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Facebook Twitter Here are all of Wednesday’s Laois GAA results Home News Community In Pictures: Huge turnout as Laois athletics club celebrate 60 years NewsCommunity Pinterest A huge gathering of friends and founders celebrated the 60th anniversary of Ballyfin AC in the Deadman’s Inn on Saturday November 9.The club honoured members past and present who had contributed to its outstanding success down the decades.Frances Harney welcomed everybody and thanked all who had worked tirelessly on behalf of the club for so many years. She expressed her deep gratitude to the present committee for making the event happen.It was she said so important to recognise each individual contribution. Jimmy Finn in his summary of the sixty years touched on many of the benefits that Ballyfin AC hadbrought to the community.He paid tribute to the founder Felix Bennett and his team of Vinny Hogan, Mick Daly, Lar Fitzpatrick, Owen Heffernan, Sam Dunne, Jim Quinn, Joe Behan and Charlie O’Rourke who had the foresight to establish the club.Since 1959 some 3500 people have become a part of the Ballyfin AC story. It was a cold winters night in February 1959 that the club was officially established in the old Band Hall, close to the College entrance.In was the night Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash. Some of the original committee and athletes were present at the event, Mick Daly, Vinny Hogan, Mick Kelly, Mick Horan, Mick Goulding, Basil Broomfield, Ken Dunne, brothers Barney and Ger Dunne and Pat Scully.Unfortunately, a few were unable to attend and had extender their good wishes, most notably Fr Kevin O’Neill and Justin Treacy.From humble beginnings the club set out to build teams and raise the funds. One of the biggest early adventures was to get Brendan Boyer to perform at the Coliseum Ballroom in Portlaoise in 1960 which raised £300, a huge sum at the time.Richard Mulligan and josephine Carolan cutting the cake – Photo: Joe ConroyThe club had it first taste of success in winning the county novice in 1960 and 1965, and the county youths in 1961 and 1963. These teams comprised Mick Kelly, Charlie O’Rourke, Ken Dunne, Andy Lambe, Bob Wall, Aodh O’Neill, Pat Scully, Tom Browne, Sean Kelly, Sean Whelan, Sean Culleton, Mark Delaney, Tom Millar and the Dunne brothers Tony, Barney and Ger.In 1968 the club won its first county Intermediate title and in 1974 the Kirwan Cup for the county Senior cross country. These teams were led by the Scully brothers Pat, Donie, Noel and Liam, the Finn brothers, Richie, Tommy and Jimmy, the Dunne brothers Tony, Barney and Ger, Jimmy Hunston, Johnny Ryan, Pat Keenan, Sonny Nolan, Joe Delaney, Louis Troy, Pa Bowler and Dinny O’Connor.In the field events The Broomfield brothers Basil and Arthur together with Oliver Phelan, Kevin O’Neill, Jackie Keyes, Gerry Culleton and Seamus Reynolds were most prominent.Anne Keenan Buckley with Richard Mulligan – Photo: Joe ConroyBasil winning three Leinster Senior medals in 1966. Jim Keating became the club’s first international athlete after winning the Senior Colleges and National Javelin titles in 1968.Paddy Cotter, Lockey Delaney (RIP), Robert Stack, Paul Heslin and Paul Gannon were well known Champions from the club in the early 1970’s.The tradition of Javelin throwing was pronounced in the club with the likes of John Egan, Liam Harney, Harry Southern and John ‘Tonto’ Territt excelling at regional and national level. On the track Lockey Delany, Donal Cotter, Noel and Liam Scully, Liam Duggan, Jack Nolan, Noreen Ryan and the Keenan cousins Dahai, Jimmy and Paul all shone.Breda Davis, Francis Harney, Helen Coughlan, Colette O’Rourke, Julie Boyle – Photo: Joe ConroyEvery story has it’s roots somewhere, and Ballyfin AC was more rooted in its people than its place. The club was steeped in family heritage. In Ballyfin you can’t go far from a Fitzpatrick Family and the Dunne’s are everywhere, and almost all of them were part of the club at some stage.The club was a family of families: Phelans Downeys, Dunphys, Dowlings, Ryans, Kellys, O’Rourkes, O’Neills, O’Connors, Heffernans, Culletons, Lanhams, Conroys, Horans, Hogans, Hoobans, Duffs, Dalys, Nolans, Behans, Murphys, McSpaddens, Merediths, Rohans, Brennans, Crokes, Fingletons, Finlays, Finns, Goodes, Stacks, Scullys, Drennans, Inces and Meads.The club had strong connections in Portlaoise: Keenans, Allens, Jimmy Hunston, Conways, Tierneys, Fennellys, Cotters, Crokes, Bleachs, Conroys, Stephen Bland, Rose Keegan, Liam Duggan, Kennedys, Whites, Ciara Airds, Gannons, Goings, Dempseys, Dorans, Youngs, Bergins, O’Briens, Joey Brennan, Joe Ging.Group pic of Ballyfin Athletics Club volunteers – Photo Joe ConroyThe Heath connection with Ballyfin AC was always striking, going back to the founding of the club by Felix Bennett. Jackie Keyes and Andy Lambe’s family tradition followed on.The Troys, Booths, Cahills, Lawlors, McEvoys, Hylands, Lewis, Kellys and Treacys. There was also a big outside influence like – Brian Murphy, John Scully, Joe Cusack, Tony Conroy, Tom Blanche, Martin Deegan, Ian McCormack, Roibeard Millar, Des McKiernan, Ger Phelan, Michael Gygax, Michael Cryan, Pol O’Morchu, Tom O’Connor, Mark Delaney, Tom Millar and the Shreean family.Over the years the club moved base a bit and benefited from the generosity of many landowners for training and events. First was the Fitzpatrick in Cappinrush, then George Kerr’s in Ross.Louise Finlay, Jimmy Finn, Bridie Allen – Photo Joe ConroyThe club moved to an almost permanent base in Broomfield’s at Clonreher in the early 1960’s. However, the club had many ports of call like the Patrician College in Ballyfin where the club hosted the National Senior Cross-Country Championships in 1978.The club also had access to Scully’s land in Clonreher, the Conroy’s land in Cooltoran and Finlay’s in Clondouglas. The Heath community allowed full access to their commonage as did the Heath Golf club.The Portlaoise Rugby club also allowed the Ballyfin AC use of its facilities. In Ballyfin the Community Centre, the GAA club and Deadman’s Inn are valued amenities who always open their doors to the athletic club.The Female side always had a pronounced influence on the club. The 60th event would not have happened without the drive of Frances Harney, Colette O’Rourke, Breda Davis, Helen Coughlan and Julie Boyle.When Noreen Ryan (O’Connor) arrived with her cousin Jean Farrell and half of the Ballyfin Camogie team joined in 1968 the club was transformed.Among that group was Anne Dunne, Eileen Downey, Sadie Dunphy, Breda Lanham and Bridie Gorman. A few more like Marion Booth, Sadie Troy and Breda Kelly from the Heath and Sheila Finn made up the original cross country and track teams.Vincent Hogan, Basil Broomfield, Mick Daly, Mick Kelly, Arthur Broomfield – Photo Joe ConroyOver the years the club found many talented athletes, none more so than the legendary Anne Keenan Buckley. She brought huge honour and distinction on the club, beyond our wildest dreams.Having won 34 Senior International caps for Ireland, she is the fourth ranked of all Irish athletes. She also represented Ireland at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, represented Ireland at 9 World Cross- Country Championships, finishing 10th overall and winning a team silver medal with Sonia O’Sullivan.Moreover, as lightening has a habit of striking more than once, the club was fortunate to find a group of athletes who gave huge backing to Anne. Josephine Finlay was one of them and together with Anne they both represented Ireland for the first time in 1977.Jimmy Finn addressing the audience – Photo Joe ConroyThat group of athletes comprised Noleen Keenan, Michelle Finlay, Helen Bleach, Breda Allen, Stacia Finlay, Catherine Finlay, SheilaTierney, and Mary Troy.That team won the National Intermediate Cross-Country championship and a Leinster senior Championship. During the 1970s a few more females made their mark for the club, most notably Doreen Gowing and her sister Patricia, Jean Kennedy, Rose Keegan and Susan Dempsey. Later in the 1980’s and 1990’s the Fennelly sisters Emer and Paula, The Cahill sistersCaroline and Yvonne, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Geraldine Buggy, Anne McEvoy, Louise Lawlor, the Dunne sisters Mary and Deirdre and the Devoy sisters Noleen and Kay were all part of the success story.Basil Broomfield, Anne Keenan-Buckley, Arthur Broomfield – Photo Joe ConroyThe Legacy of that first female team success carried on for almost thirty years. Anne Keenan Buckley herself won so many big races at home and abroad. She won 21 county senior cross-country titles and her sister Una O’Neill finished second to her seven times.The club team won twenty team titles, including a run of 13 on the trot. Frances Harney was on most of these teams and others included Caroline Condron, Mary Flynn, Siobhan Culleton, Avril Byrne, Mary Loughman, Patricia Keenan, Mary Dunne and the O’Brien sisters.What is most striking about those times was the part the parents played in the club, Lilly Keenan, Louise Finlay, Bridie Allen, Magie Scully, Mary Doran and Ann Young and Kay Conroy were all very active in the background.Paul Keenan, Mick Kelly, Vincent Hogan – Photo Joe ConroyThe club also acknowledged the strong supportive network that had carried the club over many years including the Allen brothers Dan and Harry and the Keenan brothers Paul and Ciaran who were outstanding coaches.Talk of leading only leads in one direction, to John Scully, Mr athletics in county Laois. The club and county are indebted to John Scully and a succession of great leaders the county was lucky to have over the years.Pat Whelan and Pat Kelly of St Abbans AC, Mick Feely of Mountmellick AC, Eileen Hayes and Joe Walsh of Portlaoise AC and Martin McDonald of Ballyroan AC.Breda Davis, Arthur Broomfield – (Arthur presents flowers to Breda) – Photo Joe ConroyThe Club paid tribute to the families of bereaved past members over the years and paid a special tribute to Johnny Ryan, Jimmy Hunston and Joe Conway who epitomized the great nature andcharacter of the club.It’s when a sudden death occurs, like Geraldine Lewis (Buggy) this year that people appreciate the bond beneath the club.Ironically, late on the night of the event the club wasshocked to hear of the passing of Loughlin (Lockey) Delaney one of the club’s stalwarts in the 1970’s. Lockey was a sprinter and long Jump specialist of renown who won countless county titles and a Leinster championship medal over 100 yards.Arthur Broomfield presents flowers to Colette O’Rourke – Photo Joe ConroyOne of the most interesting historical aspects of the evening was the story of the Broomfield family and their contribution to the club. It was said that talking about Ballyfin without the Broomfieldfamily was like talking about Dublin without the Guinness family.The Broomfield brothers were central to everything the club achieved; they were so invested in it. Everything happened inBroomfield’s, meetings, training and events. The club had the run of their farm and the shed as a meeting place for 35 years which was amazing in retrospect.That is why the club took the opportunity to pay a special tribute to them. In recognition of that outstanding and valued contribution Anne Keenan Buckley made a presentation to Basil and Arthur on behalf of the club.Stacia Conlon presents flowers to Helen Coughlan – Photo Joe ConroyThe club also made an award to the founding members who were present. This will all form part of a long history of the club that is being recorded for publication.Photographer Joe Conroy was there on the night and he captured all of the brilliant photographs throughout this piece and below.Dan Allen presents flowers to Julie Boyle – Photo Joe ConroyHarry Allen presnts flowers to Francis Harney – Photo: Joe ConroySEE ALSO – Harry Allen presnts flowers to Francis Harney RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Twitter WhatsApp GAA Pinterest TAGSBallyfin ACThe Deadman’s In Pictures: Huge turnout as Laois athletics club celebrate 60 years Previous articleLaois TD gets assurances on new courthouse for LaoisNext articleLaois school set to host fundraising table quiz tonight Jimmy FinnJimmy Finn is a legend of the Laois athletics scene. As well as being a very prominent athlete himself, he has coached athletes across a variety of disciplines and around the world. 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The North Korean authorities have ordered the entire army into “combat mode,” a move interpreted as an attempt to tighten security and consolidate sentiment in response to Foal Eagle (FE), the annual military drills conducted by South Korea and the US, which began in early March.A source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK that following the order from Kim Jong Un, every last soldier– even if away on business, on leave, off-base for training, or even those with a recent death in the family–were ordered back to their units. The authorities have ordered the military police in each region to summon all soldiers back to their bases.“The 1st Corps was ordered to fully prepare for combat. In particular, they were instructed to move mechanized combat equipment to strategic areas, including artillery pieces and tanks that were housed underground,” he said.The 1st Corps is responsible for the defense of areas considered vulnerable due to their proximity to South Korea, including areas of North Hwanghae Province, South Hwanghae Province, and Kangwon Province. According to the source, combat equipment including cannons (except marine artillery shells), tanks, and armored vehicles, are normally stored in mines and are moved to strategic operational positions whenever combat readiness orders are handed down.“The Civilian Affairs Administrative Police Unit comprises soldiers located in the Panmunjom area and along the border with South Korea. With the new orders, they must stay in battle uniform at all times, and all cadres below the rank of the commander are prohibited from commuting from their homes. The atmosphere is very tense as the soldiers on watch-keeping duty are replaced by officers of higher ranks,” a source in North Pyongan Province said.“The authorities have told the troops to be ‘impervious to enemy provocation’ and the forward units are currently under a system of monitoring that requires immediate reporting. The Local Reserve Forces and the Worker-Peasant Red Guard (the largest civil defense force in North Korea) have been ordered to create fake base camps and cannons and deploy them in order to confuse satellite surveillance and complicate air strikes.”However, the combat readiness orders in response to the combined military drills by South Korea and the US each year are becoming less potent over time. Both sources reported that many soldiers are loathe to change their routine. During such times, some soldiers find ways to desert their posts, either from weariness of what they see as futile efforts or in search of food. News By Choi Song Min – 2017.03.14 9:13pm NewsEconomy SHARE Proposal to shift “general markets” to “specialized markets” finds little support among N. Korean leaders
CFA Institute members are optimistic that 2013 will be a good year for global equity markets, according to the Charlottesville, Va.-based Institute’s annual Global Market Sentiment Survey. Survey results were released on Monday. Overall, survey respondents believe that the global economy will expand by 40% in the coming year. Only 20% of those surveyed believe the economy will contract, which is down from 29% in last year’s survey. Will exuberant market sentiment last? Facebook LinkedIn Twitter CFA members are particularly upbeat about global equity markets in 2013. Fifty per cent of respondents believe equities will outperform all other asset classes, such as, bonds, cash, commodities and precious metals. Last year, only 41% of participants were as optimistic about equity markets. Of those surveyed, 32% believe the U.S. equity market will provide the best investment opportunity. China and Brazil came in second and third respectively (17% and 10%). Of course, the global economy will not be without risks in 2013. Thirty-seven per cent of survey respondents believe the European sovereign debt crisis is the biggest risk to economic growth next year. Weak economic conditions are ranked second at 31%. Now in its second year, the survey covered topics ranging from members’ expectations for the global economy and problems facing the financial services industry. The survey was sent out to 115,796 CFA members worldwide with a 6% response rate. In Canada the survey was sent out to 14,092 Canadian members and 839 or 6% responded. The survey was conducted online from Oct. 30, 2012 to Nov. 13, 2012. Share this article and your comments with peers on social media Keywords Investment strategiesCompanies CFA Institute How to talk to clients about GameStop Geographical diversification is harder to come by, report says Fiona Collie Related news
RelatedAppointment of Cave Hill Campus Principal Renewed RelatedAppointment of Cave Hill Campus Principal Renewed FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail The Council of the University of the West Indies, meeting in Extraordinary session on Thursday, November 9th at the Mona Campus, agreed to renew the appointment of Professor Hilary Beckles as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Cave Hill Campus for a further five-year period, when his current term ends July 31, 2007.In putting forward the recommendation to Council, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor E. Nigel Harris, pointed to Professor Beckles’ visionary leadership and his ability to forge mutually beneficial partnerships with the private sector in Barbados as well as with the Government. His successful efforts in advancing the position of the University of the West Indies in the region and beyond, through the promotion of cricket and the arts, have been exemplary.Council had no hesitation in acceding to the Vice-Chancellor’s recommendation to have the appointment renewed. Professor Beckles will therefore continue as Principal of the Cave Hill Campus until July 31, 2012. RelatedAppointment of Cave Hill Campus Principal Renewed
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3 Questions: Artificial intelligence for health care equity Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe potential of artificial intelligence to bring equity in health care has spurred significant research efforts. Racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities have traditionally afflicted health care systems in ways that are difficult to detect and quantify. New AI technologies, however, are providing a platform for change.Regina Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI and Health and faculty co-lead of AI for the MIT Jameel Clinic; Fotini Christia, professor of political science and director of the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center; and Collin Stultz, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital – discuss here the role of AI in equitable health care, current solutions, and policy implications. The three are co-chairs of the AI for Healthcare Equity Conference, taking place April 12.Q: How can AI help address racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities in health-care systems?Stultz: Many factors contribute to economic disparities in health care systems. For one, there is little doubt that inherent human bias contributes to disparate health outcomes in marginalized populations. Although bias is an inescapable part of the human psyche, it is insidious, pervasive, and hard to detect. Individuals, in fact, are notoriously poor at detecting preexisting bias in their own perception of the world – a fact that has driven the development of implicit association tests that allow one to understand how underlying bias can affect decision-making.AI provides a platform for the development of methods that can make personalized medicine a reality, thereby ensuring that clinical decisions are made objectively with the goal of minimizing adverse outcomes across different populations. Machine learning, in particular, describes a set of methods that help computers learn from data. In principle, these methods can offer unbiased predictions that are based only on objective analyses of the underlying data.Unfortunately, however, bias not only affects how individuals perceive the world around them, it also influences the datasets we use to build models. Observational datasets that store patient features and outcomes often reflect the underlying bias of health care providers; e.g., certain treatments may be preferentially offered to those who have high socioeconomic status. In short, algorithms can inherit our own biases. Making personalized medicine a reality is therefore predicated on our ability to develop and deploy unbiased tools that learn the patient-specific decisions from observational clinical data. Central to the success of this endeavor is the development of methods that can identify algorithmic bias and suggest mitigation strategies when bias is identified.Informed, objective, and patient-specific clinical decisions are the future of modern clinical care. Machine learning will go a long way to making this a reality – achieving data-driven clinical insights devoid of implicit prejudice that can influence health-care decisions.Q: What are some current AI solutions being developed in this space?Barzilay: In most cases, biased predictions can be attributed to distributional properties of the training data. For instance, when some population is underrepresented in the training data, the resulting classifier is likely to underperform on this group. By default, models are optimized for the overall performance, thus inadvertently preferring to fit the majority class, at the expense of the rest. If we are aware of such minority groups in the data, we have multiple means to steer our learning algorithm towards fair behavior. For example, we can modify the learning objective where we enforce consistent accuracy across different groups, or reweigh the significance of training examples, amplifying “the voice” of the minority group.Another common source of bias relates to “nuisance variations” where classification labels exhibit idiosyncratic correlations with some input features which are dataset-specific and are unlikely to generalize. In one infamous dataset with such property, health status of patients with the same medical history depended on their race. This bias was an unfortunate artifact of the way training data was constructed, but it resulted in systematic discrimination of Black patients. If such biases are known beforehand, we can mitigate their effect by forcing the model to reduce the effect of such attributes. In many cases though, biases of our training data are unknown. It is safe to assume that the environment in which the model will be applied is likely to exhibit some distributional divergence from the training data. To improve a model’s tolerance to such shifts, a number of approaches (like invariant risk minimization) explicitly train the model to robustly generalize to new environments.However, we should be aware that algorithms are not magic wands that can correct all wrongs in messy, real-world training data. This is especially true when we are not aware of the peculiarity of a specific dataset. The latter scenario is unfortunately common in the health care domain where data curation and machine learning are often performed by different teams. These “hidden” biases have already resulted in deployed AI tools that systematically err on certain populations (like the model described above). In such cases, it is essential to provide physicians with tools that enable them to understand the rationale behind model predictions and detect biased predictions as soon as possible. A large body of work in machine learning is dedicated today to developing transparent models that can communicate their internal reasoning to users. At this point, our understanding of what types of rationales are particularly useful for doctors is limited, since AI tools are not yet part of routine medical practice. Therefore, one of the key goals of MIT’s Jameel Clinic is to deploy clinical AI algorithms in hospitals around the world and empirically study their performance in different populations and clinical settings. This data will inform the development of the next generation of self-explainable and fair AI tools.Q: What are the policy implications for government agencies and the industry of more equitable AI for health care?Christia: The use of AI in health care is now a reality and for government agencies and the industry to reap the benefits of a more equitable AI for health care, they need to create an AI ecosystem. They have to work together closely and engage with clinicians and patients to prioritize the quality of the AI tools that get employed in this space, making sure they are safe and ready for prime-time. This means that AI tools that get deployed have to be well-tested and to lead to improvements in both clinician capacity and patient experience.To that effect, government and industry players need to think about educational campaigns that inform health practitioners of the importance of specific AI interventions in complementing and augmenting their work to address equity. Beyond clinicians, there also has to be a focus on building confidence with minority patients that the introduction of these AI tools will result in overall better and more equitable care. It is particularly important to also be transparent about what the use of AI in health means for the individual patient, as well as assuage data privacy concerns of patients from minority populations who often lack trust in a “well-intentioned” health care system, given historical transgressions against them.In the regulatory realm, government agencies would need to put together a framework that would allow them to have clarity over AI funding and liability with the industry and health care professionals so the highest-quality AI tools get deployed while also minimizing the associated risks for clinicians and patients using them. Regulations would need to make clear that the clinicians are not fully outsourcing their responsibility to the machine and outline the levels of professional accountability for their patients’ health. Working closely with the industry, clinicians and patients, government agencies would also have to monitor through data and patient experience the actual effectiveness of AI tools in addressing health care disparities on the ground, and be attuned to improving them. /University Release. This material comes from the originating organization and may be of a point-in-time nature, edited for clarity, style and length. View in full here. Why?Well, unlike many news organisations, we have no sponsors, no corporate or ideological interests. We don’t put up a paywall – we believe in free access to information of public interest. Media ownership in Australia is one of the most concentrated in the world (Learn more). 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Vancouver defense attorney files lawsuit against Washington State Patrol over June I-5 closure for protestPosted by ClarkCountyToday.comDate: Friday, August 28, 2020in: Newsshare 0 The suit alleges the agency facilitated an illegal mass gatheringVANCOUVER — D. Angus Lee, a Vancouver Criminal defense and civil rights attorney, filed a lawsuit against Washington State Patrol (WSP) for what he alleges was the facilitation of a mass gathering on June 19, during a Black Lives Matter protest that shutdown Interstate 5.
Hundreds of protestors marched onto Interstate 5 from Esther Short Park on June 19. WSP and WSDOT closed the freeway as a result. Photo by Jacob GrannemanD. Angus Lee has filed a suit against the Washington State Patrol. Click to view PDF.The suit claims that by facilitating the closure of the federal freeway, WSP facilitated a mass gathering in violation of Gov. Jay Inslee’s proclamation to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In the suit, Lee seeks a court injunction against WSP to prevent the agency from duplicating any similar action in the future.According to an email complaint from WSP Captain Jason Linn to WSP Chief John Batiste, the day before the gathering, WSP’s involvement with the mass gathering would involve closing Interstate 5 if needed for the gathering. The complaint also alleges that the day before the mass gathering, WSP circulated a 15-page action plan entitled “Interstate 5 Protest Closure Action Plan.’’Interstate 5 Protest Closure Action Plan. Click to view PDF.“It is simply shocking that the WSP thinks it has the authority to actively and openly facilitate any violation of an emergency proclamation and state law, let alone a mass violation,” Lee said in an email release. “No matter how noble the cause of any gathering may be, it is simply not up to the WSP to recklessly put the public health of the community at risk by actively facilitating a mass gathering in violation of State law.”Facilitation of gatherings by the WSP, in violation of Gov. Inslee’s Proclamation 20.25 through 20-25.7, would cause real and lasting harm to the community as it may spread COVID-19, Lee said. The attorney also pointed out that the alleged offense could be considered a criminal violation by way of RCW 43.06.220. On the day of the protest, hundreds of people moved south from Esther Short Park in Vancouver onto the southbound side of the interstate by way of the Washington Street on-ramp. The crowd was accompanied by three civilian vehicles behind as a barricade. WSP and WSDOT closed the freeway with signage and patrol vehicles north of the location. Lee was recently involved in the case against a Battle Ground business owner who opened in defiance of the local and statewide restrictions, as the defendant’s legal counsel. Also read: Protesters block traffic on Interstate Bridge UPDATED: Vancouver dropping charges against pet groomer who opened in Phase 1AdvertisementThis is placeholder textTags:Clark CountyLatestVancouvershare 0 Previous : City of Battle Ground engaged with community in development of 2021 budget Next : Evergreen Public Schools reaches deal with teachers for online instructionAdvertisementThis is placeholder text
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CU Boulder professor of geological sciences and study co-author Gifford Miller at Barnes Ice Cap Additional photos of the Barnes Ice Cap Share Share via TwitterShare via FacebookShare via LinkedInShare via E-mail Published: March 20, 2017 • By Jim Scott Watch: CU Boulder professor and study co-author Gifford Miller walks the margins of melting glaciers on rugged Baffin Island. 
The last piece of the ice sheet that once blanketed much of North America is doomed to disappear in the next several centuries, says a new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and the University of Colorado Boulder.The Barnes Ice Cap, a Delaware-sized feature on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, is melting at a rapid pace, driven by increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have elevated Arctic temperatures. The ice cap, while still 500 meters thick, is slated to melt in about 300 years under business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions.The results provide compelling evidence that the current level of warming is almost unheard of in the past 2.5 million years, according to the authors. Only three times at most in that period has the Barnes Ice Cap been so small, a study of isotopes created by cosmic rays that were trapped in rocks around the Barnes Ice Cap indicated.”This is the disappearance of a feature from the last glacial age, which would have probably survived without anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions,” said Adrien Gilbert, a glaciologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in Canada and lead author of the new study published online today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.While the melting of the Barnes Ice Cap will likely have negligible effects on sea-level rise, its end could herald the eventual dissolution of the larger ice sheets like Greenland and Antarctica, said CU Boulder Professor Gifford Miller, a study co-author.”I think the disappearance of the Barnes Ice Cap would be just a scientific curiosity if it were not so unusual,” said Miller, the associate director of CU Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) who has conducted research on Baffin Island annually for the past five decades. “One implication derived from our results is that significant parts of the southern Greenland Ice Sheet also may be at risk of melting as the Arctic continues to warm.”Elevated sea rise created by a melting Greenland would automatically cause the Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose dimensions are controlled by sea level, to also shrink in size, Miller said.The Barnes Ice Cap is part of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that has covered millions of square miles of North America episodically since the start of Quaternary Period roughly 2.5 million years ago. The ice sheet grew and shrank over time as Earth went through various climate cycles, and the ice was a mile thick at present-day Chicago about 20,000 years ago. It started receding substantially around 14,000 years ago when Earth slipped out of its last ice age.The ice cap stabilized about 2,000 years ago until the effects of the recent warming caught up with it. Miller was conducting research on Baffin Island in 2009 when he realized the ice cap had shrunk noticeably as compared to images from a few decades earlier. He recruited Gilbert and Gwenn Flowers from Simon Fraser to develop a model of how the ice cap might behave in the future.In the new study, the researchers used their model to estimate when the ice cap would disappear under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. They project that under all future emission scenarios the ice cap will be gone within 200 to 500 years. For a moderate emissions scenario that assumes Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions will peak around the year 2040, they project the ice cap to be gone in 300 years.”The geological data is pretty clear that the Barnes Ice Cap almost never disappears in the interglacial times,” Miller said. “The fact that it’s disappearing now says we’re really outside of what we’ve experienced in 2.5-million-year interval. We are entering a new climate state.”The Barnes Ice Cap is like a canary in a coal mine, said Miller, who also is a professor in CU Boulder’s Department of Geological Sciences. Even if humans stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the ice cap would still disappear in the next few centuries.In 2010, the project received a boost from Waleed Abdalati, current director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a joint venture of CU Boulder and NOAA, who was NASA’s chief scientist at the time. Abdalati supported the flight of a NASA plane monitoring ice loss in the Arctic to revisit the Barnes Ice Cap.In addition to measuring changes in the ice cap’s height, researchers used ice-penetrating radar aboard the aircraft to reveal its hidden, sub-glacial topography. The measurements were key for the computer model subsequently developed by Gilbert and Flowers to predict the evolution of the Barnes Ice Cap. Categories:EnvironmentNews Headlines Listen: CU Boulder professor and study co-author Gifford Miller talks about the Barnes Ice Cap melting. 
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