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Effect of elbow flexion on upper extremity impact forces during a fall. | |
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OBJECTIVE: The overall objectives are to develop a biomechanical model for a simulated fall with outstretched hand. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study involving young healthy volunteers in a university research laboratory setting. BACKGROUND: Little is known about the factors which influence fracture risk during a fall on outstretched hand. METHODS: A group of 11 male subjects volunteered for this investigation. A set of eight reflective markers was placed bilaterally on selected anatomic landmarks. Subjects were suspended with both elbows extended and wrists dorsiflexed, preparing to impact the ground and force plates from two different fall heights: 3 and 6 cm. Two different postures for the elbows were employed. In the elbow extension experiment, the elbows were extended at all times. In the elbow flexion experiment, the elbows were extended at impact, but then flexed immediately, as though in the initial downward phase of a push-up exercise. RESULT: Increasing the fall height significantly increased the upper extremity axial forces by 10% and 5%. No significantly different differences were found in the axial forces applied to the wrist, elbow or shoulder between the elbow flexion and elbow extension trials, but the elbow mediolateral shear force was 68% larger (P=0.002) in the extension trials. CONCLUSIONS: Performing an elbow flexion movement at impact reduces the first peak impact force value and postpones the maximum peak value. Although changing the fall arrest strategy from elbow extension to elbow flexion did not affect the peak impact force on the hand, it did require substantially greater elbow and shoulder muscle strengths. RELEVANCE: This paper yields insights into how the physical demands of arresting mild falls may relate to upper extremity muscle capacity, joint dislocation and bony fracture. |
P H Chou; Y L Chou; C J Lin; F C Su; S Z Lou; C F Lin; G F Huang |
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For as long as Link has been wandering around caves, scrubbing hooch off of old guys, people have asked two very important questions: 1) what the hell did all those old characters eat for "health" anyway?, and 2) what would happen if you, too, tried to emulate that sweet, sweet video game diet?
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
What the turtles ate: Pizza. Nothing but pizza. And, actually, nothing but Pizza Hut pizza (oddly enough, in the movie, they ate Dominos… but this is a video game, not real life).
What it did: A slice gave back a tiny amount of life. Housing a whole pie refueled your entire health bar.
What it would really do: Even Papa John himself went on record saying people should only eat a few slices a day. Eating several pies in a few minutes would cause irreparable damage… and that's before you stop to contemplate hot dog-stuffed crusts.
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What Link ate: Link had a habit of scoring secret potions from creepy old men and crones that hung out in caves. You had to give a letter to an old woman… presumably letting her know you're not a narc.
What it did: The blue potion refilled half your health. The red potion got you all the way up.
What it would really do: Hard to say, since nobody really knows what was in that stuff… but typically, it's pretty awesome when you drink something you bought from a stranger in a cave.
What he (and the Mrs) ate: Aside from steroids (aka power pellets) and the disembodied souls of his enemies, Pac-Man pretty much stuck to a diet of fruit… until he met Miss Pac-Man and she got him hooked on pretzels.
What it did: Points. Glorious points.
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What it did: Totally got Larry laid.
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is there a way i can input the layer as a set of KML points to obtain outputs of the distance and time between these points ?
if this is doable via the api, do you have any hints or suggestions on how to write such a script?
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Donoghue, J F; Wyler, D (2010). Regge kinematics in soft collinear effective theory. Physical Review D, 81(11):114023 -7pp.
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We discuss the kinematics of the particles that make up a Reggeon in field theory, using the terminology of the soft collinear effective theory (SCET). Reggeization sums a series of strongly ordered collinear emissions resulting in an overall Reggeon exchange that falls in the Glauber or Coulomb kinematic region. This is an extremely multiscale problem and appears to fall outside of the usual organizing scheme of SCET.
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Before coming to Australia I was quite excited to find out that the Rock has been renamed Uluru as the aboriginals used to call it. How nice – everything has fallen into place. Once on the spot though, it is more than obvious that the name is deprived of its contents. The aboriginals are nowhere to be seen; the hotel resort employs some of them in more marginal positions, such as housemaids or construction workers. The front desk people are exclusively white. Even the bell boys and the room service attendants are white, fresh from the low-productivity farms of the outback. For those who might consider the poor education of the natives and their inability to manage the money-related parts of the business as probable cause of their separation from the front desk it is difficult to explain why they cannot be entrusted with caring luggage to a hotel room or driving a resort bus to and from the airport.
As if to further this point of bigotry and bias, the native artists have been graciously given the chance to make some money on top of their welfare cheques with native artistry. Of course dealing with money, marketing and sales is way beyond them. That's why the cultural center has bared them from setting up shop there and delegated this role to a white college girl. The famous center from the brochures is based on the story of the aboriginals and their connection to the Rock. It is well designed around the aboriginal story and livelihood with many signs prompting the visitor to keep quiet for the sake of respect to this sacred place (by the way this is probably the only place where the trespasser is not threatened with fines or prosecution). What a disappointment it is when suddenly at the end of the "tunnel" the unsuspecting tourist comes face to face with a white freckled girl who sells their art. Now is the time to believe that Ayer's Rock is Uluru and not vice versa!?
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PoSSo stands for Polynomial System Solving.
From September 1993 to November 1995, PoSSo was an ESPRIT Basic Research contract with the Commission of the European Community (contract BRA 6846) coordinated by the University of Pisa which leads thirteen university teams in seven European countries. Besides the Pisa Team, the other partners involved in the PoSSo project are: Bath (UK), Genova (IT), Hagen and Kaiserslauten-Berlin (DE), Limoges, Nice, Paris, École Polytechnique and Rennes (FR), RISC-Linz (AT), Santander (ES), Stockholm (SE).
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Of all my travels Myanmar (Burma) was the best. There are few places in the world like InleLake and Bagan. Yangon is a time warp and Kyaingtong (shan State) is a fantastic place to visit the Wa, Shan,Akha and Lahu villages . These villages have not changed and are definately not overrun by tourists. The only passable hotel in town has maybe 25 rooms.


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Michael Jordan: Why His Rings Count More Than Kareem's, Kobe's or Russell's
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Michael Jordan is the greatest champion in NBA history. His six rings count more than Bill Russell's 11, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's six, or Kobe Bryant's five. There is considerable good reason to make this statement, even if it sounds like the convenient position of a Bulls fan.
The "ring debate" is one that is so easily obscured by fuzzy logic. When considering greatness and counting rings, there's more than just how many rings you have. Not all rings are evenly earned. Basketball is a team sport, and you can't consider the ring discussion without considering the team.
If you do feel that's the case and would like to present your argument as to why Robert Horry is greater than Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Larry Bird, you just go right ahead and post a comment. I would love to see that logic defended.
At the same time, I don't think that any of the 28 combined rings earned by these four players are in the category of "Horry rings," where they were essentially along for the ride. No, in every case the players really were an essential and critical member of the team.
However, that doesn't mean that they all played equal roles in every ring either. Just as neither extreme example is a good argument, neither is only two extreme positions. The amount of value that is placed on rings is determined by the amount of value that the player added to the team.
So, then, it really becomes an issue of how you define value. There are two ways of defining it: absolute value and relative value. Absolute value is a constant. It is what it is. If a player scores 25 points, it's 25 points.
Relative value is more subjective as it involves what else is on the team. The greater of a proportional difference a player has on a team, the greater relative value he has. On the 1994 Houston Rockets, Otis Thorpe had a PER (Player Efficiency Rating) of 16.1, making him arguably the worst second-best player on a team in NBA history.
The gulf between Hakeem Olajuwon and Thorpe was tremendous, with Olajuwon averaging more than nine points higher on the season in PER and nearly 11 points more in the postseason, when he had the 17th highest in NBA history with 27.7.
The relative value of his postseason was much greater than the constant value of his contributions. The greater contributions of your teammates, the less that's demanded of your play in order to win it all. Therefore, players that have less contributions form their teams deserve more credit for winning.
I will compare both the constant value and the relative value of the four players in the postseason, showing on both accounts that Michael Jordan separates himself from the other three and that's why his six rings count more.
The first, and easiest, thing to do is to simply look at their postseason statistics and see how they compare in that regard. These are the overall postseason stats for each of them.
Player | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | Pts /Gm | Reb /Gm | Ast /Gm | TS% | PER | WS | WS/48 |
Michael Jordan | 7474 | 5987 | 1152 | 1022 | 33.4 | 6.4 | 5.7 | .568 | 28.6 | 39.8 | 0.255 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 8851 | 5762 | 2481 | 767 | 24.3 | 10.5 | 3.2 | .571 | 23.0 | 35.6 | 0.193 |
Bill Russell | 7497 | 2673 | 4104 | 770 | 16.2 | 24.9 | 4.7 | .474 | 19.4 | 27.8 | 0.178 |
Kobe Bryant | 8165 | 5280 | 1061 | 988 | 25.4 | 5.1 | 4.8 | .542 | 22.3 | 26.8 | .0.158 |
Michael Jordan leads the four players in points, assists, and win shares—all cumulative stats despite of the fact that he has the fewest minutes. In the PER game stats, it's even more apparent that in terms of total value, his contribution is even greater.
Now, granted that postseason stats aren't the same as finals stats. Not piling on, but case in point: LeBron James this year. Great postseason..until the finals. Because of that, I also went and looked at, specifically, how players did in the finals.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any sites that had box-score specific stats for the finals before 1970, therefore I couldn't see how Russell did specifically in the finals. I think it's safe to assume, though, that if we saw them, it would indicate something similar to everywhere else (i.e. lots of rebounds, good defense, and not a lot of scoring). Here are the finals totals and averages for the other three though:
Player | G | Winning% | Pts | TRB | Ass | Pts/G | TRB/G | Ass/G | TS% | Total Stats/G | |
Michael Jordan | 38 | 71.1% | 1311 | 240 | 229 | 34.5 | 6.3 | 6.0 | .569 | 40.9 | |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 57 | 52.6% | 1317 | 502 | 181 | 23.5 | 9.0 | 3.2 | .556 | 35.7 | |
Kobe Bryant | 37 | 62.1% | 937 | 187 | 211 | 25.3 | 5.7 | 5.1 | .507 | 36.1 |
It's hard to believe, but Jordan actually improved his amazing playoff performances when he got to the final stage. Perhaps the most unbelievable thing is where he doesn't lead. In spite of the fact that the NBA's all-time scoring leader played 50 percent more games than Jordan, he only scored six more total points.
I'd also like to point out that Kobe's finals averages are slightly higher than his overall career averages. People tend to overlook an important thing when they look at finals performances—namely that they're going against a really good team.
For a player to have finals numbers better than their career numbers is an incredibly impressive feat. Kareem's numbers are slightly off his career numbers, but considering that his competition was often the likes of the greatest frontcourt in NBA history, you can't fault him too much. That being said, it's not like Russell, Jordan and Bryant were facing chopped liver.
If there is a number that's more impressive than Jordan's eye-popping 34.5 points per game in the finals, it's his 71.1 percent winning percentage there. In fact, you can argue that the only reason that Jordan doesn't have more total points than Abdul-Jabbar is that he played too well. If Jordan's Bulls had won one less game, they would have played one more, and that would compensate for the six-point difference.
In terms of absolute value, there's never been a player in the history of the NBA who has contributed more in the postseason than Jordan, who has more Win Shares and more points than anyone else with 39.1. He has the highest career postseason PER with 28.59.
(For those of you who have read my previous arguments regarding the deficiencies in Win Shares and PER, bear in mind that my problems with them are actually problems that work against Jordan, so don't argue that I'm suddenly conveniently using them. The truth is they aren't even sufficiently showing Jordan's dominance.)
The thing is, that's only scratching the surface because when you look at relative value, Jordan stands out even more.
I looked at two things to see the relative value of the team. First, I looked at how many Hall of Famers each player played alongside. Then, I looked at how much disparity there was between each player and the next best player on the team. Below are the "HOF Seasons," which is the cumulative seasons of all Hall of Fame players.
The reason for doing it this way is to prevent instances where players played only one season with a Hall of Famer rather than playing an entire career. For instance, Charles Oakley and Scottie Pippen were not the same.
For Kobe Bryant, it's a little more difficult as most of the players he played with aren't even eligible yet. Only two players he played with are currently in the Hall of Fame, Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone, and both were only for one year a piece.
For Kobe, I used Basketball-Reference's Hall of Fame predictor as a guide. Players with at least a 60-percent chance of getting in as of now I counted as HOF years. I'm assuming three players in particular who played with Kobe, Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol and Gary Payton, will be voted into the HOF.
Player | HOF Years |
Russell | 66 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 29 |
Jordan | 16 |
Bryant | 15 |
The first thing that pops out is the enormous difference between Russell and the rest of the players, even Kareem. He was teamed with more Hall of Famers than the other three combined. When you look at "his" 11 rings, this simply cannot be ignored.
That Celtic dynasty may very well have been the greatest team in North American professional sports. In 1963, they literally had eight Hall of Famers playing at the same time.
It was a different era with fewer teams, regional draft choice claims, and no free agency. The Celtics amassed great players on the team, and they were able to keep them without worrying about salary caps or cost.
Additionally, the league was only between eight and 14 teams deep at that time. It goes without saying that it's easier to win a league that has only eight teams, not 30. In many ways, you can compare winning the division title now to winning the league then.
Kareem's Lakers were somewhat in the middle. While he was with Milwaukee, he didn't have a lot of Hall of Fame teammates. He had Oscar Robertson for four seasons, and that was it. He only won one title there. Once he got to LA, though, he became the cornerstone of a dynasty that included players such as Magic Johnson, Bob McAdoo and James Worthy.
It was in the middle of his career that there was the merger—the league was considerably more developed when he retired than when he started. It also merits stating that all but one of his championships came after the merger, where the "modern age" of basketball started.
Jordan and Bryant played in an era of free agency, which essentially means they weren't able to keep the same team together. Both players won with essentially two different teams in the sense of who was put around them.
Their teams were also decisively thinner. Note that I didn't say "thin" but "thinner." This may seem that I'm trying to "take away" something from Kareem or Russell, but it shouldn't be viewed like that. It should viewed as crediting Kobe and Jordan for their accomplishment.
Now, another huge factor that needs to be accounted for is the second best player on the team. Since the merger, more than half of all championship teams have had at least two players among the top 15 in PER. Over 75 percent have at least two players in the top 25 and only the Rockets have won without at least two players in the top 50.
The "Robin" factor is undeniable, too. Every player needs another star to complement them, and these four were no exception. However, were all "Robins" the same? I went through and took the PER and WS of all four players through each postseason where they won a title, as well as the best scores that didn't belong to them.
I then found the difference in each case and added the scores together to come up with a "Robin Factor" to give an estimate of how much help each player received from their superstar teammates. First, here are the average "Robin Factor" scores for each player and their teammates:
Player | PER | T/M PER | WS | T/M WS | PER Dif | WS Dif | Robin Factor |
Jordan | 28.5 | 19.4 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 9.2 | 1.7 | 10.8 |
Russell | 20.0 | 19.7 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 21.5 | 22.9 | 2.2 | 3.1 | -1.4 | -.9 | -2.3 |
Bryant | 23.3 | 26.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | -3.4 | -.8 | -4.2 |
Now, here are the individual season scores ranked highest to lowest:
Player | Year | Robin Factor |
Jordan | 1993 | 15.1 |
Jordan | 1991 | 11.9 |
Jordan | 1998 | 10.5 |
Jordan | 1997 | 10.4 |
Jordan | 1996 | 9.0 |
Russell | 1962 | 8.3 |
Jordan | 1992 | 7.9 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 1980 | 6.3 |
Bryant | 2009 | 5.4 |
Kareem | 1971 | 5.2 |
Russell | 1965 | 3.8 |
Russell | 1961 | 3.7 |
Russell | 1960 | 3.5 |
Russell | 1968 | 2.0 |
Russell | 1966 | 1.6 |
Russell | 1963 | 0.6 |
Bryant | 2010 | 0.0 |
Russell | 1957 | -0.3 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 1982 | -0.6 |
Russell | 1964 | -2.8 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 1981 | -3.6 |
Bryant | 2001 | -3.7 |
Russell | 1959 | -4.7 |
Russell | 1969 | -7.7 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 1987 | -8.5 |
Bryant | 2002 | -9.0 |
Abdul-Jabbar | 1988 | -9.0 |
Bryant | 2000 | -13.8 |
It's pretty evident by looking at the year-by-year Robin Factors that Jordan isn't benefiting from a skewed season by anyone in any way, shape or form. His six rings account for six of the highest seven scores.
Furthermore, he's the only player who you can't argue was ever the "Robin" on a championship team. Clearly, in 2000 through 2002, Shaquille O'Neal was the driving force. For Kareem, it was 1988 because Magic Johnson was in charge. In fact, while Jordan has six finals MVPs, the other two have only two a piece.
For Russell, on his first two championship teams and his last one, it is evident that he wasn't even the second best player on the team. That's not a swipe though. He was first a very young player on a team loaded with Hall of Famers and a veteran past his prime. There were no Finals MVPs awarded then, but it's likely he could have won six.
However, there remains the earlier fact that he had by far the most Hall-of-Fame help of any of the players. In terms of help, Jordan received significantly less than any of the other three.
Statistically speaking, there can be no argument. Jordan is not only clearly ahead in terms of absolute value. He is also clearly ahead in relative value.
However, there will be those who argue that numbers don't tell the whole story. Now, first, I will say that I agree with that. It has been my observation though that generally when people make that argument, they deny the part of the story that the numbers do tell. Numbers don't tell the whole story, but they do tell a pretty good chunk of it.
Which ring count is the most impressive?
As to the part that the numbers don't tell, Jordan wins there as well. He's the only one of them who never lost in a finals. He is the only one who won the finals MVP every time. He's the only one who never played a game seven.
He has won two series on a game-winning assist and he's won one series with a game-winning shot. He had the flu game. He had the shrug. He had the cry. He had not one, but two 50-point finals games. He had eight 40-point games. His "worst" game in the finals was "only" 22 points with four boards and four assists.
When John Hollinger did his 100 best finals performances, Jordan had four of the top 10 slots and five of the top 14. The narrative part of the story is not lost on Michael Jordan. No, the story is not lost there.
Nor is it stuck in only the finals. His game itself is what separates him from mere mortals, or even the "demigods," such as Kobe Bryant and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The most amazing thing about Jordan is that his best help was not Scottie Pippen. It's not to take anything away from Pippen, but it's what Pippen wasn't that makes Jordan extraordinary, and that's a big man.
When you look at every other great team, there's always been a ball handler and distributor on the outside, and a scorer, a big man, on the inside. Jordan was unique in that he served as both. He was the primary ball handler and passer on the team, and he was the primary scorer in the paint. Former Pistons guard Joe Dumars once said that 95 percent of the Bulls' plays are intended for Michael Jordan, and the other five percent end up in his hands anyway.
No other player in NBA history has won multiple championships the way that Jordan did. One could argue that LeBron James has been the same kind of player, but he hasn't won championships. Kobe could score in the paint, but he never won without a great scoring big man.
Kareem had Oscar Robertson, and then Magic Johnson. Bill Russell had Bob Cousy, Sam Jones and John Havlicek. Kobe Bryant has Pau Gasol and had Shaquille O'Neal before that.
Michael Jordan had Horace Grant, who had one season where he scored 16.2 points per game in the postseason. That's the only time in his career where he had a big man score more than 15 points in the playoffs.
That's not taking anything away from Pippen. It also says something about him that he was able to be the complement to Jordan, but Jordan was as unique as anyone has ever been in that regard.
Now the last thing you might bring up is that Russell's defense was the primary reason the Celtics won and that has to be taken into account. Well, the same is true of the Bulls. They were one of the elite defensive teams in their era, and Jordan was a big part of the reason why.
He was named to the NBA All-Defensive Team 11 times as a starter, an NBA-record for a shooting guard. Since then, Kobe Bryant has tied that record. Yes, Russell played great defense, but he is not the only player on his team who did, nor is he the only player on this list who did.
The reason that Jordan's rings count for more is that he did more than any of the others' in terms of both constant value and relative value, in both the postseason as a whole and in the finals specifically, and in both the stats and the narrative, Jordan is without question, the greatest postseason player of all time, and the greatest player of all time.


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Thanks, Janet! I should have thought to check Hazell's book. I see that she mentions the third hazel scene I listed, and writes, "Whether by chance (if chance it was) or design, Tolkien chose a perfect plant companion for the meeting of rustic hobbits and shimmering Elves on the brink of their worlds." The other two scenes make "design" seem a bit likelier, but only in LOTR -- the Narn features a meeting in a hazel thicket of a rather different nature.
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>> Subject: Re: Digital Tolkien. And hazel?
>>what significance would hazels have had for Tolkien? In LOTR, they appear, so far as I know, only in conjunction with elves:
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Location | India |
Central coordinates | 76o 49.73' East 32o 30.18' North |
IBA criteria | A1, A2, A3 |
Area | 10,295 ha |
Altitude | 2,550 - 6,072m |
Year of IBA assessment | 2004 |
Site description This Sanctuary lies in Chamba district, 113 km from Chamba town. Access is from Kilar by foot to Sechu (15 km), alternatively via Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir to Sarsu and onwards by foot to Sechu. The Sanctuary includes several glaciers. Hindu and Buddhist temples are also located at Bhat, Tuan, Hilu, Chrroti and Kalichor. There are 11 villages inside the Sanctuary, with a total population of more than a thousand people. Fourteen villages with a population of about 3,000 are located in the surrounding area. The number of livestock grazing inside the Sanctuary is above 3,000 (Singh et al. 1990). According to Champion and Seth (1968), three forest types are found in this IBA: Dry Alpine Scrub, Moist Alpine Scrub, and Lower Western Himalayan Temperate Forest. Species of medicinal value include Aconitum heterophyllum, Jurinea macrocephala and Ephedra gerardiana (Singh et al. 1990). Plantations of fuelwood and other commercial forest products have been established by the Forest Department. Species planted include Cedar Cedrus deodara, Poplar Salix sp., Kail Pinus wallichiana, Willow Alnus, Robinia Robinia sp. and Walnut Juglans regia (Singh et al. 1990).
Species | Season | Period | Population estimate | Quality of estimate | IBA Criteria | IUCN Category |
Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus | - | 2004 | present [units unknown] | - | A1, A2 | Vulnerable |
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Forest | - | |
Shrubland | - |
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agriculture | - |
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rangeland/pastureland | - |
Notes: Grazing |
Acknowledgements Key contributor: Sanjeeva Pandey.
Champion, H. G. and Seth, S. K. (1968) A revised survey of the forest types of India. Govt. of India Press, Delhi. Pp. 403.
Rodger, W. A. and Panwar, H. S. (1988) Planning a Protected Area Network in India. 2 vols. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun.
Singh, S., Kothari, A. and Pande, P. (Eds) (1990) Directory of national parks and sanctuaries in Himachal Pradesh: management status and profiles. Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Pp 164.
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Service-Learning in Action Student Exhibition: 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibition showcases students visual displays of their service-learning experience, final projects and research. Student Union Hatch Ballroom, Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive.
The Revolutionary Optimists: 5:30 p.m. The film proposes a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, including preventable diseases and ineffectual governance. Free. Presented in part by Boise State Multicultural Services. Student Union Hatch Ballroom, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive.
Nampa Library Square groundbreaking: 10:30 a.m. Mayor Tom Dale will speak at the event. Gathering on block between 11th and 12th avenues and 2nd and 3rd streets in downtown Nampa.
Go Birding with an Expert: 7-8:30 p.m. Idaho Fish & Games Vicki Runnoe will lead bird walk through Hulls Gulch. More info: 493-2530. Free.
Board of Environmental Quality meeting: 8:30 a.m. Items scheduled for board action include draft grant and loan priority lists for funding drinking water and wastewater projects. The board will hear a report from the DEQs water quality administrator. Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, State Office Conference Center, 1410 N. Hilton, Boise.
Celebrate National Public Gardens Day: 10 a.m. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise. Free.
Snooze at the Zoo Family Overnight: 7 p.m. Tours of the zoo at night and in the morning, as well as games and other activities. For children 7 and older, accompanied by an adult. $40-$50.
Second anniversary of Payette Brewing Co.: 2-10 p.m. Music, food from Calle 75 and Rice Works, dunk tank, prizes. 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City.
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City council
Meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, State Capitol, West Wing, 700 W. Jefferson. Use 8th Street entrance to lower level.
- Second reading of an ordinance to reduce setback standards in office and commercial districts, and increase setback standards for parking lots and parking structures in commercial districts.
- Appeal of a Planning and Zoning Commission approval of permits for a 19-unit residential development on 10.29 acres located at 150 E. Sherman St. planning & zoning
Meets at 6 p.m. Monday, State Capitol, West Wing, 700 W. Jefferson. Use 8th Street entrance to lower level. - Proposed annexation of 9.71 acres located at 8506 W. Overland Road, with a general commercial with design review zoning designation.
- Application for a conditional-use permit to build an animal shelter and veterinary hospital complex at 8506 W. Overland Road. board of correction
Meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Idaho Department of Correction, 1299 N. Orchard St., Suite 110, Boise, third-floor conference room.
- Board of Correction awards and recognition.
- ICC update.
- Leadership team update.
City council
Meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 763 W. Avalon St.
- Ada County prosecutorial services report.
- Financial operations report.
City council
Meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave.
- Public hearing Bellabrook Villas for 26 homes on four acres at 300 S. Locust Grove Road.
City council
Meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 10769 W. State St.
- Luis Calas website agreement resolution.
- Grindline Skate Park design agreement resolution.
- Home Town Celebration events resolution.
- Roseland/Pavilion Parks land trade and development agreement discussion.
Meet daily at the Ada County Courthouse, 200 W. Front St. For complete agendas, go to adaweb.net.
9:30 a.m. Development Services
9 a.m. Open business meeting.
1:30 p.m. Mental health care discussion.
1:30p.m. Parks & Waterways staff meeting.
2 p.m. Sesquicentennial Celebration discussion.
4 p.m. Allumbaugh House funding discussion.
6 p.m. Public hearing:
- Breckon Land Design request to rezone 45 acres from RSW to RD and 11 acres from RSW to C2 at 5859 S. Maple Grove Road.
City Council
Meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall, 411 3rd St. S.
- Annexation and zoning to RS 8.5 for Stiehl Subdivision Phase 2 for Kem Marshall dba Belair Land, LLC.
- Annexation and zoning to light industrial) at 1126 E. Karcher Road for Robert E Schaefer.
- Historic Mercy Hospital Area urban renewal plan.
City Council
Meets at 7 p.m. Monday in the Community Room at the Caldwell Police Station, 110 S. Fifth.
- Public Hearing: Request by Caldwell Planning and Zoning and Engineering departments to amend portions of the zoning ordinance, Chapter 10, city code, chapter 10.
- Letter from the Caldwell City Council to the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge
Canyon County Commissioners
Meet daily at the Canyon County Courthouse, 1115 Albany St., Caldwell. For complete agendas, go to www.canyonco.org.
Road work this week
Ada County
- 30th Street from Main Street to Fairview Avenue closed through June 5.
- 31st from Pleasanton to Stewart avenues closed through Oct. 2.
- 36th Street from Chinden Boulevard to Carr Street closed through Aug. 9.
- Barber Drive and Harris Ranch Road closed at Warm Springs Avenue through June 7.
- Main Street from 8th to 10th streets restricted through Feb. 25.
- Main and 30th streets intersection restricted through June 5.
- Pierce Park Lane from State Street to Hill Road restricted through July 30.
- Fairview Avenue/Cherry Lane from Barbara to Crestmont drives restricted through May 22.
- Franklin Roads from Linder to Ten Mile roads restricted through Sept. 30.
- Meridian Road from Fairview to Pine avenues closed though Oct. 14.
- Meridian Road from James Court Drive to Fairview restricted through May 8.
- Meridian Road from Pine Avenue to Franklin Road restricted through Oct. 14.
- State Street from Ballantyne Lane to west of Linder Road restricted through fall.
Canyon County
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Rising sea levels: Is global warming making the US East Coast a 'hot spot?' (+video)
The pace of sea-level rise along much of the East Coast is accelerating three to four times faster than the worldwide average, a US Geological Survey study says. Global warming is the chief suspect.
The pace of sea-level rise along a swath of the US East Coast – from north of Boston down to North Carolina's Cape Hatteras – is accelerating three to four times faster than the worldwide average, according to a new study from the US Geological Survey (USGS), turning the region into a hot spot for sea-level rise.
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At stake: the increased vulnerability of coastal communities to severe damage from storm surges or even high surf caused by storms off shore.
The prime suspect: global warming, through its direct effect on heating water at the ocean surface as well as the effect warmed seawater and air temperatures can have on speeding the pace at which Greenland is losing ice.
Warmer seawater in the North Atlantic and increasing amounts of fresh water from melting Greenland ice can slow ocean-circulation patterns in the ocean basin, which can trigger the accelerated rise, modeling studies have suggested.
Indeed, models indicated that the East Coast could develop such a sea-level hot spot – and in the location the new study identifies – because of these factors, explains Asbury Sallenger Jr., a research oceanographer who heads a USGS project to assess changes in the hazards that US coastal communities could face from climate change.
But earlier real-world measurements did not always support the theoretical models. One study, published in May 2011, looked at more than a century's worth of tide-gauge measurements from around the US and globally. The team not only found no US hot spot. It found no acceleration of sea-level rise over the 20th century and into the first decade of the 21st.
The results triggered spirited debates as to why, in the face of other evidence to the contrary, the team came up dry. If the warming the climate has experienced during the past century has triggered no rise in sea-levels, projections of future increases – already laced with uncertainties – would be heavily overstated at best.
Dr. Sallenger and two USGS colleagues decided to take their own look.
They used tide-gauge measurements from around the US coastlines spanning a 60-year period beginning in 1950. They found that from 1950 through 2009, as global average sea levels rose at a pace of 0.59 millimeters a year, they rose 1.97 mm per year in the East Coast "hot spot." Between 1970 and 2009, the pace picked up, with global average sea levels rising 0.98 mm per year and the hot spot's pace increasing to 3.8 mm per year.
South of Cape Hatteras the pace shows no significant change for either time span. North of Boston, the pace either was zero or slightly negative for the 1950-2009 period, but between 1970-2009, the rate rose into positive territory well into the Canada, Sallenger's team reports.
The results were "surprising, actually," Sallenger says. "We found what we call a hot spot of acceleration. This is the only location within the country and a good chunk of North America where this kind of thing is happening."


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Book Description:Detailed item info Description A selection of fourteen stories, translated into English, which provides a glimpse of life in feudal Edo (later Tokyo) and insight into the development of the fledgling Japanese crime novel. These stories provide an understanding of modern Japan and its aspirations toward a literature that steps outside the shadow of the West to stand on its own. Key Features Author(s) Okamoto Kido Publisher University of Hawai'i Press Date of Publication 15/01/2007 Language English Format Paperback ISBN-10 0824831004 ISBN-13 9780824831004 Subject Crime, Thriller & Adventure
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Fight week, blog week. Dana White dusts off the UFC blog to kick off UFC 144 fight week and as the Ultimate Fighting Championships prepares to take their show on the road. This episode starts off with a inside look backstage following the fights at UFC 143 "Diaz vs. Condit".
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On Friday afternoon — coincidentally, my son's 32nd birthday — I took a little trip back through time at the Farmington Area Moms' Club Mom to Mom sale.
Held at , this twice-yearly event draws more than two dozen vendors to the church basement. The racks of children's and baby clothes, shoes, boots, outerwear, blankets and bedding, cribs, high chairs and more, brought back memories of those first awesome and terrifying days of parenthood.
Back then, I pored over garage sale listings, looking for the magic words: "baby and children's clothes." Got up at 6 a.m. to be the first in line, because those items were the first to go.
Mom to Mom sales sure seem like the smarter way to go. And people love them. Coordinators Peggy Latimer-Wilke and Lisa Bloch Holmes expected as many as 400 people to come through the doors, confident they won't have to push past old power tools or someone's collection of romance novels.
"You know it's all going to be kids' stuff," Latimer-Wilke said, adding that the turnout is generated largely through word of mouth. "It's actually a big network at mom2momlist.com."
Operated by a group of moms, the website posts information about Mom to Mom sales throughout southeast Michigan. The sales are always fundraisers; Friday's benefited the local Moms' Club.
For the last half of September, more than 30 sales are listed, including one from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 24 at , hosted by the Class of 2012.
The club uses proceeds from the fall and spring sales to fund events during the year, so everyone is expected to help. After setting a date, the club starts recruiting vendors who rent spaces for a nominal fee. Two rooms are set up to handle big items, which vendors can display for $1 each. Those who aren't also renting space pay a flat $5 fee as well.
"You can make some really good money," Holmes said. "Because of the list, moms know to shop here."
What vendors don't sell, they can leave on the tables for the church's next rummage sale, and what the church doesn't sell is donated, "so everything gets used somewhere," Latimer-Wilke said.
The club also pays a bit to the church for the use of the hall, and club members plan to leave leftovers from the bake sale for the church's pancake breakfast Saturday.
The event is easier for moms than organizing and hosting a garage sale, and it's more convenient — and probably safer — than selling things online. Moms' Club volunteers set up the space and take care of publicity. Because the event starts around the dinner hour, they also sell pizza.
What struck me most about the sale was watching this group of moms working together, supporting each other and, especially, encouraging reuse and recycling, rather than running out to buy new (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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In the second game of a Class 4A West Central District Tournament doubleheader Saturday at Auburn, the Roughriders didn't fair as well as their Narrows-brethren Wolves.
Behind a game-high 18 points from Nate Sanchez, Federal Way squeaked past Port Angeles. Scott Helpenstell was the lone Roughrider to score in double digits. He finished with 10 points.
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Federal Way - Nate Sanchez 18, Andre Piper-Jordan 12, Brad Mahlstedt 9, Jason Carlson 6, William Reese 5, Brandon Chavers 2, Teddy Williams 2.
Port Angeles - Scott Helpenstell 10, Matt Johnson 8, Matt Sinnes 8, Colin Anderson 6, Jordan Tschimperle 6, Jordan Rhoads 4, Danny Clawson 2, Lane Thomas 2, Andy Ochs 1.
Boys Basketball - West Central District 4A playoffs: At Puyallup: South Kitsap vs. Gig Harbor, 6 p.m. (NOTE: game moved from Auburn High to keep Puyallup from playing its game at home); Mount Tahoma vs. Kentwood, 8 p.m.; At Auburn: Sumner vs. Puyallup, 6 p.m.; Federal Way vs. Curtis, 8 p.m.
Girls Basketball - West Central District 4A playoffs: At Bremerton: Skyview vs. Rogers (Puyallup), 6 p.m., Capital vs. Kentlake, 8 p.m.; At Emerald Ridge: Central Kitsap vs. Kentridge, 6 p.m., Puyallup vs. Bethel, 8 p.m.
Boys Basketball - State championships start: Class B at Spokane Arena; Class 1A at Sun Dome in Yakima; Class 3A at Tacoma Dome
Girls Basketball - State championships start: Class B at Spokane Arena; Class 1A at Sun Dome in Yakima; Class 3A at Tacoma Dome; West Central District 4A playoffs: At University of Puget Sound: Jefferson vs. Enumclaw, 6 p.m., Prairie vs. Port Angeles, 8 p.m.


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Scientists find cell fate switch that decides liver, or pancreas?
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Seasonal Hiring Booming: Retailers Hiring Holiday Help Now
As the holiday grows nearer, more retailers continue to announce hiring plans to fill seasonal jobs. And this year the U.S. could see the most robust hiring its seen in five years, according to a poll of 1,000 hiring managers by Snagajob (via CBS MoneyWatch).
Meanwhile, an annual report from the National Retail Federation projects 585,000 and 625,000 temporary retail workers will be hired this holiday season -- about on par, the group says, with the 607,000 hired last year. Including those who work in shipping and other industries, total seasonal hiring is expected to reach 700,000.
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Heart of Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocates congratulates Kappa Alpha Theta on their 100 years at the MU on February 12. The Heart of Missouri CASA chapter, founded in February 2005, is proud to be partnered with the Mizzou Thetas. Since Heart of Missouri CASA began taking cases in 2006, the Mizzou Thetas have helped us serve more than 90 children and have donated $12,000. Our volunteers could not do the great work they do without their support. CASA thanks Theta for uniting with them to provide a voice for abused and neglected children.
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