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Football Big Bros Do It Again
Jessica Fiddes
Posted October 16, 2012
Every year Green Wave Football players takes time out from practice and game time to do something great. Coach Brian Bowers and the guys host a football training day for the local Big Brothers program and it's hard to tell who has more fun, the big boys or the little ones. Certainly the exuberant sounds coming from the field are very different from the usual grunts and groans we typically hear during practice. Laughter and hoots ruled the day. Click here for photos.
Delbarton linemen taught little brothers how to block ...running backs and receivers showed boys how to run and catch...little kickers were given a chance to punt. Parents of senior players organized a BBQ, with Mike Campbell and Steve Bergh manning the grill and Donna Campbell on set up and desserts. The little guys' parents and a Big Brothers counselor said the same thing: these mini Wave players look forward to the afternoon of football at Delbarton more than any other outing during the year. And we do too!
Each boy received a nice gift bag (real men don't say 'goodie') that included a mini Delbarton-logo ball. Senior Asad Braswell's little brother was heard to exclaim, "....now we can play catch every time I see you!"
Congrats to our football players, coaches and parents for making this day special for Delbarton's favorite little bros.


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40 yearsPosted Monday, April 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM This year, let us all make a non-traditional "New Year's resolution" by contributing to the campaign for a greener earth. Begin to recycle (if you don't.) If you do, elaborate by replacing disposable goods for sustainable ones. Our world is in worse condition today than ever. Many businesses and individuals have taken steps to ensure this world for generations. Take, for example, the Windy City. Chicago's leaders are planning long-term development to become the "greenest city in America." One of the major plans architect William McDonough has developed for Chicago is the Green Roof idea. It is a lightweight, layered roofing system which contains grasses and different types of vegetation. The idea proposes a reduction in the urban heat island effect, reduction in rainfall runoff, and improvement of air quality within the city. This is very important in bigger cities due to the congestion of traffic, pollutants and waste particular in bigger populations. These ideas, however, can be brought home. In our spare time, Jacob and I build solar panels. This spring, I plan to build more to hopefully take my home off-grid. The idea of being off-grid is exciting but will take much effort and planning. Right now, I have one solar panel. After trial and error (and much frustration), we ameliorated our product. I hope to have at least two more by the end of summer. I plan to expand on my floral garden. I don't have a very big yard with a lot of options, but I have so many ideas! My mom and I are transporting her peonies to a different part of her yard so that they may receive more sunlight. She said she'll let me take a bush to plant in front of my house. Beautiful and fragrant! We also have three dogwood trees to plant. This past winter, I chose to heat my home with an energy efficient, clean-burning pellet stove. This significantly cut down on my heating bill due to it being electricity driven. In fact, my electricity only increased a few dollars a month. Pellets are made of ground, dried wood, and sometimes other biomass wastes compressed into pellets. The pellet stove approach is much more climate-friendly than fossil fuels. I have heard people mention how they don't want to jump on this "green" movement's bandwagon. People shouldn't see it like it's the next popular thing. My family and I have been children of the land ever since I could remember. When I was young, I planted a garden with my mom, we raised ducks, my grandmother raised chickens. My brothers and I helped my dad chop and haul wood for the fireplace. We would hike and harvest. We recycled, reused and replenished. Taking care of our earth comes natural to me. I understand so many people weren't raised in this type of environment, but it's never too late to change for the best! Turning "green" wouldn't be jumping on the bandwagon; it would be finally understanding our responsibility to our mother earth. Besides, it's fun! Happy Birthday, Earth Day! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] Happy Birthday Earth Day! And to you too Jessica! I just got my garden started this weekend, I also got my flower garden ready as well. I can't wait until I can see the tiny green plants beginning to sprout. Having a garden is so rewarding, just knowing that you've planted and harvested food to put on your table is worth all the work. Yippee for Spring!! -- Posted by ouijastar on Wed, Apr 7, 2010, at 12:18 PM
Happy Birthday Earth Day (And Jessica) - We don't have a lot of space for a "real" garden, but we have become container gardeners extraordinaires! We have grown green beans in flower boxes, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli, strawberries (although those got eaten by the birds) and squash - all in containers. The kids think it's the coolest thing in the world to eat a dinner out of our garden and anyone can do it! -- Posted by koeller77 on Wed, Apr 7, 2010, at 1:42 PM
Happy Birthday Jessica, Loved your column. I remember Victory Gardens from World War II. I think we could call our current efforts, Independence Gardens. Independence from over processed food trucked or flown in from all manner of places. Independence from high prices. Good growing, y'all. -- Posted by upsedaisy on Mon, Apr 12, 2010, at 9:43 PM
Thank you everyone! This spring fever has got me. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbors uprooted two small trees as I was pulling in my driveway. I asked to take them off their hands. I went to my mom and dad's and planted them, and today, they are budding! -- Posted by Jessica Wise on Tue, Apr 13, 2010, at 11:22 AM
Happy Birthday, Perhaps, you could keep the birds from your strawberries by covering them w/netting. Serious gardeners put up cages to keep the critters out. Works nicely except for two legged varmints. Friend in the VA mountains, with his mouth-watering for big ripe blueberries, found the gate closed, and the bushes stripped clean of every ripe blueberry. Happy to hear you found good homes for your neighbors trees. Deer are a huge problem to our efforts at reforestation. Deer, rabbits and mice and other small rodents will strip the bark off young trees. It gives an ugly appearance and can kill trees if the damage is deep enough. Happy Earth Day to all. -- Posted by upsedaisy on Thu, Apr 22, 2010, at 11:29 AM
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"Family Physical Activity Center," Family Home Evening Resource Book, (1997),317
A family physical activity center can help children and youth develop physically and also help the whole family achieve and maintain physical fitness. It can also provide inexpensive recreation close to home.
In a family council or home evening, discuss what you might do to develop a family physical activity center. First, find a small area, outdoors or indoors, which you might use. Visit a park, school playground, health spa, or athletic club for ideas. Consider equipment that will help family members work on balance, flexibility, strength, coordination, and endurance. Include items for the ages of your family members. Try to find inexpensive ways to build your center. You probably won't need everything listed below. A few versatile items may be all you can afford and all you have room for. And remember: you can build it over several years' time, getting one piece of equipment at a time.
1. Make an overhead ladder from two 2-by-4-inch (5-by-10-cm) boards, 8 feet (about 2.5 meters) long, and several lengths of 1-inch or 1 1/8-inch (2.5- or 3-cm) dowels. Hang it from basement ceiling joists or install it on posts outside.
2. Make a balance board from a small log 12 to 16 inches (about 30 to 40 cm) long, and a cleated board 10 inches (25 cm) wide and about 24 to 26 inches (61 to 66 cm) long.
3. Hang a climbing rope (even if it is short) from ceiling joists in the basement. It can also serve as a swing where children use their arm and shoulder strength to hang on instead of sitting on a seat. It can also be mounted outside from a tree limb.
4. Make a chinning bar out of three lengths of 1 1/2-inch (about 4-cm) galvanized pipe and a bag or two of concrete mix.
5. Make a shinny pole or fireman's pole out of a 10- to 12-foot (about 3-to 4-meter) piece of 2-inch (5-cm) galvanized pipe and a bag of concrete mix.
6. Make a tire vault by burying one-third to one-half of a large truck tire in the ground.
7. Make tire trees from 12- to 14-foot (about 3- to 4-meter) logs about 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter with three sets of four used passenger car or truck tires mounted up the log so that they overlap a little. Putting two tire trees close together allows children to jump from one tree to the other. Installation in the ground should be firm.
8. Make a log walk (balance beam) from a pole 6 to 8 inches (about 15 to 20 cm) in diameter and about 12 to 14 feet (about 3 to 4 meters) long. Mount it on two hewn-out small pieces of log.
9. Make a log jam using varying heights of logs 10 to 12 inches (about 25 to 30 cm) in diameter. Mount them vertically in an irregular arrangement, side by side.
10. Make a trapeze bar out of four eyebolts, two short pieces of chain, and about a 30-inch (about 76-cm) piece of 1 1/4-inch (about 3-cm) dowel. It can be mounted from basement floor joists, outside on an A-frame, or from a tree.
11. Make beanbag targets from plywood to look like clowns, animals, or trees. Bags can be tossed through holes shaped like mouths, eyes, or fruit.
12. Mount a dart board on a cloth-covered piece of celotex 4 feet by 4 feet (about 1.25 meters by 1.25 meters). Then there is less chance that darts will hit walls and floors.
13. Make a jumping board out of a 10-by-42-inch (about 25-cm-by-1-meter) piece of hardwood. Mount a 2-by-4-inch (5-by-10-cm) board securely under both ends.
14. Tumbling mattresses or mats
15. Sit-up or abdominal slant board
16. Basketball backboard and hoop
17. Tire swing
18. Volleyball and badminton standards and net
19. Stationary bicycle
20. Jogging trampoline
21. Weights
22. Ballet bar and mirror
23. Gym scooters
24. Tetherball pole
25. Skip ropes
26. Any other device for exercising muscles in which the resistance can be progressively increased
After you have decided which items you want to make or buy, work toward having them installed. Encourage regular use of the equipment.
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Welcome to Polly's Feltz, handmade felted bags. All the bags on this site are designed and made by me. I started designing and making the bags in early 2010 but were not ready for sale until 2011 as it took about 18 months to perfect the design and felting process. The Elite Collection came first, then the Clutch Collection and the Tote Collection was born early this year. I have started making the Elite Collection with longer shoulder straps.
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The Bahamas: Bahamas Daylight Studios
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Ice Shelves
An ice shelf is a thick slab of ice, attached to a coastline and extending out over the ocean as a seaward extension of the grounded ice sheet. Ice shelves range in thickness from about 50 to 600 meters, and some shelves persist for thousands of years. They fringe the continent of Antarctica, and occupy a few fjords and bays along the Greenland and Ellesmere Island coasts. (An ice shelf occupying a fjord is sometimes called an ice tongue.) At their seaward edge, ice shelves periodically calve icebergs, some the size of a small U.S. state or European country. Because they are exposed to both warming air above and warming ocean below, ice shelves and ice tongues respond more quickly than ice sheets or glaciers to rising temperatures.
Most ice shelves are fed by inland glaciers. Together, an ice shelf and the glaciers feeding it can form a stable system, with the forces of outflow and back pressure balanced. Warmer temperatures can destabilize this system by increasing glacier flow speed andmore dramaticallyby disintegrating the ice shelf. Without a shelf to slow its speed, the glacier accelerates. After the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegration, nearby glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula accelerated up to eight times their original speed over the next 18 months. Similar losses of ice tongues in Greenland have caused speed-ups of two to three times the flow rate in just one year.
While calving or disintegrating ice shelves don't raise ocean level, the resulting glacier acceleration does, and this poses a potential threat to coastal communities. More than 100 million people currently live within 1 meter of mean sea level. Greenland contains enough ice to raise sea level by 7 meters, and Antarctica holds enough ice to raise sea level by 57 meters. While these ice sheets are unlikely to disappear anytime soon, even partial loss of the grounded ice could present a significant problem. In the coming decades of a climate warming era, ice shelves and ice tongues are likely to play a prominent role in changing the rate of ice flow off the major ice sheets.
Ice Shelf Observations:
Rapid response to climate change
Ice shelves fall into three categories: (1) ice shelves fed by glaciers, (2) ice shelves created by sea ice, and (3) composite ice shelves (Jeffries 2002). Most of the world's ice shelves, including the largest, are fed by glaciers and are located in Greenland and Antarctica.
One example of an ice shelf composed of compacted, thickened sea ice is the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island in northern Canada.
Ward Hunt Ice Shelf: This ice shelf is an example of a shelf made from compressed sea ice. This Canadian RADARSAT image shows the shelf in August 2002, when a crack made its way down the length of the shelf. Image courtesy Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Antarctica's major ice shelf areas: These ice shelf areas can easily be seen in NSIDC's Mosaic of Antarctica. Image courtesy Scambos et al. 2007.
Antarctica has 15 major ice shelf areas, and 10 of the largest appear in this map. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is an example of a composite ice shelf comprised of both glacier-fed ice and fast ice thickened by snowfall. The others are glacier-fed, but ice formed from direct snowfall accumulation is a significant part of all permanent ice shelves.
Two types of events occurring on ice shelves have attracted the attention of scientists. One kind is iceberg calving, a natural event. The other kind is disintegration, a newly recognized phenomenon associated with climate change.
Loose tooth, 2001: These Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images show the progression of a "loose tooth"an iceberg calving from the Amery Ice Shelf. Images courtesy NASA Earth Observatory, Clare Averill and David J. Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Helen A. Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Loose tooth, 1963: In 1963, the CORONA mission captured this image of a gap in on the Amery Ice Shelf. The gap was left by the calving of an earlier loose tooth. Image courtesy Helen A. Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Calving of huge, tabular icebergs is unique to Antarctica, and the process can take a decade or longer. Calving results from rifts that reach across the shelf. In the case of Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf, the calving area resembles a loose tooth.
On a stable ice shelf, calving is a near-cyclical, repetitive process producing large icebergs every few decades. The icebergs drift generally westward around the continent, and as long as they remain in the cold, near-coastline water, they can survive decades or more. However, they eventually are caught up in north-drifting currents where they melt and break apart.
In Greenland, floating ice tongues downstream from large outlet glaciers are more broken up by crevasses. Calving of the ice tongues releases armadas of smaller, steep-sided icebergs that drift south sometimes reaching North Atlantic shipping lanes. Calving of the large glacier, Jacobshavn, on the east coast of Greenland is responsible for the majority of icebergs reaching Atlantic shipping and fishing areas off of Newfoundland and most likely shed the iceberg responsible for the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland also shed a large ice island in August 2010. These denizens of the ocean are now tracked by the National Ice Center in the United States, along with other organizations.
By 2006, the Jacobshavn Glacier had retreated back to where its two main tributaries join, leading to two fast-flowing glaciers where there had previously been just one.
Jacobshavn Glacier retreat: The rapidly retreating Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland drains the central ice sheet. This image shows the glacier in 2001, flowing from upper right to lower left. Terminus locations before 2001 were determined by surveys and more recent contours were derived from Landsat data. The recent stages of retreat have widened the ice front, placing more of the glacier in contact with the ocean. Image courtesy NASA Earth Observatory, Cindy Starr, based on data from Ole Bennike and Anker Weidick (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) and Landsat data.
In recent years, calving of the largest ice tongues in Greenland (in particular, Jacobshavn, Helheim, and Kangerdlugssuaq) has accelerated probably due to warmer air and/or ocean temperatures. As the ice tongues have retreated, the reduced backpressure against the glacier has allowed these glaciers to accelerate significantly.
The images below show a tabular iceberg calving from an ice shelf. This iceberg happens to be calving from the remnant piece of the Larsen B ice shelf at the southwestern corner of the embayment. While the Larsen B Ice Shelf underwent disintegration (see below), this was a normal calving event.
Iceberg A54 calving: Top: Aerial photo of the A54 iceberg calving from the Scar Inlet Shelf (the remainder of the Larsen Ice Shelf). Photo courtesy Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. Bottom: NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer images courtesy NASA Earth Observatory.
Large tabular iceberg calvings are natural events that occur under stable climatic conditions, so they are not a good indicator of warming or changing climate. Over the past several decades, however, meteorological records have revealed atmospheric warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, and the northernmost ice shelves on the peninsula have retreated dramatically (Vaughan and Doake 1996).
The most pronounced ice shelf retreat has occurred on the Larsen Ice Shelf, located on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula's northern tip. The shelf is divided into four regions from north to south: A, B, C, and D.
In January 1995, after several decades of warming and years of gradual retreat, the Larsen A Ice Shelf underwent a type of retreat that was, at that time, unprecedented. The breakup pattern in the Larsen A, in which roughly 1,500 square kilometers suddenly disintegrated rapidly into small sliver-shaped icebergs, appeared to indicate a new style of ice shelf response to pronounced climate warming. To the south, the Larsen B saw the calving of a 70- by 25-kilometer iceberg. This ordinary calving event received more public attention but the disintegration event was more significant to researchers studying the area. (See Antarctic Ice Shelves and Icebergs: Events in the Northern Larsen Ice Shelf and Their Importance.)
Disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf: The event began on January 31, 2002. Several weeks later, the ice shelf had completely shattered. MODIS image courtesy Ted Scambos and Terry Haran, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Extent of Larsen Ice Shelf retreat: Colored lines mark the ice shelf's extent in 1947, 1961, 1993, and 2002. MODIS image courtesy Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.
In 2002, satellites recorded an even larger disintegration than what occurred in 1995 (see Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events: Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapses in Antarctica). Between 31 January and 5 March 2002, approximately 3,250 square kilometers of the Larsen B shattered, releasing 720 billion tons of ice into the Weddell Sea. It was the largest single disintegration event in 30 years of ice shelf monitoring. Preliminary studies of sediment cores suggest that it may have been this ice shelf's first collapse in 12,000 years (see Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events: Seafloor Evidence of Larsen Ice Sheet Breakup).
Wilkins Ice Shelf: The Wilkins Ice Shelf extends from the Antarctic mainland to Charcot and Latady Islands. Black lines indicate the approximate ice shelf front at the beginning of 2008. Blue lines indicate new shelf fronts after retreat events in 2008. Image courtesy Antarctic Glaciological Data Center Images of Antarctic Ice Shelves.
Also on the Antarctic Peninsula, southwest of the Larsen Ice Shelf, is the Wilkins Ice Shelf. In 1998, the northern part of that ice shelf broke up, although the ice fragments remained in place for the next decade. In 2008, three significant breakups occurred. The first breakup began in late February 2008, on the western part of the shelf, between Charcot and Latady Islands. This breakup style was very similar to the event previously seen on the Larsen A and B. The event occurred during the Southern Hemisphere summer, after an extensive melt season, although no melt ponds were observed. Beginning in May 2008, the western part of the shelf underwent further retreat, again in the disintegration style, despite cold autumn surface conditions. Later in June and July, a substantial portion of the northern part of the shelf also broke up. The breakups occurring between May and July 2008 were especially significant because they happened during the Southern Hemisphere's cold season.
Wilkins Ice Shelf Disintegration, summer 2008: The summertime breakup of the western Wilkins Ice Shelf occurred in a matter of days. NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer images courtesy NASA Earth Observatory.
Wilkins Ice Shelf Disintegration, 2009: These images show the breakup of the remaining ice bridge extending to Charcot Island. The image on the left shows the intact bridge, on 31 March. The image on the right shows the same bridge shattered, on 6 April. High-resolution images available from the NASA Earth Observatory.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf had broken up in 1998, but the ice blocks remained frozen in place for a decade, held together partly by the accumulation of snowfall. Radar images acquired in 2008 showed a darkening in the areas between ice blocks, followed by the gradual disappearance of these snowy, icy areas. The 2008 imagery indicated thinning between ice blocks, despite winter conditions, and suggested melting from beneath, due to warm water under the ice shelf. As a result of ice loss to the north, rifts south of the 1998 breakup area began to widen, leading to a series of rapid moderate to large iceberg calvings. Through late winter of 2008, the remaining two-thirds of the shelf stabilized between Latady and Alexander Islands, although fresh cracks appeared on the shelf in late November 2008. In April 2009, the ice bridge connecting the remnant shelf to ice fragments around Charcot Island gave way.
Although smaller than Antarctic ice shelves, ice shelves in the Northern Hemisphere have also attracted the attention of glaciologists. In the early 20th century, Arctic explorer Robert Peary observed a massive "glacial fringe" along the northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island. At that time, the glacial fringe was likely a continuous ice shelf covering some 9,000 square kilometers. By the 1950s, much of the ice had disintegrated, and by the turn of the 21st century, the once-continuous ice shelf had been reduced to several smaller ice shelves. In 2002, one of those shelves, the Ward Hunt, fractured, releasing several large ice fragments totaling nearly 3 gigatons of ice into the Arctic Ocean. In 2005, another shelf, the Ayles, broke free. In the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2008, a new wave of ice shelf disintegrations began along the Ellesmere Coast, stripping more ice from the Ward Hunt and the Serson, and completely removing the Markham Ice Shelf. The Ward Hunt experienced further fracturing in August 2010, when a Bermuda-sized ice island broke free.
Ice Shelf Retreat along the Ellesmere Coast: Between July 22 (top) and August 29 (bottom), 2008, the five ice shelves remaining in the Canadian Arctic experienced major losses. By late August, Ellesmere ice shelves had lost a total of 214 square kilometers (83 square miles). Images courtesy NASA Earth Observatory.
Disintegration Causes
Building on earlier research about Antarctic ice shelf disintegration (Weertman 1973 and Hughes 1983), Ted Scambos of NSIDC, Christina Hulbe of Portland State University, and Mark Fahnestock of the University of New Hampshire developed a theory to explain the disintegration of the Larsen and some other ice shelves (see melt pond theory). Sufficiently warm summer temperatures and an impermeable surface that prevents water from being absorbed lead to melt ponds on the shelf. This meltwater is available to fill small surface cracks. Depending on the amount of water and the depth of a crack, the water can deepen the crack and eventually wedge through the ice shelf (Scambos et al. 2003).
The formation of melt ponds depends most upon summer temperatures. Although a single warm summer cannot lead to collapse, a series of warm summers transforms permeable snow into impermeable ice, allowing melt ponds to form during subsequent warm summers. (The same process occurs on glaciers in warm climates, with the effect not of disintegrating the ice shelf, but of accelerating the glacier. Even when the temperature of interior glacial ice remains below freezing, meltwater can percolate through the glacier to its base and decrease friction between the glacial ice and the underlying rock (Zwally et al. 2002).) This is a seasonal phenomenon, and with a stable ice shelf in place, glacier acceleration ends with the warm summer temperatures. If the ice shelf shatters, however, the picture may change.
In recent years several studies have cited evidence for warm ocean waters thinning ice shelves from beneath. This "basal melting" appears to be associated with increased rifting and calving of large iceberg chunks (much larger than in the disintegration case) (Shepherd et al. 2003 and Kazandhar 2007, Glasser and Scambos 2008, Vieli et al. 2007). Ocean water just a degree or two above freezing carries huge potential for melting ice. Rignot and Jacobs 2002 estimated that for each 0.1°C above freezing point, ocean water circulating under the shelf could melt 10 meters of ice per year. While ocean water in the Antarctic and Arctic is warming slowly, a more important effect appears to be more frequent circulation of warm waters in ice shelf areas due to wind and current changes (Stammerjohn et al. 2008 and Rignot et al. 2008).
A critical feature of an ice shelf is the "grounding line," the point where the underside of the ice shelf detaches from land and floats on the ocean water. If an ice shelf retreats to the grounding line, the shelf's shape changes. More ice protrudes above the water line, and the ocean water exerts little buoyant pressure on the ice. As a result, the flow of the glacier meets very little resistance. In the 18 months following the Larsen Ice Shelf disintegration, glaciers feeding that ice shelf accelerated between three- to eight-fold (Scambos et al. 2004 and Rignot et al. 2004). Similar mechanisms are at work in the Jakobshavn Isbrae, Kangerdlugssuaq, and Helheim Glaciers in Greenland (Joughin et al. 2004). Basal melting near the grounding line on a shelf can also accelerate the glacier, e.g., Pine Island Bay (Payne et al. 2004).
Glacier-ice shelf interactions: In a stable glacier-ice shelf system, the glacier's downhill movement is offset by the buoyant force of the water on the front of the shelf. Warmer temperatures destabilize this system by lubricating the glacier's base and creating melt ponds that eventually carve through the shelf. Once the ice shelf retreats to the grounding line, the buoyant force that used to offset glacier flow becomes negligible, and the glacier picks up speed on its way to the sea. Image by Ted Scambos and Michon Scott, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Although the existence of melt ponds on the ice surface may explain the disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, other ice shelf breakups may result from other causes, or a combination of causes. Robert Peary documented melt ponds on the surface of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in the Canadian Arctic in the early 20th centurydecades before the ice shelf retreated. The longtime presence of melt ponds on that ice shelf suggests that other factors could have played a larger role in the breakup. Likewise, the breakup of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula appears to have resulted from multiple causes. In both cases, warmer ocean water, which may have circulated underneath the ice shelf, is likely playing a role.
The presence or absence of sea ice may also influence ice shelf behavior. An intact layer of sea ice surrounding an ice shelf may dampen wave action that could otherwise stress and weaken a shelf.
The Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula was a glacier-fed shelf, and after its disintegration, the glaciers feeding it accelerated. If all of those glaciers were to flow into the ocean, they would raise ocean level by only a few millimeters. Greenland's glaciers and those feeding the Ross Ice Shelf, however, would have a more significant effect.
The Ross Ice Shelf is the main outlet for several major glaciers from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This single ice sheet contains enough above-sea-level ice to raise global sea level by 5 meters. At present, the Ross Ice Shelf's mean annual temperature is well below freezing. Although summer temperatures in the warmest part of this shelf are currently just a few degrees too cool for the formation of melt ponds, there is no evidence of a strong warming trend on the Ross Ice Shelf at this time.
Retreat Summary
Since the late 1980s, a number of Antarctic ice shelves have retreated. This table gives an overview of retreat events as of early 2008. Note that numbers are approximate and some observation periods overlap.
Ice Shelf | Starting Observation Date | Ending Observation Date | Area on Starting Date (sq. km.) | Area on Ending Date (sq. km.) | Change (sq. km.) | % of Original Area Remaining | Reference(s) |
Müller | 1956 | 1993 | 80 | 49 | -31 | 61 | (Ward 1995) |
Jones | 1947 | 2003 | 25 | 0 | -25 | 0 | (Fox and Vaughan 2005) |
Wordie | 1966 | 1989 | 2,000 | 700 | -1,300 | 35 | (Doake and Vaughan 1991) |
Wilkins | 1990 | 1995 | ~17,400 | ~16,000 | -1,360 | 92 | (Lucchitta and Rosanova 1998) |
1995 | 1998 | ~16,000 | ~14,900 | -1,098 | 85 | (Scambos et al. 2000) | |
1995 | 2003 | ~16,000 | 13,680 | -2,320 | 78 | (Scambos et al. 2007) | |
2008 | 2008 | 13,680 | 13,250 | -431 | 76 | (Scambos et al. 2008) | |
Northern George VI | 1974 | 1995 | ~26,000 | ~25,000 | -993 | 96 | (Lucchitta and Rosanova 1998) |
Prince Gustav | 1945 | 1995 | 2,100 | ~100 | -2,000 | 5 | (Cooper 1997) |
1995 | 2000 | 47 | 2 | (Rott et al. 2002) | |||
Larsen Inlet | 1986 | 1989 | 407 | 0 | -407 | 0 | (Rott et al. 2002) |
Larsen A | 1986 | 1995 | 2,488 | 320 | -2,168 | 13 | (Rott et al. 1996) |
Larsen B | 1986 | 2000 | 11,500 | 6,831 | -4,669 | 59 | (Rott et al. 2002) |
2000 | 2002 | 3,631 | -3,200 | 32 | (Scambos et al. 2004) | ||
1995 | 2003 | 11,512 | 2,667 | -8,845 | 23 | (Rack and Rott 2004) | |
2003 | 2008 | 2,667 | ~1,970 | -697 | 17 | (Scambos pers. comm. May 2008) | |
Larsen C | 1976 | 1986 | ~60,000 | ~50,000 | -9,200 | 82 | (Skvarca 1994 and Vaughan and Doake 1996) |
2003 | 48,600 | -1,400 | 80 | (Scambos et al. 2007) | |||
Recorded Changes in Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelf Areas: Adapted from Alison J. Cook, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, 2008. |
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yum install expect
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ERROR PriorChecker – 255 – com.ibm.xap.mgmt.ConfigurationException: selinux configuration not compatible – SELINUX=enforcing
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Open a new Terminal window
cd /Desktop
cd into the biginsights directory
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The following are the images of each screen in the web-based installation:
Accept the license agreement:
Since I am installing on a single notebook computer, I selected a single node installation
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enter the password for biadmin if prompted
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"Where do I go to get my reputation back?"Not to federal courts. They have completely sold out to PC.
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Why bother to actually read the article before posting? The court dismissed the complaints from team members who were not charged. That sounds reasonable to me.
Read the article, they dismissed the charges from the three accused players along with uncharged players who had filed claims.
I guess the courts grant immunity to liberal lynch mobs.
I would argue that those players not charged are still tainted because of their affiliation with the team. I remember the media lynch mob at that time and they were collective in their denouncement of the lacrosse team. I find it disgusting that the city attorney is "heartened" that the city does not have to pay the students whose reputations have been tainted or ruined. As with all lawyers, legal is what you can get away with, not necessarily justice or moral.
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#6: the team members who were not charged were smeared as well. They also lost their entire lacrosse season without due process and had to submit to an early investigation that threw them to the wolves.
FTA: In the 58-page ruling released Monday, the appeals court also threw out all federal claims filed by the team members who were not charged criminally.To me, that leaves the 3 who were charged with rape with intact federal cases. Its really sad that reporting today is soooo poor that 2 different people reading the story come away with different understandings of the primary information being conveyed.
The N&O is a notoriously lefty paper. A significant error in the piece is:The lacrosse players, for the most part, were largely affluent, white students from outside North Carolina.Actually, if I recall correctly, most of the lacrosse players were not from wealthy homes but were at Duke on lacrosse scholarships.
#6, I read it and my conclusion is the same as before I started reading it. You seriously think that every member of that accused team did not suffer extreme anguish over the charges that the despicable DA, the college faculty, the city and just about every media outlet in the world, threw at them? This article STILL doesn´t explain their innocence or defend them. Perhaps if more real and imagined filth about US Appeals Court judges started being played in the media day and night for months, maybe THEN there would be actual justice instead of the system covering itself. I guess the ´good´ news is supposed to be the fact that the incompetent, PC city officials responsible for the mess have the court costs covered by insurance.
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A BID to unlock £1.9bn of investment for improved transport links, growth and job creation in Oxfordshire is about to be signed, sealed and delivered.
The county council will officially submit its bid for "city deal" status before the deadline tomorrow, its leader has revealed.
The bid, if approved, will give the area's local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnership more power to generate growth.
A key element of the bid, which won't receive large-scale Government funding but could unlock investment from the private sector, is transport.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth said unblocking pinch points on the A34 remained a top priority.
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Initially the deals were offered to eight cities – Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Newcastle.
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The county council is hoping to use £800m of public sector investment, £1bn of private sector funding and £115m from the Government to boost infrastructure, including new transport links, create 33,250 jobs and build a total of 7,500 homes.
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First is to build a new 6-lane motorway linking Swindon and the A1(M) in an arc that passes North of Didcot, South of Wheatley, North of Aylesbury and South of Bletchley with junctions at suitable points.
Second is to build a railway linking Oxford with Yarnton, Witney & Carterton, the Science & Business Parks and Abingdon.
Clearly neither of these will happen due to the projects taking longer than a single term of office for any councillor - so it'll be £0.9Bn of "quick fixes" and a further £1.0Bn of work to mitigate the consequences of the "quick fixes". All the while the county councillors will do what they do best - posing for a newspaper looking "aghast" at a poster in a park.
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Chloe Moretz Joins Charlize Theron for 'Dark Places'
Chloe Moretz is in talks to join Charlize Theron in 'Dark Places,' one of three books by Gillian Flynn currently being adapted for the big screen.
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It may not prove as successful or award-winning as History's Emmy and Golden Globe-winning miniseries, but NBC's modern 'Hatfields & McCoys' update from producer Charlize Theron is rolling full steam ahead. Updating the classic rivalry to a modernized Pittsburgh setting, the tentatively titled 'Hatfields & McCoys' remake with a pilot order has officially cast actress Virginia Madsen in the role of the McCoy matriarch, but how tied to the original story will the modern update be?
Seth MacFarlane is seemingly Hollywood's busiest man. Not only does he have a block of animated programing on the Fox network, he just made the smash hit 'Ted,' is about to host the Oscars, and has at least two movies in the works. Though there was word that 'Ted 2' would be filming shortly, it looks like his comic Western 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' is coming first, and will be co-starring Charlize Theron.
The Hatfields and McCoys may have lived and died over 100 years ago, as well History's Emmy and Golden Globe-winning mini-series have come and gone, but that won't be the last we've heard from the feuding families. NBC has officially given a pilot order to a modern-day update of the classic rivalry, to be executive produced by actress Charlize Theron, but how will a modern day 'Hatfields & McCoys' unfold? Find out how the rivalry gets updated for the 21st century inside!
Charlize Theron is still very busy filming 'Mad Max: Fury Road' with her bald head, but once she wraps, she's moving on to another project fans of genre cinema will love: a remake of 'Sympathy For Lady Vengeance.'
Are Vikings the next big thing? For some time now we've been hearing about The History Channel crafting a sweeping original drama about the Viking age, aptly titled 'Vikings,' and now it seems that A-list actress Charlize Theron has stolen a bit of their thunder. We've just learned that the recent 'Snow White and the Huntsman' actress has begun developing 'The Clan' with NBC, but what major film talent is already aboard?
Charlize Theron, who is having a pretty nice comeback year after spending a little time on the sidelines, is looking to take a break from the steely antagonists she's recently played in 'Prometheus' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.' Theron's next movie will have her moving behind the camera for a serious project based on the life of war journalist Marie Colvin, who died earlier this year in Syria. But will she also being portraying the project's title character?
Hollywood has been putting a twist on old fairy tales as of late with films like 'Mirror Mirror,' 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' and the upcoming 'Maleficent.' In these films, older actresses battle younger ones to retain their power -- is art imitating life?
It seems like Charlize Theron is everywhere these days: she's got two hit movies in theaters right now, and is about to start production on another highly-anticipated film. And since we can't get enough of her around here, let's add another potential project to her calendar.
Now that her publicity duties have slowed down for both 'Prometheus' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' Oscar nominee Charlize Theron's free to start prepping for George Miller's anticipated 'Mad Max' sequel, 'Fury Road.' First step? Get rid of all that pesky hair on top of her head.


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Though a sequel for "The Muppets" has been greenlit, one star who was integral to bringing the franchise into the new millennium won't be a part of it, reports Collider.
Jason Segel told the site he won't be signing up for another round with Kermit and Co. "It's true [that I won't be in the sequel]," said Segel, "but it's totally amicable. My goal was to bring the Muppets back and I did that, leaving them in very good hands."
Segel said he wants "to pursue more human-related projects," adding, "All I wanted to do was to set the stage for them to do whatever they wanted. I'm sure I'll return in some capacity here and there, but that was half a decade of my life. Five years of hard work. I'm ready for a little puppet break."
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 09:14 Published in Health & FitnessAll states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah saw rates fall by 30 percent or more.
In 22 states, teen Hispanic birth rates plunged at least 40 percent, which was described as "just amazing," by the report's lead author, Brady Hamilton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What's driving the declines? No one can say for sure. Experts believe the explanation is complicated and probably varies a bit from state to state. The national figure has been falling since 1991, aside from a brief interruption in 2006 and 2007.
The CDC report released Thursday is based on birth certificates for 2007 through 2011. Last year, the CDC announced the overall improvement in teen births: a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19. That compares to 42 births per 1,000 five years earlier.
The new report focuses on state figures in 2011:
- Lowest rates are in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, each with rates under 17 per 1,000.
- Highest rates overall continue to be in the South, led by Arkansas and Mississippi, each with rates of about 50 per 1,000. In Arkansas, the majority of teen births are to white moms. In Mississippi, the majority are black.
- White teens continue to have the lowest birth rate nationally - about 22 births per 1,000. Black teens saw a larger improvement, but their rate was still more than twice the white rate, at 47 per 1,000.
- Overall, the Hispanic rate plummeted from 75 to 49 per 1,000, now virtually a tie with the black rate.
The teen drop in the last five years coincided with an overall decline in births, which experts attribute to a weak economy that dampened enthusiasm for having children.
Hispanic women have been part of that trend, possibly due to the economy and to illegal immigration crackdowns in some states that reduce the number of young Hispanic females entering the country from Mexico and other nations, said John Santelli, a Columbia University professor of population and family health.
That means new immigrants are having less impact on birth statistics, and second- and third-generation families are having more influence.
As time goes on, Hispanics - like other immigrant groups before them - tend to adopt American customs and practices.
"There is more attention on education, career, and the future," said Dr. Janet Realini, head of Healthy Futures of Texas, a San Antonio-based organization focused on preventing teen and unplanned pregnancies.
Hispanic rates, though, continue to be much higher than those for blacks and whites in most of the states with the largest Hispanic populations, including California, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Georgia.
Texas has the highest number of teen births in the nation, with nearly 43,000 in 2011. Nearly two-thirds were to Hispanic moms.
The overall improvement, though, is something to celebrate, said Bill Albert, chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
"Geography, politics, or policy alone simply cannot explain the widespread declines," Albert said in an email. "Credit goes to teens themselves who are clearly making better decisions about sex, contraception, and their future."
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 09:11 Published in Health & FitnessThe Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses - not just the currently exempted religious groups - should be allowed to seek exception from that part of the health law if it violates their religious beliefs.
"They ought to be able - just like a church, just like a charity - to have the right to opt out of a provision that infringes on their religious beliefs," said Kyle Duncan, who will argue before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the Green family, the founders of Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and a sister company, Christian booksellers Mardel Inc.
The Greens contend that emergency contraception is tantamount to abortion because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. They also object to providing coverage for certain kinds of intrauterine devices.
Lower courts have rejected Hobby Lobby's claim, saying that for-profit businesses aren't covered by an exemption added to the law for religious organizations. That exemption applies to churches themselves, but not to affiliated nonprofit corporations, like hospitals, that do not rely primarily on members of the faith as employees.
In a decision issued late last year, a federal judge concluded simply, "Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations."
But U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton in Oklahoma City also wrote that "the court is not unsympathetic" to Hobby Lobby's dilemma and that the question of compelling employer health coverage for certain procedures "involves largely uncharted waters."
Other businesses in multiple states are challenging the contraception mandate, too. Hobby Lobby is the most prominent company making the claim, and it is the first to be heard by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Justice Department will argue for the government that the contraception mandate should stay.
The 10th Circuit opted to hear the case before all nine judges, not the typical three-judge panel, indicating the case's importance.
In December, the 10th Circuit denied Hobby Lobby's request for an injunction to prevent it being subject to fines while its argument was on appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court also denied an injunction, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing that it was not "indisputably clear" that Hobby Lobby needed immediate protection.
In response, the company restructured its health insurance, Duncan said. But Hobby Lobby, which is self-insured, will face fines by July 1 if it does not provide the coverage, he said.
Hobby Lobby calls itself a "biblically founded business" and is closed on Sundays. Founded in 1972, the company now operates more than 500 stores in 41 states and employs more than 13,000 full-time employees who are eligible for health insurance.
The Hobby Lobby case has attracted broad interest from health groups and religious groups. A panel including reproductive rights organizations and the American Public Health Association banded together last year to ask the court to reject Hobby Lobby's claim. The groups argued it would be dangerous precedent to allow for-profit private businesses to use religious beliefs to deny coverage.
In a brief to the court filed last year, the health groups argued that allowing businesses not to cover some contraceptives would be like allowing businesses to tell employees they can't use wages to buy morning-after pills or other products that offend the employer's religious belief.
"Of course, no one would argue that (Hobby Lobby owners) could seek, on religious grounds, to preclude their employees from spending their wages on contraception. This same rationale requires rejecting employers' demands to impose their religious views on employees through restrictions on the use of health insurance benefits," the health groups argued.
Susan Polan, associate executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the Hobby Lobby case is an important test of how far businesses can go in seeking to exempt coverage of health procedures they don't like.
"We're talking about women's access to reproductive health. That should be a decision between a patient and her health care provider, not a patient and her employer," Polan said this week.
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The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association said Rule 14-1b will take effect in 2016.
"We recognize this has been a divisive issue, but after thorough consideration, we remain convinced that this is the right decision for golf," R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said.
The new rule does not ban the long putters, only the way they commonly are used. Golfers no longer will be able to anchor the club against their bodies to create the effect of a hinge. Masters champion Adam Scott used a long putter he pressed against his chest. British Open champion Ernie Els and U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson used a belly putter, as did Keegan Bradley in the 2011 PGA Championship.
"We strongly believe that this rule is for the betterment of the game," USGA President Glen Nager said. "Rule 14-1b protects one of the important challenges in the game - the free swing of the entire club."
The announcement followed six months of contentious debate, and it might not be over.
The next step is for the PGA Tour to follow the new rule or decide to establish its own condition of competition that would allow players to anchor the long putters. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said in February the USGA and R&A would be "making a mistake" to adopt the rule, though he also has stressed the importance of golf playing under one set of rules.
"I think it's really important that the PGA Tour - and all the professional tours - continue to follow one set of rules," USGA executive director Mike Davis said. "We have gotten very positive feedback from the tours around the world saying that they like one set of rules, they like the R&A and USGA governing those. So if there was some type of schism, we don't think that would be good for golf.
"And we are doing what we think is right for the long-term benefit of the game for all golfers, and we just can't write them for one group of elite players."
The tour said in a statement it would consult with its Player Advisory Council and policy board to determine "whether various provisions of Rule 14-1b will be implemented in our competitions, and if so, examine the process for implementation."
PGA of America President Ted Bishop, who had some of the sharpest comments over the last few months, also said his group would discuss the new rule - and confer with the PGA Tour - before deciding how to proceed.
"We are disappointed with this outcome," Bishop said. "As we have said publicly and repeatedly during the comment period, we do not believe 14-1b is in the best interest of recreational golfers and we are concerned about the negative impact it may have on both the enjoyment and growth of the game."
Some forms of anchoring have been around at least 40 years, and old photographs suggest it has been used even longer. It wasn't until after Bradley became the first major champion to use a belly putter that the USGA and R&A said it would take a new look at the putting style.
"It can never be too late to do the right thing," Nager said.
Those in favor of anchored putting argued that none of the top 20 players in the PGA Tour's most reliable putting statistic used a long putter, and if it was such an advantage, why wasn't everyone using it?
"Intentionally securing one end of the club against the body, and creating a point of physical attachment around which the club is swung, is a substantial departure from that traditional free swing," Nager said. "Anchoring creates potential advantages, such as making the stroke simpler and more repeatable, restricting the movement and rotation of the hands, arms and clubface, creating a fixed pivot point, and creating extra support and stability that may diminish the effects of nerves and pressure."
The governing bodies announced the proposed rule on Nov. 28, even though they had no data to show an advantage. What concerned them more was a spike in usage on the PGA Tour, more junior golfers using the long putters and comments from instructors that it was a better way to putt. There was concern the conventional putter would become obsolete over time.
The purpose of the new rule was simply to define what a putting stroke should be.
"The playing rules are not based on statistical studies," Nager said. "They are based on judgments that define the game and its intended challenge. One of those challenges is to control the entire club, and anchoring alters that challenge."
The topic was so sensitive that the USGA and R&A allowed for a 90-day comment period, an unprecedented move for the groups that set the rules of golf. The USGA said about 2,200 people offered feedback through its website, while the R&A said it had about 450 people from 17 countries go through its website.
Among those who spoke in favor of the ban were Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker and Steve Stricker.
"I've always felt that in golf you should have to swing the club, control your nerves and swing all 14 clubs, not just 13," Woods said Monday.
Tim Clark and Carl Pettersson have used the long putter as long as they have been on the PGA Tour. Scott switched to the broom-handle putter only in 2011, and he began contending in majors for the first time - tied for third in 2011 Masters, runner-up at the 2012 British Open, his first major victory in the Masters last month.
"It was inevitable that big tournaments would be won with this equipment because these are the best players in the world, and they practice thousands of hours," Scott said after winning the Masters. "They are going to get good with whatever they are using."
It was Clark's dignified speech to a players-only meeting - with Davis from the USGA in the room - that helped sway the tour's opinion to oppose the ban.
Davis and Dawson said their research indicated the opposition to the new rule was mainly in America. The European Tour and other tours around the world all backed the ban.
Players can still use the putter, but it would have to be held away from the body to allow free swing. Mark Newell, head of the USGA's rules committee, said the rule would be enforced like so many others in golf - players would have to call the penalty on themselves.
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