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すべてはケベックシティ(カナダ)の近郊の小さな町、ベ・サン・ポールで始まりました。1980 年代の初め頃、ベ・サン・ポールでは色とりどりの衣装をまとったキャラクターの一団が街を練り歩き、竹馬、ジャグリング、ダンス、火吹き、音楽などの芸を披露していました。彼らこそ、ジル・サンクロワが組織したストリートパフォーマンスのグループ、Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul(ベ・サン・ポールの竹馬乗り)でした。すでに街の人々はこの若いパフォーマーのグループに心を動かされ、魅せられていました。パフォーマーの中に、後に Cirque du Soleil の設立者のひとりとなり、CEO となるギー・ラリベルテもいました。
From a group of 20 street performers at its beginnings in 1984, Cirque du Soleil is a major Québec-based organization providing high-quality artistic entertainment. The company has 5,000 employees, including more than 1,300 artists from more than 50 different countries.
Cirque du Soleil has brought wonder and delight to more than 100 million spectators in more than 300 cities in over forty countries on six continents.
The mission of Cirque du Soleil is to invoke the imagination, provoke the senses and evoke the emotions of people around the world.
It all started in Baie-Saint-Paul, a small town near Québec City in Canada. There, in the early eighties, a band of colourful characters roamed the streets, striding on stilts, juggling, dancing, breathing fire, and playing music. They were Les Échassiers de Baie- Saint-Paul (the Baie-Saint-Paul Stiltwalkers), a street theatre group founded by Gilles Ste- Croix. Already, the townsfolk were impressed and intrigued by the young performers – including Guy Laliberté who founded Cirque du Soleil.
The troupe went on to found Le Club des talons hauts (the High Heels Club), and then, in 1982, organized La Fête foraine de Baie-Saint-Paul, a cultural event in which street performers from all over met to exchange ideas and enliven the streets of the town for a few days. La Fête foraine was repeated in 1983 and 1984. Le Club des talons hauts attracted notice, and Guy Laliberté, Gilles Ste-Croix and their cronies began to cherish a crazy dream: to create a Québec circus and take the troupe travelling around the world.
In 1984, Québec City was celebrating the 450th anniversary of Canada's discovery by Jacques Cartier, and they needed a show that would carry the festivities out across the province. Guy Laliberté presented a proposal for a show called Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), and succeeded in convincing the organizers. And Cirque du Soleil hasn't stopped since!
In 2012, Cirque du Soleil will present simultaneously 20 different shows around the world. Its challenge is to continue to grow while offering its creators the freedom to dream the wildest dreams and make them come true. The heart of Cirque du Soleil's activity remains creating live shows and presenting them under big tops or in theatres. Since
1984 close to 200 creators from the four corners of the globe have contributed their talents to this end.
In the past few years Cirque du Soleil has been developing business initiatives based on its shows. Through its Events and Images division:
1. Cirque du Soleil creates original and innovative content for movie theatre, television and DVD. Its creations have been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions: among them are Cirque du Soleil presents Corteo (Emmy and Gémeaux in 2007); Midnight Sun (DVD Excellence Award in 2006 and a Gemini Award in 2005); Cirque du Soleil Fire Within (DVD Excellence Award in 2005, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Gemini Awards in 2003); and Cirque du Soleil Presents Dralion (three Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001).
2. Cirque du Soleil has acquired extensive experience in organizing unforgettable private gatherings as well as major public events (World Exposition Shanghai
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Cirque du Soleil is offering a full range of products for retail sale under the Big Top, at resident show boutiques and on the Internet, Cirque du Soleil is seeking reliable partners to design, develop, market and distribute unique products which will bring "artful living" into the daily lives of Cirque du Soleil aficionados.
Cirque du Soleil is also diversifying its commercial activities by targeting another niche: licensing. The organization also wishes to extend its creative talent to other spheres of activity. With the collaboration of business partners, Cirque du Soleil is developing innovative projects, particularly in the field of hospitality (restaurants, bars, spas, etc.). Through its own unique approach, Cirque du Soleil extends its creative energy to other types of initiatives in order to create a new form of entertainment: (e.g The REVOLUTION LOUNGE at The Mirage and the Gold Lounge at ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, as well as Desigual clothing and accessories collection).


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Drought-stressed soybeans can make silage
Drought-stressed soybeans can make silage
by Steve Larson, Hoard's Dairyman Managing Editor
Chopping or baling soybeans can help fill forage needs. That's the message from the University of Illinois' Mike Hutjens who has posted a 7-minute video discussion on the subject. You can find it and some related information at: http://go.illinois.edu/drought.
Hutjens says the best time to chop would be when soybeans are in the R3 stage of development . . . just beginning to develop pods. At that stage, one of the top four nodes of the plant with a fully developed leaf has a 3/16-inch pod.
He recommends wilting to between 35 and 45 percent dry matter . . . on the drier side for upright silos . . . on the wetter side for bags and bunkers. Set choppers for a 3/8-inch theoretical length of cut. Use an inoculant similar to what you would use for hay silage.
The yield may be in the range of 1 to 2 tons (as fed) per acre.
At the R3 stage, you might expect forage with 18 percent protein, 46 percent NDF and 32 percent ADF. At the R5 stage (beginning to make seed), protein would be about the same, but NDF would be more like 46 and ADF about 34.
At the R7 stage (beginning maturity), NDF might drop to 40 percent because there would be more seed and ADF might drop to 29 or so.
There will be a lot of moisture in the soybean plants, and it may be a challenge to get them dry enough to bale. You may need to use a propionic acid preservative, Hutjens cautions.
He urges people to check on any herbicides and insecticides that may have been applied to the soybeans. Make sure there is no risk of toxicity or contamination of milk or meat.
Hutjens says a potential seed yield of 20 bushels per acre may be the chop/combine break point. At $15 per bushel, 20 bushels of seed is $300. If hay is worth $200 per ton and you get 1-1/2 tons of dry matter per acre, the forage also would be worth $300.
With limited forages this year, a special webinar has been added to address the options for producers to examine additional forage possibilities. "Sorting through your forage supply options" will be presented by Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois. Hutjens expressed great interest in making this a very interactive webinar, wanting input from the attendees as to their current situation, so everyone can learn from others and gain some insight so they are better prepared to tackle their forage needs. Join us Monday, August 27 at 12 noon (Central time) for this webinar. Biotal Forage Inoculants (www.qualitysilage.com) stepped forward to sponsor this webinar.
If you already have registered for any of the free webinars, you will automatically receive a link to watch this webinar. If you want to participate, visit www.hoards.com/webinars or go directly to the enrollment page.
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Would you trade for him if he were on the block, and what do you think it would take?
Would you try to pick him up if he got bought out?
I only made this thread to not derail the Hossa thread. I haven't heard anything about him being vought out or traded, but they are in a bit of a pickle with very little payers signed... I will quote what I wrote in the Hossa thread and you guys can comment from there:
What would you give up for Kovalchuk? You mentioned the impending retirement of Broduer, they could bite at Mrazek too... (not straight up of course...)
In all honesty, they do need some cap relief...they only have 6 forwards and 6 defensemen signed with $26M in Capspace....$26M sounds like a lot, but it could disappear quickly when you have to sign 8 forwards and a D...that is an average $2.8M per player, and it todays market, that is a lot of average to below average players or tons of prospects!
This guy indeed had prior chemistry with Dastyuk and at $6.6M cap hit, he is not too expensive considering the market...plus if he got bought out, he would be even cheaper...


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Ronnie earned a lot of frequent flier miles by being a globetrotter, but in the process he spent all his bank savings.
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She's great in bed. Well, in a lot of other places too. She's a bit of a globetrotter.
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A runner, a ripper, a hoe, and a bopper!! meaning they like to fuck , suck and swollow. Originated in the bay area, san pablo.
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The Dixie Youth Minors (9-10) district all-star tournament begins tonight at Hanahan's recreation fields behind Trident Tech.
It's an eight-team, double-elimination event, with the winner advancing to the state tournament.
Parks Field of Summerville and Ladson play at 6 p.m. on one field while Bonneau and Pepperhill also play at 6 p.m. on an adjacent field.
The Carolina League of Summerville and Moncks Corner play at 8 p.m. along with Hanahan and Park Circle on the other field.
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With the addition of one year experience, Alfie, Weiss, and playing in the easy East ... we should be better than just 4 pts difference than last year.
I'm shocked that we're the only team in the top 5-6 ranking conference that has a NEGATIVE goal differential. And we've been carrying that for a while, to my memory.
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Political Studies offers an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts academic major. With political science as its core focus, the major includes relevant courses from a number of disciplines, among them economics, geography, history, languages, management and philosophy. The curriculum stresses student mastery of a variety of allied subjects covered within such fields to enhance understanding of the historical, philosophical, methodological, environmental, economic, legal, geographic, linguistic, organizational, international and domestic contexts of politics. The major prepares students for further study in law or graduate school; to enter public service careers in government; to work in the private sector, the policy arena, and/or the political/legislative process; or to conduct research.
The Political Studies academic major requires completion of 48 credit hours selected from a common core of required political science courses and one of five major emphasis fields consisting of economics, environmental studies, history, management, and philosophy, all of which are discussed below. Students must maintain a cumulative 2.5 GPA in courses required to complete any one of the seven major emphases. Additional recommended coursework may be taken in a number of disciplines, depending upon approved student interests. It is strongly recommended that students take MATH 150 (Elementary Statistics); PSYC/SOC 390 (Research Methods); and 16 hours (two full years, four semesters, or equivalent preparation) of a foreign language, eight of which are required.
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Victim Number 12: Detroit Trans Woman Murdered
A university student was found shot and killed in an area notorious for hate crimes against transgender women.
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Looking straight up, The Cirque has one ugly face.
It doesn't get any prettier looking straight down. The treacherous Kirkwood terrain is covered in exposed rock and ripped with double-black shoots all the more jagged without new snow. The terrain is permanently closed to the public.
The Cirque at Kirkwood Mountain Resort will serve as the venue for the fourth stop of the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face 2013 on Wednesday. The competition originally had a weather window of Wednesday through Sunday, but with no snow on the weekend horizon, Wednesday is a go.
The best freeskiers and snowboards in the world will meet at 9 a.m. to face off on the bare-bones conditions.
Among them are Kirkwood riders Josh Daiek and Casey Lucas, and North Shore riders Ralph Backstrom, Sammy Luebke, Iris Lazzareschi and Jacklyn Paaso.
"It's really a great feeling being home. Competing is already very nerve-racking and stressful. Being home brings a calming element," Lucas said.
Lucas, who took fourth in her first two FWT stops, has been looking mighty calm on the icy slopes lately. She took first at the Kirkwood Banzai competition in similar conditions last month.
"I am thankful I have had a couple weeks home to get used to riding hard pack. Thanks Banzai," Lucas said.
The Kirkwood rider also has a couple years of riding The Cirque on her side.
"The first time I rode the Cirque I believe I was 19 or 20. It was pretty insane. I had no business being in there," Lucas said. "I used to get scared, now I get really excited. I think I get more nervous about being judged."
Riders compete one at a time and a judging panel bases their score on line difficulty, control, fluidity, technique and style. A start gate is positioned at the summit with a finish gate at the bottom. The best complete runs win. The sport is similar in context to big-wave surfing with skiers and snowboarders choosing impossible-looking lines through cornices and cliff-faces and couloirs.
Daiek, a Kirkwood rider and the 2012 Subaru Freeskiing World Tour Champion, is also looking forward to competing on his home mountain.
"I'm simply stoked for the competition to be at Kirkwood," Daiek said. "It has some of the most fun terrain and is one of the best competition venues in the world."
Kirkwood will be the fourth stop on the five-stop Freeride World Tour. It is the only U.S. stop.
Before the Kirkwood stop, the FWT athletes made there way through Revelstoke, Canada; Courmayeur, France; and Chamonix, France.
After Kirkwood, there will be one more stop in Fieberbrunn, Austria, before cuts are made. The top three results out of the five events for men and the top three results out of the four events for women will qualify riders for a final show down in Verbier, Switzerland, and a coveted spot on next year's 2014 Freeride World Tour.
For Lucas and Luebke, who are both ranked fourth in FWT standings, this makes the Kirkwood stop all the more important. Both are up for the challenge.
"My strategy going into every contest is having fun," Lucas said. "Especially this event. I have been mediating on not having any doubts in myself, and remembering the reason I started this sport. To have fun."
A preview video of the event is available at: http://tinyurl.com/aqkaf73.
The Kirkwood competition can be witnessed from anywhere in the world via live webcast available on www.freerideworldtour.com.
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2 Laura Dewey USA 3790.00
3 Elodie Mouthon FRA 3605.00
4 Casey Lucas* USA 3600.00
5 Aline Bock GER 3435.00
6 Iris Lazzareschi* USA 2915.00
7 Anouck Mouthon FRA 2585.00
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Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight. Ribbit for Silverlight is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services. The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.
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What Your Favorite TV Shows And Networks Say About Your Politics
The Weather Channel leans right, while Game of Thrones leans left. Using data from its Trendsetter app, Engage analyzed "likes" from thousands of Facebook users to tie consumer choices to political preference and engagement.
The infographics use data from Engage's Trendsetter app, a tool that cross-references polling data with influence and page "likes" from Facebook. Engage measures turnout by affinity toward politics and politicians, assuming that the more likely you are to "like" a politician of any party on Facebook, the more probable it is you'll vote on Nov. 6.
2 Charts That Explain What Your Food Says About Your Politics
In the week leading up to the election, Engage is rolling out 12 infographics with BuzzFeed that break down what your preferences — for food and alcohol, television and books, movies and games — say about your politics. Wednesday, we started with food.
- Donald Trump accused former Miss Universe Alicia Machado of being in a sex tape, calling her "disgusting." He's appeared in a softcore porn.
- The hair vitamins promoted by the Kardashians make "largely inaccurate" nutrient claims, according to lab tests.
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Published: 14th September 2012 | Source: Corsair | Price: £198.23 |
We're off to a good start with the AIDA64 read test suite. The Neutron GTX gives us the fastest speeds we've yet seen from a single drive. 580 MB/s in the random test is outstanding.
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Anvil provides us with the bulk of our test results, thanks to its easy to use interface and plethora of test options. The Sequential IOPS for both read and write are around the same as every other drive we've seen, although just shy of the very fastest drives.
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The first SSD equipped with the LM87800 controller appears in our offices. How does it perform?
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Any thoughts, Tom?
(Also, I can't thank you enough for all the review vids - they've been extremely helpful while I've been gathering parts for my first PC build.)Quote
But I've a doubt in my mind over the reliability of new LM87800 controller.Quote
just out of curiosity in your review you say you don't care about ocz is there any particular reason why?
Personaly I still think ssd's are to expensive for the size, I'd like to see 250g below £100 b4 I'd consider buying 1
The new vertex 4 with indilinx controler might be a diferent story, but about previous versions I wont recomend anyone to get them. I really regret have bought mine since I had some issues(and still do sometimes) of sistem frozing, etc. I had to turn OS HDD plug and play to be able to be stable.
Next time I get an SSD is gona be corsair or Intel for sure.Quote
SATA 6? AHCI or IDE?
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Id put money on the fact you are using a 2011 board.Quote
^^^Be config problem, IE: user/driver related issues.
Id put money on the fact you are using a 2011 board.
I have used a new SATA cable, different SATA port and even try a secure clean as advised by corsair posts.
Maybe the SATA controller on older motherboards dont play game with these new drives.Quote
But yeh, your motherboard will be why.Quote
I have just added the as a boot drive and have just installed windows 7 onto it. Obviously a clean install. I am experiencing crashing and freezing.
I am coming from the Force 3 120gb so I know how a SSD behaves with windows and this is the first time I have ever seen the spinning loading symbol on the taskbar during startup.
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Katie Sherrod, a Fort Worth journalist, became the first woman to write a personal opinion news commentary column at the Fort Worth Star Telegram in 1983. Afterwards her column evolved into the best-read column in the newspaper, and her commitment to the community and to providing information on the public decision-making process became a hallmark of her career.
Her series on the crime of rape in 1972 was the catalyst for the formation of the Rape Crisis Task Force, which later evolved into the Rape Crisis Center. Another series of stories in the early 70s on battered women was the basis for the made-for-TV movie Battered, and caused the formation of Womens Haven, a United Way sponsored shelter for battered women and their children.
Ms. Sherrods work earned her many honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to Princeton University. In addition she was a two-time winner of the Chrysalis Award of the Texas Womens Political Caucus and was named Woman of the Year for 1986 by the Caucus.
A pioneer in the advancement of women journalists, Ms. Sherrod was among the first women to move into significant management positions on a Texas newspaper when she was named the metropolitan editor of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Ms. Sherrod won several writing awards, including a Texas Headliner Award for investigative reporting for her series on rape. She was one of 40 finalists for the Journalists-in-Space program, picked from 1,700 applicants.
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I haven't gone back to view the video again, but among the points Mountain made is that Moir does bulk up during the off-season. Once the season starts, he maintains his strength but trims down a bit in order to enhance V/M's superb lines.
As for Virtue, their goal is for her to have 100% of the muscle that she needs, but not an ounce more -- again partly for the sake of lines, and partly for Moir's sake during lifts.
Virtue/Moir always show Mountain the specific lifts in their programs, and she customizes their workouts to target the appropriate muscles.
ETA: V/M train with her twice a week in London. They return to Canton with her marching orders for their workouts there without her.The videos below have good footage of Virtue/Moir working out with Mountain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4AR...m2KFA&index=15 (:38 in length)
I agree that the entire article is very worthwhile reading -- and definitely relevant to the discussion in this thread.
I think the excerpts below (emphasis added) represent the gist:
Linichuk took one look at the 5-foot-6, 105-pound Belbin and said, You need to gain 10 pounds. She said more muscle would help Belbin skate faster and more fluidly. ...
Belbin began reading books about nutrition and eating lunch at the rink. She learned to eat foods that would best sustain an athletes body.
She also began training harder off the ice, lifting weights, doing push-ups and participating in Karponosovs boot camps, which involve hard-core skating drills to strengthen the legs.
Karponosovs skaters would often complain that his drills made their legs so muscular that they could no longer fit into their jeans.
I was always like, there will never be a day when I cant fit into my jeans, Belbin said. But this past summer, I came to him and said my jeans are so tight. I never thought Id see that change in my body. It really, really made a difference. It feels good, though.
Belbin began marveling at her new body. She had gained 10 pounds. Her waist size increased two inches because her core was so much stronger.
Agosto could see a huge difference in Belbins skating. During lifts, she was no longer a sack of potatoes, holding on for dear life. She could hold her positions much better, and that made it easier for Agosto because she did not move around as much.


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FREEPORT — The Stephenson County Health Department will host Cover Your Community, an event to educate people about Get Covered Illinois, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Stephenson County Health Department, 10 W. Linden St.
The program will promote awareness and provide information to residents of Carroll, Jo Daviess and Stephenson Counties. Cover Your Community will help uninsured people understand coverage options and become familiar with Get Covered Illinois.
For information: Stephenson County at 815-599-8421, Carroll County at 815-244-8855, Jo Daviess County at 815-777-0263 or healthcare.gov.
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West Virginia Wesleyan College's Rich Sutphin, a senior biology major from Seth, recently attended the Clinton Global Initiative University.
The conference is hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative for university students around the world each year in April at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Each attendee must apply with a commitment to action that deals with education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation or public health.
Sutphin applied for the meeting with an idea for an after-school mentoring and tutoring program in Zanzibar, an idea he thought of after studying abroad last semester in that country.
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"I chose to apply with this idea after living within a rural community for a few weeks," Sutphin said. "I had heard stories of how an average of only two students passes the national exam to continue their education each year."
After speaking with leaders within the community and the school principal, he understood why this was.
"Students are taught minimal English, math and science, which is a problem when sitting for this exam, as it is written in English and is primarily science and math," he said. "Therefore, I hope to build a program in which students are taught the curriculum that is required for the national exam in a fun, safe and engaging environment."
Sutphin wants to utilize not only his English skills, but also his biology background to help students learn both subjects for the exam. He commented that his future goals would be "to create a program that is run by teachers who are graduates of the program and are thus invested in both the program and community."
"CGIU gave me a few tools to help turn my idea into action, which was the main focus of the conference," Sutphin said. "I was able to network with other students that had similar ideas or had already started successful commitments."
Sutphin also attended sessions that gave him insight into prescription drug abuse, human trafficking and how to better engage women in societies in which they are oppressed. These sessions showed him how successful people started out with an idea and pursued it to fruition.
"More than anything, CGIU inspired me to push through my own limits to try to make my commitment succeed, treating each bump in the road as a learning moment instead of a stumbling block," he said.
The Center for Community Engagement & Leadership Development sponsored Sutphin's participation in the conference.


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The Oregon Health Authority's Public Health Division announced Tuesday its intent to grant a variance to the city of Portland from the requirement to treat the Bull Run water source for Cryptosporidium.
The Health Authority also proposed conditions that the city would need to follow to keep the variance so that appropriate safeguards continue to protect the watershed.
"After thoughtfully, thoroughly and objectively examining the science available on the issue and on this particular watershed, we are satisfied that there is not, at this time, a need to treat the Bull Run source water for Cryptosporidium for public health reasons," said Gail Shibley, J.D., Oregon Office of Environmental Public Health administrator. "Therefore, we have issued an intent to grant a variance requested by the city of Portland. We also want to hear comments from the public before we issue a final order."
City of Bend spokesman Justin Finestone said the process under way for Portland's drinking water source is "the same process we're looking at" in hopes of a variance for treatment of water taken from Bridge Creek, which has the potential for cutting the cost of Bend's controversial $68 million water project.
Finestone said they have been "waiting to see what the outcome of the Portland situation" would be.
Bend Mayor Jeff Eager said of the state's move, "I think this helps Bend's case for delay and/or flexibility in implementing LT2," a new EPA drinking water standards.
Eager explained that the LT2, or "Long Term 2" rule is an EPA regulation that requires municipal water providers to treat surface water sources for cryptosporidium, a microbe that can make people sick. It was imposed after a 1993 illness outbreak tied to the parasite in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that killed more than 100 people
"LT2 is the rule that has caused the city of Bend to plan to treat the water it gets from Bridge Creek," the mayor said. "Portland is facing a similar dilemma with Bull Run due to the same regulation, although Portland now has obtained a variance from the rule.
"Delay and/or flexibility could help reduce the cost of retaining Bend's surface water source, which provides around half the city's annual supply of water," Eager told KTVZ.COM.
Such a variance could cut up to $29 million from the Bend project's cost,money directed toward building a treatment plant.
A public hearing is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Portland State Office Building, 800 N.E. Oregon St., Room 1B, to gather comments about the intent to grant the variance and its conditions.
The Bull Run watershed is 26 miles east of downtown Portland in the Mount Hood National Forest. It provides drinking water for one-fourth of all Oregon residents, workers and visitors.
The city of Portland submitted a variance request June 6. Public Health officials, along with state Department of Justice and Department of Environmental Quality experts, evaluated data and available science in reviewing the request.
The Oregon Health Authority determined that city officials have demonstrated - as required by both the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and the Oregon Drinking Water Quality Act -- that Cryptosporidium treatment of the Bull Run water source is not necessary to protect the health of consumers because of the nature of the raw water source.
The proposed variance would be valid for 10 years. After that time, the variance would be re-examined and could be renewed. The proposed variance would be subject to the following conditions:
* All current protections for the Bull Run Management Unit must remain in place, and the city must annually report to OHA the status of protection activities.
* The city must routinely monitor Bull Run water at the intake for Cryptosporidium. Routine monitoring consists of collecting and testing at least two 50-liter samples weekly. Laboratory analysis must be conducted by an Environmental Protection Agency -approved laboratory following an EPA-approved method. If any sample detects Cryptosporidium, monitoring frequency must be increased.
* Increased monitoring must consist of collecting at least four 50-liter samples weekly, in the same manner as the routine monitoring. The city must continue increased monitoring until the running annual average of Cryptosporidium concentration drops below 0.075 oocysts per 1,000 liters.
* If, while on increased monitoring, any sample detects Cryptosporidium, OHA may revoke the variance.
* The city must notify OHA within 24 hours of any laboratory results that detect Cryptosporidium.
* The city must allow OHA or its designee access to the watershed to determine compliance with conditions, or for special studies, upon request.
* The city must in a timely manner notify OHA of any circumstances that might affect conditions of the variance.
The EPA can specify additional conditions on the state-issued variance.
"The state concluded that, with these built-in safeguards to protect against unforeseen changes in the watershed, a variance is appropriate," Shibley said. "We will also thoughtfully consider all public comments to ensure our final order is as well-informed as possible."
Those who are unable to attend the public hearing may submit written comments to:
Oregon Health Authority-Public Health Division, Office of Environmental Public Health, Drinking Water Program, 800 N.E. Oregon St., Suite 640, Portland, OR 97232.
A copy of the Notice of Intent and information on submitting written comments can be found at: http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyEnvironments/DrinkingWater/Pages/BullRunVarianceRequest.aspx.
The public comment period will close at 5 p.m. Jan. 3, 2012. After reviewing the comments a final order will be issued effective Jan. 31, 2012.


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State Sen. Ted Gaines is burning on the State Responsibility Area fire fee, and he is not about to be quelled.
The Republican lawmaker who resides in Roseville and represents Nevada County has been fighting the SRA fee since Governor Jerry Brown signed the Assembly bill in July 2011.
This week, Gaines introduced three separate pieces of legislation intended to overturn the fire fee or exempt property owners who reside within the boundaries of a fire protection district or are low income.
"This $150 fire tax is illegal and unfair — plain and simple," said Gaines. "My goal with these bills is to offer some hope and support to Californians who are still facing a 10 percent unemployment rate and struggling just to make ends meet."
Gaines and other California Republicans representing rural areas have long maintained the fee is actually an illegal tax that should have required a two-thirds vote of the California Legislature rather than a simple majority vote it received in 2011.
The fee is anticipated to generate $90 million in the coming fiscal year, which is to be used toward fire prevention services — such as forest thinning and fuel removal — in the specific areas where the fee is being assessed.
The measure was deemed to be a fee because the feepayer will receive specific and direct benefits within the State Responsibility Area, said Lia Moore, a fiscal analyst with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
In the recent 2013-14 budget proposal unveiled by Brown, a proposal to hire 10 personnel for Cal Fire's Civil Cost-Recovery Program using money derived from the SRA Fee was deemed unconstitutional.
"We asked the Office of Legislative Counsel to issue a verbal opinion, and they said (the proposal) did not meet the legal definition of what the fee could be used for," Moore said. The attempt to fund the cost recovery program — which attempts to recoup funds from individuals who started fires purposely or through gross negligence — drew the ire of 24 California Republican lawmakers who sent a terse letter to Gov. Brown last Friday.
"This will take away $1.7 million from fire prevention purposes," the letter states. "While we still believe this tax is illegal, at a minimum the money should be used for its stated purpose — preventing wildfires."
Gaines and other Republicans have also expressed outrage over reports that Cal Fire stashed away about $3.6 million in taxpayer dollars rather than depositing the money into the state general fund, as required.
"My legislation comes at a time when Cal Fire has been accused of stashing away millions in a secret fund," Gaines said. "I hope my legislative colleagues realize that charging rural Californians a $150 illegal fire fee specifically to support Cal Fire operations at the same time they are hiding millions provides enough justification to support these bills."
Brown downplayed the report Tuesday, dismissing it as "a boring story."
Local reaction
Higgins Fire Protection District officials, who are set to try to pass a tax measure in early May that would add $100 to annual property tax bills for its constituents, said the $150 SRA fees will hinder their efforts.
"Of course it affects our campaign," said Higgins Fire Chief Jerry Good. "At the same time, it comes down to: We have to educate our constituents that the money they are voting on will be sent here."
Local fire entities will not see any of the money from the SRA fee — it will not help staff stations or reduce response times, Good said, adding he has not heard of any imminent fire prevention projects scheduled to be performed within the district.
"Cal Fire is a part-time fire department," said Nevada County Consolidated Fire District Director Dave Hanson. "A lot of people don't realize they only gear up for fire season.
"Residents that pay money for their local fire districts are paying for year-round 24-hour service."
A lot of residents who received their bill in October expressed outrage that the fee was retroactive to the previous fiscal year and they would receive another bill less than six months later.
The Nevada County Board of Supervisors expressed "strong opposition" to the SRA Fee.
A letter crafted by Supervisor Hank Weston chastised the state for its lack of accountability and a suspicion the money would not be used for its professed purposes but "merely to prop up Cal Fire's budget."
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in conjunction with numerous plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court in early October, claiming the fee is an illegal tax.
Later, El Dorado County joined the class-action lawsuit.
Supervisor Nate Beason said if Cal Fire is successful in the lawsuit, it's a possibility that the state would "increase the fee and broaden the application."
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Every summer, there comes a point when even hardcore anglers start to waver in their fanaticism … especially on a boats without a T-top.
Late August can be brutal on the water. Even the fish seem to slow down. But with a slight cool-down expected this week, it's a great time to head out and explore those late-summer fishing patterns.
Advice from some of our local tackle shop pros provides a few clues where to start:
Redfish: Though the tides this week won't be as high as they have been recently, anglers should still get some shots at redfish tailing through flooded marsh.
Capt. Joe Benton of the Charleston Angler said he's heard good reports from anglers wading into the grass with DOA Airheads, a plump soft-plastic bait that mimics small fish.
"The redfish are feeding on mullet," Benton said. "They've been seeing a lot of blow-ups up in the grass."
Harley Watts of Haddrell's Tackel and Supply in Mount Pleasant also cited good reports on tailing spottails, as well as a few bull redfish at the Charleston Jetties.
Tarpon: The fishing so far this year appears to be spotty, despite reports of a few hookups at the jetties a few weeks ago.
Late August and September typically provide the best opportunity to catch (and release) one of these massive fish. Try soaking menhaden and mullet (live and cut) along sandbars and troughs at major inlets. Most fishermen deploy a mix of top and bottom baits, with heavy-duty floats up top and break-away sinkers down below.
Bottom fishing: The three-day "mini-season" for red snapper ends today, and everyone seems to expect great reports from those lucky enough to head out after these tasty but highly regulated fish.
J.J. Owczarek of The Charleston Angler said that in general, "bottom fishing's been great."
"If you stop in 120 feet, you can catch just about everything. Big red snapper, though you usually have to let those go, black sea bass, big vermilions — you name it, bottom fishing out of Charleston is on fire."
Wahoo: This year's strong wahoo bite seems to be holding through the summer, with decent reports trickling in from the offshore fleet.
Owczarek said many offshore anglers continue to visit his store seeking larger ballyhoo to troll for wahoo at the ledge. This schedule seems to match his own fishing records, Owczarek said.
"Starting this week, and going into the first two weeks of September, have always been pretty good on wahoo.
"It should start to turn back on, though really it's been fairly good throughout the year so far."
Late-season migratory bird regulations set
The S.C. Natural Resources Board recently approved the 2013-2014 late migratory bird seasons and regulations.
Shooting hours statewide are half-hour before sunrise to sunset. For complete regulations, go to dnr.sc.gov
Here are the seasons:
DUCKS: (Excluding Sea Ducks) Nov. 23-Dec. 1; Dec. 7-Jan. 26. Bag limit is six total, including no more than four mallards (two hens), two pintails, one fulvous whistling duck, one black-bellied whistling duck, three wood ducks, two redheads, two canvasbacks, two scaup and either one black duck or one mottled duck.
SEA DUCKS: Oct. 12-Jan. 26 for eiders, scoters and long-tailed ducks
MERGANSERS: Nov. 23-Dec. 1; Dec. 7-Jan. 26. Bag limit is five (only one hooded merganser)
COOTS: Nov. 23-Dec. 1; Dec. 7-Jan. 26. Bag limit is 15.
CANADA GEESE/WHITE FRONTED GEESE: Nov. 23-Dec. 1; Dec. 7-Jan. 26, Feb. 6-Feb. 15. Bag limit is five (not to include more than two white-fronted geese).
BLUE and SNOW GEESE: Nov. 23-Dec. 1; Dec. 7-Jan. 26. Bag limit is 25.
BRANT: Dec. 28-Jan. 26. Bag limit is two.
DNR issues reminder on imported deer parts
State wildlife officials are asking big-game hunters traveling to Western states to avoid bringing home certain carcass parts from deer and elk harvested in states with chronic wasting disease.
DNR has set up regulations restricting such practices to protect South Carolina's deer population from the highly contagious disease.
To date, the disease has not been documented in South Carolina or any other nearby state. More than 6,000 deer from all 46 South Carolina counties have been tested since 2002.
"The regulation will not keep hunters from importing harvested game since most game taken outside of South Carolina is processed in the state where it was harvested," said Charles Ruth, the state's deer and wild turkey program coordinator.
Chronic wasting disease is one of the family of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Ruth said. The disease kills deer or elk by attacking their central nervous systems.
Hunters traveling to states with confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease should only bring the following parts into South Carolina: Quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached; meat that has been boned out; hides with no heads attached; clean (no meat or tissue attached) skulls or skull plates with antlers attached; antlers (detached from the skull plate); clean upper canine teeth, also called "buglers," "whistlers" or "ivories;" and finished taxidermy heads.
States where CWD has been diagnosed include Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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For me the idea of a small and lightweight DSLR seems quite attractive. I have used and worked with Sonys NEX-5 and have to say that I really prefer to look through the lens and not on a screen to compose pictures. That is why I am not really interested in the Canon EOS M either.
"EOS-b"?What customer is going to buy a "b" camera?i.e. how many will ask "So where is the EOS-a?" and want to buy that?
I'm in the camp of those who don't agree with the ones complaining for this little baby. I mean, it has always been like that with Canon. Since this camera is probably intended as the new entry level DSLR, it is reasonable it's being equipped with the old 18 MP sensor. Think about this fact: the 1000D/XS (June 2008) had the 10.1 MP sensor previously adopted by the 400D/XTi (Sept 2006) and 40D (Sept 2007); the 1100D/T3 (Mar 2011) had the 12.2 MP sensor previously implemented in the 450D/XSi (Mar 2008), though higher density sensors had appeared meanwhile. In other words, as far as APS-C is concerned, this may denote the 18 MP sensor has reached the end of its life cycle. We may interpret this as a means for Canon to get rid of components they have in stock which didn't receive the marketing success they expected, as it seems it has happened with the EOS M, at least in the western market.This may possibly imply we are going to have a nice surprise by Canon for the next crop DSLRs to come. We should be extremely happy about this announcement, even though not interested in buying such a thing, don't you feel the same?Have a look at a couple of old posts by myself, I was suggesting exactly this kind of strategy by Canon:http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=12606.msg225245#msg225245http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=13266.msg238582#msg238582BTW, I'm expecting to see this little baby marketed in a variety of colors...Cheers!
It all makes perfect sense except that the price tag is supposed to be 800$. Is that the entry-level? O.o
Quote from: Albi86 on March 19, 2013, 03:18:41 PMIt all makes perfect sense except that the price tag is supposed to be 800$. Is that the entry-level? O.oIt'll start out at $800 but will drop over time, as other Canon cameras do.Also I don't get all the hate for the sensor, having just got a 650D (stop gap before going FF) it holds up quite well with my 50D sensor, and that's using L lenses.If Canon listened to people on the internet, they'd never release a camera as they'd never be able to meet peoples unrealistic expectations. I probably won't be buying this camera myself, but I can see it's appeal and the reasons for Canon producing it.
And... Eeerrrr.... Are you impressed because the sensor in your 650D holds up well with its previous generation? Is that something to rave about....?
I'd laugh SO hard if it was an 18mpx sensor that kicked ass, because they updated it but not the pixel count


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Nick Naclerio, svp, corporate and venture development and general manager of Illumina's Enterprise Informatics, said in a statement that this agreement is part of the company's strategy to bring NGS to the clinical diagnostics field.
"With three FDA-cleared NGS products in our portfolio, we intend to complement internal development programs by taking products developed with external partners through the FDA submission process. Amgen is a key partner given their leadership in therapeutic development and strong track record in commercializing novel products," he added.
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These images relate to productions from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, giving an overview of the developments in theatre styles from Shakespeare's own time to about 1914, with stress on the earlier centuries. Plays included are grouped alphabetically by play title, with production details listed under each title where known. The last page 5 illustrates the range of theatre stages on which these plays have been performed. Please note that the later, more narrowly focused period sections (Galleries 3-9) overlap with the end of this broadest one (Gallery 2), so some related pictures may appear in later contexts (including a few in the Bibliographies and About Us). As noted some of the pictures in this gallery were provided by the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-on-Avon, by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and the Furness Image Collection of the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania, except for those identified otherwise. The remainder are from the UCB Shakespeare Program collection. They are intended for educational and non-commercial purposes.
Edward Alleyn (1566-1626)
All's Well That Ends Well: Mrs. Anne B. Warren (1770-1808) as Helena
All's Well That Ends Well: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2009
Antony and Cleopatra: Miss Younge as Cleopatra, 1772
Antony and Cleopatra: Mrs. Faucit (1789-1857) as Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra: Mrs. Charles Calvert as Cleopatra, 1875
Antony and Cleopatra: Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, c. 1890
Antony and Cleopatra: Robert L. Downing (1857-1944) as Antony
As You Like It: Mrs. Pritchard (1711-1768) as Rosalind
As You Like It: Mrs. Barry as Rosalind, 1772
As You like It: King as Touchstone, London Drury Lane Theatre, 1775.
As You Like It: James William Wallack (1791?-1864) as Jacques, 1859.
As You Like It: Joseph Wood (1801-1890) as Touchstone; Mary Ann Wood (1802-1864) as Audrey.
As You Like It (1859?): Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1819 - 1870) as Rosalind.
Comedy of Errors; Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) as the Abbess Aemilia
John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus, 1798.
Cymbeline: Miss Kemble as Imogen, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1787
Cymbeline: Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as Imogen.
Cymbeline, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, 2005.
English Restoration actor Thomas Betterton as Hamlet, c. 1661.
Thomas Betterton as Hamlet at the Queen's Theatre, London in 1706.
Garrick as Hamlet Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1754
Hamlet: Mrs. Jane Lessingham (1739-83) as Ophelia, London: Covent Garden Theatre, 1772.
John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) as Hamlet.
John Henderson as Hamlet, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1779.
Kemble as Hamlet: London Drury Lane Theatre, 1785.
Hamlet: Sarah Siddons as Ophelia, c.1785.
Hamlet: American actor John Howard Payne as Hamlet in 1813
Mr. Kean as Hamlet, London, Drury Lane Theatre, 1814.
Hamlet, 1813: Ophelia, Mary Bolton.
Macready as Hamlet at Drury Lane, 1834
Portrait of French actor Philibert Rouvière (1809-1865)
Hamlet: Henry Placide (1799-1870) as Polonius, 1856
Hamlet Poster, 1884: Thomas Keene (1840-1898) as Hamlet.
Hamlet: Henry Irving (1838-1905) as Hamlet.
Hamlet: Stratford, Ontario, 1957.
Henry IV: Falstaff in an Indoor Theatre: 1662.
Henry IV Part 1: Barry as Hotspur at London's Covent Garden Theatre, 1756.
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an incompetent football team based in Melbourne, Australia. Devoid of skills and talent, it only attracts the most narrow-minded, lazy, boisterous, boastful and idiotic supporters to its club.
The club and its supporters are generally held in great contempt by the general population, including those who do not follow AFL.
The club and its supporters are generally held in great contempt by the general population, including those who do not follow AFL.
How do you win a premiership?
play collingwood in the grand final
play collingwood in the grand final
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Inner-city suburb in the North-East of Melbourne, near Fitzroy and Carlton. Known for the Collingwood Football Club and various music venues including the Tote and the Barley Corn.
Going to see a band play at the Tote in Collingwood.
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A poor football team that is supported by doll bludging bogans who are responsible for the banning of canned beer at the footy.
Collingwood is crap and is disliked by many.
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Nickname for a shit, evil team
I hate that team there such a Collingwood
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Literally 'testicles' but specifically relating to a display of testicular fortitude on the sports pitch. Named after England cricketer Paul Collingwood following an epic century against South Africa.
"Jeez, he's shown a lot of guts out there today - that guy must have massive Collingwoods"
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A ski Town in Ontario Canada
I ski at Blue Mountain ski club in Collingwood.
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best ever team in the afl
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Self-driving cars. Printed heart tissue. Synthetic telepathy. Toilets that read the chemicals in your urine and warn you when your health is out of whack.
These technologies may sound like science fiction, but they will all be a part of our future, said physicist, futurist, best-selling author and TV personality Michio Kaku, who visited UB last night as the inaugural presenter in the 2013-14 Distinguished Speakers Series.
"In the future, your wallpaper will be intelligent," Kaku predicted.
In the world of tomorrow, he said, homeowners will plaster rooms with computerized smart paper that provides access to digital tools, including "robo-docs" who can answer late-night questions about common ailments. These personal physicians will cut down on calls to human doctors, greatly reducing the cost of health care.
Kaku, who is known in academic circles for his work on string
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Physics at the City College of New York.
Last night, a huge crowd funneled into Alumni Arena to hear Kaku speak. Special guests in the audience included students from many local schools, including a 10-year-old who asked Kaku what advice he had for a budding physicist-to-be.
Kaku's response: Visit the planetarium. Buy a telescope. Explore the world, discover how big and glorious it is, and don't take it too hard when other kids start calling you a nerd. It comes with the territory.
The question-and-answer session followed an hourlong lecture during which Kaku discussed how the proliferation of computing would change our lives.
Past innovations, including books and lightbulbs, made the evolution from coveted community resource to commonplace technology. Books, for instance, were once extremely rare. Scholars often shared a single volume. Then, the printing press and other advances made new copies so easy to create that the average person can now afford a personal library with hundreds of texts.
Computing has undergone a similar evolution. As Kaku noted in his talk, birthday cards that sing have more computing power than all the Allied Forces had in 1945. If Adolf Hitler had the chip in 1940, "we might all be speaking German here today rather than English," Kaku said.
"In 1969, we put two men on the moon," he added. "But, according to this chart, NASA had 64K processors in 1969. Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA in 1969."
"You're not going to put me in one of those moon rockets," he joked. "That's a tin can, backed up by a cell phone!"
Music was the first industry to become digitized, Kaku said. Movies and newspapers are now making the transition. Medicine, education and transportation are next, he predicted.
As computing permeates every facet of our lives, we will move from an era of mass production to a time of mass customization, Kaku said.
Shoppers who see a stunning but ill-fitting dress in a store will be able to order a replica that hugs their body perfectly by paying with a credit card that holds information on their dimensions. Doctors will use 3-D printing to tailor-make hearts for patients who need a new one. Sick kids will send robot surrogates to class.
"You will never play hooky in the future," Kaku said.
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This is called augmented reality. You may have seen it in the "Terminator" movies, Kaku said, pulling up a slide of Arnold Schwarzenegger (another former Distinguished Speakers Series presenter) in one of the films.
"This is the former governor of California," Kaku said.
"When Arnold sees a victim, there's a biography," he added.
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Climate Change and the Rate of Change
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Climate Change and the Rate of Change
A Message From President Michael Bassis
The notion of time and speed as a significant variable is, I think, one that can be applied well beyond the issue of climate change. In education, for example, if we think that students have four years to learn what they need to know, then the college experience becomes very content driven. If, however, we think of learning as a life-long process, then the college experience should be designed with a great deal of emphasis on process--a focus on how to learn as well as what to learn.
That is part of the approach Westminster College has adopted. We believe it is our job to equip students with the skills they will need to keep learning long after they stop taking classes. For example, we believe that the purpose of a higher education involves more than having students analyze the literary worth of a book assigned in class--it ought to involve giving students the skills needed to analyze the worth of books they will read long after they graduate.
That observation has taken us far afield from Dr. Calvin's comments about climate change but that, I would submit, is a sign of the provocative nature of his remarks: he makes you think about what he had to say, and he encourages you to use his ideas to create connections between different concepts and create a more unified view of the world.
I have long believed that the rich, diverse, and vital conversations that take place on a college campus should be shared as widely as possible. We developed Westminster Matters in an effort to share some of those conversations with you. In this spirit, I hope you find Dr. Calvin's remarks to be thought provoking.
Climate Change And The Rate Of Change
Dr. William H. Calvin
This presentation was part of the Kim T. Adamson Endowed Lecture Series.
The overall theme of this address might be summarized in this way: how fast something happens really matters. We are always talking about the speed of one thing, the speed of another thing, and their speeds relative to each other. It is their relative speed that can create trouble--it's what tears apart materials as they expand at different rates.
It makes a big difference, particularly in climate and a civilization's evolution, if things happen slowly or quickly. For example, in military affairs in World War I there was this notion of a front line that shifted ever so slightly, back and forth, over months: a little advantage here, then a little disadvantage there. But by World War II, you had the notion of a Blitzkrieg where you punched through a line and disrupted an enemy's logistics. So, for example, the enemy might have his tanks, which are terribly dependent on fuel trucks to bring them more gasoline, at the front, but if you cut them off from their supply lines, they were trapped. So, that's an example of how speed matters. It matters in climate too.
By way of definition, consider "climate" as dealing with average aspects of weather. "Climate change" is about those averages changing. So climate is what you expect; weather is what you get. Normally we talk about "climate change" in terms of annual high temperatures, average rainfall, even the seasons when the rain falls.
There is a lot of variability in the record of climate. Temperatures drift downhill, the earth cools, and the amount of rainfall becomes less and less. In fact, cooling and drying normally go together on the larger climate scale even though on a weather scale they might not.
We once thought that climate change was gradual, but it turns out that's wrong. When, for example, we drilled two miles deep in Greenland from the top of the ice cap to bedrock and looked at core samples, we saw evidence that demonstrated that temperatures did fast jumps, methane levels shifted, and wind strengths changed dramatically. We found out the climate displayed a certain level of "flipness," a kind of dramatic alteration that we had not suspected before.
The surprises research revealed were, first, that you could have worldwide climate that changed dramatically within five to ten years, and, second, that gradual changes like an increase in greenhouse warming are quite capable of triggering rapid flips. That isn't typically what has happened in the past, but to the extent we understand the mechanism, it is clear that global warming can do that--a gradual change can produce dramatic climate shifts.
I suppose the other surprise is that even after 40 years of greenhouse warnings from scientists, we still have political denial in high places.
Most people think of global warming as a change in the thermostat. And you can see signs of that. Indeed Alaska, for example, has been experiencing warming: trees are getting rot and other diseases they had not been susceptible to in the past when the weather was cooler; shorelines are being eroded because there is no longer enough pack ice to protect them from waves. There are, in short, various indicators of change and, in fact, all the climate models have said for a long time that the high Canadian latitudes and Alaska were going to be the first places to get hit by global warming.
We blame global warming on greenhouse gases, but there is one gas you've probably never thought of in that context: water vapor or humidity. It's about 60% of the total greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide makes up a good part of the rest along with methane and others). Well, if something changes the average humidity, you get fairly rapid results from that. On a local scale, the difference between a clear and a cloudy night is something you immediately know because the cloudy night, in effect, forms something of a blanket that holds the heat in; when you don't have all that near-ground humidity, you can lose a lot of heat. So things that change water vapor are something to worry about because it's potentially so fast acting.
A gradual change will sometimes produce gradual results but sometimes things can get to a point where they tip over. I mean, if you're starting to pick up the edge of a table and you pick it up a little more, and a little more, and a little more--at some point everything slides off the table. And if you keep going, at some point the table flips.
Drought is the most familiar kind of climate change. You've had some around here. There is a sort of "slippery slope" involved in getting into a drought. More often than not, you get a drought through a series of events best explained as just random chance: the storm tracks just don't get into your area for a couple of years in a row, then a few hot weeks in summer really bake the topsoil that doesn't have too much moisture left in it to begin with, and the plants droop. The way you get out of it is chance again: a few years of rain restarts the vegetation but it can be a long time before you get kicked out of it; you need to have enough rain, more than average rainfall, at the right time.
There is a rather substantial problem related to drought that no one seems to be thinking of. It's a particular problem because in the last century our dependencies have changed. It used to be that about 38% of the people lived on farms and they knew how to grow food; and if there were a few bad years, there was a lot of slack in the system in the form of stockpiles and so on. Now we have an urban civilization where only 1.4% of the people live on farms--highly efficient farms, true, but their concentration actually makes the system more prone to collapse than it was a century ago. We have, for example, people living in cities at the end of a "just in time" supply line; they don't have much extra in terms of stockpiles. If anything severely disrupts the system, disrupts the transportation system, disrupts production itself as a result of drought for example, it is capable of causing mischief on a scale that just wasn't possible a century ago.
Are more droughts possible? Based on historic trends, if you were trying to do a little planning for what the 21st century may be like, you'd have to concede that there is a one in four chance of getting hit with a bad drought sometime in the next century. And if you relax the criteria--it doesn't have to be a century long, it doesn't have to be as widespread geographically--the chances are one in two.
And, of course, human behavior is making them even more probable. Consider the problem in terms of global warming. Basically, the rising temperatures have a critical impact on tropical waters which evaporate more as they get hotter and hotter. That means more humidity in the atmosphere, more greenhouse cover, more temperature spikes, and more evaporation. But what goes up as evaporation/humidity must come down, and it does come down in the form of rainfall, particularly as heavy rainfall concentrated in the higher latitudes. You might not think that rain over the oceans as a problem, and in 98% of the ocean surface it isn't, but at the higher latitudes heavy rainfall changes ocean currents and disrupts the Gulf Stream as well as altering wind circulation. The net effect is that as the North Atlantic currents fail and winds change, we flip from our present warm and wet mode to a cool, dry, windy, and dusty climate.
Europe will be the first to feel the effects of these changes because its climate is most directly influenced by the Atlantic currents and winds. Rough calculations suggest that 22 out of 23 Europeans will feel the effects directly and substantially. They will probably try to move elsewhere, but elsewhere will already be in trouble. The whole situation is a setup for the kind of drastic reduction in population which we have had via the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. You can have a series of rippling resource wars as nations try to take over the food supplies and resources of their neighbors. You can also have widespread disease and, as we now know from history, genocide has also been very common in such situations.
Unfortunately, self-insurance doesn't work in a situation like this. Normally, the West coast bails out the East coast for hurricanes, the East coast bails out the West for earthquakes, and the "cataclysmic" event is over in a day--recovery can start tomorrow. But these flips can happen quickly; they are worldwide, and since people everywhere are getting hit, you can't count on anyone bailing you out.
But this situation, while seemingly stark, depends on the speed of transition. A flip can take place in five to ten years, but suppose it takes 500 years? There is no doubt we could do all kinds of things in response: reduce population perhaps, make agriculture very much more efficient, build new roads and irrigation canals in places that get increased rainfall. But in a decline that takes just a decade, there isn't time to do any of those things. And while humanity, I think, would survive, the population that survived would probably be in a group of very small, authoritarian nations that hate their neighbors for very good reasons. This is the sort of situation that would take a very long time to recover from.
The main thing, then, is to avoid a lurch, a quick flip. The relative speed always counts. We can't do enough to compensate for a flip that takes place in five or ten years, which is where we are heading. We can, however, respond to and minimize the effects of a flip that takes place over a 500-year period.
Stuart Brand and The Whole Earth Catalogue had this wonderful phrase back in the '60s: "We may not be gods, but it is as if we were in terms of our impact on the world." So maybe we had better get good at this god business and adopt the kind of long-term responsibility needed to keep this show going. Certainly it is juvenile to assume someone else is going to pick up after us.
We have the ability to imagine the future, and imagine it in some detail with working computer models of oceanic and atmospheric circulation and the like. We have an ability to see further ahead, to see what is down the road. In terms of our ability to see trouble coming at us, we have a lot more going for us than the society of 100 years ago. We have gotten ourselves out of a lot of trouble because we saw where we were going. And if we can find decent ways to slow down a lot of these changes so we have 500 years instead of five years to deal with it, we might just be OK. But that depends on a lot of things that haven't happened...yet.