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Crescent Moon
Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia
Bulan Sabit: Seni dan Peradaban Islam di Asia Tenggara
24 February – 28 May 2006
Introduction | themes | selected works | glossary | events
Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia Dance mask of Kuda Narawangsa, late 19th century National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta more detail
Crescent Moon: Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia is a spectacular visual exploration of the Islamic heritage of Australia's nearest neighbours. As the first major international exhibition to focus on the Islamic art of Southeast Asia, Crescent Moon introduces Australian audiences to the beauty and complexity of Islamic culture within our region. Southeast Asian creative genius found expression in a wide variety of media, including metalwork, manuscript illumination, textiles and wood carving.
The exhibition reveals the unique developments in the arts of Islamic Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as the Muslim communities of Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam. Splendid objects in silk, gold, lacquer, porcelain and stone illustrate the transformations of indigenous motifs and techniques into dynamic new art forms expressing the message of the Prophet Mohammad. The carefully selected works of art demonstrate how ideas and images from the Middle East, Central Asia and Mughal India have interacted over centuries with local beliefs and ancient traditions
From the religion's first arrival in Southeast Asia almost 800 years ago in ships carrying Muslim traders from the Arab world, India and China, Islam has been embraced enthusiastically by royal courts and rural communities across the region. In an innovative overview of the interchange between these cultural traditions, sumptuous gold heirloom jewellery and regalia from the royal sultanates of the archipelago are exhibited alongside Aboriginal bark paintings from Arnhem Land depicting the Muslim sailors who reached Australia long before Europeans landed on these shores.
Participation in a dynamic maritime culture, stretching from the Middle East to south China, ensured that artists of Islamic Southeast Asia were exposed to a wide range of decorative styles and forms. In particular, Crescent Moon celebrates the diversity of Islamic designs arriving in Southeast Asia on the winds of foreign trade and cultural exchange: centuries-old richly-dyed Indian textiles and elegant Chinese ceramics and cloisonné have long been prized throughout Southeast Asia.
The exhibition reveals the sophistication and splendour of the Islamic courts in the archipelago. Royal heirlooms recall a glorious past when wealthy courts, enriched by the spice trade, competed to demonstrate divine blessings through earthly power and material luxury. Lavish ceremonies of the life cycle, such as circumcisions, weddings and funerals, were testimonies of faith and power when displays of fine gold and silver royal regalia and invincible weapons of state, encrusted in precious stones, dazzled the audience.
detail: India, collected IndonesiaCeremonial cloth and sacred heirloom, early 18th century, Conserved with the assistance of Brian O'Keeffe AO and Bridget O'Keeffe AM, Gift of Michael and Mary Abbott 1988 more detail
The exhibition also illustrates the contribution of Islam to the arts of Southeast Asia. The written word – the embodiment of the Divine in Islam and the illustration of the holy Qur'an – has everywhere been fundamental to Islamic art and Southeast Asia was no exception: Crescent Moon displays more than twenty Indonesian and Malaysian gold-illuminated manuscripts, including a rare Qur'an from Aceh. Islamic calligraphy is also shown on fine textiles and costume, ornate architectural details, and in panels of composite Arabic letters depicting birds and animals.
Crescent Moon brings together a hundred valuable loans from museums, palace treasuries and private collections of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, displayed alongside objects from Australian institutions, in particular textiles from the National Gallery of Australia's spectacular collection of Southeast Asian textiles, and Islamic ceramics from the Art Gallery of South Australia.
The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated full-colour catalogue with texts by renowned Australian and international scholars.
Organised by the National Gallery of Australia in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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Crescent Moon Cultural Day: Saturday 13 May 2006
$10 Adults; $6 Members/Concessions; Visitors 16 and under free
(Crescent Moon entry)
$18 Adult;
$12 Members/Concessions; Visitors 16 and under free
(Combined ticket same day admission to Crescent Moon and Constable: Impressions of land, sea and sky)
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A short while ago I posted about how we dress when biking in Toronto.
I think we're a pretty good looking bunch here in Toronto. Of course, when I tell people I'm a cyclist I can instantly see their eyes fog over as they picture me in full spandex.
As we've seen from my post, you don't need to wear spandex to enjoy biking in Toronto. However, if you're looking for more inspiration, here's some clothing brands that could help you overcome "spandex anxiety" and bike in comfort and style:
Bikes Without Borders: While not a clothing brand per se, Mountain Equipment Co-op carries some of their t-shirts and hoodies and they certainly have nothing to do with lycra:
Rapha: Got some money? OK, now got some more? Rapha makes great looking clothing with a price tag to match
Outlier: Made in NYC and can cost as much as a Porter flight to their home town. Looks great though.
Of course, the best way to look good cycling in Toronto is to simply be yourself, put on your helmet and take to the streets in whatever you've got on.
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We've had slow zombies, fast zombies and funny zombies. Now, with Warm Bodies, romantic zombies have shuffled into the mix.
That sound you hear? It's Night of the Living Dead diehards collectively retching.
If only Warm Bodies were easy to dismiss as merely some sort of corporately contrived, bandwagon-hopping boondoggle. Based on a novel by Isaac Marion and written/directed by Jonathan Levine (who made one of the best films of 2011 with 50/50 as well as the critically adored All the Girls Love Mandy Lane), Warm Bodies is a sweetly funny and touching riff on Beauty and the Beast or Romeo and Juliet -- if the Beast feasted on flesh or Romeo came back from the dead.
Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) is a lurching, lonely zombie named R (he can only remember the first letter of his name). He hangs out at the airport, grunting pleasantries to his best friend M (Rob Corddry), collecting cool stuff from the pre-apocalypse (lots of classic-rock vinyl), and avoiding the "bonies," zombies who've completely decayed into ravenous, rampaging skeletons and lost all contact with their humanity.
But he still craves his meals to be of the two-legged variety and when he runs across a team of young humans from the walled city on a recon mission for supplies, they make for a nice snack -- especially Perry (Dave Franco, Scrubs), the boyfriend of Julie (Teresa Palmer, Love and Honor) whom he can't bring himself to kill. Feeling something he hasn't experienced since his death, R saves her from the other ghouls, takes her back to his hiding place on a crumbling airplane and plays some John Waite, which gets her thinking that maybe these zombies aren't so bad after all.
It's no happily-ever-after, though, as her dad (John Malkovich) is the leader of what's left of the humans and an avowed zombie slayer. And the bonies, sensing their less decomposed comrades may be flickering back to life, are on the warpath. What's young love to do?
Sure, logic -- even by zombie movie standards -- is thrown out the window. At first, the zombies are as slow as rush-hour traffic, but later they become Olympic sprinters when the plot calls for it.
But that doesn't matter as Levine has crafted an engaging tale of unlikely young love that, like his other films, reverberates with a heartfelt humanity. The message may be obvious -- we're all just a little undead until connecting with someone outside ourselves -- but it's still effective.
Warm Bodies isn't laugh-out-loud funny, but it has enough humor to save it from mawkishness while the bonies provide the few requisite frights.
Classicists who'd rather see zombies turning humans into luncheon meat rather than love objects shouldn't take this too hard. They've got new episodes of The Walking Dead coming soon and the epic zombie-battle blockbuster World War Z opening in June.
Besides, what's going to happen after the first zombie-human breakup? A zombie on the hunt for dinner and revenge could be an awesome sight to behold.


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Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time. Leonard Nimoy performs a dark, vintage Evelyn Waugh tickler about a stranded jungle explorer forced to read Dickens aloud. Plus more memorable stories by Ray Bradbury, Molly Giles and Adam Haslett, read by Rochelle Oliver, Blair Brown and Isaiah Sheffer.
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Books about books, reading and authors. A lovely concept. I especially liked The Night Book Mobile. :) And of course Italo Calvino's short story. What a writer!
"Really delightful collection of stories"
Stories about reading - all read aloud to an audience (I enjoyed laughing along with the crowd) by a very able cast. I really enjoyed all of the stories and would find it hard to pick favourites, although the Calvino really stood out for me.
I will definitely seek out more of these.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - A man is in jail for trying to break into Pattison's North skating rink by using a chain saw.
On Wednesday around 10:30 p.m., Spokane County deputies responded to Pattison's North for an alarm. When they arrived, they found a man pointing a pistol at another man. Deputies said the man with a gun told the other man to 'get on the ground or I'll shoot.'
The man with the gun was the owner of Pattison's North. He complied when deputies told him to put the gun down. Deputies said the owner was pointing the gun at Joseph Sica, 41, who was under the building with the cutting tool.
Deputies arrested Sica and Pattison's was cleared, with help from a Spokane Police Department K9 unit and sheriff's deputies. Deputies said Sica cut a hole in the floor of Pattison's using the tool.
Sica was taken to the Spokane County Jail. During the booking process, deputies found a bag of methamphetamine that Sica was hiding in his mouth.
Sica is facing charges for second-degree burglary and possession of a controlled substance.
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Tiffany, who is 9, selects the photos she plans to use in the book she is assembling during the Cotsen Children's Library workshop.
A youngster pens captions for her photos.
At left: Princeton professor Henry Horn works with
10-year-old Miranda on photographing wooden hand-carved animals.
Photos: Denise Applewhite
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Learning to tell a story
Posted July 21, 2005; 12:34 p.m.
Adeniyi, who is 10, sat at a table strewn with glue sticks, scissors
and photographs and carefully penned notes for the plot of the book he
was writing.
"It's about a bear family who lives in the desert," he explained. "The little bear runs ahead and finds a rabbit and a rat fighting, and he breaks up the fight. His parents tell him, 'Good job.'"
He held up a photograph of the story's dramatic climax: three tiny carved wooden animals posed in the "desert," which was actually a nearby sidewalk.
Adeniyi was one of 15 youngsters participating in a unique workshop
July 18-22 at the Cotsen Children's Library, which is located in
Princeton's Firestone Library. In "Bookcrafting: Animals in the
Picture," taught by Princeton professor Henry Horn, the students
learned about Horn's hobby of photographing hand-crafted animal
characters in natural environments. The children each received a wooden
bear, which they sanded, stained and posed for photographs with other
animals. By week's end, each youngster will have created a book of
photographs connected by a story.
"They are learning how to create depth in photographs, and how to
tell a story in 8 to 10 frames, which is a challenge," said Cory
Alperstein, Cotsen's acting program coordinator. "And at the end they
will have created a book to bring home to show their parents."
Horn, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been
making wooden animal figures since the late 1980s and bringing them to
exotic locales to be photographed. They have posed in the Grand
Canyon, Alaska, Japan and Newfoundland. The stories he creates to go
along with the photos emphasize ecological themes and wordplay. His
figures are inspired by stone carvings made by the Zuni, an American
Indian tribe in New Mexico, but creating a story from photos of the
carved animals is purely Horn's invention. "I don't know anyone else
who does this," he said.
In addition to their bears, the students had a bag full of squirrels, snakes, owls, mice and foxes at their disposal. Molly, who is 11, penned a story about two bears who are cousins. "They spend the weekend together, and all sorts of crazy weird stuff happens," she said. "I haven't really put together all the details yet."
The workshop is one of several programs offered for children ages 4 through 18 this summer at the Cotsen Children's Library. Others include book discussion groups and workshops on nature and the flower faeries of Prospect Garden.


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Photograph by C. Heliker
12 September 2003
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erupting on the crater floor of Pu`u `O`o, lava drains back into the East
Pond Vent and causes vigorous lava spattering as high as 10 m. The flow
and drainback lasted only a few minutes. Such activity
is probably caused by rising bubbles of gas that lift lava to the surface.
The crust breaks, allowing gas to escape vigorously and drive brief spattering or a low fountain. When
most of the gas has been lost, lava drains back into the vent. This activity
is called gas pistoning. For full sequence of images, see September
2003 archive.
Bottom: Lava spattering from the west vent in West Gap Pit of Pu`u `O`o sails over a hornito on the rim of the pit, now filled with lava. Several flows spilled from the pit down the northwest flank of Pu`u `O`o, adding yet more lava to the west shield. The hornito and West Gap Pit were present before this most recent activity.
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Daniel Ghita to Square Off TWICE Against Badr Hari
The big fights are what attract fans to kickboxing, and while there are rumblings of K-1 returning at some point this year and putting on shows featuring Heavyweights and Super Heavyweights, but no one is quite certain if the same line up of elite fighters will be willing to do business with K-1 due to outstanding debts and fears of not being paid promptly. Where K-1 lacks, other promoters will always step forward and pick up the slack, which is what is happening now. According to Romanian site GSP.ro (I know, I know), Daniel Ghita is set to do battle with Badr Hari not once but twice.
"It's an honor for me to fight the best K-1 fighter," Ghita told the press.
The first fight is apparently set to happen on September 11th of this year in Amsterdam promoted by none other than It's Showtime. This is a fight that has been a long time in the making, with rumors of the fight being in negotiations before the May 14th Lyon It's Showtime show. What's interesting is that it appears that It's Showtime will continue with their pattern of putting on two big shows back-to-back, with the Fast and Furious tournament happening on September 24th in Brussels, Belgium featuring a 70kg MAX tournament between the best in the world. If the September 11th fight is indeed to take place in Amsterdam, the question to ask is where the fight will take place. There have been rumors that It's Showtime was still looking to run the Amsterdam ArenA in the fall, but with no concrete date or headlining fight yet.
A fight between Daniel Ghita and Badr Hari would seem to be that big fight that could help spur a huge event, but there are a lot of venues for them to promote, so we'll have to wait and see.
Eduard Irimia, the promoter of the Local Kombat series in Romania is also quoted saying that Badr Hari will once again face off with the Romanian Ghita for Local Kombat in early 2012, which coincides with his statements a few weeks ago that he was putting together a Ghita and Hari showdown in Romania "soon."
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Rocky Mountain
National Park
The grandeur of Rocky Mountain National Park is the culmination of many geologic events:
- the formation of the rocks through hundreds of millions of years,
- the repeated uplift of the mountains by gigantic tectonic forces, and
- millions of years of erosion by water and ice that sculpted the mountains into their present forms.
Brief geologic history
Most of the rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park—excluding the newer rocks of the Never Summer Mountains—originally were shale, siltstone, and sandstone, along with some volcanic rocks deposited about 1.8 to 2 billion years ago in an ancient sea. Between 1.7 and 1.6 billion years ago, these sedimentary rocks were caught in a collision zone between sections of the Earth's crust called tectonic plates.
These rocks, then in the core of an ancient Proterozoic mountain range, were recrystallized into metamorphic rocks by enormous heat and pressure resulting from the collision. The shale, which contained mostly clay minerals and some very fine sand and silt, was converted into biotite schist. The layers with more sandstone were converted into biotite gneiss.
Granites found in the park probably resulted from the melting of pre-existing sedimentary or metamorphic rocks in the primordial crust shortly after the formation of the Earth. The Silver Plume granite that occurs in much of the east side of the park intruded upward into the metamorphic rocks about 300 million years after the formation of the Proterozoic mountains. We do not know what caused this igneous episode.
The high mountains that formed here during Proterozoic time were slowly eroded and reduced to a fairly flat surface, exposing the core of metamorphic rocks and granite. This erosion occurred over a long period, from approximately 1,300 million to 500 million years ago. Little else is known about the geologic events in this area during this time span because no rocks of that age are present in the region.
About 500 million years ago, this relatively flat area became covered with shallow seas. Over the next 200 million years, several hundreds of thousands of feet of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks were deposited on the old Proterozoic surface. During the middle Pennsylvanian Period, yet another mountain range was uplifted in this area. From it the Paleozoic Period sediments were eroded.
Sediments shed from these "ancestral Rocky Mountains" were deposited along the mountain flanks. Today, these make up the Fountain Formation, which comprises the
- "Flatirons" west of Boulder, Colorado;
- the spectacular walls of Red Rocks Park west of Denver; and
- the red rocks in the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs.
The area that is now Rocky Mountain National Park was eroded again and intermittently covered by seas from the middle of the Permian Period to the end of the Cretaceous Period about 65 million years ago. Abundant bones and tracks found in sedimentary rocks in the Rocky Mountain region date back to Jurassic and Cretaceous times, indicating that dinosaurs lived here during those periods.
Major tectonic plates of the Earth's crust began to collide along what was then the western edge of North America about 130 million years ago. Uplift caused by this collision began to affect the area of the present Colorado Rockies about 70 million years ago. As the region began to rise, the Cretaceous sea withdrew and the thick layer of sedimentary rocks that had accumulated began to erode. Within a few million years, the sedimentary rocks of the Front Range had eroded away, and the Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks again were exposed to erosion.
As uplift proceeded, deep fault zones formed as enormous stresses pulled the Earth's crust apart at what is now the west side of the park. This allowed granitic magmas to rise into the present area of the Never Summer Mountains. Between 29 and 24 million years ago, the magmas reached the surface and erupted as volcanoes. The tops of the volcanoes stood several thousand feet above the present granitic masses of the Never Summers, which since have been eroded to their present size. Lava flows and extensive ash beds from the volcanoes are preserved in several areas within the park.
From the plate collision to the present, rivers and streams have eroded the mountains and transported enormous amounts of sediment to the oceans. By the end of the Tertiary Period, the mountains of Rocky National Park were still fairly high but rounded. The area also was characterized by wide, V-shaped stream valleys.
Then, the Rocky Mountain National Park area saw more drama. About 2 million years ago, Earth's climate cooled and the Ice Age began. Large ice sheets ebbed and flowed across much of the Northern Hemisphere. During several major periods of glaciation—as well as several minor episodes—ice covered much of North America and Europe. The high mountain valleys filled with glaciers.
Rocky Mountain National Park felt the effects of the Ice Age. Glaciation in the park probably started about 1.6 million years ago. Specific evidence of the earliest glaciations doesn't exist because moraines formed by the early glaciers were destroyed by glaciers that followed later. Each time glaciers flowed down the mountain valleys they eroded the valley sides and bottoms, helping to straighten and deepen them, removing evidence of earlier glaciations.
Evidence of the last two major periods of ice accumulation is quite clear, however. The first of these two glacial periods is called the Bull Lake Glaciation. The Bull Lake advance began about 300,000 years ago and ended about 130,000 years ago. A few isolated remnants of moraines from the Bull Lake glaciers can be identified at various places in the park. They indicate that the amount of ice in the valleys then was equal to or greater than ice volume during the most recent period of glaciation.
After the Bull Lake glaciation came a warmer period that lasted about 100,000 years. The last major glacial episode, called the Pinedale Glaciation, began about 30,000 years ago when Earth's climate once again cooled. The Pinedale glaciers reached their maximum extent between 23,500 and 21,000 years ago. Most of the major valleys in the park were filled with glaciers during this time. One of the largest of the park glaciers, with a length of 13 miles (21 km), was in Forest Canyon just south of the high point of today's Trail Ridge Road. The largest glacier, about 20 miles (52 km) long, was the ice flow that occupied the Colorado River Valley on the west side of the park. The ice in many of these glaciers reached thicknesses of 1,000 to 1,500 feet (305 to 457 m).
Between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago, the climate warmed and the glaciers rapidly disappeared. The only glaciers found in the park today occupy locations that receive a large amount of snow blown across the mountain ridges into northeast-facing, shaded cirques where snow melts slowly during summer. None of these glaciers are remnants of Ice Age glaciers.
Some scientists believe that we are living today in a warming interglacial period. But they speculate that climates might cool again, and the glaciers could return.
Points of Geologic Interest
Longs Peak is the highest peak in the park, cresting at 14,255 ft with a conspicuous flat summit. It is a prominent feature from many vantage points along roads in the park, and along many backcountry hiking trails. South of Estes Park on Highway 7, a roadside viewing area provides a fine view of the northeast face, a 1,000-foot sheer cliff of the glacial cirque headwall called The Diamond.Trail Ridge Road takes visitors on a traverse back in time over the park's high mountain ridges. Here are remnants of the most ancient rocks in the park, recognizable by the marbled gray, white, and black bands of minerals in granular streaky gneiss and the darker, finer grained schist. The Silver Plume Granite is distinctive for its gray-tan and pink-red coloration and for the prominent feldspar crystals that sparkle in the sunlight.
Old Fall River Road is a one-way road from Endovalley to the Alpine Visitor Center. It crosses Chiquita Creek, where there is a good view of Hanging Valley. Geologists believe that this canyon and the Fall River Canyon were once on the same level. However, the carving action of the Fall River Glacier scraped the main gorge so deeply that the side canyon was left hanging high up on the wall. Across the creek, you can see pits in granite rock, ground out by the swirling waters of the glacier.
Glacier Gorge has one of the park's best examples of a classic glacier-carved, U-shaped valley, which is visible from Bear Lake and Fall River Valley. The sharp peak of The Spearhead in Glacier Gorge is a "horn", a pyramidal spire that remains after glaciers carved cirques on three or more faces of the peak.
Moraine Park's long, wooded slope at its south edge is a classic example of the lateral moraine, rock rubble that forms at the side of a glacier. Close examination of the moraines along both north and south flanks of Moraine Park show deposits of the older Bull Lake Glaciation and the younger, more prominent Pinedale Glaciation.
Kawuneeche Valley is a long, broad glacial valley formed by water and ice erosion along a major fault zone. Looking south from Farview Curve, you can see the headwaters of the Colorado River (originally named the Grand River) meandering along it. Over the past several hundred thousand years, the valley has been widened and its walls steepened by several glaciers fed from the Never Summer Mountains across the valley and from the Milner Pass area. The Colorado gathers strength and flow volume here from snow melt before descending through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, the former Glen Canyon in Arizona, and ultimately, the Grand Canyon to the Gulf of California.
Grand Ditch is a water diversion project located alongside the Never Summer Mountains that predates the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. Construction was begun in 1890 and completed in 1936. The 17 mi system delivers an average of 20,000 acre-feet of water annually over the Continental Divide at La Poudre Pass to the eastern plains of Colorado.
The Never Summer Mountains are in large part are roots of extinct volcanoes. Several thousand feet of volcanic rock eroded away; what remains today is granitic rock that are the remnants of the magma chambers below the volcanoes that erupted between 24 and 29 million years ago.
Numerous mining claims were staked in the late 1800s in the Never Summer Mountains (and elsewhere in the park). One of these sites is Lulu City (about 3 miles up the Colorado River Trail). Optimistic prospectors hoped for silver and gold. Rocky Mountain National Park's location just beyond the Colorado Mineral Belt-- which produces gold, silver, tungsten, molybdenum, uranium, lead, and zinc-- obviously disappointed those prospectors but made possible the setting aside of this area as a national park that has no minerals of commercial value.
Geologic History
Ancient rocks form the core of the mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park. These rocks are more than 1,700 million years old and are from Precambrian time. In areas less exposed to the forces of heat and . . . read more
Geologic Setting
Looking west from Denver the Front Range rises from the plains in two giant steps: first the foothills that climb above the "Mile High City," then the high alpine summits, 54 of which loom above 14,000 feet (4,267 m). The difference in elevation between the peaks and nearby lowlands is striking . . . read more
Geologic Features & Processes
The Colorado River originates in Kawuneeche Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park. Here it is very narrow, contrasting greatly with the segment of the river that flows through Grand Canyon National Park. The river flows 1,400 miles (2,253 km) from its birthplace in the park . . . read more
Full Report:
Geologic Resource Evaluation Report – A detailed geologic report is available that provides an introduction to the geologic history of the park and its geologic formations, identifies geologic features and processes that are important to park ecosystems, describes key resource management challenges and possible solutions, and lists geologic research and monitoring needs.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A general photo album for this park can be found here. For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Research and management studies have been conducted at Rocky Mountain National Park for decades, but they have become essential tools as challenges facing management of the Park have increased. Rocky Mountain National Park, for all its grand beauty and sense of wildness, is embedded in a human environment that creates special challenges. Nitrogen deposition, growing elk populations, and fragile ecosystems are major management concerns. Growing numbers of visitors come to Rocky Mountain National Park every year, 2002 visitor numbers about 3.3 million. Each of those visitors has different expectations, both for the wildland experience he or she desires and the ammenities he or she needs. Further, the Park was established not only to serve today's visitors, but to serve visitors in generations to come whose expectations we can only surmise. Managers need the best scientific information available to juggle these many conflicting interests.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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Who would you like to screw you the least?
Who would you like to screw you the least?
For all those out there watching the "sniper chase in America" closely, I present this question:
What if the sniper(s) really aren't driving a white van, but are driving a pink YUGO?
I think this whole case shows how messed up law enforcement is, and how the media has the police waving their guns in the dark.
Terrorism at its best, unfortunately, and I don't even think it's really started. Stay tuned.
How do I get involved in a project? I've been to freshmeat.net and sourceforget.net (are the two related or hold the same projects?), and besides the enjoyment I have received from downloading and installing some of the projects (and shaking my head in disgust at some of other borked projects), I have not really gotten a grasp on how to get started reading the source code and possibly submitting patches as time and coding skills improve and permit.
This IS something that I want to do. I've been using Linux far, far more than I do Windows anymore. I really have no use for Windows anymore, except for having to use it at the college or to do something for my wife on that computer. If not for the frustrations in trying to get printing working (my SAMBA skills are shot) on Linux and getting the printing to look presentable at that, there would be no reason for my wife and I to be using Windows.
Some have told me to take a look at CVS (I think), but after going cross-eyed looking at the documentation on that, I still got no where. Having said the above, I wonder this: how in the world does patching really work, anyway? Perhaps an article could go up on advogato about this? For us newbies? If you submit a patch, and it wasn't really to fix a bug but to add what you feel is a cool feature, how does someone else deal with not liking this new feature? The concept of patching confuses me. Or, what happens if you and someone else at the same time download a version of a project and you wind up submitting the same patch as the other person? Won't there be a conflict in submission of the patches?
Lately, I've decided to do away with the arm-tugging of peeps who decide that their programming language of choice is the better one for a newbie to focus on, and have decided that C and C++ are my route. I really feel naive for saying that, because besides scripting languages, there really aren't that many more compiled (or are there?) languages that I could choose from. Anyway, I am enjoying learning C, and am just now ready to tackle pointers and structs. Actually, I am holding off C++ until I feel I have a firm grasp on C++. Baby steps! I don't feel I am going to hired in this area of shortage of programming jobs for a long time anyway, so I have a lot of time!
Later, and be cool :) And, now before anyone goes off writing that "bytesplit is probably playing mind games again", I'm not :)
apparently raph can't make decisions for himself, and must do what a select few of his band-wagoneers tell him to do: that is, to prevent my entries from showing up in the recent entries. prove me wrong, raph, but at this very instant I am relieved that I don't have social delinquents like yourself working with me. The leeches surrounding you, they know who they are, are all that is wrong with the computing world. You make Bill Gates look like the Mother Theresa of Digital Nirvana.
What you said about programming languages has been said for years, and is all over the Internet. Perhaps that is a project you could take upon yourself, writing a new language that has all the things you do like about C, C++, Perl and Java, and adds in the things you feel should have already be incorporated into programming languages at this stage in the game?
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If there was an issue with multi-instrumentalist Conor O'Brien's otherwise excellent 2010 solo debut album Becoming a Jackal (under his nom de disque Villagers) it was that he repeatedly wrote as a universal, wisdom-infused observer, the all-seeing "I" as it were. This more sonically expansive outing - former pop-rocker and sometime folkie embraces electronics, horns, strings - adopts a less authoritative voice and more emotionally engaged if intellectual tone. Coupling memorable melodies and lyrics with subtle arrangements, this fulfils all the promise of that debut (which was shortlisted for the UK's Mercury and Choice awards, and won the Ivor Novello songwriting award for its title track).
Songs here allude to incomplete fill-the-gaps narratives (the time-shifting urgency of Earthly Pleasures) and hard-edge images abound as much as suggestions of metaphysical (and zoological) ideas, and they often soar - as with Nothing Arrived - on uplifting pop melodies. Or race on the back of propulsive beats (the melodramatic The Bell). There are also pastoral passages and, in Newfound Land, a lullaby-cum-meditation.
O'Brien's gently enunciated vocals carry everything, and the diverse but coherent {Awayland} is one of this year's early keepers and growers.
Stars: 4.5/5
Verdict: Irish clever-clogs steps up and outward with engrossing second album
- TimeOut / elsewhere.co.nz


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Looking for a cloud service provider that is friendly to various GNU/Linux distributions (meaning many choices). Any recommendations?
Looking for a cloud service provider that is friendly to various GNU/Linux distributions (meaning many choices). Any recommendations?
Dr. Kai Fu Lee, who invented the Sphinx speech recognition system, headed the Apple groups which created QuickTimeVR and Apple Newton, founded Microsoft Research China, founded and served as the first president of Google China, and is now the CEO of Innovation Works, has published an English autobiography. Translated from Chinese by Crystal Tai, the book Making a World of Difference is now available from Amazon for the Kindle.
Re: hjclub
I have downgraded hjclub's certification from me to observer. Not sure if this is enough to resolve the spam problem?
OK, yet another language.
Yes, why not!
Take a look at Dao, with version 1.1 just released!
A very powerful language derserving more widespread use.
An interesting language not famous but can it be the true language that people have been looking for, as an alternative to Python and Perl?
While the GObject system gives C programmers a powerful object model to build upon, C programs using the GObject has significant overhead, comparable to the virutal machines of languages like Java. So one may wonder if writing in C using GObject is really worth it, given the performance overhead and the manual labor needed (more than, say, C++ or Java) on the programmer's part for the boilerplate code?
Are there ways to dynamically optimize the GObject system at run time to reduce signal emission overhead?
How can people rate hjclub who posted how to break through the so-called "the great (Internet) wall" of the Chinese mainland as spam? He/she is doing a great service to the users of the Internet, and many people may end up helping the censors by making this useful information off the net...
yes, it works
There have been indications that Chinese inputs are not properly processed by Advogato. Test here (input via SCIM on Fedora 5, Firefox 1.5 with UTF8 encoding)
The diary cannot be displayed if it contains Chinese
Seems UTF8 is correctly supported by Advogato at this time
After looking at the diaries of xerox, I can verify that the contents were legitimate and "computing machine" (or "computer" in English) related. It is not a spam account.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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-1 (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
-2 cloves garlic
-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
-1/3 cup olive oil, plus 4 tablespoons
-1/4 cup (loosely packed) fresh Italian parsley leaves
-Freshly ground black pepper
-6 pitas
-1 teaspoon dried oregano
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Place the beans, garlic, lemon juice, 1/3 cup olive oil, and parsley in the work bowl of a food processor. Pulse until the mixture is coarsely chopped. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer the bean puree to a small bowl.
3. Cut each pita in half and then into 8 wedges. Arrange the pita wedges on a large baking sheet. Pour the remaining oil over the pitas. Toss and spread out the wedges evenly. Sprinkle with the oregano, salt, and pepper. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, or until toasted and golden in color.
4. Serve the pita toasts warm or at room temperature alongside the bean puree.
At the wake for George's girlfriend's aunt, debate of a social nicety escalates into an all-out brawl when his girlfriend's brother Timmy calls him out for double-dipping. For what it's worth, George defends his choice: "I'll dip the way I wanna dip."
-1 (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
-2 cloves garlic
-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
-1/3 cup olive oil, plus 4 tablespoons
-1/4 cup (loosely packed) fresh Italian parsley leaves
-Freshly ground black pepper
-6 pitas
-1 teaspoon dried oregano
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Place the beans, garlic, lemon juice, 1/3 cup olive oil, and parsley in the work bowl of a food processor. Pulse until the mixture is coarsely chopped. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer the bean puree to a small bowl.
3. Cut each pita in half and then into 8 wedges. Arrange the pita wedges on a large baking sheet. Pour the remaining oil over the pitas. Toss and spread out the wedges evenly. Sprinkle with the oregano, salt, and pepper. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, or until toasted and golden in color.
4. Serve the pita toasts warm or at room temperature alongside the bean puree.
Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) waits in line at the department store to exchange the Chip N' Dip he and Trudy (Alison Brie) received as a wedding gift, since they already had one. But he can only get store credit... which leads to Pete gleefully purchasing a 22-caliber rifle.
-2 large yellow onions
-2 tablespoons unsalted butter
-1/8 cup vegetable oil
-1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
-1 teaspoon kosher salt
-1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
-4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
-1/2 cup sour cream
-1/2 cup mayonnaise
1. Cut the onions in half and then slice them into 1/8-inch thick half-rounds. (You will have about 3 cups of onions.) Heat the butter and oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the onions, cayenne, salt and pepper, and saute for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 20 more minutes until the onions are browned and caramelized. Allow the onions to cool.
2. Place the cream cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat until smooth. Add the onions and mix well. Taste for seasonings. Serve at room temperature.
(from Ezra Pound Cake, adapted from The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook)
Cat siblings Chip and Dip first appeared on Sesame Street in the mid-1980s; the raspy-voiced felines would play tricks on Oscar the Grouch.
-4 ripe avocados
-3 limes, juiced
-1/2 red onion, chopped
-1 garlic clove, minced
-2 serrano chiles, sliced thinly
-1 big handful fresh cilantro, finely chopped
-Extra-virgin olive oil
-Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Halve and pit the avocados. Scoop out the flesh with a tablespoon into a mixing bowl. Mash the avocados with a fork, leaving them somewhat chunky. Add the remaining ingredients, and fold everything together to gently mix. Lay a piece of plastic wrap right on the surface of the guacamole so it doesn't brown and refrigerate 1 hour before serving.
(from Food Network/Tyler Florence)
In season 8's Thanksgiving episode (you might remember it as Brad Pitt's guest spot), Monica doesn't want to cook a turkey because she'll have to deal with the leftovers. Joey promises her that he'll eat the whole 19-lb turkey, but when Monica sees him chomping on potato chips, she scolds him for filling up too early. He responds, "Let me explain to you how the human body works. I have to warm my stomach first. Eatin' chips is like stretching."
(Photo is from a different recipe.)
-4 medium ears of fresh sweet corn, shucked
-2 tablespoons olive oil
-Freshly ground black pepper
-1 tablespoon butter
-1 cup minced onions
-1/4 cup small diced red bell peppers
-1/4 cup small diced yellow bell peppers
-1 medium jalapeno, stemmed, seeded and minced
-1 tablespoon chopped garlic
-1 cup homemade mayonnaise
-1/2 pound grated Monterey Jack Cheese
-2 tablespoons finely chopped green onions, (green part only)
-6 small flour tortillas, quartered
-6 small blue corn tortillas, quartered
-1/4 cup chopped black olives
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Rub each ear of the corn with the oil. Season with salt and pepper. Place the corn either on the grill or either on an open flame. Cook the corn for 1 minute on all sides. Remove from the heat and cool. Using a sharp knife, remove the kernels from the cob. In a large saute pan, melt the butter. Add the onions and peppers. Season with salt and pepper. Saute for 2 minutes. Add the corn and continue to saute for 2 minutes. Add the jalapenos and garlic. Continue to cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Turn the vegetable mixture into a mixing bowl. Stir in the mayonnaise and half of the cheese. Mix well. Stir in the green onions. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the mixture into a greased 6 cup oven-proof oval baking dish. Spread evenly and top with the remaining cheese. Bake for about 10 to 15 minutes or until bubbly. Fry the tortillas in batches until crispy, about 2 minutes, stirring constantly for overall browning. Remove and drain on paper towels. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish the dip with the chopped olives. Serve warm with the chips.
(from Food Network/Emeril Lagasse)
You would think that foodies like Lorelai and Rory would have plenty of allusions to chips, but the best I could find was the bit from this episode in which they enjoy chocolate fondue. Hey, it's dip, so it counts! Because Gilmore Girls is all about the words, here's the exchange:
EMILY: This feels so decadent. Isn't this decadent?
RORY: Very decadent.
LORELAI: Are there more marshmallows?
EMILY: All you two have been dipping is the marshmallows! You haven't touched the kiwi, or the pineapple, or the tangelo slices.
RORY: But it's fruit.
EMILY: Fruit is good for you.
RORY: We're fondue purists, Grandma.
LORELAI: Yeah, we dip old school.
EMILY: The government says you should have nine servings of fruit and vegetables per day.
LORELAI: Imperialist propaganda.
RORY: I think Noam Chomsky would agree.
LORELAI: I bet Noam doesn't dip fruit.
RORY: Or laugh. Ever seen that punim on him?
LORELAI: Easter Island.
EMILY: Luminista, please bring more marshmallows.
LORELAI: Bless you.
-12 ounces of dark chocolate (chips or roughly chopped if from a block)
-8 ounces of heavy cream
-A pinch of salt
-Dippables such as strawberries, banana pieces cut into 1-inch chunks, dried appricots, candied ginger, apple pieces
1. Warm the cream over moderate heat until tiny bubbles show and begins to lightly and slowly boil. Add the chocolate and whisk until smooth and full incorporated.
2. Immediately transfer to a fondue pot heated at low or with a low flame, or serve straight from the pot.
3. Arrange the dippables on a platter or plates around the chocolate pot. Use a fondue fork, bamboo skewer, seafood fork, or salad fork to dip the fruit pieces and other dippables into the hot melted cream chocolate mixture. Eat immediately.
4. If the fondue begins to feel a little stiff, add a tablespoon of heavy cream and stir. It will help it go a little longer. Eventually, it will cook down though and you may need to start a new pot.
Add a tablespoon or two of Bailey's Irish Cream to the chocolate. Other liquors such as Grand Marnier, Amaretto, or Kirsch are equally yummy.
Add a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and ancho chili pepper for a nice Mexican Chocolate.
The contents of a vanilla pod or some vanilla extract are always a decadent touch to chocolate.
A good pinch of espresso powder can do wonders!
Orange zest or grapefruit zest is nice way to create a slightly fruity chocolate.
A few tablespoons of Torani flavoring syrups (the kind used for coffee or Italian sodas) can add a nice dimension of flavor as well.
White chocolate is always a nice change, and spiked with a little liquor or citrus zest becomes heavenly.
Steeping the cream for an hour beforehand and while heating it can add a nice subtle flavor, lemongrass for white chocolate or a bag of Earl Grey tea for dark chocolate are particularly stylish and contemporary.f
(from Simply Recipes)
TLC's bizarre wedding reality series invited women to be bridezillas, but in the form of snarkily critiquing each other's weddings. In this episode, Jessica (second from the right) had a fairly low-key ceremony, but got points off from the other brides for having chips and dip at her reception. Jessica explained that while neither she nor her husband were huge chip'n'dip fans, they were included to jokingly reference how the couple communicates: "It's our code for saying, 'I love you.'" Aww.
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Ingredients for chips
-1/4 cup olive oil
-1 (6 to 8-ounce)medium Idaho potato
-1 (6 to 8-ounce) medium sweet potato, peeled
-1 teaspoon kosher salt
-1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary
-1 teaspoon very finely grated lemon zest
-1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
-1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
-1 teaspoon very finely grated orange zest
-1 teaspoon sugar
-1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg
-1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
-Creamy Oven-Cooked Bacon Dip, recipe follows
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Using a pastry brush, lightly grease 2 large baking sheets with 1 teaspoon of oil each and set aside.
2. Using a mandoline slicer, or heavy, sharp knife, cut the potatoes and sweet potatoes as thinly as possible. On 1 baking sheet, arrange the cut potatoes in 1 layer. On the second sheet, arrange the cut sweet potatoes in 1 layer. With a pastry brush, lightly coat the top side of both potatoes with the olive oil. Bake until golden and crisp, rotating the pans halfway through the cooking time, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven.
3. While the potatoes are cooking, In a small bowl, combine the salt, rosemary, lemon zest, and black pepper.
4. In another bowl, combine the cinnamon, orange zest, sugar, nutmeg, and ginger.
5. Remove the potatoes from the oven and transfer to paper towels. While still warm, sprinkle the potatoes with the lemon salt mixture, and the sweet potatoes with the cinnamon mixture. Serve warm or at room temperature with the Creamy Oven Cooked Bacon Dip.
Ingredients for Oven-Cooked Bacon Dip
-8 slices bacon
-6 ounces cream cheese
-1/2 cup sour cream
-1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
-2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
-1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-Hot pepper sauce, to taste
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Arrange the bacon in a layer on a broiler rack set over the broiler pan. Bake until crisp and brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and drain on paper towels. When cool enough to handle, crumble or chop into small pieces.
3. In a bowl, cream together the remaining ingredients. Add the crumbled bacon and mix. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
4. Serve with the oven baked potato chips. (Yield: About 1 1/2 cups.)
(from Food Network/Emeril Lagasse)
Because why not.
-1 (15-ounce) can chick peas, drained
-1 clove garlic, cracked from skin
-1 lemon, zested and juiced
-4 to 5 sprigs fresh thyme leaves, stripped from stems
-Coarse salt and pepper
-A few drops hot sauce, to taste
-1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil eyeball it
-4 ribs celery from the heart cut into dipping sticks, 4 inches long
-1/2 seedless cucumber, cut into sticks
-1 red bell pepper, trimmed and cut into sticks
-1/2 pint grape tomatoes
-1 sack reduced fat gourmet chips (recommended: Terra brand Garlic and Onion Yukon Gold flavor potato chips (50 percent less fat than regular chips))
Combine the chick peas, garlic, lemon zest and juice, thyme, salt and pepper and hot sauce in food processor. Turn processor on and stream in the extra-virgin olive oil. Transfer the dip to a dish and surround with veggies and chips. That'll keep the munching going on until dinner!
(from Food Network/Rachael Ray)


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By PATSY R. BRUMFIELD/Daily Journal
OXFORD – A new trial date is set for a man accused of plotting an attack on Oxford High School.
Joshua Brandon Pillault, through his attorney, earlier this week asked for more time to analyze computer material taken by investigators from his residence.
Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills rescheduled his trial start from April 8 to June 24.
Last January, Pillault pleaded not guilty to the two-count federal indictment accusing him of plotting the attack.
It's the second time the trial has been delayed. Prosecutors did not object to the change.


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I wasn't totally not serious about wanting Rihanna's Grammys hair for real. I'm no fan of the blonde Asian but at the same time, I'd consider doing it for a month. We go on hiatus at etalk for August. It's kind of the perfect time to play with something crazy. After all, it's not for broadcast. Sasha has been goading me about it so she can get her kicks. It would be like my gift to her.
Like we mentioned last time, John Frieda® has just launched their Precision Foam Colour line this March. In-home colouring that can make you feel like you stepped out of a salon within minutes of applying it. At first glance you might think this is nothing new. Home colouring products have, after all, been around for years. However, they're typically messy and come out horribly uneven. John Frieda® Precision Foam Colour is different.
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text: Well i am sad to say my three year old lab is over weight my wife has done it to all of us by over feeding so i had to take over feeding the dog this past month. I switched her food to the new purina active life, started giving her less, and i have been working her almost every day at least twice a day for the last month. She can't go for more than ten or fifteen minutes without her tounge dragging the ground and we have to stop before she gets over heated. The season starts here in three weeks and i need to get the weight off of her. Could someone suggest what kind of food i should get and maybe how much i should give her and maybe some other excersice routine. all opinions are welcome. Thank you.


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The original poster has contacted me and expressed regret to me and also to the club for casting a negative light upon the event and the club.
It sounded extremely sincere.
To that person, if you meant it, I'd suggest you also contact the folks who run the club and let THEM know your feelings. I'm just a guy with a website. I did not work my tail off to run a trial.


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A 22-year-old man arrested in Paradise Tuesday after RNC officers seized approximately 86 pounds of marijuana from a residence was held in custody following a court appearance Thursday in St. John's.
Louis Trung Huynh will be back in court again today for a bail hearing. He is charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
The street value of the marijuana seized is about $780,000.
RNC Chief Robert Johnston told members of the media Thursday that Huynh was found to have a Newfoundland and Labrador driver's licence on him at the time of the arrest, as well as a New Brunswick driver's licence with a different name and date of birth. He also gave an Ontario address when interviewed by police officers.
Huynh reportedly grew up in Woodbridge, Ont., but is renting an apartment in the St. John's area.
Johnston, though he wouldn't comment specifically about Huynh's case, said that police have been noticing through recent drug busts that people involved in the illegal drug trade often use stash houses to store drugs.
"The RNC has been noticing a trend in some of the recent drug busts," Johnston said. "The drug trade is evolving, as most of us know. People involved in this type of criminal activity are using rented houses or apartments, and some are in residential neighbourhoods, and they are using these locations as stash houses."
Johnston also said that any significant drug seizure points to organized crime. He noted that to carry out the operation of illegal drug distribution there has to be an organized group behind it. While the RNC is having success in cracking down on the drug trade, police still need help from the public, Johnston said.
"It takes all of us to have success," he said. "Our drug investigators are doing a great job on the files they have, but we need help from the general public, as well."
He noted types of suspicious activity people should keep an eye out for in their neighbourhoods, and report to police, include: people coming and going at a residence at odd hours; someone always paying cash for rent; a house or apartment that appears as if no one is living there; windows completely covered and no garbage being placed out on garbage days.
"If you see any one or a number of these characteristics, give us a call and we can make a determination whether any illegal activity is taking place," Johnston said.
Huynh was picked up outside the house in Paradise which was searched by the RNC's drug investigation unit shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. The investigation into the case is continuing. Anyone with information in relation to this investigation is asked to contact the RNC at 729-8000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be provided anonymously on the NL Crime Stoppers website at www.nlcrimestoppers.com.


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American union membership in the private sector has in recent years fallen under 9% levels not seen since 1932. Workers seem uninterested in joining, and strike activity has almost faded away. The labor force in unionized automobile and steel plants, for example, has fallen dramatically. In another example, Construction trades now only represent approximately 14% of the labor market. The inability to prevent non-union companies from taking significant market share has undercut union membership.
Union labor is not the cause of our economic problems as some would have us believe. Maybe you can throw some of the blame on the unions in the auto industry but there problems started back in the late 40's and early 50's when those crapy imports started to show. Detroit laughed instead of retooling and the imports retooled and now they are laughing.


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Posted January 11, 2008; 10:36 a.m.
Professor of English Jeff Nunokawa, who has been serving this year as acting master of Rockefeller College, has been appointed to a full four-year term as master.
Rockefeller College is one of Princeton's six residential colleges. Nunokawa's term will run through the 2010-11 academic year. He succeeds Maria DiBattista, professor of English and comparative literature, who concluded her second term as master of Rockefeller College at the end of the 2006-07 academic year.
In addition, two college masters have been reappointed for their second four-year terms, beginning in July: Marguerite Browning, associate professor of linguistics in the Council of the Humanities, in Wilson College; and Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical engineering, in Butler College.
Nunokawa joined the Princeton faculty in 1988 and teaches and conducts research on such diverse topics as the Victorian novel, literary theory and criticism, lesbian and gay literary theory, and Asian American literature. He won the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1992 and the Class of 2001 University Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2000. He teaches regularly at the Breadloaf School of English, a summer program for high school teachers.
Nunokawa is a member of the Council of the Princeton University Community and its executive committee as well as the editorial board of Princeton University Press. He served previously on the CPUC Rights and Rules Committee and the Priorities Committee. He was a faculty fellow and freshman adviser at Rockefeller College from 1989 to 1994 and a fellow at Wilson College from 1995 to 2007.
The appointments were announced by Nancy Malkiel, dean of the college, and Kathleen Deignan, dean of undergraduate students. A faculty member serves as the head of each of Princeton's residential colleges. The masters work closely with their staffs to build supportive communities and to devise programs and activities to extend education beyond the classroom.


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By: Angela Fritz , 08:17 PM GMT am 31. Januar 2012
Deadly cold weather has spread across central and eastern Europe, and is expected to continue through the end of the week. At least 60 people have died from the bitter cold overnight temperatures, which reached as low as -20°C (-4°F) Monday night. The BBC is reporting that "more than 600 people have sought treatment for frostbite and hypothermia." Typically, the elderly and low-income population are hardest hit by extreme temperatures (cold or heat), and such is the case in Europe this week.
Alaska has also been in weather news, after a wave of extremely cold temperatures over the weekend (even for our northern-most state). This past Friday and Saturday nights were record-setting for Alaska, as Jeff writes in his blogs:
Friday night and Saturday night, temperatures plummeted to -50°F and -51°F in Fairbanks, marking the first time since 1999 the city had seen back-to-back minus fifty nights. The low temperature so far today at the Fairbanks International Airport has been -44°F, giving the city sixteen days of -40°F temperatures so far this month. Since 1906, there have only been three years (1906, 1934, and 1971) with more 40 below days during the month of January. At forty below zero, the air is so cold that the water vapor condenses out into ice crystals, which float in the air creating a low-visibility fog.
According to the Fairbanks weather office, here are the likely final rankings for January temperatures at select locations in Alaska during 2012:
Nome: coldest
Kotzebue: 2nd coldest
Barrow: not in top ten coldest
Galena: coldest
Bettles: coldest
Fairbanks: 5th coldest (coldest since 1971)
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.


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"Tell us your secret," the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
I am that girl.
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way - thin, thinner, thinnest - maybe she'll disappear altogether.
In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrical book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl's chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia.
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Laurie Halse Anderson is a phenomenal story teller. I read her book Speak in 1 day, one of her best. This story was intriguing, disturbing, and heartwarming.
The one thing I didn't like is how they audibly handled what I assume are cross outs in the written from of the book. There are beeps and odd volume adjustments. I think I'd rather hear a vocal change rather than an "editing" change. I think Jeannie Stith could have acted the "cross outs" without the annoying beeps. I personally don't like that directorial? choice. I'm curious to see how other audio productions handle that challenge
"Well written however..."
Well written book. Definitely enjoyed it. My concern is the message it sends to others- really shames bulimics and almost romanticizes anorexia, or at least makes it seem like the "better" disease, that people who have it are more love able, angelic, etc... Fact is more people have bulimia than anorexia.
"adored it"
Such a great, addicting novel. You become so engaged in the madness. Would definitely recommend.
"Held me Captive"
Beware - I had to listen to from beginning to end.
If you have read L H A, you know the power of this writer and her attention to honest detail. Wintergirls will not disappoint.
"Could have been better"
The beeps were annoying as heck and crossed out sections
find a different way to represent that besides beeps
used something else or a different voice to represent those weird sections
no because she got over her disorder
Disturbing, fascinating, and well-written. Performance/audio production wasn't my favorite, but a good book, great ending.
"Wintergirls is worth your time"
This is a novel which very effectively communicates what a teen with an eating disorder goes through. You share her pains and struggles and understand her relationships. She speaks directly to the audience. You get to feel the complex nature of her emotions and root for her as she struggles between life and death. You care about her and that's what ultimately makes any novel worth reading.
"Not in to. It :("
It's a bit young also drawn out it would do best with an audience that can relate
Maybe with a big more speed
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"Opens up you heart while breaking it..."
At the beginning of this audiobook, I wondered if something was wrong with the recording. I asked myself, "Why are the chapters formatted this way?" I quickly realized they were formatted like numbers on a scale, and this was an appropriate choice for a book about a teenage girl with an eating disorder.
"Just eat!" her loved ones demand.
But for Lia, it isn't that simple. She is broken, and no one seems skilled enough to put her pieces back together. Her mother, a surgeon, treats her like a case study. Her father, newly married, is too busy. And her best friend Cassie, who also struggles with an eating disorder, has just been found dead. The most helpful person in the story seems to be Elijah, a young drifter who works at the hotel where Cassie died. Lia tells herself to stay strong by staying empty. Her weight keeps dropping.
In the end it is Elijah who most effectively pushes Lia toward life.
Author Laurie Halse Anderson writes about an eating disorder with the intimacy of someone who has experienced one. After a little while you realize that there are two ways the story could go. Lia could get better. Or she could die.
Narrator Jeannie Stith brings Lia, in all of her brokenness, to life. Her voice conveys every feeling that Lia experiences – guilt, sadness, anger, loss, hunger, hunger, hunger. And then,
in the end, hope.
"Wintergirls" is a stunning piece of young adult fiction. It is raw and real. It isn't pretty. It is, in fact, rather ugly. And painful. But if you've ever loved someone with an eating disorder, or someone with a touch of madness, you should listen to this book. It will open up your heart even while it is breaking it.
I've been a member here for a few years now. Nothing will ever replace printed books for me, but I do enjoy lots of things Audible has!
"Did not capture my attention."
I bought this book a long time ago for a girl I was dating. I tried to listen to it all. The narration is kind of lame. It's not the narrators fault, it's the book itself. Just a single first person narration of the troubled life of a first world teenage girl. :/
"Good, but style and audio issues"
This book provides a good description of the anorexic / bulimic experience. I have read other reviews which state that it is inaccurate on this front, but there is no "one" experience of any illness - every individual's experience is different and Lia's experience is certainly not inaccurate. I don't think it either glamorizes eating disorders or moralizes on the issue, and is responsible about showing consequences.
If you are reading for an insight into what it's like for these girls, then this book will do the trick. But if you are suffering from an eating disorder, or ED thinking and emotional patterns, this book will not help and may act as a trigger.
Personally, I found the style irritatingly over-written and I probably wouldn't read another Laurie Anderson book. Her writing style is chock-full of so many mixed metaphors and similes (sometimes several in the same sentence) that I think it gets in the way of the story. It draws attention to the writing, and distances you from the characters. Does anybody (let alone a teenager) truly think like this?
I found the ending wrapped up too quickly, and not entirely plausibly.
My main issues were with the audio-recording, however. The reader is good, but for some reason, certain phrases/memories are recorded with a muffled voice. Probably in the print version, these phrases are in italics or something, but the audio technique is just annoying. You find yourself reaching for your iPod to check your headphones before realizing that it's that audio effect again. In the meantime, you've been yanked out of the story and lost a few lines.
Also, and I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a sound effect or if it's just some recording noise that hasn't been scrubbed from the final version, but there's an occasional "booooop" tone every so often, playing over the narration. If it's intentional, then I am stymied as to what it's supposed to signify, because I can't make out a pattern. If it's an error, then it's just not acceptable.
"I love the book."
The book is brilliant, it has an actual story to it and is well written.
The reader for this book however, is boring and does the story no justice.
I expected a much better reader from this service.
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WOW! Great news Bob, that's pretty early for the river. Congrats on Bobby's success... I would imagine Dad did quite well too!
I guess the rumors of Merrimac fish are true afterall. Next couple of weeks should really heat the area up
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Took the boat and recently relocated son Bobby up to the Merrimack for the first time this year. Based on the reports we where not expecting much more that a shake down cruise for the boat. Launched at Cashmans and headed up river to work the creek mouths across from Ferry's Landing. It did not take very long before I heard Bobby yell fish on. We caught schoolies pretty straight for the next few hours until slack tide.
We made the run down river into the teeth of a stiff ESE wind, more to open the boat up than to look for fish. We did see guys fishing from shore near the Captain's Ladies
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I finally got a chance to read the interview with Samuel L. Jackson in the latest issue of Insider.
He's confirmed there's to be much more action (akin to what we experienced in ANH) in EpII. I hope so! From his statements in the interview, I am hoping that EpII will be the "new" ESB with regards to the prequels. Just a feeling I have.....I hope I won't be disappointed in Jackson's disclosures!


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