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The Kid is Back — Castle Peak East Face
When the young college man shows up for spring break, the old guy has a tendency to come out of retirement. Into this past weekend it was pretty obvious our central Colorado 14ers were in excellent condition for early (not quite spring) ski descents. Avy danger was in the green zone, coverage was good — only concern being a warming trend. Indeed, knowing Jordan White and companions had recently nailed Mount of the Holy Cross and ever elusive Capitol Peak made me painfully aware our noble alps were caked and ready for the kiss of glisse.
The day began with our 4-stroke sled quietly purring up the Pearl Pass road like the high tech machinery it is supposed to be. We rode double, with my latest suspension mods and bar riser providing a stable platform. Exact parking spot was optional, and dictated by us seeing another party up ahead. Why harsh their groove? So we clicked the key off and began the muscle powered portion of our climb. We caught up with the trio at around timberline in Montezuma Basin.
Turned out we knew the folks. Ellen Hollingshead of Breckenridge, married to infamous humor writer and consummate politician Jeffrey Bergeron; Deb Curtis, well known Aspen ski patroller, and Exum Guide Wes Bunch . I was psyched to see this awesome crew all on Dynafits, with Wes sporting a pair of Goode skis as well (as if he really needs the weight savings). The crew was staying down at the Green/Wilson hut. I asked how much the girls we're paying Wes, they corrected me and made sure I was aware he was paying them for the privilege of bunking with two ladies!
We all made short work of the ascent, as it's only a few thousand vertical from hut or sled. My shiny ZZero boots got antiqued by the scree of the upper west ridge, and you had to watch out you didn't slip on ice patches and get launched over a cliff. At the summit we slipped into our harnesses in case things got funky and we needed an anchor or belay. Doing steep descents in March means you really don't know what you'll find. Could be ice. Could be powder. Our you could end up in the middle of a wet sluff avalanche cycle and need to duck under a rock and wait it out 'till the evening freeze. Rope can be handy for any of that.
Last time we were here, I belayed then 14-year-old Louie off the summit and over to the North Couloir for a descent. That was in 2005. Farther back, before children and just after marriage, I'd done the first descent of Castle's east face in 1990. The route has since become a classic. Not tough by today's standards, but difficult to find in condition as Colorado east faces tend to get sun damaged and undergo an early morning thaw that makes for a short window of optimal time.
You get this route from the exact summit, with some of the steeper turns actually being on a wind swale just off the top. The summit slopes dump you into the sinuous main couloir, or your can traverse skier's right and do an Alaskan style face. We chose the couloir, which is where I'd gone that first time — sweet to be here again. One section hourglasses to the point where jump turns are still possible but lateral movement is limited. Other than that, it's just fun steep turns on terrain that probably averages about 40 degrees.
Judging conditions and start time are difficult calls when spring hits in Colorado. Too early and you may be waiting for an ice glaze to soften. Too late any you get 'punch through' snow that's dangerous to your knees and bones, but can also avalanche. Problem is, you don't know exactly what times these things occur. You can start super early for insurance, but end up sitting on the summit for hours waiting. We opted for a lazy man's start and began skiing from the summit at around 11:00 AM, an hour or two past optimum time. It worked out, but by the time the two of us had skied the run was somewhat hacked, so our three friends made a good decision and skipped the glop fest for a descent of the north couloir.
|My favorite shot. In the couloir. Yeah, pretty similar to the photo up above. But that's what happens when you've got a good skier in the lens — they tend to repeat the same moves. Please click image for massive enlargement.
As I write this, a winter storm blows the last vestiges of spring away from our house and town. Spring will be winter by tomorrow — but what good is a spring break without some powder skiing to top it off?
23 Responses to "The Kid is Back — Castle Peak East Face"
March 23rd, 2009 8:50 am
Right on, L&L, great spring break move. Looks like spring skiing.
Gregg Cronn
March 23rd, 2009 10:19 am
Great pictures and story Lou. Your son is a smooth skier. I enjoyed watching him when I went out with him and his friend earlier this winter. You blog continues to provide many lunch time sessions of envy.
March 23rd, 2009 1:32 pm
Right on Lou! Its really cool to see a father / son team ripping it up together. Doesn't look like being at sea-level has hurt Louie at all. Nice shots.
Boot question. I found some Scarpa 05/06 Magics (womens) for a dirt cheap price. If I measure my wife's foot in cm, is that the same as mondo sizing scarpa uses? She measures at 25 ish cm, so a 25.5 mondo should work, or no?
March 23rd, 2009 8:19 pm
Very kuhl trip, Lou & Louie!
My kid's home on spring break, too – very special. Made the Ski Train – a classic day trip on the Alaska Railroad to the wilderness ski destination. Highly recommended experience.
March 23rd, 2009 7:25 pm
What What What? No one's caught mention of the super slick rope trick? 5.5 cord with screamers, how provocative! Any data/disclaimers/testimonials from those whipping on such a system? I think it sounds sweet!
March 23rd, 2009 9:22 pm
Nice TR. My 8mm x 30 m Beal Rando rope is< 1 lb. Your 5.5 mm cord weighs what?
March 23rd, 2009 9:53 pm
5mm Dyneema seems like it would basically be (light, mostly) static cord, hence the need for screamers. Sounds great as long as you don't shock load the system enough to rip all the tacks in the screamers, after that happens, one would think it turns into a fall onto static cord and webbing – ouch.
It would also seem that you have to recognize the limitations of such a system – it doesn't sound like Lou expected to use the cord much at all…..
What's next? Tiny cord with a via ferrata system like what BD recently came out with:
Nah, too heavy.
March 24th, 2009 4:34 am
Yeah, the static line is for occasional use only, and still not refined in terms of technique of use. Static line is also problematic for rappels as every tiny bounce becomes a big shock load to the anchor and the body. We're thinking the system might need something more absorbent than the screamers, to be really functional.
March 24th, 2009 6:42 am
Excellent descent. Hopefully the snow that made it feel like winter around Copper Mountain where I was yesterday hit a lot of the mountain areas. I'm not ready to call it quits on spring descents yet. May we all remember that the first Monday in May last year was a roaring maelstrom of a storm in parts of CO.
March 24th, 2009 8:08 am
Glad to finally meet the infamous Lou and Louie duo. Lou – your guidebooks are right next to my bed and totally worn out, even though I've barely scratched the surface of skiing all those lines…You both are so lucky to have each other. Can't wait to see Louie's video of this as well as the good tunes he does seem to pick for his videos. Back in Breckenridge now where we actually had a couple days of bonified corn skiing from about 12,000 feet on down. Hopefully in the next couple weeks we'll be back to ski that elusive east face of castle.
March 24th, 2009 11:39 am
Dude his poles are too long for the downhill. What does he think he is an euro rando racer 🙂
sean ashcroft
March 24th, 2009 2:31 pm
hey lou do me a favor and stop printing my name associated with anything in the BLOG( Boasting Loudly Over Greatness) world… I am sure you remember a day when people just skied for the joy of it ,… Not to print or take photos to post immediately over the world wide web for everyone to see… This box score mentality of who skied what , and were they first.. ,, in winter , spring or summer for that matter to ski it , has sullied what was once a pure endeavor… Besides that not everyone feels they have to Brag Loudly Over their own Greatness over the web or to others… Sean Shean ashcroft
March 24th, 2009 2:47 pm
Sounds like a fun trip!
March 24th, 2009 3:03 pm
Man with no name, I'm sorry to offend you… thanks for the feedback.
Adam Olson
March 24th, 2009 3:05 pm
Are you sure you are dealing w/ 60 meters of rope? My Beal Rando rope is only 30 meters long! I would have bought the longer rope If I had known it came in longer lengths.
It sounds like you are becoming a much better "sledhead"! (lol)
March 24th, 2009 3:10 pm
Randonnee, is that a typo? If so let me know and I'll fix…
March 24th, 2009 6:25 pm
Yup, typo. I realized it as soon as I posted it. It is 30 m. Thanks.
March 24th, 2009 6:37 pm
Fixed it Randonnee
BTW, my Beal 30 m rando rope weighs 40.4 oz, the Titan 5.5 mm titan cord with two Screamers weighs 24.3 oz and packs smaller. For an ultra light emergency cord, the Titan cord can be carried without the Screamers and weighs only 19 oz!
Correction to what I wrote in blog, rather than the 5.5 mill being 30 meters, it is actually 29 meters.
March 24th, 2009 6:58 pm
Thanks Lou. My impression reading the g/ m for my rope was less than that., never weighed my rope.
Mark Sevenoff
March 24th, 2009 8:52 pm
Dawson(s) -awesome blog of your adventure. Which day did you actually ski E.Face? 20th? or 21st. Winter or Spring? Four of us hippies from Moab we're @ the Taggert hut Mon.-thurs. & also summited Castle while staring down that E. Face. We eventually walked back to our skis @ the saddle then climbed Conundrum & skied C. Couloir in nice corn. Why didn't you just climb that E. Face? Do you think it would have included some postholing? Also met new & old (Ellen & Deb) friends up there then skied out on Thurs. to meet the family @ Snowmass. From the top of the lifts I saw some sweet tracks on the N. Face of N. Maroon. Now who made those beautiful turns?????
Mark from Moab
March 24th, 2009 9:01 pm
Mark, cool you were up there.
Jordan White and friends made the tracks on North. We got to watch them from Snowmass, and got photos (tiny dots on the face).
Skied E. Face on Friday, 20th, first day of Spring. Back in my day I wouldn't have thought of skiing the face without climbing it, but I've been schooled by the new generation about how that's not always necessary. If we'd climbed the face, it would have been posthole city, and I knew the way down, so all good.
March 25th, 2009 5:11 am
Looks like Louie had on his helmet cam. When and where can we expect to see some video? Looks like a great time and excellent photos as usual.
March 25th, 2009 6:19 am
Tom, the video exposure got messed up so not sure that'll get published. We'll see. Thanks for asking.
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Mind, Language, and Epistemology: Toward a Language Socialization Paradigm for SLA
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DOI: 10.1111/j.0026-7902.2004.00233.x
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Volume 88, Issue 3, pages 331–350, September 2004
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Watson-Gegeo, K. A. (2004), Mind, Language, and Epistemology: Toward a Language Socialization Paradigm for SLA. The Modern Language Journal, 88: 331–350. doi: 10.1111/j.0026-7902.2004.00233.x
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For some time now second language acquisition (SLA) research has been hampered by unhelpful debates between the "cognitivist" and "sociocultural" camps that have generated more acrimony than useful theory. Recent developments in second generation cognitive science, first language acquisition studies, cognitive anthropology, and human development research, however, have opened the way for a new synthesis. This synthesis involves a reconsideration of mind, language, and epistemology, and a recognition that cognition originates in social interaction and is shaped by cultural and sociopolitical processes: These processes are central rather than incidental to cognitive development. Here I lay out the issues and argue for a language socialization paradigm for SLA that is consistent with and embracive of the new research.


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Remember the old Jimmy Dean classic "Big, Bad John"? It plays in my head, lyrics altered, when I watch LSU.
"Every night at the game, you could see her arrive,
She stood 6-foot-6 and weighed two-oh-five,
Kinda broad at the shoulder, narrow at the hip,
And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to Big Syl."
OK, college media guides don't list weights, and USA Basketball's roster says Sylvia Fowles is 6-5 and 200. But
She has been 6-6 at LSU all along, and it matches the song. Big John weighed 245, and I figure Big Syl won't mind if I add on five more pounds (of muscle) for the sake of the rhyme.
Fowles, in the midst of another splendid season for LSU -- her last -- is also like Big John in that she can "seem" quiet and shy. Truth is, she says, she is not what folks on the outside assume.
"I'm not very shy. I'm really not," Fowles said. "People have thought I was, because I didn't say much. But around my teammates, I'm one of the class clowns.
"I have to say I came out of my shell a lot. And that has a lot to do with my coaches, helping me gain that confidence. I know now I don't have to be so uptight and always serious."
In fact is it true she can she be one of the goofiest players on the team?
"Yes. She's really funny," fellow senior RaShonta LeBlanc said. "You've just got to get to know her."
Big John had a "bad" reputation. Although it might have been totally fabricated, because no one knew what to make of him and he didn't fill in the blanks. Supposedly, he might have killed a guy in a fight over a woman in New Orleans. Whether he did, nobody wanted to mess with him.
But Fowles, despite her size and dominant ability, doesn't carry any bad vibes. She isn't known for rough play. She seems universally respected. Yet nobody wants to mess with her, either.
They just don't have any choice. Opponent after opponent tries and fails. Her latest victim was Alabama on Thursday, when Fowles posted her 73rd career double-double with 24 points and 11 rebounds.
That victory against the Tide moved LSU to 19-3 (8-0 SEC). Their losses were against Maryland, Rutgers and Middle Tennessee and Fowles didn't play in that last game after having surgery on her knee.
She's averaging 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds, and will lead LSU against two big rivals next. On Sunday against Georgia (ESPN2, 2 p.m. ET), LSU hosts its annual "Pack the PMAC" game, in which they hope to fill the Maravich Center in Baton Rouge.
Then Thursday, LSU will play at Tennessee, a showcase of two of the top stars in the country in Fowles and Candace Parker.
"I really don't know her personally, but I really respect her game," Fowles said of Parker. "When I play her, I just try to better myself. She's a great player, and who else would you want to go against? She's a big player who can bring the ball up the floor, she can shoot the 3, she can drive -- just to have all her abilities with her height, that's special."
Fowles is the prototypical center, and she's good enough at that to merit consideration on the national team for the Beijing Olympics in August. Van Chancellor, who was the Olympic coach in 2004, said the chance to work with Fowles certainly helped convince him to take over at LSU.
"They brought me down to make sure -- was I going to take the job, and did they want me?" Chancellor said of a visit to LSU. "And I was trying to make up my mind. Sylvia walked in, hugged my neck and told [athletic director] Skip Bertman, 'This is who I want to be my coach.'
"And I didn't tell anybody, but I said to myself then, 'I'm taking this job. If one of the best players in the country wants you to be her coach, I want to be her coach.'"
That LSU needed a new coach in Chancellor was due to the resignation/firing/whatever it truly was with Pokey Chatman in March. LSU's players were left in an unwanted spotlight that had nothing to do with them as players. They had to adjust to Chatman's absence and answer a lot of difficult questions about her behavior.
LSU's players showed grace and maturity, handling those distractions while working their way through the NCAA Tournament. LSU earned its fourth consecutive Final Four bid, advancing to Cleveland with a 73-50 victory over Connecticut in the Elite Eight.
Fowles had 23 points, 15 rebounds and six blocked shots against the Huskies, and UConn coach Geno Auriemma called it one of the best individual performances any of his teams had ever faced.
Yet somehow, the storybook ending once again eluded LSU. The Final Four has meant four consecutive defeats in the semifinal: to Tennessee, Baylor, Duke and then Rutgers last season.
For Fowles, the loss to Rutgers was particularly difficult because she didn't play anything like the Big Syl that had toppled UConn. She shot 2-for-10 from the field against the Scarlet Knights, finishing with five points and seven rebounds.
"We had a good run, but it just still wasn't our time," said Fowles, who added that a visit home to be with her mother, nieces and nephews over the summer helped her decompress after last season. "Now we're fighting to get back to that point this year."
Fowles has battled some knee problems. However, like Big John saving his fellow miners, Big Syl often has been like a giant oak tree supporting her teammates. Her consequences are less dire, obviously but hey, Big John was a fictional character. Big Syl is the real deal.
"What I've learned is she's a great player -- but by 10 times a better person," Chancellor said. "She is a wonderful human being who has overcome a lot."
And maybe not the least of her obstacles personally was the very thing that has helped her on the basketball court: her size. It's a much better world than it used to be for such a tall, strong woman but the pain of being a girl that big was still sharp when some idiots opened their mouths.
"I remember growing up, it was kind of tough," Fowles said. "And me being me, I was very soft-hearted. I never understood why people could be so mean and cruel. After awhile, you have to just suck it up and deal with it. Now it's to the point where I can just block them out and barely hear what they have to say.
"I overcame a lot, dealing with my height, but I put it in perspective. With so many big women -- there comes a point where you think about all the negative aspects of your life being big, and you know that it all paid off. You realize the positives outweigh the negatives. I'm comfortable with the way I am."
A native of Florida, Fowles said that she's grateful about coming to LSU -- both for the good times and the bad. There has been value in both.
"Personally, I've grown just because of the obstacles we've had to face," she said. "It's taught me that there's nothing I've experienced in college that I can't deal with in the real world. So I'm pretty sure I'm ready for that."
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The Wedgetail Triggerfish (Rhinecanthus rectangulus) is a strikingly patterned reef fish found in the tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific from the Red Sea through Indonesia to the Marquesas Islands, north to southern Japan and south to Lord Howe Island. These fish can be found at depths to around 20 m around shallow coral or rocky reefs exposed to surge. They feed on corals and encrusting organisms, which they snap off with their strong teeth (the mouth is small, but both jaws bear strong incisors). (van der Elst 1993; Matsuura 2001)
Wedgetail Triggerfish have an orange snout and a bright blue band running over the upper jaw. A broad black or dark brown band extends diagonally across the body from the eye to the anal fin, completely separating the upper flanks from the head and pale chest. The caudal peduncle, at the base of the caudal (tail) fin has a black triangular blotch coming to a point below the middle of second the dorsal fin. The fins are dusky to translucent. The large, rounded pectoral fins (just behind the small, round gill openings) are marked with a fine vertically oriented curved orange bar. (van der Elst 1993; Matsuura 2001)
The somewhat angular body is covered with distinct rhomboid scales arranged in a regular "criss-cross" pattern. The modified scales running longitudinally on either side of the caudal peduncle carry five rows of short, sharp spikes. The first dorsal fin consists of three spines and the second consists of 22 to 24 rays. As with all triggerfishes, the first dorsal spine is very stout and can be locked into an upright position by the 2nd spine, or trigger. The spineless anal fin has 20 rays. The pelvic fins are reduced to a spiny projection at the lowest part of the body. Maximum length is around 25 cm. (van der Elst 1993; Matsuura 2001)
Wedgetail Triggerfish are easily approached underwater, but once alarmed the fish typically swims into a small crevice and lodge itself there by erecting its dorsal and pelvic spines (even if the tail remains exposed, the sharp caudal spikes offer some protection). If persistently harrassed, the triggerfish will repeat a series of short grunts. (van der Elst 1993)
Little is known about the breeding cycle of this species, but the fact that very small specimens are seen on reefs during the summer suggests a late winter spawning season. Wedgetail triggerfish are popular aquarium fish. They are easily caught on a small hook, but are not generally eaten. (van der Elst 1993) The Wedgetail Triggerfish is a familiar icon—and the official state fish-- in Hawaii, where it is known as the humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa. (Wikipedia [17 February 2012] and references therein)
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Depth range (m): 1 - 59
Temperature range (°C): 26.287 - 29.058
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.045 - 1.522
Salinity (PPS): 34.205 - 34.761
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.406 - 4.549
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.160 - 0.254
Silicate (umol/l): 1.094 - 4.599
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Depth range (m): 1 - 59
Temperature range (°C): 26.287 - 29.058
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.045 - 1.522
Salinity (PPS): 34.205 - 34.761
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.406 - 4.549
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.160 - 0.254
Silicate (umol/l): 1.094 - 4.599
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Habitat: reef-associated.
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Barcode data: Rhinecanthus rectangulus
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Reef triggerfish
- "Humuhumunukunukuāpuaa" redirects here. For the Rhinecanthus aculeatus of the same name, see Lagoon triggerfish.
The reef, rectangular, or wedge-tail triggerfish, also known by its Hawaiian name, humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa (pronounced [ˈhumuˈhumuˈnukuˈnukuˈwaːpuˈwɐʔə]), also spelled Humuhumunukunukuapua'a or just humuhumu for short; meaning "triggerfish with a snout like a pig."[1] is one of several species of triggerfish. Classified as Rhinecanthus rectangulus, it is endemic to the salt water coasts of various central and south Pacific Ocean islands. It is often asserted that the Hawaiian name is one of the longest words in the Hawaiian language and that "the name is longer than the fish."
The triggerfish's teeth and top lip are blue and the teeth are set close together inside its relatively chubby mouth. It has a small second spine, which it can use to lock its main spine into an upright position. The triggerfish can wedge itself into small crevices and lock its spine to make it extremely difficult to get out. In addition, when fleeing from predators, the triggerfish will sometimes make grunting noises, possibly a call to warn other nearby triggerfish of danger.[2] One particularly interesting aspect of the fish's behavior is the ability to blow jets of water from its mouth. These jets help the fish find benthic invertebrates that may be buried under the substrate. Triggerfish can often be seen spitting sand from their mouths in order to sift through the material in search of edible detritus or organisms. Reef triggers are fairly aggressive and will generally not tolerate conspecific individuals in their general vicinity; thus the fish is often found solitary. This is particularly true in captivity. Triggers have the remarkable ability to rapidly alter their coloration. They can fade into a relatively drab appearance when sleeping or demonstrating submission, while their coloration is often the most vivid when the fish are healthy and unthreatened by their surroundings.
Distribution The reef triggerfish is distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region. It is especially prominent in the coral reefs of the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaii state fish[edit]
The reef triggerfish was originally designated the official fish of Hawaii in 1985,[3] but due to an expiration of a Hawaiian state law after five years, it ceased to be the state fish in 1990.[4] On April 17, 2006, bill HB1982 was presented to the Governor of Hawaiʻi, which permanently reinstated the reef triggerfish (humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa) as the state fish of Hawaiʻi.[5] The bill passed into law on May 2, 2006, and was effective upon its approval.[6][7]
- ^ The Free Dictionary
- ^ Hawaiian Marine Life Profile - Maui Ocean Center
- ^ Hawaiian Bill 1982 Retrieved 2011-05-17
- ^ "Lawmaker seeks official status for humuhumunukunukuapuaa". USA Today. January 1, 2006. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ HB1982 Measure History
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- "Rhinecanthus rectangulus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 January 2006.
- "Marine Life Profile: Reef Triggerfish" (PDF). Waikiki Aquarium. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2005). "Rhinecanthus rectangulus" in FishBase. December 2005 version.
- "Legislation to permanently establish as Hawaii state fish". Archived from the original on 10 July 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2006.
- "Hawaii may honor fish with long name". Retrieved 18 April 2006.
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PopTech is known for bringing together innovators from its network to facilitate unlikely collaborations. Such was the case when Lincoln Schatz, a video artist, met CeaseFire's Executive Director, Gary Slutkin, at PopTech 2008. A year later at PopTech 2009, they announced their joint project, Cure Violence, which empowers communities to openly and safely discuss the causes – and more importantly, solutions – to violence.
Today, Schatz announced via email that the first chapter of Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic could be viewed online. He provided background about the project along with an explanation of his process:
I created Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic in conjunction with CeaseFire, an Illinois nonprofit dedicated to working with community and government partners to reduce violence. Traveling through the greater Chicago area in 2009, including the neighborhoods most ridden with violence, I interviewed people from the CeaseFire network of violence interrupters, outreach workers, and community members. I processed the footage through my custom software to create a non-editorialized composite portrait of the complex landscape of violence. Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic is intended increase awareness, incite social action, and provide a platform for discussion.
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This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.
Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.
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Erin McKean spoke at PopTech in 2006 about words, dictionaries, grammar and all things in between.
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A look inside the financial diaries of $2 a day households with Daryl Collins
You earn money. You try to save some. You spend most of it. You attempt to stick to a budget. Rent, cell phone, heat and electricity, some groceries. Juggling your income and expenses is manageable, more or less.
But what if you were living on $2 a day, as 40% of the world's population does? How would you make ends meet then? Is managing money even an option? That's what Daryl Collins set out to determine when she co-authored Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day.
The assumption may be that the poor have very little financial life, but when she and her colleagues started to interview low-income households in Bangledesh, India and South Africa every two weeks over the course of a year, they saw something different. From the financial diaries the 250 participants kept, a picture emerged of families with sophisticated financial lives, borrowing and saving as well as maintaining diverse "financial portfolios."
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Casey Dunn wins the Waterman, untangles DNA and promotes open science
Casey Dunn is a biologist who draws upon an eclectic set of interests. His lab at Brown University studies how evolution gave rise to the diversity of life. In particular, he studies siphonophores, giant colonial, connected 'superorganism' jellyfish that are one of the longest animals in the world (they grow to be 100+ feet long in the open ocean).
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Today, Dunn, a 2010 PopTech Science Fellow, was awarded the National Science Foundation's prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award, the United States' highest scientific honor bestowed to a scientist 35 years or under. PopTech spoke with Dunn about the various projects he has his hands in right now.
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Casey Dunn: A lot of what we're doing is collecting rare, poorly known organisms and then using genomic tools to sequence lots of genes from them. Then we use that information to figure out how they're related, which helps to reconstruct the history of the evolution of a variety of things.
Ecomaterials Lab: Gas from grass? Next-generation biofuels
Instability in oil-producing countries like Libya has precipitated a sharp rise in oil prices. This means primarily two things: more pennies at the pump for gasoline, and an increase in cost on everything from bottled water to a loaf of bread.
Finding a way to make fuel out of anything other than petroleum has been a singular fascination for many scientists. Recently, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have succeeded in producing isobutanol (a higher grade of alcohol than ethanol that can be burned in regular car engines) directly from cellulosic plant matter, such as corn stover and switchgrass, using bacteria. The breakthrough means that the formerly multi-stage process of converting biomass to fuel has been simplified to a single step; and that a cheap, eco-friendly alternative to corn ethanol is now within reach.
"Unlike ethanol, isobutanol can be blended at any ratio with gasoline and should eliminate the need for dedicated infrastructure in tanks or vehicles," said James Liao, chancellor's professor and vice chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and leader of the research team. "Plus, it may be possible to use isobutanol directly in current engines without modification." (via Gizmag)
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Nancy Duarte: Presentations that transform audiences
Speaking in front of an audience can be hit-or-miss. Even if you have something amazing to say, if your on-stage presentation is weak or disorganized, you're not going to move anyone, let alone keep people's attention. That's where Nancy Duarte comes in. Presentation designer and CEO of Duarte Design, Duarte is a storyteller with an eye for clearly articulating a message and keeping an audience rapt. If you need any convincing, check out the slides she put together for the 2006 Oscar-wining documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
A Faculty Advisor at PopTech, Duarte, along with her team, have helped Social Innovation and Science Fellows put together powerful stage talks for PopTech's annual conference for the past couple of years. She's also the author of a book on the same topic entitled Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences.
In this PopTech video, Duarte shares the patterns she's seen emerge from performances, speeches and films that transform - and transfix - audiences. Referencing Martin Luther King Jr., Martha Graham, and Steve Jobs, Duarte explains, "The greatest communicators connect really empathetically with their audience."
This week in PopTech: Everyone's at SXSW
There's always something brewing in the PopTech community. In addition to PopTech's Andrew Zolli who is speaking on a panel at SXSW, this week, quite a few people from our network are headed to Austin to participate in SXSW. A handful of their events, panels and, of course, parties follows.
- Can you really do good for the world and make a profit at the same time? You bet. We're thrilled to be one of the sponsors for The Good Capitalist Party on Saturday March 12. Here's your chance to meet a diverse group of folks connected to the field of social entrepreneurship.
- Regular PopTech photographer Kris Krug and other seasoned SXSW veterans are hosting a light-hearted and informative introduction to optimizing your SXSW experience on March 11. Topics will include juggling parties, panels, getting around and staying charged up. Krug is also hosting a photography meet up on Saturday March 12.
- Also on Saturday, Lisa Gansky (PopTech 2010) will be hosting the panel, Why Access to Goods and Services Trumps Ownership. Directly following her panel, Gansky will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to greet interested registrants and sign copies of her book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing.
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Susan Casey talks tsunamis and the mysteries of wave science
In light of the recent 8.9 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and with tsunami warnings issued to 50 countries and territories, we've released Susan Casey's enlightening PopTech 2010 talk about the history and implications of rogue waves. For three years, Casey studied this mysterious phenomenon, observing waves' behavior, researching their history, and talking with people who spend their lives in the ocean.
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Scientists at the University of California, Davis report that they have deciphered the structure of kinesin-5, a critical protein that helps cells to divide. The researchers believe their discovery will assist in attempts to block the uncontrolled cell division that takes place in cancer.
"The structure of kinesin-5 is unexpected, and the implications are big" said Jawdat Al-Bassam, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis, who led the project. It allows us to target it, for example in various forms of cancer. This fills in a major missing piece, because for the first time we can understand how microtubule filaments can be linked together and slide past each other."
The Al-Bassam team's study ("Structural basis for the assembly of the mitotic motor Kinesin-5 into bipolar tetramers") is published online in eLife.
When a cell divides into two new cells, a mitotic spindle forms. Microtubules of protein fan out from each end of the cell, capture chromosomes, and draw them apart into what will become the two new cells. Precise coordination of this process is crucial for cells to divide properly, and for avoiding birth and developmental defects. Cancer cells divide continuously, so this process repeats itself much more often in cancer cells than in normal cells.
The kinesins are a large family of motor proteins that move items around inside cells, said Jonathan Scholey, Ph.D., professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis and an author on the paper. Generally, they have two motor units at one end that can "walk" along a microtubule, dragging cargo attached to the other end of the protein.
Originally identified as a protein essential for mitosis in fungi, kinesin-5 was first purified about 20 years ago by Dr. Scholey's lab who found that it is unusual because it has motor units at both ends, allowing it to link two microtubules and walk them past each other. "It's now understood to be absolutely essential for mitosis in virtually all eukaryotic cells," according to Dr. Scholey.
Using electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography, the Al-Bassam group determined the atomic structure of the central rod of kinesin-5. They found that it is made up of four long helices of protein bundled together, two running in each direction.
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The structure also revealed pockets unique to kinesin-5 that could be exploited as targets for new anticancer drugs. Kinesin-5 has been identified as a target for drugs to treat cancers that involve uncontrolled cell division, such as colorectal cancer, Dr. Al-Bassam explained.
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Two men cited in investigation into bear shooting in KillingtonStaff Report | August 25,2014KILLINGTON—The investigation into the shooting of a bear in a residential Killington neighborhood has led to charges against two men.
Scott Keefer, 24, of Killington, and Aaron Roucoulet, 20, also of Killington, were cited for taking a bear by illegal means, according to a press release from the state Fish & Wildlife Department.
The charges stem from an investigation into the shooting of a black bear killed on Anthony Way, a residential area in town, earlier this month.
The bear wandered into the backyard of Wade Collins before it died. Collins said he found the bear several days later because of the smell.
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How Do I Report Modders?
Like I know the in-game report feature for cheating and boosting, but I have picture proof of 3 kids on one game who modded their games (they all had golden guns, 999k money, and 1 of them had auto-aim on.)
So how do I directly report them to someone, for example JD 2020, so that they can get banned? the CoD forums are down, so I was just wondering if you guys knew.
just view their gamertag and file compilent and pick which one of the solutions they give you and hope the fuckers vanish. sounds a little harsh well I've been playin with modders all day in codmw2. not that many in black ops.
Or, move on and think, "It's just a game", neg rep them, and never have to play with them again.
I just never get the hard on people have for wanting to have modders raped and pillaged. Yea, it's against the "agreement" in the XBL contract, but, if you read that, so is swearing, so why not report everybody who swears? They're breaking the rules too.
It's simple, you join a game, realize people are modding/hacking, neg rep them, leave the game, and find another. Let all the modders/hackers play with each other.
There are more threads bitching about modders/hackers/glitchers than there really need to be.
the non prestige's using golden guns probably used the training mode glitch, however the 14 is not likely legit would have said it was also through training mode till you mention the auto lock on.
No way, just file a complaint. Giving somebody a bad rep isn't enough punishment, (pun) because people who go out their way to mod/hack the game obviously take the game way too seriously, and the only way to really get under their skin is by filing a complaint and successfully getting them banned. Can you imagine when that 35-year-old man still living at his parent's house turns on his xbox and realizes he can't play for another week? He's gonna go on a screaming rampage until his parents come downstairs and tell him to shut the hell up, at which point he sits down and slowly begins to rethink his life. He then goes out, gets a job, finally gets his license, saves up money for a car, and eventually sells his xbox in hopes to turn around his life. OH SWEET JUSTICE!
At least this is how I picture it happening.
There are modders in this? 3Arc said it would be unmoddable. They suck :(
Maybe I should start taking a closer look when I see a guy go 50:0....
Video? I'd like to see the auto-aim for myself. Have it show his and your point of view.
Not saying this is the OP's case, but whats the guy's name so I can search him out? What was the map/time etc?
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