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Omar Rodriguez Lopez's Old Money is the first album that The Mars Volta guitarist/producer/writer/arranger will release with Stones Throw Records. The addictive melodies and passionate execution of each performance render Old Money perhaps the most accessible of his non-Volta recordings, and the perfect entry point to anyone not yet familiar with what this prolific artist has to offer.
The album fits comfortably between the guitarist's monumental work with The Mars Volta, and his prior rock-based solo releases such as 2007's The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange. Loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money, the album presents a 10-track collection of concise rock compositions, which range from progressive to psychedelic to downright funky. Many of these sounds could easily be at home on a Volta record proper had they meshed with Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocals; Rodriguez Lopez has hinted that this record was a potential follow up to the 2006 Volta release Amputechture until he changed his musical direction.
Through the assistance of many of the players familiar to any fan of his "day gig", Rodriguez Lopez goes straight for the jugular with an unrelenting trio of opening tracks: the lead-in "The Power of Myth", the haunting, Middle Eastern-psych flavored "How to Bill the Bilderberg Group", and the blistering "Population Council's Wet Dream." The results are formidable and easily rank among the most exciting moments of Rodriguez Lopez's solo output. The remainder of the album is equally as memorable and certainly the product of acute inspiration on behalf of its creator. Though clear influences of popular ensembles such as Pink Floyd and Santana can be discerned, a deeper study reveals the cross-continental influence of Israeli garage psych heroes The Churchills, French proggers Ame Son and Magma and Turkish guitar-god Erkin Koray – amongst others.
This historical, though thoroughly modern, discourse ensures that this release fits perfectly within the ever expanding Stones Throw Records' novel. This album serves as an interesting new chapter in the same book that houses Madlib's interplanetary ramblings, Gary Wilson's recurring adolescent nightmares and The Stark Reality's fuzzy children's stories: all Mars Volta favorites.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Artist page
Old Money in the Stones Throw store


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The Malta Link in Emigration
This section highlights the effects of migration on the Maltese islands, not only in demographic terms, but also in the common perception of the Maltese identity.
Furthermore, recent legislation such as the Dual Citizenship Act highlight the link between emigration and the legal aspects of our lives. Also, to complement the information within this section, one needs also take a look at the genealogy of the Maltese surnames and the transport/trade realities which Malta faces.
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Revise FEMA's IS-22 Are You Ready? course (last updated in 2004)
The FEMA "IS-22 Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness" should be revised and updated. The course was last revised in August 2004 - before the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and well before the explosive growth of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The curriculum revision should involve representation from communities across the nation, including people who have been using the curriculum to provide... more »
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Is the new professionalism and ACP's new ethics really just about following guidelines?
The Charter ( Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium.A Physician's Charter) did not deal with just the important relationship of ...
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Does endurance exercise damage the heart?
Does the increase represent myocardial cell necrosis or could the increase be due to "leaky muscle membranes" also known as "cytosolic release". The authors of this recent article suggest the second mechanism may be responsible. I hope they are right as I have not given up running marathons just yet. See here for an abstract of that research.
A 2009 paper by Knebel et al investigated biomarkers and echocardiographic changes in 28 older marathon runners ( aged 60-72) and found no changes suggestive of systolic dysfunction but confirmed the finding previously reported of transient right ventricular diastolic dysfunction.These changes were no different from a group of younger marathoners. See here for abstract. So at least here the older runners were no worse off.
A 2002 paper by Shave,RE et al reported left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in 11 bikers after a 2 day mountain bike marathon.See here for abstract.
Twenty-seven athletes were studied with echocardiography after what was described as a ultra-endurance triathlon. In all, right ventricular dysfunction was demonstrated and while LV ejection fraction was normal and unchanged in most . However,in the 7 who demonstrated post exercise LV wall motion abnormalities there was a decrease in average LVEF from 57.8% to 45.9%. The authors described also that the "integrated systolic strain decreased from 16.9 to 15.1." I have no idea of the significance of that index nor if that degree of decrease mean anything.See here for abstract.
More elaborate cardiac echo testing was carried out on twenty 2003 Boston marathon finishers pre and post race and one month later. They used regular TTE (trans thoracic echo) but in addition used a technique called "spectal and tissue doppler (TD"). While systolic ejection fractions were unchanged, TD derived indices of LV and RV systolic function were said to be abnormal with at least some of the diastolic dysfunction indicators remaining abnormal one month later.See here for abstract.
Neilan and co workers published detailed results from extensive echo and biomarker studies on 60 finishers of the 2004 and 2005 Boston marathon. See here for full text. They reported elevations in cTnT and NT-ProBNP and similar echo findings to those reported in the previous article from the 2003 Boston marathoners.They noted more marked changes in biomarkers and echo changes in the group who trained less ( less than 35 miles per week in preparation for the race .) So maybe the better trained runners were less susceptible to whatever it is that long events bring about with heart function which is also suggested by the following reference.
A slightly optimistic note is sounded in this paper which describes echo findings of dysynchrony only in first time participants in a long distance event and not in more experienced distance runners and that a predictor of the echo changes was the type of ACE gene polymorphism.
More recently, a review also expressed an optimistic,reassuring note while a rebuttal letter to the editor offered the opposite view proposing the term " exercise induced right ventricular dysplasia" suggesting that the elevation in troponin post endurance events actually reflects tissue death and not just leakage. Both views lack the support on longitudinal follow up data. See here for the two letters.If troponin elevation does signal cell death would we see some type of clinically apparent cardiomyopathy in older endurance event participants after years of beating up their hearts or perhaps myocardial fibrosis noted on autopsy. I wonder if anyone has investigated cardiac function or reported autopsy data on the prolific running Tarahumara Indians.
At least so far there do not seem to be cases of what might represent endurance exercise induced cardiomyopathy.
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- Dale Thompson said...
Having just read a study by Wilson. M et al. I am not so reassured. In this study " Diverse patterns of myocardial fibrosis in lifelong, veteran athletes" Journal of Applied Physiology(Feb., 2011), it showed a high prevalence of myocardial fibrosis in half the veteran athletes. Unlike a load of other studies these were men who had been involved in endurance events for very many years. The problem with this study is that there were only 12 athletes, although there were young and aged matched controls. Having just received a diagnosis of arvd/c following a long life of running including 100ks and being a non drinker, non smoker vegetarian with no familial history of heart problems I am inclined to think there is a caution to be given to those doing endurance events
- james gaulte said...
Dale-Thanks for the link.I do find that data point less than reassuring.Did you or your physicians think that the diagnosis of arvd/c was either caused by or aggravated by your endurance events.My limited understanding of arvd is that it is genetic.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of the wisdom of man, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of unbelief.
It was the best of times from the standpoint of men (or so they thought) because they were eating and drinking, singing, dancing, partying, getting married and doing anything and everything they wanted. Every evil desire was realized. They acknowledged no master and no God; the way many live today.
It was the worst of times because within a few days every living thing that had the breath of life in it would be dead-except for Noah and the seven righteous people with him-together with the animals they had brought with them on the ark. Much of the creation that God had called good and very good had been destroyed-and the bodies of man and of the animals and the dead vegetation in and out of the seas still litter this planet-if one knows where to look.
If you're fortunate enough to own one of the newer computers with a multi-core processor, perhaps a dual or a quad core chip, congratulations; you are utilizing on a daily basis technology near the summit of man's technical ability. Some of the newer microchips now use 45 nanometer scale technology that can pack over a billion transistors on a single chip.
It would be common for science to refer to the advancing capability of these wonders of man's technical prowess as the "evolution" of the micro-chip—but of course, these chips have all been intelligently designed. No one could be convinced that either the microchips that drive computers nor the software that instructs them came about by accident or that they were self created over time-but this is what we are asked to believe about much more complex, intelligently designed artifacts like DNA –and like life itself.
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(Article Here) We are truly "fearfully and wonderfully made! Psalm 139
The objective evidence from astronomy, cosmology, biology and geology verify that the universe and everything in it was created by God. However, science, the media and the educational system continue to barrage us with Materialistic, Atheistic approaches to our origins — which thankfully the majority of the American people continue to reject. According to a recent survey, the majority of us still accept the literal truth of the Bible.
I was struck by a recent Nova program that began by stating unequivocally in stentorian tones that the Great Flood was nothing but a mere myth –perhaps inspired by a huge, regional flood of the Black Sea. Later that night they were no doubt seeking pledges but I had already changed channels. It's no wonder that Atheists and Materialists refuse to accept the truth of a world-wide flood; at that time in the planet's past every single non-believer on earth perished.
Photo: The Deluge by Gericault. Click to Zoom
Of all that lived prior to the flood; we have burned their bodies or their remains (flora and fauna) for thousands of years for fuel. We utilize them in our cars and our machines. Their Detritus in their current forms are used to build houses and walls and streets. The chemicals in their bones are used to fertilize our crops and gardens. Their remains may even be worn around our necks or on our fingers as jewelry.
This planet is a graveyard and the life that existed before the flood is buried or entombed all around us.
We should not be surprised at this. As the Bible tells us; "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." Gen 3:19
We stand on the shoulders of those who died before the flood, but also on their heads, backs, stomachs and feet-etc…..
From Dust to Dust
If there really was a worldwide flood, why don't we find more fossils of human beings I'm sometimes asked? If you think about this present world covered by 70% water, you'd actually expect that marine creatures and seaweed would represent the largest biological mass that would be left as evidence from a worldwide flood. Then, from the land the second greatest mass you'd expect would be from the flora; the trees and plants that largely cover the earth. After that, the fauna, with the mass of all of God's creatures including the insects dwarfing that of humans. Humans should represent a small percent of the total mass of biological remains.
Photo:Belle Toute Lighthouse on one of the Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs near Sussex, England. Chalk is a sedimentary rock of organic origin.
Microbes and Man, 4th Edition, 2000, confirms that the mass of microscopic life has been calculated to be on the order of 5 to 25 times the mass of all other animal life.
The importance of all this is that much of the sedimentary rock on earth is bound together by the bodies of these creatures apparently borne across the planet by water and distributed in alluvial (water borne) deposits.
Now chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, and a form of limestone. Science simply says that its primarily made up of calcite, without acknowledging that the source of the calcite is organic.
"Let us again return to the crust of the earth, and inquire in another direction what part minute organization of a different kind has performed in rearing up its massive substance. Let the reader mentally follow the track we shall point out to him, and endeavor, if he can, to estimate the cubic contents of such a mass of solid matter, if he would gain an idea of the importance of microscopic life in the work of creation.
Commencing at Dover, or Beachy Head, follow the course of the North or the South Downs up to their point of junction in the east of Hampshire, where they are joined by another branch of similar downs commencing near Weymouth.
These three chalk ranges enclose an area which includes all the north of Hampshire, and the larger portion of the south of Wiltshire. Yet this is not all. By the Marlborough Downs, by the Ilsey Downs and the Whitehorse Hills, the chalk runs into Oxfordshire, and continues, with some interruptions, through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire into Norfolk. Neither is this all.
The lofty cliffs between Cromer and Huntanton, the Wolds of Lincolnshire and those of Yorkshire, all are chalk. Southward, let the tourist say how much of the Isle of Wight is chalk. Chalk along the coast, chalk in hills, chalk in valleys—chalk forms the lnkpen Beacon, Wilts, a thousand feet above the sea, chalk forms the Needles crumbling into it; all is chalk, nothing but chalk—chalk and flints !
Yet stay—take up a pinch of the white mass, lay a particle of it no bigger than a pin's head on the field of the microscope, and what a startling spectacle discloses itself! The dust is thick with organized forms. All is shells and corals! The Needles are shells and corals—the Downs are shells and corals! Underneath the thin green turf of the Wolds lie shells and corals. The great Humber rolls over shells and corals. The white walls of England are—shells and corals. Shakespeare's cliff is shells and corals. The waters which sweep round Margate, Ramsgate, and Dover, white as milk, are full of the remains of shells and corals! A million of shells and corals lie in a cubic inch of chalk!
What inconceivable millions in a hill, and what in the whole range ! And these of the most beautiful forms, all once replete with life! How large a part of England's southern and western coast is made up of individual beings more minute than a pin's point! These minute beings—and the idea is still more strange—approach us in our homes. Do we whitewash our ceilings, it is with shells and corals! Shells and corals, it is said, come to us in our London milk ! Shells and corals form the beautiful glazing of a lady's card, and oftentimes the ornamental covering of her work-boxes or show-books !
The doctor sends us shells and corals in his physic, and the confectioner, as we are told, in his comfits! The microscope, skillfully applied, makes all this plain, and reveals to us in a language appreciable to the eye, though barely capable of being fully comprehended by the mind, how vast a share in the operations of nature the Creator has assigned to beings so infinitely minute"….W. Buckland, The Living Age , Volume 28 The microscope and its Wonders.
Science tries to escape the implication of all this by teaching us that the earth is billions of years old and that these formations were built up minutely through the ages. But how does science explain cliffs thousands of feet high, extended areas of the earth and mountains 25,000 high cemented together and composed of marine shells and coral?
Fossil Graveyards and Caves Full of Bones
By and large, fossils are not something that are being formed today. Certainly not in the profusion in which they have been found in the strata of the earth. To make a fossil, an animal that dies needs not to be eaten by predators or subject to decaying effects of the sun or the wind. They needed to be buried very quickly.
In the Karoo Bone yards or Karoo Supergroup in South Africa, there are an estimated 800 billion mostly vertebrate fossils—largely swamp dwelling reptiles. Composed mainly of sandstones and shales deposited in shallow water, the Karoo can be 20,000 feet thick. The fossil-rich beds stretch out for hundreds of miles.
What kind of catastrophe could cause this kind of devastation and leave behind this many fossils in sandstone and shale, two types or sedimentary rock or organic origin?
Here's what evolutionists say; "The high degree of articulation of the skeletal remains and the preservation of delicate bones in situ suggest that the animals were either rapidly buried or died in a place protected from weathering and agents of dispersal. Two hypotheses are possible to explain this multitaxon aggregation: trapping in a floodplain gully followed by immediate burial or shelter-sharing. The latter hypothesis is favored after the analysis of the fossil evidence recorded in the South African Karoo Basin…. Fernando Abdalajuan Carlos Cisneros And Roger M.H. Smith2
The authors here considered and discarded a local flood but how could this many fossils be left by a local flood? Some bird fossils have also been found there; why should birds be the victims of local flooding? Evolutionists look for alternative explanations because they have no choice. The global flood explanation is untenable.
Of course, no one in Noah's time believed in a global flood either.
"….Massive fossil graveyards of dinosaurs still exist in other locations the world over. The Morrison beds in North America, the dinosaur beds in Montana, in the Rocky Mountains, in Alberta, the Dakotas, China, Colorado, Utah, Africa, etc., etc., contain literally millions of dinosaur fossils piled together in tremendous heaps.
Ten thousand Hadrosaurs were found on Egg Mountain, Montana alone, jumbled together in what appears to have been a mass death. The Flood produced the Sicilian hippopotamus beds, the fossils of which are so extensive that they are mined as a source of charcoal; the great mammal beds of the Rockies; the dinosaur beds of the Black Hills and the Rockies, as well as in the Gobi Desert; the fish beds of the Scottish Devonian stratum, the Baltic amber beds, Agate Spring Quarry in Nebraska, and hundreds more"….Evolution Cruncher
A bone bed has been discovered south of Tampa, Florida. Paleontologists say it is one of the richest fossil deposits ever found in the United States. It has yielded the bones of more than 70 species of animals, birds, and aquatic creatures.
About 80% of the bones belong to plains animals, such as camels, horses, mammoths, etc. Bears, wolves, large cats, and a bird with an estimated 30-foot wingspan are also represented. Mixed in with all the land animals are sharks' teeth, turtle shells, and the bones of fresh and salt water fish. The bones are all smashed and jumbled together, as if by some catastrophe. The big question is how bones from such different ecological niches—plains, forests, and ocean—came together in the same place. … Armstrong, Carol; "Florida Fossils Puzzle the Experts,"
Many fossil graveyards are high up in mountainous areas. In Sicily, for example, four thousand feet above sea level on Mount Etna, there are two caves crammed with the bones of thousands of hippopotamus in each grave. On the island of Malta there are lions, tigers, mammoths, birds, beavers, hippopotamus and foxes all mixed together.
"Back in middle 1940s Dr. Frank C. Hibben, Prof. of Archeology at the University of New Mexico mounted an expedition to Alaska to look for human remains. The remains he found were not human, but what he found was anything but evidence of gradualism or uniformitarianism.
Instead he found miles of muck filled with the remains of mammoth, mastodon, several kinds of bison, horses, wolves, bears and lions. Just north of Fairbanks, Hibbens and his associates watched as bulldozers pushed the half-melted muck into sluice boxes for the extraction of gold.
Animal tusks and bones rolled up in front of the blades "like shavings before a giant plane". The carcasses were found in all attitudes of death, most of them "pulled apart by some unexplainable prehistoric catastrophic disturbance" (Hibben, 1946).
The evidence of the violence of nature combined with the stench of rotting carcasses was staggering. The ice fields containing these remains stretched for hundred of miles in every direction (Hibben, 1946). Trees and animals, layers of peat and mosses, twisted and mangled together like some giant mixer had jumbled them some 10,000 years ago, and then froze them into a solid mass."
"The picture in Siberia and northern Europe is no different. Just north of Siberia whole islands are formed of the bones of Pleistocene animals swept northward from the continent into the frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean.
It has been estimated that some ten million animals lay buried along the rivers of northern Siberia. Thousands of tusks formed a massive ivory trade for the master carvers of China, all from the remains of the frozen mammoths and mastodons of Siberia.
The famous Beresovka mammoth first drew attention to the preserving properties of being quick-frozen when buttercups were found in its mouth and undigested food in its stomach. This was no gradual event–it had to be sudden!".. Atlantisquest.com
Bones in Caves
A phenomenon that has been seen all over the world particularly in caves located at higher elevations is best explained only by a global flood. Profusions of plants, bones of land, sea and freshwater creatures, carnivores, and prey animals all mixed together violently. A local flood or calamity does not explain the violence evident by the broken bones. In life, that particular collection of creatures would never have shared a location together. The inclusion of bird fossils proves that the calamity was not simply a local one since birds would have been able to escape. Here is an article describing one of these mystery caves.
Heaps of Fossils in a Cave
Scientists Interested in Queer Find Near Philadelphia
Remains of Both Animal and Plant Life Mixed in Strange Confusion- Theories as to Their Origins
New York Times, November 25, 1895
Fossil Fuels and Facile Fools*
Here is the official, science approved explanation for fossil fuels like oil and gas. Note how much it seems like a creationist explanation; except for the time scale:
"Fossil fuels or gas fuels are fuels formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years. These fuels contain a high percentage of carbon and hydrocarbons.
Fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon:hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquid petroleum to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. Methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields, alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane clathrates. It is generally accepted that they formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years. …Fossil fuels are non-renewable resources because they take millions of years to form, and reserves are being depleted much faster than new ones are being formed. " Wikipedia
Creationists know when the vast amount of animal and plant remains became available for this process-after the global flood. It was a catastrophic process that did not take hundreds of millions of years. Oil has been drilled for all over the world for hundreds of years. Can you imagine how many dead creatures and dead plant remains would be needed to make just one barrel of oil?
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by itself is estimated to contain up to 16 billion barrels of oil. There is just one time in the history of this planet when trillions of pounds of dead animals and plants were available to produce oil captured in sedimentary rock the world over.
"Most scientists agree that hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) are of organic origin. A few, however, maintain that some natural gas could have formed deep within the earth, where heat melting the rocks may have generated it inorganically. Nevertheless, the weight of evidence favors an organic origin, most petroleum coming from plants and perhaps also animals, which were buried and fossilized in sedimentary source rocks. The petroleum was then chemically altered into crude oil and gas.
The chemistry of oil provides crucial clues as to its origin. Petroleum is a complex mixture of organic compounds. One such chemical in crude oils is called porphyrin: Petroleum porphyrins … have been identified in a sufficient number of sediments and crude oils to establish a wide distribution of the geochemical fossils.
They are also found in plants and animal blood."… Answers in Genesis
The biological origin of oil and the proof that millions of years are unnecessary for its formation are made clear by the successful attempts to make fossil fuels from organic ingredients. For instance, It is in fact possible to make oil from algae, although the cost of production can sometimes be quite high, when compared with the cost of conventional oil production. The advantage of oil from algae, of course, is that algae is a renewable resource, making biofuels from algae very close to being carbon neutral, and as the algae grows, it actually contributes in a positive way to the environment, filtering out toxins and generating oxygen….Wisegeek
Photo: Ed Conrad's find. A human (pre-flood?) skull encased in rock asociated with coal formation
(American Chemical Society) Coal formation associated with the mass extinction of over 70% of all Plants and Animals.
"The volcanic eruptions thought responsible for Earth's largest mass extinction — which killed more than 70 percent of plants and animals 250 million years ago — is still taking lives today. That's the conclusion of a new study showing, for the first time, that the high silica content of coal in one region of China may be interacting with volatile substances in the coal to cause unusually high rates of lung cancer. The study appears in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology.
A seam of coal formed 250 million years ago during the worst extinction event on record appears to be responsible for the anomalously high lung cancer death rates among women in the rural Chinese county of Xuan Wei in Yunnan Province.
It's long been known that the lung cancer mortality rates in the region were the worst in the world among female nonsmokers and some anomaly in the coal had been suspected. Lung cancer mortality in the region is up to 20 times the Chinese average. But it's only in recent years that scientists have focused in on silica in the form of very fine quartz as the mineral that makes burning the stuff so deadly."
Coal is itself a sedimentary rock. Coal is similar to oil in that it originally came from living organisms. In the case of coal, though, it is thought that those living organisms were plants. However, as Ed Conrad's finds in Pennsylvanian coal (including a human skull) show that, humans and animals also played their parts in the formation of coal. It has been estimated that there are over 847 billion tons of proven coal reserves worldwide. This means that there is enough coal to last us over 130 years at current rates of production…World Coal Production
Science claims that the material for the formation of this fossil fuel came from swamps—that is the facile explanation that lets them sleep at night, but the amount and distribution of coal resources in the world testifies to the truth that the animal and plant matter which formed coal were widespread and massive all over the planet.
Humans and animals are carbon based and the fossil fuels have high percentages of carbon. Some speculate that diamonds, the hardest form of carbon, may have organic origins as well.
Phosphates and False Dates
Photo: Nauru is a phosphate rock island, with deposits close to the surface, which allow for simple strip mining operations. This island was a major exporter of phosphate starting in 1907 and it has been left decimated by mining operations. Phosphates source is organic; bones and teeth of dead creatures. Click to zoom
Next to calcium, phosphorus is the most abundant mineral in the body. These two important nutrients work closely together to build strong bones and teeth. About 85% of phosphorus in the body can be found in bones and teeth, but it is also present in cells and tissues throughout the body.
Phosphorus is an important agricultural fertilizer, an essential element in metabolism and the transfer of biological energy, a component of matches, an ingredient in pyrotechnic applications, and besides of considerable scientific interest.
The origin of phosphorus around the world is primarily organic. It comes primarily from the bones and teeth and cells of dead creatures. The carnage after the great flood would have provided the greatest source of phosphorus that could be imagined-but science dates their formation to hundreds of millions of years along with that of associated sedimentary rocks.
Phosphate rock is produced in some 40 countries, but 12 countries account for 92 percent of the world's production Approximately 144 to 150 million tons of phosphate rock were produced annually between 1995 and 1997. Igneous deposits in Russia, Brazil, and the Republic of South Africa accounted for about 17 million tons of production in 1997. The remaining production (about 133 million tons or 89 percent) was from sedimentary deposits…Better Crops: World Production of Phosphates
The Official Explanation for Florida Phosphates
"Florida's phosphate deposits are made mostly of ocean animals. They began to form millions of years ago. At that time most of Florida was under water. About 5-10 million years ago, biological and chemical changes changed phosphate from the ocean to the phosphate like that we mine today. This phosphate deposit is huge. It stretches across the Florida. It also stretches up to the eastern Atlantic coast all the way to the Chesapeake Bay.
People don't really know how all this phosphate formed, but they have a theory. Many scientists think that this is how it happened. During the geological time called Miocene, ocean water started getting into higher grounds. …There was a lot of life in the ocean, so the ocean was rich in nutrients and phosphate. This water was now at the seal level. Then water started precipitating, and the sediment full of phosphate was left. Florida's limestone was now full of teeth, bones, and waste of ocean animals. In Miocene land started to come out.
..Many years passed. During the Pleistocene, the ocean levels dropped. Florida's land was out of the ocean now. When Florida's land was out of the water, millions of fossilized bones were found in the pits in which we mine phosphate today. The bones of the pre-historic animals from the Pleistocene can be found in the top phosphate layer. Below that we can find the fossils of ocean animals from the Miocene period. Some animal bones we can find are dugong, mastodons, saber tooth tiger, whales, camels, and three toed horses. No dinosaurs, though! Florida land got out of the ocean about 25 million years ago – dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago". …ThinkQuest
Photo: Geologist's F.S. Holmes book, right "The Phosphate Rock of South Carolina and the Great Carolina Marl Bed", 1870″ was one of the sources for Watson's book. Holmes said he found bones of dinosaurs as well as human implements and human bones-including a "giant" human thigh bone. Available Online Here
Man, dinosaurs and mammals together: Phophate rocks/bone phosphates of South Carolina : an analysis of their occurrence, origin, importance and instruction for the creation/evolution controversy by John Allen Watson 2001
Here is an early article describing the Florida phosphate beds and will serve to end this section ;
A Wilderness of Bones; Where Elephants, Tigers, and Mastodons Lie Buried; Their Bony Frames Are Now Called Florida Phosphates ..New York Times, March 26 1892
."..Nearly half of Florida is marked out as a phosphate bed. The phosphate lands begin in the northern tier of counties. Tallahassee, the capital is in the center of a great deposit. In a general way the deposits begin at the mouth of the Apalachicola River and circle around northward and eastward, underlying Tallahassee, Monticello and Live Oak, then running southward, all on the west side of the State, through Ocaia and Barstow, all the way down to Punta Rassa.
… the bone phosphate of lime is nothing more nor less than the decomposed bones, or sometimes the guano of long dead animals and birds, solidified into soft rock…
..Where did so many bones come from? It looks as though at some prehistoric time all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air and all the leviathans of the deep had gathered for some unknown purpose in the state of Florida, and had been overtaken by some great calamity and left their bones there. Some of the bones are still in large pieces, others wholly intact and so well preserved that their species can be distinguished without difficulty. ..The bones and teeth of elephants…bones of mammoths which must have been carried to Florida in a glacier…the manatee, seacow…immense shark teeth some weighing more than a pound, ..the porpoise, the glyptodont, teeth of horses, tigers and crocodiles..
..Some of the deposits are 25, 30 feet thick and in some others, the bottom has not been found—not all pure bone, but bone and sand. There are similar deposits in many parts of the world."….A Wilderness of Bones..
It Was People Like You Who Made the Ocean Salty, My Friend
The salts in sea and ocean water are simply dissolved solids and minerals of "everything" in weak solution. Ocean water is a complex combination of dissolved salts and dead biological matter. Science doesn't completely understand the processes that led to salty oceans and seas but quite naturally believe that it took millions of years. If you are a Christian, you probably don't believe that the earth has been around for millions of years but science needs numbers like that to try to give time for their theories to work.
Of course, if the world was really as old as science says, the oceans would now be thousands or millions of times saltier than it is today. Sea and ocean water is approximately 220 times saltier than fresh water. Scientists want to know; what is the origin of the sea and of its "salts"? And how does one explain ocean water's remarkably uniform chemical composition?
"If all the salt in the sea could be extracted and spread evenly over the entire earth it is estimated that it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick-comparable in height to a 40 story office building."… Why is the Ocean Salty?" By Herbert Swenson
I believe that the answer to the question that non-believers pose about salt water fish during the flood is—there were no salt-water fish before the flood—some fresh water species were able to adapt to salt water.
From whence did this incredible amount of material come? It probably comes from many sources, among them the detritus of people like you, of the dead animals and decaying plant and vegetation on the earth after the great flood.
The Coral Clock
Microscopic coral and shells provide the glue in the form of silicate that acts as the glue or bonding agent for sedimentary rocks the world over. Since coral are marine creatures there worldwide distribution over the entire planet is best explained by a global flood extending to high altitudes.
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughn of the U.S. Geological survey made some interesting discoveries about coral that live in vast colonies. He tested them using various experiments and determined that they were meat eaters exclusively. The living coral is a branched colony of individuals connected together with their soft bodies encased in shells. It's the limey silicate shells that bond together when the animals die and build up together to create reefs.
At the rate of upward growth he observed in the reefs of the West Indies it would take from 6,531 to 7,620 years for the formation of a reef 160 feet thick in one of the species that he examined. Another he found could build that same reef in 1,800 years and still another in around 1,000 years. Coral supposedly evolved in the Ordovician, between 488 and 443 million years ago.
Taking Mr. Vaughn's 1923 data and extrapolating it we find that the coral are young earth corals (YEC's). If the slowest coral reef building species he studied would take 7, 620 years to build a 150 foot thick reef then it could build a reef approximately 20,000 feet high in 1 million years, 60,000 feet high in 3 million years or 200,000 feet high in only 10 million years. The coral say that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
Photo: After the Deluge by Francis Danby 1837. Click to enlarge
The evidence of the death and destruction caused by the Global Flood is all around us. Some of those processes continue to this day allowing science to hypothesize that what may be going on a small scale accounts for the planet sized anomalies that we have here discussed.
There have been local floods in the world. Coral continues to grow to this day. Perhaps in certain places, dead vegetation and animal bodies are being transformed into coal or oil. In another rare occurrence somewhere on the globe, perhaps an animal dies and is rapidly buried and on its way to being fossilized. The point is, there is no other explantion other than a worldwide flood to satisfactorily explain the source of so many bones that entire islands can be made of phosphate of bone; entire coastlines of organic based chalk, sandstone or limestone; mountains made of microscopic marine creatures; the immense fossil graveyards throughout the world; the huge oil fields and coal deposits and even the saltiness of the ocean. Most of the dry land of the earth is sedimenatary rock which by definition is deposited by water.
Because every living thing with the breath of life in it persished except for Noah and those with him on the ark, this planet is a graveyard holding the bones of that pre-flood world. Their gravestones are of sandstone, quartz, limestone and chalk.
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man"…Matt 24
*The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Psalm 14:1
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The benchmark for compacts.
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$15,455 Base Price MSRP
$19,115 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Honda Civic DX Coupe ($15,455); Civic LX Coupe ($17,405); Civic EX Coupe ($19,455); Civic EX-L Coupe ($21,005); Civic Si Coupe ($22,055); Civic DX Sedan ($15,655); Civic DX-VP Sedan ($16,405); Civic LX Sedan ($17,605); Civic LX-S Sedan ($18,205); Civic EX Sedan ($19,455); Civic EX-L Sedan ($21,005); Civic Si Sedan ($22,255); Civic Hybrid Sedan ($23,800); Civic GX Sedan ($25,340)
Standard Engine: 1.8-liter sohc 16-valve inline-4
Engine Options: 140-hp, 1.8-liter inline-4; 197-hp, 2.0-liter inline-4; 110-hp hybrid (93-hp, 1.3-liter inline-4 combined with 20-hp electric motor); 113-hp, 1.8-liter, natural gas inline-4
Standard Transmission: 5-speed automatic
Transmission Options: 5-speed manual; 6-speed manual; 5-speed automatic; continuously variable automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Alliston, Ontario, Canada; East Liberty, Ohio; Greensburg, Indiana; Suzuka, Japan
Model Tested MSRP: Honda Civic LX Sedan automatic ($18,405)
Standard Equipment: air conditioning; four-speaker, 160-watt AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio system with auxiliary input jack, CD text display, and speed-sensitive volume control; power windows with express up/down for the driver; tilt-and-telescope steering wheel; height-adjustable driver's seat; fold-down rear seatback; cruise control with steering-wheel-mounted controls; power door locks with keyless entry; center console with sliding armrest; overhead map lights; P205/55R16 tires on steel wheels with covers
Options As Tested: none
Standard Safety Equipment: ABS with EBD; dual-stage, dual-threshold front airbags; front seat-mounted side airbags; side-curtain airbags; front seat active head restraints; child safety seat anchors (LATCH); emergency inside-trunk release
Optional Safety Equipment: Vehicle Stability Assist with traction control, Brake AssistDestination Charge: $710
Inside, all Civic models are pleasant, attractive and inviting. Available technology features include Bluetooth HandsFreeLink on Navigation-equipped models, and a USB audio interface on Civic EX, EX-L, Hybrid, and Si. We've found the Civic to be comfortable in which to ride, nice to drive, and with ample windows that provide outstanding outward visibility.
The Civic comes standard with side-impact airbags and other safety features that are optional on some competitive models. Vehicle Stability Assist, which is Honda's name for electronic stability control, is standard on the Civic EX-L, Hybrid, and Si.
The sporty Civic Si coupe and sedan share a 197-horsepower engine, six-speed manual transmission, four-wheel disc brakes, and supportive sport seats.
The Civic Hybrid sedan is powered by a 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine coupled with a permanent magnet electric motor and a continuously variable transmission. The Hybrid model features dramatically reduced emissions, and it delivers an EPA-rated 40/45 mpg City/Highway.
The Civic GX sedan uses natural gas for fuel. Natural gas is available to residents of California and New York and is used by fleets elsewhere.
For 2010 the Honda Civic line is essentially unchanged from 2009 when the styling was freshened. The Civic was last redesigned for the 2006 model year.
The Honda Civic comes in coupe and sedan versions. Civic DX, LX, and EX models share a 140-hp, 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine with a standard five-speed manual transmission. A five-speed automatic ($800) is optional.
The Civic DX coupe ($15,455) and sedan ($15,655) are the base models. Standard equipment includes power windows, tilt-and-telescope steering wheel, height-adjustable driver's seat and fold-down rear seatback. The coupe gets a rear decklid spoiler. Buyers wanting a radio must supply their own or order from the dealer, but a rear window-integrated radio antenna is standard. Brakes are disc in front, drum in rear. The P195/65R15 tires are on steel wheels with full wheelcovers. The Civic DX-VP sedan ($16,405) adds air conditioning, a four-speaker, 160-watt AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio system with an auxiliary input jack, CD text display, and speed-sensitive volume control.
The Civic LX coupe ($17,405) and sedan ($17,605) add cruise control with steering-wheel-mounted controls; power door locks with keyless entry; center console with sliding armrest; overhead map lights; express up/down for the driver's power window; and P205/55R16 tires. The sedan comes with a four-speaker stereo (same as DX-VP), but the coupe has a six-speaker system, and also a rear-seat walk-in feature that remembers the front passenger seat's setting. The Civic LX-S sedan ($18,205) upgrades to alloy wheels, exclusive sport-trimmed black cloth seats with synthetic suede bolsters and silver stitching, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a rear deck spoiler, and a chrome exhaust tip.
The Civic EX coupe and sedan ($19,455) add a power moonroof; variable-speed intermittent windshield wipers; a second 12-volt power outlet; a 60/40 split folding rear seatback; and outside temperature indicator. The steering wheel reverts to plastic, but adds audio controls; while the keyless remote adds a trunk release button. Brakes upgrade to four-wheel discs. The sedan's stereo adds two speakers (for a total of six); while the coupe gets a 350-watt, seven-speaker system; both get a USB interface. The EX coupe is available with manual transmission, XM Satellite Radio, and voice-recognition Navigation ($21,455).
The Civic EX-L coupe and sedan ($21,005) add leather seats with seat heaters, leather-trimmed steering wheel and armrest, heated mirrors, and Vehicle Stability Assist and Brake Assist. The EX-L sedan is available with the automatic transmission, XM and Navigation ($23,805).
The Civic Si coupe ($22,055) and sedan ($22,255) are performance models, powered by a 197-hp, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. They come only with a six-speed manual transmission. Other go-fast goodies include a limited-slip differential, sport suspension, Vehicle Stability Assist with traction control, and P215/45VR17 tires on 17-inch alloy wheels. Fog lights come standard. Inside are synthetic suede sport seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, and an aluminum shift knob. Both coupe and sedan get the 350-watt, seven-speaker stereo. Packages include high-performance tires for the coupe ($22,255) and sedan ($22,455); XM and navigation ($24,055 and $24,255); or all of the above ($24,255 and $24,455).
The Civic Hybrid sedan ($23,800) features a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT), automatic climate control, a roof-mounted radio antenna, a rear decklid spoiler, and hybrid-pertinent digital data displays. Vehicle Stability Assist comes standard. The Hybrid is available with the navigation system and XM Satellite Radio ($25,800) and with a leather interior ($25,000) including heated front seats and side mirrors, or with the leather package, navigation, and XM ($27,000).
The Civic GX ($25,340) is essentially an LX sedan with a 1.8-liter engine powered by natural gas. It comes only with a five-speed automatic transmission.
Walk Around
The Honda Civic sedans and coupes don't share any body panels. Details and markings distinguish each trim level.
The Honda Civic sedan has a grille with a tall, trapezoidal center opening with secondary scoop-like openings on either side. A grid-like insert in the center opening contrasts with a kind of cyclone-fence theme in the side scoops. Slender headlamp assemblies angle upwards as they curve around the fenders. Around back, a bright chrome bar connects the taillights just above the indentation for the license plate.
The coupe grille has the Honda logo centered in an oval-themed black mesh, with a lower trapezoidal opening, and scoops at either side that are drawn out wide and horizontal and divided midway by a horizontal strut.
Save for a lower body character line, the sides of the Civic are more slab than sensuous. Understated fender blisters break up the otherwise featureless expanse. Honda calls it a monoform design, and a central expression of this is the windshield, the leading edge of which reaches into the hood all the way to the middle of the front wheel wells, pushing the cab-forward design concept to a new extreme. On the coupe, the windshield is raked at a radical 21.9 degrees; the sedan's at a barely more upright 23.9 degrees.
The coupe's spoilered, rounded rear profile suggests sleek swiftness. The sedan's somewhat abbreviated trunk lid and high, chunky tail add perceived mass to a tightly proportioned, smallish sedan.
On the Si sedan, the grille bar is black instead of chrome. On both the coupe and sedan an Si badge tucks into the grille's lower left side, and oval fog lights are set into the bumper's outboard openings. An i-VTEC label appears just forward of the rear wheel well; on the Si sedan it's placed low on the rear door. A rear spoiler wraps over the outboard edges of the sedan's trunk lid; on the coupe, the spoiler is free-standing. Both sedan and coupe roll on their own unique alloy wheels.
The Hybrid is understated, with just a small Hybrid badge under the right rear taillight. Our least favorite feature is its pseudo-aero wheels, which look as if they were cut from pizza pans.
A blue CNG diamond on the right side of the rear deck lid, and NGV lettering on the rear doors, identify the natural gas-powered GX.
We find the Civic LX sedan the most comfortable model. The DX edges more toward spartan inside, while the EX heads toward lush. Fit and finish meet Honda standards. Plastic trim elements look high-grade, although the multi-piece dash invites concern about high-mileage squeaks and buzzes.
Seats are comfortable, not plush. Seat bottoms provide better than average thigh support. The manual height adjustment on the driver's seat pivots on front hinges, forcing drivers to choose between seat height and legroom. The Si models get sport front seats with synthetic suede upholstery and more aggressive bolsters both bottom and side for improved support.
The view out the front, with the expansive windshield, low cowl and sloping hood, is unparalleled in the class. A commensurately low beltline would enhance side vision, but otherwise there's little about which to complain. Tiny front quarter windows on the sedan, necessary to allow the front door windows to roll all the way down, push the side rear-view mirrors a bit too far rearward for quick and easy glances at neighboring lanes.
Controls are for the most part where they should be, but not necessarily as they should be. There's little symmetry in organization or shape of features and interfaces. It's not an unpleasant look, but one that requires some acclimation. Despite the seeming logic of the two-tier instrument display, we still haven't adjusted to the resulting weird pod draped over the top of the dash.
The dash itself seems endlessly deep; draped across its top, in front of the driver, is a hooded opening with a digital speedometer between LCD coolant temperature and fuel level gauges. Down below, in the more common place for instruments, a large, round, analog tachometer dominates the view through the top half of the steering wheel, with warning lights to either side. Outboard of this display are large, irregular vent registers. Instrument lighting is blue on most models but red on the Si models.
Sedans share the coupe's three-spoke steering wheel (with spokes at the 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions), which matches the spacey interior theme just as well.
The Civic navigation system includes Bluetooth HandsFreeLink, a wireless telephone interface that works with Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephones for hands-free operation via steering wheel-mounted controls.
Centered in the dash above the climate control panel is a stereo control head with the pertinent accoutrements; unless you order navigation, in which case this space is shared by an LCD window combining the navigation display with audio settings. In the Hybrid, a selection of graphic depictions of the power system's functions and status occupies the same location.
To the right of this squished pod-like arrangement, the dash curves away from the front passenger and houses two more horizontally oriented vent registers; again, neither of which matches the other. A wide, but not especially deep glove box resides below a cabin-wide, clam shell-like notch dividing the upper and lower halves of the dash.
There is no center stack to speak of, which otherwise might tie together the dash and the floor-mounted controls. Instead, below the climate control panel is a shallow storage bin with a power point and an audio input jack on the left side. Forward of the metallic-trimmed block of plastic serving as a base for the hand brake and shift levers is a good-sized, rectangular storage bin. Another shallow cubby is tucked in between the shift lever housing and a pair of seat bottom-level cup holders under a sliding cover. Aft of this on all but the DX is an abbreviated, padded armrest covering another storage bin, inside of which on the EX, EX-L, Si and Hybrid is a second power point. Each door has a hard plastic map pocket. A magazine pouch is on the rear of the front passenger's seatback; on the Hybrid, there's one on the driver's seatback, too. Architecturally busy interior door panels could be friendlier to fingers in terms of grips and pulls, but armrests provide good support at the right level.
When it comes to interior room, the Civic coupe and sedan are competitive with other cars in their classes. Almost oversize rear doors provide easy rear-seat access. But the bench seats in the rear are flat and do little to keep passengers in place in twists and turns.
Cargo space, at 12.0 cubic feet, trails the class leaders by a couple of cubic feet. The Hybrid gives up an additional 1.6 cubic feet to battery and such, while the GX loses fully half its trunk to fuel storage.
Driving Impressions
We like driving Honda Civics. We found ride quality in the Honda Civic solid but not overly firm, with less road noise and wind whistle than is common for the class. The exceptionally stiff chassis gives the Civic a solid and planted feel. The brake feel is solid as well. Thoroughly modern front and rear suspension designs deliver impressive stability and certain steering response. The long wheelbase smoothes the ride.
The five-speed automatic is just that, a select-it-and-leave-it transmission, and it does the job admirably. We do wish, though, that Honda would insert a tab below the D setting in the gate, as we sometimes shifted past it when shifting out of Park or Reverse and ended up in the D3 notch.
The five-speed manual gearbox is a bit rubbery in the shift feel, and hitting the desired gear sometimes requires careful aim.
The 1.8-liter engine that comes standard is rated at 140 horsepower and 128 pound-feet of torque. Honda rates the combined output of the Hybrid's electric motor and 1.3-liter gasoline engine at 110 horsepower and 123 pound-feet of torque, on regular unleaded. The LNG-powered GX rates 113 horsepower and 109 pound-feet. The 2.0-liter Si models feature 197 horsepower and 139 pound-feet, thanks partly to a high-compression cylinder head that demands premium fuel.
EPA fuel economy estimates are 26/34 mpg City/Highway for the five-speed manual, 25/36 mpg for the five-speed automatic, and 21/29 mpg for the Si six-speed manual. The Hybrid earns a 40/45 mpg rating, the GX a gasoline-equivalent of 24/36.
The EX-L, Hybrid, and Si models come with electronic stability control, and the Si features larger front brake discs.
The Si engine is powerful. Hard acceleration is often accompanied by torque steer, a tug on the steering wheel. Around 6000 rpm the engine delivers a power surge as the i-VTEC's variable valve mechanicals shift emphasis from torque to horsepower. A helical-type, limited-slip differential enhances traction in slippery driving situations.
The Si Sedan is almost as much fun as the Si Coupe. The sedan rides on a wheelbase that's two inches longer and is a bit heavier (by 59 pounds). So, it's a little slower in acceleration, although it takes a stopwatch to notice. Steering response isn't quite as sharp, either.
The Hybrid's CVT automatic takes some getting used to, as the shiftless transmission leaves the tachometer needle roving seemingly aimlessly around the dial while the engine management system's electronic brain works to keep the engine speed at its most efficient given road speed and load. The Hybrid can deactivate up to all four of its cylinders and operate using only its compact (just 70mm wide) electric motor in certain low-speed situations. Its 1.3-liter gasoline engine features the same i-VTEC technology as the other Civics, albeit with eight valves instead of 16. By itself it produces 93 horsepower at 6000 rpm, and 89 pound-feet of torque at 4500. Because the electric motor develops its peak 20 horsepower and 76 pound-feet at different speeds (2000 and 1160 rpm, respectively), Honda rates the combined power more conservatively than simply adding the peak numbers together.
The Civic GX is powered by a dedicated natural gas version of the Civic's 1.8-liter i-VTEC engine. Because it produces close to zero regulated emissions, buyers are eligible for a $4,000 federal tax credit. Refueling is simplified when you opt for Phil, an optional home refueling appliance sold through select Honda dealers in California. Currently, natural gas is approximately thirty-five percent less expensive than gasoline when purchased at a refueling station, and can be more than 50 percent cheaper than gasoline when supplied by a Phil. The Civic GX is the only vehicle certified by the EPA to meet both Federal Tier 2-Bin 2 and Inherently Low Emission Vehicle (ILEV) zero evaporative emission certification standards. But consumers can buy the GX only through certain qualified dealers in New York and California, although it is available to fleets nationwide.
The Civic Hybrid and Civic GX are classified as Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicles (AT-PZEV) by the California Air Resources Board CARB.
The Honda Civic is the benchmark for compact cars. The Civic LX sedan is a superb choice for someone who wants a practical compact that is smooth, comfortable and quick. The EX models add all the conveniences, including heated leather seats in the EX-L. The GX offers basic transportation with the potential economy and real emissions reduction of natural gas. The Hybrid makes a good commuter car with its fuel-saving electric motor. The Si Coupe and Si Sedan deliver sporty performance for driving enthusiasts.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from Detroit. With John F. Katz reporting on the Hybrid and GX from South Central Pennsylvania.
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Grand Nordic Corner: Local results and upcoming events
Skinny on school Nordic SkiingMPHS Nordic Ski Team Earns League Award at High School State Championship Feb 14 &15 YMCAThe Panther skiers finished the season by hosting the State Championships on their home course at Snow Mountain Ranch, February 14th and 15th.The MPHS women finished in eighth place as a team in Thursday's interval start skate race. Seniors Sera Smith, Elly Zietz, Amelia Clancy, and Kaylene Loo finished in 12th, 36th, 41st and 43rd places, respectively, followed by freshman Rowen Gallagher in 45th, and junior Jenna Curran in 47th place.Senior captain Taber Miyauchi led the men with a career best finish against the field in the skate race, finishing 8th, followed by junior Steve Simmons 18th, freshman Simon Zink 25th, freshman Logan Miyauchi 34th, sophomore Daniel Kopp 46th, and sophomore Kip Dearduff 54th. The Panther men finished in 4th place as a team.On Friday, the teams fought blowing snow in the mass start classic race, with the MPHS women finishing 7th overall as a team. Smith led the women with a 17th place finish, followed by senior Abrah Masterson in 25th place, Clancy 41st and Curran 43rd.The Panther men were just 2 points shy of the team podium on Friday, with a fourth place overall team finish. Taber Miyauchi again had a career best 8th place finish, followed by Simmons, again in a very consistent 18th place, Kopp was 35th, and senior Joe Rupp followed with a 53rd place finish.The MPHS Nordic men were awarded the third place team award for the skate discipline for their overall season results by the Colorado High School Ski League. Thanks to coach Dave Zink for reporting the meets this season. Thanks to all the volunteers helping at every meet this season and the two-day State Meet held at the YMCA.EGMS Cubs at Aspen Feb 9The EGMS girls team turned in a solid 3rd place finish (out of 6 teams) with Darby Howard the top finisher for the Cubs (13th place). She was followed closely by 6th grade phenom Elizabeth Barker in 16th place overall. Maddie Hill completed her nordic season in 17th place, and Bixby Daugherty placed 21st. Other Cubs racers were Emily Hoffmeister (23rd), Maykayla Olinger, Leah Olinger, Morgan Krostue & Neva Meindl (places 27-30). What a great race to end the 2013 season! With the clouds, then sun, heat, then cold, the changing snow conditions called for some tricky wax application and a different hill climbing strategy. Eleven teams participated in the boys race and so the second place Cub Boys finish was a fabulous way to end the season. The boys team pulled in points from some steadily improving skiers to finish second to Aspen Middle School. Theo Loo was once again the Cubs top finisher in 8th place. Chase Dornbush, in 13th and Will Delay, in 16th, were the next two Cub skiers to score points for the team. Laim Fuqua (18th), Jensen Hill (20th), Sebastian Brower (21st) and Ryan Lane (26th) all skied strong races. Other EGMS skiers who raced so hard that they had to shed their hats during the race were Corbin Frick (30th), Wil Cleveland (32nd), Braden Markle (33rd), Jake Bolen (34th), Brendan O'Toole (35th), Aaron Sanders (36yh) and Evan Olson (37th) Both girls and boys teams displayed steady improvement over the short, seven week season and will hope to build on their new found ski skills in the 2014 ski season. All these team kids at both the High School and Middle School level are to be praised for their dedication. They are the ones to watch in the coming years. Thanks so much to the tireless coaches who work with them and provide me with this information on the results and the parents and mentors who encourage them.Madshus Snow Mountain StampedePlan for March 2-3 at the Madshus Snow Mtn Stampede Marathon – 42K, 21K, 10K, and kids races. The two-day format worked so well last year that it is being repeated. Again, there will be a Grand Nordic sponsored dinner available with bonfire Saturday night. This is the biggest event of the year to either race in or spectate. Visit madsync.net to register or call the Nordic Center for more information.Grnd Lake Nordic CenterEnjoy the scenic views of Rocky Mountain National Park and the Arapahoe National Forest at the Grand Lake Nordic Center. The nordic center offers the beginner to advanced skier a variety of terrain on 35 km of classic and skate skiing trails. The terrain and trails are also excellent for snowshoeing, and we have a dedicated dog loop and kid's tubing hill! The GLMRD Nordic Center is a full-service, outdoor winter destination featuring our ski and snowshoe rentals, lessons, a retail shop, and a winter soup kitchen at the Lodge. And this Saturday, February 23, enjoy Moonlight skiing with campfire, hot cocoa & marshmallows and Chili served in the lodge until 7:30 p.m. Check out the website http://www.grandlakeski.com for details.Fraser to Granby TrailConditions are great on the entire trail from the Winter Park Resort to Val Moritz and Granby Ranch. Grooming is done by volunteers when possible but have patience as much of the trail is very affected by the blowing snow. All sections are open for XC skiing, snowshoeing or just plain walking with your dog! Please observe dog leash restriction in the Beavers area and pick up after your pooch. We have opened a trail from Val Moritz toward Granby Ranch to connect with their XC trails and the Lodge. Also the top of Cty Rd 87 to the XC trails at Sol Vista is good walking or snowshoeing. Logs are being taken out on the road so skiing is difficult. Parking is available at the top of 87 and Sol Vista welcomes you to their XC trails. Watch out for falling and fallen trees – we have removed so many but they keep coming down. If you can volunteer to help, please call Andy Miller at 726-4099 or Diana Lynn Rau at 887-0547. Above all, be courteous to landowners and respect private property. More on how this great community resource was developed and is currently maintained next week.
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We Partied at the Party Cart in Eugene, OR
Everyone always raves about the street food in Portland, and for very good reason (see our 10 favorite carts here). But we wondered: what about Eugene? Is there any exciting street food happening in this college town just 100 miles south of Portland?
When we asked around the Eugene farmers' market, our new friend Thomas from Sweet Leaf Farm assured us that the city's very best cart is the Party Cart. It was like being invited to a party in a town where we didn't know anyone.
If you define "party" as a camper covered in fox paintings parked next to the Healthy Pet store off Friendly Street (could there be a better street for a party?), then yes, this is certainly a party.
Tiffany Norton and Mark Kosmicki started the Party Cart in April of 2011. The couple was tired of working at other restaurants and bakeries around town and wanted to breathe some new energy into the Eugene food scene. "Eugene would be better if everyone didn't move to Portland," said Mark. They considered moving too, but decided to stay. And they're quite ambitious for a little cart, changing the menu every week. "It's pretty nutbag of us," Mark said.
When we recently visited, it was "Greek Week" with a special menu composed by visiting chef, and a buddy of theirs, Alex Bourgidu formerly of Genoa in Portland. On the themed pop-up menu: watermelon salad with ricotta salata, green beans in tomato sauce with feta and oregano, zucchini and yogurt soup, lamb gyro with tzatziki on cart-made pitas, cabbage-wrapped dolmathes, octopus and skordalia, and semolina cake for dessert.
Ever had octopus from a cart? We hadn't either, but it was cooked as nicely as any restaurant could have done it: tender with some charred edges and drizzled with plenty of good olive oil.
Tiffany and Mark were able to take the week off while Alex was "rogue cheffin' it." Now that they're back in the cart kitchen, the rotating menu features deviled duck eggs, rockfish and shrimp soup with lemongrass and ginger, chile braised beef with heirloom soft polenta, and fried wheat berries.
But bigger picture, they plan to open a restaurant in Eugene. "We want to do it like Joe Beef with the menu in constant flux, and as much as we can will be sourced from Oregon."
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Sky Views Planetarium Show
August 7, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
An event every week that begins at 2:00pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, repeating until August 28, 2019
Planetarium shows daily at 2:00pm in July and August!
Cost: Planetarium Admission (includes museum admission) is $3 per person. Children must be age 4 and older to enter the planetarium.
Monday through Wednesday: Sky Views Planetarium Show
Explore our night sky. Take a tour of the skies and discover the constellations, planets, nebulae and other stunning night sky objects that can be seen in the night sky. Video imagery will bring viewers up close to black holes, star-forming nebulae and more, showing discoveries in astrophysics while instilling a sense of wonder about our universe. (General Audience)
Thursday and Friday: Solar System Oasis Fulldome Show
Take a voyage through our Solar System in search of water, the key ingredient to life on Earth. The program is followed by a brief tour of the night sky, using the planetarium's Zeiss star projector. (General Audience)
Saturdays and Sundays: Cosmic Collisions Planetarium Show
Take a thrilling trip through space and time–well beyond the calm face of the night sky–to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe. This show explores the full range of space collisions, past, present, and future. Show produced by the American Museum of Natural History. (General Audience)
Please note: During July and August, the museum is open daily from 9:30am-3:30pm, last admission at 3:00pm.


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The figure shows that the liquid's saturated vapour pressure (equivalent to its boiling point) in a given situation (A), can be reached either by raising its temperature or by lowering its pressure. The dashed line shows the liquid's boiling point at atmospheric pressure.
When cavitation occurs, air bubbles continuously form and collapse (implode) in the liquid. This generates noise and can lead to damage in the installation. In a heating system, cavitation often occurs in pumps if the pressure of the pump's suction side is too low. To avoid cavitation in a pump, the minimal inlet pressure should be above the NPSHR of the pump.


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Four Hope athletes will compete in five events at the NCAA Division III track and field championships to be held Thursday thru Saturday at Marietta College in Ohio.
Senior Nora Kuiper of Parchment (Parchment HS) will compete in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. An All-American in the 100 a year ago, Kuiper is seeded second among 21 entrants. Her best time this spring has been a Hope record of :11.94. The top-seeded entrant is Callen Martin of Wilmington, Ohio at :11.85. Kuiper is seeded seventh (:24.75) among 20 entrants in the 200. The top-seeded entrant is Brooke Bell of UW-Whitewater (:23.98).
Sophomore John Donkersloot of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS) will compete in the high jump for the second straight year. As a freshman he placed ninth at nationals (6-6). He is seeded sixth among 18 entrants with a season-high jump of 6 feet, 9 3/4 inches. The top-seeded entrant is Al Winsley of Mississippi College at 7 feet, 1 inch.
Senior Rob Bailey of Ogden Dunes, Ind. (Portage, Ind. HS) will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He is seeded ninth among 16 entrants Hope's recordholder in the event (9:09.89), Bailey's best time this spring has been 9:10.61. The top-seeded entrant is Pete Kosgel of Hamilton, N.Y. in 8:52.87.
Sophomore Kara VandeGuchte of Hamilton (Hamilton HS) will compete in the seven-event heptathlon. She is seeded 19th among 20 entrants with 4,313 qualifying points. The top-seeded entrant is Ashley Huston of Hardins-Simmons, Tex. with 5,138 qualifying points. The heptathlon consists of the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter dash, long jump, javelin and 800-meter run. Graduate Lindsay Lange was a three-time All-American in the event, most recently finishing fourth in 2008.


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Floods, drought, climate change, and even war are all directly related to the fate of humble dirt. Made from the same elements as stars, plants, and human beings, dirt is very much alive. One teaspoon of dirt contains a billion organisms working in balance to sustain a series of complex, thriving communities that are invisibly a part of our daily lives. DIRT! The Movie tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility — from its miraculous beginning to its tragic degradation. This insightful and timely film tells the story of the glorious and unappreciated material beneath our feet.
Narrated by Jaimie Lee Curtis and inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, DIRT! The Movie introduces viewers to dirt's fascinating history. Four billion years of evolution have created the dirt that recycles our water, gives us food, and provides us with shelter. But humanity has endangered this vital living resource with destructive methods of agriculture, mining practices, and urban development, with catastrophic results: mass starvation, drought, and global warming.
The filmmakers travel around the world to capture the stories of global visionaries who are discovering new ways to repair humanity's relationship with soil, checking in with Dr. Vandana Shiva to discuss her fight to prevent world hunger by preserving biodiversity in India, and documenting the tree planting work of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia in Brazil. From farmers rediscovering sustainable agriculture and scientists discovering connections with soil to inmates learning job skills in a prison horticulture program and children eating from edible schoolyards, DIRT! The Movie brings to life the environmental, economic, social, and political importance of soil and suggests ways we can create new possibilities for all life on Earth.
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The 2013 Detroit auto show will feature more than 50 debuts of new or refreshed vehicles, including—drumroll please—the 2014 Chevy Corvette C7.
"This show is a reflection of the positive changes that are occurring in our industry," said Jim Seavitt, chairman, 2013 NAIAS. "Automakers from around the world continue to place NAIAS at the top of their global auto-show strategies, and have committed to more than 50 vehicle debuts with the majority being worldwide unveilings.
"Our hotels are filling up, our international media registration is up 15 percent and the energy is back," he said. "Our city, state and industry are in a better place. It's showtime in Detroit."
Autoweek will have boots on the ground during the show's press days, which are Jan. 14-15.
Other big reveals include the BMW 4-series coupe, the 2014 Jeep Liberty, Cadillac ELR, new Acura MDX and BMW M6 Gran Coupe. Check out our dedicated Detroit auto-show page here, and check out our galleries here. We'll be adding to both sites as the show approaches.


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George Lucas (nobody)
"OMG DIDN'T YOU DIRECT-- ....oh"
"Yo, Georgie Boy, need those I-124a forms by tomorrow, 'k homie?"
George Lucas (born June 12, 1949) is a tax fraud investigator in Hopkins, MN. George enjoys skiing, golf, spending time with his friends, and not directing any Star Wars films.
George grew up in Lancaster, PA. He was first-string forward on his high school soccer team. After finishing high school, he continued his uneventful and exceedingly lackluster life by enrolling in the University of Minnesota after hearing that the legendary Peter Graves had once attended. George enjoyed U of M greatly, and still keeps in touch with a bunch of his old college buddies like Bill, Oscar, Spinner, and of course funny-man Carrot Top.
George is fond of milk cartons, and has commented several times that he intends to shoot a photo gallery with them.
George met his wife Linda at a local deli, just after starting his tax fraud investigation work in Hopkins . The two conversed over a pastrami and chipped beef sandwich, instantly falling in love. They married a year later, and a year after that, gave birth to their first child, Mark. Another two years past before their second son James and first daughter Marie (twins) were born.
George and Linda decided to stop having children at this point. The family adopted a dog named Jar Jar.
In addition to Jar Jar, George always had an interest in exotic fish. For his 43rd birthday, Linda surprised him with a saltwater fish tank, filled with a number of rare, individually-named sea creatures. George was thrilled.
George on George[edit]
"Is it some sort of motor bike?"
Like five other people in the United States, George Lucas has never seen a Star Wars film. Film quotes are still met with blank, puzzled stares from George and the Lucas family.
Coincidentally, the actual George Lucas who actually directed the films had never heard of George Lucas either. When the two were finally introduced in the summer of 1988, an epic exchange took place:
- George: So, I hear that your name is also George Lucas huh?
- George: Yep, yep yep..
- George: What do you do then, George?
- George: Ooh, I do tax work, fraud investigation mostly..
- George: Ahh..yeah..
- George: Ooh ya. So I hear you do something with motion pictures then? <sips coffee>
- George: Umm...


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Congratulations to Lynn Boorady (pictured), chair and associate professor of fashion and textile technology. Boorady was nominated by Rachel Hamerski in the "Nominate a Teacher" contest, part of Buffalo State's Year of the Teacher celebration. Hamerski's essay nominating Boorady received the winning number of votes.
Boorady and the other nine finalists will be honored at a reception at Buffalo State on Thursday, May 1. Wendy Paterson, dean of the School of Education, will present Boorady with an excellence in teaching award. As a prize for submitting the winning essay, Hamerski will receive an iPad mini.
The top ten teachers, the school at which they teach, and the students who nominated them are:
"Few teachers will ever know how they have transformed and shaped our lives. We wanted to give our students a chance to tell them," said Paterson. "We are grateful to everyone who submitted an essay to celebrate an admired teacher because they remind us that the greatest reward for teachers is having a lasting and positive effect on a student's life."
A committee chose the top ten essays, and the Buffalo State community voted to choose the winner.
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