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Noah's ark expeditions
Noah's Ark expeditions have fascinated archaeologists and explorers for hundreds of years, drawing many adventurers to the mountains of Ararat, the landing place of the ark as recorded in the book of Genesis. Yet after numerous expeditions, the true location of the ark remains a mystery. Many claim to have seen the ark, and some even say they have found and entered it, but none of the alleged witnesses have been able to produce unequivocal proof of the ark's existence or find their way back a second time. The stories often contradict each other as well, but they almost all agree that they saw Noah's ark on Mt. Ararat, located in eastern Turkey near the border with Armenia and Iran.
Most searches for the ark have been conducted on Mt. Ararat. However, it should be noted that the Bible states that the ark landed "on the mountains of Ararat", denoting an entire mountain range rather than an individual mountain. The place known as the mountains of Ararat, thought to be the same as the ancient kingdom of Urutu, encompasses a broad area. Mt. Ararat is only one peak in this mountain range, but it is commonly believed to be the final resting place of the ark. Some claim that Mt. Ararat, the tallest mountain in the area, is the only one with a large enough ice cap to preserve the ark for thousands of years, while others point out that the volcanic mountain experiences frequent mudflows that would have destroyed the ark long ago. Additionally, some researchers are convinced that it is impossible for the ark to have landed on Mt. Ararat because the mountain was not in existence at the time of the flood but was actually formed much later as a result of volcanic activity.
"The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible." Genesis 8:3-5 (NIV)
- 1 Significance of the Discovery
- 2 Dangers of the Search
- 3 Expeditions and Claims
- 3.1 Dr. Friedrich Parrot (1829)
- 3.2 Prince John Joseph Nouri (1887)
- 3.3 Lieutenant Roskovitsky (1916)
- 3.4 Ed Davis (1943)
- 3.5 Fernand Navarra (1955)
- 3.6 Eryl Cummings (1970s)
- 3.7 Ray Anderson (1970s)
- 3.8 Dr. John Morris and ICR (1972)
- 3.9 Ron Wyatt and the Durupinar Site (1977)
- 3.10 Col. James Irwin (1982)
- 3.11 Bill Crouse (1984)
- 3.12 Robert Cornuke (1987)
- 3.13 Chuck Aaron (1987)
- 3.14 Don Shockey (1989)
- 3.15 Daniel McGivern (2004)
- 4 References
- 5 External links
- 6 See Also
Significance of the Discovery
Noah's ark, if discovered and authenticated, would have a tremendous impact on the world and in particular the Bible-believing community. For some, the discovery would serve to reaffirm their faith in the Bible by validating the account of the Great Flood in Genesis. It would prove once again that the Bible is accurate and can be accepted as true. It would also convince many people that the worldwide flood, now relegated to the realm of myth, actually occurred. This in turn would challenge currently held ideas of uniformitarianism and the evolutionary view of the fossil record. If a boat as large as the ark were to be discovered on the summit of Mt. Ararat, it would point to a global flood large enough to float the boat to the top of the mountain.
Other people groups would also be affected by such a discovery. Christianity is not the only religion to believe in Noah's flood; for example, the Islamic Qur'an also makes mention of Noah's ark and the Great Flood. Additionally, the country of Turkey as a whole would benefit from greatly increased tourism if Noah's ark was ever positively identified.
Some people believe that Noah's ark would be the greatest archaeological find of all time, and claim that it would completely destroy any basis for a belief in evolution. They hope that it would force the world to finally accept the truth of scripture. Even the (now deceased) editor of National Geographic, Dr. Melville Bell Grosvenor, said that, "If the ark of Noah is discovered, it will be the greatest archaeological find in human history, the greatest event since the resurrection of Christ, and it would alter all the currents of scientific thought."[1]. However, while the discovery of the ark would definitely be seen as strong evidence for the global flood by Christians experiencing doubt, it is unlikely that such a discovery would alter the opinions of most secular scientists who firmly hold to their beliefs in evolution. The Bible says that:
While the discovery of Noah's ark may strengthen the Christian arguments for creation and a young earth, there will always be those who will deny the truth of the Bible. They would likely refuse to accept a discovered Noah's ark as genuine and, even if they did accept it, might protest that the ark could have been brought up to the mountain by other means and did not necessarily arrive atop the mountain by floating there during a worldwide flood.
"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed." 2Peter 3:3-6 (NIV)
Dangers of the Search
Mt. Ararat, located on Turkey's border with Armenia and Iran and near Iraq, is often at the center of political tension and regional turmoil. Kurdish terrorist groups live on the mountain, hiding out in caves and attacking groups that try to search for the ark[2]. Many explorers report being shot at and harassed by the terrorists. The PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) especially has been responsible for attacks on explorers. Since 1928 the group has been working to fight the Turkish government by attacking the tourist trade, and those who enter Mt. Ararat, where the PKK often hides out, come under attack[3].
During the Cold War, Turkey shut off all access to the mountain because of its proximity to the Soviet Union. Searchers were suspected of spying under the guise of looking for the ark. When the Cold War ended, the Turkish government began letting people enter and explore the area, but many locations are still restricted and expeditions often have to be postponed, cut short, or canceled altogether due to a lack of support from the government[3].
In addition to political conflict, searchers also face natural dangers. Mt. Ararat, a volcanic mountain, last erupted in 1840, and today earthquakes, mudslides, rock slides, and avalanches threaten those who attempt to ascend the mountain. Explorers often look for the ark in crevasses and canyons such as the Ahora Gorge, but these locations are dangerous and several adventurers have lost their footing and fallen to their deaths in the deep cracks of the mountain. Weather can also prove treacherous, with storms, lightning, and thick fog, and explorers must watch out for wild animals such as wolves that roam the area[3].
Expeditions and Claims
Many individuals and groups have been drawn to Ararat and the surrounding area in search of Noah's ark. The prospect of such a discovery has captivated audiences around the world for years. Some even claim to have seen and entered the ark, but, unfortunately, these claims remain largely unsubstantiated. Many of the claims seem far-fetched at best, causing people to doubt that the tales contain any truth at all. Indeed, since multiple groups claim to have discovered the ark at different sites, they cannot all be right, yet they continue to display their findings as being unequivocal evidence of the ark. Robert Cornuke describes the persistent insistence of searchers that theirs is the true Noah's ark as a result of "ark fever". He says that, "At its most severe, ark fever can cause otherwise sane people to see what they want to see--or expect to see--rather than what's really there."[1].As of yet, no one has been able to produce conclusive proof that the ark has been discovered.
Dr. Friedrich Parrot (1829)
Friedrich Parrot traveled to Turkey in 1829 for the purpose of climbing Mr. Ararat. His party stopped first at the monastery at Echmiadzin, where they were joined by a deacon from the monastery, and next at St. James' monastery at the foot of the mountain. Parrot and his group made three attempts to climb the mountain, finally reaching the summit on the third ascent, which occurred on September 27, 1829. They erected two crosses in the ice, which they brought up the mountain from the monastery. Parrot saw no sign of Noah's ark, but traveled to the summit in order to disprove the belief of the Armenians in the area that it was impossible to reach the summit because God was protecting the ark there. This belief arose from the story of a monk named Jacob who attempted to reach the summit of Ararat. According to legend, Jacob would spend the day climbing but at night God would move him back to his starting point, so that he awoke no further than he had been at the beginning of the previous day. Finally, God sent an angel to the monk to tell him that no one would be allowed to reach the summit of Mt. Ararat. The angel also supposedly gave the monk a piece of the ark, which he brought back to the monastery at Echmiadzin as a relic[4]. The St. James monastery was also said to have contained relics made from wood taken from Noah's ark. Sadly, the monastery was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Ararat in 1840[5].
Prince John Joseph Nouri (1887)
Prince Nouri, the archdeacon of Babylon, visited Mt. Ararat in 1887 after hearing that it was the landing place of Noah's ark. On his third climbing attempt, he reached the summit of Mt. Ararat on April 25, 1887. There he found Noah's ark buried by rocks and ice. He returned home and, some years later, tried to raise enough support to bring the ark to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Unfortunately, before he could do so he was attacked, allegedly by the founders of a satanic church. The assault distraught him to the point of insanity and he died soon after of pneumonia in a mental hospital without ever disclosing the location of the ark[5].
Lieutenant Roskovitsky (1916)
As the story goes, Vladimir Roskovitsky, a pilot in the Russian Air Force, spotted the ark from the air. Upon hearing Roskovitsky's report, the Russian czar ordered a group of his soldiers to form a ground expedition to visit Noah's ark. The Russian troops reportedly made a thorough investigation of the ark and took detailed measurements and photographs. However, on their way back to the czar the Russian Revolution broke out and all of the documents were lost, never to be recovered[6]. This story first appeared in New Eden, a magazine, in 1940 and quickly spread. When asked for further details about the story, the editor directed everyone to his source, Benjamin Franklin Allen, who revealed that the story as it appeared in the magazine was almost all fiction except for the fact that some Russian pilots had reported possibly sighting the ark during World War I[7].
Ed Davis (1943)
In 1943, Sgt. Ed Davis became friends with his transport driver, a Kurdish man named Badi Abas, while stationed in Hamadan in northern Iran. One day, the man's grandfather visited Badi Abas and Davis at the military base and offered to take them to see Noah's ark, which had been exposed due to high temperatures that melted the ice concealing it. Davis later described the journey to the ark, saying that after three days they reached Noah's ark, which had been broken into several pieces by an earthquake and was lying on its side[8]. Davis also reported seeing artifacts, including oil lamps, ancient tools, and even dried beans and jars still full of honey, all of which had fallen out of the ark and been collected and put in a cave in order to protect them from being defiled by outsiders[9]. Heavy snowfall forced Davis and the Abas family to leave the mountain the next day without further exploring the ark[10].
People regard the Davis account with suspicion for several reasons. First of all, Davis states that he could see Mt. Ararat from where he was stationed in Hamadan, located 400 miles away from Mt. Ararat. He then claimed that he and the Abas family traversed the entire distance to the mountain in half a day. Both of these claims are nearly impossible. Davis corrected his story several times after being told that his facts did not line up. When subjected to a lie detector test, he faltered at the question: "Are you lying when you state that no one ever told you about the Ark other than Abbas and the Bible?" He initially responded in the negative but acknowledged that he had discussed the topic with other people. Some speculate that, while Davis probably was taken to a mountain and shown what he believed to be Noah's ark, it may have actually been another mountain, such as Kuh e Alvand. Many natives to the area believe that the ark came to rest on Kuh e Alvand, located only 60 miles from Hamadan, rather than on Mt. Ararat[11]. While the truth of Ed Davis story remains in question, his firsthand account of seeing the ark has served as an inspiration to many other ark researchers, including Ray Anderson and Robert Cornuke.
In 1955, Fernand Navarra climbed up to the Parrot Glacier (named for Friedrich Parrot) on Mt. Ararat with his son Raphael[12]. They found several pieces of petrified wood in a crevice and removed a 5-foot-long wooden beam which they brought back with them. The wood was subjected to Carbon-14 dating by five different laboratories, with results placing the age of the wood between 260 and 790 A.D. Various other less reliable methods of dating showed the wood to be around 5000 years old. Furthermore, Navarra's truthfulness was called into question when other members of his expedition claimed that Navarra purchased old wood and planted it on the site[13].
The SEARCH (Scientific Exploration and Archaeological Research Foundation) group formed in the 1960s and began searching for the ark based on Navarra's story. They looked in the ice where Navarra dug up his petrified timber but found nothing. Navarra, after disappearing for a day, led the SEARCH group to a new location. Subsequently, they dug up five samples of petrified wood which were carbon-dated at 600 to 1700 years old. Such convenient coincidences concerning Navarra reinforced the opinion that he had planted the samples on the mountain[7].
Eryl Cummings (1970s)
In the 1930s, Eryl Cummings began gathering information from various people who claimed to have seen or been to Noah's ark. Using their descriptions, he began searching for Noah's ark on Mt. Ararat. He made several expeditions to the mountain in the 1970s and in 1972 his wife, Violet Cummings, published the book Has Anybody Really Seen Noah's Ark? on the subject[14]. During his expedition in 1972, Eryl Cummings took aerial photography of Mt. Ararat, which other ark searchers later examined thoroughly. After going over the photos, some of Cummings' associates claimed to see what they thought were several pieces of the ark, but the alleged pieces were never positively identified[15].
Ray Anderson (1970s)
Ray Anderson joined several expeditions to Ararat in the 1970s. He worked closely with other well-known ark researchers, including Eryl Cummings, Lawrence Hewitt, James Irwin, and Ed Davis. Ray Anderson also spent time closely examining the hundreds of pictures taken on his expeditions, hoping to find some sign of the ark. He also looked at slides from video footage of the mountain taken by Chuck Aaron on a helicopter flight around Mt. Ararat's glaciers. Anderson noticed three areas that looked like possible pieces of the ark. He showed them to Ed Davis, who said that he recognized the "fishhook-shaped" formation as the area where he had seen a piece of the ark. Anderson was never able to visit the sites in his pictures because the Turkish government refused to grant permission to search the mountain[16]. Nevertheless, he continued to hope that the ark would one day be discovered. Others cite his pictures as evidence that the ark exists on Mt. Ararat. The three pictures, however, while interesting, are far from conclusive and may turn out to be natural formations rather than pieces of the ark. They can be viewed on Ray Anderson's website, Noah's Ark- Fact Not Fiction.
Dr. John Morris and ICR (1972)
John Morris has made thirteen visits to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's ark. He went on his first expedition in 1972 along with John Bultema, Roger Losier, John Seiter, and Bill Ellison[17]. When invited to join the Cummings-Irwin group in 1982, Morris formed a separate expedition group sponsored by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) that would work in conjunction with the Cummings-Irwin group. After allowing the Cummings-Irwin group to explore the mountain, however, Turkish officials were reluctant to let another group in. Therefore, the ICR expedition was delayed and was unable to join the Cummings-Irwin group[18].
On his many expeditions, Dr. Morris and his associates took thousands of pictures of Mt. Ararat, both from on foot and from the air. Helicopters were often used to take pictures, when weather and the Turkish government permitted it. Several times, the searchers noticed mysterious "boat-like" objects that might have been the ark, but after further inspection, the objects turned out to be natural formations. Expeditions have dug down into the glacier on Ararat in search of the ark and have used scientific equipment to search for objects hidden in the ice, but no signs of the ark were uncovered. Morris continues to hope that the ark may be preserved somewhere on Ararat or in the vicinity, and a large portion of the mountain remains to be searched[19].
Updates by John Morris on the Search for Noah's Ark:
- Noah's Ark the Search Goes On by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Feb 1, 1983.
- The Search for Noah's Ark: 1983 by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Nov 1, 1983
- A Report on the ICR Ararat Expedition, 1987 by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Jan 1, 1988.
- The Search for Noah's Ark: Status 1992 by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Sep 1, 1992.
- Progress In The Ark Search by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Feb 1, 2002.
Ron Wyatt and the Durupinar Site (1977)
- Main Article: Durupinar site
Ron Wyatt, a former nurse anesthesiologist, maintains that the ark rests not on top of Mt. Ararat but in nearby Dogubayazit in eastern Turkey. The site, known as the Durupinar site, was first photographed by a Turkish Air Force pilot in 1959, and the strange formation was further investigated by the Archaeological Research Foundation (ARF) in 1960, at which time they determined that the Durupinar site was merely an interesting geological phenomenon arising from purely natural causes and was not, after all, the remains of Noah's ark. No further interest in the Durupinar site was shown until Ron Wyatt began searching it for remains of Noah's ark. He first visited Turkey in 1977 and again in 1979. In 1984 he returned, along with James Irwin, John Morris, and Marvin Steffins. David Fasold and John Baumgardner also accompanied Ron Wyatt on some of his expeditions. Although the men who investigated the Durupinar site with Wyatt originally thought that it held some promise of being the landing site of Noah's ark, all but Wyatt and Fasold changed their views once a thorough examination of the area was made[20].
Among the evidence Wyatt claims to have found are: stone anchors with eight crosses representing Noah's family, petrified wood samples from the ark, preserved animal parts, and metal braces. Andrew Snelling of Answers in Genesis'' argues that the purported drogue stones (anchor stones) show no signs of wear, such as would be the case if they had been attached to the ark by ropes. He notes that the holes in the stones are too close to the edge, meaning that the weight of the stone would cause the end to snap off. Additionally, not all of the stones have eight crosses carved into them. In actuality, some have three while others have twenty. Snelling also observes that God was directing every step of the ark-building process; Noah and his family relied solely on God for protection and guidance. God even shut the door to the ark. Therefore, since no mention of anchor stones is made in the detailed guidelines God gave Noah for building the ark, it is unlikely that they would have been added and their presence would seem out of place because they would give Noah a way to guide the ark[21].
With regards to the petrified wood, Snelling states that no scientist who has visited the Durupinar site has seen any petrified wood other than trace fragments which likely flowing into the area with a mudflow. The samples Wyatt and his associates display were reportedly analyzed by Galbraith Laboratories of Tennessee and identified as petrified wood, but the laboratory maintains that they were not able to form an opinion on the sample from the tests taken. When asked to provide a thin section of the petrified wood for verification, Roberts refused to comply[21]. Although the pieces of petrified animal hair and antlers (actually, it is only an antler tip) may be what Wyatt and Roberts claim they are, the specimens were found near the surface, not withing the boat formation, and were likely left behind by some of the many animals that can frequently be found in the area[21].
Wyatt claims that metal detector tests found evidence of metal braces in the boat-formation. Furthermore, he says that they were able to map out the lines between the braces and that they were found in regular intervals. However, Bill Crouse points out that the devices used to search the area were not scientific instruments but included devices like the "molecular frequency generator", on the same level of accuracy as a divining rod. While metal deposits were found, they were nothing exotic to the area. Rather, the samples taken contained oxides, ores, and metallic compounds that would naturally occur in volcanic soil[20].
Most in the scientific community regard Wyatt's ark as a natural phenomenon. Baumgardner and geologist Salih Bayraktutan took surveys of the site and drilled 10 meters into the formation in 1987 and 1988. After a thorough investigation of the area, they concluded that the boat-shaped formation was an outcropping of limestone with numerous basalt boulders[21]. Mudflows, which frequently occur on the mountain, would flow around such an outcropping and eventually form an almond-shaped (or boat-shaped) structure[20]. Since their initial expeditions, both Baumgardner and Fasold have parted ways with Ron Wyatt. Fasold came to the conclusion that the site does not actually contain the remains of Noah's ark, and Baumgardner holds that the site is no more than a naturally occurring formation[22].[23].
Col. James Irwin (1982)
In August of 1982, Eryl Cummings joined with former astronaut James Irwin to search for the ark. Irwin, due to his small acquaintance with the president of Turkey, was able to obtain a permit to search in the area around Mr. Ararat[18]. They searched in an area known as the North Canyon, but did not find the ark. No other areas were searched because of a lack of experienced climbers and explorers in the group. Irwin also sustained a severe injury after being hit in the head by a falling rock, making it necessary for him to cut his expedition short[2]. A violent storm forced the group to call off a previously planned aerial search as well[18].
After speaking with a Turkish traveler who claimed to have seen the ark in 1980 and again in 1982, Irwin decided to revisit the mountain in September and attempt to complete an aerial search. Irwin was injured again, and the group was not permitted to perform the desired aerial search[18].
Some of the members of Irwin's group returned to Ararat a third time in late October. Although the snowfall was too heavy to permit climbing at that time, they viewed what they thought might be the ark through a telescope. However, after studying the object they determined that it was, in fact, not Noah's ark[18].
Irwin returned to Mt. Ararat four other times in search of the ark and made an aerial survey of the terrain, but without success. He wrote More Than an Ark on Ararat about his experiences (published in 1985) and passed away in 1991[2].
Bill Crouse (1984)
Bill Crouse went to Mt. Ararat twice, once in 1984 and again in 1985, to look for the remains of the ark. He wrote numerous articles on the search for Noah's ark, reported discoveries, and possible locations of the ark[24]. His articles have been published in Acts and Facts, Archeology and Biblical Research, and Technical Journal[25]. He also served as the editor of Ararat Report, a newsletter on events concerning the Noah's ark search, from 1986 to 1993. Crouse visited Armenia in 1989 and was allowed to see relics from Noah's ark at the monastery in Echmiadzin[24].
Robert Cornuke (1987)
Robert Cornuke, founder of the BASE (Biblical Archaeology Search and Exploration) institute dedicated to finding biblical artifacts, first journeyed to Turkey with Jim Irwin in 1986, but they were arrested by Turkish authorities and denied permission to search on Ararat. The group returned the next year, in August of 1987, and conducted a brief aerial search of the mountain. In 1988 a third attempt was made to search Mt. Ararat, with Chuck Aaron flying the helicopter. They visited as many potential sites as they could before exhausting their fuel supply, but with no success[1].
Discouraged, Cornuke did not make another attempt to search for Noah's ark until 1998, when he received a phone call and was told to take a second look at Genesis 11:1-2, which says that Noah's sons traveled from the east to the land of Shinar (present-day Iraq) after the flood. This brought Cornuke to the conclusion that the ark was not located in Turkey but east of Iraq, in Iran. He decided to search in the Zagros Mountains, located on Iran's border with Iraq, and made an expedition there in 1998, but again experienced little success. In 1999, Cornuke was persuaded by other searchers who believed they had pictures showing the ark's location to revisit Mt. Ararat and examine the Ahora Gorge, but they found only a large rock protruding from the ice[1].
Robert Cornuke made several more trips to Iran and even went back to Ararat again. In 2005, while searching Mt. Soleiman in Iran for traces of the ark, Cornuke's team found pieces of petrified wood and possible pottery shards, which they brought back with them to be tested[1]. While still uncertain whether the objects were once part of Noah's ark, Cornuke and his team remain hopeful that someday the ark will be discovered and proven to exist[26].
A documentary was made of Robert Conuke's expeditions to search for the ark. See Search for Noah's Ark: The Lost Mountains of Noah.
Chuck Aaron (1987)
Chuck Aaron was selected to join Jim Irwin's 1987 ark search because of his experience as a helicopter pilot. The 1987 expedition did not reach their desired site for investigation because of conflict between Turkey and Russia over border issues[27]. Aaron returned to Ararat nine other times. In 1989 he carried out an exploration of the Ahora Gorge. On various other expeditions he has organized, Aaron took video footage and photographs from his helicopter. Sonar readings were taken of the western side of the mountain, but they showed no signs of the ark[28].
Don Shockey (1989)
Don Shockey made his first trip to Turkey in 1984 along with Howard Davis and others. No traces of the ark were found on that expedition. Since then, Shockey made nine more trips to Turkey and climbed Mt. Ararat three times. He also organized the only "ark-a-thon" in New Mexico in 1986, which was a collaboration by many of the explorers and researchers involved in searching for the ark. Shockey later met George Stephen, claimed he had access to satellite imaging on any area in the world. He agreed to look at Mt. Ararat for Shockey and marked on a map two spots where he believed he saw objects that appeared man-made. Both the locations were in the Abich II glacier, and Shockey quickly organized an expedition to the area only a month later, in July of 1989. Guided by Ahmet Arslan and another Turkish man, Don Shockey ascended Ararat as far as he was allowed to go, after which he had to send the Turkish guides on alone to find and photograph the objects that George Stephen had seen. Arslan (a man of dubious reputation) announced that he had seen the ark, but the pictures alone were not enough proof. Therefore, Shockey organized another venture for 1990. He and eight other men rented a helicopter to survey the mountain from above and planned to climb to the site in question to examine it. Unfortunately, the Turkish government would only let three team members land and climb on the mountain. When fighting between Kurdish terrorists and the Turkish military broke out on the mountain, the three climbers were forced to abandon their mission as well, never having reached the site with the potential Noah's ark[29].
Daniel McGivern (2004)
Daniel McGivern, a Roman Catholic businessman from Hawaii, announced in 2004 that he had discovered what was almost certainly Noah's ark. In 2003, after seeing satellite images released by the United States government in 1997 of a mysterious dark spot on Mt. Ararat, he hired DigitalGlobe to take pictures of Mt. Ararat using their Quick Bird satellite[30]. That year there were record high temperatures in Europe, causing large amounts of ice to melt on Mt. Ararat and revealing the dark spot, termed the "Ararat Anomaly"[31]. McGivern claimed that his new photographs of the spot showed what appeared to be crossbeams of a boat, and announced that he would be taking an expedition of to Ararat, led by Ahmet Ali Arslan, a Turkish scholar who claimed to have climbed the mountain 50 times in 40 years. McGivern hoped to find the ark, enter it, and take more photographs[32]. All the publicity, however, failed to convince Turkish authorities to grant the expedition permission to access the mountain, and McGivern's plans were never fulfilled.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ark Fever by Robert Cornuke. Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2005.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mt. Ararat The Genesis Files Web Site, 2/19/2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mount Ararat: Dangers/Problems by Matthew Kneisler, The Search for Noah's Ark, 2007.
- ↑ Journey to Ararat by Friedrich Parrot, translated by W.D. Cooley, New York: Harper and Brother's Publishers, Franklin Square, 1859. pages 166-176,186-209.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ancient relics bring 'healing' to Kurds: Artifacts linked to Noah's Ark claim miraculous powers by Anthony LoBaido, WorldNetDaily.com, Dec. 24, 2000.
- ↑ Index to Creationist Claims: Claim CH505.5 edited by Mark Isaak, The Talk Origins Archive, 7/5/2003.(anti-creation source)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Evangelicals and science in historical perspective edited by David N. Livingstone, Darryl G. Hart, Mark A. Noll. pages 244-261. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1999.
- ↑ Ed Davis's Visit To Noah's Ark by Mexico Beach Christian Worship Center.
- ↑ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood by Dr. Walt Brown, 8th Edition (2008), online edition, Center for Scientific Creation
- ↑ Ed Davis: Ararat adventure and Ark sighting as told to Robin Simmons by Ed Davis, NoahsArkSearch.com.
- ↑ Figment or Fact?: The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark by Bill Crouse, Ararat Report #32, May 1993.
- ↑ The Search for Noah's Ark by Kelly L. Segraves, online book, The Parent Company.
- ↑ Noah and the Great Flood by Robert D. Mock MD, 1998.
- ↑ Noah's Ark has been found, but not totally confirmed.
- ↑ Noah's Ark- Fact Not Fiction by Ray Anderson and family.
- ↑ An Ararat Reunion by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Aug 1, 2003.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Noah's Ark the Search Goes On by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Acts & Facts, Feb 1, 1983.
- ↑ Noah's Ark and the Ararat Adventure by John D. Morris, Arizona: Master Books, eighth printing: October 2006.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Ron Wyatt: Are His Claims Bonafide? by Bill Crouse, NoahsArkSearch.com, May-June, 1988. Number 17.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Special report: Amazing 'Ark' exposé by Andrew Snelling, September 1992, Answers in Genesis.
- ↑ Bogus "Noah's Ark" from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure by Lorence Gene Collins an David Franklin Fasold, published in the Journal of Geosciences Education, v. 44, 1996, p. 439-444.
- ↑ Letter from John Baumgardner: Regarding the Claims of Ron Wyatt by John Baumgardner, September 26, 1996.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 22: 1984-2009 Bill Crouse by Bill Crouse, edited by Rex Geissler & B.J. Corbin. Chapter 22, The Explorers Of Ararat: And the Search for Noah's Ark, 3rd Edition, Online Version, Great Commission Illustrated Books.
- ↑ Search For Noah's Art by Christian Information Ministries.
- ↑ Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran? by Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News, July 5, 2006.
- ↑ Chapter 27: 1988-1993 Chuck Aaron edited by Rex Geissler & B.J. Corbin. Chapter 27, The Explorers Of Ararat: And the Search for Noah's Ark, 3rd Edition, Online Version, Great Commission Illustrated Books.
- ↑ Has Noah's Ark Been Found? by Editor Bill Crouse, Ararat Report, January 1990, Number 23.
- ↑ 1984-1990 Don Shockey, O.D. by Don Shockey, edited by Rex Geissler & B.J. Corbin. Chapter 13, The Explorers Of Ararat: And the Search for Noah's Ark, 3rd Edition, Online Version, Great Commission Illustrated Books.
- ↑ Noah's Ark Quest Dead in Water -- Was It a Stunt? by Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News, September 20, 2004.
- ↑ Explorers of Noah's Lost Ark by Gordon Govier, Christianity Today Magazine, 7/1/2004.
- ↑ Satellite photos spark Noah's Ark trek by WorldNetDaily.com, April 27, 2004.
External links
- Noah's Ark: Status 1975 by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institue for Creation Research.
- Noah's Ark Goes to Hollywood by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research.
- The Search for Noah's Ark: Status 1992 by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research.
- The Return Of Noah's Ark by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research.
- Noah's Ark Remains In The News by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research.
- Has Noah's Ark Been Discovered? by John D. Morris, Ph.D., Institute for Creation Research.
- Noah's Ark and the Genesis Flood: Part 2 by Endtime Prophecy Net, published 4/22/1997, updated 4/8/2009.
- Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned for Summer Hillary Mayell, April 27, 2004.
- Noah's Ark Found! Again? by Bill Crouse, 5/8/2004, Vol.2, #15.
- Noah's Ark: Its Final Berth by Bill Crouse, Rapid Response Report, Christian Information Ministries.
- Let us Reason - The Unsinkable Search for Noah's Ark by Hugh Ross, Reasons to Believe.
- Mt. Ararat: Expeditions Past/Present by Matthew Kneisler.
- The Explorers Of Ararat: And the Search for Noah's Ark Book Initiated by B.J. Corbin, Edited by Rex Geissler & B.J. Corbin, and Co-Authored by 33 Expedition Leaders & Researchers. 3rd Edition, Online Version, 2009, Noah'sArkSearch.com.
- That boat-shaped rock … is it Noah's Ark? by John D. Morris, Ph.D., creation.com, Creation Ministries International. First published: Creation 12(4):16–19, September 1990.
- Ron Wyatt: Are his Claims Bonafide? by Christian Information Ministries, May-June, 1988. Number 17.
- Figment or Fact? The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark by Christian Information Ministries, Ararat Report #32, May 1993.
- Explorers plan quest in search of Noah's Ark by Hope Yen, Associated Press, April 27, 2004, MSNBC.
- Has Anyone Discovered Noah's Ark? by Gary Byers MA, Associates for Biblical Research, May 21, 2008.
- Did the BASE Institute Discover Noah's Ark in Iran? by Gordon Franz MA, Associates for Biblical Research, Feb 16, 2007.
- Noah's Ark in Iran? by Rick Lanser, MDiv, Associates for Biblical Research, July 19, 2006.
- Mount Cudi— True Mountain of Noah's Ark (PDF) by Bill Crouse and Gordon Franz, Bible and Spade, Fall 2006, Vol. 19, No. 4: 99-111. Associates for Biblical Research.
- Wood Remains from the "Landing Site of Noah's Ark" Nearly 6500 Years Old (PDF) by Friedrich Bender, Reprinted by permission from UMSCHAU-Kurzberichte aus Wissenschaft und Technik, vol.72, no. 1.Translated from the original German by W. Pasedag, ABR., published in Bible and Spade, Fall 2006, Vol.19, No.4: 112-113. Associates for Biblical Research.
- The Case for Ararat (PDF) by Richard Lanser, Bible and Spade, Fall 2006, Vol. 19, No. 4: 114-118. Associates for Biblical Research.
- Arks on Ararat Editor Bill Crouse and Managing Editor Fred Reed, Ararat Report, Feb-Mar 1990, Number 24, Christian Information Ministries, International.
- The Search for Noah's Ark (Critique of 2008 Video Tape produced by the BASE Institute of Colorado Springs, CO. $14.95.) A review and critique by Gordon Franz, Bill Crouse, and Rex Geissler, December 12, 2008.
- Christian Evidences: The Historical Evidence for Noah's Ark by Richard M. Riss, December 9, 1996.
- CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents by Timothy W. Maier, Nov. 13, 2002.
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President Obama's plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fewer than 10,000 by year's end seeks to balance fear that a speedier withdrawal would push Afghan forces to collapse against his desire to end more than a decade of war.
The result is to keep some U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan until the end of his presidency but potentially leave the final outcome of the war to his successor.
After the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, "I think Americans have learned that it's harder to end wars than it is to begin them," Obama said Tuesday in a brief statement in the White House Rose Garden, where he announced the decision on troop levels.
But, he said, "we have to recognize Afghanistan will not be a perfect place, and it is not America's responsibility to make it one."
Four years ago, in a major speech at West Point announcing a buildup of troops in Afghanistan, Obama said that he was "convinced that our security is at stake" in the outcome there. That led to a deployment of additional U.S. troops that for a time brought the total to 100,000.
In his remarks Tuesday announcing the withdrawal of most of the 32,000 who remain, he suggested the U.S. had achieved the major goals that justified the war.
"We have struck significant blows against Al Qaeda's leadership, we have eliminated Osama bin Laden, and we've prevented Afghanistan from being used to launch attacks against our homeland.
"It's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said.
Starting next year, Obama said, the U.S. will end its combat missions in Afghanistan, and though 9,800 American troops will remain, as well as some from allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Afghans will be "fully responsible" for securing their country, with the U.S. no longer patrolling "Afghan cities or towns, mountains or valleys."
The remaining U.S. troops will train Afghan units, protect U.S. diplomats and intelligence agents and take part in counter-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.
Obama plans to return to West Point on Wednesday for what aides are billing as a major foreign policy speech, albeit one designed to lay out a broad vision rather than to revisit a difficult war. More than 2,300 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan and thousands more have been injured since the war began in 2001. The death toll this year — just over 20 — is far lower than in previous years, reflecting the decline in U.S. combat operations.
The president's decision gave the U.S. military fewer troops than it had requested for next year and for significantly less time than it had sought.
Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commander in Afghanistan, had requested at least 10,000 troops and for months had pushed to keep them at least through 2015.
The White House accepted much of that plan, including Dunford's call to array forces around the country, especially in the south and east, where the insurgency is strongest. But Obama and his advisors, who had been skeptical that more time would significantly change the situation, opted for a relatively quick drawdown.
The force will be down to 5,000 troops by the end of 2015, based solely in Kabul and at the Bagram air base, north of the capital. By the time Obama leaves office, the troop presence will have shrunk to no more than a "normal embassy presence" based in Kabul, officials said.
Keeping any forces in Afghanistan after the end of this year is contingent on that country's next president signing a security deal that will authorize their presence and give them immunity from prosecution in Afghan courts. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a harsh critic of U.S. policy in his country, has refused for months to sign a bilateral security agreement his government negotiated with Washington last fall. But both of the candidates in next month's runoff election to replace him have indicated they would sign it.
During months of debate over the size and mission of the remaining force, some White House officials had talked of a so-called zero option, in which no U.S. forces would remain in Afghanistan after this year. Others pushed a plan that would have kept 7,000 to 8,000 troops, based mostly at Bagram and in Kabul, with a narrow mission focused on going after the remnants of Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the end, Obama sided with military commanders who warned that Afghanistan's security forces, which still cannot conduct complicated missions on their own, might collapse entirely if the U.S. pulled out so quickly. U.S. officials also worried that without the presence of American troops, Congress would cut funds for the Afghan forces, a move that they warned could allow the Taliban insurgency to rapidly overwhelm the government.
Afghanistan now has more than 340,000 soldiers and police officers, and many units have performed well in recent years. But high desertion rates, drug use and illiteracy continue to beset the force, and many basic parts, including an air force, medical care and logistics, are still in their infancy.
As with most such compromise decisions, Obama's announcement drew attacks from both sides, with Republicans and other hawks saying that he was putting Afghanistan at risk by too rapid a withdrawal while some liberal Democrats said he was moving too slowly to bring the war to an end.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who leads his party's hawkish wing, decried Obama's decision to "set an arbitrary date" for the full withdrawal of U.S. troops. He called it "a shortsighted decision that will make it harder to end the war in Afghanistan responsibly."
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said he welcomed the president's decision to "support a troop presence in Afghanistan next year" but also said the biggest risk would lie in "quitting just short of the goal line."
On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), one of her party's most liberal members, said it was "far past time to end the war and bring all of our troops home."
Stephen Biddle, a national security expert and professor at George Washington University, called the Obama plan a "split decision" that will keep U.S. troops in place, but for too short a period for the Afghan army to defeat the Taliban insurgency or for the two sides to reach a negotiated settlement to the conflict.
Congress is unlikely to continue to fund the Afghan army and police after 2016, when virtually all U.S. troops will depart. Without U.S. backing for the Afghan security forces, the Taliban could regain the upper hand and the government in Kabul could face collapse, Biddle said.
Others noted that Obama's plan offered no solution to one of the problems at the root of the Afghan conflict: the sanctuary that insurgent groups enjoy in neighboring Pakistan.
"I just don't see what this is supposed to accomplish," said C. Christine Fair, an Afghan expert and a Georgetown University professor. "Now we have the worst of all worlds: a very small troop presence while we still haven't dealt with the Pakistan problem."
The decision came a day before Obama's address to the graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy, where in 2009 he first embraced the war in Afghanistan by announcing the troop buildup. Some of Wednesday's 1,000 graduates will be bound for the final tours of duty in Afghanistan.
After months of a foreign policy dominated by the need to respond to fire alarms around the world, Obama is planning to use this year's commencement speech to lay out an overall explanation of his vision of U.S. leadership, one that is "interventionist," but not unilateral in its actions, according to a senior administration official familiar with the speech who discussed it on condition of anonymity.
Alluding to that message, Obama said Tuesday that the Afghanistan withdrawal is part of a larger plan at a time of global change.
"This new chapter in American foreign policy will allow us to redirect some of the resources saved by ending these wars to respond more nimbly to the changing threat of terrorism while addressing a broader set of priorities around the globe," Obama said.

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BOSTON, Mass. - Jake Ruzevick captured Runner of the Year honors for the second year in a row and helped lead the MIT men's cross country team to the NEWMAC championship Saturday at Franklin Park in Boston. The Engineers have won every NEWMAC championship since the inception of the league, a streak that stands at 11.
Ruzevick (25:25) refused to relinquish his hold on the Runner of the Year award, pulling away from a pair of Coast Guard harriers in the final mile for a three-second victory. Tech placed six other runners in the top 11 on the way to a thirteen-point victory over Coast Guard. Hemagiri Arumugam crossed the finish line at 25:49 to place fifth. Yermie Cohen (25:58) and Trevor Rundell (26:04) were directly behind. Paul Welle rounded out the scoring for the conference champions, finishing ninth with a time of 26:16.
Andrew Erickson took home the Rookie of the Year award as the top first-year finisher in 10th place. Jack Bourbonnais and Gihan Amarasiriwardena also earned All-Conference honors by placing in the top 14.
MIT finished with a total of 28 points. Coast Guard was second with 41 points and Springfield came in third with 93 points.
The Cardinal and Gray will look to build on this victory with a strong showing at the NCAA Division III New England Regional championship in two weeks in Williamstown, Mass.


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Official PostgreSQL Homepage
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This document describes how to set up PostgreSQL and integrate it with PHP and Apache. It also describes how to configure PostgreSQL to be accessible from a remote client. PHP and Apache are assumed to be already be set up. If you need help setting up either of those two, see the LAMP page and follow all of the sections except the one related to MySQL.
- 1 Installing PostgreSQL
- 2 Configure PostgreSQL to be accessible from remote
- 3 Configure PostgreSQL to Work With PHP
- 4 Creating Your First Database!
- 5 Installing phpPgAdmin (optional)
- 6 Upgrading Postgresql (optional and dangerous)
- 7 More Resources
Installing PostgreSQL
- Install the package
$ sudo pacman -Sy postgresql
- Setup and start the PostgreSQL server (the first time that this is run it will create the data directory and users needed to run the server. As such you will see a lot of output.
$ sudo /etc/rc.d/postgresql start
- Check to make sure the postgres user is created (and is in the postgres group).
$ groups postgres
- (Optional) Add postgresql to the list of daemons that start on system startup in the /etc/rc.conf file
Configure PostgreSQL to be accessible from remote
The PostgreSQL database server configuration file is
postgresql.conf. This file is located in the data directory of the server, typically
/var/lib/postgres/data. This folder also houses the other main config files, including the
pg_hba.conf. Note: By default this folder will not even be browseable (or searchable) by a regular user, if you are wondering why `find` or `locate` isn't finding the conf files, this is the reason (threw me for a loop the first time I installed).
- As root user edit the file
$ sudo vim /var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf
- In the connections and authentications section uncomment or edit the
listen_addressesline to your needs
listen_addresses = '*'and take a careful look at the other lines.
- Hereafter insert the following line in the host-based authentication file
/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf. This file controls which hosts are allowed to connect, so be careful.
# IPv4 local connections: <br>host all all your_desired_ip_address/32 trustwhereas
your_desired_ip_addressis the ip address of the client.
- After this you should restart the daemon process for the changes to take effect with
$ sudo /etc/rc.d/postgresql restart
Postgresql uses port 5432 by default for remote connections. So make sure this port is open and able to receive incoming connections
For troubleshooting take a look in the server log file
tail /var/log/postgresql.log
Configure PostgreSQL to Work With PHP
- Open the file
/etc/php/php.iniwith your editor of choice, e.g.,
# vim /etc/php/php.ini
- Find the line that starts with, ";extension=pgsql.so" and change it to, "extension=pgsql.so". (Just remove the preceding ";"). If you need PDO, do the same thing with ";extension=pdo_pgsql.so". If this lines are not present, add it. This lines may be in the "Dynamic Extensions" section of the file, or toward the very end of the file.
- Restart the Apache web server
# /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
Creating Your First Database!
- Become the postgres user (This user was created when "/etc/rc.d/postgres start" was run)
su root
su - postgres
- Add a new database user
createuser -DRSP username
- Create a new database over which that user has read/write privileges
createdb -O username databasename
- That's It! Your database has been created.
Installing phpPgAdmin (optional)
phpPgAdmin is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. It can be installed two ways.
Option A: install via Pacman (preferred)
- Make sure that the [community] repo is enabled.
- Install the package via Pacman
# pacman -Sy phppgadmin
Option B: install via a manual install (the old way)
- Download the latest .bz2 file from here into the root of your server directory
wget -P /home/httpd/html http://downloads.sourceforge.net/phppgadmin/phpPgAdmin-4.1.3.tar.bz2
- Extract the file into the new directory
tar -C /home/httpd/html/ -jxvf /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin-4.1.3.tar.bz2
- Remove the tar file
rm /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin-4.1.3.tar.bz2
- Change the name of the directory created in the previous step to include the version number (this will help in the future when upgrading)
mv /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin-4.1.3/
- Create a link to that directory (for ease of linking and upgrading)
ln -s /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin-4.1.3/ /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin
- Copy the included generic config file
cp /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php-dist /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php
The config file is located at /home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php. No changes should be required. Check this page for any other setup questions that you might have.
Upgrading Postgresql (optional and dangerous)
- First thing: these instructions could cause data loss. Use at your own risk. They work for me, but things change and nothing is guaranteed.
- I would highly suggest adding the line
IgnorePkg = postgresqlto /etc/pacman.conf. This will make sure that you don't accidentally upgrade the database to an incompatible version. If you did an accidental upgrade you might not be able to access any of your data. Always check the Postgresql home page (http://www.postgresql.org/) to be sure of what steps are required for each upgrade. For a bit about why this is the case see this.
- How to dump all of your data, upgrade PostgreSQL, and then restore all of your data (this may not be necessary for every upgrade, see #2 above)
- Become the root user
- Become the postgres user
su postgres
- Change the current directory to one that the postgres user can write to
eg. cd ~/data/
- Dump the current contents of the database
pg_dumpall > pgs_db.outUnless you have a .pgpass file setup, you will be required to enter your password a few times (the number of times is roughly equal to the number of databases that you have + 2). One problem occurs if you don't have a password defined for the postgres user but you require local users to authenticate. In this case you will be asked to give a password that doesn't exist. To work around this problem, add a line to your pg_hba.conf file to trust the postgres user. You can remove this line after the upgrade is complete. So, the first line of the 'local' section of pg_hba.conf would look something like this:
local all postgres trust
- Log out of the postgres user and return to superuser
- Stop the PostgreSQL server
/etc/rc.d/postresql stop
- Move Postgresql's data directory
mv /var/lib/postgres /var/lib/postgres_old
- Upgrade postgresql
pacman -Sy postgresql
- Start the PostgreSQL server (this will create all needed files and directories)
/etc/rc.d/postgresql start
- Become the postgres user
su postgres
- Change the current directory to the directory that you dumped the data out to (in step 4 above)
eg. cd /var/lib/postgres_old/data/
- Restore the database
psql -e template1 -f pgs_db.out
- Become the root user
More Resources
Official PostgreSQL Homepage [1]


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I have a throw-away cheap laptop I'd like to twiddle around, a Thinkpad SL 500.
What bothers me are two leds, the one for wireless connectivity, and the one for hibernation, which don't light up at all, although they're functional, I've tried it on windows.
So I would like to write a kernel driver for them, nothing big, it just looks like a good idea to play around with the kernel.
My question is what methodology should I follow systematically to find out what devices are responsible for those leds (in general, not necessarily specific to my hardware), and what drivers are responsible for the other two leds that work, bluetooth and the battery indicator?
And when I say methodology, I really mean the methodology, step by step, with reasons for each step, like in the answer I've gave to someone else over here: What does && mean in void *p = &&abc;
I am profficient at fgrepping through big code repositories, using static code analysers & co, but I think my lack of hardware knowledge hinders me on this problem.
PS: I'm using ArchLinux, so almost the latest kernel version.


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I might be on vacation but my TypeTees Slogan-A-Day Experiment continues! Hey Threadless this is Week 9 – will any of my slogans ever grace a Threadless tee! It's okay, I'm in no rush because sloganeering is such a blast! To see all of my slogans and to vote for them check out my Threadless profile page. Vote for me and I will make you an awesome avocado burger if ever we meet in real life.
"Paper airplanes are better than the real thing."
Yeah, I think. Why? Because you can build them on a whim and if they crash it's no big deal.
"I like my peanut butter nutty."
Indeed I do. In fact, I like it extra nutty.Â
"I surf the sea of emotions."
I might not be able to surf the ocean very (ok, not at all), but, I do know how to surf a sea filled with wild emotions. I do that very well.
"Static electricity keeps me grounded."
OK, this slogan probably does not make any sense from a physics point of view, but, I came up with it after I shocked myself while touching the door knob of my hotel room. I hate when that happens. Past experience tells me this will happen a lot more when I get to Sin City.Â
"I'll bet you a dollar that you read this sentence."
Oh, this I came up with as I was walking 5th avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. I saw a homeless man in a wheelchair coming towards me on the street while holding a sign. The sign said: I'll be you $1 that you read this sign. I did read the sign and a slogan was born.Â
"Hand sanitizer: helping to create super germs."
Seriously, that's what you're doing every time that you choose to use hand sanitizer. You really don't need to use hand sanitizer. It's overkill. Sometimes germs can be a good thing.
"Resistance is futile unless you are a part of The Resistance."
If you're a fan of the Terminator series then you'll get this slogan. By the way, I did see Terminator Salvation and I have to say that it was a gazillion times better than Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. It wasn't as great as T2 but it was still a very good movie.


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2000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Now it really is like a rock.
Silverado, the new Chevrolet pickup truck design, is a great achievement, better than the old truck in every respect. It rides better, it handles better, it stops quicker, it's faster and more powerful, and it's more comfortable. The Silverado ranks as one of the most luxurious pickup trucks we've ever driven. Chevy's new-generation pickup has caught up with Ford and Dodge: It finally offers an optional four-door cab design in addition to the previous two- and three-door cab designs.
Where Dodge and Ford broke new ground in truck design with their Ram and F-150 pickups, Chevrolet has chosen a conservative design for its Silverado.
Chevrolet customers are so happy with their trucks and so loyal to the brand that they don't mind if the new trucks look similar to the old ones. They realize that underneath its conservative looks is a great truck that has almost nothing in common with the old one.
Like all full-size pickups, Silverado comes in two- and four-wheel-drive versions, in 1500, 2500 and 3500 weight ranges, in short-and-long-bed bodies, with fendered (Fleetside) and nonfendered (Sportside) beds, two-, three, or four-door cabs in base, LS and LT trim levels. There are three V8 engines and one V6 to choose from with either a 5-speed manual or a 4-speed automatic.
Wheel flares are now available for 1500 series 4X4 models, a tonneau cover is available for all models, and the two smallest V8 engines have more power for 2000.
Additional new stuff for 2000 includes self-dimming rearview mirrors that include an outside temperature gauge and a compass. LS and LT models include new programmable door locks that allow the driver to customize locking and unlocking features for their own family's tastes.
The 2000 Chevrolet Silverado is built on a frame that is the stiffest and lightest truck frame General Motors has ever built. The front frame rails are hydroformed, a process that uses high-pressure hydraulics to shape steel. Tubular crossmembers and roll-formed mid-rails increase rigidity further. This stiff structure enhances handling and ride quality immensely, while improving crashworthiness.
Three V8 engines are available, in 4.8-, 5.3- and 6.0-liter displacements. All three are based on the new GM small-block architecture that was introduced on the Corvette two years ago and shared with the Camaro and Firebird last year. A 4.3-liter V6 is still available and comes with a number of improvements, but the V8s will be sold in much higher volumes.
A 5-speed manual gearbox is standard in the base truck, but most opt for the 4L60 and 4L65 4-speed automatics with a new delayed-upshift feature for towing; they are excellent automatics.
There's a new aluminum short- and long-arm front suspension, with coil springs on two-wheel-drive models and torsion bars on four-wheel-drive models. Brakes are large, heavy-duty discs on all four corners, and ABS is standard on all models.
As with the exterior design, the Silverado interior reflects traditional Chevrolet thinking. The doors and door openings are now the largest in the industry, while the cab is the roomiest.
The instrument package looks like a cross between what is found in the new Corvette and what was used in the previous C/K trucks. It comprises a large speedometer and tachometer flanked by four smaller gauges. All use pleasant graphics in white on black.
The sound system control panel is located above the climate controls. The climate control system uses a rotary dial layout that works perfectly. There are three 12-volt outlets at the bottom center of the dashboard for radar detectors, cellular telephones, laptop computers, and other accessories.
Our test truck was an LT Extended Cab. The front seats were equipped with optional heaters. The doors lock automatically as soon as you pull away, but this feature can be de-programmed at the dealership. The LT package comes with a lockable floor console large enough to hold a picnic lunch for a family of four; it comes with a reversible, removable cup holder tray and a storage nook in front of the lid. Air conditioning outlets and a set of drop-down cup holders are built in for rear-seat passengers. A compass is incorporated into the LT model's overhead console, along with three storage areas for sunglasses, garage door opener, and small items. The door trim is a nice combination of vinyl panels and dotted velour that is soft and warm to the touch.
We were pleasantly surprised when we climbed through the third door of the extended-cab Silverado and into the back seat, which has been redesigned and remounted for far greater room and comfort. When cargo capacity is more important than hauling passengers, the entire rear seat assembly can be removed through the side door with a wrench.
About the only thing we didn't like was the design of the interior door handles, which operate in an up-and-in arc and felt loose whenever we used them. We'd prefer more resistance and a more positive feel.
Driving Impression
We loved every mile we put on the Silverado LT. It drives like a luxury car and is supremely smooth and quiet. That smooth, quiet, unified feel is largely due to the new chassis, which offers a 23-percent increase in stiffness. New mounting and isolation hardware reduces noise and vibration. A cast magnesium beam behind the instrument panel and a lateral steel beam between the magnesium beam and the right side of the dash further reinforce the stiff body. Squeaks and rattles have been eliminated. This is one strong truck, and its strength lets the suspension soak up and manage all the bumps and ruts and tar strips so well that its overall ride behavior is near-luxury. A long, 143-inch wheelbase improves the ride further and enhances high-speed stability.
A massive four-spoke steering wheel connects to a new rack-and-pinion steering system (recirculating ball on 4X4 models). The steering has a fairly wide dead spot in the center when cruising, which Chevrolet says is designed to minimize steering corrections on the highway. The steering feels a bit too light, but we found it tracks beautifully and handles well on pavement, loose dirt, deep dirt and off-road.
Although the 4.8-liter small-block V8 is the most popular engine for this truck, our Silverado LT had the optional 5.3-liter (324 cubic-inch) engine, rated at 285 horsepower and 325 foot-pounds of torque; those figures represent an increase of 15 horsepower and 10 foot-pounds over last year's version of this engine. That's enough torque to smoke the rear tires at will. This engine has a fat torque curve, which makes it useful for light towing and hauling, but it's also a lot of fun for commuting and touring. The new engine is a much better small-block than before, and we recommend the 5.3-liter over the smaller 4.8-liter version, which also got a 15 horsepower increase for 2000, to 270 horsepower.
Brakes have been improved substantially over the previous model and it's a welcome improvement. The four-wheel disc brakes are huge and powerful and come standard with ABS. Braking force comes into play only an inch into the pedal travel, a welcome improvement over the mushy pedal on the previous pickup. A new feature called Dynamic Rear Proportioning improves stability under heavy braking whether the truck is loaded or empty. Chevrolet promises huge improvements in fade resistance, pad life and heat dissipation; we worked the brakes on our truck very hard and experienced no fade.
The Chevrolet Silverado is by far the best among the newest generation of full-size pickups from the Big Three Detroit manufacturers. And it is the newest design. The Silverado LT we drove is the smoothest, quietest, most civilized, best equipped, and most enjoyable pickup truck we've driven in many years.
If you're shopping for pickup truck this year that you'll still want to be driving in 2008, check out this Silverado. It may not offer distinctive styling, but it has the soul of a soldier and the endurance of a cowboy.
Model Lineup
2WD Fleetside Base Shortbox Regular Cab ($15,355); 2WD Fleetside Base Shortbox Extended Cab ($19,729); 2WD Fleetside LS Shortbox Extended Cab ($22,351); 2WD Fleetside LT Longbox Extended Cab ($28,410); 4WD Fleetside LS Shortbox Regular Cab ($22,701); 4WD LT Longbox Extended Cab ($31,620); 2WD Fleetside LT Extended Cab 2500 ($29,560).
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Ivana Stab
Ivana Stab (born 11th February 1989) is a zinester from Sydney, Australia. She began writing zines in 2003 with Annie Ly. They published 3 issues of their zine 'The shadow corner' which was distributed to school-friends.
Ivana published her first perzine in 2004 - it was a one-shot titled Maverick and was distributed with the bonus poetry minizine Not a fucking realist. Soon after, she published the first zine which she distributed to people across the globe - Dirty Jeans. However, unhappy with what she'd created, Ivana stopped making zines for a while, until 2005 when she published the zine she is most known for, Feels Like Friday.
Ivana's pen-name "Ivana Stab" is a combination of her first name and the title of a Mandy Kane song. She has been using the name since the publication of 'Dirty Jeans'.
Currently, Ivana has finished High School and is thinking about publishing another issue of Feels Like Friday.
- Eyes like veins (2004)
- Translucent (n.d.)
- I love this city (200?)
- Feels Like Friday (2004-)
- Dirty Jeans (2004)
- Maverick (2004)
- Not a fucking realist (2004)
- The shadow corner (2003)
- This heart pumps electricity (May 2007-)


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Can Teachers Unions Change? Can The World Bank Change?
In December 2006, I travelled to Santiago, Chile, with a small team to conduct consultations with education stakeholders on a study we were carrying out at the request of the Chilean Government to help them identify lessons from high-performing countries on how to strengthen the institutional arrangements for education quality assurance. I was the Task Team Leader (at the Bank this is the title of the Project Manager) and also heading the trip. I was joined by an external expert consultant, Joseph Olchefske who is a former Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools and was during this period at the American Institutes for Research, and a Junior Professional Associate, Erika Molina. Among the round of meetings we held with all stakeholders ranging from government officials (legislative and executive), business sector leaders, think- tanks (both from the right and left of the political and economic spectrum), student organizations, academic leaders, and opinion leaders, we met with the leaders of the national Teachers Union, the Colegio de Profesores.


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If Samsung ever finds sales of its Galaxy Note device drying up, it could always go for the elephant market. According to a video posted on YouTube this week, the big-eared creatures find the device fun to use as well as extremely intuitive — certainly a big plus when you're feeling your way around a tech product for the first time.
The ad-like video is the work of UK-based social video agency The Viral Factory and is clocking up views fast on YouTube. It was shot in Thailand and features an elephant by the not-typically-Thai name of Peter.
The 70-second video shows Peter appearing to have a whale of a time with Samsung's device as he performs a number of deft swipes and makes various selections using the touchscreen.
At one point he strums a few notes using a guitar app and even uses the S-pen to draw…well…something. Judging by the way he's flapping his ears in the video, he really thinks a lot of the Samsung phablet and its large 5.3-inch screen. The video closes with the line "Bigger is better," which is true — if you're an elephant. Imagine the trouble they'd have with an iPhone.
"Elephants have finger-like lobes of muscle on the end of their trunks, filled with sensitive nerve endings," a report on the Android Community website explained. "This enables them to make delicate movements that are astonishing for something so big."
It's not entirely clear if the video was commissioned by the Korean tech giant, but what is clear is that elephants certainly know how to use the Galaxy Note.
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In this editorial, the Washington Post assures its readers that, in seeking to "reset" U.S. relations with Russia, President Obama is not simply going to capitulate across-the-board to Russian demands. At one level, it's remarkable that the Post would see the need to write such an editorial. But that doesn't mean the Post is wrong to perceive that need.
The Post cites Obama's statement that even as the U.S. seeks to reset relations with Rusia, "we are going to continue to abide by the central belief that countries who seek. . .to join NATO are able to join NATO." From these words, the Post concludes:
The administration believes. . .that it can develop constructive relations with Russia without sacrificing the interests of Russia's neighbors. Whether such a reset will be acceptable to Mr. Medvedev or to Russia's de facto top ruler, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, remains to be seen.
For me, what remains to be seen is Obama's response when Putin makes it clear that good relations with Russia are not possible without sacrificing the interests of Russia's neighbors. That response, I suspect, will not be a happy one for Russia's neighbors.


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Gameloft has announced that it will be releasing its highly anticipated game, The Dark Knight Rises on July 20th. The game is based on the upcoming Batman film with the same name and will be the only official game based on this movie; the information comes from Pocket Gamer.
Featuring dozens of missions and random events like jail breaks, car chases, and hostage situations, The Dark Knight Rises aims to completely immerse its players in Gotham City.
As players navigate Batman through the levels of the game, they will need to master a complex and cinematic combat system in addition to the Dark Knight's customary gadget goody bag.
When the time for punches and Batarang tossing has passed, players will also have the chance to drive the Batpod across the streets of Gotham or take to its skies in The Bat.
There are now two trailers showing how the game looks and they're both worth watching; we have embedded them below. If you're a Batman fan, you are going to love playing this game. There is no information on pricing but we would assume that it will be similarly priced to Gameloft's last movie-based game, The Amazing Spiderman. That hit the App Store last month for $6.99 and was a universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Sometimes games based on movie franchises don't live up to expectations as they use the name to disguise poor gameplay. Gameloft appears to have addressed this complaint as its last game has an average rating of over four and a half stars from nearly three thousand reviews; hopefully The Dark Knight Rises will be just as good.
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Hello, again! This is Pamela Reilly again. I want to again thank Tami so much for inviting me to be a guest poster on her blog. Thanks, Tami! Today I want to follow-up on my post about the factors that separate a raw diabetic from other raw foodists with a post about foods and herbs that are traditionally known for helping control and lower blood sugars. I've included herbs because one of my favorite things about smoothies is that you can easily add herbs to them and never even know they're there! Although this post is aimed primarily at diabetics, anyone can benefit from including these foods in your diet, as eating them can give your pancreas a rest and help keep it healthy. There is also some evidence that these foods can possibly help prevent the occurrence of Type 2 Diabetes. Each of these herbs and foods contain high levels of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids that anyone's body will thank them for eating.
Note: This information is being shared purely for educational purposes. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and this information is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose or prevent any disease. Use these foods with caution if you have Diabetes and do not make any major dietary changes without first consulting your healthcare practitioner.
Enough of the legal mumbo jumbo … let's get to it! Many of the foods and herbs that I'll be discussing are useful for controlling blood sugars because they contain high amounts of the following natural elements:
- Acetic Acid: Found in vinegars, lemon and lime juices. Acetic acid slows down the digestion of food by neutralizing some digestive enzymes. This serves to delay the blood sugar raising effects of carbohydrates. I recommend using only small amounts of foods containing acetic acid, as you don't want to "kill off" too many of your digestive enzymes during a meal.
- Chromium: Helps the body metabolize carbohydrates and fats; also helps the body utilize insulin. An added benefit of Chromium is that it has been shown to help with weight loss, and many people develop diabetes as a result of being. I currently use Chromium to help lower elevated blood sugars and can personally attest to its effectiveness. I'd much rather pop a couple of Chromium capsules (200 mg) than take a shot!
- Insulin Imitators (aka "Mimetics"): Several of the foods shown below are known as "insulin imitators" because the body uses them just like it does insulin. In other words, their action mimics what insulin does in the body.
- Magnesium: The body uses Magnesium to regulate blood sugar levels. It also helps the cells of the body utilize insulin, which can lower insulin resistance. Some studies have shown that Type 2 diabetics typically have low Magnesium levels. (Other studies have shown that 70% of the US population is deficient in Magnesium, so those Type 2's have plenty of company!)
- Omega 3 Fatty Acids: Help the body metabolize glucose and also increase insulin sensitivity.
- Zinc: Essential for the body to produce and store insulin. Some studies have shown that Type 2 diabetics typically have low Zinc levels.
The following foods and herbs have a reputation for lowering or helping control glucose levels and/or for supporting the pancreas:
- Aloe Vera Juice: Contains high levels of compounds called Glyconutrients, which the body uses for healing. Glyconutrients have been shown to be helpful for a wide variety of health issues, but are known for being especially helpful for Diabetes. You can either use the interior gel from a fresh Aloe Vera leaf or can purchase Aloe Vera Juice in bottles. When purchasing Aloe Vera Juice, be careful to purchase one that does not contain chemicals and artificial ingredients. Be vigilant to avoid any containing artificial preservatives.
- Avocado: Increases insulin sensitivity and contains insulin imitators. The healthy fats in an Avocado also help delay the body's absorption of glucose. I add an Avocado to every smoothie I make because it makes smoothies really creamy.
- Cinnamon and Coriander: Are insulin imitators, increase insulin sensitivity, and work in combination with insulin to improve its effectiveness. Cinnamon has also been shown to help lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels. So pour it on!
- Fenugreek: Helps delay the absorption of glucose by the body and also increases insulin sensitivity. The best way to get a healthy dose of Fenugreek is to sprout the seeds and use the sprouts in smoothies.
- Flax and Hemp Seeds: Very high in Omega 3 Fatty Acids and in fiber, which slows the body's absorption of glucose.
- Ginger: Increases insulin sensitivity.
- Gymnema Sylvestre: An Ayurvedic (Indian) herb that is wonderful for Diabetes. It is an insulin imitator. More importantly, Gymnema has been shown to actually help the body regenerate the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Gymnema typically needs to be taken at least three months before beta cell regeneration is seen, but the regeneration rates are much higher and faster for anyone eating a raw food diet. Although Gymnema Sylvestre leaves can be purchased in a dried form from many herb vendors, I recommend taking it in capsule form or emptying the capsule(s) into your morning smoothie. Typical dosage is 400-1200 mg/day.
- Jerusalem Artichoke (aka "Sunchoke"): A type of sunflower that is very common in the Southwestern US. Is an insulin imitator and its high fiber content slows the body's absorption of glucose. Jerusalem Artichokes are the roots of the plant and look kind of like Ginger roots. They have a light, almost sweet taste that reminds me of water chestnuts, and have a really nice light and crunchy texture. They work great in smoothies but can be hard to get broken down in a traditional blender. A Vita-Mix handles them without problem.
- Lemon and Lime Juices: Contain acetic acid (see above) which delays the glycemic effects of carbohydrates.
- Nopal Cactus (aka "Prickly Pear Cactus"): Nopal has a long history and tradition for use in addressing Diabetes issues. Nopal's high fiber content delays the body's absorption of glucose. Nopal also increases insulin sensitivity, is an insulin imitator, and may help regenerate pancreatic beta cells over time. The pads of the Nopal are typically used, although the fruits may also be helpful. You can typically find Nopal pads in Hispanic or international groceries. To use, scrape the thorns off with a knife, then dice to add to a smoothie. This is another food I use on a daily basis, so I know it works!!
- Nuts (especially Almonds, Pecans, Walnuts): High in Omega 3's and other essential fatty acids. The healthy fats in nuts help delay the body's absorption of glucose.
- Spirulina: High in Magnesium, protein (which helps keep blood sugars stable), and essential fatty acids. One more reason it's a superfood!
- Stevia: Is not only the perfect sweetener for diabetics, but is also very high in Chromium and therefore supports the pancreas, too. It's perfect!
Missing from this list is the "infamous" Bitter Melon, which looks like a leprous Cucumber and is a powerful insulin imitator. I spent a few days experimenting with Bitter Melon a while back and learned very quickly why they call it "bitter." I couldn't find any combination of vegetables or spices that covered the bitterness. Apparently the only way to get rid of the bitterness is to cook it, which simply wasn't an option. I had half of a Bitter Melon left when I was done experimenting. I can't stand to throw "good" food away, so I gave it to our dogs. (Please don't report me to the ASPCA!) They wouldn't touch it and appeared rather suspicious of me for the rest of the day. This one's best taken in capsules.
Following are a few easy-to-make, delicious smoothies that incorporate some of the above foods and supplements. I didn't include instructions because I know you're already proficient in the fine art of throwing ingredients into a Vita-Mix and turning it on. *grin* Please note that Stevia (to taste) is an optional ingredient in all of these smoothies if you like a sweeter taste.
Sugar Buster Smoothie
1 ounce Aloe Vera Juice (or 2 tablespoons fresh gel from leaf)
1 cup Purified Water or Unsweetened Nut Milk
1 Avocado
3 diced Jerusalem Artichokes
1 Cucumber
1 Nopal pad, diced
2 tablespoons cup Ground Flax or Hemp Seeds
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Coriander
Lemon Aid Ginger Smoothie
3 tablespoons – ½ cup Lemon or Lime Juice (add more if you like extra pucker power)
1 cup Unsweetened Hemp Milk
1 Avocado
½ teaspoon Fresh Ginger Root (¼ teaspoon dried)
1 Sweet Orange Pepper, diced
1 Sweet Red Pepper, diced
1 handful Fenugreek Sprouts
1 Nopal Pad, diced
Stevia to taste
Mega-Green Smoothie
¼ cup Spirulina Powder
1 handful Fenugreek Sprouts
1 Avocado
1 oz Aloe Vera Juice (or 2 tablespoons fresh gel from leaf)
1 cup Purified Water
4 Jerusalem Artichoke Bulbs, diced
2 Nopal pads, diced
1 Cucumber
Thanks again for Tami for allowing me to guest blog! Have a glorious day and go live abundantly!
Please feel free to contact me via any of the following:
My website: Good Works Wellness Research, LLC
Twitter: RawHealer
I'm very exciting to announce that in April I will be launching a 30-day "Rawvolutionary Healing" Living Foods Coaching program specifically designed for diabetics and others on Phase 1 of the Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine program. Please contact me if you'd like to receive updates on this program.
I'm also very excited to announce that I will be a speaker at Raw Spirit Fest in Prescott, Arizona. Raw Spirit Fests are two to three day festivals that celebrate every aspect of the raw food lifestyle. Please check out the website and come join me!


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Former UC Irvine All-American pitcher Scott Gorgen was promoted from Double-A to the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds on Wednesday.
Gorgen, who was drafted in the fourth round by the St. Louis Cardinalsin 2008, after his third and final baseball season with the Anteaters, was 3-5 with a 4.18 earned-run average in 14 starts for the Springfield Cardinals this season. He allowed 71 hits with 65 strikeouts and 29 walks in 71 innings.
Gorgen, the 2008 Big West Conference Pitcher of the Year, was 12-3 with a 2.26 ERA as a junior. He amassed 327 strikeouts and 32 wins in three seasons with the 'Eaters, who he helped reach the 2007 College World Series.
— Barry Faulkner
Former 'Eater wins
Lalita Patipaksiri, a recent UC Irvine graduate, won the 82nd annual Long Beach Women's City Championship that concluded Friday.
A first team All-Big West Conference golfer this past season, Patipaksiri carded rounds of 69 and 72 for a 36-hole total of 131 over two days at El Dorado Park and Recreation Park golf courses.
She defeated another former UCI player, Hillary Packard, by two shots.
Ronnie Valerio, who recently completed her sophomore season with the Anteaters, tied for 11th at 152.
— From staff reports
UCI bolsters slate
The UC Irvine men's soccer program, the two-time-defending Big West Conference regular-season champion which made its third NCAA Tournament appearance in four years last season, has bolstered its schedule for 2012.
Coach George Kuntz's Anteaters, who set a school record for victories by finishing 16-6-1 in 2011, play four teams that finished in the top 12 in rankings last season, including NCAA semifinalist UCLA. The 'Eaters visit UCLA Sept. 9.
New Mexico (No. 8 last season when it reached the NCAA Sweet 16 and posted the nation's lone unbeaten record at 18-0-4) plays host to UCI in the Lobo Invitational on Sept. 16.
Louisville, which finished last season ranked No. 7, plays host to UCI on Oct. 24.
UCSB, which finished No. 12 and reached the Sweet 16 last season, rounds out the four NCAA Tournament participants on this year's schedule. The Gauchos play host to the Anteaters in their lone Big West Conference regular-season meeting on Oct. 5.
UCI opens its regular season at San Diego on Aug. 24, then returns home to face Long Island-Brooklyn to kick off the Anteater Invitational on Aug. 31.
Detroit (Sept. 2) and Stanford (Sept. 7) venture to Anteaters Stadium to comprise part of a nonconference schedule that also includes Gonzaga, Oregon State and Missouri State.
UCI opens conference play at home against first-year Big West member Sacramento State on Sept. 28.
The 'Eaters play home-and-home conference series against Cal State Northridge, Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside. They meet conference foes UCSB, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Davis and Sacramento State only once.
"We have taken great strides to position ourselves with matches that will challenge our team in and out of our region and the national stage," Kuntz said. "We feel it is important as we grow this program to continue to push the envelope and great new ground for UC Irvine soccer."
— From staff reports
'Eaters step up
The UC Irvine women's soccer program, which has back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances and Big West Conference regular-season titles, will play five teams in 2012 that made the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
Coach Scott Juniper's Anteaters, who are 33-7-5 the last two seasons, including 14-1-1 in conference regular-season games, will play host to two of its five marquee games, against teams that finished in the national top 25.
UCI plays host to Texas A&M (No. 21 last season) on Aug. 24. It plays host to Auburn (No. 24) on Aug. 26 and visits Oregon State (No. 23) on Sept. 2.
The 'Eaters face No. 10 Pepperdine on Sept. 14 in the UCLA Invitational and square off against Big West rival Long Beach State (No. 14 after advancing to the Sweet 16) in a Sept. 20 road game.
All five of those teams played in the NCAA Tournament, in which UCI reached the Sweet 16 in 2010.
UCI opens its season Aug. 17 at home against BYU. It opens Big West play Sept. 28 at Cal State Fullerton.
After playing its first four games at home, UCI has nine straight games away from home, before finishing with four home games in its last seven.
— From staff reports