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Having started up just a year ago, UMass Dartmouth is now a fully funded women's varsity team, with 13 sailors and three coaches. This team does not have the typical start-up story like most other teams in NEISA or other districts. Most commonly, a school has several enthusiastic sailors who start a club, work to fundraise and slowly gain support from their university. UMass Dartmouth's story, however, starts much differently.
Jerry Jennings, the head coach is new to coaching sailing but brings years of coaching experience in other sports. Jennings was previously known for his coaching accomplishments in swimming and diving and women's lacrosse covering a long and successful career. In addition to his extensive list of coaching accomplishments, Jerry has experience in big boat solo sailing. Jerry has help from assistant coach, Luke Hubert, former team captain at UConn whose team had the more traditional start up story. New to the staff is Kelly Wilbur, St. Mary's alumni and an All-American crew. Kelly just started law school at UMass and will be helping part time with the enthusiastic team of women
"Ian Day, the athletic director, approached me last year about considering heading up a new program for women in intercollegiate sailing, and I agreed to do so enthusiastically," said Jennings. The program was put into overdrive and one year later they are now fully funded, have a complete staff and are competing in NEISA as an associate member.
The team started last October after Jerry had made a deal with the Community Boating Center of New Bedford. At the time they began there were no docks left at the CBC which made for quite the entertaining launching process for the many novice sailors and created a hassle for all. Despite the challenges of getting boats launched, the girls and new staff put in hours of practice getting the team up to speed for racing. The team of 16 was soon outfitted with dry suits and school Nike gear and set out to practice, prepping for their debut to college sailing. Jerry explained, "Out of all the girls only two had sailing experience but the rest were athletic and motivated." Jerry and Luke taught them to sail, with varying degrees of success and constant encouragement. Having little experience combined experience with how the scheduling process goes; Jerry and Luke went to the MIT scheduling meeting last fall and signed the girls up for several events.
"We have yet to come in last, and for us it is a fun learning experience," Jokes Jerry. "Every place we go people are extremely supportive and helpful, it's been tremendous as a new team."
UMass Dartmouth as a team currently are only competing in one event per weekend in NEISA, slowly getting better with every event. Jerry has set some goals up for the team, "I want the girls to become more skilled, thus more competitive and to learn at every regatta that we attend. I am being patient but at the same time making reasonable demands to improve."
If you see the team around at an event be sure to say hello and help in welcoming them to NEISA! Maybe if you are extra nice Jerry will let you warm up in his pop-up camper he bought to bring to events when it gets chilly!


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NEW YORK – Four possible 2012 Olympic finalists will contest the women's 50-meter hurdles at the U.S. Open Track & Field event January 28 at Madison Square Garden, in what promises to be one of the most competitive hurdle matchups of the 2012 indoor season.
USA Track & Field on Thursday announced that defending Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper, two-time defending world indoor champion Lolo Jones, USA Indoor and Outdoor champion Kellie Wells and British national record-holder Tiffany Ofili Porter will go head-to-head in a hurdling showcase.
The showdown adds to previously announced stars Jesse Williams, Christian Cantwell, Adam Nelson, Bernard Lagat, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Asafa Powell, David Oliver and Jenn Suhr at the inaugural edition of the U.S. Open.
The kick-off event of USATF's Visa Championship Series, the U.S. Open will be the first track meet to be held in the newly renovated Garden and will be the first major professional meet in the United States as the 2012 Olympic year gets under way. It will be broadcast from 7-9 p.m. on Sunday, January 29 on ESPN2.
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The 2009 USA Outdoor champion, Dawn Harper has made a name for herself by performing at her best when the chips are down. Third at the 2008 Olympic Trials, she won Olympic gold in Beijing. Likewise, she was third at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships and came through with bronze at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
One of the most recognizable personalities in the sport, Lolo Jones is a two-time world indoor champion in the 60m hurdles and is the American record holder in the event as well. Although she battled injuries throughout 2011, Jones is a two-time Visa Champion as the top performer of the Indoor Visa Championship Series and was the 2010 USA Outdoor champion, the same year she broke Gail Devers' indoor American record.
The breakout hurdles star of the 2011 season, Kellie Wells shot to prominence by winning the USA Indoor and Outdoor titles and dominating top marks lists. Her winning time of 7.79 seconds at the 2011 USA Indoor Championships was the #1 time in the world for the year, and at the time gave her the nine fastest times in the world. Outdoors she was as dominant domestically and was a medal favorite for the World Outdoor Championships, where she made the final but hit a hurdle and fell. She will look for her first global medals in 2012.
A two-time NCAA indoor champion and three-time champ outdoors while competing at the University of Michigan, Tiffany Ofili Porter won a bronze medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships while competing for the United States. Now representing Great Britain, she is that country's national record holder outdoors and was fourth at the 2011 World Outdoor Championships.
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Washington, Denzel: (born December 28, 1954, Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.) American actor celebrated for his engaging and powerful performances. Throughout his career he has been regularly praised by critics, and his consistent success at the box office helped to dispel the perception that African American actors could not draw mainstream white audiences.
After graduating from Fordham University (B.A., 1977), Washington began to pursue acting as a career and joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After several successful stage performances in California and New York, he made his screen debut in the comedy Carbon Copy (1981). He first began to receive national attention for his work on the television drama St. Elsewhere (1982–88). For the film Cry Freedom (1987), he portrayed South African activist Stephen Biko, and he received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Two years later he won the ...view middle of the document...
The latter was the first of several popular movies he made with director Tony Scott. During this time he also frequently worked with director Spike Lee, starring in Mo' Better Blues (1990), He Got Game (1998), and most significantly Malcolm X (1992). Portraying the civil rights activist Malcolm X, Washington gave a complex and powerful performance and earned an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He received a second best-actor nomination for his portrayal of boxer Rubin Carter in the film The Hurricane (1999).
In Training Day (2001), Washington played a corrupt and violent police detective, the performance for which he became only the second African American actor (the first was Sidney Poitier) to win an Oscar for best actor. After starring in director Jonathan Demme's 2004 update of the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, Washington reteamed with Lee for the crime drama Inside Man (2006). He later appeared as a drug kingpin opposite Russell Crowe's determined narcotics officer in American Gangster (2007) and as a dispatcher caught in the middle of a subway train hijacking in Scott's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009). In 2010 Washington starred in the postapocalyptic action drama The Book of Eli and collaborated again with Scott on the action thriller Unstoppable. He subsequently portrayed a rogue CIA agent in South Africa in the spy thriller Safe House (2012) before giving an Oscar-nominated performance in Flight (2012) as a heroic airplane pilot hiding a substance-abuse problem. The action comedy 2 Guns, in which Washington played a covert drug-enforcement operative, followed in 2013.
Additionally, Washington directed and appeared in the biographical films Antwone Fisher (2002), about a U.S. serviceman with a troubled past, and The Great Debaters (2007), about an inspirational debate coach at an African American college in the 1930s.
In addition to his film work, Washington occasionally acted onstage. In 2005 he starred as Brutus in Julius Caesar. Five years later he appeared in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Fences, a family drama set in the 1950s that explores issues of identity and racism. For his performance, Washington won a Tony Award in 2010


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In-form Liverpool enhanced their English Premier League title credentials and closed to within a point of leaders Chelsea after overcoming a stubborn Sunderland side 2-1 at Anfield on Wednesday.
Steven Gerrard's superb 39th-minute free-kick broke the deadlock and Daniel Sturridge doubled the hosts' lead early in the second half, only for Ki Sung-yueng's late header to leave Liverpool hanging on.
When the final whistle did come, to roars of relief from the home fans, it gave Brendan Rodgers' side a seventh consecutive victory and took them above Manchester City, who have two games in hand.
"It was always going to be a difficult game," Rodgers said. "Sunderland played 3-5-2 and in particular in the first half there was a low block, so we had to show our patience, but it was another excellent game. We are clearly a team that is improving. We are second, which is great, but it's up to other teams to lose. So we will keep working hard."
Sunderland remain third from bottom, three points from safety, but with a game in hand on the two sides immediately above them.
While Liverpool were unchanged from their 6-3 win at Cardiff City, Sunderland coach Gus Poyet gambled by fielding a five-man defense in an attempt to blunt the hosts' razor-sharp attack.
Liverpool's team bus had been greeted outside the stadium by fans wielding flags and flares trailing red smoke, but Sunderland's tactics initially enabled them to quieten the home crowd.
A succession of Liverpool attacks broke down on the edge of the penalty area, obliging the hosts to chance their arm from distance, but Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez and Joe Allen all failed to find the target.
They needed a helping hand and shortly before halftime they got one when Sunderland defender Santiago Vergini conceded a free-kick for an untidy foul on Suarez just outside the visitors' penalty area.
As the last man, the Argentine could have been shown a red card, but although he escaped with only a yellow, Gerrard punished his offense by arcing a glorious free-kick into the top-right corner.
In response, Connor Wickham saw a deflected shot saved by former Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, but Sturridge's strike three minutes into the second half gave Liverpool breathing space.
Henderson spread the ball wide to Sturridge on the right and the England man cut in, before bending a left-shot past goalkeeper Vito Mannone via a deflection off Wes Brown.
It was Sturridge's 20th goal of the season, making him and Suarez only the third duo to both score 20 goals or more in the English top flight since 1991-1992.
The visitors looked there for the taking, but after Mannone had thwarted Suarez, Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez had fizzed a shot wide, Lee Cattermole gave the hosts a scare by clattering a shot against the bar.
Remarkably, Sturridge did the same thing just a minute later at the other end, before Ki pulled a goal back with 14 minutes to play.
The South Korean stooped to head home from close range after a corner by fellow substitute Adam Johnson had been allowed to drift across the area, but Liverpool withstood a nervy finale to claim all three points.
In Wednesday's other game, West Ham United edged 10-man Hull City 2-1 at Upton Park to end a run of three straight defeats and ease their relegation fears.
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Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is launching a new partnership with a nationwide network of green-minded state lawmakers to share ideas for environmental legislation.
The effort comes as Schwarzenegger has said he hopes states continue to push efforts to fight climate change even though President Trump is withdrawing the country from the Paris agreement.
"America did not drop out of the Paris agreement," Schwarzenegger said during a speech Friday at the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators conference in Cambridge, Mass. "One man dropped out of the Paris agreement."
A state Assemblywoman has shelved her bill to make "stealthing," or tampering with a condom during sex, a form of rape under California law, saying it did not have enough support to win approval this year.
In a statement, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) said she would commit to educating lawmakers on the issue and holding ongoing discussions to file a similar proposal next legislative session.
"I, and others, believe stealthing is a violation of informed consent, and sex without consent in California is rape," said Garcia, who last year helped expand the legal definition of rape in the state.
A section of the 5 Freeway in the northeast San Fernando Valley will be named after rock 'n' roll icon Ritchie Valens, who grew up in the area and had a stellar career before he died in a plane crash.
Valens, whose hits included "La Bamba," "Come On, Let's Go" and "Donna," will have his name put up on signs along a stretch of the interstate between the 170 and 118 freeways that will be named the Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway.
The state Legislature gave final approval to the honor last week, and Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima), who authored the proposal, said Thursday that private funds are being raised, as required by state law, to pay for the signs.
Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled on Thursday his plan for spending cap-and-trade revenue, prioritizing cleaner vehicles and improving air quality.
Roughly $1.5 billion, all generated by the sale of permits required to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is available to be spent by the governor and lawmakers.
Brown wants the biggest chunk of the money, $607.5 million, to be used on financial incentives for cleaner cars, trucks, buses and farm vehicles.
Gov. Jerry Brown is collecting more stamps on his passport this year.
After a trip to China in June, he's jetting to Russia next week, his office announced. Brown will speak to international government and business leaders about the need to combat climate change at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Brown said the forum on trade "isn't just an occasion to promote investment, it's an opportunity to strengthen our commitment to decarbonizing the economy."
Supervised drug injection centers where users would be able to receive addiction treatment could be coming to California.
Legislation authored by Assemblyman Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) would allow eight counties — Alameda, Fresno, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Francisco, San Joaquin and Santa Cruz — to pilot supervised drug injection centers by 2022.
The bill, which has passed the Assembly, is awaiting a vote in the state Senate.
On the day that changed his life, Gregory Cheadle almost stayed in bed.
He was tired — he traveled a lot in his long-shot bid for Congress — but asked himself: How often does a candidate for president come to the far reaches of Northern California? And why pass up a crowd and the chance to hand out more fliers?
So Cheadle roused himself that June 2016 morning and secured a spot up close when Donald Trump swooped in for a rally at Redding's municipal airport.
A proposal to fast-track a new arena in Inglewood for the Los Angeles Clippers remains on the table at the Capitol, said the state senator who represents the city.
"If it's needed, we're definitely going to introduce it," said Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena).
In recent years, state lawmakers have passed bills helping possible arenas and football stadiums up and down California. The measures have aimed, for the most part, to provide relief from potential lawsuits under the California Environmental Quality Act by speeding up court-decision deadlines or halting a judge's ability to block construction, even if it found the project's environmental review didn't adequately study traffic problems or had other flaws.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence might want to talk with Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher about his meeting this month with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
CNN reported Thursday that two sources confirmed that the committee members are deciding if they will call on Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) to testify as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election and what the Trump campaign might have known. It's one of several congressional investigations into the issue.
In a statement to the Los Angeles Times last week, Rohrabacher said that during his meeting with Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, the fugitive "emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved" in the theft of Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. The emails were published by WikiLeaks and put Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on the defensive for much of the campaign. The belief of the majority of U.S. intelligence agencies is that Russia played a role in stealing and leaking the emails.
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#neverliberal #nevermarxist
Ahhh yes,,, shes been helping deciding where the new raised bed is going,lmao, little does she know,
I bought a Pressure Cooker last fall. I've always used hot water bath but the pressure cooker is great, not a bad jar of anything yet.As far as dogs we had a real bad time here last year. I usually have enough veggies to last one full year. Well using organic fertilizer every dog within a 1/4 mile used my garden as a play ground. I am out already. This year will be much different the neighbors will get one notice then that's it!
I am lucky I have a fenced yard.... 1 dog..... am going to be building new raised beds this spring...as far as the pressure canner goes,,I want to learn how to do meats and i hear pressure is the way to go for that. I like water bath for jams and sauces.... veggies to.
I would send the notice out early.
OK woke up Sat. to find horses in my yard, no biggie around here but it opened the gates to speak of dogs. I called the neighbor and he said that was strange since his horses have never escaped before. Well I had the pleasure to tell him of the other neighbors dogs who run his horses because the bratty kids lift the fence so the dog can run the horses.So point is I explained to one neighbor that my yield was about 40% of normal last year because of his dogs and he said they're my g-friends go ahead shot them I can't stand them. The other neighbor just denied her dog is ever out of her yard. LOL And the neighbor whose dog does the most damage yelled and hollered her dog just wants to play. Last yr. her pig dug up about half an acre of my field. Well they are now all aware of the situation.
I have pictures of all the animals in my yard. I really don't mind but it's hard work keeping a garden organic with the weed pulling an hoeing and such. Something will be done this year. I put up about 1500 ft. of fence last spring. I just don't like neighbor conflict and usually stay to my self.
UGHHHH, I know what you mean and empathize, so far I've accomplished a half mile, and still nearly a mile to go over rough terrain, and it's all because of neighbors.One of these days I plan on getting cattle, but not till I'm sure I can keep them in, but it definitely won't be till the price of feed comes down.
My property was fenced in with barbed wire which I didn't like it at all and 3-5 feet on each side of the wire was briers 5-6 feet high and thick. Took me most of the spring taking it down and cutting up the other crap that grew up. Now it pretty well cleaned up. The only thing that slowed me down last year was where I want to put the fence along my road is buried wire and I know in some spots it only about 10-12 inches deep.Instead of t-post I may just hire someone to dig the holes by hand about 18" and cement in 6" round wood post, I have about 6 more weeks to think about it.
To The Top,,,might need it for my canning,lolololol.hope ya dont mind the move,lmao


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Stereo Sinai is the Good Book
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Dubbed "biblegum pop," the band's signature sound is the heretical combination of ancient, holy tongues with blasphemous backbeats and synthesized pop melodies. If Gwen Stefani and Will.i.am had been on the mountain with Moses, they would have come down sounding a lot like Stereo Sinai.
The duo, made up of singer/songwriter Miriam Brosseau and producer Alan Jay Sufrin, was declared a "Favorite Band of 2009" on About.com. Artist development group Misery Loves Co. called them the "best new band in Chicago." In fall of 2009, Stereo Sinai appeared on the Chicago indie music show "Errors Not Eliminated" and spoke on a Chicago Music Commission panel on musicians and social media.
Stereo Sinai has been featured in a wide variety of recording projects since its inception in 2008. They contributed a track to the innovative "G-dcast" project, and, alongside artists such as David Broza and musicians from the Klezmatics, recorded a track to benefit cancer research with the New York-based "Pioneers for a Cure" initiative. Stereo Sinai represented Chicago at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam in 2008 and has been profiled by PresenTense magazine, Shemspeed.com, the Chicago Jewish News, and others. Stereo Sinai has contributed several holiday tracks to MyJewishLearning.com, and is featured on "Eats Paste," a children's compilation from Toy Block Music.
The duo released their debut double-album, "Biblegum Pop" and "The Revelation Will Not Be Televised" in December, 2011.
"Stereo Sinai is made up of two wonderful musicians, Miriam Brosseau and Alan Jay Sufrin. They're hip. Not shallow hip. They're more then just cool, new, innovative, cutting edge and trendy. The urban dictionary says hip is "Cooler than cool, the pinnacle of what is it. Beyond all trends and conventional coolness.†They make hip, great, real Jewish music. They are also smart, humble and generous.â€
- Craig Taubman - Facebook (March 15, 2012)
"Stereo Sinai's infectious Europop/electronica sound mixed with "lyrics stolen from God†is an once amazingly beautiful and commanding in message.â€
- Patrick Aleph - PunkTorah (January 16, 2012)
"The words might be thousands of years old, but Stereo Sinai's sound feels both immediate and necessary.â€
- Matthue Roth - Jewniverse (January 9, 2012)
"It's like I was hypnotized by Brosseau's ethereal voice and the combination of familiar traditional lyrics and contemporary, pop inflected musical arrangements. It's really, really compelling!â€
- CK - Jewlicious (November 4, 2011)
"Their songs infuse what the couple describes as bubblegum pop with lyrics from Tanakh, including some scenes that wouldn't seem particularly singable. It was funny, but I found myself humming along to a tune whose words narrated the story of the binding of Isaac.â€
- Shoshana Olidort - The Arty Semite (December 28, 2011)
"Stereo Sinai delivers exactly what their name suggests….Stereophonic goodness filled with rich messages reminiscent of the wisdom given down at Sinai.â€
- Erez "Diwon" Safar - Shemspeed.com (March 15, 2009)
"No kitsch here, just a duo with a great crackly, bouncing sound and a lot of heart. I lost about 20 minutes listening to the 'cast and a bunch of their other tracks. Great stuff.â€
- Jack Zaientz - Teruah Jewish Music (January 28, 2009)
"...I realized this is more than just any duo. Stereo Sinai was something rare...The couple, with two very different styles, have produced a sound I've never experienced before yet can't get enough of.â€
- Monica Rozenfeld - The Jew Spot (November 15, 2009)
"Stereo Sinai [performs] what they refer to as "Biblegum pop,†or stolen lyrics from God. The music that duo Miriam Brosseau and Alan Sufrin perform is all their own, though.â€
- Myrna Petlicki - Skokie Review (November 1, 2011)
"I really like the feel and the spirit of this music! And introducing the Hebrew is magical.â€
- Frankie Eldorado - ReverbNation
"One of the most unusual and innovative new bands on the Jewish music scene...â€
- Pauline Yearwood - Chicago Jewish News (August 28, 2009)
"Relentlessly cuteâ€
- Matthue Roth - Matthue.com (May 5, 2010)
"Favorite band of 2009"
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Through optical means you can observe the flow and model the action of shocks. A pressurized tube of this type can store substantial amounts of energy, allowing for the study of quite violent flows—albeit for only very short periods.
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Warren Sapp hasn't been shy about sharing his negative take of Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh over the last couple of years and Suh's aware of the criticism.
Suh's heard the slights from Sapp. He responded Wednesday with an offer for the longtime star at the same positions Suh plays now. Instead of criticizing him, Suh invited Sapp to teach him how to be a better player in the coming years.
"Show me what you think I'm doing incorrectly, or I'll just consider you a fan, somebody who just wants to criticize me," Suh said, via Anwar Richardson of MLive.com. "I'm not afraid by any means, I said this since I've been young … I'm still young in this game, very much so, even though this is my third year. I've got a lot to learn. I'm not afraid to learn from anybody, whether it's somebody immediately who I'm playing with or somebody who has been long gone and been out of the league already for five or six years. I'm not afraid to learn from anybody, in essence, take a back seat role, and learn from somebody who has gone through the ropes already."
Sapp's most frequent criticism of Suh has been about his football awareness, something that would seem to be a correctable problem as long as Suh is willing to make it a priority. Whether or not Sapp takes Suh up on his offer, the Lions defense will be better off if Suh makes the effort to improve in that regard this offseason.


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North Carolina got the best of Creighton today, earning a big 87-73 win that advanced the #1 seed to the Sweet Sixteen. They didn't get there without taking a few lumps, however, as Tyler Zeller learned at the forearm of Bluejay Gregory Echenique.
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Just tear down the McGrath Highway in Somerville
Two weeks ago, state highway chief Frank DePaola stood in a packed Somerville school auditorium and swore up and down that he's just as eager as the city of Somerville is to see the old elevated McGrath Highway torn down. Then he spent the next two hours insisting that the state needs to spend $11 million fixing up an elevated roadway it wants to tear down.
State highway officials contend they have no other choice but to shovel good money after a blighted highway overpass. But that's only true so long as they insist on looking at the McGrath through the eyes of the engineers who built it in the 1950s.
There's no question that the McGrath is in awful shape. The overpass that soars over Washington Street in East Somerville is rusting and crumbling. Steel rebar sits exposed. Work crews have rigged nets to keep falling chunks of concrete from raining down on passing motorists and pedestrians. Engineers have classified the overpass as functionally obsolete and structurally deficient, meaning the roadway either needs to be fixed, or it needs to be torn down. The bizarre thing is, the state is putting some serious effort, and money, into doing both.
MassDOT planners have been studying the demolition of the elevated McGrath for a year. The roadway is at the end of its structural life, and planners are sketching out scenarios for bringing the overpass down to the ground, and reimagining the highway as a boulevard. MassDOT recently completed a similar study in Jamaica Plain, where it committed to replacing a four-lane elevated highway with an at-grade roadway.
The movement against elevated stretches of highway is mostly a financial one: Elevated highways are far more costly to maintain than grounded roads. But in Somerville, the McGrath is an economic development liability.
The McGrath severs much of East Somerville from the rest of the city. This physical and psychological barrier didnt matter so much when railroad yards and low-slung industrial facilities occupied the bulk of the acreage on the highway's east side. The Green Line extension will change all that. With a rapid transit line running up the east side of the McGrath, from Medford to Boston, the 180 acres in Somerville's Brickbottom and Inner Belt neighborhoods will become highly valuable real estate. Somerville's 20-year master plan, released last week, anticipates massive redevelopment efforts in the corridor.
Those efforts will be stunted if they aren't able to physically connect to Union Square, which lies immediately to the west of the McGrath, and to the rest of the city. So the city's politicians and residents have been lobbying hard to tear down the McGrath, and replace it with a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare that would foster connections across the current dividing line.
Meetings about $11 million highway deck repair projects seldom draw crowds. But not all highway contracts are aimed at preserving roadways as universally hated as the McGrath. Last week, in Somerville, the McGrath contract drew all kinds — veteran anti-highway activists who cut their teeth in the battles against the Inner Belt and Interstate 93, artists from the Brickbottom, and young advocates for streets scaled to people, not cars. They all said the same thing: Instead of fixing the McGrath so it stays up until it's ready to be torn down, start the demolition now.
DePaola cast the $11 million repair contract as "the minimum of what we need to do to maintain a safe structure." Which is true, because DePaola and his engineers are working off a different baseline than Somerville is. The McGrath needs work to keep functioning as a four-lane, moderately fast highway connecting the northern suburbs to Boston, but it doesn't serve that function anymore. The highway has lost almost 30 percent of its total traffic load since 1995, and it mostly acts as a local road now.
If the McGrath overpass isn't repaired, highway engineers said last week, the road will have to be closed to trucks. That's a false choice, since trucks now represent 2 percent of the traffic on the overpass. And it's symptomatic of the stubbornly upside-down way the state has approached the McGrath. Instead of pouring $11 million into keeping trucks and four lanes of traffic on a roadway nobody wants, the state should be seizing an opportunity to knock the thing down.
Paul McMorrow is an associate editor at CommonWealth magazine. His column appears regularly in the Globe.


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Cuba blues
The gorgeous town of Sancti Spiritus.
Ghost building
A corner ripe for development, or decay, leaves behind traces of its past in Havana, Cuba.
After the rain
Clouds lifting over Havana after a short, sharp storm.
Waiting for a fare
Colourful taxis in Parque Central, one of Havana's busy squares.
Loving the lines
Bright colours made even brighter by the brilliant sun in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Splash of colour
In old Havana, Cuba.
Beauty in decay
There's a bewildering mix of dilapidated and restored (sometimes both) buildings in Havana. If you look closely enough you'll see fragments of what used to be.
Against the sun
Parque Central, Havana.
Ready for the day
Taxi driver prepares his classic car for another day ferrying tourists around Havana.
We took a ride in this classic beauty in Havana.
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Lined up and ready for tourists in Havana, Cuba.
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Patiently waiting
Horses are still a common mode of transport in parts of Cuba - including here in the city of Trinidad.
Blue and pink
Colourful house in Havana, Cuba.
Painted over
Make do and mend with tiles in central Havana, Cuba.
So many great old coats of paints seen here on this building in central Havana, Cuba.
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When he returned to Barcelona for Christmas to meet his family and his agent, Josep Maria Orobitg, it became clear to everybody that he was fully rested. That he was ready to start working with a new club.
In fact, a month after announcing he was leaving Barcelona he met another former player for lunch and wondered if he should take one of the many offers he was receiving, instead of going on a sabbatical. "Didn't you say you were shattered?" His friend could not believe what he was hearing.
That is Pep Guardiola. His mind races 100 miles an hour and he gives dozens of different answers to every question. The battle on and off the pitch with Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid had dented his love of the game and of the job, but after a little summer break he was ready for more.
He had to put some distance between his former club and the next one so Barcelona fans did not feel betrayed. And he owed time to his family. So his girlfriend Cristina and his three kids went with him to New York. But by November, he was desperate to start preparing the following season but only two clubs actually offered him that possibility – Bayern and Chelsea.
Bayern (one of the best organised clubs in the world with one of the most trophy-laden histories) had contacted him early this season. Raul, former Madrid and Schalke 04 and a good friend of Pep's, had given him great reports on the Bundesliga – full stadiums, great atmosphere, competitive league. And, of course, the Bavarian club are a dream destination for the man who had Platini as a poster-hero in his childhood bedroom and who adores the traditions of football.
Guardiola wanted a number of things from his next club: challenging for titles straight away, a quality squad he can mould to his image, enough money to buy few top players, good infrastructure, a club philosophy. He believes Bayern offers him all of that. Chelsea do not – not all of it.
Pep had been concerned by the decisions taken by Chelsea in the past 12 months – it implied to him there was no clear vision. They also lack the club structure that Bayern have, with clear roles throughout and former players as pillars of it, an idea that previous Chelsea managers have suggested to Roman Abramovich for the London club.
Chelsea tried their hardest to get Pep. Two summers ago the Russian owner even offered to collect Pep with a helicopter to take him to his yacht, in Monaco at the time, but Guardiola declined it, as he had done previously, very politely. Days before Rafael Benítez was named as the club's interim manager, Abramovich tried again. He received another 'no'. Chelsea felt then that they were not going to get him.
But why had City not contacted Pep? The pressure of fans, the majority of whom adore Roberto Mancini, and the clear message from the top (judgment day is at the end of the season) had stopped them.
In the past 48 hours, Bayern sources insisted the deal with Pep was "90 per cent" agreed, but that they had to talk to Jupp Heynckes – the manager who had already hinted at a summer departure – before confirming it.
Guardiola's family, though, sent a categorical message: "We are still leaving doors open to other options". His agent says it was all agreed before Christmas.
Whatever the timing, Pep took his decision based on romanticism, it could not be any other way for him. Bayern are a club full of history, run by former legends, with a stadium with thousands of stories to tell, great and small. He wants to hear all of them from President Uli Hoeness, from Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, from honorary President Franz Beckenbauer.
When Pep left Barcelona as a player, he was close to joining Juventus and Manchester United – he ended up at Brescia. His return to management has got a bit of an off-field feel to it. But it also makes a great deal of sense.
Guillem Balagué is the Spanish football regular expert on Sky Sports, UK correspondent and columnist for the Spanish sports newspaper AS and writer of Pep Guardiola's biography, "Another Way of Winning"


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org2blog/atom is one of two packages named org2blog. org2blog/wp is the other. Both org2blogs let you post blogs from org mode, just to different blogs.
org2blog/atom is for blogs that use the Atom API, for instance Google's Blogger. It depends on g-client. org2blog/atom lives in a git repo here.
It recognizes the usual org file export properties, such as #+TITLE: #+OPTIONS:, and #+AUTHOR: It also recognizes #+BLOGLABELS:, which gives one or more labels to your post.
Entry points are:
- org2blog/atom-post
- org2blog/atom-dir-add-new-photos
Instructions how to use it:
- Write a blog post as an org file
- In that org buffer, command: M-x org2blog/atom-post
That will prompt you for a blog location and blog name if neccessary. Then it will put you in a gclient gblogger buffer with the post all set up. It should be ready to go, but you can inspect it anyways.
- When you're satisfied, C-c C-c. It will post to blogger without further intervention.
- It will capture a mapping from the local filename to the remote URL, so if you make other posts that link to it (the local file), they will point correctly to it (the url of the respective blog post)
The same works for photos, as long as org2blog/atom is loaded when they are uploaded via gclient or via org2blog-dir-add-new-photos


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Probiotic/Prebiotic Supplement Combination Shows Benefits in SIV-Infected Pigtailed Macaques
Over the years, a number of small studies have been published suggesting that there might be benefits associated with probiotic and/or prebiotic supplementation in people with HIV infection. Probiotics typically comprise live microbes that play a key role in maintaining gut health -- commonly known as "good bacteria" -- while prebiotics are food ingredients intended to stimulate the expansion and activity of these bacteria. The past decade has seen a renewed interest in gut health in HIV infection due to evidence that the virus severely depletes CD4 T cells in the GI tract, leading to diminished immune surveillance, compromised gut-wall integrity, and microbial translocation (the leakage of gut bacteria into the systemic circulation). Additionally, suppression of HIV replication by antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not necessarily restore gut CD4 T-cell numbers, and markers of microbial translocation have been associated with poor immune reconstitution despite ART.
To try to address the question of whether a combination of probiotics and prebiotics (referred to as synbiotic treatment) might serve as a useful adjunct to ART, Nichole Klatt and colleagues conducted a study in the animal model of SIV-infected pigtailed macaques. The results are published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The researchers report that, compared to ART alone, adjunctive synbiotic treatment (the specific products used were VSL#3 and Culturelle) had positive effects on gut CD4 T cells and antigen-presenting cells, and also reduced fibrosis in local lymph tissue. The results appear encouraging, and were discussed in further detail at the recent CROI by senior author Jason Brenchley (the third talk in the symposium entitled Is Something Bugging You?).
Something that isn't mentioned in the JCI paper, or addressed directly in Brenchley's talk, is that previous work from this research group has shown that gut integrity in pigtailed macaques is unusually compromised even in uninfected animals; in a separate new paper published in the March 15 issue of the Journal of Immunology, they show that this correlates with the faster progression to AIDS that occurs in this monkey species. On the one hand, this may make pigtailed macaques a useful worst-case scenario in terms of modeling the contribution of microbial translocation to HIV pathogenesis and studying interventions like probiotics, but, on the other hand, the extent to which findings from this extreme situation can be extrapolated to humans is as yet unclear.
Available published data on synbiotic treatment in people with HIV appear limited, either involving individuals not on ART or on very short-term follow-up. As far as I can discern from a PubMed search, no trials have used the specific combination of VSL#3 and Culturelle. Currently, clinicaltrials.gov lists one open clinical trial of the probiotic Biola that is enrolling individuals both on and off ART; study sites are limited to Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden. According to U.S.-based researchers, there are plans afoot to conduct a randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess whether the promising results from the Brenchley laboratory can be translated to humans with HIV infection.
Richard Jefferys is the coordinator of the Michael Palm HIV Basic Science, Vaccines & Prevention Project Weblog at the Treatment Action Group (TAG). The original blog post may be viewed here.


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Frequently Asked Questions About The Ozone Hole
- What is the ozone hole?
- Is the ozone hole related to global warming?
- How big was the 2003 ozone hole, and is it getting bigger?
- Has there been ozone loss in places besides Antarctica?
- Has ozone destruction increased levels of UV-B light at the surface?
- What are the human health effects of increased UV-B light?
- Has ozone loss contributed to an observed increase in sunburns and skin cancer in humans?
- What is the effect of increased UV-B light on plants?
- What is the effect of increased UV-B light on marine life?
- Is the worldwide decline in amphibians due to ozone depletion?
- Are sheep going blind in Chile?
- What do the skeptics say about the ozone hole?
- What are the costs and savings of the CFC phaseout?
- What steps have been taken to save the ozone layer? Are they working?
- What replacement chemicals for CFCs have been found? Are they safe?
- When was the ozone hole discovered?
- How do CFCs destroy ozone?
- Are volcanos a major source of chlorine to the stratosphere?
- What is ozone pollution?
- Where can I go to learn more about the ozone hole?
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What is the ozone hole?
The "ozone hole" is a loss of stratospheric ozone in springtime over Antarctica, peaking in September. The ozone hole area is defined as the size of the region with total ozone below 220 Dobson units (DU). Dobson Units are a unit of measurement that refer to the thickness of the ozone layer in a vertical column from the surface to the top of the atmosphere, a quantity called the "total column ozone amount." Prior to 1979, total column ozone values over Antarctica never fell below 220 DU. The hole has been proven to be a result of human activities--the release of huge quantities of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances into the atmosphere.
Is the ozone hole related to global warming?
Global warming and the ozone hole are not directly linked, and the relationship between the two is complex. Global warming is primarily due to CO2, and ozone depletion is due to CFCs. Even though there is some greenhouse gas effect on stratospheric ozone, the main cause of the ozone hole is the harmful compounds (CFCs) that are released into the atmosphere.
The enhanced greenhouse effect that we're seeing due to a man-made increase in greenhouse gases is acting to warm the troposphere and cool the stratosphere. Colder than normal temperatures in this layer act to deplete ozone. So the cooling in the stratosphere due to global warming will enhance the ozone holes in Arctic and Antarctic. At the same time, as ozone decreases in the stratosphere, the temperature in the layer cools down even more, which will lead to more ozone depletion. This is what's called a "positive feedback."
How big was the 2010 ozone hole, and is it getting bigger?
Every four years, a team of many of the top scientists researching ozone depletion put together a comprehensive summary of the scientific knowledge on the subject, under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). According to their most recent assessment, (WMO, 2006), monthly total column ozone amounts in September and October have continued to be 40 to 50% below pre-ozone-hole values, with up to 70% decreases for periods of a week or so. During the last decade, the average ozone hole area in the spring has increased in size, but not as rapidly as during the 1980s. It is not yet possible to say whether the area of the ozone hole has maximized. However, chlorine in the stratosphere peaked in 2000 and had declined by 3.8% from these peak levels by 2008, so the ozone hole may have seen its maximum size. Annual variations in temperature will probably be the dominant factor in determining differences in size of the ozone hole in the near future, due to the importance of cold-weather Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) that act as reactive surfaces to accelerate ozone destruction.
The 2010 hole was the tenth smallest since 1979, according to NASA. On September 25, 2010, the hole reached its maximum size of 22 million square kilometers. The 2010 hole was slightly smaller than North America, which is 25 million square kilometers. Record ozone holes were recorded in both 2000 and 2006, when the size of the hole reached 29 million square kilometers. The graph below, taken from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, compares the 2010 ozone hole size with previous years. The smaller size of the 2010 hole compared to most years in the 2000s is due to the fact that the jet stream was more unstable than usual over Antarctica this September, which allowed very cold air in the so-called "polar vortex" over Antarctica to mix northwards, expelling ozone-deficient air and mixing in ozone-rich air. This also warmed the air over Antarctica, resulting in the formation of fewer Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs), resulting in fewer locations for the chemical reactions needed to destroy to occur.
Has there been ozone loss in places besides Antarctica?
Yes, ozone loss has been reported in the mid and high latitudes in both hemispheres during all seasons (WMO, 2006). Relative to the pre-ozone-hole abundances of 1980, the 2002-2005 losses in total column ozone were:
- About 3% in the Northern Hemisphere south of 60°N
- About 6% in the Southern Hemisphere north of 60°S
Other studies have shown the following ozone losses:
- About 12% at Punta Arenas, Chile, the southernmost city in the world (Abarca and Casiccia, 2002)
- About 8% in summer in southern Australia (Manin et. al., 2001)
- About 10-15% in summer in New Zealand (McKenzie et. al., 1999)
In 2011, the Arctic saw record ozone loss according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Weather balloons launched in the Arctic measured the ozone loss at 40%—the previous record loss was 30%. Although there has been international agreement to reduce the consumption of ozone-destroying chemicals, effects from peak usage will continue because these compounds stay in the atmosphere long after they're released. The WMO estimates it will take several decades before we see these harmful compounds reach pre-1980s levels.
Ozone loss in the Arctic is highly dependent on the meteorology, due to the importance of cold-weather Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) that act as reactive surfaces to accelerate ozone destruction. Some Arctic winters see no ozone loss, and some see extreme loss like that in 2011.
A future Arctic ozone hole similar to that of the Antarctic appears unlikely, due to differences in the meteorology of the polar regions of the northern and southern hemispheres (WMO, 2002). However, a recent model study (Rex et. al., 2004), indicates that future Arctic ozone depletion could be much worse than expected, and that each degree Centigrade cooling of the Arctic may result in a 4% decrease in ozone. This heightened ozone loss is expected due to an increase in PSCs. The Arctic stratosphere has cooled 3°C in the past 20 years due the combined effects of ozone loss, greenhouse gas accumulation, and natural variability, and may cool further in the coming decades due to the greenhouse effect (WMO, 2002). An additional major loss of Arctic (and global) ozone could occur as the result of a major volcanic eruption (Tabazadeh, 2002).
Has ozone destruction increased levels of UV-B light at the surface?
Yes, ozone destruction has increased surface levels of UV-B light (the type of UV light that causes skin damage). For each 1% drop in ozone levels, about 1% more UV-B reaches the Earth's surface (WMO, 2002). Increases in UV-B of 6-14% have been measured at many mid and high-latitude sites over the past 20 years (WMO, 2002, McKenzie, 1999). At some sites about half of this increase can be attributed to ozone loss. Changes in cloudiness, surface air pollution, and albedo also strongly influence surface UV-B levels. Increases in UV-B radiation have not been seen in many U.S. cities in the past few decades due to the presence of air pollution aerosol particles, which commonly cause 20% decreases in UV-B radiation in the summer (Wenny et al, 2001).
Source: World Meteorological Organization, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998, WMO Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project - Report No. 44, Geneva, 1998.
What are the human health effects of increased UV-B light?
From the outset it should be pointed out that human behavior is of primary importance when considering the health risks of sun exposure. Taking proper precautions, such as covering up exposed skin, using sunscreen, and staying out of the sun during peak sun hours is of far greater significance to health than the increased UV-B due to ozone loss is likely to be.
A reduction in ozone of 1% leads to increases of up to 3% in some forms of non-melanoma skin cancer (UNEP, 1998). It is more difficult to quantify a link between ozone loss and malignant melanoma, which accounts for about 4% of skin cancer cases, but causes about 79% of skin cancer deaths. Current research has shown that melanoma can increase with both increased UV-B and UV-A light, but the relationship is not well understood (UNEP, 2002). In the U.S. in 2003, approximately 54,200 persons will have new diagnoses of melanoma, and 7,600 will die from the disease, and more than 1 million new cases of the other two skin cancers, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, will be diagnosed (American Cancer Society, 2002) . Worldwide, approximately 66,000 people will die in 2003 from malignant melanoma, according to the World Health Organization. However, the significant rises in skin cancer worldwide can primarily be attributed human behavioral changes rather than ozone depletion (Urbach, 1999; Staehelin, 1990).
On the positive side, UV light helps produce vitamin D in the skin, which may help against contraction of certain diseases. Multiple sclerosis has been shown to decrease in the white Caucasian population with increasing UV light levels. On the negative side, excessive UV-B exposure depresses the immune system, potentially allowing increased susceptibility to a wide variety of diseases. And in recent years, it has become apparent that UV-B damage to the eye and vision is far more insidious and detrimental than had previously been suspected (UNEP, 2002). Thus, we can expect ozone loss to substantially increase the incidence of cataracts and blindness. A study done for Environment Canada presented to a UN meeting in 1997, estimated that because of the phase-out of CFCs and other ozone depleting substances mandated by the 1987 Montreal Protocol, there will be 19.1 million fewer cases of non-melanoma skin cancer, 1.5 million fewer cases of melanoma, 129 million fewer cases of cataracts, and 330,000 fewer skin cancer deaths worldwide.
Has ozone loss contributed to an observed increase in sunburns and skin cancer in humans?
Yes, Punta Arenas, Chile, the southernmost city in the world (53°S), with a population of 154,000, has regularly seen high levels of UV-B radiation each spring for the past 20 years, when the Antarctic ozone hole has moved over the city (Abarca, 2002). Ozone levels have dropped up to 56%, allowing UV-B radiation more typical of summertime mid-latitude intensities to affect a population unused to such levels of skin-damaging sunshine. Significant increases in sunburns have been observed during many of these low-ozone days. During the spring of 1999, a highly unusual increase in referrals for sunburn occurred in Punta Arenas during specific times when the ozone hole passed over the city. And while most of the worldwide increase in skin cancer rates the past few decades has been attributed to people spending more time outdoors, and the use of tanning businesses (Urbach, 1999), skin cancer cases increased 66% from 1994-2000 compared to 1987-1993 in Punta Arenas, strongly suggesting that ozone depletion was a significant factor.
What is the effect of increased UV-B light on plants?
UV-B light is generally harmful to plants, but sensitivity varies widely and is not well understood. Many species of plants are not UV-B sensitive; others show marked growth reduction and DNA damage under increased UV-B light levels. It is thought that ozone depletion may not have a significant detrimental effect on agricultural crops, as UV-B tolerant varieties of grains could fairly easily be substituted for existing varieties. Natural ecosystems, however, would face a more difficult time adapting. Direct damage to plants from ozone loss has been documented in several studies. For example, data from a spring, 1997 study in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of Argentina, found DNA damage to plants on days the ozone hole was overhead to be 65% higher than on non-ozone-hole days (Rousseaux et. al., 1999).
What is the effect of increased UV-B light on marine life?
UV-B light is generally harmful to marine life, but again the effect is highly variable and not well understood. UV-B radiation can cause damage to the early developmental stages of fish, shrimp, crab, amphibians and other animals (UNEP, 2002).. Even at current levels, solar UV-B radiation is a limiting factor in reproductive capacity and larval development, and small increases in UV-B radiation could cause significant population reductions in the animals that eat these smaller creatures. One study done in the waters off Antarctica where increased UV-B radiation has been measured due to the ozone hole found a 6-12% decrease in phytoplankton, the organism that forms the base of the food chain in the oceans (Smith et. al., 1990). Since the ozone hole lasts for about 10-12 weeks, this corresponds to an overall phytoplankton decrease of 2-4% for the year.
Is the worldwide decline in amphibians due to ozone depletion?
No. The worldwide decline in amphibians is just that--worldwide. Ozone depletion has not not yet affected the tropics (-25° to 25° latitude), and that is where much of the decline in amphibians has been observed. It is possible that ozone depletion in mid and high latitudes has contributed to the decline of amphibians in those areas, but there are no scientific studies that have made a direct link.
Are sheep going blind in Chile?
Yes, but not from ozone depletion! In 1992, The New York Times reported ozone depletion over southern Chile had caused "an increase in Twilight Zone-type reports of sheep and rabbits with cataracts" (Nash, 1992). The story was repeated in many places, including the July 1, 1993 showing of ABC's Prime Time Live. Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, stated that "in Patagonia, hunters now report finding blind rabbits; fishermen catch blind salmon" (Gore, 1992). A group at Johns Hopkins has investigated the evidence and attributed the cases of sheep blindness to a local infection ("pink eye") (Pearce, 1993).
What do the skeptics say about the ozone hole?
Ever since the link between CFCs and ozone depletion was proposed in 1974, skeptics have attacked the science behind the link and the policies of controlling CFCs and other ozone depleting substances. We have compiled a detailed analysis of the arguments of the skeptics. It is interesting to note how the skeptics are using the same bag of tricks to cast doubt upon the science behind the global warming debate, and the need to control greenhouse-effect gases.
What are the costs and savings of the CFC phaseout?
The costs have been large, but not as large as initially feared. As the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Economic Options Committee (an expert advisory body) stated in 1994: "Ozone-depleting substance replacement has been more rapid, less expensive, and more innovative than had been anticipated at the beginning of the substitution process. The alternative technologies already adopted have been effective and inexpensive enough that consumers have not yet felt any noticeable impacts (except for an increase in automobile air conditioning service costs)" (UNEP, 1994). A group of over two dozen industry experts estimated the total CFC phaseout cost in industrialized counties at $37 billion to business and industry, and $3 billion to consumers (Vogelsberg, 1997). A study done for Environment Canada presented to a UN meeting in 1997, estimated a total CFC phaseout cost of $235 billion through the year 2060, but economic benefits totaling $459 billion, not including the savings due to decreased health care costs. These savings came from decreased UV exposure to aquatic ecosystems, plants, forests, crops, plastics, paints and other outdoor building materials.
What steps have been taken to save the ozone layer? Are they working?
In 1987, the nations of the world banded together to draft the Montreal Protocol to phase out the production and use of CFCs. The 43 nations that signed the protocol agreed to freeze consumption and production of CFCs at 1986 levels by 1990, reduce them 20% by 1994, and reduce them another 30% by 1999. The alarming loss of ozone in Antarctica and worldwide continued into the 1990's, and additional amendments to further accelerate the CFC phase-out were adopted. With the exception of a very small number of internationally agreed essential uses, CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform were all phased out by 1995 in developing countries (undeveloped countries have until 2010 to do so). The pesticide methyl bromide, another significant ozone-depleting substance, was scheduled to be phased out in 2004 in developing countries, but a U.S.-led delaying effort led to a one-year extension until the end of 2005. At least 183 counties are now signatories on the Montreal Protocol.
The Montreal Protocol is working, and ozone depletion due to human effects is expected to start decreasing in the next 10 years. Observations show that levels of ozone depleting gases at a maximum now and are beginning to decline (Newchurch et. al., 2003). NASA estimates that levels of ozone-depleting substances peaked in 2000, and had fallen by 3.8% by 2008. Provided the Montreal Protocol is followed, the Antarctic ozone hole is expected to disappear by 2050. The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said in August 2006 that the ozone layer would likely return to pre-1980 levels by 2049 over much of Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia, Latin America and Africa. In Antarctica, the agencies said ozone layer recovery would likely be delayed until 2065.
What replacement chemicals for CFCs have been found? Are they safe?
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and "Greenfreeze" chemicals (hydrocarbons such as cyclopentane and isobutane) have been the primary substitutes. The primary HFC used in automobile air conditioning, HFC-134a, costs about 3-5 times as much as the CFC-12 gas it replaced. A substantial black market in CFCs has resulted.
HCFCs are considered a "transitional" CFC substitute, since they also contribute to ozone depletion (but to a much less degree than CFCs). HCFCs are scheduled to be phased out by 2030 in developed nations and 2040 in developing nations, according to the Montreal Protocol. HCFCs (and HFCs) are broken down in the atmosphere into several toxic chemicals, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and chlorodifluoroacetic acid (CDFA). Risks to human health and the environment from these chemicals is thought to be minimal (UNEP/WMO, 2002).
HFCs do not cause ozone depletion, but do contribute significantly to global warming. For example, HFC-134a, the new refrigerant of choice in automobile air conditioning systems, is 1300 times more effective over a 100-year period as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. At current rates of HFC manufacture and emission, up to 4% of greenhouse effect warming by the year 2010 may result from HFCs.
"Greenfreeze" hydrocarbon chemicals appear to be the best substitute, as they do not contribute to greenhouse warming, or ozone depletion. The hydrocarbons used are flammable, but the amount used (equivalent to two butane lighters of fluid) and safety engineering considerations have made quieted these concerns. Greenfreeze technology has captured nearly 100% of the home refrigeration market in many countries in Europe, but has not been introduced in North America yet due to product liability concerns and industry resistance.
When was the ozone hole discovered?
Ozone depletion by human-produced CFCs was first hypothesized in 1974 (Molina and Rowland, 1974). The first evidence of ozone depletion was detected by ground-based instruments operated by the British Antarctic Survey at Halley Bay on the Antarctic coast in 1982. The results seemed so improbable that researchers collected data for three more years before finally publishing the first paper documenting the emergence of an ozone hole over Antarctica (Farman, 1985). Subsequent analysis of the data revealed that the hole began to appear in 1977. After the 1985 publication of Farman's paper, the question arose as to why satellite measurements of Antarctic ozone from the Nimbus-7 spacecraft had not found the hole. The satellite data was re-examined, and it was discovered that the computers analyzing the data were programmed to throw at any ozone holes below 180 Dobson Units as impossible. Once this problem was corrected, the satellite data clearly confirmed the existence of the hole.
How do CFCs destroy ozone?
CFCs are extremely stable in the lower atmosphere, only a negligible amount are removed by the oceans and soils. However, once CFCs reach the stratosphere, UV light intensities are high enough to break apart the CFC molecule, freeing up the chlorine atoms in them. These free chlorine atoms then react with ozone to form oxygen and chlorine monoxide, thereby destroying the ozone molecule. The chlorine atom in the chlorine monoxide molecule can then react with an oxygen atom to free up the chlorine atom again, which can go on to destroy more ozone in what is referred to as a "catalytic reaction":
Cl + O3 -> ClO + O2
ClO + O -> Cl + O2
Thanks to this catalytic cycle, each CFC molecule can destroy up 100,000 ozone molecules. Bromine atoms can also catalytically destroy ozone, and are about 45 times more effective than chlorine in doing so.
For more details on ozone depletion chemistry, see the Usenet Ozone FAQ.
Are volcanos a major source of chlorine to the stratosphere?
No, volcanos contribute at most just a few percent of the chlorine found in the stratosphere. Direct measurements of the stratospheric chlorine produced by El Chichon, the most important eruption of the 1980's (Mankin and Coffey, 1983), and Pinatubo, the largest volcanic eruption since 1912 (Mankin et. al., 1991) found negligible amounts of chlorine injected into the stratosphere.
What is ozone pollution?
Ozone forms in both the upper and the lower atmosphere. Ozone is helpful in the stratosphere, because it absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet light coming from the sun. Ozone found in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is harmful. It is the prime ingredient for the formation of photochemical smog. Ozone can irritate the eyes and throat, and damage crops. Visit the Weather Underground's ozone pollution page, or our ozone action page for more information.
Where can I go to learn more about the ozone hole?
We found the following sources most helpful when constructing the ozone hole FAQ:
- Environmental Protection Agency ozone depletion pages (best source of info on the Internet)
- World Meteorological Organization 2002 scientific assessment
- Latest satellite measurements from NOAA
- United Nations Environment Programme 2002 Assessment
- Usenet FAQ
- Ozone Hole Tour from the University of Cambridge
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Each year more than 30,000 people visit Tiritiri Matangi, an island sanctuary in the Hauraki Gulf. Previously farmed, Tiritiri Matangi has been replanted with almost 300,000 native trees, and is home to rare birds including takahē, stitchbirds and kōkako.
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Sophomore Victor Ferreira
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-A member of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's men's soccer team has earned National Soccer Coaches Association of America post-season honors.
Sophomore midfielder Victor Ferreira (St. Michael, Portugal/New Bedford HS) has been named second team NCAA Division III All-New England South Region. He was one of 52 players earning All-New England Region honors. It was the second year in a row that Ferreira received such honors.
Ferreira was second among Corsairs in scoring with seven goals and seven assists for 21 points. He was recently named first team All-Little East Conference for the second year in a row.
"It's a great honor, and a great accomplishment," said UMass Dartmouth Assistant Coach Alex Bettencourt. "It's also a great accomplishment for his teammates, because when someone is recognized individually, it is also a reflection on the rest of their team. He was recognized last year, and it's great to see him honored again. He works hard, is a good student and his efforts on and off the field have paid off. He is always striving to get better."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Defender Nick Alers has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America third team.
A sophomore from San Jose, Costa Rica, Alers was one of just three sophomores to be honored as a 2011 Capital One Academic All-America selection, with all three of those sophomores earning third team honors. The economics and political science double major carries a 3.96 GPA.
Alers was also a 2011 All-Ivy first team selection. He started 16 games and was the anchor of a Yale defense that yielded only 16 goals and posted four shutouts on the year. His top performance may have come against Dartmouth when he held Ivy League Player of the Year Lucky Mkosana scoreless, limiting him to only two shots, in the Bulldogs' 2-0 victory. Alers was the first Yale player to earn All-Ivy first team recognition since Alex Munns and James Stewart in 2006.
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