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UCSF have saved 2 people's lives at KARM with PSA! – Beth Roggeman
Words cannot express my appreciation!! -Beth Finamore-Neff
Early detection programs has played a big role – KARM
UCSF has shaped the human service foundational experience – Ms. Jacqueline G. McRae-Mitchell
We are so appreciative of Mercedes and all her staff and helpers. – Mayor Dale Perdue and Staff
Facts You Should Know About Telemarketing
Telemarketing: Why Do We Do It?
United Cancer Support Foundation uses the telephone to raise funds for cancer research, cancer prevention events/programs, educational events, and to recruit volunteers to further United Cancer Support Foundation's mission. We often get asked about our use of telemarketing.
In the interest of transparency, here is a quick Q & A that you might find useful.
How do I get you to stop calling me?
That's simple: If you don't want to be called, just tell us. It is never our wish to bother or inconvenience you in any way. After all, if our attempts to reach you make you angry or upset, it's very unlikely that when we do manage to reach you, you won't be in a mood to support our mission. So, if you do not want to be called, that's all we need to know.
But – and this is important – we do need to know that you do not want to be called.
The easiest way to be removed from our calling list is to call our offices at 855-622-6237.
Once you call or complete the form, we will suppress your selected contact information from future campaigns. Note that it may take up to 72 hours to remove your information from our list. You can reach us in person at 855-622-6237 weekdays from 9am to 4pm Eastern Standard Time to request that we remove you from our calling list.
Please complete the following form and indicate which item (Address, Phone, or email) you wish to remove from our contact list. You may choose one or all methods of contact.
Do Not Call Request Form
I registered with the National Do Not Call List, so why are you calling me at all?
United Cancer Support Foundation is a not-for-profit IRS recognized 501c3 charitable organization, and as such is exempt from the Federal Trade Commission's National Do Not Call requirements. (Political organizations are also exempt.) It is, however, United Cancer Support Foundation's policy to always honor a request not to be called. Simply call 855-622-6237 to have us remove your number from our calling list.
I get multiple calls from a number I don't recognize. Is that you?
During any given United Cancer Support Foundation campaign, we will only try to reach you once per day. We also comply with FCC regulations which state that calls can only be made between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. So, if you are receiving more than one call per day, or receiving calls very early or very late, those calls are not from us.
If, however, you believe for any reason we are in fact responsible for multiple calls, or calls outside the mandated window, call us at 855-622-6237. We will take your information and investigate immediately.
I read that only a small percentage of telemarketing donations actually reach the charities.
This issue is complicated by the fact that the percentages specified in a charity's contract with telemarketing firms vary from state to state. Many states require that a firm guarantee a minimum amount that will go to the charities. That amount is always low, as firms take a very conservative approach.
But in practice, a charity like United Cancer Support Foundation generally receives more than the stated minimum. This amount is reported in financial statements at the conclusion of the contract period. Overall, the money we spend to raise money via telemarketing must be considered in the context of all that we raise and spend.
Here's the bottom line: The generous gifts of our supporters, however they come to us, have made funding United Cancer Support Foundation's nationwide free "Circle of Care" mammogram program and free "Recliners for Recovery" and Sun-Screen Dispenser placement possible. We are deeply grateful for all the program and mission support we receive from our donors across America.
Thanks for spending the time to get a picture of United Cancer Support Foundation's use of telemarketing for fundraising and volunteer recruitment.
United Cancer Support Foundation
6700 Baum Drive, Suite 8
Info@unitedcsf.org
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TEDx Maastricht: How can you make sure that 2.4 billion people have access to a working toilet?
In this TEDx presentation Shyama will share stories (actually real truths!) from her experience as an activist, trying to improve sanitation coverage in an isolated coastal Indian village, to draw some inferences on how sanitation coverage can be ensured for all.


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Polk Leadership Team
Hello from the Polk leadership team!
B.S. Human Development, M.Ed. in Special Education, M.Ed. School Leadership
Ms. Pree Ann Johnson, Principal
PreeAnn Johnson is the very proud Principal of James K. Polk Elementary. Over the past ten years it has been her passion to foster a sense of community that results in a caring and dedicated group of parents, students and staff members. Her academic career provided her with a Bachelor of Science in Human Development from St. Mary's College of Maryland, a Master of Education, specializing in working with emotionally disturbed students, from American University, and work toward her doctorate in Educational Administration from Maryland University. However, it is her experiences as a member of a large military family that has had the greatest influenced on her collaborative and emotional leadership style.
She has been in ACPS for 33 years, starting off at George Washington Middle School where she lead the Prexies to a Freshman Girls Basketball Championship. When she started out, she also worked with the Alexandria Recreation Department for more than fifteen years. Prior to becoming the Principal at Polk, she served as a Special Education Teacher, Student Services Coordinator, Assistant Principal at Douglas MacArthur, Cora Kelly and TC Williams Minnie Howard Campus. As an Alexandria resident, her daughter has been in ACPS since Kindergarten and is excited about being an official TC Titan next year. So with all this time and work in the City, you can see why she has a sense of pride for Alexandria that is far deeper than her role as an administrator. Ms. Johnson welcomes you to James K. Polk where every owl succeeds.
B.A. Elementary Education K-6, M.Ed. School Leadership
Mrs. Carla Carter, Assistant Principal
Mrs. Carter P. Carter became a member of the ACPS Family in August of 1996, at which time; she served as an elementary teacher for six years at Jefferson- Houston Elementary School. Following her tenure at Jefferson Houston Elementary School, she became a Performance Evaluation Program Specialist and collaborated with administrative teams at several schools in the district to implement the PEP Evaluation System. In February of 2008, Mrs. Carter joined the Administrative Team at James K. Polk Elementary School as an Assistant Principal. As an Assistant Principal, she serves as the Special Education Administrator Designee. As the designee, she works closely with the School Support Team and teachers to brainstorm strategies and programs to assist struggling students with experiencing success.
Mrs. Carter views the opportunity for her to serve as an Assistant Principal at James K. Polk as an honor and takes great pride in the support that she provides students, staff and parents. Mrs. Carter often says, "At Polk, we can take care of our people!" She also applies the words of Rita Pierson in her work, "Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."
Mrs. Carter is a native North Carolinian and currently resides in Bowie, Maryland with her family. She earned a Bachelors' Degree in Elementary Education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a Master's Degree in Education Leadership at George Mason University.
B.S. History and Child Development, M.Ed. Educational Leadership
Mrs. Penny Hairston, Assistant Principal
Mrs. Penny Hairston was delighted to join the Administration Team at James K. Polk in 2011. With experience in program initiatives, optimizing the learning atmosphere, staff development, effective classroom management skills Mrs. Hairston had a proven record for exceeding goals through effective internal and external communication. As a revered teacher at Alexandria's Samuel Tucker Elementary School from 2000-2011, she had a firm commitment to student-centered learning.
Mrs. Hairston enjoys the wonderfully diverse student population at Polk and loves working each day to provide Polk students with a welcoming environment filled with rich learning experiences. Mrs. Hairston has the uncompromising view that all students can learn given a positive learning atmosphere that welcomes exploration and enhances student confidence. She takes her light of inspiration from the voice of Dr. Maya Angelou… "We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."
As an Assistant Principal here at Polk, she serves as the Talented and Gifted Administrator Designee (TAG) and the 504 Administrator Designee. She also works with residency verification, student attendance and truancy. She welcomes any questions families may have about these processes.
Mrs. Hairston received her Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Mary Washington in 2008. Mrs. Hairston and her family live in Fredericksburg, Virginia where she is actively involved in several community service organizations.

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Block Butcher Bar readies for Monday opening
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Block Butcher Bar, the new restaurant from the founders of LowBrau, opens Monday.
When restaurateurs tout their farm-to-fork credentials, it can be easy to be skeptical. Menus abound with terms like "local," "fresh," "sustainable" and other buzzwords, and while any chef worth his or her apron can explain the provenance of their food, there's still a supply chain that can tend to make the path of ingredients—meats in particular—from their source to your plate a little… vague.
There will be no such ambiguities at Block Butcher Bar, the new offering from LowBrau proprietors Michael Hargis and Clay Nutting. Located next door to their bustling beer-and-sausage destination at 20th and K streets, Block opens for business on Monday, Feb. 24, with craft whiskeys, rare microbrews and a meat presentation literally as transparent as it gets: Restaurant staff will break down pork for its house-made salumi, charcuterie and other carnivore cuisine in a glass butcher-block enclosure just off the dining room.
"If you see it, it's art!" says Hargis, who welcomed his and Nutting's investors to an invitation-only Block preview on Thursday night. He says that he first fell in love with the concept when a supplier with a farm near Fairfield invited him to a butchering exhibition there. "When I saw these artisans break down the meat," Hargis continues, "and teach about how it's broken down, I thought, 'This is the next evolution of farm-to-fork.' I mean, not only do you want to know where it's from, but you want to know how your food's produced."
The demonstration space has been in the works since before even LowBrau opened in January 2013 in the space formerly occupied by the restaurant and bar Lounge on 20. (Even the cleavers dotting the back of LowBrau's bar foreshadowed the more intensive developments to come.) The partners were using the vacant 1,100-square-foot space next door for kegs and storage when, last spring, their landlords informed them that they planned to put it on the market.
Later in 2013, Hargis says, word that a national chain had expressed interest in the vacancy "lit a fire under our butts" to fast-track a business plan and rough look for Block. Hargis, who coordinated LowBrau's design and has a background in architecture, drew the original conceptual sketch on a bar napkin.
Once the landlords signed off, Hargis and Nutting took the plans for Block to their LowBrau investors, who looked at the plans and doubled down on the new venture. "We thought we had something that would really complement what we were doing at Lowbrau," Nutting explains. "And we decided, instead of doing LowBrau Part Two, to do another brand that really complements what we were hoping to present."
The complementary approach is actually threefold. While that aforementioned meat grinder will stay busy supplying the artisanal sausage for Lowbrau (including a spicy fennel variety and an Andouille sausage made with fermented Fresno chilis), many of the regional meats handled in-house will provide the salumi and charcuterie that the proprietors say represents a stylistic evolution from Block's more famous neighbor.
Executive chef Michael Tuohy (who will oversee the kitchens at both restaurants, which share the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week) will work with regional farms like Soil Born in Rancho Cordova, Chico-based Rancho Llano Seco, and Stone Valley in Alamo to provide the hogs—while also importing such world-class meats as jamon Serrano and jamon Iberrico. (In addition to cheese plates and pickled goods, Block will also feature pickled snacks and upmarket vegetarian dishes like the farro salad with tomatoes, kale, parsley, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.) The 21 available meats on the opening-day menu will be served in assortments of three, six and 12; prices range from $2 to $5 per ounce. Meanwhile, bar manager Dave Steinberg has curated scores of bourbons, Scotches and other whiskeys for his cocktail menu, also boasting bitters made in-house and sweet complements like Tuohy's peach cardamom preserves.
"There are a lot of restaurants around town that have what I call the obligatory salumi plate or cured meat plate," Tuohy says. "Everybody kind of feels like they have to do it. And nobody's really putting it in the forefront like we are. We built this place around that, essentially. I mean, brown spirits and cured meats. That's what this is about. Next door is sausage and beer. It's an extension to what we're already doing."
The team also brought aboard head butcher Brock MacDonald, formerly of Restaurant Thir13en, to manage the butcher-block work. "He has a pig tattooed on the side of his head, for God's sake," Hargis says. "We couldn't ask for a better guy. Before we opened, he got 'salt' and 'time' tattooed on his hands because he will be doing our in-house charcuterie. He's in it for the long haul, so that's cool."
Finally, a gourmet microdeli at the front of the restaurant will offer many of the Block's meats and other treats to go. "We want you to be able to come in here and stock yourself for a picnic for the day," Tuohy says.
For now, though, Hargis is happy to deliver to midtown the companion restaurant he says he always had in mind—the "darker, sexier and even dangerous, to a certain extent" counterpoint to LowBrau's bright, wide-open beer cathedral. And, of course, a little extra burnish of the brands' farm-to-fork creds. "Seeing the meat grinder in action in there?" Hargis asks, exulting. "It's pretty f–king cool."
Indeed. This is the one place where you actually do want to see how the sausage gets made.


THE Metro Vancouver Transit Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who died as the result of an incident on Saturday, March 21 at the Scott Road SkyTrain Station in Surrey.
The man is described as possibly South Asian, approximately 30 to 40 years of age, slender build, short brown hair, wearing a blue/gray jacket, blue jeans and black/silver Nike running shoes and with a unique tattoo on his upper back. He was last seen alive at 7:24 a.m. on March 21 on the platform of the station.
Transit Police and the BC Coroner's Service are investigating.
Anyone with any information concerning the identity of this man is asked to call Transit Police at 604-515-8300 or text to 87 77 77.


Ever notice how the Russia-gate scandals are coming faster now, one after another, like plot twists in a noir film? As an experienced reader of spy fiction, I don't think all the leaks are coming from low-level staff---looks more like they're coming from retired (that is, fired) intelligence analysts. How do I know? The information is organized so neatly the journalists don't even have to edit it that much.
This becomes clearer when one reads Malcolm Nance's fascinating book "The Plot to Hack America---How Putin's Cyberspies and Wikileaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election." It's a quick read, and at present easily the best book on the subject. But what's really killer about the Nance book is the appendix, which contains extremely revealing assessments made by American intelligence agencies, all presented in an unclassified format.
Nance, besides being a good writer, also has a background in intelligence work, which shows in the professionalism of his analysis. "Many of the conclusions that were included in the consensus opinion of the principal three intelligence agencies, the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI, are identical to The Plot to Hack America," says the appendix.
Remember how Trump picked a fight with the intelligence agencies, calling them incompetent and stupid? Big mistake.
But why are the intelligence professionals — some cashiered and some perhaps still on the job — involved at all? Because it has become increasingly clear that Trump and his retinue have engaged in some extremely un-American attacks on the U.S. Constitution, not to mention the election statutes, that are slowly, but surely, taking us into an ugly constitutional crisis.
And when push comes to shove, intelligence professionals are patriots who refuse to stand aside and let America get sold out to the authoritarian thugs in the Kremlin.
The result is a new and extremely interesting alignment of political interests. In the past, the liberals, the democratic Left, and thoughtful centrists, have generally considered themselves the enemies of the intelligence services---and for good reason. During the Cold War, the CIA undermined democracy throughout the developing world, set up death squads throughout Latin America, supported Pinochet's concentration camps in Chile, and unleashed a genocide against the Ixil people in Guatemala.
But that was during the Cold War. Things have changed a bit since then.
With time's healing hindsight, we can see what went wrong. Collecting intelligence is absolutely necessary for modern nations to navigate a complex and dangerous world. Problem is, collecting information is rarely enough for the conflicted types who run intelligence agencies, and sooner or later they want to go operational. Instead of trying to understanding how the world works, they want to change it, usually violently.
But the original, primary impulse of intelligence work—understanding how power works in real time---is still good. And that brings me to my main point.
I propose a truce---cooperation, actually---between political and cultural progressives and intelligence operatives who are in the best position to understand how negative power works. Cyber warfare is the biggest challenge America faces, and not just to our electoral system. It consists of a sophisticated attack on the way free people communicate, layered with highly-targeted digital propaganda aimed at changing the way people perceive reality.
With the help of experts like Nance -- who understand how the new threat is likely to play out -- we can oppose it without violating our traditional values. The intelligence agencies are not perfect, and we civilians should denounce them when necessary.
But precisely because they know more than we do about new modes of illegitimate power, people like Nance are an invaluable source of information regarding the latest and most dangerous battle for democracy. The truth is, we may need such experts more than they need us before the struggle is over.


"Always make your bed first thing in the morning" my mother would say"Make sure your bathroom and kitchen are really clean . That is the sign of a good housewife . Anybody can keep their drawing room clean"
Its always seemed ironic to me, that one of the things that most mothers of young children (including me) want on Mothers day, is a day away from their children.
I'm glad you had a wonderful Mother's Day! You deserve it!
Happy Mother's Day! I was with my little guy all day, too!
So glad you had a good Mother's Day. I spent mine with my son as well as another friend and her two boys.
I understand that mother's day is emotionally.. very important, but I dont do much,it was another day.
Divya's answer My mommy is 100 years old, she is the oldest mommy in the world.Yay!!
Brushing helped a LOT and also therapeutic listening helped her.I had a HELLish time with her even now I do but OT definitely helped her .


Dr. Paul R Romano received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester. He then attended dental school at New York University School of Dentistry and received his Specialty Training in Periodontics at Eastman Institute of Oral Health in June 1997. In conjunction with his clinical training, Dr. Romano received a Master's Degree from the University of Rochester School of Dental Medicine for research related to bone and cartilage biology. In addition to his position as a principal partner at Periodontal Centers of Rochester, he is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Dentistry at the Eastman Institute of Oral Health.
Dr. Romano is currently a member of the Monroe County Dental Society, the Seventh District Dental Society, the New York State Dental Society, and the American Dental Association. He is a past president of the Monroe County Dental Society, a past president of the Seventh District Dental Society and was a delegate to the New York State Dental Association House of Delegates. He served as the Chairman of the Seventh District Dental Society Ethics Committee. In 2016, Dr. Romano received the prestigious George D. Greenwood Award from the Seventh District Dental Society.
Dr. Romano is also a member of the American Academy of Periodontology, where he served on the Committee on Education and the Research Submissions Subcommittee. He is a member of the American College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy. He is past president of the Upper New York State Society of Periodontists.
Dr. Romano lives in Penfield, NY with his wife Michele. They have two children: Eric, who lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Jaclyn; and Mandy, who lives in Brooklyn, NY.


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A cultured air, a sophisticated sounding name and an impeccable sense of style were all the building blocks Adolphe Menjou needed for the greatest role of his life - as Hollywood's penultimate Beau Brummell. It was a role he would play with panache and flair to his dying day.
Young Adolphe was born to a French father and an Irish mother in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 18th, 1890. His father was a successful hotel manager and wanted his son to follow him into the family business, but Adolphe was not interested. He attended the Culver Military Academy and went on to earn a degree in engineering from Cornell University. When friends suggested he try acting, he found he enjoyed it and he was soon trying out for parts in vaudeville and in film.
In 1916 he made his film debut in "The Blue Envelope Mystery", but with the outbreak of World War I, he put his career on hold to join the military, serving in the American Ambulance Corps. When he returned from the service he worked on stage before returning to the screen and appearing opposite two of the silent era's classic stars. He played Rudolph Valentino's friend in "The Sheik" and King Louis XIII opposite Douglas Fairbanks in "The Three Musketeers", both in 1921.
The exposure quickly got him noticed and in 1923 Charles Chaplin cast him as the lead in "A Woman of Paris". Chaplin's first independent production as a writer and director, the film set new standards in silent dramatic acting and directing. With his performance as the sophisticated French gentleman Pierre Revel, Menjou made his mark on Hollywood and solidified his image as a well dressed man of the world. He worked steadily throughout the decade appearing in films such as "The Marriage Circle", where he convincingly played a hurt and betrayed husband, and D.W. Griffith's "The Sorrows of Satan", in which he played a dapper Devil.
His cultured voice helped Menjou easily navigate the transition into sound. He made several notable films over the next few years, and scored a hit with his turn as a world-weary army officer opposite Gary Cooper in "Morocco" in 1930. The mysterious film, set against the exotic backdrop of the Moroccan desert, pitted Menjou against Cooper as romantic rivals for the affection of Marlene Dietrich. Not surprisingly, the tall, handsome Cooper got the girl. The following year he received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of scheming, less than ethical newspaper editor Walter Burns in "The Front Page".
The roles kept coming throughout the 30's, usually alternating between urbane producers – "Morning Glory" (1933), "Stage Door" and "A Star is Born" (both 1937) and hard drinking lowlifes – "Little Miss Marker" (1934) and "Golden Boy" (1939). One of his rare breaks from this cycle was to play a thinly disguised John Barrymore in the 1936 musical comedy "Sing, Baby, Sing", where he delivered one of his finest and funniest performances. He put that same talent to work playing Ginger Rogers' lawyer in "Roxie Hart" (1942), another memorable performance.
His career continued to flourish into the 40's with films such as "The Hucksters" (1947) and "State of the Union" (1948), even as he became active in political causes. In 1944, he co-founded the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, but his biggest political statement came in 1947 when he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee during their infamous investigation into Hollywood. He didn't endear himself to many of his colleagues as he took a smug, hard line anti-communist stance, but surprisingly his career managed to take the hit and survive.
In 1951 he played a traitorous Union officer in the Civil War drama "The Tall Target" and the following year, without his now trademark "Menjou Moustache", he was surprisingly realistic as a police detective in "The Sniper". As the 50's wore on, roles became more scarce for the aging actor but he turned in a memorable performance as a hypocritical WWI French officer in Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" in 1957. Three years later, he made his final big-screen appearance in Walt Disney's "Pollyanna".
The 50's also saw him making several forays into television, including appearances on "The DuPont Show with June Allyson", "The Secret Life of James Thurber" and "Science Fiction Theater". He also appeared as a guest panelist on "What's My Line?".
Sadly, Menjou passed away in 1963, just three years after completing "Pollyanna", but not without leaving his unique mark on Hollywood. Having been voted Best Dressed Man in America nine times throughout his life, it came as no suprise when he titled his 1947 autobiography "It Took Nine Tailors". For a man who built a successful career on a foundation of style, class and elegance, it seemed only fitting. And from Adolphe Menjou, we'd expect nothing less than a perfect fit.
Susan M. Kelly has been working as a freelance writer for the last 12 years, during which time she has written everything from press releases and brochures to newspaper articles and web text. She currently lives and works in Dunellen, NJ and can be contacted at smkwriter@worldnet.att.net. Watch for her profiles in The Movie Profiles & Premiums Newsletter.


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Those wondering if they are currently actively infected with the coronavirus, especially those without symptoms, and want immediate results. Great for routine testing for businesses trying to keep their doors open.
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Prof. Dr. Mario José Molina > Research Profile
by Luisa Bonolis
Mario J. Molina
received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 together with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone".
A passion for chemistry
Mario Molina was born in 1943 in Mexico City. He was already fascinated by science before entering high school, as he himself recalled in his autobiography: "I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope. I then converted a bathroom, seldom used by the family, into a laboratory and spent hours playing with chemistry sets. With the help of an aunt, Esther Molina, who was a chemist, I continued with more challenging experiments along the lines of those carried out by freshman chemistry students in college." Following the family tradition of sending children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of his interest in chemistry, his parents sent him to a boarding school in Switzerland when he was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn. At that time he had already decided to become a research chemist, even if earlier he had seriously contemplated the possibility of pursuing a career in music. In 1960, Molina enrolled in the chemical engineering program at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), as this was then the way to become a physical chemist, also taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
After finishing his undergraduate studies in Mexico, Molina decided to obtain a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry: "This was not an easy task; although my training in chemical engineering was good, it was weak in mathematics, physics, as well as in various areas of basic physical chemistry - subjects such as quantum mechanics were totally alien to me in those days. At first I went to Germany and enrolled at the University of Freiburg. After spending nearly two years doing research in kinetics of polymerizations, I realized that I wanted to have time to study various basic subjects in order to broaden my background and to explore other research areas. Thus, I decided to seek admission to a graduate program in the United States. While pondering my future plans, I spent several months in Paris, where I was able to study mathematics on my own and I also had a wonderful time discussing all sorts of topics, ranging from politics, philosophy, to the arts, etc., with many good friends."
Subsequently, Molina returned to Mexico as an Assistant Professor at UNAM and he set up the first graduate program in chemical engineering. Finally, in 1968 he left for the University of California at Berkeley to pursue his graduate studies in physical chemistry. During his first year at Berkeley, he took courses in physics and mathematics, in addition to the required courses in physical chemistry. He then joined the research group of George Pimentel, with the goal of studying molecular dynamics using chemical lasers, which were discovered in his group a few years earlier. It was during this time that he had his first experience dealing with the impact of science and technology on society: "I remember that I was dismayed by the fact that high-power chemical lasers were being developed elsewhere as weapons; I wanted to be involved with research that was useful to society, but not for potentially harmful purposes." After completing his Ph.D. degree in 1972, Molina stayed for another year at Berkeley to continue research on chemical dynamics. Then, in the fall of 1973, he joined the group of Sherwood Rowland as a postdoctoral fellow, moving to Irvine, California.
The atmospheric fate of the chlorofluorocarbon molecules
Rowland, who had pioneered research on "hot atom" chemistry, investigating chemical properties of atoms with excess translational energy produced by radioactive processes, offered Molina a list of research options: "The one project that intrigued me the most consisted of finding out the environmental fate of certain very inert industrial chemicals - the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - which had been accumulating in the atmosphere and which at that time were thought to have no significant effects on the environment." In the early 1970s, CFCs were a triumph of the chemical industry, already in wide and growing usage around the world. Invisible, nontoxic, nonflammable, and engineered to be chemically inert, these synthetic chemicals were known for their considerable stability and thus widely used as near-ideal coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners, in insulation and as propellants in many aerosol-spray products such as deodorants and hairsprays. CFC's do not readily undergo chemical reactions. Scientists at that time therefore believed that CFC's caused no harmful effects. Actually, one of the special advantages cited for this molecule was that it would be an excellent tracer for air mass movements because its chemical inertness would prevent its early removal from the atmosphere. Molina thus thought that this project offered him the opportunity to learn a new field - atmospheric chemistry - about which he knew very little; trying to solve a challenging problem appeared to be an excellent way to plunge into a new research area.
The CFCs are compounds similar to others that Rowland and Molina had investigated from the point of view of molecular dynamics; they were familiar with their chemical properties, but not with their atmospheric chemistry. Rowland had recently become interested in the atmospheric concentration of the man-made chlorofluorocarbon CCl3F during a Chemistry-Meteorology workshop organised by the Atomic Energy Agency. He had heard a presentation about recent measurements by the British scientist James Lovelock who had developed a highly sensitive device for measuring extremely low organic gas contents in the atmosphere, the electron capture detector. Using this, he could now demonstrate that the exclusively man-made, chemically inert, CFC gases had already spread globally and were accumulating throughout the Earth's atmosphere. Lovelock suggested tracking the CFC's to learn more about the atmosphere. He had developed a scientific instrument to measure CFC levels. Lovelock's shipboard observations showed the presence of CCl3F in both the northern and southern hemispheres, in quantities roughly comparable to the total amount manufactured up to that date.
The appearance in the atmosphere of a new, man-made molecule provided a scientific chemical challenge. Rowland had wondered: Was enough known about the physicochemical behaviour under atmospheric conditions of molecules such as CCl3F to allow prediction of its fate, once released into the environment? In early 1973, in submitting his regular yearly proposal to the AEC, which had sponsored his research involving radioactive tracer species since 1956, Rowland also included a predictive study of the atmospheric chemistry of CCl3F: what would eventually happen to the chlorofluorocarbon compounds in the atmosphere? Against this backdrop, in that same year, Mario Molina joined Rowland's research group as a postdoctoral research associate.
At first the research did not seem to be particularly exciting. Molina carried out a systematic search for processes that might destroy the CFCs in the lower atmosphere, but nothing appeared to affect them. Rowland and Molina knew that as synthetic molecules CFCs had been designed to be inert and nonsoluble and were unlikely to be decomposed by common atmospheric processes. But they also realised from laboratory data and chemical insight that the CFCs could not remain inert in the atmosphere forever. After CFC's are released into the atmosphere, they rise slowly and essentially nothing happens in the lower atmosphere, which can be reached only by the relatively low energy, long wavelength portion of the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum. However, it was their considerable stability, that allowed them to waft - one spray at a time - into the upper atmosphere where they would readily absorb highly energetic ultraviolet light (wavelengths below 220 nanometers) that usually causes the decomposition of simple atmospheric molecules. All multi-atom compounds are capable of absorbing UV radiation if the wavelength is short enough, and almost all will decompose after absorbing the radiation.
The search for any removal process that might affect CCl3F began with the reactions that normally affect molecules released to the atmosphere at the surface of the Earth. Several well-established tropospheric sinks – chemical or physical removal processes in the lower atmosphere - exist for most molecules released at ground level: Coloured species such as the green molecular chlorine, Cl2, absorb visible solar radiation, and break apart (photodissociate) into individual atoms as the consequence. Highly polar molecules, such as hydrogen chloride, HCl, dissolve in raindrops to form hydrochloric acid, and are removed when the drops actually fall; almost all compounds containing carbon-hydrogen bonds, for example CH3Cl, are oxidized in our oxygen-rich atmosphere. However, CCl3F and the other chlorofluorocarbons as CCl2F2 and CCl2FCClF2 are transparent to visible solar radiation and all radiation that penetrates to the lower atmosphere. They are basically insoluble in water and do not react with HO, O2, O3, or other oxidizing agents in the lower atmosphere. When all of these usual decomposition routes are closed, what happens to such survivor molecules?
CFC molecules in the lower atmosphere are protected against very energetic UV radiation by O2 and O3 molecules at higher altitudes. In the upper atmosphere, the UV wavelengths below 242 nm can be absorbed by O2, splitting it into two oxygen atoms (O2+UV light-->O+O), thus initiating a sequence of reactions. Both of these O atoms normally attach themselves to an O2 molecule to form ozone, O3. A collision with some third molecule, M, is needed to stabilise the O3 product (O+O2+M-->O3+M). These ozone molecules in turn can absorb ultraviolet radiation, with absorption increasing greatly in strength at shorter wavelengths in the UV, and split off an O atom (O3+UV light-->O+O2). Such absorption is especially strong for wavelengths shorter than 290 nanometres. Again, these O atoms usually reform ozone by reacting with O2. Ozone is actually quite chemically reactive and sometimes intercepts the O atoms forming two O2 molecules (O+O3-->O2+O2). This set of four reactions involving O, O2 and O3 was already recognised by Sydney Chapman, who formulated in 1930 the first photochemical theory for the formation and decomposition of ozone in the atmosphere. Through these two-step splitting-plus-combination and other processes a balance of ozone is maintained in the atmosphere by which about 3 parts in 107of the entire atmosphere are present as O3, versus almost 21% as O2.
About 90% of these ozone molecules are present at altitudes between 10 and 50 kilometres, i.e. in the stratosphere, where the mixing ratio of O3 can rise as high as 1 part in 105, while the troposphere contains only 10 % of the atmospheric ozone. The total amount of ozone in the stratosphere is nevertheless rather small; it corresponds to about the number of air molecules contained in a layer 3 mm thick at standard temperature and pressure. The solar UV energy absorbed by O3 is converted into heat, providing a heat source in the 30-50 km altitude range. This heat source creates the stratosphere, the region characterised by an inverted - that is, increasing - temperature profile that rises typically from 210 K at its base at 10-15 km altitude, to roughly 275 K at 50 km altitude.
Because both O2 and O3 can absorb short wavelength UV radiation, no solar radiation with wavelengths < 290 nm penetrates below the stratosphere. The ozone layer in the atmosphere thus performs two important physical processes: it removes the most energetic fraction of this radiation and changes UV energy into heat, maintaining the stratosphere. For nearly a billion years, ozone molecules in the atmosphere have protected life on Earth from the effects of ultraviolet rays. UV-B radiation (280- to 315- nanometer wavelength) from the Sun is partially absorbed in this layer. As a result, the amount of UV-B reaching Earth's surface is greatly reduced, greatly diminishing risks of skin cancer, cataracts, suppressed immune system and possible damage to terrestrial plant life, single cell organisms, and aquatic ecosystems.
Detailed knowledge of the Earth's atmospheric ozone distribution seasonally and geographically was outlined beginning in the 1920s by a series of experimenters, especially G. M. B. Dobson, who began regular measurements with an UV spectrometer. Dobson realized that careful measurements of the relative intensities of solar UV radiation at different wavelengths could be converted into quantitative estimates of the amount of ozone overhead, and his initial work near Oxford established that the amount of ozone varied from day to day and month to month. The modern era of stratospheric ozone studies began in the 1950s with proposals that the detailed ozone source and sink equations might not be in balance. Rocket experiments were well underway, and extensive data were now available for the upper reaches of the atmosphere and for outer space. Also, the equipment for studies of chemical kinetics had improved greatly.
It was generally believed that the four reactions sufficed to explain the ozone concentration distribution in the stratosphere, but measurements now showed appreciable deviations from Chapman's theory. The calculated ozone contents were considerably higher than the observed ones. This led scientists to look for other chemical reactions contributing to the reduction of the ozone content. A conclusion began to be formed: less ozone, perhaps by a factor of two, was actually present in the atmosphere than would be expected if the Chapman reactions were the only significant contributors to its creation and removal. Because the formation reactions for ozone seemed solidly based, the "missing" factor was more likely that some additional removal process must exist for ozone. In the mid-1960s first proposals for the missing sink fell on a free radical catalytic chain initiated by HO in reactions absorbing O and O3 and releasing O2 (HO+O3-->HO2+O2; HO2+O-->HO+O2). In these reactions HO reacts catalytically, without itself being consumed. However, further measurements of the rates for these reactions showed that this proposal by itself was clearly insufficient. The discussion had, however, expanded the scientific thinking beyond the Chapman reactions, and had brought free radical reactions into the picture.
How did CFCs enter at this stage? The CCl3F molecule was known from laboratory studies to be able to absorb UV radiation at wavelengths < 220 nanometers, but to encounter such solar radiation in the atmosphere the molecule must first drift randomly through the atmosphere to altitudes higher than most of the O2 and O3 molecules - roughly to 25 or 30 km. More than 98% of the atmosphere and 80% of the ozone lies below 30 km altitude. In this rarefied air, the CFC molecules are exposed to very short wavelength UV radiation and decompose with the release of Cl atoms. Because at any given time, only a very small fraction of CFC molecules are found at altitudes of 30 km or higher, the average molecule survives for many decades before it is decomposed by solar UV radiation according to the reactions CCl3F+UV light-->Cl+CCl2F and CCl2F2+UV light-->Cl+CClF2.
In 1974 Rowland and Molina calculated the vertical profile to be expected for CCl3F in the stratosphere. The decomposition rate for this molecule escalates rapidly with increasing altitude in the 20-30 km range, so that the estimated average lifetime in the atmosphere was in the range from 40 to 55 years, while for CCl2F2 it was 75 to 150 years. However, once at the top of the atmosphere, the decomposition process is so rapid that a CFC molecule would last at most a few weeks if directly released there.
The answer to their original scientific question was that the eventual fate of the CFC molecules is photodissociation in the mid-stratosphere with the release of atomic chlorine, but on a time scale of many decades. The question was thus not only what destroyed CFCs, but more importantly, what the consequences were. What was the fate of these chlorine atoms at an altitude of 30 km?
The major chemical components of the mid-stratosphere were well known, and their reaction rate constants with atomic Cl had been measured in the laboratory. The newly released single chlorine atom, Cl, resulting from decomposition of CFCs, is chemically very reactive. During research promoted in the early 1970s by the Climate Impact Assessment Program, some researchers had turned their interest to the potential input of reactive chlorine radicals on stratospheric ozone. In the most thorough of these studies, Richard Stolarski and Ralph Cicerone calculated significant ozone depletions if inorganic chlorine were to be present in the stratosphere at a volume mixing ratio of 1 nanomole/mole of air. They were interested in the possible natural release of HCl to the atmosphere from volcanoes, or of man-made chlorine in the exhaust of solid rockets fuels scheduled for propulsion of the space shuttle. First, almost all chlorine atoms react with ozone by the reaction Cl+O3-->ClO+O2 forming another chemically reactive molecule ClO. The question then moved to the ClO product of the above reaction. What happened to ClO at 30 km? Atomic oxygen is especially abundant in the upper stratosphere between 30 and 50 km altitude. The ClO is also chemically reactive and reacts with atomic oxygen to re-release atomic chlorine (ClO+O-->Cl+O2), leaving a second molecule of diatomic oxygen. This reaction of ClO occurs in one or two minutes during the sunlit part of the day. The net result of these catalytic reactions is: O+O3--> 2 O2.
The study by Stolarski and Cicerone, first presented at a conference in Kyoto, Japan, in the fall of 1973 struggled, however, with the problem of a missing chlorine source in the stratosphere, because research had shown that the volcanic source is rather insignificant. But for Rowland and Molina the ClOx chain of reactions now became the key to understand the impact of the release of chlorine atoms from breakdown of CFCs in the stratosphere.
Since the radical Cl atom starts this whole reaction, but is not consumed in the process, it is a catalyst for the ozone destruction reaction. Within three months, they realized that when the catalytic efficiency of about 100,000 ozone molecules removed per chlorine atom is coupled with the yearly release to the atmosphere of about one million tons of CFC's, the original challenging and interesting scientific question had been converted into a potentially grave global environmental problem involving substantial depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer.
One evening, as that realisation was dawning, Rowland's wife, Joan, asked how his research was going. "It's going very well," he said. "but it looks like, I think, the end of the world." They were looking at an ozone removal process that was dominant over the normal processes in the stratosphere, changing the whole scientifically interesting problem into a serious environmental one.
They became fully aware of its seriousness when they compared the industrial amounts of CFCs to the amounts of nitrogen oxides, which control ozone levels. The role of these catalysts of natural origin had been established a few years earlier by Paul Crutzen. In 1970, Crutzen had showed that nitrogen oxides, present at parts per billion levels in the stratosphere, accelerate the rate of reduction of ozone by means of catalytic cycles. He had pointed out that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of nitric oxide (NO) in the stratosphere. Crutzen showed that nitrous oxide lives long enough to reach the stratosphere, where it is converted into NO. In the reactions NO+O3-->NO2+O2 and NO2+O-->NO+O2, nitrogen oxides NO and NO2 react catalytically with ozone, thus accelerating the rate of reduction of the ozone content. Crutzen then noted that increasing use of fertilisers might have led to an increase in nitrous oxide emissions over the natural background, which would in turn result in an increase in the amount of NO in the stratosphere. Thus this kind of human activity, too, could have an impact on the stratospheric ozone layer. The connection demonstrated by Crutzen between microorganisms in the soil and the thickness of the ozone layer was one of the motives for the later rapid development of research on global biogeochemical cycles.
Rowland and Molina decided to exchange information with the atmospheric sciences community. They went to Berkeley to confer with Harold Johnston, who had carried out extensive laboratory studies of the chemistry of nitrogen compounds. In 1971, he had pointed out the possible threat to the ozone layer that the planned fleet of supersonic aircraft and supersonic travel might represent, in being capable of releasing nitrogen oxides right in the middle of the ozone layer at altitudes of 20 km. Crutzen's and Johnston's work gave rise to a very intensive debate.
Rowland and Molina publicised their results at a press conference in September 1974, soon after their first paper on the topic was published in the journal Nature. The two scientists showed that when CFCs rise into the stratosphere, they are bombarded by powerful doses of ultraviolet rays. A single chlorine atom knocked free, they found, can absorb more than 100,000 ozone molecules. More disturbingly, the atoms could linger in the stratosphere for up to a century.
This work was the first step in tracing the causal chain linking industrial production of CFCs with global ozone depletion demonstrating how certain human activities can have environmental impacts far beyond what one might intuit.
Their original calculations about the behaviour of the CFC species in the stratosphere were actually predictions of the vertical distribution because no measurements were then available for any chlorinated species in the stratosphere, and certainly not for the CFCs. During 1975, two different research groups sent evacuated containers equipped with pressure-sensitive valves up on high altitude balloons and recovered air samples from the stratosphere. The measured mixing ratios for CCl3F were in excellent agreement with the vertical profiles calculated by Rowland and Molina in the previous year. This fit between theory and experiment demonstrated both that CFCs reach the stratosphere and that they are decomposed there by solar ultraviolet radiation at the altitudes predicted.
In many public appearances, Rowland presented their case that continued use of CFCs would greatly diminish the ozone layer, thereby increasing the intensity of biologically damaging ultraviolet light at Earth's surface. Stratospheric chemistry at the time was based on balloon-borne samplers of trace gases and on one-dimensional models. Nonetheless, the pair measured the ultraviolet cross sections of CFC-11 and -12 in the lab, calculated their photolytic destruction rates in the atmosphere and derived their atmospheric lifetimes as 50–100 years. They reviewed industrial production and emission of CFCs, projected the build-up and release of chlorine atoms in the stratosphere and concluded that ozone depletion was likely and would be long-lived, even with remediation.
Founding atmospheric sciences
A great deal of media and public attention in CFCs ensued, especially between 1974 and 1978, including hearings in state legislatures, city councils, and the U.S. Congress. Industry representatives at first disputed Rowland and Molina's findings. By 1979, the United States and other nations had banned the sale of aerosol cans that contained CFCs, but companies continued to produce CFCs for other uses.
For a decade, Rowland and Molina persevered to prove their hypothesis, publishing numerous scientific papers and speaking to hostile audiences at scientific conferences. Cicerone, whose own work had established the possibility of a chlorine chain reaction, said: "He [Rowland] mentioned to me that he had not been invited to any chemistry department to give a lecture" from about 1975 to 1985. "The territory they stepped into and defined were so new that most scientists felt they didn't know what was going on... They didn't feel prepared - or they felt the linkage with an ongoing human activity was too big a step."
But their findings, achieved in laboratory experiments, were supported 11 years later when British Antarctic Survey scientists Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin detected recurring massive springtime losses of ozone over their survey station at Halley Bay, Antarctica. The station had been established in preparation for the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958 and was equipped with a standard Dobson UV spectrometer for the measurement of total ozone. Since the late 1970s, observations showed that the average October ozone concentrations over Halley Bay had begun to decrease (spring in Antarctica corresponds to fall in the northern hemisphere). In 1984, values had dropped well below the values of the 1960s. It became clear that the loss of ozone began soon after the end of the polar winter darkness and proceeded very rapidly for the next several weeks into mid-October.
This totally unexpected phenomenon was reported in Nature in May 1985, together with the hypothesis that the ozone decrease was correlated with the increasing CFC concentrations in the atmosphere.
Further observations of substantially less ozone over Halley Bay in October in the 1980s were quickly shown to be characteristic of the entire South Polar Region by the total ozone mapping spectrometer instrument on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Measurements taken on other satellites over the entire sunlit Southern Hemisphere showed that the lowest October ozone values fell rapidly during the years. These data provided the scientific basis for the conclusion that the ozone losses over Antarctica develop during the special atmospheric conditions existing in the long cold months of polar darkness. High wind speeds cause a fast-rotating vortex of cold air, leading to extremely low temperatures. Unusual and heterogeneous chemical reactions occur on the surface of the frozen stratospheric cloud particles, driven by the heightened chlorine. About half the total column ozone is lost during austral spring. The spatial scale of Antarctic ozone loss is immense, covering nearly the entire continent and thus this phenomenon has been popularly christened the ozone 'hole'.
Moreover, during the many decades of random diffusion through the lower atmosphere, these CFC molecules are able to intercept outgoing terrestrial infrared radiation and thereby contribute significantly to the Earth's warming by the greenhouse effect. Svante Arrhenius long ago recognised that the continued combustion of fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) would result in higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and suggested that the incremental trapping of infrared radiation would eventually cause global warming. As part of the International Geophysical Year (I.G.Y.) of 1957-1958, CO2 monitoring stations were established and further measurements provided the experimental evidence that CO2 had been increasing in concentrations over the following decades. In 1975, Ramanethan recognised that the rapid growth in the concentration of CFC-12 and CFC-11 provided two important additional greenhouse gases, because - as with ozone, carbon dioxide and water vapour - they are capable of absorbing the infrared radiation emitted by the earth. The energy of this infrared radiation is not sufficient to destroy the CO2 or CFC molecules when absorbed and is merely converted into heat in the process.
In 1975, Molina had been appointed as a member of the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, continuing to collaborate with Rowland as assistant professor and conducting research on his own. He set up an independent program to investigate chemical and spectroscopic properties of compounds of atmospheric importance. After spending several years at Irvine, he decided to move to a non-academic position joining the Molecular Physics and Chemistry Section at the Jet Propulsion laboratory in 1982.
During the period 1976-86, Molina's research defined and refined the relevant kinetics of the compounds that act as "temporary reservoirs" for the free radicals responsible for catalytic ozone destruction. Around 1985, after becoming aware of the discovery of the seasonal depletion of ozone over Antarctica, Molina's research group at JPL investigated the peculiar chemistry which is promoted by polar stratospheric clouds, some of which consist of ice crystals. They were able to show that chlorine-activation reactions take place very efficiently in the presence of ice under polar stratospheric conditions; thus, they provided a laboratory simulation of the chemical effects of clouds over the Antarctic. Also, in order to understand the rapid catalytic gas phase reactions that were taking place over the South Pole, experiments were carried out in his group with chlorine peroxide, a new compound which had not been reported previously in the literature and which turned out to be important in providing the explanation for the rapid loss of ozone in the polar stratosphere.
Rowland and Molina's scientific investigations, together with Paul Crutzen's researches and commitment, started an environmental movement that ended with a success story for global cooperation on a worldwide environmental threat. Regulations for the control of CFC emissions had first been introduced during the late 1970s for the use of CFC-11 and CFC-12 as propellant gases for aerosol sprays, but only in the United States, Canada, Sweden and Norway. Companies continued to produce CFCs for other uses. Moreover, there was no urgency by the international community to ban CFCs outright, and researchers were challenged to prove that the observed ozone depletion was well beyond natural variations. The 1985 discovery of the huge ozone hole above Antarctica answered this challenge and that same year a United Nations meeting in Vienna, Austria, had agreed to a convention concerning protection of the stratospheric ozone layer. After a series of rigorous meetings and negotiations, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was finally agreed upon on 16 September 1987 at the Headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal. A landmark international environmental treaty was signed by 70 countries agreeing to phase out the production and usage of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals and to eliminate inventories of them. Today, nearly 200 countries are signatories, including the United States.
All this research work was instrumental in starting the field of atmospheric chemistry. The further manufacture of CFCs has been banned by the 1992 revisions of the 1987 Montreal Protocol of the United Nations. Atmospheric measurements have confirmed that the Protocol has been very successful in reducing further emissions of these molecules. Recovery of the stratosphere to the ozone conditions of the 1950s will occur slowly over the years because of the long lifetime of the precursor molecules. Nowadays, models suggest that the concentration of chlorine and other ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere will not return to pre-1980 levels until the middle decades of this century. On the other hand, it appears that the increasing impact of greenhouse gas warming will delay or even prevent the recovery of ozone levels in some parts of the globe. The ozone layer over the tropics and mid-southern latitudes might not return to pre-1980s levels of ozone for more than a century, if ever.
In 1989, Molina returned to academic life, moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Chemistry. There he continued with research on global atmospheric chemistry issues including work at the interface of the atmosphere-biosphere, which is critical to understanding global climate-change processes. On July 1, 2004 Molina joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of
California, San Diego and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Rowland and Molina were jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Paul Crutzen "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone". It was the first time the Nobel Prize has recognised research into man-made impacts on the environment. The award culminated 20 years of study on the ozone layer by the researchers. In announcing the Prize the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that the researchers had "contributed to our salvation from a global environmental problem that could have catastrophic consequences." Had CFC emissions not been stopped, we now understand that in addition to their destruction of the ozone layer, their impact on climate (through their greenhouse effect) would be comparable to that of carbon dioxide.
These discoveries were about more than just stratospheric ozone, they were about the whole environment. The realisation that something done anywhere on the Earth could have effects somewhere else represented the start of the global era of the environment. In his autobiographical profile, Molina, who had become the first Mexican-born citizen to ever receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, commented: "When I first chose the project to investigate the fate of chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere, it was simply out of scientific curiosity. I did not consider at that time the environmental consequences of what Sherry and I had set out to study. I am heartened and humbled that I was able to do something that not only contributed to our understanding of atmospheric chemistry, but also had a profound impact on the global environment."
Molina M. (1995) Autobiography. Nobelprize.org. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/molina-bio.html
Molina M. (1995) Polar Ozone Depletion. Nobelprize.org. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/molina-lecture.html
Rowland F. S. (2006) Stratospheric ozone depletion. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 361(1469) Reviews: 769-790


Also known as ODU, Old Dominion University is a public research university that was established in 1930. It is located in Norfolk, Virginia and has two satellite campuses in the Hampton Roads area. What was originally the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary, Old Dominion University has grown into one of the largest universities in the state. ODU is designated as a Higher Research Activity institution according to the Carnegie Doctoral classification of institutions and gives $2 billion per year to the regional economy. ODU offers more than 160 graduate and undergraduate degree programs and is one of the country's largest providers of online distance learning classes.
The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredits Old Dominion University to award doctoral, education specialist, master's and bachelor's degrees. In addition the school partners with the Southern Regional Education Board's Electronic Campus, an electronic marketplace for services, programs and courses.
To apply for the online Master of Science in Sport Management, students must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Applicants must also show evidence of a 2.8 cumulative grade point average or higher as well as a 3.0 grade point average or higher in the undergraduate major. ODU requires a GMAT score of 400 or higher or a GRE score of 291 or higher as well as three letters of recommendation from former employers or faculty. Students must complete a two-page statement discussing their career goals and submit a current copy of their resume. Transcripts from all prior institutions are required, and applicants must demonstrate computer literacy. Applicants with significant prior sport or sport-related industry experience may be exempt from the GRE/MAT/GMAT requirement.
In-state Virginia residents can expect to pay $496 per credit hour for the online Master of Science in Sport Management degree, and out-of-state students are charged $538 per credit hour. More than 50 percent of ODU students receive some type of financial aid, including educational loans, scholarships, state and federal grants or through college work-study programs. Specifically, graduate students typically rely on scholarships, fellowships, work-study programs, tuition unfunded scholarships, graduate assistantships, Federal Loan Programs and/or work outside ODU to finance graduate school. Eligible students may apply by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
The online Master of Science in Education degree with a concentration in Sport Management from Old Dominion University was rated number 17 by OnlineU.org in 2016 as one of the best value online colleges for sports management degrees. The degree provides students with the sports business experience and knowledge they'll need to get into the game and on their way to a rewarding, challenging career.
Students will expand on their previous undergraduate education and develop the ability to utilize emerging and existing technologies in the field of sport management, manage sport organizations in accordance with ethical and legal standards, plan events and operate facilities. Graduates will be able to implement marketing tactics and strategies to meet the wants and needs of sport consumers, employ financial and management principles to achieve organizational objectives, conduct research and analyze data, use critical thinking skills to solve problems and apply theory to practice in sport management settings.
Students must complete six required courses and choose four electives in the area of sport and recreation management. The curriculum is consistent with current practices and principles of sport marketplace and academic standards, and the Department of Human Movement Services is dedicated to excellence in service, scholarship and teaching. Coursework includes a variety of business and sport topics, including the legal aspects of sport, fiscal planning in sport, management and leadership in sport and sport marketing.
ODU's online Master of Science in Education degree with a concentration in Sport Management consists of 36 credit hours, including a capstone initiative with a thesis option or fieldwork experience. Students who choose the former will participate in a research project and receive faculty assistance and advisement. This option is suited for students who wish to stay in academic and pursue a doctoral degree or for those who are looking to work in a research-focused position. The fieldwork option includes a 400-hour internship with a sport organization that best fits the student's career goals. Fieldwork is best-suited for students whose goals are to either enter the sport management field for the first time or to move up within the job industry and gain additional experience. The internship provides a fantastic opportunity for students to receive valuable on-the-job training.
Students who choose the fieldwork option must take a comprehensive exam on the material they covered in the core curriculum courses. Students will take this exam after they finish their coursework but before they start the industry-related capstone experience.
Students will have the opportunity to take advantage of graduate assistantships within the graduate sport management program. Several assistantships are available with ODU Recreation & Wellness, ODU Athletics and other sport organizations in the area. In addition, online students may also benefit from employment opportunities found at the ODU Career Management Center.
The internship experience is considered a critical part of the graduate degree in sport management at ODU. In order to complete the internship experience, students must finish at least 400 hours of service, and the internship is taken on a pass/fail basis for six credit hours. Most students take the internship as the culminating or final experience in the program, and students are expected to purchase a "Graduate Sports Management Internship Manual" that contains procedures and forms related to enrolling in and completing the internship requirements. Recent internship sites include placements with the New York Islanders, the ODU Athletic Department, the Boston College Athletic Department, the Charlotte Knights, the Army Health Promotion Program, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New Jersey Devils and at Disney World Wide World of Sports.
Upon graduation from Old Dominion University with an online Master of Science in Education degree with a concentration in Sport Management, students are prepared for careers in a variety of organizations in the sport industry, including event and facility operations, collegiate athletics, professional sports, community recreation and leisure agencies, corporate sport management and marketing firms, intramural sports and recreation, health and fitness industries and non-profit sport organizations.


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Escrima and Knife
Posted on May 26, 2018 May 29, 2018 by Steve Martin
The Escrima system now is up and running which will include the knife section coupled with also the hand drills section. Shendo Martial Arts is looking for between ten and twenty students to start training in this system, many of the concepts and principles of this system cross reference to the Karate practices. If you are interested in learning the Escrima or want to learn a little more about this dynamic art please talk to me at the club or attend one of the weapon courses held on a Sunday (see dates for courses on the website site, www.shizendo.co.uk) the next course is 3rd June. Friday night Cascades Leisure Centre 7.30pm is concept and principle based which reflects many training formats from our art. Also taught on a Friday night are the Escrima, Knife and hand drills and is a good night to attend if interested in this system. Escrima trining will first cover the basic Escrima form then the student will move onto some basic two person Escrima drills and then advance onto the two person lift and clear Escrima drills.
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The Filipinos fought with what they had, their bolos and sticks. The few guns and little ammunition they had were mainly captured from the Spanish forces.
nancio "Anciong" Bacon in the 1950s from earlier tutelage of Lorenzo Saavedra. It is named after Cebu City's Balintawak Self Defense Club, where it was originally taught. In turn, the club took its name from the street of its location, Balintawak Street, where the original Balintawak masters trained.
Early in the 20th century, the colonizing Spaniards left the Philippines, ending their 300-year rule. In their place, came the Americans. It was during this period of change that Venancio Bacon was born in 1912 in Carcar, Cebu.
He learned eskrima in the 1920s as a teenager. His formation as an eskrimador began in San Nicolas. This would later lead him to death matches, attacks, and eventually jail.
Bacon's only teacher was Lorenzo Saavedra, of San Nicolas, who during this time had established the Labangon Fencing Club. At a time when many different styles of eskrima abounded, Saavedra's was called the Corto Linear, although he was known to have mastered other styles. His best students were Teodoro Saavedra, his nephew, and Venancio Bacon. The Labangon Fencing Club, however, eventually dissipated into oblivion.LINTAWAK, also known as Balintawak Eskrima or Balintawak Arnis, is a style of Filippino Martial Art developed by Venancio "Anciong" Bacon in the 1950s from earlier tutelage of Lorenzo Saavedra. It is named after Cebu City's Balintawak Self Defense Club, where it was originally taught. In turn, the club took its name from the street of its location, Balintawak Street, where the original Balintawak masters trained.
Bacon's only teacher was Lorenzo Saavedra, of San Nicolas, who during this time had established the Labangon Fencing Club. At a time when many different styles of Eskrima abounded, Saavedra's was called the Corto Linear, although he was known to have mastered other styles. His best students were Teodoro Saavedra, his nephew, and Venancio Bacon. The Labangon Fencing Club, however, eventually dissipated into oblivion.
In 1932, the Doce Pares Club was formed and was headed by Lorenzo Saavedra.
Venancio Bacon was among the first members in the club and a few months later left the club due to arguments that the Doce Pares system was not an effective escrima.
World War II broke out in the Philippines in the early 1940s. With the onset of Japanese occupation, many eskrimadors became guerilla fighters, employing their art for the defense of their nation.
After the war, in 1952, along with Vincente Atillo, Delfin Lopez, Jesus Cui, Timoteo Maranga, Lorenzo Gonzales, Isidro Bardilas, Andres Olaibar, and a few others, Bacon established a new club, calling it the Balintawak Street Self-Defense Club.NTAWAKak Self Defense Club, where it was originally taught. In turn, the club took its name from the street of its location, Balintawak Street, where the original Balintawak masters trained.
After the war, in 1952, along with Vincente Atillo, Delfin Lopez, Jesus Cui, Timoteo Maranga, Lorenzo Gonzales, Isidro Bardilas, Andres Olaibar, and a few others, Bacon established a new club, calling it the Balintawak Street Self-Defense Club.ught. In turn, the club took its name from the street of its location, Balintawak Street, where the original Balintawak masters trained.
BALINTAWAK, also known as Balintawak Eskrima or Balintawak Arnis, is a style of Filippino Martial Art developed by Venancio "Anciong" Bacon in the 1950s from earlier tutelage of Lorenzo Saavedra. It is named after Cebu City's Balintawak Self Defense Club, where it was originally taught. In turn, the club took its name from the street of its location, Balintawak Street, where the original Balintawak masters trained.
After the war, in 1952, along with Vincente Atillo, Delfin Lopez, Jesus Cui, Timoteo Maranga, Lorenzo Gonzales, Isidro Bardilas, Andres Olaibar, and a few others, Bacon established a new club, calling it the Balintawak Street Self-Defense Club.
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Various views of childhood�a mix of innocence and nostalgia, comic-strip heroes and science-fiction, fairy tales and computer games�are explored in 41 thought-provoking works by 33 contemporary artists and artists� groups from the United States and abroad. ALMOST WARM AND FUZZY is an exhibition that attracts both those interested in thought-provoking art and children and teens eager to find their own experiences reflected in the world around them. On the surface, the exhibit has a whimsical and fun-loving atmosphere and yet, a closer look reveals that all is not �warm and fuzzy.� Childhood, for all its charm, is also a time of uncertainty, and for some, great stress. Many works recall those feelings and speak to the reality of growing up and becoming an adult.
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