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Thirteen days. An unexpected twist. The Perfect Mother is a "true page turner" (B.A. Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors).
Aimee Molloy is the author of the New York Times bestseller However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph and the coauthor of several nonfiction books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. The Perfect Mother is her first novel.
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It is common for athletes to send the knees forward when finding the jump position, leaving the shoulders behind the bar. If you were to tell athletes to jump as high as they could, they would most likely load their hips back and send their shoulders forward. If you were to throw a barbell in their hands, this would be considered the most powerful jumping position for the hang power clean. When bringing the bar back down to the top of the knee, have athletes send the hips back and shoulder forward.
The landing position in the hang power clean is often more of a power lean. In the power lean, the hips and the knees track forward, leaving the back in a less than ideal position. In the landing position, looking to use the legs as shocks. Athletes can accomplish this by landing with the hips slightly back. Starting in the jump position, the order of operations goes hips back – jump – hips back.
Moving from hang power cleans directly to the wall balls, that will be a considerable amount of time spend in the front rack position. When the ball starts dropping towards the ground, it will feel significantly heavier and has a farther distance to travel to the target. The better athletes can keep the ball high on the body and close to the chest, the less fatigued this position will be. Trying to make this as similar to a barbell thruster as possible.
At the top of the movement, athletes frequently leave their hands straight overhead after throwing the ball to the target. Leaving the arms in the air over the course of many repetitions increases the time under tension and causes extra fatigue. After launching the ball upward, have athletes relax the arms back down to the front rack position to receiving the medicine ball for the next repetition. This will enable athletes to hold on for larger sets on both the wall balls, and later on the dumbbell and toes to bar.
No matter how efficiently athletes use their legs on the previous two movements, it is inevitable that the arms will become fatigued. The row can either be a place to let them recover, or a place where fatigue is multiplied. A big lean back and pull with the arms is often the culprit. A quick change of direction with the shoulders is front of the hips in the catch position will help athletes get more out of their legs. Putting this effort into the front of the stroke will limit the amount of lean at the back of the stroke and help preserve the arms.
Finding a proper catch position is important on every stoke. It is often seen that shoulder are way behind the hips in the catch. Just like this is a bad position on the clean, it is a bad position for the row. Want athletes to delay a torso lean and a knee bend until the handle reaches the shins. Doing so will make for efficient strokes throughout the workout.
While it is tempting to open up with large or unbroken sets, consistency will help athletes get their best possible score today. Opening with a set of 20+ is impressive, but unlikely able to be maintained. This workout is not won is the first round, rather a collective effort of each round. On the hang power cleans and the wall balls, sets of 2×15, 3×10, or even 6×5 will be best depending on the athlete. A pace that is slightly slower than athletes 2k pace will help them seamlessly transition back to the barbell.
While these are not tempo back squats, controlling the descent will allow athletes to stay in a good position and maintain tension. It is common to see athletes use a bounce, or stretch reflex, in the bottom of the squat to help them stand up. There is a benefit to utilizing the stretch reflex when trying to lift as much weight as possible, but for today's purposes, a controlled eccentric (down) portion and explosive (up) concentric portion will better enable athletes to stay mechanically sound and keep their midline engaged throughout.
Instead of using the stretch reflex for tension and extra assistance, athletes can think about spreading the floor with the feet. Spreading the floor outward recruits more glute and hamstrings, the same muscles that contribute to the stretch reflex. The more muscle involved, the greater the potential for the lift.
When moving through sets of back squats at increasing weights, we want to make sure that athletes are keeping their chest up throughout the whole movement. When tired, the hips have the tendency to rise first, making for a longer bar path while putting extra strain on the lower back. Keeping the chest up helps the bar stay balanced over the mid foot and allows the legs to do their job in a good position.
Take your time slowly increasing the weight each set until you reach your 1Rep Max Back Squat.
Maintaining Correct Form Is EVERYTHING!
Utilizing the bands and the rig to do some auxiliary shoulder work to improve strength, flexibility, and conditioning.
Stretching and Mobility every day at Three Danes CrossFit!
Keeping the elbows slightly forward of the bar and getting the head out of the way will make sure the press finishes directly over the center of the body. It often happens that elbows start behind the bar and the bar loops around the head. Although the bar is empty, looking to move very well on these.
Squeezing the core and the glutes will create a stable platform to press from. One of the most common faults seen is an arch of the lower back. Focusing on staying tight will help minimize or avoid this position.
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There are a couple different methods for getting to the standing position of the burpee. On the step up method, athletes will jump one foot to the outside of the one hand, similar to an active spiderman stretch, and then bring the trail leg forward to the outside of the other hand before jumping tall. On the jump up method, athletes will pop both feet up outside of the hands before performing their small jump up. Neither method is wrong, but we are looking for the one that will be most consistent today.
On the jump out of the bottom of the burpee, it is important that athletes jump their feet outside of the hands. Feet sometimes land within the hands, causing athletes to land on their toes into a less stable base. Landing on the toes will also excessively tax the quads. Whether stepping up or jumping up, looking for the feel to land in about squat stance or a little wider.
With the power cleans most likely being performed as singles today, a lot of attention can be placed into moving well while moving the barbell. What is sometimes seen on the power clean is athletes catching with the hips forward and shoulders back. We are looking for athletes to catch each rep with the hips back.
Thinking about the action of the squat clean will also help athletes pull under the bar. As long as the bar is received above parallel, it is still considered a power clean. Over the course of 20 minutes, pulling the body under the bar as opposed to pulling the bar all the way up to a standing position will help athletes preserve their pull and cycle these repetitions at a steadier pace.
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Bring one leg in front of body with the other straight behind. The goal is to have the shin straight across with hips and shoulder squared forward. Lean forward over the front leg to dive deeper into stretch. Elevate onto 24" box.
Place the bottom of one foot completely on an upright of the rig as you step away, bend down, and lean back on the opposite leg. (almost like a Cossack Squat) Then turn and face the upright and slowly bring your hips up to meet the upright while trying to keep your foot on the upright.
1. Extend arms straight before leaning forward with hips towards monitor.
2. When hands have cleared knees, let knees bend which will slide the seat down the rail.
3. Find vertical shin in catch position.
4. Look to make this systematic and second nature over time. This starts with going slow in practice, before adding speed.
1 – Try to close the gap between your armpits and the floor. We can accomplish this by reach farther out with our bent elbows.
2 – Aim to keep the elbows as tight together as you can.
You'll feel this stretch in the shoulders, lats, and triceps. This will bring a higher elbow position today in our front rack.
The further the bar travels down the thigh, the more power we can generate from our hips and legs to propel the bar upward towards the shoulder. With the high hang power clean starting highest up the leg, setting the tone on speed under the bar here will be important for this lift and every other lift. The heavier the weight gets, the greater the speed needed to pull under the bar. A paradigm shift here will help athletes improve technique and move more weight. Instead of thinking about pulling the bar to the shoulders, the focus can be pulling their shoulders down under the bar.
The lower the bar travels and the heavier the weight gets, the more gravity wants to pull the bar away from the body. The further the bar travels away from our center of mass, the harder it will be to control and the heavier it will feel. Getting knuckles down underneath the bar and back towards the body creates a firm grasp and helps the bar stay as close as possible.
Being the third movement of the complex, there may be the temptation to rush this lift and try to rip it off the floor. Being patient until the bar is above the knee will help with keeping the bar close and maintaining a good back position.
The benefit of split jerking is being able to receive the bar in a balanced position, equally distributing the weight between both legs. What tends to happen most frequently is that most of the weight is shifted forward onto the front foot. This can occur due to the front foot not stepping far enough forward or the back leg remaining straight. Making sure athletes get comfortable finding the balanced jerk position in an unloaded environment and with light weight will help them better feel out the receiving position at heavier loads.
Note that there is not a split jerk following each clean, only following the power clean from the floor. Focus points for each portion of the complex below.
Every athlete will have their own barbell as we teach and prep these movements.
When the lats relax, the bar has a tendency to swing away from the body, creating a less efficient bar path to the shoulders. Squeezing the bar tight to the body makes for better control of the weight as it travels to the finish position.
Wherever the forearms are pointed while in the front rack position is where the bar will end up overhead. If our elbows drop in the dip or are behind the bar from the start, the bar will finish out in front of the body. Placing the elbows slightly in front of the bar will result in the forearms pointing directly over the middle of the body, where we want it to go.
Putting all our previous movements together with the clusters. However, one of the things that will change is maintaining a full grip on the bar throughout. Using a loose fingertip grip and re-catching in a full grip overhead is a risky move with a loaded barbell. Thinking about a similar hand position to the push jerk on the clusters.
Athlete 1 will complete 5 calories, then athlete 2, then athlete 3.
Athlete 1 will complete 2 power cleans, then athlete 2, then athlete 3.
Thinking big effort and quick transitions here. We want athletes off the bike before they start to slow down. Picking a calorie number or time interval that works for each team will make for smoothest transitions here.
Potential break-up strategies for barbell movements below. Some numbers are not divisible by 3, so one athlete will have to do more repetitions on those.
Spending one minute opening up the posterior chain, shoulders, and calves. In the down dog position with hips high and elbows locked, pedal feet back and forth towards the ground.
Coming off the wreck bag run, focusing on the breath here will make the workout more manageable. Immediately transition to the bike and use the first few calories to sit tall and recover before finding a consistent pace.
When we run, the arms assist in the movement, but are not the main movers. Same idea on the bike. We want to get the arms involved on the bike enough to take a bit of pressure off the legs for the weighted runs.
There is often the tendency to lean forward at the hips when there is a weight on the shoulders. Keeping the chest high throughout the wreck bag run will minimize fatigue on the lower back and assist with breathing.
While getting the bag to one shoulder is easier, taking the extra seconds to place the bag evenly across the back will be a more comfortable running position. It also minimizes the amount of times you have to move the bag to the other side and doesn't fatigue one side more than the other.
Classic CrossFit benchmark workout with "Barbara" today. Big totals today on these bodyweight movements, with 100 pull-ups, 150 push-ups, 200 sit-ups, and 250 air squats. A couple of modification options for total volume is to drop the rounds to three or change the rep scheme to 10-20-30-40. Looking for this session to take no more than 40 minutes. The first two movements tend to give athletes the most trouble. Choosing proper modifications on both the pull-ups and the push-ups will ensure the best stimulus for each athlete.
30 seconds through all movements, then 20 seconds, then 10 seconds.
Classic CrossFit benchmark workout with "Barbara" today. Big totals today on these bodyweight movements, with 100 pull-ups, 150 push-ups, 200 sit-ups, and 250 air squats. A couple modification options for total volume is to drop the rounds to three or change the rep scheme to 10-20-30-40. Looking for this session to take no more than 40 minutes. The first two movements tend to give athletes the most trouble. Choosing proper modifications on both the pull-ups and the push-ups will ensure the best stimulus for each athlete.


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The first four months of 2015 showed a 64 percent fall in Russian-Ukrainian bilateral trade, according to a World Trade Center (WTC) Moscow report. Some spheres of cooperation were totally devastated.
Russian exports to Ukraine in January-April 2015 in monetary terms amounted to $2.964 billion compared to $8.123 billion in the same period last year,saidthe report prepared for RBC published Wednesday.
"Industrial and technological cooperation is almost ruined: trade turnover of machinery and equipment fell by 42.4 percent," said the report.
Experts are unsure about the future of neighboring countries' trade relations.
"We expect a sharp decline in 2015. Turning point is possible only in 2017-2018," director of the Russian Market Research Institute Andrey Spartak said in a contribution to WTC's report, adding that the loss of Ukraine as a trade partner remains the main risk for Russia's foreign trade.
Aleksandr Knobel, laboratory chief at Russia's Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy disagreed with Spartak, saying that all the worst has already happened.
"If we look at the past few months, the situation has not deteriorated since August last year. There was a sharp fall and since then the turnover is at 40 percent of what it was prior to the beginning of all those events," said Knobel.
It is possible for Russia to compensate lost import and export as Ukraine doesn't produce anything exclusive except for a few positions, even though the quality-to-price ratio of Ukrainian imports - especially food, pharmaceuticals and steel pipes - was effective, he added.
Russia-Ukraine relations deteriorated in 2014 after Crimea rejoined Russia in March 2014 and the beginning of the conflict in southeastern Ukraine escalated the crisis.
Kiev accuses Moscow of invading Ukraine since the start of the struggle, with support for rebel forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Russia denies all the accusations.


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**Title was:** Disk Select Dialog before App starts #Enhancement The loading times for the App and after Partition changes are long when every partition from every device is read in if I have many Devices and Partitions. I propose to add a Disk Select Dialog before the App starts, where we could select with which Device we want to work or if we want to work with all Devices. I know when i mention the Disk I want to work with in the bash command like "sudo gparted /dev/sda" the load times are much faster if I have many Disks. It would be convenient for me and for the average User who starts Gparted from the App Menu, to have that advantage in loading time too.


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OSTI.GOV Technical Report: Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data
Title: Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data
In this DOE project the improvements to parameterization of marine primary organic matter (POM) emissions, hygroscopic properties of marine POM, marine isoprene derived secondary organic aerosol (SOA) emissions, surfactant effects, new cloud droplet activation parameterization have been implemented into Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 5.0), with a seven mode aerosol module from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)'s Modal Aerosol Model (MAM7). The effects of marine aerosols derived from sea spray and ocean emitted biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) on microphysical properties of clouds were explored by conducting 10 year CAM5.0-MAM7 model simulations at a grid resolution 1.9° by 2.5° with 30 vertical layers. Model-predicted relationship between ocean physical and biological systems and the abundance of CCN in remote marine atmosphere was compared to data from the A-Train satellites (MODIS, CALIPSO, AMSR-E). Model simulations show that on average, primary and secondary organic aerosol emissions from the ocean can yield up to 20% increase in Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) at 0.2% Supersaturation, and up to 5% increases in droplet number concentration of global maritime shallow clouds. Marine organics were treated as internally or externally mixed with sea salt. Changes associated with cloud properties reduced (absolute value) the model-predicted short wave cloud forcingmore » from -1.35 Wm-2 to -0.25 Wm-2. By using different emission scenarios, and droplet activation parameterizations, this study suggests that addition of marine primary aerosols and biologically generated reactive gases makes an important difference in radiative forcing assessments. All baseline and sensitivity simulations for 2001 and 2050 using global-through-urban WRF/Chem (GU-WRF) were completed. The main objective of these simulations was to evaluate the capability of GU-WRF for an accurate representation of the global atmosphere by exploring the most accurate configuration of physics options in GWRF for global scale modeling in 2001 at a horizontal grid resolution of 1° x 1°. GU-WRF model output was evaluated using observational datasets from a variety of sources including surface based observations (NCDC and BSRN), model reanalysis (NCEP/ NCAR Reanalysis and CMAP), and remotely-sensed data (TRMM) to evaluate the ability of GU-WRF to simulate atmospheric variables at the surface as well as aloft. Explicit treatment of nanoparticles produced from new particle formation in GU-WRF/Chem-MADRID was achieved by expanding particle size sections from 8 to 12 to cover particles with the size range of 1.16 nm to 11.6m. Simulations with two different nucleation parameterizations were conducted for August 2002 over a global domain at a 4º by 5º horizontal resolution. The results are evaluated against field measurement data from the 2002 Aerosol Nucleation and Real Time Characterization Experiment (ANARChE) in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as satellite and reanalysis data. We have also explored the relationship between clean marine aerosol optical properties and ocean surface wind speed using remotely sensed data from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) on board the CALIPSO satellite and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on board the AQUA satellite. Detailed data analyses were carried out over 15 regions selected to be representative of different areas of the global ocean for the time period from June 2006 to April 2011. We show that for very low (less than 4 m s-1) and very high (more than 12 m s-1) wind speed conditions the mean CALIPSO-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) has little dependency on the surface wind speed. For an intermediate (between 4 and 12 m s-1) marine AOD was linearly correlated with the surface wind speed values, with a slope of 0.0062 s m-1. Results of our study suggest that considerable improvements to both optical properties of marine aerosols and their production mechanisms can be achieved by discriminating clean marine aerosols (or sea salt particles) from all other types of aerosols present over the ocean.« less
Meskhidze, Nicholas; Zhang, Yang; Kamykowski, Daniel
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Report Number(s):
FG02-08ER64508
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Marine Organic Aerosol, Regional and Global Climate, Modeling, CAM5-MAM7
Meskhidze, Nicholas, Zhang, Yang, and Kamykowski, Daniel. Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1037362.
Meskhidze, Nicholas, Zhang, Yang, & Kamykowski, Daniel. Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1037362
Meskhidze, Nicholas, Zhang, Yang, and Kamykowski, Daniel. 2012. "Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1037362. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1037362.
title = {Effect of Terrestrial and Marine Organic Aerosol on Regional and Global Climate: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Satellite Data},
author = {Meskhidze, Nicholas and Zhang, Yang and Kamykowski, Daniel},
abstractNote = {In this DOE project the improvements to parameterization of marine primary organic matter (POM) emissions, hygroscopic properties of marine POM, marine isoprene derived secondary organic aerosol (SOA) emissions, surfactant effects, new cloud droplet activation parameterization have been implemented into Community Atmosphere Model (CAM 5.0), with a seven mode aerosol module from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)'s Modal Aerosol Model (MAM7). The effects of marine aerosols derived from sea spray and ocean emitted biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) on microphysical properties of clouds were explored by conducting 10 year CAM5.0-MAM7 model simulations at a grid resolution 1.9° by 2.5° with 30 vertical layers. Model-predicted relationship between ocean physical and biological systems and the abundance of CCN in remote marine atmosphere was compared to data from the A-Train satellites (MODIS, CALIPSO, AMSR-E). Model simulations show that on average, primary and secondary organic aerosol emissions from the ocean can yield up to 20% increase in Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) at 0.2% Supersaturation, and up to 5% increases in droplet number concentration of global maritime shallow clouds. Marine organics were treated as internally or externally mixed with sea salt. Changes associated with cloud properties reduced (absolute value) the model-predicted short wave cloud forcing from -1.35 Wm-2 to -0.25 Wm-2. By using different emission scenarios, and droplet activation parameterizations, this study suggests that addition of marine primary aerosols and biologically generated reactive gases makes an important difference in radiative forcing assessments. All baseline and sensitivity simulations for 2001 and 2050 using global-through-urban WRF/Chem (GU-WRF) were completed. The main objective of these simulations was to evaluate the capability of GU-WRF for an accurate representation of the global atmosphere by exploring the most accurate configuration of physics options in GWRF for global scale modeling in 2001 at a horizontal grid resolution of 1° x 1°. GU-WRF model output was evaluated using observational datasets from a variety of sources including surface based observations (NCDC and BSRN), model reanalysis (NCEP/ NCAR Reanalysis and CMAP), and remotely-sensed data (TRMM) to evaluate the ability of GU-WRF to simulate atmospheric variables at the surface as well as aloft. Explicit treatment of nanoparticles produced from new particle formation in GU-WRF/Chem-MADRID was achieved by expanding particle size sections from 8 to 12 to cover particles with the size range of 1.16 nm to 11.6m. Simulations with two different nucleation parameterizations were conducted for August 2002 over a global domain at a 4º by 5º horizontal resolution. The results are evaluated against field measurement data from the 2002 Aerosol Nucleation and Real Time Characterization Experiment (ANARChE) in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as satellite and reanalysis data. We have also explored the relationship between clean marine aerosol optical properties and ocean surface wind speed using remotely sensed data from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) on board the CALIPSO satellite and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on board the AQUA satellite. Detailed data analyses were carried out over 15 regions selected to be representative of different areas of the global ocean for the time period from June 2006 to April 2011. We show that for very low (less than 4 m s-1) and very high (more than 12 m s-1) wind speed conditions the mean CALIPSO-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) has little dependency on the surface wind speed. For an intermediate (between 4 and 12 m s-1) marine AOD was linearly correlated with the surface wind speed values, with a slope of 0.0062 s m-1. Results of our study suggest that considerable improvements to both optical properties of marine aerosols and their production mechanisms can be achieved by discriminating clean marine aerosols (or sea salt particles) from all other types of aerosols present over the ocean.},
doi = {10.2172/1037362},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1037362}, journal = {},
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Technical Report Maslowski, Wieslaw; Cassano, John; Nijssen, Bart
The Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) at process resolving configurations has been used to (i) advance understanding of physical processes and feedbacks involved in Arctic amplification and (ii) understand and potentially reduce uncertainty in prediction of arctic climate change at seasonal to decadal scales. RASM consists the atmosphere (Weather and Research Forecasting model, WRF), ocean (Parallel Ocean Program, POP), sea ice (CICE), land hydrology (Variable Infiltration Capacity model, VIC), river routing scheme (RVIC), marine biogeochemistry components and the coupling framework (CPL7). Its domain is pan-Arctic, with the atmosphere and land components configured on a 50-km or 25-km grid and fourmore » configurations of the ocean and sea ice components: 1/12°(~9.3km) or 1/48°(~2.4km) and 45 or 60 vertical layers. These RASM configurations have been motivated by the emerging exascale capability for high performance computing to improve model fidelity. The dynamical downscaling of reanalysis allows comparison of RASM results with observations in place and time to: (i) advance system level understanding of physical processes and coupling involved in an event, (ii) optimize model parameter space, (iii) diagnose and reduce model biases and (iv) produce realistic and consistent across all the components initial conditions for predictions and predictability studies, which are all unique capabilities not available in global Earth System Models (ESMs). An evaluation of RASM 1.0 (Cassano et al. 2017) revealed that it had a cold bias over the oceans and a warm bias over land areas due largely to cloud and radiation biases in the model, with too little cloud cover simulated over land and too much cloud cover simulated over sub-polar oceans. This study has motivated an upgrade to WRF version 3.7.1 in RASM and allowed for the inclusion of the radiative impact of convective clouds. A variety of atmospheric physics parameterizations were evaluated against observations (e.g. data from the Arctic Clouds in Summer Experiment (ACSE); Sedlar et al. 2020) to identify an optimal suite of WRF physics options in RASM. The RASM with the optimized WRF physics were used to study the impact of strong mesoscale winds over the ocean around the southern tip of Greenland (DuVivier and Cassano 2016) and their impact on oceanic convection (DuVivier et al. 2017a). Data from the PolarWinds field campaign were used to evaluate WRF boundary layer physics and resolution impacts on the simulation of a Greenland barrier wind event (DuVivier et al. 2017b). The RVIC streamflow routing model has been implemented in RASM to realistically represent high-resolution streamflow processes (Hamman et al. 2017) and to couple the land buoyancy fluxes to the ocean. The RASM-RVIC high-resolution data set of all coastal freshwater fluxes for the Arctic drainage basin and surrounding areas for 1979-2014 was published as a separate product (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293037). The fidelity of atmospheric momentum transfer to and the response of polar marine Ekman layer in RASM and Community Earth System Model (CESM) was investigated by Roberts et al. (2015). The increased frequency of oceanic flux exchange in CESM, following the RASM guidance, caused a considerable increase in the median inertial ice speed across the Southern Ocean and parts of the Arctic. A comprehensive evaluation of the RASM1.0 atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land interface was completed by Brunke et al. (2018). RASM was also demonstrated for its capability to simulate extreme events in agreement with observations in space and time (Lee et al. submitted). In particular, the development of three open water events, known as polynyas, have been simulated north of Greenland in February of 2011, 2017 and 2018, in agreement with satellite observations for the past four decades. The optimized RASM sea ice results have been favorably evaluated against satellite observations and a subset of eleven CMIP6 models (Watts et al. submitted). In a complementary project, Jin et al. (2018) have shown that RASM with higher-resolution and new sea-ice processes contributed to lower model errors in sea-ice conditions, concentrations of nutrients and ice algae, in comparison to results from the coarse-resolution (1°) CESM. In two other complementary studies, RASM results were used (i) to explain areas of concentrated use by bowhead whales, the seasonal progression in the use, and the physical environment within those areas (Citta et al. 2015) and (ii) for a synthesis of fall bowhead whales distribution and migration in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort (BCB) Sea to investigate whale movements and feeding to the local ocean hydrography and currents (Citta et al. 2018). However, the multi-decadal output from the CESM Large Ensemble yielded unrealistic forcing. Instead, the shorter NCEP CFSv2 9-month forecasts were successfully tested and afforded an increased ensemble size (~30) to demonstrate gains of dynamical downscaling at sub-seasonal to intra-annual time scales. The improved model physics and coupling among RASM model components have yielded more realistic representation of the sea ice cover and consistent across all model components initial conditions. Consequently, RASM demonstrates significant gains compared to simulation of sea ice in the NCEP reanalysis. In addition, RASM 6-month ensemble forecasts yield very realistic sea ice distribution, which demonstrates both significant gains of dynamical downscaling and the continued impact of the initial conditions on forecasts out to 6 months (https://nps.edu/web/rasm/predictions). A follow up study using RASM for dynamical downscaling of the more realistic CESM initialized Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble output is currently ongoing as part of the DOE RGMA HiLAT-RASM project.« less
Final DOE-ASR Report for the Project "Advancing our Understanding and the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds"
Technical Report Mitchell, David; Erfani, Ehsan; Garnier, Anne; ...
This project has evolved during its execution, and what follows are the key project findings. This project has arguably provided the first global view of how cirrus cloud (defined as having cloud base temperature T < 235 K) nucleation physics (evaluated through satellite retrievals of ice particle number concentration Ni, effective diameter De and ice water content IWC) evolves with the seasons for a given temperature, latitude zone and surface type (e.g. ocean vs. land), based on a new satellite remote sensing method developed for this project. The retrieval method is unique in that it is very sensitive to themore » small ice crystals that govern the number concentration Ni, allowing Ni to be retrieved. The method currently samples single-layer cirrus clouds having visible optical depth ranging from about 0.3 to 3.0, using co-located observations from the Infrared Imaging Radiometer (IIR) and from the CALIOP (Cloud and Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) lidar aboard the CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) polar orbiting satellite, employing IIR channels at 10.6 μm and 12.05 μm. Retrievals of Ni are primarily used to estimate the cirrus cloud formation mechanism; that is, either homo- or heterogeneous ice nucleation (henceforth hom and het). This is possible since, in general, hom produces more than an order of magnitude more ice crystals than does het. Thus the retrievals provide insight on how these mechanisms change with the seasons for a given latitude zone or region, based on the years 2008 and 2013. Using a conservative criterion for hom cirrus, on average, the sampled cirrus clouds formed through hom occur about 43% of the time in the Arctic and 50% of the time in the Antarctic, and during winter at mid-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, hom cirrus occur 37% of the time. Elsewhere (and during other seasons in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes), this hom cirrus fraction is lower, and it is lowest in the tropics. Thus, the microphysical properties of cirrus clouds in the Polar Regions are much different than they are in the tropics; something unknown prior to this study. Moreover, the frequency of cirrus cloud occurrence in the Polar Regions varies strongly with season, peaking during winter in the Arctic and during spring in the Antarctic. Considering these seasonal changes in microphysics and inferred cloud coverage, this leads us to speculate that the buildup of Arctic cirrus during winter may significantly contribute to tropospheric heating in that region, possibly affecting winter jet-stream dynamics and mid-latitude weather patterns through the thermal-wind balance relationship. This cirrus cloud research provides essential guidance for realistically representing cirrus clouds in climate models; guidance previously unavailable. For example, mid-latitude hom cirrus were widespread during winter over or nearby mountainous terrain, evidently due to mountain-induced waves that produce strong updrafts at cirrus cloud levels. The treatment of turbulent mountain stress and gravity waves will likely need to be improved in climate models in order to adequately represent cirrus clouds outside the tropics. Another goal of this project was to develop a ground-based 94-GHz radar retrieval for winter snowstorms, based on (1) an improved analytical framework describing the interaction of radiation from radar with snowfall and (2) the development of a steady-state snow growth model that predicts the height-evolution of the ice particle size distribution through ice particle growth by vapor diffusion, aggregation and riming (i.e. the growth of snow through collisions with supercooled cloud droplets). Although activities (1) and (2) were completed, there was insufficient time to test and finalize the radar retrieval scheme. However, activity (2) provided a new method for relating ice particle mass "m" and projected area "A" to the ice particle maximum dimension "D". The ice cloud microphysical processes (which determine ice cloud radiative properties) in climate models are parameterized in terms of these m-D and A-D relationships. By improving these relationships, the ice cloud radiative properties in Community Atmosphere Model version 5, or CAM5 (an atmosphere global climate model, or GCM) were improved. Student funding from the University of Nevada, Reno, was combined with funds from this project to conduct some basic research on the mechanism of the North American monsoon, or NAM. Federal research on the NAM has dwindled since 2006, but atmospheric soundings taken during research vessel cruises in the Gulf of California (GC) during the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) were used to reveal a likely mechanism that explains the relationship between an intrusion of tropical warm water into the GC during late spring-early summer and the onset of relatively heavy NAM rainfall in northwest Mexico and the southwestern United States. These soundings, combined with reanalysis data, satellite sea surface temperatures and satellite measurements of outgoing longwave radiation were used to develop and provide evidence for a planetary-scale NAM mechanism. As far as we know, no other physical explanation has been offered for the spring-summer evolution of the NAM system.« less
Reducing uncertainties in satellite estimates of aerosol–cloud interactions over the subtropical ocean by integrating vertically resolved aerosol observations
Journal Article Painemal, David; Chang, Fu-Lung; Ferrare, Richard; ... - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)
Satellite quantification of aerosol effects on clouds relies on aerosol optical depth (AOD) as a proxy for aerosol concentration or cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). However, the lack of error characterization of satellite-based results hampers their use for the evaluation and improvement of global climate models. We show that the use of AOD for assessing aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) is inadequate over vast oceanic areas in the subtropics. Instead, we postulate that a more physical approach that consists of matching vertically resolved aerosol data from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite at the cloud-layer height with Moderate Resolutionmore » Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Aqua cloud retrievals reduces uncertainties in satellite-based ACI estimates. Combined aerosol extinction coefficients (σ) below cloud top (σBC) from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) and cloud droplet number concentrations (Nd) from MODIS Aqua yield high correlations across a broad range of σBC values, with σBC quartile correlations ≥0.78. In contrast, CALIOP-based AOD yields correlations with MODIS Nd of 0.54–0.62 for the two lower AOD quartiles. Moreover, σBC explains 41% of the spatial variance in MODIS Nd, whereas AOD only explains 17%, primarily caused by the lack of spatial covariability in the eastern Pacific. Compared with σBC, near-surface σ weakly correlates in space with MODIS Nd, accounting for a 16% variance. It is concluded that the linear regression calculated from ln(Nd)–ln(σBC) (the standard method for quantifying ACIs) is more physically meaningful than that derived from the Nd–AOD pair.« less
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7167-2020
A production-tagged aerosol module for Earth system models, OsloAero5.3 – extensions and updates for CAM5.3-Oslo
Journal Article Kirkevåg, Alf; Grini, Alf; Olivié, Dirk; ... - Geoscientific Model Development (Online)
Abstract. We document model updates and present and discuss modeling and validation results from a further developed production-tagged aerosol module, OsloAero5.3, for use in Earth system models. The aerosol module has in this study been implemented and applied in CAM5.3-Oslo. This model is based on CAM5.3–CESM1.2 and its own predecessor model version CAM4-Oslo. OsloAero5.3 has improved treatment of emissions, aerosol chemistry, particle life cycle, and aerosol–cloud interactions compared to its predecessor OsloAero4.0 in CAM4-Oslo. The main new features consist of improved aerosol sources; the module now explicitly accounts for aerosol particle nucleation and secondary organic aerosol production, with new emissionsmore » schemes also for sea salt, dimethyl sulfide (DMS), and marine primary organics. Mineral dust emissions are updated as well, adopting the formulation of CESM1.2. The improved model representation of aerosol–cloud interactions now resolves heterogeneous ice nucleation based on black carbon (BC) and mineral dust calculated by the model and treats the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) as in CAM5.3. Compared to OsloAero4.0 in CAM4-Oslo, the black carbon (BC) mass concentrations are less excessive aloft, with a better fit to observations. Near-surface mass concentrations of BC and sea salt aerosols are also less biased, while sulfate and mineral dust are slightly more biased. Although appearing quite similar for CAM5.3-Oslo and CAM4-Oslo, the validation results for organic matter (OM) are inconclusive, since both of the respective versions of OsloAero are equipped with a limited number of OM tracers for the sake of computational efficiency. Any information about the assumed mass ratios of OM to organic carbon (OC) for different types of OM sources is lost in the transport module. Assuming that observed OC concentrations scaled by 1.4 are representative for the modeled OM concentrations, CAM5.3-Oslo with OsloAero5.3 is slightly inferior for the very sparsely available observation data. Comparing clear-sky column-integrated optical properties with data from ground-based remote sensing, we find a negative bias in optical depth globally; however, it is not as strong as in CAM4-Oslo, but has positive biases in some areas typically dominated by mineral dust emissions. Aerosol absorption has a larger negative bias than the optical depth globally. This is reflected in a lower positive bias in areas where mineral dust is the main contributor to absorption. Globally, the low bias in absorption is smaller than in CAM4-Oslo. The Ångström parameter exhibits small biases both globally and regionally, suggesting that the aerosol particle sizes are reasonably well represented. Cloud-top droplet number concentrations over oceans are generally underestimated compared to satellite retrievals, but seem to be overestimated downwind of major emissions of dust and biomass burning sources. Finally, we find small changes in direct radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere, while the cloud radiative forcing due to anthropogenic aerosols is now more negative than in CAM4-Oslo, being on the strong side compared to the multi-model estimate in IPCC AR5. Although not all validation results in this study show improvement for the present CAM5.3-Oslo version, the extended and updated aerosol module OsloAero5.3 is more advanced and applicable than its predecessor OsloAero4.0, as it includes new parameterizations that more readily facilitate sensitivity and process studies and use in climate and Earth system model studies in general.« less
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3945-2018
Parameterizations of Cloud Microphysics and Indirect Aerosol Effects
Technical Report Tao, Wei-Kuo
1. OVERVIEW Aerosols and especially their effect on clouds are one of the key components of the climate system and the hydrological cycle [Ramanathan et al., 2001]. Yet, the aerosol effect on clouds remains largely unknown and the processes involved not well understood. A recent report published by the National Academy of Science states "The greatest uncertainty about the aerosol climate forcing - indeed, the largest of all the uncertainties about global climate forcing - is probably the indirect effect of aerosols on clouds [NRC, 2001]." The aerosol effect on clouds is often categorized into the traditional "first indirect (i.e.,more » Twomey)" effect on the cloud droplet sizes for a constant liquid water path [Twomey, 1977] and the "semi-direct" effect on cloud coverage [e.g., Ackerman et al., 2000]. Enhanced aerosol concentrations can also suppress warm rain processes by producing a narrow droplet spectrum that inhibits collision and coalescence processes [e.g., Squires and Twomey, 1961; Warner and Twomey, 1967; Warner, 1968; Rosenfeld, 1999]. The aerosol effect on precipitation processes, also known as the second type of aerosol indirect effect [Albrecht, 1989], is even more complex, especially for mixed-phase convective clouds. Table 1 summarizes the key observational studies identifying the microphysical properties, cloud characteristics, thermodynamics and dynamics associated with cloud systems from high-aerosol continental environments. For example, atmospheric aerosol concentrations can influence cloud droplet size distributions, warm-rain process, cold-rain process, cloud-top height, the depth of the mixed phase region, and occurrence of lightning. In addition, high aerosol concentrations in urban environments could affect precipitation variability by providing an enhanced source of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Hypotheses have been developed to explain the effect of urban regions on convection and precipitation [van den Heever and Cotton, 2007 and Shepherd, 2005]. Recently, a detailed spectral-bin microphysical scheme was implemented into the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model. Atmospheric aerosols are also described using number density size-distribution functions. A spectral-bin microphysical model is very expensive from a computational point of view and has only been implemented into the 2D version of the GCE at the present time. The model is tested by studying the evolution of deep tropical clouds in the west Pacific warm pool region and summertime convection over a mid-latitude continent with different concentrations of CCN: a low "clean" concentration and a high "dirty" concentration. The impact of atmospheric aerosol concentration on cloud and precipitation will be investigated. 2. MODEL DESCRIPTION AND CASE STUDIES 2.1 GCE MODEL The model used in this study is the 2D version of the GCE model. Modeled flow is anelastic. Second- or higher-order advection schemes can produce negative values in the solution. Thus, a Multi-dimensional Positive Definite Advection Transport Algorithm (MPDATA) has been implemented into the model. All scalar variables (potential temperature, water vapor, turbulent coefficient and all five hydrometeor classes) use forward time differencing and the MPDATA for advection. Dynamic variables, u, v and w, use a second-order accurate advection scheme and a leapfrog time integration (kinetic energy semi-conserving method). Short-wave (solar) and long-wave radiation as well as a subgrid-scale TKE turbulence scheme are also included in the model. Details of the model can be found in Tao and Simpson (1993) and Tao et al. (2003). 2.2 Microphysics (Bin Model) The formulation of the explicit spectral-bin microphysical processes is based on solving stochastic kinetic equations for the size distribution functions of water droplets (cloud droplets and raindrops), and six types of ice particles: pristine ice crystals (columnar and plate-like), snow (dendrites and aggregates), graupel and frozen drops/hail. Each type is described by a special size distribution function containing 33 categories (bins). Atmospheric aerosols are also described using number density size-distribution functions (containing 33 bins). Droplet nucleation (activation) is derived from the analytical calculation of super-saturation, which is used to determine the sizes of aerosol particles to be activated and the corresponding sizes of nucleated droplets. Primary nucleation of each type of ice crystal takes place within certain temperature ranges. A detailed description of these explicitly parameterized processes can be found in Khain and Sednev (1996) and Khain et al. (1999, 2001). 2.3 Case Studies Three cases, a tropical oceanic squall system observed during TOGA COARE (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment, which occurred over the Pacific Ocean warm pool from November 1992 to February 1993), a midlatitude continental squall system observed during PRESTORM (Preliminary Regional Experiment for STORM-Central, which occurred in Kansas and Oklahoma during May-June 1985), and mid-afternoon convection observed during CRYSTAL-FACE (Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers – Florida Area Cumulus Experiment, which occurred in Florida during July 2002), will be used to examine the impact of aerosols on deep, precipitating systems. 3. SUMMARY of RESULTS • For all three cases, higher CCN produces smaller cloud droplets and a narrower spectrum. Dirty conditions delay rain formation, increase latent heat release above the freezing level, and enhance vertical velocities at higher altitude for all cases. Stronger updrafts, deeper mixed-phase regions, and more ice particles are simulated with higher CCN in good agreement with observations. • In all cases, rain reaches the ground early with lower CCN. Rain suppression is also evident in all three cases with high CCN in good agreement with observations (Rosenfeld, 1999, 2000 and others). Rain suppression, however, only occurs during the first hour of simulation. This result suggests that microphysical processes dominate the impact of aerosols on precipitation in the early stage of precipitation development. • During the mature stage of the simulations, the effect of increasing aerosol concentration ranges from rain suppression in the PRESTORM case to little effect on surface rainfall in the CRYSTAL-FACE case to rain enhancement in the TOGA COARE case. • The model results suggest that evaporative cooling is a key process in determining whether higher CCN reduces or enhances precipitation. Cold pool strength can be enhanced by stronger evaporation. When cold pool interacts with the near surface wind shear, the low-level convergence can be stronger, facilitating secondary cloud formation and more vigorous precipitation processes. Evaporative cooling is more than two times stronger at low levels with higher CCN for the TOGA COARE case during the early stages of precipitation development. However, evaporative cooling is slightly stronger at lower levels with lower CCN for the PRESTORM case. The early formation of rain in the clean environment could allow for the formation of an earlier and stronger cold pool compared to a dirty environment. PRESTORM has a very dry environment and both large and small rain droplets can evaporate. Consequently, the cold pool is relatively weaker, and the system is relatively less intense with higher CCN. • Sensitivity tests are conducted to determine the impact of ice processes on aerosol-precipitation interaction. The results suggested that ice processes are crucial for suppressing precipitation due to high CCN for the PRESTORM case. More and smaller ice particles are generated in the dirty case and transported to the trailing stratiform region. This reduces the heavy convective rain and contributes to the weakening of the cold pool. Warm rain processes dominate the TOGA COARE case. Therefore, ice processes only play a secondary role in terms of aerosol-precipitation interaction. • Two of the three cloud systems presented in this paper formed a line structure (squall system). A 2D simulation, therefore, gives a good approximation to such a line of convective clouds. Since the real atmosphere is 3D, further 3D cloud-resolving simulations are needed to address aerosol-precipitation interactions. 4. REFERENCES Tao, W.-K., X. Li, A. Khain, T. Matsui, S. Lang, and J. Simpson, 2007: The role of atmospheric aerosol concentration on deep convective precipitation: Cloud-resolving model simulations. J. Geophy. Res., 112, D24S18, doi:10.1029/2007JD008728. All other references can be found in above paper. 5. Acknowledgements The GCE model is mainly supported by the NASA Headquarters Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics Program and the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). The research was also supported by the Office of Science (BER), U. S. Department of Energy/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE/ARM) Interagency. The authors acknowledge NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for computer time used in this research.« less

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Dragonfly Designs: I promised and forgot.
I promised pictures today, because I had found my digital camera. But, having baby brain, I forgot. I was so intent on having a night at home and spending time with my DH, I completely forgot. Well, I did remember at one point, but I think that was just before it was brownie time, and then the brownies erased all memory of pictures.
I read here that Kerrie is also pregnant, and that she's expecting in March, which is just 2 months after me (Congrats to her!). She's considering doing this pattern from Knitty as a cardigan, which made me start thinking, why not? It might work after all. I'm still waiting to hear back from Amy to see if she's thought about a pregnant issue...all things maternity and newborn related. I emailed her yesterday, so I expect to wait a good week or so before hearing back from her.
I didn't knit a single stitch yesterday, although I did feel a little guilty about it, since there's a long way to go on the blanket, and after next Friday, the lady that's due is on leave. If I knit like a mad woman during lunches and at every turn, I might get it finished.
In other news, I received a knit blanket recently. I had knit it for my grandmother, and since she passed away this year, I asked for it back. It's large and green, and very nice. It's a little holey, and if there's a fan blowing on you, you still feel it. But if there's warm air or you're just a little chilly without a breeze or the air conditioner, it works very well. I'll have to take pictures of it soon as well. I thought I had some already of it, and I might, but they're probably on the computer at home or on a disk, if I can ever find it. New pictures might be in order.


A pair of bald eagles is nesting on the San Francisco Peninsula for the first time in nearly a century, a milestone for the once-endangered symbol of strength and grandeur.
The nest is tucked deep in a fir tree on the far edge of northern Crystal Springs Reservoir — hard for humans to see, but with a bird's-eye view of 7.15 million noisy neighbors.
"It feels really good. They're unmistakable — white head, white tail," said George Chrisman, of Burlingame, who first spotted the birds during a Saturday morning scan of the reservoir two weeks ago, then watched for four hours until he saw the nest.
The last reported nest of bald eagles in San Mateo County was in La Honda — in 1915.
A binocular brigade gathered quickly Friday morning in response to a Thursday night email alert by the San Mateo chapter of the Audubon Society.
The club will host visitors at the best viewing spot this weekend, if it is not raining.
It takes patience, a powerful telescope and a bright morning sun to glimpse the nesting bird's white head and yellow beak in a lichen-encrusted tree, but Friday's crowd was exuberant.
"This is so exciting. It's the first time seeing a nest here in my lifetime. I was afraid I wasn't going to make it," said San Mateo resident Larry Caughlan, 63, as commuters rushed by on Interstate 280.
They are likely the grandchildren of birds introduced to the Big Sur region in conservation campaigns that started in the early 1980s. At their lowest point, only 35 breeding pairs were counted in the state, and their future was in doubt.
The nest is small, by eagle standards: an estimated 4 to 5 feet across, and 1 foot deep. Eagles reuse their nests every year, and the female is young, so this is likely her first, Chrisman said. They take turns on the nest, he said, rarely leaving it alone for more than a few minutes.
The nest was completed two weeks ago, he believes. This means that the eggs — if fertile and healthy — should hatch within two weeks.
It lofts above an arm of San Mateo Creek, known to have spawning trout. Because it is on San Francisco Watershed property surrounded by fences and guarded by rangers, the nest is presumed to be safe from humans.
After the eagle population collapsed, conservationists with the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group and the San Francisco Zoo began importing birds and eggs from Vancouver Island and northeastern California in the late 1980s.
That had a big effect, as did the banning of DDT in 1973 and the protection of endangered species.
Bald eagles are again flourishing and no longer need the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act. At last count in 2006, the number of nesting pairs in the lower 48 states had rebounded to 9,700. State protections remain in place.
The Central Coast of California has 21 pairs of nesting eagles, producing almost 200 offspring, according to Glen Stewart of the Santa Cruz group.
Statewide, numbers have surged to more than 200 nesting pairs, according to Dale Steele of the California Department of Fish and Game.
"We've created a lot of good habitat and protected them well enough," said Kathy Hobson, aviculturist at the San Francisco Zoo.
Sequoia Audubon volunteers will be on hand Saturdays and Sundays along Lower Crystal Springs to help visitors see the eagles.
WHERE: From I-280, take the Black Mountain Road west toward Crystal Springs Watershed and the Golf Course. Turn left on Skyline Drive toward Crystal Springs Dam and Sawyer Camp Trail. Drive about 1.5 miles south until you see a gravel pullout at the first instant you can see the lake, immediately before the Keiwit Construction gate for. Park on the gravel shoulder of the road.
RAIN CANCELS the Bald Eagle volunteers being out at the site.


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Make Rouille (see direction step 8 below) and transfer to bowl; set aside.
Brush bread on one side with 2 tablespoons oil, transfer to baking sheet, and toast about 7 minutes, or until golden brown. Set toasts aside.
4. Meanwhile, in Dutch oven, heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes, or until the onion is tender. Add fresh fennel and sauté, stirring frequently, about 7 minutes, or until crisp-tender. Add wine and 2 1/2 cups water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add clams and cover. Cook checking for doneness occasionally about 5 minutes, or until clams just open. The clams will open at different times, remove them as they open and discard any that do not open. Set clams aside; cover loosely to keep warm.
Add Pernod and bring to a boil. Add tomatoes, orange zest, fennel seeds, and salt and bring to a boil. Add monkfish. Reduce to a simmer, cover and cook 10 minutes.
Add shrimp and cover. Cook 3 minutes, or until shrimp are just cooked through. Return clams to pan and cook just until heated through. Remove orange zest strips if desired (they're perfectly edible).
Spread Rouille over toasts. Divide fish and shellfish among 8 wide shallow soup or pasta bowls and ladle broth over top. Float 2 toasts in each bowl and serve.
Rouille: In small pan of boiling water, blanch 3 peeled whole garlic cloves for 2 minutes, drain. Transfer to food processor and add 3/4 cup light mayonnaise, 1 roasted red pepper (preferably home made), 1 tablespoon tomato paste, 1 teaspoon red hot pepper sauce, and 1/4 teaspoon salt, and process until smooth.


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By: France-Elvie Banda
The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) kicked off its weeklong conference celebrating true diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields on October 25-29. The overarching theme this year advocated for ethical science and highlighted the benefits of Black, Indigenous, and scientists of color bringing their full identities to STEM in order to produce more inclusive science.
The conference opened with land acknowledgements, reminding participants that land is sacred and many indigenous lands remain unceded. The opening ceremony also emphasized the historic relationship between indigeneity and science, placing power in indigenous communities to share their own methods of scientific discovery. Through this introduction, SACNAS opened with an important message on the need for STEM to decolonize by valuing scientific knowledge production in nonwestern spaces.
Featured speakers Desi Small Rodriguez, PhD, and Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, PhD, exemplified the importance of the SACNAS phrase, "Bringing Your Whole Self," as they shared the trajectory of their careers and professional motivations. Rodriguez, a social demographer, indigenous and Chicano woman, and self-proclaimed data warrior, presented The Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance as a solution to conducting ethical science that prioritizes indigenous voices and community concerns. The collaboratory seeks to merge science and decolonization while by promoting indigenous data sovereignty through multidisciplinary research and policy. Quiñones-Hinojosa, neurologist and William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor, drew on his experiences as a migrant worker from a poor family to establish Mission: Brain (Bridging Resources and Advancing International Neuroscience), which provides neurosurgical expertise and resources to patients who live in communities with limited money, resources, and training to treat difficult neurosurgical diseases.
As FASEB celebrates Native American Heritage Month, we also highlight indigenous people's historic and continued contribution to science. As SACNAS promotes, a continued paradigm shift toward inclusivity is needed to ensure future scientific discoveries do not further exclude already marginalized communities and scientific communities of color are valued equitably.
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We spend so much time thinking about the health of our patients that we often forget to look after our own. Doctors fail to prioritise their own health care and feel pressured not to miss shifts because of illness. The literature suggests that junior doctors are unwilling to admit that they are unwell or accept that they are not coping with the apparent demands of their career. This can lead to a failure to recognise, acknowledge and act on the early warning signs of illness.
The mental health of junior doctors is deservedly receiving increasing attention. The beyondblue National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students released in October 2013 highlighted that doctors report substantially higher rates of psychological distress and attempted suicide compared to both the Australian population and other Australian professionals. Young doctors and female doctors appeared to have higher levels of general and specific mental health problems and reported greater work stress1. However, the stresses of working in medicine are not isolated to internship or Australia as these disturbing articles illustrate. Both are personal stories: one of an English junior doctor who contemplated suicide and the other of a senior registrar describing the reasons why she is leaving medicine.
Both articles are highlighted in the Healthcare Network of the Guardian.
More significantly, these stories demonstrate the impact that hospitals, supervisors and the rest of the 'system' can have on the psychological wellbeing and mental health of doctors. It also raises questions about how to allocate scarce resources aimed at improving the mental health of junior doctors. Should we focus on strategies at the individual level to support trainees, such as resilience or mindfulness workshops? Or should we concentrate our efforts on changing the organisational culture of hospitals that lie at the heart of much of the psychological distress felt by junior doctors. The latter is more difficult, the impact may not be felt for a generation but it is perhaps the most sustainable solution.
Despite the necessity for organisational change, I will focus on some of the simple strategies to keep yourself healthy that you can start today.
Keep up your usual hobbies and in touch with friends, remembering to include friends who aren't doctors. All of us benefit from de-briefing with colleagues but it is important to talk about topics other than medicine.
Exercise is important and you need to allocate time for it. It won't just happen. Simple strategies for those that feel they spend most of their time at the hospital include walking or riding to work (or at least part of the way) or joining the hospital gym. Continue with whatever sport/activity you were playing during medical school. It can be difficult to commit to weekend team sports but with some swaps you should be available most weekends.
Don't forget to eat and drink. When working on a busy weekend shift you may be more dehydrated than many patients for whom you are charting intravenous fluids. Try and sit down for lunch – this is also a great time to catch up with your colleagues. Go outside when the weather permits, as vitamin D deficiency is an underreported complication of internship!
Healthy choices are often difficult to find within hospitals although they are starting to acknowledge the need to provide nutritious food for their staff. When possible try to prepare your own food. Not only is it likely to be better for you but also for your bank balance.
Part of looking after yourself is ensuring that you have your own GP. There is a tendency to self-diagnose or ask your colleagues about potential health issues but these are both poor substitutes for your own GP. Even more troubling is self-prescribing. Although legislation differs in each state or territory, as a general rule avoid self-prescribing or asking one of your colleagues to write a script for you. You should also avoid providing medical care to anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship because of the lack of objectivity, possible discontinuity of care, and risks to the doctor and patient.
Doctor's health is explored in more details in 'Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia' a document well worth reading.
A further resource available to doctors and medical students in NSW is the Doctors Health Advisory Service and there are similar services in other states. The service operates a telephone help line to provide personal advice to practitioners and students facing difficulties. The service advice is used mostly in relation to stress and mental illness, drug and alcohol problems, or personal and financial difficulties.
Internship is hard and stressful. All of us have bad days. Not knowing everything is expected. Wanting to flush your pager down the toilet is understandable. Tears are common. But if these feeling are pervasive and you feel that you are struggling, here are some initial steps.
If at any time you are worried about your mental health call your may also call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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Dirty Girl (Going All the Way #2) Read Online Jenika Snow
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Categories Genre: Contemporary, Romance Tags Authors: Jenika Snow Series: Going All the Way Series by Jenika Snow
Dirty Girl (Going All the Way #2)
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Booshie, VP of the Vicious Bastards MC, wanted Naggie in the filthiest of ways, but he knew she was off-limits. Yet his obsession only grew for her with each day he was denied her body.
Naggie Conner was wild, spoke her mind, and was covered in ink. She was too much to handle for most, but she didn't care. This was who she was, and it made her happy. But when betrayal had her world caving in around her, she really let loose and enjoyed a girls' night out. It seemed like the perfect therapy to put her troubles behind her. But that night of drunken abandon ended up with her going home with Booshie.
Being with the alpha biker was exactly what she envisioned: untamed, explosive, and addictive. She wanted more, even if it wasn't the best idea. But denying Booshie wasn't an option. He didn't want just one night with Naggie, and he was not the type of man to be refused.
Reader note: This story was previously published under the same title. It has since been revised and reedited. Material may be sensitive to some readers.
Going All the Way Series by Jenika Snow
The sound of the tattoo gun buzzing and the sight of the ink going into skin, permanently marking a person, had a kind of calming sensation moving through Naggie. She pulled the gun away and ran the paper towel over the skin, wiping off the excess ink. The memorial tattoo she was giving this burly Marine was a tribute to his late wife.
The stories she heard while marking people up were both heartbreaking and uplifting. This particular session was in the heartbreaking category though, hearing Kel tell her about how on his last tour with the Marines, he learned of his wife's sudden and tragic death in a car accident. Their two-year-old daughter hadn't been in the car—which he said he was thankful for tenfold—but it was so horrible to hear the pain in his voice.
Life was short, that was for sure, and she never took any of it for granted. Naggie might've only been twenty-eight, but she knew life could be taken away before it really began, and that was thanks to a deadbeat mother and a father who had liked to practice his right hooks when he was drunk.
"I think we're almost done here, Kel." She added a little more shading around the eyes and leaned back to look at the image. The tattoo was of his wife, Marlene. She had a set of angel wings and looked over their daughter who slept. It was a powerful image, and it was moments like these—when she wasn't giving her hundredth butterfly tramp stamp of the week or another koi fish on a hip—that made all this worth it.
Not to misunderstand, she loved working on each and every one of her clients, but it was these personal tributes, like the one that split her heart right open, that made all this worth it.
Kel stood and walked over to the full-length mirror hanging on the wall across from her station. He turned to the side and took in the tattoo on his left shoulder blade. For several seconds, he didn't say anything and just stared at the ink.
"It's good?" Naggie had been doing this for as long as she could remember. It had first started with her drawing on cantaloupes and then moved to drawing on herself with markers, and soon she was interning at a tattoo parlor in the next town over. It was only when her boss, Cadeon Morris, had moved to Reckless, Colorado, and opened up his tattoo shop, Ipseity, that she had started working professionally as a tattoo artist.
Cadeon was a typical bad boy in their small community, what with his ink and riding around on a Harley, but he wasn't the only person known as "trouble" in town. The biker gang, the Vicious Bastards MC, also had a pretty hellacious reputation, but now that Cadeon was with the daughter of the president of said MC, she saw more of the outlaws.
"Shit, Naggie."
She looked at Kel's reflection again and smiled when he started to tear up. "Good?" God, she was going to start crying.
The big Marine turned and embraced her, and she felt her full five-foot-two height at that moment. Then again, everyone was pretty much taller than she was. He pulled away, and she actually saw that he was crying.
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Natalie Bamford, 32 years old wife, mum, mum to be, passionate Derby County fan, Derby born and bred, I love the city of Derby and county of Derbyshire.
I am the founder and managing director of DerbyDaysOut.co.uk. It's a website which lists what's on in Derby and Derbyshire for families. We list events, attractions, clubs and classes. We also write family reviews and blogs about our experiences!
We launched our website on 3rd August 2015.
I had an idea – ok it was more of a rant to my poor husband one night! I was telling him how I was so sick of having to look at several websites and publications to get a picture of what's on locally for families across Derbyshire. I knew that there had to be an easier way for parents, grandparents, carers to access this information in one place. When the weekend arrives or the school holidays why should we have to waste that precious family time searching for things to do?
There are national websites which are good for exploring an unfamiliar county but knowing the local area as I do, I noticed that when you 'drill down' into Derby, the information is decreased dramatically and I could list more than that off the top of my head just using my local knowledge. Additionally, they mainly list static attractions and not those lovely local events that might take place in the marketplace, village or local park. And so DerbyDaysOut.co.uk was born!
I knew I wanted an easy to use but good looking website! I tried to 'go it alone' and create my own but it was going to be a shambles and I quickly realised that it was worth investing in a company to develop the website for us.
After a lot of research and shopping around, my new business partner (aka as the hubster) and I met with Rob Twells and Liam Nelson of Frogspark. We loved the look of some of their websites and also keen to use a local Derby based company. They understood our vision for the site and created exactly what I wanted – an easy to use, easy on the eye fun, reliable, easily updatable website!
My mission is simple and is what drives me to do my job every day – it's to help local families find what's on locally by being a 'one stop site for family fun in Derbyshire.' One site for all the information you need so you don't have to look at several sites like I was forced to do in the past.
I am also passionate about decreasing screen time and increasing family time. Helping children to spend a bit less time behind a screen and more time with their family, in the community enjoying a day out.
Starting a business was (and still is) a HUGE learning curve for me. Before and during the early stages of DDO, I was a qualified Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant – a far cry from an 'entrepreneurial business owner' that's for sure!
I struggled as a parent to find what's on and knew there must be others in my situation. After market research, I found that – yes, there are others in my situation and this could help thousands!
Believe in yourself and your idea. Put your passion into it and go for it!!
Love this quote – but don't wait for someone to offer you the opportunity, create it yourself!
Now, this is a tricky one. You've found a 'gap in the market' you've put in the market research, blood, sweat, tears, sleepless nights, trials and errors, working all hours, and much, much more to get your business and brand off the ground. And now someone has come along and done the exact same thing as you.
Look forward, let it be a catalyst to keep going, innovating, creating, building and growing. Ideas can be copied your passion can't.
It's likely you will have limited marketing spend and the great thing about social media is – it's FREE! Not only that, it's a great tool for reaching your target audience. And once you really understand who your target audience is and what messages will get their attention, then you can really start to have fun with it!
I personally LOVE running social media for DerbyDaysOut. Our main channels are Facebook, Twitter and Instagram but we also have google+, Pinterest, Youtube and LinkedIn. My advice is to get listed on as many channels as you can with your basic information such as name, contact details and URL. You never know where you are going to be found.
Take time to get to know the platform, the best ways to use it to connect with your target and how. Many companies out there will charge you an absolute fortune for social media training or workshops but I personally believe that if you invest some of your time into getting used to it – you can do a great job yourself and maybe even love it like I do.
Don't get me wrong – there's still a fair bit of trial and error and it can be disheartening if a post doesn't get much engagement but don't give up!
This little post that I created reached 54,444 people and got 2606 reactions!
Enjoy it! Yes, it takes heaps of hard work, dedication, enthusiasm, creativity, passion and more but it's worth it.
Sometimes you have to focus on the small wins and every now and then a biggie will come along and it will make you burst with pride and reignite that passion and spark and you'll keep moving on in leaps and bounds!
We were shortlisted as 'Website of the Year' 2016 in the British Small Business Awards and I was awarded 'Highly Commended New Business Woman of The Year 2017' at the Enterprising Women East Midlands Chamber Awards – these are the biggies I'm talking about. The "oh yeah, I am doing an ok job aren't I?" moments. Well, pat yourself on the back because yes, you are doing brilliantly so be proud of yourself!
I hope you have enjoyed finding a bit more about me and found my four top tips useful. If you want to get in touch with me, please feel free to via email; natalie@derbydaysout.co.uk or connect with me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Natalie Bamford is a 32 years old wife, mum, mum to be, passionate Derby County fan and business owner. Natalie founded DerbyDaysOut helping parents in and around Derby find days out and activities today which are family friendly!


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DSWD-7 searching for warehouses in CV to stockpile on family food packs
Futch Anthony Inso 07/11/2022
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) is already looking into warehouses in Central Visayas for prepositioning of family food packs (FFPs), especially in high-risk or disaster-prone areas. Aimee…
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CEBU CITY—The National Food Authority offices and warehouses nationwide will remain open throughout the Lenten Season. In a press release posted on its Facebook page, National Food Authority (NFA) administrator Judy Carol Dansal announced that the agency…
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Alven Marie Timtim 01/01/2020
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas confiscated a total of P1.150 million worth of firecrackers that were sold outside the designated vending areas. Police Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana, deputy regional director for…
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Norman Mendoza 10/12/2018
A late night fire burned warehouses that were inside a privately owned complex in Llenes Street, Zone Kalabasa Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City, late Thursday night. The more than an hour-long fire was believed to have started in…
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For violating environmental and traffic regulations, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has ordered closed a total of 13 stores and warehouses owned by Vic Enterprises that are operating in Barangay Mabolo. A copy of the closure order…
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MANILA — A workers' group warned of "an uprising among the working poor" if the government would ignore worsening poverty caused by joblessness, insufficient wages and short-term work arrangements. The Associated Labor Unions slammed the poverty and…


Youth Sunday School Classes - The youth lessons for June include talking about the Worlds Greatest Father, creating a scripture reading covenant, discussing what does the Holy Spirit do? and How do you know the Holy Spirit is there? We will also discuss seeing our place in creating.
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Q: How to use SQLAlchemy with buildozer? Recently buildozer has compiled a simple "hello world" program.
But i want to use SQLAlchemy in main.py file.
The file contains:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import kivy
kivy.require('1.10.0')
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from kivy.uix.label import Label

class MyApp(App):

    def build(self):
        pass

    def olustur(self):
        engine = create_engine('sqlite:///database.db', echo = True)
        cur = engine.connect()
        self.root.ids['etkt'].text = 'Bağlantı Başarılı!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyApp().run()

Also there's a myapp.kv file which contains:
GridLayout:
    cols: 2
    Label:
        id: etkt
        text: 'Etiket'
    Button:
        text: 'Tıkla'
        on_press: app.olustur()

I changed the necessarry parts in buildozer.spec file:
# (list) Application requirements
# comma seperated e.g. requirements = sqlite3,kivy
requirements = python3crystax,SQLAlchemy,kivy

# change the major version of python used by the app
osx.python_version = 3

# Kivy version to use
osx.kivy_version = 1.10.0

# (str) Android NDK version to use
#android.ndk = 9c
android.ndk = 10.3.2

# (str) Android NDK directory (if empty, it will be automatically downloaded.)
#android.ndk_path =
android.ndk_path = /opt/crystax-ndk-10.3.2

But it gives an error.
What i want to learn is, i should change also the part of the spec file like below or i should do a different thing?
# (str) Custom source folders for requirements
# Sets custom source for any requirements with recipes
# requirements.source.kivy = ../../kivy
  requirements.source.SQLAlchemy = .../../SQLAlchemy

Thanks in advance.
Edit:
The new output is:
[INFO]:    Will compile for the following archs: armeabi-v7a
[INFO]:    Found Android API target in $ANDROIDAPI
[INFO]:    Available Android APIs are (19)
[INFO]:    Requested API target 19 is available, continuing.
[INFO]:    Found NDK dir in $ANDROIDNDK
[INFO]:    Got NDK version from $ANDROIDNDKVER
[WARNING]: NDK version was set as r10.3.2, but checking the NDK dir claims it is 10.3.2.
[WARNING]: The build will try to continue, but it may fail and you should check that your setting is correct.
[WARNING]: If the NDK dir result is correct, you don't need to manually set the NDK ver.
[INFO]:    Using Crystax NDK r10.3.2
[INFO]:    Found virtualenv at /usr/bin/virtualenv
[INFO]:    Found the following toolchain versions: ['4.9', '5', 'clang3.6', 'clang3.7']
[INFO]:    Picking the latest gcc toolchain, here 5
[INFO]:    No existing dists meet the given requirements!
[INFO]:    No dist exists that meets your requirements, so one will be built.
[ERROR]:   Didn't find any valid dependency graphs.
[ERROR]:   This means that some of your requirements pull in conflicting dependencies.
[ERROR]:   Exiting.
# Command failed: /usr/bin/python -m pythonforandroid.toolchain create --dist_name=myapp --bootstrap=sdl2 --requirements=python3crystax,sqlite3,sqlalchemy,kivy --arch armeabi-v7a --copy-libs --color=always --storage-dir=/home/tanberk/Android3/.buildozer/android/platform/build
#
# Buildozer failed to execute the last command
# The error might be hidden in the log above this error
# Please read the full log, and search for it before
# raising an issue with buildozer itself.
# In case of a bug report, please add a full log with log_level = 2

A: The recipe name is sqlalchemy, not SQLAlchemy.
I'll look at adding some kind of check or warning about the case, I haven't thought about this type of problem before.

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