RETIREMENT--GOOD & NOT SO GOOD!
AH...THE GOLDEN YEARS! Isn't that the time most folks look forward to? But like all the rest of the chapters in our lives, this is but another one to get through.
OFTEN, I HAVE BEEN ASKED...."what's it like for me as a single lady, to be retired". I usually answer it this way. In the first place, to be retired usually means one has reached a certain age, a time referred to as being OLD ! So, that's not so good, unless one is in good health--both mentally & physically.
AS FOR THIS SENIOR LADY....this time of life has it's perks. There are no more worries about having enough money to pay the bills each month. There is no need to endure that excruciating alarm clock bell, which dictated our previous working years, when whether we felt like it or now, we had to get up and go to work all those decades ago. There is no more responsibilities for the health and welfare of the children we were supporting. But even though they are grown ups, one never really stops being a mother, who is concerned about them. And then there are grand kids who are both a delight, but represent more additions to our families, for whom we are continually concerned about their future.
SO, IT IS A MIXED BAG....of pros & cons. But I must say that it is a less stressful time for me. I am the final word as to if I want to travel, or how I choose to spend my money. Thus, I do not have to ask permission of any man. Also, as a gardener, I am free or make a flower bed or plant a tree anywhere on my property, if I so choose. No one but me gets a vote (or a demand) on anything, anymore. Happily, those days of being under the thumb of another, are gone forever. And I say a big AMEN to those stressful days of yesteryear.
DON'T YOU GET LONELY....some ask? On occasion, perhaps. But keeping busy with artistic pursuits, e-mail, my blog, sending commentary to the "Opinion Page" of a couple of newspapers, writing books, gardening, piano playing --you name it--gives me little time to feel sorry for myself. Then, there are my two beloved "best friend" doggies, who love me no matter what. And there are my Spirit Guide & Guardian Angels, who protect me day & night and are ever with me. So, I am never alone. But I would encourage all Retired Senior Citizens to keep busy--both physically & mentally. For you know what they say? "If you don't use it, you lose it!"
HOWEVER, WITH OLDER AGE & RETIREMENT.... there is much time for reflection as to how we have lived our lives--both good & bad memories continually surface. Yes, during so many decades,of pain & stress, our lives didn't turn out as we imagined when we were youngsters. Because, back then, we had such high hopes for our glorious future. But sadly, with the passage of years, the ravages of life have beaten us down in many ways. However, we Seniors should dismiss all those failures, painful episodes and disappointments, if we are to go on into our twilight years with any sense of satisfaction for the life we have lived.
GOD EXPECTS NO LESS.....than for us to be proud that we are each a "spark of the divine", which we are. And that we have done the very best we could do during this lifetime, given what we had to work with.
BUT THERE IS NO DENYING.... that for so many of us, we have had to endure so many dark times, before we could see the blessed light!
Good to hear Beryl, But much of this is an argument against those once regularly issued accouterments we knew as 'husbands'. Which is fine as it goes. But I'm there with you all living in this 'glorious future' together, and to tell the truth? Much of the time history looks more attractive! But thanks again for your thoughts here. Cheers, your friend Joe.


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Haider AH, Bilimoria KY, Kibbe MR. A Checklist to Elevate the Science of Surgical Database Research. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Stulberg JJ, Haut ER. AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases: National Inpatient Sample (NIS). JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Doll KM, Rademaker A, Sosa JA. Longitudinal outcomes reporting using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Ghaferi AA, Dimick JB. Longitudinal outcomes reporting using Medicare claims. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Schoenfeld AJ, Kaji AH, Haider AH. Outcomes reporting using Tricare claims. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Massarweh NM, Kaji AH, Itani KMF. Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Raval MV, Pawlik TM. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) and pediatric NSQIP. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Telem DA, Dimick JB. Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Program (MBSAQIP). JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Merkow RP, Rademaker AW, Bilimoria KY. National Cancer Database. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Hashmi ZG, Kaji AH, Nathens AB. National Trauma Data Bank. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
Desai SS, Kaji AH, Upchurch G. Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Improvement Program. JAMA Surgery, Epub ahead of print, 2018.
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Smith AB, Schwarze ML. Translating Patient-Reported Outcomes From Surgical Research to Clinical Care. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(9):811-812.
Weissman JS, Kelz RR, Lee CN. Appropriateness, Health Care Reform, and the Surgeon: Perspectives from the Surgical Outcomes Club. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(9):813-814.
Spertus JA, Ghaferi AA. Transforming the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to the Delivery of Precision Medicine to Improve the Value of Surgical Care: Summary of the John R. Clarke keynote Address for the Surgical Outcomes Club 2016 Annual Meeting. JAMA Surgery. 2017;152(9):815-816.


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Financial regulators seek banks' help to grasp full picture of crypto industry
By Park Ga-young
Published : May 5, 2021 - 17:57 Updated : May 5, 2021 - 18:19
Financial authorities have asked banks to declare their cryptocurrency businesses to figure out the exact numbers of cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country, as it tightens its grip over illegal activities in the industry, according to local media reports Wednesday.
The financial regulators asked major banks to provide the current status of their businesses with cryptocurrency exchanges including corporate accounts and banks' monitoring methods.
Financial Services Commission Chairman Eun Sung-soo speaks during a meeting of the National Assembly's National Policy Committee on April 24. He said there are about 200 crypto exchanges in the country. (Yonhap)
"Currently, cryptocurrency exchanges can operate without permission from the government, which is why it is difficult to identify the exact number of cryptocurrency exchanges," said an official at a local cryptocurrency exchange who asked to remain anonymous. "One way to find out is to track corporate bank accounts that collect customers' funds."
Except for the four largest cryptocurrency exchanges that already use real-name accounts for each user, smaller exchanges gather funds from users under one corporate bank account. The sources did not specify which financial institutions gave the order.
The regulators' move to identify the exact numbers of digital coin exchanges, vaguely estimated between 100 and 200, is so that they will be able to impose sanctions on unregistered businesses from Sept. 24 when the grace period for the revised Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information ends.
The new law requires crypto exchanges to be equipped with information security management systems and to form partnerships with local banks before the grace period.
In addition, cryptocurrency businesses will have to report to the financial authorities to operate legally. Those who fail to report to authorities and continue to operate after Sept. 24 will face a jail sentence up to five years or a fine of up to 50 million won ($44,000).
While the government is trying to get the lay of the land in the cryptocurrency industry, it is also ramping up its efforts to crack down on illegal activities.
On Tuesday, the police raided cryptocurrency exchange V Global and froze the company's assets worth 240 billion won. The company is being accused of illegally gathering 1.7 trillion won by guaranteeing a high return for a digital-asset investment project and attracting investors into a Ponzi scheme.
The raid came one month after a group of government bodies vowed to crack down on illegal activities related to virtual asset transactions.
By Park Ga-young (gypark@heraldcorp.com)

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Use of Chemicals for Croplands on Native Lands by Non-Natives Considerably More Than Use by Natives
Related Topics: Native Agriculture & Land Use
By Evelyn Red Lodge
Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux Tribe Member)
Given history, it is not surprising that non-Natives collect 87% of the agricultural revenue from federally recognized Native reservation lands. What is surprising is that even though Natives operate 49.29% of cropland farms on these reservation lands, 92% of all chemicals purchased for reservation cropland operations were purchased by non-Natives. This is according to data from the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture available through our interactive data dashboard.
What's the status on your reservation? Use the dashboard below to filter for one of the 76 reservations that participated in the 2017 Census of Agriculture.
We asked Matthew Wilson, Food Sovereignty Director Sicangu Community Development Corporation on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe reservation in South Dakota, why non-Natives use more chemicals on croplands than do Natives.
His response is as follows:
"I can only respond from the perspective of what we experience here on Rosebud. Most non-Natives use chemicals and pesticides for a number of reasons. 1) Most non-Native producers grow commercial crops such as wheat, corn, and soy etc. and it is therefore more efficient for them to utilize conventional ag practices which include the use chemicals to help ensure they produce larger yields of products. Current government subsidies are in place that continue to support and encourage large commercial agriculture. I would also speculate to say that because their values are more concerned with profit and efficiency, there is less concern about the health of the land and how chemicals affect the ecosystem. 2) Most non-Native producers [on Rosebud] do not own the land, but lease it. There are some regulatory policies in place that protect the environment, however there needs to be more policies created to better protect water and land, and to regulate the amount and the types of chemicals used. Since the land is owned by the tribe there is less of a concern for the non-Native leasers to worry about soil health. It's a very extractive transaction."
He adds in speaking of the Food Sovereignty Initiative, "We do not utilize conventional ag practices nor organic agriculture which still uses chemicals to some extent. Instead, we practice regenerative agriculture that works to mimic nature as much as possible. We utilize cover crops, rotational growing, utilize aged animal manure that is produced onsite from our chickens, and aged compost. Cover crops are like living mulch, depending on the seed used they help add moisture, nutrients, to the soil and help capture carbon from the air. On our farm, we also rotate crops through the acreage so that crops that utilize too much of a particular nutrient in the soil are rotated each time so that the soil health doesn't get depleted. We also utilized aged chicken manure and composted soil on our farm to help build soil health up and give crops nutrients to grow and produce. If we have the need for a fertilizer, we utilize fish emulsion which is an organic fertilizer made from fermented fish that helps add nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to the soil. As for pesticides, we do not use chemicals, instead we developed an integrated Pest Management plan where we grow plants that help to repel the bad insects, while growing plants that help attract beneficial pollinators and insects that eat the bad insects. We also utilize netting cloth to help prevent big insects."
Finally, he says,
"As mentioned above, there are systems and support in place that encourage large scale and conventional agriculture. Government subsidies influence producers to focus on the amount of produce that they can grow and harvest. Non-Native large-scale producers utilize conventional ag practices that are extractive and have been used for decades. Organic farming is better than conventional ag, however there are still use of chemicals. The process to become certified organic is also not as accessible nor easy to do. At the end of the day, Native producers (not all) have cultural values and teaching that are ingrained in them to be land stewards and to have the earth in mind when making decisions."
This news is a red flag for the environment and people living on reservations lands due to the history of environmental racism in the U.S.
"Out of all the ethnic groups in the U.S., Native Americans are the most at risk of toxic exposure," according to Sanjana Manjeshwar for the Berkley Political Review. Manjeshwar continues that a chemical, dioxin, used in agent orange was tested in the 1960s to control vegetation on the lands of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona. The tribe claims that this testing caused illnesses and health issues that include neurological disorders, cancer, and heart disease.
Since 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been charged with protecting human and environmental health through regulation and enforcement. The EPA is currently responsible for regulation on federally recognized Native reservation lands.
As such, we asked the National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) which is in cooperation with the Oregon State University and the EPA, "Why do non-Natives use more pesticides on tribal croplands than do Natives? Their reply in part was, "Pesticide usage depends on many factors, including the crops being grown. You may consider ensuring that the information you are examining is truly comparable."
Oddly, we are using U.S. government generated data which the EPA itself may be using. The NPIC added, "In all cases, the label is the law. Users must follow all label instructions on a pesticide product, which includes where a product may be used, how much may be applied, and how often. It does not vary by who is doing the application (although some pesticides require special licensing for the applicator, the rules apply equally to anyone using that particular product)."
So, at the moment, it seems the EPA is doing its part to keep humans and the environment safe from cropland chemical use on the Native lands. But, just as the 1960s tests of dioxin treatments on the Apache, more information about synthetic and organic/natural chemicals used on croplands is ongoing.
Lakota Organic Growers Embrace Food Sovereignty in Times of Drought and Scarcity
By Aliyah Keuthan Edited by Emma Scheerer This blog is the second of two posts analyzing the challenges Native communities
NLAP Will Be Presenting New ARMP & IRMP Data Portal at the 35th Annual Intertribal Agriculture Council Conference December 6-8
The Native Lands Advocacy Project (NLAP) will be attending the Intertribal Agriculture Council's 35th Annual Conference next week, December 6th
Announcing Our New Storymap: The Legacy of Allotment on Contemporary Native Agriculture
What did early reservation agriculture look like? What is the settler colonial myth, and how has it distorted the perception of
Rivers of Broken Promises: An Exploration of the Water Challenges Faced by Lakota Communities
This blog is the first of two posts analyzing the challenges Native communities face in accessing clean, sustainable water.
NLAP Welcomes Three New Members to the Team!
The Native Lands Advocacy Project is pleased to announce Chase Christopherson, Emma Scheerer, and Seanna Pieper-Jordan to the team! Chase
Wolf and First Man: An Anishinaabe Story of Companionship and Protection Amid the Growing Threats of Poachers and Habitat Loss
By Aliyah Keuthan Far back into the collective memory of the Ojibwe people is the Anishinaabeg origin story, Ma'iingan (Wolf)
Announcing Update to our Cropland Data Layer Dashboard!
Our "What's Growing on Native Lands?" Dashboard is now updated with the 2021 data from the United States Department of
New Updates to our SSURGO (Soil Survey) Dashboard!
We have compiled and uploaded the most recent data from the 2021 Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) into our "Soil


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Screening the Nurse: Film, Fear, and Narrative from the 1940s to the 1970s
April 14, 2020 Circulating Now Collections, Films & Videos, Guests, News One comment
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor, PhD, an investigador (researcher) at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires Argentina and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, to explore five films about nursing produced between the 1940s and 1970s now highlighted in our Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM project. In the mid-20th century, American nursing leaders produced and deployed the motion picture as a modern tool of education, training, and recruitment. Hundreds of films were made, including informational, newsreel, and training movies for a variety of audiences.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, American nursing leaders came to see the motion picture as a quintessentially modern instrument of education, training, and recruitment. In their view, movies were a powerful tool to transform public opinion about nursing, to instruct new recruits in the mysteries of nursing practice, and to keep the qualified nurse abreast of new developments in the field. The result was that many hundreds of films were produced by nurses, hospitals, health departments, and nursing schools that aimed to recruit men and women into the profession, to teach nurses about the ideas and techniques of their field, and to educate the public about the role of the nurse in health care.
This essay discusses a selection of rare historical nursing movies, originally chosen by Anne Marie Rafferty, Rosemary Cresswell and David Cantor for a series of film shows screened in the late 2000s.[*] It includes educational, newsreel, and training movies aimed at a variety of audiences, and produced from the 1940s to the 1970s by an assortment of private, philanthropic, professional, and governmental organizations. Together, they illustrate the varied uses of the nursing educational film in the mid-to-late twentieth century; the complex cinematic representations of nurses and nursing during this period; and the roles of sexuality, gender, and surveillance in these movies. I conclude with some observations on the different narratives deployed in these films, and on the use of fear within nursing films.
The Army Nurse
DIRECTOR: Unidentified
PRODUCER/PUBLISHER: Army Pictorial Service Signal Corps, U.S. War Office
CATEGORY: Educational & Instructional, Sound, Black & White
Released in the closing months of World War II, this film explores the work of the Army nurse in part from the perspective of a wounded soldier (and includes a cameo by the actor Gary Cooper). Intended to be shown to a variety of audiences—including servicemen, nurses, and potential recruits to nursing—it has a reassuring message about the skill and effectiveness of the Army nursing service. It also comforts its audiences with a story about the therapeutic uses of femininity.
The film opens with a soldier wounded in action. Coming out of delirium, the first person he sees is a female Army nurse, who smiles at him and gives him a conspiratorial, welcoming wink. This therapeutic wink is the start of his road to recovery and provides a cue for the narrator to talk about the uses of femininity in the healing process. He explains to his audience that women mean safety, comfort, and home to the wounded man: the nurse's touch and her voice instill hope. Within each nurse is the tenderness of all women, he claims, that which is found in mother, sister, and friend—roles that dampen any suggestion of sexual invitation in the nurse's wink or touch. Here is a feminized version of medical surveillance: the welcoming, comforting, caring surveillance of women who watch and monitor wounded men throughout their treatment.
Two other narratives in the film are related to this theme of the therapeutic uses of femininity. The first is a story of how Army nurses adjust to the masculine world of Army life. The film shows how female nurses undergo four weeks of grueling basic training, and how, once in the field, they share the same life as the GI: Army clothes, Army beds, and Army rations. But the movie also shows how they adapt Army paraphernalia and life to their own purposes, as when, for example, they turn Army helmets into instruments for cooking, washing, and self-beautification. The film portrays these women as dedicated nurses, willing to sacrifice themselves to the war effort. It also sets out a place for a caring, tender, watchful femininity amid the pain of war, and within military and medical organizations dominated by men. As the narrator puts it, the Army nurse "lives roughly, and works gently."
The second story focuses on how nurses help to define the roles of their male surgical colleagues and patients. Thus, the movie defines the male surgeon, in part, in relation to the female Army nurse: Where the surgeon's technical skill saves a man's life, the Army nurse's loving care helps him to live. She "completes" the surgeon, much as wives were said to "complete" their husbands. She also helps her patients decide on the sort of men they want to be. Inspired by the prospect of an Army nurse's care, the narrator asks the wounded soldier (and the film's audience): "Which man will you be? The one who gets hurt and dies, or the one who gets hurt and lives?"
To read the full essay and to see the films go to NLM's Medicine on Screen, a curated portal including original research on selected films from NLM's collection.
David Cantor, PhD is an investigador (researcher) at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires Argentina and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarly work focuses on the history of medicine in the twentieth century, most recently the histories of cancer, stress and medical film. He was for several years affiliated with the National Library of Medicine and also worked in the Office of History, National Institutes of Health. His publications include Reinventing Hippocrates (2002); Cancer in the Twentieth Century (2008); Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century (2010), co-edited with Christian Bonah and Matthias Dörries; Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century (2014), co-edited with Edmund Ramsden; and Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century (2018), co-edited with Christian Bonah and Anja Laukötter. He is series coeditor of Social Histories of Medicine published by Manchester University Press.
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ABSA CAPE EPIC 2018 ROUTE ANNOUNCED!
Eight days, 624 km and 16 650 meters of climbing – the bare statistics tell less than half the story. Rugged mountain trails, bone jarring dual tracks, windswept gravel roads and, yes, sand lie between the Prologue at the University of Cape Town and the Grand Finale at Val de Vie Estate. This is a reflection of modern Africa, where urbanization spreads to the edge of wilderness – where riders will roll out of celebrated towns, straight into the hinterland where heaven and hades are the opposite sides of the same coin.
In 2019 three stages battle for the honour of being dubbed the Queen Stage. The remaining days are anything but easy however; true to form even the shorter stages pack a significant punch. Take the Stage 4 time trial for example, it is filled with Elgin's best loved single tracks but each is linked to the next by a ferociously steep climb.


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Your kitchen is stated is the heart of the house. It's normally the initial place we pause and sit lower, where we store our food and make preparations our meals. But generally your kitchen is how we dine. But it is not only the meals part of the house – it is almost always an important vein towards the living flow of the household. Preschoolers will have there as the parent is applying your kitchen and kids will frequently do their homework there with the aid of the mother and father in planning a night meal. More frequently or otherwise your kitchen is a vital room from the party, housing most the meals, beverages and enjoyable conversation.
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This cobbler recipe is as southern as they come and will have you smacking your lips within seconds!
Imagine walking into Grandma's house and smelling sweet dough in the oven, knowing it will be coming out the oven any minute and you'll have the opportunity to taste it soon. Just smelling it makes a person talk like a Cajun and helps you remember your roots quickly!
I remember Mom Nolia asking the grandchildren to pick blackberries for her in the pasture behind the house and when they returned she promised to make tarts and/or a cobbler for them. It was their reward!
Although I don't have Mom Nolia's recipe, I do have Mrs Kelly Broussard's ole fashion cobbler recipe that looks and tastes just like I remember. I doubt you will be able to find a recipe that tastes better than this one. It's the kind of cobbler made with a lot of love and there are no short cuts.
This recipe is done the ole fashion way and not the easy way (commonly done with biscuits that are cut up in a pan). Honestly, it's not difficult to do, even though it's the old fashioned rolled out crust type of cobbler.
Filing: In a sauce pan combine the blackberry, sugar and corn starch. Start to heat on high to heat through, then lower to simmer and cool for about 10 minutes. Stir frequently. then stir in the butter and vanilla flavoring. Pour the blackbery filling into a 9×12 glass baking dish.
Dough: In a bowl combine all of the dough ingredients (mix by hand). The dough will be sticky. Drop the dough (by tablespoonful) on top of the blackberry filling (leaving space between each drop). The dough will expand as it bakes.
Topping: In a small bowl combine all of the topping ingedients and sprinkle over the dough.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes.
Number of Servings: Yields about 12 servings.
Substitutions: Cajun Power Sweet Treat can be used for the topping in place of the sugar and cinnamon.
Notes: Best if served warm with a glass of cold or warm milk; add scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream.
I hope you enjoy our fun and delicious recipes. All of them are prepared for our guests at the Louisiana Cajun Mansion on a regular basis. Please, come on down and join us for warm Cajun hospitality, and of course the most delicious food in the world!


A women's health service in California has come under fire for dumping a woman because she would not consent to a c-section.
In a letter to Stephanie Lyn Dobson, Trinity Women's Health Service (TWHS) in California stated that she 'went against medical advice and refused to do a scheduled cesarean section due to macrosomnia (sic)'.
Because of this refusal, TWHS opted to not treat Stephanie in the future, even though she was already in her third trimester. The letter sent to Ms Dobson was dated mid May, 6 weeks after she gave birth to her baby with another caregiver.
Aside from the very glaring error in the quoted sentence, there is also a glaring omission: actual diagnosis of fetal macrosomia (large baby over 4500g) is possible only once the baby is born and can be weighed. Before birth, macrosomia is suspected only.
Estimation of a baby's weight while in utero is not easily done or very accurate. The main methods used to estimate a baby's weight in utero are Leopold's maneuvers (palpating the uterus/baby) and measuring the height of the fundus. Both of these methods can vary considerably, and used alone are not accurate predictors of fetal macrosomia. Ultrasound is another method to assess a baby's estimated size but it is no more accurate than Leopold's maneuvers.
The letter to Ms Dobson further pointed out that 'Trinity Women's Health Service takes patient compliance very seriously'. In the current birth climate, informed consent is a hot topic. More and more women are coming forward to report experiences of coercion and non-consensual procedures occurring during pregnancy and labour.
Ms Dobson's right to refuse a c-section is in line with the current practice guidelines of ACOG, yet TWHS sees her informed refusal as not being compliant with their expectations of her treatment.
While doctors do have the right to dismiss patients from their care for a number of reasons, maternity patients are afforded certain protection against dismissal. According to the American Medical Associations Code of Ethics, doctors have an obligation to continue to support continuity of care for their patients. Women who are in their last trimester and within a few weeks of giving birth should not be dismissed from their doctor's care unless under extreme circumstances (such as doctor illness).
Some supporters of TWHS believe they were within their rights to write to Ms Dobson, stating litigation prevention provides reasonable grounds to dismiss her from their care (the full letter from TWHS can be seen below). In 2012, ACOG's Survey on Professional Liability revealed 58% of obstetricians change their practice due to fear of litigation.
In recommending Ms Dobson complies with an elective c-section against best practice guidelines, TWHS is practicing defensive medicine, exposing her and her baby to risk of injury and death. Ms Dobson has since vaginally birthed her baby, who was caught by a nurse just 30 minutes after arrival at the hospital. Her baby weighed 4.5kg (9lb 15oz). Hardly worthy of a c-section.
It's easy to scare pregnant women about the health of their baby in order to manipulate them into doing everything the care provider's way. But birth is not a disease, and there are a wide range of treatment options for labor and birth.
Reading the letter from the clinic was appalling. What about her right to shared decision making? The respect they owed her and her right to have patient autonomy over her body?
There is real danger in handing over total responsibility for your health to the medical profession, but this clinic's bullying and condescension show what an uphill road it is to be an active, responsible participant in your own care.
I urge women to spend the time to interview providers and ask tough questions, and look into midwifery care even if they plan to use an OB so they can experience what it feels like to be listened to and respected. It's time for women to raise the bar of our expectations for birth.
We should all insist on better care in birth and refuse to be shamed or managed by providers.
What I find appalling is your use of fear mongering to get people on your band wagon. This letter was dated AFTER she delivered. She was not "dumped" while "heavily pregnant." You need to fact check. I saw the original post from Stephanie herself. Not only did they follow her during her delivery time, they even kept her on as a patient until her postpartum period was up. And just so you know, being as they are NOT a hospital, they are not required to see anyone that they don't want to. It's not a hospital or immediate care center, it's a doctor's office. They absolutely have the right to decline.
I had to change care near the end of my pregnancy and while it was stressful, it would have been a lot worse to deliver with a doctor that didn't want to treat me and that I did not want treating me. While I strongly disagree with the decision of this medical practice, I support their right to make it. I feel we cannot fight for our right to make our own choices while infringing on the rights for others to do so also. This lady was not in a position where she was going to be denied medical care when she needed it. Doctors are people also, with their own concerns and obligations. I feel it is very important not to take away their choices and options either, however misguided they might be made. I have also had doctors wanting to treat me more holistically, but that were legally hampered to do so, having everything dictated to us by bureaucrats is not the way to go. If we want practices that are not into medical bullying and agree with our approaches we have to make informed choices when selecting them.


We extend hybrid possibilistic conditioning to deal with inputs consisting of a set of triplets composed of propositional formulas, the level at which the formulas should be accepted, and the way in which their models should be revised. We characterize such conditioning using elementary operations on possibility distributions. We then solve a difficult issue that concerns the syntactic computation of the revision of possibilistic knowledge bases, made of weighted formulas, using hybrid conditioning. An important result is that there is no extra computational cost in using hybrid possibilistic conditioning and in particular the size of the revised possibilistic base is polynomial with respect to the size of the initial base and the input.


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Celebrating Edith Piaf
Wiesbaden is organizing a special concert in honor of Paris' sweetheart on what would have been her 100th birthday. Explore the tragic yet glamorous world of Edith Piaf at the Velvets Theater Nov. 20 as Petra Bauss,
who studied at the École de la Chansons in France, will interpret and sing her most famous Chanons to show the love, triumph and her childhood in the Parisian gutter. Alexandre Bytchkov will accompany her on his accordion. Admission is €19. Visit www.wiesbaden.de for more info in German.
"Russian Soul" Concert
The RheinMain Symphonic Orchestra is continuing its concert series at the Kaisersaal (Emperor's Hall) in Sonnenberg. This time, the musical journey includes Glinka's famous Ruslan overture, Dvořák's serenade for strings and Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony. The concert takes place Saturday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Kaisersaal, König-Adolf-Str. 6, 65191 Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg. Tickets for €15 at the Wiesbaden tourist info, Tourist-Information, or at the door.
Wiesbaden Christmas market
Wiesbaden's Twinkling Star Christmas Market, named after the brightly lit giant lilies that overlook it, will run Nov. 24 to Dec. 23. Located in downtown Wiesbaden on the Schlossplatz
(across from the Rathaus), the market will have over 130 stalls selling food, drinks, decorations and gifts. The market opens Dec. 24 at 6 p.m. with a special ceremony, but usually opens at 10:30 a.m. (or noon on Sundays) and closes at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday). There will be a variety of musical and theatrical performances in the square for the whole month the market is open. For more information, visit https://www.wiesbaden.de/en/living-inwiesbaden/festivities-markets/markets/twinkling-star-christmas-market.php.
For information about other Christmas markets in the area, visit the weekly Things to Do newsletter at http://www.wiesbaden.army.mil/sites/about/ttd/TTD.pdf.
Nearby the Hessian State Theatre, the "Eiszeit" ice skating rink operates daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The entrance fee for children up to 12 is €3.50, and adult tickets is €4.50. Ticket packages for 10 visits are between €30 and €35. More information can be found at https://www.wiesbaden.de/microsite/weihnachten-en/020/eiszeit-en.php.
Visitors should also take a moment to stop into the Kurhaus Casino, where a giant Christmas tree made out of 2,000 winter roses stands.
The Rhein-Main USO offers trips to Special: Traditional German Christmas Deco Nov. 21, Cars: Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Museums Nov. 21, Riesling Route Nov. 22, Black Forest Thanksgiving Nov. 26, Valkenburg Caves Christmas Markets Nov. 27, Rhein River Cruise & Ruedesheim Christmas Market and Christmas in the Piedmont, Italy Dec. 23-27. Stop by a USO or visit www.uso.org/rheinmain for more information.
FMWR trips and tours
Wiesbaden Outdoor Recreation offers trips to Prague Overnight Nov. 21-22, Thanksgiving Ski Trip to Zermatt Nov. 25-29, Rothenburg Christmas Market Dec. 19 and New Year's Eve in Calella, Spain Dec. 27 to Jan. 2. Call civ (0611) 143-548-9801 for more information.
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Last night in LA, Zack Greinke entered the game 5-0 at home. He faced Mat Latos who was 0-5 at Dodger Stadium. So, of course you know what happened. The Reds downed the Dodgers, 5-2. For the season, Latos is now 10-3 and Greinke is 8-3.
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Mark Buehrle of the Blue Jays shut out Houston yesterday. It was his ninth career shutout and his first since he tossed one for the White Sox, four years and two days before, July 23, 2009 against Tampa Bay. Last night against Houston he allowed two hits and two walks. His game against Tampa was perfect.
So far this season, home team pitchers have won 824 games and have an ERA of 3.78, away team pitchers have won 693 games and have an ERA of 4.04. However, home team pitchers have allowed 1506 home runs compared to 1479 away pitchers. But before you get too excited, home team pitchers have pitched 771 more innings, so just relax.
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package org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.rewrite.token;

import org.apache.shardingsphere.infra.binder.statement.ddl.CreateDatabaseStatementContext;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.infra.binder.statement.ddl.CreateTableStatementContext;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.rewrite.token.generator.impl.TableTokenGenerator;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.rewrite.token.pojo.TableToken;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.rule.ShardingRule;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.rule.TableRule;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sql.parser.sql.common.segment.generic.table.SimpleTableSegment;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sql.parser.sql.common.segment.generic.table.TableNameSegment;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sql.parser.sql.common.value.identifier.IdentifierValue;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Optional;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.anyString;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public final class TableTokenGeneratorTest {

    @Test
    public void assertGenerateSQLToken() {
        ShardingRule shardingRule = mock(ShardingRule.class);
        when(shardingRule.findTableRule(anyString())).thenReturn(Optional.of(mock(TableRule.class)));
        TableTokenGenerator tableTokenGenerator = new TableTokenGenerator();
        tableTokenGenerator.setShardingRule(shardingRule);
        CreateDatabaseStatementContext createDatabaseStatementContext = mock(CreateDatabaseStatementContext.class);
        assertThat(tableTokenGenerator.generateSQLTokens(createDatabaseStatementContext), is(Collections.emptyList()));
        final int testStartIndex = 3;
        TableNameSegment tableNameSegment = new TableNameSegment(testStartIndex, 8, new IdentifierValue("test"));
        SimpleTableSegment simpleTableSegment = new SimpleTableSegment(tableNameSegment);
        Collection<SimpleTableSegment> simpleTableSegmentCollection = new LinkedList<>();
        simpleTableSegmentCollection.add(simpleTableSegment);
        CreateTableStatementContext createTableStatementContext = mock(CreateTableStatementContext.class);
        when(createTableStatementContext.getAllTables()).thenReturn(simpleTableSegmentCollection);
        Collection<TableToken> result = tableTokenGenerator.generateSQLTokens(createTableStatementContext);
        assertThat((new LinkedList<>(result)).get(0).getStartIndex(), is(testStartIndex));
    }
}


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Trade Fair is clearly capable of upgrading his mares – so Britain's loss is West Australia's gain. He is currently at Alwyn Park Stud (standing in association with Lynward Park Stud) and he can only be an asset to the racing and breeding scenes in that state, writes John Berry
The collective reputation of Europe's big-spending yearling buyers received another succession of blows with the running of Britain's principal Guineas trials, all of which were won by horses whom the major players had passed over as youngsters.
The victorious colts (Trumpet Major and Caspar Netscher, winners of the Craven Stakes and Greenham Stakes respectively) had been bought for 20,000 euros and 25,000 gns, while Trumpet Major's Nell Gwyn Stakes-winning stablemate Esentepe had realised 22,000 gns as a yearling. These bargains, though, pale into insignificance behind the one which got away: Fred Darling Stakes heroine Moonstone Magic is raced by her breeder Lady Marchwood, having been passed in as a yearling at Doncaster in September 2010 at 5,000 GBP. This impressively strong filly is now worth a lot more than that, while her emergence into the limelight highlights the loss to British breeding of her young sire Trade Fair, who is now permanently domiciled in Western Australia.
The development of several high-class families by Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte operation is a commonly-recurring theme in this column. Most of the prince's good horses trace back to broodmares whom he bought as either fillies or young mares roughly three decades ago when he was founding and consolidating his stud. Trade Fair, who was raced by the prince for four seasons in the first decade of this century, falls into this category – as did Trade Fair's sadly-deceased sire Zafonic, brilliant winner of the 1993 2,000 Guineas in the prince's colours and a record time. Zafonic descended from one of the first good fillies to have been owned by the prince, Mofida, a smart sprint handicapper in Barry Hills' stable in the late '70s, who was bought by the prince while she was still racing. Trade Fair has as his third dam Cairn Rouge, who came into the prince's ownership after she had finished her final year of racing in 1980.
Cairn Rouge merited a passing reference in this column recently when we looked at the success of the Australian stallion Danasinga. That horse is a son of the former very fast Michael Cunningham-trained filly Princess Tracy, who spawned a mini-dynasty after her export down under. As mentioned in that feature, Princess Tracy's arrival in Cunningham's Co. Meath stable as a yearling in 1982 followed shortly after the departure of an even better filly: Cairn Rouge, a daughter of the 1980 King George And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner Ela-mana-mou's sire Pitcairn. Cairn Rouge's several top-class victories included the Irish 1,000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Champion Stakes in 1980. While Cairn Rouge, who proved a bargain as yearling at 3,000 Irish guineas and whose dam Little Hillshad won over hurdles, did not prove quite as influential a matron as Princess Tracy, she was still very effective in her second career. Bought privately by Prince Khalid Abdullah soon after the end of her racing career, Cairn Rouge became ancestress of some good horses to race for him. Trade Fair has to be regarded as one of the best of these.
Having been bred and trained in Ireland, Cairn Rouge spent the first part of her stud career in America before returning to Europe after she had had a few foals. She eventually produced minor winners by Sadler's Wells and Danehill in her teens after she had been sold out of the Juddmonte broodmare band, but her most significant foals were those bred by Juddmonte in America.
Cairn Rouge's best Juddmonte-bred colts were the Group Three place-getter Devil's Rock and the Listed place-getter Red Victory, but more influential were her second and third foals Ajuga and Roupala, daughters of the top-class middle-distance stallions The Minstrel and Vaguely Noble respectively. Both fillies were brought to England to be trained for the prince by Barry Hills, in whose care they proved themselves to be decent fillies. Ajuga was a smart, if presumably fragile, two-year-old. In a brief first campaign, she won the Kingsclere Stakes at Newbury in June 1987 before finishing unplaced in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot the following week, a run which unfortunately proved to be her last of the season. She bounced back as a three-year-old to win a seven-furlong handicap at Kempton on her first run of 1988 before going on to tackle better company, including when finishing a well-beaten fourth of the five runners in the Group Three Criterion Stakes over seven furlongs at Newmarket, ten lengths behind the top-class principals Cadeaux Genereux and Salse. Roupala won one race – or didn't, as the case may be: her sole 'victory' came at Newmarket's Guineas Meeting in 1989, when she finished first of the five runners in the Newmarket Challenge Whip, a historic race restricted to horses owned by members of the Jockey Club. Victory in this contest used not to render a horse ineligible for a maiden race, so whether it technically counted as a win is open to debate. Overall, the lesson from Roupala's brief racing career was that she was a filly with ability, even if she ended that career having never finished in the frame in any race open to horses owned by members of the general public.
Ajuga bred two Listed winners for Prince Khalid Abdullah (Prolix and Alumni, the latter being born when Ajuga was aged 17). She also bred Bangalore, winner of the 2000 Chester Cup as a four-year-old and the 2002 Northumberland Plate (beating the subsequent Ascot Gold Cup winner Mr Dinos) aged six. Bangalore had started his racing career owned by the prince (for whom he had won a three-year-old maiden race in 1999) but had been sold prior to these valuable victories – while Ajuga's most successful foal, ironically, was Bad Bertrich Again, a Group Two winner over 2400m in Germany in 1996 having left Juddmonte's ownership as a yearling, sold at Fairyhouse in September 1994 for 1,900 Irish guineas.
While Ajuga was a very good matron for Juddmonte, Roupala did even better in this respect. She bred the Group Three-winning Danehill horse Vortex (who did all his winning when trained by Gay Kelleway, having been sold by Juddmonte out of Sir Michael Stoute's stable as a three-year-old maiden) as well as the Maurice Zilber-trained quartet of her first foal Estala (a Listed-placed miler), her second foal Danefair (winner of the Group Three Prix Minerve over 2400m at Evry as a three-year-old in 1995), Erudite (a Listed-winning stayer) and Prove(a Group Three winner over 1800m at Chantilly as a three-year-old in 2001).
Unsurprisingly, several of Roupala's daughters proved to be good broodmares, including the non-winner Sanpala, a daughter of the prince's 1990 Prix du Jockey-Club winner Sanglamore. Sanpala was sold by Juddmonte for 46,000 gns as a three-year-old maiden in 1999 and went on to produce the Kildaragh Stud-bred Silver Touch, a Group Three winner in the Criterion Stakes at Newmarket in 2006. Roupala's other daughters, though, remained in the Juddmonte fold, including Estala, who bred the Juddmonte-owned four-time US Grade One winner Ventura, whose eight excellent Grade One performances included second place in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in 2009. Also remaining in Juddmonte's ownership was Danefair, the dam of Trade Fair.
As a Group Three-winning daughter of Danehill from this good family, Danefair was clearly a very well-credentialled broodmare. One of her racecourse victims (Bordighera, who finished second to Danefair in the Listed Prix des Tuilieries and then last behind her in the Prix Minerve before embarking on a stellar stud career which has yielded the top-class pair Grandera and George Washington) proved to be a better broodmare, but Danefair still did extremely well. Sadly, she died aged only 12 so did not have the opportunity to realise her full stud potential, but she did have time to breed four winners before her death. These included the French Listed-winning filly Village Fete and the tough dual-purpose performer Hills Of Aran(a son of Sadler's Wells who started his racing career trained for the Coolmore syndicate by Aidan O'Brien, having been a product of the joint breeding venture between Juddmonte and Coolmore which sees some of the stock racing for Juddmonte and some for Coolmore) but Trade Fair was easily the pick of them.
Born in 2000 when his dam was aged eight, Trade Fair was put into training at Beckhampton with Roger Charlton. This stable had been the home of Prince Khalid Abdullah's first Classic winner (the 1980 2,000 Guineas hero Known Fact) when Jeremy Tree was at its helm, and Charlton had sent out many top winners for the prince since taking over in 1990 (including that year's Derby and Prix du Jockey-Club winners, Quest For Fameand the aforementioned Sanglamore). Trade Fair did not quite measure up to that class, but for a time it looked as if he might just do so.
After being beaten on his debut as a two-year-old in a 7-furlong maiden race at Newbury in August 2002, Trade Fair clearly began to improve hugely, as is suggested by the fact that he was sent off the 1/2 favourite for his next start, another maiden race over the same course and distance four weeks later. He won that race (by six lengths) so impressively that he started favourite for Britain's best two-year-old race, the Group One Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, the following month. He didn't win the Dewhurst, but he still ran well, finishing third of the 16 runners, beaten by Tout Seul and Tomahawk. This race, incidentally, had the sad distinction of being dominated by the progeny of deceased stallions. Tout Seul's sire Ali-royal and Tomahawk's sire Seattle Slewwere both dead by this time, as was Trade Fair's sire Zafonic, Juddmonte's Mr Prospector-line 2,000 Guineas winner having lost his life 42 days previously in a paddock accident at Arrowfield Stud in New South Wales, whither he had shuttled from Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket.
Disappointingly, the pattern of Trade Fair's two-year-old career – the exhibition of seemingly massive potential, followed by performance which was extremely good yet simultaneously disappointing – was repeated as he matured. He won his first two starts at three (a Listed race at Newmarket in May 2003 and the following month's Group Three Criterion Stakes) extremely easily, thus ensuring that he went off favourite again when he stepped back into Group One company. However, again he was a beaten favourite at the highest level, finishing a well-beaten sixth behind Reel Buddyat weight-for-age in the Sussex Stakes over a mile at Goodwood. Dropped back to Listed company seven weeks later (in a 7-furlong race at Newbury) he again justified odds-on favouritism very easily, but sadly the pattern had been established: although remaining in training for two more seasons, Trade Fair was not able to win a really big race, even if he continued to look good when pitched against slightly weaker opposition, as in The Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh, a 7-furlong Group Three race which he won easily as a four-year-old in July 2004. He raced in America as a five-year-old in 2005, but unfortunately he proved unable to crack the really big time there too.
Much as Prince Khalid Abdullah would, no doubt, have loved to stand Trade Fair at Banstead Manor, such a move could not really have been justified. Although on his day the horse had looked to come from the very top drawer, ultimately he had proved unable to win above Group Three level. The horse thus found himself retiring to Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire (which, ironically, is now home to a genuinely top-class Classic winner, the 2010 2,000 Guineas hero Makfi) in 2006 at a fee of 4,000 GBP. The horse shuttled thence to Lynward Park Stud in Western Australia – and in 2010 the decision was taken that he would remain there permanently.
The reason why Trade Fair did not return to the UK at the end of 2010 was that he had not come up with the required number of stakes performers in Europe, whatever that number might be. His first crop of juveniles in 2009 had contained no such horses, while when these horses had turned three in 2010 the only stakes form had been posted by Miss Starlight (an English-trained Group Three winner in Germany who had fetched merely 1,500 gns as a yearling) and the one-time Derby hope Fair Trade, who like his sire before him had not lived up to expectations (but who had finally managed to finish third in a Group Three race at Newmarket as an autumn three-year-old). One could justifiably argue that Trade Fair had done very well for a horse who had covered very few mares with pretensions to breeding stakes performers – but, absurdly, lack of opportunity does not seem to be regarded as an excuse in the modern world of superficial judgements and snap verdicts.
Last year Trade Fair came up with his first European Group winner when his second crop son Al Rep landed the Group Three Premio Parioli (Italy's version of the 2,000 Guineas) in Rome. Now, from his third crop, he has a Classic contender in Britain too, courtesy of the previously-ignored Moonstone Magic, who also boasts a pedigree in which 'black type' is scarce. Trade Fair is clearly capable of upgrading his mares – so Britain's loss is West Australia's gain. He is currently at Alwyn Park Stud (standing in association with Lynward Park Stud) and he can only be an asset to the racing and breeding scenes in the state. He has so far only been represented by one stakes performer in Perth (the Trevor Andrews-trained Absolute Pleasure, a place-getter in Perth's premier two-year-old race, the Karrakatta Plate, in 2010) but there will surely be many more in the fullness of time. And it wouldn't be a complete shock if he ultimately ranks as sire of a European Group One winner too.
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Hawkins struck out six without allowing a walk over four innings.
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The Eagles also defeated KC Elite, 11-1, on Wednesday. Heiland struck out nine while only allowing one run on two hits over five innings. Dowdell and Webb had three RBIs apiece.
Veritas improved to 12-9 after the back-to-back wins over KC Elite and YBC Baseball.
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As Nunavut turns 10, what are researchers learning about the changing territory, and how are they taking a different approach to science in the North?
Orcas are found in oceans the world over but one place they have generally avoided is the Arctic. Until now.
Preferring open water, the animals are advancing into Arctic waters like Hudson Bay, lured by a smorgasbord of seals and beluga whales made more accessible by the trend in longer ice-free summers. But this has created a problem for Inuit hunters who harvest the same prey and who worry that these killer whales are stealing their catch, which could ultimately alter their traditions.
In a project that illustrates how modern science is being done in Nunavut, researchers are now working with Inuit hunters to study orca encroachment. And it couldn't be more fitting, considering April 1 marks the 10th anniversary of Canada's newest territory.
His team began studying the orcas after discovering that sightings of the large predator in Hudson Bay had increased exponentially over the past few decades, suggesting climate change could rearrange the northern ecosystem and the lives of Inuit more swiftly than previously thought. Born of Inuit traditional knowledge and conducted partly to help Inuit manage the new species, the study is driven by Inuit needs, marking a new phase in northern science.
That southern scientists like Ferguson are learning from Inuit is not new, says Scot Nickels, senior science advisor with Canada's national Inuit organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) — Inuit have for decades shared their knowledge about the North — but formalizing that process and giving appropriate credit, is. Inuit-directed research, validating traditional knowledge and consulting Inuit before projects are designed and before results are broadcast are all priorities for ITK and their research partners, such as ArcticNet.
Over the past decade, scientists have also made great strides in gathering data, working through CFI-funded platforms, such as the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (or PEARL) on Ellesmere Island. Based on this wealth of new information, there is a clearer picture emerging of a territory in climactic transition and a people challenged by the twin burdens of global warming and modernization.
It is now known, for example, how rapidly glaciers are shrinking. But Martin Sharp, a glaciologist with the University of Alberta, is using satellite imagery and GPS sensors to track the changing dynamics of the Devon Ice Cap on Devon Island in an attempt to find out why.
He has determined that ice melting on top of the glacier forms small lakes that spill into crevasses until the water can force its way down to the rock bed. This can "lubricate" the glacier bed, causing the glacier to speed up and calve more icebergs into the ocean. So the size, number and location of melt water lakes and the distribution of crevasses help to control how fast the glacier wastes away, he says.
Sharp's research also extends to the ocean floor. While aboard the Amundsen in 2006, his colleagues mapped the seabed in front of the Belcher Glacier, which sits at the edge of the Devon Ice Cap, to help determine the past extent of the glacier and its rate of retreat. Through ship and land-based research, they've determined that the ice cap is wasting faster than it can grow through annual snowfall. Sea levels are rising because of shrinking ice caps, and Arctic Canada has the third largest amount of land ice after Greenland and Antarctica. What happens here can have global implications, Sharp says.
Perhaps most importantly, researchers have also been surveying the Inuit population to ascertain how their health and quality of life have been impacted by environmental and social change. The Amundsen twice served as a travelling clinic, visiting all of the Arctic's coastal communities, including those in Nunavut. The survey, which covered a range of wellness topics, from dental health to drug use, is expected to help Inuit and policy makers design more effective responses to health and social needs.
Ultimately, says Louis Fortier, ArcticNet hopes to distill data from its entire project roster to produce four Integrated Regional Impact Assessments which will cover Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. The assessments are expected to address every aspect of Canada's North, including ecosystems, society, tourism, economic development, fishing, seabed mapping, international shipping law, natural resource exploration, health, pollution and climate. A geographical digest of this magnitude has never been attempted, and although Fortier admits it is daunting, he hopes to have the first set of reports published by 2011.
What does the next decade hold for science in Nunavut? Researchers see a larger role for partnerships with industry. ArcticNet, for example, is pursuing private funding to help expand the Amundsen's research abilities without compromising scientific independence. Martin and Louis Fortier are currently finalizing a collaboration agreement with oil and gas companies to buy equipment, hire more students and share data.
With money that came from the International Polar Year drained, a bevy of new technology available, and the ongoing international dispute over Arctic sovereignty, it is crucial for Canadians to maintain scientific momentum and leadership, says Martin Fortier.


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