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The school's educators claim that they're trying to restore a certain level of Tznius, the Jewish Orthodox code of modesty, which, according to them, is on the decline because of Facebook.
Parents disagree with the move, alleging that the school encouraged the students to create FB accounts the year before, in order to vote for Beis Rivka in the Kohl’s charity giveaway.
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NASA and Sierra Space are moving closer to the first-ever flight of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The uncrewed cargo spaceplane is set to embark on its demonstration mission in 2024 as part of NASA’s commercial resupply services.
The Dream Chaser cargo system is composed of two main components: the Dream Chaser spacecraft and the Shooting Star cargo module. The spacecraft is a modified version of the HL-20 spacecraft developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center. It can be reused up to 15 times, making it a cost-effective solution for future missions. On the other hand, the Shooting Star module is designed to facilitate the delivery and disposal of cargo to and from the ISS.
To launch the Dream Chaser system, a ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket will be employed, taking off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Prior to its actual utilization, in-orbit demonstrations will be conducted to certify the Dream Chaser for future missions. These demonstrations will comprise far-field demonstrations, which will take place outside the vicinity of the space station, and near-field demonstrations, which will be performed closer to the station.
The maiden flight of the Dream Chaser is eagerly anticipated as it is expected to deliver over 7,800 pounds of cargo to the ISS. Furthermore, it is designed to stay attached to the station for a prolonged period of up to 75 days in subsequent missions, allowing for the delivery of even larger quantities of cargo, peaking at approximately 11,500 pounds. Not only will the spacecraft transport supplies to the ISS, but it will also play a crucial role in returning over 3,500 pounds of cargo and disposing of over 8,700 pounds of trash during reentry.
Once its mission is complete, the Dream Chaser will undergo a controlled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, utilizing its gliding capabilities to safely land on a runway at Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility. This successful landing will mark yet another milestone for Sierra Space, formerly known as Sierra Nevada Corporation, as the company was selected by NASA in 2016 to be the third commercial cargo resupply spacecraft provider for the International Space Station.
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During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ∼55 Ma), marine and terrestrial carbon isotope values exhibit a negative shift of at least 2.5‰, indicative of massive destabilization of marine methane hydrates, releasing ∼2000 gigatons of methane carbon. The cause of the hydrate destabilization is unknown but has been speculated to be warming due to a change from high-latitude to low-latitude deepwater formation. Here we present results from a numerical ocean model indicating that a sudden switch of deepwater formation from southern to northern high latitudes caused middepth and deep-ocean warming of 3°–5°C. The switch is caused by a slow increase in the intensity of the atmospheric hydrologic cycle, as expected under increasing temperatures and consistent with PETM sedimentary evidence. Deepened subtropical subduction prior to the thermohaline circulation switch causes warming of 1°–4°C in limited areas at thermocline through upper intermediate depths, which could destabilize methane hydrates gradually and at progressively greater depths. Warming accompanying a south-to-north switch in deepwater formation would produce sufficient warming to destabilize seafloor gas hydrates over most of the world ocean to a water depth of at least 1900 m.
 Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth underwent an abrupt climate change known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Against the backdrop of an already warm climate with reduced pole-equator temperature contrasts, intermediate- to deep-ocean water temperatures and high-latitude surface temperatures increased by 6°–8°C over <20 kyr [Röhl et al., 2000]. The PETM is characterized by a negative shift of 2.5‰ (Peedee belemnite (PDB)) or more in marine carbonate δ13C records [Kennett and Stott, 1991; Thomas and Shackleton, 1996] and of >5‰ in terrestrial δ13C records [Koch et al., 1992]. A feasible explanation for the negative carbon isotope excursion at the PETM is the introduction of ∼2000 gigatons of isotopically depleted (−60‰) carbon to the ocean-atmosphere system [Dickens et al., 1995; Dickens, 2000, 2001; Matsumoto, 1995]. One possible source for this quantity of depleted carbon today is the vast reserves of natural gas hydrate in oceanic sediments and methane gas trapped beneath these deposits [Kvenvolden, 1998].
 The thermal forcing of the late Paleocene and early Eocene thermohaline circulation (THC) was reduced compared to today because the pole-equator temperature contrast was smaller. Therefore it has often been speculated that the oceans might have been characterized by deepwater formation at low latitudes as first suggested by Chamberlin . Abrupt bottom warming caused by the onset of or an abrupt increase in this putative low-latitude deepwater source has been invoked as a feature of the PETM [Kennett and Stott, 1991; Kaiho et al., 1996; Bains et al., 1999], but there has been no evidence from data or from model studies that deep water originated from low latitudes, rather than from warm high latitudes [Crowley, 1999; Bice and Marotzke, 2001]. Nonetheless, changing thermohaline circulation is perhaps the most likely mechanism for abrupt, global bottom water temperature change.
Zachos et al.  noted that the abrupt and brief PETM event may be integrally related to the gradual late Paleocene-early Eocene global warming trend itself. In other words, the PETM may have occurred because global climate was gradually warming and some climate system threshold was passed, causing the system to “jump” to a new equilibrium state. Such jumps between different stable equilibria have been noted in coupled models with Quaternary, modern, and hypothesized future boundary conditions, both with and without a forcing perturbation [e.g., Manabe and Stouffer, 1988, 1993, 1995; Rahmstorf and Ganopolski, 1999; Hall and Stouffer, 2001].
 The precise nature of such a threshold response in the latest Paleocene thermohaline circulation has not previously been identified. Here we show new ocean model results suggesting that an abrupt switch in deep convection from high southern to high northern latitudes could be caused by a gradual strengthening of the idealized atmospheric hydrologic cycle, a change consistent with a gradually warming climate [Manabe, 1996] and PETM sedimentary evidence [Robert and Kennett, 1994; Schmitz et al., 2001].
2. Ocean Model Experiments
Bice and Marotzke  describe uncoupled Paleogene ocean model experiments using mixed boundary conditions and atmospheric forcings consistent with peak PETM warming. They examine the sensitivity of the model to imposed water cycle perturbations and the parameterizations of continental runoff and ocean diapycnal mixing for one early Eocene paleogeographic reconstruction. In this study, we first repeat the moisture flux experiment of Bice and Marotzke but with atmospheric surface forcings representative of pre-PETM conditions. We then examine the sensitivity of the model response to plausible changes in paleogeography around the time of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.
2.1. Model Description
 The model and forcing technique are the same as those used by Bice and Marotzke . The ocean model is the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's Modular Ocean Model (MOM), version 2.2 [Pacanowski, 1996]. The ocean surface is forced using “mixed thermohaline surface boundary conditions” [e.g., Bryan, 1986] of zonally invariant temperature, wind stress, and moisture fluxes (evaporation rate minus precipitation rate, E–P) predicted by an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM), GENESIS, version 2.0 [Thompson and Pollard, 1997] (Figure 1). The AGCM atmospheric composition (CO2 = 645 ppmv; CH4 = 16.5 ppmv) and poleward heat parameterization (4 times the modern control value) were set in order to produce a qualitatively good match to estimates of latest Paleocene high-latitude sea surface temperatures. The AGCM yields an ocean surface temperature of 11°C at paleolatitude 63°S, a value within the uncertainty in the 13°–14°C estimate from the planktonic foraminifera Acarinina at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 690 below the PETM [Stott et al., 1990; Thomas and Shackleton, 1996]. It should be noted that although widely used in paleoclimate studies, the standard approach of matching model and planktonic isotopic temperatures by varying greenhouse gas concentrations and other parameters in the AGCM is not an exact science: more than one combination of CO2, CH4, and heat transport coefficients could produce a reasonable fit to reconstructed sea surface temperatures. Because of the large number of model runs required to perform the single variable sensitivity experiments described here it is impractical to also test the ocean model sensitivity to hydrologic cycle increases under other, slightly different combinations of AGCM parameters.
 The initial paleogeographic configuration used is the same as that used by Bice and Marotzke , based on an early Eocene reconstruction by Chris Scotese [Bice et al., 2000a] (Figure 2). Paleobathymetry is based on seafloor age-depth relationship as described by Bice et al. . Important paleogeography sensitivity tests are described below. A detailed discussion of the modeling approach, its limitations, and further sensitivity tests are given by Bice and Marotzke .
2.2. Water Cycle Perturbation Experiments
 The suite of dramatic global changes inferred for the PETM includes increased aridity in subtropical latitudes and increased high-latitude precipitation [Robert and Kennett, 1994; Schmitz et al., 2001]. This pattern is consistent with an increase in the intensity of the global hydrologic cycle, which would be expected with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration, a change that might have accompanied late Paleocene volcanism [Eldholm and Thomas, 1993; Bralower et al., 1997]. The reader is referred to an excellent nontechnical description of intensification of the water cycle by Manabe , but the fundamental features of the hydrologic cycle response to an increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide are these: (1) the global mean evaporative flux (or rate of water transfer between the ocean and atmosphere) increases with increased net downward flux of radiation and surface warming, (2) increased mean evaporation rate is balanced by increased precipitation rate, (3) evaporation rate increases more in the subtropics than at other latitudes, and (4) increased precipitation exceeds increased evaporation at high latitudes, an effect enhanced by increased poleward transport of moisture due to tropospheric warming [Manabe, 1996]. In general, then, the hydrologic cycle response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is represented by increased subtropical evaporation and increased high-latitude precipitation [Manabe and Bryan, 1985; Manabe, 1996].
 In order to examine the possible ocean response to a gradual increase in the strength of the water cycle alone, the ocean is forced first with the moisture flux (E–P) predicted by the AGCM. The moisture flux is then multiplied, uniformly, by factors increasing from 1.0 to 2.0 in steps of 0.1 every 500 years, producing higher evaporative fluxes in the subtropics and higher net precipitation at high latitudes while maintaining a net zero surface flux. In all runs, temperature and wind stress forcing are identical. This imposed perturbation of E–P represents the increase in water cycle simulated in coupled models with increased atmospheric CO2 [Manabe, 1996]. Thus the uncoupled ocean model used here parameterizes one of the most important changes of the coupled system, albeit in a relatively crude form.
 Forced by the (unperturbed) moisture flux predicted by the AGCM, the global circulation is very similar to the control run of Bice and Marotzke , despite cooler polar temperatures, a greater pole-equator temperature gradient, and stronger zonal wind stresses. Deep water is formed in a broad region of the Southern Hemisphere along the Antarctic margin between Australia and the Antarctic Peninsula. This bottom water is carried west and northward along bottom topography east of Australia. It flows westward along the New Guinea margin into the eastern Indian Ocean and is turned southward around Ninetyeast Ridge, Broken Ridge, and Kerguelen Plateau, which had paleodepths as shallow as 500–1500 m in the early Paleogene [Driscoll et al., 1989; Peirce et al., 1989; Quilty, 1992]. Some deep water circulates northward into the deep western Indian Ocean. Deep water is prevented by topography from flowing directly into the deep Atlantic basins. Instead, it mixes with intermediate water across topography in the Southern Ocean, at Walvis Ridge and in the Equatorial Fracture Zone to fill these deep, silled basins from the south. In the North Pacific an intermediate (to 1500 m) water mass forms near the Alaskan margin and flows southwestward along the Asian margin. Much of this water is recirculated in the interior of the North Pacific basin; a smaller amount mixes with Southern Ocean water north of New Guinea to contribute to eastern Indian Ocean water.
 Forced by the imposed E–P perturbation, as described above, thermohaline circulation changes little, but the global ocean temperature increases gradually by ∼1°C (black curve in Figure 3), with maximum warming (up to 7°C) occurring at between 400 and 1200 m in the subtropical North Atlantic. As discussed in detail by Bice and Marotzke , this warming is the result of deepened subduction. Subduction is the process by which warm, relatively saline, subtropical surface waters are moved downward and spread horizontally along isopycnal (equal density) surfaces into the main thermocline [Luyten et al., 1983; Price, 2001]. As the E–P factor increases, subtropical surface salinity increases (<1 psu) cause subduction to carry subtropical water to greater depth, warming the thermocline. This response suggests deepened subduction as a plausible mechanism for midwater warming and consequent limited methane release, but the magnitude of the subduction-induced warming is too small by itself to account for PETM bottom water warming at sites with intermediate paleodepths (Table 1).
Table 1. Comparison of Temperatures Inferred From δ18O of Benthic Foraminifera Across the PETM and Those Predicted by the Ocean Modela
Estimated Water Paleodepth, m
Pre-PETM and PETM Sample Depths, mbsf
Pre-PETM and PETM δ18O, ‰ PDB
Pre-PETM to PETM °T (°C) From Isotopes
Maximum °T Response to Subduction
Mean °T (°C) Response to THC Switch
The isotopic temperature calculation [Erez and Luz, 1983] assumes local bottom water δ18O equaled −1‰ (SMOW) and did not change across the PETM.
Cibicidoides [Pak and Miller, 1992]. The peak PETM is missing in benthic records from Site 401, so the Δδ recorded here is an underestimate of the actual change.
 We now examine the sensitivity of the ocean response to this same hydrologic cycle increase taking into consideration uncertainty in the precise paleogeographic reconstruction. The moisture flux perturbation experiment is repeated with three additional global ocean configurations, specifying either or both of the following changes: (1) North Atlantic basin modified to represent uplift and island construction associated with North Atlantic Volcanic Province magmatism and heat flow (Figures 4a and 4b) and (2) closed low-latitude gateway with the earliest collision of western India and Eurasia (Figures 4c and 4d). These changes represent plausible geographic configurations during the late Paleocene-early Eocene interval [Eldholm and Thomas, 1993; Ritchie and Hitchen, 1996; Beck et al., 1998; Knox, 1998; de Sigoyer et al., 2000; Clift et al., 2002]. Of particular relevance to these experiments is evidence that extensive subaerial volcanism existed in the late Paleocene in the North Atlantic [Roberts et al., 1984; Boulter and Manum, 1989; Clift et al., 1995; White and Lovell, 1997]. Clift and Turner  describe evidence (including coal deposits) of subaerial exposure in the latest Paleocene in the Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Ridge region. Substantial relative sea level fall in the North Sea at the PETM due to high heat flow also supports the plausibility of a significant barrier to ocean flow in the North Atlantic region [Knox, 1998]. Additionally, there is evidence to support the existence of a North Atlantic land bridge as a high latitude corridor for mammal migration from Europe to North America via Greenland at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary [Knox, 1998; Tiffney, 2001]. In fact, the appearance of many mammal orders in North America by migration across this bridge and a possible Bering land bridge occurs precisely coincident with the terrestrial record of the PETM [Koch et al., 1995; Maas et al., 1995; Clyde and Gingerich, 1998]. We will use the shorthand “Brito-Arctic bridge” to refer to a plausible barrier to flow in the North Sea region associated with magmatism and high heat flow activity of the Iceland Plume in the latest Paleocene.
 Forced by the imposed E–P perturbation, all three paleogeographic sensitivity experiments exhibit thermocline and upper intermediate water warming due to deepened subduction. However, when a Brito-Arctic bridge is specified in the North Atlantic basin, with India-Eurasia either open or closed, the THC undergoes an abrupt switch from dominant Southern Hemisphere sinking to Northern Hemisphere (Pacific) sinking at a factor of 1.6 (E–P). Northern Hemisphere overturning increases abruptly from 20 to 45 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3/s)(Figure 5a), with what had been intermediate depth convection near the Alaskan margin deepening abruptly to 5200 m. Bottom water formation abruptly decreases along the Antarctic margin region, but intermediate depth (∼1200 m) convection continues in a small area to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Southern hemisphere THC strength decreases from 60 to 12 Sv (Figure 5b). This switch in THC produces 3°–5°C warming in the deep ocean. Prior to the switch, 11°–12°C surface water convected at 74°–80°S in the Pacific sector Southern Ocean. Bottom water warming occurs with the switch to convection of 15°–16°C surface water at ∼66°N on the Alaskan margin. The global mean ocean temperature increases by ∼3°C over several thousand years.
 The abrupt switch in THC occurs because North Pacific upper ocean salinities gradually increase, despite the fact that the stronger atmospheric water cycle causes more net precipitation at high latitudes. The primary mechanism for maintaining high surface salinities in the northern North Pacific is increased transport of saline subtropical North Atlantic thermocline water through the Central American Seaway into the North Pacific basin. With the creation of a Brito-Arctic bridge, low-salinity North Sea water, which otherwise was introduced directly into the North Atlantic, is instead diverted south and eastward into the northern Tethyan basin. This allows moderately higher salinity water to develop in the North Atlantic subtropics, which is transported southward and westward into the Pacific. There much of it is entrained in the subtropical gyre and transported to the high-latitude North Pacific. The intermediate water sinking in the Northern Hemisphere is therefore not diminished as E–P increases from 1.0 to 1.5 (E–P). It is instead maintained, and North Pacific salinity slowly increases, by <0.2 psu (Figure 6), until finally a switch to Northern Hemisphere sinking occurs at a 60% increase in E–P. Bottom water then forms in the North Pacific and fills the deep basins north and east of the Emperor-Hawaiian seamount chain and topography associated with the Pacific Superswell. It also flows west and southwestward as a deep Asian boundary current and turns westward through the Indonesian passage into the eastern Indian Ocean basin.
3. Model-Data Temperature Comparisons
 The unperturbed (pre-PETM) temperatures and predicted temperature change are shown in Figure 77 for two north-south and west-east vertical sections through all ocean basins. Figures 7a and 7d show the model-predicted temperatures for the control E–P case (pre-PETM). Nearby deep sea sites from which benthic paleotemperature estimates are available (Table 1) are projected onto the sections. Figures 7b and 7e illustrate the warming between the control E–P case and 1.5 E–P, just prior to the THC switch. Figures 7c and 7f show the temperature difference between the control E–P case and 1.6 E–P, after the THC switch has occurred and the ocean model has approached a new steady state.
 One way to assess the validity of the predicted THC switch at the P/E boundary is to compare the model-predicted bottom water temperatures and temperature change against pre-PETM and PETM benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope data. Unfortunately, there are very few localities from which both pre-PETM and peak PETM data are available, a result primarily of widespread dissolution of carbonate and hiatuses at the PETM [Thomas, 1998]. At those sites where sufficient carbonate material remains to allow recognition of the carbon isotope event, the size of the PETM excursion as expressed in the geochemistry of foraminifera is often truncated, allowing only a minimum temperature change to be inferred from δ18O. The sites from which benthic foraminiferal δ18O measurements of pre-PETM and PETM (or immediately post-PETM) specimens are known are listed in Table 1. In order to have a somewhat larger data set for comparison, data from Deep Sea Drilling Program (DSDP) Sites 401 and 577 are included even though the peak PETM is missing in benthic records from these sites (see Table 1, footnotes b and d). Peak PETM changes are well recorded at Site 1051, but there is evidence for an unconformity immediately prior to and at the onset of the PETM [Katz et al., 1999].
 Paleotemperatures are calculated using the equation of Erez and Luz . An average ocean water δ18O (δw) value of −1.0‰ (standard mean ocean water (SMOW)) is assumed [Shackleton and Kennett, 1975]. Horizontal error bars in Figure 8 indicate a 2σ uncertainty in bottom water δw based on the standard deviation (σ = 0.16‰) of modern values below 1000 m water depth in the Geochemical Ocean Sections Study data set [GEOSECS, 1987]. To convert water δ18O values from SMOW to the PDB scale, −0.27‰ is used [Hut, 1987]. We assume no change in δw at the PETM. The uncertainty in the isotopic paleotemperature equation is ∼2°C [Erez and Luz, 1983; Bice et al., 2000b], indicated by the dashed lines in Figure 8.
 In absolute temperatures the model matches both the inferred pre-PETM and PETM bottom water temperatures to within 3°C at all sites (Figure 8). The temperature change simulated by the model when the THC switch occurs is therefore very similar to changes in water temperature inferred from benthic foraminiferal δ18O at these sites. However, there are several sources of possible error in the temperature comparison. First, there is likely error in paleodepth reconstructions that can be difficult to quantify. To account for this possible problem when extracting model-predicted temperatures at each site, vertical error bars in Figure 8 indicate the effect of ±500 m error in paleodepth reconstructions. Deeper paleodepths have no effect or would improve the model-data fit. Shallower paleodepths increase the model temperature by 0°–3°C and would worsen the model-data fit for some sites. Secondly, possible interspecies isotopic offsets may exist owing to disequilibrium fractionation of oxygen isotopes. For this reason, we have avoided making direct interspecies comparisons. However, because we compare all isotopic temperatures to those predicted by the model, we make an indirect comparison across species. Published estimates of the isotopic offset between Cibicidoides and Nuttallides vary within a relatively narrow range of <0.2‰ [Shackleton et al., 1984; Katz and Miller, 1991; Pak and Miller, 1992], but estimated offsets between Oridorsalis and Nuttallides vary by at least 1.2‰ [Shackleton et al., 1984; Charisi and Schmitz, 1996]. Work by M. E. Katz et al. (Paleocene-Eocene benthic foraminiferal isotopes: Species reliability and interspecies correction factors, submitted to Paleoceanography, 2001) should produce a consistent set of correction factors for all species used in this study. Until such data are available, we use uncorrected carbonate δ18O values in the paleotemperature calculations.
 As noted in section 2.1, a reasonable fit between model high-latitude sea surface temperatures and those estimated from latest Paleocene planktonic data was achieved by tuning the AGCM greenhouse gas concentrations and slab ocean heat transport coefficient in the atmospheric model from which ocean model forcings were derived. However, we do not compare model surface temperatures and those inferred from δ18O of pre-PETM and peak PETM planktonic foraminifera because several factors present much greater uncertainty in this comparison: (1) fewer published planktonic data across the event, (2) uncertainty in the depth habitat of planktonic forams, (3) considerable uncertainty in the isotopic composition of ambient seawater and possible changes in this value across the PETM, and (4) uncertainty in tropical sea surface temperatures due to possible early diagenesis [Pearson et al., 2001].
4. Proposed Feedback for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
 The abrupt nature of the PETM bottom warming has long been interpreted as indicative of a THC switch, but the switch has been hypothesized to be from high southern latitude sinking to subtropical sinking [Kennett and Stott, 1991]. Our results suggest that the abrupt warming may instead have resulted from a switch from high southern to high northern latitude sinking at some critical point in the strength of the hydrologic cycle. This south-north switch in thermohaline circulation may therefore represent the “threshold” ocean response invoked for the PETM [Kennett and Stott, 1991; Zachos et al., 1993; Dickens et al., 1995].
 We propose a positive feedback (Figure 9) in which an increase in the strength of the hydrologic cycle (perhaps initiated by volcanic outgassing of CO2) leads first to subduction warming at intermediate depths and spatially limited thermal hydrate destabilization. Some part of the methane thus released is oxidized to CO2 in either the ocean or atmosphere [Dickens, 2000]. We hypothesize that increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (and plausibly methane) would further amplify the hydrologic cycle increase, eventually causing an abrupt switch to sinking in the warmer Northern Hemisphere. The resulting widespread, abrupt bottom warming would plausibly result in widespread methane hydrate destabilization as deep as 1900 m water depth over most of the world ocean (Figure 10). The model temperature response to a THC switch suggests that destabilization of hydrates as deep as 2400 m could occur in the entire Northern Hemisphere Pacific basin and a small region of the northeastern North Atlantic. Following the warming associated with a THC switch, bottom water temperatures low enough to support stable hydrates shallower than 1900 m water depth are found only in the high-latitude Pacific sector Southern Ocean.
 Limited subduction-induced warming followed by abrupt, widespread warming caused by a switch in thermohaline circulation would allow for sequential, or pulsed, injections of methane carbon, consistent with observations in high-resolution records [Bains et al., 1999; Röhl et al., 2000]. Furthermore, the chain of events is also self-limiting with regard to methane release as the widespread destabilization caused by abrupt deep-ocean warming at the THC switch could occur only once because circulation can not switch again to warm bottom waters further.
5. Predictions of the Hypothesis
 The proposed feedback mechanism suggested by the model results has a number of features that should be testable as more PETM sections, especially high-resolution sections, become available. We offer the following general predictions.
Gradual surface warming would accompany (and drive) an increase in the hydrologic cycle. Next, thermocline and upper intermediate depths would warm gradually in some areas owing to deepened subduction. Finally, abyssal waters warm abruptly everywhere owing to the THC switch. Thus the PETM and interval immediately preceding it should exhibit a largely “top-down” warming. Whether or not both warming mechanisms would drive destabilization of gas hydrates depends largely on the distribution of hydrates in the depth range of subduction warming (no deeper than 1500 m). Röhl et al.  interpret the high-resolution record from Site 1051 as indicating both gradual and catastrophic inputs of isotopically depleted carbon to the ocean system. This is consistent with our prediction of two mechanisms for hydrate destabilization, operating on different timescales.
Prior to the massive input of light carbon at the PETM, destabilization of hydrates due to deepened subduction would have occurred at progressively greater depths. This progressive response could have been smooth or pulsed, depending on the true rate of change in atmospheric moisture transports and the location of significant clathrate reservoirs relative to regions of maximum warming.
Subduction-induced warming would have been greatest in the Atlantic basins (Figures 7b and 7e). This suggests that it is most likely that destabilization of the shallowest late Paleocene gas hydrates would have occurred in the Atlantic, if subduction indeed drove hydrate melting. While warming caused by the THC switch would be sufficient to destabilize hydrates as deep as 1900 m water depth over the entire Atlantic basin, destabilization at even greater depths (to 2400 m) could have occurred in the Northern Hemisphere Pacific basin but in only a limited region of the northeastern North Atlantic basin. Evidence of PETM calcium carbonate dissolution (assumed to be an indicator of decreased local carbonate ion concentration due to CH4 oxidation) is apparently most pronounced in the Atlantic Ocean [Thomas, 1998]. This lends support to the idea that extensive methane release occurred in the Atlantic [Katz et al., 1999; Dickens, 2000]. The model indicates, however, that temperature change associated with the switch to north Pacific bottom water formation would have been sufficient to drive extensive destabilization in that basin as well.
The THC should return to Southern Hemisphere deep water formation as radiative gases input to the atmosphere before and during the PETM are removed by long- and short-term carbon cycle processes [Bains et al., 2000; Beerling, 2000; Ravizza et al., 2001]. When we decrease E–P from its maximum value of 2.0 to the initial profile, the ocean cools, first gradually as subduction shallows, then abruptly when the THC returns to its original state with deep sinking in the Southern Hemisphere. This cooling, driven by a hydrologic cycle “spin down,” is consistent with observations showing that benthic δ18O values (indicating temperature) decreased to near pre-PETM values over <100 kyr [Röhl et al., 2000]. The model switchback to the original THC state occurs at a lower E–P (1.2 times control) than does the forward switch (1.6 times control), indicating multiple equilibria in a small parameter range for paleogeographies with a Brito-Arctic bridge.
 If the PETM included a switch in thermohaline circulation and massive methane release, why did the event occur at this time? Our results indicate a strong sensitivity to North Atlantic tectonism: the THC switch and subsequent widespread bottom warming occur always and only when a barrier representing possible Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Ridge uplift is specified in the model configuration. This suggests that the Paleocene-Eocene paleogeography played a critical role in the response of the ocean system to a gradual perturbation of the atmospheric hydrologic cycle. It may be interpreted as a measure for how many influences must conspire, even in a warm climate, to produce an event as remarkable as the PETM. Still, we caution that substantial uncertainties exist in the exact details of the Paleocene/Eocene ocean configuration. With any ocean model, it is necessary to explore the sensitivity of the model solution to fundamental uncertainty in this boundary condition, but it is impossible to test all possible configurations. Similarly, as noted in section 2.1, there exist different combinations of AGCM parameters that can produce nearly the same fit to the initial (pre-PETM) sea surface temperature data on which we have imposed a hydrologic cycle increase, but it is impractical to define and test the ocean model with all possible combinations. We therefore offer these results as representative of one part of the spectrum of possible THC solutions and sensitivity for the Paleocene-Eocene ocean, with the caveat that we do not know yet if the surface conditions resulting from all possible AGCM combinations of greenhouse gas concentrations and heat transport coefficients would result in a switch in thermohaline circulation.
 The model runs shown here have employed some significant idealizations, such as the use of zonal mean atmospheric boundary conditions or the absence of an explicit atmospheric model. While either simplification is expected to change the results quantitatively, we argue that qualitatively, the results are robust. The existence of and transitions between multiple equilibria of the thermohaline circulation is a robust phenomenon, across the range of simple and complex, coupled and uncoupled models [e.g., Manabe and Stouffer, 1988; Marotzke, 1990; Marotzke and Willebrand, 1991; Weaver and Hughes, 1992]. In mathematical terms the bifurcation structures of coupled and uncoupled models of the THC are very similar [Marotzke, 1996]. Using an uncoupled model might introduce quantitative differences, but it is unlikely to “get things wrong” qualitatively. The justification of a simple model approach is discussed further by Bice and Marotzke .
 Although we impose a zonal mean forcing to the ocean model, in reality, there is certainly west-east asymmetry in the atmospheric hydrologic cycle, with generally drier conditions over the eastern subtropical oceans [Peixoto and Oort, 1992]. This asymmetry is apparent in PETM records from subtropical latitudes of the North Atlantic. Gibson et al.  describe clay mineral changes in the Salisbury Embayment (Virginia-New Jersey coastal plain) that suggest an increase in drainage basin-integrated moisture flux over some part of eastern North America. At the same time, PETM drying is supported by mineralogical and isotopic studies in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic and western Europe [Schmitz et al., 2001; Schmitz and Andreasson, 2001]. The Salisbury embayment record suggests that western North Atlantic embayment surface waters could have become less saline due to increased runoff during the PETM, but it is unlikely that such a change would have prevented deepened subduction in the North Atlantic. This is because the subduction process that transports warmer, saline water into the thermocline tends to remove surface water from the eastern side of the subtropical gyre and deposit it in the western deep thermocline [Price, 2001]. The decreased salinity waters inferred by Gibson et al. may therefore have existed as a lower-density mass in the subtropical marginal western North Atlantic and may have had little influence on thermocline ventilation by subduction.
 How literally should we read the fact that in experiments where a THC switch occurred, it occurred at a 60% increase in the strength of the hydrologic cycle? Given the use of zonal mean forcings and the lack of an ocean-atmosphere feedback in the uncoupled model, we would argue only that if such a switch occurred, it occurred at “some critical value” of moisture transport. For example, additional sensitivity experiments were performed in which E–P was increased from a factor of 1.5 at the slower rate of 1% per 500 years. Here the abrupt THC switch occurred at a factor of 1.65 times the control E–P, revealing a rate dependence in the model response. The long-term isotopic record indicates that late Paleocene oceans were warming slowly over several million years preceding the PETM [Zachos et al., 2001], and so our hydrologic cycle forcing may be much faster than the actual rate of perturbation of the climate system. It would be impractical to perform experiments of several million years duration using a three-dimensional ocean model. However, we note that the THC response obtained is much faster than the change in forcing, which is the hallmark of an abrupt climate change event [National Research Council (NRC), 2002]. We also note that while an increase in the hydrologic cycle may have begun several million years prior to the PETM event, our sensitivity tests suggest that the THC switch occurs only when a land bridge is present in the North Atlantic. From North American mammalian data we know that the land bridge existed precisely at the time of the PETM. It is not clear from tectonic, faunal, or sedimentary evidence exactly how long the bridge had been in existence prior to the PETM. Regardless of how long the period of time over which the hydrologic cycle increase occurred, the model suggests that the switch might not have occurred until formation of the land bridge.
 Climate models, both coupled and uncoupled, differ in their prediction of the magnitude and rate of increase in the water cycle given some increasing CO2 scenarios [Manabe et al., 1994], and few studies have examined CH4-induced changes in the hydrologic cycle. How strong the positive feedback in our hypothesized system is would have to be investigated using reliable coupled physical-chemical atmosphere-ocean models. Strict quantification of forcings and feedbacks in such a system is probably not feasible with existing coupled models, given that such models being used for future climate change research do not agree on the fundamental question of whether a future doubling of atmospheric CO2 will stabilize or destabilize the modern thermohaline circulation [Manabe and Stouffer, 1993; Rahmstorf and Ganopolski, 1999; Latif et al., 2000].
 The precise location and amount of PETM methane release resulting from gradual subduction warming and abrupt THC switch-induced warming are difficult to predict. The many complexities of late Paleocene marine productivity, hydrate formation and stability, sediment stability, and controls on hydrate phase change under gradual and abrupt warming in already “warm” oceans remain to be sorted out by the diverse research community studying the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. The results presented here raise the intriguing possibility that an abrupt change in thermohaline circulation from southern to northern sinking was an integral part of the PETM and that this change could have resulted from a gradual increase in the water cycle under conditions of late Paleocene volcanism and Paleocene-Eocene paleogeography.
 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant ATM-9905023 to K.L.B. and under grant ATM-0000545, which supports the Partnership in Modeling Earth System History (PSU/WHOI). The authors benefited from discussions with J. Pedlosky, R. Norris, D. C. Kelly, and J. Scott. We thank J. Dickens, M. Katz, and E. Thomas for helpful comments on versions of the manuscript and L. Peterson for outstanding editorial support. The MOM2 ocean model was developed under the direction of R. Pacanowski at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The GENESIS atmospheric model was developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research by S. Thompson and D. Pollard. The baseline paleogeography was provided by C. Scotese. The GENESIS model was run on the Cray SV1 system at Pennsylvania State University's Environment Computing Facility. Model data visualization was done using Ferret, a freely distributed software package developed by the Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project at NOAA/PMEL. This is WHOI contribution 10580.


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I can’t cook to save my life, I’ll give things a go, I want to be a good cook but guaranteed every time something will go wrong.
When I say every time, I mean every time. My mum was a rubbish cook too so I definitely inherited her genes, it meant I never learned any cooking skills growing up and the very little I did learn came from my Nan.
Pop Princess loves to cook and make cakes and I do try my best to do this with her, she often gets bored half way though and wonders off and leaves me to it.
Cooking is not something I enjoy probably because it nearly always ends in disaster. Now as I start to wean Rock Baby I feel like I’m pinned in the kitchen constantly and even her food goes wrong, for instance today I made her Leek, pea and potato puree but I forgot it was on the stove and when I realised the water had all gone and the vegetables were starting to burn on the bottom of the pan!
I tried to make rice pudding in the week in the microwave and the pudding rice and milk spilled over the bowl and exploded everywhere leaving a huge lumpy mess. I tried to make custard but that went lumpy and horrible when I was heating it up and then today a simple thing like baby rusks, I added milk and it still went wrong and wouldn’t go into a smooth paste. All my friends and family keep saying just blend up a bit of the food you are having for dinner but it’s not as simple as that.
I don’t cook in the traditional way, I often cut corners like tonight we had lamb chops, potato rosti’s and Mediterranean Vegetables. However the Rosti’s were frozen and the veg were ready to roast in a tin pre prepared so they just needed to be stuck in the oven. Pop Princess is a really fussy eater and I’m almost certain it’s because she doesn’t have a massive variety. She loves pasta and I can make pasta sauces and things like macaroni cheese but her food is very basic and traditional and I often cook for her and myself as my husband is really, really fussy.
I will eat anything but he is a real English traditionalist when it comes to food (meat, potato and veg), he is also often home very late from work so it’s easier for pop princess and me to eat together earlier.
When it comes to dinner parties it gets me in a right flap. Most of the time I will chicken out and we would order takeaway in but I would love to be confident enough to have a go and cook a really nice meal for my friends without getting into a state about it!
I talk about this with my friends and family and they all make a joke about it and say you can cook, of course you can but I really can’t and it does get me down as I would love to be able to have that natural flair but its something I lack so if anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve or simple recipes that I simply can’t get wrong then let me know!


Song Of The Sea isn't done with attracting award nominations just yet. After numerous nods and several victories Tomm Moore's latest opus can now add a European Film Award nomination to that impressive list. The 28th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on December 12th, and are designed to recognise excellence in film across the continent. The nominations were announced on October 13th. The nominations were selected by a committee made up of members of the European Film Academy and CARTOON- the European Association of Animated Film.
Song Of The Sea will compete in the Best Animated Feature Category against another AFA favourite, Aardman Animation's Shaun The Sheep Movie. The third and final nominee in the category you might not be quite so familiar with, however. Adama is a French made feature about a young African boy who travels across World War 1 era Europe in search of his lost brother. The film screened at this year's London Film Festival and is due to open in France later this month. No US screenings have been confirmed so far. Based on the trailer, it certainly looks like a very interesting film and quite different from it's fellow nominees. Check it out below.
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
'Song Of The Sea', 'Shaun The Sheep' and 'Adama' Nominated For European Film Award
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The Daily Telegraph has an article about Final Flight of the Osiris, the prelude to The Matrix Reloaded, which picks up right where this short left off. With a bang..
The Final Flight of the Osiris is already winning fans, writes MICHAEL BODEY.
In Australia, most feature films are made for less than $8 million.
Australian visual-effects supervisor James Rogers and his team at Square USA had $8 million at their disposal merely to make an 11-minute short film to complement the new sequels to the modern cult film, The Matrix .
Despite the generous budget, they didn’t quite know what their film, Final Flight of the Osiris, would become.
“We were originally asked to make an instalment for the DVD, The Animatrix,” says Rogers. “We didn’t know at the time it was going to be ‘The Matrix 1.5’. We read about that after it was finished.”
The computer-generated short film shows the exploits of the crew of the hovercraft Osiris as they attempt to get a crucial message back to Zion.
As such, it follows on from the original Matrix film, affects events in the upcoming Enter The Matrix video game and sets off the events in the much-anticipated first sequel, The Matrix: Reloaded.
For the team of developers at Square USA, this job was exactly what they needed.
“It was a strange assignment but we’d just come off Final Fantasy and we were a bit sick of the negative coverage we’d got on that,” says Rogers.
“To be handed The Matrix, which had this legacy and following, was so interesting to us.”
Interesting because his team was able to push the dream of believable digital human beings for the screen one step further.
On big-budget flop Final Fantasy, the world was told the computer-generated humans would be photo-realistic, indistinguishable from the real thing.
The developers knew that wouldn’t happen. Yet.
“That marketing was frustrating to us,” says Rogers, “so Osiris was a big advance. After we’d done Final Fantasy, we knew exactly what not to do.”
They knew not to be too geeky and to focus on cinematic issues more than computer ones. Also, improvements in speed and process ensured Osiris was a far more enjoyable, and ultimately successful, experience.
“This time we were more focused,” he said. “In Final Fantasy, the brief was to animate the humans like the humans. In The Animatrix, it was to make them more anime-like and, funnily enough, they’re more realistic.”
Already, the positive verdict is in on Osiris. It’s a major achievement, a captivating and humorous adventure that loses nothing from being created digitally.
And Rogers hasn’t lost all hope for Final Fantasy.
“Box office-wise, it was a failure and maybe the story wasn’t that hot, but it was a significant step for digital characters, as is this film,” he says
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Once a welders yard but now a live music venue. The Northern Powerhouse is not just for people to gather. It’s for people from different generations to listen to artists new and old under one roof with the shared love of music.
At a time when Birkenhead is promised huge redevelopment this venue is at at the heart of the changes. It will be one of the first signs of growth and renewal and will give Birkenhead a voice and culture to speak through. This 350 capacity venue isn’t another pub or bar but an exciting space for all genres of music to be created and cultivated. Music from all walks of life from rock to dance will be catered for.
The Northern Powerhouse has teamed up with Events471 to bring exciting events. We are collaborating with local students and established bands to put on events where the artists of varying experience can perform together. This mix of experience, energy and passion for music will create an electric atmosphere and ensure both performers and attendees have a memorable experience. We aim to ensure everyone has the best night, offer a launch pad for artists and to put Birkenhead on the map for all the right reasons.
Events will be hosted monthly and there are ongoing discussions about a future festival representing our area.
We would love you to be part of it. If you’re a local band who would like to get involved or if you know an artist we should be checking out please get in touch.
You can find The Northern Powerhouse on Facebook.


Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has successfully completed a global corporate loan transaction using blockchain technology.
BBVA reported that it has closed a €75 million ($91M USD) corporate loan deal with technology partner Indra. The pilot transaction was conducted on a mutually distributed ledger that informed both the bank and the borrower of the loan’s progress. It addressed the complete process – from negotiation of the deal to the signing of the loan.
BBVA said the pilot transaction reduced the time taken to complete the deal from days to hours by recording and tracking interactions, reviews and iterations over an inhouse-developed digital ledger using the Hyperledger platform. Once the contract terms were agreed, they used ethereum’s public blockchain (testnet) to register the “hash” or unique identifier related to the transaction’s documentation.
Derek White, BBVA’s global head of customer solutions, said that the bank’s digital transformation continues to gather pace and reach into new areas, and this blockchain pilot is a prime example of where disruptive technology can add real value to business processes.
“The use of blockchain in this transaction has greatly increased transparency and speed, while equally improving efficiency – it’s a win win for both us and Indra,” said White.
Borja Ochoa, Indra’s Director of Financial Services, said that blockchain was “destined to become one of the technologies that will change the way we interact with products and financial services” and that the pilot “strengthens the position of BBVA and Indra as leaders in the practical application of blockchain technologies.”
BBVA has been conducting pilot projects to explore tha application of blcockchain technology in multiple use cases across the bank. In April 2017, BBVA completed the first real-time cross-border money transfer using Ripple blockchain technology between Spain and Mexico. In October 2017, the bank launched a blockchain pilot for foreign exchange transactions. The following month, it became the first bank to use blcockchain in a pilot program to automate document presentation in import-export operations between Spain and Latin America.
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Hollywood by the beach
Planet Hollywood’s new hotel in south Goa is a great place to take a break beneath the gaze of the world’s top movie stars, says Treena Mukherjee
It was Marilyn Monroe who greeted me at the movie-themed Planet Hollywood Beach Resort in Goa — well actually a picture of Marilyn looking pouty alongside other big-screen stars like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise at the reception. Situated on the sun-kissed shores of the picturesque Utorda Beach in south Goa, the resort is the new party place for revellers wanting to hit the beach.
“This is the only beach in Goa which has white sand, we’re really lucky to be here,” Anand Chatterjee, the resort’s general manager, told me when I arrived to take up residence in one of the resort’s 110 rooms (it also has five suites and 15 tents).
Well the sands certainly are glittering and the gentle waves breaking on the shore offer a totally restful ambience. As I reached the resort, a bright lobby lay in front of me with many stars at the counter. I had view of the expansive beach as well as of a stunning swimming pool from the picture window of my room that I was sharing with Penelope Cruz — well a photo of her looking gorgeous as usual!
The rooms at the hotel are divided into eight blocks and each block features a different Hollywood genre such as comedy, drama and superhero adventures through artwork and photographs. There are canvas paintings of different characters like the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, unforgettable dialogues of Al Pacino and Robert de Niro to read on the walls as well as movie posters and stills.
The furniture and artwork in the lobby and in the Heart Bar was designed by the talented Gauri Khan and the resort is modelled on the Planet Hollywood Beach Resort in Los Angeles — it’s also the only Planet Hollywood resort outside the US.
For fitness buffs, there’s a gymnasium that’s packed with cardio-vascular, strength and endurance building equipment. There’s also a place set aside to do Yoga and a steam room with Jacuzzi along with trained masseurs (natch). And if you want to give yourself the Hollywood star beauty treatment, there’s also a beauty salon. Whereas the swimming pool floor is embedded with blue lights that give it a unique edge.
Instead, I chose in the evenings to stroll in the resort’s tropical garden. There’s also a coconut orchard in the resort sprawling over a verdant 10 acres.
Then I was off to try the local cuisine. It couldn’t get better than a hearty Goan meal at the resort’s Fame restaurant. I dug into a tangy Goan prawn curry, sanas, chorizo and Goan chilli chicken (the Goan style is a bit high on spice).
To cool my tongue down afterwards, I sampled Bebinca with baked yoghurt topped with a scoop of tender coconut ice cream. The other restaurants of the hotel are Planet Dailies — an all-day eatery, the Shack Poseidon — a beach shack, and the Cigar Lounge.
Then, if you want to live it up there’s some loud, thumping disco music in the evening, but I was ready to hit the hay so that I could get up early and go sightseeing.
I woke up to the sound of the waves on the beach. After breakfast, I set off with a huge food hamper by my side in an Audi A8, kindly packed for me by the hotel staff. I was out to make the best of the short two-day break I had in Goa.
We drove along the twisting roads flanked with cashew nut trees from the southern part of the state to the north along the Mandovi River. I was spellbound by Old Goa and its quaint Portuguese-style houses with latticed windows and marvellous porches in the front and its intricately carved churches.
A must-visit on my list was the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa. The magnificent basilica steeped in history, holds the remains of St. Francis Xavier. The church was thronged by visitors and a few old women with prayer beads in their hands.
A trip to Goa can never be complete without seeing the Dona Paula beach in Panaji, the state capital. It looked perfect as the sun set behind the rocks.
As I prepared to go back to the resort in the twilight, I had one thought: “Memories are made of this.”
♦ How to get there: There are direct IndiGo and Jet Airways flights from
Calcutta to Goa and one-stop SpiceJet flights from Calcutta to Goa
♦ Where to stay: At Planet Hollywood Beach Resort rates during the high season
start from Rs 10,500 to Rs 11,000 approximately and Suites cost between Rs 45,000 to 50,000 approximately

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Deathgasm (2015) - SXSW Teaser Trailer
Genres: Horror, Comedy
Cast: Stephen Ure, Cameron Rhodes, Jodie Rimmer, Campbell Rousselle, Tori Marsh, Kate Elliott, Rosalie van Horik, Hannah Tasker-Poland, Kingi Gilbert, Jamie Mackay, Josh Goodwin, Nick Hoskins-Smith, Frida Baigent, Liam Martin, Edward Mayo
Director(s): Jason Lei Howden
New horror comedy Deathgasm (2015) from director Jason Lei Howden looks really different in a good way. At first watch I did not like this teaser trailer because I thought it looked too much like a music video but I did realize that they were going for a certain breakout tone. This is the SXSW Film Festival 2015 teaser trailer so I am pretty interested to see the actual trailer. I feel like this is a "not exact" movie adaptation of Brutal Legend, a video game from back in 2009. I know the director and cast had fun making this film and I hope it shines through. Deathgasm stars Milo Cawthorne, James Blake and Kimberley Crossman.
Synopsis: Highschool can be Hell. Metal-thrashing Brodie is an outcast in a small town until he meets a kindred spirit in metalhead Zakk. After starting their own band, Brodie and Zakk’s resentment of the suburban wasteland leads them to a mysterious piece of sheet music said to grant Ultimate Power to whoever plays it. But the music also summons an ancient evil entity known as Aeloth The Blind One, who threatens to tear apart existence itself. It’s up to Brodie, Zakk and their mates to stop a force of pure evil from devouring mankind.
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This device provides what Withings suggests is “one of the fastest, most accurate, non-invasive temperature readings available.” Inside is a 16-sensor infrared array by the name of HotSpot. This system is able to take your temperature via your temporal artery.
Tithings suggests that this device corrects itself for ambient conditions and odd skin temperatures. We’ll see about that!
We’re not going give any early judgements to this device here at CES 2016 as we’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off – but chances are good we’ll see this machine appearing in stores this first quarter of 2016, on our review bench soon.
This device will cost you a cool £79.95 (that’s right around $120). Check our CES hub for more CES 2016 action all week long!
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Beltsville, Md., have developed and patented an experimental, cutting-edge optical scanning system that would use two different kinds of lighting, a sophisticated camera and other pieces of equipment to scrutinize produce-section favorites while they are still at the packinghouse.
The system would provide, in a single image, evidence of certain kinds of defects or contaminants, according to biophysicist Moon S. Kim with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Defects could include cuts and bruises. Contaminants might include specks of fertilizer from orchard or field soil.
Kim, ARS agricultural engineers Yud-Ren Chen (now retired) and Kuanglin (Kevin) Chao, and ARS biomedical engineer Alan M. Lefcourt received a patent in 2010 for their automated approach to detecting defects and contaminants on the exterior of fresh produce or other items. The scientists work in the ARS Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Research Laboratory at Beltsville.
The team's system harnesses the capabilities of a type of camera known as a high-speed multispectral/hyperspectral line-scanner. Positioned above a conveyor belt, the scanner captures images of each fast-moving item, such as an apple. Each apple is exposed simultaneously to ultra-violet light from a UV fluorescent lamp and near infra-red light from a halogen lamp. The near infra-red light that bounces off the apple can be captured by an instrument known as a spectrograph and analyzed for tell-tale patterns of defects, while the UV light beamed on the apple can disclose the whereabouts of contaminants.
The system combines information from both forms of illumination into a single image with contaminant and defect results. When linked to a sorting machine, the system can signal the sorter to separate the problem apples from others.
At present, the system offers, at the rate of about 3 to 4 apples per second, a 180-degree view of each apple's exterior, Kim reports. The scientists are working to improve the process so it will provide a 360-degree whole-surface view for thorough inspection.
Preliminary findings from this work appeared in a 2008 issue of the journal Sensing and Instrumentation for Food Quality and Safety.
ARS is the USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency. The Beltsville team's investigations are helping enhance food safety, a USDA top priority.
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An international team of scientists has discovered a new way to transfer image information through multimodal fibers with almost no distortion - even if the fiber is bent. The results of the study, to which scientist from the Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology Jena (Leibniz IPHT) contributed, were published on 6thJune in the highly-cited journal Physical Review Letters.
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All LWVSC Members are invited to join our League in accepting this proclamation from the City in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the League of Women Voters and for our voter education and engagement activities.
A member of the League for 25 years, Carol has served at both the local and state levels. For the past four years she served as Voter Service Director for LWVC. In addition to overseeing production of LWVC’s standard voter service materials, she curated and wrote content for Voter’s Edge, coordinated League’s part in the televised U.S. Senatorial candidate forum and coordinated League’s involvement in the California Channel Free Airtime Project in 2018. Carol served as program director for LWVC in the reproductive choices portfolio for three years prior to joining the state board.
In 1878, the U.S. Congress declared George Washington's birthday to be a federal holiday. The first observation was February 22, 1879. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1970 changed the date of the holiday to the third Monday in February. This change means the holiday falls between February 15 and 21. The holiday goes by various names in U.S. States; in California, the holiday is called Presidents' Day.
A coalition of Neighborhood Councils will present a candidate forum in advance of the March 3 primary election for Los Angeles City Council District 4. The forum will be held at John Marshall High School, and students are expected to take part in the event. All candidates running for the seat have agreed to participate.
KPCC Senior Politics Reporter Libby Denkmann will moderate the event, and the League of Women Voters Los Angeles has been advising and will provide on-site support.
BUY TICKETS and come celebrate a century of the League of Women Voters with a Roaring 20s themed gala at The Woman’s Club in Claremont. Valentine’s Day with the League includes food, drinks, live jazz music, and a silent auction. All proceeds will go toward your local League’s work to create a more perfect democracy through education, voter services, outreach and action. 1920s or cocktail attire suggested.
In honor of the 100th Birthday of the League of Women Voters, the League is sponsoring a coordinated Day of Action to strengthen democracy. The League of Women Voters of Diablo Valley will focus on the issue of redistricting. The People Powered Fair Maps Campaign began in September 2019, and will continue through 2020 ahead of the 2021 redistricting cycle.

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