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"Philosophy dept. scraps thesis requirement"
Michael Zhong
Thursday 30 September 2010 04:15am EST.
Michael Zhong
Thursday 30 September 2010 04:15am EST.
Beginning this year, the philosophy department will no longer require a senior thesis in order for students to receive consideration for departmental honors.
In the past, some philosophy students have written senior theses simply because they felt that they should write them, Philosophy Director of Undergraduate Studies Philip Kitcher said.
"The department has had some terrific undergraduates. But we've also had undergraduates, whom I've felt, felt they must write a thesis, but there was no particular thesis they wanted to write and wrote something they didn't believe much in," Kitcher said.
"It [writing a thesis] wasn't a good experience for them, and it ended up being, shall we say, mediocre," he added.
Kitcher believes this was particularly a problem last semester, in which the philosophy department accepted just two of 11 thesis proposals.
By removing the senior thesis as a requirement for honors, Kitcher thinks the department will be able to apply a more holistic evaluation of honors candidates. The hope for the department is that a student who otherwise has demonstrated outstanding performance in philosophy will no longer be excluded for honors consideration because of an inadequate thesis, Kitcher said.
Now, honors can be obtained by writing a thesis of sufficient quality, or instead by faculty recommendations and overall performance in major courses. However, one requirement hasn't changed—students still must have a minimum GPA of 3.6 in major-related courses as a pre-requisite for honors.
At Princeton University, all students irrespective of major are required to write a thesis in order to graduate. The Princeton philosophy department considers the senior thesis, as well as the student's grade point average and other factors, to determine who receives honors.
"I think every student doing honors should probably do a thesis," Daniel Garber, chair of Princeton's philosophy department said, though he added, "I'm not sure the thesis is the best final capping project for every student."
Kitcher stood by the change.
"Honors in philosophy ought to be decided by the quality of the overall work that has been done, and that is something quite separate from writing a thesis," he said.
All departments in Columbia are bound by a University quota that limits the number of students who can receive honors to ten percent of all undergraduates in the department. Most departments in Columbia also have an honors policy which requires a minimum grade average and some type of senior project.
In the political science department, the conditions for honors consideration traditionally have included a 3.6 GPA in the major and an honors thesis of high quality, which is written as part of a yearlong senior honors seminar.
Recently though, a second track has developed in which undergraduates with faculty support can submit a thesis-type paper outside of the seminar. Over the last three years, of the roughly 16 students who receive honors each year, the number of undergraduates that earned honors through the second track has ranged from two to five.
The English department requires a minimum GPA of 3.65 in major-related courses and a senior essay for honors. The senior essay can be written by anyone with a faculty adviser's support and does not have to be written in a seminar class.
David Yerkes, the English Director of Undergraduate Studies, supports this independent study-like approach—it offers English majors more course flexibility and provides students with the opportunity to converse individually with an adviser, he said.
However, Yerkes added that many students do not choose to do a senior essay.
In the sciences, the physics department requires at least a 3.6 major-related GPA as well as a research project of distinction. The mathematics department has a minimum GPA threshold of 3.63 in the major and mandates a senior thesis of merit.
Bart Piela, CC '12 and a philosophy major and editor in chief of the undergraduate philosophy magazine The Gadfly, plans to attempt departmental honors and supports the philosophy department's policy change.
"I'm very glad I don't have to think about a thesis just for that reason [receiving honors]," Piela said.
Piela added that high-level seminar classes might be a better use of a senior's time than pursuing a thesis.
"Truthfully, students do their best work in high-level seminars because as an undergraduate you need structure much more than as a graduate," he said.
Susan Elmes, director of undergraduate studies of the economics department, said that a senior honors thesis is required to get honors in the subject.
"Graduate schools do value the thesis, as it demonstrates that a student has the ability to conduct an original research project," Elmes wrote in an email.
Economics major Jose Delgado, CC '12, agrees.
"The honors program seems like it would be appropriate if I was going to do economics for graduate school," Delgado said. But, since he does not plan on pursuing economics in graduate school, he said, "I have so many other interests outside of economics that I wouldn't want to put in the extra time."
But Piela argued that philosophy departmental honors have minimal impact on graduate school admissions.
"A thesis can't even be submitted for graduate schools because it's [completed] too late," Piela said, referring to the fall deadline for most graduate programs.
Jack Snyder, director of undergraduate studies of the political science department, believes a student should only do a thesis for intellectual purposes.
"They should not be doing honors just to get a resume item," Snyder said.


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- Steve Rosenbloom at the Chicago Tribune sums up the case against Bears head coach Lovie Smith:
"How much more does Phil Emery need to see?
"On Sunday, the Bears general manager saw a miserable Bears offense, a problem that has dogged Smith for one fired offensive coordinator after another. Even in beating the Lions 26-24 to keep alive their playoffs hopes that the Vikings killed with an upset of Green Bay, the Bears' offense was a whole lot of miserable with several slices of brutal."
"The players should get some blame, as well, and maybe they couldn't reach the playoffs under any coach, but they didn't reach the playoffs under Smith.
"How could Emery look at this situation and think it will be all better under Smith when it's only getting worse?
"He can't."
And he didn't. Its been nine years. Smith couldn't seem to identify or attract good offensive coordinators. And he can't or won't coach offensive talent.
I finally lost faith. The Bears were never going have a decent offense under Smith. And the NFL is an offensive – specifically a passing – league. I hate to see any man fired. But it really was time to move on.
- Mike Imrem at the Daily Herald on the reaction of the players after Lovie Smith told them that he'd been fired:
"Left unsaid was something that was said in a Soldier Field locker room in December of 1981.
"The Bears had just won their final game of that season but finished with a 6-10 record. A starting offensive lineman was asked whether he thought head coach Neill Armstrong should be fired.
"'No,' he said emphatically. 'We might get somebody like Dick Vermeil in here.'
"The Eagles coach was a winner but difficult on his players. He was demanding and unafraid to call out players who didn't meet his demands.
"In contrast, Armstrong was as, well, as nice a person as ever coached in the NFL.
"The offensive lineman in question's worst fears were realized. The Bears hired Mike Ditka, who as a head coach made even Vermeil seem more like Armstrong."
I suggested before the Lions game that the players might be a little too comfortable under Smith. Like Imrem, I've got a feeling this might be a good shake up in that respect.
- Brad Biggs at the Chicago Tribune on the lousy way the Bears handled the head coaching situation:
"…Smith really is being fired at the wrong time. He won 10 games and all six losses came to playoff teams, most of which the Bears ran into when they were hot.
"The time to fire Smith was a year ago when [former general manager Jerry] Angelo was pushed out the door. But team president Ted Phillips said all sorts of glowing stuff about Smith and said he based his decision on the consistency he brought to the job. In a lot of positive ways, he has been consistent. His offenses also have consistently struggled and then there is the whole not-making-the playoffs thing again. More than likely, Smith was paired with Emery because the Bears didn't want to pay Smith for two seasons not to coach the club.
"The time to fire Smith was after the 2009 season when the Bears started 3-1 and then lost eight of their next 10 games before ultimately finishing 7-9. The offense was jumbled and Smith's defense got run over at times. But the Bears did not want to fire Smith – who had two years remaining on his contract – and risk paying two coaches not to coach the club in 2011 when ownership knew there would be a lockout. So, Smith was allowed to can half of his offensive staff, including coordinator Ron Turner, and a messy replacement search began and ultimately ended with his friend Mike Martz. Smith then got the team to shell out maximum dollars in free agency for pass rusher Julius Peppers to fix his defense.
"Smith guided the Bears to the NFC Championship Game the following year and earned a contract extension."
What I find most frustrating is that the problem goes back before even this. Jerry Angelo was saddled with Dick Jauron for a year after he was hired and forced to keep him on after that when Jauron mustered a decent record. The team made the same mistake twice, saddling a general manager with a coach not of his own choosing.
For what its worth, Emery predictably denies that the year was a problem:
"'Absolutely not,' he said. 'No. 1, coach Smith is an excellent person, I've learned a lot from him, I've learned a great deal about our coaches. I like a lot of our coaches, I think we have a fine group, some of them may end up back here so that was very valuable.'"
- Like Mark Potash at the Chicago Sun-Times, I thought Emery's analysis of the offensive line was interesting:
"Asked about the offensive line, Emery said he used the NFL's STATS, Inc. and Pro Football Focus to get an unbiased evaluation of the line.
""I went to STATS Inc., went through all the numbers. Went to Pro Football Focus, did all the numbers," Emery said. "I'm familiar with STATS Inc. We're one of their contracted teams. Spent quite a bit of time with their people, not only their programmers but went to their offices, watched how they grade tape, how they triple check all their facts.
""So I trust all their data, that's it's unbiased, that it doesn't have my hands in it, that it doesn't have our coach's or scout's hands in it, or anybody else in the league. They are simply reporting fact. Some ways to look at it is in a very Money Ball way, crunching the numbers."
"The numbers revealed that the Bears were 26th in the NFL in pass protection, "which tells me we've got to get better," he said. But he added that three teams ranked below the Bears were in the playoffs and the 49ers were 25th. "So I can't absolutely say it's the offensive line that's going to determine our success or not.""
He also said that he didn't look at run blocking because its so subjective.
It's a good idea to use statistics as a tool but, as Emery noted when he looked at the evaluation of the 49ers offensive line, they are limited. Its good that he seems to know that.
- I'm going to have to think a little more about his explanation for why the offensive line wasn't improved last offseason (via Sean Jensen at the Chicago Sun-Times). I understand that the opportunities were limited and I totally agree on that score:
"My though process was, before we went into the draft, to analyze with our coaches and with our staff, we've got two tackles and we had determined that was our greatest need. We felt good about our guard, our interior play. We felt good about Roberto Garza going into the season and looking at the STATS Inc. stuff, the guy had a solid season. We felt good about Lance Louis. He had a solid season before he got hurt. We felt that for the left guard, we had a number of candidates. We had a bunch of guys that had a number of starts. We certainly had enough in reserve, between starters and backups, for the interior play. So for us, it was a tackle question. What's the age of the two guys that we have? 24. Is there a young tackle in this draft that, at the end of this fall, is going to clearly be better than the two young 24-year-old tackles that we have? That's the question I had to ask myself."
The only critical comment I have here is that Emery kind of blew off the left guard position in his explanation. Saying that you had guys who had started before in the league and a lot of back ups to cover the position isn't the same thing as saying that it couldn't have been improved. Personally, I think it could have been. I'm not sure it should have been under the circumstances. Everything you do there means you can't do something somewhere else. But I think it could have been improved had they decided to do that, something I'm not sure you could have reasonably expected at the other positions.
- Potash on Emery's approach to the next hire:
"A month after being hired as the Packers' general manager in 1991, Ron Wolf fired Lindy Infante with one coach in mind as his replacement: larger-than-life Bill Parcells, then in hiatus as an analyst for NBC.
"Wolf had casual discussions with Parcells about the Packers job. But after he interviewed 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Holmgren, Wolf knew he had his man.
"'Very briefly into the interview, I knew there wasn't any sense to go further,'' Wolf said at the time. ''I felt like I had known Mike all my life.'
"That was about as far as that coaching search went. Holmgren was hired on Jan. 11, 1992, and the rest is Packers history.
"'That's the synergy I'm looking for,' Bears general manager Phil Emery said Tuesday. 'I want that person to grab me. I want to see it. I want to hear it. I want to walk away from it and know that that's our guy.'
"In need of a home run after firing the beloved and respected Lovie Smith following a 10-6 season, it would make sense that Emery's next move would be to make Jon Gruden or Bill Cowher an offer he couldn't refuse. Instead, it appears he's more intent on using his football intuition to find the right guy."
- Jensen asks ESPN analyst Jon Gruden if he would be interested in returning to the NFL:
"'Ah, there's a lot of good candidates out there,' Gruden told me. 'I'm just focused on the Outback Bowl.'"
That's not a "No"…
- Cowboys special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis has been identified by Jay Glazer at FOX Sports as a Bears coaching candidate. That comes as this excerpt appeared in Pro Football Weekly's Whispers column:
" Cowboys special-teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis is receiving attention for soon-to-be vacant head-coaching positions. For years, he has been regarded as a future head coach, whether on the college or pro level, and this could be his first serious crack at getting interviews."
- Mike Holmgren says he'd like to coach somewhere next year. He's intriguing. I wonder if his offense would mesh with Cutler, though. Is he the kind of adaptable coach Emery is looking for? It's worth thinking about.
- I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only person who agrees with this sentiment from Dan Pompei at the Chicago Tribune:
"There is no need for Phil Emery to be locked into hiring a head coach with an offensive background.
"But there is an overwhelming need for him to be locked into hiring someone who has foolproof answers on how to fix the offense.
"And that probably means the Bears should hire an offensive guy."
"His first question for those candidates [without an offensive background] should be: Who is your offensive coordinator going to be?
"If the answer is a young offensive coordinator who could get a head coaching job if he has success, that candidate can't be valued as highly as someone who would have a longer-lasting offensive solution.
"If a candidate without an offensive background were to guarantee he could bring along someone like Norv Turner or Chan Gailey as his offensive coordinator, he would be worth listening to. Turner and Gailey have had offensive success and are not likely to become head coaches again."
- How's this for an odd quote from quarterback Jay Cutler on the firing of Smith? Via Biggs:
"'We have a lot of good pieces offensively personnel wise and hope we get a good coordinator and play caller to make it work,' he said."
For heaven's sake, Jay, why don't you tell us what you really think?
- Emery also took what I thought was a subtle swipe at Tice. From Biggs:
"'I think the important thing is that we continue to build around him,' Emery said. 'When I look at our team in the past and the team that I watched on tape and the team that I watched this fall, we've got to get better at the midfield area of making plays. Whether that is involving Matt Forte more and again I am going to be frank: Matt was brought back and I was excited about his signing because a big part of that is him as a pass receiver. For whatever reason, whether it was protection or whether it was utilization or whether it was catching, we didn't utilize Matt or he didn't have the opportunity to be fully utilized.'"
- One thing from Emery's press conference on Tuesday that I defintely liked hearing was what he has in mind in terms of helping Cutler. Via Biggs:
"'It's very important that that person either himself or staff wise has the right person to help Jay develop, but it's also very important that they help everyone develop,' Emery said."
It's critical that Cutler get a coach who can help him. One that he respects and will listen to. Personally, I think the best way to ensure that is to hire the offensive mind behind the team as the head coach and to make sure that coach has a sucessful background coaching quarterbacks. But however its done, its probably the most important part of the process.
- Biggs challenges the notion that you need to find a left tackle in the first round of the draft:
"Of the last 10 Super Bowl winners, only one had a starting left tackle that was a first-round pick."
"Guess who started for the Steelers at left tackle against the Packers two years ago? Jonathan Scott. He started seven games for the Bears at right tackle and it would not be surprising if they consider bringing him back into the fold."
- Adam L. Jahns at the Chicago Sun-Times quotes a delusional Henry Melton after the Bears beat the 4-12 Lions by 2 only points after being handed four turnovers:
"'I feel we're definitely a Super Bowl-caliber team,' he said. 'And for us not to get in is going to be heart-breaking.'"
- From Biggs on whether Emery will look at a coach who will change the defensive scheme:
"Emery doesn't have a preference for a 4-3 or a 3-4 defense but said the team's personnel is geared for a 4-3 and that the new coach would have to do a great job of convincing him the team could make the transition to a 3-4 with the players currently in the mix.
"'I think it's really important to find the person that has the knowledge and feel to make things fit with the talent that they have,' Emery said. 'That's the mark of excellence that I'm looking for. Somebody that has adapted to the role or has the flexibility and the skill set to make the players that we have fit toward making a run for the championship.'"
Technically this isn't true. Emery said the Bears didn't have the personnel to run a "true 3-4" meaning a two gap scheme with three large linemen. The one gap schemes like the one Houston defensive coordinator Wade Phillips uses would presumably require less adjustment.
- Biggs on the possibilty that the Bears will hire a special teams coach for their next head coach:
"Part of the appeal of a special teams coach is he is the only coach other than the head coach that works with nearly the entire roster. Emery, a strength and conditioning coach in college, has a similar background as an assistant who works with all players. In that way, he shares a common background with [Bears special teams coordinator Dave] Toub, who was a strength coach for 15 seasons at Missouri and UTEP."
- Pompei indicates that long snapper Patrick Mannelly might have a career with the Bears beyond his playing days.
- Biggs quotes Zack Bowman on why he's been better with the Bears after spending the offseason as a Minnesota Viking:
"'When I was in Minnesota and they did this drill called long stride, short stride … before, I used to just run and then shoot my gun and the guy would step to the side. But when I got up there we did a thing called long stride, short stride, which long stride you are running and running and then right when you get to the point of attack you go to short strides and then accelerate through. That has helped me out a lot.'
"Bears special teams coordinator Dave Toub said he's going to look into the drill Bowman describes during the offseason and consider implementing it and borrowing from Vikings special teams coach Mike Priefer.
"'He is having a great year. He's been consistent,' Toub said of Bowman. 'He's better than he was before. No question. They definitely taught him some things at Minnesota. It has definitely made a difference for him. There's something to it.'"
- Some sexy merchandise memes brought to you by profootballmock.com:
- Tweet of the week from Biggs:
"Before #Bears left locker room I asked long snapper Pat Mannelly if he was nervous watching GB-Minn game. 'My kid is not playing in it.'"
- No surprise that the Cardinals are already mishandling their hiring process. Someone, preumably from the organization, is saying the chances are 95% that Andy Reid will take the job. Perhaps it would be better to interview him first, don't you think? From the Chicago Tribune.
- An interesting Audible from Pro Football Weekly with some truth and which peripherally mentions the Bears:
"Missing on two drafts two years in a row does not hurt San Diego (for) those two years. It hits 3-4 years down the road when those (draft picks) are supposed to be good starters and depth players. The draft-heavy teams like San Diego and Chicago that really don't like dipping into free agency or the waiver wire — when they realize they don't have six or eight positions that they can play with, it forces you to jump in (to free agency). San Diego got involved with free agency the last two years and they missed on (the players they signed). It put them behind the 8-ball, to where they are reacting instead of acting. The bad drafts caught up to them. That's how you fall off."
- You wouldn't think a huge network like ESPN would be this insecure. Via Mike Florio at profootballtalk.com.
- Chris Mortenson at ESPN reports that there is some general unhappiness in Detroit over the reign of head coach Jim Schwartz:
"[L]eague sources say that even during the playoff season, the Fords were disturbed by a number of incidents that fell under Schwartz's domain. Schwartz's occasional gruff management personality also has come under scrutiny and will be addressed by ownership if Schwartz is back in 2013."
Kevin Seifert, also at ESPN, comments:
"[I] question whether firing Schwartz would repair the 'tattered team culture' Mortensen identified in his report. To be fair to him, Schwartz is one-third of the Lions' leadership team. Is he solely to blame for the Lions' culture? Don't general manager Martin Mayhew and team president Tom Lewand contribute to that as well? "
They do. But every team to some extent reflects the personality of its head coach and there can be little doubt that the Lions' lack of discipline reflects that of Schwartz.
- Fom Howard Eskin of FOX 29 and WIP radio. Looks like the Eagles aren't messing around as they go right for the high profile candidates to replace Andy Reid.
"Could have had sex with an ex NFL kicker last night.
"That would've been embarrassing."
- Can get enough of those quarterbacks on Facebook. Via profootballmock.com
- From The Sports Pickle we have this in the worst Christmas gift category:
One Final Thought
I could not agree more with Potash's assessment of Emery's press conference:
"But the only bizarre aspect of Phil Emery's press conference on the firing of Lovie Smith was how un-Bear-like it was. How un-Lovie-like it was. How rational it was. It was like a real press conference — with substantive, detailed answers to legitimate questions. Instead of being insulted by a question about the offensive line and making us feel stupid for asking about it, Emery provided a step-by-step analysis of the line's performance and why he did not address it in last year's draft — the only thing missing were charts and graphs. He gave us more information we didn't know in one 10-minute answer than Lovie Smith did in nine years. I was tempted to ask Emery 'What time is it?' just so I could learn how to build a watch."
Emery taught me a lot about the team yesterday in one 54 minute press conference and I deeply appreciate that. I also noticed that it started exactly on time for once. He was as straight forward and transparent as you could reasonably expect. It was a pleasure to watch.
Its been less than a year and I already like him better than I ever liked Smith in nine. Let's hope that feeling lasts.
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Golden Gate National Parks to Host BioBlitz 2014: Exploring and Celebrating Biodiversity of the Parks, March 28-29, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 25, 2014)—The Golden Gate National Parks, consisting of three national park units, span more than 80,000 acres and 91 miles of shoreline of federal, state and county open lands along the Northern California coast.
Over half of the bird species of North America and nearly one third of California's plant species are found within these boundaries. To better understand, appreciate and protect this natural treasure, the National Park Service, National Geographic, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and Presidio Trust are teaming up to host a 24-hour BioBlitz species count and two-day Biodiversity Festival, Friday Saturday, March 28-29, 2014. BioBlitz 2014 will take place in several national parks, including Muir Woods National Monument, Fort Point National Historic Site and locations in Golden Gate National Recreation Area such as the Marin Headlands, Crissy Field, the Presidio, Mori Point and Rancho Corral de Tierra.
Part scientific endeavor, part outdoor classroom excursion and part celebration of biodiversity and the spirit of exploration, BioBlitz 2014 will bring together 300 leading scientists and naturalists from around the country, more than 2,000 students, including 1,400 students from the San Francisco Unified School District, school groups from surrounding counties and thousands of Bay Area community members. Together they will comb the parks, observing and recording as many plant and animal species as possible in 24 hours. Inventory activities include counting seals, documenting insects, spotting birds, examining aquatic invertebrates and using technology to better understand the varied ecosystems of these unique national parks in an urban area.
The Biodiversity Festival — to be held at Crissy Field's East Beach in the Presidio of San Francisco from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 28, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 — will feature science demonstrations and exhibits, hands-on activities provided by prominent science and environmental organizations, photography workshops, food, music and art. Explorers of all ages can enjoy the festival and can "graduate" from Biodiversity University by participating in a variety of activities. The Crissy Field Center will be transformed into the BioBlitz data center where BioBlitzers will work side by side with scientists to identify and catalog what is being discovered in the field. All festival events are free and open to the public.
"The Golden Gate National Parks are well loved by the surrounding Bay Area as well as visitors around the world," said Golden Gate National Recreation Area General Superintendent Frank Dean. "BioBlitz will allow people to explore the parks in a new way, better understand the biodiversity that exists and help document and protect these amazing natural resources. The more that is known about the parks, the better we are able to protect and preserve them. Working together with the community, we can better achieve our goals and protect what makes this area one of the most beautiful places on Earth."
A major component of BioBlitz is the opportunity for the public to work alongside leading experts to count, map and learn about the parks' diverse organisms — from microscopic bacteria to the towering redwoods. The Golden Gate BioBlitz is the eighth in a series of 10, held at different national parks across the country, leading up the centennial of the National Park Service in 2016.
"BioBlitz is citizen science at its best," said John Francis, National Geographic's vice president of Research, Conservation and Exploration. "At previous BioBlitzes, we helped national parks identify new species, and at Florida's Biscayne National Park in 2010, we identified a species that was completely new to science. This year, we will be using smartphones and Bay Area-based technology from iNaturalist to document finds with photography, map them and add this information directly to the National Park Service databases. It is exciting to see the public, especially students, make new discoveries and take part in protecting the parks."
"This is a unique opportunity for schoolchildren and community members to experience the amazing biodiversity and ecological richness of our parklands in a truly special way," added Greg Moore, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. "It is also a chance to celebrate and recognize the citizen science that is happening every day — in the native plant nurseries, at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, across our stewardship and resource programs and throughout the parks."
"We are pleased to be working with our park partners on this important initiative," noted Craig Middleton, executive director of Presidio Trust. "Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of the San Francisco Presidio has been carefully restored and rehabilitated, and BioBlitz will provide an opportunity to further explore and highlight key areas of biodiversity, including the Tennessee Hollow Watershed and Dragonfly Creek."
A longtime partner of the National Park Service, National Geographic helped draft legislation to establish the Service in 1916, has given many grants to create and sustain national parks across the United States and has extensively covered the parks in its media for nearly a century. The BioBlitz program is the latest successful collaboration between the two partners. The first BioBlitz took place in 2007 at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. Others have been held at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California in 2008; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 2009; Biscayne National Park in Florida in 2010; Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011; Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colo., in 2012; and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve outside New Orleans in 2013. Smaller scale events take place throughout the year at various national parks across the country. For more information, visit nature.nps.gov/biology/biodiversity/.
The Golden Gate BioBlitz 2014 has been made possible through generous corporate support from Verizon Wireless and Southwest Airlines, and generous foundation support from the Verizon Foundation, Evelyn Tilden Mohrhardt Fund at the San Francisco Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation and the Pisces Foundation. Additional organization support has been provided by NatureBridge and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association.
How to Get Involved:
Public registration for the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz opens on March 3. To be part of an inventory team, participants must register online at nationalgeographic.com/bioblitz. Participation on inventory teams is limited, and spots will be filled on a first come basis. Children ages 8 and older, accompanied by adults, may participate in the free inventory opportunities.
Everybody can enjoy hands-on fun at the two-day Biodiversity Festival at East Beach in the Presidio of San Francisco. No registration is required for the festival. To learn more about BioBlitz 2014 and the Biodiversity Festival, visit nationalgeographic.com/bioblitz or call (800) 638 6400, ext. 6186. For more information about the parks, visit nps.gov/goga.
About the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz:
The Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz is a two-day event on March 28-29, 2014, hosted by the National Park Service, National Geographic, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and Presidio Trust. The eighth in a series of BioBlitzes being held in national parks across the United States leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service in 2016, the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz will gather thousands of volunteer scientists, students and community members to measure and highlight the biodiversity of these unique national parks in the heart of the urban Bay Area. The free Biodiversity Festival will be a public celebration of the biodiversity in the Golden Gate National Parks, featuring hands-on science and nature exhibits, photography workshops, food, art and entertainment at Crissy Field's East Beach in the Presidio. For additional information, visit nationalgeographic.com/bioblitz.


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FuturePundit: 2005 Seen As Oil Supply Tipping Point:
Commentary in Nature: Can economy bear what oil prices have in store?
Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy.
That's the message from two scientists, one from the University of Washington and one from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who say in the current issue of the journal Nature (Jan. 26) that the economic pain of a flattening oil supply will trump the environment as a reason to curb the use of fossil fuels.
"Given our fossil-fuel dependent economies, this is more urgent and has a shorter time frame than global climate change," says James W. Murray, UW professor of oceanography, who wrote the Nature commentary with David King, director of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
The "tipping point" for oil supply appears to have occurred around 2005, says Murray, who compared world crude oil production with world prices going back to 1998. Before 2005, supply of regular crude oil was elastic and increased in response to price increases. Since then, production appears to have hit a wall at 75 million barrels per day in spite of price increases of 15 percent each year...
In 2007 I thought we'd started a long rise in gasoline prices, but today's gas pump price in MN is pretty much the same as in May 2007. (US consumption is, I believe, lower than it was in 2007.) We're still years away from $7/gallon gas in the US.
Even then I didn't imagine we'd hit a production wall in 2005; when I've written about "peak oil" I've meant simply that increasing demand will outstrip increasing supply of light 'sweet' crude.
Murray and King's prediction is far more severe than anything I've considered.


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Krasnoyarsk Stolby
Ministry of Natural Resources
Berzyozovka district, Krasnoyarsk territory
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Le contenu de chaque Liste indicative relève de la responsabilité exclusive de l'État partie concerné. La publication des Listes indicatives ne saurait être interprétée comme exprimant une prise de position de la part du Comité du patrimoine mondial, du Centre du patrimoine mondial ou du Secrétariat de l'UNESCO concernant le statut juridique d'un pays, d'un territoire, d'une ville, d'une zone ou de leurs frontières.
Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les États parties les ont soumis.
The nominated area is located on the north-western spur of the Eastern Sayan. Its natural borders are right tributaries of the Yenisey River; in the north-east the Bazaikha, in the south and south-west - the rivers Mana and Bolshaya Slimeva. In the north-east the territory borders on the suburb of Krasnoyarsk.
According to geomorphological division the territory where "Stolby" is located lies in the zone of contact of Altai-Sayan mountain country with Mid-Siberian plateau and Western Siberian plain. The rocks are mostly of sedimentary and volcanic origin, aged from the Cambrian (more than 600 million years old) to the Carbon period. Stolby's massive, comprising all the known rocks ("stolby"), is a part of Shumikhinskiy intrusive complex formed of pinkish-red quartz syenite. It has a linear shape and stretches in the north-eastern direction, where the ancient remains - "stolby" - are located in the form of a chain.
Petrographic structure is plain, rocks are mostly formed of potassium feldspar - orthoclase. On the whole, Stolby's massive has a shape of a stock (drop-like or cylindrical shape) 'and in accordance with geophysical data goes down to a significant depth. In the process of cooling of melting magma, which penetrated from the depth of 500 - 1500 m into a layer of peneplain there formed a system of cracks naturally spread across the whole massive. Selective weathering along those cracks led to the formation of mattress-like prismatic detachments, which caused all the diversity of the rock outcrops. In the region of syenite intrusion there are more than 600 rock outcrops and about 60 of them are 50-100 metres high.
The newest rise and division of the territory has continued during the Cainozoi era (30-35 million years) until nowadays. Ancient peneplainized surface risen in the regicrn of the nature reserve up to 700-900 m above sea level was considerably influenced by water erosion, which was the cause of the formation of winding arcs of Listvyazhnyi, Central (Abatakskiy) and Kaidynskiy ridges, each one about 11-16 km long. On the Carnbrian deposits surrounding "Stolby" from the North, East and West karst areas appeared. Among them there are fields of karst craters, caves up to 200 m deep, rivers disappearing under ground, the so-called "stone city" etc.
Continental climate of the territory is slightly softened by mountainous relief and differs -from borderline forest-steppe by higher air humidity, precipitation (686mm) and shorter vegetation period (138 days). The average annual temperature at "Stolby" is - 1.2'C, in the forest-steppe - +0.3 "C.
Soil and Vegetation.
With change of absolute height of the area soil and vegetation also change. In the lowmountain area (200-500 m above sea level) sub-taiga and forest-steppe leaf-bearing and light coniferous forests are spread on mountain grey forest soils. The higher areas (500-800 m above sea level) are covered with the light coniferous and dark coniferous taiga on mountain podzolic soils.
On the nominated territory pine and silver fir forests predominate. Siberian pine and larch forests are less spread. Aspen and birch forests are spread in transformed areas where selective cutting down of trees was made.
On the steep south slopes there can be found small (up to 3 ha) steppe pieces in the middle of the forests which are parts of ancient steppes, formerly much more extensive. According to some data, 4-5 thousands years ago real steppes extended over a significant area on the territory of the reserve. In the caves bone remains of marmot (Marmota baibacina) and Myospalax myospalax - steppe inhabitants - were found. The total area of those pieces is not more than 1% of the reserve's territory. In those steppe parts a third of all Stolby's higher plants is registered.
The flora of the territory is represented by 728 species of angiospermous plants, 6 - gymnospennous plants, 40 - fern-like plants $ 3 - Lycopodiophyta, 257 - moss-like plants, 17 1 - lichens, 148 - fungi, including 114 relic and endemic plants of Siberia.
The fauna of the vertebrate animals is rather well-studied. There was described 1 species of cyclostomes, 22 species of bony fishes, 4 - of amphibians, 5 - of reptiles, 212 - of birds and 58- of mammals. The fauna of invertebrate animals has lack of researchers' attention. So, out of all the diversity of living beings in this area there was described 1 species of sponges, 4 - of turbellaria, 28 - of oligochaeta, 6 - of leeches, 2 - of polyzoa, 18 - of mollusks, 28 - of crustaceans, 59 - of arachnids, 1 165 - of insects.
Most of the animals are forest and taiga species. Out of the mammals sable was reacclimatized, and such acclimatisants as American mink and muskrat populated the reserve independently.
On the territory of the reserve species from the Red Book of the Russian Federation were registered: 1 species of butterfly - Parnfssius Apollo L. and 8 species of birds (Ciconia nigra L., Pandion haliaetus L., 'Aquila chrysaetos L., Aquila heliaca Sev., Aquila rapax Temrn., Falco cherrug Gray., Falco peregrius Tunst., Bubo bubo L.).
150 years ago at "Stolby" a unique mass sport movement, called "stolbism" appeared. Its essence is freestyle mountaineering. "Stolbism" in its ethno-social sense should be preserved as people's non-material heritage.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
The territory of Krasnoyarsk Stolby nominated as World Heritage Site is an integral system within which natural ecosystems are preserved in a rather stable state in spite of being located close up to an industrial city. Almost all of the nominated area lies within the territory of the state natural reserve 'Stolby' and its conservation area and due to this is under professional protection. This protection is realized on the basis of laws and enactments of the Government of the Russian Federation and is maintained by the local people's traditions.Since the end of the 19th century the region of present-day Stolby has become a favourite place of rest and mountaineering for Krasnoyarsk citizens. In 1925 the part Central Stolby was proclaimed a natural reserve and later in 1936, 1938, 1946, 1954 the area of the natural state reserve "Stolby" gradually extended. Today its total area is 47,219 ha.
Within the reserve an area for tourists and excursions is allotted (1,4 10 ha) with a special set of rules and regulations.
Across the perimeter there is an off-limits zone 1.0 - 1.5 km wide, with the total area of 1 3,464 ha.
Measures taken have provided a high degree of preservation of the nominated natural reserve for more than 80 years.
Status of being the World Heritage Site will provide better guarantees of preservation of Krasnoyarsk Stolby and protect the place from possible threats to its integrity coming from economical and recreational human activities.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
Among similar sites the territory of Krasnoyarsk Stolby is remarkable for:- The originality of the area's geology where one of the best Low Cambrian cuts represented by reef ophiolites with fragments of mantle substance of oceanic crust and unique intrusive formations called 'stolby'is located ;
- The existence of karst limestones with their natural underground pockets accumulating fossil bone remains let study the evolution of quaternary fauna of the territory.
- Fossil soils in the rivers' valleys contain the information which let scientists restore the history of the formation of contemporary flora.
- Unique combination of forest and steppe flora's complexes
- Species, endemic and rare for Russia and the region
- "Stolbism" - a unique ethno-social phenomenon characterized by the spirit of careful attitude towards the environment.


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So, a Manhattan is usually bourbon and vermouth with some bitters. The cranhattan recipe calls for tequila and brandy but I wanted to stick with bourbon so that's what I did. It's great both ways, so you can use whatever you have on hand. I've modified the recipe slightly because I tested it out a few times and decided that I like it less sweet. This is a strong drink. If you normally prefer light, sweet cocktails, you will hate this, there's no way around it. I'd rather you know that now than after you've wasted several cups of cranberries.
For some reason this doesn't really hold up as a pitcher cocktail, which is the one downfall. It's best mixed one or two at a time and served over a couple ice cubes.
Cranhattan (recipe from Border Grill, slightly modified - makes 1 cocktail)
2 oz bourbon (or anejo tequila)
1 oz cranberry puree (for a sweeter cocktail use 1.5 oz)
1/2 oz cranberry liqueur
Ice, for cocktail shaker
3 drunken cranberries
Mix everything but the cranberries in a cocktail shaker. Shake thoroughly and strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with drunken cranberries.Cranberry puree (makes 3 cups - enough for 24 cocktails, can be frozen in an ice cube tray for later)
1.5 cups fresh cranberries
1/2 orange, zested and juiced
3 cups water
1.5 cups sugar
Combine everything in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Cook until cranberries break open and begin to break down, about 8 to 10 minutes. Puree (in a blender or with an immersion blender), strain through a doubled up piece of cheesecloth and chill until ready to use.
* The original recipe makes 6 cups of cranberry puree but that is a TON of it. I cut the recipe in half and froze the leftovers in this ice cube tray that holds 1 oz per cube. *Drunken cranberries and cranberry liqueur (makes 20 - 25 berries and about 1 cup liqueur - enough for 16 cocktails)
1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup bourbon (or brandy)
Combine cranberries, sugar, water and 1/4 cup of the alcohol in a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook just until cranberries start to pop and split open, 5 - 8 minutes, swirling the pan to stir and watching carefully. Once a few of the berries split open the rest will follow, so be ready to remove from heat immediately. Allow to cool to room temperature. The berries should remain intact with a single split that allows them to soak up the liquid. Once cooled, add the remaining 1/4 cup alcohol and refrigerate 1 - 2 days before using.
* I poured the berries and liqueur into a jar and put it in the fridge, shaking it gently a couple times a day - you can make it several days ahead of time and it will hold up perfectly fine. *I know I've been heavy on the bourbon cocktails the last few months. I'm always partial to it but it's ramped up because we've been getting the Bulleit bourbon in the gigantic bottle from Costco. It's a crazy good deal.


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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
For there is no respect of persons with God.
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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A new study published this week in the journal Science finds that local lizard populations around the world are going extinct, likely due to climate change. According to the research, conducted by a team of scientists including Barry Sinervo, a herpetologist at UC Santa Cruz, four percent of the world's lizard populations have disappeared in the last 35 years, and another 20% of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080 if global temperatures continue to rise.
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We here in Florida have a different issue – they all froze to death, it has been stated that there are not many around this spring because of that.
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2013 NCAA Tournament Report — Creighton Among 5 Teams To Win Automatic Bids
Creighton, Liberty and Harvard were among the first five teams to qualify for the 2013 NCAA men's basketball tournament via automatic bids they received for winning their conference championships this weekend. Here's a recap of the conference championships:
Sunday, March 10
Missouri Valley Conference Championship: Creighton 68 — Wichita State 65
Jahenns Manigat scored 16 points, including a layup with 11 seconds left, and Creighton beat Wichita State, 68-65, and won its second straight Missouri Valley Conference tournament title at St. Louis on Sunday. The victory gave the Bluejays (27-7) an automatic berth in the 2013 NCAA tournament. Creighton's high-scoring Doug McDermott was named the tournament MVP, despite being held to just 14 points on Sunday.
Big South Conference Championship: Liberty 87 — Charleston Southern 76
John Caleb Sanders scored 27 points and conference tournament MVP Davon Marshall added 20 more as Liberty beat Charleston Southern, 87-76, on Sunday in Conway, S.C. to win the school's first Big South Conference tournament title and an automatic berth in the 2013 NCAA tournament. The victory makes the Flames (15-20) just the second 20-loss team ever to make the NCAA men's field. Coppin State's 2008 team had 20 losses, as well.
Saturday, March 9
Ivy League: Harvard 65 — Cornell 56
Laurent Rivard scored 17 points as Harvard beat Cornell, 65-56, in Cambridge, Mass on Saturday. Princeton's 80-67 loss to Brown minutes later gave the Crimson (19-9) a third consecutive Ivy League title and an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA tournament. The Ivy League is the only conference that awards the bid to its regular-season champion.
Ohio Valley Conference Championship: Belmont 70 — Murray State 68 (OT)
Kerron Johnson's jumper in the lane with 1.2 seconds left in overtime allowed Belmont to beat Murray State, 70-68, and win the Ohio Valley Conference tournament title in Nashville, Tenn. on Saturday night. Belmont (26-6) received the OVC's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA tournament as a result of the victory. J.J. Mann had 18 points for the Bruins, who needed another jumper from Johnson at the end of regulation just to force overtime. Isaiah Canaan had 22 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds for Murray State.
Atlantic Sun Conference Championship: Florida Gulf Coast 88 — Mercer 75
Brett Comer scored 21 points, and Florida Gulf Coast beat heavily favored Mercer, 88-75, to win the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament title in Macon, Ga. on Saturday. With the win, the Eagles became the first team to make the 2013 NCAA tournament. Florida Gulf Coast (24-10) is only in its sixth year as a Division I program. This is its first appearance in the NCAA tournament.