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Minecraft 1.8.7
Minecraft is a sandbox construction game created by Markus Persson and is currently in pre release alpha. Minecraft development started around the 10th of May 2009, pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on the 13th of June. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three dimensional environment. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various multiplayerservers in multiple game modes.
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History updates (Complete changelogs since the listing on this site)
1.8.7 [06-22-15]
Other versions : 1.8.4 1.8.3 1.8.1 1.7.10 1.7.9 1.7.5 1.7.2 1.6.4 1.6.2 1.5.2 1.5.1 1.5 1.4.7 1.4.6 1.4.5 1.4.4 1.4.2 1.3.2 1.2.2
v1.8.4 [05-06-15]
We have released Minecraft version 1.8.4 to fix some security issues. Updating is highly recommended from older versions, and is 100% compatible with all 1.8 versions.
v1.8.3 [04-07-15]
We have released version 1.8.3 of Minecraft, which brings a bunch of optimizations and bug fixes. It's 100% compatible with older 1.8.x versions.
v1.8.1 [03-16-15]
The Humble Card Game Bundle was a big success! The bundle earned over 1 million dollars after 2 weeks, raising lots for money for various charities! Thank you everybody who participated.
v1.7.10 [07-21-14]
+ Added Realms world uploader+ Added Realms player activity monitor+ Realms worlds now have more options and settings* Command blocks in Realms have been re-enabled* Improvements in Realms UI* Bugfixing
v1.7.9 [04-22-14]
We have pushed out an update that supports name changes, however we will not allow name changes until a future date. For information on how name changes will work, please see these frequently asked questions.
v1.7.5 [02-27-14]
* Minecraft Realms adds mini game support* Several server-side performance improvements and bug fixes* Preparations to bring Minecraft Realms to more countries!
v1.7.2 [10-29-13]
THE UPDATE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (This update includes 1.7 and 1.7.1) + Added lots of new biomes! + Added "AMPLIFIED" world type + Added Acacia and Old Oak wood types + Added Stained Glass + Added Packed Ice, Red Sand, Podzol + Added a bunch of new flowers, including double-height flowers and grass + Added more types of fish + Fishing rods can be enchanted + Achievements are now world specific + Gaining achievements now announced to other players + Added a few new achievements + Servers can now have a "server-icon.png" that is displayed in the multiplayer list + You can see who's online before joining, just hover the player count number in the server list + New /summon command + Added Command Block minecart + Links in chat are now clickable + Click on somebody's name to send a private message + Added a bunch of new graphics options + Added some shader tests (click on the "Super Secret Settings" a couple of times…) * Biome placement has been improved, and oceans are smaller * Portals to the Nether can now have different shapes * Fishing is now more interesting * Maps in item frames are now extra big * The achievement screen is zoomable * Preparations have been made to offer name change in the future * You can now have multiple resource packs loaded at the same time * Resource packs can now hold sound effects * Servers can recommend resource packs * Network code has been rewritten * Sound manager has been rewritten * Many many bug fixes… - Removed the Rose flower - Removed Herobrine Next up: MINECON 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA
v1.6.4 [09-26-13]
This update fixes world generation bugs that would appear in 1.7. It is recommended that you use this version and load up important areas of your world before heading into Minecraft 1.7. If you haven't got it already, this update requires the new launcher that you can find here: http://minecraft.net/download
v1.6.2 [07-09-13]
This update fixes a lot of bugs and issues! Notable: * Fixed horses getting hurt by walls* Fixed animals escaping their pens* Improved sprinting behavior* Ctrl + left-click on Mac now acts as right-click If you haven't got it already, this update requires the new launcher that you can find here: http://minecraft.net/download
v1.5.2 [05-07-13]
* A bunch of bug fixes!* Performance improvements when using HD texture packs* Many improvements for Minecraft Realms (will become publicly available "soon")
v1.5.1 [04-05-13]
* Fixed a bunch of bugs* Improved performance* Notable: Crash on Mac OS X on "OpenGL Function Not Supported"* Notable: Unable to place paintings
v1.5 [03-15-13]
Watch the Minecraft 1.5 Redstone Update in song form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmpxpH-tMWc+ Added Redstone Comparator (used in Redstone logic)+ Added Hopper (collects items and moves them to containers)+ Added Dropper (similar to Dispensers, but always drops the item)+ Added Activator Rail (activates TNT Minecarts)+ Added Daylight Sensor+ Added Trapped Chest+ Added Weighed Pressure Plate+ Added Block of Redstone+ Added Nether Brick (item)+ Added Nether Quartz and ore+ Added Block of Quartz, with half blocks and chiseled variants+ New command: /scoreboard+ New command: /effect+ Containers and mobs can have custom names* Inventory management has been changed, for example you can drag-place items over slots* Texture packs now have separate images for each block and item, and can have animations* Nether Quartz Ore now spawns in the Nether* Smooth lighting now has three settings (none, minimal, maximum)* More detailed death messages* Some hostile mobs now are harder in Hard difficulty* Many, many, bug fixes- Removed Herobrine
v1.4.7 [01-18-13]
* Fixed crash related to arrows fired from dispensers* Fixed a multiplayer crash when using fireworks without a fireworks star* Fixed long timeout when checking SRV records
v1.4.6 [12-30-12]
* Added fireworks* Added enchantable books* A lot of enchantments have been tweaked* A Christmas surprise* Added option to enable touchscreen input for buttons and inventory* Many issues have been fixed!
v1.4.5 [11-29-12]
Thank you all for coming down to Paris to hang out with us. Minecraft has the best community in the known universe! : )
v1.4.4 [11-19-12]
(Includes Minecraft 1.4.3) * Over 120 bugs and glitches fixed* Notable: The missing song "where are we now" is now available, but called "wait"* Notable: Random falling damage due to lag fixed* Notable: Falling damage when riding minecarts fixed* Notable: Enchanted book exploit fixed* Notable: Slimes have correct collision box* Notable: Signs no longer lose their text client-side Full list! Long! * [MC-2] - Enchanted items show its background on the beacon-block* [MC-5] - In Minecraft ore emerald can be broken with a minimum iron pickaxe, but the block emerald can be broken with all the pickaxes.* [MC-6] - Minecart sound doesn't stop* [MC-7] - Skeletons holding swords will shoot arrows!* [MC-13] - Arrows do not stick (and stay) in mobs* [MC-15] - Item drops drop into transparent blocks and cannot be picked up.* [MC-17] - Anvil block collision box appears "sunken"* [MC-20] - Getting door drop in creative* [MC-23] - Falling out of the world while chunks are loading* [MC-30] - Some of the regular sounds are now server-sided* [MC-33] - Placing 2 wooden-slabs will play the sounds from 12w38a* [MC-34] - Pink dye on Sheep appears white on top* [MC-36] - Using /tp on a player in different world will teleport to needed coordinates, but not change the world* [MC-38] - Fence Gate Texture flips inside out* [MC-39] - Mobs in minecarts can vanish when minecarts are broken* [MC-40] - Calculate name plate length based on username stripped of color codes* [MC-47] - Cant kill slimecubes* [MC-51] - You Can Duplicate Dragon Eggs, Sand, and Gravel* [MC-54] - mobs are immediately transfered back to the overworld upon spawning in the nether* [MC-56] - Broken or missing animations with potion of invisibility* [MC-57] - Anvil rendering error in item frames* [MC-66] - score doesn't work anymore* [MC-74] - when a block is placed next to an end portal block with an eye of ender in it, you can see through it* [MC-81] - Item Frames in Multiplayer don't store item NBT data* [MC-86] - Graphical glitch with cactus in a flower pot near a wall.* [MC-100] - Odd chance where you take fall damage when sprinting off 2 or 1 blocks* [MC-110] - Breaking effects sometimes duplicate sounds & effects* [MC-116] - Music discs reverting to original name after being played, even if they've been renamed by the anvil* [MC-118] - Dying dogs collar doesn't use your dye* [MC-125] - Signs missing text* [MC-141] - /spawnpoint command block fails directly on tripwire string / pressure plate* [MC-147] - Tree leaves break half slabs* [MC-154] - Multiple consecutive newlines in books do not create a space between lines in editor* [MC-155] - Wither Despawns in Peaceful and Shouldn't* [MC-159] - Death from a 2-4 block drop while changing gamemodes* [MC-160] - Dragon egg particles are missing* [MC-166] - Potatoes and carrots uproot themselves* [MC-176] - Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting* [MC-187] - teleporting a player triggers a pressure plate sometimes* [MC-191] - Minecart flickers when looking backwards* [MC-196] - Falling anvils do not maintain orientation while falling* [MC-212] - Faulty fall damage when logging out and logging back in while falling* [MC-218] - Breaking a block touching an open trapdoor closes it.* [MC-222] - Vines, Fern, Grass and Lily Pad appear grey when held in F5 mode* [MC-231] - Teleport through walls glitch* [MC-264] - Different stacking slab sound* [MC-270] - Skeletons shoot arrows faster than humanly possible* [MC-298] - Text misplaced in demo mode window and 4:3 screen* [MC-303] - "Your game mode has been changed" shows in log when it hasn't.* [MC-310] - Dropped items stop minecarts on their track* [MC-311] - If you put an anvil ( or a few other items) into a display case and turn it upside down then the orange from the case will start to overlay the item in the case* [MC-313] - Chest Hitbox Wrong* [MC-335] - Dropped items with NBT tags do not stack* [MC-347] - Open Doors and Levers hate each other* [MC-388] - Squids spawning everywhere.* [MC-398] - Structures generating in wrong biomes* [MC-418] - Particles don't show correctly when sprinting on blocks with different variations like wool, wood and biome colored grass.* [MC-491] - Ladders breaking glitching out* [MC-504] - Mobs try to jump nether brick fence* [MC-529] - Buggy fall damage in 1-deep water* [MC-541] - Flaming arrows won't trigger tnt when shot from above.* [MC-598] - When you have detailed item descriptions on, renamed item's name is not in italic.* [MC-606] - zombies can pick up items while dying* [MC-645] - Items at the top-left corner of a container cannot be duplicated with the pick block key* [MC-647] - Tnt sometimes makes item drops when it is ignited by the explosion of another Tnt* [MC-652] - Books allow client to apply any name and enchantment* [MC-740] - Invisibility Potions not completed in correct time displayed* [MC-743] - More Ender Egg Render Problems* [MC-760] - Denial of Service with LAN worlds if someone logs into a LAN server with the host's username* [MC-767] - Creating world with seed and map world "QUATREPOINTDEUX" fails* [MC-771] - Death by Bat* [MC-827] - Server Crash when client logs in with invalid difficulty* [MC-853] - Item frames do not show directly after entering the game* [MC-864] - Snow Golem won't die* [MC-894] - "where are we now" disc is unavailable* [MC-973] - Bat noises are painful and cause headaches.* [MC-977] - When riding a minecart, fall damage lags.* [MC-1004] - Custom spawners with no delay variance crash the game* [MC-1023] - Potion of Weakness removes ability to destroy paintings and item frames* [MC-1037] - Missing pitch rotations in OpenAL implementation* [MC-1088] - Lightning strikes can create client side fires (ghost fires)* [MC-1102] - Minecraft crashes in creative inventory* [MC-1132] - Netherportals create a huge lag, especially when serveral entities have to be teleported* [MC-1136] - Enderpearls (and other throwable objects) loose their link to the thrower when reloaded* [MC-1162] - When you jump on wheat crops usually the farmland become dirt, then seeds and wheat be dropped. However if you jump on potatoes and carrots crops farmland become dirt, but crops stay there.* [MC-1181] - SkullOwner lost when breaking a player skull block* [MC-1195] - Beacon particles show if below beacon* [MC-1236] - Escape key doesn't take you back to main menu from Multiplayer screen* [MC-1243] - Wither Breaks End Portals* [MC-1285] - Put An Item Frame In A Item Frame And Sometimes You Only Get 1 Item Frame Back!* [MC-1301] - Named maps lose their title after copying* [MC-1318] - By placing a bed at the same time as throwing it away makes it a half bed.* [MC-1319] - Getting bed drop in creative* [MC-1332] - Cobblestonewall has fence-collisions* [MC-1378] - Adventure mode graphical issue breaking blocks* [MC-1381] - Mushrooms spawn on the top of the Nether* [MC-1385] - Placing Trapdoors on half-slabs* [MC-1399] - Block textures held by players (third person view) are mirrored* [MC-1444] - Flying through cobwebs in creative affects the player and shouldn't* [MC-1454] - Shift (crouch) will not stop you from falling off of an anvil.* [MC-1464] - Falling sand appears on fire when falling into lava* [MC-1473] - Fire doesn't show if you shoot a mob in a minecart* [MC-1547] - Spinning while placing a bed creates a triangular bed* [MC-1574] - Can't destroy glass in Adventure Mode* [MC-1586] - Minecraft crashes if connection is lost when editing signs* [MC-2196] - Reopened - Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting* [MC-2417] - serious balance issues regarding bookshelf recipes* [MC-2483] - Pushing and knocbacking bugs* [MC-9] - Dropped anvil makes no sound when it breaks* [MC-334] - Tab key not working for any function on mac* [MC-450] - Chicken head movement is inverted* [MC-473] - Linux users can't open to lan because it's binded to 127.0.0.1* [MC-515] - Chest glitch that lets them appear as if they are opened while they are not.* [MC-527] - "seed" command doesn't work in Minecraft server command line* [MC-936] - Squids are flying!* [MC-984] - Internal exception: java.io.IOException: Bad packet id 249* [MC-1079] - Killing animals with fire aspect on the first hit does not cook the drops* [MC-1153] - Torch texture* [MC-1608] - Iron Golems crash the player when they walk* [MC-1622] - Enderchest doesn´t have the right hitbox.* [MC-1647] - Cannot fall into void* [MC-1661] - Crash when placing minecart on powered rail.* [MC-1741] - Loading a world that has been moved or deleted causes a crash* [MC-1745] - player can jump over cobblestone walls* [MC-1789] - Squids do not suffocate on land* [MC-1793] - Nether Brick Fence bad texture* [MC-1845] - Crash with rendering item entities* [MC-1871] - Running on leaves produces grey particles* [MC-2229] - Fences are not rendered correctly from underneath* [MC-2362] - Item frames disappear without drop when a block is placed in their position* [MC-2400] - disappearing mobs and items after dying* [MC-2574] - Slimes on water
v1.4.2 [10-26-12]
The Pretty Scary Update! + Added a beacon+ Added flower pots+ Added item frames+ Added anvils+ Added cobblestone walls+ Added pumpkin pies+ Added carrots and potatoes+ Carrots can be put on a stick to control pigs while riding+ Added a boss mob+ Added a new skeleton type+ Added witches+ Added bats+ Added mob heads that can be placed+ Zombies now infect villagers, but can also be cured+ Added wooden button+ Items can be cloned with the "pick block" action in Creative Mode+ Items can be quickly moved to the hotbar by pressing 1 through 9 while hovering an item+ Added /difficulty, /spawnpoint, /weather, /gamerule and /clear commands+ Added "target selectors" for commands+ Added option to hide capes+ Added option to toggle vertical synch+ Added customization to superflat worlds+ Minor additions to the world generator+ New potion recipes+ Leather armor can be dyed* Maps now start more zoomed in, and can be extended* Redstone repeaters can now be set into a "locked" position* New sound effects* Portals to the Nether can now transport items and mobs* Adventure mode now allows placing and removing blocks, but only when using the correct tools* Changed method of placing sideways wood logs* Improved server list* Improved debug (F3) options* Spawn protection is now automatically disabled if there are no defined admins- Removed Herobrine
v1.3.2 [09-15-12]
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v1.2.2 [11-10-10]
A whole pile of bug fixes in this one. There's still a lot more to do, coming over the next couple of weeks or so. General fixes:* players and mobs in lava or fire no longer spam sound effects* getting hit with a higher damage while recovering from a smaller one now works as intended* lava flows further in the Nether* zombie pigs eventually forgives* added support for custom skin packs* fixed duplicate buttons when resizing screens* zombie pigs and ghasts no longer get hurt by fire or lava* fixed volume sliders now saving properlyMultiplayer fixes:* hellworld=true no longer overwrites old save chunks. Player positions will still break if you switch it on a running server, though* boats are now visible to other players* minecarts move nicer* fishing kinda sorta works, but needs more work* sheep and cows look like sheep and cows now* buckets work now* fixed stairs being really difficult to destroy* increased the timeout before "Took too long to log in"* made it possible to ride carts and boats* added (after lots of work) the ability to steer server-side boats* added "no-animals" setting. if true, animals will immediately vanish* added support for more animation settings. Currently it's just the "riding" animation, but the same system will be used for sneaking To make a texture pack, make a zip file that contains the files you wish to replace, then place that zip file in the texture pack folder. There's a handy button ingame to open that folder immediately. If you place a "pack.png" file in the root of the zip file, it'll show up as a preview icon. Please make sure it's square, and of an even 2^x size. For example, 128x128 pixels.If you place a "pack.txt" file in the root of the zip file, the first two lines will show up as a description for the texture pack.
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Aftermarket ABS Fairing For 2005 2006 Suzuki GSX-R GSXR 1000 K5 Plastics Set Injection Mold
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Either this topic has been deleted, or the links are broken.
Do you Chongo Ratchet the pig up the rope, or use some other system?
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From my understanding of the far-end hauler, which is ingenious and something I probably never would have thought of on my own, is that you get a 3:1 advantage rather than the 2:1 that you get with the chongo ratchet. The system looks similar to this:
Except you have to imagine it upside down with the pig being attached to the top locking biner and the anchor at the top takes the place of the big weight looking thing. You would also want to have a real wall-hauler or mini/pro-traxion instead of having the pulley and ascender separate like they are in this picture.
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OK, I turned the gizmo upside down and hung the load from the locker; the vertical line leads up to the anchors.
And then the lower jumar and pulley should be a traxion; this is what holds the pig between lifts.
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Just for the record, the system in the drawing is 2:1 not 3:1 as ... whoever it was suggested.
Speaking **strictly as a BWT** who has never used this system, I believe the advantage is not mechanical but is primarily that as a soloist you can haul from near the bag and get it unstuck, rather than having to jug up to your belay, haul, get back stuck, rap down, unstick, jug up to belay. Repeat as necessary until vomiting is induced.
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Hi ergophobe,
I just got done soloing West Face Leaning Tower. I used the Far End Haul on my pig using a Mini-Traxion, backed up with a butterfly knot on a designated locking carabiner. After I did a pitch, I would set my lead line and then set up my haul using a Pro-Traxion (with locking carabine on bottom to keep it closed). I didn't want to tighten up the static haul line to much, because I still had to attached my Gri Gri to the static line to rap down to the start of the pitch. Plus with the over hanging nature of the wall, I kinda liked rapping down until I was parallel with anchor (like 30' from the wall most of times) and then pulling my self back to the wall. When I got to the pig, I would then pull up the slack in the static haul line (through the Mini-Traxion), re-tie the butterfly knot and back it up to the designated locker. I would grab the excess tail of haul line and use it as a lower out line as I untied my load release knot. I haven't used the Far End Haul on a bad slab haul section yet --- might try it on the last pitch of The Prow next week.
Richard / SPIKE
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Just moving this to the top of the list.
I took a really swell photo of my Far End Hauler in use when I soloed Shortest Straw a couple weeks ago.
I have emailed it to Bob Shaftoe, and he will be coming up with another one of his swell drawings.
So please stand by. I have delayed answering this until now because I wanted it perfect. Now I've got a perfect photo, or near perfect anyway.
Thanks, y'all.
And isn't that
(climbsomething) about the most amazing little HOTTIE you ever saw! Dang, that chick-ee-poo can rant!
I'm her
#1 Fan.
Check out her ranting in that post where numbnuts called me the Canadian Assassin - it's in the Community Forum.
Oh yeah, and whatever you do - don't climb with me!
I want to get this thing answered asap.
The 2:1 mechanical advantage effectively becomes 3:1 when you
pull up on the pig
at the same time.
Get it?
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I was fooling around today with the far-end hauling system setup and took a couple of pictures of it.
The first pic has Rocky far-end hauling his "Coke light" using a 2:1 system. Do notice that Rocky is wearing a helmet. Although not CE certified, at least there is something on his head.
Since Rocky soon discovered that his unique physique and bizarre dimensions precluded him from hauling such a heavy load , I set him up with a 4:1 system (picture two). Soon he was at the belay, happily chugging away his 0 calorie, non-alcoholic drink. However, Rocky spent a month raising the thing because at a 4:1 ratio, the Coke light sure moves slowly up the cliff!
Now if I had my complete stash of gear with me, I could have used another single pulley for each system, and even better yet, a "wall-hauler" instead of the ascenders. But alas, a bundle of my funner gear is at my in-laws house, and you use what you got. (The Petzl "Speed" dual pulley is used for a zip line at the camp where I work.)
My purpose in linking these pics is to ask if the pictures illustrate the far-end hauling system correctly or if I've got something screwed up. Additionally I wanted an excuse to brag about winning Rocky for my daughter at an amusement park by bashing one of those bell ringing games with a huge sledgehammer. When you don't have many claims to fame, you are always looking for some kind of excuse to toot your own horn. (Incidentally, I rang the bell on the first hit of two; on the next hit I strained my back which hurt for the rest of the family vacation.)
Disclaimer: Do do this at home. It's better than trying to figure it out after your bag is hopelessly stuck.
(edit: tried multiple methods for linking the pics including the "img" code; seems that when the "http://" gets automatically added to the link, Geocities won't let you see it; frustrating)
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OK I'm gonna ask some stupid Questions now. First of all I havent done a wall yet but am getting very close to it, I'm trying to learn all this hauling stuff before i get up there. So in the pics above is rocky actualy hauling next to the bag and ascending at the same time as he hauls the bag? the rope leaves rockey goes through a jumar (or simalar device) then to the pig then through another jumar then its anchored to the top of the pitch you just lead so your both ascending at the same time on a sepaerate line? Thanks for helping this bigwaller in training.
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Hey, that makes two of us asking "stupid" questions. (BTW, I know you've heard the old saying that the only stupid question is the one you never ask; I just wish they'd have convinced all those kids who laughed at us in elementary school that our question really wasn't all that stupid.)
Ok, have another look. This time there are two new pictures of Rocky with an additional purple rope that he is ascending next to the Coke light (you just can't see his ascender, aider, grigri, backup knot, and whatever, but trust me, they are there somewhere). It's the rappel rope he used to lower down to the stuck Coke light.
If I've wired this thing correctly, Rocky pulls down on the pink rope he's grabbing, raising the Coke light. He then releases the rope, raises the upper ascender, and pulls down on the pink rope again. All the while he is pulling down on the pink rope, he is pulling up on the Coke light for that extra lift. (But since Rocky's hands are rubber banded to the pink rope, he really can't do much pulling up on the Coke light.
Now, please stand by while we attempt to get the people in the know to critique this thing. I'm just guessing here for the most part anyway. (Surprising I've lived this long!)
One more thing: these emoticons can be really "cute" or just plain obnoxious. I haven't decided which yet. I think I'll keep using them until I really get sick of them.
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Ah so…..
Do not ret freecrmr's name at reft confuse you….
This is Doctah Piton typing at you in mock-Taiwanese on a raptop as we drive to the Varrey to go rock crimbing…..
Note the
bord text
which is
Dr. Piton harrmark….
….which is
Dr. Piton harrmark….
…..which is
way Dr. Piton rikes to type.
Hmm, frying squirrel has round eyes….
[OK, enough already. Sorry, dude. "Politically correct" I ain't… Forgive me my transgressions, I am pumped because I am en route to the Centre of the Universe….
Resume like normal Hoser accent, eh?]
First of all, Brian is going to copy and paste this thing into the post for me, so if the paragraphs don't line up properly, it's all his fault! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
So like I'm doing this from memory because I've logged off and we're driving down the highway.
First of all, let's review the
of the
Far End Hauler:
It is
used while soloing. There is
no benefit
if you are climbing with [a] partner(s),
you are
Leading In Blocks.
When Tom and I climbed Excalibur, Tom took off on solo lead as I was hauling. [Note that Tom had recently climbed off the couch after eighteen years, and high on El Cap he was making his
first-ever rope solo lead
on his
homemade cams
as I hauled the pigs. When one of the pigs got stuck, he was not there to help me haul, and I had to fight the thing myself. If leading in blocks,
the Far End Hauler since you are essentially solo hauling.]
So then the Far End Hauler is a way to
haul your pig FROM the pig
when your pig gets stuck under a roof while solo hauling.
To rescue your pig, you must
rappel the lead rope
to get beside the pig, and then
the Far End Hauler from
the pig. You will get a
2:1 mechanical advantage
as you
the pig up the haul line. The haul line does not move – it's stationary. But the pig moves up the haul line.
In Dr. Piton parlance, this is a Very Cool Thing! I used this system for the first time at the top of the
when I soloed it, and it was
so way cool
to easily haul the pig up and over two nasty roofs! I also used it to haul the last two pitches of
Sea of Dreams
by myself since my partner was asleep – he had led through the night so I could make my airplane flight.
And oh yeah, on Sea of Dreams,
dropped us a toprope on the last two pitches!
The way you have set up the
Far End Hauler
is more or less correct.
Replace the coke can with the pig.
Replace the pulley plus ascender assembly with an upside-down "compound pulley" like a Wall Hauler if you like.
Here are a few things you really must do:
Add a
to the upper ascender to reduce friction. It'll be too hard to haul otherwise.
[You should have a
with you at all times while soloing so that if you fall off, you can return to your high point using a
Body Hoist
made the same way – you are attached to the rope with a Grigri as your solo belay device, and you attach an ascender, crab and pulley assembly above you. You haul yourself back up using a 2:1 mechanical advantage. This way, if the piece you're jugging on blows and you take a further lead fall, you will be held by your
and not merely an
Taking lead falls which are held by
toothed cams
is emphatically
recommended by Dr. Piton!
tie a backup knot in the haul line
the [ascender + inverted pulley] in case the ascender slips. Use an
alpine butterfly knot.
As you lower out the pig, it is
this knot
which will hold the pig's weight
insert a
between the locker on the inverted ascender [or compound pulley] and the locker that suspends the pig, or you will be most sorry as the whole thing twists to bits
The alpine butterfly backup knot must be attached to the locker
the swivel using another transient locker, or else the haul line will twist around the pig when you lower it out as the pig rolls across the face - duh
You emphatically
do not need
the fancy-shmancy 4:1 Far End Haul! You have a 2:1 mechanical advantage already, which effectively becomes
when you
lift up on the pig as you haul.
Note that the whole
Far End Hauler
system gives you an
Adjustable Suspension Point
above your pig. When you complete the pitch, you will rappel the haul line to descend to your lower belay station. Use the
Far End Hauler
to attach the pig to the haul line. If the pitch is a hundred-and-fifty feet long, and you have a two hundred foot haul line as you should, then you will be attaching the pig at the one-fifty-foot point, thus leaving yourself an extra fifty feet of haul line. Your extra fifty feet of haul line
your Lower-Out Line.
"Get it?"
Now, when you have finished leading the pitch and need to descend to clean it,
Traditional Technology
would have you rappel your haul line after having first put the haul line through your
hauling device.
This meant that your life would be held by the toothed cam of something like a Wall Hauler, a device rated to the astonishing strength of
only safe way
to descend is to have an upper hauling device that is rated better, like say a
which you have rigged the right way according to
Petzl's recently issued warning,
or else to rappel from a
If you have a
2:1 Hauling Ratchet,
then you can attach the haul line to the upper belay station Power Point using a knot on a transient locker. You then rappel from the knot, rather than from the haul line being held by a toothed cam of some sort. When you later lower the pig out onto the knot that you rappelled from, and thus allow the pig to hang in space from the knot while you jug and clean the pitch, then when you return to the top of the pitch, you can
the weighted haul line [which should feel something like a
steel rebar
] with the
2:1 zed-cord.
Do you
"get it?"
This is the
safe way
to rappel your haul line while solo climbing.
Better Way
is to first put your haul line through a
Kong Block Roll
which is a compound pulley hauling device rated for live loads of up to
and rappel from that with total confidence.
Needless to say, this is my preferred means of descent.
operate the Far End Hauler
like this:
When the pig gets stuck, grab your jugs [which are with you at
times when you are on the wall], a
spare ascender
which you should have when you solo, and then rappel the lead rope
using your Grigri
until you are beside the pig
Untie the backup alpine butterfly knot in the haul line
Attach either your
spare ascender
or a
klemheist knot
to the haul line approximately five to ten feet above the pig
Add a carabiner and pulley to the ascender, and run the free end of the haul line through the pulley to form a "zed" in the haul line
Put your two other jugs onto the free end of the haul line, and start jugging. Up goes the pig as you
guide it
around the obstacle that it got stuck under
Pull up on the pig with one hand if you need a 3:1 advantage
Your Grigri remains on the lead rope as your backup
When the zed in the haul line has closed, you must
the system by sliding the spare ascender or klemheist knot back up the haul line
You must at the same time reset your lard ass by jugging up the lead rope using your Grigri and one ascender
Far End Hauler
when you solo big walls! Unless your wall is overhanging 100% of the way and you are absolutely certain your pig will never get stuck, then you should set up the Far End Hauler
you leave the ground.
Even if your pig
gets stuck, the advantage of the
adjustable suspension point
is tremendous!
I am
Dr. Piton,
And guess what?
I just entered
Yosemite National Park
as I typed this post!! Smell the pines, the air is crisp!
[Thanks to Brian for submitting this!]
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Dr. P, thanks for the review and pointers.
Yes, unfortunately I don't have the proper gear with me here in Taiwan (more pulleys, 'wallhauler', etc.) to illustrate it correctly. And, yes, the 4:1 is a joke (if you've got that much gear with you, I definitely don't want to be your partner!).
Re: the stereotypic Cantonese accent (Taiwanese people don't have that particular accent), I'm of German descent, so it won't bother me at all! But of course I can't speak for my friends. If you ever come out to Taiwan, they can take it up with you.
Have fun in the big ditch. Wish I could be there too. Maybe next year.
(BTW, did I mention where Rocky came from?)
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OK, OK, so I don't "get" the Taiwanese accent, eh? But if you're in Taiwan, can you do that
pencil twirling trick
with your fingers? I learned that one in class twenty years ago, and can still do it - just have to use a dulled pencil so I don't stab myself every time I drop it!
THANK YOU to everyone who has PM'd me, and who has helped me in Yosemite!
I intend to write a very detailed trip report and thankyou note just as soon as possible, but right now I MUST run back to Yos with
- I have read every single PM I have been sent with great thanks - ladies, please keep writing!!!
HUGE thanks to Brian
for posting my post
complete with my
harrmark bord type.
I used this
Far End Hauler
on the third pitch of
Lunar Eclipse
- my ledge was flagged, and when the pigs caught under a small roof, the
brothers McNeely
- Ammon
and Gabe positively
with delight at my apparent predicament -
their cries of
"Death to Wee-Wee!"
and howls of
Diabolical Dr. Evil Laughter
wafting upwards in the wind.
But I fixed them, and my situation, with the Far End Hauler.
So Dr. P. gets the last laugh -
Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!! [d.d.e.l.]
I have met with, climbed with, and most importantly been helped by, many many RC.com members, members who helped me hump my pigs to the base, and members who helped me bring my gear back down, members who have bought me supper and beer and so much more!
HUGE thanks to everyone - details to follow - must leave now.
Will write when I can! Thanks again, eh?
Your mate,
who heads up on Scorched Earth in couple days with Tom.
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Alas, no pencil spinning for me. I lack the finger dexterity for such fine motor skilled activities. But heh, I can rip the flesh off of them in a finger lock. Does that count for anything?
"Go Climb a Rock", ya hoser.
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Got some preliminary drawings done, waiting for Pete to critique.
Perhaps a preview wouldn't hurt.
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The photo above is actually a
link to itself
- a photo of the
Far End Hauler
I set up just before I left the ground on my
solo of Lunar Eclipse.
Be sure to
click on the photo
to read the detailed explanation that goes along with it!
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Hey Bill, nice drawing! (Don't know how I missed it before, but I saw it when I had a look at Dr. P's recent pic.) Using a Petzl Basic or other smaller "rope grab" up at the top might also give you a few more inches of upward movement per pull, but then again, you might not want yet another piece of different gear.
BTW, for anyone who is confused, the drawing above in the 02-28 post by apollodorus has a little flaw with which side of the rope the bottom ascender is hooked to. I believe it should be connected to the rope on the right instead of where it is.
(edited to remove the comment about the keeper cord on the wallhauler; Explorer resized the pic and things didn't look clear; at full size things are very clear!)
Thanks for the illustration Bill.
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Follow-up post.
I wrote to Petzl about their diagram that apollodorus shows on the 02-28 post. The diagram in that post is an inverted version of the one that appears in the Petzl documentation for the Basic/Ascension. I thought it look strange and would create strange forces on the gear and be inefficient. Here's the reply I got:
Quote:Thanks for contacting us on this. As you know, Petzl ascenders can be combined with other equipment to create efficient auxiliary systems. The advantages of the 3:1 hauling system as shown in the Petzl literature are:
1) uses no gear other than that you might be expected to have with you; 2) uses a minimum of equipment; 3) very efficient.
Though it may seem an odd setup, there is no problem in applying compressive forces to the equipment. The carabiner linking BASIC and FIXE pulley should be a locking oval. Putting the BASIC on the other side of the pulley would require a means of anchoring and weighting the descender. It should not be simply inverted and attached via carabiner directly to the pulley/carabiner arrangment. This setup introduces friction and inefficiency into the system.
Note that I did not ask about its application in a far end hauling system. I only asked about the basic being pulled back toward the pulley and the strange tensions that might create in the system.
So is Petzl's set up the better way? I don't have a Fixe or other pulley that small, so I can't test it out myself. If anyone with a Fixe and a Basic is bored some cold fall/winter day, maybe you can try out their exact setup and give us a review.
(edit- Did you notice they called it a 3:1 not a 2:1? That discussion came up earlier in the thread.)
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Dang, I was surprised at how hard 1:1 hauling is - only had about 90 pounds in the pig - found an overhang - and sure enough - got the pig stuck - and wouldn't you know it, it was not far end practice day. Woops, anyway, got the feel for rapping down and yanking, cussing, and doing dangerous things to get it loose (i.e. pulling it up on the shelf above the overhang and jugging back up hoping that it did not take the 8 to 10' plunge on the static haul line while I hurried back up.
Far end hauler - too complex or too much gear you say?? Bull pucky.
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Quote:Now, when you have finished leading the pitch and need to descend to clean it, Traditional Technology would have you rappel your haul line after having first put the haul line through your hauling device.
This meant that your life would be held by the toothed cam of something like a Wall Hauler, a device rated to the astonishing strength of one kilonewton.
Before rapping, why not simply back-up your pulley with a knot if you have any doubts about its strength?
Pull a couple of feet of line through the compound pulley, tie a Butterfly knot in the downstream side, and clip the loop into the power point. This is analogous to the back-up for the Far-End Hauler.
You can then safely rap from a rinky-dink pulley without going grey.
Or am I missing something?
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I assumed that this was the case also - there is no sense in engaging the toothed cam at all when rapping right?? (which on the kong - cammed is rated for 5kn down the line (verses 15kn down the line on uncammed).
edit, was not clear on kn
Printed on face of Kong 30kn up, 15kn each side (cam disengaged) 10kn up, 5kn each side (engaged). 8mm min, 12mm max
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Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I do engage the cam. The knot I describe is just a backup in case the compound pulley fails: you want some slack on the downstream side. If you don't engage the cam, when you release the pig, the line will be taught on the downstream side. You will then have to really fight to start a 1:1 haul. It's not a problem if you intend to haul with the 2:1 ratchet.
Caveat: I fall firmly within the definition of "BWT" (and quite possible "wanker"). Maybe somebody who actually knows what they are talking about might like to comment.
Regarding the Kong. Does it really just have a rating of 5kN from the cam? Even my rinky-dink Minitraxion is rated 4kN from the cam(and 10kN from the pin). Has Pete been exaggerating the strength of this mythical beast?
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This was total BWT by me, as I have yet to rap on the loaded kong. Thinking this through again, if you do as I suggested (alpine butterfly on rope-bucket side clipped to locker on PP) you would not weight the kong much at all, but load the PP. This would cock the kong on an angle and bind the rope at the top and at the pulley side heading down to the cam. This would not be optimal on the kong, because the bind at the top would be against the outer plates spring loaded biner clip.
But sitting here looking at it, if you threaded the cam (disengaged), left the swing plate wide open, and tied in with the butterfly – you are all setup, but not loading the kong at all. Yea you are going to have to engage the cam and get the pig up a ½" or so to unload the butterfly, shut the top plate and go to town. The 6" of plate from the pulley to the top biner should be perfect for a 4" or smaller loop in the butterfly.
Dang, this Kong does appear to still be ETS.
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Two comments, gentlemen:
1. Yes, you
engage the cam on the 1:1 hauling device up top before you rappel the haul line. If you didn't, then the haul line would jam tight against the Power Point, and with the weight of the pig later hanging off of it, you would never be able to begin hauling! This will become painfully obvious the first time you haul a heavy load. If your practice load does not contain enough rocks, you might be lulled into a false sense of security.
So what you need to do is leave
just enough slack
between the cam and the Power Point backup so that you can begin hauling, but not so much slack that if the toothed cam failed you would shock load the system [a].
This is the
easier way,
and also the
Better Way
if you were smart enough to buy a Kong compound pulley.
Note, Duncan, that you do not use a butterfly knot to attach the haul line to the Power Point just above your 1:1 hauling device. You actually take the locker on top of the haul line and unclip it off of your ass [
Traditional Technology
] or unclip it off of your Solo Tag Rack [the]Better Way] and you attach the
very top end
of the haul line to the Power Point using this designated
Haul Line Transient Locker.
However the
safest way
is to merely clip the top end of the haul line
into the Power Point, and then later use the
zed cord
of your 2:1 Hauling Ratchet to lift up enough haul line to put the haul line through the 1:1 device. This way you rap directly off of a knot.
Note: It is for this reason that your zed cord needs to be about
3 m x 7mm
- long enough to lower down 1.5 m to get enough slack lifted, and fat enough to be able to jug. It also needs to be this long and fat for when you cross knots in the haul line while you are hauling.
2. Here is your
Dr. Piton Homework Assignment:
I need you to go back one page, and please
click on the photo.
The photo is a link to itself, and I want you to read the potential problem that Bryan has mentioned whereby the toothed cam of the upside-down Wall Hauler could actually shred the haul line. [This has never happened to me]
I have an
I would like someone to try, which is to replace the
upside-down Wall Hauler
with an
upside-down Grigri.
I'm wondering how bad the friction will be to overcome.
You may think that the Far End Hauler is
more trouble than it is worth.
I believe that you will change your mind the first time your
pig gets stuck
when you are solo hauling either on a solo ascent or while your partner is Leading In Blocks, or when you haul something like the pitch up to Thanksgiving Ledge on
Lurking Fear,
or the final pitch of
The Trip [also Native Son, Scorched Earth, and Aurora].
Have a click, and tell me what you think, eh?
The Doc
[Coming soon to a magazine near you...]
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Hi Pete,
I use a
for my Far-End-Haul setup.
Richard / SPIKE
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Business Blog DesignPosted by Mark White, Blog Consultant in Blogging Basics , Blogging for Small Businesses , Business Blog design , Marketing your Blog , Positioning as an Expert , Setting up a Business Blog , Writing your Business Blog
When I consider Business Blog Design, Im not just thinking about the graphics side of blog design, but rather all of the elements that go together to make a successful business blog. For me, the key aspect to the design is that it should enable your business blog to support the business goals that you are looking to achieve with it.
Use your blog's "prime real estate"
To make this happen, you need to ensure that you place the elements which are most important in achieving these goals in the most prominent places. These are areas which are going to be viewed most often by your readers and so, in property terminology, would be your blogs prime real estate. Generally, these will the areas in the header and at the top of the columns and, to a lesser degree, all of the area above the fold (ie. what you can see on screen without scrolling). Use these areas carefully when designing your blog.
What should be the focus?
There is no single answer as to what should be there, simply that it should support the business objectives of your blog. So if you are looking to increase subscriptions to a free download, course or newsletter, then make sure that the sign-up box sits prominently at the top of your page. Likewise if you have a special promotion or service to push or perhaps a book that you want to publicise, then make sure that there is a clear link there through to a page where you can talk more about it.
In addition to this, there are certain other key factors that you really need to be focusing on when it comes to the design of a business blog. To help on this, I'll be doing a series of posts here which will cover these points in more depth starting next week – check it out, I think it'll be useful!
Some key elements to consider
However, in the meantime, these are the areas of blog design that I believe should carefully be looked at, with a brief overview of why that's the case:
- Profile and contact details
At the end of the day, the goal of 95% of Business Blogs is to encourage people to engage in dialogue with you so make it easy for them to do so. And while you are at it, take the opportunity to let them know a bit more about you oh, and dont forget the information you need to provide by law now!
- Navigation and usability
While you want to use the key areas for the elements that you particularly want to promote, you still need to make it easy to find all the information that it contains. As a basic, use categories and archives sensibly and let the blog software do the work for you there are some other tips on that which I'll expand on in the Blog Coach post.
- Blogging software generic templates
The templates supplied with blogging software are the basic building blocks for a blog – in most cases, a common denominator which, by its very nature, needs to be all things to all people. It supplies a good basic format but can never give you the real benefits which will truly differentiate you from others and allow you to promote your key business elements properly. If you use a template, take the best from it but then make it your own.
- RSS Subscriptions / Signups
Just like an ezine subscription box on a normal website (in fact, make sure you have one on your blog – they work well together), RSS subscribers are important or even key to developing your business blog. So make it easy to subscribe and give them options such as specific chicklets or subscribing by email – incentives such as a free ebook to RSS subscribers are an added bonus.
- Onpage advertising
Its so offputting having to wade through adverts to get at the posts and its the posts that are going to do the real work for you – if you have to include ads then keep them clearly differentiated. Ideally, unless you really need to directly monetise your blog, dont include them. Youll get all the benefits you need from the extra business your blog generates.
- Make it easy to leave comments
You want to encourage dialogue, so dont make it difficult for your readers to leave comments – having to log-in or fill in a CAPTCHA (one way to protect against comment spam) just puts up additional barriers. However, make sure that you dont allow rubbish comments either which could damage your blog. Ah, so much to think about!!
- Search Box
It's important to include a Search facility on your site by its very nature, a blog focuses on your most recent posts but is meticulous about storing everything that you write. Its the cumulative information that is the real value both to your business and to your readers. So its important that you give readers every opportunity to access it and the Search function is of course at the centre of that.
- Categories and Archives
Keep the names relatively short and where possible have them contain some of your keyword phrases. Like the Search function, these are key ways for readers to explore what you have written in more depth.
At the end of the day, making sure that you have the basics in place is key after all, you are spending a lot of time on your blog and you want it to be successful for you and fulfil your business objectives. So get the design right and make sure that it helps and not hinders what you want you blog to achieve.
A blog is wonderfully flexible, despite first appearances, so incorporate different side bars on different pages where necessary and ensure that they help re-inforce your business objectives. After all, a business blog is a tool (albeit a very powerful one) so make the best use of it you can and make sure that the blog design supports the business goals … and not vice versa.
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Bradley Spring, student at the Mark Dennett School, Kittery, School photographs from a photo album titled 'Reminiscences'. Written on the front in two separate handwritings: 'Sept. 1919 and Nov 1921 / Mark Dennett School, Kittery, Me/ 1918 I began to teach in this school / Mrs. J. Evelyn Woods.' .
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Photograph; Maine; Kittery; Rice Public Library
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Lab Overviews
- 1. Climate, Weather, and Trees
- Students are introduced to the relationship between climate and trees and well as the Vermont maple syrup industry, the case study for this module. They consider the habitat and living conditions of a typical maple tree, and the ideal weather conditions for maple syrup production. Students graph, and analyze long-term climate data.
Time required : 180 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Colored pencils, Internet browser, Adobe Reader, Quick time player, Microsoft Excel (optional), Digital Camera and clipboards (optional).
- 2. Climate and Earth's Energy Balance
- Students build and examine a diagram of Earth's energy balance, discussing the inputs, transfers, and outputs of the system. They complete lab activities and simulations to demonstrate the greenhouse effect.
Time required : 150-200 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Java-enabled Internet browser, Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Lab Materials.Lab 2A: The following materials are used in the lab.
- Clear glass or plastic aquarium or shoebox
- Lid for aquarium or shoe box, can be a piece of cardboard or plastic wrap
- Rubber bands to hold the plastic wrap in place, if used. Hint: Tie several shorter rubber bands together to make one large one.
- A gallon- or quart-sized ziplock bag filled with sand, gravel or soil
- Warm water
- Blue food coloring (optional)
- Jar lid or small bowl
- Ice
- Small insulated cup or ziplock bag for ice
- Light source: bright sunlight or lamp (40-60W). If using a lamp, desk or clamp-on type lamp works best.
Lab 2D: The following materials are used in the lab.
- 3-4 (depending on variables to be tested) - Clear plastic water bottles with hole drilled into cap. The bottles should all be the same type and size (approximately 1-liter). The bottles should be transparent plastic (remove any labels), black bases are acceptable. The bottles need to have tightly fitting screw-on tops. Seltzer water bottles are a good type of bottle. (Recommend: 1 bottle for every variable).
- 4 - Thermometers (analogue, digital or digital recording; one for each bottle). Inexpensive digital probes, such as the ones pictured here, can be purchased online. Vernier and Pasco, as well as other companies, sell excellent probes for this type of investigation.
- A clock or watch showing minutes and seconds.
- 150 ml (2/3rd cup) of Vinegar
- 250 ml (1 cup) of Baking Soda
- 3 - Sponge pieces of equal dimensions; saturated with water for one bottle, left dry for the other two. Kitchen sponges can be cut into 3 pieces to fit the bottles.
- Light Source:
Indoors: Light source (clamp lamp or goose neck) and bulb (standard incandescent or directed spot; one setup for each bottle).
Outdoors: Sheltered area with direct sunlight for duration of lab. A means for shading the bottles for the second half of the lab. A cardboard piece folded in half and placed tent-like over the bottles works well. Or you can plan to move the bottles into the classroom for the cooling phase.
Note:1-2 Alka-seltzer tablets, dissolved in water, can be used instead of the vinegar and baking soda. If using this method, be sure to add the equal volume of water to the bottle with water vapor and sponge. Another method for acquiring CO2, is to sublimate dry ice, or use a CO2 canister, such as for filling a bicycle tire. In both of these cases, let the CO2 warm to the same temperature as the other bottles before beginning the experiment.
- 3. Climatology Basics: What Factors Affect Climate?
- Students complete several demonstration labs; view interactive illustrations and videos; examine maps and diagrams of weather and climate patterns; as they explore the physical factors that influence climate (latitude, altitude, proximity to water). They also learn about the four levels of drivers that create weather and climate at various temporal and spatial scales (global, regional, and local).
Time required : 150 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Internet browser, Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Lab Materials.
- 4. Climate and Life Patterns (Biomes)
- Students learn about Earth's biomes and the intimate connection between those biomes and the climates that help to define them by becoming a biome expert. They use an interactive Google Earth globe to explore global climate patterns and characteristic biomes. After students examine maps and diagrams of biomes and climate patterns, they consider the threats that changing climate patterns could present to existing biomes.
Time required : 150-180 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Internet browser, Google Earth, PowerPoint (optional).
- 5. Extreme Weather
- Students read articles from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and develop short summaries of unusual weather patterns that have occurred in recent years. They use an interactive illustration and view graphs and data showing indications of climate change. They also examine and discuss maps of changing global temperature and precipitation patterns.
Time required : 150-300 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Internet browser, Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Quicktime Player, PowerPoint (optional).
- 6. Trees and Paleoclimate
- Students view graphs of changing global, regional, and local temperatures from both proxy sources (e.g., tree rings; fossilized pollen) and instrumental records. They then collect and analyze a simulated sediment core from a freshwater lake and view maps and animations that demonstrate how preferred habitats of tree species migrate in concert with climate change.
Time required : 150 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Lab Materials, PowerPoint.
- 7. Future of the Forest: Climate Patterns and Life
- Students return to the issue of the change in maple syrup production. Using their knowledge of the relationship between climate patterns and biomes, they predict how climate change will alter the maple syrup industry and use modeled temperature and precipitation data to select an ideal habitat range for sugar maple trees. Students then examine other plant suitability maps and explore how climate change is impacting all plant life and what that change means for ecosystems. Students conclude the module by selecting suitable trees for their home region.
Time required : 130-200 minutes
Tools and Technology needed: Internet browser, Adobe Reader, Flash Player.
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Let's see if we can debate the place of marriage in our society without divorcing ourselves from reality and the importance of preserving age-old customs
I've just got back from a trip to London to celebrate a friend's wedding. It was fantastic. I love weddings. I think marriage is a wonderful thing and believe that such a commitment before friends and family (and God, if you so believe) can create a bond beyond a de facto promise. It's sacred and worth preserving.
Which is why I support Louisa Wall's gay marriage bill.
Since the bill -- which would define marriage legally for the first time, as a commitment between two consenting adults regardless of gender -- there's been a lot of talk about saving marriage from homosexuality.
New Zealand First MP Richard Prosser, for example, says:
"It's about preserving the institution of marriage . . . I've got nothing against gays."
But what's being missed in this debate so far is that purity and preservation are not the same thing; sometimes the best way to ensure something stays precious and relevant is to let it evolve.
The best way to preserve marriage is surely to make it inclusive and to embrace all those who want to honour the love and commitment that stand at the heart of the institution. Let's say that for marriage all you need is love, love, love between two consenting adults and in that way encourage more people to marry, not fewer.
The biggest threat to the institution of marriage, is not allowing more people to marry, but rather poisoning it in a way that makes more people reject the institution. If de facto relationships seem more appealing, and if we create whole new institutions such as civil unions out of fear, surely we undermine the very institution we claim to want to protect.
Starting in the 1960s, marriage began to be seen as too institutional. It was something your mum and dad did, something for fuddy-duddies, something that conformed for conformity's sake, something at odds with the burgeoning generation of free love.
From the 1970s marriage rates in this country began to fall. In 1971, there were 45.5 marriages per 1000 unmarried New Zealanders; 27,200 Kiwis married that year. By 1987 that had dropped to 25/1000.
In May Statistics New Zealand reported marriages in New Zealand were at a historic low in 2011, with just 11.8 marriages per 1000. That saw just 20, 231 marriages.
At the same time, over 8,500 divorces were granted. Stats NZ said 35% of those who married at the peak in 1971 had since divorced by 2010.
Those numbers tell a stark story – we ain't preserving marriage as it stands. Maybe the gay community is the new growth market we need.
Without being flippant, if we want marriage to remain core to the way we build a stable society, encourage long-term loving relationships and nurture families, then we should encourage everyone to embrace it. If we value people sticking together through the joys and hardships, births, mortgages, deaths and long Christmas lunches, then surely we value everyone in a long-term relationship making their vows and getting wed.
I'm not saying that people in de facto relationships or civil unions are any less in love or less committed; but I think that all other things being equal, people who marry are more likely to hang together through the inevitable tough times in life than those who don't. There's something about the communal, public and solemn aspect of marriage that typically – although not exclusively – adds an extra layer of glue.
And that's without even addressing the rights aspect of this debate. Certainly those who say they want to protect the institution have rights, but it's hard to make an argument that gay marriage causes such harm to them or society that their rights should take precedence over those gays who wish to marry.
Having said that, I don't think such an ancient and pivotal institution should be changed without serious consideration. While I am anti-referenda in most cases, I confess some sympathy for the call for a referendum on marriage, not least to give New Zealanders a more direct voice on a tradition that goes beyond and predates parliament and its laws. Marriage as a custom goes back to before recorded history, so does not merely belong to the law-makers, but is a public institution -- and a public morality -- that belongs to the entire community.
At the very least, our democratic representatives should take great care to consult not just their consciences, but their constituents. Parliament rightly controls our laws, but our customs are not its alone to mould.
I'm also wary of the quickness and brutality with which some are judging the critics of this bill. Colin Craig and his allies, I believe, are on the wrong side of this bill and the wrong side of history. But condemning him for saying that genetics are not the sole determinant of sexuality is unfair and unhelpful.
Let me be clear: I have no doubt gay people are born gay. I don't expect those people to repress their sexuality for the sake of religion, custom or anyone else's personal comfort. They should relish their God-given orientation.
But if, for lack of more precise language, we are all somewhere on the sexuality spectrum, isn't it reasonable to assert that some people have an element of choice in their sexuality?
Some won't like to hear this, but take the example of a bi-sexual who happens to fall in love with one particular person and chooses to be faithful to them. Or the victim of child abuse or rape who may reject sex altogether or become more experimental in their sex life as a result of trauma.
I suspect Craig and I would disagree sharply on the question of degree (I think we're talking very small numbers and for most it's just following your God-given orientation). And just because a few people might have more choice over who they marry, doesn't mean all those other gay people shouldn't be able to wed like crazy. But I'm uncomfortable with the mockery of what were clearly some rather carefully chosen words.
In large part the debate has been civil thus far, which is to the credit of those involved. This is where Kiwi she'll-be-right pragmatism can be at its best.
But let's not get sucked into believeing that this is a battle between those who want to preserve marriage and those who want to overhaul it. the truth is that in this case the two can go hand-in-hand.


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Brave DBE necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Fairhills Capital
We are a boutique financial firm that targets medium to large United States business owners looking for investors in their companies.
Medium to large size companies looking for investors in their companies.
Think, Trump, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Goldman Sachs. .
The logo should be able to work in one color or embossed, but can be designed in four color. Should look high-end and should appeal to owners of big businesses. Don't get stuck on taking the "hill" idea too literally, but if there is an abstract graphic that you could incorporate that represents success or corporate growth, then the hill idea is okay.
The logo will appear on stationary, legal documents and website.
Keep the logo corporate. It should look like one unit, not type plus a graphic. In other words the graphic needs to work with the type.
Serif or san serif fonts are okay as long as they convey the right message.
Please don't use stock art. It is key that this logo look original. Final files should be vector art only. (eps or ai).
Any of the attached logo styles would work.
Thanks and Good Luck.
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In my most recent blog, I wrote about how we've allowed technology to take a pernicious toll on our attention, and in turn, on our creativity, our resilience, our relationships and, ultimately, our productivity.
This week I'm turning my focus to how to wrest back control of your attention, so you can make conscious choices that provide long term satisfaction rather than instant but fleeting gratification.
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I asked this question in different form and because I couldn't receive the proper answer so I have to change my question.I know that was my fault sorry. I need to change the Matrix Data of nodes and edges in the graph. How can I do that on the graph itself by clicking on each node?
Graph[{"Uppsala" -> "Marsta", "Marsta" -> "Uppsala",
"UpplandsVasby" -> "Sollentuna", "Sollentuna" -> "UpplandsVasby",
"UpplandsVasby" -> "Marsta", "Marsta" -> "UpplandsVasby",
"Stockholm" -> "Boo", "Boo" -> "Stockholm",
"Stockholm" -> "Lidingo", "Lidingo" -> "Stockholm",
"Stockholm" -> "Sollentuna", "Sollentuna" -> "Stockholm",
"Stockholm" -> "Taby", "Taby" -> "Stockholm"},
EdgeWeight -> RandomInteger[{10, 100}, 14]
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When you're an uber-hot tech company like Facebook or Dropbox, you've got top-notch talent clamoring to join your ranks. But that doesn't necessarily make hiring any easier.
Fact: The best new hires come from referrals. The people recommended by current employees produce 25% more profit and are 20% less likely to quit than other hires.
Some companies handle referrals by mass-emailing employees asking for names. Facebook and Dropbox, on the other hand, have a secret technique for better hiring: searchlight meetings.
Searchlight meetings are short, informal get-togethers where employees make hiring suggestions face-to-face.
Here are some tips for holding a successful searchlight meeting, which we found on of YesGraph, a company that creates hiring tools:
Keep It Short
Searchlight meetings (sometimes called sourcing sessions or blitzes) should last between 30 minutes and an hour, and occur no more than once a month.
Make It Fun
Keep the atmosphere light with music, drinks, and even prizes (YesGraph referenced a company that gave away iPads every 15 minutes).
Make Roles And Filters Clear
Make sure all participating employees know exactly what roles the company is looking to fill, and what the positions entail. Be specific about other factors that are important for the hire (for example, whether it matters if someone works remotely or on-site).
Build A Culture Of Referrals
Your company should talk openly about recruiting goals, and thank employees that make referrals.


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Clothing provides a window into the lives of the people who have gone before us. This is especially important when researching the enslaved, since there are limited primary sources about the ins and outs of their everyday lives. As historian Linda Baumgarten wrote, "…if we know such details as how they dressed themselves in the morning, what it felt like to be laced into stays, or what it was like to wear coarse linen and woolen while working in a Virginia tobacco field, we might better understand the routine, human aspects of their daily lives, which are so seldom revealed in the written records they left."
"Enslaved Girl" by Mary Anna Randolph Custis, 1830. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Depictions of enslaved African Americans are rare, particularly images that lack the distortions of caricature and stereotyping. This portrait by Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the daughter of George Washington's adopted son, is unusually empathetic and closely-observed.
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Colonial Williamsburg for Teachers
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Enslaved people in North America in the eighteenth century had different jobs, lived in different locations, and had different kinds of masters. They wore different things, and that diversity will be reflected in primary sources. In this lesson, students will use portraits, runaway ads, and an interactive web activity to learn what the clothing of the enslaved can reveal about their lives.
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"Also NED, a fire-man, a black fellow, remarkably well made for strength, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, generally laughs when he speaks, has a large mouth, which is seldom shut, Virginia born, inclinable to be fat, has a sluggish walk, and broad shoulders... I can give no particular description of their clothes; I do not know of their carrying any more than their suits of cotton and osnabrugs."
—Runaway advertisement from the Virginia Gazette (Purdie), Williamsburg, March 7, 1766.
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WHO / Marko Kokic
What is asthma?
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing, which vary in severity and frequency from person to person.
Symptoms may occur several times in a day or week in affected individuals, and for some people become worse during physical activity or at night.
Asthma attack
During an asthma attack, the lining of the bronchial tubes swell, causing the airways to narrow and reducing the flow of air into and out of the lungs. Recurrent asthma symptoms frequently cause sleeplessness, daytime fatigue, reduced activity levels and school and work absenteeism. Asthma has a relatively low fatality rate compared to other chronic diseases.
More information on asthma
- According to WHO estimates, 235 million people suffer from asthma.
- Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children.
- Asthma is not just a public health problem for high income countries: it occurs in all countries regardless of level of development. Over 80% of asthma deaths occurs in low and lower-middle income countries.
- Asthma is under-diagnosed and under-treated, creating a substantial burden to individuals and families and possibly restricting individuals' activities for a lifetime.
Related links
WHO Director-General warns that asthma is on the rise "everywhere"
Sixty-first World Health Assembly, 19-24 May 2008
Prevention of allergy and allergic asthma [pdf 375kb]
Publication, 2003