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Papers (1890-1977, undated) including clippings, correspondence, speeches, photographs, programs, clipping documents of public life, invitations, scrapbooks, biographical information, letter of recommendations, etc.
Johnetta Webb Spilman (1888-1982) was born in Chowan County and educated at Elm Creek Academy in Chowan County, Franklin Institute in Franklin, Virginia, and Strayer's Business College in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing her education, she taught in her own business school and then became assistant treasurer of East Carolina Teachers College, where her husband John Barham Spilman (whom she married in 1917) was business manager. Mrs. Spilman became active in the North Carolina Democratic party as a precinct chairman in 1924; she ran as a candidate for the North Carolina Senate in 1932. Her first state-wide duties included coordinating activities of Democratic women in the 1936 Clyde R. Hoey gubernatorial campaign and assuming the vice-chairmanship of the North Carolina Democratic party in August 1936. After Governor Hoey's election, he appointed Mrs. Spilman to the North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission; she was, until her resignation in 1941 (when she again ran for the office of state senator), the only full-time female Unemployment Compensation Commissioner in the United States. Mrs. Spilman subsequently served as manager of the Greenville (N.C.) Employment Security Commission (1942-1944), assistant director of the 1950 Census for the First Congressional District, executive director of the Pitt County Tuberculosis Association (1950-1957), director of theNorth Carolina Mental Health Association (1957-1968), director of the Greenville Council on Aging, and member of the Governor's Council for the Aging. For additional biographical information and related material, see Carol Tyer's sketch on Mrs. Spilman in Elizabeth H. Copeland, ed., Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, 1982, pp. 636-637; and Oral History Collection, Interview #12, in this repository.
The collection's correspondence series documents many aspects of Spilman's professional and personal life. The series contains, for the most part, letters written to Spilman about private and public matters, although some outgoing correspondence pertaining to her official duties is also included.
Early correspondence (1932-June 1935) concerns Spilman's initial forays into Democratic party politics, and includes a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt thanking her for political advice and assistance. Letters of December 1935 through March 1936 pertain largely to the illness and death of John Barham Spilman. Among them are reminiscences from Josiah W. Bailey (Dec. 31, 1935) about Mr. Spilman's career as a student at Wake Forest College.
Beginning with correspondence of February 1936, when Clyde R. Hoey wrote to Spilman requesting a meeting, items in this series document more fully Spilman's increasing activity on behalf of North Carolina Democrats. Letters of July to September 1936 acknowledge her crucial role in bringing more Democratic women into the current campaign and discuss the possibility of Spilman assuming the vice-chairmanship of the North Carolina State Democratic Executive Committee, a position previously held by Gladys A. Tillett. Mrs. Tillett herself describes (July 22, 1936) aspects of the job, including women's support for the Democratic party, expenses, and trips that Spilman should take prior to the November election. Correspondence of August through September 1936 pertains chiefly to Spilman's work and travels as vice-chairman, including her handling of requests for appointments to committees, presenting speeches and radio broadcasts, planning meetings for Democratic women in North Carolina, and negotiating with speakers such as Frances Perkins for women's meetings. These letters also reveal Spilman's attitudes toward her work, party concerns, and women's role in North Carolina politics. Also of interest is a letter which comments on the effects of the Depression and New Deal on Democratic families (Sept. 1, 1936).
Items for October to November 1936 also reveal Spilman's political activities. Several letters discuss aspects of feminine involvement in Democratic activities, including Spilman's attitudes about "proper" behavior for female political figures, activities of Democratic women at the precinct level, the appearance of Judge Camille Kelley in Raleigh to speak to Democratic women, and the nationally recognized role of North Carolina women in Democratic politics. Other letters concern the North Carolina "Donkey banks" project, the question of giving Spilman additional responsibilities in the Democratic party, and a patronage position obtained with Spilman's assistance.
Correspondence of December 1936 through July 1941 details Spilman's appointment to and work on the North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission. Of interest is a letter to Governor-elect Hoey (Dec. 5, 1936) in which he is advised to encourage eastern North Carolina support for his programs by finding a post for Spilman in his administration. Letters from 1937-1940 discuss many aspects of Spilman's activities as a commissioner, including her business and social engagements, speeches, and the patronage she could dispense as a commission member. Among specific topics mentioned are bi-racial support of her December 1938 reappointment to the commission, her rapport with female U.C.C. members, an invitation to the launching of the USS NORTH CAROLINA, and a controversy over poor housing for U.C.C. employees (June 23, 1939). Also noted is Spilman's talent for maintaining "womanly" virtues while opening new doors in the public arena for North Carolina women. Many correspondents express concern over Spilman's resignation from the U.C.C. (Mar.-July 1941), and recommend to Governor Hoey that he find another government post for her. Her hopes for a position in the offices of the Democratic National Committee are documented in letters of 1942-1944.
Scattered letters and invitations for 1948-1961 concern the 1949 inaugural ceremony, the 1951 North Carolina Conference on Aging, Greenville's Pilot International Club (1960), and mental health activities (1961). Aspects of Spilman's tenure in the North Carolina Mental Health Association are also revealed in letters of 1965-1968, which include an invitation to the White House to witness the signing of HR-6431. Another group of letters (Mar. 1968) concerns proposed additions to the East Carolina University Psychology Department. Letters for 1968-1977 document Spilman's continued work with the aging and her services as honorary chairman of Mental Health month. In the political realm, correspondence reveals her support of George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign, the Ervin committee's investigation of the Watergate break-in, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Other items deal with Spilman's local and family-related activities, including her tenure as deacon at Memorial Baptist Church (Nov. 4, Nov. 28, 1971; Sept. 4, 1975), her publication of an article in the Biblical Recorder, and the dedication of a building at the Ridgecrest Baptist assembly grounds to John Barham Spilman. One undated letter comments on ECU President Leo Jenkins's political activities and the decision to open a medical school at East Carolina University.
Speeches delivered by Spilman (1936-1940) cover a variety of topics dealing with her activities on the Unemployment Compensation Commission. Topics for 1936 and 1937 include the role of women in politics and the public sphere; they especially note women's role in promoting world peace, men's attitudes towards women, Spilman's contention that women should remain in the background of public life (Nov. 16, 1937), and inequalities between the sexes, with men being the superior sex (Nov. 19, 1937). Other speeches discuss the ills of the Depression, the need for and operation of Social Security and other types of New Deal legislation, the Unemployment Compensation Commission, Governor Hoey's talents, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions. In commenting on the U.C.C., Spilman notes the purposes for which the agency was created, how it operates, eligibility requirements, and business and legalaspects of the U.C.C. The labor movement in the U.S. and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America are also discussed.
Speeches given by Spilman in 1938 reflect her continued political concerns, including the career of Robert Doughton and celebrations of President Roosevelt's birthday involving the campaign against infantile paralysis. Several speeches refer to women's role in American society and politics, and discuss suitable careers for women over forty, women's and men's roles in business and other occupations outside the home, men's role as heads of families, the variety of organizations that women have supported throughout American history, stereotypes of Southern women, men's opposition to the education of women, and a 1900 report on American women by the Canadian Margaret Polson Murray. Spilman also comments on the successes and growing pains of the U.C.C., unemployment among the middle-aged, the need to avoid labor-capital conflicts in the U.S., automobile use in Germany and North Carolina, and the activities of the Business and Professional Women's Club.
Many of the concerns of earlier speeches are voiced in Spilman's presentations of 1939-1940. Also, she discusses the implications of Social Security for homemakers, health statistics for Pitt County, Democratic party strength in Bertie County, and the slowness with which North Carolina is placing women in positions of importance in government and business.
Clippings document many aspects of Spilman's public life and provide much useful information about the social life of prominent North Carolina women in the 1930s. Material is most extensive for 1938-1941; after 1941 the collection is much less complete. Noteworthy items include references to the visit of Governor O. Max Gardner to East Carolina Teachers College (1932), Spilman's candidacy for the office of state senator (1934, 1941), deepening the Tar River (1936-1938?), Spilman's service as North Carolina representative to the International Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (1938), Frances Perkins's visit to Chapel Hill (1939), Spilman's call for Civilian Conservation Corps camps for women (1939), the attitudes of Governor Hoey and Spilman towards Roosevelt's 1940 reelection bid, and preparedness (1940-1941).
Most of the collection's press releases date from the period of Spilman's tenure on the Unemployment Compensation Commission and document her activities while a commissioner. Many of the topics discussed echo concerns voiced in her speeches and clippings. Other items deal with Spilman's prowess as a public speaker and her money-raising activities (1937, 1938); facts and figures on the North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Commission (1937-1938); women's "duty" as homemakers (1939); and enactment of progressive legislation in the fields of wages and hours, alcohol, public health, and other social concerns (1941). Later releases (1967-1968) pertain to Spilman's activities in mental health.
Publications collected by Spilman (1937-1977) include scattered numbers of the Democratic Digest, the Carolina-Virginia Retailer, North Carolina Employment SecurityInformation, Employment Security News, Action on Aging, and the Pilot Reflector. These items contain articles documenting aspects of Spilman's varied political and public service activities.
Also in the collection are folders of programs and certificates (1933-1977) related to Spilman's professional, social, and church-related activities. Among these are materials concerning ECTC, the Democratic party, the Women's Missionary Union, the Sans Souci Book Club, mental health, the National Organization for Women, and Greenville's Memorial Baptist Church.
Items pertaining to members of Spilman's family include letters of recommendation and testimonials (1890-1904) for John Barham Spilman's teaching abilities; tributes written on the deaths of Mr. Spilman and the Spilman's son Bernard, who died in World War II (1935-1953); items concerning the unveiling of a portrait of Mr. Spilman, and a scholarship offered in his name (1966); and biographical information on Mr. Spilman (undated).
Photographs of Mrs. Spilman and an autographed photograph of Josiah W. Bailey (1936-1968) are also contained in the collection. Miscellaneous material (1898-1975, undated) includes lists and a memorandum pertaining to political and U.C.C. activities; poems; information on the "Roosevelt First Voters League" ; political buttons and other ephemera; an account of the tradition of "Poppy Day" ; biographical information on the tributes to Spilman; and information on the "New Pitt County Hospital Memorial Gifts Committee."
Three scrapbooks, containing clippings, programs, handbooks, correspondence, and other memorabilia, document Spilman's political, social, and club-related activities of the 1930s. For purposes of conservation, each of these scrapbooks has been microfilmed, and items of special importance or fragility (such as correspondence and publications) have been removed or photocopied from the books. Notable among items in the 1932-1939 scrapbook are letters from such prominent North Carolina politicians as Clyde R. Hoey and Robert L. Doughton and a program from the "Green Pasture" rally in Charlotte, at which President Roosevelt spoke. A second scrapbook (1936-1939) contains materials concerning the U.C.C. and Spilman's participation in the Business and Professional Women's Club and End-of-the-Century Book Club. A third book (1938-1939) consists largely of clippings reporting on Spilman's speeches as an U.C.C. commissioner and telegrams congratulating her on her reappointment to that body.
Oversized materials consist of several items from and issues of the following newspapers: the Hertford County Herald (Ahoskie); the Ayden Dispatch; the Burlington, N.C., Daily Times-News; the Greenville Daily Reflector; and the Greenville News-Leader.
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So here are my thoughts, and please give me your thoughts as well, as to the purpose of the Example Suite. We can later compile them together to get a more concrete list.Greendogo wrote:What is it?
The purpose of the OpenMW Example Suite Project is to create a fully functional demo using completely free or original content in order to demonstrate the features and improvements that the OpenMW engine brings over the vanilla Morrowind engine used by Bethesda.
1. Potential game developers can test out the engine without ever having to buy and play Morrowind.
2. Show engine features, including ones that Morrowind uses and ones that it does not.
3. Make game development easier for potential game developers and modders by giving ingame examples of how to write code, how to use features, how things work in general.
4. Provide CC-BY-SA assets that can be easily used to prototype game ideas.
Is it worth it to make a demo for these things? Should we have different goals? Or is this all pointless and we should just scrap the project? What do OpenMW devs think about the purpose of this demo?


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German pirate gets three years in the brig
And MS rejigs compliance policy for SMEs
An unnamed software dealer in Germany has been sentenced to three years in prison for selling unlicensed Microsoft products.
The 42-year-old Turkish man was arrested in June 2006 and has been held in custody since.
He was last week sentenced to two years and eleven months by a German court in Bochum. He was described in court as a "clever offender" who had sold 18,555 pirated products.
More from IDG here.
Microsoft also announced a more hands-on strategy to enforce compliance by mid-sized companies - those with around 250 PCs. Companies that get flagged up for inconsistencies in their licenses will be contacted by phone or email by Microsoft.
If businesses refuse the offer of a Microsoft audit of their software, they will receive three escalation letters. The last two will warn that the case may be handed over to the Business Software Alliance, which may take legal action.
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The 2012 "hopes and dreams" of children in Grand Rapids will be on display for the first time. The holiday cards, with the children's heartfelt dreams, will be celebrated and unveiled at a "Meet the Young Artist" party at Berger Chevrolet. Photojournalist, author and creator of "Pictures of Hope", Linda Solomon, will congratulate each child at the celebration.


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In this gracefully written, deeply researched and incisively presented study, Laura Weinrib offers a sophisticated account of how the current American conception of civil liberties emerged. The study rests not only on a sure command of the secondary sources but on a careful examination of the papers of the ACLU--in particular its early records and those of its predecessor organization--between the two World Wars. Weinrib demonstrates how an initial theory of civil liberties, aligned with a commitment to labor radicalism and a "right of agitation" by the working-class, gradually developed into a commitment to a politically neutral protection of the civil rights of each individual as embodied in the Bill of Rights. Weinrib traces this transformation through a series of contested organizational shifts during the 1920s and 1930s and shows how this evolving vision of civil liberties shaped the post-New Deal constitutional order and left a legacy far different from earlier understandings.An honorable mention was awarded to "From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-War South, 1865-1920," by Melissa Milewski, New York University.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Cromwell Dissertation Prize to Weinrib
Via H-Law we have word that at last week's meeting of the American Society for Legal History, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation's Dissertation Prize for 2012 went to "The Liberal Compromise: Civil Liberties, Labor, and the Limits of State Power, 1917-1940," by Laura M. Weinrib, who completed it at Princeton University. Professor Weinrib is now a member of the law faculty at the University of Chicago. Here is the citation:
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Abuja, Nigeria, December 18, 2012--State security agents in Southeast Nigeria blocked a reporter from filing a story Saturday evening about the status of a governor who hasn't been seen for several months. The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned this act of crude censorship.
At about 11:30 p.m. local time Saturday, seven plainclothes men accosted Ozioma Ubabukoh, a reporter with private media group Punch Newspapers, at the entrance of his home in Trans-Ekulu in the southeastern state of Enugu, according to local journalists and news reports. Ubabukoh told CPJ the men identified themselves as agents of Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) and seized his telephone before ordering him to take them into his home. Two of the men threatened to "rough him up" if he didn't cooperate, Ubabukoh said.
The agents confiscated and searched his laptop and ransacked his home, according to Ubabukoh. They told him their mission was to prevent him filing a story about Enugu state Gov. Sullivan Chime, who has not been seen publicly for three months. Other publications reported Saturday, without citing sources, that Chime had died in India. Ubabukoh had previously written articles on Chime's ill health, including one published October 14 which brought the situation to public attention. State commissioner of information Chuks Ugwoke dismissed that story as "outright falsehood" and claimed the governor was on vacation, but he has still not been seen publicly.
At about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the agents told the journalist to retrieve his laptop and phone from under his car, Ubabukoh said.
"State security agents have no business censoring news coverage, and they certainly have no right to use force and intimidation against a reporter doing his job," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita from New York. "Nigerian officials should publicly repudiate this crude effort to keep an important story from citizens."
Ugwoke did not respond to CPJ's requests for comment, while SSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar declined to comment.
Christopher Isiguzo, vice president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists' southeast zone, told CPJ the union would file a petition with the Police and State Security Service over Ubabukoh's case.
Ubabukoh had also reported that police officers attached to Gov. Chime's wife attacked and threatened to shoot Mike Agada, a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, on October 26 as he tried to take pictures at a funeral ceremony she attended.


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Sick of all these list posts yet?
Sorry, folks, last one for a while — promise — it's just that all this goal setting for the year ahead and looking back on the year that's gone appeals to my OCD-like tendencies.
Who among you, I ask, didn't clear out a closet or overhaul the pantry during the recent holiday break? (Unless of course you were on a fabulous vacation/holiday somewhere, in which case, please tell me all about it in the comment section below so I can live vicariously and be green with envy.)
Let me be clear: This is NOT a New Year's resolution post. Tried that last year and look what a pickle that one got me in. (Though, truth be told, it did make for some entertaining blog posts and lively commentary from you all.)
Since this is a very public space devoted to good food matters, I'm gonna keep this list strictly on topic — and realistic.
So you won't find lofty goals like ending childhood hunger or personal aspirations like finding a rich doctor to hook up with. (That last one is a joke people, and comes courtesy of my ex-husband during a period when I was recovering from some unfun medical matters. He figured it was a surefire way to take care of my finances, health, and heart all in one package. Call it gallows divorce humor. We thought it was hilarious at the time.)
What follows, just 11 modest food intentions for 2011.
Let's see how many I actually end up meeting. Anyone want to guess?
11 Food Intentions for 2011
1. Ditch the ancient Teflon cookware. Check. (See, we're down to 10, just like that.) My pal Marge was horrified I still had this stuff and has been urging me to get rid of it for years, for health reasons, of course. So it's in a bag in my car ready for Goodwill drop off (is that okay?) and I've been running around town trying to find some more eco-friendly baking pans. Any recommendations?
2. Make a new meal at least once a month. Isn't that the most pathetic little aspiration? You'd think that someone who writes as much about food as I do would be whipping up new dishes every day — or at least each week. But this isn't a recipe site, per se, and I'm as guilty as every other time-stretched working parent of fixing the same favorite meals — over and over and over again.
3. Experiment with at least one recipe from each cookbook giveaway. Dovetails nicely with #2, don't you think? Multi-tasking mama that I am I love a twofer. While I curate the books I give away I want to say something about the recipes within based on experience. (Note to self: Take care not to spill any ingredients on their pages.)
4. Sign up for a cooking class. Maybe I'll get over my fear of canning. Or finally learn to cook some ethnic cuisine with a measure of authenticity. Works well with #2 too.
5. Try something new. It's unfair to always harp on about this with kids if you don't do it yourself. What sort of role model does that make you? I have never cooked a rutabaga, for instance, and I'm not entirely sure I've eaten one either.
6. Attend another underground dinner. They're super fun and I love feeling vaguely adventurous showing up in some unknown person's home to eat food by people you don't know while sitting with folks you've never met.
7. Check out the restaurants on Chronicle critic Michael Bauer's best of list. And make a best of list of my own, so that when people visit or someone local asks: "Where should we eat?" I'll have my own handy dandy list.
8. Go to more conferences with food doers and fewer with food writers. A couple of years into this beat I feel like I know what a lot of other food writers are going to say (not that what they have to say isn't interesting). It just appeals to my journalist sensibilities to cover events where people in the food field come together to talk shop. So hello Ecofarm and later BlogHer Food (for this year, at least.)
9. Find a regular, national outlet to write about all the great food news in my backyard. In the works. Stay tuned on that score. Don't want to jinx myself on that one.
10. Plan ahead. Cook soup on the weekend. Make a pesto or sauce ahead. Fix a meal that might stretch to two. All that smart advice Vanessa Barrington offers here, which when followed, makes meal prep during the week a breeze.
11. Cook more. The simple truth is, the more I write about food, the less I seem to make it. I'd like to change that equation. Numbers 2-5 should help me get there. If you have any brilliant ideas, I'm all ears.
If you want to share your food goals for 2011, let me know in the space below.
Before I sign off I'll leave you with a trio of links to recent list posts — set in the past, present, and future — that I've enjoyed and think you will too:
- PAST: Debbie Koenig's funny FAIL post over at words to eat by, complete with photo evidence, of her worst cooking escapades in 2010.
- PRESENT: Cheryl Sternman Rule's piece mocking all those edible trend prediction stories that come out this time of year over at 5 Second Rule aptly titled The Most Superlative Food Trends List Anywhere.
- FUTURE: Stephanie Rosenbaum's roundup for Bay Area Bites on food pursuits you might consider doing during 2011 so you Eat Well, Cook Better, Do Good.
Happy New Year readers, here's to a healthy 2011 for all.
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we seem to be going around in circles on this one.... for me, you don't go up 4-0 unless you are significantly better and not just because your opponents loosened their grip on you....Originally Posted by Craig
we seem to be going around in circles on this one.... for me, you don't go up 4-0 unless you are significantly better and not just because your opponents loosened their grip on you....Originally Posted by Craig
England man for man weren't Australia's equals, that's true. But they weren't necssarily last time either, and they managed to beat us. I do think they'd have fared better at home (though I wouldn't have expected them to win), and some of what affected their performances was their poor preparation (and obviously their away "selection group") for the tour. But mainly, I think the English - and particularly their bowlers - were just substantially below their best. And Australia were a lot closer to theirs.Originally Posted by Anil
Anyhow, in answer to the poll question, no.
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"FFS I'm sick and tired of having to see a bloke bend over to pick something up or lean over and see their arse crack. For christ's sake pull your pants up or buy some underpants you bogan because nobody want's to see it. And this is a boat building shed (well one of them) not a porn studio."
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I've been disappointed not so much for the defeat, which I realistically expected anyway, but for the lack of a real contest. We've been involved in some exciting series over the past couple of years, regardless of results, and this has been a non-starter. Obviously one must give massive respect to Australia for the quality of the cricket they've played and for the way they've turned potentially difficult situations into winning ones (Adelaide is the obvious one, but they could've been in trouble after the first innings at Perth too), but we've really shrank from the challenge.
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"Ben Stokes, that most unlikely saint, worked the second of the two miracles he needs for his canonisation." - The Guardian's Andy Bell on the England all-rounder's Headingley ton
Obviously I was expecting to walk it, tbh I thought there was an outside chance of us sneaking 6-0 and winning some games without even batting. Nonetheless, having viewed fair chunks of the first three Tests, and bits of this fourth one, it's clear that the Ashes have been lost because Australia are an above average side.
Having said that, I do believe that it needn't have been 4-0; whatever decisions we made incorrectly, the Ashes would still be lost, and had we played a lot better, Aus would still have beaten us, but we could have taken a lot more pride out of this series than we have done.
We have failed to put together three out of four good innings in any Test, but I don't want to take anying away from Australia, because they have been magnificent.
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Its easy to say no when the scoreline says 4-0 in Australia's favour...
so I'll say no.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
With hindsight, I'd say no, however they really shouldn't have got to the stage of being 4-0 down.
At least this is the first game they didn't take to day 5, unlike previous times...
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To be honest, I think there's very, very few teams in the history of test cricket that could have beaten Australia at home the way they've played over four tests so far. There's not a single player that hasn't had a significant impact on the series, excluding perhaps Damien Martyn, who Symonds replaced with success. So no, I don't think England had a realistic chance with Australia playing at their best, especially without Simon Jones.
They certainly had the chance to go a lot closer than they have though.
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that is kind of my point and the answer to the question in this thread...any series between these two countries wherever it is held right now would have only one result, an aussie win...and in the last series, mcgrath was injured for a significant portion of it, the other bowlers except for warne(especially gillespie) were out of form, the batting didn't really click and in addition, flintoff and england played out of their skins....and what was the result, a 2-1 win for england, a series that was open till the last day of the last test if i remember correctly? kind of the reverse holding true here, the result is an overwhelming victory for australia, that itself tells you about the relative strengths of the two teams, doesn't it?Originally Posted by Slow Love™
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Think it also shows the different personalities of the teams. Australia no matter what situation they're in always look for the win and because of that usually come close or do succeed. Englands outlook varies and often sits in pure survival mode which is a negative outlook and usually sees them fold.
yes true...that aussie personality is their biggest strength and usually gets them through in difficult situations and makes them absolutely dominant when they are in form...Originally Posted by Matteh
Anyone who thought that England had any chance of retaining the ashes was over estimating this english side. England barely won the last Ashes with Mcgrath out for good part of it and most Aussie batsmen out of form. During the last tour Australia made a major mistake by not picking Hussey over Katich.
Some of us had told months ago that England are not going to win/retain the Ashes no matter who goes and who doesn't.
of course they had a chance a combination of poor captaincy and players not performing hurt the english badly
it was never a 100% chance that australia would retain the ashes, australia had more passion and more motivation to win the ashes backOriginally Posted by Sanz
And more talent. That always helps.Originally Posted by Stumped
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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
One of the charms of Europe is the irregular geography of its city streets. Meanwhile across the Atlantic many major American cities follow a fairly rigid (albeit intuitive) grid system. The local differences echo the broader approaches to land division there and here. While many boundaries in the Old World conform to the curves of nature, places in the United States generally follow a rectangular system imposed, in large part, by the Public Land Survey.
It stands to reason that these different environments would leave distinct impressions on their respective residents. If the place you live in looks like a map, logic suggests you'll start to discuss it like one. Likewise, if the place you live in has a unique layout, you'll need more precise identifiers to describe it.
That's the idea at the heart of a study set to appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. An international team of psychologists, led by Alycia Hund of Illinois State University, recruited students from the Midwest United States and the Netherlands to give directions around a fictional neighborhood. The results suggest that the "structure of the physical environment also shapes wayfinding processes," Hund and company report.
In simpler terms: where we live determines how we give directions.
The researchers brought test participants into a lab and presented them with a map of a small district containing 17 landmarks and 29 streets. These wayfinders were then assigned a starting point and a destination and asked to provide directions to someone navigating the area. Half the time they were told the navigator was driving; the other half they were told the navigator was just looking at a map.
The different navigator conditions were meant to encourage different types of directions. Hund and colleagues believed wayfinders would offer drivers more first-person descriptions (including landmarks) and would offer map-readers more third-person descriptions (including street names and cardinal directions).
These conditions did have some impact, but what really influenced the type of directions was the culture of the wayfinder. Americans were far more likely, across all tests, to give navigators a street name or a cardinal direction (i.e. north, east, south, or west). Dutch wayfinders, on the other hand, provided far more landmarks and left-right turn-descriptors.
Hund's team believes this behavior is a direct result of the environments the wayfinders inhabit:
These findings generally are consistent with reliance on unique landmarks when layouts and vistas are irregular (as in much of Europe) in contrast to reliance on street names (and numbering) when layouts and labeling are more regular (as in the Midwestern United States).
The researchers note that many of the Dutch wayfinders became frustrated when asked to give map-readers directions. "They realized there might be a more effective way of describing the route on the map, but never came up with the idea to switch from left-right descriptors to cardinal terms," Hund and company write. They suppose the Dutch would have improved considerably if given enough time to convert cardinal directions into relative terms — equating "east" with "right," for instance.
A glance at the previous literature suggests that a person's wayfinding abilities may be governed first by general culture and next by local environment. In one study that compared the spatial knowledge of Americans with that of British who live in a grid-like town, the Americans still demonstrated higher overall familiarity with a grid. But in another test of Americans from different parts of the country, Midwesterners used cardinal directions more than people from the Northeast.
The researchers themselves don't propose this two-layered theory (here's hoping they eventually test it). Neither do they explicitly consider the role that car dependency might play in the results — except to point out that American interstates use cardinal directions, like I-95 North. But it seems very possible that one reason Americans come to view directions on the map-based format is because they're often guided by an in-car G.P.S. system, whereas the Dutch, whose streets are made for walking, would necessarily use more mental landmarks to find the way.
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, L.A. needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that the environmental impact of Uber and Lyft rides is 69% worse than the transportation modes they replace.
Tired of waiting for the city to fix their street, residents of the Irish Channel neighborhood furnished their pothole and listed it as an Airbnb rental. It worked.
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The vanishing car glitch first appeared with the ability to save vehicles in Grand Theft Auto III. Although it can occur at both the Staunton Island Hideout and the Shoreside Vale Hideout, it is more common at the former, as the large size of the garage easily allows the player to cram the garage, an exploit which allows more than the designated two vehicles to fit in the garage. When the garage is crammed, the vehicles inside may arbitrarily vanish during a game save. The glitch can be avoided by opening the garage door before saving the game, loading the vehicles inside into the game memory.
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Due to the open nature of parking spaces in Grand Theft Auto IV, it is easier to attempt to save more than two cars at each of the safehouses; as such, the glitch is easier to trigger and is therefore more prevalent. Although parking more than the maximum number of vehicles in the parking spaces is possible, the vehicles may arbitrarily vanish, leaving only two (or less) behind. Unlike in GTA III, having the vehicles in memory does not guarantee they will be saved, and the vehicles may also disappear at other times during gameplay.
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Players of FarmVille, the most popular game on Facebook, have so far contributed $487,500 towards the welfare of children in Haiti, reports FarmVille's developer Zynga. The Sweet Seeds for Charity campaign, which has been running for the last three weeks, introduced a special kind of sweet potato into the game as an exclusive item that players could purchase for a small amount of real-world cash. Half the proceeds from the sale of the sweet potatoes goes to two Haiti-based charities.
With more than 60 million monthly users, FarmVille is the largest game on Facebook. Players tend to their farm plots by harvesting crops from strawberries to eggplants, purchasing items like tractors and combines, and engaging with their neighbors.Players can also purchase certain items through micro-transactions of real-world currency.
In the case of the Sweet Seeds initiative, half the proceeds from the special sweet potatoes were donated to two non-profit organizations in Haiti that support the health and education of children and their families: FATEM.org and FONKOZE.org. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the 7th poorest in the world.
"At FATEM, Zynga's contribution will help make local residents of the town of Mirebalais become self-sufficient by providing one of the most important tools against poverty: education," said Jacky Poteau, president, FATEM. "Zynga has made it possible for over 500 children to have full access to quality education, and uplift them and their families from poverty."
"Zynga has taken networking to a whole new level, connecting tens of millions of people to some of the most isolated people in our hemisphere, the women and families of rural Haiti," said Leigh Carter, executive director, Fonkoze USA. "Thanks to Zynga's new social strategy, not only can we connect, we can act to eliminate extreme poverty in Haiti."
This social goods program builds on an earlier Zynga initiative where players of its YoVille game, a virtual town with 140 million inhabitants, raised donations for the San Francisco SPCA by purchasing bulldogs and tabby cats from the in-game shelter as pets.
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Pincus added that Sweet Seeds for Haiti was an early step for Zynga, with more charity-based initiatives to come.


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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles Schwab Foundation—the private, nonprofit organization funded by The Charles Schwab Corporation—today announced a commitment of $1 million to advance youth financial capability, capital markets literacy, and civics education across the US. This three-year grant will support the SIFMA Foundation's Capitol Hill Challenge® - a special edition of The Stock Market Game™ that pairs individual members of Congress and financial capability programming with public schools in every congressional district nationwide.
Charles Schwab Foundation's grant will expand schools' access to financial capability educational programs – a beneficial investment according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which reported that such programming receives $230 million in annual federal funding as compared to $3 billion invested in STEM subjects.
"We are honored to support the Capitol Hill Challenge," said Walt Bettinger, president and CEO of The Charles Schwab Corporation. "This commitment extends Schwab's support of financial education for everyone, from teens to adults, and can help advance middle and high school students' understanding of personal finance, the capital markets, and math and economics – all of which are so important to success in our rapidly changing world. We strongly believe in the power of financial education to transform lives and enable people to achieve more for themselves and their loved ones."
The Capitol Hill Challenge is an innovative national financial education competition for public junior high and high schools that reaches all 50 U.S. states and connects members of Congress to students, teachers, and schools competing in The Stock Market Game in their respective districts. Through its support of this program, Charles Schwab Foundation will engage thousands of student teams as managers of a hypothetical $100,000 online portfolio that they can invest in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Participants will develop essential life skills such as teamwork, cooperation, research, analysis, and decision-making while enhancing their core academic knowledge.
"In my teens I was lucky to have the experience of investing in my first stock," said Schwab Founder and Chairman Chuck Schwab. "I didn't know it at the time but what I was really doing was participating in and supporting the American financial system. My investment was a vote for that company and the products it produced. It would be wonderful if every young American could invest in stocks and experience how our system works and how investing is participating in the growth engine of our economy. The SIFMA Foundation's Stock Market Game is great way to bring that experience alive."
Adding to the excitement for students and their teachers, senators and representatives visit their matched schools to meet with student teams and discuss current issues and the importance of financial capability. Additionally, the 10 top-ranked Capitol Hill Challenge teams are awarded an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. to meet their member of Congress and be recognized at an awards reception on Capitol Hill. They also attend meetings with business, government, and education leaders to learn more about fiscal policymaking, the role of the capital markets, and global economic trends. Winners also tour financial landmarks and national monuments.
Melanie Mortimer, President of the SIFMA Foundation said she is extremely grateful for the gift and for the relationship with Schwab. "Charles Schwab's cornerstone support for the SIFMA Foundation's Capitol Hill Challenge lays the groundwork for a financially prepared, economically savvy generation that also understands the role of government in policymaking. Together, we are paving the way for stronger, more cohesive and vibrant communities by connecting members of Congress with their youngest constituents."
The Capitol Hill Challenge is the nation's only financial education program engaging 100% of Congress. Since its inception in 2004, the program has made 3,272 matches of U.S. representatives and senators with schools, encompassing more than 90,000 students across the country. The program has proven impacts in raising students' math, economics and personal finance test scores. The grant from Charles Schwab Foundation provides public middle school and high school teachers nationwide with the support they need to bring financial education into their classrooms including curricula, online and in-person teacher training, academic standards and correlations, assistance securing visits and communications with members of Congress, and incentives, awards and prizes for winners.
Through its support for the Capitol Hill Challenge, Charles Schwab Foundation is filling a gap in our nation's schools. When recently asked by the National Financial Educators Council, "What high school-level course would benefit your life the most," more than half of 2,409 people across each of six age categories indicated personal finance as their preference, beating out math, science, and social studies combined. Research shows that exposure to financial education throughout life can be key to success. Charles Schwab has reinforced this as a leading proponent for financial education, having served millions of individuals of all ages through its philanthropic and community investments, including:
- Money Matters: Make it Count – Charles Schwab Foundation's program in collaboration with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America providing basic money management skills to teens ages 13-18;
- Schwab MoneyWise website and workshops – personal finance education for people of all ages;
- A new DonorsChoose program supporting innovative financial education projects in classrooms across America – every dollar donated to financial literacy-focused projects on DonorsChoose.org will be matched by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., up to $100,000;
- Schwab MoneyWise on Campus – financial education for college students in collaboration with select universities;
- The Charles Schwab Wealth Management Workshop at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and at Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder – aiming to spark interest in financial planning and increase the pipeline of qualified financial planning professionals;
- Foundation for Financial Planning — financial advisors making a difference in the lives of others by providing pro-bono financial planning to those in need. Charles Schwab and Charles Schwab Foundation are longtime supporters and surpassed a contribution commitment of $2 million in 2016;
- Schwab Advisor Services and Charles Schwab Foundation have worked together since 2007 to advance the independent investment advisor industry, creating awareness of the profession and helping cultivate first-class talent for firms to attract. These grants, dedicated on behalf of advisors, have helped extend financial planning training and education to high school and college students across the country. This includes Texas Tech University's Financial Planning Academy – a summer program for high school students interested in learning about careers in financial planning.
Schwab is the first company to make a public commitment toward increasing financial capability and inclusion through the national sponsorship of SIFMA Foundation's Capitol Hill Challenge program.
About Charles Schwab Foundation
Charles Schwab Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization funded by The Charles Schwab Corporation (Charles Schwab). Its mission is to create positive change through financial education, philanthropy, and volunteerism. More information is available at www.aboutschwab.com/community. The Charles Schwab Foundation is classified by the IRS as a charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation is neither a part of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC) or its affiliates.
About Charles Schwab
At Charles Schwab, we believe in the power of investing to help individuals create a better tomorrow. We have a history of challenging the status quo in our industry, innovating in ways that benefit investors and the advisors and employers who serve them, and championing our clients' goals with passion and integrity. More information is available at www.aboutschwab.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Through its operating subsidiaries, The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; compliance and trade monitoring solutions; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides banking and lending services and products. The Charles Schwab Corporation (and its affiliates) and the Charles Schwab Foundation are unaffiliated with the SIFMA Foundation or Boys & Girls Clubs of America. More information is available at www.schwab.com and www.aboutschwab.com.
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The SIFMA Foundation is dedicated to fostering knowledge and understanding of the financial markets for individuals of all backgrounds, with a focus on youth. Drawing on the support and expertise of the financial industry, the SIFMA Foundation provides financial education programs and tools that strengthen economic opportunities across communities and increase individuals' access to the benefits of the global marketplace. Notable Foundation programs include the Stock Market Game, which has served 17 million students since it began in 1977, the InvestWrite national essay competition, www.investwrite.org, the Capitol Hill Challenge, and Invest It Forward. For more information on the work of the SIFMA Foundation, visit www.sifma.org/foundation .
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M & M Manufacturing Co., Fort Worth, TX, named Rob Felton president and COO. Felton, who had been COO, succeeds Rod Stepp, who had been the company's president for 41 years. Stepp becomes CEO of the company, a diversified sheetmetal fabricator of HVAC duct pipe and fittings, and other sheetmetal products for roofing, ventilating and architectural applications.
Airam Press Co., Covington, OH, a manufacturer of pneumatic presses, named Matt Barkman sales manager. He'll manage the firm's spare-parts program, as well as upgrades and rebuilds.
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Several years ago, pastry chef Jean Francois Houdre and his family were visiting the south of France, where he grew up, touring the area's famous chateaus. The trip ultimately inspired Houdre's annual sugar castle creation at the Westin St. Francis on Union Square - but he gives his children, then ages 5 and 7, all the credit.
"It was my kids' idea," he said. "They said, 'Why don't you do something like this?'"
Houdre and his team's now-annual holiday creation - this year topping 12 feet, and including more than 1,300 pounds of sugar, eggs and other edible ingredients - has become a holiday draw. And for the first time, it includes a political twist: tiny marzipan figurines of important newsmakers, including Mayor Ed Lee, Gov. Jerry Brown, Giants pitcher Sergio Romo, 49ers quarterback Alex Smith and even Clint Eastwood with an empty stool.
The politicization of the work of art was actually General Manager Jon Kimball's idea; Houdre resisted at first, but now admits that it's been a hit. On Wednesday, dozens of tourists were crowded around the rotating work of art, pointing out the mustached Lee, bald Brown and other famous figurines including Madonna, Harry Potter, the president and first lady and Mark Zuckerberg.
The sugar castle, the largest of its kind in the nation, takes about six months to make and more than 2,000 hours of work. Houdre said it's a lot of fun for him and his staff, but is so detail oriented that he can work on any given piece for only about two hours at a time.
"I use it to motivate my team," he said. "It shows them, if you have the skill and inspiration, you can actually do something ... and you have no idea how many people it's going to touch."
The body of the castle is made of pastillage, a dough made of powdered sugar, egg whites and gelitan, but Houdre uses anything he can find for underneath. The towers are covered in fondant wrapped around recycled paper, for example, while the base is foam board left over from conferences at the hotel.
The castle will stay up until Jan. 3, when Houdre and his team will tear it apart - and start planning next year's chateau.
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Menu change: The San Francisco school board unanimously voted late Monday to approve a $9 million contract with a new school lunch provider - a decision that brings an end to frozen meals shipped from Chicago.
Revolution Foods will provide 33,000 meals and snacks to city school kids starting on Jan. 7, the first day back from winter break.
The meals are expected to be healthier, fresher and, as much as possible, made from sustainably produced and locally grown foods.
That means no artificial ingredients, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial trans fats, nothing fried, and all of it made by a real person in a real chef hat at the company's headquarters in Oakland.
The district will spend a bit more for the fresh food- $1.95 per meal, up from $1.79 it now spends. The 18-month contract caps the cost at $9 million annually.
Meals include: Vegetarian macaroni and cheese with whole wheat dinner roll, sunflower seeds, steamed carrots and fruit; fiesta bowl with cheese and brown rice, steamed corn, sea salt pita chips and fruit; and buffalo chicken sandwich with baby carrots, honey roasted soy nuts and fruit.
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Dodgers announce limited paperless ticket program for 2014 season
LOS ANGELES - While continuing to upgrade their on-field product and Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers are introducing a paperless ticket program for season and mini-plan holders in 2014, the team announced.
The Dodgers have entered a ticketing partnership with Tickets.com, based in Costa Mesa, CA, to launch the TDC ProVenue Ticketing platform to afford fans a better and improved ticketing experience using their enhanced technology. Some 17 Major League Baseball clubs utilize the ProVenue platform of Tickets.com, a leader in ticket technology.
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Some of the rarest and most detailed fossils on Earth owe their stunning preservation to dust blown out to sea by glacial winds.
Soft-bodied creatures usually rot or get eaten before sediment can bury and fossilize their fragile tissues. Yet a zoo of squishy animals that swam 435 million years ago is exquisitely preserved in the Soom Shale, a thick deposit that curves along the southern tip of Africa.
"This deposit preserved details in fossils you don't normally get," said Sarah Gabbott, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester. "Most often you see fossils of hard parts, but here you get muscles, eyes, organs and other tissues that decay away. It's because of the windblown sediment."
Gabbott and others, who describe their discovery in the December issue of Geology, regard it as the oldest case of a windblown fossil-making machine. The find could aid searches for similarly rich soft-bodied–fossil beds that cover other loosely understood spans of prehistory.
"If you look at modern marine community, 90 to 99 percent of animals are soft-bodied. If we didn't get these deposits, we'd be missing most of the life," Gabbott said.
Around 445 million years ago, Earth's familiar landmasses were all part of two supercontinents called Gondwana (Africa, Antarctica, Australia, South America) and Laurasia (Eurasia, North America). A chilly climate covered most of Gondwana with thick glaciers. As the sheets of ice moved, they ground up surface rock below into fine sand and dust.
When the glaciers receded, their cold winds rolled toward the ocean and blew the exposed, ultra-fine grit into the air, onto sea ice and ultimately into the 325-foot-deep water.
"It's about the only plausible and geologically realistic interpretation that I can think of," said Cliff Atkins, a sedimentologist at Victoria University of Wellington who wasn't involved in the study. "It's exactly what we've been finding in the modern environment like Antarctica, where I just spent six weeks off the coast collecting and analyzing airborne dust."
Glacial dust blowing into the ocean, however, is only half the story. When silt particles landed on the water, they were rich in iron and other minerals that could produce phytoplankton and algal blooms.
The bursts of microscopic life that grew on the particles eventually weighed them down, sinking them to the seabed. There, the organic matter rotted, depleting oxygen from the water. These anoxic conditions prevented the decay of the dead soft-bodied animals that sunk to the floor.
The resulting 30- to 50-foot-thick Soom Shale bends along the southern tip of Africa like a 560-mile-long hockey-stick, starting in the citrus groves and vineyards of Keurbos, meandering near Cape Town and banking east to Port Elizabeth. Gabbott and her team have unearthed fossils there for close to 20 years, primarily in a region near the Cedarberg mountains (about 150 miles north of Cape Town).
It's a continuous race against time for the scientists to save bug-eyed conodonts, crawly eurypterids (or sea scorpions) and yet-to-be-classified creatures.
"The farmers there dig this rock out and put it on the roads because it breaks down to make a good road stone," Gabbott said. "Of course what they're doing, perhaps unknowingly, is destroying the fossils."
The scientists were suspicious of assumptions that sediment moved by storms, rivers and ocean currents preserved the specimens.
"It's made of clay minerals, like most shale, but also clusters of silts," Gabbott said of the sediment's composition. "The only way to get that is from a landscape devastated by glaciation."
Identifying such wind-blown processes in the geologic record is extremely difficult, because turbid waters and scuttling sea creatures mix the sediment up beyond the point of recognition. But the anoxic sediment chemistry, ultrafine layers of shale 1 millimeter to 10 millimeters thick, and a microscopic analysis revealing unusual specks of silt ruled out other explanations.
"We now have a nearly complete picture of the sea floor there over the thousands and thousands of years it took to deposit, and the only kind of deposition we can pin down is wind," Gabbott said. "It's really unique."
Peter Van Roy, a paleobiologist at Yale University (also not involved in the study), said the model explains soft-tissue preservation in a very plausible way.
"How a fossil is made tells us something about where and how the animal lived," Van Roy said. "In short, it helps you interpret fossils correctly. It's important work to be doing."
With a definitive case pinned down, Gabbott said the next step is to start seeking out similarly formed shales to fill gaps in the fossil record.
"There are numerous black shales formed during other glaciations, like the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago," she said, noting a few locations in Cape Province, South Africa. "I'd love to go out there and have a look."
*Images: 1) A eurypterid (sea scorpion) from the Soom Shale, South Africa. This fossil is approximately 440 million years old. It is so well-preserved that you can see its muscle blocks, gills and the paddles that it used for swimming. Credit: Dick Aldridge
2) Cape Province in South Africa, where the Soom Shale (gray) and its basin are located. Credit: Geology
3) Reconstruction of eurypterid (sea scorpion) chasing a conodont (early vertebrate). The Soom Shale is one of only two deposits worldwide that preserve complete conodont animals including their muscles, eyes and notochord (stiffening rod). Conodonts are some of our earliest vertebrate ancestors. Credit: Alan Male
4) Ground-up rock can blow into the air and bounce across sea ice, ultimately into the ocean. There, phytoplankton and algal blooms drag the sand and dust particles to the sea floor and help preserve soft-bodied animals. Credit: *Geology
See Also:
- The Year's Best Fossil Finds
- High Oxygen Levels Spawn Monster Dragonflies
- Giant Vicious-Looking Ancient Shrimp Was a Disappointing Wimp
- 2-Billion-Year-Old Fossils May Be Earliest Known Multicellular Life
- Earth From Space: Greenland Glacier Shrinks Overnight
- Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space
- Ancient Crocodile Could Have Chewed Like You Do
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