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Dave's book list
In my time here on AC, I've been asked several times to suggest books for a certain aquarium subjects, like planted tanks. So I decided to comb my aquarium library for books appropriate for people just learning to experienced old hands. Most are available at amazon.com, others from other places on the 'net. Some are quite expensive, but I wouldn't suggest them if they weren't important to have.
There are, of course, hundreds more aquarium books out there, most of them good to fair, some of them with erroneous information. The books in this list are in my personal library and I know they are excellent.
General Freshwater Aquarium
Exotic Aquarium Fishes, by William T. Innes, Innes and Sons Publishing - First published in 1935, this seminal work was the first 'modern' aquarium book. Though much equipment information is dated, his descriptions under photos of fish are usually right on, though some total lengths are off quite a bit, for instance a Pacu reaches a lot more than five inches. His books were published with meticulous care.
Do yourself a favor and get an edition (or two, as they updated editions as new fish were discovered) from the 40's or 50's, because they'll have his beautiful color plates in them, unlike the editions published since the mid-60's by TFH.
Doctor Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes, TFH Publishing - A tome of literally thousands of species. If you want to see what all is out there, this the granddaddy of aquarium atlases. A photo, with male and female fishes if possible, tops each of the thousands of fishes listed. Underneath is a set of symbols delineating habits, temperament, pH, hardness, method of breeding and temperature.
Information on aquarium keeping and plants, breeding and diseases, bracket the front and back pages of the book.
The book is essential as it gives one a chance to pick fishes they are interested in and do further research on them. Get the latest edition, as they reflect new scientific names and new fishes in it.
You and Your Aquarium by Dick Mills, Knopf Publishing - A good first book for beginners who are setting up their first aquarium. Nice set-up and maintenance sections, a decent overview of plants, and information on several common diseases. The Nitrogen cycle is a bit dated, but the salient information is there.
About 75 pages of fish profiles, about 2/3rds of them freshwater fishes. Each fish is fully described. Technical terms are kept to a bare minimum, making the book easy to read.
The Complete Aquarium, by Peter Dale Scott, DK Publishing - Worth the price of admission for the tank designs. Lovely photography. Good information on tank setup and building tanks for various biotopes. Lists of fish and plants (if applicable)suitable for those biotopes, Decent information on water quality and foods; breeding and diseases are brief, so look to the other books in this section for more on both.
Baensch Aquarium Atlases, Volumes I through IV, by Hans A. Baensch and Rudiger Riehl, with Gero W. Fischer, and Shelie E. Borrer, Hans A. Baensch Publishing - Perhaps not the end all, be all of aquarium books, and not in any sense cheap, this four volume set belongs in everyone's freshwater library - I do not say this lightly. Tons and tons of information on everything from setting up nearly any kind of tank to growing plants to curing disease to breeding fishes, etc. etc. Useful to beginners and old hands, a rare combination.
These books are translated from the German, and some of the translations are awkward, but if you going to buy any freshwater aquarium books this year, buy these.
Freshwater Planted Tanks
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarium, by Diana L. Walstad, Echinodorus Publishing - If you buy plant books for pretty pictures of planted tanks, this one isn't for you. If you want to learn the hows, whys and what's of planted tanks, there is none better. Anyone who's ever asked me for a reference on how to keep a planted tank, I point them to this book.
Though its written in a textbook style, its easy to read and understand. I recommend keeping a notepad and pen with as you read this book, as there is so much wisdom in it, you'll want to write down certain passages of what you want to remember. I very highly recommend this book.
Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants, by Peter Hiscock, Barron's Publishing - A book on nearly every aspect of Aquarium plants, from Biology to substrates to water to light to Co2. Good work on balancing levels of light, Co2 and temperature for optimum plant growth. Especially valuable for the more than 150 plant species listed, each with photo and information on keeping them. An excellent reference to have in your library.
Nature Aquarium World, Volumes I through III, by by Takashi Amano, TFH Publishing - If you want inspiration for your planted tanks, get these three books. Amano, the acknowledged godfather of the modern planted aquarium, shows off his work with glorious photos of his layouts. Serious eye candy for the planted tank enthusiast. Some information under each tank with water parameters, Co2, temp, etc, but that's not what you buy these books for. You buy them for the drop dead gorgeous planted tank photos, from tiny 1 liter tanks to 18 foot monsters.
Planted Aquariums: Creation and Maintenance, and Aquarium Plants, both by Christal Kasselmann, Krieger Publishing - I've listed two books by Ms. Kasselmann because they are both so useful to planted tank keepers. The first book, Planted Aquariums, is concerned with the set-up and maintenance of a planted tank. The information is well presented and accurate, and the photographs are lovely. Also included is the light requirements of many aquarium plants. Since both books are translated from the German, a good deal of the equipment she talks about aren't easily found in the US.
The second book, Aquarium Plants, is rift with gorgeous photos of plants. The first 85 pages are about aquarium plant habitat, care, propagation and choosing the correct plants for your layout. The rest of the 400-odd pages are photos of plant species, each with in-depth information on keeping them. This and the Hiscock book are the two I refer to the most.
Aquarium Plants: The Practical Guide, By Pablo Tepoot, New Life Publications - A simple and authoritative book on how to exactly set up your planted tank and have lush plant growth. The book is detailed, exact and to the point. What makes this book worth buying is, without doubt, the best up-close and accurate plant photos I've ever seen. More than 200 species are listed, along with their care. A must-have book for your library. A beautiful book, and perhaps the second one to buy after the Walstad.
Miscellaneous Fresh Water Books
This section will be books on particular families of fishes.
Aquarium Care of Cichlids, by Claudia Dickenson, TFH Publications - I just recently purchased this book, as I know Ms. Dickenson's work from her award-winning articles in popular aquarium magazines. I wasn't disappointed. The information is right on accurate, and Ms. Dickenson writes in such a clear and engaging style, I have no trouble recommending this book even if you are not new to Cichlids. Pretty much all you need to keep them. A very inspiring book if you are into these fish. Top Marks.
Baensch Cichlid Atlas, 2 Volumes, by Uwe Romer, Mergus Verlag Publishing - A pair of books that belong in any Apisto lovers' library. Volume 1 is over 1100 pages with the most complete and in-depth information I've seen on the dwarf Cichlid Genus Apistogramma. Over 1400 high quality photographs accent the work. If you EVER want to keep Apistogrammas, buy this book first. Volume 2 is more on Apistos, plus many other dwarf Cichlid genii, including the Ram genus Mikrogeophagus. It also has over 1200 top shelf photographs.
The research and effort in providing these books must have been a gargantuan undertaking for the author and his research team. An awesome set. I highly recommend them.
At this writing Volume 1 is being updated with new information, and will be re-published later this year to reflect new research and changes in scientific names. Volume 2, though currently available and is a slightly later work, is also due to be updated in the future.
Back to Nature Guides for Malawi and Tanganyikan Cichlids, both by Ad Konings, Cichlid Press Publisher - Both books are perfect if you want to know about the Cichlids from those two African Rift Lakes. As more and more research and changes in nomenclature occur, Konings takes the book off the market and updates it. The second edition (1996) of the Back to Nature Guide: Tanganyikan Cichlids has doubled its photos of fish from that lake to more than 600 from the previous edition, each with husbandry information. Malawi, published in '97, is just as comprehensive.
If you plan on keeping Cichlids from those two lakes, these are the two books you should buy first.
Enjoying Cichlids, by Ad Konings, Editor et. al, Cichlid Press Publisher - A good, general work on Cichlids, with sections on those fish from the African Rift Lakes, Madagascar, Central and South America, and Asia. Many hands wrote this book, as a dozen authors wrote about their specialty in each section. Two-hundred profusely illustrated pages. A good overview of several different families of Cichlids, and thus a good first book for someone planning a Cichlid tank.
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South American Eartheaters, by Thomas Weidner, Cichlid Press Publisher - Authoritative books on specific families of South American Cichlids are few and far between. If you are interested in keeping and breeding the Geophagans - the Eartheaters, this is the book for you. Covered are fish from the Biotodoma, Geophagus, Satanoperca, Gymnogeophagus, Retrocalus, Acarichthys and Guianacara sub-families. Details such as breeding habits in the wild and in the aquarium, keeping and feeding them correctly are provided for each fish. The book is rift with excellent color photos of each species. Expensive, yes, but if you are interested in this group of fishes, grab a copy of this book, you won't be disappointed. At this writing the book is out of print, and quite popular, so if you find one, buy it, because its unlikely you'll find another one.
Baensch Catfish Atlas, Vol. 1, by Hans-George Evers, Hollywood Import & Export Publisher - One of my passions are sucker-mouthed catfish of the family Loricariidae. This book scratches that itch, as it is the de-facto gold standard of books on this family. This first of two planned volumes features more than 650 described species and many, many more as yet undescribed. The book has around 900 excellent photos over its 865 pages. In addition to the listings is good information on breeding and keeping these fish correctly. For those interested in these fish, studying them, or those wanting an easy reference to ID these fish, this is the book you want. I very highly recommend it.
At this writing Volume 2 is only available in German, and it'll be at least two years before it's translated into English. I'll be cueing up to buy it then.
Identifying Corydoradinae Catfish, by Ian M. Fuller & Hans-George Evers, Verlag A.C.S GmbH Publisher - If you want to know what kinds of Corydoras-type catfish are out there, this is the book for you. Over 350 species are fully described, even to where the fish comes from, and all but 12 have excellent color photographs of the species. Covered are the Genii Aspidoras, Brochis, Corydoras, Scleromystax and the as yet undescribed by science C-numbers up to C 145. Three-hundred 85 pages of every member of the family Corydoradinae known to exist. There are lots and lots of Corydoras catfish ID books out there, but spend your money on this one; you won't be disappointed. Excellent for the person just getting into Corys to know what's available, and also for the deeply experience keeper. THE dwarf armored catfish book to buy.
Corydoras Catfishes: The Complete Authoritative Guide, by Warren E. Burgess, TFH Publications - The author of this book is very well known amongst people who've been in the hobby a while. If you are brand new to Corys, Dr. Burgess' book it the perfect introduction to these fish. Basic care and families of Cory's are covered. Though somewhat a scientific book, it's very readable. Beginners, this is the book for you.
Tetras and Other Characins, by Mark Phillip Smith, Barron's Publishing - A perfect book for the new Tetra keeper. A very good overview of the family, along with husbandry information on all the featured species. The only book I have that is solely about Characins, so if you're interested in keeping members of Tetra clan, this is the one to buy.
I have no books solely on Barbs, nor do I know of any.
The Betta Handbook, by Robert J. Goldstein, Barron's Publishing - Though only about the ubiquitous Betta splendens, there is plenty for both the new and the seasoned Betta keeper, including feeding, water parameters and tankmates. Quite well illustrated with spectacular Betta pictures. Recommended.
The Plankton Culture Manual by Frank L. Hoff, Florida Aqua Farms Publisher - The first book I found on culturing critters to feed to my fish, and it lit the fire under me to really start culturing full time. In this book is step by step instruction on how to culture Phytoplankton, Rotifers, adult brine shrimp, ciliates like Paramecium, copepods, Daphnia pulex and magna, oysters and clams, amphipods, Mysis shrimp and microworms. Pretty much the bible of all things culture. If you want to grow your own live food, buy this book.
The Encyclopedia of Live Foods by Charles O. Masters, TFH Publications - Unfortunately out of print and hard to find, The Encyclopedia of Live Foods is what the title says. Its 335 pages of culturing information. The info on culturing Daphnia is a little outdated since the book was published in 1985, but otherwise nearly all the live foods for fish are there with how-to, from cockroaches to maggots and everything in between. As I write this there are 8 used and new copies at amazon.com. Between the Plankton Culture Manual and this book you will learn how to culture nearly anything edible by fish.
The Complete Illustrated Breeder's Guide to Marine Aquarium Fishes, by Matthew L. Wittenrich, TFH Publications. - The title of this books is exactly what it says; it instructs the reader on just how to breed and rear marine aquarium fish. Every detail is present, from conditioning breeders and raising the larvae successfully for more than 90 species. I just recently delved into this book as it was a gift, and am very impressed with the scope and detail of the work. The photos are in full color and excellent.
This book would be indispensable in any effort in raising marine fishes. The author gives valuable tips based upon his 10 years in the marine aquaculture business, so he has insights and hints found no where else.
The Marine Fish Health and Feeding Handbook, by Bob Goemans, TFH Publications - This new book is by an author with more marine-aquarium know-how than any 10 experienced marine hobbyists, thus soon as I saw it for sale, I grabbed it. It's the best book I've seen about preventing, recognizing and treating all the common marine fish diseases and water quality problems. It contains the latest research on marine fish health, biology, ecology and proper feeding. Information on quarantine systems is also valuable. Profusely illustrated throughout. I was very surprised to see the concise, in-depth overview of Seahorse biology, feeding, and captive-care methods.
This book is state-of-the-art. If you want to keep your marine aquarium fish healthy, happy, well fed and free of disease, this is the book to buy. Great for both new and seasoned hobbyists.
The New Marine Aquarium; Step-by-Step Setup and Stocking Guide, by Michael S. Paletta, TFH Publications - If you are just starting out, or need a refresher course on saltwater, this is the first book you buy. It covers setting up the tank, protein skimmers, pumps, mixing saltwater, putting in substrates and even walks you through choosing live rock and how to place it in your tank. If you follow the checklist in this book in order, its very difficult to do anything wrong in your first marine aquarium. If you want a hand to hold as you start that first tank, get this book.
A Pocket Expert Guide to Marine Fishes: 500 Essential to Know Aquarium Species, by Scott W. Michael, TFH Publications - As it says, there are 500 marine fishes photographed, some with just brief information, in this book. You get a color photo, with the scientific and common names, maximum size, minimum tank size, suitability to aquariums, reef aquarium compatibility and captive care info and other information for each fish. Some of the rarer species have less, but its doubtful you'll see them for sale anyway. Great reference for any marine or marine reef keeper.
A Pocket Expert Guide to Marine Invertebrates: 500 Essential to Know Aquarium Species, by Ronald L. Shimek, TFH Publications - The perfect companion for the above book. A similar format, but adds lighting requirements, foods and feeding and aquarium and reef aquarium compatibility to the listings. Each species is pictured with a high quality, detailed image, helping to make IDs easier. Both books give you a lot for your money. I recommend them.
Aquarium Sharks and Rays: an Essential Guide to Their Selection, Keeping and Natural History, by Scott W. Michael, TFH Publications - A comprehensive overview of these fascinating fishes, with detailed descriptions of those fish found in the aquarium trade. Unfortunately, a number of them get too large and only belong in public aquariums. The book goes into great detail on the species, including feeding and necessary tank sizes, and how they adapt to aquariums. A good chapter on common diseases on these fish and how to cure them. If you're interested in these fish, its the book to buy.
On to Part 3
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Part 3
Reef Fishes Vol. 1, with Vol. 2 Basslets, Dottybacks & Hawkfishes, Vol. 3 Angelfish & Butterflies and Vol. 4 Damselfish & Anemonefish, all by Scott W. Michael (et. al). TFH Publications - This glorious four-volume set is all you'll need to select appropriate fish for your reef tank. Stunning photographs of each fish, lots with multiple photos denoting color changes at different ages. Expert advice on how to keep them; tank size, feeding, aggression levels, tankmates, its all there. Best investment you can make before you start your reef tank. Absolutely gorgeous set that I can't recommend any higher.
The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, with Vol. 3 The Reef Aquarium: Science, Art, and Technology, by J. Charles Delbeek and Julian Sprung, TFH Publications - When I started in marine reef keeping in '87, the only source for up-to-date information was personnel at public aquariums, which I pestered them to no end with my questions. Then, in '94, Volume 1 of the Reef Aquarium was published. One read through, and I didn't bother the public aquarium people again. Then came Volume 2, and in 2005, Vol. 3.
Delbeek and Sprung, two names well known in the reef hobby, have put their combined science expertise and experience into these books. There is hands-on information you'll find no where else. Methodologies and knowledge gained from years of reef keeping at public aquariums by the authors make these books essential to anyone planning a reef aquarium. The books are as accessible to new hobbyists as they are vitally important to any reef keeper. Many reef keepers refer to these books as the 'Bible' of reef keeping. As the owner of all three books, they are not exaggerating.
In Volume 1, Small Polyp Stoney Corals and Clams are featured. The authors very clearly explain how to set up the tank and be successful with these animals. Even though this book was published in 1994, make no mistake, the information is as relevant today as it was when it was published.
Volume 2 is all about soft corals and anemones, as well as zoanthids and mushrooms. An in-depth examination of the anatomy and physiology of these animals, and of course how to keep them properly. As in Volume 1, information found no where else.
Volume 3 is The Reef Aquarium: Science, Art, and Technology, and the perfect companion to the other two books. Within is quite a bit of information on water quality, aquascaping, plumbing, equipment, lighting, water movement, feeding and much more in great detail. As are all the books in this trilogy, accessible to both the new and seasoned reef keepers.
With the four books in the Reef Fishes and the three in The Reef Aquarium, a reef keeper would have all the knowledge he would need to be a success in the hobby.
Aquarium Corals: Selection, Husbandry and Natural History, by Eric H. Borneman and J.E.N. Veron, Microcosm Ltd Publisher - If there's one thing the Reef Aquarium series lacks, is a good illustrative listing of individual coral species and their specific care. This book is illustrated with world-class photos of hundreds of species of corals, from soft corals to large and small polyp stony corals. The text shows how to select, care, feed and propagate the corals. The depth and breadth of the information is exceptional, but very readable. Four-hundred sixty-four pages of perhaps the best coral ID book around. Its the only one I refer to when I need an ID or to check a bit of information. It is impossible for me to recommend it highly enough; if you get a copy, you'll spend hours with your nose in it; its that good.
Although there is a soft-cover edition of this book, get the hard cover version, as you'll refer to it so often the soft cover would get dog-eared and torn in a hurry.
Natural Reef Aquariums, by John H. Tullock, Microcosm Ltd. Publisher - One of my favorite reef books to recommend to the new hobbyist, as Tullock covers plumbing, temperature control, lighting and filtration systems in detail, and follows it by step-by-step instructions on how to set up the aquarium and establish a living reef by using live rock and live sand. What makes this book different is the detailed description of different conditions in reef regions like the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Reefs with his recommendations on how to simulate a specific region in your aquarium. The author stresses using natural processes in aquariums, and limits equipment as much as he can in his descriptions.
Reef Invertebrates: An Essential Guide to Selection, Care and Compatibility, by Anthony Calfo and Robert Fenner, Wet Web Media Publishers - Rather than an ID encyclopedia, this book teaches the reader how to successfully keep motile and other non-coral invertebrates commonly found in the hobby. It also has good information about biology and husbandry, and especially valuable is lists of what can be kept with what safely. Great photography is a highlight of this book.
What makes the book really helpful are very detailed chapters on natural filtration - including deep sand beds- refugiums, water flow, and live rock.
Bob Fenner is well known in the hobby, and this book has his experienced finger prints all over it. Recommended.
There are many more books out there, but these are the ones I have that I've chosen that will give you a good, general education in your chosen aquarium interest. As I said above, many are quite expensive, but there is no substitute for the knowledge they contain, and having the ability to refer to that knowledge whenever you need to benefits you and the life in your aquariums.
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The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go
Back to Nature Guides for Malawi and Tanganyikan Cichlids, both by Ad Konings, Cichlid Press Publisher - Both books are perfect if you want to know about the Cichlids from those two African Rift Lakes. As more and more research and changes in nomenclature occur, Konings takes the book off the market and updates it. The second edition (1996) of the Back to Nature Guide: Tanganyikan Cichlids has doubled its photos of fish from that lake to more than 600 from the previous edition, each with husbandry information. Malawi, published in '97, is just as comprehensive.
If you plan on keeping Cichlids from those two lakes, these are the two books you should buy first.
Dave you make me so proud....lol I'm sure sailor is happy also!!!!75 Gallon South Cichlid: Tiger Oscar and Jack Dempsey
55 Gallon GT Tank: 1 Male GT and 8 Giant Danio
20 Gallon Long: Waiting for eco-complete planted red substrate that has been delayed 2 weeks due to weather.
"Don't buy fish at Wal-Mart then go to your local fish store for help when they die. Goto your local fish store first and get educated. It will save you money and many many fishes lives."
First off this needed to be a sticky.
I have a book called
The most complete colored lexicon of Cichlids By Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod.
this book seems pretty good any of you read this one?I like Pie.. and I love my Fish.. so whats your game?
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DaveWhen a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
Omnia mutantur nihil interit.
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Baensch Aquarium Atlases <-- love these and think most aqua freaks have them in their library.
Also worth mentioning are the Aqualog booklets which specialize on many topics and are very informative and come out with cheaper updates to keep them complete.
In your planted tank books it mentions Christel Kasselmann - I actually know her and I am meeting with her on the 8th and 9th March so if anyone wants a signed book from her give me a shout... we are having a fishy weekend together.
I have a few books but Im at school now so i will post there titles and the autors later!Dewey
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Whoa nice list Dave! Time for me to look through the list and see what I can find! Definate sticky thread!20g long 84w, fluorite, planted, 5 Habrosus Corys, MTS, pair of Clown Pleco (L104)
20gal tall: home to 10 brevis. Letting them pair off then will put the rest into the 55.
55g empty
Wow amazing post dave, I think this should be stickied somewhere, or made as an article or something. Very, very helpful.
Thanks again!


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As a psychologist with an interest in human cognition, I read with great attention two articles in the July– August issue of American Scientist: Brian Hayes's Computing Science column "The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence" and Dom Massaro's article "Acquiring Literacy Naturally." They left me asking, what about learning and teaching the social–emotional aspects of words' meanings? How do we teach human and machine language processors about the emotional valences and appropriate pragmatic uses of offensive words?
Granted, language theory is much simpler if we leave out the negative emotional content of words, but if we do so, we end up with a polite but inaccurate picture of human communication. And what of Massaro's anecdote about children using obscenities at the breakfast table? Before Johnny and Jane entered school, they knew that "a-s" and "sh-t" were bad words, not to be used at the breakfast table, and that Johnny did not expect to be punished for saying "Cheerios." Humans live and learn in groups that experience intense emotions, which are conveyed in words that mirror emotional intensity. I'm still wondering when language researchers will factor emotion into theories of language and word meaning.
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Dr. Jay highlights an important aspect of language use that is often slighted in theories and research. We might fault the "language is unique and special" tradition, which is rejected by my view that speech and language understanding is a form of pattern recognition. Emotion in language use is currently a large part of cognitive and brain science research. A Google search of "language and emotion" yielded 2.4 million results. Concerning the "Cheerios" anecdote, it must have originated in earlier generations when children were more innocent and adults less forgiving.
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Damn, I am really out of the loop when it comes to rock. I thought it would never happen, but I was a child of the 80's and started high school in 1990 and graduated from college in 1999.
That was just an amazing time for rock (if you don't know why I feel sad for you). I was also raised by my parents on classic rock from the 60's and 70's.
Anyway, of all the bands listed I have heard of very few and have only heard music from the Foo Fighters which formed in 1994, and just recently announced they are "taking a break" for an unspecified amount of time......so I don't really consider them as "current" as the other bands.
Around 1997 or 1998 "new rock" played on the radio just started to suck for the most part (talking about the new bands coming out, not the ones like Foo Fighters etc.). So, at some point I said frick it and just started listening to classic rock radio and all my old CD's (yes I bought over 500 CD's in the late 80's and throughout the 90's).
So I just listened to The Gaslight Anthem song - "45" on Youtube and while not a bad song, I found with just one listen nothing particularly original or different about the song. Just sounded like most of the generic songs I've heard from time to time over the last 10 years or so.
So frick me, I'm only 36 and really enjoy rock music. I tried to like the "indie rock" for a while (Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, etc.) but I just can't force myself to enjoy music I don't like.
I realized I have rambled on here and if you've read this much try and help this old man (when you are 36 you won't feel that old, trust me) find some good new rock. List the best songs you can think of and not just throw out band names. Try and pick songs that are "original", "different", etc. I will listen to suggestions and try to get into "new rock" again. Thanks.
I'm 31 and couldn't have said this any better. Completely apathetic towards rock these days. I've tried listening to a lot of these bands and they just sound like average crap to me. Getting old.
If I was 15 and my only exposure to rock was what is on the radio right now, I would hate rock music. There is more generic, uncompelling music on rock radio than I thought possible. It's just boring. If you don't make the effort to seek out a Deer Tick, you'd have no idea it exists.
I'm making it a requirement for every new band to listen to a T. Rex album before recording their own album.
Easily 99 percent of all music I listen to was recorded before 1998
And to be honest, as you get older, it's harder to put forth the effort. I still do because I enjoy it, but I'm not gonna look down on a 40 year old guy with a family and a job for not spending time on music blogs trying to find out who the Cloud Nothings are.
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Equine Programs
Morrisville State College's equine programs offer a diverse range of learning areas for students interested in various aspects of the horse industry. Students are able to learn hunt seat and stock seat (including reigning, western pleasure, quarter horse hunter under saddle, and horsemanship), thoroughbred racing, harness racing, driving, breeding, and business.
Morrisville has one of the largest commercial breeding operations in New York state, with outstanding facilities dedicated to the student experience. The equine program has approximately 400 horses on campus at any given time, four barns, three indoor arenas, four hot walkers, a half-mile, all-weather harness track, and all of the paddock, tools, and equipment necessary for training both students and horses.
Equine Programs
The Equine Science degrees at Morrisville State College are designed to further the technical and business knowledge and skills of equine students. A bachelor degree in Equine Science and associate degrees in Equine Science and Management and Equine Racing Management are offered. The range of courses offered in these programs supplies practical experience in handling horses as well as quality academic opportunities. The equine programs also provide students with the opportunity to concentrate on breeding, training, nutrition, and management specifically with horses, rather than with a generalized group of livestock.
Courses ranging from Equine Business Management to Applied Equine Nutrition to Animal Genetics allow students to advance academically and specialize in very specific areas of the horse industry, including Equine Science and Management (hunt seat, stock seat, or driving concentration), Breeding Management or Racing Management (harness racing, thoroughbred racing, or business management).
The equine curriculum focuses on the development of industry skills including care and training of horses, riding, driving, breeding and business and stable management. Students also remain actively involved with enterprise management and continue to work hands–on with the animals. The focal points of the program are courses in Advanced Equine Specializations in breaking and training and horsemanship, plus an internship or international exchange program.
For students with an interest in harness or thoroughbred racing, Morrisville State College's Equine Racing Management program can provide direct entry into these exciting fields. The program emphasizes hands-on participation in the breaking, care, training, conditioning and racing of standardbreds and thoroughbreds. Students work one-on-one with assigned horses. Upon successful completion of the United States Trotting Association driver/training test and other mandated requirements, students are able to race those horses on the New York county fair circuit or amateur driving events at a local pari-mutuel track.
In addition to gaining hands-on experience, students are exposed to a core of other horse-specific courses, including Equine Anatomy and Physiology, Equine Health and Lameness, Equine Nutrition, Equine Breeding, Farm and Stable Management, Artificial Insemination, Fitting and Marketing of the Equine and Horse Husbandry.


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Posted 16 October 2012 - 11:48 PM
Hi all!! My name is Kit...hence the hello kitty.
I am new to all this digital scrapbooking and what you have online is beautiful & amazing!! I love all of the styles but I am stuck at the very beginning with the downloads for a mac? I have tried opening them in my downloads file but they just end up going on my desktop as file folders? So if someone can please give me some instructions I would very much appreciate!![/font]
Posted 17 October 2012 - 12:24 AM
I believe macs automatically extract the files, so you should just be able to open the folders to use the products. We have lots and lots of mac users that will be able to help you with your question. I am not one of them though!
My Gallery I scrap with Photoshop CS6.
Posted 17 October 2012 - 02:56 AM
I don't use a Mac, but are you able to move the file folder from the desktop to an other location.
As April said, there are loads of Mac users here, so someone should be able to help you better than I can.
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"Life is not the days that go by, but the days you remember"
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The Adagio digital scrapbooking kit will spark your creativity in creating layouts for travel, performances, music, romance,
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I am a Mac user, LOVE my Mac, and it's really easy. the files will unzip once they have downloaded and, on my mac, they download into the...downloads file. from there I put them into my ScrapGirls folder and within that folder I have different categories....collections, papers, scrapsimple (that's our wonderful 'make this your own' selection of digital scrapbooking products) etc. I then place my files in their correct places...eg: if I download a collection, it will go in my collections folder, if I just download a paper product, they will go in the papers folder, etc.
you can then open your programme of choice for scrapping, I use photoshop, and start using the products you have downloaded.
download this wonderful FREE e-book on how to digital scrapbook and it should help you get started:
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Research on Abuse with Premarital and Married Couples
Self-Confidence as a Mediator of the Effect of Parental Abuse on Premarital Couple Satisfaction - 2006 (click here)
Alan E. Craddock (2006)
This study investigates the hypothesis that experience of parental abuse in the family of origin is associated with subsequent premarital relationship difficulties in adulthood, and that this effect is mediated in part by low self-confidence. The participants were 520 Australian heterosexual couples participating in the PREPARE premarital program before their marriage. The PREPARE Inventory (Olson, 1996) provided measures of couple relationship satisfaction and individual levels of self-confidence, experience of parental abuse and idealistic distortion. Multiple regression analyses indicated that, independenct of idealistic distortion, female experience of parental abuse was associated with couple dissatisfaction, and that low self-confidence was mediator of this effect. This effect was not evident in the male data, perhaps largely due to the strong influence of idealistic distortion.
Reference: E-Journal of Applied Psychology: Clinical and Social Issues. 2(1): 52-60 (2006)
Spouse Abuse and Marital Dynamics based on ENRICH: A National Survey (click here)
Shuji G. Asai & David H. Olson (2003)
This study examined spouse abuse from the ecological perspective using the data from a national sample of 20,951 couples that took the ENRICH couple inventory. ENRICH assessed three ecological areas -contextual and socio-cultural factors; individual traits and behaviors; and couple interaction processes. Abusive individuals and couples showed significantly lower levels of relational functioning in all three ecological areas assessed by ENRICH.
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As for the creature mounts. I cannot train them to be mounts. but I can go a tame the babies.. so.. if ya need a mount.. lemme know, I can get them. but youll have to find a master CH to train them - I aint that skilled yet!
Anyone find or get a holocron yet? me neither.. BUT I did find a kick butt crystal used in making a double bladed lightsaber of a jawa.. I thought it was cool.
I also killed a jedi. Yep. it was extremly hard of course. This wasnt a player Jedi, but an NPC untrained padawan... still hard as all hell to kill..
There are the jedi ruins on dantooine. I had to run from the outpost ( 10 minute run ) 3,.. yes 3 times.. to kill this guy. He keep the damage that I had given him, which was nice,. but as I got a good bleed shot on him,. he killed me.. so I laid there, and watched him bleed to death.. sucks.. cause I got no XP for it, cause I was dead.. ( that to me shouldnt matter )
I finished the Imperial Theme park, and have one last mission to complete before finishing Jabbas theme park.
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The course will include the study of choral literature, materials, principles, class procedures, ensembles, programming and performance, general administration and objectives in school vocal music on the secondary school level. Directed observation of vocal public school music practice will be included in course activities.
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Edwards delighted with Shrewsbury reception
Dave Edwards was delighted both to return to action and with Wolves win on Saturday – but admitted the reception from former club Shrewsbury left him with a lump in the throat!
Edwards came off the bench for his first action since injuring his previously broken foot on the opening day at Preston, and helped Wolves see out a hard-fought 1-0 win secured by Bakary Sako's late penalty.
A boyhood Shrewsbury fan who went on to play over a century of league games for the club, Edwards, whose family were split between home and away ends in the ground, was taken aback with the welcome he received.
"It was lovely – I had a lump in my throat – it was such a nice thing when they clap you," said the midfielder.
"I was probably the most nervous I've been for a football match stood on the sidelines waiting to come on, and that includes playing at Old Trafford and my Wales debut in Germany.
"Saturday was the most nervous I've been – I just wanted to get on the pitch, come off injury-free and get the points.
"I'd only ever played against Shrewsbury in a friendly before, a few seasons ago.
"But it was in front of a full house on Saturday and it's all that everyone has been talking about for the last three months.
"I think with it being the club I supported, and I didn't just play for them, like a lot of the Wolves fans who travelled, I was a boyhood fan and I supported them home and away from the age of seven or eight, I played for the away supporters clubs – all these little things which I don't think a lot of people are aware of.
"The club has got a big place in my heart and to get the reception I got was amazing.
"My little boy Jack and my fiancée Emma were watching as well.
"He really loves football but it was the first time he really understood what was going on.
"So it was nice he was here. My brother and his son, my dad and my mum were all there as Shrewsbury fans so it was nice for them to all be there.
"They were all in the Shrewsbury areas, but my mum was in the Wolves end."
On the pitch Edwards, who will now be looking to impress in training this week as one of the contenders to replace the suspended David Davis against Sheffield United, acknowledged it was a very close-run contest.
The midfielder confirmed replays suggesting the referee was correct in awarding Wolves the decisive penalty, and said it was the perfect response to the previous derby defeat at the hands of Walsall.
"It was a tight game and I thought Shrewsbury were definitely the better team, particularly the first half when the gaffer wasn't pleased with our performance," he added.
"He said a few things to put things right at half-time and I think we played a lot better in the second half.
"It was always going to be a tight game with one goal to settle it and luckily Wolves got it.
"Saturday and Tuesday's games were probably pretty similar where there was just going to be a goal in it.
"Luckily it went our way on Saturday, even though the performance wasn't good enough.
"We're going to have to up it, but if we can stay in games, you'd like to think we've got the quality to win them.
"I'm sure our performances will get better, once we settle down.
"We're quite lucky with injuries at the moment – we've only got George Elokobi out and if we can keep people fit and the gaffer has the options he has at the moment, I'm sure we'll do well."
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Home is Now Armenia: RIC Alum Takes Post at American University of Armenia
RIC alumna Garine Palandjian
Aremenia's 20-year-old war with Azerbaijan has never been declared over, and minor skirmishes still occur across the border. Garine Palandjian '07 knew that she would be living in a political hotspot when she accepted a job in Armenia as coordinator of student services at the American University of Armenia, one of the leading universities in the country.
For Palandjian, the threat of danger could not eclipse her excitement about working in this mountainous region.
She was returning home. Her first language is Armenian, and she is first-generation Armenian American. She grew up hearing about the history of Armenia from her father.
She said her father often talked about the Armenian genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Empire and how her ancestors made it out of the country through the desert to Syria. From Syria, they moved to Lebanon, only to escape war in Lebanon to come to America.
What Palandjian didn't know when she enrolled at Rhode Island College in 2002 was that its study abroad program would be the bridge that would lead her back to her ancestors' homeland.
When she began her undergraduate studies at RIC in 2002, her goal was to become an elementary school teacher. Given her ancestors' ties with Armenia, she was particularly interested in post-Soviet education in Armenia.
She said, "The Armenian educational system has remained a Soviet system, even after Armenia won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. To understand education there, I needed to look at the Soviet past and the legacy of Soviet policies in Armenia."
Palandjian decided she'd like to do her student teaching there but soon discovered that finding a placement in Armenia was not possible at the college.
She then consulted her academic advisor, Richard Weiner, a professor of political science, who was also, at that time, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
She explained to him her interest in Armenian education, and Weiner suggested that she travel to the country as a study abroad student instead.
They discovered that Glendale, Calif., which has the second largest Armenian population in the world, has a community college that offered a 12-week study abroad program in the summer at Yerevan State University in Armenia. To finance her trip, Palandjian applied for and received a Rhode Island College Shinn Study Abroad scholarship.
One of the things she discovered upon landing in Armenia in 2005 is that she could never claim Armenia as her homeland.
"I am from the side of Armenia that is presently eastern Turkey where the genocide occurred and where territories are no longer Armenian," she said. "There was no hometown for me to go back to, because everyone had been removed from that area or were a part of the genocide."
At Yerevan State University, she took three courses: Armenian Language, Armenian History and Armenian Art and Architecture.
Upon completing her courses at the university, Palandjian stayed on to explore the country. She shared her insights, via email, with her mentor Weiner.
"I would describe the things I saw that were funny or strange about Armenian society," she said, "and Dr. Weiner would suggest readings that would help me understand what I was seeing."
Weiner recalled her queries. "I suggested she read the dramaturgical sociology of Erving Goffman," Weiner said, "particularly, Goffman's 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' to help give her a framework for what she was seeing. I believe she became more self-confident and experienced at deciphering codes of conduct and social strategies."
Based on her educational interests in Armenia, Weiner recommended that she apply to graduate school at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania because the school offered a graduate program in comparative and international education.
Immediately after graduating from Lehigh in 2012, Palandjian traveled to Armenia on an International Research and Exchanges Board scholarship to research how, if at all, peace and tolerance are taught in a country at war.
In Armenia she observed fifth-, sixth- and eighth-grade classes and how the subject of peace was being taught. She interviewed the teachers as well as members of the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science, along with curriculum writers and representatives of nongovernmental organizations in the region.
"Though Armenia has had a history of war and conflicts, many have hope for a peaceful future," she said.
Based on her research, she wrote a policy brief for U.S. foreign policymakers that provides ways to bring the region to a peaceful resolution.
While there, Palandjian applied for a position at the American University of Armenia. On March 1, 2013, she began work at the university's new center for student support services.
"I'm just happy to be able to contribute," she said. "There's no other university in Armenia that provides services like these."
Palandjian also brings with her work experience from Rhode Island College.
As a student, she worked at Upward Bound and was a member of Amnesty International and the NAACP organizations. She also worked at RIC's Unity Center, where one of her responsibilities was to bring Middle Eastern cultural events to campus. She said that all of these experiences helped land her a job at the university.
"She has wonderful drive and initiative," Weiner said. "I am confident that more will be written about her in the very near future."


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By Tiernan Ray
Local listings and reviews network operator Yelp (YELP) this afternoon reported Q4 revenue that topped analysts' estimates, but missed on the bottom line by a penny, and forecast this quarter's, and the full year's revenue above consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $70.6 million, yielding a net loss of 3 cents.
Analysts, on average, had been modeling $67.3 million and a two-cent loss per share.
The company sees this quarter's revenue in a range of $73.5 million to $74.5 million, above the average estimate of $73.1 million.
For the full year, the company sees revenue in a range of $353 million to $358 million, topping the average $347-million estimate.
Yelp management will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
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I saw the much anticipated Palm Talkers at TRU yesterday and I have to say that they didn't blow my hair back. In fact they were kindof stupid. What is the big deal with these things?
I saw the much anticipated Palm Talkers at TRU yesterday and I have to say that they didn't blow my hair back. In fact they were kindof stupid. What is the big deal with these things?
"Care for some gopher?"
Yeah, they are definitely a waste of good plastic. I think the big deal is that the Japanese dig that style of toy and for some reason Hasbro thinks SW collectors will jump on the band wagon.
I think they should just focus their efforts into making the best figures/vehicles/accessories possible. That's what the majority of the SW consumers buy, not crud like this.
I am personally not into them, but i am sure some people will buy them. Me, no interest what so ever.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
I haven't seen any in person yet, but I agree. They don't really do anything for me.
Wha'choo talkin 'bout Hasselhoff?
They are pretty lame. I haven't seen them in person either, but just look at them! I probably will buy all of them for my display, but I won't be thrilled about them!
"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course."
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I'll save my money for the new POTJ figures. I have no interest in the Palm-Talkers whatsoever.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
They kinda suc*!
I hope they warm the pegs,if it has the Star Wars logo on it,it will sell - Hasbro!
I will not be buying them
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
I saw a Boba Fett palm talker at TRU earlier this week. They kinda resemble bobble head dolls. But Hasbro has taken enough money from my pocket and I won't get sucked in on those silly little things.
"The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is. But this I am sure of - do their duty the Jedi will." --Yoda from Attack of the Clones.
I saw all of them at Frank-n-Scalper's last weekend. They would be cool for VERY small kids...but that is about it IMO.
My wife treats me like an ATM machine. She pushes my buttons until I give her money.
My girlfirend can't wait to get her hands on these things. She thinks they're cute. I don't think they're too bad.
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Artist to give workshops, lecture, Feb. 19-22
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Vannessa Tran, a Seattle artist whose work is informed by her Vietnamese heritage and her love of Chinese painting and landscape poetry, will present a lecture and three workshops on campus the week of Feb. 19.
From noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, she will lead workshops in Room 218 of 185 Nassau St. The workshops are intended to help student-artists develop their approach to subject matter and explore the poetry that exists in art and in nature. They are open to members of the University community; to register, call 258-1016 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The lecture, titled "The 'Nature' of Painting," is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in 106 McCormick Hall. It is open to the public.
Tran is a fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art. Her visit also is sponsored by the Program in Visual Arts and the University Art Museum.


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Obianuju "Juju" Obioha's senior thesis explores perceptions of status and race and the relationship between explicit and implicit beliefs. She found evidence that white people have a more difficult time associating black people with high-status jobs than they do associating white people with the same jobs.
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It feels a bit like a game you might play on a smartphone.
In one corner of a computer screen, you see the label "Black" and the phrase "high-status job." In another, the label "White" and the phrase "low-status job." Then a job title — taxi driver, engineer, college professor, maid — or a face — black or white — pops up.
The race labels and the job statuses switch places as you go, but the task remains the same — match, as quickly as you can, the job title with its status or face with its label.
The results of this implicit association test, or IAT, are a key piece of Obianuju "Juju" Obioha's senior thesis at Princeton University. Her thesis explores perceptions of status and race and the relationship between explicit and implicit beliefs.
"My hypothesis was that white people have an easier time associating low-status jobs with blacks and high-status jobs with whites," said Obioha, who is a psychology major from Potomac, Md. "People in the past have indicated on various implicit and explicit measures that they see black people in a more negative way than white people."
Obioha, a psychology major who is pursuing a neuroscience certificate, gathered data for her thesis using a computer-based study known as an implicit association test that utilized a series of photos and the names of jobs to test participants' implicit associations.
Obioha said she wanted to build on previous research and examine how race and social status intertwine to affect people's feelings toward others.
"My argument was that subclasses of blacks are viewed differently," she said. "People look at someone like President Obama very differently than they do a homeless black man on the street. It sounds pretty intuitive, but I don't think enough research in the past has looked at it in this way."
The IAT measures how long it takes participants to correctly match a job title with its status and a face with its racial label. Differences in reaction times — measured in hundreds of milliseconds — are an indication that the participant has a harder or an easier time making a certain association. For example, a slower reaction time in correctly linking high-status jobs and black faces may indicate that the participant has difficulty associating a black person with that type of job.
Her hypothesis found support in results from IAT experiments Obioha conducted by computer with 72 Princeton students and 65 members of the public recruited online. White participants found it more difficult to associate black people with high-status jobs than white people. Black students didn't show any bias on the IAT. (There weren't enough black participants from the general public to make a finding.)
"Most people aren't even aware they have these attitudes, and they don't necessarily come out in behavior," Obioha said. "But it can be helpful to understand these attitudes are there."
Obioha's thesis adviser, Susan Fiske, said the senior's work is "utterly original."
"No one has shown the implicit association between race and status of jobs," said Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of psychology and public affairs. "People more easily associate whites with high-status jobs and blacks with low-status jobs. The implications are obvious, from hiring biases to micro-aggressions in daily life."
Among Obioha's other findings: The implicit attitudes uncovered by the IAT didn't correlate with results from a questionnaire she administered separately to the participants about their explicit beliefs. So findings of an implicit bias on the IAT didn't make it any more or less likely that the study participant would have explicit biases measured by the questionnaire. One explanation, Obioha said, is that the answers people give on a questionnaire about their explicit beliefs may be influenced more by what they think is acceptable to say than how they feel.
Obioha, who is pursuing a neuroscience certificate, plans to attend medical school. During her time at Princeton, she has served as a peer health adviser, a member of the Minority Association of Pre-Med Students and a mentor in the Leadership and Mentoring Program. She is also a four-year member of the Women's Rugby Football Club.
Obioha began exploring implicit racial attitudes while writing one of her two junior papers: "Neuroscience of Implicit Racial Prejudices."
Her search for an adviser for that paper led her to Fiske, whose research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition and power.
"When I found Professor Fiske's work, I was very interested, and after I met with her I knew I wanted to work with her," Obioha said. "She wanted to work with me, and that was awesome. "
They decided to continue their collaboration on Obioha's thesis, and the idea for her thesis research began to emerge as they brainstormed ideas during regular meetings.
Obioha said Fiske was very supportive of her work. Along with weekly meetings, they stayed in touch by email, and Fiske helped Obioha plan her work and refine her thoughts.
"She encourages me to think more deeply about my work," Obioha said. "She's willing to explain everything to me, from the simple to the most complex."
Fiske invited Obioha to present her ideas to members of Fiske's lab team — including graduate students, visiting scholars and undergraduates — who responded with encouragement and suggestions. Knowing it can be difficult to take good notes during such presentations, Fiske even prepared detailed notes on the discussion for Obioha.
Fiske pointed to Obioha's "can-do approach."
"Juju is organized, efficient and pragmatic," Fiske said. "She makes good use of our meetings and of her time in between. No drama. A joy to advise."


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Though a lot of cross-continental activism gets lost in translation, it's led some more adventurous reporters across linguistic barriers. "So little is being done on the non-English Anonymous world," says Coleman. "There are some reporters doing work — in Belgium and Mexico, for example — but they're doing it in their native languages, and it's not affecting North American and Western European journalistic and academic thinking." Adding context to that, Norton explains: "In America, when you ask about how many people are in Anonymous, people say 50,000 to 100,000. When you ask people in France, that number gets closer to a million."
SUBSTANTIATE. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that covering Anonymous is like covering anything else; after all, every politician and public-relations sleaze out there has some kind of distortion for sale. Under these extraordinary circumstances, though, ordinary skepticism won't cut it alone — even when meeting Anons in person. "There's an important difference," according to Norton, between your average truth-stretcher and the typical member of Anonymous. "In traditional journalism," she says, "you're not covering a pack of people who literally lie as an art form. [Politicians] lie to achieve some sort of aim. Anons lie to you because it's Tuesday."
Though not always easy to arrange, the most reliable way to gauge what's real and what's fake with Anons is to interview sources offline. Whether at conventions like DEFCON or in clandestine coffee shop meetings, it's easier to vet a source in person than by email. "I moved to meeting them as much as I could," says Coleman. "It was important for various reasons, one of which is that a special thing about Anonymous is how people are really pseudo-anonymous, and actually reveal more or less of themselves over time . . . . Someone can say that they're this, this, and this, but until you meet them in person, there's no way to confirm it."
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quote:No doubt Drummond has been great. Davis' biggest limitation right now is Drummond's biggest strength... he's a GROWN MAN.
Hate to be 'that guy,' but Andre Drummond's is 22.66. He's missing from the list.
No doubt Drummond has been great. Davis' biggest limitation right now is Drummond's biggest strength... he's a GROWN MAN.
He's physically better than 95% percent of the guys he faces. Davis will never have Drummond's body, but as he gets stronger he'll go from really good rookie to potentially great. Monty's said it, and its clear when you watch him, but Davis gets pushed around a lot. That's not a problem for Drummond. Davis does has way more offensive game than Drummond,though.
Drummond also has no responsibilities on his team. He comes off the bench knowing he's only gonna play 20 minutes, and he plays with his hair on fire that entire time. Conserving energy and fouls are no concern for him. With that said, I like how they're using him as a rookie and its gonna be interesting to see how he develops.
His FT shooting is devastatingly bad, though. When the time comes for them to actually be ready to count on him to win games, he's gonna be useless down the stretch.
quote:What do you mean he rarely uses his body like he should?
Drummond does have a man's body, but have you seen him play? He rarely uses it like he should. He is as raw as a player gets.
quote:Thats exactly my point, his game is not developed at all.
His post game is the most absurd thing in the NBA right now. He fades on funny looking jumpers.
Thats exactly my point, his game is not developed at all.
but do y'all think he will be a better player in the long run over AD?
no basketball skill.
Bigs that can't shoot rarely turn it around
Davis may not be as freakish but he's still a physical freak but he also has actual basketball skills both offensive and defensive that can be fine tuned over time. His ceiling is a Duncan/Garnett top 5 player in the league type.
It's quite possible. Drummond could lead the league in blocks and rebounds as early as next season if he keeps progressing. Ben Wallace-esque.
Davis's offensive game is light years better, though. He's only going to get better.
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Cantor Fitzgerald's Brian White today reports back from the user conference held by enterprise software vendor Splunk (SPLK) in Las Vegas, in advance of the company's first-annual analyst day meeting this afternoon.
Reiterating a Buy rating on the shares and a $70 price target, White concludes that the company is expanding from being a one-trick pony to have multiple products, as evinced by the unveiling of a new version of its enterprise software, but also a cloud computing version where customers can rent the functionality.
The "Splunk Cloud" offers levels of rentable computing capacity:
Splunk announced the general availability of Splunk Cloud that provides Splunk Enterprise in the Cloud for customers. This new service will be available with an annual subscription from 50GB a day to 1TB a day of machine data, while free developer offerings are available for up to 20GB of total storage per month (or 20x more than Splunk Storm).
The cloud product is starting out using Amazon.com's (AMZN) Amazon Web Services, but will "expand into more clouds in the future," he writes.
White thinks the response of attendees was positive, writing "Splunk's Godfrey Sullivan just finished up the opening keynote at today's conference, and we think the attendees reacted positively to the new product innovations that included Splunk Enterprise 6, Splunk Cloud and more details around the previously released beta version of Hunk."
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Precambrian Time
About 1,664 million years ago, a massive igneous intrusion occurred, today preserved as Boulder Creek Granodiorite and related pegmatites. The Boulder Creek batholith was the heat source for regional metamorphism. In a separate widespread intrusive episode, the granite of Hagues Peak (about 1,480 million years ago), mafic dikes (about 1,430 million years ago), and Silver Plume Granite and minor pegmatite (about 1,420 million years ago) were emplaced into the older biotite gneisses and schists throughout the Front Range. Deformation around these younger intrusions was localized but significant. For example, the near horizontal layering of banded schists and sheets of gray granite exposed in cirques east of the Continental Divide formed as Silver Plume Granite intruded into the older rocks and spread out laterally. Metamorphic effects related to the intrusions of Silver Plume Granite were relatively minor because the biotite gneisses and schists had already been recrystallized at high temperature and pressure.
Scientists do not know much about the Precambrian mountain ranges in which these rocks formed because they were worn away by erosion at the end of Precambrian time. The convoluted gneisses and schists, however, do tell us that Precambrian tectonic activity occurred repeatedly. Major faults produced during Precambrian events were later reactivated and play important roles in localizing mountain building in both Pennsylvanian and Laramide times.
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras
Late Paleozoic mountain building (Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago) formed the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, which were elevated along some of the faults in the crystalline (Precambrian) basement. In general, the Paleozoic structures are not well preserved or are covered by later strata. Furthermore, in many areas where they are exposed, the possibility that later deformation reactivated and rotated these earlier structures cannot be completely ruled out (Kluth, 1997). Interpretation of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, therefore, is based on thickness, facies, and contact information within the sedimentary rocks deposited near the uplift during the orogeny (Kluth, 1997). The position of mountain uplift during Pennsylvanian time is coincident with the present- day Wet Mountains, Front Range, Medicine Bows, North Park Basin, Gore Range, and Park Range (Sonnenberg and Bolyard, 1997). As such, they extended from Boulder to Steamboat and were longer than the Front Range of today.
The area remained above sea level well into the Jurassic Period (about 150 million years ago). During this time, sediment deposition occurred in rivers, swamps, and dunes. These deposits are preserved outside of the park. By Cretaceous time, however, seas once again spread across the land. Evidence of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway is preserved in Rocky Mountain National Park in the form of Pierre Shale. The summits of Howard Mountain and Mount Cirrus in the Never Summer Mountains consist of this marine shale that was once mud at the bottom of the Late Cretaceous sea.
By the end of the Cretaceous Period and beginning of Tertiary Period (70 million years ago), the land was once again rising from the sea during a time of mountain building known as the Laramide orogeny. The events to follow consisted of a long series of repeated uplifts, periods of volcanism, and episodes of erosion (Richmond, 1974).
Cenozoic Era
In addition to deformation expressed in the mountain uplifts, substantial Laramide deformation occurred in the bordering basins (Tweto, 1980a). These basins subsided concurrently with the uplift of the adjoining mountains. Each basin, e.g., the Denver, Raton, San Juan, Piceance, and Sand Wash, received Laramide orogenic sediments that constitute the principal record of events in the uplifts (Tweto, 1980b). Prior to uplift, thousands of feet of Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks overlay Precambrian crystalline rocks. Erosion, during and after the Laramide orogeny, removed the sedimentary rocks and some of the crystalline rocks from the range. The sedimentary rocks survive, however, in the flanking basins where they are commonly covered by Cenozoic rocks (Bradley, 1987).
Widespread volcanism affected most of the Southern Rocky Mountains in Oligocene time (Steven, 1975). The lava flows at Mount Richthofen mark an episode occurred 29.5 million years ago. Near Specimen Mountain, mudflows, lava flows, and obsidian are indicators of more recent activity (27.5 million years ago). In the Troublesome Formation (lower Miocene and upper Oligocene), lava flows in the lower units and ash beds in the upper units record volcanic activity 23 to 29 million years ago (Braddock and Cole, 1990). Volcanic ash is preserved as rhyolite welded tuff (late Oligocene) near Iceberg Lake along Trail Ridge Road. Volcanism was accompanied by igneous intrusion (Steven, 1975). The granite of Mount Cumulus stock (28.5 million years ago) is evidence of this.
A period of erosion continued after widespread Oligocene volcanism and eventually removed many of the volcanoes that formed in the Front Range area. Widespread fluvial deposition of volcanic and Precambrian clasts started in middle Miocene (14 to 11.5 million years ago); beds in the upper Troublesome Formation are evidence of this (Steven and others, 1997).
Broad uplift, block faulting, and erosion characterize Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) time. Considerable scientific debate continues concerning the origin of the topographic difference between the mountains and flanking lowlands that formed during this time. Does the escarpment indicate Neogene faulting along the mountain front or is it caused by differential erosion of the rocks on opposite sides of the Laramide- age faults? Some evidence shows that nearly all of the modern relief along the eastern escarpment of the Front Range is due to differential erosion (Leonard and Langford, 1993). Other evidence, from the White River Plateau and Elkhead Mountains, suggests that there was nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) of offset during Neogene time (Tweto, 1980a). The debate continues, and new concepts and evidence are fueling the dialogue (e.g., Pederson and others, 2002).
The elevation of present- day mountains attests to Neogene events, as does a deposit in the park: a diamicton—unsorted, unstratified deposit—near Meeker Campground. This deposit is evidence of the Tertiary tectonic history in the area. The diamicton was deposited on a surface developed during Tertiary time that was later uplifted and deeply dissected (Wahlstrom, 1947; Madole, 1982).
The diamicton also played a role in interpreting the Quaternary glacial history of the area. The diamicton resembles till, but investigators have interpreted it as a fan deposit of Neogene or Quaternary age (Braddock and Cole, 1990), thereby having an alluvial origin, not a glacial one. This distinction is important because of the implications it has on Cenozoic climatic history. With respect to the location of this diamicton, if it were of glacial origin, early Pleistocene (i.e., pre- Bull Lake) glaciers must have been much larger than glaciers during later Bull Lake and Pinedale advances. A glacial interpretation of this diamicton goes against the overall pattern of glaciation documented thus far in the Front Range and neighboring ranges; that is, the extent of early and late Pleistocene glaciation was not notably different (Madole, 1976b).
The most recent regional tectonic event that influenced the Front Range was general uplift of the entire Southern Rocky Mountains, western Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau during the late Miocene and Pliocene, and possibly Quaternary time. Fault movement diminished after Pliocene time but continued on a minor scale through the Pleistocene and into the Holocene (Kirkham and Rodgers, 1981; Widmann and others, 1998). Uplift rejuvenated erosion and caused the long recognized "canyon cycle" (Lee, 1923) that cut deep canyons in the mountains. Canyon cutting probably continues today (Tweto, 1980a).
Uplift of nearly a mile (1.6 km) and worldwide cooling during the last few million years caused a profound transformation of climates. At times, winter snow at high elevations no longer completely melted during the summer but piled up in favorable locations, ultimately forming large valley glaciers. Although several glaciations occurred during Pleistocene time, geologists distinguish deposits of only three ages within or in close proximity to the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park. These glaciations are referred to as pre- Bull Lake, Bull Lake, and Pinedale. Investigators have identified deposits of Bull Lake and Pinedale glaciations in the park.
The glacial chronology of Rocky Mountain National Park is a work in progress. The beginning of the Bull Lake glaciation is based on correlations to marine isotope stage 6, which began about 180,000 years ago (Imbrie and others, 1984). Researchers estimated the timing using sea- surface temperature recorded in the oxygen- isotope compositions of the shells of foraminifera. Using oxygen isotopes, investigators date the end of the Bull Lake glaciation at 127,000 years ago (Bassinot and others, 1994). An interglacial (warm) period followed the Bull Lake glaciation, during which time Bull Lake glaciers completely melted away. Another glaciation followed for which there are good estimates of the timing of events. Using radiocarbon ages of organic-rich sediments at several high- elevation sites (Nelson and others, 1979; Madole, 1976b, 1980, 1986), investigators have estimated the timing of Pinedale glacial advances and retreats. Pinedale glaciation began about 30,000 years ago and was at its maximum between 23,500 and 21,000 years ago. Final deglaciation occurred between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago. Prior to 10,000 years ago, all Pinedale glaciers disappeared from the area. Pinedale glaciation was the last true valley glaciation to affect the Front Range.
Another glacial advance that occurred in late Pleistocene time is referred to as the Satanta Peak advance. This cirque- glacier advance was the most extensive to occur after the large valley glaciers disappeared. Researchers have documented this advance at Sky Pond in the park (Menounos and Reasoner, 1997). The Satanta Peak advance began prior to about 14,400 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago (Rich Madole, written communication, 2003). The deposition of the Satanta Peak moraine in Loch Vale appears to be coeval with the European Younger Dryas event (Menounos and Reasoner, 1997).
Ice accumulation during Holocene time was not extensive enough to be considered an ice age. Some investigators have applied the term "Neoglaciation" to ice accumulation during the Holocene, but Neoglaciation may be a misnomer for the Front Range (Benedict, 1981). Post- Pleistocene ice accumulation is limited to within cirques. Investigators have identified many deposits in Rocky Mountain National Park, and deposits record four intervals of ice accumulation in the vicinity of the park. From oldest to youngest, they are referred to as Ptarmigan (7,250–6,380 BP), Triple Lakes (5,200–3,000 BP), Audubon (2,400–950 BP), and Arapaho Peak (350–100 BP) (Benedict, 1985). The Ptarmigan advance represents a brief reversal of the warming trend that had begun about 10,000 years ago (Benedict, 1985). The Triple Lakes accumulation was the most extensive. Arapaho Peak deposits are the Front Range equivalent of Little Ice Age moraines (Davis, 1988). Like modern glaciers, Audubon and Arapaho Peak glaciers depended on wind- drifted snow for their existence (Benedict, 1985).
Braddock and Cole (1990) identified 34 snow banks and ice masses in the vicinity of Rocky Mountain National Park. These include the snow and ice bodies shown on 1:24,000- scale topographic maps published between 1957 and 1962. Fourteen of the ice masses have been named: Rowe Glacier (between Rowe Peak and Hagues Peak), Sprague Glacier (at Irene Lake in Spruce Canyon), Tyndall Glacier (at the head of Tyndall Creek), Andrews Glacier (east of Andrews Pass), Taylor Glacier (at the head of Icy Brook), Chiefs Head Peak Glacier (above Frozen Lake), Mills Glacier (on the east side of Longs Peak), Moomaw Glacier (south of The Cleaver), and the six St. Vrain Glaciers (outside of the park at the head of Middle St. Vrain Creek).
All but one of these snow banks or ice masses are on the east side of the Continental Divide; the exception is the mass above Murphy Lake (near Snowdrift Peak). All but one occur at the heads of cirques: north- , northeast- , or east- facing; the exception is the large snowbank northeast of Rowe Mountain, which is in a northeastfacing gully. Some of the ice masses, such as Andrews Glacier, are actively moving and can be considered actual glaciers; others are stagnant. Winter winds—sometimes at velocities that exceed 200 miles (320 km) per hour— blow snow over the Continental Divide where it drifts into the Pleistocene- age cirques and nourishes some small glaciers. The process of snow deposition gives these "wind- drift glaciers" their name. It is not known whether, over a long period of time, these masses are growing or shrinking (Braddock and Cole, 1990).
The periglacial features that exist today are relicts of previous climatic conditions. Most of these features are not active today (Rich Madole, written communication, 2003). Features include patterned ground and other periglacial deposits on ridgetops and upland surfaces, tongue- shaped and lobate rock glaciers, and colluvium (e.g., talus and scree), alluvium (e.g., deposits at the margin of lateral moraines).
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