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KK- In Case You Came Here Via Twitter
by Paul on 05/08/15 at 07:32 PM ET
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KK- Whew
by Paul on 05/07/15 at 05:33 PM ET
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It has been quite the last 30 hours or so for me.
Long story short-
Yesterday morning while sitting at the computer I felt a short but painful shot to both sides of my jaw.
It went away quickly and I brushed it off as so...
But a few hours later, I felt like fainting a couple of times then decided to head to the local emergency room.
Now back home but did undergo a procedure which cleaned out a 75% blocked artery to my heart.
I do need some rest but will do a few posts before I call it a night. Hopefully things will be back to or close to normal tomorrow.
All in all, I feel lucky I went to the hospital when I did.
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KK- A Donation Push
by Paul on 04/29/15 at 09:16 AM ET
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Time for another push for the KK Donation Drive.
At this point we are at 53% of a very lofty goal of $10K. To all of the 132 persons who have made a donation, I can't thank you enough.
I am planning a complete rebuid of KK over the summer and funds donated will allow me to achieve that goal.
If you can spare any donation amount, it will be greatly appreciated and will be put to good use.
Here is the original post kicking off the GoFundMe drive along with numerous comments made by KK members.
Also, do remember if you donate $25 or more, I will remove the majority of ads for you over the next year. Also, if you have donated in the past, $20 will get the ads removed for you too.
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KK Is Getting Old
by Paul on 04/27/15 at 11:20 AM ET
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We are going to do a quick server upgrade starting at 1:00pm ET today and KK wll be down for about 15 minutes at that time.
You may also see sporadic outages for 2-3 hours after the upgrade.
Unfortunately, KK is getting old software wise and the software is putting a strain on the server. This upgrade may help or may not but I am willing to take that chance.
Donations continue to come in but at a slower pace, so if you can help it is much appreciated. One way or another, KK will be going through a major build over the summer which will put us in a great position moving forward.
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KK- Posting Problems
by Paul on 04/15/15 at 09:13 AM ET
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We are having some posting issues this morning which permits regular posting at the moment.
Working on it and hopefully KK will back in the swing of things soon.
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Happy Passover
by Paul on 04/03/15 at 04:45 PM ET
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Wishing all peace, good health and good times with family and friends.
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KK- Easter Weekend Will Be All Hockey Talk
by Paul on 04/03/15 at 10:08 AM ET
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With 5 NHL games tonight, 13 on Saturday and another 5 on Sunday, I am not going anywhere.
Yes a small break would be nice but it can wait until the regular season ends next Saturday night.
In the meantime, stay tuned, it is about to get hectic.
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KK- The KK Donation Drive Is At 40%
by Paul on 03/18/15 at 06:16 PM ET
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With donations today, the KK GoFundMe Donation Drive went over $4000 in donations.
Words cannot express my feelings at this point and all I can really say is thank you so much.
Remember, any dollar amount is welcome and you can say you were part of making KK a better place.
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KK- An Update On The Donation Drive
by Paul on 03/12/15 at 09:43 AM ET
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I am happy to announce the KK Donation Drive at GoFundMe has reached 30% of the 10K goal.
Every donation will go right back into KK to help make some much needed improvements.
As I have said before, this is my only job and I put in over 80 hours a week doing this and will continue to do so for the years ahead.
Again, thanks to all of you who have donated and also to those who plan to do so in the future.
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KK- Donation Drive Update
by Paul on 03/08/15 at 01:08 PM ET
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Thanks to all the 53 people who have pushed the KK GoFundMe Donation Drive to over $2000.
Any amount helps drive the total up and I am very moved by the donations received at this point in time.
As I have said, the $10K goal is very lofty but I truly believe in can be reached over time.
Thanks again to all.
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Skip to comments.GLOBAL WARMING BOMBSHELL: Hockeystick Broken
Posted on 01/13/2005 4:20:13 PM PST by neverdem
click here to read article
Briffa1998 (files labeled 2001) was quoted by Soon as showing the 20th century to be warmer than any of the previous 5. The data is interesting though, it shows NH growing season average temperatures from tree rings as having most of that 20th century warmth in the 1930's and 40's.
So this seems to disprove part of your beliefs above, although you will no doubt cling tightly to them.
I believe that the MWP may well be warmer than the early part of the 20th century, roughly on par with the average temperature of the 20th century and slightly cooler than the recent decades (say 1985 onwards).
The data shows that there was warming in 1930's and 1940's. Your comment is at least leaning heavily.
But there has not been cooling since. There was a period of very slight cooling about 1940 - 1980, followed by a greater increase of warming. The warming since 1980 has been about 0.4C, lots of room for a MWP.
Nonetheless, it is likely that Crowley used the same data tweaking in both papers. The dataset I downloaded is tweaked and can't be used to compare current proxy measurements with past ones. I'll keep downloading data sets and posting conclusions for all the ones I download no matter what the results, but I can't draw conclusions when data has been manipulated.
0.4 C warming (subtracting the 0.1 to 0.15 degree measurement bias) is hardly unusual in the climate record. If you look at ANY of the raw data (untweaked) you will see one or two decades of dramatic warming all over the place including the LIA.
The dataset is from Crowley's paper, but it is the Crowley-Lowery dataset. That's what it says in the readme file. My appeal to probability seems sound in this case.
I downloaded the Keigwin-1996 data. It shows SST estimates on 50 year intervals with warmth estimated at 1.5C warmer 25 years ago than 925 years ago. Admittedly a crude measurement subject to ocean currents, but nonetheless matches the MWP and LIA eras.
Sorry, make that 1.5C warmer 925 years ago than 25 years ago.
Downloaded demenocal-2000 (mentioned by Soon as being "marginally warmer that at present"). The data shows the MWP being from 0.1 to 0.5 C warmer than 88 years ago (not the present). That counters the Keigwin data somewhat and doesn't allow comparison to the 20th century.
Downloaded the Mann-1998 data. The record is as he stated: a large warmup from the LIA. Unfortunately this record starts with the LIA. The other problem is appending measurements from 1981 through 1998 onto the end of the graph containing proxy measurements. Surface temperature measurements (with a documented 0.1 to 0.15 warm bias) are not the same as proxy measurements! The reason is the proxy temperatures measurements are a different kind of measurement which will reflect cold and warm extremes differently. That makes it impossible to say how much warmer the 80's and 90's were to other decades measured by proxies. The evidence is obvious in the data: where they overlap, the proxy and measured temperatures do not match up very well.
We seem to be going in circles. No one argues that the SST of in the Sargasso was warmer than than it is now. What Keigwin put it down to is a shift in the currents. Different currents - different temperatures. I did go through this before with WOSG.
If you want to argue that a warming in the world caused a change in the NAO which caused a warmer current to move then fine. But that is not what Soon says or that you have argued.
Wake me if you find something good.
I am making steady progress. You are the one repeating yourself. There wasn't a 0.4 C warming since 1980, there is a 0.1 to 0.15 degree bias in that estimate. The increase since 1980 is a deviation comparable to many other decades in the past and doesn't show up in some of the proxy measurements (e.g. briffa-1998).
The answers I have gotten so far are:
* there were decades in the MWP (and even in the LIA) warmer than the 80's and 90's.
* There was an increase in temperature during the 1900's as a whole, but mostly concentrated before 1950.
* There was variability between periods throughout history that match the variability in this century.
* The Mann 98 deliberately smoothed out historical data to hide that variability.
* That paper did not smooth the 1980's and 1990's and used surface measurements with bias in place of proxies.
* I can conclude, so far, that hockey stick is an artifact.
* But I can't make the MWP warmth conclusion yet globally, I need to look at more data.
That's essentially what I said as well. Maybe it wasn't clear or maybe you just skimmed it and thought I used it to justify the conclusion that 20th century was unexceptional. No, I did not. Since his data is very coarse and at least 88 years old, it says nothing about the 20th century, exceptional or otherwise.
Well you are welcome to end this discussion without addressing my concerns about Mann. As for your suggestion for me to write a paper, I would accept Soon's with all its errors as far superior to anything I could put together. However since I have not made up my mind like you have, I am willing to keep researching the raw data and commenting on all of it whether it supports my view or not. The example above is just one case, Jones98 was another that could support the hockey stick provided I can figure out his normalization technique for 1960 onwards. Otherwise I must judge it to be inconclusive (or tweaked and therefore useless like the Crowley-Lowery dataset).
But you are also welcome to provide your own analyses of the data. I think it would serve your case better than simply pretending to scientifically review the Soon paper.
Took another look at the demenocal-2000 data and he mentions strong seasonal upwelling. If this data is only measuring strength of that, then I'll ignore it and move on to the next data set.
You then read it and seemed to feel that it was sound. So when I do a critical analysis of it you say that I am "simply pretending to scientifically review the Soon paper." So I would guess that you are simply pretending to admit that there are errors in it?
You have provided no scientific review of the Soon hypothesis and conclusions as I did in post 131. You merely presented a bunch of nitpicks that you found in various GW sites about the errors he made. You claimed a "devastating" attack, but provided no systematic review of the paper. I on the other hand have looked and continue to look at the actual data to see if it supports Soon's hypothesis. Because the bottom line is that irregardless of what Soon said and how he said it, I (and most other people on this forum) want to know whether or not his hypothesis it true.
As for CL, the notes from his readme are as follows:
Removal of all forcing except greenhouse gases from the ~1000 year time series results in a residual with a very large late 20th century warming that closely agrees with the response predicted from greenhouse gas forcing.
His assumption of CO2 forcing is not supported by any raw data in his possession, it is a hypothesis only supported by simulations. He then smoothed his historical data based on assumed statistics about natural mechanisms that also labels "forcing" although they are not the same thing (i.e. particulate cooling is not forcing). So his historical data was smoothed to (conveniently) eliminate any MWP or LIA warming. He did not choose to release his raw data.
he'll find some way to brand it heresy.
the sheeple will baaa right on along.
mark me - you'll see.
I looked at the their link climate2003.com where they talk some more about a growth pulse for bristlecone pines which skewed Mann's 1998 results. I also read the rebuttal at realclimate.org/index.php?p=111 which basically dismisses the critics because they use a linear correlation coefficient. Also says "we've moved on" and they are investigating the forcing that causes global warming.
I have to read more of their arguments, but they sound a lot like yours. Attack the scientific credibility of the critics, point out various errors the most basic of which is that the critics used only 10 chronologies instead of 50 to cover the whole time period (1400 to 1980) instead of step-wise reconstruction using all 50 chronologies. This is in their words "sharply at odds with virtually all other empirical and model-based estimates of hemispheric temperature trends in past centuries". That sounds more like choir practice than science, but I'll have to study this further.
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Skip to comments.Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...
Posted on 09/25/2010 8:07:14 AM PDT by grjr21
If I put my hand in the Large Hadron Collider what would happen ?
Security would tell you to stop that.
Your hand could be useful. Put your head in.
Start small. Use a microwave.
Or a blender.
"If I put my hand in the Large Hadron Collider what would happen ?"
SCIENCE!! *Kabooom*
You would end up with Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand."
You would gain all sorts of cool superpowers, of course! Didn't everyone learn that in comic books as a kid?
Taking your real point, if you were very tiny and in a pressure suit, and inside the tunnel while it was operating, you would be bombarded with high energy particles. You would notice bright flashes as they interacted with your cornea, and you would eventually die because the high-energy particles would screw up your DNA.
But I'm just a cook, what do I know about magnetrons and microwave cavity amplifiers?
If anyone wants to try I'll think about holding the beer
You would have a heck of a bill from the LHC staff. First, for damaging the LHC, second for having to clean up the mess.
The most interesting thing about the video is that SCIENTISTS appear to be smart enough that none of them have ever tried putting their hand in a particle beam collider just to see what happens. Therefore none of them 'knew' what would happen, but could only theorize.
"If I put my hand in the Large Hadron Collider what would happen ?"
You'd do the hokey-pokey and you'd turn yourself about.
It would collide with a Hadron?
It would reappear on Uranus.
Great, now I have "Demon with a Glass Hand" stuck in my head for no apparent reason.
Sounds like there's a possibility of a subatomic billiards effect within your hand. That couldn't be good.
LOL--- and hopefully there won't be any Klingons in proximity.
Maybe the hand would show up somewhere else...
You'd be waving at Quarks??
You would be sucked into the black hole
Okay, I'm stopping now...
go on , I'm enjoying them
You would turn into a black hole and have a famous physicist writing books about you.
"Hey Joe, let's race around the Large Hadron Collider!"
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
"If I put my hand in the Large Hadron Collider what would happen ?"
It would be transported to the 13th century where it would be declared a 'hand of the saints' and enshrined in a cathedral. People would bring their babies to be blessed by your hand. Rejoice!
What is that? A birth defect or what?
Re: post #24, I googled "guy with creepy weird hands", and didn't find him.
The tale of Dede, a 35-year-old Indonesian fisherman, which was first reported last month, is heart-warming. The roots in question began to grow from his limbs after he cut his leg as a teenager.
Gradually, these cutaneous horns became so large that he could not work, walk properly or use his hands. Consequently, he could no longer care for his children, and his fellow villagers subjected him to abuse and ridicule.
Local doctors were baffled as to the growths cause until Dr Anthony Gaspari, a dermatology expert at the University of Maryland in the US, heard about Dedes plight and flew to Indonesia to investigate.
Blood tests showed that the growths are caused by rampant human papilloma virus (a wart virus), but it is still a mystery as to why it is so out of control in Dedes body. Dr Gaspari has suggested treatment with vitamin A and begun further research to understand the pathological process at play.
Dede, a 35 year old Javanese fisherman lived a normal life until a cut to his leg in his teenage years left him with a strange infection a virus that led to root-like growths coming out of his hands and legs. He eventually the lost use of his hands and had to join a traveling freak show. Now, his story has come to life in a TV documentary My life as a tree, as he fights for permission to be treated in the US. American scientists think they may have figured out a way to treat his strange, wart-like virus, but the Indonesian governement wants to keep any experimental drug that is develeped from the man as Indonesian property, and is refusing treatment. A strange, strange story.
More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml;jsessionid=S2PWVRR1HU1M1QFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/health/2007/12/03/hmax103.xml
I think I saw it in "X-Files."
Who knows? Try it and report back to us. My guess is certain safety features in the unit would prevent it's operation if you were to attempt this I would certainly imagine. But don't let that stop you. This is scientific pursuit here, right? I might suggest though any device with the word ''collider'' in it isn't some place you should go putting parts of the human body into. Just saying.
But you DID stay in a Holiday Inn last night, didn't you? :-)
You couldn't. If you were in the tunnel when the collider was operating, the radiation would kill you in less than a second. How could you put your hand in the beam if you were dead?
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In the seventh season of this Primetime Emmy Award-winning series, inappropriate behavior is business as usual, but big surprises are in store! Dwight is now the owner of the building and he may be letting this power go to his head; Andy is courting Erin, who is dating Gabe; Jim and Pam are struggling with being new parents; and a parade of ghosts of girlfriends past haunt Michael, leading to his final days at Dunder Mifflin. Catch the antics of all 24 laugh-out-loud Season Seven episodes of"…TV's funniest half-hour" (Rick Kissell, Variety), developed for American television by Primetime Emmy Award Winner Greg Daniels. This memorable season features guest appearances from Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone), a cameo from Ricky Gervais (The Invention of Lying), and an unforgettable hour-long season finale with Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty), Will Arnett (Arrested Development), Ray Romano (Everybody Love Raymond), James Spader (Boston Legal), and Catherine Tate (Doctor Who), all vying for Michael Scott's old post. Plus, see hours of bonus features, including extended episodes, deleted scenes, bloopers, webisodes and more, in this must-own four-disc collection.
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So, how does Steve's announcement to leave the series affect season seven? Well, first of all, Michael is clearly, and often awkwardly, pushed to the sidelines in order to instantly faze him out. The character that was for six seasons the driving force of every single episode is now rarely featured in the same capacity. There are very few episodes that allow him to take center stage and this hurts the show, badly. There are far more B-stories, and sometimes C-stories, that feature the rest of the cast. Sometimes this a good thing, but many episodes start to feel crowded and paradoxically, the more sub-plots given to side characters, the less time there is for them to shine as the cast begins to become fragmented. There are very few 'ensemble' eps that involve everyone in the same story. Some characters are featured way too much... Kevin for example, becomes a bit over used, and as a result he wears a little thin. The same goes for Erin. Both are great characters but season seven puts way too much pressure on them to be funny. All the while Creed is rarely even given a single line. The biggest mistake the writers make is giving a ton of screen time to Gabe, who is without a doubt the worst, most painfully unfunny character the show has ever scene. I could write another whole review just on how and why this guy is ridiculously awful.
Season Seven also features a string of guest appearances by Will Ferrell as Michael's (temporary) replacement. He fits in fairly well at first, and there are some great scenes that showcase Carrell and Ferrell as a powerhouse comedy duo, but it's hard not to wonder why the producers would bring in such a high profile guest star to share the spotlight with Steve in all of his last episodes. It may just be for ratings, but you'd think the last episodes to feature Steve Carrell would be enough to generate hype. It may be to keep the audience's interest in the show beyond Steve's departure, but, ironically, Will is only featured in one (sub-par) post-Michael episode, then the series actually gains momentum when Will is written off and the remaining original cast members take the spotlight. Whatever the reason, it's hard to resent the presence of Will Ferrell, because he has good chemistry with the cast and, well, he's funny, plain and simple. At the same time though, it's a little strange not to have a complete and total end of the season celebration of Michael, even his last episode features a Will-centric sub-plot.
Season Seven is a hard season to define. It's certainly not a bad season, there is plenty to celebrate but at the same time it makes the previous season, thought by many fans to be sub-par, look like pure gold. The episodes that do celebrate Michael are kind of hit and miss. The return of Holly Flax is a great boost to Michael's character arc, but the progression of their relationship is rushed and often pushed into the background. Dwight, on the other hand, is ace all year long; 7 is chalk full of great stories revolving around his ownership of the building. There also plenty of great stories with Jim and Dwight that do not disappoint. Andy is also hilarious all year long as he continues to get more and more well deserved screen time. Pam also gets some nice subplots as newly promoted Office Administrator.
Notable episodes include...
Nepotism- A great premiere that sets the bar high. Michael hires his worthless Nephew and Pam attempts to prank Dwight.
Christening- A great Jim and Pam story that manages to involve their daughter in a non-invasive way. Also features a great sub-plot where Michael, feeling excluded from the ceremony, impulsively boards a bus to Mexico.
Viewing Party- A Glee party at Gabe's house??? Amazingly this ep is actually really funny. Feat: another great Jim and Pam parenting sub-plot where Dwight is the only one able to calm Ceci down, Andy gets high on powdered seahorse, and Michael gets jealous and disconnects the cable.
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Threat Level Midnight- Considered a fan-favorite by some, I personally consider this episode to be over the top and way out of character. The idea of Michael actually filming his legendary screenplay sounds funny but it doesn't really play out that way. I'd like to know how his production values could be so high that he could afford CG and massive set pieces. Also, why was the cast so eager to participate and when did they find the time?
Michael's Last Dundies- A classic written by the great Mindy Kaling. I can't think of a better way to end Michael Scott's tenure at the office than another episode revolving around the Dundies.
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The Search Committee- Another surprisingly high-energy, high quality post-Carrell ep featuring a plethora of entertaining cameos from Ray Ramano to Warren Buffett. A very promising prequel to season eight.
Though starting to drift farther and farther away from its prime, The Office is still relatively excellent throughout season seven. A must have for all fans, especially since it is Michael's last. And though the show will go on, Michael will always be missed. He had a had a great run. But as great as it was, it didn't last nearly as long as it should have... That's what she said.
I know a lot of people have objected to this season because the show doesn't focus on Michael as much as it has in the past. Lets remember that the show did not phase Michael out because they were trying to cut Steve Carell out. Mr. Carell CHOSE to leave to pursue other work. We can't blame him for wanting to try something new but the lose of his character is not NBC's fault and I'm sure they are doing the best they can to maintain the unity of the show. I feel they have done a great job. There is still a little void in the show and each episode that does not have Michael in it. I eagerly await the eighth season though because I have full faith in the writers and actors that made the show so great. It was not Steve Carell's performance alone that made the show one of the most influential comedies in recent history.
Remember season 2/3 when the show had the ability to make you laugh so much you nearly choked to having sympathy/empathy for a character(s) in a devastating emotional moment to having you wipe tears out of your eyes to see the whole cast involved in something together whether it was silly or poignant (or both)? That's the kind of stuff "Andy's Play" has.
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Male spike strobiles with Gnetum affinity from the Early Cretaceous in western Liaoning, Northeast China
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00007.x
© 2009 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Journal of Systematics and Evolution
Volume 47, Issue 2, pages 93–102, March 2009
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GUO, S.-X., SHA, J.-G., BIAN, L.-Z. and QIU, Y.-L. (2009), Male spike strobiles with Gnetum affinity from the Early Cretaceous in western Liaoning, Northeast China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 47: 93–102. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00007.x
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- Version of Record online: 2 APR 2009
- Received: 28 December 2007 Accepted: 31 July 2008
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- biogeography;
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- northeastern China
A fossil with Gnetum affinity was found in the Jianshangou Member (Barremian Age) of the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous Epoch) of the Jehol Group in western Liaoning, northeastern China. The single fossil specimen is represented by both elongate-cylindrical male spike strobiles which borne within a nodal bract of cauliflorous branch. The spike strobiles have apparent nodes, invisible internodes, and numerous verticillate involucral collars. The microsporangiate units within involucral collars are not seen. The male spike strobiles with verticillate involucral collars occur exclusively in Gnetum; hence, the fossil strobiles are attributed to a new taxon, Khitania columnispicata gen. & sp. nov., being closely related to Gnetum. The general isotopic dating suggests an age of Barremian, ca. 125–122 million years (Myr) ago for the Jianshangou Member. The palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic inference based on the compositions of flora and fauna, and lithological characters of the fossil locality suggests that the fossil plants grew in a subtropical mesophytic forest and under a warmer climate. The remains of male spike strobiles are the first record of gnetalean macrofossil. It documents the evolution of the distinct gnetoid morphology and indicates a wider range of distribution of Gnetaceae in the Early Cretaceous than present day.


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Since it opened in 1960, CWU's Grupe Conference Center has been used as a classroom, lecture hall, and as campus and community meeting space. Beginning fall quarter, the center—located between Black and Bouillon halls—will serve a new purpose, as the university's faculty center. CWU President James L. Gaudino endorsed the concept.
"In my meetings with academic departments around campus, the need for collaborative faculty space was a consistent theme," Gaudino points out.
The idea of establishing such a space, where faculty members could meet and interact, also came up during the last school year, when the university's Faculty Senate conducted a general survey of its members.
"[There was] a recurrent sense that the faculty don't regularly interact with people outside of their departments to informally discuss their ideas," says Eric Cheney, this year's Faculty Senate chair.
In response to this perception of isolation, last year's chair and CWU's new strategic planning director, Melody Madlem, and Cheney went looking for a place that would suit as a faculty center. The Grupe Center was determined to be the best place.
The new center will offer functions for faculty that currently do not exist, and serve as an alternative to faculty office space. The 1,799-square-foot center will give CWU faculty a place to meet and collaborate readily. By providing a space for regular interdepartmental interaction, it will allow them to get to know each other and each other's disciplines, offering opportunities to share expertise and experience.
"It will heighten the faculty's sense of a shared university vision, helping them deliver better curriculum to students," Cheney notes. "More interaction among faculty across departments at a faculty center should begin to build a more cohesive university vision among the faculty."
Prior to its opening, the center will undergo basic maintenance—new paint, carpeting, and furniture. When opened, faculty will have key access to the center 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Grupe Conference Center was named in honor of Mary A. Grupe, an early CWU researcher in experimental psychology, who served at the institution between 1897 and 1907, and from 1912 to 1929.
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Muslim Rajputs or Musulman Rajputs (Urdu: مسلمان راجپوت) are patrilineal descendants of Rajputs of Northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent who embraced Islam.[1] Today, Muslim Rajputs can be found in Northern India, Kashmir, as well as Punjab and Sindh in Eastern Pakistan.[2] They are further divided into different clans.
The term Rajput is traditionally applied to the original Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi and Agnivanshi clans, who claimed to be Kshatriya in the Hindu varna system.
Conversion to Islam and ethos[edit]
The fact of subsequent conversion to other faiths, did not deprive them of this heritage; just as the Greeks, after their conversion to Christianity, did not lose pride in the mighty achievements of their ancestors, of the Italians in the great days of the Roman Republic and early empire... Christians, Jews, Parsees, Moslems. Indian converts to these religions never ceased to be Indian on account of a change of their faith ...[3]
There is also recorded instances of recent conversions of Rajputs to Islam in Western Uttar Pradesh, Khurja tahsil of Bulanshahr.[4]
But despite the difference in faith, where the question has arisen of common Rajput honour, there have been instances where both Muslim and Hindu Rajputs have united together against threats from external ethnic groups.[5]
Medieval Muslim Rajput dynasties of Sindh[edit]
Soomra dynasty[edit]
The Rajput Soomra dynasty replaced the Arab Habbari dynasty in the 10th century. The dynasty lasted until the mid-13th century. The Soomras are one the longest running dynasties in the history of Sindh, lasting 325 years. They were of Rajput origin, who converted to Islam under the Arab rule. During their reign, Sindh saw a period of relative peace, expansion of commerce and trade, and flourishing local culture.[6]
Samma dynasty[edit]
The Rajput Samma dynasty replaced the Rajput Soomra dynasty. They gained control of Thatta from the Soomra around 1335 A.D. The dynasty is believed to have originated in Saurashtra, and later migrated to Sindh.[7]
During the Sammas saw the rise of Thatta as an important commercial and cultural center. At the time the Portuguese took control of the trading center of Hormuz in 1514 CE,[8] trade from the Sindh accounted for nearly 10% of their customs revenue, and they described Thatta as one of the richest cities in the world. Thatta's prosperity was based partly on its own high-quality cotton and silk textile industry, partly on export of goods from further inland in the Punjab and northern India.[9]
The Samma period contributed significantly to the evolution of the Indo-Islamic architectural style. Thatta is famous for its necropolis, which covers 10 square km on the Makli Hill.[10]
Gujarat Sultanate[edit]
The Gujarat Sultanate was an independent Rajput kingdom established in the early 15th century in Gujarat. The ruling came to be known as the Muzaffarid dynasty. Under the dynasty, trade, culture, and Indo-Islamic architecture flourished. The city of Ahmedabad was founded by the dynasty.
Beliefs and customs[edit]
Social practices[edit]
Rajputs who accepted Islam often retain common social practices (such as purdah (seclusion of women), which is generally followed by Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Rajputs).[2]
After conversion to Islam from a culturally Rajput background, there was very little difference between Rajasthani and Uttar Pradeshi Hindu and Muslim Rajputs (outside of religious practices).[11] Hence up until recently, marriages between Muslim and Hindu Rajputs also took place.[12]
See also[edit]
- ^ "UNHCR Refugee Review Tribunal. IND32856, 6 February 2008" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Rajput". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, Oxford Uni. Press 1985, p62, p341
- ^ Muslim Women by Zakia A. Siddiqi, Anwar Jahan Zuberi, Aligarh Muslim University, India University Grants, M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1993, p93
- ^ Self and sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 by Ayesha Jalal, Routledge 2000, p480,p481
- ^ Umedani, Loung V.; Meghwar, Phuloo (2013). "Migratory Aspects of Inhabitants of Indus Valley Civilization- A Historical Perspective". International Research Journal of Art & Humanities (Asianet-Pakistan) 41 (41).
The two main Rajput tribes of Sindh are: the Samma, descendants of the Samma dynasty who ruled Sindh during (1351 - 1521 A.D); and the Soomra, descendants of the Soomra dynasty who ruled Sindh during (750 - 1350 A.D).
- ^ A recent find of 18 AE Coins of the Jams of Sindh, attributed to Jam Nizam al Din, and Jam Firoz
- ^ 1911encyclopedia.org: Hormuz
- ^ [The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama by Claude Markovits, 2000 ISBN 0-521-62285-9, ISBN 978-0-521-62285-1]
- ^ Archnet.org: Thattah
- ^ People Of India by K. S. Singh, B. K. Lavania, S. K. Mandal, Anthropological Survey of India, N. N. Vyas, Popular Prakashan, 1998, p880
- ^ Sangari, Kumkum (2004). "Multiple Temporalities, Unsettled Boundaries, Trickster Women". In Blackburn, Stuart H.; Dalmia, Vasudha. India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Orient Blackswan. pp. 225–226. ISBN 9788178240565.


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