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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to address more than 2,000 water experts at the AWWA conference in Denver
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will speak to more than 2,000 North American water professionals at 9 a.m., Monday, June 10, 2013, during the opening general session of the American Water Works Assn.'s (AWWA) Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE13) at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
ACE13, which will bring an estimated 11,000 water experts to Denver June 9 to 13, is the longest-running water conference in the world, having first convened in 1881. The event features several hundred expert presentations and an exposition of more than 500 companies showcasing the latest innovations in water technology.
In his keynote address, Hickenlooper will discuss the Colorado Water Plan and other efforts to promote economic development. The opening general session begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Four Seasons ballroom.
The ACE13 agenda features speakers on hundreds of critical water issues, including conservation and drought management, infrastructure and affordability, desalination and water reuse, emerging contaminants, new treatment solutions and more.
Hickenlooper, Colorado's governor since 2011, is well known for his ability to find mutually beneficial solutions among diverse stakeholders. He also served nearly eight years as Mayor of Denver, earning high marks for his innovative and collaborative approach to government. A geologist by training, Gov. Hickenlooper began his public service after opening Denver's first brewpub and distinguishing himself as a leader in the Colorado business community.
"The American Water Works Assn. is honored to have one of our nation's most respected elected leaders addressing our attendees on June 10," said AWWA Executive Director David LaFrance. "As a governor of a state that had experienced two droughts in a single decade, Gov. Hickenlooper well understands water supply management. As a big-city mayor, he knows the importance of reliable water infrastructure. And as former a brewpub owner, he knows that high quality water is critical to the success of many of our local economies."

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A photo from a camera with pictures that had been taken on the trade building of a tourist and the plane is heading behind him to hit the building. The camera was found by rescue workers and developed.
It is hard to believe it when you see it and wonder if the person taking the picture realized the plane was going to hit the center. They still don't know who the person is.


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The media attention around FOC is increasing rapidly. We finally found the time to update our website a year ago and put more attention on communication about our work in the media. Because of this change, during a year period, our website traffic has increased by over 1400%.
Good example is FOC being on the cover of the New York times last week. Eventhough it is only a daily paper, this action quickly crashed our webserver with 40 visitors per second.
Printed media is also in constant increase all around the world. Several local newspapers are talking about 3D printing and our design work, which is bringing our work evermore closer to the normal consumers rather than just being featured in high end design press. It is impossible for us to keep track of all articles, but some stand out such as the interview/cover publication of Janne Kyttanen on the Bright magazine as well as a special feature in the Wired Magazine of headphones designed by Brian Garret.


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Powell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Chasing After Penguins
I am a teacher starting a company focusing on application development for smart phones. The first application I created was for a local high school to help the educational community be more connected to the school. The media attention from this application has started the flow of more schools as well as individuals who want to have applications developed for their needs and thus Chasing After Penguins was born.
The main customer base will be school districts and small businesses wanting to get their foot into the smart phone arena. This logo will appear on the website, business cards/letter head, as well as within the applications created.
I am looking for a logo that will catch someone's attention but not be so busy it overwhelms them.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Joerg Asmussen said on Sunday the euro zone should agree next week on two years of funding for Greece and leave further help to be decided later, a view likely to irk the IMF, which wants a permanent solution.
"We should next week settle the financing for the years 2013 and 2014, but you have to be honest and say we do not really expect the country to have access to markets in 2015 and 2016; that means a follow-up programme would be necessary," Asmussen told German broadcaster ZDF.
A two-year deal would postpone a longer-term solution to the Greek debt crisis until after a September 2013 German general election, when it might be politically easier for Germany, the EU's paymaster, to take tough decisions.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), however, is unlikely to welcome further delay.
Euro zone finance ministers and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde meet on Tuesday to try to agree on how to make Greece's debt manageable, an agreement that eluded them last week.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he was banking on a deal.
"We must find a common line. We have to find it on Tuesday. We are working intensively on this, and I think that we will manage it," Schaeuble told ARD television.
Lagarde told Reuters late on Saturday that she would push for a permanent solution to Greece's debts to avoid prolonged uncertainty and further damage to the Greek economy.
IMF officials have argued that some writedown of Greek debt held by euro zone governments is necessary to make Greece solvent, but Germany, the biggest contributor to the bloc's bailout funds, has repeatedly rejected the idea of taking a loss, or "haircut", on such holdings, saying it would be illegal.
"It is a legal matter," Schaeuble reiterated. "You can't guarantee credit and then take a haircut on the credit you have guaranteed, that is ruled out."
In an article in Monday's edition of Handelsblatt, Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund, said euro zone states would only take a haircut on Greek debt in extremis.
"A public haircut is something totally extraordinary; it can only happen in exceptional circumstances," he said.
Among ideas under consideration to plug the funding gap are further reducing the interest rate and extending the maturity of euro zone loans to Greece, an interest-payment holiday and bringing forward loan tranches due at the end of the programme, according to euro zone sources.
Asmussen told ZDF the problem was that loans alone did not help as they raised the long-term debt.
"We must look for solutions which do not at the same time raise the debt level of the country. That could, for example, be buying back debt or reducing the interest on the outstanding credit," said Asmussen.
In an unusually public airing of disagreement during a news conference in Brussels on November 13, Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said the target of reducing Greece's debt to 120 percent of gross domestic product by 2020 should be moved by two years to 2022.
Appearing surprised by Juncker's statement, Lagarde disagreed, insisting the target of 2020 should remain.
Under its standard procedures, the IMF cannot go on disbursing loans unless an adjustment programme is fully funded up to the end.
Euro zone ministers agreed on Monday to grant Greece an extra two years, until 2016, to meet its fiscal targets.
Asked if he agreed with Asmussen that Greece would need further aid, Schaeuble said a two-year extension would cost more. "If that is what Asmussen meant, he is right," said Schaeuble.
"The other problem is that by 2020 or 2022, Greece has to have reached a level in terms of its overall debt that enables it to get access again to the markets," said Schaeuble, adding he did not know how much the whole cost would be.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has to make sure any easing of the conditions on Greece are palatable both to taxpayers before next year's election and her coalition partners.
Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), which shares power with Merkel's conservatives, on Sunday struck a more conciliatory tone than previously.
"If the Greeks need more time, you can talk to the CSU about that," he told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"We must consider whether the alternative to a delay for the Greeks would not cost significantly more money, for example via a sharp rise in unemployment here," he said.
"The political art is to avoid a conflagration caused by a Greek bankruptcy without giving up efforts to tackle its debt," he said.
Several CSU members have taken a tougher line, openly talking about Greece's possible exit from the euro zone.
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What Abs is trying to say there, is that she would very much like to do the Nine Edges Endurance on the 25th September, if you would care to join us?!
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I've had this ring in my collection for a number of years. Was told it was old possibly the 1400's?? There's no hallmarks but it is gold and the stone is a garnet. The ring is a size 9. As you can see from the pics its not perfectly round. Going around the ring are tiny "bead" decorations which I am amazed are not worn with age. Wish I knew more about this ring. Any comments or advice would be appreciated, thanks.


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- In a large bowl, combine ground turkey, zucchini, breadcrumbs, garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Make 5 equal patties.
- Heat a large skillet on high heat. When hot, lightly spray oil.
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Thai cave rescue operation enters day two
Thai officials say the rescue operation for eight boys and their soccer coach still trapped in a flooded cave has resumed for a second day.
Four of their teammates were pulled out on Sunday and are said to be in good condition after their treacherous four kilometre journey to freedom.
Thailand's Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda told local media on Monday the boys are being treated at Chiang Rai's provincial hospital.
The same divers that brought the first group of four boys to freedom will be used to enter the cave again to bring the remaining group out due to their knowledge of the terrain, Paochinda said.
The boys and their 25-year-old coach have been trapped since monsoonal rain blocked their exit from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave on June 23.
Cheers of joy and applause greeted the four boys when they emerged from the cave on Sunday evening with their accompanying eight divers.
The complex operation has attracted worldwide attention and involved expert cave divers from countries including the US, Australia, UK and China.
Chiang Rai's acting Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said after the first group of boys were successfully rescued that the divers would rest overnight so scuba tanks could be replenished with oxygen.
The boys, many of whom are not confident swimmers, have been given training in scuba diving so they can navigate the flooded passageways, with one measuring just 38cm in diameter.
"The operation went much better than expected," Osatanakorn, the leader of the rescue mission, said on Sunday night.
The news comes as Elon Musk's Space X rocket company continues to test a "tiny kid-sized submarine" that it believes will be able to help free the children.
The mini-sub was being tested in California and, if successful, it will be flown on a 17-hour flight to Thailand, a spokesman for Musk's Boring Co. said, adding that Thai officials had requested the device.
A video of the testing has been posted on Twitter.
Six Australian Federal Police divers are supporting the Thai Navy in the mission, together with a liaison officer and interpreter.
The divers formed part of the 'daisy chain' of rescuers who led the four boys to the surface on Sunday.
A South Australian anaesthetist and experienced diver Richard Harris was part of the medical team that determined the boys' fitness to undertake the arduous four kilometre journey.
Cave rescue experts consider an underwater escape to be a last resort, especially with people untrained in diving.
The death Friday of a former Thai navy SEAL, Saman Gunan, underscored the risks.
The diver, the first fatality of the rescue effort, was working in a volunteer capacity and died on a mission to place oxygen canisters along the route.


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SCA/Components/SCA Form Editor
Project - Subproject: Eclipse STP - SCA Composite Tools
Proposal: two SCA Composite editors to complete the SCA tools of Eclipse STP, and in particular, the SCA Composite Designer contributed by Obeo and SAP.
Contributor: EBM WebSourcing.
SCA Composite Textual Editor
As firstly proposed here previously (not by EBM WebSourcing), we plan to extend the XML Editor of the WTP Eclipse project. Since the composite files are XML files, it does make sense to reuse an already-existing and robust XML editor. What we have to do is to specialize it for composite files. Thus, here are the actions to undertake:
- Register composite files as an XML content type.
- Register sca.xsd to schema validator.
This already makes our editor inherit from the features of the WTP editor, such as syntax highlighting, auto-completion for markups and attributes, syntax and schema validation, text formatting and a default outline view.
- Extend the auto-completion mechanism to provide auto-completion for attribute values (by using the composite itself, the included composites and by using the workspace composites in some cases).
- Customize the outline view, by adding SCA / Eclipse icons and providing filters and reordering actions.
- Synchronize the underlying model of the editor with the EMF SCA model used by the SCA Composite Designer. This synchronization might be in fact a full replacement of the model by the EMF model. WTP supports some connections with EMF, but we have to explore it a little more before we can say exactly what is the best solution.
- Using the synchronization with the EMF model...
- extend / replace the composite validation by the EMF validation, to include the constraints of the meta-model in the validation (constraints that are not part of the XML schema).
- synchronize the source with the graphical representation of the composite in the SCA Composite Designer.
A SCA Composite Form Editor
The second editor is a form editor (or wizard editor), such as the PDE Manifest editor. In fact, this is a multi-page editor, where each page is used to manage a part of the composite (general information, services, references, components, wires and so on...).
We can see this editor as an intermediate level between the text editor and the graphical designer. It may be really interesting to manage really big composites or important lists (such as the policy intents, policy sets...). The important criteria for this editor are readability (am I going to find what I'm looking for fastly ?) and usability (is it really convenient to use ? is it easier for me to work with this editor than with the others ?).
Of course, the choice of one editor will depend on the composite you are working on and depend on the actions you have to perform on it. In fact, all the editors are complementary, providing convenient ways to edit or model (some aspects of) the SCA composite.
In terms of design and code, this is what we plan to do for the form editor:
- Design and create the multi-page editor using Eclipse forms.
- Embed the textual editor (see above) in this editor.
- Provide an associated outline view.
- Reuse the parser of the text editor and / or reuse the EMF model to validate user inputs.
A first overview of this editor:
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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. -- The Junior Ryder Cup, an international match-play competition featuring 12 junior golfers from the United States hosting their European counterparts, gets underway at Olympia Fields Country Club on Monday, Sept. 24.
The Junior Ryder Cup follows an honored list of premier golf events at renowned Olympia Fields. ThecClub, which opened its doors in 1915, has hosted two PGA Championships, two U.S. Open Championships and the 1997 U.S. Senior Open.
In addition, Olympia Fields was the site of the 2011 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship and conducts the Olympia Fields/Illini Invitational, each year. In 2015, the club will host the U.S. Amateur Championship.
The par-71 South Course will play 7,090 yards for the boys and 6,295 yards for the girls.
WILY VETS: Alison Lee of Valencia, Calif., and Jim Liu of Smithtown, N.Y., are the only participants in the 2012 Junior Ryder Cup field to have competed in a previous Junior Ryder Cup.
Lee and Liu were members of the 2010 United States Team, which defeated Europe, 13 1/2 to 10 1/2, at Gleneagles Resort in Scotland.
All members of the European team will be making their debut in the Junior Ryder Cup.
In addition, Rory McIlory of Northern Ireland and Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium are the only players who competing in the 39th Ryder Cup that also competed in a Junior Ryder Cup. McIlroy competed in 2004, while Colsaerts played in 1999.
ALL TIED UP: The overall Junior Ryder Cup series is tied 3-3-1. After an exhibition match in 1995, with Central New York PGA Section-area juniors competing against 12 leading European junior players, the inaugural Junior Ryder Cup was contested in Sotogrande, Spain. The United States won, 7-5.
In 1999, Europe returned to face the U.S. juniors, and dominated at the Country Club of New Seabury in the Boston area by a 10 1/2-to-1 1/2 margin. This marked the first of three-straight Junior Ryder Cup victories for the Europeans.
In 2006, however, the United States team was able to halve the Junior Ryder Cup, 6-6, at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales.
In 2010, the United States Junior Ryder Cup team won its second consecutive trophy, following a 22-2 domination in 2008 at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Ky.
"FRIENDSHIP" MATCH JUST AROUND THE CORNER: Participants in the 2012 Junior Ryder Cup also will play a "Friendship" Match on Sept. 26, at Medinah (Ill.) Country Club, site of the 39th Ryder Cup.
The "Friendship" Match will feature a combined mixed four-ball, with six groupings of four players that includes one girl and one boy from both Europe and the United States. The teams will play a composite course of 10 total holes, blending both front-nine and back-nine holes. Play will begin on the first hole of Course No. 3, with tee times set for 2:00, 2:11, 2:22, 2:33, 2:44 and 2:55 p.m., with pairings to be determined later.
LET'S GET IT STARTED: Play in the Junior Ryder Cup begins on Monday at 7:00 a.m. CT. The morning foursomes pairings will be released during the Opening Ceremonies on Sunday, Sept. 23 at 5:00 p.m.
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Consensus Report
Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species (2008)Water Science and Technology Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Since its opening in 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway has provided a route into the Great Lakes not only for trade, but also unfortunately for aquatic invasive species (AIS) that have had severe economic and environmental impacts on the region. Prevention measures have been introduced by the governments of Canada and the United States, but reports of newly discovered AIS continue, and only time will tell what impacts these species may have. Pressure to solve the problem has even led to proposals that the Seaway be closed. At the request of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, the National Research Council assembled a committee of experts to identify and explore options that would both enhance the potential for global trade in the Great Lakes region and eliminate further introductions of aquatic invasive species from ships transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway. This report concludes that trade should continue on the St. Lawrence Seaway but with a more effective suite of prevention measures that evolves over time in response to lessons learned and new technologies.
Key Messages
- Closing the seaway to transoceanic shipping would reduce substantially the risk of AIS introductions by vessels using the waterway, this action could not, in the committee's judgment, be implemented in a timely fashion. Moreover, economic principles indicate that eliminating a transportation option would increase the cost of moving goods and therefore would not enhance trade.
- In the committee's judgment, such a measure would achieve a high level of protection against further ship-vectored AIS introductions without the disadvantages of closing the seaway to transoceanic shipping, if it was supported by effective procedures for vessel monitoring and for enforcing ballast water management regulations and by an AIS surveillance and control program for the Great Lakes.
- Mandatory use of ballast water management technologies by all categories of vessel known to pose a risk could lead to a marked reduction in AIS introductions by vessels using the seaway and could be implemented almost immediately.
- Because of the number, diversity, and distribution of vectors and routes by which AIS can enter the Great Lakes, the committee views elimination of all new AIS introductions as virtually impossible.
- Two very different alternatives were identified: (a) use ballast water management technologies (ballast water exchange, saltwater flushing, and ballast water treatment) to kill or remove organisms in ships' ballast water or (b) close the seaway to the riskiest component of traffic from an AIS perspective, namely, transoceanic vessels engaged in trade with countries outside of Canada and the United States.


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June 10 marked the 50th anniversary of the federal legislation that required employers to give women and men equal pay for equal work. News flash: It�s not working. This golden anniversary is more call for action than cause for celebration because women are still waiting for the Equal Pay Act�s promise to come true.
But don�t think we�re waiting patiently � or silently. And don�t think you are immune from this pernicious problem. The gender pay gap exists for women in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
It exists regardless of whether states have pay equity laws in place that supplement the Equal Pay Act, although several states do not have any specific pay equity law whatsoever. Unbelievably, Wisconsin actually just repealed its equal pay law.
And the pay gap exists in states where governors are doing excellent work on equal pay: Gov. Peter Shumlin in Vermont recently signed stronger equal pay legislation into law, and Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii and Gov. Mark Dayton of Minnesota issued Equal Pay Day proclamations this year.
But until the pay gap goes the way of the dodo bird, every state has more to do. That means your governor owes women and families an Equal Pay Act anniversary �present.� And the American Association of University Women has the perfect idea for a gift.
President Barack Obama recently ordered federal agencies to develop plans to address pay discrepancies among employees in the federal workforce, including evaluating policies for setting starting salaries and looking at how to promote greater transparency in starting salaries. Your governor could � and should � order state agencies to evaluate and take action on their pay practices as well.
Your governor should do this because equal pay is everyone�s business. Families and communities are economically stronger when there is fair pay. Every day women nationwide work just as hard only to receive less.
On average, women make 77 cents to a man�s dollar, and that number is much worse for moms and women of color. The gender pay gap starts right after college and compounds over a woman�s career.
Even after accounting for all the factors that affect earnings, AAUW found that women just one year out of college are still paid almost 7 percent less than their male counterparts are paid. That�s nearly a year�s worth of groceries and 1,400 tall Starbucks coffees. Plus, women vote � and we deserve serious action on the issues we care about.
Statistics tell us that every action available needs to be taken, and the Obama administration has provided a step that governors can take immediately. I�ll leave it up to you as to how you ask your governor for your �present� � Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, letter. But no matter how you decide to do it, I�ll guarantee you one thing. Unlike the Equal Pay Act, the technology you�ll use � even if it�s just a pen and paper � was updated in the last 50 years.
Technology has changed. The workforce has changed. But the federal legislation designed to ensure women are paid equally to men hasn�t changed � and it isn�t working.
Someday, women will celebrate the Equal Pay Act anniversary. But we�ll do so when we get what we were promised: equal pay for equal work.


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By David Braun
Just about everyone on the planet will be affected, one way or another, by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle told a U.S. Congress panel today.
Earle and other environmental experts were called to give testimony to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives on the impact of the oil spill on natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sylvia Earle testifying on Capitol Hill today.
Other witnesses at the hearing included Lamar McKay, president of British Petroleum America, and Steven Newman, president of Transocean, Ltd., the offshore drilling contractor, who were grilled by committee members on events before and after their oil rig exploded and unleashed the disaster on the Gulf last month.
Introducing Earle to the hearing, Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar, Democrat-Minnesota, said he had read her testimony (published in full below) and found it to be "positively lyrical" and reminiscent of Lord Byron's poetry about the ocean. "I am enthralled by your love of the ocean," he said.
"I really come to speak for the ocean," Earle said at the start of her remarks. "You are the only voice for the ocean that we will hear," Oberstar said when she had read her statement, adding that her testimony was "moving and compelling."
Earle focused much of her testimony on the toxic effect of chemicals being used to disperse the oil spill, which she said should not be used under the sea, where they could damage the small organisms so vital to the health of the ocean.
She also lamented the lack of technology to send Coast Guard, NOAA and other experts to the source of the oil gushing into the ocean, 5,000 feet beneath the surface. "How can we not know how much oil is being released," she asked. "We are dealing from the surface with what is largely a subsea problem."
Earle also said there was a need to establish a data baseline to find out what species were in the Gulf prior to the oil spill, to help monitor the current situation and assist recovery over many years.
"The Gulf of Mexico is not, as some believe, an industrial wasteland, valuable primarily as a source of petrochemicals and a few species of ocean wildlife that humans exploit for food, commodities, and recreational fishing. These are assets worth protecting as if our lives depend on them, because in no small measure, they do," Earle said.
"The Gulf of Mexico is a living laboratory, America's Mediterranean, a tri-national treasure better known for yielding hurricanes, petrochemicals, shrimp and, in recent years, notorious 'dead zones,' than for its vital role in generating oxygen, taking and holding carbon, distributing nutrients, stabilizing temperature, yielding freshwater to the skies that returns as rain–contributing to the ocean's planetary role as Earth's life support system," Earle added.
NASA's Aqua Satellite captured this image of the Gulf oil slick on May 18, 2010. The image showed three bright areas of sunglint within the area of the spill.
Image credit: NASA Goddard / MODIS Rapid Response Team
Toxic dispersants also lethal
Not only is the flow of millions of gallons of oil an issue in the Gulf, Sylvia Earle told the Committee, but also the thousands of gallons of toxic dispersants that make the ocean look a little better on the surface–where most people are–but make circumstances a lot worse under the surface, where most of the life in the ocean actually is.
"The instructions for humans using Corexit, the dispersant approved by the EPA to make the ocean look better warn that it is an eye and skin irritant, is harmful by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed, and may cause injury to red blood cells, kidney or the liver. People are warned not to take Corexit internally, but the fish, turtles, copepods and jellies have no choice. They are awash in a lethal brew of oil and butoxyethanol."
Earle called for a halt on the subsurface use of dispersants, while limiting surface use to strategic sites where other methods cannot safeguard critically important coastal habitats.
She also urged an immediate deployment of subsurface technologies and sensors "to evaluate the fate of the underwater plumes of oil, as well as the finely dispersed oil and chemicals and their impact on floating surface forests of Sargassum communities, life in the water column, and on the sea floor."
These were among ten proposals Earle made to restore the ecosystems and ensure long-term viability of the Gulf of Mexico, including the creation of large marine sanctuaries and investment in safe energy alternatives.
Sylvia Earle's prepared remarks:
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of the ocean and for people now and in the future who will be affected by the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That includes just about everyone on the planet, one way or another.
For more than fifty years, I have had experience on, around, above and under the Gulf of Mexico as a marine scientist and explorer, founded and led engineering companies devoted to development of equipment for access to the deep sea, served as a member of various corporate and dozens of nonprofit boards and as a member of numerous state, federal and international committees concerning ocean policy.
From 1990 to 1992 I was the Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency with up close and personal experience with the Exxon Valdez and Mega Borg oil spills, as well as extensive involvement with evaluation of the environmental consequences of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf spill.
As I speak, I will be showing a video of the underwater realms in the Gulf of Mexico produced by Dr. David Guggenheim taken during the five-year Sustainable Seas Expeditions, a public-private partnership that I led involving the National Geographic, NOAA, the Goldman Foundation, and more than 50 industry, government, academic and other institutional partners–using manned submersibles and remotely operated vehicles as well as conventional and unconventional diving methods to document the nature of the coastal waters of this country and some of our neighbors to the south with special reference to areas designated for protection as National Marine Sanctuaries–and to explore other places that, if protected, could provide urgently needed safeguards against the rapid degradation taking place in our nation's Exclusive Economic Zone owing to destructive fishing practices, pollution, climate change and other impacts.
Nowhere is this more critical than in the Gulf of Mexico, yet only the tiny Flower Garden Banks and small areas within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries is there modest sanctity for wildlife in the U.S. Gulf waters.
Dr. Larry McKinney, who has conducted research in the Gulf of Mexico for decades remarked recently that as the present oil spill spreads, the Gulf of Mexico, the ninth largest body of water in the world, 615,000 square miles of blue, seems to be shrinking before our eyes.
Threats include:
- Stress on the nation's valuable wetlands, 40 percent of such areas in the lower 48 states in Louisiana alone.
- Stress for the Florida west coast and the extensive seagrass meadows and marshes–nursery areas for fish, shrimp and other organisms and, given the intricate flow of the Loop Current and its many spinoffs, threats to the wetland and offshore areas of Mississippi, Alabama ,Texas, Mexico, the Florida Keys, Cuba and via the Gulfstream, the eastern seaboard of the United States–and beyond.
- Use of subsea dispersants injected at great depths, making it possible for deeper currents to move the oil's potential reach even further, and enhancing the toxic effect of oil with the toxic effect of the chemicals used to break oil into smaller droplets.
- Economic impacts, such as those assessed by scientists and economists at the Harte Research Institute –a conservative figure of U.S.$1.6 Billion, taking into account losses including the production of ocean wildlife taken for food.
That does not measure threats to the billions of dollars in so-called free services provided by healthy reefs, marshes and seagrass meadows as natural filtration and shoreline protection systems. Nor does it account for impacts to the other priceless "free" services the living ocean renders to the nation's overall economy, to health, to security and ultimately, to the existence of life itself.
You have seen plenty of bad news images relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I want to illustrate here that the Gulf of Mexico is not, as some believe, an industrial wasteland, valuable primarily as a source of petrochemicals and a few species of ocean wildlife that humans exploit for food, commodities, and recreational fishing. These are assets worth protecting as if our lives depend on them, because in no small measure, they do.
Gulf of Mexico's 15,000 species
In 2009 Volume I of the 8-volume series on the Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota lists 15,419 species within 40 phyla–embracing most of the large categories of life on Earth–covered in 79 chapters by 140 authors from 80 institutions in 15 countries.
The idea for this was hatched by Drs. Wes Tunnell, Daryl Felder and myself during a conversation at the Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi in 2001 while reflecting on the need to update the 1954 Fishery Bulletin 89, a classic reference that provides a benchmark concerning the biological, physical, chemical meterological and economic aspects of the Gulf.
Biological data from the new series will appear electronically on the Web in Gulfbase and OBIS–the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, an online, open access, globally distributed network of systematic, ecological, and environmental data established in 1999 by the ten-year Census of Marine Life project. The Gulf of Mexico figures prominently in this year's celebration of Biodiversity of Life on Earth.
The Gulf of Mexico is a living laboratory, America's Mediterranean, a tri-national treasure better known for yielding hurricanes, petrochemicals, shrimp and, in recent years, notorious "dead zones," than for its vital role in generating oxygen, taking and holding carbon, distributing nutrients, stabilizing temperature, yielding freshwater to the skies that returns as rain–contributing to the ocean's planetary role as Earth's life support system.
As with the ocean as a whole, the most important values we derive from the Gulf of Mexico are those we take for granted. We have, because at one time, we could. But that is no longer true. We now understand there are limits to what we can put into or take out of this or any other part of the ocean without unfavorable consequences back to us.
It once seemed that–as with the ocean as a whole–the Gulf was so big, so vast, so resilient, that nothing we could do could harm it. The benefits we believed would always be there, no matter how large the trawls, how long the nets, how numerous the hooks for catching ocean wildlife–or how many, how long or how deep the pipelines, drilling operations, seismic surveys or production rigs.
While yielding to the pressure to extract golden eggs from the golden Gulf, we have failed to take care of the Gulf itself.
While yielding to the pressure to extract golden eggs from the golden Gulf, we have failed to take care of the Gulf itself.
Destructive fishing pressure has depleted sharks, tunas, menhaden, groupers, snappers, tarpon, turtles, shrimp, crabs, lobsters. More than 80 percent of some species have been extracted in 50 years, more than 90 percent of the sharks, swordfish, marlin and most grouper species. Fewer than 10 percent of the bluefin tunas remain, and all of the monk seals that once abounded as far north as Galveston have been exterminated. Used for meat and oil, the last living one was seen in 1952.
The main excuse for killing seals and whales was for the extraction of oil to provide heat and light to enhance human societies. The shift to fossil fuels may have saved the whales and seals, but now we are killing mountains and downstream rivers and the sea beyond to extract coal.
Excess carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels–coal, oil, gas–is warming the planet and acidifying the ocean. Oil spills have become less frequent with the application of new technologies, but it doesn't take many large ones, whether during the transport or drilling, to remind us of the dire consequences of neglect.
Ironically, fossil fuels have powered civilization to new heights of understanding–including the awareness that the future of humankind depends on swiftly shifting to energy alternative that do not generate carbon dioxide and otherwise cause planet-threatening problems!
Fossil fuels took us to the moon and to the universe beyond, and made it possible for us to see ourselves in ways that no generation before this time could fathom. They have provided the backbone of the extraordinary progress we enjoyed in the 20th century and now into the 21st. We now know that those of us now alive have participated in the greatest era of discovery and technological achievement in the history of humankind, largely owing to the capacity to draw on what seemed to be a cheap but by no means endless source of energy.
At the same time we have learned more, we have lost more.
Cheap energy, it turns out, is costing the Earth…so to speak.
Despite the enormous advance in knowledge, the greatest problem facing us now with respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is ignorance, and with it, complacency.
Despite the enormous advance in knowledge, the greatest problem facing us now with respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is ignorance, and with it, complacency.
Despite the years of research by hundreds of scientists and institutions, knowledge about the nature of Gulf of Mexico is still primitive, partly because the methods used for exploring the ocean are still primitive. Larry McKinney observes that we know more about the face of the moon than the bottom of the Gulf, and are better equipped to live and work in space than we are to explore the ocean on this planet.
We should be looking for the possibility of life in what is believed to be an ocean on one of Jupiter's moons, but why are we not at least as concerned about life in the ocean in this part of the solar system–the ocean that keeps us alive? Life in the sea, after all, supports the basic processes that we all take for granted–the water cycle, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle, and much more. With every breath we take, every drop of water we drink, we are dependent on the existence of Earth's living ocean.
Most of the heavy lifting concerning these benefits is accomplished by microorganisms–bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton. Headlines lament oiled birds, turtles, dolphins and whales, as they should, but where is the constituency concerned about oiled copepods, poisoned coccolithophorids, proclorococcus, diatoms, jellies, pteropods, squid, larval urchins, the eggs and young of this year's vital offspring of tuna, shrimp and menhaden?
Toxic Dispersants
Not only is the unruly flow of millions of gallons of oil an issue, but also the thousands of gallons of toxic dispersants that make the ocean look a little better on the surface–where most people are–but make circumstances a lot worse under the surface, where most of the life in the ocean actually is.
The instructions for humans using Corexit, the dispersant approved by the EPA to make the ocean look better warn that it is an eye and skin irritant, is harmful by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed, and may cause injury to red blood cells, kidney or the liver. People are warned not to take Corexit internally, but the fish, turtles, copepods and jellies have no choice. They are awash in a lethal brew of oil and butoxyethanol.
The technologies for finding, extracting and transporting oil and gas from the sea are as sophisticated as those required to work hundreds of miles high in the sky, yet where is the comparable technology to safeguard the ocean when something goes wrong–such as when a blowout preventer malfunctions in 5,000 feet of water?
Precarious solutions
The technical expertise mustered to stop the flow of oil is the best in the world, but since those talented engineers were not required to focus on adequately dealing with such problems well in advance, the make-in-up-as-they-go-along solutions sound precarious, at best. Jamming a metal top hat over the leak? Threading a mile-long straw into a torrent of toxic fluid? Stuffing garbage down the hole?
Human occupied, autonomous and remotely operated systems developed to support inspection, maintenance and repair have come a long way since offshore oil production began in the Gulf in 1947, but why aren't the U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA provided with fleets of appropriate manned submersibles, ROVs, and AUVs to monitor and evaluate the oceans everyday, and be ready when needed to respond to emergencies such as the present one?
Billions have been invested for ships, aircraft and spacecraft to provide these functions on and above the surface of the sea,and it has paid off mightily. But we have neglected technologies to explore, monitor and safeguard what is under the surface, and it is costing us dearly.
This year in this city, several celebrations were held to honor U.S. Navy Captain Don Walsh and Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard for their history-making descent seven miles down in the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the sea. No one has been back since, and only two machines, the Japanese Kaiko, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Nereus, have made successful journies there. Seven miles in the sky, meanwhile, people watch movies, take naps, eat lunch.
No one has descended to the greatest depth in the Gulf of Mexico, about three miles down in the Sigsbee Deep near Yucatan. In fact, no one knows for sure exactly where the deepest place in the Gulf is, or if they do, proving it has been an elusive goal.
Investment in new technologies to effectively explore, monitor and safeguard the ocean loom large on the short list of actions, coupled with the ongoing support to keep them in operation. The fleet of U. S. submersibles, ROVs and AUVs presently available for scientific research and ocean care is more than pathetic. It is scandalous.
The Alvin, after more than 40 years of productive service, is soon to be retired and her replacement is far from complete. The two Johnson-sea-link submersibles that have yielded priceless information and insights about the nature of the Gulf and the ocean beyond are no longer being supported at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.
Only Japan, Russia, France, and now China have manned subs that can go to half the ocean's depth, and the new Alvin is expected to go only two and a half miles.
Thoughts and Solutions
I could go on about the problems, but I have only a few minutes and would like to summarize with thoughts about solutions. While encouraging and supporting all-out efforts to stop the flow of oil, the following might be considered:
1. Halt the subsurface use of dispersants and limit surface use to strategic sites where other methods cannot safeguard critically important coastal habitats.
2. Immediately deploy subsurface technologies and sensors to evaluate the fate of the underwater plumes of oil, as well as the finely dispersed oil and chemicals and their impact on floating surface forests of Sargassum communities, life in the water column, and on the sea floor.
3. Immediately gather baseline data, both broad and detailed, to measure impacts and recovery.
4. Support operations to salvage and restore the 40 or so species of affected large wildlife species and their habitats.
5. Support initiatives to create large reserves in the Gulf to facilitate recovery and ongoing health of the thousands of less conspicuous species and marine ecosystems, from the deepest areas to shallow shores.
It is urgent that large areas of the Gulf of Mexico be designated for full protection from extractive activities. Protected areas are critically needed to safeguard important spawning areas for bluefin tuna, for grouper, snapper, sharks and even the wily species of shallow and deepwater shrimp. Aside from the importance of such areas for healthy ecosystems to survive, they are essential if fishing is to continue as a way of life in the Gulf. (No fish, no fishermen.)
Implementing and expanding the Islands in the Stream concept long proposed by NOAA for a network of marine protection in the Gulf would be a good place to begin.
6. Make substantial investments in human occupied, robotic and autonomous systems, sensors and stations for exploration, research, monitoring and safeguarding the living ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, the EPA and the USGS should have such resources available to complement ships, and air and spacecraft, and it is in the nation's best interest to support development of such facilities for use by non-federal research institutions as well.
7. Embark on expeditions to explore deep water in the Gulf of Mexico and establish permanent monitoring stations and protocols.
8. Encourage tri-national collaboration among scientists and institutions around the Gulf.
9. Mobilize good minds to address solutions such as the Gulf of Mexico Summit five years ago that helped launch a regional governance body of U.S. and Mexican states. A new summit is being planned by the Harte Research Institute to take place later this year to address next steps to assure an economically and ecologically healthy Gulf of Mexico.
Cuba, a country that some have been worrying about with respect to the possibility of oil spills heading north as exploration and drilling are picking up in that country, now is faced with worries about the consequences of a major spill from the U.S. heading south.
10. While investing in rapid expansion of safe energy alternatives, new standards of care need to be implemented for industries extracting oil and gas from the Gulf and elsewhere in US waters. Thorough documentation of the nature of the seafloor and surrounding region should be made public prior to operations such as drilling, establishing platforms and laying pipeline, and monitoring of changes to the environment measured and made publically available. Environmental issues need to be taken into account, and be the basis for excluding operations when necessary to protect vital environmental concerns. Transparency is vital.
Five minutes is time enough only to touch on a few major concerns, but I want to end by emphasizing the greatest threats, past, present and future to the Gulf, to the ocean, and to the future of humankind. That would be ignorance, and its terrible twin, complacency.
The loss of human lives, the destruction of the life-giving Gulf cannot be justified as an acceptable cost of doing business, but if we really do go forward with a commitment to do things differently henceforth, we will have gained something of enduring value. We must do better about thinking like an ocean, and thinking on behalf of those who will benefit–or suffer–from the consequences of our actions.
Now, maybe for the first time, we know what to do. We still have a chance to make peace with the ocean.
Sylvia Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, called Her Deepness by the New Yorker and New York Times, a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and first Hero for the Planet by Time Magazine. She has years of experience as a field research scientist, expedition leader, government official, and director for corporate and non-profit organizations including the Kerr McGee Corporation, Dresser Industries, Oryx Energy, the Aspen Institute, the Conservation Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Futures, American Rivers, Mote Marine Laboratory, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Rutgers Institute for Marine Science and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. From 1980 to 1990 she served as Founder of Deep Ocean Engineering and from 1992 to 2007, she served as founder and chair of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER Marine) to further the development of new technologies for access to the sea.
In connection with her 2009 TED Prize, she founded Mission Blue, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ocean exploration, research, and conservation aimed at developing networks of "Hope Spots," protected areas large enough to secure and restore health to the "blue heart of the planet" (www.mission-blue.org).
Formerly Chief Scientist of NOAA, Dr. Earle chairs Advisory Councils for the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies; the Ocean in Google Earth; the Marine Science and Technology Foundation and the Schmidt Research Vessel Institute. She has a B.S. degree from Florida State University, M.S. and PhD. from Duke University, 19 honorary degrees and has authored more than 175 scientific, technical and popular publications, lectured in more than 80 countries, and appeared in hundreds of radio and television productions.


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Occasionally, have you ever felt like you're being a little too nice or too kind?
I do.
And sometimes it felt like your kindness has been abused.
You know, like we can simply let things to slide because it's a small matter.
But somehow, the other party usually are seeing things with half-closed eyes. They tend to let things to slide as well.
Some of them are being inconsiderate that they don't value much of your effort to care for them.
But I guess it goes with experiences.
You have to experience the situation for you to be reminded.
Otherwise, your heart is still blind. And you'll never be aware of the risk of hurting others.
Such a sad world.
Even so, there's no concrete reason for us, for me to stop being nice.
Be nice even if you might exhaust yourself.
Of being a little too nice
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Occasionally, have you ever felt like you're being a little too nice or too kind?
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Based on threads in this sub-forum.
Which of these 3 nations will win the most medals?
Based on threads in this sub-forum.
Which of these 3 nations will win the most medals?
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As long as we do better than Sydney 2000, where we were terrible, NZ should win more than the other two here.
Looks like we have some excellent medal chances.
NZ at least have some rowers + Vili. Could finish ahead of Norway tbh. Others have nowt.
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We always have equestrian too. Mark Todd's back!
NZ to get double Ireland & India's combined tally.
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We are going to man-shame India and Ireland. I would expect a minimum of three golds and 5 minor medals.
Would be happy if we got a medal of any description. New Zealand to take a few though.
Obliged to say Ireland.
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New Zealand I'd say.
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So far India leading away.
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Olympics are clearly biased against the Sub Continent teams.
Not only should there by a BCCI representative on the IOC, but Kabbadi should be an olympic sport.
I miss the coverage of Kabbadi that I used to get when I lived in the UK. If handball is an olympic sport (and it clearly shouldn't be) then Kabbadi should be in there. WHO'S WITH ME????
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I feel its time to spread the Kabbadi love, to be honest.
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Mental Health Days
You don't need to be sick to need a day off
by Meri Raffetto RD, LDN | 5856 views | 4 comments | Rate this now!Follow @Work_It_Mom
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I have taken more mental health days than actual sick days. I have a problem with an overabundance of stress, so I periodically have to take vacation or a mental health day to be able to manage. Just one day makes such a huge difference. I also think it's better for my employer- I schedule mental health days around my job load to make sure that I won't leave anyone hanging too badly. Sick days can't be as well planned.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by heels on 4th January 2008
Love this article Meri! I am a firm believer in mental health days, although, like your father, I felt irresponsible "calling off" work when I worked for someone else, so I never did. Now that I am self-employed however, there is no guilt! Like your friend, my favorite moments are on my front porch with a hot cup of coffee in the spring time. Even just thinking about those mornings in the doldrums of winter here, makes me feel more relaxed.
And for those who are concerned about not getting things done, I find I am more productive once I clear my head or have something to look forward to.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Rosanne Rust on 28th December 2007
How lucky you were to have two such good examples, so you could see that this practice doesn't make you lazy or less productive, but instead enables you to be, as you noted, "at the top of your game".
I'm moving from a 9 - 5 self-employment to freelance self-employment, and I am finding it challenging to allow myself mental health days this year, as I have donet in years past. It's the stress of holding down more than one job. (I'm at about one and a quarter right now, and that's only going to go up, until I reach the point where I can step from one career into the next.) I'm fully aware of the irony that I probably need those mental health days MORE now than I did before, but I'm less willing to take them. I will have to work on this.
Wanting to set a good example for my children, I allow each of them to take one day a month from school as a mental health day. They can't have a test or an assignment due that day, but if it's just a regular day, they can let me know and I let them have the day. They don't always take their monthly day, but they know it's always available to them if they need it.
I see this as good parenting!
Flag as inappropriate Posted by MaryP on 27th December 2007
Love this idea. And when I had a regular job - vs working for myself - I used to do this somewhat regularly - a few times a year. But now I find that I don't seem to be able to justify taking a whole day off -- there is so much to get done:)
I think I might try for 1/2 day in 2008:)
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Nataly on 26th December 2007