitoring these changes so societies can better adapt. Although there are well over 1,000 active orbiting satellites, less than 15 percent are used to monitor Earth's environment.
Yale Environment 360
presents a gallery of satellites that scientists are using to better understand how the planet is changing.
View the gallery.
08 Jul 2014:
Protection of Parrotfish
Could Slow Decline of Caribbean Reefs
The steady loss of coral reefs in the Caribbean could be partially reversed by taking a number of relatively simple steps, including stronger measures
to protect the region's parrotfish
, according to a new study. In a
review of trends in Caribbean coral reefs
from 1970 to 2012, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network said that live coral only makes up about 17 percent of the region's reef surfaces today. If present trends continue, the study said, coral reefs in the Caribbean will "virtually disappear within a few decades" because of foreign pathogens, algae invasions, pollution from tourism development, over-fishing, and warming waters. A key step in halting the decline is protecting parrotfish, which eat the algae that have been smothering coral reefs. The study said conservation measures, such as banning fish traps, have helped parrotfish populations rebound in some parts of the Caribbean, including Belize and the Bahamas.
Interview: Where Will the Earth
Head After Its 'Climate Departure'?
The term "climate departure" has an odd ring, but its meaning is relatively straightforward. It marks the point at which the earth's climate begins to cease resembling
Camilo Mora
what has come before and moves into a new state where the extreme becomes the norm. Camilo Mora — a University of Hawaii biogeographer, ecologist, and specialist in marshaling big data for climate modeling — has calculated a rough idea for the time of the earth's climate departure: 2047. That date varies
depending on region
, he says. But in a widely publicized paper published in the journal
last year, Mora and 13 colleagues explored the concept of climate departure and what it will mean for our planet. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Mora explains why tropical regions will be most profoundly affected by climate change, why controlling population growth is at the core of the challenge posed by global warming, and the frustrations he and other scientists feel as their warnings about rising temperatures are ignored.
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01 Jul 2014:
Small Island Nation of Kiribati
Purchases Foreign Land as Climate Refuge
The small island nation of Kiribati has purchased a swath of land in Fiji as a refuge for citizens who may be displaced by rising sea levels, marking the first time a
Kiribati's location (red) in the Pacific Ocean.
country has taken such actions as a defense against climate change, the Guardian
. Kiribati, home to 110,000 people scattered across 33 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of several small island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans that could be extensively or completely submerged within a few decades. The cost of protecting such countries often far outweighs their national incomes. Kiribati, with a GDP of under $200 million, ranks among the 10 countries facing the most severe financial impacts of climate change. The tract of 20 square kilometers on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji, could provide a future refuge for all of Kiribati's citizens, the nation's president said.
30 Jun 2014:
Antarctica's Emperor Penguins
To Be in Serious Decline By 2100, Study Says
Antarctica's Emperor penguins are facing dramatic declines by the end of the century and should be given endangered species status because of the threats posed
Sea ice loss threatens Emperor penguins.
by climate change,
according to
an international group of scientists. If sea ice declines at the rates projected by current climate models, at least two-thirds of the colonies will likely shrink by more than 50 percent by 2100, the researchers report in
Nature Climate Change
. That conclusion follows a 50-year study in eastern Antarctica of Emperor penguins, an iconic Antarctic species with 45 known colonies. Emperor penguins' survival is highly dependent on sea ice concentrations because they breed on the ice, and too little sea ice reduces the habitat for krill, a critical food source for the penguins. Granting the species protected status under the U.S. Endangered Species Act will provide tools for improving fishing practices of U.S. vessels in the Southern Ocean and potentially for reducing CO2 emissions in the U.S. under the Clear Air Act, the researchers say.
15 May 2014:
Intensity of Hurricanes
Now Peaking Farther From the Equator
Powerful, destructive tropical cyclones are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to
a new study
in the journal
Hurricane Sandy's progression in 2012
. Over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes or typhoons, have moved poleward at a rate of roughly 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere. Ocean temperatures between 82 and 86 degrees F seem to be "ideal for the genesis of tropical cyclones," said MIT scientist Kerry Emanuel, who co-authored the study, "and as that belt migrates poleward, which surely it must as the whole ocean warms, the tropical cyclone genesis regions might just move with it." The poleward shift of hurricanes and typhoons could lead to "potentially profound consequences to life and property" in regions that previously had not been hit by tropical cyclones.
14 May 2014:
Early El Niño Conditions
May Spell Big Weather Impact This Year
Indications are growing that an El Niño weather pattern may be forming in the Pacific Ocean, which could have a profound impact on global weather. El Niño events are spawned by unusually warm ocean waters in the Pacific,
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Sea surface height
and these
NASA satellite images
are one indication of warmer waters. The images depict sea-surface height anomalies, with above average sea-surface height shown in various shades of brown. Above average sea-surface heights are an indication of warmer waters, which expand as temperatures rise. These two images compare conditions in 1997 — a year with one of the most powerful El Niño events of the 20th century — with conditions this May. If an El Niño pattern does develop this year, it could lead to wetter conditions in western North America and South America, which could help end a severe drought now plaguing the U.S. West. The 1997/98 El Niño also created warmer and drier conditions in much of Asia. Other evidence, including data from a network of buoys in the Pacific, also shows a deep pool of warm waters sliding east across the Pacific since January.
Interview: Can Marine Life Adapt
To the World's Acidifying Oceans?
As the world's oceans grow more acidic from increased absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide, marine scientists are confronting a key question: How well can
Gretchen Hofmann
organisms like mollusks, crustaceans, and corals adapt to these more corrosive conditions? One of the leading authorities in this field is University of California, Santa Barbara marine biologist Gretchen Hofmann. Her work in recent years has shown, in fact, that some sea organisms that build shells do seem to have some ability to acclimate to more acidic waters. But in an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Hofmann cautions that this adaptive capacity has its limits. The continuing burning of fossil fuels, she says, could push ocean acidity past a tipping point, rendering some mollusks and other organisms unable to build shells.
Read the interview.
09 May 2014:
Biodiversity, But Not Community
Composition, Surprisingly Stable Over Time
A major turnover of species in habitats around the globe is underway, resulting in the creation of novel biological communities, but overall species diversity is much more
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Locations of biodiversity surveys across the globe
stable than scientists had believed, according to a
new report
in the journal
. In a survey of 100 long-term biodiversity monitoring projects in a variety of habitats around the world, the authors found that the majority of those studies (59 percent) documented increasing species richness. Biodiversity declined in 41 percent of the studies, but, in all cases the overall change in biodiversity was modest, the researchers said. When looking at changes in the species constituting those communities, however, the researchers found a surprisingly high rate of change — an average of about 10 percent change per decade. "A main policy application of this work is that we're going to need to focus as much on the identity of species as on the number of species," one of the study's authors said. "The number of species in a place may not be our best scorecard for environmental change."
08 May 2014:
Natural Variations May Account
For Up to Half of Greenland's Warming
Up to half of the recent climate change in Greenland and surrounding regions — which have warmed at roughly twice the pace of the rest of the planet since 1979 — may be due to natural climate variations that originate in the tropical Pacific and are not connected
Meltwater from Russell Glacier
with the overall warming of the Earth, a
new study
says. Still, at least half the warming remains attributable to rising global carbon dioxide emissions, according to research published in the journal
. Climate data and advanced computer models show that changes in the western tropical Pacific Ocean, which has been about 0.3 degrees warmer than normal, have caused shifts in atmospheric pressure over the North Atlantic. Those changes set off a stationary wave in the atmosphere that arcs in a great circle from the tropical Pacific toward Greenland, pulling warmer air over that massive island. "Along this wave train there are warm spots where the air has been pushed down, and cold spots where the air has been pulled up," one author explained. "And Greenland is in one of the warm spots."
05 May 2014:
New European Satellites
To Give More Detailed Views of Earth
The European Space Agency
has begun launching
a series of satellites designed to collect detailed environmental data around the globe — from radar-based, high-definition imagery to information about the
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Land use near Brussels, Belgium.
atmosphere's chemical composition. The first satellite in the ESA's Copernicus program, the Sentinel 1A, was launched last month and has already returned many striking images based on radar data, such as this view of Brussels, Belgium, in which the dense urban area contrasts with the city's heavily vegetated surroundings. Once Sentinel satellite 1B is launched next year, the two will be able to map the entire globe in six days, giving researchers and conservationists a powerful way to monitor both short- and long-term changes in the environment. Four additional groups of satellites are set to launch this year. Those arrays will focus on high-resolution photo imagery, topography, surface temperatures, and atmospheric chemistry.
01 May 2014:
Extent of Marine Litter
Documented in Major Seafloor Survey
A major survey of the ocean floor has found trash piling up throughout the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and Mediterranean Sea, reaching depths of nearly 3 miles below the surface,
according to scientists
from 15
Marine litter from study
European research organizations. Litter was located at each of the 600 sites surveyed, with plastic accounting for 41 percent and derelict fishing gear 34 percent. Glass, metal, wood, cardboard, clothing, pottery, and unidentified materials were also found. Garbage accumulated at sites as far as 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from land and at depths up to 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles), according to the report. Seafloor litter is a major problem since it can accumulate in and kill marine animals that mistake it for food. The trash can also entangle fish, seabirds, and coral. "This survey has shown that human litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote and deepest parts of the oceans," one author said. "These were [humans'] first visits to many of these sites, but we were shocked to find that our rubbish has got there before us."
11 Apr 2014:
Parasitic Flatworm Could Be
Major Threat to Coral Reefs, Scientists Say
A coral-eating flatworm with a unique camouflaging strategy could be a major threat to the world's coral reefs,
according to
researchers in the U.K. The parasite, called
Amakusaplana acroporae
, infects a type of staghorn coral known as acropora, a major component
Amakusaplana acroporae
, a parasitic coral flatworm
of reefs, and can destroy its coral host very quickly. The parasite has been detected at the Great Barrier Reef, and because it has no known natural predators, researchers are concerned it could spread quickly and decimate reefs worldwide. A novel camouflaging strategy makes the flatworm difficult to detect and monitor, the researchers say. When eating the coral tissue, the worm also ingests the coral's symbiotic algae. Instead of digesting the algae completely, the worm keeps a fraction of them alive and distributes them, along with the fluorescent pigments that give coral its characteristic hue, throughout its gut so that it perfectly mimics the appearance of the coral. The parasite has been identified in numerous aquarium-based corals, and biologists worry that it could spread rapidly if aquarium-raised coral, fish, or seaweed are introduced to natural reef environments.
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28 Mar 2014:
West Antarctic Glacial Loss
Is Rapidly Intensifying, New Study Shows
Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are dumping far more ice into the Southern Ocean than they were 40
An 18-mile crack in the Pine Island Glacier
years ago and now account for
10 percent of the world's sea level rise
, according to a new study. Reporting in
Geophysical Research Letters
, an international team of scientists said that the amount of ice draining from the six glaciers has increased by 77 percent since 1973. The scientists said that the ice loss from the six glaciers is so substantial that it equals the amount of ice draining annually from the entire Greenland Ice Sheet. The scientists used satellite data from 1973 and 2013 to gauge the ice loss from the six glaciers. The
Pine Island Glacier
is moving more rapidly to the sea than any of the other six, with its speed increasing from 1.5 miles per year in 1973 to 2.5 miles per year in 2013. The glaciers are dumping more ice into the sea primarily because warmer ocean waters are loosening the ice sheets' hold on the sea floor, which speeds up glacial flow.
17 Mar 2014:
Northeast Greenland Glaciers
Are Now Melting Rapidly, Study Finds
The glaciers of northeast Greenland, long thought to be the most stable part of the massive Greenland ice sheet, are melting at an accelerating pace, losing roughly 10
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Ice surface velocities in Greenland
billion tons of ice annually for the past decade,
say researchers
from the U.S. and Denmark. The finding will likely boost estimates of global sea level rise, which had previously not accounted for massive ice loss from that region, scientists say. The Zachariae ice stream in northeast Greenland, which drains 16 percent of the ice sheet, has retreated roughly 12.4 miles in the past decade, outpacing the fast-moving Jakobshavn glacier, which has retreated 21.7 miles over the last 150 years. Ice loss from the region is likely accelerating, the researchers say, because ice dams in nearby bays that had been blocking the glaciers' paths are now also melting, freeing the way for the glaciers to flow into the ocean.
06 Mar 2014:
Warm River Water Plays Major
Role in Arctic Sea Ice Melt, Study Finds
Relatively warm water flowing into the Arctic Ocean from rivers contributes significantly to Arctic sea ice melt each summer, a phenomenon that will intensify as the region warms, according to
NASA researchers
. The river discharge not only melts coastal sea ice, it also has
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Warm river water entering Arctic Ocean
a wider climate impact as it creates more open water, which is darker than ice and absorbs more heat from sunlight. As these NASA images show, when water from Canada's Mackenzie River flowed into the Beaufort Sea in the summer of 2012, average surface temperature of the open water rose by 6.5 degrees C (11.7 degrees F) after the pulse of river water. Flow from the Mackenzie raised sea surface temperatures as far as 350 kilometers (217 miles) from the coast. The researchers note that river discharge is becoming an increasingly important contributor to melting Arctic sea ice because the volume and temperature of fresh water discharge is increasing as inland Arctic areas warm more each summer.
05 Mar 2014:
Routes of Young Sea Turtles
Shed Light on Mystery of Turtles' Lost Years
By placing satellite tags on newborn sea turtles along the coast of Florida and tracking them in the western Atlantic Ocean, researchers have
gained new insights
into the early migrations of threatened and endangered
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Sea turtle tracks
turtles during their so-called "lost years" between hatching and returning to coastal waters as large juveniles. Rather than swimming in the currents of the North Atlantic gyre, as scientists had assumed, the young turtles actually leave the gyre and travel to the Sargasso Sea, which lies in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. While there, sensors on the turtles' shells registered more heat than the scientists expected,
leading them to believe
that the young turtles swim near the surface of the Sargasso, basking in sunlight and feeding on a type of seaweed that grows in deep ocean waters. "From the time they leave our shores, we don't hear anything about them until they surface near the Canary Islands, which is like their primary school years," said an author of the study.
28 Feb 2014:
Seafaring Drones Could Reveal
Mysterious Lives of Sharks, Researchers Say
automated watercraft
are helping scientists understand the secret lives of great white sharks, which gather in large numbers each winter in an area nicknamed the "White Shark Cafe." Although this stretch of ocean between Baja California and Hawaii
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Shark migrations to Hawaii and the "Cafe"
contains relatively few food sources, the sharks congregate and display strange behaviors, perhaps related to mating or feeding, one researcher explained to the
San Francisco Chronicle
. Scientists haven't had a way to efficiently track and observe sharks in this environment, but new seafaring drone technologies might change that. For example, drones could follow migrations by homing in on acoustic tags on the sharks themselves.
Marine biologists at Stanford
were recently able to track two great whites on their journeys from California to Hawaii and the White Shark Cafe, as the map shows, but current technology only allows scientists to recreate the sharks' journeys after monitoring tags pop off and are recovered. The new drones may prove useful not only for tracking sharks and other pelagic fish in real time, but also for collecting important ocean data such as temperature, acidity, and salinity, researchers said.
19 Feb 2014:
Loss of Arctic Sea Ice
Has Greater Warming Impact Than Expected
The steady disappearance of Arctic sea ice, which is causing the exposed and darker surface of the Arctic Ocean to absorb more sunlight, is having
a more profound impact on global warming
than previously
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Sea ice extent in 2012
estimated, according to a new study. The decline of albedo, or reflectivity, from the Arctic Ocean equals roughly 25 percent of the warming caused by rising carbon dioxide levels, according to scientists at the University of California, San Diego. The impact of this "albedo feedback," in which the highly reflective white surface of sea ice is replaced by heat-absorbing open ocean, is considerably stronger than climate models had predicted,
according to the UCSD research
, published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers had thought increasing Arctic cloud cover might slow the albedo feedback, but this study indicates that is not happening.
03 Feb 2014:
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier
Is Moving at Record Speeds, Study Finds
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier is flowing into the ocean at a record pace of more than 17 kilometers per year,
according to research
by U.S. and German scientists. The glacier, which drains 6 percent of the
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The calving front of Jakobshavn Glacier
massive Greenland ice sheet, moved at a rate of 46 meters per day in the summer of 2012 — four times the glacier's 1990s summer pace. The unprecedented speed appears to be the fastest ever recorded for any glacier or ice stream in Greenland or Antarctica, the researchers report in the journal
The Cryosphere
. Scientists estimate the glacier added about 1 millimeter to global sea levels from 2000 to 2010; its faster flow into the ocean means Jakobshavn will add even more water over the current decade. Widely thought to be the source of the iceberg that sunk the
in 1912, the researchers say Jakobshavn is flowing at record speeds because its front edge, called the calving front, now overlies a particularly deep spot on the ocean floor. "As the glacier's calving front retreats into deeper regions, it loses ... the ice in front that is holding back the flow, causing it to speed up," the lead researcher explained.
Interview: Activist Kumi Naidoo
On Russia and the Climate Struggle
Kumi Naidoo, the international executive director of Greenpeace, is intimately familiar with the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in the Russian Arctic. In 2012, he and five other Greenpeace activists were hosed down with frigid water and pelted with pieces of metal as they attempted to climb aboard the platform.
Kumi Naidoo
Greenpeace and Prirazlomnaya were back in the news recently when 28 Greenpeace members were arrested and held for several months for storming the rig before being released in December. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Naidoo talks about what's needed to get global climate talks off the ground and launch a green energy revolution, and the reason his activist organization has decided to take such a strong stand against oil drilling in the rapidly melting Arctic Ocean. "We went back [to Prirazlomnaya]," says Naidoo, "because we're trying to draw a line in the ice, because once this starts it will have breached another threshold of meeting our rapacious appetite for oil and gas in the most fragile of environments."
Read the interview.
13 Jan 2014:
Pine Island Glacier Has
Melted Beyond Tipping Point, Study Says
A major Antarctic ice mass, the Pine Island Glacier, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimeter to global sea level rise over the next 20 years alone, according to new research published in
Nature Climate Change
. Calculations show that the Pine Island Glacier's "grounding line" — where land-based ice meets a floating ice shelf that is an extension of the
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Pine Island Glacier ice flow velocities
glacier — has retreated roughly 10 kilometers in the past decade. Scientists say that the grounding line is in the process of a 40-kilometer retreat that could push it beyond an important tipping point. Pine Island Glacier is a
major contributor to global sea level rise
and has been losing massive amounts of ice for decades, accounting for
20 percent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's total ice loss
. An international research team says that the Pine Island Glacier has been losing 20 billion tons of ice annually for the past two decades and could lose 100 billion tons annually over the next 20 years. The glacier "has started a phase of self-sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline," says Gael Durand, a glaciologist with France's Grenoble Alps University.
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|A report of March 16, 2012
Today Artur Hajzer and Agnieszka Bielecka have packed the base camp. They start their journey to the city and it is going to be impossible to contact them for a couple of days, probably till 22nd March.
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|In the base camp after the attack – delayed return
We hoped for fast descent and return to Poland. However, it is not going to work out for us. Mild frostbites of the conquerors definitely qualify them for helicopter transport, but the weather does not allow for that.
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|An interview with Artur Hajzer at wspinanie.pl
On 9th March 2012 Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb made the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I (8,068 m above sea level) in Karakoram, Pakistan. Janusz Kurczab conducted a short interview with Artur Hajzer, the leader of the expedition.
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|A report on summiting Gasherbrum I
Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb reached camp 3 (assault camp at 7,040 m above sea level) on 8th March at 2:00 PM. It was one day too late as 8th March was supposed to be the day of summit attempt due to very good weather forecasts. Unfortunately, one day earlier the wind blowing with 80 km/h thwarted their plans; the team failed to reach camp 3 and was forced to retreat to camp 2 at 6,450 m above sea level.
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|A report of 10th March 2021, 6:45 PM local time
Today at 4:00 PM local time the entire team of Polish Winter Expedition to Gasherbrum I has safely reached the base camp. All of them feel fine.
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|A report of 9th March 2012, 7:24 PM local time
At 5:00 PM Adam and Janusz reached camp 2, where Artur and Shaheen awaited them.
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|Update at 5:00 PM local time
Adam and Janusz are already visible from camp 2; in less than an hour they should reach camp 2.
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|GREAT SUCCESS OF POLISH HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINEERS – GASHERBRUM I (8,068 m above sea level) HAS BEEN CONQUERED IN WINTER FOR THE FIRST TIME
On 9th March 2012, approximately at 8:30 AM local time, Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb summited in winter Gasherbrum I (8,068 m above sea level) in Karakoram, Pakistan.
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|Getting ready for the attack. March 8, 2012, 3:00 PM local time
In the morning Adam, Janusz and Shaheen have set off to camp 3 that they have reached in the afternoon. Currently, they are in camp 3 and rest; all of them feel fine and the conditions are favorable.
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|Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 2:30 PM local time
Today early in the morning Artur, Adam, Janusz and Shaheen have set off from camp 1 (5,900 m above sea level) and they plan to reach camp 3 (7,000 m above sea level).
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The answer is not completely simple. For a start, you can't remove the mount points of directories leading to them. However, anything underneath a mount point (such as your Time Machine backups) could be removed if the system keeps running long enough. Secondly, it is hard to review what's left over afterwards; there aren't any commands left to let you do much. You'd have to boot off a CD of some sort and then inspect the residue. Thirdly, MacOS X has some settings which prevent even root from modifying some things sometimes - until you've adjusted the extended attributes etc.
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Campaign Launch Meeting
The Campaign launch meeting took place on Thursday 21st February at the Old Royal, Church Street, Birmingham.
It was a full house with over 80 people in attendance, including MP's and Birmingham City Councillors. We were also joined by business organisations, crafts people and a sizeable contingent of licence fee payers.
An extinguished line up of speakers
Guest speakers included the celebrated playwright, David Edgar (who spoke about the talent that is to be found in the region and the importance of tapping into it) and Neil Hillman, MD of The Audio Suite - Birmingham based sound engineers to many international film makers including Steven Speilberg (who spoke about the proud history of broadcasting in the region and the potential that the sector offers to the local economy).
A preview of BBC regional expenditure analysis
The final session looked at the analysis we have been conducting into BBC operational expenditure in its 7 nations & regions. This proved that there is one region which is not being treated the same as any other. We calculate that the BBC is only spending £12.30 per licence fee payer in its Midlands region (the lowest figure by far for any BBC region). In the north and south of England it spends an average of £74.63.
Whilst we were delighted to find that every other nation and English region has been able to secure a higher share of its own licence fee being spent 'in-region', the meeting also learned that some commissioning is still taking place in the capital with individual programmes being moved to the regions in order to meet a regional 'commitment'. We would like to see more commissons from the nations and the English regions rather than to them.
Many delegates at the launch expressed their surprise at the gap that has arisen over recent years between operational expenditure in the BBC Midlands region and elsewhere. To bring the region up to parity with its other 2 English regions (outside London) the BBC would need to increase its annual spend from £80 million to £452 million in the Midlands.
The statistics have been calculated using data provided by the BBC itself in its Annual Report 2012 and 'The Economic Value of the BBC' report (published January 2013) extrapolated against ONS population data. We have produced two sets of data. One uses the published BBC operational expenditure figures to the year ended 31st March 2012 and the other is a recalibrated set, that takes into account the last round of departmental closures and transfers within the English regions in 2012. Previews of both sets of calculations were presented at the launch meeting.
The meeting was also told that because the BBC is now spending so little in the Midlands, the region is seeing the highest net transfer of the licence fee out of the area than any other. We can also trace where this transfer is going. This appears to go directly to the BBC centre, for over 66% of BBC operational expenditure is still in the capital. (The full results of this analysis will be published by the Campaign in March).
A call for parity
The meeting concluded with a call for the Midlands to see a fair and equal share of its own licence fee being spent in the region. Our regional economy requires a fair proportion of the licence fee to be spent in it. There is no other tax that we are aware of that sees such a high net transfer of capital out of the region (to be spent elsewhere).
The Campaign is now underway. We were overwhelmed with the messages of the support that we received on the night and by email after the event. Thank you to everybody who attended and to all our supporters.
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I'm faced with the following problem as part of a larger homework problem and do not really know how to go about it:
- let $X_n$ be an increasing sequence of random variables (that could be negative).
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Original Article
FRAX underestimates fracture risk in patients with diabetes
Version of Record online: 23 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.556
Copyright © 2012 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 301–308, February 2012
Additional Information
How to Cite
Giangregorio, L. M., Leslie, W. D., Lix, L. M., Johansson, H., Oden, A., McCloskey, E. and Kanis, J. A. (2012), FRAX underestimates fracture risk in patients with diabetes. J Bone Miner Res, 27: 301–308. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.556
Publication History
- Issue online: 23 JAN 2012
- Version of Record online: 23 JAN 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 2 NOV 2011 10:32AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 7 OCT 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 28 SEP 2011
- Manuscript Received: 29 JUL 2011
The study objective was to determine whether diabetes is a risk factor for incident hip or major osteoporotic fractures independent of the WHO fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX). Men and women with diabetes (n = 3518) and nondiabetics (n = 36,085) aged ≥50 years at the time of bone mineral density (BMD) testing (1990 to 2007) were identified in a large clinical database from Manitoba, Canada. FRAX probabilities were calculated, and fracture outcomes to 2008 were established via linkage with a population-based data repository. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to determine if diabetes was associated with incident hip fractures or major osteoporotic fractures after controlling for FRAX risk factors. Mean 10-year probabilities of fracture were similar between groups for major fractures (diabetic 11.1 ± 7.2 versus nondiabetic 10.9 ± 7.3, p = 0.116) and hip fractures (diabetic 2.9 ± 4.4 versus nondiabetic 2.8 ± 4.4, p = 0.400). Diabetes was a significant predictor of subsequent major osteoporotic fracture (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.61, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.42–1.83) after controlling for age, sex, medication use, and FRAX risk factors including BMD. Similar results were seen after adjusting for FRAX probability directly (HR = 1.59, 95% CI 1.40–1.79). Diabetes was also associated with significantly higher risk for hip fractures (p < 0.001). Higher mortality from diabetes attenuated but did not eliminate the excess fracture risk. FRAX underestimated observed major osteoporotic and hip fracture risk in diabetics (adjusted for competing mortality) but demonstrated good concordance with observed fractures for nondiabetics. We conclude that diabetes confers an increased risk of fracture that is independent of FRAX derived with BMD. This suggests that diabetes might be considered for inclusion in future iterations of FRAX. © 2012 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research


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Recap | Final Stats | Quotes | Photo Gallery
Washington State vs. California - Feb. 12, 2011 - Pullman, Wash. (Beasley Coliseum)
Final Score: Washington State 75, California 71
Washington State Notes:
- Brock Motum scored a career-high 19 points...previous high was 14 does twice, last was Nov. 13 of this season against Southern.
- Motum made and attempted career high free throws as he went 7-for-9 from the charity stripe.
- All five Cougars that scored reached double figures (Motum-19, Aden-18, Casto-14, Thompson-13 and Moore-11).
- The Cougars got their first win over Cal since Feb. 28, 2008...had lost five-straight to the Golden Bears...head coach Ken Bone got his first win over California, is now 1-3.
- WSU led at halftime, 25-23...moved to 13-1 when leading at the half.
- For the time being, WSU moved into sole possession of fourth place in the league.
- The Cougars have one more overall and conference win than last season's totals at 17-8 overall and 7-6 in Pac-10 play.


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The thirty-third annual Fifth Third River Bank Run is 17 days away. The race is the largest 25k road race in the country with more than 18,000 participants.
Following the Grand River from downtown Grand Rapids to Chicago Avenue where the course crosses the river runners continue upstream back to the city.
Those wishing to register earlier should consider having dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings on Alpine Avenue in Walker on Friday, April 23. Those who register for the race at the restaurant will receive a $3.00 discount on the early registration fees for the 25k, 10k and 5k runs as well as the 5k walk.
Late registration for the event will continue through May 7 at the Sports and Fitness Expo in DeVos Place. Also at the expo will be packet pick-up, a pasta dinner for racers and a panel discussion about the race.
Kids wishing to participate can do so at the junior events on Wednesday, May 5 at Rogers High School, 1350 Prairie Parkway, Wyoming. Kids ages 5-13 can participate in a ½-mile and 1-mile fun run at 5:30pm or the 5k run at 6:45pm.
Prize money for the races ranges from $4,000 in purse money for the 5k and 10k races to $91,500 in purse money for the 25k race.
Spectators wanting a good view of the start should go to the corner of Monroe and Lyon outside DeVos Place and Fifth Third Bank and make their way down Lyon to Ottawa where the racers will finish.
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Evidence-Based Social Work – Towards a New Professionalism?
Year of Publication: 2005
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 237 pp., 9 fig.
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Evidence-based practice is a movement deriving from medicine to measure the effectiveness or the outcome of practical interventions. This concept has been transferred to social work at a time when the profession is under pressure from «managerialism». Evidence-based social work therefore is suspect, even though there is no doubt that knowledge should be the base of professional social work action. «What works» and other narrow concepts of evidence-based practice seem better suited to managerial demands for «accountability» and to political decision-making in respect of financial problems of welfare states than to professional decision-making. On the other hand accountability and political/financial constraints are a reality social work has to cope with anyway. The leading question asked by this book is whether the change in the environment of social work practice can be used as a stimulus for constructive development and whether evidence-based social work can be conceived as an approach pointing to new forms of professionalism using evidence for the improvement of professional social work practice and its accountability.
Contents: Peter Sommerfeld: Introduction – Holger Ziegler: What Works in Social Work - Challenging the Political Agenda – Mark Schrödter: Will the Dodo Bird also Be Hunting Social Work? – Inge M. Bryderup: Understandings of the Concept of Effect in Research in Danish Social Educational Work – Ian Shaw: Evidencing Social Work – Stina Högnabba/Ilse Julkunen/Sakari Kainulainen/Pertti Korteniemi/Tuija Lindqvist/Petri Peitola: Steps into Realistic Evaluation in Social Work in Finland – Mike Fisher: Knowledge Production for Social Welfare: Enhancing the Evidence Base – Edward J. Mullen/Jennifer L. Bellamy/Sarah E. Bledsoe: Implementing Evidence-based Social Work Practice – Daniel Gredig: The Co-evolution of Knowledge Production and Transfer. Evidence-based Intervention Development as an Approach to Improve the Impact of Evidence on Social Work Practice – Peter Sommerfeld/Lea Hollenstein/Raphael Calzaferri/Günter Schiepek: Real-time Monitoring - New Methods for Evidence-based Social Work.
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The Editor: Peter Sommerfeld, *1958, Prof. Dr. rer. soc., studied sociology, educational sciences and psychology in Tübingen (Germany) and Grenoble (France). He received a Ph.D. in social educational science and taught at the Universities of Fribourg, Bielefeld, Tübingen, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Krems (Austria). Since 1999 he has been Professor for Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Solothurn, Northwestern Switzerland, senior researcher and project manager in the research and development department. His main research focuses are: professionalisation of social work, evidence-based social work, community work, theory of social work.


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So.. I've been bleeding in between periods for 3 months now. I did all the STD tests and nothing.. So now the doctors would like to give me another exam and an ultrasound thinking that it could be a cyst or endometriosis, or uterine cancer or cervitis or alllll these other things. So April 9th I go for my pelvic exam and they will order an ultra sound for me then. I was up crying alllll night because I was thinking about the "what if's" ya know? I haven't had any kids yet and I want 2 so WHAT IF I end up not being able to have any? WHAT IF I need surgery and I die? I know thats extreme but that is where my mind went. It's like here I am working hard on getting healthy so I can live a long and exciting life and I get THIS news..
To top things off my ex (who I guess I kinda have been dating/sexing... I dunno what it is) should be supporting me but isn't and he's an asshole so I guess that's why he's an ex right? What sucks is that we were engaged and the whole 9 yards so you'd think he would treat me a little better but NOOOO.. I guess some men are just trash.. I should be happy I found out he was trash right? lol... Still hurts though not having his support through this or at all.. So I've decided to just leave him alone completely.. And that advice came from one of his close friends who I now can consider a friend of mine.
In all bad news there is always a glimmer of hope and positivity. My positive thing is that I am still here and aside from being tired, I feel great. I am back in the gym, I am eating right, i am focused on what I have to do in order to succeed in life, I know who my real friends are and I have a great family that has my back.. So I know whatever it is I will get through it..
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I would appreciate any and all of your prayers for me and my health and life and getting past the sucky ex... Thanks guys!! And as bad as things are, there's always someone somewhere how has it worse than you so smile and be happy for the positive things in your life.
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Sending you positive vibes and prayers, little sister!
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Thank you guys so much.. For the prayer, the motivation, and the genuine caring and kindness... I feel a little more relaxed.
XSOLA_FIDEX: I will visit that website. Bible study and prayer uplifts me every single time I feel down.
FREYTAMRA: You're totally right.. 1. He's a butt munch and 2. I need to take it easy because it is probably something that can be fixed easy, no problem. thanks for the soothing advice. i will surely use it.
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Thanks again to all of you for helping be be a bit stronger!!
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Hi! I just came across your blog and saw the call to prayer. I have said a prayer, and hope that God's will shall be done in your life and for your fear and sickness. If you have a moment, go to biblegateway.com and look up John 15. Within that scripture holds the promise that if you get your life through God and live by His words and promises, ask and whatever it is that you want within His will it will be done for you. That means healing of the spirit, body, and mind can be yours. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week, and that you find the rest and joy that you require!
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You don't know me but I just finished posting my blog for today...trying to get back at it! :) I decided to just search around other blogs for some inspiration and found yours.
There are soooooo many things that could be going on to cause your issues.....things that are not "BAD BAD". Ultrasounds are no big deal at all...I've had quite a few. I've had things "wrong", the ultasounds shows the dr what it is.. and you fix it...with meds, possible surgery (easy surgery - NOT going to effect your future). There are so many procedures to fix things right now? Very surprising.
It's so stressful let your mind wander - I'm a pro at it.
The ex? Well.... the good news is...yes...you aren't married to him. You know how he is. It hurts terribly. You really need someone to lien on right now and he's being his typical self. Would he feel the same it there was something going on with his reproductive system?? I think not. lol
Hang in there!! Stay focused on the workouts. Exercise really helps to keep your mind busy as well. Best of luck!
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Good luck with your exam!
Stay strong and keep anyone that drags you down, OUT of your life.
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On March 23, KasNet agents were invited to participate in a consulting workshop held by the Beauty Company, Ésika, where we had the opportunity to offer our financial services.
The event was attended by many of Ésika's beauty consultants. Upon completion of the workshop, prizes were given away and attendees enjoyed a party full of surprises.
On February 23-24, Globokas Peru held two customer service workshops directed at our Kasnet agents in North-, East- and Central Lima. The events were led by zone managers Flor Condori and Gustavo Roman, with the help of other Globokas staff.
The workshops aimed to better integrate existing agents into the company through seminars, motivational speeches and training activities.
Upon completion of the workshop, agents had the opportunity to learn more about the company and to interact with members of the company, where they gave out merchandise and held a raffle for household appliances.
Financiera TFC and Globokas announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement aimed at expanding their financial presence throughout Peru.
Thanks to this agreement, Financiera TFC will have over 800 new service points at the national level, located in the main cities of the country, such as Lima, Arequipa, Trujillo, Piura, Chiclayo, Tarapoto, Ayacucho, Moyobamba and others.
According to the agreement, Financiera TFC customers without a nearby office, will be able to use the KasNet Agents (managed by Globokas) to perform transactions related to installment payments and inquire into their balances.
The two institutions estimate that during the first year of this agreement, 30% of the collection transactions of Financiera TFC, will be accomplished through the KasNet Agents network.
Caja Huancayo established a strategic alliance with Globokas Perú S.A.C., expanding its CAJA VECINAS banking agents network, from 205 to 1,376.
The new banking agents, Cajas Vecina-KasNet will be available as from February of this year, at the national level. With this expansion, Caja Huancayo would have the largest banking agents network in the Municipal Thrifts system.
Walter Rojas Echevarría, Manager of Operations and Finance, indicated that up to November 2010, 115,324 transactions were successfully carried out (102,284 financial transactions and 13,040 administrative transactions), that is to say, 100,791 more transactions than in 2009.
In turn, Juan José Marthans León, Globokas Perú General Manager, underscored the importance of this alliance and the contributions made by the two companies for the benefit of inclusion of a higher number of people into the banking system and formalization, making available to this segment a higher number of service points, with the security and guaranty offered by the two institutions.


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Every child deserves a great education and Family Star is committed to providing that to Denver's Northeast and Northwest communities.
Do you know someone who needs to discover their family star? There is a school in Denver that can help children reach their full potential regardless of economic circumstances. Family Star is an authentic Montessori school located in the growing Jefferson Park neighborhood.
They provide early childhood education in an inclusive environment of ethnic and economic diversity. They are also about strengthening families by connecting them to needed resources. Family Star builds community by offering programs in which children of all backgrounds and abilities build the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life.
Who do they serve?
Family Star serves pregnant women, infants, toddlers and young children up until six years of age. In addition they support the families of each child through their comprehensive services. A majority of the families they serve are living at the federal poverty level.
What makes Family Star different?
Family Star provides the highest level of Montessori education for children from 0-6 years, along with comprehensive services. Family Star is different from other schools because of the high quality services offered, including family support services, mental health and disability services, and health and nutrition services.
Two programs are available
Parents can enroll their child in Family Star's center based or home based programs. The center based program has low teacher to child ratios, and all food, formula, diapers, and wipes are provided. Family Star is Qualistar rated, a DPP provider and accepts CCAP and TANF child care payments. The home based program is year round for ages 0-5 including pregnancy.
Meet Lindsey Houck, who is a Parent Educator with the Home-Based program at Family Star. Lindsey has worked at Family Star for about a year. Previously she worked in mental health and social services. She recently returned from the Peace Corps in Costa Rica where she was a Youth Development volunteer. Lindsey is a good example of the quality of teachers that Family Star recruits.
Why choose Family Star?
Family Star is a good solution for families because they offer high-quality services to families in the Denver community that need them most. Their various program options of home-based and center-based offer to meet the differing needs of families.
Family Star has been in the Denver community since 1988 and have two childcare centers. The Northwest center in Jefferson Park opened in 1997. Today, both centers serve nearly 300 children annually through a variety of program options and effectively unify the best practices of Montessori education. Their comprehensive services are typically integrated into Head Start programs.
Both childcare centers have immediate openings serving children birth - age 5. They offer full day, extended day, full year services. They are open from 7:15am-5:30pm Monday- Friday. Locations are: Northwest Center at 2246 Federal Blvd. Denver, CO 80211 (303)477-7827 and Northeast Center at 2940 Curtis Street Denver CO 80205 (303)295-7711
Do you know someone who needs to discover their family star? For more information visit them at www.familystar.net or stop by to tour one of their centers.


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BOULDER - University of Colorado ski team member Spencer Nelson died in a hiking accident Saturday near Aspen. He was 20.
At approximately 10:25 a.m. Saturday, after Nelson and his group of seven others including his father, Peter, had already summited one of the 14,000-foot Maroon Peaks, he was struck in the head by a dislodged rock. He fell into the Bell Chords couloir, according to Alex Burchetta, spokesman for the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office.
Maroon Bells is a popular hiking destination in the White River National Forest just south of Aspen.
According to Burchetta, officials received a call shortly after 11 a.m. and by 11:45 a.m., members of Mountain Rescue Aspen, the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Forest Service and Flight for Life had begun a rescue attempt.
Two off-duty mountain rescue volunteers, one of which was a paramedic and registered nurse, were hiking nearby and reached Nelson, staying until rescue crews arrived. Helicopter rescue could not reach the Bell Chords couloir, which is estimated about 13,000 feet, and dropped a rescue team above the area. He was pronounced dead at the scene and recovery operations were suspended at dusk and will resume Sunday, according to Burchetta.
"This is a terrible tragedy," CU ski coach Richard Rokos said. "For everybody involved - parents, friends, his team, coaches, anybody who had ever met him - it's a terrible waste of life, talent and ambition."
An avid outdoorsman and experienced hiker, Maroon Bells was the 18th 14er that Nelson had summited. He also listed mountain biking, weight lifting and rafting on his list of hobbies along with skiing and hiking. He had traveled to Europe three times and South America once for outdoor adventures.
"His family wanted everyone to know he was an outdoor enthusiast and ski racer for CU's Division I ski team who was eagerly seeking to summit all of Colorado's 14ers," Burchetta told the Denver Post.
In May of 2009, Nelson was involved in a life threatening motorcycle accident which required him to have spleen embolization surgery.
He had a quick recovery from that accident and reported in time for fall training as a true freshman at CU in August. Once the season began, he quickly established himself as one of the best giant slalom racers on the team and his seventh place finish at the RMISA Championships helped enable the Buffs to qualify a full 12-member team for the NCAA Championships.
"For somebody to recover from injury and do what he did last year was unusual," Rokos said. "The fact he was a freshman even more so. It's just a terrible tragedy, there's not much more to say than that."
He finished his freshman campaign with nine top 20 performances and finished 21st in the giant slalom and 23rd in the slalom at NCAAs, helping the team to a second-place finish. He was honored with the Lucie Hanusova Memorial Award, which is given for those who overcome adversity and challenges with smiles and enthusiasm. After the season, he was honored by Colorado Ski Country USA in its Double Diamond Awards as male all-star athlete of the year.
Nelson graduated from Middle Park High School in Granby, Colo., in 2008 and lists Winter Park as his home town. There he played soccer and also lettered in track & field, competing in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. He skied for the Winter Park Competition Center from 1997-09 and was a member of the Colorado All-Star team from 2007-10, was named to the regional team in 2009-10 and was a Rocky Mountain Division National Team member in 2009.
Prior to enlisting at Colorado, he skied independently in several FIS-U races in 2009 that are the same races as collegiate skiers, and he took a pair of top 20 finishes, including a 10th place finish at CU's Laura Sharpe Flood Memorial Invitational in Eldora, especially impressive given the fact his original start order was 50th. He finished 19th at the U.S. Alpine National Championships in the giant slalom in Alyeska, Alaska, in March 2009, earning the fifth-best time in the field in his second run at that competition.
Born March 16, 1990 in Denver, Nelson is survived by his parents, Peter Nelson and Peggy Smith, both CU alumni, and a brother, Connor, 18. His father works for CU in facilities management and is the lead architect on CU's remodel of the ski team building, underway this summer and fall. He was majoring in finance and marketing at Colorado.
Details of a memorial service are pending. Ski team members gathered Saturday afternoon awaiting news and held an informal team gathering Saturday evening.
(Reports from the Denver Post and KMGH's TheDenverChannel.com were used in this report).


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Favourite genre of music: Punk/Heavy Metal Rock/Enya/Classical. o_O
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Standoff Leaves Cheyenne Man Hospitalized
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A Cheyenne man is hospitalized following a three hour standoff with law enforcement Saturday evening.
Just before 11 p.m. Saturday night, officers from the Laramie County Sheriff's Department and Cheyenne Police Department responded to a report of a suicidal individual with a firearm.
"Our officers responded to a truck that had a 5th wheel behind it," said Lt. Linda Gesell, Laramie County Sheriff's Department. "They initially walked up to the door and a shot went off from inside the trailer."
The officers then retreated and set up a perimeter where attempts to talk to the suspect identified as Hardy Ray Hodge began. But after 45 minutes of unsuccessful discussion...
"The deputy's and Cheyenne police officers saw a gun come out of the window and that's when our officers opened fire. Once that happened, then we maintained that perimeter again trying to get the individual out."
A Swat team and crisis negotiation unit arrived on scene, but were unable to contact Hodge until approximately 1:45 a.m. when he finally responded to law enforcement and dropped his weapon out of one of the camper windows.
"He was transported by A.M.R. to the hospital where he underwent surgery and is at this time still in the hospital," Gesell said.
The stand off all began with Hodge getting into a confrontation earlier in the day with the female party who notified law enforcement as she became worried of his condition. And it ended with the suspect in the hospital after suffering multiple gun shot wounds.


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Your little girl will love this Tutu Tshirt for Valentine's Day. Different versions can me made for different holidays. We came across the how to searching for fun things to do and thought everyone would like it.
Materials Needed:
2 1/2 yards each of two different colors of tulle (There will definitely be left over tulle to make more than one)
Child's T-shirt
Coordinating thread
Rotary cutter, ruler and self healing mat, or scissors and a really steady hand.
Cutting the Tulle :
Cut the top, shorter layer 12 inches wide by 90 inches long. (The 90 inches is why you need 2 1/2 yards.)
Cut the bottom, longer layer 14 inches by 90 inches.
Fold each layer in half, separately. Stack them on top of each other with the raw edges lining up. The folded edges will be staggered on the bottom. Pin the two layers together near the raw edges.
Using a basting stitch (the longest stitch on your machine and the least amount of tension) sew the entire length of the tulle near the raw edges. Do not backstitch on either end and leave lots of thread hanging on each side.
Pull one of the threads and begin gathering the tulle. It will start to look like a tutu. When it seems about the right width to go around the t-shirt move on to the next step.
Starting in the middle of the back of the t-shirt start pinning the tulle. The shorter top layer of tulle should be the one laying on top of the t-shirt.
Continue pinning it as close to the bottom of the shirt, all of the way around.
Overlap it when you return to the middle of the back of the shirt.
Place the shirt under your needle and foot. Return the stitch length and tension to normal. I like to use a medium size zig zag stitch. It makes it easier to catch the layers of tulle, as well as helps the t-shirt stretch. Backstitch at the beginning and end.
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Oh! Susanna, This Guy You Gotta See – For He Comes to Canton 'hio With a Banjo on His Knee
Béla Fleck is considered by many to be the premiere banjo player in the world. He has single handily reshaped the image and sound of the banjo in a career that spans all genre of music. His latest project is a stop in Canton to perform with the Canton Symphony Orchestra.
When you think of banjo music, most people conjure up images of bluegrass players sitting on a porch. Béla has transformed the instrument that tackles not only bluegrass but jazz, rock, pop and world beat as well. Featured during the March 22, 2014 concert at 8:00 p.m. at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall located at 2323 17th Street NW in Canton will be his 2011 work "The Impostor, Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra".
The other concert is scheduled on March 21, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. at Kent State Stark's Main Hall Auditorium and features the CSO String Quartet. This concert will feature a number of solo pieces, several personal compositions and arrangements of such well known favorites as "Moonlight Sonata".
"Some artists try to re-invent themselves. Béla has reinvented several music categories," stated Michelle Mullaly, CSO Executive Director. "He has been nominated in more different musical categories than anyone in Grammy history. That shows his range of motion and innovative music abilities."
Tickets for the March 21 concert at Kent State Stark are $60, with VIP tickets available for $125 that provide admission to a post-concert meet-n-greet reception with Béla and the CSO String Quartet.
Tickets for the March 22 concert range from $25-$45. This concert also features Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances and Franck's Symphony in d minor. There are senior, student and group discounts available. Dress is casual and the concert is appropriate for ages 8 and older. Tickets and the full concert season schedule are available online at CantonSymphony.org, by calling 330-452-2094, at the box office window located inside the Cultural Center for the Arts (weekdays 10am-2pm), or by walk-up before the concert.
Founded in 1937, the Canton Symphony Orchestra is a fully professional ensemble and organization dedicated to performing concerts that enrich, educate and entertain. Under the direction of Gerhardt Zimmermann, the orchestra performs classical, pops, holiday, and educational programs. Parking at the Zimmermann Symphony Center is free.


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On the Tee: The Wildcat varsity golf team is back in action for the second consecutive week competing Nov. 10-13 at the College Golf Foundation's National Intercollegiate Match Play Championships, presented by Rolex. The event features eight of the top men's teams in the country. Arizona has won this event twice in its history.
The Rankings: The UA remains ranked in all three major college golf polls. The Cats are ranked No. 6 in the MasterCard/CGF poll, No. 7 in the Golf World poll and No. 16 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings. Individually, one Wildcat golfer is ranked nationally. Ricky Barnes, the 2000 National Freshman of the Year, is ranked 23rd in the MasterCard/CGF poll.
CGF Match Play Championships Facts: This innovative event on the collegiate level features seven of the nation's top-10-ranked teams in a match play tournament bracket. The eight teams were seeded based on recent MasterCard/CGF Collegiate Golf rankings. The seeds are as follows: No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Arizona, No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Georgia Tech, No. 6 Northwestern, No. 7 UNLV, and No. 8 Houston.
First-round match-ups are as follows:
No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 8 Houston
No. 4 Texas vs. No. 5 Georgia Tech
No. 3 Arizona vs. No. 6 Northwestern
No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 7 UNLV
The format for the three-day event has the five members of each team playing singles matches against their opponents to determine the winning team. Winners advance, while losing teams fall into a consolation. Each team will play three matches. The Championships take place at The West Bay Club in Estero, Fla.
The Probable Lineup:
Golfer Yr. Avg. Top 10/20 Low Rd. Events
Cody Beyer Jr. 74.13 0/0 71 3
Reid Hatley So. 73.13 2/0 69 3
Ricky Barnes So. 73.13 1/0 72 3
Chris Nallen Fr. 73.00 0/1 71 3
Ben Clark Jr. 74.00 0/1 70 2
Head Coach Rick LaRose . . . is in his 23rd season at the helm of the Arizona golf program, coach Rick LaRose has established the Wildcats as one of the finest in the nation. The only college coach to win both a men's (1992) and women's (1996) NCAA Championship, LaRose's teams have won seven NCAA Regionals, five Pac-10 crowns and two Rolex Match Play titles. In NCAA Championship competition, he also has four third-place finishes, a fifth-place and two sixth-place efforts to his credit. Since 1978, his men's teams have won 42 tournaments and produced 55 All-Americans. He is assisted by John Knauer.
Last Time Out: The University of Arizona's men's golf team shot a final round of 287 to finish in 12th place at the Golf World Invitational last Sunday in Hilton Head Island, S.C. UA's three-day total of two-under-par 862 is its lowest three-round team score of the season. Junior Cody Beyer claimed sixth place with his 12-under-par performance. He carded a final round of 69 to close the tournament at 204. Beyer's sixth-place finish was his highest of the year. Sophomore Reid Hatley fired a final round of even-par 72 to wrap up action tied for 24th place with a three-day total of 212. Freshman Chris Nallen completed action at five-over par with a final round of 72. Sophomore Ricky Barnes shot a third round of 74 to close out the tournament in 75th place with a total score 225. Freshman Andy Connell rounded out the Wildcat lineup in 86th place with a three-round total of 250. Georgia took the tournament championship by shooting a 42-under-par 822 as a team. Anders Hultman of Oklahoma State won individual medalist honors.
JV Action: Arizona's JV men's golf team posted a third-round score of 303 to finish at 883 and in sixth place at the 49er Collegiate Classic in Long Beach on Friday. The University of San Diego shot a final round of 294 to capture the tournament title. Individually, the Wildcats were led by junior Brandon Smith who carded a final-round 71 to close the tournament at 217 (+4). Senior Rob Anderson shot a nine-over-par 80 to complete the tournament in 21st place at 223. Juniors Brian Woolf also tied for 21st after shooting a final round of 76. Tim Weiss and Ben Clark tied for 34th and 43rd place, respectively.
Best Effort: The UA varsity posted its lowest tournament total (862) of the year at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Invitational. It was the first time in four events that the team had posted three sub-290 rounds in tournament play. It lowered the team's stroke average to 290.27.
Quite an Effort: Junior Cody Beyer put forth quite an effort at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Invitational. Beyer shot a career-low 204 (also a UA team low this season) and finished in sixth place. It was his first career top-10 finish and the team's fifth this season. Included in the effort was an opening-round 65, which was also his career low. The performance lowered his stroke average nearly two strokes to a team-leading 72.45.
In the 60s: Beyer's opening-round 65 was one of four rounds in the 60s posted by Arizona last weekend. Beyer also shot a final-round 69. Sophomore Reid Hatley fired a 69 at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Invitational, which was his second 69 of the year and one stroke off his career low. Junior Brandon Smith shot a 68 at the 49er Collegiate Classic, his collegiate career low. That marks the seventh time this season that a UA golfer has carded a round in the 60s.
Cause and Effect: It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a sub-70 round is a good start to a good tournament. That's one of the reasons why Reid Hatley (212) and Brandon Smith (217) each equaled season tournament lows.
Tough Schedule: While the Cats recent run of top-five finishes ended recently at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate, it's certainly for a lack of effort. Arizona has faced some of the finest competition this year. Counting the CGF Match Play Championships field, UA has faced 47 ranked opponents in its last four events. Through it all, UA has retained its national ranking in each of the three major golf polls.
Chip Ins: Junior Ben Clark makes his varsity debut this weekend at the CGF/Match Play Championships ... Of the UA's 31 rounds at par or better this season, 22 have been recorded by four golfers (Hatley 7, Beyer, Nallen, Smith 5 each) ... The CGF/Match Play Championships Invitational is the fourth of four consecutive fall events to be played in the South. Interestingly, the Cats have just one scheduled trip east of Tucson in the spring the NCAA Championships in Durham, N.C.
1999-2000 In Review: From beginning the year not ranked in the preseason top-25 to finishing third and just two strokes behind the leaders at the NCAA Championship, the 1999-2000 Arizona men's golf season was one that will go down as one of the most rewarding in the program's history. Continuing to improve every step of the way with a top-five lineup that consisted of two seniors, a sophomore and two true freshmen, the Cats won two tournaments, including the NCAA West Regional, and placed second four times. After its unexpected third place showing at the NCAA Championships, Arizona ended the season ranked sixth in the country and was the highest ranked Pac-10 Conference team in the final poll.


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Professor Ramamoorthi has won the Okawa Research Grant (2011), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008, the ONR Young Investigator Award (2007), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), and the NSF CAREER Award (2005).
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May art gallery exhibit showcases the works of visiting scholar Shenyu Xu
A May art exhibit is showcasing the work of visiting scholar Shenyu Xu and her students at Penn State New Kensington campus. According to the Chinese artist, she couldn't be more pleased.
A reception held May 3, which Xu described as "wonderful", welcomed Penn State and the public to meet with the Chinese artist and her students. The visiting scholar came to Penn State New Kensington campus in January. Classes Xu teaches at Penn State include a course about art and Chinese culture and another which she paired up with professor of visual arts Charles W. "Bud" Gibbons to teach, Drawing and Painting.
"I think the 100 class is when you teach students fine arts," she said. "So I teach different materials, different styles."
Xu, associate professor of art at Northeastern University in Shenyang, China will teach classes in the fall semester as well. Gibbons arranged to bring Xu to the campus. She was sponsored by a grant from the China Scholarship Council, a non-profit affiliated with the Ministry of Education in Beijing. Xu has published several books and her work has been exhibited widely in China.
"I'm very happy Penn State gave me the chance to show my art," she said. "The school is very friendly."
In addition to the work of her students, the exhibit showcases the works of Xu, which not only include previous pieces but new American landscapes. Her paintings are done with traditional Chinese materials such as silk and rice paper and often employ the use of vivid colors.
The art gallery is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. on weekends.


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Oh, I didn't notice that, Wolfe. Thank you for telling me.
March 5th
This is very well done, don't get me wrong, but this comic is in the wrong genre. Dresses aren't Drama.
March 4th
thank you its beautiful
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Thats so pretty! Your a great dressmaker!
March 4th
amazing!!! an i have one plz? ps lkf
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