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SONG, L.T.; JIANG, X.Y.; TANG, K.W. y MIAO, J. B.. Study on inclusion interaction of ibuprofen with Β-cyclodextrin derivatives. Lat. Am. appl. res. [online]. 2011, vol.41, n.2, pp.147-151. ISSN 0327-0793.
The inclusion interaction of ibuprofen with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD), hydroxyethyl-β-cyclodextrin (HE-β-CD) and methyl-β-cyclodextrin (Me-β-CD) was investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy. Experimental conditions affecting the inclusion process, such as host molecule, HP-β-CD concentration and pH, were discussed in detail. The results suggested the formation of inclusion complexes with a stoichiometric ratio of 1:1 and HP-β-CD was more suitable to include neutral ibuprofen molecule. In addition, a phase solubility study was performed by mixing an excess amount of ibuprofen with aqueous solution containing increasing amount of β-CDs using UV-vis. The results indicated that the solubility of ibuprofen was increased by inclusion with β-CD derivatives, and HP-β-CD was most efficient among the three β-CD derivatives. Moreover, stable solid inclusion complexes were established and characterized by DSC.
Palabras clave : Ibuprofen; β-CD Derivatives; Inclusion Complex; Fluorescence Spectroscopy.


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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Sens Not Alone In Arena Fails
This is what the scoreboard inside the Marine Midland Arena (now the First Niagara Centre, home of the Buffalo Sabres) looked like on November 16, 1996 after it fell from the rafters not long after the Sabres had finished practice for the day. Luckily no one was killed.
Cries for a new scoreboard have reached fever pitch in Ottawa, especially with the All-Star game in the building this year and early problems with the clock which has crapped out in at least two home games so far. It was basically inoperable for much of the third period in last night's game against Columbus and rink announcer Stuntman Stu had to keep announcing how much time was left. Yet the Senators organization refuse to say if and when a new one will be purchased and installed, leaving them open to all the wisecracks they deserve.
If they have concrete plans to replace it, why not just tell the fans that? They'll be much more patient and understanding if they know a new one is on the way. Right now, it's a closely guarded secret and I can't fathom why.
Meanwhile, fans grasp at made-up rumours and columnists take pot shots at the organization. It's a relatively small issue that is getting blown out of proportion and the team let it get that way by being more secretive than the people in charge of the Winnipeg Jets, who operate that club more like a cult than a pro sports franchise.
But at least the Senators eschew gimmicks like oil derrick's, which got stuck dangling over the Edmonton Oilers bench during a game last week and hung there during game action.
Oilers defenseman Ryan Whitney talked to Postmedia reporter Joanne Ireland and said "That was like a scene out of a movie. Like Final Destination."
Luckily for the Senators, they have also never had a mascot set himself on fire in front of thousands of horrified children. So they have that going for them.
Also, this has never happened:
Can anyone remember other arena/stadium mishaps? Let us know.
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- Blood Red Army said...
I swear that Ducks' mishap inspired this:
- October 23, 2011 at 1:32 PM
The scoreboard is an embarassment.
MEndes has a tongue-in-cheek column, "Spezza for a scoreboard" and I was half-inclined to do the trade. Get Spezza's 7 million off the boaks, use it for a HD/3-D scoreboard, fall in the standings and draft a dynamic centre that will be paid on the cheap for 3 years, then a little more money, then a little more but that you can trade.
Stuck with Spezza for the foreseeable future, however...but he's producing points against bad teams, so that's something (check the stat line, one point iirc against Philly, none against WSH, few if any against COL, multi-point against WPG and CLB). Cherry picking, thy name is Spezza.
- October 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Dome has had a piece fall off the roof. And what about olympic stadium in Montreal?
- October 23, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Cherry picking, thy name is Spezza.
Wow, if stupidity were a crime, I suspect more than half the people of Ottawa would be serving life sentences.
- October 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- The Dutch Treat said...
"Stuck with Spezza for the foreseeable future, however...but he's producing points against bad teams, so that's something (check the stat line, one point iirc against Philly, none against WSH, few if any against COL, multi-point against WPG and CLB). Cherry picking, thy name is Spezza."
I actually got dumber reading this...
- October 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM
- Adam said...
Hey, I live in Toronto, so rarely get to watch games in Ottawa.
Can you explain exactly what's wrong with the current scoreboard (screen failure, aside)? Is it because the screen completely fails, or is more than that? If it's just the failures, then I would think that they could fix that more cheaply than replacement.
- October 24, 2011 at 5:01 PM
- Jeremy Milks said...
Adam, it's the age of the board, the small non-HD video screens, the fact it barely works and much nicer boards across the league that Ottawa fans look at with envy. Even the team has admitted the board is terrible and most believe a new one will be installed before the All-Star game but that's not official yet.
- October 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM
- Adam said...
Cool. Thanks for the background, Jeremy.
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Don Taffner Jr BAFTA New York Trustee and long time supporter was elected to the BAFTA Council In the recent Sector and Council Elections. The Board of BAFTA New York congratulates Don Junior and looks forward to continuing the long and close relationship between DLT and BAFTA New York and with the extended DLT family.
About Don Taffner Jr
Donald Taffner, Jr grew up in the television industry learning how to read a ratings book at the age of 9. But that should be no surprise given he is the son of Don Taffner, the Emmy award winning founder of DLT Entertainment Ltd.
While not playing soccer, Don was a math major in College but quickly switched to an international business major anticipating that is where the future of television was headed. After attending "graduate school" working in the DLT Entertainment mailroom, he lived in Dublin, Ireland for a year to set up Emerald City Productions, DLT Entertainment's television animation studio.
Upon his return to America he founded a new sales division at DLT focusing exclusively on local public television stations. Within a year these sales to these stations, which normally amounted to $100,000 a year, were exceeding $1,000,000. He was instrumental; in the development of a yearly package of first run drama programs to the Program Resources Group, a group of PBS stations that overlap with the major PBS station in their market and have a unique need for first run programming. KAVANAGH QC, RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES, TAGGART, and McCALLUM are a few of the shows sold to this group of stations as well as other PBS stations.
Today, DLT's public television sales division is the leading independent supplier of programming to these stations featuring shows from Fremantle, ITV Global Entertainment and many other independent producers and distributors. A testament to this division's success is the choice by stations of a package of DLT programs rather than a PBS package to fill the hole in the schedules created when MYSTERY! was put on hiatus several years ago.
In the years that followed, US cable, US Home Video, US syndication and US Development fell under Don's direction. UK programs RUSS ABBOTT, THE WANDERER, and a package of HOLLYWOOD MEN/WOMEN/KIDS, are of few of the shows successfully launched in US syndication by Don. Later, he made record sales of THREES COMPANY (one of the original transatlantic formats based upon UK show MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE) and CINEMA EUROPE in cable. Today, he oversees worldwide sales and development, personally focusing on network production in The US and UK.
Don looks forward to the challenge carrying forward the legacy of his father who was responsible for introducing and selling into the US British programs as THE WORLD AT WAR, HOLLYWOOD, RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY and BENNY HILL, and is particularly known for the successful transfer of British programs into US television hit series such as THREE'S COMPANY (from the UK production, MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE) and TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT (whose UK original was KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY).
The UK's most popular sitcom MY FAMILY, starring Robert Lindsey and Zoe Wanamaker, was a great first step in meeting that challenge. It was Don's vision to bring an established US "showrunner" to the UK to produce a show in a modified US style with a table of writers. Today 127 episodes have been produced over 11 series. Similar projects are at various stages of development at other UK broadcasters
He also was Executive Producer of AS TIME GOES BY, starring Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, as well as two Reunion Specials both produced in association with DLT's sister company, The Theatre Of Comedy (owner of London's Shaftesbury theatre), was also under his stewardship.
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Failure is the new business and innovation buzzword. Magazine articles, consultants and even professors are encouraging everyone to "learn to fail."
Their intent is to break the hardwiring in our culture that trains us to strive for success and perfection because they believe this limits our appetite for taking risk. They hold up poor Thomas Edison as a famous failure and use Winston Churchill's quote "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" as support for their mantra. The failure zealots celebrate failure and encourage everyone to not just fail, but fail a lot.
We are one of the few dissenting voices in the crowd and we are blowing the whistle to say that this has gone too far. We would argue that this overblown trendy topic not only has its semantics wrong but the ideology is off the mark as well. Much like the "all of the kids get an award" approach, encouraging and supporting failure diffuses the competitive drive and the tenacity required to take it all of the way to the finish line.
This must not be confused with creative thinking without restrictions. Experimentation and the proverbial sandbox is a safe zone. There are no wrong answers for ideas in this realm until they are stress tested and selected to go to market. If one idea or thesis generated as part of this process doesn't generate wild success should it be classified as a failure? No. The word failure insinuates a finite event with an end point. Instead think of this as a useful iteration, a necessary part of the evolution taking place for ultimate market success. It is merely information to take back to the sandbox.
Perhaps, as a culture we have become less tenacious and more risk averse. Maybe we lack the fortitude of previous generations of American inventors and entrepreneurs. We are a culture of instant gratification, reaping the benefits of our ancestor's innovations achieved through true ingenuity and resilience. As a whole, we have become a nation of wealth preservation rather than wealth generation. Our nation's success has made us lazy and intolerant of a little adversity. The dot-com era did a great disservice by instilling the notion that overnight success is the norm.
The failure cheerleaders want you to get off the bench, get in the game and try. We want more for you – stay at it until you win.
Please don't strive for failure. Why start with a negative outcome in mind? Really, what we need is a failure is not an option mind-set – solve problems by sticking with it and trying new things. Be open and nimble. If one approach doesn't work it is not a failure, it is just an iteration on what will soon be a solution. The trick is to stay in constant motion- recognize what works and what doesn't quickly and change course. In the entrepreneurial world, it is often the second patent that is the most valuable. The first gets the ball rolling but the second holds the break through.
Thomas Edison didn't use the term failure for his 10,000 attempts to invent the light bulb. He described them simply as 10,000 things he tried that didn't work. It's not failure it is progress.
Jocelyn Atkinson and Michael Graber run the Southern Growth Studio, a strategic growth firm based in Memphis. Visit www.southerngrowthstudio.com to learn more.


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The port said railroad design and construction with a focus on rail-related structures such as bridges are Steffensmeier's specialties and he has an extensive background in maintenance, permitting, project management and value-added engineering, all of which will benefit the port's efforts in several areas.
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Lying on the Employment Resume
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Ms. Morin remarked, "My inclination is that knowingly using this service would amount to fraud by the employee if the employer could prove that it hired employee because of some of the fabricated information and then suffered some pecuniary detriment as a result of its reliance on the false information – then the employer could recoup the salary/wages it paid you, plus any other damages it sustained – even punitive. Likely though, the employer would probably just fire the employee, and give a terrible reference."
CareerExcuse does take care to anticipate those legal types of questions, though. Here's an excerpt from their FAQ:
Is misinformation on a resume illegal? No. Since a resume is not a legal document, it is not illegal to misrepresent on a resume.
Can I get caught and fired? We can't guarantee that you won't and not liable if you do. If you get the job in the first place… we did our part. It's up to you to act responsible after you get the job.
You make any guarantees or promises? We can't guarantee you a job. But, we do guarantee the best outsourced references at the best price anywhere, and we will do our best to help you get what you want….a job!
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Falsifying your work experience could, however, almost certainly get you fired, not to mention the fact that your lack of experience might lead to incompetence at a new job that would be telling and risky in and of itself.
We researched the matter and came up with a 2001 legal study on lying on the employment resume, which stated:
The study concludes that it is illegal to commit résumé fraud only if the job seeker (1) is claiming an educational credential from a "diploma mill," a bogus institution and (2) is using the résumé in a state that has enacted legislation to discourage the activities of these schools. However, an employer may be within its legal rights to terminate an employment relationship based upon misrepresentation of qualifications, depending upon the state and the nature of the falsification.
According to the study, 11 states have legislation in place to discourage diploma mills. The same study cites a cautionary tale called Sarvis v. Vermont State Colleges, a case decided by the Vermont Supreme Court in 2001. Excerpt follows:
The defendant in this case, Robert Sarvis, was an adjunct professor of the Community College of Vermont. In his application for employment, Sarvis misrepresented his prior business experience and also stated that he was particularly qualified to teach "business law and business ethics" (Sarvis, 2001). In fact, prior to commencing his employment in Vermont, Sarvis had served more than three years at the Allenwood prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He had been convicted of five counts of bank fraud, sentenced to serve 46 months in prison, and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution to five banks. None of these details were described in his résumé submitted to the Community College of Vermont.
Only after Sarvis's probation officer alerted College authorities concerning the criminal history did they learn of their employee's past conduct. The College immediately terminated Sarvis's employment. He responded by suing the College, claiming breach of contract and wrongful termination. In its ruling, the Vermont Supreme Court decided in favor of the College, stating that "We have held that dishonesty can provide reasonable grounds for a just cause termination" (Sarvis, 2001).
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We interviewed Norma Stein, the Vice President of HR at SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, to get an insider's take from the other side of the interviewing table.


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wait... the poll is titled "understand japanese music" but the question is asking if I'm japanese.... those are two completely different things.
No, I'm not japanese nor a japanese citizen. My wife is an american of japanese ancestry but speaks it very poorly. Her primary language is English.
I can understand, read, and write japanese but rather slowly. I'm learning it as are my two teenage sons.
I can pick up about every third word in a japanese pop tune if the singers are clearly enunciating. I have to translate the lyrics off the liner notes for the rest.
A lot of japanese groups throw enough english words to kind of get it... plus the grammar of japanese lyrics is often more poetic than grammatically correct.
When I listen to japanese music (or any foreign music) the first thing I listen for is a nice beat, good instrumentals, and quality singing voices. Next is the mood the song evokes. If it still has my ear, I'll figure out the lyrics.
I have a fair amount of music from other countries but most of my import music is from Japan just because I find the culture interesting.
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It's more difficult if I haven't seen a song in karaoke form, but I can sometimes understand somewhat. Depends on who is singing too; Ayumi Hamasaki or Shakalabbits are harder for me to understand than, let's say Kotoko or 175R. Actually, who cares what they sing, as long as it sounds good and you can sing along
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Someday I WILL learn Japanese and so I can read original Japanese manga, and can understand anime without pauzing for the subs, and can sing along [well it would be more like shouting or reading] with every word they sing.
But for now, I listen to the beats and the emotions attached to it.
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hmm no I can't speak Japanese, but then how many people can understand the singing that sometimes turns up in classical music? You don't need to understand the language to enjoy the music. Considering how much I despise pop music, I would probably hate j-pop and anime music too if I could understand the lyrics so my ignorance is probably a good thing
EDIT: oh and no I'm not Japanese, I'm White British. Well I'm half French / half Danish technically but thats a long boring story...
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^ but tbh i think j pop probably have more meaning in the lyrics than normal english pop...
nope but im chinese...close but no cookie tho ive been seriously considering taking jap as my 3rd fluent language tho...only trouble is trying to find courses
well having to listen to the same old english pop tunes for so many years i find j pop refreshing and i love it even tho i hardly understand
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I love Japanese music . . . even though I have no clue what they are saying It sounds so good! Like the Intros the G-Wing . . . love the music . . . no idea what they are saying though . . . it kinda makes it more deep to me because I don't fully understand the song because I can't understand the lyrics of course . . . I like it anyway lol
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I'm Portuguese and although i do know some japanese, idepend mostly of online translations. But that dosn't keep me from loving japanese music. The lyric of a song is important inthat it is the direct message but if you don't know what it's being said, it shouldn't stop you from enjoying all the other layers of a song.
For example, Gabriela Robin's lyrics don't meen anything but without her vocals it just wouldn't be the same. I get a lot of grief from my friends for hearing j-pop and anime music but i can't live without it.
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At a special meeting in The Braid last night, Thursday, Council struck a district domestic rate of 0.3820 pence (a rise of 1.65%) and a non-domestic rate of 27.6543 pence (a rise of 1.65%) for the year ahead.
Proposing the new district rate, Cllr Tommy Nicholl said: "The Council has minimised this year's increase through a comprehensive review of activities and has delivered targeted efficiences without compromising services to ratepayers.
"A rate increase significantly beneath the current rate of inflation has been delivered whilst Council has absorbed a number of unavoidable increases in costs."
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'No-snow mayhem – In the valley of the pink fluffy bunnies' is the name of the special show for kids starting on 30 November 2013 at the Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin. This lavish production tells the story of two children searching for snow in the valley of pink fluffy bunnies – a quest that is as exciting as it is challenging. Audiences have until 31 January 2014 to discover how this family extravaganza ends. We can let you in on a little secret though: for their happy ending, Germany's biggest cast of children and young performers conjure up an incredible world of snow. Great fun for all the family!
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That's the full text of the bill. Section 504 if you want to look it up. It reauthorizes there Clinton era early retirement system. 15 years, 35% pay. I'm not sure on the other benefits.
As of now it is authorized until 2018. Per Congress atleast. I'm not sure the DoD has signed off on it yet.In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
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snoop.daub writes: R.A. Dickey, pitcher for the New York Mets, has been in the news this week after two dominant pitching performances in a row, holding opponents to one hit in each of the games for the first time since Dave Stieb did it in 1988. He has taken over as the league's only knuckleball pitcher after Tim Wakefield retired last season. But just what is it about the knuckleball that makes it hard to hit? Conventional wisdom has it that the lack of spin on the knuckleball causes it to move in completely unpredictable ways, even changing directions in mid-flight. In the last few years, there has been a lot of good science done to understand baseball pitch trajectories, and a few months ago Prof. Alan M. Nathan showed that knuckleballs aren't really so different from other pitches. It turns out that the same 9-parameter equation that can be used to describe other pitch trajectories applies just as well to the knuckleball. The difference appears to be that, like in a chaotic system, knuckleballs depend sensitively on the initial conditions, so that small changes can cause randomly different forces at the start of the pitch which determine the resultant trajectory. Much of this and similar work depends on the Pitchf/x tool, which has recorded the complete trajectory, spin angle and spin rate of every MLB pitch since 2007! Baseball really does have the best sports stats geeks.


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In addition to the general storyline, and while plotting in detail, and writing the first two weeks of scripts, the Lowell story has emerged as a most important reflection of the stories of the divorce courts, the actions taken by either husbands or wives for separate maintenance - the stories of children from broken homes. Divorce statistics show the rise in the percentage of separation between husbands and wives, but they do not give the stories behind the statistics. Incompatibility, financial insecurity and family interferences are reasons usually given for the increase in divorce and separation. What lies behind these three reasons?
The Lowell family cannot latch on to the financial insecurity, cannot use as a reason for the separation family interference, at least not at this point - and Jim Lowell did not leave his wife because of another woman. Jim and Claire Lowell have without knowing it been incompatible, and Jim without really knowing it has never been in love with his wife. The second five scripts give a very definite indication of what happened to Jim Lowell, not after he married Claire, but for a long time before he married her.
For so long, in practically every medium of entertainment, has the predatory woman been used - mother, wife, sister - to show the female influence on the male. Seldom, except in the nighttime field, has a man been portrayed who is responsible for the tragedies of his children. A classic example of course is Mr. Barrett of Barretts of Wimpole Street. Mt. Lowell is Mr. Barrett in Twentieth century garb.
Not infrequently does the male believe that only thru a son can he hope to perpetuate his name, his work, his very self. Such a man is James Lowell, Senior. Because of this father we know the younger Mr. Lowell. Because of this father Jim is an attorney, Jim married Claire, Jim lived with his wife for fifteen years. Lived? Hardly. In back of his mind he was waiting for the day when a daughter whom he loves devotedly, would meet a man of her choice; then he, Jim, would be free to really live.
Should Claire be blamed for what has happened? Hardly. She's a victim of circumstances, the victim of a father, her husband's father. Yes she's in love with her husband, or was. She knows that Jim would have asked her for a divorce a long time ago if it weren't for their daughter, Ellen.
The child from a broken home, who's continually torn between her love for her mother and her love for her father, is a post tragic figure, and brings to mind 'the sins of the father' - not her father, but her father's father - a bewildered 16-year-old girl who must forever be asking herself why; and the answer for Ellen is only an echo of her own question - why? There is no answer.
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It's a power trio for this edition of Weekend Confirmed. Hosts Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata are joined by Shacknews' Ozzie Mejia and they briefly muse about last week's League of Legends World Championship, as they all consider jumping back into the world of Riot's MOBA phenomenon. Discussion turns to Grand Theft Auto Online, including some listener stories about their experience in the game. Then everyone talks about the upcoming next-generation of consoles and the Battlefield 4 beta before Jeff talks about his brief experience with Beyond: Two Souls and Ozzie reels off the best of what he saw at this year's IndieCade. And to send you into your weekend, everyone breaks out a new round of Finishing Moves before the post-show Tailgate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 186: 10/11/2013
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The Press Row Podcast is the official podcast of Operation Sports, your home for sports video games. The best sports game writers in the business from Kotaku, Polygon, GamesRadar, Joystiq, PastaPadre and Operation Sports join host Rich Grisham to analyze the victories, struggles, challenges, and solutions that creators and consumers face in modern sports game design.
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|Aly (Ashlyn Pearce) takes action. Photo Credit: CBS
Monday, December 2
An unexpected wedding adds to the holiday cheer; Bill (Don Diamont) refuses to let Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) go.
Tuesday, December 3
Quinn (Rena Sofer) sees Donna (Jennifer Gareis) sharing a moment with Eric (John McCook); Wyatt (Darin Brooks) joins Hope (Kim Matula) and Maya (Karla Mosley) on a photo shoot.
Wednesday, December 4
Katie (Heather Tom) and Liam (Scott Clifton) talk about their relationships with Bill and Hope; Aly (Ashlyn Pearce) struggles with her conscience before taking an action that may have severe consequences.
Thursday, December 5
Liam talks to Aly about Hope and Wyatt; Quinn and Wyatt scheme.
Friday, December 6
Liam makes an important decision; Wyatt comes up with a plan to make Hope his.
- READER POLL: Soap of the Week (November 25-29, 2013)
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If we're honest with ourselves, we can admit that most games are silly. Even the ones that purport to take themselves very seriously are often rife with ludonarrative dissonance, when interaction doesn't match the gravity of the plot. Far Cry 3 was one recent example, but its offshoot, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, doesn't shackle itself anywhere near that level of seriousness. Instead, it strips away the artifice and revels in utter absurdity, all the while retaining the harmonious gameplay systems that helped Far Cry 3 stand out in an overcrowded shooter market.
Blood Dragon is very much Far Cry 3 with a layer of ridiculous slathered generously over every edge and pore. Its central conceit, that the game is meant to resemble the campy science fiction and action flicks in the late 80s and early 90s, means we get to see each of the elements of Far Cry 3 replaced with some reverent acknowledgement from the era. Absolutely every piece of the game, from its neon-drenched visuals to the willfully bad voice performances, reinforce the setting.
The solid underpinnings of Far Cry 3 are still present, but have each been altered slightly. Many of the changes are for the better, and the sci-fi tropes mean the creators are given license to invent whatever is necessary to serve the gameplay. Thanks to his cybernetics, Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt can run and swim so fast that the frustrating vehicles become completely unnecessary. He can hold his breath underwater indefinitely. Weapon upgrades can feel more substantial without ties to real world weaponry. In-engine story sequences are replaced with sprite-based, NES-style cutscenes. Hostage missions, which require stealth lest the cybernetic Omega Force execute a scientist (i.e. "nerd"), are laid out like thoughtful combat puzzles that grant a break to the standard over-the-top action.
Most significantly, standard animal hunts have been downplayed. These still exist, but are mostly replaced by bigger game, and the source of the title. Blood dragons are among the toughest enemies on the island, but they're not purely relegated to threats. Each garrison can be beaten by brute strength, stealth, or by lowering the defensive shields and allowing a blood dragon to wreak havoc. This is essentially the same as loosing a tiger on an enemy base in Far Cry 3, but seeing a three-story lizard fire laser blasts at hapless guards is much more satisfying. You can even tempt them towards the base by tossing out cyber-hearts, gained from downed enemies -- with a painfully slow required animation, unfortunately.
Like Far Cry 3, the optional missions compose a large chunk of the game time. I took roughly six hours to complete it with nearly everything, and three of those were easily spent chasing down garrisons, optional quests, and collectibles like VHS tapes. These are worthwhile for the experience points and humorous references, but that still means the critical path is a short one.
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There's only so much I can say about the sheer bombastic nature, because a large part of the humor is gawking at those turns. If I have one critique for its self-awareness, though, it's simply that it might be a little too referential. It's wholly composed of winks and nods at 80s pop culture and old action movie cliches. The gags don't tend to stand on their own, and instead require us to recognize the self-consciously stilted dialogue and nonsensical plot points for what they are. It knows exactly what it is, and it's constantly elbowing us with a sly grin, asking if we know too. It made me laugh, but I can't imagine it would work for anyone under the age of 25.
Similarly off-putting to newcomers may be the tutorial. It overloads with information to play for laughs, and doesn't even make a token attempt to ease the player in. This, paired with unhelpful (but consistently funny) loading screen tips, could make the learning curve steeper for new players. As someone who poured hours into the original game, picking this one up was like riding a bike.
At its core, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a digest version of the original game, cut to its core components, tweaked and in many ways strengthened, and given a wacky new finish. I enjoyed my time, but by the end of the adventure I was starting to see through the varnish and notice that it was essentially the same game I had played only a few months ago. I spent so much time with Far Cry 3, and so recently, that playing Blood Dragon felt familiar and comfortable. Like a night spent drinking with an old friend, I remembered the good times, enjoyed the moments, but after the spinning stopped I woke up and had my fill. [7]
Until next time he comes to town, at least.
This Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon review is based on the Xbox 360 version of the game provided by the publisher. The game is also available for PlayStation 3 and PC.


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The goals have been a little uglier the past couple games, but they still get the Budweiser Events Center crowd to their feet.
They are also getting the Colorado Eagles wins.
The Eagles made it three straight close victories on Friday night, getting scores from Dylan Hood and Teegan Moore and another solid-if-not-special performance from Adam Brown in net as they defeated Bakersfield 2-1 in front of another large BEC crowd.
Still running severely shorthanded -- using just two full forward lines, a rotation of two reserves and five defensemen -- the gritty Eagles were in the Bakersfield zone for a majority of play and capitalized on a couple of close in chances early. That was enough to hold off the Condors, sending Bakersfield to its fifth straight loss.
Colorado outshot the Condors 37-18, and it has been evident to head coach Chris Stewart that his team is taking advantage of a struggling opponent.
"I think they're looking at it from a standpoint that we can take advantage of these guys if we impose our will upon them and work hard, but we can't assume that they are just going to call uncle and go home," Stewart said, as the Eagles improved to 15-11-1-2. "It's a one-goal game. We did create more than enough opportunities to have a comfortable lead somewhere down the road (in the game), but whether it was good goaltending or us not making the play finish ... we ended up in a one-goal game and those are always tough to win."
Even though it came down to a single goal, it was a wire-to-wire victory for the Eagles -- although Bakersfield thought it had a tying goal in the third frame. That chance came about 5 minutes into the third period on a scramble in front of Brown that resulted in a lit goal lamp, but referee Joe Sullivan was right behind the net and immediately made a call.
The Condors had another late power play that proved ineffective and then had an extra-attack situation for the final minute of play. Brown stayed strong through the end while Bakersfield again got in a few more opportunities.
"Mostly just trying to keep my head in it, stay in the game, and when you're not getting a ton of work it's hard to do," Brown said. "Sporadic shots, stuff like that ... you have to stay focused so that when you do get tested with shots, you're ready."
He was tending the net with his team in front the entire time, thanks to an early first-period score from Hood. Just 2:37 into the contest, Hood benefited from being in front of the net at the right time, and a puck off his foot on a shot from Joey Sides skipped off his foot and past goaile Scott Greenham for a 1-0 lead.
The Eagles had 17 shots on net in the second frame, but only came up with one goal while Bakersfield also got on the board. At 5:13, Teegan Moore found an open portion of the net from low in the right circle, giving him his third goal of the season. That came on a power play, as the Eagles finished 1-for-5 on special teams.
Bakersfield cut into the lead on a power play of its own. At 9:25, Even Trupp received a cross-ice pass from Levi Nelson and put a smooth wrist shot high on Brown, making it 2-1.
However, the Condors could not produce a lot of scoring chances even though they had a couple of breakaways evolve in the neutral zone. Colorado was quick to make up for mistakes on a couple of those, and the defensive effort was a factor in preserving the win.
Offensively, Hood said, the Eagles are just keeping things as simple as possible.
"I mean, one of the things for our team is taking the puck and getting it to those greasy areas, those hard spots to get to, and those are how you get goals," he said. "You go to the front of the net, and you know, one of the foot. You get a little lucky but we'll take it."
Meanwhile, he said the team is riding the confidence that is being provided in large part from Brown, a rookie who is finally getting some rhythm.
"(Goaltending) gives the team the confidence and the energy to battle for him," Hood added.
The Eagles and Condors will close out the series tonight at the BEC.
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Eagles 2, Condors 1
At Budweiser Events Center
Bakersfield 0 1 0 -- 1
Colorado 1 1 0 -- 2
Scoring summary
First Period -- 1, Colorado, Hood 4 (Sides, Forney), 2:37. Penalties-Burgdoerfer Bak (hooking), 7:33; Forney Col (high-sticking), 8:32; Brenner Bak (hooking), 9:36; Hood Col (slashing ), 13:25; Sides Col (slashing ), 18:53;
Second Period -- 2, Colorado, Moore 3 (Marto, Forney), 5:13 (PP). 3, Bakersfield, Trupp 2 (Nelson, Cousens), 9:25 (PP). Penalties-Stanfield Bak (holding), 3:40; Sides Col (interference), 9:07;
Third Period -- No Scoring.Penalties-Cousens Bak (interference), 1:11; Smeltzer Col (tripping), 13:08; served by Lyon Bak (bench - too many men), 19:51.
Shots on goal -- Bakersfield 18, Colorado 37.
Power Plays -- Bakersfield 1 for 5; Colorado 1 for 5.
Goalies -- Bakersfield, Greenham (37 shots-35 saves); Colorado, Brown (18-17).
Attendance -- 5,289.


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|2011-01-02, 23:27
|Link #3081
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Some place where its summer all year long.
Positions: Typesetter, Editor, Timer
Contact: username kenji123 on rizon.net
Project: contact to find out
These three positions are needed to just review the scripts that are already done. Mostly the typesetting needs to be overhauled, but the editing and timing just need to be fine tuned.
This is a 95ep show. You won't be asked to work on anything else, and maybe we can discuss possible incentives/benefits for you as well. Some experience is preferred so that this process can go quickly.
You can contact/memo kenji123 on rizon.net or pm me here.
|2011-01-03, 15:30
|Link #3082
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Position Required: Karaoke Timer & TLC
Group: Gotwoot
Website: http://www.gotwoot.net/
IRC Channel: firstname.lastname@example.com
IRC Contact: OPS on the channel
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|2011-01-03, 18:14
|Link #3083
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Group: Anime-Stars
Positions: Karaoke Timer, Editors, Typesetters (AFX or ASS), Translators (Japanese to English), Translations Checkers (Japanese to English), Encoders, Karaoke Effect Maker, Timers, Raw Provider.
Projects: Will be decided when you contact us.
Website: www.anime-stars.tk
IRC Channel: #email@example.com
IRC Contact: Nagisa-chan (prefer by MSN). I'll be on irc around 3-4 PM US Eastern Time.
E-Mail/Hotmail (MSN):email@example.comfirstname.lastname@example.com (I'll usually be on after 4 PM US Eastern Time).
Contact: You can their talk to me on MSN, or on irc. If you cannot contact me, please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com or PM me here.
You do not need any experience with fansubbing. You must have some experience with the position(s) you're doing except Translation. (e.g. if you're doing encoding, you should have some idea of which encoding programs is good and know what settings to use, etc). This applies to all position(s) but Translator. Either contact me by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll mostly likely be on around 4 PM US Eastern Time.
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|2011-01-03, 22:21
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
A Few Positions to fill
Positions Requested: Timers
Group: Hadena-Fansubs
Email/Hotmail IM(preferred): email@example.com
IRC: #email@example.com
IRC contact: phazer11 or praddy
Note: Timers are our biggest issue atm. Fairly certain we are good on Translators and Translation Checkers but if any would like to apply it's always welcome. We have a typesetter for now but would like one more if possible. We have some editors but it is always nice to have another so if you would like to apply feel free. We are also interested in doing karaoke so if you have any experience in that that's also welcome. My email is the most reliable way to contact me at all times. My classes start soon so I'll usually be on IRC and always on HOTMAIL if I have an internet connection which will be from 19:00 to 03:00 GMT or 4pm to 2am GMT -5 US EST.
Pming here is also ok.
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|2011-01-04, 10:06
|Link #3085
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
shinigami fansubs
Group shinigami fansubs
Project Supernatural
position Translator, Editor, Afx, Capper, Timer, Typesetter
Siteshinigami fansubs
pm me here if your interested or stop by our irc channel and talk to a op
experience is required for all positions except translator and editor
|2011-01-04, 22:22
|Link #3086
Genjo-Subs Founder
Join Date: Nov 2006
Group: Genjo-Subs
Project: can't do any project's until we can get hold Translators.
Positions: all are Open.<---click to check out the recruitment list info.(currently we need Translators )
Webste: http://genjo-subs.tk/
Forum: N/A
IRC: irc.rizon.net/Genjo-recruits
IRC Contact: Genjo ( pm me on irc and i try get to ya asp! )
E-Mail: email@example.com
if ya going to e-mail me please put in title subject what position ya going be doing and genjo-subs so i know ya not some junk spammers.
|2011-01-05, 15:51
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Position: Timers
Group: Hatsuyuki/Fubuki
Projects: ??
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
We are in desperate need of timers.
EXP is needed or some skill.
If your on our chan ask for Linx-san or Naruto-kun, but its better to send me an email.
Thanks hope to see you there
|2011-01-07, 13:19
|Link #3088
Offering freelance help
Looking to potentially offering some freelance help with either an upcoming project of interest or an old quality show. Can also provide a translator with me as we both have worked together for many years.
My fields are typesetting (AFX/ASS/PS/etc), font design (FontLab/AI etc), editing, karaoke timing, logos (AFX), and QA. I have not been active recently so you will have to show me your project
Contact Alicia on Rizon if interested. This may just be something off the sides as we are both extremely busy people but have somewhat renewed interest in fansubbing.
For additional information about me, my translator or anything else please contact me via IRC.
|2011-01-07, 20:30
|Link #3089
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Position(s): TL/TLC & Everything else as backup
Group: Hiryuu
Project(s): Freezing (Currently) & 2 Spring ecchi shows
IRC Channel: #firstname.lastname@example.com
IRC Contact: _Firebird_, Nesto1000
E-Mail: firebird at hiryuufansubs.com
We were looking to do a second show this season, but we failed to find another one.
|2011-01-08, 15:57
|Link #3090
Mystery Otaku
Join Date: Dec 2008
Position(s): Capper
Group: KAW (Kindaichi Academy Workz)
Project(s): yakumo HD Broadcast and DVD release
IRC Channel: #firstname.lastname@example.com
IRC Contact: tantei, kamikazeee
E-Mail: email@example.com
yakumo is going to be broadcast in HD, and we need actual HD raws for the releases we want to do. this post is just about this project, we are still accepting in most positions.
|2011-01-08, 19:30
|Link #3091
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Positions Requested: Timers, TL's, and Cappers
Group: Hadena-Fansubs
Email/Hotmail IM(preferred): email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com if you can't get me on my hotmail as I seem to be experiencing issues with it so when in doubt please carbon copy both.
IRC: #email@example.com
IRC contact: phazer11 or praddy
We need Tranlators at the moment for backup and such on Freezing. We also need a Capper if possible who gets AT-x and hopefully other channels such as Tokyo MX.
|2011-01-09, 00:23
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Frontier
Group: Nuke Fansubs
Positions Open: Translation Checker
Show: Fractale
IRC Channel: #email@example.com and/or #email@example.com
E-Mail: email@example.com
Website: http://www.nuke-fansubs.com/
Best mode of contact would be IRC.
|2011-01-09, 01:46
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Group: Enigma Collective
Position: Raw Provider
IRC: damee on #email@example.com
email: email@example.com
I'm after 2 transport streams of a show from last season that I"m missing. I'm looking for someone who can get them via the Japanese p2p programs or whatever other sources you may have and upload them. (I'll provide the ftp to upload them to.)
|2011-01-09, 02:15
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Join Date: Dec 2005
gg is looking for people who are interested in joining our group.
Please PM Freya on irc.rizon.net. Or PM me on Asuki so we can schedule an IRC interview.
If you have a resume and a list of references, link it to me and it'll reduce the number of generic questions I have to ask you.
about gg
irc: #email@example.com
webpage: ggkthx.org
years in industry: 5 (since 10/10/2005)
current projects: madoka magica, kimi ni todoke 2nd season, yumekui merry, star driver, broken blade
company size: 17
gg is an equal opportunity employer
competitive salary
health benefits, 401k
paid vacations
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|2011-01-10, 18:34
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Positions: Translator, Timer
Group: GotWoot
Project: Onii-chan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne!!
IRC Channel: #gotwoot @ irc.rizon.net
Website: http://www.gotwoot.net
IRC Contact: Message Saphyrie or any op in the channel
E-Mail: gotwoot.fansubs [at] gmail [dot] com
We want to start releasing this ASAP, but our TL who has committed to this series is going to be gone for the next few weeks. In the mean time, we need a TL for episodes 1-3 and other projects if interested.
We also need a timer for all current projects.
Current projects:
Moonlight Mile S2
Onii-chan no Koto
Fighting Beauty Wulong
Souten Kouro
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|2011-01-11, 03:11
|Link #3096
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Group shinigami fansubs
Project Supernatural
position Translator, Editor, Afx, Capper, Timer, Typesetter
Siteshinigami fansubs
pm me here if your interested or stop by our irc channel and talk to a op
experience is required for all positions except translator and editor
|2011-01-13, 09:54
|Link #3097
Group: D.O.M.O.
Project: Absolutely any anime that wasn't subbed before
Position: Translator (from any language), Editor, Typesetter
Site: http://arr-soarin.blogspot.com/
IRC Channel: #email@example.com
|2011-01-13, 12:18
|Link #3098
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Group: SpinSubs
Project: Beyblade G-Revolution + any of your choice
Position: Timer (real fast timing not required but to be decent, we will consider all applicants)
Site: Site is being built. PM me here.
IRC: #email@example.com
We already have translation scripts, karaoke and typesetting done. Only need timing so we can release. This is a new group but we have had experience with past groups before.
|2011-01-14, 15:06
|Link #3099
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Position(s): Translator, Encoder, Distro
Group: Gambler
Project(s): Bakuman
Site: http://g4mbler.wordpress.com/
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Really looking for a translator to get releases out faster. No experience needed. If you only translated the anime-only lines, I would honestly be happy with that.
Also looking for an encoder since I'm a n00b and distro since I can't seed very well. More distro is always needed and appreciated. :D
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|2011-01-15, 21:54
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Positions: All but most translators
Group: Waru-fansubbs
Project: Infinite stratos and Freezing
IRC Channel: #waru-fansubbs @ irc.rizon.net
Website: http://warufansubbs.dyndns.org:9090/animesub/
IRC Contact: Message bhowrath or any op in the channel
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
We are new and we need pretty much every thing so you can give it a try and we need translators realy fast coz it has alredy come out two episodes of IS and Freezing so hurry upp!
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NIWOT — The Niwot girls soccer team overcame a monumental challenge Saturday in scoring on a keeper who hadn't allowed a goal in more than a month, Green Mountain senior Lindsey Hendon.
Perhaps it was too much to ask to score twice on the Iowa State signee.
In a contest that lasted more than 105 minutes of game time, Green Mountain came up with the golden goal in the second overtime, defeating Niwot 2-1 in the Cougars' not-so-Sweet 16 of the 4A state playoffs.
Junior Snow Patchett took a pass from senior Christina Makatura, slipped behind the defender and bounced in the game-winner off the hands of Niwot senior keeper Izzy Aguayo in the 106th minute.
"Obviously it hurts as a senior," said co-captain Katie Coody, who scored Niwot's goal, her third of NHS' two playoff games. "The end of the road is here. But I love these girls and they gave it up for us."
Niwot, seeded fifth in the 4A bracket, finished the season 13-4. A year after missing the postseason for the first time in the last decade, the Cougars made it to the final 16.
Green Mountain (now 14-2-1) is seeded 12th this year, but has been a formidable program in the 4A ranks, having been the state runner-up two years ago and a semifinalist in 2011.
Against the odds, the Rams scored the game-winner on Saturday while playing into a stiff wind. Niwot had faced that same disadvantage in the first 15-minute overtime, and when the teams switched ends for the second OT, the Cougars thought they had the upper hand.
"I think we thought we were going to score," first-year Niwot girls coach Rob Johnson said. "We had the better at the very end of the game (in regulation). We kept creating chances. But it's the same old thing: We create all these chances and we didn't put them in. That's soccer. If you don't convert your chances, then you don't win. That's a tough one."
Green Mountain was more effective in overtime dealing with the wind, and it paid off with Patchett's goal.
"I told them we're going to have to keep the ball on the ground — which is typically what we do," GM coach Ken Fehr said. "One good ball through and it worked."
Said Johnson: "We didn't get back. That's how they score. They do a good job on counter. We were all thinking we were going to score, score, score. They win a ball, we didn't go in hard for attack and all of a sudden they're off to the races. It's tough stuff."
Aguayo, one of the main reasons Niwot posted nine shutouts this season, was formidable on Saturday, making 10 saves, several of the difficult variety. And she got a hand on both of Green Mountain's goals.
After a throw-in in the 26th minute of a physical first half, NHS fouled a Green Mountain player in the box, and junior Mia Dobbin made the Cougars pay. On her penalty kick, Aguayo deflected the shot, but the ball still slipped past the goal line, giving GM a 1-0 edge. And on the game-winner, Aguayo was beaten near-post, but she almost kept the ball out of the net.
"It was a breakaway," Aguayo said of the golden goal. "She got lucky. I did what I could. I saved it, then it bounced in. I couldn't get there fast enough.
"It's hard, but we played our hearts out. That's what matters. We left it on the field. I couldn't be any more proud of our team."
Coody, who scored two goals in Niwot's first-round playoff win over Pueblo South, notched the equalizer on Saturday. Northwestern-bound teammate Maria Fayeulle battled defenders for control of a cross and the ball deflected out to Coody, who booted it high into the left side of the net from about 20 yards in the second minute of the second half.
Before that, Hendon and Green Mountain had posted eight straight shutouts, winning those games by a combined 41-0. The last goal the Rams allowed was on April 8 against Golden. According to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, Hendon owns the Colorado state record for shutouts in a career, with 41. She finished with 11 saves on Saturday.
"It felt really good" to score against Hendon and Green Mountain, Coody said. "Going into the game we knew they had that shutout streak going for them and that was the one thing we wanted to put to an end -- and win the game, too. That was the most I could do to help with that. So that obviously felt good."
Nevertheless, Green Mountain has knocked off two St. Vrain teams, Longmont and Niwot, so far in the playoffs to advance to a quarterfinal matchup with Valor Christian. The Rams are 10-0-1 in their last 11 games.
As for the Cougars, despite the loss they're happy to have bounced back strong after going just 6-6-2 last season.
"It's just a completely different Niwot soccer program and I'm glad we get to leave this legacy for these next girls to pick up and run with next year," Coody said.
Green Mountain 2, Niwot 1
At Niwot H.S.
Green Mountain (14-2-1) 1 0 0 1 — 2
Niwot (13-4) 0 1 0 0 — 1
Goals (assists) — Green Mountain: Mia Dobbin (PK), 26th minute; Niwot: Katie Coody (Maria Fayeulle assist), 42nd minute; Green Mountain: Snow Patchett (Christina Makatura assist), 106th minute.
Goalies (Min-Goals allowed-Saves) — Green Mountain: Lindsey Hendon (106-1-11); Niwot: Izzy Aguayo (106-2-10).


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NEW YORK - Junior Samantha Warren gained a place on the Pocock Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) All-America second team, it was announced on Tuesday. It is the first All-America honor in Warren's career. She is the first Columbian to be named All-American since Meredith Mead '11CC in 2009.
In May, Warren earned first team CRCA all-region honors for the second time in her career after being selected to the first team in 2010. A stalwart in Columbia's first varsity boat during her first three years, Warren was chosen to compete at USRowing's Women's Under-23 National Team Camp this summer.
Nominated student-athletes are evaluated on the strength of their team's regional finish, coaches recommendations and 2,000-meter erg score. Nominees must be eligible student-athletes who have competed in their teams' varsity boat in 75 percent of races this season.
Columbia was ranked as high as 16th in the CRCA coaches poll during the 2012 season. It was the highest rank ever for the program.
2012 Pocock First Team All America Awards
Keziah Beall, Virginia
Molly Bruggeman, Notre Dame
Allison Courtin, Brown
Sarah Cowburn, Virginia
Ulrike Denker, Ohio State
Emily Eifferet, Michigan
Elise Etem, University of California, Berkeley
Taylor Goetzinger, Cornell
Paparangi Hipango, University of California, Berkeley
Martie Kuzzy, Virginia
Kate Mansfield, Wisconsin
Daphne Marschenko, Stanford
Catherine McDermott, Yale
Felice Mueller, Michigan
Michelle Neuder, Michigan State
Kristine O'Brien, Virginia
Kelly Pierce, Princeton
Heidi Robbins, Princeton
Liz Soutter, Harvard-Radcliffe
Britta Syverson, University of California, Los Angeles
Lenka Vrecnikova, University of Southern California
Kristy Wentzel, Stanford
Sidney Thorsten, Virginia, coxswain
2012 Pocock Second Team All America Awards
Anastasia Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine Ashton, United States Naval Academy
Erin Bennet, Louisville
Maryann Concannon, Saint Mary's College
Heather Cummings, Clemson
Hayley Daniell, Dartmouth
Courtney Diekema, Harvard-Radcliffe
Tessa Gobbo, Brown
Greta Haselmann, Northeastern
Lindsey Healy, Michigan
Erika Lauderdale, Tennessee
Chelsey Lauzon, Central Florida
Cecilia Madsen, Cornell
Vineta Moca, University of Southern California
Stephanie Rogers, Tulsa
Lisa Roman, Washington State
Helen Tinkus, University of Southern California
Emily Walsh, Ohio State
Samantha Warren, Columbia
Asja Zero, Indiana
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All right, it's starting to look like fall - maybe with a hint of winter, even. But that doesn't mean there's not a lot to do in the area this weekend.
If you haven't heard yet, the second annual Fort Defiance Day will be held at the lodge at Fort Defiance State Park from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. Look for all kinds of great, informative and educational programs and exhibits and a great meal of pulled pork sandwiches, chips, bar and a drink for just $5. All proceeds go to help with park improvements by the Friends of Fort Defiance.
Held in conjunction with the event at the lodge will be the Octoberfest, co-sponsored by the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Friends group. A 5K run/walk starts at 5 p.m. Register at Estherville org. A picnic will follow from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with brats, op and s'mores followed by live music by Brad Morgan from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
The Artisans Road Trip comes to the area again, with focal points in Estherville and the Lakes area. This year's road trip will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Look for area artists at the Pearson Lakes Art Center at 2201 Highway 71, Okoboji; A Piece of Work, Inc. at 1619 Hill Ave. in Spirit Lake; Dykema Studios at 1720 Hill Ave. in Spirit Lake; Art on 16th at 709 16th St. in Spirit Lake and at 15657 250th Ave., Spirit Lake.
Held in conjunction with the Artisans road trip will be the Iowa Lakes Community Foundation Fine Arts Scholarship Fundraiser which will also be held Saturday at the Pearson Lakes Art Center. The social starts at 5:30 p.m. featuring live entertainment and live suction at 7 p.m. The silent auction closes at 8 p.m. Sample selections from brewers and wineries with hors d'oeuvres by Cabernet Catering and dessert available from Playful Cupcaketions. Tickets are $25. Call 712-362-0425 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
And then there's the Fabulous 50's Anniversary Party for Carolyn and John Walz 7-11 p.m. Saturday at the Estherville Elks Lodge with music by The Senders. Carol and John are requesting no cards, candy, flowers or gifts. Note cards for your greetings will be available at the guest book table and 50's attire is appropriate. So come on up the hill for a great time.
And if all that isn't enough, there's the Funtime Rodeo and Cowboy Challenge at 7 p.m. Saturday at the I-90 Expo at 1010 70th Ave. in Sherburn, Minn. There will be a chicken catch, wild horse catch, chute dogging, spoiled ranch horse riding, muttin bustin, sheep dressing and dog races (join the fun and bring your dog. Admission is $10 for kids and 12 and under are free.


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Partial Lunar Eclipse – June 4, 2012
Partial Lunar Eclipse on June 4, 2012 at 9:55pm. Photo taken from Townsville.
Partial Lunar Eclipse on June 4, 2012 at 9:55pm. Photo taken from Townsville.
Over at The Daily WTF, one of the authors, Remy Porter likes to add a certain amount of bonus content to the posts. Specifically – Remy's articles always have a bunch of HTML comments with extra details or jokes, and clicking somewhere in the article produces unicorns.
Well, there's no sense in letting unicorns go unclicked! That's why I wrote unremyfy, a script to display the HTML comments inline and highlight where you need to go to get unicorns. What a useful script!
One change requested on the Skeptics Stack Exchange is to make the "rapidly changing" caveat on questions like this one more prominent. I liked the idea, so I wrote a user script in the mean time to do it. It adds a border around the right and bottom of the post, leading to the notification.
This will work either in Firefox (with Greasemonkey installed), Chrome (with restart) or Opera. There are extensions for other browsers (GreaseKit for Safari, Trixie for IE), but I haven't tested with them.
What it does:
Whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus), photographed in the north of the Great Barrier Reef, on Kalinda's Far North Expedition.
If I want to know what a politician is saying, I don't really need a journalist. The politicians have websites, blogs, twitter feeds and email newsletters. They give speeches, many of which are shown on TV. If all we need to know is what politicians say, we can replace the entirety of journalism with some camera operators, a TiVo, and an RSS reader. If that's the extent of journalism, it's probably not a career with much of a future.
If journalism is to be useful, it really ought to do something that a TiVo can't. A TiVo can't add context, or check whether the source is lying. It seems to me that those sort of things would be good value propositions for a journalist.
Some good posts recent posts on this topic:
If the paper of record views getting the facts right as a style choice, where the hell is the public supposed to get the facts?
If your mother tells you she loves you and you turn around and repeat, "My mother loves me," or even the slightly more careful, "My mother says she loves me," then you're not a reporter or a journalist. You're not reporting, just repeating. That's stenography or gossip, not journalism.
Checking it out is what makes a reporter and what makes a report.
Climate change not only causes shifts in the distributions of native species, but also allow invasive species to establish new populations. For example, many Caribbean species are taking advantages of warming temperatures, expanding polewards and invading into the south-eastern United States.
Having established themselves, however, it's not unknown for the invaders to come to pain. For example, in early 2010, the south-eastern United States experienced a particularly cold winter, which came to be known as "Snowmageddon". After Snowmageddon, scientists found that the populations of several established invaders had crashed, in some cases been entirely wiped out.
Curious, Dr. João Canning-Clode and his colleagues collected a number of invasive green porcelain crabs (Petrolisthes armatus) to study. They had three groups: one control group would be held at what would be a fairly mild winter temperature at the collection site, one group would go through a cold snap similar to that experienced in January 2010, and one would experience a cold snap which was a couple of degrees even more extreme.
The results were striking. In the control group, 83% of the crabs survived the winter. In the Snowmageddon group, however, only 39% of the crabs survived – and the population that experienced an even colder snap was entirely wiped out. They also noted that cold temperatures caused the crabs to move around less – which, in the wild, would have probably caused them to be more vulnerable to predators and also make it harder for them to find their own food.
The researchers figure that the occasional cold snap may have the effect of stopping invasive species in their tracks – devastating, if not wiping out the populations. However, as the globe warms, extreme cold snaps have been getting less frequent, a trend which is expected to continue.
Canning-Clode, J., Fowler, A., Byers, J., Carlton, J., & Ruiz, G. (2011). 'Caribbean Creep' Chills Out: Climate Change and Marine Invasive Species PLoS ONE, 6 (12) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029657
DeGaetano, A., & Allen, R. (2002) Trends in Twentieth-Century Temperature Extremes across the United States. Journal of Climate, 15(22), 3188-3205.
Kodra, E., Steinhaeuser, K., & Ganguly, A. (2011) Persisting cold extremes under 21st-century warming scenarios. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(8).
Bird tapeworms (Schistocephalus solidus) have three distinct life stages. First, they infect copepods (tiny crustaceans), such as Cyclops strenuus abyssorum. The copepods are eaten by sticklebacks – in this case, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. The sticklebacks are then eaten a bird, in which they breed and produce eggs with which to infect the next generation of copepods.
In order to be infectious to a bird, the tapeworm larvae must grow to a size of at least 50mg. That being said, the bigger the better – larger parasites are far more fertile, producing many times more eggs – which are also larger. Larger parasites also make their hosts less able to breed and more likely to be eaten by a bird.
Parasites infecting organisms which do not control their own body temperatures (such as most fish) are more likely to be directly affected by climate change – a parasite infecting a warm-blooded mammal, for example, can rely on a temperature-controlled living space. To test what impact temperature would have on how infective the tapeworms were, Macnab and Barber (2011) kept two populations at different, static temperatures, within their normal temperature range – 15°C and 20°C respectively – and fed half of each population infected copepods (the others got non-infected copepods).
Temperature, they found, did not affect the likelihood that a fish eating an infected copepod would be infected – in both cases, about half of the exposed fish were infected. However, they found that the tapeworm larvae grew much faster in the warm-water group. 8 weeks in, every tapeworm larvae in the warm-water group had reached the 50mg size necessary to infect a bird – whereas none of the larvae infecting the cooler group had. In fact, in the warmer population, the average size of the tapeworms was twice the size they needed to infect a bird. They estimate that this difference would allow each parasite to produce at least an order of magnitude more eggs than in the 15°C group – almost 200,000 eggs each as compared to 12,000.
They also showed that once infected, the fish with infective worms preferred warmer water. A different population of infected and non-infected sticklebacks were introduced to an aquarium with cooler (~15°C) and warmer (~21°C) compartments, with an intermediate-temperature (~18°C) linking chamber. The fish were then allowed to settle in the intermediate chamber and watched for three hours.
The non-infected fish, as well as those with parasites too small to infect a bird, tended to stay in the intermediate chamber. However, fish with large, infective parasites preferred warmer waters, with a thermal preference over 1°C warmer than the other groups.
Although such a pattern might be perhaps be explained by an attempt on the part of the sticklebacks to increase the effectiveness of their immune system, the authors suggest that the tendency of fish bearing larger-but-noninfective parasites towards lower temperatures is more likely motivated by the tapeworms. Larger parasites would have increased energy demands, increasing the likelihood that the host would starve – and the parasites with it. When the parasites are large enough to infect a bird, however, all bets are off – the priority is to get large and to get eaten.
Previous studies on these species, such as Barber et. al. (2004), have found that, once a stickleback was infected by a sufficiently large parasite, the parasite would impair the fish's abilities to flee predators. Fish infected by such parasites were less likely to make any evasive behaviour, less likely to reach cover, less likely to perform "staggered dashes" to prevent a predator from anticipating where they would move next and more likely to try and "evade" predation by simply slowly swimming away.
Fish that prefer warmer waters are probably going to end up at the surface and at the edges of lakes – right where they'd be more vulnerable to bird attacks. There is also potential for a positive feedback relationship – fish infected by larger parasites prefer warmer waters in which the parasites grow faster and the fish are more likely to be consumed by birds. It seems that one beneficiary of a warming climate is the tapeworms.
Macnab, V., & Barber, I. (2011). Some (worms) like it hot: fish parasites grow faster in warmer water, and alter host thermal preferences Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02595.x
Barber, I., Walker, P., & Svensson, P. (2004). Behavioural Responses to Simulated Avian Predation in Female Three Spined Sticklebacks: The Effect of Experimental Schistocephalus Solidus. Infections Behaviour, 141 (11), 1425-1440 DOI: 10.1163/1568539042948231 [PDF]
Some like it hot (if they're riddled with parasites) – Not Exactly Rocket Science. Be sure to check out the comments, one of the authors has added information.
If only real deniers were capable of such introspection:
Hat-tip: Deltoid
Barry Bickmore on how he came to accept climate science:
Hat-tip: Class M
Here's a fantastic lecture from Dr. Eugenie Scott on the similarities of tactics and thinking between those who reject global warming and/or evolution:
HT: Greg Laden
Roboastra gracilis, photographed in the waters off Pelorus Island, Queensland.
This photograph is a finalist in the Panda's Thumb Photography Contest. If you're interested in heading over there and voting for the best photograph – and I won't blame you if you think it's mine *hint hint* – then I won't stop you.


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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60
"Today, the principles laid down in the Universal Declaration are echoed in the Constitutions and laws of more than 90 countries. Dedicated international, regional and national mechanisms, including my Office and the Human Rights Council with its independent experts, have been established to monitor, promote, protect and further develop human rights," she says.
And yet, Pillay points out that there is no room for complacency. "For many people, the Universal Declaration remains an unfulfilled promise, as States' political will to fulfil their obligations lags lamentably behind their pledge.
"Despite all our efforts over the past 60 years, this anniversary will pass many people by, and it is essential that we keep up the momentum, thereby enabling more and more people to stand up and claim their rights," she says.
To read the full text please refer to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/UDHRTurns60.aspx
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Bainbridge High School has named Cairo Defensive Coordinator Jeff Littleton its new head coach.
Littleton was approved by the Decatur County School Board this evening.
He played for the 1987 State Champion Worth County team, and has coached all over the South since graduating from Valdosta State.
Littleton says after playing and coaching in Southwest Georgia, he understands the tradition of Bainbridge football and is looking forward to the challenge.
"I have a lot of respect for them," Littleton said when reached by phone.
Littleton will take over for Ed Pilcher, who resigned after five seasons at the helm.
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According to this new post on the symfony blog today, a major event in the live of this popular application framework has just happened - magic_quotes_gpc set to "off" is no longer required.
It makes symfony easier to install and to run for the first time, and we hope it will leverage its adoption rate among PHP beginners. This modification is present in the trunk and in the latest alpha, and will be present in symfony 1.0 - the next stable release.
To "celebrate", they've also released two new version of the framework - stable - 0.6.3 and alpha 0.9.2288).


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Before setting foot in Kenya and embarking on the safari specially prepared for us by Kisima Tours, Africa was just in our dreams, dreams filled with hopeful wonder and amazement. And now after all the memory cards have filled up to their maximum Kenya is no longer a dream but a precious, precious memory – a reality truly filled with every tale of wild life animal sightings and inter actions (including two encounters with the elusive leopard! For hours!), of relating to the warm Masai people and having my cow price increased from 25cows to 50cows! Being able to experience the big five in a big way – and more! Being on safari changes you. It makes you understand. Henry was more than a guide to us, he made every reality exceed the dream. If you are planning a visit to Africa, do it in Kenya and do it with Kisima. I have several friends who have been, and they didn't get the full on experience we did judging from our stories. There is a reason why every experience with Kisima is five-star. Find out for yourselves.


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We are trying to install Oracle 8.1.6 on linux in silent mode. (Silent mode is an alternative for installing through GUI). It takes the answers for the GUI selections from a file called reponse file (ex. svrminimal.rsp). I was doing installation for Minimal version. So, I set the INSTALL_TYPE="Minimal" in the response file. The program is not taking the INSTALL_TYPE varible and hence failing at the excution of that page. If any of you worked on silent mode installation, please let me know, so that we can discuss the problem.
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Fair or not, a parting of the ways between the Town of Fort Myers Beach and its manager, Scott Janke, was probably inevitable.
Both Mr. Janke and Mayor Larry Kiker reacted with marked shock when they received their first phone calls Tuesday, both apparently unaware that an adult industry Web site had posted a story contrasting Mr. Janke's career in town management with his wife's involvement in the adult entertainment business.
Saying the reporter's call concerning the article "came as a complete shock," Mr. Janke declined comment.
Mayor Kiker was also caught off-guard. He promised to call back after obtaining more information and he did, requesting more than once that the story be held for a day to give the Jankes time to talk with their teen-aged children.
What Mayor Kiker neglected to mention was that while the Jankes were having that family chat Tuesday night, he was calling an emergency meeting of the town council to fire dad - and that Mr. Janke's reaction to the disclosure had been an offer to resign.
We fail to see the emergency and we fail to see how council's "emergency" charade - a meeting held with no public notice save a cover-your-posterior posting of the meeting on the town's Web site and hall door - served anyone.
If Mayor Kiker and his council cohorts thought they could spare the town embarrassing media attention, they failed miserably by giving an interesting local story national appeal via the hasty firing "without cause."
Council also failed miserably if its members thought they were serving the residents, who now have to pay $50,000 plus the cost of benefits, for the botched attempt at making the "problem" of media attention - and Mr. Janke and his wife - go away.
Embarrassing phone calls or not, this is not how the process of open government is intended to work. And while it may be legal, calling this situation an emergency so as to take advantage of special - and scant - public noticing requirements is just not right.
The meeting to discuss the resignation, or termination, of the town's top administrator could have - and should have - been noticed through regular meeting requirements designed to give the public adequate time to attend and comment.
Again, judging from the reactions of both Mr. Janke and town officials Tuesday, the outcome of the session would likely have been a parting of the ways.
But then, we'll really never know if public input would have made a difference. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't sought. And it certainly wasn't welcome by the Fort Myers Beach Town Council.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/vanda_museums_new_san/
Victoria & Albert overwhelms museum SAN
We are not amused
Posted in The Channel, 18th November 2008 22:34 GMT
London's Victoria & Albert museum has overwhelmed its original SAN with digitised images of its collection and is moving to a new one with room to grow more than 50 times larger.
The V&A has found that by becoming a museum without walls on the Internet, it has found there is a huge demand for on-screen access to its collection of more than 30,000 pieces of art and design, including ceramics (puzzle jug below), fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles. It is a veritable encyclopeadia of arts and crafts and, naturally it has a storage problem - there are more stored artefacts than gallery space to display them.
Puzzle jug using a V&A image
By adding interactive computerised displays in its galleries and images of its collection on the web it also ran out of digital space. The physical storage problem had a £110 million program applied to it with new galleries opening from 2006 onwards. The digital space problem has proved far less expensive to solve.
What happened was that from 2001 onwards the museum had a SAN (storage area network) for its Digital Asset Management System, which provided access to images, interactive displays and such like. It meant that images of artefacts, for which there was no physical room to display, could be seen on a screen, digital access augmenting and replacing the limited physical access.
The software ran on NEC and Dell servers connected via gigabit Ethernet to EMC Clariion storage. Arcserve and Sun's Solstice backup software on a Solaris box were used to protect data on LTO-2 tapes in an Overland Storage library. It was great at the time, especially as the 1Gbit/s Ethernet replaced 10 and 100Mbit/s Ethernet links previously used. Data whizzed around the LAN like Ferrari racers in a Formula 1 Grand Prix instead of asthmatic delivery vans.
Time passed and digital data did what it always does: It grew and grew, until the nightly backups began overlapping the daytime work periods and the increasing digitation of images could be seen, inevitably, to be filling up the SAN. In 2001, 8 terabytes was a huge silo of data space. In 2008 it is a drop in a bucket.
The gigabit Ethernet has grown to a 4Gbit/s Ethernet courtesy of Nortel Networks so that is okay, but the digital storage, the SAN backend, is runing out of room.
The V&A's Sarah Winmill, its head of information systems services, says that the program to take photos of its collection can result in 30MB photos - these can be used for research activities - and 50,000 of them a year are being added. That's 1.5TB per annum. It gets worse. Three-dimensional aretefacts need multiple images. Artefacts need multiple images at different resolutions so researchers can zoom into details.
The museum is also involved in 3D photo developments and in the searching of photos with recognition software, partnering researchers at Southampton University.
For example, it is using QuickTime so web viewers can see a rotating 3D image of a Meissen vulture, looking suspiciously like the original El Reg mascot.
And then - here's a kicker - the V&A has films, analogue films, of theatre productions from London's West End. These could be digitised in future, meaning that a SAN capacity that maxes out at 8TB is simply not enough. The museum has to have tens of terabytes now and headroom to grow to 100s of terabytes when needed.
A tender was put out, a shortlist of three was built from the replies, and Hitachi Data Systems emerged as the preferred choice. The SAN is now based on a 60TB AMS 1000 array, which can hold up to 450TB using today's 1TB SATA drives, and an identical array mirrored to it. This is destined to go a nearby separate site as a disaster recovery and business continuance resource with data asynchronously replicated from the primary AMS box.
Sara Winmill says that the data transfer from the original SAN is about 70 per cent complete and the secondary AMS will go to its remote site when the migration finishes. The old SAN won't be discarded, UK public institutions "having to sweat their assets." But the future is disk-based replication of data for protection and away from tape. LTO-2 is, anyway, two generations behind the tape curve.
The V&A now has a SAN silo that can hold hundreds of terabytes should it need to. We can imagine that all museums and art galleries will espouse the same basic IT infrastructure. The possibilities for a virtual 3D tour of the V&A's galleries are quite staggering. Imagine Google street view applied to the inside of a building and 3D photographs of artefacts within it. The future digital storage and networking needs of these places could grow a hundredfold, a thousandfold, on a never-ending journey of digitisation.
It could get to the point where wealthy benefactors no longer build extensions to museums, like the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery, but fund a digital tour of it and its collection instead. Victoria & Albert would not be amused at all. They'd be astonished. ®


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(MCT) ELSAH - Eminent scientists, students, faculty and members of the Principia College community gathered Wednesday afternoon to commemorate the on-campus discovery more than a decade ago of a mammoth known simply as "Benny."
From 2002 to 2012, students excavated the 17,000-year-old Jeffersonian mammoth remains as part of a geology class taught by Janis Treworgy, professor and director of the mammoth project since 2000.
"This project has been the opportunity of a lifetime for me and hundreds of students," said Treworgy, who noted that Benny has served as the college's "unofficial ambassador" to the community. Since his discovery, more than 9,000 people have visited the campus for tours and talks.
Named for Benny White, the backhoe operator who inadvertently uncovered a mammoth tooth, Benny was discovered in 1999 by a crew seeking to relocate a manhole cover near one of the college's dormitories.
To commemorate the site of the excavation, Treworgy and Principia President Jonathan Palmer took part in an unveiling of a bench made from oak lumbered on campus with concrete sides. An attached plaque details the discovery.
"In the courses, students learned how to excavate bones, recovering more than 150 of them, how to clean and prepare them for study and display, as well as many facts about mammoths and the Ice Age," she said to a crowd of more than 50 people. "But they also learned to dig deeper and acquired skills that they could apply in other aspects of their lives, including how to make careful observations, put forward and test hypothesrs, draw conclusions in a logical way and to separate observations from interpretations."
On hand to witness the unveiling were Jeff Saunders, a paleontologist and mammoth specialist, and three other colleagues from the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, serving as advisers on the project.
Along with the articulated cranium, tusks and upper teeth, the other significant skeletal elements that have been excavated include both upper arm and leg bones, a lower arm and a lower leg bone, both shoulder blades, and a number of vertebrae and ribs.
Former student Eric Lines said the opportunity to "actually interact with the subject matter in a course" was eye-opening.
"For me and many others, Benny was just the impetus to cause us to get excited and gain knowledge about a subject matter outside the norm," Lines said. "It is this broader perspective that allows us to appreciate the world around us, and I think this is a noble accomplishment."
Following the unveiling, guests had the opportunity to view Benny up close in the college's Science Building, where work soon will begin on the final phase to prepare the bones for permanent exhibition in the Atrium Lobby.
"For me, the most exciting and challenging excavation event happened during the summer of 2005, when we removed the skull block from the site and moved it inside the Science Building," Treworgy recalled.
Then in 2007, workers turned the skull block, which was upside-down and encased in dirt and plaster to keep the bones from shifting. The block was rotated 180 degrees so that students could continue removing the dirt matrix from the top of Benny's skull while on-site excavation continued.
The skull, which is extremely fragile, has been stabilized with metal struts, spray foam and a special material called butrar. The tips of his 6.5-foot-long tusks have been wrapped in plaster to prevent breakage.
Treworgy and her students have determined that Benny was a mature male mammoth, from 39 to 43 years old. He would have stood about 10.7 feet tall at the shoulder, weighed 6 tons and ate about 300 pounds of vegetation per day, according to the project's website, www.prin.edu/mammoth/.
Once the remains are completely readied, Benny will be displayed in a way that replicates how his skeletal remains were found, rather than attempting to partially reassemble his bones.
"We will have professionals work with us who will do a loess effect, duplicating the wind-blown sediment he was buried in," Treworgy said. "This gets away from having to get Benny out of the jacket that supports him."
At this point in the project, Treworgy wasn't sure how many of his bones could be incorporated into the exhibit, emphasizing instead the educational merits of the planned exhibit.
"I love teaching in the field with an experiential focus, so I will miss this project," she said. "I will continue to give tours to extend the educational benefits of the project, because Benny is a gift to education that can keep on giving."
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