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YouTube convention to bring popular performers to Orem
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Several YouTube celebrities will be on hand Aug. 7-8 for CVX Live at Utah Valley University. The event is the first of its kind in Utah.
Outage leaves nearly 7,000 in Orem without power
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Crews worked to restore power to nearly 7,000 Rocky Mountain Power customers Monday morning. Power was back on for most customers in Utah County by 10 a.m.
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A man wearing a paintball mask broke into Los Bertos restaurant just after midnight, used a gun to threaten a cook, demanded money then fled, police say.
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All lanes of Bangerter Highway at 4100 South reopened after a serious crash shut eastbound and southbound lanes.
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In this edition of LIFEadvice Coach Kim explains how you can shift your attitude to get more appreciation for all you do.
Police investigating suspicious death in Layton
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Layton police were investigating the death of an elderly woman Sunday night.
Healing underway in Greek Orthodox community
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Metropolitan Isaiah says newest parish is here to stay, explains conflict that led to its creation.
'Call' issued on Virgin River, some users go without
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Perpetual drought in Washington County has forced State Engineer Kent Jones to issue a call on the Virgin River and its tributaries, meaning some users with newer water rights will go without. Water restrictions are also in play elsewhere.
Woman hospitalized after being ejected from rolling vehicle
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A 20-year-old woman was in serious condition Sunday after the vehicle she was driving rolled several times and ejected him near Eureka, according to police.
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An all-terrain recreational vehicle rolled and burst into flames over the weekend in Mona, injuring four people, one of them critically.
Man arrested after stealing police car, leading chase through Zion
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A man was arrested after police say he stole a Washington County sheriff's patrol car and led officers on a chase before being stopped in Zion National Park.
Crews extinguishing Scipio Fire 'hot spots'
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Lehi house deck collapses, 4 hospitalized
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Foster refugees thriving with love, support from American parents
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Despite higher gas prices, Utahns retain confidence in economy
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Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity and unleash our creative potential. He teaches us how to:
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"[Allen is] the personal productivity guru." (Fast Company)
"Get the "Paper Book" instead."
This audio contains wonderful information on organization systems for work and home. David teaches you how to create them and best use them. HOWEVER, I found myself taking so many notes, I stopped the audio half way through, and decided to just buy the book and use a highlighter. There is so much info, that I felt I was listening to someone reading a grocery list to me. I need more time to take it all in and process. I had to pause and rewind too many times. It is all read so quickly. Check out David Allen's website. It has a wealth of information if you are serious about being organized! =D
"Productive Right Away"
Upon listening to this audio book, I have put to work a single in-basket that has uncluttered my life. Now, I know what I need to do and where every unfinished item is listed. My workday seems much more in my control.
Anyone who has trouble focusing on projects for any length of time would benefit from David Allen's suggestions.
"Finally, GTD in unabridged audio format!"
I had listened to the earlier, abridged version previously, and this unabridged version is far superior. In fact, I would say it's superior to the printed book too, because a lot of this book is "coaching", where you're expected to be doing something in conjunction with the book. The unabridged version goes into way more depth than the abridged one.
Plus, Allen is again his own narrator, which adds to the feeling of having a coach guiding one into these new practices.
Those who claim this is outdated in the 21st century are missing the point. As Allen repeatedly points out in the book, it's not the medium that's important but the principles behind the method. Once you understand the principles, you can apply them in any medium you like. The good news is (as Allen would say), the principles are not at all difficult to understand. And believe it or not, most of the working world is still paper-based and/or document-centric. So, paper-based examples are the most accessible to the greatest number of listeners. I'm using the GTD method, and about 95% of my working world is digital (I'm a web developer).
"Don't work another day without it!"
The author identified things that I was doing systematically that were wrong. I just accepted these things as part of everyday business. Thinking I was already really well organized, this book identified the flaws of my business systems and now that I've overhauled my work office and my home I can confidently close all of the open loops that would cause me to get stressed out. I'd be alot wealthier if I'd gotten this book ten years ago. I've noticed an IMMEDIATE difference!
"Incredible and Influential"
Getting Things Done (GTD) is an incredible book that, when applied, has made a dramatic difference not only in how I work, but also how I feel about work.
I am much less stressed than a few weeks ago, and feel more equipped to handle new projects as they arrive. As an IT Administrator on a tight budget with supervisors that dream big and commit to technology-dependent projects before talking with me, stress was very high and projects were slipping through the cracks.
By implementing some of the GTD principles, I haven't had anything new slip through the cracks. Best of all, it isn't a "system" in the traditional sense, it is a set of principles on how our brains process information, and how we can best take advantage of those processes. I still use paper files, online task lists, and my existing email client. I have not made many changes to my existing system, I'm just using it better than I was a month ago.
The change has been noticed by others, and after sharing a few concepts their jobs have become much less stressful.
If you have way too much to get done, or if you are easily stressed at work, I strongly recommend this book. If you are already organized and nothing is falling through the cracks while you are calm, cool, and collected 24/7, then this may not be the book for you.
"Unabridged Version"
I've had the paperback book and the abridged CDs for quite some time now. This unabridged version is much greater than the sum of those two mediums. I now have every word/element/concept of the GTD book but on a portable medium that I can take with me on my ipod. (The abridged CD version did me no good as it left out enormous amounts of the GTD concepts and tools.) This unabridged audiobook is over 7 hours long, chock full of great stuff, and easy to flip to different chapters.
*Don't forget to download the Reference Materials from the book description page on the bottom*
"A life-changing book!"
I am normally not one to write reviews but this was such an incredible book that I wanted to make sure that I can reach out to anyone who is debating buying this book. I really needed a way to get my self organized and no matter what I tried I always fell short. I read several time and stress management books prior to this one that were so terrible that I was very reluctant to read this one. If you are in this same situation, GET THIS BOOK! This had an impact on my family life, my career and my state of mind. If you use all the tricks and methods listed in this book you will never again forget anything as far as to-do and scheduling and your mind will be more clear for bigger things. The best book I have ever read! This is also the only book that I have read over and over again because you still learn after the fourth or fifth time of reading it. It is that loaded with information.
"Great resource for today's workplace"
I found out about this book from the short video on YouTube of David Allen training some Google executives. I find his approach to work flow realistic and practical: get the "today" stuff under control as a means to allow for higher levels of thinking and strategy. As he says in the beginning of the book, even if you don't take his approach whole cloth you will likely find plenty of "tricks" in this book that you can use in your existing approach to your work. Beyond that, there is also a benefit to looking over someone else's shoulder at their approach to work. Just hearing how someone else approaches to-do lists and in-baskets can help you think through your own. I've found Allen's book very helpful to my work, and my only criticism is his use of his own terminology and "business speak." I don't know if words like tickler file, capture, stake in the ground, collection buckets, open loops, etc. are common to most workplaces, but they were not common to mine. Having any one of Allen's terms used in a sentence was not tough, but when he strings them together it can make it hard to follow on the first read-through. Once you get used to his terminology you're fine. It's a MINOR criticism and should not be prohibitive to your getting this great resource. Finally, I always appreciate it when an author will read the unabridged audio of his/her own work. Enjoy.
"Not for Creative Types"
I was very excited about this book when I first downloaded it. But now, at Chapter 7, I am finding it harder and harder to listen to. While his system seems to make sense, this book is written for upper management corporate types who have a secretary or assistant to delegate to, a spouse and kids to manage, and a credenza to pile things on. As a freelancer working in a creative field, I found his lingo, examples and orientation not only to be inapplicable to me but kind of a turn-off. While I think I will be able to take his system and make it work for me (if I manage to get through the whole book) I wish he would do a revision for people who work outside the corporate world.
"Good but talks annoying at times"
I actually liked the book overall because it gives you a nice structure about how to organize and how organization should fit into your life. Being an absolute slob, this worked for me and I've made several improvements in my business because of the methods he teaches. But when he drones on about staplers or about the hidden value of manila folders, man, not even No-Doze can fight that siren call. Again, good, but there are some potholes to skip.
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Now "Civil War Alexandria," a new, free iPhone app from the Office of Historic Alexandria, allows users to explore Alexandria's Civil War history as they tour the city – either in person or virtually – through historic images, a stop guide, GPS map and more!
Users will discover how Robert E. Lee's hometown of Alexandria became a major operations center for Union forces, while thousands of African Americans came to the former slave-trading town seeking freedom and security behind Union lines. Alexandria's unique Civil War heritage gives visitors today the chance to see a Union fort, a Confederate memorial, and museums dedicated to African American history. Check out more than two dozen distinctive sites and learn why Alexandria's position as an occupied city made its Civil War experience unlike any other town in America – and why today Alexandria embraces its diversity as well as its past!
"Civil War Alexandria" is available for free at the Apple iTunes store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/civil-war-alexandria/id437084134. "Civil War Alexandria" was created by Historic Alexandria staff and by TourBuddy, a multimedia tour developer.
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Posted: 26 Jun 2013
Robot- [rəʊbɒt]: a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. But despite what scientists in labs or lexicographers in libraries say, Honda's pet robot Asimo feels substantially more than just a simple blanched automaton. Why? Because when you first see him walk into a room, you're left with a sense that something properly alive has just wandered in. Not a spine-shivering horror-movie feeling - Asimo is friendlier than that - but we've all seen too many Terminator flicks not to find an animate droid just a little bit odd.
Honda is hoping we'll collectively get a little more comfortable with humanoid helpers, because ultimately, in a departure from punting out bread-and-butter Civics, it wants to actually sell you an Asimo.
The grand plan is for household Asimos, helping out the elderly or the disabled, and generally being useful. That dream is some way off for now, because Asimo is just an engineering project and can't actually think for himself with any relevance to real-world situations. He's even got three controllers to make sure he doesn't go AWOL.
He's still fascinating, though. And strangely appealing. Weirdly, there's a character here - a personality you want to befriend and experience. Even the Honda engineers admit they have a favourite version. The one we've seen today is their preferred 'bot because he's better at picking out the markings on the floor which direct him through his various pre-programmed routines.
There's no reason for it. Technically, 'our' Asimo and the one waiting in reserve, the slightly dodgy substitute with a habit of throwing the game away, are identical. But these character traits, which shouldn't exist in near-identical collections of metal and plastic, only reinforce that feeling of something being not quite normal here.
Yes, we keep referring to Asimo as 'him', unlike the Honda boffins who insist on referring to Asimo as 'it'. But if you meet him, you'll agree that it doesn't feel right to dehumanise him.
But you can go too far with the humanity, apparently. Get a bit too close for comfort. They can become too familiar to us - scientists call this the Uncanny Valley. Show us a machine that looks like a machine, and we're indifferent. Yet as the design gets more human-like, we get more attached. There is then a tipping point, where if the robot gets too lifelike, we freak out and turn the power off. Hence the reason that Asimo has a mask and a helmet.
Which brings us to the meeting of the two white non-humans. Asimo, poor little thing, seemed genuinely excited to meet what he must have thought was what he'd be when he grows up. Like watching a puppy meet a full-grown pitbull.
Asimo tried to please, he really did, and there was a vague hint of a smile beneath his visor, but The Stig was indifferent. Not nasty, but very much on a different intellectual level.
We tried to introduce them, then the thing in white got impatient with the robot in white, and simply drove off. Proving that, in a battle of white goods, there can only be one winner.
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The name "Catoctin", pronounced Ka-TOCK-tin, derives from the Indian tribal name "Kittocton" which, legend has it, meant "place of many deer". It also describes a range of mountains and the creek which flows picturesquely into the Potomac River and Chesapeake Watershed.
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Ryan Hardy and Joe Carroll have a complicated relationship.
Hardy hates Carroll, and for the best of reasons. Carroll's a serial killer—a former literary professor who slaughtered beautiful co-eds as his twisted salute to Edgar Allan Poe. Hardy's the FBI agent who captured him (twice) and supposedly killed him off, but not before Carroll and members of his cult—his following—took away much of what Hardy loved, including his main squeeze, Claire. Carroll even managed to stab Hardy in the heart, forcing him out of active duty and necessitating a pacemaker. As such, Hardy's reminded of Carroll's evil with every beat of his telltale heart.
For Carroll, murder is a beauty sublime, a work of art. And Hardy, by his relentless pursuit, has incorporated himself into the man's terrible tapestry.
Now that Carroll's out of the picture (but not completely dead, as it were), his followers come to the fore, and they're equally disturbed and even more terrifying, especially considering their sheer ubiquity. Even as Carroll fell out of sight after Season One, the cult continued its leader's grim, sadistic work. It seems as though members' main purpose is no longer just to kill, but to draw out Carroll and tear down Hardy—mentally, emotionally and physically, if possible—and anyone else who might stand in their way.
Hardy now believes the only way to stop them is by working outside the confines of the FBI. He must destroy them himself.
The Following is a dark, taut crime thriller following the grotesque noir template perfected by The Silence of the Lambs. As such, it may also be one of the most disturbing shows to ever land on broadcast television.
This serial drama hasn't indulged in suits of human skin … yet. But the violence and brutality we see here is disturbingly close, in both measurable content and emotional shock, to what then-horrified moviegoers saw when the R-rated Silence of the Lambs was released in 1991. The difference between the two is only a matter of degree. We see mutilated bodies and blood-spattered walls. We hear the screams of innocents as their assailants hurt and kill them. So often this happens onscreen that at times it seems The Following shares Carroll's thrill of pain and appreciates his vision of creating "beauty" by way of brutality.
It punishes viewers for tuning in. Then, like a sadist luring a masochist, it hopes they will come back for more.
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In an extended replaying of scenes from Season One, Hardy shoots a follower in cold blood, and he and Claire are attacked and stabbed multiple times. As Season Two then commences, the pair is taken to the hospital covered in blood. (Claire does not survive.)
Three men attack six people in a subway car, stabbing all of them and killing most. Hardy pistol-whips a follower. He is violently struck by a cab. Someone is punched in the throat.
Amid jokes about such things as necrophilic masturbation, we see photos of a bloody murder victim, her body stripped down to underwear. We see twins Mark and Luke seduce a target, then strangle her. She and one of them are seen in underwear as he pushes the necrophilia theme even further, lying down with the corpse and talking about touching her. The men later dress the body in a flimsy nightie.
A man pays for a prostitute's services: She takes his money while under the covers, apparently nude. We learn that Hardy spent several months drunk after Claire's death. Hardy and another man plot to mislead a grand jury; Hardy refuses to collaborate with the FBI. We hear "d‑‑n" and "h‑‑‑."
Joe Carroll escapes prison by killing five guards. (We see them in pools of their own blood). He has "unfinished business," we learn—to kill the woman he was attacking when Ryan Hardy apprehended him. Hardy, now a broken man with a drinking problem, is called in as a consultant.
We see at least a dozen or so dead, bloodied and mutilated bodies, many with their eyes removed. A woman disrobes down to only her panties at a police station, revealing a body covered with writing. (We see a full view of her from the rear.) "Lord, help my poor soul," she says—then kills herself by jabbing an ice pick into her eye socket. We see her face streaming blood and watch her twitch violently as she dies.
A would-be victim of Carroll's tells a jury how she tried to push Carroll's knife further into her abdomen, hoping it would cut an artery and end her misery. She takes off her shirt, revealing a bra and a torso covered with scars. One man nearly strangles another. Hardy bends back Carroll's fingers to torture him. People are stabbed, kicked and hit with pieces of wood. A follower practices his killing skills on dogs. (We see dead dogs and an injured one.)
Audiences learn that Hardy slept with Carroll's wife, and there's talk of other affairs. Gay men ogle a detective. Hardy replaces the water in a water bottle with vodka. Characters say "d‑‑n" and "h‑‑‑" twice each and misuse God's name a few times.
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Drama, Crime
Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy; James Purefoy as Joe Carroll; Shawn Ashmore as Mike Weston; Kyle Catlett as Joey Matthews; Natalie Zea as Claire Matthews; Annie Parisse as Debra Parker
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They seem pretty good. Now are those headphones able to support 7.1 audio though? I mean, they should still work, but without the headset being tuned for 5.1 or 7.1 virtual, you will get uneven sound levels from certain sound, I believe.
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No. But the device I am asking about says:
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Don't really care what phone anyone uses - it's a personal thing. But found it interesting that you buy a mobile phone and making calls is 4th on your list of things you do with it.
he's right. The phone you use is what YOU like, not what others like. I used a Windows Phone and it worked fine (version 7 I think it was) but when it decided to not power on one day I switched to the iPhone 4, then 5. It suits me, does what I want and does it well. Plus my favourite video game ever is now available on it


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Woman slips from handcuffs, runs from policeBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | November 22,2012A Clarendon woman was able to slip one of her hands from handcuffs and attempt to escape police custody during an incident at her home Monday evening, according to court documents.
Faith Shorey, 34, was arraigned in Rutland criminal court Tuesday where she pleaded innocent to three misdemeanor charges including hindering arrest, assault on a law enforcement officer and attempt to escape custody. She was released on $1,500 bail.
Vermont State Police Trooper Seth Richardson said in an affidavit Shorey was arrested Monday night after police received a complaint from a resident on Route 130 in Clarendon. The complaint alleged that Shorey and her boyfriend Tristan Taylor had tried to kick down an apartment door, the trooper said.
Shorey told Richardson an argument started after she confronted the person who complained. She said the person who complained came to her downstairs apartment and began antagonizing her and Taylor, according to Richardson.
Richardson wrote in the affidavit that when he met Shorey and Taylor, he could smell a moderate amount of alcohol on their breaths and they had bloodshot, watery eyes. He said Shorey was also unsteady on her feet and slurring her speech.
The state trooper said he learned Taylor had active pre-trial conditions of release that included not drinking any alcohol. Taylor said he knew of the condition and refused to give a breath sample, Richardson wrote in the affidavit.
While attempting to take Taylor into custody for violating conditions of release, Richardson said Shorey placed herself between the two men with her arms out saying no several times. After several verbal attempts asking her to move, Richardson attempted to physically move her aside several times.
When I began moving (Shorey) this time, she kicked me ... striking my right knee, the trooper wrote in the affidavit.
He used a arm bar take down on Shorey and while on the ground she continued to kick at him, before she was handcuffed and put into a cruiser, the affidavit said.
Richardson said while they also took Taylor into custody, Shorey attempted to escape into a wooded area behind the house.
I observed that one of (Shoreys) wrists was freed from the hand restraints, he wrote in the affidavit. Once they caught up to Shorey, Richardson said Shorey had somehow been able to slip her left wrist through the handcuffs, unfasten her seat belt and run from the cruiser.
If convicted of the three misdemeanor charged, Shorey faces up to five years in prison.
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The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma .
The Carboniferous was a time of glaciation, low sea level and mountain building; a minor marine extinction event occurred in the middle of the period. The name comes from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing". Many beds of coal were laid down all over the world during this period, hence the name.
Late Pennsylvanian: Gzhelian (most recent)
Late Pennsylvanian: Kasimovian
Middle Pennsylvanian: Moscovian
Early Pennsylvanian: Bashkirian/Morrowan
Late Mississippian: Serpukhovian
Middle Mississippian: Visean
Early Mississippian: Tournaisian (oldest)
A mid-Carboniferous drop in sea-level precipitated a major marine extinction, one that hit crinoids and ammonites especially hard. This sea-level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian period from the Pennsylvanian period.
The Carboniferous was a time of active mountain-building, as the supercontinent Pangaea came together. The southern continents remained tied together in the supercontinent Gondwana, which collided with North America-Europe (Laurussia) along the present line of eastern North America. This continental collision resulted in the Hercynian orogeny in Europe, and the Alleghenian orogeny in North America; it also extended the newly-uplifted Appalachians southwestward as the Ouachita Mountains. In the same time frame, much of present eastern Eurasian plate welded itself to Europe along the line of the Ural mountains. Most of the Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangea was now assembled, although North China (which would collide in the Latest Carboniferous), and South China continents were still separated from Laurasia. The Late Carboniferous Pangaea was shaped like an "O".
There were two major oceans in the Carboniferous—Panthalassa and Paleo-Tethys, which was inside the "O" in the Carboniferous Pangaea. Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed - Rheic Ocean (closed by the assembly of South and North America), the small, shallow Ural Ocean (which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains) and Proto-Tethys Ocean (closed by North China collision with Siberia/Kazakhstania.
Carboniferous rocks in Europe and eastern North America largely consist of a repeated sequence of limestone, sandstone, shale and coal beds, known as "cyclothems" in the U.S. and "coal measures" in Britain. In North America, the early Carboniferous is largely marine limestone, which accounts for the division of the Carboniferous into two periods in North American schemes. The Carboniferous coal beds provided much of the fuel for power generation during the Industrial Revolution and are still of great economic importance.
The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous primarily owe their existence to two factors. The first of these is the appearance of bark-bearing trees (and in particular the evolution of the bark fiber lignin). The second is the lower sea levels that occurred during the Carboniferous as compared to the Devonian period. This allowed for the development of extensive lowland swamps and forests in North America and Europe. Some hypothesize that large quantities of wood were buried during this period because animals and decomposing bacteria had not yet evolved that could effectively digest the new lignin. Those early plants made extensive use of lignin. They had bark to wood ratios of 8 to 1, and even as high as 20 to 1. This compares to modern values less than 1 to 4. This bark, which must have been used as support as well as protection, probably had 38% to 58% lignin. Lignin is insoluble, too large to pass through cell walls, too heterogeneous for specific enzymes, and toxic, so that few organisms other than Basidiomycetes fungi can degrade it. It can not be oxidized in an atmosphere of less than 5% oxygen. It can linger in soil for thousands of years and inhibits decay of other substances. Probably the reason for its high percentages is protection from insect herbivory in a world containing very effective insect herbivores, but nothing remotely as effective as modern insectivores and probably much fewer poisons than currently. In any case coal measures could easily have made thick deposits on well drained soils as well as swamps. The extensive burial of biologically-produced carbon led to a buildup of surplus oxygen in the atmosphere; estimates place the peak oxygen content as high as 35%, compared to 21% today. This oxygen level probably increased wildfire activity, as well as resulted in insect and amphibian gigantism--creatures whose size is constrained by respiratory systems that are limited in their ability to diffuse oxygen.
In eastern North America, marine beds are more common in the older part of the period than the later part and are almost entirely absent by the late Carboniferous. More diverse geology existed elsewhere, of course. Marine life is especially rich in crinoids and other echinoderms. Brachiopods were abundant. Trilobites became quite uncommon. On land, large and diverse plant populations existed. Land vertebrates included large amphibians.
In the oceans the most important marine invertebrate groups are the foraminifera, corals, bryozoa, brachiopods, ammonoids, and echinoderms (especially crinoids).
For the first time foraminifera take a prominent part in the marine faunas. The large spindle-shaped genus Fusulina and its relatives were abundant in what is now Russia, China, Japan, North America; other important genera include Valvulina, Endothyra, Archaediscus, and Saccammina (the latter common in Britain and Belgium). Some Carboniferous genera are still extant.
The microscopic shells of Radiolaria are found in cherts of this age in the Culm of Devonshire and Cornwall, and in Russia, Germany and elsewhere.
Sponges are known from spicules and anchor ropes, and include various forms such as the Calcispongea Cotyliscus and Girtycoelia, and the genus of unusual colonial glass sponges Titusvillia.
Both reef-building and solitary corals diversify and flourish; these include both rugose (e.g. Canina, Corwenia, Neozaphrentis), heterocorals, and tabulate (e.g. Chaetetes, Chladochonus, Michelinia) forms.
Conularids were well represented by Conularia
Bryozoa are abundant in some regions; the Fenestellids including Fenestella, Polypora, and the remarkable Archimedes, so named because it is in the shape of an Archimedean screw.
Brachiopods are also abundant; they include Productids, some of which (e.g. Gigantoproductus) reached very large (for brachiopods) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form. Athyridids, Spiriferids, Rhynchonellids, are Terebratulids are also very common. Inarticulate forms include Discina and Crania. Some species and genera had a very wide distribution with only minor variations.
Annelids such as Spirorbis and Serpulites are common fossils in some horizons.
Among the mollusca, the bivalves continue to increase in numbers and importance. Typical genera include Aviculopecten, Posidonomya, Nucula, Carbonicola, Edmondia, and Modiola
Conocardium is a common rostroconch.
Gastropods are also numerous, including the genera Murchisonia, Euomphalus, Naticopsis.
Nautiloid cephalopods are represented by tightly coiled nautilids, with straight-shelled and curved-shelled forms becoming increasingly rare. Goniatite Ammonoids are common.
Trilobites are rarer than in previous periods, represented only by the proetid group. A class of Crustacean Zooplankton known as Ostracods such as Cythere, Kirkbya, and Beyrichia was abundant.
Amongst the echinoderms, the crinoids were the most numerous. Dense submarine thickets of long-stemmed crinoids appear to have flourished in shallow seas, and their remains were consolidated into thick beds of rock. Prominent genera include Cyathocrinus, Woodocrinus, and Actinocrinus. Echinoids such as Archaeocidaris and Palaeechinus were also present. The Blastoids, which included the Pentreinitidae and Codasteridae and superficially resembled crinoids in the possession of long stalks attached to the seabed, attain their maximum development at this time.
Most species of Carboniferous marine fish have been described largely from teeth, fin spines and dermal ossicles, with smaller freshwater fish preserved whole.
Freshwater fish were abundant, and include the genera Ctenodus, Uronemus, Acanthodes, Cheirodus, and Gyracanthus.
Sharks (especially the Stethacanthids) underwent a major evolutionary radiation during the Carboniferous. It is believed that this evolutionary radiation occurred because the decline of the placoderms at the end of the Devonian period caused many environmental niches to become unoccupied and allowed new organisms to evolve and fill these niches. As a result of the evolutionary radiation carboniferous sharks assumed a wide variety of bizarre shapes including Stethacanthus who possessed a flat brush-like dorsal fin with a patch of denticles on its top. Stethacanthus unusual fin may have been used in mating rituals.
Early Carboniferous land plants were very similar to those of the preceding Late Devonian, but new groups also appeared at this time.
The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales (Horse-tails), Sphenophyllales (vine-like plants), Lycopodiales (Club mosses), Lepidodendrales (scale trees), Filicales (Ferns), Medullosales (informally included in the "seed ferns", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups) and the Cordaitales. These continued to dominate throughout the period, but during late Carboniferous, several other groups, Cycadophyta (cycads), the Callistophytales (another group of "seed ferns"), and the Voltziales (related to and sometimes included under the conifers), appeared.
The Carboniferous lycophytes of the order Lepidodendrales, which are cousins (but not ancestors) of the tiny club-moss of today, were huge trees with trunks 30 meters high and up to 1.5 meters in diameter. These included Lepidodendron (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and Sigillaria. The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria.
The fronds of some Carboniferous ferns are almost identical with those of living species. Probably many species were epiphytic. Fossil ferns and "seed ferns" include Pecopteris, Cyclopteris, Neuropteris, Alethopteris, and Sphenopteris; Megaphyton and Caulopteris were tree ferns.
The Equisetales included the common giant form Calamites, with a trunk diameter of 30 to 60 cm and a height of up to 20 meters. Sphenophyllum was a slender climbing plant with whorls of leaves, which was probably related both to the calamites and the lycopods.
Cordaites, a tall plant (6 to over 30 meters) with strap-like leaves, was related to the cycads and conifers; the catkin-like inflorescence, which bore yew-like berries, is called Cardiocarpus. These plants were thought to live in swamps and mangroves. True coniferous trees (Walchia, of the order Voltziales) appear later in the Carboniferous, and preferred higher drier ground.
The Eurypterids were also diverse, and are represented by such genera as Eurypterus, Glyptoscorpius, Anthraconectes, Megarachne (originally misinterpreted as a giant spider) and the specialised very large Hibbertopterus. Many of these were amphibious.
Frequently a temporary return of marine conditions resulted in marine or brackish water genera such as Lingula, Orbiculoidea, and Productus being found in the thin beds known as marine bands.
Fossil remains of air-breathing insects, myriapods and arachnids are known from the late Carboniferous, but so far not from the early Carboniferous. Their diversity when they do appear, however, shows that these arthropods were both well developed and numerous. Their large size can be attributed to the moistness of the environment (mostly swampy fern forests) and the fact that the oxygen concentration in the earth's atmosphere in the Carboniferous was much higher than today. (The oxygen concentration in the earth's atmosphere during the Carboniferous was 35% whereas the oxygen concentration in earth's current atmosphere is 21%.) This required less effort for respiration and allowed arthropods to grow larger. Among the insect groups are the huge predatory Protodonata (griffinflies), among which was Meganeura, a giant dragonfly-like insect and with a wingspan of ca. 75 cm the largest flying insect ever to roam the planet. Further groups are the Syntonopterodea (relatives of present-day mayflies), the abundant and often large sap-sucking Palaeodictyopteroidea, the diverse herbivorous "Protorthoptera", and numerous basal Dictyoptera (ancestors of cockroaches). Many insects have been obtained from the coalfields of Saarbruck and Commentry, and from the hollow trunks of fossil trees in Nova Scotia. Some British coalfields have yielded good specimens: Archaeoptitus, from the Derbyshire coalfield, had a spread of wing extending to more than 35 cm; some specimens (Brodia) still exhibit traces of brilliant wing colors. In the Nova Scotian tree trunks land snails (Archaeozonites, Dendropupa) have been found.
Carboniferous amphibians were diverse and common by the middle of the period, more so than they are today; some were as long as 6 meters, and those fully terrestrial as adults had scaly skin. They included a number of basal tetrapod groups classified in early books under the Labyrinthodontia. These had long bodies, a head covered with bony plates and generally weak or undeveloped limbs. The largest were over 2 meters long. They were accompanied by an assemblage of smaller amphibians included under the Lepospondyli, often only about 15 cm long. Some Carboniferous amphibians were aquatic and lived in rivers (Loxomma, Eogyrinus, Proterogyrinus); others may have been semi-aquatic (Ophiderpeton, Amphibamus) or terrestrial (Dendrerpeton, Hyloplesion, Tuditanus, Anthracosaurus).
One of the greatest evolutionary innovations of the Carboniferous was the amniote egg, which allowed for the further exploitation of the land by certain tetrapods. These included the earliest Sauropsid reptiles (Hylonomus), and the earliest known synapsid (Archaeothyris). These small lizard-like animals quickly gave rise to many descendants. The amniote egg allowed these ancestors of all later birds, mammals, and reptiles to reproduce on land by preventing the desiccation, or drying-out, of the embryo inside. By the end of the Carboniferous period, the amniotes had already diversified into a number of groups, including protorothyridids, captorhinids, aeroscelids, and several families of pelycosaurs.
During the final epoch of the Carboniferous the Gzhelian Age reptiles underwent a major evolutionary radiation possibly in response to an increasingly drier climate.
In the middle Carboniferous, an extinction event occurred that was probably caused by climate change. A less intense extinction event also occurred at the end of Carboniferous.


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The statue of Roger Williams in Providence's Prospect Terrace Park strikes an impossibly awkward pose: knees bent, back arched, right arm extended. It looks as though he's trying to catch himself after being punched in the base of his spine. I doubt the real Williams would have complained, however; he had a rough life and learned to take the good with the bad.
The good in this situation is the view. Statue aside, the panorama is breathtaking. Prospect Terrace Park sits high on College Hill, and the heart of Rhode Island's capital city spreads out below it like a banquet. You can see the steeples of the old town, the towers of Downcity, and the regal dome of the state house. On clear evenings, the most beautiful sunsets in New England play out here, setting the glass and granite facades ablaze. That would have pleased Williams, its founder. In a region known for its sunrises, his city should be most beautiful at dusk: Providence was established as a critique of and an alternative to the rest of New England, a tradition it has happily fulfilled to this day.
Residents of Providence, when comparing their city with Boston, always talk about its size. It's home to about 178,000 people–big enough to foster robust arts and food scenes but too few to require a subway system. Residents often refer to their city as "comfortable," "doable," or "just the right size to bump into people you know all the time."
Providence has reinvented itself to capitalize on its small-town/big-city feel. At its heart, a compact and surprisingly diverse walking district is taking shape, highlighting some of the reasons why New England's second city is first in the hearts of many.
Providence was founded at the place where the Woonasquatucket and Mashassuck rivers join to flow into Narragansett Bay. This junction is still at the core of the city, and it splits Providence's walking district in two. On the east bank is College Hill, a primarily residential smorgasbord of 18th- and 19th-century architecture and the place where Providence was born.
When Roger Williams arrived here in 1636, he'd been chased out of Massachusetts the previous year for arguing that religion and politics should remain separate. He founded Providence on that principle. So while you'll find almost everything you'd expect from a self-respecting New England historic district here–steepled churches, Georgian mansions, an Ivy League university–the one thing you won't find is a meetinghouse. Williams would have nothing to do with them.
The original settlement was laid out in long strips that ran from the riverside up the hill. Those early homes are long gone now, but the steep grade of the hill remains. Today, however, instead of colonial Baptists laboring up and down it, you're more likely to spot a gaggle of coeds regretting the poor arch supports in their canvas shoes. As its name suggests, College Hill is anchored by its institutions of higher learning, Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and both bring a lot to the neighborhood.
The RISD Museum on Benefit Street features an aggressively diverse collection dedicated to exposing its students to as many artistic styles as possible. Traveling from one gallery to the next, you'll first see ancient Egyptian carvings, then possibly a modern multimedia installation, or a nine-foot-tall wooden Buddha. A new wing, opened in 2009, gives the museum more space to display works created by its students, though you could argue that the gift shop accomplishes that better. RISD Works offers an eclectic range of unique items–from fine jewelry to robotic bugs–all designed by current and former students.
Farther up the hill, the Brown University quad serves as the heart of the College Hill neighborhood. Here you'll find the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, a worthy distraction, but book lovers could skip it and head right to the libraries. The John Hay and John Carter Brown libraries hold astonishing collections of rare and ancient texts, and they frequently display curated exhibits of their finest holdings. And visitors with a taste for the bizarre should know that if you ask the librarians at the Hay nicely enough, they may show you their collection of three anthropodermic books: books bound in human skin.
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