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Sawtooth Fire – Monday September 17 Update
The Sawtooth forest fire has burned 4,869 acres as of Monday morning and is now 30 percent contained.
The fire moved west generally Sunday, farther into the wilderness in Sawtooth Canyon. There was some spotting across Sawtooth Creek to the south. Today, there may be some flareups inside the fire perimeter, but the eastern edge of the fire - near area homes - has been dormant for a few days, due to work by fire crews and dozer lines.
Helicopters will be flying again today, dropping water on hot spots.
During the initial days of the fire, rumors were flying about the Downing Mountain Lodge, formerly the Grubstake Restaurant. It did not burn, though the fire was very close (see photo). The transmission towers also survived, but fire burned even closer than at the Lodge.
The Stage 1 Evacuation Warnings are still in effect, with residents alerted to possible evacuation in the area of the Sawtooth Fire. Residents are also asked to not bring livestock back into the Stage 1 areas, and to not bring in large trailers of other large vehicles that might impede firefighters response.
Sawtooth Trail, Roaring Lion Trail, Ward Mountain Trail, Canyon Creek Trail and Blodgett Campground are closed due to fire activities.
Mustang Fire
The 323,893 acre Mustang fire crossed Highway 93 this weekend and burned over 157 acres on the east side. It has moved closer to the Beaverhead-Deer Lodge National Forest. Travelers on US 93 should be cautious and drive with headlights on, due to thick smoke at times and fire traffic. Pilot cars have been used at times through the weekend.
On the northern edge of the Mustang Fire, the Hughes Creek Road homes south of Painted Rocks Reservoir remain on Stage 1 Alert.
McGuire Fire
The McGuire Fire grew this weekend to 33,161 acres and has jumped road 222. Residents of evacuated Dixie, Idaho, are being allowed in for an hour each day. Other roads in the area south of Elk City are closed or have limited access.
Powell Complex
Travelers on Highway 12 on the Idaho side of Lolo Pass should drive with headlights on and expect heavy smoke at times.
Just to emphasize the dry conditions in the Northwest US, I bring you this. A fire started Sunday in Wyoming. It's called the Chall Creek fire and is 25 miles northwest of Daniel Junction, Wyoming. The fire started at 2 p.m. Sunday. In the Monday morning report, the fire was 200 acres in size. So, remember, no campfires in the woods, and if you see smoke in an unexpected place, report it.


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November is the "in between seasons" time. On warm afternoons, in many parts of North America, drunken yellowjackets still circle the sticky sweetness of spilled cider, and then—one chill morning—you walk out and find that the leaves crisping under foot are covered with frost. Nature is slowing down and the year is dying, but there's still plenty to be done on nippy weekends in the November-December garden!
Garden Clean-Up
The coming of cold weather marks the time for the grand garden cleanup. The work that's done in the fall determines (to a large degree) the success of the next year's vegetable crop, so it doesn't pay to cut corners.
First, a thorough policing of the area is called for. Cornstalks, pumpkin vines, and all the other debris left behind after the harvest should be gathered up, shredded (the power mower does a good job on all but the toughest material), and either placed in the compost pile or set aside to be rototilled into the earth later. At this point, evaluate your garden's soil. Many county extensions offer complete testing services. And even if you don't have access to a full evaluation, you should at least run a pH check on the "brown gold." The ideal garden pH is about 6.8—slightly acid—and chances are that your loam will need some help if it's to reach this figure.
If the soil is too acid, add about five pounds of lime per 100 square feet to "sweeten" it. On the other hand, those folks (mainly living west of the Mississippi) who have a naturally alkaline growing medium should incorporate agricultural sulfur into the soil for greater acidity.
Next, cover your entire garden with a three-inch-deep dose of fresh horse, cow, or goat manure. Then top off the "nutrient sandwich" with the ground-up garden debris you set aside, and add lots of shredded leaves (mix in extra lime if you use oak leaves). Once that's done, rototill all the glorious nourishment into your garden soil to a depth of 8 to 10 inches. Make sure it mixes in well.
The final step in preparing the soil for the next season is to plant a green manure crop: winter rye or oats. (Seed for these living fertilizers is sold by Johnny's Selected Seeds. In the spring, simply till your cover crop under to improve both the fertility and the tilth of the soil.
Gift Gardening Books
Christmas is a wonderful time for giving gardening-related gifts—presents the grower wouldn't think of buying because of the expense, but would dearly love to have. Books are right at the top of the "planter's present" list this year. The Reader's Digest has recently published a superb guide titled Success With House Plants. At $17.95, the volume is not inexpensive, but the quantity of information given and the excellence of its presentation make the work a fine gift idea.
Onward and Upward in the Garden is a beautiful book by Katharine S. White, the late wife of E.B. White of Stuart Little fame. Mrs. White's gardening essays first appeared in the New Yorker, and they're both wise and elegantly clear. This is the book to curl up with in February, when it seems that winter is never going to end. The publisher is Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and the price is $12.95.
Another good entry in the Christmas reading list Is the newly revised version of Rodale's classic Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. This massive volume (which is available in most good bookstores stands as the basic reference tool for the organic gardener.
Or if you're serious about horticulture, you might treat yourself (or someone close to you) to a really outstanding Christmas gift: membership in one of the specialist plant societies. You'll have access to the latest research, you'll benefit from the trial-and-error experiences of others, and you'll participate in seed exchanges open to members only. The fees are modest, and the rewards are great. Here are several of the better-known groups:
African Violet Society of America
Cactus and Succulent Society of America
Gesneriad Society International
Force Rhubarb for Mid-Winter Pies
Before the ground freezes, consider digging some rhubarb crowns for forcing. Take the roots and replant them in a soil-filled, plastic-lined bushel basket until they freeze. After the roots have frozen solid (late December is a good time for this), bring them into the cellar and allow them to thaw. Water heavily, and keep the sprouting stalks in a dark place. In a little over a month you'll have succulent tart fruit, just right for pies and sauces. Then, come spring, you can replant the roots in their garden bed and give them a good mulch of well-rotted manure to help them recover from the midwinter forcing.
It's Time to Plant, Too
Unless you live in the very coldest parts of the country, you can try sneaking in some very early spring vegetables by planting in November. Wait until a good killing frost before putting in a trial planting of one of the hardier smooth-seeded pea varieties such as Alaska (available generally) or Feltham First. Then mulch the soil to prevent frost-heaving, and look for those green pods earlier in the spring than you thought possible!
In areas where frost comes later, you might even try a fall planting of lettuce ... helped along, of course, with plenty of mulch. Evergreen is a cold-tolerant heading variety, and Grand Rapids Forcing is a loose-leaf type with a chance of wintering over. November is also a good time to plant garlic cloves (three inches deep, and spaced four inches apart), shallots (plant them about two inches deep), and leeks.

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Fallingwater book launch and 75th anniversary
What: This book launch is part of Fallingwater's 75th anniversary celebration, which continues throughout the year with special events. The symposium will include presentations by the contributors to the book "Fallingwater," a new volume that reveals Frank Lloyd Wright's planning process for the iconic house. Included are never-before-seen photographs by Christopher Little taken specifically for this book. John A. Matteo of Robert Silman Associates Structural Engineers will speak about Fallingwater's structural strengthening, and writer, photographer and landscape designer Rick Darke will discuss Fallingwater's landscape. Lynda Waggoner, the book's editor, will moderate a question-and-answer session with the presenters.
Where: Carnegie Museum of Art theater, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh.
When: Saturday, June 11, at 1 p.m.
How much: The symposium is free, but advance reservations are required because space is limited. The book is $60 and available at the Fallingwater museum store or at fallingwatermuseumstore.org.
What's nearby: The house Fallingwater built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 is in Mill Run, Pa., about 60 miles from the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Information: Go to fallingwater.org/134
—Arielle Patterson, The Baltimore Sun


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Nobody knows for how long the Burj Khalifa will continue to be the highest tower in the world. For now, the impressive 829.84-metre-high building in Dubai still holds this record. To get an idea of just how tall the Burj Khalifa is, it is twice as high as the imposing Empire State Building in New York.
Since its inauguration on 4 January 2010, the Burj Khalifa has become one of Dubai's most popular attractions. This is hardly surprising as the top of this incredible structure can be seen from 95 kilometres away. Its prominent shape, inspired by the Hymenocallis desert flower, has transformed the Burj Khalifa into an architectural masterpiece. During the construction, the final height of the building was a closely guarded secret to prevent any other building in Dubai from beating its record.
The Burj Khalifa can only be described in superlatives. The total construction bill came to an incredible 1.3 billion euro. A square metre of office space costs more than US$43,000. The building has also earned numerous records: it is home to the world's highest mosque (on the 158th floor) and the highest restaurant (122nd floor). It also boasts more floors than any other building in the world (160 floors).
The building's construction is a photographer's dream, both inside and outside. There are 2 distinct times that are ideal for photographing the Burj Khalifa: in the daytime when the structure is framed by the bright blue sky, and at night after sunset, during the so-called 'blue hour'. These times of the day, right after sunrise or just before sunset, are when the sky turns a striking colour of blue. The best vantage point for taking some spectacular photographs is from the Observation Deck on the 124th floor, which boasts an unimpeded view over the entire city.


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I've been writing.
Right now we're in the middle of a revolution. These are exciting times. It's easy to get caught up in the ebook/self-publishing momentum and spend all of your time thinking about how to publicize your books, or position them correctly, or decide which platforms to commit to.
But at the end of the day, the one thing that truly matters is writing a good story. Because without that, there is nothing to sell.
This is a Newbie's Guide to Publishing, not a Newbie's Guide to Writing, so I don't blog about the craft too often. Writers come here seeking information about Amazon and the Big 6 and agents, not about narrative structure and characterization.
That doesn't mean you should ignore narrative structure and characterization.
There has been much speculation about why some writers hit it big via self-publishing. We all wonder how John Locke sold 1,000,000, or how Amanda Hocking made $1,000,000. In the last two weeks my writing buddy Blake Crouch has made more than $40k on his thriller ebook RUN (incidentally, that brilliant book was rejected by every major NY publisher). I just had two back-to-back $75k months. There are always new stories of some indie writer making big money, or cracking the NYT bestseller list.
But very few talk about the essential ingredient in a successful ebook. Namely, the book itself.
Locke, Hocking, and Crouch are good storytellers. They've worked very hard on their craft. Their books entertain, and when someone reads one they tell other people about it and recommend it. While there isn't any book that pleases everyone, if you look at these writers' reviews on Amazon you'll see they're averaging about 4 stars, and they've been reviewed hundreds and hundreds of times.
I've also seen the opposite thing happen. A book has a good cover and a few 5 star shills, and it does well for a few weeks, and then because it isn't very good the 1 star reviews take over, killing its sales. If you put a fresh coat of paint on a turd, it's still a turd.
The writing counts.
If you're a writer in 2012, it's important to be savvy about social networking, publicity, marketing, platforms, covers, formats, and all the things associated with self-publishing and ebooks.
But the most important thing is the book itself.
My 14 year old son is writing a story. He sees Dad making a lot of money, talking about how ebooks will earn forever, and I'm pretty sure he thinks Kindle is a one-way ticket to fame and fortune.
A few days ago I finished the final draft of Timecaster Supersymmetry, and celebrated with the prerequisite bottle of expensive beer (a Bruery Black Tuesday). The following day, when he came home from school, he saw me at the computer and asked if I was working on a new book.
"No. Still working on Timecaster."
"But you said you were finished."
"I am. I'm just not finished with being finished."
I love writing. I loved it for the 12 years where I didn't sell a single thing, and I've loved it for the 12 years I've been a professional. I have all the conceits that every writer has. I think about my characters as if they're real people. I dream about scenes. I secretly believe my stories are the best in the world. I laugh at my own jokes, cry at the emotional parts, and often dislocate my elbow patting myself on the back after a good bit of dialog or a fun twist. Being a writer does more than define me; it isn't a job, it's a way of life. And when I put my life out there for the world to see, I want it to be the very best that I am capable of. I want readers to enjoy it as much as I have. I want every chapter, every scene, every sentence to be deliberate, to convey exactly what I want it to convey.
Do you know what the real definition of success is? It isn't about how many books you sell, or how much money you make. It isn't about winning awards, or getting great reviews. It isn't about having fans.
A successful writer is one who can defend every single word in their story. Because the ones they can't defend should get cut.
It isn't easy doing that. It takes a lot of time, a lot of commitment, a lot of work. But it's work I embrace, because I'm having a lifelong love affair with storytelling, and I want to keep getting better until the day I die.
I'll never be finished with being finished.
When my son asks me to read his story, I know what he wants to hear. He wants to be told it is brilliant, and wants me to upload it to my Kindle account, and wants to buy a car with all the money he thinks he's going to make even though he's still too young to drive.
But praise is like candy. Even though we love it, it isn't good for us. So I'm going to be critical. I'm going to tell him exactly what is wrong with his story, and why, and try to get him to figure out on his own how to fix those problems.
If he's got the bug, he'll rewrite. And rewrite again, and again, and again until the story works and he knows exactly why it works. Then he'll be ready to self-publish.
That's what all of us should be doing.
If you love writing, and you know you're doing it right, readers will find you.
Keep at it until they do.


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Tech and Socorro Radio Operators to Join Emergency Exercise, June 19, 2006
by Dave Finley
SOCORRO, N.M., June 19, 2006 -- Socorro's amateur radio operators will spend the weekend of June 24-25 practicing emergency-communications skills that many of their fellow "hams" across the nation have used extensively over the past year following hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires and other disasters.
The Socorro Amateur Radio Association (SARA) and the Tech Amateur Radio Association (TARA) will set up portable radio stations at Socorro's Clarke Field and at the Datil Well Campground in Catron County, then make two-way contacts with other participating stations throughout the Western Hemisphere. The operation will run from noon Saturday to noon Sunday.
The public is invited to visit and learn about amateur radio and the ability of amateur operators to quickly establish local, national and international communications during and after emergencies.
At the Clarke Field site, the hams will be operating from a travel trailer they have converted into a mobile emergency communications center to serve local government agencies.
The trailer was donated to Socorro County in 2004 by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Since then, the hams have refurbished it and equipped it with radios, antennas and other equipment. It was used for the recent multi-agency emergency drill in Magdalena and is available to serve as a communications facility at emergency sites throughout the area.
During this weekend's event, known as Field Day, ham operators, using only generators, batteries or solar power, construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country to test their skills under all situations. Their slogan, "Ham radio works when other systems don't!" is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis.
More than 30,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. Nationwide, there are nearly 700,000 licensed amateurs, and more than 2.5 million around the world.


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|Xintthe q'unt'ux xiy naghitl'an xiy. The first time I saw an airplane. Told by Ellen Savage, October 2002, at her house in Anchorage, AK.
|Recorded by Alice Taff and Donna Miller MacAlpine. Transcribed and translated by Donna Miller MacAlpine, Ellen Savage, Hannah Maillelle (HM), Edna Deacon, and Alice Taff. (added for clarity) {false start} [notes]
|TO REPLAY A PHRASE, click on its speaker icon.
|(HM) Gile.
|(HM) Tell it.
|All right.
|Here it is.
|Xunh sigixunik,
|All my real events,
|sraqay itlanh dong,
|when I was a child,
|gidinitldik dong,
|while I was going to school.
|the first time,
|q'unint'ux yitltthonh dong.
|when I saw an airplane.
|Sraqay tr'idelanh t'si gitr'idiniłdik
|While we are kids going to school
|ngi'in, eh?
|over there, eh?
|Gidinałdikdi yix,
|The school house,
|gitr'idiniłdik sraqay.
|(where) we are school children.
|So then,
|dranetr nonxidedhik tux
|during lunch time
|xiy antr'ididił sigitr'iłno.
|we'll go home to eat.
|Gitr'iłno xotl'ogh, xiłdi giłiq, xononxididhik ts'i che.
|After we eat, at one o'clock, time to go back to the school.
|Che che
|gidinałdikdi che xidontr'ididił.
|we go back in the school.
|Ts'i gitr'idiniłdik.
|And we are writing.
|Yit an got.
|Right there.
|nonxidithit ts'i, yitots'i
|comes, and then
|iy an tr'ithidatl.
|we go home.
|Ts'i yitots'i,
|And then,
|siyix xidonisiyo ts'i.
|I walk in my house.
|Singonh anh iłt'e,
|My mother, she always,
|dinaxogh ginughiłnik xineg.
|for us she's cooking nicely.
|"Gila gehonh," siłne.
|"Go ahead and eat," she tells me.
|Ts'an ts'i gaghisonh.
|So she fed me.
|Gaghison' xotl'ogh xiłdik,
|After I ate then,
|"Gidinałdikdi xits'an tedoyh,"
|"Go back to school,"
|siłne singonh.
|she tells me, my mother.
|Ts'i yitots'i
|And then
|I walk out.
|Dodo' xits'i xiłdi {ngit gid}
|Down river then,
|gidinałdikdi yix,
|the school house,
|ine' che ane'
|but up river
|sughida' che gho denisdhit,
|my cousin, for her I wait,
|siyił gidiniłdik.
|the one who goes to school with me,
|Anh che ts'i taso.
|I start to walk to her.
|Ngine' 'n a taso.
|I start to walk up there.
|Yi xone' isoł yił,
|While I was walking up,
|itsa'a ghiluq yixo'ot
|poor grandma up there
|yith q'idz dathdo.
|was sitting on top of the bank.
|Old grandma.
|A, yixi,
|Ah, around there,
|vitsa'a ghisoł xiyił, siłne,
|as I walk towards grandmother, she says to me,
|"Sichoy," siłne.
|"My grandchild," she says to me.
|"Hanh?" vidisne.
|"Hunh?" I said to her.
|"Ithe gidigitth'onh?" siłne.
|"Did you hear something?" she asked me.
|"E," vidisne.
|"Yes," I told her.
|"Ah, nisin,
|"Ah, back there,
|dits'in chux nont'ux.
|an eagle is coming flying.
|A niggidingił'anh iy," siłne.
|Look at it up there," she told me.
|Nginiq genastonh.
|I start looking up there.
|An xe,
|Back there,
|viniq'it xodixi genastonhdi,
|over the lake where I looked,
|gan sre' yuxudz di'ne.
|I don't know what is making noise.
|Yuxudz xo'in xiłdik.
|Causing that.
|"Ixudiniy inongidoł.
|"Hurry up and walk home.
|Go dits'in chux nont'ux," siłne.
|That eagle is flying," she tells me.
|"Dits'in chux getiy vixinijit 'n iy.
|"That eagle is very dangerous.
|Ye yidong
|Long ago
|nq'oxdina' ye iłzreyh,"
|it picks up the people,"
|she tells me.
|Yuxudz xo'in xiłdik
|Because of that
|xiye ntagiggok.
|I start running back.
|Xiye ntagiggok xiyił yuxudz
|I'm running back and all
|deg sughi dixi
|right over me
|dits'in chux nont'ux.
|the eagle is flying.
|Nidhitl'an ts'i,
|I didn't look at it,
|xiłdi getiy vinigijit ts'in'.
|because I'm awfully scared of it.
|Yan nigiggok ts'i, yitots'i,
|I just ran back and then,
|dina yix xidonigiggok.
|I ran into our house.
|Dina yix xidon nigiggoqdi,
|When I ran inside our house,
|singonh, dina qul.
|my mother, nobody (was there).
|Xidongiggok ts'i yitots'i yit,
|I ran in and then,
|dhisdo xingo yi'egh
|while I'm sitting in there
|xinitl-'anh xiyił
|I'm looking and
|ngitthing ts'i xiyan' che xodił.
|down in only one direction they are all going.
|Dał'ine che denisdhit ts'i xiłdi yuxudz,
|Meanwhile I'm not thinking about anything,
|getiy dits'in chux xinigijit xo'in.
|because I'm awfully scared of that eagle.
|Yit dhisdo yitots'in',
|There I'm sitting and then,
|yitongo ngi'egh q'uxidixidetthuq.
|meanwhile outside it's quiet.
|Ndadz sre' xa
|I don't know where
|yit ghisdo xiyił xidigał inisdhinh,
|there I was sitting and finally I thought,
|gan sre' atthing
|I wonder what's that down there
|yixi yinił'eł ts'i.
|they're looking at.
|Ngitthing xiyan' xitidał.
|Down there they're all going.
|Yuxudz xo'in xiłdik
|Because of that
|I went out.
|Ngitthing xiłdik,
|Down there,
|vith q'idz xits'i ghisoł.
|I went to the (river) bank.
|Xot xeyozr ghisoł ts'in'.
|I walked slow and easy.
|Xidigał xezron che,
|Finally at last,
|atthing, yiggiy,
|down there, that,
|on the river how they call it?
|(HM) Xin.
|(HM) River.
|Tinh q'idz.
|On top of the ice.
|I see tinh q'idz
|I see on the ice
|{...} yuxudz xo'in,
|what I'm looking at
|down there
|gan chux xiq'i dingit'a xiy.
|so big it is.
|Oo, idiyił ntasitrit
|Oh, I just run back
|ngiyiq dinayix xidon nigiggok.
|inside our house, in I run.
|That's enough.
|Tthan isdoyh ts'i yitots'i.
|I wouldn't go out again.
|singonh xidonidiyo.
|my mother comes back in.
|"Ngo q'unt'ux xiy iy,"
|"Well, it's a flying thing,"
|ne ts'in'.
|she said.
|Gan sre'.
|I don' know (what it is).
|Dał'ine yuxudz denisdhid ts'i.
|Even so I never think.
|Dits'in chux yan' gho denisdhit.
|I think only about the eagle.
|Tthi'isol ts'i xiyił.
|I never went back out.
|Yitongo singonh anh,
|Meanwhile my mother,
|"Agidet q'ugandiyił iy,
|"Here it is, that thing flying around,
|not'uq," ne, "ts'i xinayh."
|finally came," she says, "like they tell."
|Dał'ine yuxudz ts'i yuxudz xiyił denisdhin ts'in'.
|Despite everything, I never think.
|Yitots'i yit venhdi xiłdik
|So there tomorrow then
|when we wake up,
|gitr'ideniłdik ts'i, xiłdik,
|we are going to school, then,
|singonh, a dina gho,
|my mother, for us,
|she was cooking.
|Xotl'ogh gaghisonh xotl'ogh xiłdi,
|After I eat, afterwards then,
|"Gil gidinałdik," dina iłne.
|"Go back to school," she tells us.
|Yuxudz xo'in xiłdi ngido'
|That's why then, down,
|gidinałdikdi xits'an ntasiyo.
|I started back to school.
|Ngitthe xiyił xinitl-'an ts'i.
|I never look down the bank.
|Gidinałdikdi xidonisiyo.
|I go in the school.
|Yitots'i yił gidinałdikdi
|And then in the school
|yiggidhisdo ts'i.
|I'm sitting down.
|Deg xidhi'onh xiyił, yit yiggi xidoy.
|There was then, a door.
|Dina {gi...} school teacher,
|Our school teacher,
|(ndadz a vixisre'.)
|(what it is, I forget.)
|Their door
|yadz {gi-} gixatathtonh,
|she opened the door,
|ttha xididatl che.
|they go out again.
|Dina gidiniłdik
|Our school
|dina gi-teacher
|our teacher
|xiyił xivitloy che che,
|with them, behind them, suddenly,
|tthan tr'ididatl.
|they went out.
|Notin dina.
|Two people.
|{te...} Notin.
|Gashagh xit'an ye,
|White men,
|xivitl'ogh yixi divitloy ghihoł.
|they walked behind him.
|Ttha xitidhidatl yitots'i,
|They went out then,
|dixiłche nq'ołonh xiviq'a ghihoł,
|a woman going after them,
|da' neg idałchedhinh.
|one wearing a nice parka.
|Nq'ołοnh neg yozr xiviyił titadhiyo.
|A pretty girl went out with them.
|Sraqay xiłdi yuxudz
|All the kids
|ndadz sre' {that...} dixi'ne ts'i.
|I don't know what they are talking about.
|They rush out.
|Yitots'i yuxudz xo'in sedig, tthiniso.
|And that's why, myself, I go too.
|Di'atthet iy.
|It's down there.
|Q'unt'ux xiy chux atthe dhitonh.
|A big plane is down there.
|Iy ts'i lo che go tthaxidithidatl.
|No wonder they went out.
|Ine' che yuxudz xełedz yił itl-'an ts'in'.
|But I didn't take a good look at it.
|Xiłdi getiy vinigijit ts'in'.
|I'm too scared of it.
|Dits'in chux xiyan' gho denisdhit.
|I'm only thinking of the eagle.
|Schoolhouse xidonisiyo ts'i yitots'i etle.
|Back into the schoolhouse I went perhaps.
|It flew away.
|That's it.
|Agide xintthe
|Here's the first time
|q'unt'ux xiy naghitl'an xiy.
|I saw an airplane.
|That's it.
|That's how it is I see first airplane.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli prime ministerial frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday insisted that a government led by his Likud Party will never surrender the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace agreement with Syria.
"We are here to state unequivocally: A Likud-led government will stay on the Golan Heights and keep them as a strategic asset," Netanyahu said while touring the Golan with other Likud Knesset hopefuls.
The visit was scheduled in response to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ongoing secretive land-for-peace talks with Syria via Turkish mediators. Despite having been reduced to head of a caretaker government, Olmert continues to push for a diplomatic breakthrough that would have far-reaching consequences for the Jewish state.
The results of a public opinion poll released a day later revealed that a strong majority of Israelis back Netanyahu in his refusal to part with the Golan under any circumstances.
Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed said Israel should not agree to a full withdrawal from the Golan, even in exchang efor comprehensive peace with Syria. Forty-six percent said Israel should not hand over even one inch of the strategic plateau.
The poll was conducted by Ma'agar Mohot on behalf of the Kinneret College in northern Israel.
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The tiny hamlet of Jaco is located in the Pacific Coast province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. It's the ultimate hideaway for sun seekers and active travelers, with cinnamon-hued volcanic-sand beaches, lush green rain forest and verdant mountains. Surfers flock here from around the world, but families, and honeymooners also find much to love, thanks to the multitude of beaches, outdoor activities, dining, shopping and nightlife. A holiday rental here is a home-away-from-home in the Garden of Eden, where palm trees sway lazily in the breezes and there is no to-do list, just endless hours spent with loved ones, enjoying some of Mother Nature's finest accomplishments.
Your choices for outdoor activities in Jaco are bountiful. Explore the Costa Rican rain forest by horseback, learning about the flora and fauna in this impressive eco-system. Take an ATV tour to beaches, remote villages and waterfalls. Try your hand at sport fishing, paragliding, sea kayaking or even bungee jumping. Spend an afternoon at the Pura Vida Gardens and Waterfalls, where you'll find millions of plants, flowers and orchids from around the world. Zip line through the jungle, play a round of golf or take an aerial tram tour of the rain forest. Expert surfers will want to check out La Roca Loca and Playa Hermosa for a challenge.
From 10,000-square-foot private estates to luxury high-rise condo rentals, the holiday rental market in Jaco Province is vast. You'll find both five-star rental homes and affordable apartments in various parts of town, including downtown and the quieter outlying neighborhoods. The holiday rentals come packed with amenities – look for oceanfront pools, fully equipped kitchens, flatscreen televisions, washer and dryer, watersports equipment, Jacuzzis, air conditioning, fitness centers, terraces and grilling areas, you name it! And with the flexibility to come and go as you please, cook your own meals on your own schedule and have access to both beach and town, holiday rentals are a particularly family-friendly and group-friendly option.
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California Department of Transportation
March 3, 2011
District: 7 – Los Angeles
Contact: Kelly Markham
Phone: (213) 897-0303
Los Angeles – Caltrans today broke ground on a project to construct new bus/carpool lanes on the Golden State Freeway (I-5) between the Hollywood Freeway (SR-170) and the Buena Vista Street interchange in Burbank. The $69.2 million project is financed in part ($39.3 million) by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act).
"This project will encourage commuters to carpool and use transit, which will help reduce traffic congestion, gasoline consumption, and improve the air quality in the San Fernando Valley," said Caltrans Director Cindy McKim. "The improvements we're implementing will benefit residents, commuters, and commercial vehicles by improving mobility along Interstate 5."
The project will build nearly nine miles (4.4 miles in each direction) of new bus/carpool lanes (also known a high occupancy vehicle, or HOV, lanes) and repair damaged pavement on one of the most heavily traveled freeways in the state. The section on I-5 between SR-170 and Buena Vista Street has an average daily traffic volume of nearly 200,000. The project is expected to be completed by fall 2014.
"Metro is proud to partner with Caltrans on the construction of this HOV project by contributing $22.6 million of Prop C funds," said Metro Board Chair and Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe. "Metro strives to improve regional mobility and sustainability by alleviating congestion, encouraging carpooling, improving air quality and providing a smoother ride for motorists. Today's groundbreaking is another example of our efforts to achieve these goals."
In September, work started on another $140 million I-5 project that received $31.2 million in Recovery Act funding. It is adding seven miles (3.5 in each direction) of new HOV lanes on I-5 between the Ronald Reagan Freeway (SR-118) and SR-170. It will also repair damaged pavement, construct a direct HOV connector at the I-5/SR-170 interchange, add new soundwalls, and realign ramps. The project is expected to be completed by spring 2015.
HOV lanes typically carry two to three times more people at peak traffic hours than regular lanes. There are currently 514 miles of HOV lanes in Los Angeles, about 36 percent of all such lanes in the state.
California has obligated nearly $2.6 billion in Recovery Act funding to nearly 1,000 highway, local street, and job training transportation projects statewide. For more information on the Recovery Act visit: http://recovery.ca.gov.
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Dear Jiggly Caliente
Guest post/love letter by Miss Fluffy Soufflé.
Dear Jiggly Cliente,
Thank you SO MUCH for being here as part of Pride at the Gaystone. You are so much more than Brooklyn's Plus-sized Barbie Doll. You are a gorgeous, sweet, inspirational and talented performer. We knew you would be the perfect fit for the Gladstone Hotel, and all our gayest dreams were met by having you here.
Never shall I forget the best birthday of my life with you as my cake eating partner.
The next night you rocked the stage multiple times celebrating at Pinky's Nails Birthday Bash (your nails were looking especially fine thanks to cutie Justin!). Never has Missy Elliot been done better besides the queen herself.
Here's your other glam look (from She Does the City):
If you ever come back to Toronto (and I hope you do!), we NEED to reconnect and go for poutine. You'll always have the Gladstone as your home away from home.


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There is a lot of hype around the Internet of Things (IoT), but make no mistake, the IoT is here to stay and will have a transformative effect on businesses of all kinds. According to a 2015 report from McKinsey, over the next decade the economic impact of the Internet of Things will be as much as $11.1 trillion per year. Ensuring that your IT processes and technologies are prepared for the changes the IoT will bring will be crucial. Investments in infrastructure, security solutions and analytic capabilities are musts for any organization.
Business models are changing too. With the rise of the service economy — a concerted effort by many businesses to focus on developing revenue from their existing customer base (e.g., subscription services, recurring billing, professional services and product/service bundling) — companies are shifting from being product-oriented to service-oriented. Although IoT-inspired business models have not hit the masses, many C-level executives are already evaluating how the IoT may change the way they deliver, measure usage, and ultimately bill for products/services. Sensors and wearables will soon be used to measure how much of a given product or service is used, and businesses will charge accordingly. Recurring revenue is increasingly becoming a key tenet of any business; however, first there needs to be a financial system to support it. When the IoT goes mainstream, will your business be able to perform?
In this slideshow, Kevin Roberts, director of platform technology at FinancialForce, outlines the five questions CFOs and CIOs need to ask themselves to better prepare their infrastructure to support an IoT-centric model.
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Assessment bibliography
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- Angelo, Thomas A and K. Patricia Cross. (1993). Classroom Assessment Techniques: a Handbook for College Teachers. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler, ed. (2003). Assessing Student Learning Outcomes for Information Literacy Instruction in Academic Institutions. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.
- Neely, Teresa Y. (2006). Information Literacy Assessment: Standards-based Tools and Assignments. Chicago: American Library Association.
- Radcliff, Carolyn J. et al. (2007). A Practical Guide to Information Literacy Assessment for Academic Librarians. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. A comprehensive collection of assessment techniques. Also includes information on how to choose an assessment tool and how to analyze and interpret the data generated by assessment.
- Walter, Scott. (2007). The Teaching Library: Approaches to Assessing Information Literacy Instruction. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information.
- Warner, Dorothy. (2008). A Disciplinary Blueprint for the Assessment of Information Literacy. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. Includes a chapter on information literacy for an interdisciplinary program in the sciences.
- Edzan, N. N. "Tracing Information Literacy of Computer Science Undergraduates: A Content Analysis of Students' Academic Exercise." Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 12 no. 1 (July 2007): 97-109.
- Emmett, Ada, and Judith Emde "Assessing Information Literacy Skills Using the ACRL Standards as a Guide." Reference Services Review 35(2) (2007): 210-229. Accessed April 22, 2008. Contains an assessment tool designed for graduate students in a chemistry bibliography course.
- Ferguson, J, Neely, T, & Sullivan , K. "Baseline Information Literacy Assessment of Biology Students." Reference and User Services Quarterly 46 (2006): 61-71.
- Furno, Christine, and Daphne Flanagan. "Information Literacy: Getting the Most from Your 60 Minutes." Reference Services Review 36, no. 3 (2008): 264-271. Example of a questionnaire used to assess student learning outcomes in the one-shot setting.
- Joubert, D., & Lee, T. "Empowering Your Institution through Assessment." Journal of the Medical Library Association 95 (2007): 46-53.
- Knight, Lorrie A. "Using Rubrics to Assess Information Literacy." Reference Services Review 34.1 (2006): 43-55.
- Macklin, Alexius Smith, and F. Bartow Culp. "Information Literacy Instruction: Competencies, Caveats, and a Call to Action." Science & Technology Libraries 28, no. 1/2 (2008). Macklin and Culp give sample activities, some science based, for each of the five ACRL information literacy standards.
- Messer, Deborah and Kelly, Patricia and Poirier, Jocelyne (2005) "Engineering Information Literacy and Communication". In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning, Granada, Spain. Accessed April 22, 2008
- Nerz, Honora F., and Suzanne T. Weiner. (2001). "Information Competencies: A Strategic Approach." In Proceedings of the ASEE 2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Albuquerque, NM: American Society for Engineering Education. Nerz and Weiner give an example of a patent search assignment.
- Oakleaf, Megan. "Dangers and Opportunities: A Conceptual Map of Information Literacy Assessment Approaches." Portal 8, no. 3 (2008): 233-253.
- Scharf, D., Elliot, N., Huey, H., Briller, V., & Joshi, K. "Direct Assessment of Information Literacy Using Writing Portfolios." Journal of Academic Librarianship 33 (2007): 462-477.
- Somerville, Mary M., Gordon W. Smith, and Alexius Smith Macklin. "The ETS iSkills Assessment: A Digital Age Tool." Electronic Library 26, no. 2 (2008):158-171.
- Spackman, E. "Utilizing Focus Groups to Evaluate an Information Literacy Program in a General Biology Course." Science & Technology Libraries 27 (2007): 3-28.
- Sumpter, Jeffery. A Baseline Assessment of Information Literacy Competencies of Students in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Master's paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. November, 2006. 72 pages. Available from http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace/handle/1901/352. Accessed April 22, 2008.
- Wu, Dezi, Michael Bieber, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz. "Engaging Students with Constructivist Participatory Examinations in Asynchronous Learning Networks." Journal of Information Systems Education 19, no. 3 (2008): 321-330.
Blogs/Wikis/Discussion Groups
Web Pages
- ACRL Information Literacy - Assessment Issues Includes a bibliography and links to assessment tools.
- Chemical Information Problem Sets and Exercises, University of Indiana
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World Famous Laugh Factory Inks Deal at the New Tropicana Las Vegas
The world famous Laugh Factory and the New Tropicana Las Vegas are launching a multi-venue comedy experience at the recently transformed Strip property. Fun World Media has partnered with Laugh Factory to build this new comedy empire and the first stage of the roll-out will be opening Laugh Factory Las Vegas, a comedy showroom starring the hottest comedians in the business, from established stand-up superstars to the young rising stars of tomorrow. The announcement was made today by the New Tropicana Las Vegas, Jamie Masada, owner of Laugh Factory, and Joseph Merhi, CEO of Fun World Media.
In addition to opening Laugh Factory Las Vegas, Laugh Factory and Fun World Media, an international television and film production company, will co-produce monthly Laugh Factory Superstar Comedy Concerts for the 1,000-seat Tropicana Theater. The partners will also develop and co-produce a variety of comedy specials, television series, reality shows and films; including new episodes of "Laugh Factory's Supreme Court of Comedy" which airs on DirecTV, all at the New Tropicana Las Vegas. Laugh Factory will also work with Tropicana Las Vegas to design a new Comedy Walk of Fame, Comedy Wall of Fame and Stand-Up Comedy Interactive Museum, inducting comedy legends and modern stand-up celebrities to establish the venue as the empire of comedy in Las Vegas.
This project is part of the $180 million transformation of Tropicana Las Vegas into a vibrant, exciting resort with a South Beach rhythm and vibe. Its complete transformation includes a fresh redesign of each best-in-class room and suite, the casino, the conference center and exhibition hall, several new restaurants and bars, a new poker room, a new race and sports book, a new spa and fitness center, and a new beach club and nightclub. Prepare to be surprised!
"Tropicana Las Vegas' South Beach atmosphere has added a new dimension to the grand dame of the Strip," said Masada. "We hope to add lightness and laughter to accompany these changes and make the resort a world-class comedy destination. The details of our star-studded grand opening will be announced later this month."
"We're thrilled to welcome the renowned Laugh Factory to our property," said Fred Harmon, vice president of talent and image relations at the New Tropicana Las Vegas. "We look forward to adding such a strong comedy brand to our exciting lineup of entertainment."
The world famous Laugh Factory is known for hosting some of the biggest names in comedy including Roseanne Barr, Drew Carey, Jim Carrey, Dave Chappelle, Dane Cook, Rodney Dangerfield, Ellen DeGeneres, Kathy Griffin, Andy Kaufman, Jay Leno, David Letterman, George Lopez, Bill Maher, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Paul Rodriguez, Ray Romano, Bob Saget, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, Chris Tucker, Robin Williams and many more.


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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 958082
Metadata Summary
Problem Reports
Data Access Policy
Narrative Documents
Project Information
Data Activity or Cruise Information
Fixed Station Information
BODC Quality Flags
SeaDataNet Quality Flags
Metadata Summary
Data Description
Data Identifiers
Time Co-ordinates(UT)
Spatial Co-ordinates
Problem Reports
No Problem Report Found in the Database
Data Quality Report
Salinity accuracy is not known but is believed to be no better than 0.01 PSU and may possibly be as low as 0.02.
Low chlorophyll values are unreliable due to excessive noise at low voltage levels.
Data Access Policy
Open Data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."
Narrative Documents
Neil Brown MK3 CTD
The Neil Brown MK3 conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiler consists of an integral unit containing pressure, temperature and conductivity sensors with an optional dissolved oxygen sensor in a pressure-hardened casing. The most widely used variant in the 1980s and 1990s was the MK3B. An upgrade to this, the MK3C, was developed to meet the requirements of the WOCE project.
The MK3C includes a low hysteresis, titanium strain gauge pressure transducer. The transducer temperature is measured separately, allowing correction for the effects of temperature on pressure measurements. The MK3C conductivity cell features a free flow, internal field design that eliminates ducted pumping and is not affected by external metallic objects such as guard cages and external sensors.
Additional optional sensors include pH and a pressure-temperature fluorometer. The instrument is no longer in production, but is supported (repair and calibration) by General Oceanics.
These specification apply to the MK3C version.
6500 m
3200 m (optional)
|-3 to 32°C
|1 to 6.5 S cm-1
0.03% FS < 1 msec
0.003°C < 30 msec
0.0001 S cm-1
0.0003 S cm-1 < 30 msec
Further details can be found in the specification sheet.
Aquatracka fluorometer
The Chelsea Instruments Aquatracka is a logarithmic response fluorometer. It uses a pulsed (5.5 Hz) xenon light source discharging between 320 and 800 nm through a blue filter with a peak transmission of 420 nm and a bandwidth at half maximum of 100 nm. A red filter with sharp cut off, 10% transmission at 664 nm and 678 nm, is used to pass chlorophyll-a fluorescence to the sample photodiode.
The instrument may be deployed either in a through-flow tank, on a CTD frame or moored with a data logging package.
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
SeaTech Transmissometer
The transmissometer is designed to accurately measure the the amount of light transmitted by a modulated Light Emitting Diode (LED) through a fixed-length in-situ water column to a synchronous detector.
- Water path length: 5 cm (for use in turbid waters) to 1 m (for use in clear ocean waters).
- Beam diameter: 15 mm
- Transmitted beam collimation: <3 milliradians
- Receiver acceptance angle (in water): <18 milliradians
- Light source wavelength: usually (but not exclusively) 660 nm (red light)
The instrument can be interfaced to Aanderaa RCM7 current meters. This is achieved by fitting the transmissometer in a slot cut into a customized RCM4-type vane.
A red LED (660 nm) is used for general applications looking at water column sediment load. However, green or blue LEDs can be fitted for specilised optics applications. The light source used is identified by the BODC parameter code.
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's Manual.
RRS Charles Darwin 60 CTD Data Documentation
The CTD profiles were taken with an RVS Neil Brown Systems Mk3B CTD incorporating a pressure sensor, conductivity cell, platinum resistance thermometer and a Beckmann dissolved oxygen sensor. This was mounted vertically in the centre of a protective cage approximately 1.5m square.
Attached to the bars of the frame were a Chelsea Instruments Aquatracka fluorometer, and a SeaTech red light (661nm) transmissometer with a 25cm path length.
Above the frame was a General Oceanics rosette sampler fitted with 12, 10 litre Niskin bottles. The bases of the bottles were 0.75m above the pressure head with their tops 1.55m above it. One of the bottles was fitted with a holder for up to three digital reversing thermometers mounted 1.38m above the CTD temperature sensor. On deep casts, a second bottle was sometimes similarly equipped.
Above the rosette was a PML 2-pi PAR (photosynthetically available radiation) sensor pointing upwards to measure downwelling irradiance. A second such sensor was fitted to the bottom of the cage facing downwards to measure upwelling irradiance. Both of these instruments had been hardened to withstand pressures of 1000 db. (the standard units implode at 500 db.). It should be noted that the PAR meters were vertically separated by approximately 2m.
Lowering rates of up to 1.5 m/sec were used, although rates were generally in the range 0.5 - 1 m/sec. Bottle samples and reversing thermometer measurements were acquired on the ascent of each cast.
Data Acquisition
CTD data were sampled at a frequency of 32 Hz. Data reduction was in real time, converting the 32 Hz data to a 1-second time-series (done by the RVS Level A system) which was then passed through an Analogue-Digital Converter and logged as digital counts on the Level C.
On-Board Data Processing
RVS software on the Level C (a Sun workstation) was used to convert the raw counts into engineering units (Volts for PAR meters, fluorometer and transmissometer: ml/l for oxygen: mmho/cm for conductivity: °C for temperature).
Salinity (Practical Salinity Units, as defined by the Practical Salinity Scale, Fofonoff and Millard (1982)) was calculated from conductivity ratios (conductivity / 42.914) and a lagged temperature using the function described in Unesco report 37 (1981).
Data were written onto magnetic tape in GF3 format and submitted to BODC.
Post-Cruise Processing
The data were converted into the BODC internal format to allow the use of in-house software tools, notably the workstation graphics editor. In addition to reformatting, the Transfer Program applied the following modifications to the data:
Dissolved oxygen was converted from ml/l to µM by multiplying the values by 44.66.
The transmissometer voltages were corrected for light source decay using a conversion ratio computed from air voltages (4.603V; blocked voltage 0.003V until 21st June: corrected value - see below - of 4.734V; blocked voltage 0V used after 21st June) taken during the cruise and the manufacturer's voltage quoted for the new instrument (4.740V). Allowance was made for the replacement of the instrument on 21st June by multiplying the measured voltage for the second instrument by the ratio of the new voltages for the two instruments. This 'fudge' was forced by limitations of the processing software.
The voltages were converted to percentage transmission by multiplying them by 20.
The 2-pi PAR data were converted from Volts to µE/m2/s using the equations:
|PAR = exp(-4.977*V + 7.0040) * 0.0375
|Upwelling :
|PAR = exp(-5.031*V + 6.8751) * 0.0375
Reformatted CTD data were transferred onto a high-speed graphics workstation. A number of tasks was performed here, using an in-house graphics editor. Initially, downcasts and upcasts were differentiated and the limits of the downcast were manually flagged.
Secondly, spikes on the downcast data were manually flagged. No data values were edited or deleted; flagging was achieved by modification of the associated quality control character flags.
Finally, the pressure ranges over which bottle samples were being collected, were logged by manual interaction with the software. Usually, the marked reaction of the oxygen sensor to the bottle firing sequence was used to determine this.
These pressure ranges were subsequently used, in conjunction with a geometrical correction for the position of the water bottles with respect to the CTD pressure transducer, to determine the pressure range of data to be averaged for calibration values.
Once screened on the workstation, the CTD downcasts were loaded into a database under the Oracle relational database management system. During the loading process, the transmissometer data were converted to attenuance using the algorithm:
|attenuance = -4.0 * ln (percent transmittance / 100.0)
With the exception of pressure, calibrations were done by comparison of CTD data against measurements made on water bottle samples or from reversing thermometers mounted on the water bottles. In general, values were averaged from the CTD downcasts (most casts were shallow; therefore hysteresis is assumed to be negligible). Where inspection on a graphics workstation showed significant hysteresis, values were manually extracted from the CTD upcasts.
All calibrations described here have been applied to the data.
The pressure offset was determined by looking at the pressures recorded when the CTD was clearly logging in air (readily apparent from the conductivity channel). For this cruise, there was no evidence of drift in the pressure sensor, allowing a single correction thus:
|Pcorr = Pobs + 0.3
The CTD temperature sensor was calibrated against deep sea digital reversing thermometers.
|Tcorr = Tobs - 0.001
Salinity was calibrated against water bottle samples measured on the Guildline 55358 Autolab Salinometer during the cruise. Samples were generally taken from the first bottle fired on each cast which would normally be at the maximum depth sampled. On some deep casts, one or even two additional samples were taken spaced through the water column.
Samples were collected in glass bottles filled to just below the neck and sealed with plastic stoppers. Batches of samples were left for at least 24 hours to reach thermal equilibrium in the constant temperature laboratory containing the salinometer before analysis.
The correction determined for this cruise was:
|Scorr = Sobs + 0.017
No water bottle data were available for calibration on this cruise. Consequently, no oxygen data are available.
The fluorometer was calibrated in terms of chlorophyll using a multiple regression technique against extracted chlorophyll and downwelling irradiance. Samples were taken from each water bottle, filtered and extracted into acetone. Chlorophyll was determined using a Turner Designs bench fluorometer calibrated against absolute chlorophyll standards. The data from the cruise were treated as a single population.
The calibration equation determined was
|Chlorophyll (mg/m3) = exp (V*0.946 + 0.001664*PAR - 2.22) (r2=59.5: n=109)
PAR is expressed in units of µE/m2/s.
The fluorometer voltage was noted as being extremely noisy at levels below 1 Volt. This was rectified as far as possible by heavy flagging but the accuracy of low chlorophyll values must be questioned.
The CTD data have been binned by averaging over 1 db intervals for casts shallower than 100m and 2 db intervals for casts deeper than 100m. The binning algorithm only included data values associated with good flags. If no good data were available for a bin, linear interpolation was used to fill gaps of up to 3 bins. Gaps larger than this were left null.
The result of this algorithm is that data points are either considered good, in which case there is a value, or null, in which case the field is left blank. This removes the need for quality control flags which are often ignored and consequently make the data much easier to handle. The disadvantage is that some information is lost. The full resolution data have been archived by BODC and may be obtained on request.
Quality Control
Normal practice is to compare the theta/salinity relationship for deep casts against the canonical relationship for North Atlantic deep waters described by Saunders and Manning (1984) and given in Saunders (1986). However, no suitable deep casts were done on this cruise (the deepest was to approximately 2700 m) and hence no comparison was possible.
Previous experience of the calibration procedures on BOFS cruises, where no attempt is made to tune the thermal lag correction and the number of calibration samples is limited has shown an accuracy in salinity of 0.01 to 0.02 PSU. There is no reason to believe that the data from this cruise are any better than this. Consequently, usage of the data for purposes where high accuracy salinity data are required is not recommended.
FOFONOFF N.P., MILLARD R.C. 1982. Algorithms for computation of fundamental properties of seawater. UNESCO Technical papers in Marine Science 44.
SAUNDERS P.M., MANNING A. 1984. CTD Data from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, 22N-33N, 19-24W, July 1983 during RRS Discovery cruises 138,139. IOS Deacon Laboratory technical report 188.
SAUNDERS P.M. 1986. CTD data from the Madeira and Iberian abyssal plains, Charles Darwin cruises 3/85 and 9A/85. IOS Deacon Laboratory technical report 227.
UNESCO 1981. Background papers and supporting data on the Practical Salinity Scale, 1978. Unesco Technical Papers in Marine Science 37 144pp.
Project Information
Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)
The Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) was a Community Research Project within the Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Directorate (MASD) of the Natural Environment Research Council. The project provided a major United Kingdom contribution to the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). The project ran from April 1987 until March 1992 but was extended through bridging funds until March 1993. The BOFS North Atlantic Data Set was collected during the initial five year period. Fieldwork in the bridging year focused on the Antarctic in late 1992. These data will form part of a subsequent electronic publication of Antarctic data and are not included on this CD-ROM.
The primary aims of the BOFS programme were:
- To improve the understanding of the biogeochemical processes influencing the dynamics of the cycling of the elements in the ocean and related atmospheric exchanges with particular reference to carbon.
- To develop, in collaboration with, other national and international programmes. models capable of rationalising and eventually predicting the chemical and biological consequences of natural and man-induced changes to the atmosphere ocean system.
A Community Research Project brings together scientists from NERC institutes and UK universities to work on a common problem. In this way resources far beyond the scope of individual research groups may be brought to bear on a common problem. The project is coordinated through a host laboratory which has responsibility for financial management, organisation and logistics. The host laboratory for BOFS was the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML).
The BOFS North Atlantic data set was the result of fieldwork carried out on 11 research cruises. Four studies were carried out during three field seasons in 1989, 1990 and 1991; the 1989 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment, the 1990 Lagrangian Experiment, the 1990 BOFS Benthic Study and the 1991 Coccolithphore Study. Measurements taken include:
Physical (e.g. temperature, salinity and optics)
Meteorology and positioning
Chemical (e.g. dissolved oxygen, organic carbon and nitrogen)
Biological (e.g. biomass, pigments and bacteria production)
Geological (sediment traps)
The Sterna 1992 project (the Southern Ocean component of BOFS) aimed to measure the size and variability of carbon and nitrogen fluxes during early summer in the Southern Ocean, with particular emphasis on rates and processes in the marginal ice zone. Fieldwork was carried out between October and December 1992 in the Southern Ocean area, approximately 55°S to 70°S, 60°W to 85°W. A wide range of physical, chemical and biological parameters were measured.
Data Management
Data management services to BOFS were provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
JGOFS was an international and multi-disciplinary programme, which ran from February 1987 to December 2003, with participants from more than 20 nations. JGOFS was launched at a planning meeting in Paris under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of Oceanic Research (SCOR), a committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and later became one of the first core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) in 1989.
The primary aims of the JGOFS programme were:
- To determine and understand on a global scale the processes controlling the time-varying fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements in the ocean, and to evaluate the related exchanges with the atmosphere, sea floor and continental boundaries.
- To develop a capacity to predict on a global scale the response to anthropogenic perturbations, in particular those related to climate change.
JGOFS consisted of fieldwork, synthesis and modelling phases. Further information about JGOFS may be found at the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study web site.
JGOFS fieldwork
|1988 - 1990
|Long-term time series stations established near Bermuda, Hawaii and in the Ligurian Sea
|1989 - 1991
|North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE)
|1991 - 1994
|Equatorial Pacific Process Study
|1992 - 1998
|Southern Ocean Process Study
|1994 - 1995
|Indian Ocean (Arabian Sea) Process Study
|North Pacific Process Study
Synthesis and modelling phase
From 1998, as the fieldwork for most process studies were being completed, JGOFS focused on:
- Integrating regional synthesis and modelling activities
- Maintaining links to other ocean observing and global change programmes
- Developing a global synthesis and modelling phase
Data availability
The field data collected during JGOFS has been published on two DVDs. These are available via the World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring and are entitled:
- JGOFS International Collection, Volume 1: Discrete Datasets (1989-2000) DVD
- JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study, CTD, XBT and SeaSoar Data from 1990-1997
Data sets making up the UK contribution to JGOFS, for which BODC provided data management support, are also available directly from BODC.
Data Activity or Cruise Information
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Sep 18 2013
Le fromage c'est le plus important!!!
Many of you came to the cheese tasting night organized by the French department and French club last Wednesday!
Bleu d'Auvergne, Chevrot, Compté… and lots of others! Oh! And very important: the baguette!
Take a look, here are the pictures of students experiencing this very French tradition.
A typical French meal is composed of :
1: a main course
2: cheese and bread
3: a dessert
Most French people eat cheese every day, sometimes as a main course for dinner!
Each region of France produces a particular type of cheese. There are from 350 to 400 distinct types of French cheese. There can be many varieties within each type, leading some to claim close to 1,000 different types of French cheese!!!
In Alsace, the region where I come from, we produce Munster which is probably my favorite! What is your favorite cheese?
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ROCKFORD (WIFR)-- Blood stains, police markings, and firework shells now sit on Henrietta Avenue where neighbors say dozens of kids and their families celebrated the Fourth of July. It's the same location police say 27 year old Semarin Dubois likely took his last breath after witnesses say a suspect opened fire into a crowd of nearly one-hundred people and shot the victim in the head. He was the only victim hit.
"We thought we heard fireworks until we heard he was on the ground" said a neighbor.
Police say multiple cars on Green Street were riddled with bullets. Some of the ammunition. remains lodged into one of the hoods. Some neighbors say it was hard to distinguish the difference between gunfire and fire-works.
UPDATE: 27-year-old Semarin Dubois has died as a result of his injuries.
UPDATE: A man remains in critical condition in the hospital after being shot in the head in Rockford Thursday night.
Police say 27-year-old Semarin Dubois was found injured at a home in the 300 block of South Henrietta Avenue after 11:30 p.m.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- A man is in very critical condition after being shot in the head Thursday night.
Police say he was at a Fourth of July party at a house in the 300 block of South Henrietta Avenue. Around 11:30 p.m., a group came to the party and a fight broke out. The man was then shot.
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Established in 1957 after the tragic death of Pete "William" Snell, the Snell Memorial Foundation has been a leader in helmet safety both in the United States and around the world. For over 50 years, the Snell Memorial Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, has been dedicated exclusively to head protection through scientific and medical research, standards development, helmet testing, and public education.
Dr. Snively was the principal architect of the Snell Memorial Foundation. In 1956, at the time of Snell's crash, Dr. Snively had already been interested in helmets and crash injury protection. Fired by Snell's needless death and with the support and encouragement of the SCCA and Pete's friends and loved ones, Snively intensified his efforts. Within a few years, under Snively's leadership, the newly incorporated Snell Memorial Foundation published the first Snell standard for protective headgear. Over the next twenty years, Snively revised this standard continually upward demanding more and more protective performance from the helmet industry. Thanks to the support of the auto racing public, whose numbers were soon swelled by a considerably larger motorcycling public, Snively got that improved performance.
Snell maintains independence from helmet manufacturers. There is no manufacturer representative on the Snell Board of Directors. The Snell name and sticker on every certified helmet have become symbols of head protection assurance. The trust from the riding public and the endorsement from all top level international and national racing authorities are demonstrated in their support for Snell Standards going back more than half century. Snell updates standards at least every five years based on new research findings and available technology.
Well trained and experienced Snell staff maintains state-of-the-art test facilities for helmet research and testing. Snell tests all models and sizes before certification and continuously tests random samples of certified helmets acquired from the market to ensure performance quality of helmets sold to the public. Over 3,000 helmets are tested every year in Snell's certification and random sample testing programs to ensure the best head protection.
For decades
Snell has been known for its technical excellence and expertise in standards
development and helmet testing. But Snell still submits itself to another recognized
authority to demonstrate the quality of its own testing programs and procedures.
In 1997, the Snell Memorial Foundation's California laboratory has been awarded
American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA ) approval for helmet
testing. A2LA is an internationally recognized authority administering quality
laboratory accreditation programs to ISO/IEC Guide 25 "General Requirements
for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories" (currently
17025:2005 "General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration
Laboratories"). The scope of the A2LA accreditation includes all of the tests
covered in the Foundation's bicycle, motorcycle, auto racing, non-motorized
sports and harness racing helmet standards. The accreditation confirms that
the Foundation's California laboratory has the capability to perform Snell testing
and has the quality control necessary to assure the accuracy and validity of
Snell test results.
The Foundation sought this accreditation as part of its continuing commitment to quality. Since its beginning in 1957, the Foundation has urged manufacturers to design and build quality protective helmets and has urged the public to seek out and wear them. As a recognized authority in helmet safety, it is proper that the Foundation submit itself to another recognized authority to demonstrate the quality of its own testing programs and procedures.
The Foundation looks forward to continuing in the A2LA program in order to increase the recognition and value of Snell Certification Programs for both helmet manufacturers and the helmet wearing public.
The Snell Foundation has been actively conducting and supporting research to understand the nature and severity of head and brain injury and to increase head impact protection in such activities as bicycling, motorcycling, auto racing, skiing and other non-motorized recreational activities. The education aspect of Snell's commitment to safety and injury prevention is evident in its informative web site, brochures, posters, videos, and other informational materials, its meetings with community and consumer groups and its consultant role with manufacturers. The Snell lab has been a favorite destination for school field trips, bicyclist and motorcyclist club tours and training site for health and safety professionals. The Foundation helped the establishment of the Snell Safety Education Center, Inc. in 1996 and has provided financial and personnel support for the Center since then to strengthen and continue its efforts to reduce head injury through education.
The Snell safety helmet standards are recognized in the U.S and worldwide through support of the following organizations:
|American Motorcyclist Association (AMA)
|National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Inc. (NASCAR)
|Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)
|NASA Pro Racing
|Indianapolis 500
|American Power Boat Association (APBA)
|Federation Internationale de L'Automobile (FIA)
|Federation International Motorcyclists (FIM)
|National Hot Rod Association (NHRA)


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern men's soccer team lost a hard-fought match to Berry College, 2-1 in double overtime, Sunday afternoon at BSC Soccer Park.
The Vikings move to 3-3-1, while the Panthers fall to 4-3.
Berry got on the board in the eighth minute on a goal by Zak Wallinford, who collected a rebounded save and found the back of the net, assisted by Daniel Wartner. The Vikings held the 1-0 lead for the remainder of the first half and well into the second half before BSC tied things up in the 75th minute when senior Garner Shivers scored the equalizer off an assist from senior Tony Crocker.
The score remained knotted at 1-1 at the end of regulation, sending the game to its first 10-minute golden-goal overtime. BSC almost ended the game in the 92nd minute when Berry keeper Kevin Madigan made a diving save to keep a header by Shivers from scoring.
In the 106th minute - with 4:21 left in the game in double overtime - Berry ended the game when Wallinford scored off a fumbled save by the BSC keeper after a shot-on-goal by Reid Popple.
Shivers and senior Tyler Evans led the Panthers with four shots each; three of Shivers' were on-goal, while two of Evans' were. Sophomore Brynjar Arnason also had three shots, two on-goal. For Berry, Popple led with four shots, three on-goal.
Madigan, Berry's goalkeeper, recorded six saves in the match; sophomore BSC keeper Sveinbo Grimsson made four.
Overall BSC out-shot the Vikings 13-10, 7-6 on-goal, and had seven corner kicks to Berry's three.
The Panthers are back in action next weekend to open Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play, hosting University of Dallas, Friday at 8 p.m., and Austin College, Sunday at 1 p.m. Both of those games will feature live video streaming at www.collegetvticket.com, as well as a live game tracker.


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Bucknell professors' love of the liberal arts expresses itself in and out of the classroom.
By Brett Tomlinson '99 • Photography by Bill Cardoni
Friday night is gig night for Professor of Geology Carl Kirby. Most weeks, Kirby plays guitar for Lux Bridge, a trio that specializes in Celtic tunes and dabbles in old-time fiddle music and bluegrass. In late September, though, he mixed up the weekly repertoire, organizing a jazz trio with Associate Professor of Psychology Bill Flack on bass and local musician Joe DeCristopher '70 and Kirby each playing guitar.
Kirby gives a brief introduction, announcing the group as Nine Degrees of Syncopation (a name made up 15 minutes prior), and with a quick 1-2-3-4, they're off and running, picking and strumming through a selection of smooth jazz standards, including "One Note Samba" and Kirby's bluesy rendition of "Pennies from Heaven."
While the three musicians are old friends, they only play together once or twice a year. But they stay in sync, save for a few stumbles on transitions, smiling and nodding their way through a one-hour set. The dinnertime crowd at Puirseil's Irish Pub is engaged and appreciative, and Kirby enjoys being more than just background. "I love playing live music," he says. "If I'm playing for an audience, I'll play for next to nothing."
After the jazz trio packs its equipment away and clears out for the night, Kirby takes a few moments to relax and snag a sip of diet cola. Then he unpacks his pride and joy, a 1921 Gibson mandolin, and leads his next gig: the bar's weekly Irish jam session.
In all, Kirby is part of four bands and two regular jam sessions. He's also an annual visitor to the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention in southern Virginia. He plays swing, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Celtic and whatever else catches his interest. And while he's happy to read music, he's fond of playing by ear, leaning on the mere basics: "What key is it in, and what's the first chord of the bridge?"
By day, Kirby is an aqueous environmental geochemist who studies the groundwater effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by oil and natural gas companies — an issue of great local interest in central Pennsylvania, which includes a wide stretch of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation. Music is a complete departure from Kirby's academic work, but it has been an "essential" part of his life for more than two decades.
"The job keeps me pretty busy," Kirby says. "Music is an outlet for me."
While Kirby's talents are remarkable, his devotion to an avocation is not uncommon on campus. Bucknell faculty members pursue an extraordinary range of passions away from their labs and classrooms.
Music may be the most popular hobby for professors, who play everything from the oboe to the washboard, enjoy styles that stretch from Beethoven to barbershop and turn up in some surprising performance venues — playing along with the Bucknell Pep Band, for instance.
Peter Groff, associate professor of philosophy, may be the faculty's lone indie-punk drummer. He began playing guitar when he was 10 and joined his first band in the fifth grade, continuing on that path through college. Groff eventually put music on hold during graduate school but picked it up again when he started teaching and writing philosophy, hoping to find "something different, in terms of creativity and expression."
His current band, Snakes Are Strong, prides itself on being something different. The band provides its own stage lights, projecting candy-colored scenes from 1970s Italian horror movies and the locally produced horror flick "The Feed" throughout the performance. The group plays original songs almost exclusively, and even its covers have an offbeat sensibility (the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog," for example).
As seasoned musicians, Groff and his bandmates could choose the easy route and play sing-along favorites like "Brown-eyed Girl." But Snakes Are Strong draws more satisfaction from taking creative risks and connecting with its punk roots.
"It's kind of crude, and primitive and visceral," Groff says. "And in some ways, the more crude and visceral, the better."
While Groff and Kirby enjoy the rewards of performing on stage, Jeff Evans, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is devoted to a smaller audience on his farm about six miles northwest of campus.
Each time Evans strides into the barn and grabs an empty pail, the youngsters hear him coming and nudge forward, brushing shoulders as they eagerly wait for their next feeding. Evans obliges, serving the dairy heifers a powdery mixture of ground corn, oats, minerals and molasses. He spreads a fresh bale of protein-rich alfalfa hay, glances at the automated water supply and checks the pen, making sure each heifer looks healthy and happy.
Running a farm may sound like an "out-of-control hobby," Evans admits, but a modest operation like his is not quite as time consuming as one might think. Feedings only take a few minutes, and in that time, Evans can glean a lot about a heifer. Are her ears up? Is she eating enthusiastically or standing back? It's like a "parent's intuition," he says — when a child catches a cold, mom and dad are usually the first to notice.
While Evans sounds like a lifelong farmer, he had little experience when he and his wife purchased their 60-acre property in the late 1980s. He grew up in a rural community, but not on a farm, and while he'd done some farming chores, he had never been the person in charge.
The initial plan was to raise a horse or two and rent the majority of the farmland to neighbors. Gradually, Evans began cultivating more of the land on his own, for feed, and in the last dozen years, he's run what he terms a "daycare center" for dairy heifers. He cares for about 20 female cattle, owned by a local Amish farmer, in the bovine equivalent of their teenage years. When they are old enough to produce offspring and milk, Evans returns the heifers to their owner.
Maintaining the machines that plant and harvest feed for the animals requires a fair amount of mechanical tinkering — a good fit for an engineer — and in Evans' words, "You have to be amenable to hard work." Making 1,000 bales of hay or shoveling 3,000 pounds of dried corn into a grinder is a serious workout.
But the farming life also has perks. The land has a certain scenic appeal, from the wide stretch of sloping corn and alfalfa fields behind Evans' home to the roadside pasture dotted with the white and black heifers. With little traffic passing on the road nearby, the farm is invariably quiet, and the stars shine a little brighter at night. "It's pretty sweet," Evans says.
Closer to campus, another faculty member has proved that one needn't live on a farm to pursue an agricultural hobby. For the last five years, Sue Ellen Henry, associate professor of education, has been raising chickens at her home, not far from the Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium.
Getting started required a bit of persuasion. A township ordinance stipulated that residents needed at least 10 acres to raise chickens, but Henry convinced local officials that by keeping the coop in a wooded area of her property and not housing roosters, she could effectively raise a half-dozen chickens without disturbing the neighbors.
Henry spent part of her childhood on a farm and was familiar with caring for animals. She also had been reading about the American food supply and the local-food movement. Raising chickens, she says, seemed like a "good way of marrying these interests." The hobby had its own modest rewards — on average, each chicken lays an egg per day.
"In my mind," Henry says, "this was a pretty good exchange."
Following the advice of every chicken-raising book she read, Henry has given away many of those eggs to appreciative friends and neighbors. She enjoys the simplicity of raising chickens, and she also has found teachable moments for her children, who have gained a better understanding of where food comes from.
Raising dairy cattle or caring for chickens may help to slow down the rhythms of everyday life. Eric Kennedy's hobby, on the other hand, speeds things up.
Kennedy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, enjoys high-performance driving, revving the engine of his Mini Cooper S on racetracks and other closed courses where he can push the sporty car to its limits.
One of his favorite tracks is Virginia International Raceway, a twisting road course deep in rural southern Virginia, not far from the North Carolina border. He's logged more than 100 miles in a single day, getting acquainted with each turn and straightaway. On the track, he says, "You really do feel like a racecar driver for about 20 minutes. It's an incredible amount of fun. The Mini is an adult go-cart — except, of course, it's your own car, so you want to drive it home at the end of the day."
The Mini is never far from Kennedy, even at his office, where his wall clock emulates the gauges on the car's dashboard. Every hour, on the hour, a red Mini pops out of the clock — cuckoo style — and revs its engine. When Kennedy and his wife, Carol McLaughlin Kennedy '96, were married, they shuttled the bridal party from the church to the reception in a caravan of 14 multicolored Minis.
While high-performance driving can be great fun, there also is a serious side, Kennedy says. By understanding what your car can do — and cannot do — in extreme conditions, you can become a smarter, safer driver in everyday situations.
Groups of car enthusiasts are working to share those lessons with young drivers, who tend to have higher rates of accidents on the road, through a national program called "Tire Rack Street Survival." Kennedy volunteered to lead the classroom part of a local session, held in Mechanicsburg, Pa., in April and October. He used his expertise in biomechanics to explain things like the forces involved in a car accident, the pressure that a seatbelt applies to the driver's ribcage and the force exerted when an airbag deploys. The students then joined driving instructors for a hands-on, emergency car-control clinic, testing skills like steering their way out of a spin.
While Kennedy pursues a hobby to extend his teaching, other professors prefer hobbies that give them the chance to be a student again. Shara McCallum, associate professor of English and director of the Stadler Center for Poetry, was a dancer during junior high school and continued through high school. But when she decided to study poetry, she drifted away from dance.
Five years ago, McCallum was able to carve out time in her schedule for a modern dance class with Kelly Knox, assistant professor of dance. Keeping up with undergraduates proved to be "an incredible challenge and an exhilarating experience," McCallum says, and it rekindled her love of expressive movement. Since then, she has continued her dance education in Professor Er-dong Hu's ballet courses.
McCallum says that as a dancer, she's "inwardly motivated" — she has little desire to perform in public. And while dance does not necessarily inspire McCallum's poetry, it helps to provide a sense of balance in her life, which in turn helps her writing.
Taking dance classes has aided McCallum's teaching, she says, by helping her to remember "how vulnerable you feel when you can't do something." At a university where most of the students in arts courses are not training to be professional artists, that can be a useful reminder.
Some of Bucknell's faculty have hobbies that involve sharing uncommon knowledge or skills. Consider Lea Wittie, an associate professor of computer science who may be the only professor who's made her own soap using fat and lye and almost certainly is the only one who knows how to cut and sew garments that replicate those worn by European women in the 12th century.
Wittie is a longstanding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a living history organization with local groups, or shires, around the world. SCA combines fun social activities with a serious commitment to replicating the practices and lifestyles of the middle ages.
The era of castles and knights may seem far removed from computer science, but Wittie says that elements of historical recreation appeal to the same problem-solving sense that she and her academic colleagues enjoy.
Wittie has a particular interest in medieval garb. Her ongoing "quest" is to design and create an accurate bliaut, a flowing garment that features floor-length sleeves and a narrow waist. Examples appear in drawings from 12th century Bibles and medieval sculptures. Turning those images into a working template is not a simple task. Sculptors, Wittie notes, did not waste their energy or artistry by carving seams.
Through trial, error and conversations with other SCA needleworkers, Wittie has made progress toward her goal. "I think I'm getting closer and closer to the correct form," she says.
Like Wittie, Assistant Professor of Art Joe Meiser has a hobby that draws on a hidden talent. Best known for his skills as a sculptor, Meiser also is a trained boxer.
He learned to box while pursuing a master of fine arts degree at Ohio University. Previously, he had trained in martial arts in his hometown of Cincinnati and competed in kickboxing competitions, so he was a relatively fast learner. By the time he left grad school, he had boxed in a few amateur tournaments, winning three bouts and losing three.
"It's amazingly exhilarating to win, but it's really no fun to lose," he says, and winning requires "extreme dedication" that is just not practical for a college professor. So he decided to hang up the gloves five years ago.
Meiser has not left the sport entirely. At Bucknell, he leads a small group of graduate students and professors in boxing training, working on the basic technique during weekly sessions on campus. They take turns holding focus mitts while their friends throw various combinations of punches and work on footwork and defensive techniques.
Training as a boxer has benefits to both strength and cardiovascular fitness. Meiser says that it also helps him "cultivate mental focus" in a way that running on a treadmill or lifting weights does not. And he enjoys the collaborative environment of a boxing gym — even when it's just a handful of friends working out.
Meiser sees distinct parallels between teaching boxers and teaching sculptors. In both cases, expertise starts by gaining proficiency in the fundamentals. For a boxer, that means moving with "control, efficiency, speed and power," he says. For a sculptor, it involves producing work that is compelling, both visually and intellectually.
One of Meiser's boxing students, Joseph Tranquillo, is among the faculty's most wide-ranging hobbyists. Tranquillo, associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, studies brain activity in his day job and seeks out physical activities in his time away from his academic work.
In addition to boxing, Tranquillo has been an avid modern dancer since his college days and has performed several times in Bucknell productions. (He says that he's developed a reputation on campus as "the engineer who dances.") He also ran the Boston Marathon and remains a devoted distance runner, with a fondness for trail races.
Trail running helped Tranquillo learn about another outdoor hobby: adventure racing, or more specifically, "Tough Mudder" races. The extreme sport looks like an obstacle course for masochists. Competitors dash over slippery log bridges, climb cargo nets, wade through thigh-high mud and lug tires over their shoulders. It's the sort of race in which just reaching the finish line seems like a monumental achievement.
Tranquillo has done more than just finish: He ran well enough in a regional competition to qualify for the series' ultimate challenge, the 24-hour "Toughest Mudder."
At some colleges, pursuing several hobbies might be misconstrued as a professional shortcoming. But at Bucknell, Tranquillo says, peers seem to understand that one can be serious about teaching and research while still enjoying the benefits of a well-rounded life. Students appreciate that professors are real people with real interests.
"Faculty at Bucknell don't need to hide their hobbies," Tranquillo says. "In fact, they're celebrated."
Brett Tomlinson '99 is the digital editor at the Princeton Alumni Weekly.


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DOVER — Portsmouth Christian Academy student Camden Corso is covering himself with running glory in high school track circles — and he's not even in high school yet.
The eighth-grader from Newmarket has competed for the past two years on Portsmouth Christian Academy's varsity cross country team (NHIAA rules allow under-grade 9 athletes to compete with D-III and D-IV programs). This season, Corso earned MVP honors as PCA's leading runner in every race, coming in first in three meets and placing second in another. Yet the highlight of his season came in the NHIAA Div III cross country meet where he ran a 5K personal record of 17:48 on the very difficult Derryfield Park course in Manchester for 23rd place. This effort earned him a rare spot for an eighth-grader in the Meet of Champions, competing against the best high school runners in the state.
Corso was also awarded all-conference honors in the Granite State Conference of Division IV schools. In addition to competing at the high school level, Corso won the eighth-grade race at the State Middle School Cross Country Championships.
Coach Mike Shevenell makes sure that practices are fun and challenging for the team. Runs with names like the "Sand Canyon," "Enchanted Forest" and the "Roots" course, also known as the toughest 1.5 mile "flat course" you'll ever run. All these workouts are designed to challenge athletes in different ways while making the training enjoyable. Of Corso's winning season, coach Shevenell said, "He improved significantly from last year because of his commitment to training. He runs and races year round. He ran a number of events in the summer's Seacoast Race Series. That really helped coming into the fall season.
"In addition to being a very good runner he excels in racing," said coach Shevenell, "While some athletes are good runners, Camden also has great racing instincts."
PCA's Corso making cross country headway
DOVER — Portsmouth Christian Academy student Camden Corso is covering himself with running glory in high school track circles — and he's not even in high school yet.


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jiminski wrote:If more people are to be included in the map revamp process (and in the foundry in general), as apparently was the desire, their views should not be completely dismissed... heheh it is not good for morale
My morale is fine. The views of people who liked the tilt were not dismissed. Marv went to the trouble of explaining why he didn't like it. Dismissal would be just "nope, no tilt possible" without any kind of reason why. Just 'cause you didn't come 'round to his point of view doesn't mean you were dismissed.
RJ, any way that the Non-Crossing Borders might be renamed Impassable Borders or sommat? Non-Crossing is very awkward.


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With 300 Expert Independent Estate Agents across the globe, Fine & Country International proudly boasts of specializing in the marketing of Exclusive Residential and Commercial properties. We painstakingly combine the individual flair and local expertise of independent agencies with the power of an international network and a globally recognized brand.
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People buy as much into the lifestyle of a property and its location as they do the bricks and mortar. More than just room measurements, they want to understand what it's really like to live in the home and the surrounding area. Recognizing that higher value properties require more extensive presentation, our uniquely intelligent marketing approaches bring homes to life by communicating their true character and their environment, the amenities and facilities, from schooling to shopping, from terrain to transport which all adds up to a genuine and comprehensive lifestyle picture.
For one of the finest and most varied selections of prestige properties for sale in the Middle East and abroad do please browse our website.