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Asher Roth and The White Panda Bring The Party at Alumni Hall Last Friday
Posted by Brittany Barth on 12/10 at 12:38 PM
I hope you accepted my invitation to come out to the Asher Roth and The White Panda concert at Alumni Hall on Friday night. If you didn't, then you made a mistake. Both Asher Roth and The White Panda established themselves as the new authorities of party music.
I was ecstatic over the fact I had been able to score a press/photo pass for the show courtesy of SPA. My VIP status enabled me to stand in front of the barricade, where I was up close and personal with the stage and the performers.
The showed kicked off at 9:30 PM with DJ Wreckineyez and as soon as he began spinning, the students went wild. His remixes set fire to the stage, and he established himself as a force to be reckoned with when placed before a turntable. Unfortunately, neither Spotify nor iTunes have any of Wreckineyez's remixes available, but his Myspace gives you a taste of his incredible skill as a DJ.
Wreckineyez performed solo for about ten minutes before being accompanied by Asher Roth. As soon as the Pennsylvania-based rapper stepped up to the stage, the crowd exploded. And while I was just as excited as the other students, I have to admit, I was skeptical about seeing Asher Roth prior to the concert.
The last I had heard from Roth was back in 2009 when he debuted his college party anthem, "I Love College" from the album Asleep In The Bread Aisle. While the single was undeniably a hit, I never felt as though it was a song that established Roth as a serious rapper.
On Friday night, he proved me wrong.
I was in absolute shock at what an unbelievable talent I found him to be, and how much I enjoyed his music. Not only did he impress me with his skill as a rapper, but with his ability to interact with his fans while performing. Throughout his set, he encouraged fans to crowd-surf toward the stage and join him on it, an activity many students (and even Asher) participated in. Before he began his single, "She Don't Wanna Man", he requested that a group of females accompany him on the stage. I have never witnessed any other artist interact with his fans the way Asher had during this concert.
Asher also performed "La Di Da" from his debut album, as well as some new material. Before finishing his set, Asher addressed the crowd: "Sometimes all we have is each other and music…Penn State, you guys are the best motherf—-ers in the world…Nobody's stronger than Penn State in the entire country. WE ARE PENN STATE!" After declaring his respect for the university, he closed with "I Love College".
Before Friday, Asher Roth was an artist that I underestimated, and one I believe many others still underestimate. I can now say that I have become a fan of Roth's, and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of his sophomore album due to release next year.
After Roth exited the stage, The White Panda entered, donning themselves with LED panda masks.
The White Panda had been a mystery to me up until a few weeks ago, when a friend had introduced me to the duo that creates "mashups" of popular songs. I was amazed by the amount of songs the band has created since their debut in 2009 and their ability to create unique versions of hit singles.
The duo has released five studio albums that include about twenty songs each, so if this band has flown under your radar and you're not sure where to start, here are some of my favorite tracks: from their latest album Bambooyah! check out "Nightcity", "Deep In The Levels". From their sophomore album Selected Tracks II, "One Lollipop". The White Panda has numerous songs that tackle a variety of artists and genres, so choosing a favorite track or album is a challenge.
Since I was so impressed with The White Panda's albums, I was excited to see the duo perform live. Their performance on Friday left me more than satisfied. I have never felt a room vibrate the way Alumni Hall did during The White Panda's set. Their mashups were so booming, I was concerned they would compromise the structure of the building.
Sounds like a successful concert to me.
The show ended around 12:00 AM, and while the party at Alumni Hall had come to a close, the energy of the music (as well as ringing-ears) stayed with the students for the remainder of the night. The Asher Roth and The White Panda concert was an amazing experience. I witnessed sheer talent, was introduced and re-introduced to fantastic musicians and attended one of the best parties State College has ever offered.
For those of you who weren't able to make it out on Friday, you can always live vicariously through pictures from the night. Check out additional photos on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.429657560420816.108233.155749677811607&type=1&l=6e0ad179df
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Bio: My name is Brittany Barth, an English major currently in my senior year at Penn State. I am a lover of food, John Mayer, all things nautical and cats. It has always been a dream of mine to be the lead singer of a (successful) band. After graduation, my goal is to become a Young Adult fiction novelist, but I would love to be an advice columnist prior to that. I am excited about graduation and what the future holds for me!
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Additional analysis being performed on selected issues to assist finalizing a formal project brief.
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Objective(s) of project
Developing accounting and disclosure requirements for heritage assets.
To be determined.
IPSAS 17, Property, Plant and Equipment was approved in November 2001. IPSAS 17 neither defines heritage assets nor requires recognition of heritage assets. It does include some characteristics of such assets. If heritage assets are recognized by a public sector entity, the IPSAS requires applying its disclosure requirements and allows but does not require applying its measurement requirements.
Issues the project intends to consider include (but not necessarily limited to):
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- Defining "heritage assets;"
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- Follow the requirements in IPSAS 17;
- Non-recognition of existing heritage items, but recognition of items meeting heritage asset definition going forward; and
- Non-recognition entirely and expensing new acquisitions.
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- Others, e.g., heritage assets transferred, held in trust and owned but not operated by the state.
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February 2009: No decision yet taken to reactivate project.
March 2008 - Project included in work plan for 2008-2009 with view to re-activation in first half of 2009.
May 2007 - Due to other priorities, decison taken not to progress this project further in 2008.
March 2007 - The IPSASB reviewed a project brief and agreed that the final project objective is for accounting and disclosure requirements for heritage assets either through a separate standard or amending IPSAS 17. They thought that further analysis of the issues would assist in determining next steps in the project. These include definition, recognition and valuation approaches. Cost-benefit is pervasive to these areas.
November 2006 - IPSASB reviewed submissions of the CP. Submissions indicate considerable support for the United Kingdom Accounting Standards Board's (ASB's) proposals on definition and the need for additional disclosures with two significant and contrasting views on recognition and measurement. One view favors no deviation from IPSAS 17 requirements. The other favors non-recognition, primarily on cost-benefit grounds.
November 2005 - The IPSASB approves publication of a Consultation Paper incorporating at its core the recently published UK discussion paper, Heritage Assets: Can Accounting do Better? The Consultation Paper was published in February 2006 with a response date of June 30, 2006.
July 2005 - IPSASB receives an issues paper prepared by UK ASB Secretariat with IPSASB subcommittee comments and agrees to receive a copy of the UK discussion paper in November 2005.
March 2005 - IPSASB agrees to work with the UK ASB to jointly develop a heritage assets discussion paper. An IPSASB subcommittee assists.
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Sheryl Hutchinson couldn't believe her eyes when she saw a black bear strolling around her Rockford house, and drinking out of flower pots.
She took pictures as proof, and it's confirmed that at least one wild black bear is prowling 90 miles from Chicago. FOX 32 spoke to a black bear expert Monday at the Lincoln Park Zoo. He told us he expects bear sightings to become more common near Chicago.
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"In recent history there have been plenty examples of people committing violent acts or acts that we wouldn't otherwise expect from them presumable due to mental illness," Columbus Regional OBGYN Dr. Timothy Villegas said.
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Contact is responsible for as much as 82 percent of the injuries sustained in hockey. The incidence of hockey injuries has also been found to increase dramatically with the age of the player. Between ages 11 and 14, the injury rate is about one per 100 hours of playing time. Players ages 18 to 21 sustain injuries at a rate of one per 11 hours of play and professionals sustain injuries at a rate of one per seven hours of play. The greater intensity of play apparently is a significant factor in causing injuries.
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Although the foot is protected by a solid boot made of leather and plastic, foot injuries still occur frequently in hockey. Fractures and contusions account for most of the foot injuries. Fractures of the feet are almost invariably the result of impact by the puck or stick.
The most commonly fractured bones are the navicular and the base of the fifth metatarsal (styloid process). The first through fourth metatarsals are fractured much less frequently. These fractures are usually oblique but can appear comminuted or spiral. When these fractures are not displaced, players often "play through the pain." Treatment for these fractures consists of four to eight weeks of immobilization, depending on the injury. If the fracture is displaced and cannot be closed or reduced, it may be necessary to perform ORIF.
Toe fractures are not very common in hockey due to the hard toe of the skate. However, these fractures do occur occasionally due to direct trauma from a puck or stick. You may see a subungual hematoma with these injuries and the fracture will usually be comminuted. The player will present with pain, edema and ecchymosis of the affected toe.
Treatment of nondisplaced toe fractures consists of immobilization splinting to the neighboring toe with tape, felt or prefabricated splints. With these cases, you can expect a return to action in a matter of days. If the fracture is displaced, depending on severity, you should perform a closed or ORIF. Return to play will then take a couple of weeks, depending on the degree of displacement and the amount of reduction and stabilization you perform on the area.
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Sony was using SSD's in their devices years ago, I never understood why it never got big..I guess the main reason is that hard drives are already in the terabyte range while SSD's are still in the low gigabytes...i guess Apple will be the one to make it popular
Western DIgital says their sales are down 10-20% since iPad launch...
It wouldnt be a bad idea, as long external hardrives are still made.
About time someone steps ahead and calls off ALL HDDs!!!
This is also one of the reasons that I still have not made a new multimedia/gaming rig.
In the near future (1-3 years) we should see 120+ gb SSDs.
At this point of time, it isn't really smart to invest your money into a new custom PC/Mac, but with Apple Inc making huge steps in the game, people can finally get the "dream" machines for the right price.
I seriously hope Apple will fail. They think they can control everything. One day, and that day will come soon I will see Apple crumble for trying to control everything. Pathetic Steve Jobs..
I hate when they announce in the keynote speech that products are "available today" when what they really mean is "ships today". Both my local Apple stores do not have the new Airs in stock yet. I wanna go check out the "instant on" and see if I wanna throw down on one.
On another note @mardinn - Apple isn't "controlling" anything as no one is controlling you into buying anything from them. Your statement is ridiculous. Even if the Air fails (which the last model didn't) it's still their niche market product and therefore their least selling.... and that's ok by their projections.
I would like to put maybe a 20-30 GB SSD drive in my MacBook cuz I saw a demo of speed and how quick it gets. 30GB is about $80 bucks compared to 500 GB HD at roughly $60 so you can see price differences. Unless Apple can bring the price down.
I'm kinda thinkin that HDDs will eventually phase out due to the size of them... Physically I mean.
I'm not liking the fact that they took the memory out of it's HDD housing..... How am I suppose to upgrade my storage if the chips are on the board?? I understand you can get an external HDD but that's not the answer for me.....
SSDs are the future and if your to dumb to see that you need to donate your computer to me. Lol..Im still tryig to save up for the 1tb PCIe ssd on Newegg..damn I want it.lol
Now that they have the smaller MBA for what...1k...I'm thinking of getting it now. I've always like the Air, and with the cheapness of 32 and 64 gig USB drives, who needs a cd/DVD drive nowadays. I will be gettin one...not an early model, but will be getting one.
Wake me up when they make laptops with 1TB of storage for less than 1000 bucks.
What I would like to see apple do is put a 32GB flash chip on the logic board. That is where the OS (along with the most used files and such) gets stored and loaded, while you still have a 500GB HD for mass storage. I can see this coming next refresh for MB's an MBP's. And if it does, I'm selling mine and buying a new one.


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About 1.8 million years ago, not long after the Sierra Nevada began to rise, the Earth's atmosphere turned cold, marking the beginning of the Pleistocene, the Last Ice Age. Glaciers grew high in the mountains and moved slowly down former stream channels, carving U-shaped valleys as they advanced. Small glaciers still exist at the highest elevations in the Sierra Nevada, where they continue to scour the landscape. The plants and animals that live at high elevations have special adaptations for surviving the cold, harsh environments.
Massively Cool
The massive formation of exposed rock, called a batholith, makes up most of the Sierra Nevada. Composed mainly of granite, quartz and diorite, it has been and continues to be carved by glaciers.
Another form of erosion called exfoliation causes relatively thin sheets of granite to peel off from the exposed surface of the batholith. These clean breaks in the rock create dramatic sculptures like Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.
Glaciers leave their signature
Glaciers leave physical evidence of their passage. This rock was scraped by glacial ice and has a shiny polish and scratches that indicate the direction the ice was moving.
Rivers of Ice
A glacier is a large mass of ice that acts like a river moving very slowly downhill. Mountain glaciers begin at high elevation where snowfall excceds snowmelt. In these accumulation zones, snow at the bottom gets compacted by the weight o the new snow above, causing it to turn into dense glacial ice.
Once the ice is thick enough, the glacial mass will move under its own weight. A glacier carves the land as it advances, pushing huge amounts of rock debris, called till, ahead of it and off to the sides. These deposits are called moraines.
What's that noise?
The sounds you hear were recorded inside a glacier. Listen to the sounds of ice crackling, popping, banging and squeaking as it melts and changes in size.
Why is glacial ice blue?
Glacial ice appears blue because compacted ice absorbs most wavelengths of light and reflects blue light. The deepest blue ice is found in crevasses.
The Pleistocene – The Last Ice Age
About 1.8 million years ago, the Last Ice Age began. A period of long-term cooling of Earth's climate resulted in the expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers.
As much as 30% of all the continents were covered by glaciers and parts of the northern oceans were also frozen.
During this Ice Age, no massive ice sheets covered California. Glaciers were confined to high mountains, advancing and retreating 4 to 7 times.
The Last Ice Age ended just 10,000 years ago, but several small glaciers still persist in California at high elevations.
High concentrations of gases like methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere trap heat radiating from Earth. Decreased levels of these gases, especially carbon dioxide, could have contributed to the onset of ice ages by cooling Earth's surface.
The Ice Age Cometh?
Variations in Earth's orbit around the sun cause cooling of the planet. These changes in Earth's orbit, tilt and orientation to the sun all affect the amount of solar radiation striking Earth. The Milankovitch theory of climate change suggests that these variations occur on 100,000-year cycles and drive the onset of ice ages.
Earth wobbles on its axis, like a spinning top when it starts to slow down. This affects the tilt of Earth and determines the severity of seasons in the northern or southern hemisphere. The greater the tilt, the more severe the winters and summers. Over 41,000 years, Earth's tilt will vary between 21.50 degrees and 24.50 degrees. Today, Earth's tilt is at 23.50 degrees.
Earth's orbit around the sun is not quite circular. At certain times of the year, it is slightly closer to the sun. The combination of tilt and nearness to the sun are thought to control the growth and retreat of ice sheets.
Pleistocene Relicts
Species that lived during the Last Ice Age and still persist today are called Pleistocene relicts. Their present-day distribution is a remnant of their wider range during the Last Ice Age. The grizzly bear and California condor are both Pleistocene relicts – one is extinct in California, the other is barely clinging to existence.
California condor
Gymnogyps californianus
Hope for the California Condor?
They once ranged widely over the dry foothills and mountain ranges of central and southern California where they nested in caves and cliff overhangs.
Destruction of habitat, poaching and lead poisoning led to the California condor's decline. By 1985 populations plummeted to less than 9 birds in the wild.
At that time, conservation biologists decided to capture the remaining birds to protect and breed them.
Captive breeding programs have released birds back into the wild, but their long-term survival is still in question. Today, 85 of the 222 birds in existence, are in the wild.
The California condor is the largest land bird in North America.
An adult can weigh up to 25 pounds (11 kg) and have a wing span up to 9.5 feet (3 m).
Condors can soar for hours at altitudes of 15,000 feet (4572 m), cover hundreds of miles, and reach speeds over 55 mph (89 kph). Like most other vultures, condors eat carrion.
Grizzly bear
Ursus arctos californicus
Grizzly Bears in California
Grizzly bears once roamed the valleys and mountains of California, probably in greater numbers than anywhere else in the continental United States. It was the largest and most powerful mammal in the state.
Fueled by the discovery of gold, California's population grew rapidly and humans and grizzlies came into contact more frequently.
Less than 75 years after the discovery of gold, every grizzly bear in California was gone. The last wild grizzly was killed in 1922.
The story of "Monarch"
Monarch was captured from the wild and died of old age in captivity in 1911. After his death, he was donated to the Academy by the de Young Museum. He remains a legacy to the once mighty California grizzlies.
The California grizzly bear was designated the official state animal in 1953 and appears on the state flag.
Cool Planet
Cool summers in the northern hemisphere, where most of earth's land mass is located, allow snow and ice to remain until the next winter. This contributes to the development of large ice sheets over hundreds to thousands of years.
More ice reflects more of the sun's energy back into space, causing additional cooling. It appears that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere falls as ice sheets grow, also adding to the cooling of the climate.
Living in a Cold World
Glacial refugia are like habitat islands, where organisms that were adapted to the colder climate of the ice ages, became isolated and still survive today.
Refugia are typically found at high latitudes or high altitudes on mountain tops. But, a few other special habitats, like caves or shaded, cool canyons at lower elevations may also serve as refugia for cold-adapted species. All these areas have a cool or cold microclimate in common, similar to ice-age conditions.
Many species found here occur nowhere else in the world. These species often occupy a limited geographical area and tolerate only a very narrow range of environmental conditions.
Over time, as climatic changes alter the environment, future generations must either find more favorable conditions, or adapt to the new climatic conditions. If they do either, they may survive; if they can do neither, extinction is inevitable.
Cold Adaptations
Watermelon snow
Chlamydomonas nivalis
These single-celled green algae are eaten by cold-tolerant animals and bacteria of snowfields and glaciers. Where heavily concentrated, they play an important role in the melting of snow and glaciers. Their red color is caused by secondary pigments produced to protect chlorophyll from damaging ultraviolet light.
Ice crawlers
Ice crawlers are nocturnal insects that tolerate cold climates and high altitudes, thriving in temperatures just above freezing. Unlike their close relatives, the crickets and grasshoppers, they cannot hear nor can they make any sounds. Many live in snow melt areas or caves where they scavenge plant and animal material on snow fields.
Super Cool
Academy researcher Dave Kavanaugh studies this group of cold-adapted beetles that were once more widely distributed. Populations became isolated in glacial refugia as glaciers retreated and their icy habitat was fragmented into small patches. Nebria have amazing adaptations that allow them to survive the cold temperatures and short growing season at high elevations. Their metabolism is adapted to work very well at low temperatures. They synthesize a chemical which lowers the freezing point of water, and prevents the beetle from freezing solid. These super-cooled beetles regularly withstand subzero winter temperatures.
These beetles come out only at night to feed on organisms living in, or stranded on, permanent snowfields and glaciers. They avoid predation by being nocturnal. If active during the day, these dark beetles would be highly visible against the white snow and easily spotted by predators like the gray-crowned rosy finches.
Slow Change
Species become well-adapted to their environment and to each other only through a slow process of evolution that happens over many generations.
Adaptation is the way living organisms cope with environmental stresses and pressures. Organisms adapted to their environment are able to get food, deal with physical conditions of temperature, humidity, and light, defend themselves from natural enemies and reproduce. All these ecological pressures direct evolutionary change and continued
adaptation. Adaptations happen slowly, over long periods of time, in response to changes in an organism's environment. If changes occur too quickly or are too extreme, the organism may not be able to adapt.
In the face of rapid and dramatic changes, such as destruction of their habitat, loss of food source, or introduction of a new predator, organisms must relocate, if they can, or die. Their departure or loss may trigger other dramatic changes in the rest of their community.
In nature, no organism lives in isolation from its surroundings. Each interacts with its environment and the other organisms that live there. These relationships are fundamental to their survival and the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole.
Organisms that have inhabited a particular ecosystem for a long time are usually well-adapted to each other and their environment. Their interactions and interdependence may be complex and indirect because of the network of shared interrelations in the entire ecosystem. Species may affect each other by providing or sharing resources or battling common threats.
When species live in close association with each other for a long time it is called symbiosis. When the relationship benefits both species it is called mutualism.
Clark's nutcracker
Nucifraga columbiana
Whitebark pine
Pinus albicaulis
Made for Each Other
Clark's nutcracker lives at high altitudes, between 4900 - 12,000 feet (1494 m - 3658 m), in the Sierra Nevada. It plays a major role in the dispersal of whitebark pine seeds which make up most of its diet. Nutcrackers eat, harvest and store clusters of ripe seeds, called caches.
Seeds are recovered using visual cues and spatial memory for up to 10 months after being cached. Clark's nutcrackers can recover seeds even if the ground is covered with snow. Not all caches are recovered and large numbers of seeds germinate and establish seedling whitebark pine trees.
In addition to pine seeds, birds will eat insects, bird nestlings, berries and amphibians, including mountain yellow-legged frogs. It is unclear if the bird is dependent on the frogs, but it seems to prey on them in mid-summer and in years when the whitebark cone crop is low.
The harvesting and caching behavior of Clark's nutcracker is critical for the dispersal of whitebark pines seeds.
Each year from late August to early October, a single nutcracker can cache about 32,000 seeds and will fly as far as 7 miles (11.3 km) away from harvest site to do so.
A special pouch under their tongue, called a sublingual pouch, can hold as many as 150 seeds to be eaten, fed to young or cached. Using their large bills, birds rip open and pry seeds from their shells. They dig holes for caches in open disturbed ground, and favor recently burned areas.
The pine seeds, which are high in fat, carbohydrates and protein are an important food source for many animals including woodpeckers, nutcrackers, jays, ravens, chickadees, chipmunks, finches, bears, and ground squirrels.
The whitebark pine is a hardy sub-alpine conifer that tolerates poor soils, steep slopes and windy exposures at high elevations. It provides shade, moisture and shelter from wind, which facilitates the establishment of conifers and understory vegetation.
Whitebark pine trees depend on Clark's nutcrakcer for seed dispersal. It's cones do not open even when ripe. The large wingless seeds, which are not dispersed by wind, must be opened by animals including Clark's nutcracker.
Bird-dispersed pines develop a distinctive form with a flat top shrubby canopy. Vertically oriented branches with horizontal cones at the tips make the cones more visible to birds like the Clark's nutcracker.
Vulnerable to Extinction
Why do some species become threatened or endangered and not others? A species is considered to be endangered when its numbers become so reduced that it is likely to go extinct in the near future.
Species can become extinct throughout their entire range or in just part of their geographic range. The loss of a species reduces the biodiversity of its community, affects other species and irreversibly alters the ecosystem.
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Certain characteristics make species more vulnerable to extinction. Organisms that require large areas to obtain food and mates, that have special diet or habitat requirements, or that have very slow reproductive rates are more vulnerable to extinction.
Small, isolated populations of organisms with limited ability to disperse are also at higher risk. If their only habitat is catastrophically altered or destroyed, they may become extinct.
Too Fast to Recover?
Extinction is a natural process that has been occurring ever since early forms of life evolved. Species have evolved and disappeared throughout geologic time. The inability to adapt to climate change, competition or predation leads to extinction.
Five times in Earth's past history environmental conditions changed drastically and led to mass extinctions of over 70% of all species alive at that time. Each time, however, the surviving species continued to evolve and diversify, leading to greater biodiversity.
Today, most biologists think we are in the middle of a 6th mass extinction event, and this time humans are directly responsible.
The rate at which species are disappearing is increasing at an alarming rate. Humans are altering the world's habitats faster than most species can adapt.
Mountain yellow-legged frog
Rana muscosa
Cause and Effect
Mountain yellow-legged frogs were once common in high
elevation lakes and streams of the Sierra Nevada. For almost 9 months, both tadpoles and adults spend the winter and early spring under the ice of frozen lakes. They emerge shortly after the snow melts. During the day adults prey on a variety of invertebrates in the water and on land.
Historically, 99% of the high elevation lakes and ponds of the Sierra Nevada were fishless. Cascading waterfalls from hanging valleys carved by glaciers created physical barriers to fish moving upstream to these lakes. These fishless lakes and the land surrounding them teemed with life.
In the 1900's intentional fish introductions for sport- fishing dramatically altered these alpine lake ecosystems. Fish devoured mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles and adults causing major declines in frog populations. Today, the mountain yellow-legged frog has vanished from 80% of its historic range. It is estimated that populations of these frogs have declined over 90% in the last few decades.
A natural predator of mountain yellow-legged frogs is the mountain garter snake, Thamnophis elegans elegans. The introduced rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss iridea, caused a major decline in frog populations, and in turn, negatively effected populations of mountain garter snakes. Other predators known to feed on mountain yellow-legged frogs that could be impacted by the disappearance of frogs are coyote, black bear and Clark's nutcracker. If nutcracker populations are negatively affected by the loss of frogs, there may be serious implications for whitebark pine distribution in the Sierra Nevada. Loss of the mountain yellow-legged frog may cascade to lower parts of the food web.
The disappearance of tadpoles could cause changes in the abundance of algae found
in lakes that could in turn alter the abundance of aquatic insects that feed on algae.
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a short, raspy call. They call primarily underwater during the day, but may also call at night.
The frogs on display in the exhibit were raised in captivity from field-collected eggs.
Roland Knapp
Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory
Fishing for Solutions
A 7-year study conducted by researcher Roland Knapp and his team from the University of California's Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, removed non-native fish populations from several high elevation lakes. After fish removal, frog populations increased rapidly.
Restoring an Alpine Ecosystem
Following fish removal, lakes with only 20 adults and 20 tadpoles of mountain yellow-legged frogs now have over 1500 of each life stage. The abundance of invertebrate fauna in the lakes increased more than ten-fold in the absence of the fish predation.
Recovery of the aquatic ecosystem has also positively impacted the surrounding terrestrial ecosystem, particularly for birds like gray-crowned rosy finches, that feed on caddisflies, mayflies and other invertebrates.
Vectors of Disease
In the last few years, a newly identified fungal pathogen poses a new threat to mountain yellow-legged frogs. The disease is causing major die-offs of frog populations even from lakes that were never stocked with fish.
UC Berkeley researchers Cherie Briggs, Vance Vredenburg and other colleagues are studying the mode of transmission of this disease. The outcome of this research will help shape recovery efforts for the mountain yellow-legged frog.
Metal of Madness
The discovery of gold in 1848 launched the largest global human migration in history. Over half a million people from around the world descended on California, changing its biological diversity and culture forever.
The Academy has been a leader in environmental conservation since it was founded in 1853. Academy staff were among the first to study the environmental ravages caused by placer mining in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, leading to major changes in mining regulation and extraction practices.
The Mother Lode
California's gold deposits were formed under great pressure and heat in the rocks of the Sierra Nevada. Circulating ground water, heated by magma, intruded into fractures in Earth's crust.
The hot water dissolved minerals from surrounding rocks. As the water reached cooler rocks, fine particles of gold and quartz separated out, leaving veins of deposits in the rock.
The "Mother Lode" is an area of active faults that extends along the western flank of the Sierra Nevada. The gold for which California is famous was deposited in fractures and broken rocks along these faults.
There are two types of gold deposits in the Sierra Nevada, lode and placer.
Lode gold, found in the rocks in which it formed, must be dug out of the ground. It is often in the form of crystalline wires or leaves, held fast inside white milky-quartz. To remove the gold, the rock is crushed and then washed with water which sweeps away light-weight particles and leaves the heavy gold behind.
When rock erodes, particles of gold and other minerals wash down streams, along with sand and gravel. These deposits are called placers which tend to be in the form of flakes and nuggets. Gold is extremely dense and can be separated from other particles in sediment by panning and other simple methods.
Mountain Building - Millions of Years in the Making
The building of the Sierra Nevada is a complex process that began about 60 million years ago. Volcanoes lay where the range is today, marking the western edge of North America.
Around that time, the boundary between the tectonic plates began to change. The subduction of the Pacific plate under the North American plate, which fed the volcanoes with molten rock, slowed and eventually stopped.
Residual heat, combined with pressure from below, changed the older volcanic rocks above into metamorphic rocks.
Huge chambers of magma deep in the Earth cooled and slowly crystallized into granitic rock. As they solidified, these lighter plutonic rocks, began to rise, "floating" up through the older, dense volcanic rock. Hydrothermal fluids penetrated the old rocks, sometimes depositing minerals like gold and milky quartz.
Boulders to Sand
As the ancient mountains slowly rose, overlying older rocks and younger volcanic rocks were eroded by wind, water and ice. A network of streams flowing from the mountains carried the particles of broken rock westward into the ancestral Sacramento River system.
The long basin between the rising mountains to the east and coastal range to the west gradually filled with these sediments, forming the Great Central Valley. In some places, the accumulated sediments are up to 10,000 feet (3048 m) thick.
The rocks types displayed here, granodiorite, gabbro, sandstone and slate, all contributed to the thick layers of sediment in the Great Central Valley. Deposits of these rocks on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada are still eroding and contributing sediment to the Valley today.
Sandstone is sedimentary rock composed of grains eroded from other rocks. Its color is determined by the minerals it contains.
Granodiorite is part of the batholith and makes up most of the rock in the Sierra Nevada. It is similar to granite in texture, but contains more feldspar and less quartz.
Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt. It forms when molten magma is trapped beneath Earth's surface and cools slowly into a hard, coarsely crystalline mass.
Slate (large slab in back) is fine-grained, layered metamorphic rock. Its parent rock is usually a fine-grained sediment like shale or claystone.
Fire Suppression
Restoration of natural fire cycles is important to restoring and protecting biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada. After a fire, the sequence of recovery of native plants provides wildlife with a variety of ecological opportunities.
Global Warming
As concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase temperatures, glaciers are retreating at an accelerated rate. California's small mountain glaciers are particularly sensitive to warming.
In 1913, after a bitter battle, Congress gave San Francisco permission to dam the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Following this action, legislation was passed that made it illegal to ever put a dam in any national park again.
Studies by the University of California, Davis show it may be possible to restore the valley by impounding Tuolumne River water at existing dams further downstream.
What You Can Do
Above: Mountains of California's Sierra Nevada
Glaciers - massively cool
Pleistocene - the last ice age
Pleistocene relicts
California Condor
Grizzly Bear
Living in a cold world
Nutcracker & Pine
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The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center is the USDA-ARS laboratory for the identification of African honey bee samples. Identifications are made using morphometrics - a system of measuring morphological characteristics to determine honey bee type. The CHBRC laboratory analyzes samples nationwide in an effort to provide vital information on the migration of Africanized honey bees.
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Internal Revenue Service officials have invoked a Watergate-era law designed to protect private citizens' tax returns to justify their refusal to turn over documents requested by the House Ways and Means Committee.
In its first official response to a May 14 bipartisan request from the committee for information and documents related to the agency's illegal harassment of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel groups, the IRS told lawmakers on June 4 that Section 6103 of the federal tax code allows it to exempt itself from compliance with such congressional requests.
The provision originally was written during the Watergate scandal to protect U.S. citizens and shield their private tax records from prying government officials.
Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., said in a statement that the committee will continue pressing the IRS for the requested documents and information.
"Congress is determined to get the facts of who was involved, when it occurred and why any America was ever targeted by the IRS based on their personal beliefs, and will pursue this investigation until we have answers to those questions," he said.
Ranking committee member Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich., joined Camp in the May 14 request.
Ways and Means Committee staff have warned IRS officials that they are using the obscure provision to protect potentially illegal conduct by government employees or to withhold politically damaging information.
"Section 6103 must not be used by the IRS as a shield," a committee staffer said in an email to reporters. The agency's tactics raise "the question of whether the IRS will broadly apply section 6103 to avoid divulging politically hazardous or potentially embarrassing information."
The IRS has acknowledged to the committee that it has collected 646 gigabytes of electronically stored information, much of it encrypted. Each gigabyte represents about 100,000 pages, meaning the agency has accumulated nearly 64 million pages that could be tied to the scandal.
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ATHENS — Shawn Williams doesn't want anyone to say he saved Georgia's season.
The Bulldogs' senior strong safety said Monday night the defense was always capable of playing the way it has for the last four weeks, during which it has allowed only 33 points. Speaking to reporters for the first time since Oct. 22 — when he made his now-famous comments about the defense playing "soft" — Williams says he's ready to move on.
"I don't care if it got everybody stirred up or whatnot, but we're looking past that now," he said after Monday's practice. "We've got Georgia Tech, so we've got to go out and get another win so we can keep them rolling."
Williams acknowledged the Bulldogs' defense is "playing really good ball now," but says there are still areas they needs to shore up.
"There's always room for improvement," he said. "That's what we've got to look at now. Take film of our previous games and see where we made mistakes and just get better so we don't make those mistakes this week or the week after."
Williams was pleased with the defense's showing against Georgia Southern's option offense. The Bulldogs gave up 302 rushing yards, but Williams felt the more pertinent statistic was the Eagles advanced into the red zone just twice and came away with only one touchdown.
"That's the most important thing," he said. "Getting stops when it's critical, when you have to have them."
The day after his "soft" comments went viral, Georgia coach Mark Richt noted Williams was not pleased with the way his remarks had been interpreted and had not meant for them to come across as harshly as they sounded. When asked what he regretted about the remarks, the senior strong safety couldn't recall.
"There were a whole lot of things spinning back and forth," he said. "I'm not really trying to look into the past and say I regret this or that."
Though Williams refused to take credit for the uptick in the defense's play, he was named a captain for Saturday's game, which happens to come Senior Day. But he scoffed at an assertion that his rant could go down as Georgia's version of Tim Tebow's postgame "promise" following the Florida's loss to Ole Miss in 2008.
The Gators did not lose a game the rest of the season, which culminated in a national championship victory over Oklahoma. Two months later, then-Florida coach Urban Meyer had the text of the speech engraved on a plaque outside the front entrance of the team's football facility.
"Yeah," Williams joked. "Maybe I can get a plaque."
Georgia Tech offense feels 'like déjà vu'
At the conclusion of its annual rivalry game with Georgia Tech each season, Georgia can breath a sigh of relief. Its once-a-year attempt to stifle the triple option complete, the Bulldogs can go back to focusing on defending more conventional offensive schemes. But after playing Georgia Southern's version of the triple option last Saturday, Georgia defenders feel they have only reached the halfway point as they prepare for Tech.
"It's definitely like déjà vu," inside linebacker Mike Gilliard said. "It's just another week where we have to defeat the cut block and make tackles on the perimeter. That's our focus right now."
Noseguard John Jenkins agreed.
"It's the same type of offense," he said of Tech's triple option. "They have their own style, their own swagger, but it's the same thing, getting cut and trying to stop the run."
Trying to stop the run won't be the only thing the Bulldogs have to contend with Saturday. During his teleconference on Sunday, Richt praised the gains he has seen from the Yellow Jackets' passing game.
That meant little to Jordan Jenkins. The freshman outside linebacker has little hope he'll be able to notch a sack Saturday.
"I think they're just going to run it," he said. "They may take a shot deep every now and then, but sack-wise, I've given up even worrying about it."
Bulldogs apply varying approaches to last Saturday's upsets
Senior linebacker Mike Gilliard said he watched the upsets of Kansas State and Oregon Saturday night with a bunch of teammates.
"At the time, a bunch of us were together," he said. "So we were all able to celebrate at the same time."
By contrast, John Jenkins said he spent the evening "chilling" with members of his family. He said he doesn't feel the need to follow what other teams are doing.
"I don't want to feed into it," the senior noseguard said. "I feel like if you feed too much into it, you start losing sight of what's right in front of you. What's right in front of us is Georgia Tech, so all of that will play a part when the time comes."
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Georgia's captains for Saturday's game are wide receiver Tavarres King, cornerback Sanders Commings, snapper Ty Frix and Williams … Jarvis Jones was named as a finalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award on Monday, given to the nation's most outstanding defensive player. The other two finalists for the award are Notre Dame inside linebacker Manti Te'o and South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. The winner will be announced on Dec. 6.
November 20th, 2012
12:01 am
Jarvis Jones deserves the awards as much as Te'o, who is a fine player; but, the ND mystique will probably result in Te'o getting them.
November 20th, 2012
12:02 am
But, it would be great to see them in the same game. GATA, TCD, Wreck Tech, and it's all good.
November 20th, 2012
12:03 am
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November 20th, 2012
12:05 am
I wish he would call Mark Richt soft. We all know he is softer than tissue paper.
November 20th, 2012
12:14 am
Just shut up Tom!
November 20th, 2012
12:15 am
Yeah, tom shut your hole
November 20th, 2012
12:23 am
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November 20th, 2012
12:24 am
Wreck tech go dawgs
November 20th, 2012
12:24 am
Don't expect any type of letdown vs Tech….too much leadership on this team. GATA!
November 20th, 2012
12:26 am
Time to GATA and take care of TECH!
Go Dawgs!!!
November 20th, 2012
12:29 am
Maybe GT fans can send UGA linemen a box of knee braces and some kleenex's. Them boys gonna get cut like chainsaw on Saturday.
To Hell With Georgia.
Who knows, maybe your mascot won't keel over before the GT game this time.
November 20th, 2012
12:32 am
Yep, they're close and they know it. I would expect Tech to be less successful than Ga. Southern. I, for one hope Notre Dame makes it to the BCS Game. For UGA, that would be a classic rematch.
November 20th, 2012
1:05 am
not to many tech grads come back from India or China to see the games…right?
November 20th, 2012
2:12 am
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November 20th, 2012
4:31 am
by 1pm the tech game will be decided.
Then on to the Georgia Dome
November 20th, 2012
4:54 am
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November 20th, 2012
5:21 am
@Smitty………now that's funny……….
November 20th, 2012
5:30 am
If the Dawgs can play D like they did against GSU for four quarters against Tech, they will win big this week. If they can play D for four quarters against Bama like they did for the first two against LSU, they will be in Miami.
November 20th, 2012
5:59 am
You smart a$$ Techies won't be laughing in 5 weeks when you have a 6-8 record!!!!
November 20th, 2012
6:02 am
Shawn Williams is my hero!
November 20th, 2012
6:30 am
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November 20th, 2012
6:58 am
Wow, Tomas. You're not too educated on team drug policies, are you? It's easy to point out the drug use on the UGA football team since their policy is much less tolerant. You don't hear about the first, second, even third offense on almost every other FBS team. Consider the "Honey Badger." You incorrectly think that Richt is soft. His players don't get away with anything because he isn't soft. Think about it.
November 20th, 2012
7:06 am
Thomas Broun,
Whatever else you might want to say about Richt you may be right about, but suggesting Richt is "sleazy" is downright ludicrous. This is something only an ignorant, bitter, and hateful person would say behind the anonymity of the "internets".
Whatever Richt's faults are regarding his players getting in trouble (i.e. recruiting some individuals with borderline character, having a big heart (or being "soft") when it comes to his players, or the notoriously unforgiving Athens Police Department.) it is not that he is "sleazy". I can go into how Richt paid his assistant coaches out of his own paycheck because he felt they weren't being appropriately compensated by the University, his off-season mission work (I'm not religious and I respect this.), and just his overall calm demeanor, however, an ignorant, bitter, hateful person such as yourself would be incapable, unable, and unwilling to acknowledge this.
November 20th, 2012
7:22 am
Fellow Dawgs comments that this Tomás Broun made are not even worth a response. So please just ignore him as they are irrelavant. Now the Dawgs have to focus only on Tech, one game at a time and if the Dawgs play up to their ability then things will take care themselves.
Go Dawgs beat Tech
November 20th, 2012
8:05 am
Love the haters today,
No matter what you say, the dawgs are in the drivers seat and if they play like they are capable of, we will go to the biggest game and hoist that crystal ball! Suck it haters!
Go dawgs, sic em woof woof !
November 20th, 2012
8:05 am
CMR may not be the BEST of all college coaches but hes the most honest and caring individual in college football. Its apparent that when one comes on here throwing out dispersions on ones character then its obvious they know nothing about the guy.
If i had a son that was blessed to go to any college of his choosing and wanted to base that decision on truth, getting to play, and compettition then id pick the University of Georgia.
There are alot of coaches out there that make empty promises building up there program and when they sign that player, he finds out that hes redshirted or over booked to many signees.
Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban is notorious for that.
November 20th, 2012
8:35 am
Ah..you know it must be Tech week when the trolls pop up like toadstools. Quick refresher garbage can scavenger… who had to give back their ACC Championship because of NCAA sanctions? Climb back into your midden heap and stay there. Everybody complains that Coach Richt is TOO nice, TOO clean. When you can back up your accusations with facts…real facts… come back and we will talk.
Good luck… you'll need it.
November 20th, 2012
8:36 am
Voice of Reason – Sorry friend, your comments are not appropriate. They just aren't.
November 20th, 2012
8:46 am
Thomas Broun – Sorry about your miserable life man. Comments like yours come from a deeply troubled soul. Sorry man.
November 20th, 2012
8:49 am
November 20th, 2012
8:52 am
Oh and it gets even better next week… that's when the Bama "we are the gods of football" folks will visit our boards and talk about how badly they will pound the Dawgs. They'll throw out a bunch of useless statistics… including their fictional National Championships and use those as absolute assurance that The Tide will win. I bet they said the same things before A&M beat them about the head and shoulders.
Only a Bama fan could take a Tide detergent box and put a roll of toilet tissue on it and be proud of their cleverness. I bet a 6 year old kid thought that up. Think about it… the more you think about it the more ridiculous it gets.
November 20th, 2012
9:06 am
Tomas Brown. You seem bitter about something. Did UGA not recruit you?
You comments are laughable as UGA football as the toughest drug use policy of any school in the country.
November 20th, 2012
9:13 am
Tomas Broun and The Voice of Reason are only trying to stir things up. The best response to them is to IGNORE their silly, spiteful, and untrue posts. They are envious of our program. I don't think either of them is worth arguing with. My father (UGA fan & grad) always said you can't reason with an irrational person. Just ignore them; they can't be reasoned with, and you'll never change their minds.
November 20th, 2012
9:35 am
Tech hasn't failed for a lack of offense. No one can deny they can score (at least against ACC opponents). It is time for the Dawgs to make a statement. If we barely win and FL loses to FSU and Oregon pounds Oregon St on the road, voters could easily vote Oregon ahead of us. We need to beat Tech like they were a bunch of booger-eating bed-wetters. Oh, wait, they are. Bwaaahaahaahaahaa!
November 20th, 2012
9:36 am
Tom: Your comments are useless dribble. You have personal issues that make you focus on idiot like remarks. CMR is a winner. What are you? You are no more than GTBlob.
November 20th, 2012
9:39 am
Tom and Tech are not is UGA or CMR league or class. Not even close. 36,000 vs 92,000, $10 tickets vs hoping to donate enough to buy tickets, Paul Johnson vs. CMR, no TV vs always on TV, 1 win vs 10 wins out of last 11 games.
No even close.
November 20th, 2012
9:40 am
tom brown,
Where you at?
November 20th, 2012
9:41 am
Who's head will explode first?
Beaver Cleaver in a Hat Grantham or Muschump
November 20th, 2012
9:42 am
Doesn't Tech run this State?
November 20th, 2012
9:46 am
Bulldogs better not look past Tech. This weeks game has all the makings of a huge upset complete with wailing and nashing of teeth from Bulldawg Nation. If UGA is focused on winning the game against Tech they should do so, no problem. But you never know what goes on between the ears of college age people, despite what the coaches tell them.
November 20th, 2012
9:46 am
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November 20th, 2012
9:52 am
Shawn Williams…….Should be getting at least 1/3rd of GRANTHAM'S money since he called the team out. He deserves the Pay as much has the coach from that point on because of how the team responded.
November 20th, 2012
10:09 am
thanks Chip for cleaning house!
November 20th, 2012
10:13 am
"Tomas Broun has been blacklisted for posting under multiple names and posting false and inflammatory comments. He was also posting as "Voice of Reason" and several other handles."
Lol. Thanks Chip. That's hilarious. He has now been black listed by EVERY SINGLE Dawg blog on the web. That takes a serious amount of Deuchieness. He makes GTBob look like unbiased CFB fan.
November 20th, 2012
10:25 am
Is ANY blog coming out that will be full of the TECH vs UGa Jokes we all know and make?
November 20th, 2012
10:41 am
Chip what is the worst score Georgia has beaten GT in series history???That record could be challenged this year.
November 20th, 2012
10:48 am
See you Saturday. Really hoping your players are as overconfident as your fans. Even if we don't win, a close game could be trouble for your BCS ranking
November 20th, 2012
10:51 am
Anytime theres an Inner State Rivalry its foolish to assume anything and this goes for any college teams. Even bookies are scared to predict games.
All of us know this about Ga Tech and Georgia in past games. Others just like to spout off about their team and create strife.
Both of these teams respect one another and know it will be a hard fought game. I would just save the rhetoric after the game to cast dispersions on each team because some of us will be eating "crow" after its all over.
These Inner State Rivalry Games are based mostly on momentum and emotion. Its like that when 2 SEC Teams play against eachother because its hard to determine the outcome.
Penalties and Turnovers create emotion and momentum for each team and thats usually what it comes down to.
Tech may not be as talented as we are but they just have to be better for just that 1 game to beat us.
Its who wants it more Tech or Georgia?
I assure you that they dont hate eachother like the opposing fans of each school dislike eachother and nor do the coaching staff.
Alot of these kids played eachother in highschool and some on the same team. Its fun for them to read blogs of hatred from fans and just laugh at all the things that are said.
They want to win as much or even moreso than we do but at the end of the day……….its just a game.
November 20th, 2012
10:52 am
The Richt bandwagon is almost full . If you haven't been riding it all year would you please make room so those that have can get on .


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These guys have been around for quite some time, previously they've released a mini-album, a full album, and several live dist. singles. They made a pv for their song 'Dictator', shot with one of their cell phones.
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