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Clowning around. New York actor Grant Neale is well known for his Shakespearean "fool" roles. When he and his brother Randy wanted to devise a two-man play with an Elizabethan twist, King Lear's clown seemed the perfect starting point. "We experienced our mother fading away with dementia," says Grant's brother Randy (Yankee Tavern, The Seafarer). "We asked, what if Lear hadn't gone mad but was just aging?" Their production follows Lear's deterioration through the eyes of his jester.
Warning: This play's addictive. Grant and Randy are two exceptional pros who spent 18 months developing The Fool's Lear. They have an infectious love and understanding of the source material, translating it to a contemporary stage style that doesn't require a foreknowledge of Shakespeare — think Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with more grey hair. An April run in Charleston had audience members returning for two or three performances to enjoy the actors' chemistry.
Pimp my throne. Several of King Lear's most charismatic characters are represented on stage, including Goneril, Regan, the Earl of Kent, and Mad Tom. "Grant's a physically strong comic who's very energized in his role of the Fool," says Randy. "And I'm very old, so I can get away with playing Lear." There's also a transformative set with a throne on wheels and a box of delights underneath, musical instruments, puppets, and unexpected props.

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I really don't think most Americans believe the press folks are idiots. I believe they KNOW they are idiots!
We didn't know JFK was a horny hound. We didn't know Walter Cronkite was a flaming liberal, but that's the small stuff. The smug and arrogant MSM has total disdain for people outside their realm. And why not? For decades they were allowed to keep their secrets, pick and choose the stories which furthered their own agendas, and only told us what they wanted us to know.


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Some have called into question Joe Flacco's work ethic. They stipulate that he hasn't worked with his receivers enough. Matt Vensel of the Baltimore Sun joined Zinno on "Last Call" to discuss Flacco, the off-season and the Ravens immediate future. Vensel said that Flacco should be getting together with his teammates soon.
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5/12 - Talk "Voronoi Diagrams, Generalizations, and Applications in VLSI Design for Manufacturing"
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Voronoi Diagrams, Generalizations, and Applications in VLSI Design for Manufacturing
Evanthia Papadopoulou
The Voronoi diagram is a powerful mathematical object encoding nearest neighbor information with numerous applications in diverse areas. In this talk I will present my work on generalized Voronoi diagrams, specifically, the Hausdorff Voronoi diagram and higher order Voronoi diagrams of segments, and present applications in predicting the yield of a VLSI chip. The Critical Area of a VLSI design is a measure reflecting the sensitivity of the design to random defects occurring during the chip manufacturing process. Fast and accurate critical area extraction is essential for modern VLSI manufacturing especially when Design for Manufacturability (DFM) changes are under consideration. I will address the critical area extraction problem for various types of faults such as shorts, open faults, and via blocks, using our results on generalized Voronoi diagrams. All algorithms have been integrated into a new IBM-Cadence CAD tool (Voronoi CAA) widely used by IBM Microelectronics for critical area extraction and yield prediction.
Evanthia Papadopoulou is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera Italiana (University of Lugano). From 1996 to 2008 she had been a Research Staff Member in the Design Automation department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, December 1995, an MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BS in Mathematics from University of Athens, Greece. Evanthias research interests are in Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Applications of Graph and Geometric Algorithms, VLSI Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing.
In recent years her research activity has been in the intersection of Analysis of Algorithms, Computational Geometry and VLSI Design Automation. She has worked in the area of Computer-Aided Design for Manufacturability (DFM) applying basic concepts from graph algorithms and computational geometry. She has applied generalizations of Voronoi diagrams such as higher order Voronoi diagrams of polygons, the Hausdorff Voronoi diagram, and others, to address DFM issues in VLSI design such as critical area extraction, assist feature placement, and yield prediction.


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When President Barack Obama returned to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala on Thursday night for the first time in eight years, he had a score to settle.
"I said that we could create opportunity not just for those at the very top, but for everybody who's willing to work hard. So that they could afford healthcare and college and retirement and give their kids a better life. What Sarah Palin called that 'hopey changey' stuff," he said in a dig at the former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
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Located on Patawalonga Lake overlooking Haven Marina. 500m walk to the beach over King Street Bridge.
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Toys, books, games, high chair bench clip on, change table on port-a-cot, play ground covered and soft fall ground opposite in Wigley Reserve.
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Short walk across reserve to Marina Pier Holdfast Shores with it's numerous cafes and restaurants, HMS Buffalo Family Restaurant and Beach House Entertainment Complex.
The popular Watermark Hotel is at the end of the street and the Glenelg Revolving Restaurant opposite on Anzac Highway. There is a coffee shop next door to the apartment.
Haven Marina with its linear park and walk/cycle tracks at front door step, also free public BBQ approx 500m up the river with covered seating by the water.
Jetty Road's shopping precinct is open 365 days a year.
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Watch the boats leaving for a sail on the weekend, or the canoeists and paddle boarders practicing and even the odd artist will set up their easel on the water's edge.
Glenelg trams nearby into the city centre or the J1 bus route on the door step to Harbour Town Factory Outlet and Woolworths and then the Adelaide Airport and the city centre.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Having as main character to Mark Boone Junior (see full cast), this film directed by Kenton Bartlett was premiered in theaters in 2012. The feature film "Missing Pieces" was produced in USA. You can watch Missing Pieces online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2012.
Rating: 5 by 116 users./
Runtime: 117 minutes
Mark Boone Junior, Melora Walters, Elizabeth Alexander, Carlissa Arrow, Harrison Bartlett, Jimmy D. Bartlett, Marie Bartlett, Melisa Beck, Nola Beck, Robert Burgess, Charlotte Cox, Phillip Cox, Jocelyn Druyan, Dylan Dunn, Ethan Dunn and Harold Dunn.
117-minute film (full movie) directed by Kenton Bartlett.
The original audio of Missing Pieces has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
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Screenplay written by Kenton Bartlett.
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David Wright Jr., Jonathan Arturo, Estelle Buzzard, Melora Walters and Kenton Bartlett.
This film was produced and / or financed by Contraction Entertainment.
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In celebration of POWDER's 45th Anniversary, we are releasing select stories from every volume. This story originally published in the September 2013 issue (Volume 42, Issue 1).
BUD VALIAN LIKES TO TELL STORIES. The 79-year-old is tight-lipped at first, but once you get him going he doesn't want to stop. Valian has owned Valian's Ski Shop in Government Camp, Oregon—perched on the southwestern slope of Mount Hood—since 1968. He spends seven days a week at the tuning bench in the back of the shop, while his wife, Betsy, works the till and takes care of the books. Valian wears his long, gray hair in a ponytail and uses an Ace Hardware brace on his hand when he tunes—which he does better than just about anyone in Oregon. He is not a large man, but one look into his owlish brown eyes gives one the impression that his mind and soul are expansive, enhanced by a half century of living 4,000 feet closer to the heavens than the rest of us.
Valian learned to ski in British Columbia in 1947—on wooden boards with wire coat hangers holding the toe of his boots in place. After becoming an accomplished racer, he moved to Mount Hood to teach skiing in 1954—16 years after F.D.R.'s Works Progress Administration completed the Timberline Lodge, transforming Hood into one of the hippest winter resorts in the Northwest. He used to snowshoe to the top of the Magic Mile chairlift, shovel off the exit ramp, and ski back to the lodge for breakfast before starting his day. He remembers there weren't any stop signs or streetlights in "Govy" and that there were more restaurants and businesses. He also remembers there was a lot more snow. "The one thing I do know," he said, "is that the average elevation of the snowline is 1,200 to 1,400 feet higher now than it was back then."
It is difficult to gaze at the heap of ice and rock that is Mount Hood and conclude that the mountain is in need of a good blizzard. The 11,239-foot peak looks like a scoop of ice cream melting into the deep green forest of northwestern Oregon. Its ivory skirts swoop up from old-growth or and hemlock and meet the mountain's prominent ridges—Cooper Spur, Yocum, and Lang—that, in turn, extend like shadowy arms to brace the summit. Hood is a stratovolcano, a solitary blip on the Columbia Gorge's vertical profile, with no major mountains within 40 miles to steal its thunder. As for snow, every winter it is buried under more than 35 feet of the stuff.
Yet a National Weather Service study plot near Government Camp has recorded a 30-percent drop in snowfall since 1975, and several of the mountain's 12 glaciers have receded up to 60 percent since the early 1900s. The phenomenon is not confined to Mount Hood, northwestern Oregon, or even the U.S. According to data from NOAA, NASA, and the United Nations, spring snowpack in many parts of Western Washington, Oregon, and Northern California has dropped 50 to 70 percent since the early 1900s. Spring arrives in Tahoe two and a half weeks earlier now than in 1961, and in vaunted cradles of skiing like the Alps, climatologists estimate that two-thirds of the ski resorts there are in danger of closing by 2100. Even ski areas on the East Coast, with their massive snowmaking systems and hordes of city-goers ready to ski ice, have lost 15 percent of their snowpack in the last 60 years. On our current track, only four of the major 14 resorts in the region will be economically viable by 2100.
A National Weather Service study plot near Government Camp has recorded a 30-percent drop in snowfall since 1975.
The reasons for the decline are changes in temperature and precipitation. Over the last century, the average surface temperature of the planet has risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, two-thirds of that happening since 1975. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth warmest in recorded history, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the decade before it. While 1.4 degrees is barely perceptible to human skin, it has massive consequences in how the planet works. A million square miles of spring snow-cover in the Northern Hemisphere has disappeared in the last 45 years—including 20 percent of the spring snowpack in the Rockies and 35 percent in the Cascades. Studies suggest that by 2050, winter temperatures in the Northwest could warm by 5.4 degrees, and the Cascades could lose another 40 to 70 percent of their snowpack. Another speculates that the Rockies will warm an additional 7 degrees in the next 85 years, leaving Park City with no snow and Aspen with only the upper quarter of its current terrain snow-covered. Which is to say that while pundits and politicians debate and complicate causes and solutions of climate change, the math regarding the situation is relatively simple: It's getting warmer and snow is melting.
Traffic was light the day I navigated around the skyscrapers, sex shops, and lime-green bike lanes of downtown Portland and hit I-84 toward Mount Hood.
Over the last century, the average surface temperature of the planet has risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
It was a Wednesday in mid-February, and the mountain was masked behind a sheet of gunmetal gray clouds. It was the first day of a 1,000-mile road trip through the Cascades and Northern Rockies to document the future of snow in America. After reading about climate change for months, and watching senators, environmentalists, and lobbyists debate it endlessly, I wanted to talk to people who actually lived in the snow—ski bums, patrollers, avalanche forecasters, ranchers—about what they were seeing. So I packed my skis and headed out West, hoping to find answers at Mount Hood, Stevens Pass, Big Sky, and Jackson Hole—and birddog a few powder stashes along the way.
The science and magic of snowfall played out on the Mount Hood Highway as I ascended through the periphery of classic ski hotels and greasy-spoon restaurants that surround most ski resorts: Wy'East Cafe, Mount Hood Village RV Resort, Devine Grind drive-through espresso stand. Rain turned into sleet, then the sleet became snow as I gained altitude and the temperature dropped. All it took was a few degrees of change for the gloomy gray to morph into brilliant white. By the time I rolled into Govy and stepped out of the car to talk to Valian, silver-dollar fakes were spindling down from the clouds.
Valian told me stories of the old days at Timberline, then one about installing the first chairlift at Alaska's Alyeska Resort, and hanging out at a nearby glacier. (It isn't there anymore.) He said the funny thing was, winters on Mount Hood had been pretty terrific the last few years, especially this last one. Jeremiah Pyle, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Portland, confirmed that snowfall up high had been relatively consistent recently. What new computer models show, however, is that continued warming will push the snowline even higher as more precipitation falls as rain and rising temperatures edge in on the winter season in the fall and spring—threatening the half dozen ski hills on the mountain and the myriad summer ski camps on Palmer Glacier, the only year-round ski slope in the U.S.
The thought that all of this—the mountain, the snow, this bizarre sport revered by 65 million around the world—had a chance of being diminished seemed reason enough to do something..
It was dark by the time I bid Valian farewell and wandered into the orange haze of the Government Camp Loop Road. I wanted to see the slopes for myself and drove to Mount Hood Skibowl just down the road. Skibowl was founded in 1928 and is one of the oldest ski areas in the U.S. It's also the largest night-skiing resort in the country, evident by the eerie glow hovering at the end of the road and the empty beer cans and cigarette butts on-slope. A small crowd of teenagers sat around a bonfire at the base, and a lonely bartender wandered around the lodge, listening to the radio.
The lift was empty, and as I rode up, each descending chair emerged from the mist like in a dream. At the top I peeled off onto Lower Bowl. I couldn't see the run well under the dim lights, but I could feel gravity pulling me downhill. After all of the flying, interviewing, and driving, the sensation of skiing even an intermediate groomer was sublime. The trail was edged with giant hemlock coated in thick, wet snow. I didn't make a turn the whole way down, just followed the contours of the mountain and trail.
About halfway to the bottom, the thought that all of this—the mountain, the snow, this bizarre sport revered by 65 million around the world—had a chance of being diminished seemed reason enough to do something. If not for the snow, then for the ingenuity and passion in the sport—and the distinct and essential human trait of doing something for the thrill of it. There is nothing in the world that compares to the feeling of giving yourself over to gravity and flying down a mountainside—no state of human presence that rivals carving your own line, through nature no less. But if the scientific community is right—and an unprecedented 97 percent of climatologists think it is—what we are looking at is the end of our sport as we know it in the next 75 years.
THERE HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN SNOW ON EARTH. When dinosaurs roamed the forests and swamplands of the Arctic, there wasn't a crystal of ice on the planet. Earth has gone through many warming and cooling cycles in the past, all due to natural causes like wobbles in its orbit, solar activity, or volcanic eruptions. Air bubbles caught in ice core samples show that significant changes in atmospheric CO2 levels correlate with warming and cooling trends. When CO2 levels are high, the earth is warm; when they're low, it's cooler. Meaning, the gas acts as a thermostat for the world's climate—and the 500 billion tons of CO2 that humans have pumped into the air since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1750 is turning up the heat.
I watched the climate change the next morning on Highway 35 as I glided over Hood's glacial moraines, rockslides, and streams on the way down to Hood River Valley. The snow thinned as I descended, hundreds then thousands of feet to the valley foor. There, skeletal apple and pear trees reached back from the road in perfect rows. Back in the day, fruit trees were about the only crop you could find down here. As the Northwest warmed over the last 30 years, though, the area started growing grapes that once made Napa Valley famous—600 miles to the south.
The number of extreme snowstorms in the U.S. has doubled since 1963, but total snowpack is down.
I followed Highway 97 to Yakima and Ellensburg, then cut through the Wenatchee National Forest to Blewett Pass on the old Yellowstone Trail. The mountains around Leavenworth and Stevens Pass were coated in white. The entire Northwest was hammered early in the 2012-13 winter, with three to five feet
of snow during Thanksgiving week, then 10 feet in December. January and the first half of February were largely dry, except for a few storms, then the snow started again and didn't stop until May.
The next morning the sky was so blue that it looked like a mural on one of Leavenworth's Bavarian chalets. The canyon was still dark, though, as I worked my way up the Stevens Pass Highway. Former Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center Director Mark Moore explained a phenomenon that makes Washington's low-elevation passes, like Stevens, skiable. When low-pressure systems track east from the Pacific, cold high-pressure air from eastern Washington simultaneously flows west through the passes—freezing Cascadian summits and allowing precipitation to fall as snow instead of rain.
One of the tricky things about climate change—and one reason why people have such a hard time understanding it—is that it doesn't happen uniformly; rather, it comes in step changes over a long period of time. So a region can see terrific back-to-back winters—like the Northwest and parts of New England have experienced recently—while, overall, warming accelerates and total snowpack declines. Another anomaly is that warmer air holds more moisture, so while there will be fewer winter storms in the future, the ones that hit the U.S. will bring more snow. Case in point: The number of extreme snowstorms in the U.S. has doubled since 1963, but total snowpack is down.
In the Northwest, a predominant northerly jet stream that left much of the Rockies dry brought Washington and Oregon prodigious dumps the last two years. But the Arctic Oscillation that influenced the jet stream may well be related to climate change. Likewise, Europe had an epic winter last year—though climatologists say it was caused by unusually warm air over the Barents Sea, due to unprecedented melting sea ice. The resulting high-pressure system then steered cold air down on Europe. As Senior Research Scientist Dr. Richard Armstrong, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, says, "If you look at 20 different models of climate prediction, you've got a plot without a lot of scatter. If you do the same models with precip, there's no agreement whatsoever. Because they haven't figured out how to handle clouds."
Leavenworth local Tiffany Abraham met me at Stevens' Skyline Lift on her lunch break and showed me around the mountain. Abraham was the longtime life-partner of Jim Jack—legendary skier, head judge of the Freeskiing World Tour, and all-around mountain sage who passed away in the Tunnel Creek avalanche in 2012. She grew up in Leavenworth and is a skier to her core. Her nickname in town is Tinker Bell, because she takes care of the Lost Boys of Stevens Pass, and her bungalow in town is covered with paper cutout snowflakes. "They never come down," she said.
Plumes of powder chased her downhill as we carved giant turns down Barrier Ridge then a cruiser on Headwall. The sun was hot on the next lift ride up, and Abraham said she couldn't remember a time when there were so many sunny days on the pass. Near the bottom of the next run, we skied through dripping trees and slushy moguls, and Abraham said she had to go back to work.
I took a few more solo laps, weaving through the giant spruce trees on Big Chief Mountain then dropping into a near-vertical chute on Cowboy Ridge. Every slope was covered with soft, packed powder and there was still untracked snow in the trees. Powder purled around my knees as I floated through Little Tree, but when I arrived at the base area, snow was melting fast. Water poured from the snow-laden trees and two-foot wide runnels cut across the parking lot. Three college students stood by their car in T-shirts, beside a girl in a bikini top. They waved as I drove by, and I wondered if they had any idea as to the magnitude of the storm bearing down on their hallowed mountain. Then I merged onto Highway 2 and descended into the valley, where it was green and warm, seemingly on the verge of spring.
WHITE MIST OBSCURED THE WHIPSAW RIDGELINES surrounding Stevens Pass the next morning as I headed east. Weather forecasters were tracking a major system moving in from the Pacific, and I had 600 miles to cover to get to Bozeman. Hours later, near the Idaho border, a long line of dark clouds moved in from the south. The feathered edge of the front extended west-east and I sped up to stay in front of it, cruising over the wide prairies and steep passes of Idaho and Montana, then over the Continental Divide and on to Bozeman. By the time I checked in to my hotel at midnight, it was snowing hard, and the weather advisory was calling for a foot of fresh by morning.
Before heading to Big Sky in the morning, I stopped in to see a man who knows snow as well as anyone in Montana. Doug Chabot is the director of the Gallatin National Forest Avaanche Center. He moved to Montana 26 years ago and ski patrolled at Bridger Bowl before starting at the center. He is an avid skier and climber and has spent 24 years in the snow business in Montana.
"I've definitely noticed a shift. It's just so bizarre in January or February to be talking about rain."
The Northern Rockies sit at the confluence of several storm flows, he said, and typically does well with snow no matter what large circulation patterns are doing. El Niño and La Niña are not as influential here. Still, though, spring snowpack in the Northern Rockies is down about 15 to 30 percent and spring snowmelt arrives 10 to 30 days earlier than it did in 1950. Chabot said he'd seen the change. "I've definitely noticed a shift," he said. "Rain events in the middle of the winter used to be rare. In the last eight years or so, it seems we're getting them at least once a year, if not multiple times. And it's not just at the lower elevations. We'll have rain events up to 8,000 to 9,000 feet. It's just so bizarre in January or February to be talking about rain."
Chabot has also recorded warmer temperatures earlier in the season and seen more "manic" storms, with radical shifts in temperature before and after. The situation has led to more wet avalanches in March instead of April, and as it warms more, he said, there will undoubtedly be more avalanche risk in the area. With climatologists predicting more sun and rain crusts and winter warming events in the future, every avalanche forecaster I spoke with agreed that avalanche risk was bound to spike. As for Montana, Chabot said, one of the more incredible things he's seen, and expects to continue, is a slow transformation of the state's entire snowpack from a deep, relatively stable "intermountain" pack to a shallower, more avalanche-prone "continental" pack, like in Colorado. According to high-emissions computer models—that assume people keep pumping greenhouse gases into the air—snow depth in southwestern Montana is predicted to drop more than 50 percent by 2100.
It was still snowing that morning as I drove past old homesteader cabins along the Gallatin River to ride one of the largest ski areas in North America. I could see neighboring Moonlight Basin and the posh, private Yellowstone Club from the Lone Peak Tram. The snow report said the storm had dumped nine inches on Big Sky, but the snow was over my knees 15 minutes later when I dropped in to Otter Slide and skied it to Marx.
The secret to finding powder at Big Sky is knowing where the wind blows it. It apparently blew most of the summit snow into The Gullies, where I skied the next run in tracked powder. Near the bottom, I arced right into a white apron of fluff, and, for the first time on the trip, my skis lifted up in the bottomless snow and I didn't touch bottom. I subtly shifted my weight from right to left as I floated through the cold smoke. By the bottom, I had ice caked to my five-day-old stubble and around my goggles. Riding up the lift a few minutes later, I spotted my tracks—a deep shadowy trench wending around the rocks.
With signs of change apparent in most of America's mountain ranges, it's surprising how slow the ski industry has been to react.
After the lifts closed that afternoon, I stopped at the ski patrol shack to talk with Bob Dixon. Dixon has worked and skied at Big Sky for more than 30 years and seen much of what Chabot pointed out. He's been the ski patrol director for most of that time and has perhaps the most marvelous hair in the sport—coiffed into a perfect sandy brown wave after a lifetime of skiing sans chapeau. He said that he too had seen more rain events in the winter—like four years ago when it rained to the summit six times in the first two months of the season. He'd also noticed the Gallatin didn't flood the road in the spring anymore and that, overall, his little corner of Montana was just warmer.
"The first year I was here, in 1974, we had a cold snap where the still air temperature got down to 62 be- low," he said. "And that was for six or seven days. That's when I learned to heat the oil pan underneath my car to warm up the engine enough to start it. We see a couple days at 20- or 30-below now, but nothing continuous."
With signs of change apparent in most of America's mountain ranges, it's surprising how slow the ski industry has been to react, given that it may well be facing an economic meltdown this century. National Ski Area Association campaigns—like "Keep Winter Cool," "Sustainable Slopes," and "Climate Challenge"— are moving in the right direction, but overall have done little to move the needle on climate change mitigation. Some resorts, like Berkshire East (solar), Aspen/Snowmass (methane generator), and Jiminy Peak (wind), have engineered low-carbon energy production to power their operations. But the reality is, with skier numbers relatively at since 1979, most ski area executives spend their time keeping the business a oat—and have few resources left to lead the kind of nationwide sea change needed to force climate change legislation.
There are a few who have made an impact, like snowboard icon Jeremy Jones and the organization he founded in 2007, Protect Our Winters (POW). Jones was given a Champions of Change award by President Obama at the White House last April. POW followed up with a hand-delivered letter signed by 75 winter-sports athletes that pointed out: "At risk are the economies of tourist-dependent states where winter tourism generates $12.2 billion in revenue annually, supports 212,000 jobs, and $7 billion in salaries." Some of the athletes who signed it were on their way home from training in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympics—where two events in February were cancelled due to lack of snow, and Russian authorities were stockpiling snow in case the region has another dry winter.
"The window to save skiing, and perhaps our way of life on Earth, is closing, and symbolic gestures no longer cut it."
POW's approach is not simply to save winter sports, rather to use the influence, economic clout, and passion of the winter-sports community to push Congress to pass large-scale climate change legislation. Some of POW's primary targets: U.S. Representatives from ski states who still don't believe that anthropogenic global warming exists, like Colorado's Cory Gardner, Utah's Jason Chaffetz, Wyoming's Cynthia Lummis, and Washington's Cathy McMorris Rodgers. (For context, climate change believers now include major insurance firms like Lloyd's of London, several Forbes 500 companies like Nike and Levi Strauss & Co., and the U.S. Department of Defense, which considers climate change an imminent threat to U.S. security.) The bottom line, says POW board member and Aspen Skiing Company Vice President of Sustainability Auden Schendler, is that the window to save skiing, and perhaps our way of life on Earth, is closing, and symbolic gestures no longer cut it.
"What has to happen is things like a national carbon tax or action by the EPA on existing power plants that's discussed and made national policy overtly by the President," he said. "We can't just do stealth emissions reductions. We have to talk about it so China and India can see that we're leading. The policy fix is not all that complicated… You have to have incentives for clean energy; you have to have state and national energy standards. There needs to be some kind of pricing on carbon. That's what we're trying to use the ski industry to push."
In June, as this issue was going to press, that push saw some results when President Obama announced his extensive and long-awaited "Climate Action Plan." The authority by which the President will execute the scheme hinges on a lawsuit the Aspen Skiing Company helped bring attention to in 2007. Even more relevant to the skiing community, Obama cited in his speech the Climate Declaration that 108 ski resorts and other businesses signed last spring—and which Schendler flew to Washington, D.C., to release. "Mountain communities worry about what smaller snowpacks will mean for tourism," Obama said, "and then, families at the bottom of the mountains wonder what it will mean for their drinking water."
NEARLY HALF OF ALL AMERICANS don't believe that humans are causing the climate to change. There are also some scientists who think that snow and skiing will do just fine over the next century, even as the planet warms. Armstrong, who skis in Colorado when he's not working at NSIDC, said that snowfall will depend on shifts in moisture flow—that, again, climatologists have yet to figure out. Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey, who has called the weather around Jackson Hole for more than 20 years, predicts that it will be snowier there in 50 years than it is today. Daniel Scott at the University of Waterloo in Ontario—where researchers have been modeling climate change's effect on ski resorts since the 1980s—points out that most snow loss to date has been at low elevations, and spring snowpack measurements are better for water resource purposes than skiing. Snow depth every month of the season, he said, is more important than one measurement on April 1. Not to mention, most computer models are built for water resource purposes and don't include snowmaking in their mix.
There are a few regions, like Siberia and Arctic Canada, where snow is likely to increase by 2100. Already, Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is developing Siberia as a winter tourism destination. Last spring, he visited the Sheregesh ski resort and Takutsk to encourage ski area development, and said Russia could expect more than $800 billion in revenue from the region by 2025. Arctic Canada hasn't seen much construction, but the steep, fluted ridges and peaks of Baffin Island have long been a prize for ski mountaineers.
What most do agree on is that people living downstream of the great mountain ranges of the world
are in danger of losing their water supply. Snow and ice are the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet, with a billion people depending on snowmelt for drinking water, farming, and hydroelectricity. Snowmelt accounts for 60 to 80 percent of the annual water supply for more than 70 million people living in the American West. Cascadian stream flows are down 36 percent, and the Colorado River—which hasn't reached the sea since 1998—was just named the most endangered river in the U.S. by American Rivers.
With all of the incurable things on the planet—cancer, Alzheimer's, frostbite—it seems odd that the one thing humanity knows how to fix is the one that might be the most damaging.
I witnessed the water cycle the next day as I drove south from Montana to Jackson Hole. Through Four Cor- ners and toward Ennis on Highway 84, snow covered the high peaks and draped over ridgelines and draws all the way down to the ranchland of southwestern Montana. South of Black's Ford, water rushed through the Madison River, where, 20 feet from shore, I saw a fly-fisherman wearing a winter hat. Farther south, in Island Park, an enormous reservoir captured water and channeled it into potato and soy field irrigation ditches and farther south still, at a hydroelectric dam in Palisades, out flowing water turned four, 44-megawatt turbines.
The night before I'd spoken to rancher Allen Carter near Livingston. Carter's family homesteaded Paradise Valley in the 1800s after bringing a wagon train from Texas. On his grandmother's journey north, she camped on the same field where Custer made his famous last stand—among teepee rings and debris left over from the battle. Carter and local ranchers had a "snow guy" who wandered the mountains in the spring and told them how much snowmelt they could expect. Though he didn't believe that humans were causing climate change, he said snowmelt had gone down recently. This year, the mini-hydro plant his family runs on Pine Creek had to go offline three months early because of the lack of runoff.
With all of the incurable things on the planet—cancer, Alzheimer's, frostbite—it seems odd that the one thing humanity knows how to fix is the one that might be the most damaging. It takes sixteen terawatts (one trillion watts) to power the world for a day. During that day, 86,000 terawatts of solar energy hit Earth; 870 terawatts blow in the wind; and 32 terawatts of geothermal energy bubble close to the surface of the planet. Simply swapping out incandescent light bulbs for more efficient lighting would save enough electricity to close 705 of 2,500 coal-fired power plants around the world. And yet everyday folks either don't believe, or don't want to be bothered.
The current stalemate has led firms like Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the World Bank, and the International Energy Agency to advise their clients to forget about 2 degrees Celsius of warming and prepare for the far worse 4 to 6 degrees C. Other reasons for the revision are natural "feedbacks"—like millions of square miles of permafrost releasing methane as they melt—that will heat the world dramatically on their own. As more feedbacks kick in, climate change could gain enough momentum that humans no longer have the power to stop it.
For perspective, one degree of temperature change refers to the global average, and warming will be far worse in hotspots like Alaska, sub-Saharan Africa, the Western U.S., and the Middle East. Most of the snow and resource analyses represented here, and in other media, are based on the U.N.-mandated 2 degree C (3.6 degrees F) cap on warming—a level that most scientists agree is the tipping point between climate change humans can adapt to and something that would instigate social and economic chaos around the world. As for a 4 to 6 degree C rise, very little about the world we know would remain the same, and skiing would probably be the last thing on people's minds.
Predictions of life on Earth with 4 to 6 degrees C of warming are grim, including life-threatening heat waves, declining global food supply and ecosystems, a sudden rise in the sea level of 10 feet or more, the extinction of about half of all species on Earth—and little to no snow. The last time CO2 levels were as high as they are right now was three million years ago—when the temperature was around 11 degrees F hotter, oceans 75 feet higher, and Greenland was covered by forests. The report "Turn Down the Heat," commissioned by the World Bank in 2012, suggests that at 4 degrees C, hotspots like the Western U.S. would actually warm by 6 degrees C or more. The temperature of recent extreme heat waves would become the normal summer temperature, ocean acidity would increase 150 percent, coral reefs will dissolve, and drought-affected cropland around the world could rise from 15 percent today to 44 percent. Glaciers will be almost completely gone, and water availability will drop dramatically as highly populated watersheds like the Ganges basin dry up.
As I approached the end of the road trip, it struck me how many people I spoke with had little idea
of what might happen to winter, not to mention the planet. Whether they believed in climate change or not, it was surprising that even snow experts I spoke with weren't familiar with how hot scientists are saying it's going to get. When I mentioned a 4 to 6 degree C spike in global temperature, most skiers, patrollers, and meteorologists sat back in disbelief and answered, "Well, if that's the case…"
At the Montana-Idaho state line near Henry's Lake, it was hard to imagine that was indeed the case. Snowdrifts on the side of the road were 15 feet tall and a few akes swooped over the windshield of the car. A low-pressure trough 15 vertical miles overhead was pushing another storm system east. It was supposed to snow from Bozeman to Jackson all week. Eight snowmobiles lined up at a gas station when I pulled in to get coffee, and the blizzard began in earnest. The road was slick farther south and I slowed as the sheer peaks of Targhee National Forest seemingly teetered over the road.
I'd skied the run hundreds of times, but it still took my breath away—accelerating downhill, the feeling of nothingness as my skis floated in the powder.
Beyond Victor and Driggs, I climbed Teton Pass and saw ski tracks in the open meadows near the top, then a pair of skiers stepping over a snowbank. It had been snowing like hell for most of the drive through Idaho, but on the Jackson side, storm clouds were just starting to pour through the pass. The Tetons have faired relatively well recently, and sit in a sweet spot that the latest NOAA models say might stay relatively snowy over the next 70 years. Still, 2012 was the warmest year in Wyoming history, and the snowline is clearly moving up. Snowfall in the town of Jackson is down around 7 percent over the last 50 years, and those numbers do not include the warm years of 2000 to 2013. Glaciers in the Wind River Range and Tetons have been receding, and the state is funding cloud-seeding and snowmaking projects—including a grant to expand snowmaking at downtown Jackson's Snow King Resort.
Gaps in climate and snowfall data in the region have made long-term assessments di cult. Wyoming NOAA Hydrologist Jim Fahey has been studying snowpack across the state since the 1990s, and said the numbers on his end are pretty clear. "The snowpack from 7,500 to 11,000 feet has been below average since 1999, by 15 to 20 percent," he said. "It's warming up earlier in the spring, two to three weeks ahead of schedule. The snowpack calendar used to run from mid-October to the middle of May, now it's mid-November or early December to early May or late April. That's a month and a half to two months less snow accumulation. That's a big deal. Call it global warming or whatever you want, but there is some kind of change happening with the climate. It's a whole new ballgame."
The forecast called for nine inches of fresh by the next day, but everyone knew it would be more on the summit. During the evening, the snow came in a cloud of white, stacking up at an inch-an-hour. I lived in Jackson Hole after college and that night I met some friends at a bar to catch up. We talked about the thrill of being a 20-something ski bum, standing outside the old Calico or the Mangy Moose, watching the snow come down, and talking about what lines we'd ski in the morning. Not much had changed since then, as we chatted past midnight about life and work and then, inevitably, where the powder would be the deepest.
The next day was a Thursday and the tramline was crammed with locals taking the morning off. It took 40 minutes to get on the lift, but it was worth it at the top. The tram operator told everyone to be careful and blasted heavy metal on the stereo as we ascended to the summit station. I clicked into my skis and skated ahead of the crowd, then traversed Rendezvous Bowl to my favorite run down Far Drift. I'd skied the run hundreds of times, but it still took my breath away—accelerating downhill, the feeling of nothingness as my skis floated in the powder.
The frozen cuff of my jacket chafed against my chin, and I could taste the metallic tang of snow on my tongue. It was hard to see through the face shots, but I could sense the great plume of crystals soaring down the mountain with me. I worked left toward the bowl and leaned forward into my boots over a short traverse. There was a line of bamboo poles up ahead then an opening on the ridge. I checked my speed and slid over it. Then I pointed my skis down another steep shot and dropped back into the deep.


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The party has put top most priority on ensuring food security, raising the capacity of producing electricity, containing the spiral of price of daily essentials, curbing corruption, tough action against militancy, establishing the country as secular state and establishing rules of law in the country.
Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) on Saturday gave the final approval after a two-day hectic meeting at the party's Dhanmondi Office chaired by Sheikh Hasina.
In the manifesto the party also pledged free education up to graduation level.
After the meeting, AL presidium member Amir Hossain Amu told reporters that the electoral manifesto of the party ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled for December 29, has been finally approved. About the manifesto, another presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim mentioned promises to cut prices of commodities, drives against corruption and militants and promote the secularism.


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Panaji, Nov 5 (IANS) Saleof Nestle's Maggi noodles will resume only after the central government lifts the ban on the product, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Thursday, adding that the state government has no role in resumption of the sales of the popular instant noodle.
"Maggi noodles have been banned by the central government. It is up to them to revoke the ban," Parsekar told IANS in state capital Panaji.
Parsekar's remarks came after Nestle on Wednesday announced that samples from its manufacturing plants in Goa, Karnataka and Punjab have been cleared by the National Accreditation Board for Testing Calibration Laboratories (NABL) as directed by the Bombay High Court.
While Maggi noodles was banned across the country since June due to excessive traces of lead and mono-sodium glutamate (MDG) in the samples, Goa was one of the few states where the product initially tested negative for the two substances in two separate tests conducted here.
Maggi was subsequently taken off the shelves following directions from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, which ordered a re-test of the noodles' samples.


text: Fostering with Leeds PageOverview Fostering is about improving the lives of children and young people, you don't need any special qualification to become a foster carer but you do need to genuinely enjoy the challenges of childcare. We support carers throughout their fostering journey, preparing you for what is involved in fostering, and offering a full range of support and advice. There's no such thing as a typical foster carer and we know everybody has something to give. Main Body Text We are currently seeking foster carers for: - Young people aged 11 – 17 years old - Large sibling groups - Children & young people who are disabled and/or have complex needs - Parent & Child - Unaccompanied asylum seeking children If you would like more information on fostering then please read our Advisory leaflet (PDF 1.4MB). In addition to fostering, the department also offers a Supported Lodgings Service for young people aged 16 plus. These scheme is ideal for people and families who want to make a difference but struggle to offer the time that full time fostering often needs. For more information on Supported Lodgings please read our Supported lodgings leaflet (PDF 383KB). If you would like to speak with a Fostering Advisor then please call on 0113 378 3538 (please leave contact details if you get the answer phone) or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Click to expandDo I need any special qualifications to foster?No you don't. We will talk to you at the start of the process about the skills and experience you have to offer, and what you will need to provide. You will need to genuinely enjoy the challenges of childcare, and it helps to have qualities such as patience, resourcefulness, flexibility and a sense of humour! Click to expandDo I need to have a particular type of accommodation?You will need to have enough space so that the child or children you foster can have their own bedroom. 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The STUC – Scotland's Trade Union Centre – is seeking to recruit a part-time Administrative Assistant to support the work of the Scottish Union Learning Team. The post is based in Inverness and offered on a Fixed Term contract to 31 March 2018.
Part time (14 hrs) Admin Assistant (SCQF Level 6) £27,081 FTE (pro rata)
The Admin Assistant will provide administrative expertise and support within the Scottish Union Learning Team. The successful candidate will have excellent administrative skills, including event planning and extensive experience of Microsoft Office packages. Candidates will be expected to have a commitment to trade union values and have some knowledge of the work of Scottish Union Learning.
Recruitment packs, including guidance notes for completion of applications, may be downloaded from the STUC website or the Scottish Union Learning Website
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, 17 March 2017
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New Delhi, Dec 5: The Gold Monetization Scheme, launched by PM Narendra Modi may see a ray of hope as the world's richest temple-Tirupati Balaji-may join it and transfer its Gold to the scheme.
This would immensely cut down on the imports of the yellow metal, thereby hurting the country's economy. If terms and conditions suit, the temple will contribute close to 5.5 tonnes of gold.
Meanwhile, the government did not get a very enthusiastic response from the public after the launch of the scheme as only 1 Kg of Gold could be accumulated out of the recorded 20,000 tonnes of Gold lying idle in the country. The finance minister of Andhra Pradesh, Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, said,"It's a good scheme. We have already issued a directive to go for the scheme."
[Read: What Is Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS), 2015?]
This could go a mile ahead in satisfying India's insatiable demand for Gold, which makes it the second largest consumer in the world after China.
Tirupati is said to have already deposited most of its Gold with banks under previous monetisation schemes that offer interest of 1 percent. THis scheme, however, will have an annual interest of 2.5%. Rao said that the temple will take a final call in the next 10-15 days.
Raising scepticism over the melting of Gold before being accepted to banks, several other temples have said that melting will lead to loss in weight due to impurities. The government, however, is hopeful that people will wake up to the advantages of the scheme and start depositing their Gold. This would later be loaned to the jewellers.
The finance ministry said,"the scheme will help in reducing our gold imports and save foreign exchange and deal with the problem of current account deficit."
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2016 Fiat 500x Release date, Specs, Photos, Price & Review
2016 Fiat 500X is yet one more 500-version of Italian compact hatchback crossovers with nice pedigree. Except base Fiat 500, 500L and 500e, 500X is the newest addition to this traditionally flush lineup. Mini crossover was introduced eventually Paris Motor Show and can be carried over for at least 2 or 3 years which means that 2016 Fiat 500X won't provide any significant changes.
The 500X is new this year, and Fiat says it brings sensible road manners, excellent urban size, wonderful fuel economy, and cut-above safety technology to the growing category of tiny SUVs a category that features the Chevy Trax and Buick Encore, the automobile Renegade and soon can embrace the likes of the Honda HR-V and Mazda CX-3.
2016 Fiat 500x Engine
Overseas markets have the luxury of obtaining 3 distinctive engines as well as few turbo diesel ones; 1.6L and 2.0L MultiJet II 4-cylinders. Third choice that is additionally available in the U.S. is 1.4L turbocharged 4-cylinder petrol engine that delivers 160 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque that are sent to the front wheels via 6-speed manual transmission. North American markets get another option; 2.4L naturally aspirated 4-cylinder with 180 horsepower and one 175 lb-ft of torque that is optionally driven through all four wheels and 9-speed transmission system.
2016 Fiat 500x exterior & interior
Trekking and Trekking Plus versions have their own front and rear end styles, for a rather more rugged look. All-wheel drive is a choice; however the 500X isn't off-roader like its Renegade kin. Stripped of the Jeep's skid plates and additional ground clearance, the 500X will simply fine for traction as a front-driver; the optional $1,900 AWD system contributes additional traction whereas disconnecting itself once not required, to assist reduce fuel consumption. At up to 31 mpg highway, the 500X can still be at a gas-mileage disadvantage to the Honda HR-V particular.
In terms of interior space, the 500X measures up against most rivals. Front-seat space and luxury are typically sensible, though the available leather seats might use more definition at the bottom and less at the headrest. In back, knee and headroom will feel scant behind a tall driver and beneath the optional sunroof. Cargo space is competitive, and though the 500X's rear seat does not fold quite flat, the ensuing space has a nice, low load floor and a regular form.
2016 Fiat 500X MPG and Price
Turbo engine is rated at 25mpg within the city and 33 mpg on the highway that stands at 28 mpg combined. Naturally aspirated engine delivers similar figures, albeit with slight discrepancies in front and all-wheel drive modes. Price will possibly be in the same vary as its competitors are presently charging for their models, which implies between $20,000 and $25,000, or slightly more. This edition we can expect in second half 2015. Fiat offers four models: Easy, Pop, Lounge, Trekking and Trekking Plus.


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To regain balance from an unexpected slip on the ice can require an abundance of rapid movement, but conscious thought isn't part of the equation.
Or when eating or talking over dinner, no one thinks about altering his breathing even if the food is hotter than expected.
Life is full of unexpected interruptions to rhythmic behaviors that require the flexibility to make subtle to dramatic adjustments, says Hillel Chiel, professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University. And we just do them.
But, we don't know how we deal with the unexpected.
Chiel and Peter Thomas, assistant professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, will try to learn how we and, for that matter, all animals rapidly and robustly adjust rhythmic behaviors.
The National Science Foundation gave the researchers a $500,000 grant to make progress understanding this mystery.
The ability to make instant adjustments is coveted. Rescue robots built with this flexibility could avoid becoming trapped while crawling through collapsed mines or buildings. And, while mind-controlled prosthetics would be a boon to the paralyzed, the ability of the prosthetics to adjust to real world interruptions without being prodded by thoughts would make them even better.
Chiel and Thomas won't start by investigating humans but the lowly sea slug and how it adjusts its eating to changes in food.
"One of the beauties of the sea slug is it has only a few dozen cells in the brain generating rhythmic activity, combining robustness and flexibility," Thomas said.
The researchers and graduate student Kendrick Shaw will use ideas from dynamical systems theory that were first developed to explain the movement of planets to build mathematical models to explain how the slug can rapidly adjust as it tries to swallow seaweed, which varies in shape and toughness from bite to bite.
Planetary movements, once thought mysterious, obey Newton's laws of motion. Dynamical systems theory was developed to predict how a system will move -- for example, the planets -- given rules governing the system's rate of change. If successful, the researchers will develop "laws of motion" describing how patterns of activity in the nervous system of the slug change over time.
The results of their work will help us understand how animals and ultimately humans can quickly cope when the unexpected happens, and help create artificial devices that may be better at expecting the unexpected.
Explore further: Biologists show that what a neuron can do is a function of mechanical context


text: Snowbird Game Studios have announced that their action-RPG game, Caribbean which is based on the Golden Age of Piracy is now available for Steam Early Access. Caribbean is a pirate blend of Mount & Blade set sail in the XVII century's Caribbean region. Choose your career in an area filled with destructive sea battles, boarding, duels, trading and of cause deadly piracy.


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The ovarian & menstrual cycle. HBS 2B. Cell division. What type of division is shown here – meiosis or mitosis? How can you tell? Name the stages shown in each diagram. Is this likely to be happening in a male, a female or people of either sex? How can you tell?. Cell division.
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Prophase 1
Anaphase 1
Prophase 2
Metaphase 2
Anaphase 2
Telophase 2
Every month, one of the follicles in an ovary starts to develop.
Each follicle consists of an immature ovum surrounded by a layer of follicular cells.
As it develops the follicle gets larger and fills with fluid.
After 10 –14 days the mature follicle bursts, expelling the ovum towards the uterine tube.
This is called ovulation.
The follicular cells develop into a structure called the corpus luteum.
The ovum is wafted by movement of the fimbriae into the uterine tubes.
Movement of cilia and muscular folds in the tubes cause the ovum to travel down the tubes towards the uterus.
Fertilisation takes place in the uterine tubes.
If fertilisation takes place then the zygote will divide and move down into the uterus where it will implant, resulting in pregnancy.
If fertilisation does not take place, then the uterus will shed its lining (menstruation) and a new cycle will begin
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)
Luteinising Hormone (LH)
The reproductive system is controlled by special chemicals called hormones.
Hormones are chemicals released into the blood stream that control the activity of target cells (cells with receptors for that hormone)
They are made in endocrine glands, which are collections of cells that secrete into body cavities or blood stream
They act by travelling in the blood until they reach a target organ, where it causes a change in activity.
The main endocrine glands associated with reproduction are the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, ovaries and testes.
The placenta in a pregnant woman also acts as an endocrine gland.
The hypothalamus is located at the base of the brain and is important because it controls many of the body's activities as well as the ovarian/menstrual cycle
The pituitary gland is located just below the hypothalamus and is important because it secretes many hormones that control the body's activities – including the gonadotrophins that control the ovarian/menstrual cycle
Hormonal regulation and gametogenesis in males is not cyclic as in females. Sperm are produced continually from puberty onwards.
Males and females produce some hormones in common eg follicle stimulating hormone and luteinising hormone
Each sex produces small amounts of hormones we associate with the opposite sex, but we consider some hormones to be mainly male eg testosterone, and some to be mainly female eg oestrogen and progesterone.
1. The hypothalamus controls release of gonadotrophins from anterior pituitary by the use of releasing and inhibiting factors
2. Release of Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) from anterior pituitary causes the development of a follicle in the ovary
3. The developing follicle releases oestrogen, which acts on the uterus to repair the endometrium
4. High levels of oestrogen stimulate hypothalamus to release FSH IF & LH RF, which causes anterior pituitary to decrease secretion of FSH and increase secretion of LH.
5. Luteinising Hormone (LH) acts on the follicle to induce ovulation, and the development of the corpus luteum.
6. The corpus luteum secretes oestrogen and progesterone, which act on the uterus to prepare it for pregnancy (increased size and number of glands & blood vessels).
High levels of oestrogen and progesterone inhibit the release of FSH RF and LH RF from the hypothalamus.
7. If no pregnancy occurs, the corpus luteum degenerates, and levels of oestrogen and progesterone fall.
This causes the uterine lining to shed (a process called menstruation), and the hypothalamus to release FSH RF, thus starting a new cycle.
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus stimulates the anterior pituitary gland to secrete two hormones.
Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH) acts on Sertoli cells, which nourish developing sperm.
Sertoli cells also secrete Inhibin, which reduces FSH secretion by negative feedback.
Luteinizing Hormone (LH) acts on Leydig cells (interstitial cells), which produce androgens, chiefly testosterone.
Testosterone regulates production of the brain hormones by negative feedback
a) Name structures:
b) Give the function of:
i) E
ii) F
iii) G
iv) I
a) Name structures:
A bladder G ovary
B urethra H uterine tube
C penis I uterus
D vas deferens J bladder
E testes K vagina
F scrotum
b) Give the function of:
i) E makes sperm and testosterone
ii) F protects testes and maintains them at a cooler temperature for spermatogenesis
iii) G makes ova and female hormones
iv) I protects and nourishes the embryo/foetus during pregnancy
1. Look at the diagram above:
Sperms A and B carry different sex chromosomes:
A has an X chromosome B has a Y chromosome
(b) If sperm A fertilises the ovum, what sex will the baby be? (1 mark)
(c) What is the total number of chromosomes in sperm B? (1 mark)
(d) As far as the sex chromosomes are concerned, why are there 2 sorts of sperms, but only one type of ova? (3 marks)
1. Look at the diagram above:
Sperms A and B carry different sex chromosomes:
A has an X chromosome B has a Y chromosome
(b) If sperm A fertilises the ovum, what sex will the baby be? female (1 mark)
(c) What is the total number of chromosomes in sperm B? 23 (1 mark)
(d) As far as the sex chromosomes are concerned, why are there 2 sorts of sperms, but only one type of ova? Females are XX, so can only give the ovum an X chromosome. Males are XY, so will produce 2 types of sperm – half will have the X and half the Y (3 marks)


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The Finn, who yesterday confirmed his return to Formula 1 after a two-year absence, has signed a two-year deal with Lotus Renault GP though it remains to be seen who his team-mate will be with either both Bruno Senna or Vitaly Petrov set to be dropped.
While Raikkonen's arrival signifies further confusion over driver seats at Lotus Renault GP after Nick Heidfeld – Robert Kubica's last minute replacement following his near-fatal rallying accident – was dropped in favour of Senna at the end of August, Boullier is convinced the 32-year-old former world champion's arrival is enormously positive news for the team.
"It is good news for the sport and of course it is good news for the team," Boullier said. "Strategically, it is good to have a big name, a high class driver and Formula One world champion to join us.
"He is committed to racing for us and he is definitely a very good character with the experience he has from driving for McLaren and Ferrari. Also, to have someone like Kimi signing with us shows that the package we have offered was good enough – we convinced Kimi to come back to Formula One."
Boullier added that Raikkonen's inclusion to their driver portfolio will not be the only exciting announcement they will make during the winter testing period.
"There are many things that the team will announce soon, in the coming weeks and the coming months," he continued. "Let's not forget that the team's current identity is only a couple of years old and it is clear that we have made some strategic investments like the wind tunnel, like the CFD pole and like the building of the simulator- it will be a state of the art simulator.
"We are also in the process to reinforce our team with the recruitment of some key people, some of them have already joined us and some are to be announced soon but we can't say too much at this stage as some of them are currently on gardening leave.
"Next year, we will also have an upgrade of our facilities trackside, in fact it is going to be a complete change with a new engineers truck, a new infrastructure for the team garage, which of course will also have an impact on our image and obviously Kimi joining us is a big step in reinforcing the investment Genii Capital is putting in the team at every level."
After announcing his comeback, Raikkonen was questioned about what had motivated the move to which he replied: "When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
"And then I got the call from certain people in Formula One. All sorts of things happened and we managed to have a nice conversation with Lotus Renault GP and make a deal – I'm really very happy with that.
"There is always a lot of talk about motivation but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself so I don't really care about what people say. But I'm happy to be coming back.
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Getting Dressed Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010 Animated 9 mins
This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because she doesn't go out, she does not even put on clothes. However, this daily life has ended. She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system. Nobody understands whether it is the correct world. However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.
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Australia just made history by becoming the first continent in the world to legalize marijuana, following a vote that was taken by their Parliament this Wednesday. The new amendments were made to their Narcotic Drugs Act, which makes cannabis farms and distribution of marijuana based products completely legal.
Sussan Ley, the Minister of Health, said in a statement, "This is a historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals," she went on to proclaim, "This is the missing piece in a patient's treatment journey, and [we] will now see seamless access to locally produced medicinal cannabis products from farm to pharmacy."
The details and technicalities still have to be finalized, but it is believed that within the next few months, patients with a medical marijuana prescription will be allowed to grow their own crops as well.
India, take notes.
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Hotel Bulevar is in the heart of Burgos, walking distance from Museo de Burgos and Paseo del Espolon. This hotel is within close proximity of Burgos Teatro Principal and Arco de Santa Maria.
Make yourself at home in one of the 80 air-conditioned rooms featuring plasma televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks, housekeeping is provided daily, and cribs/infant beds (complimentary) can be requested.
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Average, Everyday Threesome Gets Kinky When the SWAT Team is Called
Nothing spices up a marriage like a good bedtime threesome and nothing spices up a good bedtime threesome like gunfire, a standoff and the SWAT team. Hopefully when these people get out of jail, they'll start making videos.
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`Metro Cash & Carry`, a German wholesale giant, has threatened to leave Calcutta if it is not allowed to get license to conduct business.
Metro officials and German Consul General in Calcutta met the Bengal chief minister to convey a stern message that Metro`s exit will stop all future German investment in entire eastern India.
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Inspired is an annual showcase of the best artwork from school pupils across Renfrewshire at Paisley Museum!
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Synthogy Ivory II American Concert D
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Vintage 1951 Steinway Concert D, the choice of great concert artists, brought to your fingertips through the power of the Ivory II engine.
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In the rarified world of great concert artists, there are precious few instruments that leave a lasting impression upon the masters who played them. Ivory II American Concert D is one of those instruments.
This vintage 1951 New York Steinway D (CD 121) was chosen by the Steinway & Sons concert department for Steinway artist promotion. Throughout the years, the instrument has been lauded by some of the world's greatest concert artists. Indeed, the plate of the piano is signed by Glenn Gould, Rudolf Serkin, and many others, as a testament to high praise by the world's great masters.
Put your hands on it, and it's not hard to see why. The instrument has an exceptionally clear and transparent sound, yet with a singing tone and mature beauty and resonance that can only be found on a concert instrument in this class. The recording took place in the Francoys-Bernier Concert Hall at Le Domaine Forget in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, the same hall where Ivory's acclaimed German Steinway was recorded. Reunited were master concert technician Michel Pedneau, performer/producer Joe Ierardi, and recording engineer, Mark Donahue of Soundmirror to capture every detail of this amazing instrument.
With a 49GB library, Ivory II American Concert D is the largest single piano in the Ivory family. This American Steinway possesses a naturally long sustain, which is captured in its entirety to the final decay, some of the notes ringing longer than two minutes. Also included are up to 20 velocity levels, with more soft pedal samples, and more release samples to capture more detail than any Ivory instrument before.
Ivory II American Concert D is powered by the award-winning Ivory II engine, and contains the full compliment of Ivory II's features, foremost being our acclaimed Harmonic Resonance Modeling for the realization of trueSympathetic String Resonance. Custom designed by Synthogy DSP guru, George Taylor, this technology does not rely upon triggering additional samples or use ordinary sine waves. Rather, notes struck that are harmonically related excite the actual complex overtones of the notes that are being held, in the same manner that undamped strings resonate in a real acoustic piano. Together with the new American Concert D samples, the results are simply stunning, the culmination of Synthogy's most powerful technology, with our most advanced sampling techniques.
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- 1951 New York Steinway D selected by Steinway & Sons for artist promotion
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- Harmonic Resonance Modeling for True Sympathetic String Resonance
- Custom Soundboard Emulation DSP
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- Una Corda (soft pedal) samples at multiple velocities
- Native 64 Bit Support
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