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Dinosaur, the common name given to a group of reptiles, often very large, that first appeared roughly 245 million years ago (near the beginning of the Middle Triassic Epoch) and thrived worldwide for nearly 180 million years. Most died out by the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago, but many lines of evidence now show that one lineage evolved into birds about 150 million years ago.
The name dinosaur comes from the Greek words deinos ("terrible" or "fearfully great") and sauros ("reptile" or "lizard"). The English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the formal term Dinosauria in 1842 to include three giant extinct animals (Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus) represented by large fossilized bones that had been unearthed at several locations in southern England during the early part of the 19th century. Owen recognized that these reptiles were far different from other known reptiles of the present and the past for three reasons: they were large yet obviously terrestrial, unlike the aquatic ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs that were already known; they had five vertebrae in their hips, whereas most known reptiles have only two; and, rather than holding their limbs sprawled out to the side in the manner of lizards, dinosaurs held their limbs under the body in columnar fashion, like elephants and other large mammals.
Originally applied to just a handful of incomplete specimens, the category Dinosauria now encompasses more than 800 generic names and at least 1,000 species, with new names being added to the roster every year as the result of scientific explorations around the world. Not all of these names are valid taxa, however. A great many of them have been based on fragmentary or incomplete material that may actually have come from two or more different dinosaurs. In addition, bones have sometimes been misidentified as dinosaurian when they are not from dinosaurs at all. Nevertheless, dinosaurs are well documented by abundant fossil remains recovered from every continent on Earth, and the number of known dinosaurian taxa is estimated to be 10–25 percent of actual past diversity.
The extensive fossil record of genera and species is testimony that dinosaurs were diverse animals, with widely varying lifestyles and adaptations. Their remains are found in sedimentary rock layers (strata) dating to the Late Triassic Epoch (approximately 237 million to 201.3 million years ago). The abundance of their fossilized bones is substantive proof that dinosaurs were the dominant form of terrestrial animal life during the Mesozoic Era (about 252.2 million to 66 million years ago). It is likely that the known remains represent a very small fraction (probably less than 0.0001 percent) of all the individual dinosaurs that once lived.
The search for dinosaurs
The first finds
Before Richard Owen introduced the term Dinosauria in 1842, there was no concept of anything even like a dinosaur. Large fossilized bones quite probably had been observed long before that time, but there is little record—and no existing specimens—of such findings much before 1818. In any case, people could not have been expected to understand what dinosaurs were even if they found their remains. For example, some classical scholars now conclude that the Greco-Roman legends of griffins from the 7th century bce were inspired by discoveries of protoceratopsian dinosaurs in the Altai region of Mongolia. In 1676 Robert Plot of the University of Oxford included, in a work of natural history, a drawing of what was apparently the knee-end of the thighbone of a dinosaur, which he thought might have come from an elephant taken to Britain in Roman times. Fossil bones of what were undoubtedly dinosaurs were discovered in New Jersey in the late 1700s and were probably discussed at the meetings of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Soon thereafter, Lewis and Clark's expedition encountered dinosaur fossils in the western United States.
The earliest verifiable published record of dinosaur remains that still exists is a note in the 1820 American Journal of Science and Arts by Nathan Smith. The bones described had been found in 1818 by Solomon Ellsworth, Jr., while he was digging a well at his homestead in Windsor, Connecticut. At the time, the bones were thought to be human, but much later they were identified as Anchisaurus. Even earlier (1800), large birdlike footprints had been noticed on sandstone slabs in Massachusetts. Pliny Moody, who discovered these tracks, attributed them to "Noah's raven," and Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College, who began collecting them in 1835, considered them to be those of some giant extinct bird. The tracks are now recognized as having been made by several different kinds of dinosaurs, and such tracks are still commonplace in the Connecticut River valley today.
Better known are the finds in southern England during the early 1820s by William Buckland (a clergyman) and Gideon Mantell (a physician), who described Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, respectively. In 1824 Buckland published a description of Megalosaurus, fossils of which consisted mainly of a lower jawbone with a few teeth. The following year Mantell published his "Notice on the Iguanodon, a Newly Discovered Fossil Reptile, from the Sandstone of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex," on the basis of several teeth and some leg bones. Both men collected fossils as an avocation and are credited with the earliest published announcements in England of what later would be recognized as dinosaurs. In both cases their finds were too fragmentary to permit a clear image of either animal. In 1834 a partial skeleton was found near Brighton that corresponded with Mantell's fragments from Tilgate Forest. It became known as the Maidstone Iguanodon, after the village where it was discovered. The Maidstone skeleton provided the first glimpse of what these creatures might have looked like.
Two years before the Maidstone Iguanodon came to light, a different kind of skeleton was found in the Weald of southern England. It was described and named Hylaeosaurus by Mantell in 1832 and later proved to be one of the armoured dinosaurs. Other fossil bones began turning up in Europe: fragments described and named as Thecodontosaurus and Palaeosaurus by two English students, Henry Riley and Samuel Stutchbury, and the first of many skeletons named Plateosaurus by the naturalist Hermann von Meyer in 1837. Richard Owen identified two additional dinosaurs, albeit from fragmentary evidence: Cladeiodon, which was based on a single large tooth, and Cetiosaurus, which he named from an incomplete skeleton composed of very large bones. Having carefully studied most of these fossil specimens, Owen recognized that all of these bones represented a group of large reptiles that were unlike any living varieties. In a report to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1841, he described these animals, and the word Dinosauria was first published in the association's proceedings in 1842.
Reconstruction and classification
During the decades that followed Owen's announcement, many other kinds of dinosaurs were discovered and named in England and Europe: Massospondylus in 1854, Scelidosaurus in 1859, Bothriospondylus in 1875, and Omosaurus in 1877. Popular fascination with the giant reptiles grew, reaching a peak in the 1850s with the first attempts to reconstruct the three animals on which Owen based Dinosauria—Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus—for the first world exposition, the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London's Crystal Palace. A sculptor under Owen's direction (Waterhouse Hawkins) created life-size models of these two genera, and in 1854 they were displayed together with models of other extinct and living reptiles, such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and crocodiles.
By the 1850s it had become evident that the reptile fauna of the Mesozoic Era was far more diverse and complex than it is today. The first important attempt to establish an informative classification of the dinosaurs was made by the English biologist T.H. Huxley as early as 1868. Because he observed that these animals had legs similar to birds as well as other birdlike features, he established a new order called Ornithoscelida. He divided the order into two suborders. Dinosauria was the first and included the iguanodonts, the large carnivores (or megalosaurids), and the armoured forms (including Scelidosaurus). Compsognatha was the second order, named for the very small birdlike carnivore Compsognathus.
Huxley's classification was replaced by a radically new scheme proposed in 1887 by his fellow Englishman H.G. Seeley, who noticed that all dinosaurs possessed one of two distinctive pelvic designs, one like that of birds and the other like that of reptiles. Accordingly, he divided the dinosaurs into the orders Ornithischia (having a birdlike pelvis) and Saurischia (having a reptilian pelvis). Ornithischia included four suborders: Ornithopoda (Iguanodon and similar herbivores), Stegosauria (plated forms), Ankylosauria (Hylaeosaurus and other armoured forms), and Ceratopsia (horned dinosaurs, just then being discovered in North America). Seeley's second order, the Saurischia, included all the carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Megalosaurus and Compsognathus, as well as the giant herbivorous sauropods, including Cetiosaurus and several immense "brontosaur" types that were turning up in North America. In erecting Saurischia and Ornithischia, Seeley cast doubt on the idea that Dinosauria was a natural grouping of these animals. This uncertainty persisted for a century thereafter, but it is now understood that the two groups share unique features that indeed make the Dinosauria a natural group.
In 1878 a spectacular discovery was made in the town of Bernissart, Belgium, where several dozen complete articulated skeletons of Iguanodon were accidentally uncovered in a coal mine during the course of mining operations. Under the direction of the Royal Institute of Natural Science of Belgium, thousands of bones were retrieved and carefully restored over a period of many years. The first skeleton was placed on exhibit in 1883, and today the public can view an impressive herd of Iguanodon. The discovery of these multiple remains gave the first hint that at least some dinosaurs may have traveled in groups and showed clearly that some dinosaurs were bipedal (walking on two legs). The supervisor of this extraordinary project was Louis Dollo, a zoologist who was to spend most of his life studying Iguanodon, working out its structure, and speculating on its living habits.f
American hunting expeditions
England and Europe produced most of the early discoveries and students of dinosaurs, but North America soon began to contribute a large share of both. One leading student of fossils was Joseph Leidy of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who named some of the earliest dinosaurs found in America, including Palaeoscincus, Trachodon, Troodon, and Deinodon. Unfortunately, some names given by Leidy are no longer used, because they were based on such fragmentary and undiagnostic material. Leidy is perhaps best known for his study and description of the first dinosaur skeleton to be recognized in North America, that of a duckbill, or hadrosaur, found at Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858, which he named Hadrosaurus foulkii. Leidy's inference that this animal was probably amphibious influenced views of dinosaur life for the next century.
Two Americans whose work during the second half of the 19th century had worldwide impact on the science of paleontology in general, and the growing knowledge of dinosaurs in particular, were O.C. Marsh of Yale College and E.D. Cope of Haverford College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. All previous dinosaur remains had been discovered by accident in well-populated regions with temperate, moist climates, but Cope and Marsh astutely focused their attention on the wide arid expanses of bare exposed rock in western North America. In their intense quest to find and name new dinosaurs, these scientific pioneers became fierce and unfriendly rivals.
Marsh's field parties explored widely, exploiting dozens of now famous areas, among them Yale's sites at Morrison and Canon City, Colorado, and, most important, Como Bluff in southeastern Wyoming. The discovery of Como Bluff in 1877 was a momentous event in the history of paleontology that generated a burst of exploration and study as well as widespread public enthusiasm for dinosaurs. Como Bluff brought to light one of the greatest assemblages of dinosaurs, both small and gigantic, ever found. For decades the site went on producing the first known specimens of Late Jurassic Epoch (163.5 million to 145 million years ago) dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Camptosaurus, Camarasaurus, Laosaurus, Coelurus, and others. From the Morrison site came the original specimens of Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Atlantosaurus, and Brontosaurus (later renamed Apatosaurus). Canon City provided bones of a host of dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, and Camptosaurus.
Another major historic site was the Lance Creek area of northeastern Wyoming, where J.B. Hatcher discovered and collected dozens of Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur remains for Marsh and for Yale College, among them the first specimens of Triceratops and Torosaurus. Marsh was aided in his work at these and other localities by the skills and efforts of many other collaborators like Hatcher—William Reed, Benjamin Mudge, Arthur Lakes, William Phelps, and Samuel Wendell Williston, to name a few. Marsh's specimens now form the core of the Mesozoic collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
Cope's dinosaur explorations ranged as far as, or farther than, Marsh's, and his interests encompassed a wider variety of fossils. Owing to a number of circumstances, however, Cope's dinosaur discoveries were fewer and his collections far less complete than those of Marsh. Perhaps his most notable achievement was finding and proposing the names for Coelophysis and Monoclonius. Cope's dinosaur explorations began in the eastern badlands of Montana, where he discovered Monoclonius in the Judith River Formation of the Late Cretaceous Epoch (100.5 million to 66 million years ago). Accompanying him there was a talented young assistant, Charles H. Sternberg. Later Sternberg and his three sons went on to recover countless dinosaur skeletons from the Oldman and Edmonton formations of the Late Cretaceous along the Red Deer River of Alberta, Canada.
Dinosaur ancestors
During the early decades of dinosaur discoveries, little thought was given to their evolutionary ancestry. Not only were the few specimens known unlike any living animal, but they were so different from any other reptiles that it was difficult to discern much about their relationships. Early on it was recognized that, as a group, dinosaurs appear to be most closely allied to crocodilians, though T.H. Huxley had proposed in the 1860s that dinosaurs and birds must have had a very close common ancestor in the distant past. Three anatomic features—socketed teeth, a skull with two large holes (diapsid), and another hole in the lower jaw—are present in both crocodiles and dinosaurs. The earliest crocodilians occurred nearly simultaneously with the first known dinosaurs, so neither could have given rise to the other. It was long thought that the most likely ancestry of dinosaurs could be found within a poorly understood group of Triassic reptiles termed thecodontians ("socket-toothed reptiles"). Today it is recognized that "thecodontian" is simply a name for the basal, or most primitive, members of the archosaurs ("ruling reptiles"), a group that is distinguished by the three anatomic features mentioned above and that includes dinosaurs, pterosaurs (flying reptiles), crocodiles, and their extinct relatives.
An early candidate for the ancestor of dinosaurs was a small basal archosaur from the Early Triassic Epoch (252.2 million to 247.2 million years ago) of South Africa called Euparkeria. New discoveries suggest creatures that are even more dinosaur-like from the Middle Triassic (247.2 million to 237 million years ago) and from an early portion of the Late Triassic (237 million to 201.3 million years ago) of South America; these include Lagerpeton, Lagosuchus, Pseudolagosuchus, and Lewisuchus. Other forms, such as Nyasasaurus and Asilisaurus, date from the Middle Triassic of East Africa; Nyasasaurus is considered by some to be the oldest known member of Dinosauria. Other South American forms such as Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus are particularly dinosaurian in appearance and are sometimes considered dinosaurs.
The earliest appearance of "true dinosaurs" is almost impossible to pinpoint, since it can never be known with certainty whether the very first (or last) specimen of any kind of organism has been found. The succession of deposits containing fossils is discontinuous and contains many gaps; even within these deposits, the fossil record of dinosaurs and other creatures contained within is far from complete. Further complicating matters is that evolution from ancestral to descendant form is usually a stepwise process. Consequently, as more and more gaps are filled between the first dinosaurs and other archosaurs, the number of features distinguishing them becomes smaller and smaller. Currently, paleontologists define dinosaurs as Triceratops (representing Ornithischia), birds (the most recent representatives of the Saurischia), and all the descendants of their most recent common ancestor. That common ancestor apparently had a suite of features not present in other dinosaur relatives, including the loss of the prefrontal bone above the eye, a long deltopectoral crest on the humerus, three or fewer joints on the fourth finger of the hand, three or more hip vertebrae, a fully open hip socket, and a cnemial crest on the shin bone (tibia). These features were passed on and modified in the descendants of the first dinosaurs. Compared with most of their contemporaries, dinosaurs had an improved stance and posture with a resulting improved gait and, in several independent lineages, an overall increase in size. They also were more efficient at gathering food and processing it and apparently had higher metabolic rates and cardiovascular nourishment. All these trends, individually or in concert, probably contributed to the collective success of dinosaurs, which resulted in their dominance among the terrestrial animals of the Mesozoic.
Modern studies
During the first century or more of dinosaur awareness, workers in the field more or less concentrated on the search for new specimens and new types. Their discoveries then required detailed description and analysis, followed by comparisons with other known dinosaurs in order to classify the new finds and develop hypotheses about evolutionary relationships. These pursuits continue, but newer methods of exploration and analysis have been adopted. Emphasis has shifted from purely descriptive procedures to analyses of relationships by using the methods of cladistics, which dispenses with the traditional taxonomic hierarchy in favour of "phylogenetic trees" that are more explicit about evolutionary relationships. Phylogenetic analyses also help us to understand how certain features evolved in groups of dinosaurs and give us insight into their possible functions. For example, in the evolution of horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians), it can be seen that the beak evolved first, followed by the frill, and finally the nose and eye horns, which were differently developed in different groups. The hypothesis that the frill was widely used in defense by ceratopsians such as Protoceratops can thus be tested phylogenetically. On this basis, the idea is now generally rejected because the frill was basically just an open rim of bone in nearly all ceratopsians except Triceratops, which is often pictured charging like a rhinoceros.
Functional anatomic studies extensively use analogous traits of present-day animals that, along with both mechanical and theoretical models, make it possible to visualize certain aspects of extinct animals. For example, estimates of normal walking and maximum running speeds can be calculated on the basis of the analysis of trackways, which can then be combined with biomechanical examination of the legs and joints and reconstruction of limb musculature. Similar methods have been applied to jaw mechanisms and tooth wear patterns to obtain a better understanding of feeding habits and capabilities.
The soft parts of dinosaurs are only imperfectly known. Original colours and patterns cannot be known, but skin textures have occasionally been preserved. Most show a knobby or pebbly surface rather than a scaly texture as in most living reptiles. Impressions of internal organs are rarely preserved, but, increasingly, records of filaments and feathers have been found on some dinosaurs. The discovery of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, an early ornithischian dinosaur whose remains show evidence of featherlike structures on its limbs, suggests that feathers may even have been widespread among the dinosaurs. Gastroliths ("stomach stones") used for processing food in the gizzard have been recovered from a variety of dinosaurs.
A misconception commonly portrayed in popular books and media is that all the dinosaurs died out at the same time—and apparently quite suddenly—at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago. This is not entirely correct, and not only because birds are a living branch of dinosaurian lineage. The best records, which are almost exclusively from North America, show that dinosaurs were already in decline during the latest portion of the Cretaceous. The causes of this decline, as well as the fortunes of other groups at the time, are complex and difficult to attribute to a single source. In order to understand extinction, it is necessary to understand the basic fossil record of dinosaurs.
Faunal changes
During the 160 million years or so of the Mesozoic Era (252.2 million to 66 million years ago) from which dinosaurs are known, there were constant changes in dinosaur communities. Different species evolved rapidly and were quickly replaced by others throughout the Mesozoic; it is rare that any particular type of dinosaur survived from one geologic formation into the next. The fossil evidence shows a moderately rich fauna of plateosaurs and other prosauropods, primitive ornithopods, and theropods during the Late Triassic Epoch (237 million to 201.3 million years ago). Most of these kinds of dinosaurs are also represented in strata of the Early Jurassic Epoch (201.3 million to 174.1 million years ago), but following a poorly known Middle Jurassic, the fauna of the Late Jurassic (163.5 million to 145 million years ago) was very different. By this time sauropods, more advanced ornithopods, stegosaurs, and a variety of theropods predominated. The Early Cretaceous (145 million to 100.5 million years ago) then contained a few sauropods (albeit they were all new forms), a few stegosaurian holdovers, new kinds of theropods and ornithopods, and some of the first well-known ankylosaurs. By the Late Cretaceous (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), sauropods, which had disappeared from the northern continents through most of the early and mid-Cretaceous, had reinvaded the northern continents from the south, and advanced ornithopods (duckbills) had become the dominant browsers. A variety of new theropods of all sizes were widespread; stegosaurs no longer existed; and the ankylosaurs were represented by a collection of new forms that were prominent in the North America and Asia. New groups of dinosaurs, the pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians, had appeared in Asia and had successfully colonized North America. The overall picture is thus quite clear: throughout Mesozoic time there was a continuous dying out and renewal of dinosaurian life.
It is important to note that extinction is a normal, universal occurrence. Mass extinctions often come to mind when the term extinction is mentioned, but the normal background extinctions that occur throughout geologic time probably account for most losses of biodiversity. Just as new species constantly split from existing ones, existing species are constantly becoming extinct. The speciation rate of a group must, on balance, exceed the extinction rate in the long run, or that group will become extinct. The history of animal and plant life is replete with successions as early forms are replaced by new and often more advanced forms. In most instances the layered (stratigraphic) nature of the fossil record gives too little information to show whether the old forms were actually displaced by the new successors (from the effects of competition, predation, or other ecological processes) or if the new kinds simply expanded into the declining population's ecological niches.
Because the fossil record is episodic rather than continuous, it is very useful for asking many kinds of questions, but it is not possible to say precisely how long most dinosaur species or genera actually existed. Moreover, because the knowledge of the various dinosaur groups is somewhat incomplete, the duration of any particular dinosaur can be gauged only approximately—usually by stratigraphic boundaries and presumed "first" and "last" occurrences. The latter often coincide with geologic age boundaries; in fact, the absence of particular life-forms has historically defined most geologic boundaries ever since the geologic record was first compiled and analyzed in the late 18th century. The "moments" of apparently high extinction levels among dinosaurs occurred at two points in the Triassic (about 221 million and 210 million years ago), perhaps at the end of the Jurassic (145 million years ago), and, of course, at the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago). Undoubtedly, there were lesser extinction peaks at other times in between, but there are poor terrestrial records for most of the world in the Middle Triassic, Middle Jurassic, and mid-Cretaceous.
The K–T boundary event
It was not only the dinosaurs that disappeared 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Tertiary, or K–T, boundary (also referred to as the Cretaceous–Paleogene, or K–Pg, boundary). Many other organisms became extinct or were greatly reduced in abundance and diversity, and the extinctions were quite different between, and even among, marine and terrestrial organisms. Land plants did not respond in the same way as land animals, and not all marine organisms showed the same patterns of extinction. Some groups died out well before the K–T boundary, including flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and sea reptiles (plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs). Strangely, turtles, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes were either not affected or affected only slightly. Effects on amphibians and mammals were mild. These patterns seem odd, considering how environmentally sensitive and habitat-restricted many of these groups are today. Many marine groups—such as the molluscan ammonites, the belemnites, and certain bivalves—were decimated. Other greatly affected groups were the moss animals (phylum Bryozoa), the crinoids, and a number of planktonic life-forms such as foraminifers, radiolarians, coccolithophores, and diatoms.
Whatever factors caused it, there was undeniably a major, worldwide biotic change near the end of the Cretaceous. But the extermination of the dinosaurs is the best-known change by far, and it has been a puzzle to paleontologists, geologists, and biologists for two centuries. Many hypotheses have been offered over the years to explain dinosaur extinction, but only a few have received serious consideration. Proposed causes have included everything from disease to heat waves and resulting sterility, freezing cold spells, the rise of egg-eating mammals, and X-rays from a nearby exploding supernova. Since the early 1980s, attention has focused on the so-called asteroid theory put forward by the American geologist Walter Alvarez, his father, physicist Luis Alvarez, and their coworkers. This theory is consistent with the timing and magnitude of some extinctions, especially in the oceans, but it does not fully explain the patterns on land and does not eliminate the possibility that other factors were at work on land as well as in the seas.
One important question is whether the extinctions were simultaneous and instantaneous or whether they were nonsynchronous and spread over a long time. The precision with which geologic time can be measured leaves much to be desired no matter what means are used (radiometric, paleomagnetic, or the more traditional measuring of fossil content of stratigraphic layers). Only rarely does an "instantaneous" event leave a worldwide—or even regional—signature in the geologic record in the way that a volcanic eruption does locally. Attempts to pinpoint the K–T boundary event, even by using the best radiometric dating techniques, result in a margin of error on the order of 50,000 years. Consequently, the actual time involved in this, or any of the preceding or subsequent extinctions, has remained undetermined.
The asteroid theory
The discovery of an abnormally high concentration of the rare metal iridium at, or very close to, the K–T boundary provides what has been recognized as one of those rare instantaneous geologic time markers that seem to be worldwide. This iridium anomaly, or spike, was first found by Walter Alvarez in the Cretaceous–Tertiary stratigraphic sequence at Gubbio, Italy, in the 1970s. The spike has subsequently been detected at hundreds of localities in Denmark and elsewhere, both in rock outcrops on land and in core samples drilled from ocean floors. Iridium normally is a rare substance in rocks of Earth's crust (about 0.3 part per billion). At Gubbio the iridium concentration is more than 20 times greater (6.3 parts per billion), and it exceeds this concentration at other sites.
Because the levels of iridium are higher in meteorites than on Earth, the Gubbio anomaly is thought to have an extraterrestrial explanation. If this is true, such extraterrestrial signatures will have a growing influence on the precision with which geologic time boundaries can be specified. The level of iridium in meteorites has been accepted as representing the average level throughout the solar system and, by extension, the universe. Accordingly, the iridium concentration at the K–T boundary is widely attributed to a collision between Earth and a huge meteor or asteroid. The size of the object is estimated at about 10 km (6.2 miles) in diameter and one quadrillion metric tons in weight; the velocity at the time of impact is reckoned to have been several hundreds of thousands of kilometres per hour. The crater resulting from such a collision would be some 100 km or more in diameter. Such an impact site (called an astrobleme) is the Chicxulub crater, in the Yucatán Peninsula. A second, smaller impact site, which predates the Chicxulub site by about 2,000 to 5,000 years, appears at Boltysh in Ukraine. Its existence raises the possibility that the K–T boundary event resulted from multiple extraterrestrial impacts.
Although the amount of iridium dispersed worldwide was more consistent with the impact of a smaller object, such as a comet, the asteroid theory is widely accepted as the most probable explanation of the K–T iridium anomaly. The asteroid theory does not, however, appear to account for all the paleontological data. An impact explosion of this kind would have ejected an enormous volume of terrestrial and asteroid material into the atmosphere, producing a cloud of dust and solid particles that would have encircled Earth and blocked out sunlight for many months, possibly years. The loss of sunlight could have eliminated photosynthesis and resulted in the death of plants and the subsequent extinction of herbivores, their predators, and scavengers.
The K–T mass extinctions, however, do not seem to be fully explained by this hypothesis. The stratigraphic record is most complete for extinctions of marine life—foraminifers, ammonites, coccolithophores, and the like. These apparently died out suddenly and simultaneously, and their extinction accords best with the asteroid theory. The fossil evidence of land dwellers, however, suggests a gradual rather than a sudden decline in dinosaurian diversity (and possibly abundance). Alterations in terrestrial life seem to be best accounted for by environmental factors, such as the consequences of seafloor spreading and continental drift, resulting in continental fragmentation, climatic deterioration, increased seasonality, and perhaps changes in the distributions and compositions of terrestrial communities. But one phenomenon does not preclude another. It is entirely possible that a culmination of ordinary biological changes and some catastrophic events, including increased volcanic activity, took place around the end of the Cretaceous.
Dinosaur descendants
Contrary to the commonly held belief that the dinosaurs left no descendants, Archaeopteryx, which was first discovered in 1861, and Xiaotingia, which was formally classified in 2011, provide compelling evidence that birds (class Aves) evolved from small theropod dinosaurs. Following the principles of genealogy that are applied to humans as much as to other organisms, organisms are classified at a higher level within the groups from which they evolved. Archaeopteryx and Xiaotingia—the oldest birds known—are therefore classified as both dinosaurs and birds, just as humans are both primates and mammals.
The specimens of Archaeopteryx contain particular anatomic features that also are exclusively present in certain theropods (Oviraptor, Velociraptor, Deinonychus, and Troodon, among others). These animals share long arms and hands, a somewhat shorter, stiffened tail, a similar pelvis, and an unusual wrist joint in which the hand is allowed to flex sideways instead of up and down. This wrist motion is virtually identical to the motion used by birds (and bats) in flight, though in these small dinosaurs its initial primary function was probably in catching prey.
Beginning in the 1990s, several specimens of small theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning province, China, were unearthed. These fossils are remarkably well preserved, and because they include impressions of featherlike, filamentous structures that covered the body, they have shed much light on the relationship between birds and Mesozoic dinosaurs. Such structures are now known in a compsognathid (Sinosauropteryx), a therizinosaurid (Beipiaosaurus), a dromaeosaur (Sinornithosaurus), and an alvarezsaurid (Shuvuuia). The filamentous structures on the skin of Sinosauropteryx are similar to the barbs of feathers, which suggests that feathers evolved from a much simpler structure that probably functioned as an insulator. True feathers of several types, including contour and body feathers, have been found in the 125-million-year-old feathered oviraptorid Caudipteryx and the apparently related Protarchaeopteryx. Because these animals were not birds and did not fly, it is now evident that true feathers neither evolved first in birds nor developed for the purpose of flight. Instead, feathers may have evolved for insulation, display, camouflage, species recognition, or some combination of these functions and only later became adapted for flight. In the case of Caudipteryx, for example, it has been established that these animals not only sat on nests but probably protected the eggs with their feathers.
Until comparatively recent times, the two groups of birds from Cretaceous time that received the most attention because of their strange form were the divers, such as Hesperornis, and the strong-winged Ichthyornis, a more ternlike form. Because they were the first well-known Cretaceous birds, having been described by American paleontologist O.C. Marsh in 1880, they were thought to represent typical Cretaceous birds. Recent discoveries, however, have changed this view. For example, members of one Early Cretaceous bird group, the Confuciusornithidae, showed very little advancement compared with Archaeopteryx and the Enantiornithes (a major group of birds widely distributed around the world through most of the Cretaceous Period). Because representatives of living bird groups have long been known among the fossil species from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs (66 million to 33.9 million years ago), it has seemed evident that bird groups other than those including Hesperornis and Ichthyornis must have existed during the Cretaceous. Knowledge of these, based on fragments of fossil bone, has slowly come to light, and there is now a fairly definite record from Cretaceous rock strata of other ancestral birds related to the living groups of loons, grebes, flamingos, cranes, parrots, and shorebirds—and thus indication of early avian diversity. Therefore, it is clear that birds did not go through a "bottleneck" of extinction at the end of the Cretaceous that separated the archaic groups from the extant groups. Rather, the living groups were mostly present by the latest Cretaceous, and by this time the archaic groups seem to have died out.

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It's nice to be able to package a process into a single, tidy, elegant query, but it isn't always possible to do so. And even if it is possible, it may not be the best way to do it. Often, we can get better performance out of large or complex queries by breaking them up into smaller pieces. I encountered a great example of this today.
A developer asked me about a query that was taking a really long time to process in the test environment. The particular step that was having issues is building a long string by concatenating short strings to pass through to a remote server for processing of data on the remote server. It was a simple, recursive string building query.
Declare @RowIDs nvarchar(max)
Select @RowIDs = IsNull(@RowIDs + ',', '') + '''' + RowID + ''''
From StagingTable with(nolock)
When there were only 12,000 ID's to concatenate, it ran in about 9 seconds. When the number increased to 18K ID's, it took twice as long, 18 seconds. At 20K ID's, it was taking 2 minutes, and now at 90K records, it is taking almost 1.5 hours. Obviously, the developer was not happy with performance and asked if I knew why the process time increased exponentially.
Upon observing the query run, I determined that the query was using a really large amount of memory, CPU time, and causing a lot of disk I/O. It was simply trying to do too much at once. So, I decided to see what would happen if I broke it down into smaller, more manageable chunks.
I set up a looping process to build several smaller strings. Then it would loop through the smaller strings and concatenate them together into the large, final string. The process could now build the string of 90K+ ID's, starting with short strings of 10K ID's per string, in 26 seconds. If I lowered the number of ID's in the initial set of shorter strings, it ran even faster. 5K of ID's per short string ran in 21 seconds and 1K of ID's ran in 19 seconds.
This is the final query I ended up with:
Declare @Rows nvarchar(max),
@Loops int,
@CurrLoop int,
@MaxIDsPerLoop int
Declare @RowIDs Table (RowIDKey int identity(1, 1) not null primary key,
RowID nvarchar(15) not null)
Declare @RowIDRows Table (RowIDRowKey int identity(1, 1) not null primary key,
RowIDRow nvarchar(max) not null)
Set NoCount On
Set @MaxIDsPerLoop = 1000
Set @CurrLoop = 0
Insert Into @RowIDs (RowID)
Select RowID
From StagingDatabase with(nolock)
Select @Loops = (count(RowIDKey) / @MaxIDsPerLoop>) + 1
From @RowIDs
While @CurrLoop < @Loops
Set @Rows = Null
Select @Rows = IsNull(@Rows + ',', '') + '''' + RowID + ''''
From @RowIDs
Where RowIDKey % @Loops = @CurrLoop
Insert Into @RowIDRows (RowIDRow)
Select @Rows
Set @CurrLoop = @CurrLoop + 1
Set @Rows = Null
Select @Rows = IsNull(@Rows + ',', '') + RowIDRow
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Select @Rows
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Virginia Commonwealth was excited to greet Alabama to its home arena.
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Commonwealth was excited to greet Alabama to its home arena, and quickly hit them with a big welcome they couldn't recover from.
The Rams blitzed the Crimson Tide early with a 26-5 run, ruining former coach Anthony Grant's return to the Siegel Center with a 73-54 victory Saturday.
"I think we were just excited to play Alabama," point guard Darius Theus said, citing a 72-64 loss at Tuscaloosa last season. "We lost down there last year, so we really had that on our minds. We wanted to play them again and just get that payback."
Troy Daniels scored 16 points, Treveon Graham 14 and Melvin Johnson 12 for the Rams (7-3), now 6-2 in games against schools from the six major power conferences on their floor. They have also now beaten a school from each of the power conferences since Shaka Smart replaced Grant as coach four years ago.
They also seemed to have spent much of their eight-day layoff between games working on their ability to put teams away for good.
"I think everyone was on edge for all 40 minutes tonight," Theus said.
The Tide closed to within 11 twice early in the second half, the last at 39-28 after Trevor Releford's driving hoop with 16:04 to play, and the sellout crowd grew quiet, fearful that the Rams' tendency to get a big lead on a team with its frenetic pace, then let up and let the opponent come back was surfacing.
It didn't happen this time.
Rob Brandenburg, who finished with 10 points, answered Releford's basket followed with a deep 3-pointer for VCU, and Jarred Guest hit a 15-footer after a turnover and the momentum was quickly back on the Rams' side. Two free throws by Levi Randolph pulled Alabama within 44-30, but Johnson, a freshman, and light-scoring D.J. Haley scored consecutive inside baskets for the Rams, Johnson drilled a 3-pointer from the right corner and Daniels made another, making it 54-32.
Grant, who still has the best winning percentage (.752) of any men's basketball coach at VCU, said the start made the whole day difficult.
"Defensively they took us out of everything we wanted to do," he said.
Devonta Pollard led the Crimson Tide (6-3) with 13 points and Randolph had 10. Alabama committed 13 turnovers, one more than its average for a whole game, by halftime and finished with 19 giveaways that led to 19 VCU points.
"They're probably, at this stage, a little better than last year," Grant said. " I thought the level of pressure, the number of guys that they had coming at us and the waves that were able to come at us, and we just didn't handle it well."
The Rams made their big run after Rodney Cooper's two free throws gave Alabama a 2-0 lead. Daniels and Graham scored eight apiece in the push, which took more than 13 minutes. It helped greatly that Alabama kept turning the ball over, and couldn't shoot. Its first field goal came just 9:18 before halftime.
After a three-point play for Releford, Johnson and Daniels again made consecutive 3s for the Rams, pushing their lead to 60-35, and as the crowd erupted in glee, Smart was able to get lightly used big man David Hinton, the only holdover on the Rams' roster from Grant's tenure, into the game.


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The Allman Brothers Band have gotten into the festival business. The inaugural Peach Festival will take place Aug. 10-12 at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pa. Today (July 12) the band announced the full lineup and ticket information.
Not surprisingly given the organizers, the festival brings together a diverse range of musicians. The Wailers, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Dark Star Orchestra, Robert Randolph & the Family Band and gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama are among the best-known bands that will perform. The Allman Brothers will play on Friday (Aug. 10) and headline Saturday night. The Zac Brown Band will headline Friday night.
In addition, many of the side projects comprised of members of the Allman Brothers band will also perform. The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Jaimoe's Jasssz Band and the Warren Haynes Band have scheduled sets during the weekend. Haynes will also give a solo performance on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 12.
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Season 2
After meeting the force led by Lord Commander Jeor Mormont at the Fist of the First Men, Qhorin selects Stonesnake, Harker, and Borba for a scouting party to ambush a group of wildling lookouts. They are joined by Jon Snow.[1] They locate and surprise the lookouts, killing all but one of them. Jon is left to execute the wildling survivor.[2] Jon does not return and they return for him. They pick up his tracks but are ambushed by wildlings. Harker, Stonesnake and Borba are killed while Qhorin is captured. Jon had spared the captive and she leads him into a similar ambush. Qhorin seizes the opportunity to insert Jon as an infiltrator in the wildling ranks by berating him for the deaths of the others publicly.[3]
|Season Two appearances
|The North Remembers
|The Night Lands
|What Is Dead May Never Die
|Garden of Bones
|The Ghost of Harrenhal
|The Old Gods and the New
|A Man Without Honor
|The Prince of Winterfell
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In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, there is no character of this name. Qhorin's party includes Stonesnake and Jon Snow as in the show but also features "Squire" Dalbridge and Ebben.
See also
- Ebben on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (major spoilers from the books)
- Squire Dalbridge on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (major spoilers from the books)


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• Warriors' Ellis already had perspective before Katrina hit his hometown
OAKLAND -- Monta Ellis knew he was embarking on an adventure of a lifetime. He just assumed it would begin after he left his hometown.
Ellis, the Warriors' first of two second-round draft picks in June, rose in the predawn darkness on the morning of Aug. 29 to catch a 5:30 a.m. flight from Jackson, Miss., to the Bay Area. Even though it was windy and raining, he and his mother, Rosa, didn't comprehend the ferocity of the storm until they saw the city lights go dark on their way to the airport.
By the time they returned to their neighborhood after learning that flights had been grounded, what had begun as an inconvenience was quickly developing into the storm of the century. It was raining sideways, and the wind was howling. A fallen tree blocked the road.
The start of his NBA career and Hurricane Katrina were about to collide.
"About 7 that morning it got real ugly," Ellis said. "That's when the wind started blowing and knocking trees down and the power out."
The experience would've given Ellis a healthy dose of perspective had he needed it. He grew up in the toughest section of Jackson, where gang members loitered on the corners and driving a new car meant you must be a drug dealer.
He idolized his brother Antwain, who many believed also was destined for the NBA after he led Lanier High School to a state title. Watching Antwain choose the street life over basketball only made Ellis more determined to succeed.
He would nail trash cans and milk crates to poles and shoot baskets.
"I could've went the same route he went, but I saw what happened to him and how it hurt my mother and how it changed her," Ellis said. "When I first started to play basketball she said, 'Don't let people do to you what they did to your brother.' So when people came to me like they came to my brother, I heard my mother's voice in my ear and I stayed to myself."
Ellis told his story after a workout at the Warriors practice facility last week. Next to him was an NBA preview magazine in which one NBA scout calls Ellis the "steal of the draft." Another scout said there are five or six point guards in the NBA right now "who can't play with that kid."
The Warriors hope Ellis, 19, can make the leap from high school to the NBA and eventually live up to the high praise. There's no big hurry since the Warriors already employ veteran point guards Baron Davis and Derek Fisher.
Ellis, who's 6-foot-3 and 175 pounds, still looks like a high school kid, but don't let the skinny arms and legs fool you. He impressed the coaching staff with his toughness as well as his 15.8 points-per-game average during the Las Vegas summer league.
He still has a lot to learn, which should come as no surprise considering he was walking the halls of Lanier High at this time last year.
"He feels like he belongs out there," Warriors assistant coach Mario Elie said. "He has no fear going to the basket. When he came out (of summer league games), the energy level of our team really went down."
Ellis planned to come to Oakland early to begin preparing for the great unknown. Instead he found himself holed up in his house with his mother, his brothers and a few flickering candles as the storm raged outside.
"Hurricanes always came around us but never hit Jackson," Rosa said. "That's why nobody was prepared. We didn't have generators or ice or water."
Ellis and his extended family all live in Jackson, which is 150 miles northwest of Biloxi and suffered widespread damage. Roads were closed. Dozens of buildings were damaged, and most of the 195,000 residents were without water and electricity for several days.
"It got so bad that the wind was knocking buildings completely off the map," Ellis said, the awe still apparent in his voice. "There was a brick car-care clinic and it took the whole thing and left nothing but the drink machine."
Ellis and his family gathered at his aunt's house when the storm blew over and were relieved to find that everyone was safe. Another aunt lived in one of the few neighborhoods that still had water and electricity, so that became the family gathering place, especially at meal times, for the next several days.
He thought the worst was over when he heard a splintering sound followed by an ear-splitting crash while visiting his grandparents the next day. A tree limb had fallen on the house. His grandfather was hospitalized with minor injuries.
But that's not the worst part. His grandfather has a brother who lives in New Orleans whom he has been unable to reach since the hurricane.
Despite it all, Ellis maintains perspective.
"We were blessed because it didn't hit us like it hit Gulfport and New Orleans," he said. "Imagine how they feel."
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Margaret Carroux
Margaret Carroux (died 1991) was a german translator. She translated many french and english literary works into german, sometimes under pseudonyms like Emmi Heimann or Martin Boor. Her most famous translation is that of The Lord of the Rings (published as Der Herr der Ringe 1969/1970), which she translated with the poetess Ebba-Margareta von Freymann.
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The "Carroux-Translation" of The Lord of the Rings, was the first german translation of the trilogy, a second was made by Wolfgang Krege, published in the year 2000.
Margaret Carroux tried to capture the literary style of Tolkien's original work, to create the same atmosphere in the german-version. During her translation-work, she uses the Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings. Some critics of Carroux accuse her of unify the speech of the different characters too much. But many fans like her old-fashioned rendering, because it follows the original text flow and the style very close.
Works by J.R.R. Tolkien translated by Carroux
- The Lord of the Rings (as Der Herr der Ringe 1969-1970)
- Part One, The Fellowship of the Ring (as Die Gefährten 1969)
- Second Part, The Two Towers (as Die Zwei Türme 1970)
- Third Part, The Return of the King (as Die Rückkehr des Königs 1970)
- Appendices (as Anhänge und Register (uncompleted) 1970)
- Leaf by Niggle (as Blatt von Tüftler in the book Fabelhafte Geschichten 1964)
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How to Keep a Bengali Quiet
By Rajyasree Sen
One of my earliest memories of eating fish is digging into steamed hilsa in coconut gravy. The only word to describe the taste is sublime. Hilsa is one of the most popular and relished fishes in Bengal. It's also one of the boniest. Many a novice has choked from not being hilsa-savvy.
Ilish is the hilsa's actual name - what the Bengalis call it. Hilsa was the name the British gave to the fish. It usually weighs at least a kilogram (it can be grow as large as 2.5 kg), with firm flesh and small silver scales. It is in abundance during the monsoon. In fact, non-gluttons would advise you not to eat ilish at any other time so that the fish can reproduce at leisure to stock up supplies for the following year.
The hilsa begins its journey in the sea and comes to spawn and reproduce in the estuarine waters where the rivers meet the Bay of Bengal, and then slowly travels up the rivers. It's also a bone (cough) of contention between East and West Bengalis. "Baangals" (Bengalis in East Bengal or Bangladesh) and "ghotis" (Bengalis from West Bengal) both claim that the ilish found on their side of the border tastes the best. The Padma river in Bangladesh is supposed to have the tastiest hilsa according to our baangal brethren, but we Bengalis who live in West Bengal know that the best ilish is found in the Ganga.
So why is hilsa all the rage? It has a distinctive taste, strong and delicious. It isn't exactly an acquired taste but the ability to pick through the bones which dot the hilsa flesh is definitely an acquired skill. It's also one of the most expensive fish you can buy in Bengal and, like all good delicacies, is an extravagance. No occasion – wedding or even a funeral wake – is complete without serving ilish. And you can rest assured that you'll be struck off the social calendar if you make the mistake of not serving hilsa when you invite guests for a celebration.
This is also not a fish to be eaten with cutlery, so you need to get your hands dirty. And the entire hilsa is cooked. Not a portion is spared. The fish head is cooked with cabbage, the eggs or roe are fried whole and eaten, and the rest of the fish is either steamed with coconut (called bhapa ilish) or cooked in a yogurt gravy (doi ilish) or with mustard (shorshe ilish) or made into a simple thin curry (ilisher jhaal) or fried and eaten with rice which is drizzled with the oil the fish has been fried in. Hilsa also has the magical quality of being the only way to shut a Bengali up. Just serve them some hilsa. And the only sound you'll hear is of munching.
I can't possibly omit mention of the best contribution of the British to Bengal: The smoked hilsa. The Brits, not wanting to spear their manicured fingers with the hilsa's bones, came up with a wonderful recipe for steamed marinated hilsa from which the bones were tweezed out. This is one of the most painstaking dishes to cook but – oh! -- the taste. Paradise on your palate.
Here are two of my favorite recipes for hilsa. Ask your fishmonger to cut the hilsa into gaada (the back portion) and peti (the stomach portion) pieces for you. And try to choose a larger-sized fish as the bones will be bigger and easier to manage.
DOI ILISH (Hilsa in yogurt gravy)
- 1 kg hilsa
- 400 grams yogurt
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground ginger paste
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon mustard oil
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground garam masala powder (equal portions of clove, cardamom, cinnamon ground into a powder)
- 2 green cardamom, 4 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick
- 5 dried red chilies
Mix the yogurt with ginger paste, sugar and half a teaspoon of turmeric powder. Keep aside.
Marinate the fish pieces with 1 teaspoon salt and half a teaspoon turmeric powder.
Heat the oil in the pan and when the pan is hot, lightly fry the fish pieces so they're slightly opaque on the outside, about two minutes on either side.
Remove from pan.
Add whole spices (cardamom, clove, cinnamon) and red chilies to the hot pan. As it sputters, add the yogurt mixture. Lower the flame.
Stir the mixture and then add the lightly fried fish pieces. Stir and let it simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle with garam masala powder, stir, adjust seasoning. Take off flame.
Serve with boiled rice.
PATLA ILISH-ER JHOL (Hilsa in thin gravy)
- 500 grams of hilsa
- 2 tablespoons mustard oil
- 1.5 teaspoons turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- Half a teaspoon nigella seeds
- 4 slit green chilies
- Salt to taste
Marinate the fish with 1 teaspoon turmeric powder and salt
Heat the oil and lightly fry the fish, 2 minutes on each side. Then remove from pan.
Mix remaining turmeric and chili powder in 3-4 tablespoons of water and keep aside.
Add the nigella seeds to the same pan. As they start sputtering, add the turmeric and chili-water solution.
Add the chilies. As the masala starts drying, add 2 cups of water.
Let the mixture come to a boil and simmer till it reduces to half. Then add the fried hilsa pieces and cook for 5 minutes. There should be a thin red gravy.
Add salt and remove from flame.
Serve with rice.
Rajyasree used to run the Bengali and Anglo-Indian restaurant, Brown Sahib, and has a catering outfit called Food for Thought . You can follow her on Twitter @Rajyasree.
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HAVELOCK � The Havelock Moose Family Center enrolled five new members during a special ceremony May 19, and they got to see first hand the benefits the club provides.
HAVELOCK � The Havelock Moose Family Center enrolled five new members during a special ceremony May 19, and they got to see first hand the benefits the club provides.
The center made a variety of donations to area groups on Sunday and welcomed James F. Henderson, supreme governor of Moose International, during Sunday�s special ceremony.
Henderson, who holds the highest elected position in the international fraternal organization, was also the beneficiary of the local group, which made a donation of nearly $400 to the Moose International endowment.
�It�s outstanding the things that you do here,� he told members of the local organization. �We want this lodge to be the heart of the community, and you are.�
During the event, the Moose center made donations of Tommy Moose animals to the Havelock police and fire departments, Craven County Sheriff�s Office and Township Six Volunteer Fire Department. The animals are used to help comfort children during times of crisis and trauma.
Local chapter members also made a food donation to the Havelock-Cherry Point Ministerial Association food pantry. The food was collected as part of the lodge�s weekly Wednesday night bingo games, which are open to the public.
The chapter also supported local Relay for Life efforts with a $300 donation.
On top of that, members regularly support Mooseheart, a residential childcare home for children and teens in need or who may have lost parents, as well as Moosehaven, a retirement facility for Moose members.
Havelock police detective Chris Morning thanked the members for donating a computer that the department uses as part of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
�It�s a big, big plus for Havelock PD to have this,� he told members during the ceremony.
Kristin Willis, of the American Red Cross, thanked members for holding regular blood drives at the Havelock center. She said the blood drives resulted in donations of 712 units of blood in 2012 that helped 2,136 people. Since the center started blood drives in 1998, 12,549 units have been collected, helping 37,647 people.
�That is amazing,� she said. �If not for the Moose lodge, we would not have been able to save those lives.�
Henderson said he was impressed at the Havelock center�s continuous giving throughout the entire year.
�I hope everyone recognizes the good things that they are doing,� he said. �I�m very impressed.�
The Havelock Moose Family Center is located at 1007 East Main St. For more information, call 447-3920.


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Dear Microsoft,
Have you ever heard the word "no" before? When somebody says that word, it usually means they don't want something or would like an ongoing activity to stop. So for instance, when you notify me via Xbox Live that my subscription is about expire, then ask me if I want to auto-renew, my saying "no" to that means I don't want to auto-renew.
What it doesn't mean is that I would like an email the very next day telling me that you are going to auto-renew. What it does mean is that I would not like a repeat of last year, where you tried to charge a dead credit card because you won't let me add a new one since you've not allowed me to change region (and thus add a new card) after I moved to the United States.
Do you even remember what happened last year? When I had a UK Xbox Live Gold code to renew my subscription but you claimed I owed you money and wouldn't accept it because you tried to charge money to a card that expired years ago? A card I am still unable to remove -- even after talking to customer support -- because you've so deeply ingrained that shit into your system?
You might think it's a good business practice to force yourself onto your customers like a drunken fratboy with an ill-gotten boner, but ordinary human beings don't appreciate it. It's galling enough that you charge money for a service others provide for free, but to then try and ensure that nobody can stop paying when they've had enough takes us beyond grotesque and into the realm of unfathomably sleazy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to pull some strings and try to get myself a new UK Points Card while attempting to stop you from charging a years-dead credit card. A-fucking-gain.
Jim Sterling.
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Note: Everything here is subject to change. Specs, prices, and whatever else could evolve as these devices hit the market. Some devices may even be delayed past the holiday period.
Microsoft and its hardware partners will unleash a new generation of Windows tablets for the 2013 holiday season, in a variety of price points, sizes, and form factors. The new choices I see this year are far more interesting than the 2012 entries, I think, and benefit from updates to the underlying hardware and software platforms.
What we see here are several mini- and full-sized tablets running on the Intel Atom "Bay Trail" platform, plus Microsoft and Nokia devices running on ARM. What's most interesting about Microsoft's Surface lineup for 2013, perhaps, is that they have three devices. And two of them are running Windows RT 8.1 on ARM.
Stubborn? Clueless? I guess we'll find out. But in the meantime, here's what I know.
Acer W3-810
Codename: Cheetah
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 8-inch, 1280 x 800
Battery: 8 hours
Weight: 1.2 pounds
Thickness: .45 inches
Price: $349
Key features: Smallest Windows 8 x86 tablet with one-handed use. All-day computing. Docks with full-sized Bluetooth keyboard.
Peripherals: Anti-shock back cover, capacitive stylus ($14.99), protective screen film, protective covers ($24.99 and up), micro-HDMI-to-VGA ($14.99), protective bags, mice, portable full-sized Bluetooth keyboard dock ($49.99).
My take: This is nothing more than a Bay Trail version of the terrible Acer W3. It looks identical.
ASUS Transformer Book Trio T100TA
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768
Battery: 12 hours
Weight: 2.2 pounds
Thickness: .9 inches
Price: $329
Key features: Slim keyboard docking with large clickpad, full-sized USB 3.0 on docking, ASUS exclusive apps, Office 2013 Home & Student included.
My take: This one looks very interesting, and the price is right. If Bay Trail performance claims live up to the hype, this could be the one to watch.
Dell Venue
Codename: Bellair
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 8-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS
Battery: 10+ hours
Weight: .88 pounds
Thickness: .35 inches
Price: $299
Key features: Lightweight design, HD display with 10-point multitouch, pen and wireless keyboard accessories, variety of color choices.
Peripherals: Capacitive Active stylus, Bluetooth wireless keyboard with stand.
My take: A lighter, thinner and less expensive alternative to the Acer W3.
Dell (unnamed)
Codename: Midland
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 10.8-inch, 1920 x 1080
Battery: 9 hours, replaceable battery
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Thickness: .4 inches
Price: $399
Key features: Optimized for 4G connectivity, HD with touch screen and pen, great accessories.
Peripherals: Pen, touch keyboard, travel keyboard with 10 hour battery, productivity dock.
My take: A more modern take on the Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T, this one could be interesting thanks to its large HD screen and great battery offerings.
Lenovo Miix 8
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 8-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS
Battery: 8hours
Weight: .77 pounds
Thickness: .31 inches
Price: $249
Key features: Dual cameras with auto-focus, HD video calling, Lenovo face recognition, includes a detachable keyboard, 3G version available, two color choices (black, silver).
Peripherals: Pen.
My take: An incredibly inexpensive option, and it comes with a keyboard (though I've not seen it).
Lenovo Miix 2
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail"
Screen: 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768
Battery: 8 hours
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Thickness: .4 inches
Price: $449
Key features: Smart dock with seamless connection, detachable folio case with built-in keyboard
My take: If Lenovo can put their award-winning keyboard in a folio case and make it work, I'm sold.
Microsoft Surface 2
Codename: Surface RT 2
Platform: Next-generation Tegra processor
Screen: 10.6-inch, ClearType Full HD (1920 x 1080)
Battery: Up to8 hours
Weight: 1.5 pounds (estimated; appears identical to current Surface RT)
Thickness: .37 inches (estimated; appears identical to current Surface RT)
Price: TBD
Key features: Windows RT 8.1, new white color, VaporMg casing, integrated two-position kickstand, ClearType Full HD display, front- and rear-facing cameras, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11, full-sized USB 3.0 port, micro-SD expansion up to 64 GB, HD video-out port, includes Office Home & Student 2013 RT (with Outlook RT).
My take: Yep, Microsoft is pushing forward with Windows RT, though they've removed the RT branding from the Surface device that uses it, which is interesting. Pricing is key to the success of this device, and if Microsoft doesn't significantly undercut the $500 price point it launched at last year, this product is DOA. The white looks nice.
Microsoft Surface Pro 2
Platform: 4th generation Intel Core i5
Screen: 10.6-inch, ClearType Full HD (1920 x 1080)
Battery: Up to7 hours
Weight: 2 pounds (estimated; appears identical to current Surface Pro)
Thickness: .53 inches (estimated; appears identical to current Surface Pro)
Price: TBD
Key features: Windows 8.1 Pro with full desktop app compatibility, choice of RAM and storage options, VaporMg casing, integrated two-position kickstand, ClearType Full HD display, front- and rear-facing 720p LifeCam cameras, digital Pro Pen, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11, full-sized USB 3.0 port, micro-SD expansion up to 64 GB, HD video-out port. (Does not include Office.)
My take: The new Surface Pro utilizes the Haswell chipset as expected but curiously appears to have exactly the same form factor (thickness, weight) as its predecessor. But there are a few nice surprises, too: The Power Cover is coming (though not immediately at launch), there are RAM options this time, and there's a new Dock as hoped-for. The question is whether Microsoft gets the price right.
Microsoft Surface "mini"
I don't have too much information about the Surface "mini", save a few details: It will ship this year, but a bit later than the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. It utilizes a Qualcomm processor, so it's an ARM device and will be running Windows RT 8.1, not Windows 8.1. And it will indeed have an 8-inch screen as I had previously exclusively reported. More on the Surface Mini as it comes in.
Nokia (unknown)
Codename: Sirius
Platform: Quad-core Qualcomm 8974 (ARM)
Screen: 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1080 IPS
Battery: Up to10 hours
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Thickness: .35 inches
Price: $499
Key features: 10.1-inch Full HD screen with outdoor readability, LTE, 6.7 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, unique companion experiences with Nokia apps.
Peripherals: Innovative multi-function cover with keyboard and additional battery life.
My take: Any Nokia tablet is interesting, but it's expensive and runs Windows RT.
Toshiba Encore
Codename: Malta
Platform: Intel Atom "Bay Trail," up to 1.8 GHz
Screen: 8-inch, 1280 x 800 IPS
Battery: 6-7 hours
Weight: 1 pound
Thickness: unknown
Price: $329
Key features: AutoBrite touch display; Skype certified with high quality dual-array mics; speakers, mics, and cameras placed outside hand grip zone; InstantGo to keep the device connected
My take: A few interesting differentiators and low price.


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Kazan, Russia – Nebraska's Jordan Hooper scored two points and grabbed two rebounds as the USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team cruised to a 103-72 victory over Sweden in Friday's quarterfinals.
Hooper, a 6-2 senior forward from Alliance, Neb., hit her lone basket in the first quarter to give the U.S. squad a 22-16 lead with2:58 left in the opening period. Hooper, a two-time All-American and All-Big Ten selection for the Huskers, added an assist and a steal in just nine minutes of action to help the United States improve to 4-0 at the World University Games.
Through the first four international games of her career, Hooper has averaged 6.3 points and 5.3 rebounds in 12.8 minutes of action per game for the United States.
Team USA jumped to a quick 7-0 lead but carried just a 26-24 edge over Sweden at the end of the opening quarter. The U.S. team pushed the lead to 51-40 by halftime, then opened the margin to 75-56 at the end of three quarters.
Odyssey Sims (Baylor) led the USA with a game-high 20 points, fueled by her 9-for-9 effort at the free throw line. Bria Hartley (UConn) added 17 points, including a trio of three-pointers, to go along with five rebounds. Patricia Liston (Duke) and Crystal Bradford (Central Michigan) each pitched in 11 points to give the U.S. squad four players in double figures. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (UConn) added nine points and a team-high seven rebounds for the United States.
The USA hit 38-of-71 shots (53.5 percent) from the field, including 10-of-24 (41.7 percent) three-point attempts, while going 17-of-21 (81 percent) at the free throw line. The U.S. squad also outrebounded Sweden, 46-37, but lost the turnover battle, 18-15.
Sweden went just 26-of-72 (36.1 percent) from the field, including a dismal 1-for-19 (5.3 percent) from long range. Sweden did hit 19-of-26 (73.1 percent) free throws. Danielle Hamilton Carter (Georgia Tech) led three Swedes in double figures with 17 points.
Hooper and her U.S. teammates advanced to Saturday's semifinal game, which will tip-off live at Noon central time. The game will be televised live on ESPNU. The game will be re-aired on ESPNU at 9 p.m., and also on Sunday, July 14 at 1 a.m. and 10 a.m.
If the USA advances to Monday's gold medal game, it will be televised live by ESPNU at 12:30 p.m. ESPNU will re-air the gameon Monday at 8 p.m. and on Tuesday, July 16 at 7 a.m.
USA Basketball Women's World University Games Results & Schedule
Monday, July 8 – USA 120, Mali 32 (Pool B)
Tuesday, July 9 – USA 101, Czech Republic 61 (Pool B)
Wednesday, July 10 – USA 105, Brazil 75 (Pool B)
Friday, July 12 – USA 103, Sweden 72 (Quarterfinals)
Saturday, July 13 – Semifinals – Noon (ESPNU Live)
ESPNU will re-air at 9 p.m. and on Sunday, July 14 at 4 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Monday, July 15 – Gold Medal Game – 12:30 p.m. (ESPNU Live)
ESPNU will re-air at 8 p.m. and on Tuesday, July 16 at 7 a.m.


text: Reading the thread below about Kearns got me to thinking about the few times I have met players in situations outside of the ballpark and the impressions I had of those players. I have a few stories, and no doubt some of you have some as well. In the summer of 1994, when I was a young right hander, I was working at a United Dairy Farmers store in Florence, that one on the corner of Dixie Hwy and Turfway Rd. for those familiar with that area. There were a few Reds players who lived in that area and some of them made it into the store to buy milk or ice cream on occasion. I was pretty used to seeing some of them, especially after the strike in August of that year. Joe Oliver and Tim Pugh were fairly regular in the store and Pugh used to come in about once a week with a really short girl I took to be his girlfriend at the time. They would get milkshakes or ice cream cones and sometimes stay and chat for a while if business was slow. During that summer, we hired a young high schooler about 16 years old or thereabouts and he was a huge Reds fan. School started back up that September and he came into work after school one day when Tim Pugh was standing at the counter waiting for me to make his shake. His eyes got kind of wide and he came back from the back room pretty fast with one of his school notebooks opened to a blank page and proceeded to hand the notebook and a pen over the counter for an autograph. Pugh looked pretty embarassed about the whole thing and when the kid went back to the back room all smiles, he said to me, "I didn't think we were that popular right now." We just had a good laugh about it and some of the other times he came in he would ask me if there were any more autograph seekers hiding in the back room. He also had some interesting things to say about the strike, how there were quite a few players who didn't like it and didn't support the union, but that's a whole different story. I have other stories, but for the sake of keeping this post from getting any longer, and to give some others a chance to relate any stories they may have, I will stop with that one account for now. Anyone else have any interesting encounters?


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I guess this must really be Valentine's week, because here's my second post on the subject of online romance in two days. Just spoke with Dan Ariely, a behavioral economics professor at Duke University who also happens to study the habits of online daters. A forthcoming study of his tracked the preferences and actions of more than 22,000 online daters and found that, essentially, men prefer skinny women, and women prefer tall, rich men. (I can see people of both sexes rolling their eyes and thinking, 'He needed a research study to come up with that??').
Women, what do you think? Do short, checkbook-challenged guys have no chance at catching your eye on Facebook or one of the dating sites? And guys, do a few extra pounds automatically disqualify a woman in your book?
If it's a race to the bottom to see who can be the most shallow, which sex is winning here? Shoot me your thoughts via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook, or comment below.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
What men and women really want in a date
I guess this must really be Valentine's week, because here's my second post on the subject of online romance in two days. Just spoke with Dan Ariely, a behavioral economics professor at Duke University who also happens to study the habits of online daters. A forthcoming study of his tracked the preferences and actions of more than 22,000 online daters and found that, essentially, men prefer skinny women, and women prefer tall, rich men. (I can see people of both sexes rolling their eyes and thinking, 'He needed a research study to come up with that??').
14 comments:
- Venita Peyton said...
Regrettably you've started with physical characteristics. For me, a potential date has to attract my mind to get my time.
- February 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
Lets see, both have physical requirements...but only the gals have economic requirements. I'd say women win the "most shallow gender online" award!
- February 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Another point to be made is that men looking for "skinny" is also a reflection of lifestyle preference. An overweight person (not talking about the 20-30 extra pounds, but the "big girls") is also advertising their attitude, self-discipline, and self-respect. While there may be rare exceptions, obesity is a choice. You can't fix short though no matter how hard you're willing to work.! So, again, I'd say women are more superficial here. Is that a surprise though?
- February 9, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Rob said...
Interesting that no one wants to admit their materialism or shallowness... hmmm...
- February 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- TC said...
Men want a lady on the streets,and a freak in the sheets!
- February 9, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
You have nothing much to go by except looks on the internet. People on these dating sites all like "long walks on the beach, a funny yet warm and caring person, blah, blah, blah." What would be interseting would be a study based on a site with no pictures - but who would join that site other than the "short poor guys and fat girls"?
- February 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
From a guy's perspective, there are a few key things that throw a red flag and weight happens to be one of them. If a woman can't take care of her body (which is extremely important to us), we wonder what else she's letting fall by the wayside. She doesn't have to be a supermodel, but if she's lean then guys will be clamoring all over her. Guys recognize that facial beauty is largely out of one's control. But weight is a choice and it tells a thousand stories before a girl even opens her mouth. In fact, if an overweight single woman tells me how motivated she is in life and how passionate she is about her career, the question running through my head the whole time is "ok, then why don't you do something about your weight?" Not for me, but for her.
- February 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Girls use career as a proxy for other attributes, guys use weight. I don't care how sweet and smart a girl is, if she's overweight then I just assume something is wrong with her that she's not telling me.
- February 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- Algernon said...
Interesting ...my woman and I have this conversation on an annual basis, on the day we met.
When we met she was a model, and I was bringing down some bucks.
That was 15 years ago.
Things have changed.
Now she says she still likes the fact that I can still her "no" (evidently there was a time when no man could resist her with the word "no"), and I still like the fact I found her more than just a pretty face (still cracks me up with the most cerebral dead pan observations).
That's a good thing.
The bank account has changed and things that once defied gravity no longer do.
Still that raw animal passion lingers.
"On-line daters" and people actually looking for perfection....that is a different subject altogether.
- February 9, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
Seems to me that all the ads make Valentines Day yet another day where men are expected to spend money on the woman in their life yet women don't have to do anything for the men but sit there and collect the flowers, dinners and chocolates. Ummmm...ladies? What happened to that whole equality thing? Step up and take your man out....get him a day at the spa...maybe some tickets to a concert. Should be a day of 50/50 but all the ads I see on TV are geared toward guys...
- February 9, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
It's not about rich, it's about financially secure and independent. And, it's not tall, it's taller than me, or at least as tall as me when I'm wearing three inch heels.
- February 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Women are far more shallow!
Just yesterday your paper ran a story on the ratio of men(40%)to women(60%) and loneliness. Yet one of the women said that they would only even consider 1/2 of those 40%.
Watch the show Dating in the Dark, far more women walked away when they saw the man they had chosen.
I see a lot of fatties with GQ guys in this town.
- February 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM
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An Encounter with Foxy Shazam
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I saw Foxy Shazam in concert on November 24, 2010, and my life has been changed forever! I met the band after their really awesome set (except for their guitar player who was nowhere to be found) and the band was super cool. Thanks for everything guys! See pix after the jump.


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Russell Wilson will get his opportunity to show what he can do with the Seahawks' first-string offense on Friday night.
We noted this morning that there were indications Wilson would start at quarterback for Seattle's third preseason game, and now ESPN's Adam Schefter has confirmed that Wilson will start on Friday at Kansas City.
NFL coaches usually use Week Three of the preseason as a tune-up for their starters, so this decision suggests that Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is seriously considering making Wilson the starter when the regular season begins.
Matt Flynn has been the favorite to win the quarterback derby in Seattle all along, but Wilson has played well enough in the preseason to make the competition close. If Wilson has a big game playing with the Seahawks' starters against the Chiefs' starters, it's entirely possible that Wilson will join Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Ryan Tannehill and Brandon Weeden and become the NFL's fifth rookie starting quarterback.