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by Cornelia Funke
Inkheart Introduction
In A Nutshell
Yo, dawg. We heard you liked books. So we put some books in a book so you can read while you read.
That's kinda what Inkheart is like. It's a story about people who make stories—the people who write them, who bind them into books, and who live them. It's also about a girl named Meggie and her dad Mo who are totes in love with books, though Mo—weirdly—never reads out loud to Meggie. Never, ever. When a stranger shows up on their doorstep, Meggie (who's twelve) learns why: her father's voice can bring characters out of books… and send people from our world into them. As you might imagine, this means that an adventure, and plenty of trouble, awaits Meggie.
If we say that Inkheart is popular, that might be a teeny understatement. It's received heaps of recognition, including: ALA Notable Children's Book of 2004, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice. In other words, Inkheart isn't just popular—it's adored by all sorts of folks.
Inkheart's author, Cornelia Funke, was an illustrator before she began writing books (and boy, are we glad she got started as an author). She published in her native German until a young girl brought her work to the attention of a British publisher (thanks, kid), and beginning with her novel The Thief Lord, Funke's books took off and became super popular. While she primarily writes for young adults and kids, don't make the mistake of thinking that her work is simplistic—there's something for everyone in her stories, and Inkheart is a prime example of this.
So believe us when we say that this book has some good stuff in it. Plus it's a book about books, and who can resist that?
Why Should I Care?
We all know there's evil in the world. Examples include:
- Genocide
- Cutting down the rainforest
- Kicking puppies
But how often do we, personally, as individuals, face evil? Probably not all that often. Inkheart shows us some astoundingly cruel behavior, and then it shows us how one brave (and stubborn) girl, Meggie, overcomes her fears and uncertainties and goes up against some really evil dudes.
We see Meggie getting captured, cornered, hit in the face, held at knifepoint, threatened, and emotionally blackmailed. Yikes, right? The people doing this stuff to her, Capricorn and his men, are clearly truly bad people. And yet Meggie doesn't back down or give up—nope, she keeps fighting. She fights because it's the right thing to do, and because she has a shot at saving lives (her own, as well as those of her family and friends).
We can all learn a lot from Meggie's determination, as well as the fact that she stands up to some pretty evil people who are hell-bent on getting what they want, no matter who they have to hurt in the process. When's the last time you stood up for what was right? Or took control of your own life? Or outsmarted an evil tyrant? Wouldn't it be really cool to say that you've done any of those things? Though for your sake, of course, we hope you never have to say that you outsmarted an evil tyrant. It's best to leave those quests for books… like this one.


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Door Kickers hits Beta!
Beta is here and with it the new face and soul of Door Kickers.
(update from the same place you purchased the game, some stores may update later than others. Or just use your steam key you got from us. Yes, we still get emails from people that didn't know a steam key got lost in their spam filter, nothing to be ashamed of)
No fear, its still the same game, but – as promised - it's got major improvements, over and under the hood. Starting with the new Menu makeup (inspired by the great work of Vadim Veedoff), going through the changed equipment unlocking and Squad Levelup, and getting to the improved tactical options in game, we feel its a much better experience.
-Yes, we did say Squad Levelup. Back when we first put the Doctrine Tree out we knew some things didn't really click together, and your feedback confirmed we're on the same page. The new system works as follows:
- troopers start with innate, random ability values. In the future, more might be added.
- they levelup based on XP and get a flat set of improvements with each rank. In the future, there will be some player control over trooper improvements.
- the squad levels up via the sum of XP received by ALL troopers
- Squad Levelup unlocks the trooper classes and gains you Doctrine Points to use in the Doctrine tree
- the new mission challenges give extra XP
- oh, yeah, the squad and troopers should all reset with the new version
-Speaking of your troopers, you can now quasi-customize them by replacing them with others from the available pool. In the future, you will also be able to completely edit the names and use your custom pictures! Going into the actual game, you might notice the troopers are much better at following the path and orders sequence and its much easier to predict now what you will see from each waypoint.
-You can also have waypoints that interact with objects from a distance, so if you want for example to have a trooper open the door from the side, that's easy to plan in advance now.
-Also, a new and handy auto-go-code is available now, the wait for clear order. Troopers ordered to do so will stay in place until all hostiles have been pacified or left their field of view, and continue afterwards. Its a handy tool, but it will put a half a second delay in your advance, so use it where appropriate only.
Since the game plays a little different, we're especially keen to hear your thoughts on the new build and features, so don't forget to write!
What else is New and Important in the Beta version of Door Kickers:
- Challenges: in addition to the 3-star system, you can now complete challenges for each level. These do not count towards unlocking weapons but do gain your troopers XP.
- Plan saving: all paths up to the first "Play" command are saved and restored when restarting the map, also called the Daimaju feature (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5P849j6q5c).
- Unlockable items: items are now unlocked using the Stars currency.
- Unlockable classes: trooper classes (assaulter/breacher/etc.) are now unlocked by leveling up your squad.
- 8 new firearms.
- 3 new armor types.
- 8 new maps.
- Many improvements to enemy AI.
- Line of sight preview when drawing a path.
- Proper feedback indicators for enemies that are about to execute a hostage + added countdown timers for executioners.
- Feedback for the range of all sounds. Can be switched off in options.
- Added indicators for shield area of cover.
- Added enemy tooltips that show their equipment and intentions.
- When the line of fire is blocked by a friendly unit, a proper graphical indicator is rendered.
- The VIPs in "Protect the VIP" scenarios must be activated by proximity in order to be able to control them.
- Can customize the name/appearance of your troopers (wip, for now you can only loop through all the troopers in the database).
- Can now change resolution from the in-game video options.
- Support for more .wav formats. Previously an unknown format would crash the game.
- Added reverb sound effects (wip).
- Added new graphics/sounds effects (ejecting bullet shells, rain, fire etc.).
- Graphical updates to many maps, including the training ones.
- Improved overall graphics.
- Can now disable map zooming/panning from the options menu.
- Arrested enemies auto-move outside the line of fire between a swat and a fellow enemy.
- Selecting between paths that are over-imposed is now much easier.
- It is now possible to switch between pages in the Single Mission selection screen, via the small buttons on the bottom.
- Fixed the 50 mods limit downloaded from Steam.
- The "Export replay to movie" feature now works correctly on more (all?) hardware configurations (and faster).
- A crash that would sometimes happen after enabling/disabling mods and playing a game.
- Mods are no longer deleted after starting the game in offline mode.
- Deploy slots no longer look weird on very large screen resolutions.
- Flashbangs that could sometimes kill an enemy if they hit him.
- Too many trooper radio sounds in replays.
- A bug where shields would not stop bullets coming from grazing angles.
- Snipers can no longer target VIPs.
- A bug where modded weapons would show up more than one time in the equipment menu.
Modding / Structure changes:
- When updating a mod, the mod.xml "description" field is no longer updated on Steam Workshop.
- Can now use additional breaching charge types on a door.
- Maximum map size is no longer hardcoded at 4096×4096, though it's still limited by the maximum texture size supported by the GPU. Recommended 8192×8192.
- Added more rendering layers (can now control which item renders on top of what item with more precision).
- All weapon mods that use bullet_trace.tga + bullet_trace_shotgun.tga should now use the .dds versions. Will remove the .tga ones in the next update.
- All weapon mods should update the firearms flare rendering layers to mimic the ones in the new equipment.xml version.
- All weapon mods should add bullet-shell-on-the-ground sounds like in equipment.xml. If your mod already added such sounds (e.g. SiC), make sure to take them out or add them using the new fields in equipment.xml.
- Graphics / Explosion sounds for flashbangs/breaching charges are now moddable. Mods that modify the flashbangs/breaching charges should modify them according to the new equipment.xml (added the explosion sounds and graphics).
- Crowbar/lock-picks added to the equipment items and can now be modded.
Have fun, wear your plates OR NOT , and don't forget to hit the feedback button
Your DevTeam @ KillHouse Games
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Where do i actually download it and yes i bought the game
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chasing Dylan . . . then & now
I make no secret of the fact that I love Bob Dylan, and why should I? Millions of people love Dylan and there must be thousands of writers who spend their time reading about Dylan, researching and writing and thinking about him and his work just as I do and have for quite some time now. But what I want to talk about today and this is totally different from anything else I've written, is strictly how Dylan looks and his evolution over time. Not his music so much, though that factors in, but the Dylan of the early days and of the mid-sixties – the one I think of as my Dylan, that is the uber-thin Dylan dressed in black peg-leg pants and a black turtle neck and jacket with his trademark curly and out of control hair and that clear-skinned and free of hair face that held all that at least I wanted to see in him.
Don't get me wrong; I had no illusions about Dylan being "our Dylan" or being "of the folk movement" or for The Left as it were. As Dylan himself has noted, he never was for any cause and was always for himself. He if he was adopted by certain movements, and understandably so with songs like A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall and Blowin' in the Wind and so many others, it made perfect sense and it does seem slightly disingenuous of him to then cut all strings with the group after signing with the Queen of Folk herself, Joan Baez.
Still, Dylan is changeable and always was. So are the rest of us, and isn't it his right as well. I never understood it when journalists demanded more of Dylan that they did of him, asking questions like "Are you sincere?" to which Dylan replied, "I'm as sincere as you are…" which to me seems a fair and reasonable answer. Still, as I said, Dylan is, like us, changeable. I should not be surprised then that after his motorcycle accident when he disappeared and re-emerged eighteen months later for a tribute to Woody Guthrie, he would appear a changed man.
For one, his motorcycle accident, though many debate this, is and was rumoured by some to have been near fatal - enough to shake enough up anyone, and though other rumors suggested Dylan had overdosed or wanted a break, most stories tell that Dylan had suffered a near brush with death in that he had broken several neck vertebrae, severe lacerations and bruising on his face and elsewhere as well as a severe concussion. Of the accident Dylan has said, "I saw my whole life flash in front of me… the fact that I made it through is pretty miraculous." All of this came just as Blonde-on-Blonde was gaining success and about to land Dylan his third straight gold album.
And so it was that at the Woody Guthrie Tribute Dylan appeared in a grey suit with a scraggly beard and a moustache as well, backed up by The Band, performing three of Woody's songs, "This Land is Your Land"; "I Ain't Got No Home"; "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt"; "The Grand Coulee Dam"; "This Train is Bound for Glory." But it wasn't the songs so much that struck me, although they did echo back to Dylan's beginnings – the self-mythologizing Dylan who had "come to New York Town on a freight train" as he told the story (until he was outed) and who had changed his name, was playing at Café Wha, visiting Woody in the hospital, and emulating his hero down to affecting an Oakie accent.
That we could see a glimpse of the early Dylan is or was to me anyway a sign that all was well and that "our" Dylan or as I've always said "my Dylan" was back and would go back to his trademark Ray Bans and peg-leg black pants and drawling and howling slowly out the words to "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." or "I Want You." … soooooo baaaaaddd
But that didn't happen and never again would I see the Dylan of "Eat the Document" or "Don't Look Back" except for repeat playings of both on DVD, yes for themselves, but yes, just to see the iconic Dylan in his prime if you can call it that, which I know is debatable, but to me, this was his prime.
But it was the end of a period and Dylan, like the rest of us would change and that meant that his style would change too – not just the way he looked, but the way he would and did sing, sound, and the whole presentation... I can long for the old Dylan all I want, purely selfish reasons and I admit, for as much as I can write about Dylan objectively as a journalist, there is a still a piece of me that knows damn well that Dylan would have been, was and maybe still is desirable in every way, fame or no fame.
Dylan had a look that was cool and hip and the music was perhaps a bonus at the time, but from a purely physical point of view, none of that would have mattered, despite what so many musicians are wary of. As they say in the film "Almost Famous" there is a huge difference between a "Band Aid" and a groupie. A groupie is a hanger-on – someone who is there but there for the fame without even really understanding why. It could be anyone they would worship or fuck or whatever.
A Band Aid was someone who "truly loved a tiny little piece of music." Does that mean I would follow Dylan around the country? That I would go with him on his tour bus and be there in hotel rooms and the like? Ask yourself this, male or female, if you had the chance to tour with Dylan, would you say No? (obviously, I ask only those who are Dylan fans this question; otherwise, it's a moot point and one cannot possibly relate in this case.) Or, or would you, like me, would you have gone? Would you go now?
The last time I was Dylan was at Campagnelli Stadium and the show was, after much waiting in the midday boil and heat of the day with a group of hundreds if not a couple of thousand, we stood against the hot concrete of the baseball park for five or more hours waiting to see Bob and I tell you, it was worth it. I'd do it and will do it again in a heartbeat and likely next summer I will, and if not here, then I will travel to where he is. If he won't come to me, then I'll go to him.
This Dylan again had morphed ~ he was the Dylan we saw in No Direction Home, which I wrote about elsewhere here. He was yes, dressed in black and for a moment, my heart skipped a "could it be" beat, but no. The coat was long and country-style and he was bearded and shaggy haired and not in the way that I and so many others had come to love. When we think of Bob Dylan, almost everyone finds a photograph of the younger Dylan, not the older Dylan.
This is not a rejection of the new work – because I'm a huge fan of the new work. It is some of the best work he has done and songs like "It's Not Dark Yet" will move you to the bone if you listen to the lyrics and care enough. "Time Out of Mind" is a terrific album – all of it, or it is to me anyway. But what I find interesting is that the front cover of today's Dylan is blurred, his face obscured; he remains fuzzy, out of focus as if he is someone we don't know. Turn the album over and there is the Dylan we all know – younger, or looking younger to say the least and in a striped shirt and his black suit-vest. The photograph I like, and these are rare and harder and harder to come by these days, is the inside flap of the CD which shows a smiling present-day Dylan, sitting with his guitar and in darkly lit room but happy anyway.
Maybe that's just it; maybe he just doesn't smile anymore and that's what we or he have lost. I want to send him a letter or I want him to smile again or see him on stage and hand him a note that will make him laugh and no doubt, the next time I go to a show I will do that. I remember the last time I was a t a good show, besides the Dylan show, when I went to see Paul Weller of the Style Council and of The Jam (now solo). There were throngs of girls at the stage with their made-up and beautiful faces and pushed up breasts and eager smiles all reaching with paper and pen for Paul's autograph.
I walked up just at the end and wearing nothing but my khakis and a black t-shirt, handed him my piece of paper and a pen and for whatever reason, he came to me. Maybe because I wasn't' trying to hard. Maybe I didn't look desperate but I looked honest. Maybe I looked like a Band Aid and not a groupie. Or maybe I just looked like a girl who liked his music.
Whatever the matter, Weller took the paper from my hand and leaned over and put his other hand on top of mine. He flipped the paper over to see what he was singing and began to laugh. It was a prescription for Valium, 5 mg x 3 day; the only piece of paper I had on me. He signed it, squeezed my hand and handed the autograph back.
I never could fill that prescription after that, but it didn't matter. I had made his day and he mine. He's not an easy guy to get the attention of. I wonder the same of Bob. Not about an autograph but perhaps a discussion. Perhaps, despite his reputed and lord knows I've seen it, dislike of journalists, he'll see that after all I'm just a girl who "really knows what it means to truly love a good piece of music just because….
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Comments: In Mexico vs Chicago, Mexico is Winning!
All our major cities are becoming third world countries. Welcome to Detroit.
Posted by SteveS at December 14, 2012 6:52 PM
But the per capita murder rate is far higher in Ciudad Juarez:
Ciudad Juarez population: city 1.3 million, metro area 1.6 million.
Chicago population: city 8.7 million, metro area 9.5 million.
Posted by pst314 at December 15, 2012 7:55 AM
"He brings a gun, you bring a grenade launcher. He sends one of yours to the morgue, you send one of his to the morgue with his balls in his mouth. That's the Mexican way!"
Posted by Rich Fader at December 15, 2012 8:29 PM
Raising the body count is both places can't hurt.
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It's time to listen to each other and stop assuming each other's political stances
While engaging in a conversation with a naturalized citizen who voted in her first election, she said that she voted for Obama because she was told "Democrats are for poor people and Republicans are for the rich."
This reflects a Republican image problem as eight of the 10 richest counties in the country voted Democratic. Another friend was boycotting Chick-fil-A because it contributed to super PACs, which she believes corrupts the election process. (She should also look at unions, as they act as super PACs, donating huge amounts of money from members' dues to the Democrats. They also deliver voting blocs expecting certain actions in return.)
How has it gotten to the point where separate groups of people can be pigeonholed as being so one-dimensional and have it blindly accepted as truth? Political stances are much too complex for this to be true. Yet the media presents it as so, and citizens recognize it as truth.
Politics now dominates governance, overshadowing the honor that it deserves. It is time to stop shouting and listen to each other with our hearts. Leave the preconceived notions behind and get down to the business of guiding the future of this great nation.
Julie Seymour, McKinney


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Hey all,
I'm trying to visualize a pretty complex interaction with a system of devices and was wondering whether there were any good visual examples out there. At a high level, I'm looking to storyboard the interactions of the system from beginning to end. This system has multiple users who are using multiple devices (think smartphone, tablet, etc). Unfortunately can't get into details, but I'm looking for ways that people have solved this visualization problem.
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- The Department of Pharmacological & Physiological Science
Each year, highly qualified candidates with bachelors' degrees are accepted into this multidisciplinary Ph.D. program.
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ABOUT TWO THOUSAND ATHLETES WILL BRAVE THE HEAT THIS WEEKEND IN THE IRONMAN TRIATHLON. W-L-K-Y'S LEXY SCHEEN CAUGHT UP WITH ONE GROUP HOPING TO TURN THOSE 140 MILES INTO A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. THIS TIME LAST YEAR, WE CAUGHT UP WITH JASON DIERKING -- SWIMMING, BIKING, RUNNING -- AND RAISING 91-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HIS CHARITY. TODAY, HIS MISSION CONTINUES. the exciting thing is :the fact that's it's growing and people are taking this on, it didn't end last year THE FRAZIER REHAB IRONMAN HOUSING FUND HELPS SPINAL CORD AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY PATIENTS FROM OUT OF TOWN, PAY FOR TRIPS TO LOUISVILLE FOR TREATMENT. THIS TIME AROUND JASON'S NOT THE ONE COMPETING. the goal for these 3 has been to push that over 100,000 dollars. hit that initial goal and provide a platform for it to possibly continue next year LAURA STEBBINS HAS BEEN A PHYSICAL THERAPIST WITH FRAZIER REHAB FOR FOUR YEARS. SHE WORKS WITH THE PATIENTS, BENEFITING FROM THE HOUSING FUND EVERYDAY. It comes with a lot of stresses and to take one stress off their plate, being able to get to the therapy they need to focus on the training they need AS A STRENGTH COACH AT U-OF-L -- JASON'S ALSO RECRUITED TWO OF HIS FORMER ATHLETES. CHELSEA LEONARD -- AN EX-CARDS SOFTBALL PITCHER.. WHO NOW COACHES AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN. AND CHRIS LINDAUER -- A U OF L SWIM ALUM AND NOW ASSISTANT CARDS COACH. it's an opportunity to do something I love, to accomplish a goal, and it's an opportunity to give back THEY'VE BEEN TRAINING 15 TO 25 HOURS A WEEK FOR MORE THAN 10 MONTHS. I'm excited about the swim and the bike. I'm more nervous about the run the run afterward, anytime you ride 112 miles and you come of the bike and try to run a marathon, that's difficult, I don't care who you are NO MATTER THEIR FINISH TIME -- THE GOAL IS TO TURN THIS COLLABORATION INTO SOMETHING BIGGER. we've helped a ton on patients but everyday I meet new patients that could benefit from it THEY'RE ALSO HOPING -- TO HAVE A GOOD TIME. at some point in the run, if i'm actually running, that's a good thing. Haha no, just to finish and have fun doing it LEXY SCHEEN, WLKY NEWS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE, YOU CAN VISIT W- L-K-Y DOT COM. WE HAVE A LINK TO THE FRAZIER REHAB PAGE, WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DONATE TO THE HOUSING FUND.
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Robert Frost: On the Farm
In September 1896, Robert and Elinor Frost had their first child, a son named Elliott. A year later, Frost enrolled at Harvard. He left Harvard to support his rapidly-expanding family just two years later, in the spring of 1899. Very soon after, Elinor gave birth to their daughter Lesley. In July 1900, the family experienced the first of several tragedies when four-year-old Elliott died of cholera.
Three months after Elliott's death, the family left Lawrence and moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, purchased for Frost by his paternal grandfather. For the next decade, Frost farmed poultry, raised children (son Carol, born in 1902; daughter Irma, born 1903; daughter Marjorie, born in 1905; and daughter Elinor Bettina, who died just days after birth in 1907), and taught English at nearby Pinkerton Academy. He wrote poetry as well, with little success in getting published.
In 1911, Frost called it quits. He sold the farm and a year later moved his family to Great Britain, where the living was cheaper and Frost could have a serious go at becoming a professional poet. Frost befriended several literary notables who helped launch his career, including the poet and critic Ezra Pound. In 1913, Frost published A Boy's Will, his first book of poetry. He was 39 years old. (It appeared only in England at first; a U.S. edition was published two years later.) A Boy's Will was a respectable start, but the literary world really sat up and took notice of his second collection, 1914's North of Boston. The book established Robert Frost as a new and serious poetic voice; one that spoke of tragedy and darkness in a clear and modern manner.
Frost's poetry "has the tang of the New Hampshire woods, and it has just this utter sincerity," wrote Ezra Pound in an influential review in the journal Poetry. "It is not post-Miltonic or post-Swinburnian or post-Kiplonian. This man has the good sense to speak naturally and to paint the thing, the thing as he sees it."10 Pound was the first of many critics to admire Frost's use of the New England vernacular, praising the poet who "dared to write [...] in the natural speech of New England; in natural spoken speech, which is very different from the 'natural' speech of the newspapers, and of many professors."11 (Although Pound's article brought crucial attention to Frost's work, the notoriously sensitive Frost noticed only the review's criticisms and nursed a grudge against Pound forever after, calling him "that great intellect abloom in hair."12)
The deceptive simplicity of Frost's verse boosted his popularity among serious and casual readers alike—critics saw deeper meanings, while casual readers misinterpreted and quoted out of context.13 For example, his poem, "Mending Wall," features the oft-repeated line "Good fences make good neighbors." The line is taken completely out of context; the narrator is actually skeptical about the value of his neighbor's wall, wondering, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out."14 Regardless of how well readers understood his poems, though, they wanted more of them. By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, magazines that previously rejected his work were asking him for poems.


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Purpose. Lifelong, self-directed learning (SDL) has been identified as an important ability for medical graduates. To evaluate the effect of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine's revised undergraduate medical curriculum on students' SDL, a cross-sectional study was conducted.
Method. A questionnaire package was mailed to 280 randomly selected students, 70 from each of the four years of the curriculum. The package contained the two most widely recognized, extensively used, and validated instruments of SDL (Guglielmino's 58-item Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale and Oddi's 24-item Continuous Learning Inventory) and Ryan's two-part Self-Assessment Questionnaire. An identification number and sociodemographic questions were included with the questionnaires. Data analysis was completed using chi-square for differences of proportions, analysis of variance for differences between means, and linear regression for trends.
Results. A total of 250 (89.3%) complete questionnaire packages were returned. No significant trend in SDL was evident by curriculum year, and similar SDL levels were observed for women and men. However, a significant positive trend in SDL was found with the highest level of premedical education achieved (undergraduate only, masters, or doctoral). Further, students' perceptions concerning the importance of SDL decreased according to year in the curriculum.
Conclusion. This study found no evidence that students' self-reported SDL is positively influenced by the current undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
Studies indicate that being an effective, independent, and self-directed lifelong learner is critical for graduates of undergraduate medical1,2 and other professional programs.3 Recognizing the importance of these abilities, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine Council identified "to prepare our students for life-long study and practice of medicine" as the first goal of its Goals and Objectives for the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum (1990).
In 1992, at least in part to address this curricular goal and to enhance students' self-directed learning (SDL), the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine revised its conventional, lecture-based medical curriculum into a "hybrid," replacing much of the curriculum time devoted to large-group didactic lectures with small-group, problem-based, and SDL opportunities. The resulting curricular changes were designed and implemented to achieve the ideals Barrows describes: "That students would be stimulated by the experience, would see the relevance of what they were learning to their future responsibilities, would maintain a high degree of motivation for learning, and would begin to understand the importance of responsible professional attitudes."4 We undertook this study to begin to learn whether the curricular revision enhanced students' SDL (and, ultimately, their abilities as effective lifelong learners).
Several authors (e.g., Wilcox,5 Ryan,6 Miflin, Campbell and Price,7 Knowles,8 Hammond and Collins,9 and Candy10) have examined the knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with and necessary for effective SDL. Although some authors9–12 discuss SDL's role as an emancipatory and individualist and, therefore, not directly relevant to "institutionalized" education, others5–8 have explored SDL within a variety of postsecondary educational contexts. From these explorations, four common SDL components, consistent with the objectives of the University of Toronto curriculum changes, have been identified. These are students' ability and motivation to (1) self-assess and identify their specific learning needs; (2) wisely and efficiently identify, locate, access, and use a range of relevant resources to address their identified learning needs; (3) critically evaluate the scope and accuracy of the selected resources; and (4) evaluate the resultant learning outcomes and their effects on the learner's practice.
Guided by these four SDL components, Ryan6 developed and administered a brief, two-part questionnaire to assess students' perceptions concerning the importance of SDL and their abilities as self-directed learners. Periodic assessments, made during a course offered by Ryan employing a SDL approach, demonstrated significant increases in students' perceptions of both the importance of SDL and their abilities as self-directed learners.6 In addition to Ryan's, several other instruments have been developed to measure SDL.13 The two most widely recognized, extensively used, and validated instruments for measuring SDL capability and readiness13–15 are Guglielmino's Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS)16 and Oddi's Continuing Learning Inventory (OCLI).17,18 Several assessments of the reliability and validity of the OCLI and SDLRS have been conducted,14 including dissertations reporting positive associations between instrument scores and SDL activity.
Both the SDLRS and OCLI have been used to assess undergraduate medical students. Using the SDLRS, Mann and Kaufman19 found no significant difference between the first-year and second-year scores for Dalhousie University's initial class in its revised, problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. They also found no overall difference between the average second-year scores of students in the last year of Dalhousie's conventional curriculum and those in the initial PBL class. However, their more detailed analysis found four SDLRS items to favor the PBL group at a significance level of p < .01.
Also using the SDLRS, Shokar and others20 studied 182 third-year medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, assessing their degree of readiness for SDL after experiencing two years in a PBL curriculum. Because the clinical preceptors' ratings of the students correlated with the SDLRS scores and the mean SDLRS score was significantly higher than that reported for general adult learners, the authors concluded the students were ready for SDL.
Using the OCLI at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (now Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Shulman21 found significantly higher scores among students in a PBL curriculum compared with those in a conventional, lecture-based curriculum. Comparing first and fourth years, she also found higher fourth-year SDL scores in the PBL curriculum, but no difference in the more traditional curriculum.
Although each of these instruments has received varying degrees of evaluation, we could identify only one interinstrument comparison. Studying the SDLRS and OCLI, Landers reported an interinstrument correlation of .606 and concluded that both instruments appear to share similar properties.22 With only this single study to guide and justify the selection of one instrument over the others, we designed a cross-sectional study of the effect of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine's undergraduate medical curriculum on students' SDL using the three instruments (SDLRS, OCLI, and Ryan's). We hypothesized that students' scores on these instruments would increase across the four curricular years.
A total of 280 students, 70 from each of the four years of the undergraduate medical curriculum, were randomly selected from the school's population of 700. We chose this number because calculations showed that 60 respondents per class (85% response rate) would provide a study power of .80 to detect (α = .05) a 5% difference among the four years.23
Ryan's questionnaire asks respondents to consider the four identified components of SDL and rate each, from low (0) to high (6), on its importance and their ability with the component.6 The SDLRS contains 58 statements (e.g., "I learn several new things on my own each year") with five-point responses, ranging from "Almost never true of me; I hardly ever feel this way" to "Almost always true of me; there are very few times when I don't feel this way." Total scores range from 58 (least ready for SDL) to 290 (most ready).16
The OCLI contains 24 statements (e.g., "I work more effectively if I have freedom to regulate myself") with seven-point responses, ranging from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree." Total scores range from 24 (least characteristic of self-directed learners) to 168 (most characteristic).17,18 Brockett and Hiemstra,14 in their review of the use and validity of the SDLRS and OCLI, concluded that both are well-accepted measures of SDL.
The instruments, stapled together as a single booklet, were mailed with an identification number and questions concerning each respondent—their age, sex, and level of premedical education. To enable an assessment of any instrument-order effects, half the students selected from each class were randomly selected to receive the questionnaires organized and stapled so that the SDLRS preceded the OCLI; for the remaining students, the OCLI preceded SDLRS. Ryan's questionnaire always followed the other two instruments, with Ryanability always following Ryanimportance. The survey packages included a postage-paid return envelope and a cover letter personally signed by the study coordinator (BJH) and the associate dean of Undergraduate Medical Education (RCF). To allow for maximal curricular exposure, while also providing sufficient time for data collection, the surveys were administered, using Dillman's24 Total Design Method, during the final two months of the academic year, in April of 1999. Nonrespondents received up to three follow-up mailings: a postcard reminder at ten days, and a full mailing, including a replacement questionnaire, one and two months after the initial mailing. If any questions were found unanswered, the questionnaire was returned by mail to the respondent with a cover letter requesting completion of the identified item(s).
The responses of returned surveys were entered into a database. Instrument totals were calculated using spreadsheet software. Data analysis (chi-square for differences of proportions, analysis of variance for differences of means, and linear regression for trends) was completed using SPSS 10.0.25 For the primary question—the trend in OCLI, SDLR, and Ryanability scores over the four years of the curriculum—an α level of .05 was used. All other analyses, explanatory and exploratory, were completed acknowledging that significant findings may occur by chance, a result of the multiple comparisons conducted.
A total of 250 (89.3%) completed questionnaires were returned. Respondents' characteristics are summarized in Table 1. Response rates by class were similar. The percentages of women and of those with a master's degree prior to entering medical school were also similar across classes. However, the percentage of respondents reporting premedical PhDs differed significantly by class.
Summary (i.e., four-component total) scores for "SDL importance" and "SDL ability" were used in the analysis of Ryan's questionnaire because factor analysis demonstrated the four components of each loaded together onto single factors. Table 2 summarizes the SDLRS, OCLI, and Ryan scores. Because no effect due to instrument order was evident, all instruments were analyzed together. Standardized Cronbach α was .76 for the SDLRS, .66 for the OCLI, .76 for Ryanability, and .73 for Ryanimportance. The interinstrument correlations are shown in Table 3.
Women and men had similar SDL scores. SDLRS, OCLI, and Ryanability scores increased significantly by age (data not shown) and highest level of premedical education achieved (undergraduate only, masters, or doctoral). However, only premedical education remained significant in a multivariate linear regression including both factors.
Although a significant between-year difference was found for the SDLRS (p = .028), OCLI (p = .011), and Ryanimportance (p = .021), a significant trend by year was only evident for Ryanimportance scores (p = .007). This trend, however, indicated a decrease in perceived SDL importance by curricular year. The SDLRS, OCLI, and Ryanability instruments each identified the highest and lowest mean scores in the first and second years, respectively. Neither controlling for level of premedical education nor restricting the analysis to only those with undergraduate postsecondary education altered these results. To further examine trends in SDL ability by year and enable comparison with Mann and Kaufman's study,19 analyses were also conducted on each of the 58 SDLRS, 24 OCLI, four Ryanability, and four Ryanimportance items.
By applying the more stringent α level of .0005 (.05/90), acknowledging the conduct of multiple comparisons, none of the 90 items suggested a trend by curricular year. In fact, only four SDLRS and two OCLI items reached the more liberal level of p < .05, each consistent with lower SDL in the senior years of the curriculum. The SDLRS items were: "In a classroom, I expect the teacher to tell all class members exactly what to do at all times" (more agreement in senior years; p = .05); "I don't like challenging learning situations" (more agreement in senior years; p = .04); "Learning how to learn is important to me" (more agreement in junior years; p = .03); and "Learning is a tool for life" (more agreement in junior years; p = .01). The OCLI items were "I seek involvement with others in school or work projects" (more agreement in junior years; p = .001) and item 23 "I make an effort to meet new people" (more agreement in junior years; p = .002).
Except for age, results from the bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were comparable.
Our study's main objective was to evaluate whether University of Toronto medical students' SDL, as measured by widely recognized, extensively used, and validated instruments, improves over the four years of the curriculum. Although significant interyear SDL differences were found, SDL scores did not follow a trend consistent with progression through the curriculum, with the first and second years having consistently the highest and lowest scores, respectively.
These results differ from those of Mann and Kaufman,19 who reported no difference in SDLRS scores in a group of Dalhousie University medical students between their first and second years in a PBL curriculum (232 versus 233). Their more detailed analysis, however, identified four SDLRS items favoring the PBL group at a significance level of p < .01. In a similar examination, we found four, albeit different, SDLRS items suggesting a trend by curricular year. These, however, all indicated decreasing SDL into senior years. Similarly, both OCLI items suggesting a trend by year also favored students in more junior years. Together, these six items may simply reflect the different working and social environments of senior students rather than diminished SDL.
These results also differ from those of Shulman.21 Comparing medical students in PBL and traditional curricula at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (now Wake Forest University School of Medicine), Shulman found significantly higher OCLI scores among the fourth-year students in the PBL curriculum (136 versus 123). Shulman also found that women had significantly higher OCLI scores than men (132 versus 123). Shulman's results, however, may have been affected by response bias because only 37% of the 216 potential respondents returned completed instruments.
The SDLRS and OCLI scores in our study are consistent with those found in other studies. In their study of first-year and second-year medical students, Mann and Kaufman19 observed mean SDLRS scores ranging from 225 to 233, only slightly less than this study's 228 and 239. Similarly, the average score of third-year medical students reported by Shokar and colleagues20 is consistent with this study (236 and 235, respectively). Finally, the mean OCLI scores of first-year and fourth-year students reported by Shulman21—ranging between 121 and 136—are also comparable to this study's 126 and 131.
The SDLRS–OCLI interinstrument correlation of .713 we observed supports Landers' assertion22 that both instruments appear to share similar properties. In both our study and Landers', the 58-item SDLRS had a higher internal reliability than the 24-item OCLI.
Although the results of our study suggest that the curriculum does not foster students' SDL, alternative explanations should be considered. For example, are the instruments sufficiently sensitive to detect SDL progress? Two factors suggest that they are: (1) all three instruments provide similar findings, with each able to detect the significant increasing trend in SDL associated with higher levels of premedical education; and (2) the similarity of results for each of the three measures of SDL ability (i.e., SDLRS, OCLI, and Ryanability) suggests that the significant results observed are unlikely to have occurred by chance (i.e., as a result of the multiple comparisons conducted). Further, response bias is not a likely explanation for the study's inability to detect a year-by-year SDL trend because the response rates across the four years were uniformly high—in excess of 85%.
An additional consideration, however, is the study's cross-sectional design. Although this design is more efficient than a longitudinal approach, actual changes in SDL are not measured in the same groups of students over time. Instead, the cross-sectional design assumes the comparability of the four classes. Although the admission procedures and curriculum were similar for each of the four years, the failure to detect SDL progress over the curriculum could be the result of unmeasured differences between two or more of the classes. Clearly, the completion of a longitudinal follow-up assessment should be given high priority so that a more complete understanding of these findings and the effect of this curriculum on students' SDL might be achieved.
Although statistically significant interyear SDL differences were found, it is important to also consider their practical significance. For example, what is the educational relevance of the SDL differences observed between first-year and second-year scores? To examine this, we completed an item-by-item comparison, which demonstrated the second-year class consistently had lower SDL item scores than their first-year counterparts—particularly on the 38 SDLRS and 21 OCLI items that accounted for the greatest differences between the two classes. Further, as presented in Table 4, 28% (16/58) of the SDLRS items accounted for 50% (5.5/10.9) of the between-class difference in SDLRS scores. Similarly, 25% (6/24) of the OCLI items accounted for 42% (3.2/7.7) of the difference between the first-year and second-year classes (also shown in Table 4).
Further, as Shokar and colleagues20 note, the SDL scores found in this study are much higher than those reported for general adult learners (214 on SDLRS). As such, the opportunities for students' SDL scores to increase during medical school may be limited by a so-called ceiling effect. However, despite this potential limitation of high scores, significant between-year differences were identified by this study. In addition, differences between Ryanimportance and Ryanability scores (see Table 2) appear to suggest that opportunities exist for further SDL improvements, as students generally rated their current SDL ability significantly lower than they rated the importance of SDL to their current learning.
Of course, these observed SDL differences may in fact be a true reflection of the students' curricular experiences. For example, the low scores observed among second-year students might be due to frustration with the preclerkship and impatience to begin the more clinically oriented clerkship. The findings may also be due to the steering effects of examinations26,27 or, as argued by Schmidt,28 the inability of most medical curricula, even those that are purely problem-based, to ensure the kind of learning environment necessary to effectively enable, encourage, and support SDL.
Although our study's results should be interpreted cautiously, especially before the completion of a longitudinal follow-up assessment, they suggest that students' SDL is not positively influenced by this revised curriculum—a finding consistent with experience at the University of Queensland.29
For the purposes of this research, a royalty-freecopyright license for the use of the OCLI was granted by Lorys F. Oddi. The University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine provided funding for this study.
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So, how does it perform? Well, there's no question of the Move's potential. Having played a wide range of titles at E3 and seen technical demonstrations performed live by the design team, it is already clear that there are ways in which Move takes motion control further than even the Wii with MotionPlus could.
In titles, like Start the Party, where virtual objects are superimposed on top of the Move controller in a live video feed from the camera, you can see exactly how accurate and practically lag-free the controller is, and the skill with which the camera can track the glowing bulbs in 3D space offers up all sorts of possibilities when it comes to gesture recognition or manipulating objects on the screen. It's also abundantly clear that Sony will move heaven and earth to make Move work with hardcore gaming titles.
Much of this potential is visible in the launch games we've been playing. Play Start the Party - a slightly twisted multiplayer-focused, mini-games compilation – and the speed and finesse with which the game can track your movements is consistently impressive, Sports Champions' renderings of golf, table tennis, volleyball, gladiatorial duels, archery and petanque (a variant of boules) prove how sensitive the controller is to the details, whether the angle and position at which you hold the Move to the distance and velocity with which you move it.
If the table tennis in Wii Sports Resort was good, then the Sports Champions version is uncanny; capturing the rapid snap of the stroke, the way stepping forward or backwards affects the shot, and allowing you to add all kinds of spin. From archery through to the sword-and-shield action of the gladiator duels, there's no question that Move takes motion controls to a new layer of realism.
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There are eight different components or craft materials that are utilized this year in the Fine Craft Show & Sale. You will find works created in wood, ceramics, paper, leather, jewelry, fiber, wearable art and glass – or combinations of a few of these elements.
New this year to the Show is Ithaca glass artist Margaret Neher. This is a portion of her artist statement from her website:
"I'm fascinated by the endless variety of shapes and colors found in nature, and in orchids in particular. At the same time, I find myself frustrated by their ephemeral nature; how rare and fleeting they are. I think this is why I've always been drawn to realism in my work; to the challenge of working to capture a complex, ever-changing living thing in an unchanging form. Lampworked glass is particularly suited to this. The fluidity of the process allows the piece to keep evolving; each time I reproduce a given flower it becomes more realistic as my understanding of it grows more fully."
She was recently interviewed by The Arts Business Institute about her inspiration and her business.
"MN: The idea is of botanical illustration in glass; like a technical drawing but three dimensional. I did the first two for a local show sponsored by the Fingerlakes Native Plant Society, and they were recently shown at the Cornell Plantations."
The photo below was borrowed from that post. Read the full interview, here.
Be sure to stop in to the Fine Craft Show & Sale over the weekend to see the new work by this flamework glass artist. Tickets to the Show are $10 on Saturday and Sunday and include Gallery admission (normally $12). Or join us on Friday evening for an exclusive Preview Party. This is your chance to mingle with the artists, first-view of the artworks and enjoy fine jazz, complimentary hors d'oeuvres and craft beer tasting. Tickets to that evening are available on-line here. General admission-$50.00�� Patron-$75.00. or call the Gallery Council office at 585.two-seven-six.8910.


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SIKESTON - Matthew Paul Hayden, 15, died April 23, 2003, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
Born June 8, 1987, in Perryville, son of Jeff Hayden of Perryville and Lisa Hafner of Park Hills, he was the foster son of Mike and Melissa Stewart of Sikeston and a student at the New Dawn State School in Sikeston.
Survivors in addition to his parents and foster parents include: his foster brother, Chris Stewart of Sikeston; half sister, Nikki Hayden of Perryville; special friends, Michelle Collins of Scott City, Bryce Faulkner of Sikeston and Cameron Green of Benton; and his classmates, including Michael and Billy. He is also survived by his former caregiver, Barbara Lewis Zook of Sikeston.
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He was preceded in death by one sister, Jennifer Hayden.
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What is a Debris Flow?
Debris flows are extremely dangerous. They can be very fast, travel long distances and completely fill valleys.
Debris Flow Definition
A debris flow is a moving mass of loose mud, sand, soil, rock, water and air that travels down a slope under the influence of gravity. To be considered a debris flow the moving material must be loose and capable of "flow", and, at least 50% of the material must be sand-size particles or larger.
Some debris flows are very fast - these are the ones that attract attention. In areas of very steep slopes they can reach speeds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/hour). However, many debris flows are very slow, creeping down slopes by slow internal movements at speeds of just one or two feet per year (30 to 60 centimeters per year). The videos at right illustrate debris flows and show how they move.
Debris-flow source areas are often associated with steep gullies, and debris-flow deposits are usually indicated by the presence of debris fans at the mouths of gullies. Image and caption by the United States Geological Survey.
The Debris Flow Hazard
The speed and volume of debris flows make them very dangerous. Every year, worldwide, many people are killed by debris flows. This hazard can be reduced by identifying areas that can potentially produce debris flows, educating people who live in those areas and govern them, limiting development in debris flow hazard areas, and developing a debris flow mitigation plan.
Conditions Required to Produce a Debris Flow
The source area of a debris flow must have: 1) a very steep slope, 2) an abundant supply of loose debris, 3) a source of abundant moisture, and 4) sparce vegetation. Identifying areas where debris flows have happened in the past or where these conditions are present is the first step towards developing a debris flow mitigation plan. The map below shows areas inundated by historic debris flows at Glacier Peak, Washington.
Areas inundated by debris flows from Glacier Peak volcanic eruptions. Over the past 15,000 years hundreds of lahars and debris flows have swept down valleys around the mountain, filling them with thick deposits. Image by the United States Geological Survey.
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Is It a Debris Flow, a Mud Flow or a Landslide?
Debris flows differ from slides because they are made up of "loose" particles that move independently within the flow. A slide is a coherent block of material that "slides" over a failure surface.
A mud flow is composed of mud and water. Debris flows have larger particles - at least 50% of a debris flow is made-up of sand-size or larger particles.
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Debris flows can be triggered by many different situations. Here are a few examples:
Addition of Moisture:
A sudden flow of water from heavy rain, or rapid snowmelt can be channeled over a steep valley filled with debris that is loose enough to be mobilized. The water soaks down into the debris, lubricates the material, adds weight, and triggers a flow.
Removal of Support:
Streams often erode materials along their banks. This erosion can cut into thick deposits of saturated materials stacked high up the valley walls. This erosion removes support from the base of the slope and can trigger a sudden flow of debris.
Failure of Ancient Landslide Deposits:
Some debris flows originate from older landslides. These older landslides can be unstable masses perched up on a steep slope. A flow of water over the top of the old landslide can lubricate the slide material or erosion at the base can remove support. Either of these can trigger a debris flow.
Wildfires or Timbering:
Some debris flows occur after wildfires have burned the vegetation from a steep slope or after logging operations have removed vegetation. Before the fire or logging the vegetation's roots anchored the soil on the slope and removed water from the soil. The loss of support and accumulation of moisture can result in a catastrophic failure. Rainfall that was previously absorbed by vegetation now runs off immediately. A moderate amount of rain on a burn scar can trigger a large debris flow.
Volcanic Eruptions:
A volcanic eruption can flash melt large amounts of snow and ice on the flanks of a volcano. This sudden rush of water can pick up ash and pyroclastic debris as it flows down the steep volcano and carry them rapidly downstream for great distances. In the 1877 eruption of Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador, debris flows traveled over 300 kilometers down a valley at an average speed of about 27 kilometers per hour. Debris flows are one of the deadly "surprise attacks" of volcanoes.
Debris Flow Early-Warning Systems
Debris flows can be very dangerous. They can move at high speeds, travel long distances and fill stream valleys up to 100 meters deep with debris. Early warning systems are being developed for use in areas where debris flow risk is especially high. One method uses sensitive seismographs to detect debris flows that have already started moving. Another uses radar precipitation estimates and established rainfall intensity-duration threshold values to determine when meteorological conditions are right for flows to occur.
How to Survive a Debris Flow
The United States Geological Survey offers the following guidance for surviving a debris flow:
"Because debris flows are confined to areas downslope and downvalley from their points of origin, people can avoid them by seeking high ground. Debris-flow hazard decreases gradually downvalley from possible source volcanoes but more abruptly with increasing altitude above valley floors. People seeking to escape flows should climb valley sides rather than try to outrun debris flows in valley bottoms. During eruptive activity or precursors to eruptions, local government officials may ask for prompt evacuation of areas likely to be affected."
Forest Falls Debris Flow Photos
A high-intensity rain storm on July 11, 1999 produced numerous debris flows on the steep, south side of Mill Creek Canyon in the Forest Falls area of San Bernardino County, California. The steep slopes in this area regularly produce debris flows and display numerous chutes on the canyon walls. For more information on this flow see the
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Debris flow deposits along Mill Creek at Forest Falls. United States Geological Survey photo.
A home destroyed by a debris flow. Note scattered lumber fragments and insulation. United States Geological Survey photo.
A yellow pine tree battered by a recent debris flow. The person is standing on debris flow deposits and the height of damage to the tree is over 9 feet (three meters) higher than the deposit surface. United States Geological Survey photo.
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Debris Flow Dynamics (Part 1): A United States Geological Survey archival film that explains debris flows.
Debris Flow Dynamics (Part 2): A United States Geological Survey archival film that explains debris flows.
Debris Flow Dynamics (Part 3): A United States Geological Survey archival film that explains debris flows.
Material deposited by a prehistoric debris flow in northern Venezuela and exposed for view by stream erosion. Note the person for scale. The deposit consists of large sub-angular gneissic boulders supported by a sandy matrix. United States Geological Survey photo.
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After last year's amazing Bloodstock Festival (see our review here) Nick Holmes takes a moment to refresh why you NEED to go this year:
As the crappy washout of a summer continues, there are less than four weeks until thousands of serious metal-heads land in rural Derbyshire for this year's Bloodstock Festival. The grounds of Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent will be rocking and moshing to possibly the best line-up the event has had so far.
It features a wide mix of bands crossing the rock and metal spectrum, from the Satanic spectacles of Watain and Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem – both playing in daylight! - to the UK comeback of Nergal and his Polish comrades in Behemoth and part-time golfer, full-time legend and godfather of schlock rock, Alice Cooper! Not forgetting Robb "Lord Browneye" Flynn and Machine fuckin' Head! There will also be sets from Dimmu Borgir, Testament, Paradise Lost and influential Canadian metal loons Anvil – if you have still not seen the movie "The Story of Anvil", do it. Amazing stuff. That is just main stage, named in memory of the great Ronnie James Dio, and also featuring an all-star tribute to the great man on Friday.
The Sophie Lancaster stage will remind everybody to continue fighting prejudice – look out for the S.O.P.H.I.E foundation's stall and find out about their amazing work. Bands playing include French experimentalists Alcest, stoner rockers Orange Goblin, the stupendously great Anaal Nathrakh and rock n' roll bad boys Viking Skull, plus female-fronted battle metallers Pythia to name just a few.
Bloodstock also makes a huge effort to uncover the next generation of talent, with its Metal 2 The Masses contest which feeds the bill for the New Blood stage. In the past few months bands around the country have taken part in regional heats, with the winners gaining a stage slot. The fans can vote on who they think is the best act of the weekend and that lucky bunch will then get to play at Germany's huge Wacken Open Air festival, as well as Slovenia's Metal Camp event. The stakes sure are high!
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Enter the park off of Stow Rd. Drive past the booth to the bathrooms on your left and park in that lot. Take the path that goes between the playground and lake. Continue on past Kathy Wolking Flower Bed. When you come to the Janet Cheeseman Flower Bed, turn left. Continue until you find a fork in the path and take the path to the right. Walk about 3 min. and look for a group of 4 trees on your left thats coming onto the path (path will zag to the left and go around them). It looks like one of the trees has a knuckle sticking out at the base. That knuckle points east. Turn your body in the direction it is pointing. You will need to take about 30 steps in this direction. There are some small fallen trees you will have to step over. You should now be at the base of a fallen tree. Turn your body about 45 degrees to the left and take 27 steps. Now you should see a large tree that is split down the middle. In the bottom of this crack you should find what you are looking for.
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Brrrr... Vikettes try to stay warm during half-time of soccer win at Benton.
The VS girls soccer team is "doing great," says coach Dave Cornell, after the Vikettes' 5-1 win at Benton Thursday evening, where they played on an artificial turf like the one athletic leaders hope to have installed in Vinton in the near future.
We've won 4 out of the last 5 and are now 7-4 on the season.," said the coach, who added that the weather was again an issue for both teams.
"It was rainy and windy all night but the girls played really well. They've come a long way."
Scoring summary:
3 minutes into the first half Lyndsey Cornell scored off a Grace Milroy cross. 6 minutes in Grace Milroy scored from the top corner of the box off a pass by Lyndsey Cornell. 9 minutes in Lyndsey Cornell scored on a long shot from outside the box. 13 minutes into the 1st half Olivia Oltrogge scored off a cross by Grace Milroy. 22 minutes in Lyndsey Cornell scored on another long shot. In the second half Benton scored on a shot that bounced over the head off our goalie,
Chelsey Meier. Chelsey had a really strong second half when the wind was against us. She finished with 20 saves on the night. Most of which came in the second half.
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Lyndsey Cornell 3 goals and 1 assist.
Grace Milroy 1 goal and 2 assists.
Olivia Oltrogge 1 goal
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Chippewa Falls, Wis. (WEAU) -- Another makeover is coming soon for Irvine Park Zoo in Chippewa Falls.The latest changes are designed to make your visit more enjoyable year-round.
For kids and adults, there's something magical about seeing zoo animals, right here in the Chippewa Valley. And in the next couple of months, three new buildings will be designed to showcase birds and small mammals.
"The facilities we have here are small facilities, it's not natural and it really stick out now when it sits next to the new facilities that we built," says Dick Hebert, Director of Parks and Recreation.
Jennifer London is the zoo keeper and says these cages are too small and new enclosures will be easier to maintain and better for the animals. They'll also make it easier for you to see the animals. "What we're going to try to do is make it, make the cages or enclosures, so they are versatile so we change the animals up if we want. All we have to do is change the furniture inside to fit the animal," says London.
Unfortunately during the winter months at the zoo you don't see as many animals or you get a more distant few like here with the big cats and bears but these new animal enclosures, you'll actually get to see those animals up close and personal all year round.
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The zoo also plans to build a welcome center that will have meeting rooms, artifacts and exhibits along with offering tours that will expand education at the zoo.
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