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The only reaction to finishing a two-hour final writing exam over a segment of American literature ranging from Tuscaroran oral narratives to impassioned fire-and-brimstone sermons to the Gettysburg Address is to raise your arms in the air and mime yelling "Woo hoo!"
OR, doing that is the flagrant foul of test taking. Win some/lose some. More specifically, lose 2% of your final grade. Like Pee Wee said: "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."
Two years ago, I took a survey class on Latin American society. The main text was titled "Born in Blood and Fire" and every Tuesday and Thursday I would sit and consume over an hour's worth of media on the past and present atrocities in South and Central America, Spain, Portugal and the Caribbean. It didn't always make me happy, but it made me more informed. Before this class, I had no idea a banana republic was more than a department store in mid-sized US cities. That's important information! It also piqued my interest in nonfiction literature and, like Charles Darwin, it made me crave fictional media in a different way.
Scanning in his mind so many times and places,
he'd had enough of dying species,
the triumphs of the strong over the weak,
the endless struggles to survive,
all doomed sooner or later.
He'd earned the right to happy endings,
at least in fiction
with its diminutions.
Now, my consumption of media in all its forms is a little out of control—at least, that's what I learned after filling out a 24-hour time sheet in my media and psychology class. I also learned of the third-person effect—the belief that media can and does affect the way other people think, but doesn't affect you—and I learned that words and theories are only as good as the counter ideas and actions. That if you think Americans consume too much and give too little, you should consume less and give more. If you think your generation is narcissistic and lazy, then spend more time appreciating the world around you and less time looking at the worlds you create through social media.
Last week, Louis C.K. was on Fresh Air promoting his five dollar comedy show, "Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater". Here's what he had to say about actions and words:
I see soldiers fly all the time, because that's how they get to the war. You think they get to go in a cool green plane with a red light – go, go, go. No, they just go to Delta, and they just wait in line to go to a war. And they always fly coach…every time that I see a soldier on a plane, I always think: You know what? I should give him my seat. It would be the right thing to do. It would be easy to do, and it would mean a lot to him…Because I'm in first class – why? For being a professional asshole. This guy is giving his life for the country… He's told by everybody in his life system that that's a great thing to do, and he's doing it. And it's scary, but he's doing it, and he's sitting in this shitty seat, and I should trade with him.
I never have, let me make that clear. I've never done it once. I've had so many opportunities. I never even really seriously came close.
And here's the worst part: I still just enjoy the fantasy for myself to enjoy. I was actually proud of myself for having thought of it. I was proud. Oh, I am such a sweet man. That is so nice of me to think of doing that and then totally never do it.
It's hilarious and he's a hilarious, but it's also a good reminder to just do it–give up your seat, stay offline more often–whatever, just do it. Because the world is already bad and mean and selfish, we all know that, but sometimes we can make it a little less so.


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text: I agree AG. I think to some people it is just more important for them to be right than for them to try to learn the truth. No matter what Rip does, Roscoe is going to wear his spiked "blank me heels", Jammer is going to wear women's undergarments, Slippy is going to hit on both of them, and Linwood is going to get pulled over for drunk driving.


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Summary: Which[] as Textbook Input, Plot[] Questions
I apologize if the answer to this is somewhere glaringly obvious in
the documentation, however, after at least 4 hours pawing through both
the hardcover Mathematica 4.0 book by Wolfram and the in-program
Mathematica 4.1 documentation, I cannot find how I would annotate a
function that takes on different values based upon different domains.
To wit, something like:
f[x_] := Which[x < 0, Sin[x]/x, x == 0, 1, x > 0, Sin[x]/x];
Plot[f[x], {x, -pi, pi}, AxesLabel -> {"x", "f[x]"};
The 'Which' function is great for actually evaluating something, but I
was looking for something along the lines of traditional mathematical
notation (such as one would write on a chalkboard or on a sheet of
paper), where a large left-bracket would be used and the various
definitions of the function for the various ranges would be
'constrained' by the bracket.
I'll try to illustrate what I mean, where the '|'s that I will use
should be interpreted as a single, large left-bracket:
| Sin(x)/x, x < 0
f(x) = | 1, x = 0
| Sin(x)/x, x > 0
Is there a way to do what I'm asking in Mathematica 4.1 (or even
As regards the Plot[] function, I'm puzzled as to why the following
doesn't give me an error when evaluated:
g[x_] := 1/x;
Plot[g[x], {x, -5, 5}];
It seems as though it should, considering that x at zero is undefined.
However, Mathematica draws the graph as though the function were just
Thanks for any light you can shed on this,


text: I wonder if this would be possible to have- like a less-pressure but all-inclusive event to allow skaters to shine who have improved over the summer and/or were ill or injured during US Nationals? The current system with all the summer competitions doesn't really take the results of those too seriously. The event would be optional for those who want to start their season later but would serve as a springboard for international assignments for junior and senior level skaters. Maybe just expanding a bit on one of the current summer competitions, giving it more weight for assignments, thusly attracting more skaters.


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Things to do with NYC kids over Thanksgiving weekend 2011
After you finish your Turkey Day feast, find all kinds of fun activities to do around the city.
Fri Nov 11 2011
Thanksgiving 2011
Photograph: Macys Inc.
Getting excited for the upcoming four-day Thanksgiving weekend? So are we! Check out our roundup for the best things to do with the family during your turkey holiday—if you're not too full from feasting, that is.
Thursday, November 24
Thu 24 9am--noon. W 77th St at Central Park West to Seventh Ave at 34th St (social.macys.com/parade2011).
The 85th annual extravaganza returns once again to New York City's streets, bringing with it a slew of spectators (about 3.5 million!), floats topped with myriad celebrities, horn-tootin' marching bands and, of course, giant balloons. All ages.
Thu Nov 24 at 8am. Long Island City YMCA, 32-23 Queens Blvd at 32nd St, Long Island City, Queens (718-392-9401, licturkeytrot.com). $10 per child, family of four $20; in advance $8 per child, $15 per family.
Work up a sweat on Turkey Day with this event designed to help keep kids active while fighting obesity. Kids get to compete in different races (length varies by age) for cool trophies, and each participant gets a medal, T-shirt, goodie bag and much more. Bonus for parents: while the little ones are running, enter a raffle to win great prizes like a free one-month membership to the YMCA or a free one-hour personal training session. All ages.
See all events on Thursday, November 24.
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The Cradle of Forestry invites the curious of all ages to learn about insects and other arthropods and their important roles in nature.
* This event will be held in and around the Forest Discovery Center at the Cradle of Forestry.
* Bug hunts, pond explorations, buggy games and crafts
* Guided walk in search of plant galls and other examples of amazing forest-insect inter-relationships
* Learn about the Cradle of Forestry's efforts to convert lawn areas to meadow habitat for
native plants and their pollinators, and how you can do the same.
Moths, bats, owls- these are just some animals active at night when many of us are settled in our shelters. Enjoy the Cradle of Forestry during a magical time and learn about natural nightlife.
Program begins with a talk in the Cradle's outdoor amphitheater.
Children can make a night creature craft to take home.
A stroll on the paved Forest Festival Trail in search of winged night creatures follows the talk.


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Fishing Report
February 28, 2014 , 3:13 PM by Jo Printz
Fishing correspondent Will Thompson reckons the reports of bluefin tuna being caught off South Gippsland have led to plenty of anglers heading out to try their luck, but they're more likely to be Striped tuna (pictured) than the famous Bluefins.
A good sign there's a school of them about, are the flock of seabirds hanging around just above the water where they're swimming.
Around Port Welshpool, Port Albert and McLoughlins Beach it's still the best gummy shark season Will can remember, and there's snapper to be had as well.
The Gippsland Lakes and Lakes Entrance are tops for prawning right now, and the bream and flatty are pretty good too.
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text: There's a lot of moves that are going to be made in the next two days...so lets take an objective look at just where we stand, and at just what could happen: Team: Right now, there are seven to eight players under contract depending on whether or not Kwame opts out (I can't imagine that he thinks he earned a bigger contract with his play this season). C: K. Brown? PF: J. Maxiel SF: T. Prince, W. Sharpe SG: R. Hamilton, A. Afflalo PG: R. Stuckey, W. Bynum Draft: Dumars has said that he is going to select an 'immediate contributor to the rotation' with the #15 pick, and it sure sounds like he's aiming to grab some euro-ball-bound raw projects in the second round. So, if the BJ Mullens promise is true, then we'd be drafting him in order to trade him to another team. Beyond that, there are some elite point guards (Jrue Holliday being the most likely) that could slip, and some solid SF's (Earl Clark, Austin Daye, etc.), but that's about it. I do not think that any of the power forwards (James Blair, Psycho-T, etc.) that are going to be available to us at this point are going to be improvements over our current backup, Jason Maxiel (thus, they would not be immediate contributors to the rotation). Its also true that some of the point guards we're considering might not be improvements over our current backup at that position either, Will Bynum, but because there seems to be a strong possibility that Rip will be traded or moved to the three...rodney could be moved to the two, and a backup point could be needed. Free Agency: The top free agent targets this off-season appear to be Carlos Boozer/Paul Millsap at power forward (depending on what happens in utah), and Ben Gordon at shooting guard. Signing one of the power forwards makes sense (as Jason Maxiel is not a starting caliber PF), but as things stand, signing Ben Gordon does not. Even if Rip Hamilton COULD play the three, Tayshaun Prince couldn't play the four. So that signing would require one of these two to be traded. Though many have mentioned Hedo Turkoglu, Marvin Williams, and Ramon Sessions, we have yet to hear much about us being interested in them (or vice versa). Trades: There is so much that could happen. Obviously, Tayshaun Prince and/or Rip Hamilton will be at the center of any significant deal. The #15 overall pick (or whomever we select there) could be included. Role players such as Max, AA, Bynum, Sharpe and Kwame (if he doesnt opt out) could also be included. - There's a need at center, and no suitable players available in free agency or the draft, so that's an obvious position to look at (al jefferson? brook lopez? amare stoudemire? tyson chandler? etc.). - There's also obviously a need at power forward, and though there should be at least one suitable replacement there in free agency (but none in the draft...if you're asking me), with a stud like Chris Bosh being floated out there, or a possible cheap alternative in Charlie Villanueva, this is also possible. - Tayshaun Prince has really been struggling, so we could upgrade there through a trade. There are going to be some solid small-forwards in the draft, but none of these guys look like season1 starters to me. Hedo Turkoglu's an URFA, and Marvin Williams is a RFA, but we haven't heard much about either. Josh Smith rumors out there? Something to think about. - Rip's in more or less the same boat as Tay. He's still playing well, but he's old, and expected to get worse. Ben Gordon might be a suitable replacement via the market. I don't think any starting caliber two-guards are going to be available in the draft. I haven't heard of any sweet shooting guards being on the block. I suppose joe-d could pull a surprise shooting guard out of nowhere, but it'd be about the least likely position to do so. - Stuckey's really the center piece here right now (sadly?), but he could play off-guard as well, so there's the possibility of a trade for a point guard. Not much really available via free agency (Ramon Sessions? really). Might be able to get a steal like Jrue Holliday in the draft. The only real cool point i've heard in trade talks is rondo. Maybe we pull something off for him?? Next to shooting guard, point guard is probably the least likely position we'll trade for.


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Nothing found after Bedford High School bomb threat
According to SAU 25 Superintendent Timothy Mayes, a message was found in a boy's bathroom stall before nine a.m., indicating that there was a bomb inside the building.
Bedford Police and Fire Departments were contacted, and a search was conducted of both the high school and the adjacent Ross A. Lurgio Middle School, which turned up nothing.
'We followed our protocol on these kinds of threats,' Mayes said.
Classes resumed as usual Friday afternoon.


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Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
Originally Posted by azguy View Post
Full choke and two pulls
1/2 choke with full throttle and pull till it starts
Upon ending the day, disconnect fuel line and run motor until it stops...
You can quickly flood it with too much pulling at full throttle.
I usually choke it and pull once....then 1/2 choke and no throttle till it starts...then let it warm up and slowly "feather" the choke off....
Other times it fires up 2nd pull with no choke.
Sometimes it won't start at all..
and sometimes it's a combination of all of the above
Get comfortable in the yard with her temperament first in a barrel.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
I learned this the hard way, twice (once on the receiving end and the other on the sending):
Check behind you before pulling the chord.
I socked my wife with my elbow once and the PO socked me straight in the jaw starting the motor.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
I have owned many 2 stroke outboards & motorcycles over the last 66 years. Properly taken care of they are hard to kill. However, they don't like being run flat out very long in a lean condition, kind of melts holes in the top of pistons. But they sure do sound good right up until the time they melt. Now days, with fixed high speed jets that shouldn't be that much of a problem, unless one "tinkers" with them.
I have "run them dry" for many years with no adverse effects. About 20 years ago I started draining the carb as running them dry leaves a small amount of fuel in the bowl.
Never had much problem with fuel left in the carb until I started using 4 strokes, which I now drain religiously if they are not to be used for more than a week or so.
As mentioned, reading the owners manual helps, seems like they are always right, when printed correctly.
Paul T
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
The first time I read an outboard manual, an outboard that was new and HAD a manual, it was a 25hp Tohatsu when they were new-ish on the US market. Firned of mine was knocking himself out trying to start it for the first time, confirmed everything looked right, everything was being done by the book, engine just wouldn't start. When he got done I walked over, invoked Our Father Who Art In Evinrude, moved the choke, gave it one pull and it fired up.
The manual had the choke positions (hot/cold) reversed.
Like the pilots say, "Only touch the shiny buttons".
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
Originally Posted by hellosailor View Post
"Do not run a 2stroke motor till it dies from lack of fuel just till it starts to run out"
IIRC, every two-stoke maker actually says to turn off the fuel supply and run the engine until it exhausts the fuel and dies, in order to get fuel out of the fuel system so it will not clog up before putting the engine away for prolonged storage.
So, objectively, the engine makers are all condoning the practice of running the engine till the fuel is totally exhausted.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
"Do not run a 2stroke motor till it dies from lack of fuel just till it starts to run out"
IIRC, every two-stoke maker actually says to turn off the fuel supply and run the engine until it exhausts the fuel and dies, in order to get fuel out of the fuel system so it will not clog up before putting the engine away for prolonged storage.
So, objectively, the engine makers are all condoning the practice of running the engine till the fuel is totally exhausted.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
Originally Posted by newhaul View Post
Do not run a 2stroke motor till it dies from lack of fuel just till it starts to run out. The lube oil is in the fuel and running till it quits isn't good no fuel = no oil and that leads to catastrophic failure at a very inopportune time which usually leads to testing ones insurance.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
Choke: How much choke you use, how far you pull out the choke, really depends on the ambient temperature and the engine temperature. (Cold start vs restart.)
And when all else fails, you chant Gregorian style:
"I can play dominos better than you can"
"[chorus:] No you can not."
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
Sorry for the motherhood but are you in possession of the owner manual? If not, have you tried to find it online? To me, that would be the place to start. Beside ensuring that the kill switch is in and the lower unit is in the water, the initial steps you mentioned (vent, plug fuel line and squeeze primer) are banged on. If the engine is cold (seemed to be the procedure for 8 HP suzuki, 9.9 Evinrude (both 2 stroke) and now Tohatsu 9.8), pull the choke (full), rotate throttle to cold start position, pull slowly to take off the slack and then one or two quick pulls and the engine should start. Most engine will need a little bit of time to warm up during which time you slowly push the choke back in (a bit at a time) and listen to the motor. It will let you know if you are doing it too quickly or too much at a time. The only time you really go to full throttle is if you flooded the engine (a...you will smell it and be...should see fuel/oily spots appearing on the water). Normally, when this happen, I would push the choke all the way in (no choke), rotate throttle to full and then pull the crank. As soon as the engine starts, you bring the throttle down to a fast idle position and let the engine warm up.
Re: Outboard Starting Procedure
If you try to impose your will on an outboard, you're entering into a world of pain. It's best to learn what it wants and stick with that.
My process (Tohatsu 4 stroke/probably irrelevant to you) is:
90% of the time, this works perfectly (I'm crossing myself, knocking on wood, and scourging myself with a sage bush as I type this).
Hell hath no fury like an outboard scorned.
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The Lightbringers by H. C. H. Ritz
No current Talk conversations about this book.
The pace was far too fast to allow anything to make sense, and while I accept that there are times a writer needs to 'tell' in order to avoid getting too bogged down in unnecessary detail, in the execution of this novel there was an excess of telling so that as a reader you felt like you were on a roller coaster, flying around a breakneck curve with no frame of reference, and nothing to draw you or hold you into the car.
The characters – almost without exception – are unsympathetic, or so poorly drawn as to leave the reader feeling so apathetic about that that things that should have shocked or disgusted went past without any emotional response whatsoever.
I fear the author was using the shock approach far too much in what could have been a very through provoking novel if it had been written in a different, more measured way.
Disclaimer: I received this book as an early review copy.
They're Watching You Right Now!
The Orwellian level of constant surveillance and thought control in this book is enough to make anyone living in Oceania blush.
Remember Nineteen Eighty-Four's torture scene in Room 101? Now image if a group of freedom fighters had kicked the door in and rescued Smith from O'Brien's thought control - That's what you have with THE LIGHTBRINGERS.
Get your copy before this book is banned by Madame President's NEW AMERICA and her legions of 'Feel Good' Operators come knocking on YOUR door!
Written like a YA-Book, no background information to make the plot more believable, characters without depth and a magical happy end.
An interesting idea twisted into a waste of time.
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Wow, that's a neat looking bee, kinda looks like a hummingbird....JP ;)
JP is just giving you a hard time,
Hey Dragon! those are really some good pics!Uhhhh....got any pics of your wife? :-D
Arrrrggghhhhhhh!!!!At least it isnt the first time one of us didnt know the difference!Who else can I share the title,"Dope of the Week" with?I kNOW someone else here has done it!Sorry Dragon...I'm really alot nicer than I am intelligent so please dont get the wrong impression of me :)your friend,john


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Patricia Ebrey
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- Williams Family Endowed Professor in History
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975
I began to study Chinese language and history as an undergraduate in the late 1960s, in the era when Americans could not go to China. It was not until several years after I got my PhD that I visited China for the first time. It has been amazing to watch the changes that have occurred in China since my first visits in 1978 and 1980. There can be few transformations in history that have occurred so rapidly. Perhaps as a result, my interest in China and its history has never flagged.
In the forty years since I started working on my dissertation, I have shifted from one set of questions to another several times. I started out thinking of myself as a social historian; I wanted to see if I could do research not just on the most famous intellectuals or political figures, but the broader elite stratum, at least. I began studying the early imperial period, the Han through Tang dynasties, but by about 1980 was moving into the Song period. At that point I was also shifting to family history, including issues of property and ritual. By 1990 I was also turning toward women's history. In the 1980s and early 1990s I was particularly attracted to the work of anthropologists and tried to find ways to pursue the questions they asked from the primary sources available for Song China. In the mid 1990s my interest turned toward the visual side of culture. By the end of the 1990s I was focusing on the Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125), who was himself an artist, patron of artists, and art collector on a large scale.
Besides studies aimed at other scholars of Chinese history, I have regularly tried to write for broader audiences, especially university students. My first effort was to compile a sourcebook of translations of Chinese texts that I thought would make lively reading in Chinese history classes. Later I was asked to write a history of China for the general public, which, while not originally intended for classroom use, is now quite commonly used in survey courses. That led to an invitation to join a team writing a world history textbook, and after that to develop a new history of East Asia. Although I have not lost my love of nitty-gritty research in original sources, I enjoy knowing that a lot of students are reading things I have written.
What will I work on next? With my biography of Huizong now in press, I am ready to move on to something different. My current thought is to pose the question of why China has been the largest country in the world for much of its history and try to answer it by looking at the Sui-Tang-Song period.
In terms of training graduate students, I can offer the most help on the Tang-Song period, but am open to a wide range of questions and approaches.
A list of publications is available on my homepage, as are many syllabi.
Courses taught:
HSTAS 452 Chinese History from Earliest Times to 1276
HIST 406/506 Issues in World History to 1500
HSTAS 551 Field Course in Chinese History
HSTAS 552 Seminar in Chinese History
HSTAS 555556 Core Research Seminar in Chinese History
Emperor Huizong. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. Forthcoming: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics.Coedited with Maggie Bickford. Cambridge: Harvard Asia Center, 2006. In it, "Introduction" and "Huizong's Stone Inscriptions" pp. 1-27 and 230-274.
"Succession to High Office: The Chinese Case," in Culture, technology and history: Implications of the anthropological work of Jack Goody, ed. David R. Olson and Michael Cole. Erlbaum, 2006. pp. 49-71.
Women and the Family in Chinese History. Routledge, 2003. 291 pp. In series, Critical Asian Scholarship.
Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600. Coedited with Scott Pearce and Audrey Spiro. Harvard University East Asia Center. 359 pp. Also co-edited introduction, pp. 1-32.
"Taoism and Art at the Court of Song Huizong," in Taoism and the Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. p. 94-111.
"Taking Out the Grand Carriage: Imperial Spectacle and the Visual Culture of Northern Song Kaifeng,"Asia Major 12.1 (1999), 33-65.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. University of California Press, 1993.
Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China, coedited with Peter S. Gregory. University of Hawaii Press, 1993. In it, "Historical and Religious Landscape," with Peter S. Gregory, pp. 1-44, and "The State Response to Popular Funeral Practices in the Sung," pp. 209-40
Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
"Cremation in Sung China," American HistoricaI Review 95 (1990), 406-28.
The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Poling Ts'ui Family. Cambridge University Press, 1978.
For a fuller list of publications, see my webpage:http://faculty.washington.edu/ebrey/


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Global Temperatures, Volcanic Eruptions, and Trees that Didn't Bark
My co-authors and I have just published an article in Nature Geoscience (advance online publication here; associated press release here) which seeks to explain certain enigmatic features of tree-ring reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperatures of the past millennium. Most notable is the virtual absence of cooling in the tree-ring reconstructions during what ice core and other evidence suggest is the most explosive volcanic eruption of the past millennium–the AD 1258 eruption. Other evidence suggests wide-spread global climate impacts of this eruption [see e.g. the review by Emile-Geay et al (2008)]. We argue that this–and other missing episodes of volcanic cooling, are likely an artifact of biological growth effects, which lead to a substantial underestimation of the largest volcanic cooling events in trees growing near treeline. We speculate that this underestimation may also have led to overly low estimates of climate sensitivity in some past studies attempting to constrain climate model sensitivity parameters with proxy-reconstructed temperature changes.
Tree rings are used as proxies for climate because trees create unique rings each year that often reflect the weather conditions that influenced the growing season that year. For reconstructing past temperatures, dendroclimatologists typically seek trees growing at the boreal or alpine treeline, since temperature is most likely to be the limiting climate variable in that environment. But this choice may also prove problematic under certain conditions. Because the trees at these locations are so close to the threshold for growth, if the temperature drops just a couple of degrees during the growing season, there will be little or no growth and therefore a loss of sensitivity to any further cooling. In extreme cases, there may be no growth ring at all. And if no ring was formed in a given year, that creates a further complication, introducing an error in the chronology established by counting rings back in time.
We compared simulated temperature of the past millennium derived by driving theoretical climate models with estimated natural (volcanic+solar) and anthropogenic forcings for the past millennium. We employed two different climate model simulations: (1) the simulation of the NCAR CSM 1.4 coupled atmosphere-ocean General Circulation Model (GCM) analyzed by Ammann et al (2007) and (2) simulations of a simple Energy Balance Model (EBM). While the GCM provides a more comprehensive and arguably realistic description of the climate system, the computational simplicity of the EBM lends itself to extensive sensitivity tests. As the target for our comparison, we used a state-of-the-art tree-ring based Northern Hemisphere (NH) mean temperature reconstruction of D'Arrigo et al (2006). The reconstruction was based on a composite of tree ring annual ring width series from boreal and alpine treeline sites across the northern hemisphere, and made use of a very conservative ("RCS") tree-ring standardization procedure designed to preserve as much low-frequency climatic information as possible.
Interestingly, the long-term variations indicated by the model simulations compared remarkably well with those documented by the tree-ring reconstruction, showing no obvious sign of the potential biases in the estimated low-frequency temperature variations that have been the focus of much previous work (see e.g. this previous RealClimate review). Instead, the one glaring inconsistency was in the high-frequency variations, specifically, the cooling response to the largest few tropical eruptions, AD 1258/1259, 1452/1453 and the 1809+1815 double pulse of eruptions, which is sharpy reduced in the reconstruction relative to the model predictions. Indeed, this was found to be true for any of several different published volcanic forcing series for the past millennium, regardless of the precise geometric scaling used to estimate radiative forcing from volcanic optical depth, and regardless of the precise climate sensitivity assumed.
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This is the card btw:
First of all: the card is built-in in an Ahanix MCE301 case, which has zero to none airflow (just one noiseless low rpm 80mm fan). I knew of course where I was getting into with placing such a passive card in that case (so that point can be left out of the equation ).
So what I did expect, was that the temperatures would be a little higher than normally seen on a (passive) GPU. I'm perfectly fine with that. After first testing (menus, playing content etc.) for some short periods of time I never saw temperatures above about 74°C. As expected - almost no airflow, passive card, perfectly fine by me.
But now I have the setup running a little longer there obviously would come a moment that the system would be 'left alone' for a period of time. Running idle so to speak. And indeed - that happened. The HTPC was idling in the main menu for an hour or so before I came back. At that point I decided to check the GPU temperature, hoping to see near refrigerator temperatures, but wow - 84°C ! And that is at normal room temperatures (say about 24°C)! Hmmmm ...!!!
That can't be normal I thought. Displaying some antique OpenGL interface makes the card run hot, but displaying HW accelerated content actually cools it down? So after some more testing here is what I noticed:
System uptime 6.5 hours, so 'stabilized' case environments:
- Displaying content (Blu-ray, mkv whatever): Temp max 71°C
- Switching to menu - idle it for about a short (10 min. maybe more) period of time: 84°C!
- Back to displaying contect, temperatures drop back to about 70°C or even less.
- Is *that* normal? I mean: Rendering an OpenGL menu should be peanuts for any card, so why is a GT430 actually running hotter doing that, than when doing its work on HD content?


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Rose Simpson MFA 11 CR, Crystal Ellis MFA 11 SC, Lisa Jo-Fan Chang MFA 11 FD and Camilla Fucilli MID 11 are among the 170 RISD master's degree candidates showcasing their work in the 2011 Graduate Thesis Exhibition.
Capping two to three years
of intensive research, experimentation, critical thinking and perfecting their craftsmanship
in a particular field, more than 170 RISD master's degree candidates are
showcasing their work in the 2011 Graduate
Thesis Exhibition. The show opens from 6–8 pm on Thursday, May 19 in a
28,000-square-foot gallery space in Hall C of the Convention Center in downtown
The expansive,
custom-constructed galleries provide sufficient space to allow each student to
showcase a culminating body of work – multiple pieces or large installations
that represent their final thesis investigations. In most departments degree
candidates are also required to submit written theses that support and
articulate the research involved.
This year students in all
16 graduate majors are participating in the Thesis
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Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting,
Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Teaching + Learning in Art + Design, and
The show is open to the
public daily from 12–5 pm, through June 4. In addition to the Graduate Thesis Exhibition, a selection
of work by second-year graduate students will be on view for three days (June
3–5) at Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery at 169 Weybosset Street. An online gallery of the work in the thesis show
also opens windows into the thought process behind each student's creation.links:Press ReleaseEconomic angst tinges RISD graduate show (Providence Journal)RISD Graduate Student Exhibition opens May 19 at RI Convention Center (Providence Journal)RISD Ranks #1 for Fine Arts Grad Programs


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REGIONAL SOCCER - The Sheridan high school soccer teams head into the post season as number one seeds for their regional tournaments meaning both have automatic bids into the state tournament and will receive first round byes in the regional.
Both will open post season play in the semi finals Friday night both matches are scheduled for 6:00.
The Lady Broncs will open their tournament in Laramie and will play against the winner of Thursday 's match between Gillette and Cheyenne East.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Sheridan high school soccer teams ended the regular season Friday night sweeping matches from Gillette the scores were identical 2-1.
Hartley Stewart scored on a corner kick in the 80th minute to give the Lady Broncs their victory.
They finish as the regular season conference champs after the victory over Gillette we talked with Head coach Tom Racette.
The Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams finished their regular seasons on Friday by beating Newcastle. Both the boys and girls won by a 3-0 score.
For the girls, Rileigh Olsen, Charlotte McIntyre and Kaitlynn Armstrong all scored for Buffalo and Jenna Anderson had three saves at keeper.
Both teams will be at the State Tournament next weekend.
The Bison golf team hosted their tournament Friday after it was originally postponed the previous weekend.
The boys finished second and the girls took third.
The Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams played their final regular season games on Friday against Newcastle.
The boys took down the Dogies on the road 3-0 to finish the regular season at 10-1-2.
The girls hosted the Lady Dogies and beat them by a score of 3-0. They finish their regular season at 9-5.
Both teams are off until next weekend's Regional Tournament.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams ended the regular season Friday night sweeping matches from Gillette the scores were identical with Sheridan coming out on top 2-1.
Hartley Stewart scored on a corner kick in the 80th minute to give the Lady Broncs the victory.
Soccer regional tournament play starts Thursday the Lady Broncs will open their tournament on Friday in after receiving a first round bye the girls regional will be played in Laramie.
BRONC SOCCER - We conclude our Sheridan Bronc soccer feature story today hearing from three more Bronc seniors Gabe Dahmke, Braden Drell and Cole Smith.
Gabe Dahmke has played soccer, basketball and football for the Broncs during his high school sports career.
He says the decision to play soccer in college really came to the forefront for him with the chance to play at the South Dakota school of mines with several of his Bronc teammates.
The Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams are winding their regular seasons down and have just one game each left before the Regional Tournament next week.
Thursday, they played Douglas and the boys blanked the Bearcats in Douglas 7-0 while the girls beat the Lady Bearcats 10-0 at BHS.
Both teams will be in action again today as the boys travel to Newcastle and the girls host the Lady Dogies.
Games will be at noon and 2 at both sites.
BRONC SOCCER COLLEGE SIGNEES - In an unusual event yesterday six Sheridan Bronc soccer players signed to play college soccer next season with the same school.
The "Sheridan six" will all be student / athletes the South Dakota school of mines this fall.
They are seniors Hunter Reece, Braden Drell, Sam LeTempt, Cole Smith, Gabe Dahmke and former Bronc Cody Schellinger who graduated from Sheridan high school in 2010 and from Sheridan college this spring and will join his former teammates on the field once again.
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give."
"Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni"
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
"If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner."
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Re: Best catamaran for circumnavigation
My wife and I found an '05 FP Bahia 46 and LOVE IT. We looked at lagoon, antares, leopard, jaguar, voyage, etc. and just couldn't get the comfort, speed, stability, ease of handling, bridge deck clearance . . . even on some larger models.
This is her first real foray into the cruising thing, and we are very satisfied. One note however, I was, for a time, skipper of a FP Eleuthera 60 so you could say our perspective is a bit skewed.
Bottom line, if you have any questions or even want to stop into Charleston, drop us a line :-)
Re: Best catamaran for circumnavigation
Why don't you and your wife consider chartering a catamaran with an experienced crew for a time or two, choose the area you plan to sail alone, ask them specifically to let you handle the boat so you can feel what you're getting into, you can sail it, docking is the question, a lot comes at you fast, the wind isn't always your friend..
Take your dream and run with it.. Education is important in all endeavors..
Good Luck ..
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I am almost in the same situation of FreeSail, I live in Europe and I was thinking to buy an used Lagoon 440 that seems a good deal to me, but in this thread nobody talks about Lagoon catamarans for circumnavigate
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I realize this is an old thread, but it seems to have some sound advice for those of us with BIG dreams and financial matters in order. It seems that the biggest safety issue with cats is regarding capsizing due to too much sail area in heavy wind. Would the moral of the last statement be don't get in a hurry; keep your sails in a bit and speed less than max for a margin of safety? All comments welcome!
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While I see this is an older thread I have gleaned some great info. Thanks to pontiakos, wide openDDS and sailingdog, in particular, for the list of books which I will look in to. I am moving to Pensacola area soon and, while I have a lot of water and boat exp, I have only limited sailing and sailboat ownership under my belt. My wife and I took ASA 101 and I truly want a multihull (space, safety, comfort). Top dream boats seem to be the Antares line but I think finances will prevent that. I am seriously considering a monohull approx 30-40 feet to learn on for about 2-3 years. Does this seem like long enough to get proficient before moving to multi? I will also take the other ASA courses. I know all boats aren't bluewater but assume with proper provisioning they can be. I have much to learn and am thankfull to anyone who shares their knowledge herein. The goal is to spend serious time aboard once proficiency is gained in 3-5 years.
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Fantastic dream but take some time in preparing. For your plans ASA 101-105, charter 2-3 boats for 1-2 weeks at a time in nice and not so nice weather. I too always dreamed of sailing, emigrated with 1 suitcase, put myself through college and dental school and in my fifties stopped getting sea sick. Now sailing Chesapeake on a Bristol 35.5.
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Look seriously at the Freydis. It's designed by Eric LeRouge as a blue water performance cruiser. It's comfortable and fast and easy to sail by a couple and at a push can be singlehanded. I've been sailing one that I bought used for about $310,000. It's 11 years old now (I've owned it for almost 7 years) and there have been no problems. I've cruised from Australia to India and now have it in Malaysia. I wouldn't trade it for a heavier Privilege or more expensive Gunboat. They do make them new but there are a couple or used ones around ( search for Snow Leopard) . Good luck! And don't listen to those who might discourage you because you don't know how to sail. I've met lots of cruising people who bought their boat and the learned to sail including circumnavigators. Not a problem!
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My wife and I are both dentists. We have been working for the last 12 years...
Anyway.. The Cats I like for single handing are in the 36'-42" range, and the ones I keep coming back to are the Manta 42' or 45' with its self tacking jib and the davit mounted sling seat and the large double helm seat when you are sailing with your baby. I like the S.African boats (Jaguar 36, Leopards 38'-'45) because there are alot of them out there in bareboat fleets and you can get a bargain used one if you look enough for one that's not been abused. You are looking at $350 +/- $100 for new or used. or even under $200. The Mantas even come with a Wash/Dryer, so lots of bails and whistles, well made, great layout, and that self tacking Jib makes it easy. for someone learning or short hand situ's
Recently I found a nice Prout that I probably would buy today. Fits my bill @ 39', $180K, Super large U shaped seating in the salon, that three (or more) could lay one (also makes a bed when the table is down), which is a consideration, as some rounded couches won't let you lay strait. the prout also has a smaller main sail and is stepped more aft, and can run with a staysail and a head sail.. giving you lots of canvas size options and helps newer sailors from getting overpowered if caught with huge main full in a micro squall or blast... which happens. One other note.. there has never been a reported incident of a Prout capsizing. 39' multi = 50' mono when considering stowage and roominess.
And finally A Monohull that I Like is the new Beneteau Sense 50' At ~E250.00 New (1st year new). It is wide (15.8' wide), has lots of room, can order the cabin in a 3.5 bed or 2.5 bed and large "office" version, and the Transom folds down like a station wagon tailgate , so you can tangle your tootsies of the back porch. PLUS, and this is the kicker.. it has a bow thruster that is set up with a joystick that makes docking in any weather an easy one man job. Personally I would do a 50' mono if I knew I could dock it myself routinely, and not have to count on yelling instructions to a new girlfriend and having her complain that I'm always yelling at her. I would much rather "park" with cocktail in hand and my honey in good spirits.
Thats my two cents worth, more like a $1.95 Write me. I'd like to see where you are in your journey. I'm hoping to relocate to Malta and sail the Med pulling teeth for diesel and Ice cube money. email@example.com
If you're serious about multihulls, I'd highly recommend you pickup Chris White's The Cruising Multihull and Mike McMullen's Multihull Seamanship.
As for learning to sail... My recommendation to you is to spend your first year coastal cruising and doing progressively longer sails and working your way up to short blue water passages and then longer and longer passages.
I'd also recommend that you take at least a basic ASA 101 learn to sail course, which will give you a solid foundation to base your learning on. Better yet, take the whole sequence, including the 101, 103, 104, 105 and 106 courses, which would give you the basic fundamentals of cruising on a sailboat... along with the navigation skills you'll need.
If you want to learn how to do this yourself, the basic 101 course is a minimum IMHO, and will get you off to a fairly decent start.
I'd recommend you pick up the following books:
Dave Seidman's The Complete Sailor
Richard K. Hubbard's Boater's Bowditch
Beth Leonard's The Voyager's Handbook
Richard Henderson's Singlehanded Sailing
Don Casey's This Old Boat and Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship or Chapman's.
This basic library will give you a basic sailing primer, a basic book on navigation techniques, a book on cruising, a book on sailing long distances singlehanded, two books on sailboat maintenance and upkeep, and a book on the rules and traditions of seamanship.
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You know that video where the guy is talking about "so you think you want a high drive puppy?" That is a pretty fair assessment. The only thing I would change is I would show a 90lb, 1 year old doing to a couch what the puppy did to the cardboard box and be like "so you think you want a high drive adolescent who hasn't been able to run much because it's been rainy and slushy and nasty out for a week?" My biggest mistake was thinking Ammo would grow out of that stage. Don't get me wrong, he's a great do but that is largely impart to me working my backside off to make sure he has plenty to do and is properly trained. I'm confident that if he had went to a family that didn't know what they were getting into he would have ended up at a shelter. Not because he's a bad dog but because he has so much drive.
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What to expect? Its likes raising a perpetual 2 yo child; more imortantly, he/she needs lots of exercise. They r sooo loving, loyal but are a handful, please have the time to raise him. I m on my third gsd, currrrently my boy is 11 mo, hes a whinner, super beautiful and needs constant attention, he loves people, a must save for strangers around his home, but they can be bit rough w other dogs. Daycare as much as possible. I hate dog parks, but the right one might be goood. Be ready to dedicate your life to him at least for first 2-3 years. Good luck and just love him. A tired gsd is a good dog
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The pics I had posted in the early post were the dogs watching the kids walk to the mailbox...without them :-o In their world it is the end of the world to be left behind. Vacation and the pups hogging the bed in the hotel room for the stop headed home. Movie nights, cuddled up and them guarding other kids that do not live with us...
I will also say....never underestimate them. We never thought a dog could jump on be counter tops at 5 months old, but our Millie did, and she ate our steaks that were set aside for grilling.
They are problem/puzzle solvers and ours don't give up until the solve the mystery.
The one with the cat is Millie waiting for him to finish drinking before she started. If you train and treat them right...they are amazing...as you can see from the pics....very strong desire to be with the family....
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dang that is one nice looking golden retriever pup!
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We have two German shepherd pups. Recently turned one year old. They are high energy, but they got along with our 14 year old jack Russell just fine...they never messed with him. He recently died of old age...but they were gentle even when they got bigger...they were around each other for about a year. These are our German shepherds. After reading so much about the breed, we decided to buy from a great breeder and get really stable lines. Our dogs are perfect....they train every Saturday....but we do it as a family so it is really fun! We found a guy that trains working line breeds....your golden will benefit from the same kind of trainer....:-) my inlaws have one....very destructive (like any high energy breed) if they are not worked and made to think...ours love to play soccer, bubbles, hide and seek, frisbee, they love to jump on the trampoline with our girls. They love to cuddle to movies, hike, swim, dig holes on the beach (that we have to fill so seaturtles don't get trapped)....they love riding in the car to get the kids from school, go to the grocery store, love going on vacation with us....one thing I have learned...they are very much pack dogs! They want their pack together, and protected. They are very protective of kids...any kid that comes in our home. They are unbelievably smart....sometimes to smart for their own good. Our Millie unlocks the patio door and opens it....we had to buy a rod that secures the door. We work/play with them about an hour in the morning....they crash, sleep, eat lunch, we do some indoor commands and trick practice...kiss, putting toys away, hug, shake, doggie puzzles, after school for about and hour for heavy play...soccer or something that has lots of running....they come in and crash again. They love routine and love to know they can protect you....they are great at everything they do....ours even nap with our cat...:-) Very gentle when they need to be, and scary when they need to be...hope you post pics of it. Just remember lots of thinking work, exercise and the ability for it to be with the family....after lots of reading, it seems shepherds suffer depression if they are not allowed to be a large part of the family and day to day activity...just walking to the mailbox with you or reading a book makes all the difference to a shepherd.
A few pics below to show you what to expect.....the boulder Millie climbed to be with my daughter...they adore all kids...love to jump, run, and play....
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I have 5 dogs, of which two are goldens and two are GSD's. the youngest is the golden puppy and he has more energy then both Shepherds put together. He is on the go and non stop, so everything does depend on the dog. Raising the dogs together should not be an issue, all the dogs would benefit from training.
|Shepherd are a double edged sword, especially with unknown genes. The gsds Ive known have been weak nerved, thats what led me to choose a working line as my first dog. Be careful about the dog you choose and dont plan on "fixing" it.
|I have 5 dogs, of which two are goldens and two are GSD's. the youngest is the golden puppy and he has more energy then both Shepherds put together. He is on the go and non stop, so everything does depend on the dog. Raising the dogs together should not be an issue, all the dogs would benefit from training.
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Can 2°C warming be avoided?
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Yesterday's BBC article on the "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" report of the Exeter meeting last year, carried two messages that have left some a little confused. On the one hand, it said that a stabilization of greenhouse gases at 400-450 ppm CO2-equivalent concentrations is required to keep global mean warming below 2°C, which in turn is assumed to be necessary to avoid 'dangerous' climate change. On the other hand, people are cited saying that "We're going to be at 400 ppm in 10 years' time".
So given that we will exceed 400 ppm CO2 in the near future, is a target of 2°C feasible? To make a long story short: the answer is yes.
The following paragraphs attempt to shed a little light on the background on why 2°C and 400 ppm are mentioned together. First of all, 'CO2-equivalent concentration' expresses the radiative forcing effect of all human-induced greenhouse gases and aerosols as if we only changed CO2 concentrations. We use that as shorthand for the net human perturbation – it's not the same as real CO2 being at 400 ppm because of the substantial cooling effect from aerosols. However, the other greenhouse gases such as methane and N2O increase the forcing and compensate somewhat for the aerosol effects. Thus the CO2-equivalent concentration is roughly equal to current levels of real CO2.
The ecosystems on our planet are a little like a cat in an oven. We control the heating (greenhouse gas concentrations) and the cat responds to that temperature. So far, we have turned the controls to a medium level, and the oven is still warming-up. If we keep the oven control at today's medium level, the cat will warm beyond today's slight fever of 0.8°C. And if we crank the control up a bit further over the next ten years and leave it there, the fever is going to get a little worse – and there is even a 4 in 1 chance that it could exceed 2°C.
Where does that probability come from? If we knew the real climate sensitivity, then we would know the equilibrium warming of our oven/planet if we left the CO2-equivalent concentrations at, say, 400 ppm for a long time. For instance, if the climate sensitivity were 3.8°C, such an oven with its control set to 400 ppm would warm 2°C in the long-term1. But what are the odds that the climate sensitivity is actually 3.8°C or higher? The chances are roughly 20%, if one assumes the conventional IPCC 1.5-4.5°C uncertainty range is the 80% confidence interval of a lognormal distribution2. Thus, if we want to avoid a 2°C warming with a 4:1 chance, we have to limit the greenhouse gas concentrations to something that is equivalent to 400 ppm CO2 concentrations or below. (Note, though, that one might want to question, whether a chance of 4:1 is comforting enough for avoiding fever of 2°C or more…).
At the heart of the second statement ("We're going to be at 400 ppm in 10 years' time") is the fair judgment that we seem committed to crank up concentrations not only to 400 ppm CO2 but beyond: anything less implies we would have to switch off our power plants tomorrow. Current CO2 concentrations are already about 380ppm and they rose about 20ppm over the last ten years.
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5 divisions, 64 teams, 12 mats, 2 days, 1 vision. This is what the #17 Iowa Lakes Community College Wrestling team has to look forward to this weekend. The 2013 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA)/Cliff Keen Multi-National Duals will occur from Jan. 12-13, 2013 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Ill. The top 16 teams from Division II, Division III and the NAIA division have been invited to compete in addition to the top 8 teams from the NJCAA and Women's divisions.
#2 Labette, #4 Niagra, #6 Colby, #11 Iowa Central, #14 Neosho, #17 Iowa Lakes and #19 Lincoln have been invited to attend for the NJCAA Division.
"It's an honor to get invited to such a great event. We are looking forward to making the long trip and getting back to the mats," Head Coach Cody Alesch said. "This will be our first competition after break and I feel like our team is well rested and back to good health."
Tickets to the event are on sale and can be purchased via Ticketmaster. For additional pricing, seating and purchasing information, visit the Ticketmaster site. For more event information, go to the National Duals page at nwcaonline.com.
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National Darwin Exhibit Comes to Dana Medical LibraryWednesday, July 27th, 2011
An exhibit celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species will be on display at Dana Medical Library beginning July 24th, 2011. Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory explores Charles Darwin's vision—"from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved"—a vision that now forms the foundation of the biological sciences. Radical in sweep, Darwin's idea of naturally innovating and endlessly changing webs of life undercut all previous sciences.
Charles Darwin's 1859 work, On the Origin of Species, was instantly seen as a potent sign of a new science, a new way of conceiving the world. His theory was an immediate threat not just to those who were wedded to an older conception, but to all who relied on a given and settled order for meaning and for power. Emerging just as liberal reforms in western society seemed headed for radical explosion, just as technological change provided a social and economic motor that sped up life beyond all imagining, changes in science portended changes in society: "things fall apart; the center cannot hold."
That Darwin's thought could be so fertile should not surprise us. On the Origin of Species evoked life in all its intricacy, fecundity, and creativity. This is the world that Darwin explored and surveyed, described and explained — his enduring legacy to science, and to us.
This exhibition was developed and produced by the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of History. It was curated by Paul Theerman and Michael Sappol.
Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory will be on display at Dana Medical Library from July 24 to September 7, 2011. Complementary exhibits also on display around campus include Evolutionary Medicine, at Dana Medical Library, and Darwin's Worms, at Bailey/Howe Library.
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Aurora University offers a reading endorsement program for teachers who do not wish to complete a full Master of Arts in Reading Instruction. Coursework leading to the endorsement consists of 24 semester hours spread out over the course of six terms. Due to the fact that the endorsement candidates do not take all courses offered in the Master of Arts in Reading Instruction program, there may be terms when you are not enrolled for the full 6 semester hours.
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text: All this talk about how G&G would do skating in Nagano got me wondering about another old skater who kept up her skills for many years. Kristi Yamaguchi of course was in no way contemplating of competing in 98, seeing as she didn't take the opportunity to do so in Lillehammer. But looking at her performances from even one year before the Nagano games (97 Challenge of Champions and World pros) Kristi was still the landing the Lutz and flip. She had skated a SP that was ISU style against Kwan a year or so before then. So in the SP she capable of doing all the skills Kwan, Bobek, Lipinski, Chen, Bute and Slute. In the LP I think she could have beaten Bobek who skated so-so to place 3rd at Nats. At the Olympics Chen was beautiful but did have errors, and Bute no had no 3/3. Of course Kristi was much older and may not have been able to take the pounding of amateur competition, and she would have needed to get back her 3/3 from 92 to have hopes for gold over Lipinski and an essentially perfect skate by Kwan for silver even without a 3/3. So is it conceivable she could have been fighting for the bronze in Nagano if she had come back?