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The newest pair of field photos are quite local to me, as they are a slice of glaciomarine layer cake left over from the last waxing of the Cordilleran ice sheet, specifically the Wisconsonian. The following pair show exposures of a glaciomarine clay unit sandwiched in-between granite bodies and Holocene soil & sediment, found within North Vancouver's uplands. What you'll see are portions of the Capilano Sediments member of the Sumas Drift group formed in the Quaternary.
The first photo (at right) is a classic exposure within the Capilano Canyon park & suspension bridge (49° 21.470'N 123° 06.698'W). You'll notice the beige coloring of clay that is packed into mud; this unit is quite distinct from surrounding Holocene soil, the greenery, and the granodiorite bedrock. It has a very smooth consistency, and upon scrutiny has micro-level faults from minor stresses placed on it. The layer dips a good 10-12º to the SE, with a NE-SW strike.
The foliage around the site is quite dense, even in the winter. Biomass detritus litters the photo, which was taken in the late winter months. This Pleistocene marine clay was formed at the front of valley glacier lobes stemming from the Cordilleran ice sheet. The continental slope at the front was relatively high, so deep sea marine deposition was not dozens of kilometers from the glacial terminus, but rather a few kilometers. Post-Pleistocene isostatic rebound was quick in the region, and it elevated this layer to at least 50m asl, and in some areas up to a few hundred meters. Post Eocene tectonic uplift of the coast mountains caused the northern edge of these types of sedimentary units to be gently warped upwards to the north and draped over the lower slopes of the older rocks of the north shore mountains.
This exposure of the same member is found along the Lynn Peak trail (49° 21.735'N 123° 01.519'W), about a quarter of the way up, roughly 300m asl. This portion is mantled by Holocene soil, and surrounded by a lot of till and colluvium. This particular photo shows the most distinct boundary surface between the clay and surrounding members. It is likely a lens of material formed during episodic activity (see link on Surficial and Bedrock geology). The continuity of the glaciomarine member is hard to follow along the north shore, as it is buried under steepland sediments, landslide debris, and thick vegetation. So spotting a slice of the cake is considered good luck for intrepid geological explorers.
GSC - Geomap Vancouver
James Roddick (Caltech) - Some Features of the Geology of the North Vancouver area
GSC - Surficial and Bedrock Geology of the Fraser Lowlands and Coast Mountains near Howe Sound
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Labels: Capilano Sediments, field photo, Geology of Vancouver North, glaciomarine clay, Pleistocene ice age
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Kata Tjuta, Anangu for "many heads"
Uluru is a sandstone gem of Australia's interior landscape. It rises off the plain as a formidable inselberg of rusty red solitude. It's what comes to mind about the Australian countryside for many non-Australians, whether as the Anangu name or the anglicized 'Ayers Rock'. Savvy geologists, physiographers, and locals, however, will know about the lesser known gem of conglomerate rock domes not 30 kilometers to the west of Uluru. The Olgas, known as Kata Tjuta in the Anangu language, are a collection of 36 conglomerate rock domes rising off the plain to various heights. The highest is Mount Olga, with a prominence of 546m.
Basic stratigraphic cross-section of
Uluru and Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta is part of the same stratigraphic formation as Uluru (see diagram at right), a unit of arkosic sandstone derived from Cambrian alluvial fan deposits of sediment that were buried and lithified over deep time. The difference in shape & topography between the two is due to the structurally weaker conglomerate of the Olgas (the Mount Currie Conglomerate) being exploited by folding, faulting, and subsequent hydrologic weathering & erosion. The conglomerate matrix is comprised of granodiorite, basalt, gneiss, and fine sand as the cementing material. Essentially, Uluru is the tougher end of the layer, though it does not lack features created from weathering such as pits and tafoni-based honeycomb surfaces (indicative of Mediterranean paleoclimates). Even though the conglomerate lithology of Kata Tjuta lacks the feldspar mineral content that Uluru has, fractured blocks were exploited, making the initial mass structurally weaker, even though it is mineralogically stronger. Both ends started out as a large singular massive block, but Cenozoic Australian climates have taken a greater toll on the Olgas for the reasons stated.
Back in the Neoproterozoic, the Petermann mountain range was more formidable than it is today, due in major part to the Petermann orogeny. However, the Neoproterozoic/early Paleozoic climate was more temperate, so its peaks were being denuded by precipitation at a greater rate than the more subdued Holocene landscape is by current aeolian forces. Alluvial fans were created along the flanks of the Petermann foothills, each differing slightly in lithology, but not in origin. These fans formed a piedmont range that was a major part of Petermann foreland basins, such as the Amadeus, Georgina, Ngalia, and Officer basins of then central Australia. The fan material developed sequentially into flysch once a eustatic change in sea level occurred in the late Cambrian, covering the region in a shallow sea. Continuing weight of added sediment + the weight of the increasingly deepening sea was enough pressure to lithify the alluvial fans/flysch into arkosic sandstone (Uluru) & conglomerate (Kata Tjuta), each portion representing a different fan thus a slightly different lithology, all connected together during the melding of adjacent sedimentary units. If we could remove the overburden of sand & schist members, we likely could find the area where the conglomerate and sandstone grade into each other.
Google Earth snapshot of Central Australian plain, with Kata Tjuta @ left and Uluru @ right (VE = 3x)
Coordinates for centerpoint = 25° 18.710'S 130° 53.730'E
Australia was quite geomorphically active during the Paleozoic; a contrast to the quiet old continent of today where relief and rates of denudation are comparatively low, and atmospheric hazards dominate. After the transgression of the early Paleozoic, the sea receded and orogenic activity took over in the Devonian, thrusting and folding and faulting Central Australia, to the point that the Mount Currie Conglomerate formation folded with surrounding units into a distinct syncline. The Late Paleozoic – Mesozoic – Tertiary periods began a slow march of weathering & erosion of overburden, until the exposure of the ends of the Mount Currie Conglomerate finally revealed a more resistant rock. Exposure to the atmosphere is estimated to have occurred during the Jurassic. A basin between Uluru and Kata Tjuta collected aeolian sands and dunes throughout the Quaternary, thus planing the region through depositional mechanisms. All that stood out in the plain were the tips of rocks derived from a resistant lithology. The rock domes of Kata Tjuta specifically dip 10-20º with a SW-NE strike.
The finer features of the Olgas have been primarily shaped by precipitation during more temperate paleoclimatic conditions. Freeze-thaw processes acted on joints in the rock, fracturing the surface. Rivulets of creeks and small waterfalls promoted the formation of potholes and gorges. Since granite is a primary ingredient in the Kata Tjuta Mount Currie conglomerate, spheroidal weathering was able to smooth and accentuate a rounded dome shape to the remaining 36 mini-bornhardts by working on the angles & corners. Of course, iron content exposed to the atmosphere colored the veneer of Kata Tjuta to that typical iron oxide rusty-red. Some visible structures noticeable when perusing the rocks include limited tafoni structures among the rock domes. Slickensides are also apparent, indicating displacement of large sheets of the conglomerate during times of acute mass wasting.
As an aside, I stumbled upon an interesting take on the formation of Kata Tjuta when google-searching: Tas Walker's Noachian interpretation of Kata Tjuta. It is a prime example of working backwards with the scientific method, where a proposed theory is the starting point, and evidence to support it is anecdotally surmised to fit that theory. Remember, if a null hypothesis cannot be rejected, and credibility cannot be established through peer review, it is not science, and certainly not geomorphology science. Current [accredited] geomorphology research reveals noticeable increase in relief amplitude of both Uluru and Kata Tjuta inselbergs throughout the Cenozoic, which is atypical of the ideal cycle of erosion (see additional links). Interesting mechanisms must be at play, and a deeper look into the asthenosphere, lithospheric flexure, and the mass dynamics between the overburden and the Mount Currie Conglomerate are called for.
Thanks to my brother for the above photo of the Olgas, circa 2007
Uluru Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory
Uluru and Kata Tjuta: Inselbergs of Central Australia
R.W.R. Rutland - Orogenic Evolution of Australia
Wikipedia - The Olgas panorama
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Labels: Ayers Rock, geomorphology of Australia, inselberg, Kata Tjuta, Petermann orogeny, The Olgas, Uluru
I like volunteering. You meet compassionate people with similar interests & concerns in an informative setting. However, I live in the realities of a capitalist western country, so the [very] limited free time I have outside of university studies restricts my volunteerism, as it logically is the first thing to get cut during crunch time and the search for funds. Summertime is a bit different: classes are few or nonexistent, daylight is plentiful, and my general mood is happier & more energetic. Consequently, I tend to volunteer with local organizations that have environmental directives, and over the years I've found a few that have programs which are laid out in a simplistic fashion, and thus easy to volunteer portions of my free time for. One in particular I'm on my 4th year with involves canvassing residents of Langley on how to protect their dwindling groundwater supply through conservation and community action (~50% of the townships water supply is provided by unconfined or shallow-confined aquifers).
A sample of vesicular basalt as a control in an experiment. The sample was obtained from Mt. Rainier
In more recent years, with my growing interest in academic research, I've started asking university professors if they or their grad students need any field/lab assistance with their research. Any that have ongoing work always say yes, and when I come in with enthusiasm and interest in reading & discussing their work, they shoot back with an even greater level of enthusiasm. Probably the best aspect of volunteering in labs or the field is not the possibility of paid work, nor the time to pick the brains of current researchers, nor getting my foot in the door. Those are all excellent aspects, but the best has to be the exposure to the precision technology that I get to [cautiously] fiddle with and test out, and see its application towards specific facets of quantified research.
One recent new addition to the university had the petrologist professor quite giddy, and him and I got to play around with the new device for awhile, figuring out all its quirks and functions, and running some initial control tests to ensure proper functionality. The device was something I'd never heard of before, but the explanation of its logic and level of precision made perfect sense. I speak of a Helium-based pycnometer (pictured right).
It is hard to get an accurate measurement of density for vesicular rocks, such as vesicular basalt, pumice, scoria, etc... due to the irregular arrangement of void space in their matrix where gasses exsolved. Helium is a relatively inert gas, so functions better than a nitrogen/oxygen/argon mixture which could be adsorbed by silicic material. Helium is better at diffusing within rock samples of high surface area with the tiniest, micrometer-level pore spaces, ie. vesicular rocks. Thus the displacement of Helium between containers (one with the rocks and one without), and application of the ideal gas law, and we get the volume of the rock sample with deadly accuracy. We tested out the device using some vesicular basalt (pictured above) gathered from pyroclastic flows ejected from Cascade Arc volcanoes. Looking at the basalt petrographically was important as well, so I made thin sections for viewing under the microscope and we viewed the optical mineralogy of the basalt.
Mt Edziza stratovolcano, which has erupted felsic
magmas such as rhyodacite or trachyte/comendite.
Image courtesy Canadian Encyclopedia
The pycnometer is supposed to help the professor's research of the geochemistry of the Edziza volcanic complex within the NCVP. I hope to assist in as much of it until the concluding phases and journal publication, mainly because it allows further access and experience with new physical geography/geology toys. I've also recently got some fresh experience with a 15m long sediment transport flume, but that's another research tale I hope to tell after more time with the flume.
For other undergrads I strongly recommend volunteering your time & energy to your university profs and grad students. Trust me, they are likely to welcome your assistance, and you'll benefit from the experience and the contacts, especially if post-graduate studies is on your radar. It gets your foot in the door, and is thus invaluable.
J.G. Souther and C.J. Hickson - Crystal fractionation of the basalt comendite series of the mount Edziza volcanic complex, British Columbia: Major and trace elements
Helium Pycnometer
Ideal Gas Law virtual lab
University of Pittsburgh - Vesicular and Amygdaloidal Textures
Labels: Helium pycnometer, Mount Edziza, petrology, vesicular rocks
My niece recently had her 10th birthday, and I felt it fitting to add to her burgeoning rock & mineral collection with some flint, chert, and serpentine. I mentioned the properties of serpentine to her, and its connection to asbestos, which is a carcinogen. She must have forgotten the part where I mentioned there is no chance of inhaling carcinogenic asbestos from the fist-sized rock I gave her unless she grinded it into a fine mist, nor does it have the mass of chrysotile needed to make her lungs even notice. But lo and behold a few hours later she had placed a paper on top of her rock box ..."Warning - Cancer rock inside".
An opportunity to educate her on the properties of minerals, and she took to it. Kids get right away that rocks are essentially a collection of minerals in different ratios. I'm amazed at how easy it is for kids to quickly grasp many things geological; Sometimes I wish I had such a malleable mind when I'm engulfed in my university studies. Specific gravity/density is a hard one to explain, but streak powder, cleavage, fracture, hardness, were all easy to demonstrate given that visual demonstration of them is straightforward. If you try this, I would recommend not using the mirror example for hardness, as some kids might run off to try it on bathroom mirrors.
Later on after her party, we sat down to watch some old Simpsons episodes on TV, and Treehouse of Horror V was what was showing. Homer invented a time machine by modifying a toaster, and it catapulted him back to what appeared to be a blend of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, and even some Neogene (a Megatherium alongside a T-Rex??). His father gave him sage advice about not touching anything in the past, as doing so could alter the future in ways he couldn't possibly imagine. Homer was chased by a T-Rex, eventually escaping. Unfortunately, upon sitting down for a rest, he squashed what is considered the first land-walking animal. I speak of the Eusthenopteron:
courtesy 20th Century Fox
Homer killed the terrestrial evolutionary process! For some reason, that lead to the human race being 50-feet tall giants. Wouldn't it lead to us remaining aquatic animals?? Why am I trying to find evolutionary logic from a late-night cartoon? Meh, I was just pleased to see these archaic lifeforms I'm familiar with used for satire.
Labels: Eusthenopteron, mineral properties, serpentine, The Simpsons
Papers I'm reading: Trends in the timing and magnitude of floods in Canada
GIS map of the Atlas of Canada, showing numerous hydrometric measurement stations in the western half of the country
In case anyone hasn't noticed, Canada is huge. The country's vast area and varied topography lends itself to a multitude of different hydrological regimes, influenced atmospherically on a meso-macro scale by Polar & Tropical air masses. The warm vs cold air mass war has its battleground across the latitudes of Canada, from 42° - 66.6°N, with the only region that can be called "calm" being the ice-capped tundra islands north of the Arctic Circle. Very few places in Canada do not receive decent snowfall, so spring freshet runoff from snowpack melt is typical, and measuring it is every Canadian fluvial hydrologists nitty-gritty.
Bella Coola airport during Sept. 2010 flood
A prime example of a rainfall-induced flood
Climate change towards a warming trend must have an impact on the various hydrological regimes and how the hydrologic cycle has been altered due to that impact. As I've said, there are a multitude of different hydrological regimes, so there are likely a multitude of different trends. This line of thought brought me to an academic paper in the Journal of Hydrology that reviews trends in timing & magnitude of floods in Canada due to hydrologic shifts, and does so by looking at the established physiographic regions of Canada. Juraj Cunderlik and Taha Ouarda from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Chair on Statistical Hydrology analyzed flood data gathered from several dozen strategically placed monitoring stations throughout the hydrometric network of Canada.
This study investigates trends in the timing and magnitude of seasonal maximum flood events across Canada. A new methodology for analyzing trends in the timing of flood events is developed that takes into account the directional character and multi-modality of flood occurrences. The methodology transforms the directional series of flood occurrences into new series by defining a new location of the origin. A test of flood seasonality (multi-modality) is then applied to identify dominant flood seasons. Floods from the dominant seasons are analyzed separately by a seasonal trend analysis. The Mann–Kendall test in conjunction with the method of pre-whitening is used in the trend analysis. Over 160 streamflow records from one common observation period are analyzed in watersheds with relatively pristine and stable land-use conditions. The results show weak signals of climate variability and/or change present in the timing of floods in Canada during the last three decades. Most of the significant trends in the timing of spring snowmelt floods are negative trends (earlier flood occurrence) found in the southern part of Canada. There are no significant trends identified in the timing of fall rainfall floods. However, the significance of the fall, rainfall-dominated flood season has been increasing in several analyzed watersheds. This may indicate increasing intensity of rainfall events during the recent years. Trends in the magnitude of floods are more pronounced than the trends in the timing of floods. Almost one fifth of all the analyzed stations show significant trends in the magnitude of snowmelt floods. Most of the significant trends are negative trends, suggesting decreasing magnitudes of snowmelt floods in Canada over the last three decades. Significant negative trends are found particularly in southern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. There are no significant trends in the magnitude of rainfall floods found in the analyzed streamflow records. The results support the outcomes of previous streamflow trend studies conducted in Canada.
What did they find? (delving into the abstract's details)
The study first defines some ground rules:
Minimum of 20 years of observational data
Statistically significant flood regimes usually have bimodal seasons (spring freshet season + fall rainfall season). There were no stations identified with three or more significant flood seasons.
Watersheds used in the statistical study are characterized by relatively pristine and stable land-use conditions, with less than 5% of the watershed area being modified by human development
It is not feasible to get thorough coverage of streamflow data across Canada due to the country's sheer breadth, and inaccessibility of certain regions
The pulse day = the day for which the cumulative departure of the streamflow from the average streamflow for the year is most negative. Most acutely observed during the spring freshet season within high relief terrain
I'm not going to detail their establishment of a statistical methodology to gauge multi-modal flooding seasons, as I'm more interested in the findings about floods in the country (statistical know-how is something I'm lacking, soon to be remedied). In terms of timing trends, readings in southern Canada over the last generation are showing a trend towards earlier spring melt floods. This trend is particularly acute in southern Ontario, Alberta, and BC. Changes in freshwater ice break/freeze up spring dates are strongly linked to large-scale atmospheric and oceanic oscillations, with positive feedback mechanisms as the driving force. Only 16 stations, which is 10% of those included in the study, had a statistically significant trend in the timing of spring freshet floods during the last generation. Of those 16, 14 had a negative trend pointing to earlier occurrence. Only 2 stations had a positive trend pointing to later occurrence of spring floods, and those were in the tundra of Nunavut.
The real crux of the study is the findings about the change in flood magnitudes, as the values associated with volume/discharge are more striking than the shifts in the timing of said discharge. There is only a weak trend in having earlier melt runoffs, but a more significant trend in having a lower magnitude of those melt runoffs. The trend shows decreasing streamflow in heavily glaciated areas (ie. alpine glaciers of Rockies, valley glaciers of sub-Arctic & western Cordillera) during the typical spring runoff season for those areas of April - July. On average, the mean annual spring maximum flows have decreased by approximately 1% per year over the analyzed period of 1974 - 2003. My home province of BC had some intriguing findings: there was some significant increasing trends in spring maximum flows (increased snowmelt-induced flows) and significant decreasing trends at the beginning of summer (reduced snowmelt-induced flows); this is essentially showing that the snowpack is melting at a greater pace earlier in the season, leaving the summer months less supplied with meltwater from the snowpack. This is not a good trend as that scenario exacerbates drought conditions typical of BC in the summer, when a persistent Pacific High settles over the region. Indeed the paper finds that accompanying climate data (air temps) are shifting at a quicker-than-anticipated pace from the coldest to the warmest season, causing greater flow spikes in response.
You mentioned "bimodal". What about the fall rainfall season trends?
Almost a non-issue amongst the observed data. The authors note only a potential for increasing rainfall during the fall season, as certain regions recorded occasional above-average spikes in fall rainfall in the last decade. Further accumulation of data throughout the coming years will shed light on the significance of the rainfall floods, and trends in their timing & magnitude. I should note that not all physiographic regions in Canada that have bimodality have the second, lesser, rainfall-induced one in the autumn months. Rather, some regions, most notably the prairie provinces, have the rainfall-induced flooding in the summer months due to convective storms.
What are the take-home messages?
There are many implications for the decreasing snowpack melt, and how it interacts with certain biogeochemical cycles. Particular regions of Canada rely on the spring melt to supply freshwater, and in BC, hydroelectric power will be adversely affected by a decrease in discharge at certain expected intervals. You've likely seen the news on how floods in Manitoba have adversely impacted populations living in flood plains there, but that has more to do with latitude, topography and a South - North sloping drainage basin (Anne Jefferson at Highly Allochthonous has a great post on the topic). Ongoing changes in the timing and magnitude of spring floods are not restricted to a particular flood seasonality type, but rather occur across Canada in different climatic and hydrologic regimes. Ultimately, the paper highlights that trends in the magnitude of floods are more pronounced than trends in the timing of floods, and the changes in magnitude are having a great impact among natural systems connected to the melting of the snowpack in the spring.
Juraj Cunderlik and Taha Ouarda - Trends in the timing and magnitude of floods in Canada
Bella Coola Blog - September 2010
Water Survey of Canada
USGS - Statistical Methods in Water Resources
Labels: bimodal, flood magnitude, flood timing, hydrology of Canada, hydrometry
Accretionary Wedge #34: That is Weird
This months Accretionary Wedge is being hosted by Dana Hunter over at En Tequila Es Verdad, which Google translates as "In Tequila is Truth" (don't ask this teetotaler what that means). The theme is any geology which the blogger considers weird. My limited experience means many geological phenomena I observe are initially head-scratchers, but subsequent investigation usually becomes a learning experience, and later I can't imagine a time before understanding the phenomenon.
In choosing what to post about that's weird, a memory popped into my head that quickly settled the issue. What better to include in this carnival on weird geology than a landform that has no unifying theory on its origin, but rather a bunch of hypotheses? What I speak of is the Mima Mounds, located 20km south of Olympia, Washington. This set of mounds is the only I have visited, but variations of Mima Mounds exist elsewhere: Lake District in Oregon, Northern China, and in the Western Sahara, to name a few. The geographic and climatic spread means that certain groups of the mounds have more explanation for their genesis, ex. the Oregon-based mounds have a more definitive volcanic morphology. But the mounds in Washington I'm focusing on continue to baffle geologists. Hypotheses about their origin range from animal construction - seismicity - periglacial kettle topography.
The mounds outside Olympia measure around 5-8 feet in height, and 12-20 feet in rough diameter. They are similar to the prairie-based pimple mounds of the southern Midwest states, and their might be connections based on pedological similarities. If you are a keen geologist, each explanation will stir up good probing questions, many of which are yet to be answered fully. For instance, the gopher proposal is criticized for lack of zoological evidence at the Washington Mima Mounds, plus their density raises questions of competition for food resources if a multitude of gophers built them, or necessity if many mounds were built by a few gophers. The earthquake hypothesis is a compelling one, and more research into the physics of the mounds' granular material should be revealing once it comes forth.
Click for larger version and read about the different hypotheses scientists have for the origin of the mounds.
Info board courtesy Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Most current research into the Mima Mound phenomena is concentrated around the periglacial hypothesis: Kettle & Kame topographical depressions (sun cups) were filled with glacial sediment during rapid retreat at the end of the last Ice Age. Repeated outburst floods as the glacial front retreated & disintegrated provided sediment that filled the depressions. Those depressions experienced subsequent freeze-thaw heave; hence they are arguably akin to small-scale pingo formations. However, glacial conditions are not apparent at several places where the mounds exist, even when examining deep-time paleogeography. Also of note is that not all mound formations have the same soil/sediment profile, even within the same mound group. Some of my own quick observations at the Mima Mounds Natural Area include how the mounds are more diversely vegetated, some mounds have a deflated appearance, and that exposures of the substrate revealed a primarily gravelly/pebbly mixture that reminded me of glacial diamicton.
Washington DNR LIDAR image of Mima Mounds (left) with matching Google Earth image (right)
Site is near Littlerock, Wa. (46° 53.273'N 123° 3.054'W)
Geology that can be considered 'weird' is refreshing to have around. A lot of it is nature's abstract art. I considered doing the tessellated pavement structure of Eaglehawk Neck in Tasmania, but that has a thorough explanation, and honestly, when thinking of strange geological formations, one's that are unexplained and/or under debate strike my fancy more. Finding out that not everything in earth science is yet definitive gives me a chance, albeit small, to be a future pioneer.
Seattle Times - Laser mapping may help solve the mystery of the Mima Mounds
Wikipedia entry on the various mound genesis hypotheses
Google Earth Anomalies - Mima Mounds worldwide
Perigee: Zero - Mima Mounds and similar landforms
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Labels: Accretionary Wedge, Mima Mounds, periglacial
A recent stopover in Princeton, BC gave me an opportunity to sidetrack to a couple interesting outcrops that expose sedimentary strata of different formations. It was a perfect day - clear skies, temps in the high teens, dry but not too dry - summer come early. Without even trying, on occasion I was within meters of adventurous local wildlife - a beaver, several deer, and a young black bear.
One particular exposure along the TCT, nicknamed the "Red Ochre Bluffs" because they were used by natives to create red pigment, is particularly interesting for its very reddish color, due to a high % content of the mineral haematite (iron oxide) within the bedded chert. Technically it is an outcrop of the Vermillion Bluffs shale member, part of the Allenby formation of the Eocene epoch (45-50 Ma). This is a fossiliferous member, where fossils of maple, alder, fir, pine, dawn redwood and ginko have been found, along with one of the world's oldest fossilized bees. There is a noticeable dip to the beds of about 10°, striking NNE-SSW.
At another part of Princeton, behind a small restaurant, is the only exposure in Princeton of the Summer Creek sandstone member of the Allenby formation:
A keen eye will notice the concretions, the cross laminations, and an apparent conglomerate boulder 'xenolith' that became part of the package, though it might be a beaten up granite-family rock. The sandstone layers have an approximate dip of 25°, and a strike of E-W. The member is mantled by a foot of glacial till (Princeton has a few kettle lakes of interest that showcase glacial geomorphology). This sandstone is some of the toughest I've felt; the layers are highly compacted and the presence of plenty of cementing material makes it a strong variant.
The Vermillion Bluffs exposure can be found @ 49° 26.695'N 120° 32.665'W, after a 2km walk along the TCT. Part of the walk goes through a long tunnel where you can practice your bet megalomaniacal laugh.
The Summer Creek sandstone rockface can be found @ 49° 27.313'N 120° 30.646'W, behind Billy's Family restaurant, where you can park and take a look at how First Nations hollowed out a cave within the sandstone to store plunder.
Super Natural BC - Princeton Hiking
Archea (Fossil Huntress) - Fossils and Red Ochre
N.W.D Massey - Geological Compilation of the Similkameen Coal Basins, Southwestern BC: Tertiary Geology
Labels: Allenby formation, concretions, field photo, haematite, Summer Creek sandstone, Vermillion Bluffs shale


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Kid trackers are a hot topic, and I recommend that you start young if you are interested, as it is very difficult down the road to convince a teenager to submit to this kind of oversight. For the smallest children, the Toddler Tag ($30) beeps if your child moves more than 30 feet away from you. The Filip ($200) bracelet lets your child call you with a press of a button and displays location. And for students getting their first phone, Life360 (free) looks pretty good, as it enables you to keep precise track of your child (via the phone) at all times, whether the app is open or not and whether or not he or she accepts your call.
The blogger Emily Mendell has compiled a list of 31 things that your son (or daughter) should be able to do on their own before heading off for college. Write a check; pay a bill; make travel arrangements; navigate an airport, train or bus station; deal with a canceled flight; take a taxi; catch the subway; plunge a toilet; change a tire; check the oil; shave with a razor; withdraw cash from an ATM; pay for dinner; self-prescribe over-the-counter meds; call a doctor; cook a meal; cancel a membership; buy clothes; return a purchase; pack a suitcase (without inspection); do the laundry; iron a shirt; go food shopping for themselves; negotiate a deal; make hospital corners; sew a button; remove a stain; replace a fuse; remove a splinter; enjoy a drink responsibly; and say "no" with confidence.
Badges are a hot topic in education. Imagine a marriage between the Girl Scouts and LinkedIn. Prognosticators expect that within a few years, every résume will have badges on it that signify expertise or competency in relevant skills. The badges serve as a hyperlink to details (relevant coursework, honors won, etc.) Read more about it at http://tinyurl.com/orz3t8v.
Work experience during high school is playing a key role in admissions to highly selective colleges these days, as well as quick and relevant employment after graduation from college, according to a recent survey of businesses and students. More and more students are looking for work experience through internships or volunteering. Hiring companies state the most important factors for them in hiring students are the reputation of the high school, high academic performance and references. Go to http://tinyurl.com/kc3hwbd.
In the new book, "All Joy and No Fun," journalist Jennifer Senior looks at all the ways that having children changes parents' lives. Using sources in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy and anthropology, she questions our beliefs about parenting, what it adds to our lives and what it takes away. It is next up on my nightstand.
The Atlantic magazine tackles the subject of teenage risk-taking in a long piece that is both comforting and terrifying for those of us with teens. In a nutshell, the increased natural dopamine being released in the adolescent body "can give adolescents a powerful sense of being alive when they are engaged in life. It can also lead them to focus solely on the positive rewards they are sure are in store for them, while failing to notice or give value to the potential risks and downsides," said the author, UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel Siegel.tinyurl.com/lfyvb3q.
If your student age 13 to 21 is interested in the visual or performing arts, the best list of summer programs around the country and around the world that I have come across is at: da.org/podium/default.aspx?t=117646.
The British government is requiring that programming (computer coding) be taught in every K-12 classroom in England starting next year. The United States, thanks to Silicon Valley, is the world's premier technology powerhouse, so it is baffling to me that England has beaten us to the punch. You can read more about England's coding curriculum at http://tinyurl.com/pdtzvqu.
I am a big fan of audiobooks, both for myself and for children who don't love to read. While I favor audible.com, there is a site called tales2go.com that streams thousands of name-brand titles from leading publishers and storytellers to students' mobile devices and desktops. The family subscription is $99 a year for up to five devices. The app and a seven-day trial are free.
"Giving our kids the option to quit celebrates the idea that they should have the chance to try out new things without the expectation that every new thing will fit," said author Kristin Levitahn, who is quoted in an article about letting kids quit things (at theatlantic.com). There has been a lot of talk about the value of persistence but she offers forth a valuable argument for being okay with quitting as well.
I have a new favorite website for instructional support and cool new learning tools and resources. Check out edtune.com. My favorite thing about is that you don't need to register to use it.
Schools in the 40+ Common Core states across the country will take new computer-based standardized tests this year. Because they will be administered on computers, the new assessments will allow for a broader range of test questions than the multiple-choice exams given in the past. They will emphasize critical thinking, reasoning and problem-solving – modeling the kind of teaching and learning needed to prepare all students for the demands of college and the modern workplace. No student, school or district scores will be produced from this year's field test because its purpose is to "test the test" – to determine how well the test questions and technology work.
The new school analysis site Niche.com surveyed 909 public and private high schools between 2012 and 2014, and ranked schools by students' average SAT/ACT scores (close to 80,000 score results over two years). The chart is interesting just to see which public and private schools across the country come out on top by this measure. Check out the ones in your area. While a lot of people hate to lend weight to SAT scores, a recent study by Case Western Reserve found standardized test scores to be a valid measure of general cognitive ability and these scores still do play a huge role in college admissions.
I am off to the huge South by Southwest Education Conference (SXSWEdu) in Austin, Texas, March 2-6. Last year, attending more than a dozen panel discussions on innovation in education really opened my eyes to changes headed our way. I hope to learn as much this year.
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Google's Brin Donates $500K To Wikipedia
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin donated $500,000 to Wikipedia this week during the company's annual fundraiser. If you have been to Wikipedia this week you would have been hard pressed to avoid Founder Jimmy Wales personal plea.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin donated $500,000 to Wikipedia this week during the company's annual fundraiser, VentureBeat reported. If you have been to Wikipedia this week you would have been hard pressed to avoid Founder Jimmy Wales personal plea.
The donation was made to the Wikimedia Foundation – the company that runs Wikipedia.
"Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views.
Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia," Wales wrote on the site.
In the plea, Wales states "if everyone reading this donated $5, we would only have to fundraise for one day a year. But not everyone can or will donate."
Obviously he is counting the number of visitors to the site who actually open the donation plea page. Wikipedia has 454 million unique visitors a month and it can't cost over $75 million to run the site.
"This grant is an important endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and I hope it will send a signal as we kick off our annual fundraising campaign this week," said Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner in a release.
Brin's donation came through his own nonprofit, the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, which he runs with his wife, Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe – a genetics research site.
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Baptiste On A 'Massive Game'
Summer signing Alex Baptiste is hoping PNE can come out on top in Friday night's local derby against Wigan Athletic.
The 30-year-old, who is on a season-long loan from Middlesbrough, is hoping the squad can build on the terrific win on Tuesday night against Bournemouth, and put behind them the result in the last league match against Brentford.
"Obviously we needed to put Saturday's result out of our minds and the lads certainly did that on Tuesday.
"From the outside looking in it looks like we got battered but that definitely wasn't the case and they sit fifth in the league so obviously there are a lot of things that we needed to work on and the lads have put it into practice on Tuesday night.
"It's important that we now get a good run going now, we've got a massive game on Friday so hopefully we can get three points."
"It's live on Sky, it's got that added incentive of a local derby, both teams are at the wrong end of the table and want to start pushing on so we need to make sure we come out of this one on top.
"We need to start winning games in the league and climb up this table.
Having been a the club for a couple of weeks now, Baptiste is starting to feel more settled in PR1 and his aim is to help PNE climb the table after a difficult start to the season.
"Personally I've felt that I've done ok, it's good to be back playing as it's been a while."
"It takes time to bed in and to get to know the lads and to get to know how they play and things like that but I'm enjoying it, I'm enjoying the challenge and we go again now on Friday.
"I need to get to know people, the staff, how the club runs and it's hard but I'm really enjoying my time here and if we can start climbing up the league I will enjoy it even more."
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These bones are connected directly to the sternum via a specific type of cartilage known as costal cartilage. The cartilage allows for the ribs to move and adds to the elasticity of the entire rib cage
The thoracic cage protects the heart and lungs. It is composed of 12 pairs of ribs with their costal cartilages and the sternum.
Medical Definition of costal cartilage : any of the cartilages that connect the distal ends of the ribs with the sternum and by their elasticity permit movement of the chest in respiration.
The costal cartilages are bars of hyaline cartilage that serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax.
The thoracic cage (rib cage) forms the thorax (chest) portion of the body. It consists of the 12 pairs of ribs with their costal cartilages and the sternum (Figure 1). The ribs are anchored posteriorly to the 12 thoracic vertebrae (T1T12). The thoracic cage protects the heart and lungs.
Costal Cartilage. the bars of hyaline cartilage connecting: bony rib to sternum or bony rib to costal arch, or just lining the end of the rib
A shallow costal groove is found on the inferior margin of each rib, where blood vessels and nerves for the intercostal muscles are protected.
The ribs are connected to the sternum with a strong, somewhat flexible material called cartilage. The rib cage help protects the organs in the chest, such as the heart and lungs, from damage.
The small joints between the ribs and the vertebrae permit a gliding motion of the ribs on the vertebrae during breathing and other activities. The first seven ribs in the rib cage are attached to the sternum by pliable cartilages called costal cartilages; these ribs are called true ribs.
The costal cartilage of each rib is functionally important because it forms the attachment of the rib to the sternum while allowing for some flexibility of the thoracic wall.
Description. The costal cartilages are bars of hyaline cartilage which serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute very materially to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax.
The costal margin, also known as the costal arch, is the lower edge of the chest (thorax) formed by the bottom edge of the rib cage.
The rib cage protects the organs in the thoracic cavity, assists in respiration, and provides support for the upper extremities. During inspiration the ribs are elevated, and during expiration the ribs are depressed.
The thoracic cage (rib cage) is the skeleton of the thoracic wall. It is formed by the 12 thoracic vertebrae, 12 pairs of ribs and associated costal cartilages and the sternum
The thoracic cage surrounds and protects the heart and lungs in the thoracic cavity. It consists of the ribs, the sternum, and the thoracic vertebrae, to which the ribs articulate. We examined the thoracic vertebrae last lab, so here we will only examine the ribs and sternum. There are twelve pairs of ribs.
It consists of three parts: the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process. The manubrium is the wider, superior portion of the sternum.
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Home /Aiken County Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at the District Office at 7:00 p.m.
Aiken County Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at the District Office at 7:00 p.m.
4. Aiken Rotary Club Presentation: Rotary Reader Program, Dictionary Program and Scholarship Program.
B. CONSENT ITEMS: The following items will be voted on as a group. Individual items may be discussed prior to a vote being taken.
The School Board, according to the Code of Laws of South Carolina Sections 59-63-240, is authorized to expel students from school. Although the Board may receive recommendations for expulsion from others, it solely is empowered to take the final expulsion action.
School Board Policy JFABB establishes guidelines for the admission of the exchange students to the high schools in the School District of Aiken County.
Redcliffe Elementary was given a $3,000.00 donation from Remain at Home Senior Care, LLC. The funds from this donation will be used for general classroom supplies, headphones, microphones, a laptop, ink, chairs, professional development refreshments, and teacher supplies.
Silver Bluff High School ROTC was given a $3000.00 donation from Remain at Home Senior Care, LLC. The funds from this donation will be used to defray student cost associated with field trips, summer camps, and other NJROTC events. Some funds will be utilized to cover transportation costs. Remaining funds will be used for classroom and training supplies.
Kennedy Middle School was given a $1,500.00 donation from Premier Construction Services Inc. The funds from this donation will be used for landscaping, curb appeal, and building/grounds improvements.
Oakwood Windsor Elementary School was given a $7000.00 donation from Iorio Charitable Foundation. The funds from this donation will be used to purchase non-fiction books for the Media Center, reimburse travel for professional development attendance, and purchase instructional resources.
Change Order Number 1 for the South Aiken High Visitor's Side Restroom & Concession Project unused allowances for this project are in the credit amount of $62,843.18.
The Business Services Department would like to submit a grant application for a $49,569.18 South Carolina School Boards Insurance Trust Risk Control Grant. The non-competitive grants program provides funding for the one-time purchase of a product or service that supports a member district's risk management objectives.
The Aiken County Career Center and Technology Center was given a $2,000 donation from Western Carolina State Fair. The funds from this donation will be used to support the criminal justice program at the Career Center.


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2. Debt Elimination to remove this obstacle hindering our mission to reach and disciple those who don't' know the Lord Jesus.
3. Efficiencies in Church Operations to make the most of the resources of which the Lord entrusts us.
We invite you to review and become familiar with the plan and request that you pray about where you fit into the Lord's mission!
If you have any comments or questions, please contact Wade Hollinger at 870-489-1146 or wade.hollinger@yahoo.com or one of the other committee members.
Thank you to those of you who provided comments on the draft Plan. The LRPC believes your input has made the Plan even better. We now believe the Plan is ready to be presented as the final Plan. This plan is prayerfully submitted to the church for review and will be presented at the July 17th business meeting. This plan has been reviewed with the church staff, the deacons, and was presented to the Church Council on July 10. If you have any comments or questions, please contact Wade Hollinger at 870-489-1146 or wade.hollinger@yahoo.com or one of the other committee members.
The Long Range Planning Committee is posting this proposed Long Range Plan for the church's review. This plan is prayerfully submitted for the church to review and will be presented at the July 17th business meeting. This plan has been reviewed with the church staff, the deacons, and will be presented to the Church Council on July 10. If you have any comments or questions, please contact Wade Hollinger at 870-489-1146 or wade.hollinger@yahoo.com or one of the other committee members.
2015 Long Range Planning Committee Survey results have been complied and presentation is available here.
Survey access is now closed. Results from the survey will be compiled and presented at a later date.
Click here to read an update from our LRP Committee.
The Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC) has drafted a document, Dream Mosaic Summary, to share with the FBC Family. Please take a few moments to read and then to pray for the continuing process of addressing the submitted items.


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Describe briefly the data storage and transmission risks in e-business.
Q.5:- Describe briefly the data storage and transmission risks in e-business.
There are a number of risks to which data is exposed while it is stored or is en-route in a transaction. Vital information may be stolen or modified to pursue individual gains. There can be attacks of VIRUS and hacking. Virus means Vital Information Under Siege. It is a program which replicates itself on the other computer systems. The effect of computer viruses can range from some annoying on-screen display (Level-1 virus), disruption of functioning (Level-2 virus) damage to target data files (Level-3 virus), to complete destruction of the system (Level-4 virus). Anti-virus programmes need to be installed and updated on the system and files and disks should be scanned with them to provide protection from virus attacks. Data may be intercepted in the course of transmission. Cryptography is used for protection against such risks. It refers to the art of protecting information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format called 'cyphertext'. Only those who possess a secret key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into 'plaintext' and thus others do not understand your conversation.


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Peter Whittle picked as Ukip London mayoral candidate, snubbing Suzanne Evans
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Ukip selected Peter Whittle as its candidate for next year's London mayoral election, fulfilling previous reports that deputy chair Suzanne Evans would not be chosen for the role despite her public stature.
A journalist before entering politics, Whittle has been the party's culture spokesman for two years, and stood in Eltham in South East London during the general election.
In the past he has been a critic of multiculturalism, a potentially controversial view for a London mayor to hold given the diversity of the capital, a British city where white Britons do not constitute a majority.
Speaking to Ukip Daily in March 2014, Whittle said:
"I think it is a priority now to look at how we best achieve integration, as opposed to the failed policy of multiculturalism which had been entrenched for years. Voices from both the left and right have admitted that a doctrinaire multicultural approach has led to social segregation, and a fragmenting of the kind of communal values which are crucial to the survival of any society."
Whittle also topped the list of Greater London Authority candidates that Ukip is putting forward, with Evans placed third behind David Kurten, a chemistry teacher who stood for the seat of Camberwell and Peckham in May against Labour MP Harriet Harman.
Challenged by the BBC over whether Evans, who was interim leader during Nigel Farage's temporary retirement after the general election, would have made a better candidate, Whittle said this was not the case.
In August party members briefed the press that the central committee used to select the London mayoral candidate was being harnessed to block Evans, a potential rival for Farage.
In the general election Ukip underperformed in London compared to the rest of the country, with the party picking up 8.1 percent of votes in the capital to put it at third place, below the 12.7 percent it scored nationally.
A poll by Survation earlier this summer also put Ukip ahead of both the Lib Dems and the Greens in the contest for first preferences in the London mayoral election.
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for London mayor, previously told the Right Dishonourable that the interest in Ukip would not last until the election in May, the implication being that its poll ratings would soon shrink.
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London Mayor, Nigel Farage, Peter Whittle, Suzanne Evans, Ukip
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The morning after...
Rain-drenched flags. A PM who speaks about the same old things. Why should we live up to the dreams of our freedom fighters? Are we not entitled to our own dreams? Why talk about the sacrifices of our soldiers and farmers, when both are pushed into it - one due to skirmishes with outside forces (or to contain the anger that spills over within our own borders) and the other because they are forced to commit suicide. Yet he talks about a Green Revolution; he talks about security.
And, of course, the economy. The world looks to us, at us...
Those scam-stained blokes who are in jail will be dealt with. Indeed.
I think these Independence Day speeches should move to a new venue. Maybe Davos or somewhere.
I was hoping to be disturbed by loud music. The road beyond my lane has another lane. It is where slumdwellers set up a music system and disco lights. I anticipated the usual Mahendra Kapoor and Lata Mangeshkar songs with a sudden burst of "Dhinka Chikka". There was silence. Until, lazily at around 10 AM or so, a whimper was heard: "Mere desh ki dharti sona ugley..."
I checked the bullion rate. It had hit Rs. 26,000 or so.
The next speech of the PM should be from the gold souk or something.
One gets the usual greetings. This time, not much. What I received instead was a response to my post Cameron's "culture of fear" from my Hindutva party contact. It makes for interesting reading and, naturally, I will share my reply.
Dear Farzanaji,
Pranam,
I am not sure if Cameron has linked the present riots to the multi-cultural programme. He has, however, said that multi-culturalism has failed much before the riots, and he was talking in the sense of the non-integration of the Muslims community with the mainstream society. This lament has been expressed by other European leaders with respect to
their own countries.
On multi-culturalism my thoughts are as follows.
The primary problem is that the term culture is not properly defined. In common parlance it would be a secular term, and would normally have a geographical connotation. Thus we can have an Iraqi culture, or an Iranian culture, or an Indoensian culture, or an Egyptian culture. But to lump all of them in a common term of Islamic culture would be wrong. I am sure that no Indonesian would accept that in culture and civilisational terms he has anything common with a Turk.
Similarly, on the Christian side, I do not think that a French would accept that he has the same culture as the English, or a German with an Italian. Nor would a Welshman agree that he has the same culture as an Englishman. In Germany, the Bavarians really think they should be a separate country. As do the Basques in case of Spain.
However, if one were to see that the participants in the programme are those that represent the religion of Islam and Christianity, but you will not see one who represents Somalia. Nor do you see anyone who represents the Welsh, for example.
Hence, you see that the programme should be rightly called multi-religion and not multi-culture. Because of the confusion of the
definition, the programme is not going anywhere to come to even close to solving the problems that the society is encountering. And if the problem of a follower of Islam not being able to fit into a secular society is broght, it is brushed aside since the position taken is that the programme deals with culture and not religion. On the other hand, those who are invited to participate are not those who can talk about their culture.
Dear X-ji:
Thank you for the response. Cameron has not said the riots were a part of multiculturalism. He cannot possibly do so. But, given the nature of the reaction, it was obvious that the government was unconcerned. When does a government show such slackness? When it knows that the indigenous populations are safe.
Therefore, the multiculturalism bogey is anti-immigrant. That is the reason my piece took off from the example of South Asian victims and Cameron's special words for them. It was a shrewd move. They want our best talent. That's it.
Where Islam is concerned - and since many people are concerned about Islam to the exclusion of all else! - it is really a part of this mixed bag that has appeared on their shores. The reaction is extreme because the current situation internationally is geared towards fighting a 'war on terror'. Due to the obvious jihadi groups, it becomes convenient. I am speaking here purely from the multi-culti perspective.
A lot has been said about the difference in reaction of Norway's leader and what could possibly be the US position following the attacks by Breivik. The insistence of the media to not brand him a terrorist is part of the multiculturalist ethos.
I understand your differentiating between religion and culture. However, the issue is about the 'other' here. It could be geographical, cultural or religious.
Think about anti-immigrant stand of some people in Mumbai. It was based on outsiders. So, it was geographical but with it comes language, and sometimes religion. Will we not also club them as 'culture'?
Culture has a larger connotation and includes various aspects of living. The London riots are being seen as economic protests, which is one part of the story. Race is another and then within that there are the chosen few as opposed to the not acceptable.
A bit like good Taliban, bad Taliban that transformed into good Muslim and bad Muslim. Ironically the good Muslim in political terms is one who is not toeing a religious line.
I am not sure what mainstream means because there is no single British idea (think Ireland) and most certainly no single Indian one. So what stream is the main one? Even politically, which means how the country is run, there are several disparate ideas.
Yet, for an outsider, there is something called Indian culture. It is based solely on India as a nation and what they see of it. It could be the Taj Mahal or the ghats in Varanasi or the churches or Ayurveda.
This is the real mainstream. All else is manufactured to belong, like a newly-wed bride in her new home.
Happy Independence Day.
The media had fun. Every few minutes, TV actors would pipe up with the national anthem. The saffron, white and green was splashed around.
Kaun Banega Crorepati started rather tepidly. Amitabh Bachchan, usually well-dressed, wore some band-gala type jacket, which did not have a band-gala but a purple scarf tucked into the neck. Whatever it was, it was ill-fitting and creased unbecomingly at the chest.
The first contestant had a dream. If he won he'd go to Malaysia and get all possible massages by beautiful women. He did a good job for Malaysia tourism, though little for the Indian economic utopia we are marketing.
I told you, August 15 came and went, and I woke up to a picture that says more about India than a lot of speeches and writeups.
See this:
Its title was, "Yahoo opens new window". Huh? It shows a film actress on her way to the Banganga crematorium for Shammi Kapoor's last rites. We do know that in the song from the film Junglee he utters a loud "Yahoo!" but how does it open a new window now? Anyhow, I give up on these careless smarts.
There are people clicking pictures of celebrities at the funeral. Nothing dies because it is business as usual. I won't judge these camera-happy folks. They don't get to see the famous often. And the fact that they have mobile phones that they know how to use well is part of our consumerist society. Every ad tells us this - the poor can reach out.
There are the urban poor and the rest. Cellphones can only take you so far. What is it that people can connect to? A soldier video conferences with his lady love and enquires about a spot on her beautiful face; the villager hollers at someone back home; the young and old have instruments in their hands. Do they have power?
Do they even have dreams?
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Abhishek Ghosh 18/08/2011, 06:24
That headline because may be Shammi Kapoor was into technology and the internet and he made yahoo popular. so, yahoo opens a new window...
Abhishek:
I am afraid, it does not fit in with the picture, the occasion, and your reasoning too does not work in this case. This was at his funeral, so how does the Yahoo have to open a new window? He was dead. If they really wanted to play on the window-Yahoo connection, it would have been more apt to say that a Yahoo window closes, although that too would be in bad taste.
But, then, since his passing coincided with Independence Day, there was a surfeit of reports that mentioned how he broke shackles of Nehruvian socialism, without reference to the context.
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3 Things We Learned at the Voice of the Car Summit Day 1
Eric Hal Schwartz
on April 8, 2020 at 7:00 am
The COVID-19 pandemic may have canceled the physical version of this year's Voice of the Car Summit. Still, organizer Bradley Metrock didn't let the coronavirus prevent him from bringing the conference online. The first of the summit's two days brought a crowd together on Zoom to listen and watch presentations from car manufacturers, voice assistant developers, audio content makers, and others in the space. Though the digital happy hour at the end of the day wasn't quite as festive as an in-person meetup, the conference did very well in sketching out the current and potential future shape of vehicular voice AI. Here are a few of the things we learned during the summit. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the concluding wrap-up.
Opportunities Arise as More People Try Car Voice AI
People spend a lot of time in the car and they want to spend that time in productive and interesting ways. Google Assistant head of automotive and emerging markets Austin Chang discussed during his presentation the many ways people like to spend their time while driving and how voice assistants make much of it possible. More and more people are discovering what voice can do. Chang cited a survey by Voicebot that found the number of people in the U.S. using voice technology while driving rose from about 114 million to almost 130 million between the fall of 2018 and the beginning of 2020. That's partly a function of more people wanting to use voice assistants in the car, but it's also because voice assistants are rapidly becoming a standard feature for the industry that is baked into the plan for almost every new car rolling out of the factory, Chang said.
Needs Satisfaction
That people are using voice assistants in the car more doesn't mean they are thrilled about it, however. Alexa Auto chief evangelist Arianne Walker explained during her presentation that there are several barriers to people being happy about using a voice assistant while driving. Traditional in-vehicle voice recognition garnered by far the lowest level of satisfaction in a survey about voice conducted by Amazon. Sometimes it's because the car voice assistant doesn't work as it should, sometimes it lacks features that drivers are looking for, and sometimes drivers claim the system is perennially out of date compared to the voice assistant they use in their homes. Walker suggested some solutions that Amazon is pursuing, such as better ways of upgrading software and partnerships that bring features like buying gas by voice to the car, but emphasized that it will be some time before people are likely to be as happy with using voice assistants in the car as they are in other scenarios.
Radios are On
On the other hand, people are very comfortable when it comes to listening to the radio in the car. More ways of getting audio entertainment than ever before don't matter. In 2011, 84% of people said they listen to the radio in the car and that percentage remained the same seven years later in 2018, according to a survey by iHeartMedia. Crucial to radio in keeping and even adding listeners is trust and comfort, explained iHeartMedia's president of strategic partnerships Michele Laven and senior vice president of business development and partnerships John Vermeer during their presentation. People really connect with those they hear on the radio, with almost three-quarters perceiving a deep connection with their favorite radio personality.
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*Normalmente chiamata La Fonte delle Sese (seno)
Dallo "Speciale su Torricella Peligna" realizzato nel 1994 da:
Gino Di Tizio
Francesco Giannini
Domenico Bernabei
Collezingaro and the "Saise Fountain"[1]
Collezingaro is Torricella's largest district, inhabited by people actively devoted to agriculture and crafts.
Over the years this suburb has grown tremendously, around the Church and the Bar, the true focus and meeting place.
In August, the "Colle" has a well-supported traditional appointment, the feast day and fair of Sant'Agata, patron saint of Collezingaro. There are also many recreational and sporting events in this suburb which has grown enormously since the craftsmen's zone was developed. The "massaruoli"[2], as the inhabitants of Collezingaro are called in Torricella, are also very involved in politics and social events.
They are very attached to their own territory and some years ago they even threatened to split up from the village on religious grounds, it was all sorted out, but they are a proud people, keen to grow, to engage, to belong to Collezingaro, with which everyone, including the Torricellans, is called upon to compare themselves. Obviously to improve, together….
Finally we mention the fountain of "Saise" which is next to the Church of Sant'Agata. It is an ancient fountain and it is believed to have miraculous water, capable of bringing in the breast milk for women who have just given birth.
A view of the village (Torricella's main street Corso Umberto 1)
Translators Notes:
[1] Commonly called La Fonte delle Sese ("Fountain of the Sese" - dialect for "breasts")
[2] "Massaruoli" – a townsperson's nickname for people living in the countryside, (similar to "a country bumpkin") - this name is used in a superior way and tends to give offence – and the bumpkins get angry!
From the "Special on Torricella Peligna" created in 1994 by:
Translation courtesy of Dr. Marion Apley Porreca


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Helen was born on March 6, 1925 in Monroe, Michigan, the daughter of Donald and Enola (Duty) Guyor. On April 3, 1954, she married Glen B. Wilkins in Monroe, Michigan. They were married for forty seven years when Glen passed away in April 2001.
Helen was a former member of the Coleman Wesleyan Church and the Central Michigan Free Methodist Church in Mt. Pleasant. She was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking, baking, teaching Sunday School for young children, and her family.
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In this day and age everyone is on some kind of social media. There is no avoiding it and you shouldn't even try to, especially if you are a business owner. But if you are a startup founder, social media should become your new best friend.
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Look at the singer formally known as Prince. Here is a boy who liked to sing, small and gay looking, but never was. He got picked on and harrassed in school, but despite it all, manage to endure and made himself famous and lots and lots of money, movies, and been places most dream of. So if your a singer, go for it despite what others say, because those who tease will one day want you to say you're their friend because the "know you".
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No that's not true there are allot of male singers !! And they are not gay !!
No, not at all . Why would you think that ?
I like singing, I am a guy, and I am DEFINITELY not gay!
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