How Much Yarn Is Left?
I'm sure this happens to more people than just me- you look at your stash of yarn, complete with this mushy, half-used balls wound into an enticing menagerie of color and wonder what in the world to do with it all. I compulsively buy a little extra when I have a project in mind that I would like to knit, that way I'm ensured to have enough. However, once the project is done, there are the leftovers. And just like with food, it can be money saving, fun, and sometimes surprisingly tasty to use leftovers. Other times it can be lack luster, disappointing, and/or a little disgusting. I think my biggest fear of using one of those squishy, half-used balls of yarn in my stash is the mystery of whether or not I will have enough to complete my goal. Nobody wants to spend the hours knitting a project just to be short a few meters at the end. What if the yarn is discontinued and there is no hope of getting more?! With food, I often resort to the sniff test when questioning whether or not a leftover should be used. What's the sniff test for yarn?
Well, it turns out the answer to that is much more scientific (or rather, mathematic) than sniffing. I guess I should preface this with the statement that you should ALWAYS keep your ball band. (The ball band is the little bit of paper that you get on a ball or skein of yarn that has all that important information on it- like length, weight, needle suggestion, gauge, etc.) I love to shove the ball band in the middle of my yarn cakes so it stays put even when I move my yarn stash about. Even if you have a great memory, I doubt there are many people who can boast a memory great enough to keep track of the yards per grams for all of their yarn. Not saying it's impossible, just saying it is probably outside most of our spheres. There is still hope if your leftovers are lacking in ball bands. Please see note at the end of post.
All you need to get started in unraveling the mystery of how much yarn is left is a scale (any small kitchen scale will do), your yarn, a calculator or pencil and paper, and your yarn's ball band.
Make sure your scale is zeroed (For digital scales, the screen should not have any numbers but 0 on the readout. If your scale is reading out some numbers to you, you can zero your scale by pressing the "zero" button.) Then, place your yarn on the scale. If your yarn is in a higgilty piggilty mess, you can always place a bowl on the scale, zero your scale, then place the yarn in the bowl. (Or record the weight of your bowl when empty, add your yarn, record the value of the yarn and the bowl then subtract the weight of the bowl from the total, leaving only the weight of your yarn.) Read the number on your scale.
In my example, my yarn weighed 95 grams. I had used a small portion of this ball of yarn to knit a sample and ended up choosing a different yarn for the project. The critical question in my head was whether there was still enough yarn left in this ball to knit a pair of socks. The next thing I did was look at the ball band and find where my length per weight was recorded.
In this particular case, for this particular yarn, there are 462 yards/ 100 grams. Now it's time for a little algebra.
I know there are 462 yards per every 100 grams of this yarn, but I want to know how many yards I have left after my sampling. After measuring my current ball of yarn, I know I have 95 grams of my yarn left; how does that translate to yards?
Dividing 462 yards by 100 grams simplifies down to 4.62 yards per 1 gram. (I simply put 462 in my calculator and divided that number by 100.) I have 95 grams. I can now multiply my 95 grams by 4.62 yards/gram. (Again, I used my calculator. I typed 95 and multiplied it by 4.62.) The units of grams cancel and I am left with 438.9 yards. This lets me know that I have roughly 439 yards of my yarn leftover and can plan my project accordingly.
Here is an equation you can use if perhaps my example was a little confusing or not quite close enough to your numbers to be helpful. It should work for you whether your yarn is measured in meters or yards, grams or ounces.
I hope this helps clear up some of those leftovers off your shelf and leads to some beautiful projects!
***For those leftovers lacking a ball band: It's a little trickier, but you can figure out the length per weight on your own. Using your scale and starting with the end of your yarn, make a little pile of the yarn on the scale until you get 1 gram or ounce. Mark your yarn where this occurs or use some scissors to snip the yarn. Measure the length of this piece of yarn. You should now have the desired length/weight to multiply by the measured weight of your leftovers. It's not perfect, but it'll get you pretty darn close.


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Q: Add custom UIButton to UIKeyboard's accessory view for a UIWebView I need to add a camera button to a UIWebView's keyboard accessory view toolbar (the one that already has the "Back|Next" and "Done" buttons).
Is there an easy way to do this?

A: I'm still looking for a better way to do it, but one solution for the moment would be to destroy the bar and recreate it like so :
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UIWebView *web = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];
    NSURL *aURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com"];
    NSURLRequest *aRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:aURL];
    [web loadRequest:aRequest];
    [self.view addSubview:web];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification {
    [self performSelector:@selector(removeBar) withObject:nil afterDelay:0];
}

- (void)removeBar {
    UIWindow *keyboardWindow = nil;
    for (UIWindow *testWindow in [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows]) {
        if (![[testWindow class] isEqual:[UIWindow class]]) {
            keyboardWindow = testWindow;
            break;
        }
    }

    for (UIView *possibleFormView in [keyboardWindow subviews]) {
        // iOS 5 sticks the UIWebFormView inside a UIPeripheralHostView.
        if ([[possibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIPeripheralHostView"].location != NSNotFound) {
            for (UIView *subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView in [possibleFormView subviews]) {
                if ([[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIWebFormAccessory"].location != NSNotFound) {

                    UISegmentedControl *nav = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Previous",@"Next", nil]];
                    nav.momentary = YES;
                    nav.frame = CGRectMake(5, 8, 120, 30);
                    nav.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;
                    nav.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.25 alpha:1];
                    [nav addTarget:self action:@selector(navigate) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

                    UIBarButtonItem *pictureBtn =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Picture" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(takePic:)];

                    UIBarButtonItem *flexButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:self action:nil];
                    UIBarButtonItem *doneButton =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:@selector(resignKeyboard)];

                    NSArray *buttons = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:flexButton,pictureBtn,flexButton,doneButton, nil];
                    [(UIToolbar *)subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView addSubview:nav];
                    [(UIToolbar *)subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView setItems:buttons];

                }
            }
        }
    }
}

But then, you have to implement the previous, next and done function again. But it's not the hardest part.

A: there is an easier way to do this.
Keep your keyboard notification in your viewDidLoad
After that all you will need is the following method:
-(void)keyboardDidShow:(NSNotification*)notif
{
    NSArray *array = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows];

    for (UIWindow* wind in array) {
        for (UIView* currView in wind.subviews) {
            if ([[currView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIPeripheralHostView"]) {
                for (UIView* perView in currView.subviews) {
                    if ([[perView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIWebFormAccessory"]) {

                        UIBarButtonItem *doneBttn = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:@selector(resignKeyBoard)];

                        NSMutableArray *arr = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray: [(UIToolbar *) perView items]];

                    [arr addObject:doneBttn];

                    [(UIToolbar *) perView setItems:arr];
                    }
                }

            }
        }
    }
}

I have basically taken the original prev/next buttons from the UIWebFormAccessory and added a done button to the end of it, but you can add what ever buttons you want to this.
Some may think this shouldn't be implemented in -(void)keyboardDidShow: because you are changing the UI after it displays on screen, but so far I haven't noticed any issues with this. (only tested in simulator)
Hope this was useful!

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I have noticed that when approaching a chicane if I go from steering left to right too quickly, the game will not recognise that I am now steering right and the car will go into full lock (left) in order to counter this I need to let go of my steering all together so the wheels can straighten, making it incredibly hard to hold a corner and a good position.
Known bug. As a workaround please set Steering Deadzone to 0.
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Can a no-talent like Danni Minogue be judging next mans singing abilities.She says Yes when it shud be Noand vice versa.
- Laughing at deluded mans who think they're Prince- Watching hoes slag off Simon-Watching people make absolute twats out of themselves- And appreciating genuine talentsHow the f*ck can we not??
After the audition stages i dont bother to even watch it.
I don't know her singing capabilities but I think Danni's a good judge on the show. Better than Sharon anyway.
f*ck sake, I keep forgetting to watch!!
Agreed but the first stages are soooo funny. I was crying with laughter.
Im glad i wasn't even in to watch any of it and judging by the clips on Youtube i didn't miss out on much.Roll on winter.
I preferred Britains Got Talent personally.Danni looks nice but at the same time she looks bare old, its weird.
Im fallin for her , Its her eyes , they are havin a different effect on me.WoW.I WouldImpreginate Her.


The check starting on line 4967 appears to have been added this past June. If you're not a security person then let me bring you up to date. Corrupting heap meta data traditionally allows you to execute arbitrary code. There are plenty of papers out there you can read to catch up on the subject, but theres one important fact you should be aware of. Most of these techniques no longer work within 1 to 2 years of publication. This is because the libc maintainers add small bits of code like the one above to save you from yourself. This particular new patch is checking to see whether the arena's bin contains a location that points to a valid chunk. If that check wasn't there (as is the case in glibc 2.10.1) then the 'fwd->bk = p' line can be used to write the address of 'p' anywhere. If that didn't make sense to you then you're probably not a glibc maintainer or a neurotic security researcher, consider yourself normal.
If you're not familiar with the House of Mind then you should read 'The Malloc Maleficarum' written by Phantasmal Phantasmagoria: "The method used involves tricking the wrapper invoked by free(), called public_fREe(), into supplying the _int_free() internal function with a designer controlled arena. This can subsequently lead to an arbitrary memory overwrite. A call to free() actually invokes a wrapper called public_fREe():"
I won't be covering these techniques in great detail here but essentially what can happen is through a single call to free() on a chunk we can overflow we can fool ptmalloc into using an arena structure we control. Certain members of the arena structure allow for arbitrary code execution to occur if the right conditions can be met. This technique currently still works in Ubuntu 9.10. The short story is: the new validation added to Glibc 2.11 stops the House of Mind technique.
The Malloc Maleficarum covers a second House of Mind technique which, unlike the first one, requires we place our arena at the location we want to overwrite. It still leverages a single call to free() and the trust the allocator has in the arena structure (its also been covered in other papers, see the bottom of this post) but the difference in the second technique is that the arenas 'fastbinY' container is used instead of 'bins'. This takes _int_free down a different code path, a far less constrained one. However the pointer exchange is not quite the same in this code path and so in order to gain code execution we need to place the start of our arena just before the data we want to overwrite. We can gain control of execution because we get a value of our choice written back to arena->fastbin[X] It's not an ideal situation, but it should still work in Glibc 2.11.
This of course is not fool proof, but its the best I've come up with in the short time I've thought about it. After a private conversation with a friend of mine who coincidentally happens to be doing some similar research, I'm not sure the integrity of the fastbin can be %100 verified in its current form.


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Born 1980 in Aschersleben, Germany.
Nationality: German.
1993 – 1999:
Secondary school (Städtisches Gymnasium "Werner Seelenbinder", Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany), Abitur (university-entrance diploma).
Elementary school (4. Oberschule, Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany).
Elementary school (Otto-Ulinski-Oberschule, Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany).
July 1999 – May 2000:
Panzergrenadierbataillon 352 (Mellrichstadt, Germany) of the 1st Gebirgsdivision (special training: gunner), last rank: Obergefreiter.
since September 2009:
Dissertation at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (accepted as doctoral candidate by Prof. Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick), topic: "Geliehene Waffen. Über die Rolle der Miniaturschwerter zur Konstituierung gesellschaftlichen Status in der Spätbronzezeit Nordeuropas." (Borrowed arms. On the role of miniature swords in constitution of social status in the Bronze Age of Northern Europe).
Graduated as Magister Artium (M.A.), Thesis: "Untersuchungen zur Beigabe von Miniaturschwertern in spätbronzezeitlichen Bestattungen des Nordischen Kreises" (Studies of miniature swords in Late Bronze Age burials of the Nordic Circle).
Study of Prehistoric Archaeology, Medieval History, and Journalism / Communication Science at Freie Universität Berlin.
Study of Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin.
since Mai 2010:
Research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), project: "The Prehistoric Societies of Upper Mesopotamia and Their Subsistence", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
January / February 2010:
Freelance contributor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, scientific research in preparation of a third-party funded project ("Cult buildings in funeral context").
December 2009 – April 2010:
Research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), project: "ASEYM – Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Yitim and Magass Area", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
June 2006 – April 2009:
Student assistant at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), projects: "The Prehistoric Societies of Upper Mesopotamia and Their Subsistence" and "ASEYM – Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Yitim and Magass Area", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
Freelance contributor at Berlin State Museums Visitor Services (support and guidance for visiting groups: Museum of Pre- and Early History as well as several archaeological special exhibitions; special focus on education of schoolchildren and young adults).
Antiquity Prize (Best article published in 'Antiquity' 2012) for the co-authored paper (with Oliver Dietrich, Manfred Heun, Klaus Schmidt und Martin Zarnkow): The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities: new evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey, Antiquity 86, 2012, 674-695.
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Staff member (assistant to head of excavations) in the German Archaeological Institute's (DAI) excavations at the Early Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe near Şanlıurfa, Turkey (Project: "The Prehistoric Societies of Upper Mesopotamia and Their Subsistence", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
Staff member of the "Jawa Hinterland Expedition", survey and excavation of several possible Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age fortified settlement sites in the eastern Badia, Jordan (Project: "Die Besiedlung der nördlichen Badia (Nordostjordanien) im Spätchalkolithikum und der Frühbronzezeit. Ein Beitrag zur archäologischen Siedlungsgeographie in ariden Regionen Vorderasiens" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
Staff member (supervisor) in an excavation project of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, excavations at a Late Bronze Age funeral cult building near Lăpuş, Romania (Project: "Ein funeraler Kultbau der späten Bronzezeit aus Lăpuş, Nordwestrumänien, und sein kultureller Kontext" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)).
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Staff member in a Polish-German cooperation project by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, excavation of two Early Iron Age sites (Starosiedle and Kozów / Witaszkowo (Vettersfelde)).
Freelance archaeologist at Gesellschaft für Archäologische Denkmalpflege (GAD), Preparatory and attendant construction measures (archaeological excavation, documentation, surveying, and conservation) in Berlin and Brandenburg.
April – July 2001:
Museum of Pre- and Early History Berlin, introduction to practical museum work.
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"Safety and Security in International Humanitarian Operations" course 2016, Academy for Crisis Management, Emergency Planning and Civil Protection (AKNZ).
"QGIS: Introduction and basics of geographic information systems", training course Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2018.
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Studying Tropical Air-Sea Interactions in the Atlantic
Five saildrones deployed from Barbados observed ocean-atmosphere interactions at the sub-mesoscale improve climate models and weather prediction.
In January 2020, Saildrone deployed a fleet of five unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) from Barbados to participate as part of a two-month field study to advance the understanding of how the ocean and atmosphere interact. The mission was a part of two complementary international initiatives led by US and European science organizations: EUREC4A (Elucidating the Role of Cloud-Circulation Coupling in Climate) and ATOMIC (Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign) with additional participation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Physical Oceanography program. This massive coordinated effort involved an impressive array of observing platforms: satellites, aircraft, research vessels, buoys, floats, drifters, gliders, and the saildrones.
There were two primary survey areas: East of Barbados and approximately two days southeast of Barbados off the coast of French Guiana. Four of the five saildrones sailed south with the RVs Atalante and Maria S Merian measuring mesoscale and submesoscale structures over a large portion of the ocean while the fifth saildrone stayed closer to Barbados.
Saildrones can be operated individually or as a fleet, sailing precise mission tracks or holding station. During the mission, the four saildrones working with the Atalante performed advanced formation sampling in parallel with the ship and around the ship.
Saildrones sailing in parallel formation in the Atlantic Ocean. Courtesy Dr. Sabrina Speich.
"There is a lot to be learned about sub-mesoscale variability by sailing the saildrones in close formation. Saildrones can act in two ways: They can hold station, acting similarly to a buoy, or they can be used in a coordinated manner to understand sub-mesoscale variability," explained Dr. Chelle Gentemann, a senior research scientist at The Farallon Institute who worked with Saildrone Mission Control to task the saildrones during the mission.
Sub-mesoscale variability in the ocean is typically understood to be under 100 kilometers (62 miles). Saildrones are capable of sampling features around 1 kilometer (.6 miles) with the high temporal and spatial resolution required to understand ocean and atmosphere dynamics.
The RV Atalante worked directly with the saildrones on several occasions.
"One time, we stayed on station in parallel with the saildrones for three or four hours so that we could measure the wind and ocean currents, air-sea fluxes, temperature, and salinity at the same time over a small distance. On another occasion, the saildrones were sailing a concentric square around the ship, which was holding station in the center," said Dr. Sabrina Speich, a physical oceanographer at France's Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique and one of EUREC4A's principal investigators (PIs) who was onboard the Atalante.
Three saildrones sailing in a triangle formation in the Atlantic Ocean. Courtesy Dr. Sabrina Speich.
NASA's primary interest in the mission was to examine how air-sea interactions over ocean eddy structures impact the lower boundary layer, as well as looking at how high temporal and spatial resolution observations from the saildrone can improve understanding of uncertainty in satellite analyses.
On the ship, Speich and her team were using primarily satellite altimetry to identify surface eddies, but when they began sampling with the saildrones, they discovered sub-surface structures that did not have an imprint on the surface. The saildrones are particularly adept at measuring the layers between the atmosphere and upper ocean, layers that are not as easily observed by ship-based instruments.
"We came on this by chance and the saildrones allowed us to measure them. We'll have a really nice matching on the dynamics of the ocean, how the sub-surface dynamics work with the surface and how the surface ocean works with the atmosphere, and also in terms of the biogeochemistry, CO2 uptake, heat uptake, and energy exchange. This is really important because it will help to improve not only numerical weather prediction models but also climate models, and shed light on new physical processes," said Speich.
With the ships and saildrones back in port, the scientists will now begin to analyze the data. The larger goal is to take a deep look into these processes over space and time across a variety of disciplines, which is likely to produce a number of papers over the next several years.
Two of the five saildrones will continue to collect data in the vicinity of Barbados as part of ATOMIC, while another set of saildrones is working in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the 2019-2020 ATL2MED mission.
Saildrones survey under tropical cloud formations in the Atlantic Ocean, taken from the RV Atalante. Courtesy Dr. Sabrina Speich.
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Rev. David M. Vidal, Ph.D.
Pastor of Ave Maria Parish
Father David Mariano Vidal was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 13, 1973, the fifth of seven siblings. His parents, Alicia and Julio, live in Buenos Aires. He attended public primary schools and a private Catholic secondary school. In 1993, he began studies for the priesthood, and he was ordained in La Plata, Buenos Aires, on August 9, 2001. Father Vidal's two brothers are missionary priests, and three of his sisters are nuns. After some years of missionary work in the United States, Fr. Vidal entered the graduate program in the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in the fall 2009. He received the Licentiate degree in Philosophy in 2012, with a thesis on "Nature and Suppositum in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas" under the direction of Msgr. John F. Wippel. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2020, with a dissertation on "Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas" under the direction of Gregory T. Doolan. He has been a lecturer at Saint John Vianney College Seminary, in Miami. In the Diocese of Venice, Father Vidal was assigned as Parochial Vicar of Ave Maria Parish, Ave Maria, in August 2017, Administrator of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Parish, LaBelle, in May 2018, and Pastor of Ave Maria Parish in February 2021.
Dr. Dan Guernsey, Ed. D.
Principal; Rhetoric 9
Dr. Guernsey holds a B.A. in English from University of San Francisco; a M.A. in English from University of California Berkeley; a M.Ed. in Administration & Supervision from California State University, and an Ed.D. in Education from Eastern Michigan University. He has worked with various entities associated with Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria projects for more than 17 years as a consultant, and college level associate professor, department chair, dean, and President. He is the founding principal of the Donahue Academy, and an experienced principal and high school teacher. He also serves as Director of the Cardinal Newman Society's K-12 Programs and is a Board Member of the National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools.
Abril Borjon, B.A.
Spanish I & II
Mrs. Abril Borjon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Educational Leadership from St. Thomas University. Her extensive experience in international law and historical fundamentals offered an opportunity to begin her diplomatic career with the U.S. Department of State in Mexico, as an Immigrant Visa Arrests and Detentions Specialist.
Blessed with a multicultural family that nurtured her love for Jesus through service and a Catholic education, Mrs. Borjon had the opportunity to serve and lead various church ministries around the world, expanding her skills in languages, folklore, and the arts. In 2006 Mrs. Borjon became the leader of SANCTUS, a Catholic Movement centered in the Eucharist and the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. She also founded VIRTUSTALENTUM, a bilingual (English-Spanish) educational enrichment program that nurtures values and virtues through a process and traditional arts.
Furthermore, being a passionate teacher and life-long learner, Mrs. Borjon feels extremely blessed to be part of Donahue Academy and the Ave Maria Community along with her husband Richo and five children.
Maureen Boylan
Art K-8; Art Appreciation 10; Art Elective 11 & 12
Marie Bruce B.A.
Teacher Aid Pre-Kindergarten
Mrs. Bruce graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Early Childhood Development. She has over 25 years of experience teaching preschool age children. Mrs. Bruce has two grown children, Jack and Annemarie. Her son Jack, his wife and two children also live in Ave Maria.
Matthew J. Byrne, J.D.
Humanities 8; Logic 9; Economics 11 & 12
Mr. Byrne graduated from Manhattan College with a B.A. in Government and Politics with a minor in History, and from Pace University Law School where he earned his Juris Doctorate. He also engaged in graduate course work at the Archdiocese of New York's Institute of Religious Studies while teaching religious education in his local parish. Mr. Byrne has had a 20 plus year legal career as the managing partner in his own law firm, as a senior attorney in county government, and as a municipal attorney and prosecutor. He was an elected Judge in New York for 16 years and completed his elected public service as a Trustee in local government. For more than 16 years, Mr. Byrne was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Manhattan College, The College of Mount Saint Vincent, Iona College and Dominican College where he taught courses in American Government, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Business Law, among others. He also was instrumental in helping develop a new curriculum in Criminal Justice at Dominican College where he taught the first courses offered in Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Mental Health Law. He and his wife Maribet and their sons, Matt and Jack have relocated to Ave Maria from New York and are thrilled to be a part of the Donahue Academy family.
Alexis Casterline, B.A.
Alexis Casterline graduated with a B.A in Elementary Education from Ave Maria University in 2019. She taught first grade for two years at Eden Park Elementary School in Immokalee. Miss Casterline grew up in Northeast Ohio and moved to Florida in 2015. She is excited to be at Donahue Academy where she gets to give and receive the goodness of Christ daily.
Melody Curtis, M.Ed.
Mrs. Curtis moved from the Midwest to Ave Maria in June 2016 with her husband, Michael. She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum & Instruction and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Childhood Education from Lourdes University. Teaching, leading and serving is her passion, as previous experiences and accomplishments in Catholic school administration and teacher-leadership roles have been fueled by witness to the faith and a firm belief in the power of Catholic education for almost 20 years.
James Dillon, M.A
Latin 7, 8, 9 & 10; Theology 10 & 12
Having lived in Florida for the majority of his childhood before heading to the Southern California coast, Mr. Dillon is pleased to return to the community where he did his Master's studies in theology to share what he has learned with his students. Mr. Dillon earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and his M.A. from Ave Maria University. Mr. Dillon also studied Music Composition at the college level. He comes back to Ave most recently from Annapolis, MD, where he taught high school Latin and Rhetoric. Some of his personal interests include fishing, guitar, basketball, and fine art. He is thankful for the opportunity to pursue St. Anselm's principle of "faith seeking understanding" in theology classes and study the language of the Church with the wonderful students at Donahue Academy.
Linda Fox, B.A.
Mrs. Fox graduated from Ohio Dominican College Summa Cum Laude with majors in English, Theology, and Education. She has 18 years of teaching experience in Catholic high schools and grammar schools, and over 40 years of teaching experience. She and her family were among the founding families of Donahue Academy. Her three oldest children graduated from the Academy, and are now an engineer, a federal prosecutor, and a postpartum nurse. She has a passion for teaching, especially the young, and introducing them to the love of Christ and His Church.
Mary Catherine Froula, B.A.
Latin III
Mary Catherine grew up in Connecticut in a classically homeschooled family of ten children. She earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College in California, graduating in 2019 with the equivalent of a double major in philosophy and theology and a minor in mathematics. It was there that she discovered a love for learning and Catholic education that brought her to Ave Maria University to earn a Master's in theology and teach Latin part time. After finishing graduate studies she hopes to continue teaching full time (preferably within the subject matter of Humanities), and until then is grateful to be a part of forming the students at Donahue in the scholastic tradition. In her free time she enjoys reading novels (and attempting to write some of her own!), running, biking, and listening to Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.
Amy Gawron, B.A.
Mrs. Amy Gawron graduated from Franciscan University in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. In 2016, she moved from Rhode Island to Ave Maria along with a large family group that included her mom and two siblings! Her six children all entered Donahue Academy: the youngest in Kindergarten and the oldest as a senior in high school. Amy was happy to get involved too, first as a substitute teacher and then as co-teacher in first grade. When Donahue added a Pre-K program, she was invited to be the lead teacher and opened the Donahue Pre-K in 2017. She has since earned a Director Credential with the Florida Department of Children and Families. She finds great joy in welcoming the littlest ones into the Donahue family!
Cassie Graham, M.A.
Algebra 8; Geometry 9; Pre-Calculus 10; Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry 11; Honors Statistics 12
Mrs. Cassie Graham holds a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College in Minnesota and a M.A. in mathematics from the University of Washington. Since 1998, when she started teaching, she has taught everything from early childhood math fundamentals to algebra to calculus to statistics in many varied settings, including a public high school, college classrooms, a boarding school, and at home with her small children.
Though Mrs. Graham cannot imagine a more exciting or fulfilling job than teaching math, she is grateful for the many other opportunities she has at Donahue to work with students, including coaching cross country and hosting formational lunches for the high school girls. She is also ecstatic to be able to bring her passion for teaching to the school in which her husband teaches and at which her six children attend.
Ethan Graham, M.A, M.T.S.
Humanities 10 & 12; Calculus 11 & 12
Mr. Graham graduated in 1995 from Stanford University with an honors degree in humanities; he then completed a religious studies master's degree at Syracuse University in 1998 and a pastoral theology degree through Ave Maria University in 2010. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation in theology of pedagogy. Mr. Graham has been a high school teacher for over 20 years and is currently Dean of the upper school academics while full-time teaching alongside his wife, Cassie, who teaches mathematics. Mr. Graham also coaches cross country and soccer, runs the Model UN program, and assists with the Shakespeare in Performance play each year. Mr. and Mrs. Graham currently have all 6 of their children attending the school from 3rd to 12th grade.
Carole Hart, B.S.N.
Teacher Aide Kindergarten
Mrs. Carole Hart grew up in a military family, where she lived in different places such as Greece and Germany. After college graduation, she joined the Air Force and met her husband in Turkey.
She is grateful for the marriage vocation, being a stay-at-home mom for 20 years, and loves to encounter Christ in His little children.
Mark Jahnke, M.A.
Humanities 9 & 11; Latin IV
Mr. Jahnke graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a B.A. in Philosophy and in Catholic Studies as well as an M.A. in Catholic Studies. He has taught humanities, Latin, algebra and held various administrative positions. He is grateful for the blessing of leading such an excellent school where students joyfully pursue Truth, Beauty and Goodness through Catholic classical education. Mr. Jahnke, his wife and seven children reside in Ave Maria and are blessed to send the eldest five to Donahue Academy.
Margaret Kelly, M. Ed.
Ms. Kelly earned a B. A. in Elementary Education at the University of Florida in 2016, and completed her M. Ed. in Special Education at the same institution the following year. While finishing her graduate studies, Ms. Kelly began working as a Resource Teacher for grades K-2 in a rural public school. She feels very blessed to extend her vocation as a teacher by sharing the Catholic faith with students and to be a part of the Donahue family!
Dcn. Thomas Kinnick, S.T.L.
Athletic Director; Youth Ministry; Moral Theology 7, 8, 9, & 11
Deacon Kinnick graduated from St. Norbert College with a B.A. in Psychology and later earned a M.A. in Theology from St. Mary's College of Ave Maria University and a S.T.L. from Mundelein Seminary-University of St. Mary of the Lake. In 2007, he was ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He has spent the last 35 years in education—working as teacher, administrator, campus minister, and coach. He also has extensive experience working for the Catholic Church: as full-time permanent deacon, Director of Faith Formation, and spiritual director; as instructor of both the Lay Formation Institute and the Formation Program for the Permanent Diaconate for the Diocese of La Crosse; as speaker/presenter conducting parish missions, delivering motivational and catechetical speeches for men's and women's conferences and youth, parish, and school events and diocesan staff, school, and clergy training as well as appearing as guest apologist for Relevant Radio and Spirit Radio; and as theological consultant for the USCCB, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and the Dioceses of La Crosse and Madison. In conjunction with the North American Lourdes Volunteers organization, Deacon Kinnick also has led 6 youth/adult service pilgrimages to Lourdes, France, a place he describes as the intersection of the Cross, the vertical with the horizontal—where we offer perfect glory, honor, and praise to God through our service of the disabled, the sick, and the dying of the world.
Deacon Kinnick moved to Ave Maria with his wife of 35 years, Yvette, and two younger children (who attend Donahue Academy) in the summer of 2017 to be close to his two older children (graduates of AMU) and grandchildren, fulfilling a promise he made to himself in 2010, after his initial visit to Ave Maria, to move his family to Florida and to be part of this community of Our Lady dedicated not only to the search for goodness and truth and beauty but also to developing young people of virtue eager to take part in JP II's call for the New Evangelization.
Jennifer Klucinec, B.A.
Ms. Klucinec has taught 4th grade at Donahue Academy for 13 years and counting. She has previously taught at other Catholic schools in Illinois and Wisconsin, totaling a 28-year career thus far. She has also enjoyed being a teacher-author for companies such as St. Benedict Press and Teachers Pay Teachers, Inc. She enjoys golf, cooking, softball, composing music, and watching the Steelers! The best part of teaching is seeing her former 4th graders graduate from high school, and then come back and visit their old classroom!
B.A. Liberal Arts, Magdalen College; State of Florida K-6 Elementary Educator Certification; Diocese of Venice Intermediate Catechetical Degree.
Conner McCormick, B.S.
Science 6, 7, 8; Algebra 10
Mr. McCormick graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a B.S. in Forensic Science. While attending college, he also served as a Life-teen Missionary, where he served middle school aged youth in Georgia. He also volunteered with the youth ministry group at Ave Maria Parish. Teaching at Donahue provides an even better opportunity to serve and minister, as well as share a deep appreciation for the sciences and the pursuit of all that is True, Good, and Beautiful. Mr. McCormick married his wife, Jasmine, in July 2015 and they have four children.
Jasmine McCormick, B.A.
Biology 9; Chemistry 10; Anatomy and Advanced Scientific Topics 11; Physics 12
Mrs. Jasmine McCormick holds a B.A. in Biology from Ave Maria University and a M.A. in Bioethics from Creighton University in Nebraska. While studying at AMU, she also worked as the Director of Youth Ministries for Ave Maria Parish where she discovered her love of working with teens. Teaching the rhetoric level sciences allows her to continue to minister to teens while also sharing her deep love of science and passion for bioethics. The profoundly Catholic and classical environment of Donahue Academy offers a truly unique environment in which the science courses can be fully integrated with philosophical, theological, and ethical inquires as the students are taught that "the scientist loves truth wherever he find it" (Langford). It is this unique educational environment that convinced her and her husband, Conner, that Ave Maria needed to be their home. They feel abundantly blessed to work at Donahue and raise their four children in such a supportive and faithful community.
Jennifer Minter, B.M., M.M.
Teacher Aide First Grade
Mrs. Minter grew up in the Washington D.C. area where she earned her B.M. and M.M. in Music Education from Catholic University. She lived in Atlanta, GA for 13 years before moving to Ave Maria in 2019 with her husband and 6 children. She has been both an orchestra/band teacher, and an elementary school classroom teacher. Her 3 youngest children attend Donahue Academy.
Theresa O'Hern, M.S.
Assistant Athletic Director; Physical Education K-12
Miss O'Hern holds a B.S. in Communications from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a M.S. in Exercise Science from Georgia State University. She transitioned into education after working in the health and wellness industry as she felt God calling her to serve Him through teaching. Originally from New York, Miss O'Hern worked for the Diocese of St. Petersburg as a PE and Religion teacher prior to joining Donahue Academy. In her free time, she enjoys exercising, cooking, baking, reading, and learning about the richness of our faith. She is grateful to be part of the Donahue Academy family and hopes to instill virtue and a love of Christ in her students.
Lisa Rochefort, M.S.
Humanities 6; Math 6; Theology 6; Grammar 7
A native Floridian, Ms. Rochefort began undergraduate studies with Gannon University in Erie, PA and Christendom College in Front Royal, VA, earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, FL and a Master of Science in English Education from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She embarked upon her vocation as a homeschooling mother until God led her into the Diocese of Palm Beach as a Florida-certified instructor teaching in grades PK3 – 8 in addition to serving at various times as Media Specialist, Director of Religious Education, and Director of Family Life Ministry. Additional teaching experience outside the Diocese includes public and private schools grades 6-12, private tutoring, and volunteering as an adult literacy tutor. She remains passionate about teaching and learning while continuing to enjoy the blessings of her six adult children, scuba diving, and target practice. She loves being at Donahue Academy to walk with and guide her students in the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.
Dené Rosser, B.A.
Mrs. Rosser graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a B.S. in Elementary and Special Education. She most recently served as the Director of Religious Education for Holy Spirit Parish in Montgomery, Alabama. Prior to that role, she and her husband, Tyler, served four years as missionaries with FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, helping college students grow in their Catholic faith and evangelize their peers. Mrs. Rosser's passion is working with children and fostering a love of learning from the early years and she is excited to be a part of the Donahue Academy. The Rossers reside in Ave Maria with their four children.
Wendy Thong, B.A.
Teacher Aid
Mrs. Thong moved to Ave Maria from Michigan in August 2018 with her husband Stephen. She received a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and a certificate in elementary education from Northeastern Illinois University. Mrs. Thong taught second grade at a Catholic school in Chicago until her first child was born. She was blessed to be able to stay home with her children. Now that her children are all grown, she is happy to be working in a Catholic school again and loves sharing her faith with the little ones.
Thomas Carroll, B.A.
Director of Marketing and Development
Mr. Carroll holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Marquette University where he also minored in Theology and completed Pre-Dental studies. After Marquette University, he enrolled in La Pontificia' Universita della Santa Croce in Rome, Italy. His thesis for his Licenza in Institutional Social Communications was "I'm Having a Baby, Not an A-Word: Abortion in Cinema."
Mr. Carroll lives in Ave Maria with his wife and four children.
Dr. Dianne Fabii, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, MCC
Dr. Fabii comes to the diocese with an extensive background in education and counseling services. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she obtained her Bachelor's degree in special education from LaSalle University and Master's degree in education from St. Joseph's University. After teaching both in Philadelphia and in England, she moved to New Jersey and completed requirements to obtain several certifications and licensure in counseling. She conducted a private counseling practice there for over fifteen years. Dianne has worked in K-12 schools, colleges and the non-profit sector providing school counseling and career development services. A committed life-long learner, Dianne completed her Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 2017 in the field of Childhood Studies, the first program of its kind in the United States. She relocated to southwest Florida in 2015.
Passionate about helping children reach their greatest potential, Dianne has traveled extensively throughout southern India on many mission trips. She has lectured there on mental health topics, as well as raised funds for a variety of schools and programs, both locally and abroad.
Lacey Fairchild, B.S.
Mrs. Fairchild graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from the Florida State University College of Business. After college, she worked in the sales industry as a pharmaceutical sales representative. A native Floridian, she grew up in Fort Myers and has lived in Florida her entire life. She moved to Ave Maria in 2016 with her husband, Quentin, and their 4 children so that her children could attend Donahue. She is so excited to be a part of Donahue Academy!
Lisa Guernsey, B.S.N, R.N.
Mrs. Guernsey graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BA in Philosophy and BSN in Nursing. She moved from Ann Arbor, MI to Ave Maria in 2007 with her 6 children and husband Dan who started up the Donahue Academy. In addition to her time here as a school nurse, she has experience in medical/surgical nursing, wound care. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and sports.
Craig Kadlec, B.S.
Mr. Kadlec graduated with a B.S in Accounting from West Chester University. After college, he became a small business owner, operating his own copy, print and shipping business. In addition to owning and operating that business, he also became the V.P. of Finance for a warehousing & fulfillment company. He, his wife, Beth, and their 4 children moved to Ave Maria in 2014. All of their children attend the Donahue Academy and Mr. Kadlec is extremely excited to be a part of the Donahue Academy staff and to be working in the school his children attend!
Veronica Lendman
Admissions Coordinator
Born and raised in Ojai, California, Mrs. Lendman has an extensive background in medicine, having earned EMT and Paramedic licenses followed by a Master's program in pediatric physical therapy at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. She and her husband, Daniel, along with their children, moved from Trumau, Austria to Ave Maria in 2016 so he could pursue and complete his doctoral studies at Ave Maria University. With three of their five children currently attending Donahue Academy, Mrs. Lendman loves being a part of such a nurturing community and is eager to welcome other students and their families into the school.
Nathan Morris
Mr. Morris moved to Ave Maria in 2008 from Illinois where, after spending 2 years in the seminary and desiring to continue studies, he sought out a Catholic University and found himself enrolling at Ave Maria University. Liking the Florida weather, he decided to start working for AMU's facilities department, allowing him to remain in his new found home. He met his wife at AMU where she is a professor. They have one daughter so far. Six years later, he earned his Florida Community Association Manager's license and began managing many of the associations in the town of Ave Maria. With his previous experience of maintaining the school when he worked for AMU, he was excited to come back and manage the facilities for Donahue Academy.
Ana Umana, B.S.
Ana holds a B.S. in Business Administration, with a Major in Hospitality Management. She worked for renowned hotel chains in Venezuela, Holland and in the US (Miami), where she worked as a Catering Manager for 5 years. But something was missing and she decided to discern God's Will for her life.
During the process, Ana started working as an assistant teacher at St. Gregory School, while pursuing a degree in Early Childhood Education. She served in various ministries in her Parish, worked with the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart leading mission trips to El Salvador and for the past 4 years, she was the Office Manager at St. Gregory.
Ana, her husband John Paul, and their daughter Sophia fell in love with Ave Maria on their first visit! One year later, she joined our team and Sophia attends 5th grade at Donahue Academy. Ana is passionate about serving our community and is looking forward to meeting each and every one of you.
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A crowd small in size, but great in their devotion to wrestling roared either approval or disbelief over every match, as South Hagerstown hosted North Hagerstown for city bragging rights Saturday afternoon.
When the noise finally subsided, North had earned a 36-24 victory.
"We got pins when we needed them," said North coach Greg Slick. "Our kids have worked very hard and they just hung in there."
The Hubs won seven weight classes, five of them by pins, in a dual meet where freshmen provided plenty of surprises and excitement.
South freshman John Showe (103) started off with a surprise victory over Rob Wells, who was 9-1 coming into the match. Although Wells was stronger, Showe used a tilt for back points to cap his 6-4 decision. North's Ian Young (112) answered with three ankle picks in his 10-8 decision over Shawn Baker. Hubs Richie Dean (119) and David Curry (119) each registered pins to put North ahead.
Senior Rebel Jeremy Wiles (130) moved to 7-1 on the season with a 10-6 decision over Seth Staley. Wiles, who couldn't get the first takedown with a single-leg, promptly switched to a double. Using a tight waist grip and a very aggressive style, Wiles never relinquished his lead and gave North a 15-6 cushion.
State-ranked senior Kane Staley (135), who is now 13-3, took just 1:39 to snap down, take down and pin Troy Butts. Jason Romberger (140) took longer, but still pinned Aaron Zimmerman 12 seconds before the end of the match.
In the 145-pound bout, little happened until the third period, when South's Dave Boyer rallied for a takedown and got put on his back by Ryan Romberger for a 9-3 decision.
South was showing plenty of heart, but inexperience was taking its toll. Then Rebel freshman Bo Repp (152) outlasted Chris Demshire, 5-0. His teammate Rob Herr( 160), in a very emotional match-up, decisioned John Skrabak, 5-1. Junior Jason Priecko (171) roared onto the mat, pinning Terry Harnish in 1:12, pulling the Rebels within 30-18.
Enter North freshman Jeff Seidman (189), who pinned his freshman opponent Jake Howell just as fast, to a giant roar from the Hubs fans. Luke Englund (HWT) received a forfeit, but it didn't matter.
"It's a slow learning process," said South coach Brian Brake. "Our kids are in good shape, and they keep improving."


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KYLIAN MBAPPE kept up with his PSG teammates' pre-season action as he relaxed on holiday after winning the World Cup with France.
The 19-year-old watched on as Timothy Weah, son of former legendary PSG striker George, opened the scoring in Klagenfurt against Bayern Munich with his first ever goal for the club.
Mbappe will be given time to recover after winning the ultimate prize with France in Russia, scoring four times in the tournament including in the final against Croatia.
His performances won him Young Player of the Tournament honours, with many claiming he is now among Europe and world football's elite stars.
And in his absence another young star led the line for PSG, as the famous Weah name began a new chapter at the club, opening the scoring before Bayern came back to win 3-1 in the International Champions Cup opener.
Latching onto a through ball over the top of Bayern's defence, Weah outpaced his marker before slotting underneath the onrushing Sven Ulreich for his first ever PSG goal.
PSG went on to lose game to Bayern, who used a quick-fire second-half treble from Javi Martinez, Renato Sanches and 17-year-old Joshua Zirkzee to claim the win.
The result propels Bayern to the top of the pre-season tournament's table, as they battle it out with 18 teams - including last season's Premier League top six - for the title.
Timothy follows in the footsteps of a footballing legend, with his father having scored more than 200 career goals in a 18-year career that spanned seven different countries.
Timothy's father George signed for the Parisians from Arsene Wenger's Monaco in 1992 before joining AC Milan in 1995, the year he won the Ballon d'Or.
George made 138 appearances for the club, scoring 55 times, while his 18-year-old son made his first league appearances for them earlier this year.
Brief spells with Chelsea, where he scored the winner on debut against Spurs, and Manchester City in England at the turn of the century were less successful, but he remains one of the most feared strikers ever to come out of Africa.
While father George is a hero in Liberia, becoming their President earlier this year, Timothy turns out for the US national teams, having been born in New York City.
Timothy's meteoric rise began when he left New York Red Bulls for Paris in 2014.
He gained a first senior call-up in March 2018, becoming the first player born in the 21st century to represent the United States when he came off the bench against Paraguay.
Two months later on his first international start, Weah became the fourth-youngest player ever to score for the US, when he netted in a friendly against Bolivia.
Speaking in March when he first called Weah up to the senior squad, interim US head coach Dave Sarachan was overflowing with praise for the youngster.
Sarachan said: "Tim has obviously been very successful with our youth national teams.
"More recently with PSG, he's been playing for a more high-profile club who has seen fit to give him first-team minutes, which is a great sign for his progression.
"He's a versatile player that can fit in at a couple of different positions, and when you have speed and technical ability combined as a young kid, I think he's an interesting prospect to offer an opportunity to."
Weah's chances in the PSG first team may be limited for the time being by the likes of Edinson Cavani and Mbappe himself.
But alongside his French counterpart, he appears destined to follow his father's path.


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Another study showing serious frac harm: Women near frac sites 40 per cent more likely to give birth prematurely, and 30 per cent increase in chance that an obstetrician had labeled their pregnancy high-risk
Posted on October 10, 2015 by Jessica Ernst
Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS INCREASED RISK OF ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES CLOSER TO ACTIVE UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS WELLS Press Release by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, October 8, 2015
Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and for having high-risk pregnancies, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
The findings, published online last week in the journal Epidemiology, shed light on some of the possible adverse health outcomes associated with the fracking industry, which has been booming in the decade since the first wells were drilled. Health officials have been concerned about the effect of this type of drilling on air and water quality, as well as the stress of living near a well where just developing the site of the well can require 1,000 truck trips on once-quiet roads.
"The growth in the fracking industry has gotten way out ahead of our ability to assess what the environmental and, just as importantly, public health impacts are," says study leader Brian S. Schwartz, MD, a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School. "More than 8,000 unconventional gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania alone and we're allowing this while knowing almost nothing about what it can do to health. Our research adds evidence to the very few studies that have been done in showing adverse health outcomes associated with the fracking industry."
In Pennsylvania in 2006, there were fewer than 100 unconventional gas wells; now there are more than 8,000.
For his study, Schwartz and his colleagues analyzed data from Geisinger Health System, which covers 40 counties in north and central Pennsylvania. They studied the records of 9,384 mothers who gave birth to 10,946 babies between January 2009 and January 2013. They compared that data with information about wells drilled for fracking and looked at how close they were to the homes of the pregnant mothers as well as what stage of drilling the wells were in, how deep the wells were dug and how much gas was being produced at the wells during the mothers' pregnancies. Using this information, they developed an index of how active each of the wells were and how close they were to the women.
The researchers found that living in the most active quartile of drilling and production activity was associated with a 40 percent increase in the likelihood of a woman giving birth before 37 weeks of gestation (considered pre-term) and a 30 percent increase in the chance that an obstetrician had labeled their pregnancy "high-risk," a designation that can include factors such as elevated blood pressure or excessive weight gain during pregnancy. When looking at all of the pregnancies in the study, 11 percent of babies were born preterm, with the majority (79 percent) born between 32 and 36 weeks.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that preterm-related causes of death together accounted for 35 percent of all infant deaths in 2010, more than any other single cause. Being born prematurely is also a leading cause of long-term neurological disabilities in children. Preterm birth cost the U.S. health care system more than $26 billion in 2005, they say.
While the study can't pinpoint why the pregnant women had worse outcomes near the most active wells, Schwartz says that every step of the drilling process has an environmental impact. When the well pads are created, diesel equipment is used to clear acres of land, transport equipment and drill the wells themselves. Drilling down thousands of feet and then horizontally many more thousands of feet requires heavy equipment to break up the shale where the gas sits. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) then involves injecting millions of liters of water mixed with chemicals and sand to fracture the shale. The fluids are then pumped back to the surface. The gas itself also releases pollutants.
Schwartz also says that having a well developed nearby results in increased noise, road traffic and other changes that can increase maternal stress levels.
"Now that we know this is happening we'd like to figure out why," Schwartz says. "Is it air quality? Is it the stress? They're the two leading candidates in our minds at this point."
Energy companies moved to natural gas wells dug using fracking when gas prices were high and supplies were low. While New York State has banned fracking altogether and there is a moratorium on it in Maryland, Pennsylvania has embraced the industry.
At the peak in 2011, Pennsylvania dug 1,900 wells and gas was $12.11 per thousand cubic feet. And while production is down as prices have plummeted – the state is on track for fewer than 500 new wells in 2015 with the price at $3.69 per thousand cubic feet in July – Schwartz predicts the economy will again shift and fracking will again be back in favor.
Nevertheless, Schwartz says policymakers must understand there may be real risks as they make decisions on future wells. While the research is still in its infancy, Schwartz says everything that has come out so far should give decision makers cause for concern.
"The first few studies have all shown health impacts," he says. "Policymakers need to consider findings like these in thinking about how they allow this industry to go forward."
"Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA" was written by Joan A. Casey, David A. Savitz, Sara G. Rasmussen, Elizabeth L. Ogburn, Jonathan Pollak, Dione G. Mercer and Brian S. Schwartz.The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES023675-01, ES071541), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Heath & Society Scholars Program and the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship. [Emphasis added]
Epidemiology. 2015 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]
Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA.
Casey JA1, Savitz DA, Rasmussen SG, Ogburn EL, Pollak J, Mercer DG, Schwartz BS.
Unconventional natural gas development has expanded rapidly. In Pennsylvania, the number of producing wells increased from 0 in 2005 to 3,689 in 2013. Few publications have focused on unconventional natural gas development and birth outcomes.
We performed a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data on 9,384 mothers linked to 10,946 neonates in the Geisinger Health System from January 2009 to January 2013. We estimated cumulative exposure to unconventional natural gas development activity with an inverse-distance squared model that incorporated distance to the mother's home; dates and durations of well pad development, drilling, and hydraulic fracturing; and production volume during the pregnancy. We used multilevel linear and logistic regression models to examine associations between activity index quartile and term birth weight, preterm birth, low 5-minute Apgar score and small size for gestational age birth, while controlling for potential confounding variables.
In adjusted models, there was an association between unconventional natural gas development activity and preterm birth that increased across quartiles, with a fourth quartile odds ratio of 1.4 (95% confidence interval = 1.0, 1.9). There were no associations of activity with Apgar score, small for gestational age birth, or term birth weight (after adjustment for year). In a posthoc analysis, there was an association with physician-recorded high-risk pregnancy identified from the problem list (fourth vs. first quartile, 1.3 [95% confidence interval = 1.1, 1.7]).
Prenatal residential exposure to unconventional natural gas development activity was associated with two pregnancy outcomes, adding to evidence that unconventional natural gas development may impact health.
Johns Hopkins study links fracking and premature births
Fracking associated with high risk pregnancies and premature babies: study by Allison Vuchnich, October 9, 2015, Global News
Expectant mothers living near active hydraulic fracking natural gas wells have been found to be at an increased risk of premature birth and for having high-risk pregnancies, according to a new study.
"The growth in the fracking industry has gotten way out ahead of our ability to assess what the environmental and, just as importantly, public health impacts are," says study leader Brian Schwartz, a professor in the department of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
For the study, published in the journal Epidemiology, Schwartz studied the records of 9,384 mothers in Pennsylvania who gave birth to 10,946 babies between January 2009 and January 2013. The authors also compared how close the pregnant women lived to active fracking sites.
"More than 8,000 unconventional gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania alone, and we're allowing this while knowing almost nothing about what it can do to health," said Schwartz.
… Fracking is growing quickly in Canada and the United States. According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, "more than 215,000 wells have been hydraulically fractured in Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan."
… Researchers found that living "in the most active quartile of drilling and production activity was associated with a 40 per cent increase in the likelihood of a woman giving birth before 37 weeks of gestation (considered pre-term) and a 30 per cent increase in the chance that an obstetrician had labeled their pregnancy high-risk," according to Johns Hopkins.
Global News contacted the petroleum industry associations in Canada and the United States; they did not provide any official reaction or statement to the study. The American Petroleum Institute referred our questions to an industry consumer site put out by the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). [Cowards?]
What is unclear is why these mothers are more at risk.
Schwartz said that increased noise, road traffic and other changes can increase maternal stress levels; another issue may be air quality.
Dr. Schwartz is urging policy makers to be cautious on future wells.
"The first few studies have all shown health impacts," Swartz said. "Policymakers need to consider findings like these in thinking about how they allow this industry to go forward."
Pregnant women 'at risk' from fracking, research says by Jack Loughran, October 9, 2015,
Engineering and Technology Magazine
A new study reports that women near fracking sites are 40 per cent more likely to give birth prematurely
Women who live near fracking sites are more likely give birth prematurely and have high-risk pregnancies, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The study, led by professor Brian Schwartz, was conducted in Pennsylvania and used data from Geisinger Health System, which covers 40 counties in north and central Pennsylvania, to reach the findings.
The researchers analysed the records of 9,384 mothers who gave birth to 10,946 babies between January 2009 and January 2013.
This data was compared with information about wells drilled for fracking and how close they were to the homes of the pregnant mothers, as well as what stage of drilling the wells were in, how deep the wells were dug and how much gas was being produced at the wells during the mothers' pregnancies.
Using this information, they developed an index of how active each of the wells were and how close they were to the women.
The researchers found that women living in areas of active drilling and production activity were on average 40 per cent more likely to give birth before 37 weeks of gestation (considered pre-term).
They also found a 30 per cent increase in the chance that an obstetrician had labelled their pregnancy "high-risk," a designation that can include factors such as elevated blood pressure or excessive weight gain during pregnancy.
When looking at all of the pregnancies in the study, 11 per cent of babies were born preterm, with the majority (79 per cent) born between 32 and 36 weeks.
"The growth in the fracking industry has gotten way out ahead of our ability to assess what the environmental and, just as importantly, public health impacts are," Schwartz said.
"More than 8,000 unconventional gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania alone and we're allowing this while knowing almost nothing about what it can do to health.
… Fracking in Pennsylvania has exploded in recent years. In 2006, there were fewer than 100 unconventional gas wells, now there are more than 8,000.
In the past, health officials have been concerned about the effect that fracking has on air and water quality, as well as the stress of living near a well where just developing the site of the well can require 1,000 truck trips on once-quiet roads.
A report published in October 2013 by the UK Department of Health sub-body Public Health England concluded that the risk to people's health from fracking was low, as long as the process is "properly run and regulated". [Where in the world has frac'ing ever been "properly run and regulated?"]
[Refer also to:
2015: Pennsylvania Study Links Fracking to Health Hazards in Fetuses, Infants, Young Children: 35.1% more cancer in children ages zero to four in heavily frac'd counties. Compare to AER's belittling, dismissive health non-study in the Lochend and Compare to AER's privacy violating, belittling, lying, dismissive health non-study in Didsbury [far too shoddy and rude a study to link to]
2015: Fracking in Utah. What's Killing the Babies of Vernal: A Fracking Boomtown, a spike in stillborn deaths and a gusher of unanswered questions
2015: Sounds like Alberta (Again)! Utah energy boomtown turns on midwife who raised concerns over apparent spike in infant deaths: "Could the deaths be tied to the oil industry, the region's economic powerhouse?"
2015: Another New Study Showing Frac Harm: 'Fracking' Linked to Low Birth Weight Babies, Pregnant women who live near multiple natural gas wells tend to have smaller infants
2015: Elaine Hill interview on her research that was attacked by frac industry; One of the first scholarly explorations of health harm caused by fracing
2014: Diana Daunheimer: Alberta Energy Regulator should be ashamed, AER Directive 60 Deregulation as the frac poisons ramp up
2014: New study links fracking to birth defects in heavily drilled Colorado, Risks of some birth defects increased as much as 30 percent in mothers who lived near oil and gas wells
2014: New Study Shows Fracking Is Bad for Babies, Research builds on and affirms research in Pennsylvania by Elaine L. Hill
2014: In Utah Oil Boom Town, Dramatic Spike in Infant Deaths after Drilling and Fracing Raises Questions; Industry Funded Study Intends to Leave Out 2013 – the Year with Most Infant Deaths
2014: Alberta Energy and Environment Regulators Play Catch 22: Fracking and ill health Full Interviews: Canaries in Coal Mines, Air Monitoring Appeals by David Kattenburg, December 14, 2014
Bob Willard, Senior advisor at the Alberta Energy Regulator, agreed to speak about current regulations.
David Kattenburg: Why aren't these things being monitored for in the gases that are coming out from flaring and incineration stacks?
Bob: The long list that you've identified would be the responsibility for monitoring of not only the Alberta Energy Regulator, but the Environment department themselves, and I would direct you once again to ESRD for them to identify what their plans are relative to updating those guidelines.
David: I have actually, I've tried valiantly I'd say to try to get them to explain to me why they have these guidelines that say all industry MUST conform to these guidelines, and then I said well why does directive 60 of the Alberta Energy Regulator only establish monitoring requirements for sulfur dioxide and he said: "speak to the Alberta Energy Regulator."
Bob: Um, it is important, and this is something the Energy Regulator does lead, is capturing the metrics of the volumes of material, so we do have good metrics as to the volumetrics.
David: But essentially nothing about the composition of those gases, other than sulfur dioxide.
Bob: A totally accurate composition, I would certainly volunteer that no, we do not have a totally accurate comprehensive information on the flare composition rather, we have it for the uh volumes, but not necessarily for the compositions.
FrackingCanada: Merry Christmas Alberta! 2012, Mountain View County
2013: Elaine Hill: The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health in Colorado
2012: Link Between Low Birth Weight and Fracking, Says New Research


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Brexit's Great Repeal Bill will axe the right to health, warn experts
by British Medical Journal
Brexit's Great Repeal Bill will axe the right to health, warn experts in The BMJ today.
Peter Roderick and Allyson Pollock from the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, argue that "the fundamental right to health in the UK will be lost if the government proceeds with its plan not to convert the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights into UK law, as announced in the white paper on the Great Repeal Bill."
They explain how the value of this charter was shown last year, in both EU and UK courts, when the tobacco industry unsuccessfully challenged the new rules on plain packaging of cigarettes.
One of the industry's arguments was that the rules violated its rights. But both the EU Court of Justice and the High Court in London used the right to health in article 35 of the charter as a counter weight to that argument.
"The government's proposal not to maintain the fundamental rights charter means that after Brexit it will not be possible for a UK judge to use article 35 or other charter rights when interpreting UK laws that have derived from the EU," they write.
"These include laws to protect public health such as on pesticide residues in food, health and safety at work, management and disposal of hazardous substances, regulation of medicinal products, and air and water quality."
They argue that the change "will considerably weaken the ability of judges in future to uphold the law if it is challenged by industry in the courts" and they raise concerns about the arguments put forward by the government to support its intention to dispense with the charter.
"The real protections for public health and inequalities that the charter represents will be set aside if the present government is re-elected in June and its plan to ditch the charter goes ahead," they warn.
And they urge all those concerned about public health and social solidarity "to ask their parliamentary candidates to oppose the government's plan and to amend the Great Repeal Bill after the election in order to keep the charter's protections."
Univision networks back on for Charter customers, for now
More information: Brexit's Great Repeal Bill will axe the right to health , The BMJ, www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2013
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