9 students looking forward to attend the tests of the 3 ESWIRP projects.
The ESWIRP students´ initiative met with a lively international interest and attracted a substantial number of qualified applications. Students from France, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden applied for the attendance of one of the three ESWIRP project experimental test entries.
The relevant criteria for the ESWIRP project consortia´s evaluation were the students´ professional background and focus as well as their familiarity with aerodynamic topics, aircraft design or wind tunnel related measurement systems. All chosen applicants come from other institutions than those involved in the chosen project consortium, are fluent in English and are nationals of the EU or its Associated States according to EU FP7.
The DNW project consortium selected a German student coming from the Linköpings University Sweden, a Swedish student from the KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and a Norwegian applicant studying at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Trondheim.
The consortium of the ETW project invited a German student from the Technical University Braunschweig / ISM, a Czechoslovakian applicant coming from the BRNO University of Technology as well as an Italian student from the Politecnico di Milano.
The ONERA project consortium opted for a Spanish applicant from the Mondragon University, a German student from the Technical University Braunschweig and an Italian, who studies at the Van Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium.
All applicants have been informed of the consortia´s evaluation results, waiting lists are installed in case one of the attending students will not be able to participate. The students, who had been selected in the first round, have been welcomed into the international ESWIRP project teams and are now looking forward to the experimental testing at one of the three high performance wind tunnels in France, Germany and the Netherlands.
This work receives funding from the European Union FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement no 227816.
Wind tunnels, using scaled down aircraft models, are the major source of aerodynamic design data for new aircraft projects. Wind tunnels are indispensable tools for aerodynamic research and aircraft development; they complement and validate flow simulation methods on the most powerful computers.
ETW, the European Transonic Wind Tunnel, was designed and constructed by the four European countries France, Germany, Great Britain and The Netherlands. It is operated based on a non-profit policy by the ETW GmbH, founded in 1988. Its location in Cologne, Germany, is right in the middle of Europe.
European researchers and engineers harness ETW's capabilities for advancing aeronautical science into aircraft innovation by accessing real-flight conditions in this cutting edge ground-test laboratory.
ETW is the worldwide leading wind tunnel for testing aircraft at real flight conditions. Aircraft performance and their flight envelope limits can be accurately determined with unique quality at ETW long before flight testing of a first prototype. This enables significant reductions in the technical and economic risks associated with the development of new aircraft. Manufacturers from all over the world take advantage of the exceptional features of this high-tech facility enhancing the performance, economic viability, and environmental friendliness of their future aircraft.
Aerodynamische Entwurfsdaten für neue Flugzeugprojekte werden zu einem großen Teil aus Windkanaluntersuchungen an maßstäblich verkleinerten Flugzeugmodellen gewonnen. Windkanäle sind unverzichtbare Werkzeuge sowohl für die Strömungsforschung als auch für die Flugzeugentwicklung; sie ergänzen und validieren Verfahren zur Strömungssimulation auf modernsten Hochleistungsrechnern.
Der Europäische Transschall-Windkanal ETW ist eine transnationale Forschungseinrichtung in Köln. Er wurde von den vier Staaten Frankreich, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Niederlanden entwickelt und gebaut. Betrieben wird er von der ETW GmbH, die als eigenständiges Non-Profit-Unternehmen 1988 gegründet wurde.
Der ETW erlaubt europäischen Forschern und Ingenieuren, tatsächliche Flugzustände unter Laborbedingungen am Boden darzustellen, um wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu erarbeiten und in Luftfahrtinnovationen zu überführen.
Der ETW ist der weltweit führende Windkanal, in dem Luftfahrzeuge unter wirklichkeitsgetreuen Flugbedingungen getestet werden können. Lange bevor der erste Prototyp für einen Flugtest zur Verfügung steht, können im ETW die Leistungsfähigkeit und die Flugbereichsgrenzen eines Neuentwurfs genauestens und mit einzigartiger Qualität bestimmt werden. Dies reduziert erheblich die technischen und wirtschaftlichen Risiken, die mit der Entwicklung neuer Luftfahrzeuge verbunden sind. Hersteller aus aller Welt nutzen die außergewöhnlichen Möglichkeiten dieser Hightech-Einrichtung, um die Leistungsfähigkeit, die Wirtschaftlichkeit und die Umweltfreundlichkeit ihrer zukünftigen Produkte nachhaltig zu verbessern.


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A text by Jan-Erik Lundström
The current contemporary art scene in Norrbotten is a development of recent years. In the last decade, leading visual art institutions such as Havremagasinet, the Luleå Art Biennial, Galleri Syster and Konstmuseet i Norr have been established, enabling a greater presence and exchange of contemporary art at a national and international level. In addition, Resurscentrum för konst with its active support, has contributed to a large number of projects and public art commissions engaging visual artists within the region. Parallelly, a growing presence of art practitioners returning after completing formal education, has strengthen the art and cultural production of Norrbotten.
Cultural policies reserved to fund the development of public institutions and art practices came into existence in the 1960s. Prior to this period, the visual arts sector was made up by independent local artists, non-profit organisations and art patronage. With the founding of the city of Kiruna and thanks to the sponsorship coming from Hjalmar Lundbohmof (first director of the mining industries), an early cultural scene started to develop attracting national artists to the city. Lundbohmof amassed an ample private collection, which at a later stage was donated to the municipality of Kiruna, becoming the most important public art collection in Norrbotten (now housed in Konstmuseet i Norr).
Kiruna and the mountainous region of Norrbotten was the place of choice for the leading landscape painters and the Swedish romantic movement of the 19th century. Exhibitions started to take place as early as 1903 boosting the city's reputation as a visual arts hub.This was a key factor for the Swedish national avant-garde to spend time in the town. It is during this period, that the process of national identity, colonisation and the exploitation of natural resources developed. Borg Mesch, a photographer based in Kiruna, documented this important chapter of history through portraits of the Sami people, their culture, Kebnekaises mountain peaks and the building process of the city itself.
The municipality of Kiruna, with its own funding scheme, the Kirunastipendiet (The Kiruna stipend), was able to create and support an early artists-in-residency program in 1959. Through this fund, a continuous flow of artists coming to work in Kiruna allowed a broader dialogue between the national and the local scene. During the 1960s and 1970s, additional infrastructures and changes supporting artistic practices developed. A variety of important artist collectives were formed, some in connection with workshops dedicated to printmaking, ceramics, glass and metal work production. Konstnärernas Kollektiv Verkstad (KKV), founded in Luleå, is a prime example still functioning today.
The town hall of Kiruna, Norrbottens Museum alongside exhibition venues supporting regional artists by local municipalities in Luleå, Boden, Kalix, Arvidsjaur and Haparanda were also established during this period. In the early 80's, Luleå opened the Fotograficentrum Norrbotten (Norrbotten Centre of Photography), an important organisation and exhibition space supporting documentary and independent art photography.
Luleå Biennial 2018
Galleri Syster in Luleå
Kirunastipendiet
With Luleå as its base, influential painter and draughtsman Mats Risberg, initiated Norrbottens Bildgrupp in 1977. The Tuoddargruppen (the Tuoddar Group) formed in 1975 in the town of Gällivare/Malmberget, linked important artists such as Lena Nallo, Berry Kurkkio, and Nicolaus SkumIn. From 1960's onwards, a small but active contemporary art scene started to operate in the small city of Boden. A loose group of artists named Bodenskolan (The Boden School), integrated mostly by painters ( June Montana Lorentz and Bror Zachrisson as the two most prominent), worked together developing their individual practices and common aesthetics.The presence of a considerable middle-class residing in the city, secured a stable art market.
Thanks to the growing influence of KRO (Konstnärernas Riksorganisation - the union of visual artists), the national, regional and municipal cultural authorities increased their support to artists. Norrbottens läns landsting (The Norrbotten County Authority) extended its policy and investment funds for art to be displayed in public buildings. Overall, government grants and other funding platforms opened a variety of opportunities for artists living in Norrbotten. The establishment of Sunderbyns konstskola, a pre-university/art-academy, was also influential back in 1963. In fact, the majority of art practitioners in Norrbotten today started their careers while studying at Sunderbyn.
Above: a picture from the exhibition "Bodenskolan" at Havremagasinet, Boden
Right: the building of Sunderby folkhögskola
Even though landscape painting remained a dominant genre in the post-war years, a different discourse within the contemporary art scene was generated during the 60s and 70s. Charles Portin, an established modernist prior WW2, left naturalism behind for constructivism and abstract painting. Leading artist Alvar Jansson (born in Kiruna), kept his home town and surroundings as the main motif in his work. Jansson pursued a realist style depicting the sociopolitical conditions of the workers and industry. The development of graphic arts in the 1970s also reflected this issues, linking the political and environmental movements of the time.
Erling Johansson an influential painter and object maker also working with experimental film, took expressionism and conceptualism in his practice, while Sture Berglund documented the changing landscape in his paintings and drawings with scientific precision. Surrealism and symbolism influenced the work of Per Fredrik Glommé, Bror Zachrisson, Margareta Renberg and Jan Anders Eriksson. Throughout the 20th century, folk art and naive painting were also significant modes of expression. Elis Aidanpää (belonging to the Tornedalen meänkieli minority ethnic group), alongside Tora Regina Rensgard and Inger Anderssons are important figures. (The exhibition Where Love is, at Havremagasinet in 2016 was an important exploration of this genre – see havremagasinet.se.)
Artist unions within the Sami were also established in 1978. The Sámi Dáiddáčehpiid Searvi, for example, supports the important tradition known as duodji together with contemporary art practices coming from the community. Britta Marakatt-Labba, active since the 1970s, extends traditional duodji in her embroidered work narratives. Nils Nilsson Skum, Lars Pirak, Nils Aslak Valkeapää, Iver Jåks and Johan Tuuri are predecessors of such style. A growing contemporary discourse dealing with issues embedded in colonial history, Sami identity, human rights and political activism has taken place ever since. Artists such as Rose Marie Huuva, Maj Doris Rimpi, Lena Stenberg and more recently, Katarina Pirak-Sikku, Anders Sunna, Liselotte Wajstedt and Carola Grahn are important figures of this movement.

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Who is at Fault for a Left-Hand Turn Accident?
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 By Joel DuBoff
There are always many factors that come into play in terms of determining who's at fault in a car accident, and when it comes to left-hand turn accidents there tends to be a false assumption that the driver conducting the left-hand turn is always at fault.
Of course this isn't always the case because all circumstances are different, but there still is a predominant legal misconception within these scenarios because left-hand turns typically require drivers to yield the right of way. It's always perfectly reasonable to expect drivers making left-hand turns to yield to oncoming traffic, but the liability within some of these types of accidents is sometimes more difficult to determine than most would initially think.
We are proud to support our clients through these confusing personal injury cases, and we fully understand how difficult it can be to prove that the other driver not making a left turn was at fault in these types of scenarios. So what we've done in this article is provide you with everything you need to know in terms of determining fault if you find yourself involved in a left-hand turn accident by making the turn or driving straight.
As always, if you have any questions for us don't hesitate to contact us for a free consultation so we can better understand your case and start making the initial steps towards legal action.
Left Turn Laws and Illegal Left-Hand Turns
The driver who is trying to make a left-hand turn must always yield to other vehicles, unless the left-turning vehicle has the right of way (green arrow). For the most part, drivers must always properly wait to make left turns until there is no oncoming traffic, or the traffic is at least a safe distance away to allow for the left turn.
It's also very important for left-turn drivers to remember that they must always wait for cyclists and pedestrians to cross a street or crosswalk safely, but there are some liability differences when a cyclist or pedestrian illegally enters a crosswalk and the driver doesn't have enough time to stop.
It's never legal for a left-hand turning driver to cut off oncoming traffic, and this is always a very risky maneuver that does many times lead to collisions. There are many left-hand turn accidents that occur in places where a stoplight isn't present, and in these places it's always the responsibility of the left-turning driver to take the necessary precautions before initiating the turn. The oncoming traffic always has the right of way in these situations, which is why left-turning drivers are often initially deemed at fault for these types of accidents.
Liability with Legal Left-Hand Turns
There are instances in which the left-turning driver isn't liable for the accident's occurrence, and this typically is when the driver making the left turn has the right of way. Some examples of this can be when a green left turn arrow is provided, or when a driver runs a red light and impacts the car making the left turn.
Other drivers besides the left-turning driver may be liable for the accident if they are found to be rolling through stop signs, texting and driving, or any other kind of distracted driving. But in legal terms, the liability of these types of accidents will come down to the right of way, each driver's duties on the road, and what a reasonable and prudent driver would have done in the same type of scenario.
There are also liability situations in which the other driver not making the turn simply was acting negligently or driving recklessly. An example of this would be if the other driver was speeding well over the speed limit and made it difficult for the left-turning driver to gauge the safety of their impending turn.
Unexpected circumstances are always at play when it comes to causing left-turning drivers to swerve or come to a stop while executing their turn, and in certain situations these third parties can be found liable for the accident's occurrence.
If the other driver going straight was intoxicated or negligent in any way then this could also be a factor in determining at least partial fault for the accident.
Determining Fault
No matter which side of the table you're on in these scenarios, it's crucial for everyone to know how to prove fault within left-turn accident lawsuits. This can include physical evidence like the debris that's left on the road after the accident, the resting positions of each vehicle after the crash, and any kind of camera footage that may be helpful in determining the liability of what happened. There's no doubt about it that collecting this type of evidence is somewhat difficult, especially in more rural areas where traffic cameras aren't available.
What to do After the Accident
Once any kind of left-hand turn accident occurs, it's always important to call the police immediately and have them come conduct an official accident report. If you're capable of doing so, it's also a good idea to take pictures of the accident scene and your injuries as soon as possible. The timeliness of these pictures is crucial because the police may be required to move the crashed vehicles out of the street, which could potentially destroy valuable evidence that would help your case.
Were You or A Loved One Involved in A Left-Hand Turn Accident? Contact Us Today for A Free Consultation.
No matter what, you should always reach out to one of our attorneys as soon as possible when you're involved in a left-hand turn accident. By going through our free consultation process we'll be able to help determine your best course of legal action and begin building a strategy that will help you prove that the other driver was at fault for the damages done to you and your passengers.


You can enable "God-Mode," a term devised by the Microsoft development team, which provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel.
Note that you can change the "God-Mode" text, but the following period and code number are essential.
The window shows nearly 50 sections with quick links to configuration options. Strictly speaking, it's not a God Mode since all the options are available elsewhere. It's more akin to an "all tasks" list — but you may find it easier than stumbling through Windows numerous screens and panels.
The trick appears to work on both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Vista 32-bit and Windows Server 2008 32-bit should also work. However, it is known to crash 64-bit versions of Vista — and you may need to boot in safe mode or to the command line to delete the folder.


Instantly, before I could even get the words out, I felt the unmistakable presence of the Holy Spirit. I felt a joy rise within my heart, a joy that can't be found anywhere in this world. And though my situation did not change in that instant, and I was still overcome with grief and sorrow, God was near. He was by my side. He would see me through this most difficult trial of my life so far.
I left the altar and headed back to my seat. The woman was still weeping loudly. She was being embraced and comforted by other women around her. I stopped and began to pray. I felt her pain. I also felt a holy excitement as I knew God undoubtedly was bringing healing to her broken heart. She was a woman who was recently widowed after being married only three months. She had been so brave the last several weeks as she faithfully continued to attend services. When asked by others how she was faring, she stoically answered that she was doing fine.
I have often compared my divorce to being widowed. I abruptly lost my husband one day. Even though there had been marital problems for years, I had prayed, fasted, sought godly counsel, and did everything humanly possible to save the marriage. So I should not have been shocked when it happened, but it knocked the wind out of me when my biggest fear came to pass. After it happened, I put on a brave face. After all, I had to be strong for my children and keep myself together with all the added responsibilities of being a newly single mother.
But there comes a time when God says to us, "My child, you cannot go on without bringing that hurt and grief to the surface where you can be healed." It's a scary feeling to let it go. It might hurt too much to allow that pain out. It seems like it would be safer to keep it buried and hidden away. But it will find its way out, one way or another.
With God, we are safe to open up to Him and present our every fear and pain to Him. We can put it into His sure hands, knowing that He is right there with us. When we allow Him access to our broken hearts, that is when true healing to our wounds begins to take place.
"He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147:3, NKJV).
That was beautiful. Not what you went through, but that you shared your pain, so that someone else can know they are not alone and they can know that God is the God of all comfort, a healer, and the God of great compassion and restoration. Thank you for sharing hope!


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New geochronologic and stratigraphic evidence confirms the paleocene age of the dinosaur-bearing ojo alamo sandstone and animas formation in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
Palaeontologia Electronica 12(1)
Project: Paleocene dinosaurs of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
James Fassett
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Dinosaur fossils are present in the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and Colorado. Evidence for the Paleo-cene age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone includes palynologic and paleomagnetic data. Palynologic data indicate that the entire Ojo Alamo Sandstone, including the lower dinosaur-bearing part, is Paleocene in age. All of the palynomorph-productive rock samples collected from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at multiple localities lacked Creta-ceous index palynomorphs (except for rare, reworked specimens) and produced Paleocene index palynomorphs. Paleocene palynomorphs have been identified strati-graphically below dinosaur fossils at two separate localities in the Ojo Alamo Sand-stone in the central and southern parts of the basin. The Animas Formation in the Colorado part of the basin also contains dinosaur fossils, and its Paleocene age has been established based on fossil leaves and palynology. Magnetostratigraphy provides independent evidence for the Paleocene age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone and its dinosaur-bearing beds. Normal-polarity magnetochron C29n (early Paleocene) has been identified in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at six localities in the southern part of the San Juan Basin. An assemblage of 34 skeletal elements from a single hadrosaur, found in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the southern San Juan Basin, provided conclusive evidence that this assemblage could not have been reworked from underlying Cretaceous strata. In addition, geochemical studies of 15 vertebrate bones from the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and 15 bone samples from the underlying Kirtland Formation of Late Creta-ceous (Campanian) age show that each sample suite contained distinctly different abundances of uranium and rare-earth elements, indicating that the bones were miner-alized in place soon after burial, and that none of the Paleocene dinosaur bones ana-lyzed had been reworked.
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... This specimen was discovered by a Navajo Indian in 1983. This man visited the Farmington Bureau of Land Management Fassett and Lucas (2000), Fassett et al. (2002), andFassett (2009a). This paper summarizes and paraphrases from those papers for the benefit of the attendees of the New Mexico Geological Society 2010 Fall Field Conference, because we pass so close to this important locality on this field trip. ...
... These Paleocene palynomorphs unequivocally demonstrated that the Ojo Alamo Sandstone and the large hadrosaur femur found within it were Paleocene in age. (Samples from the San Juan River site were also independently analyzed by two other palynologists for their pollen and spore content, and those analyses confirmed the presence of Paleocene index fossils in those collections (Fassett, 2009a). Figure 3.10 contains stratigraphic columns on which are depicted the relationship of the bone and palynologic collection levels within the Ojo Alamo Sandstone. ...
... This paper was puzzling because its second author had been the coauthor of the Fassett and Lucas (2000) paper in which Lucas, five years earlier, had stated the exact opposite -that this bone could not possibly have been reworked from underlying Cretaceous strata. Fassett's (2009a) detailed monograph on the Paleocene dinosaurs of the San Juan Basin included a discussion of the San Juan River site and presented new palynologic, paleomagnetic, and geochemical data establishing unequivocally that the dinosaur fossils of the San Juan Basin were Paleocene in age. Fassett also responded in this paper to the criticisms by Sullivan, Lucas, and Braman (2005) .11 ...
The San Juan River Dinosaur bone site
Description and impact of a large fossil hadrosaur dinosaur femur found at the San Juan River locality.
... At five of these localities in the southern part of the basin (Figs. 1, 2), the reversal is in the continental Fruitland or Kirtland Formation and at the sixth, in the northeast part of the basin (Fig. 3), it is in the marine Lewis Shale. The five paleomagnetic sections in the southwest part of the basin (Figs. 1, 2) are from Butler et al. (1977), Butler and Lindsay (1985), Fassett and Steiner (1997), and Fassett (2009). The sixth paleomagnetic section at the Chimney Rock locality in the northeast part of the basin is from Fassett and Steiner (1997) and Fassett (2009). ...
... The five paleomagnetic sections in the southwest part of the basin (Figs. 1, 2) are from Butler et al. (1977), Butler and Lindsay (1985), Fassett and Steiner (1997), and Fassett (2009). The sixth paleomagnetic section at the Chimney Rock locality in the northeast part of the basin is from Fassett and Steiner (1997) and Fassett (2009). In addition, eight 40 Ar/ 39 Ar sanidine ages for volcanic ash beds ( Fig. 1) were reported in Fassett and Steiner (1997), , and Fassett, (2000). ...
... Two additional Kirtland Formation paleomagnetic reversals were reported by Butler and Lindsay (1985) at the northwest and southeast ends of the outcrop map of Figure 1. Those sections are labeled MM (Moncisco Mesa) and EM (Eagle Mesa) on Figures 1 and 2. (Other paleomagnetic sections in the southern San Juan Basin that did not include the C33n-C32r reversal boundary were obtained and discussed in subsequent papers by the Butler-Lindsay team and so are not relevant to this discussion (those sections are discussed in detail in Fassett, 2009). Fassett and Steiner (1997) sampled the HW (Hunter Wash) paleomagnetic section in Hunter Wash ( Fig. 1) about nine km west of the Hunter Wash-Alamo Wash section of Butler et al. (1977). ...
New Mexico Geological Society An improved new age for the C33n-C32r paleomagnetic reversal, San Juan Basin, NW New Mexico and SW Colorado The Geology of the Ouray-Silverton Area Annual NMGS Fall Field Conference Guidebooks AN IMPROVED NEW AGE FOR THE C33N-C32R PALEOMAGNETIC REVERSAL, SAN JUAN BASIN, NW NEW MEXICO AND SW COLORADO
M.T. Heizler
Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national standard for geologic guidebooks and are an essential geologic reference for anyone working in or around New Mexico. Free Downloads NMGS has decided to make peer-reviewed papers from our Fall Field Conference guidebooks available for free download. Non-members will have access to guidebook papers two years after publication. Members have access to all papers. This is in keeping with our mission of promoting interest, research, and cooperation regarding geology in New Mexico. However, guidebook sales represent a significant proportion of our operating budget. Therefore, only research papers are available for download. Road logs, mini-papers, maps, stratigraphic charts, and other selected content are available only in the printed guidebooks. AbstrAct-Three new 40 Ar/ 39 Ar sanidine dates of tephra deposits, along with existing stratigraphic and paleomagnetic data, are used to constrain the magnetochron C33n-C32r reversal to 73.7 Ma. These 3 ages agree well with previously published dates when the later are corrected to equal 40 Ar/ 39 Ar flux monitor age and 40 K decay constant. This age contrasts significantly with the Geologic Time Scale of Gradstein et al. (2012) that places the boundary at 74.6 Ma; 600 ka older. A wide range of error estimates (0.05-0.4 Ma) for the reversal age depend on the statistical approach chosen and demonstrate the difficulty in unambiguously determining the uncertainty of magnetochron boundaries that are based on ages of ash layers that stratigraphically bracket the reversal. Both discrepancies in reported ages of reversal boundaries and their uncertainties plague global time scales and impact the ability to unambiguously determine rates of important evolutionary processes and to make stratigraphic correlations. Here we recommend that our new age of 73.7±0.4 Ma (a conservative error) be adopted for the C33n/ C32r paleomagnetic reversal and to be the established age for this reversal in future global time scales. 115
... 63 Ma MDA estimate, these fossil occurrences must all be a product of reworking from underlying strata and do not convey the actual depositional age of the "odd conglomerate. " Occurrences of apparently reworked fossils in both marine and continental K-Pg boundary strata have been a subject of much interest and debate, with some workers arguing for a "conventional" interpretation-that such fossils record exhumation and re-burial of remains derived from Cretaceous strata (e.g., Olsson and Liu, 1993;Arz et al., 2004;Sullivan et al., 2005); others argue, however, that such fossils are not reworked and that the impact horizon therefore preceded the later extinction of Cretaceous taxa (e.g., Keller et al., 2004), or that such fossils record the survival of "Cretaceous" taxa into Paleocene time (e.g., Sloan et al., 1986;Fassett, 2009;Fassett et al., 2010). The MDA assessment reported herein indicates that fossils found in the "odd conglomerate" must certainly be reworked, although the time span separating the original burial of the remains from their later exhumation and re-burial as fossils (~3 million years) seems extraordinary. ...
The Cretaceous-Paleogene contact in the Tornillo Group of Big Bend National Park, West Texas, USA
GEOSPHERE
Thomas M. Lehman
Jacob Cobb
Paul Joseph Sylvester
A. Kate Souders
The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) contact interval is constrained by vertebrate fossil sites at seven sites in the Tornillo Group and lies within an 80–100-m stratigraphic section between the top of the Javelina Formation and the base of the "log jam sandstone" marker bed in the Black Peaks Formation. In western exposures of this interval, the highest occurrence of in situ dinosaur specimens and the lowest occurrence of Paleocene mammal specimens are separated by an unusual conglomerate bed. This thin conglomerate bed coincides with the contact between Cretaceous and Paleogene strata and contains reworked Cretaceous fossils. It is superficially similar to conglomerate beds elsewhere attributed to the effects of tsunamis generated by the Chicxulub impact; however, the maximum depositional age of ca. 63 Ma based on detrital zircons indicates that the conglomerate was deposited about three million years after the K-Pg boundary event. Paleocene mammalian fossils from immediately above the conglomerate bed represent a fauna that can be no older than the middle Torrejonian (To2 interval zone). The contact between Cretaceous and Paleocene strata is therefore disconformal and represents a hiatus of at least three million years. A condensed section occurs at the westernmost exposure of the K-Pg contact, where at least 80 m of strata are absent below the conglomerate bed; these strata are present in exposures farther east. This condensed section likely records an erosional event resulting from uplift and deformation of the nearby Terlingua monocline. Although the 80 m of strata below the conglomerate bed are poorly fossiliferous, several clearly in situ dinosaur specimens indicate that this entire interval is Late Cretaceous in age. There is no compelling evidence for preservation of the K-Pg boundary event horizon at any of the seven sites in the Tornillo Group, and so the hiatus represented at the Cretaceous/ Paleocene contact here likely also includes some part of latest Cretaceous time. Mammalian specimens from sites in the "log jam sandstone," ~40 m above the middle Torrejonian sites, represent an early Tiffanian fauna (Ti1 interval zone). Latest Torrejonian (To3) sites have not been recognized, and therefore a second disconformity likely coincides with the base of the "log jam sandstone" marker horizon in the Black Peaks Formation.
Corrections to Ages of Paleomagnetic Reversals and Ammonite Zone Boundaries from Those Reported in the Gradstein et al. 2012 Time Scale for K-Pg Boundary Rocks, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Revised Geochronology and Paleomagnetic Interpretations of Uppermost Cretaceous and Lowermost Paleocene Rocks in the Southern San Juan Basin, New Mexico
The Short Normal Paleomagnetic Interval - C29r.1n – Is Within the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Revisiting the Paleocene dinosaurs of the San Juan Basin in view of naysaying from the vertebrate-paleontologist community
Osteology and reassessment of Dineobellator notohesperus, a southern eudromaeosaur (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae: Eudromaeosauria) from the latest Cretaceous of New Mexico
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Steven E. Jasinski
Robert M. Sullivan
Aja M. Carter
Philip J. Currie
Dromaeosaurids (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae), a group of dynamic, swift predators, have a sparse fossil record, particularly at the end of the Cretaceous Period. The recently described Dineobellator notohesperus, consisting of a partial skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of New Mexico, is the only diagnostic dromaeosaurid to be recovered from the latest Cretaceous of the southwestern United States. Reinterpreted and newly described material include several caudal vertebrae, portions of the right radius and pubis, and an additional ungual, tentatively inferred to be from manual digit III. Unique features, particularly those of the humerus, unguals, and caudal vertebrae, distinguish D. notohesperus from other known dromaeosaurids. This material indicates different physical attributes among dromaeosaurids, such as use of the forearms, strength in the hands and feet, and mobility of the tail. Several bones in the holotype exhibit abnormal growth and are inferred to be pathologic features resulting from an injury or disease. Similar lengths of the humerus imply Dineobellator and Deinonychus were of similar size, at least regarding length and/or height, although the more gracile nature of the humerus implies Dineobellator was a more lightly built predator. A new phylogenetic analysis recovers D. notohesperus as a dromaeosaurid outside other previously known and named clades. Theropod composition of the Naashoibito Member theropod fauna is like those found in the more northern Late Cretaceous North American ecosystems. Differences in tooth morphologies among recovered theropod teeth from the Naashoibito Member also implies D. notohesperus was not the only dromaeosaurid present in its environment.
GEOLOGY FORUM, April 2012 e263
Larry M. Heaman
Antonio Simonetti
A Thermodynamic View of Evolution
Carl F Jordan
Modern evolutionary theory argues that reproductive success defines fitness of species. However the complexity of life that we see today could not have developed based on selection that favors only reproductive ability. There is nothing inherent in reproductive success alone that would result in higher forms of life. One-celled organisms survive remarkably well, so for survival there is no evolutionary advantage in multi-cellularity. If reproductive success were the only criterion for selection, life on earth today would consist only of one-celled organisms well adapted to their environment. Fitness defined as reproductive success has meaning only for single celled organisms. For evolution of higher organisms, there has to be a characteristic that produces an increase in complexity. Power output is a characteristic that conveys a competitive advantage during selection for complexity. Greater power output allows more energy to be invested in a more complex structure. Complex organisms are more adept at capturing energy than simple ones so that once complexity is increased, the ability to further gain power output is increased.
Biostratigraphic and isotopic age of the Huerfanito bentonite bed of the upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale at an outcrop near Regina, New Mexico
William A. Cobban
John D. Obradovich
Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas
Dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, may have survived the event that resulted in creation of an iridium-enriched zone near the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
The iridium zone has been found at 2 separate localities in the Raton Basin coincident with the palynologic Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. The iridium zone has been searched for in the San Juan Basin at several localities where the palynologic Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary has been bracketed, but it has not been found. Dinosaur bone has been found within the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin stratigraphically higher than the palynologic Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; this bone apparently apparently postdates the event that created the iridium zone. -from Author
Dinosaurs, pollen and spores, and the age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
F. Michael O'Neill
The Ojo Alamo Sandstone of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico is composed of interbedded conglomeratic sandstone, sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone. Conglomerates are found in the western part of the basin; siliceous pebbles diminish in size both southward and eastward across the basin, becoming rare to nonexistent in the eastern part. There is great variation in the internal stratigraphy of the Ojo Alamo: Individual sandstone or mudstone beds thicken, thin, and pinch out laterally. The thickness of the Ojo Alamo varies from 6 m (20 ft) to more than 122 m (400 ft). The formation varies in composition from one to as many as five sandstone beds with interbeds of siltstone or mudstone. Dinosaur bone has been found within the Ojo Alamo at several sites in the western part of the basin. Paleocene pollen has been found within the Ojo Alamo in the eastern part of the basin. To date, no Cretaceous pollen has been found at or above the stratigraphic level of dinosaur bone within the Ojo Alamo Sandstone. Near Barrel Spring, in the southwest part of the basin, both dinosaur bone and Paleocene pollen have been found. One bone, found at the top of the Ojo Alamo, was loose on the surface, and its significance is therefore equivocal. Dinosaur bone, however, has also been found in place in the upper part of the Ojo Alamo about 1.6 km (1 mi) west of Barrel Spring, at about the same stratigraphic level as Paleocene pollen from a site just east of Barrel Spring. Because there is no apparent unconformity between the highest in-place bone level and the Paleocene pollen level in this area, the Ojo Alamo dinosaurs, if not reworked, are Paleocene in age at this site and probably throughout the San Juan Basin.
Summary of geologic data obtained from borehole GB-1, Project Gasbuggy
Age relations of upper part of Lewis Shale on east side of San Juan Basin, New Mexico
W. A. Cobban
E. R. Landis
C. H. Dane
The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus
B. Brown
Biostratigraphic correlation of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary rocks, Colorado to San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Karl R. Newman
Biostratigraphic zone data compiled from outcrop and cored sections in Colorado and New Mexico are used for correlation of rock units below and above the Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary. Data localities are in the Sand Wash basin, Williams Fork Mountains, Grand Hogback, and Piceance Creek basin, northwestern Colorado; Denver basin, eastern Colorado; Raton basin, southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico; San Juan Mountains and northern San Juan basin, southwestern Colorado; and San Juan basin, northwestern New Mexico. Reference sections of intertonguing marine and nonmarine rocks of Campanian and Maastrichtian age are present in northwestern and eastern Colorado. Coexisting ammonite and palynomorph zones allow definition of upper Campanian, lower Maastrichtian, and upper Maastrichtian palynomorph intervals on the basis of the ammonite-based stages. Likewise, coexisting vertebrate (dinosaur and mammal) and palynomorph zones allow definition of upper Maastrichtian and lower Paleocene palynomorph intervals on the basis of the vertebrate-based stages. The most precise Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary definitions are based on vertebrates and palynomorphs in the Denver basin and on palynomorphs associated with an iridium anomaly in the Raton basin. The resulting stage intervals and Cretaceous- Tertiary boundary can be correlated (but only approximately and incompletely) to the southern San Juan basin, New Mexico, where disagreements exist concerning the ages of formations, continuity of deposition, and presence or absence of a boundary unconformity. This paper confirms old, and offers new, evidence supporting the interpretation of a substantial boundary unconformity, or possibly two unconformities, being present in the San Juan basin, with variable amounts of Maastrichtian (to early Paleocene?) time not represented. Furthermore, some rocks assigned a late Maastrichtian age by paleomagnetic means are no younger than late Campanian and early Maastrichtian, according to biostratigraphic correlations.
Dinosaurs, the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Niall J. Mateer
Adrian P. Hunt
Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation and Kirtland Shale in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, pertain to the following taxa: Ornithomimidae, cf. Ornithomimus edmonticus, cf. Struthiomimus alius, Dromaeosauridae, Albertosaurus sp., cf. Tyrannosaurus rex, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, ?Pachycephalosauridae, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Nodosauridae, lEuoplocephalus sp., IPanoplosaurus sp., Hadrosauridae, Kritosaurus navajovius, Parasaurolophus tubicen, P. cyrtocristatus, Ceratopsidae, cf. Chasmosaurus sp., Pentaceratops sternbergii, P. fenestratus, and Torosaurus cf. T. utahensis. The dinosaur fauna of the Fruitland Formation is temporally equivalent to the dinosaur faunas of the Judith River (Montana) and Oldman (Alberta) Formations and is of late Campanian (Judithian) age. This correlation is based primarily on the absence in the Fruitland Formation of dinosaurs typical of post- Judithian dinosaur faunas elsewhere in western North America. The dinosaur fauna of the Kirtland Shale below the Naashoibito Member is virtually identical to that of the Fruitland Formation. Based on stratigraphic relationships, the Kirtland Shale must be younger than the Fruitland Formation and may be as young as Edmontonian (latest Campanian-early Maastrichtian) below the Naashoibito Member. The Naashoibito Member of the Kirtland Shale contains cf. Tyrannosaurus rex, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, and Torosaurus cf. T. utahensis, taxa indicative of a Lancian (middle-late Maastrichtian) age. Therefore, Kritosaurus from the Naashoibito Member represents the youngest known occurrence of this genus. The Lancian age of the Naashoibito Member indicates that the unconformity at the base of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone is not of as great a temporal magnitude as most previous workers had believed. Thus, there is a nearly complete record of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the west-central San Juan Basin, indicated by dinosaur-based correlation of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations. This correlation is consistent with most other evidence, except magnetostratigraphy, that has been used to determine the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations.
A Late Cretaceous taeniodont (Eutheria, Mammalia) from Alberta, Canada
Neues Jahrbuch Geol Palaontol Abhand
Richard Fox
Bruce G. Naylor
Schowalteria clemensi n.g. n.sp., from the Late Cretaceous Scollard Formation, Red Deer River Valley is the first Mesozoic taeniodont to be discovered. Although more primitive in important features of the postcanine dentition than the conoryctid Onychodectes (of mid-Puercan age, New Mexico, and previously the most primitive tacniodont known), S. clemensi most resembles the advanced, stylinodontid taeniodonts in incisor morphology, canine specializations, facial proportions, and zygomatic arch construction. The dentition of Schowalteria indicates that the purported affinity of palaeoryctid insectivorans with Onychodectes is based only on homoplastic resemblances, leaving taeniodont relationships unresolved.
Paleocene dinosaurs of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
James S. Gilmore
Find more data confirming the Paleocene age of the dinosaur-bearing Ojo Alamo Sandstone.
Dinosaurs that did not die: Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Ba...
January 2002 · Special Paper of the Geological Society of America
Robert A. Zielinski
James R. Budahn
Palynologic and paleomagnetic data confirm a Paleocene age for the Ojo Alamo Sandstone (and its contained dinosaurs) throughout the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. The recently reported discovery of 34 skeletal elements from a single hadrosaur in the Ojo Alamo provides unequivocal evidence that these bones were not reworked from underlying Cretaceous strata. Geochemical studies of samples from ... [Show full abstract] several single-dinosaur-bone specimens from the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and the underlying Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Kirtland Formation show that mineralized bones from these two rock units contain distinctly different abundances of uranium and rare-earth elements and demonstrate that Cretaceous and Paleocene bones were mineralized at different times when mineralizing fluids had distinctly different chemical compositions. These findings indicate that the dinosaur bone from the Paleocene Ojo Alamo is indigenous and not reworked. These data show that a relatively diverse assemblage of dinosaurs survived the end-Cretaceous asteroid-impact extinction event of 65.5 Ma. The San Juan Basin's Paleocene dinosaur fauna is herein named the Alamoan fauna. Magnetic-polarity chronology shows that these survivors lived for about one million years into the Paleocene and then became extinct around 64.5 Ma.We suggest that a plausible survival mechanism for this Lazarus fauna may have been the large numbers of buried dinosaur eggs, laid just before the asteroid impact occurred. These buried eggs would have provided a safe haven for developing dinosaur embryos for the first one to two years after the impact, thereby making it possible for them to survive the worst of the impact's early devastation.
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Response to critique by lucas et al. (2009) of paper by Fassett (2009) documenting Paleocene dinosau...
January 2009 · Palaeontologia Electronica
In this issue of Palaeontologia Electronica Lucas, et al. (2009) question the valid- ity of the Fassett (2009) paper that presented evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado. Their challenges focus primarily on the lithostratigraphy, palynology, and paleomagnetism of the dinosaur-bearing Ojo Alamo Sandstone, shown by Fassett to be of Paleocene age. The ... [Show full abstract] lithostratigraphy of the Ojo Alamo is addressed by Lucas et al. (2009) based on detailed studies of outcrops of this formation in two relatively small areas in the southern San Juan Basin where Ojo Alamo dinosaur fossils have been found. When viewed over its 13,000 km2 extent, the Ojo Alamo is seen to be a much more complex formation than these authors recog- nize, thus their perception and description of the lithostratigraphy of this rock unit is lim- ited and provincial. Fassett (2009) presented a detailed discussion of the palynology of the rocks adjacent to the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) interface in the San Juan Basin, including a 67-page appendix and 25 tables listing the 244 palynomorph species iden- tified from these strata. The Ojo Alamo Sandstone produced 103 palynomorphs from five principal localities including one especially prolific sample set from drill core through K-T strata. Without exception, all samples collected from the Ojo Alamo Sand- stone for palynologic analysis were found to contain Paleocene palynomorph assem- blages. Lucas et al. challenge only one Ojo Alamo palynomorph assemblage from one of the five areas studied, stating that they were unable to find palynomorph-productive samples at that locality. They submit no new palynologic data that refutes the Paleo- cene palynologic age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone. In addressing the paleomagnetism of the Ojo Alamo, these authors dismiss the presence of a critical normal-polarity mag- netochron discovered in the lower part of the Ojo Alamo - magnetochron C29n.2n of Fassett (2009) with no evidence to justify this dismissal. This magnetochron has been identified at five localities in the basin, thus its existence seems unquestionable. At the Mesa Portales locality, this normal chron was found in Ojo Alamo strata containing Paleocene palynomorph assemblages verifying its identification as chron C29n. Other minor arguments of Lucas et al. (2009) are also addressed in this paper. In sum, Lucas et al. (2009) present no new data to contradict the data presented in Fassett (2009).
No definitive evidence of Paleocene dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin
Steven Cather
In a recent article in this journal, Fassett (2009) concludes that dinosaur fossils of Paleocene age are present in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico-Colorado. However, we argue that, based on existing data, Fassett has failed to produce compelling evi-dence to support this conclusion. In the San Juan Basin, only one arguably reworked dinosaur bone (an isolated hadrosaur femur) is ... [Show full abstract] stratigraphically above undisputed Paleocene pollen, so palynology does not demonstrate Paleocene dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin. Nor does magnetostratigraphy, because Fassett's disregard of a major unconformity above the dinosaur-bearing Naashoibito Member renders ques-tionable his use of an uninterrupted magnetostratigraphy to assign a Paleocene age to dinosaur fossils in that unit. Moreover, Fassett's article failed to adequately dismiss the broadly held conclusions that: (1) the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary is within the Ojo Alamo Sandstone; (2) the dinosaur-dominated vertebrate fossil assemblage of the lower Ojo Alamo Sandstone (Alamo Wash local fauna of the Naashoibito Member) is of Maastrichtian age; and (3) the isolated, water-worn and/or fragmentary dinosaur bones from the overlying Kimbeto Member are reworked from underlying Cretaceous strata.
Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: REPLY
March 2012 · Geology
Vertebrate fossils have been important for relative dating of terrestrial rocks for decades, but direct dating of these fossils has heretofore been unsuccessful. In this study we employ recent advances in laser ablation in situ U-Pb dating techniques to directly date two dinosaur fossils from the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado, United States. A Cretaceous ... [Show full abstract] dinosaur bone collected from just below the Cretaceous-Paleogene interface yielded a U-Pb date of 73.6 +/- 0.9 Ma, in excellent agreement with a previously determined Ar-40/Ar-39 date of 73.04 +/- 0.25 Ma for an ash bed near this site. The second dinosaur bone sample from Paleocene strata just above the Cretaceous-Paleogene interface yielded a Paleocene U-Pb date of 64.8 +/- 0.9 Ma, consistent with palynologic, paleomagnetic, and fossil-mammal biochronologic data. This first successful direct dating of fossil vertebrate bone provides a new methodology with the potential to directly obtain accurate dates for any vertebrate fossil.
Patterns of Distribution of Mammals in the Dinosaur Park Formation and the Paleobiological Significa...
Julia Sankey
Donald B. Brinkman
R.C. Fox
D.A. Eberth
The Short Normal Paleomagnetic Interval - C29r.1n – Is Within the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San...


Some plot devices have been used so much that there's really nowhere new to go with them. Ambiguity, for instance, can only take you so far. If you're using that as the focus of your story, you had better be able to do it well. K-PAX relies on a fair amount of ambiguity.
A man appears in a train station. He's taken to a psychiatric hospital, mostly because he's a little off. When I say a little off, I mean he claims to be an alien named Prot from the planet K-PAX. Dr. Powell is the one who catches his case. The only thing that's unusual is that Prot can see ultraviolet. Other than that, he's an ordinary guy that was walking around without any ID who happens to claim to be an alien. Dr. Powell sets out to figure out what Prot's major malfunction is.
So, we have ambiguity. Prot can't really prove that he's an alien, since he rode in on a beam of light. It makes sense that an alien civilization would come up with some strange method of interstellar travel, but it's convenient that it's one that doesn't give Prot a spaceship to show off or get back to. On the other hand, he's in human form. There's no test that any doctor could run that would prove or disprove the claim. His ability to see UV rays could be nothing more than a random genetic mutation.
Prot can't be an alien because its absurd. Except that he seems to know stuff that makes his claim somewhat convincing. Except that, when put under hypnosis, he has memories from before his arrival on Earth. The memories are presented as those of a friend, which we take in the context of, "I have this friend who has an embarrassing question." So, is Prot really an alien or is he a person repressing some bad memory? We have Prot's impending departure to look forward to for answers.
As the saying goes, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. As much as Prot's story is self-reinforcing, we can't take that as proof that he isn't what he says he is. When Prot disappears for a few days, it's possible that he really did go off to Iceland and Greenland. It's also possible that he was hiding in a ventilation duct the whole time. There's no way to be certain of either, short of finding footage of Prot at a 7-Eleven in Reykjavik.
It is an interesting story. I wish it went into more detail. The movie seems to want to walk the fine line between Prot being an alien visitor and a crazy human. It is based on the first book in a series. It would be interesting to get ahold of them just to see how the source material handles Prot's claim.


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Edna Mae Sanders was born on June 6, 1927, to the union of Deacon Romey Franklin Sanders and Pearlie Mae (Turner) Sanders. She was the youngest daughter of eight (8) children: Five brothers -Zebedee, Adolphus (A. D.), Worthy, Albert, and Lawrence and two sisters - Mattie and Rosetta. All her siblings have preceded her in death except her younger brother, Albert. Their family spent her early childhood in Blytheville, Arkansas where they worked as sharecroppers. It was hard, honest work, where they grew their own vegetables, tended chickens, pigs, and a cow. In addition to maintaining a farm, they also picked cotton - which Edna said she never quite mastered as well as her older siblings. They were a devout, close-knit, God-fearing family.
Edna had a unique bond with her sisters, Mattie and Rosetta, and when they moved to St. Louis, MO in 1941, she followed soon after. It was there that she met the "love of her life", William Wright, and they were married December 25, 1947, by the late Rev. Edgar W. Warfield at First Free Will Baptist Church, where they remained faithful members their entire lives. During Edna's 75-year tenure, she served as a Preschool Sunday School teacher, Women's Group Leader and Chairperson, and one of the BEST bakers Free Will had ever seen. Whenever the church had bake sales to raise funds (which was often), Edna would begin baking cakes and pies two to three weeks in advance, in order to fulfill all the requests she would receive. And she ALWAYS made sure to prepare desserts at home for her family – her #1 pride and joy. In fact, Edna's life revolved around her husband, William (deceased), and children: Daughter – Ella; Sons – William Jr., Antar, and Adrian, who became her Primary Caregiver the last ten years of her life.
Her early education took place in Arkansas and after moving to St. Louis, she attended Hadley Tech for one year. Edna worked as a laundress until she was married and then became a "stay at home" Mom with the three older children for several years. Eventually she decided to take a job at a chicken processing plant and worked there until Adrian was born. After another break of about two years, she was employed by a pharmaceutical company where she worked as a pill inspector for twenty-three (23) years until she retired. Edna was a very dedicated, strong-willed person, and she learned how to drive a car in her sixties when her husband was no longer able to do so. Her participation in church continued until her health began to fail in recent years. She was called home to glory on Saturday, January 7, 2023.
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Megalonema orixanthum és una espècie de peix de la família dels pimelòdids i de l'ordre dels siluriformes.

Morfologia
 Els mascles poden assolir 11,6 cm de longitud total.
 Nombre de vèrtebres: 43-45.

Hàbitat
És un peix d'aigua dolça i de clima tropical.

Distribució geogràfica
Es troba a Sud-amèrica: conca del riu Orinoco a Colòmbia i Veneçuela.

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Bibliografia

 Lundberg, J.G. i M.W. Littmann, 2003. Pimelodidae (Long-whiskered catfishes). p. 432-446. A: R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander i C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
 Moyle, P. i J. Cech.: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology, 4a edició, Upper Saddle River, Nova Jersey, Estats Units: Prentice-Hall. Any 2000.

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January 18, 2021 Roundups
2020 K-Dramalandscape Predictions — Revisited
More Than Friends (2020, episode 13)
by Marion & Mich KDL
As part of our 2019 KDL Roundup series, we shared more about our location and neighborhood predictions for 2020 and what we thought we'd be seeing on our screens throughout the year. Well, now that 2020 is over (and good riddance to it too), it's certainly time to revisit these predictions and find out what we got right, along with some of our own observations from the year — so take a look below!
(Yes!) Incheon: Memorials and beyond
Memorials (2020, episode 2)
Fact: Incheon will never not be a part of the K-Dramalandscape. When we mused about seeing more of this port city in 2020, we figured it would mostly be the usual suspects in the Songdo International Business District (IBD), which was the case with places like Triple Street Shopping Mall, Posco Tower Songdo, and Gyeongwonjae Ambassador Incheon.
Then came Memorials and Mawon-gu. True to its name, this K-drama is certainly one that I'll remember for a long time to come! I've probably waxed lyrical about it enough in our 2020 Neighborhoods list; though one thing I'd like to add is that if travel restrictions continue to persist this year, then this streamlined approach to location setting is definitely a trend we will be seeing more of on our screens — not that we're complaining. 😉
— Mich KDL
(Yes!) New(tro) Kids on the Block
Getting this prediction right probably has something to do with 2020's 'newtro' trend, as briefly mentioned in our extensive overview of the music and media references in When My Love Blooms. Though vastly different, both the neighborhoods of Incheon Chinatown and Ikseon-dong Hanok Village have a unique vibe to each, with the former retaining its signature colorful and oriental aesthetic, while a newly youthful and modern aspect of the latter blends in with traditional architecture.
It was indeed refreshing to see Ikseon's streets and alleyways — such as Donhwamun-ro 11na-gil, Donhwamun-ro 11da-gil and Supyo-ro 28-gil — featured in 2020 dramas such as Sweet Munchies, True Beauty, and More Than Friends, while Incheon Chinatown-ro was featured briefly in the crime series Tell Me What You Saw.
(Miss! >.<) Cuppas on Gangneung Coffee Street [강릉커피거리]
When I Was The Most Beautiful (2020, episode 16)
K-Dramaland's characters explored Gangneung, a town along South Korea's east coast, plenty in 2020. But somehow, they preferred to drive along Heonhwa-ro Coastal Drive (who can blame them for that though?!); and instead of stopping at a café further down the road, they preferred to spend time at the fishing harbor located right at this street. The only mention this coffee street had throughout the year was of Eun-sil organizing a coffee festival in episode 12 of When The Weather is Fine — just that we never came to see it. Instead, we were introduced to Seongsu-dong Cafe Street, which we will be sure to see more of on our screens in 2021.
— Marion KDL
More Than Friends (2020, episode 7)
(Yes!) Jeju Island more on our screens
2020 marked the year in which Jeju Island was a constant staple on our screens. Along with it being highlighted as a 2020 tourism spot, it was also certainly because the 2020 virus pandemic made a lot of overseas filming impossible. But this overall K-Dramaland presence definitely helped to showcase this honeymoon island in all its charms, and also to bucket list some locations for future travels.
We were (re)introduced Jeju Island's lush, volcanic nature, learned about oreums, and how important the black volcanic stone walls are in shaping the landscape also through their juxtaposition with the island's white beaches. Thanks to More Than Friends and When I Was The Most Beautiful, we also learned that it has developed quite a vibrant independent book store culture and cafés in recent years that would make you want to be able to teleport there. Finally, we discovered what Yangban houses on Jeju looked like and even an architectural gem of a church. If only I could teleport my way there too!
(Yes!) Going under in 2020
Oh My Baby (2020, episode 10)
Well, literally and figuratively. 2020 may have been a downer of a year for many of us, but it was also a time to seek some solace in underground safe havens like Gwangmyeong Cave [광명동굴], which was last seen on our screens around a year ago. Thanks to Oh My Baby for bringing it back!
(Yes!) 2000s Locations in 2020
When My Love Blooms (2020, episode 16)
In our 2020 neighborhood round-up, we highlighted Jongno 1(il).2(i).3(sam).4(sa)-dong as "the dormant K-Dramaland princess of the 2000s" that "came back to life". This is not the only place in K-Dramaland that seemed to have been revived in 2020 K-Dramaland. Main 2000s infrastructures like this bridge, this stadium, this airport, this hotel, and this convention center made a reappearance. Even Namiseom Island, forever associated with Winter Sonata, seems to have shaken off its 2000s dust a little bit. But as much as I love to discover how these locations traversed time, it also makes me a little wistful as sometimes they seem to be the only remnants from that period — as most restaurants, cafés or movie theaters simply don't exist anymore.
(Yes!) Reel vs Real Royal Palace Grounds
Do You Like Brahms? (2020, episode 3)
When discussing if palace grounds we'd be seeing in 2020 would be the 'real' or 'reel' thing, the both of us had mainly kept our focus on sageuks (historical/period dramas). But interestingly, it was the contemporary dramas that brought back the real palaces and historical landmarks in various ways.
For instance, Gyeonghui Palace was the place for Park Joon-young to find solace amidst the bustle and busyness of the megacity in Do You Like Brahms?, while Deoksugung Palace Stonewall Walkway also proved to be rather popular in 2020, particularly as a dating course. Woljeong Bridge was seen in The King: Eternal Monarch, while there was some 'reel-ception' at Gwanghallu-won Garden, where Sa Hye-joon filmed a drama in Record of Youth.
Tale of the Nine Tailed (2020, episode 5)
Of course, the 'reel' palace grounds and historical villages —MBC Dramia, Mungyeong Saejae Open Film Set, Korean Folk Village— continued to show up on our screens over 2020, and naturally we can be sure to continue seeing them, and the 'real' historical landmarks alike in many more 2021 dramas to come. For a start, spot Gungnamji Pond in Royal Secret Agent and Mr. Queen!
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(Yes!) Unearthing more of South Korea's History
Once Again (2020, episode 64)
With many travel plans being upended in 2020, it was time to rediscover the many facets of South Korea, from the bustle of its cities and towns to the beauty of its natural surroundings.
As predicted, we got to learn more about the country's history this year. Along with seeing these locations in 2020 dramas, there were also various efforts to promote these places through online travelogs, such as the 'Korean Heritage Travelog' by the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration, featuring K-pop group MONSTA X.
One such place featured in the travelog and 2020 dramas alike is Suwon Hwaseong Fortress. As in the previous section, it's certainly interesting to see how it's been seen in more modern-day dramas than Suwon Hwaseong Haenggung Palace, which is in more sageuks. In A Piece of Your Mind, we got to see Haengju Fortress Park, where the Battle of Haengju (행주대첩) took place in 1593.
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Among the other places we got to discover was the Royal Portrait Museum at Gyeongjijeon Shrine in Jeonju; Eungchil Bridge, which takes its name from the pseudonym of South Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun; the quaint House of Hong Nan-pa, where violinist and composer Hong Nan-pa lived the last 6 years of his life; and Daejeon's Pai Chai University, which was founded by the first Methodist missionary to Korea.
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Maybe it was just our drama choices, but there wasn't much that we saw on screen in 2020 that was as heavily themed as Crash Landing On You. That said, Search (써치) appears to be one of them; could it be a sign that we should give it a try?
(KDL) Turning real locations into filming sets
Private Lives (2020, episode 15)
One of my personal observations of trends in 2020 was how real places may have been used instead of filming sets, possibly for authenticity. Rooftops aside, this appeared to be the case for both Private Lives and Zombie Detective, whose production companies could have rented spaces in their respective locations to set up the actual detective agencies for the duration of filming. It would certainly be pretty cool if it were the same for Samsan Tech's office in Start-Up as well, but if my experience seeing Strongest Deliveryman's 'Palpal Guksu' restaurant was anything to go by, it's usually just the facade. But, one can still hope, right?
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(KDL) Building up and tearing down
Talking about film sets, 2020 is the first year (I think) which had filming locations –houses of main characters at that!– that were built from scratch, only to be destroyed after filming ended. This was the case, for instance, for my favorite K-Dramaland book store 'Good Night' in When the Weather is Fine, my favorite piano academy 'La La Land' in Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol, and the facade of the cursed castle in It's Okay to Not Be Okay.
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (2020, episode 16)
(KDL) Traveling to the countryside
When The Weather Is Fine (2020, episode 4)
When Mich and I discussed 2020 trends in 2019, I proposed 'nature' and Mich answered with: "Marion, nahh, that is redundant; we always see some greenery in K-Dramaland!" and she was right, of course. Having been through 2020's K-Dramaland now, I can be more precise and pinpoint: rural South Korea. Quite a few dramas took us to the country's countryside and some, like When the Weather is Fine, even rarely brought us to any major city.
When My Love Blooms (2020, episode 2)
Now that we're in 2021, what kind of trends do you think we'll be seeing on our screens this year? Tell us your thoughts in the comments! As always, we'd love to hear from you. 🙂
Here's to more great K-Dramas and K-Dramaland locations alike in the new year!
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Leveson: The real 'elephant in the room' is concentrated ownership – Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg
January 12, 2013 / INFORRM / 1 Comment
There have been plenty of reactions to Lord Justice Leveson's report on the culture, practices and ethics of the press. Max Hastings described it in the Daily Mail (30 November) as heralding 'a rotten day for freedom' while the Sun described the recommendations as 'a basis on which to destroy 300 years of Press freedom' (30 November). The victims, meanwhile, argued that Leveson had provided the minimal conditions for meeting their demands for an ethical press while some simply discarded the entire process as irrelevant.
For Emily Bell, former director of digital content for the Guardian, 'The Leveson inquiry is irrelevant to 21st century journalism' (Guardian 29 November) because it had nothing to say about the internet. This echoes the Sun's reaction that the 'elephant in the room remains the internet… An over-regulated press in parallel with an unregulated internet spells chaos and will be the nail in the coffin of the newspaper industry' (30 November).
Given that the report is aimed at correcting the behaviour of large news organisations, whether online or offline, as opposed to the writing of private individuals, this seems an odd target. Indeed, from our perspective, the real 'elephant in the room', the genuine absence that will make it hard to achieve his aims of an ethical and representative press, is not the internet but the need to tackle concentrated media ownership.
It is not that Leveson ignores ownership altogether in the report. Actually, there is a huge amount of discussion about it from an overview of the main news organisations, to an evaluation of both NI's purchase of the Times and Sunday Times in 1981 and News Corp's proposed takeover of BSkyB in 2010/11, a consideration of the relationship between politicians and powerful news groups, and an entire chapter on plurality and media ownership. The problem is that the gap between the problem as laid out and the solutions proposed is so vast.
For example, Leveson suggests that triggers for intervention should be 'considerably lower' (p.1470) than those used for ordinary competition concerns and that the scope of the public interest test might be extended within competition law. He further argues that, following Ofcom's recommendations, plurality issues should be kept 'under review' (p. 1473). Disappointingly, however, he gives no concrete proposals about how best to tackle the fact that three news organisations in the UK control 75 per cent of national daily circulation and that the build-up of this kind of press power—and there is little evidence thus far that the most popular online news is significantly more open to a plurality of voices—is bound to distort both media and politics in this country. For many people, it was the arrogance that comes with this kind of power that gave rise to phone hacking in the first place. Furthermore, the idea that existing competition rules can address this effectively is wishful thinking when you consider that no major newspaper acquisition has been refused in the last 46 years.
Leveson also recommended that discretionary power remain with the Secretary of State in respect of public interest decisions over media mergers (p. 1476). But this is in conflict with much of the evidence presented to the Inquiry which demonstrated the pervasive nature and influence of industry lobbying. This was particularly evident in the run up to key decisions taken by ministers such as Jeremy Hunt's approval of News Corp's bid to buy out BSkyB prior to the unfolding of the phone hacking scandal or Margaret Thatcher's permission for News International to buy up the Times and Sunday Times in 1981 without a proper investigation. Evidence of a tacit 'deal' between political leaders and media industry lobbyists is unlikely to be substantive—indeed Leveson actually notes that '[n]ot surprisingly, the contemporary documents do not evidence any form of express "deal"' between Thatcher and Murdoch (p. 1245)—but this does not mean that deals are not done.
In the absence of clear ownership thresholds, established in law, the door will always be open to both commercial capture (politicians may be induced to take certain decisions under pressure from media groups) and/or politicisation (certain media groups may be unduly favoured or disadvantaged by political decisions).
Of course, any identified threshold will be to some extent arbitrary. But the Media Reform Coalition formally proposed to the Leveson Inquiry a 15 per cent benchmark that would trigger regulatory intervention in the form of specific public interest obligations to ensure journalist and editorial autonomy with a 20 per cent overall limit in the key sub-markets of national print, television, radio and online. We argue this on the basis that no less than five owners—within or across media markets—is the minimum basis for media plurality. It was, therefore, a little surprising to read in the Leveson Report that "there have been no suggestions as to what level of plurality is sufficient" (p. 1469).
Tackling media concentration is a popular issue with the public: nearly three quarters of those polled in an IPPR survey in May 2012 supported limits on media ownership. If we are ever to produce a press system that is genuinely independent, we need to be pressing not just for ethical forms of regulation but also for a range of remedies, including ownership caps and public interest obligations, to achieve the plurality our democracy so desperately needs.
Please visit www.mediareform.org.uk to see our full proposals.
Des Freedman is Reader in Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Justin Schlosberg is a lecturer in journalism and media at Birkbeck, University of London
This post originally appeared in "Free Press" , the Journal of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and is reproduced with permission and thanks
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Airlines for America, the trade group representing the interests of U.S. airlines, has released its forecast for the Thanksgiving travel period, between November 18 and November 29. The big picture: U.S. airlines are expected to carry 27.3 million flyers over the holiday, 2.5 percent more passengers than last year. The three heaviest travel days, busiest first, are: Sunday, November 27; Monday, November 28 and Wednesday, November 23. Unsurprisingly, the lightest day will be Thanksgiving day itself, Thursday, November 24. On the busier days, planes will be running close to 100 percent full, especially on more popular routes. And security-screening at the busiest airports will be stressed to the breaking point. Travelers for whom comfort is a priority will want to avoid flying on those days, if possible. If you don't have the luxury of contrarian timing, however, do what you can to eke as much comfort and peace from the flight experience as you can. Some tactics that have proven themselves over the years: (1) Book early flights to increase the odds of being accommodated later the same day in the event of a cancellation. (2) Travel to/from secondary airports. (3) Avoid checking bags if possible, and (4) To avoid the coach crush, use miles to upgrade or pay extra for premium economy. To read more at Smarter Travel, click here.


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Athletes Sport It on the Korean Pop Culture Scene
For fans who have been around K-pop for a while, it's common knowledge that South Koreans take their sports very seriously. Professional athletes are well-known and respected by the entire nation, and their presence is felt throughout South Korean culture. In fact, many famous actors and idols even mention in their interviews that they once harbored the dream of becoming a professional football player. So it's really no surprise that many athletes choose to even take it a step further after achieving fame in the world of sports and enter the entertainment industry, hosting their own shows or recording singles with famous artists.
Perhaps one of the most recent South Korean athletes who has skyrocketed to fame in the last five years or so is Kim Yu-na, the 2010 Winter Olympics champion in ladies' figure-skating. Two years ago in Vancouver, she blew her competition away with a myriad of twists, turns, and graceful leaps. During the medal ceremony, her tears fell as she proudly waved to the audience, wearing South Korea's first gold medal ever obtained during the Winter Olympics in an event that was not short track or speed skating.
Since then, Kim Yu-na has held countless showcases on ice in South Korea, recorded songs with IU, Big Bang, and Lee Seung-gi, and even hosted her own variety show on ice, Kiss & Cry. Kiss & Cry featured ten popular K-pop idols such as U-Know Yunho, Krystal, and even Son Dam-bi who were paired up with a professional ice skater for an ice-dancing competition. Not only that, companies scrambled to secure CF contracts with her and she was named international UNICEF goodwill ambassador during the summer of 2010. Kim Yu-na has also donated about two billion won (1.7 million dollars) to various charities during the last two years. It's clear that this girl isn't limiting her success to just the ice. Her incredible accomplishments have earned her the love of her nation and respect worldwide as an amazing figure skater. I gotta say, Lee Joon, although he seems a bit slow to react sometimes, has seriously good taste in "ideal types," because this girl knows how to work the public eye to her advantage.
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Another famous South Korean athlete who has taken their fame to other aspects of their career, although perhaps not musically, is Park Tae-hwan, the first Asian to win a gold medal in swimming during the Summer Olympics. Since then, he has done photoshoots for Elle Korea and FILA. He also appears on variety shows every once in a while to give interviews and has been linked by netizens to Sunye from the Wonder Girls and of course, Kim Yu-na herself.
Unlike Kim Yu-na, however, who announced last year that she planned on sitting out the entire 2011-2012 figure-skating season, Park Tae-hwan is completely focused on his swimming despite all his other activities. Recently, he smashed one of Michael Phelps' records and is looking to rival the powerful American swimmer at the 2012 London Games. He has a lot to live up to — his own country even gave him the nickname, "Marine Boy."
And of course, we can't forget about the football craze (soccer, for all you Americans) that defines South Korean culture (especially when there's a World Cup going on). Midfielder Park Ji-sung hails from Seoul and is currently the most decorated Asian footballer in history. He announced his retirement from international football only last year, after playing midfield for Manchester United for six years. Park Ji-sung was also the team captain of the South Korean national football team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He has filmed CFs for Nike and Gillette. Not only that, Park Ji-sung hosted the Asian Dream Cup, which was a charity football game that took place last June. JYJ performed at halftime, and actress Han Hye-jin was the face of the event. Since then, Park Ji-sung has continued to make appearances in interviews and it'll definitely be interesting what he does next with his career.
Athletes taking careers a step further and going into the entertainment industry is beneficial to them for many reasons — their fame is already established, they are paid handsomely, and if they are philanthropists, they can use their fame and salaries to really make a difference in the world. However, one can also argue that being in the entertainment industry at the same time distracts from training, and that is perhaps why a handful of well-known and skilled athletes choose not to take any part in participating in magazine shoots or appearing on variety shows. At the end of the day, it's totally up to the athlete to make that decision, but it's definitely very clear that sports is one of the things that makes Korean pop culture what it is today.
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Like so many things on my desk, this entry sat in the queue marinating or whatever un-posted blog entries do in their endless spare time. I wanted to write about my victory over Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide Legged Forward Fold).
I really, really dislike this pose. I could strike it from the list of classic asana, erase it form the minds of teachers, eradicate it from all history. All in all, my dislike and desire to conquer is very un-yoga like.
Wide Legged Forward Fold (WLFF) is a foundational pose. You stand with your legs wide and hinge at the hip, folding forward, keeping your spine long, your ribs lifted from your waist and you fold. Fold all the way down, down so your hands touch the floor, your elbows bend and your head is on the floor. You can use blocks to shorten the distance to the floor, placing your hands and head on the blocks.
When I enter WLFF, first my ankles hurt. Then, my back instantly rounds and I can't breathe. Suddenly, my ribs are frozen. My hamstrings scream and threaten to walk out on the job. The floor seems very far away. And I feel ugly. Crunched up, rounded, awkward and ugly.
I've had fellow teachers modify the pose with blocks, chairs and the wall. I get so frustrated that I've been known to cry, throw yoga blocks and take my mat and go home. That ego of mine has led me to whip myself up in handstands and wheel and other advanced poses to prove to WLFF that I am the boss. It is all very sad.
I've stomped my feet (unproductive to say the least). I've heard all the language, watched the demos, but I just can't do it. I can't.
Last week I dedicated my practice to WLFF. I opened my hips, my hamstrings and worked through my pranayama (breathing). I did back bending poses. And then, finally, after all this preparation, I grabbed about 45 yoga blocks, my full length mirror and worked on WLFF. It still looked awful, felt awful and completely shamed me.
Somewhere around hour 7 of obsessing (and calling my long suffering husband 77 times to discuss my hamstrings ), WLFF and I came to an understanding. I ditched the blocks. I moved away from the mirror and closed my eyes. And well, I folded. I have no idea what I looked like. My back was a rounded mess, my head was not on the floor. But I could breathe. And I could smile.
WLFF and I aren't necessarily a match; but we can hang at the same cocktail party. We dislike each other--but that is okay. No ego, no drama, no conquering. No yoga imperialism.
This morning I did WLFF. I just did it. I have no idea what it looked like. It felt great. More than great. It felt like the start of a beautiful friendship.
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U.S. labor market tightening; mid-Atlantic factory activity picks up
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, but the number of Americans on unemployment rolls fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to diminishing labor market slack.
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Other data on Thursday showed an acceleration in mid-Atlantic factory activity this month, with manufacturers saying they were boosting employment and asking for higher prices for their products. The combination of a tightening labor market and firming inflation bolsters expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month.
"The U.S. labor market is headed toward becoming the tightest in recent memory," said Kathryn Asher, an economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000 for the week ended May 12, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 215,000 in the latest week.
The labor market is viewed as being close to or at full employment, with the jobless rate near a 17-1/2-year low of 3.9 percent and within striking distance of the Fed's forecast of 3.8 percent by the end of this year. The U.S. central bank raised rates in March and forecast at least two more hikes for this year.
The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid decreased 87,000 to 1.71 million in the week ended May 5, the lowest level since December 1973. Declining continuing claims underscore tightening labor market conditions and support economists' expectations that wage growth will accelerate in the second half of the year.
The labor market and regional factory data added to strong reports this week on consumer spending and industrial production in suggesting that economic growth was picking up early in the second quarter after slowing at the start of the year.
Growth estimates for the second quarter are around a 3.0 percent annualized rate. The economy grew at a 2.3 percent rate in the January-March period.
A report from the Conference Board on Thursday showed its leading economic index, a gauge of future U.S. economic activity, increased 0.4 percent in April after a similar gain in March. That indicates strong growth should continue into the second half of the year.
The yield on the 30-year U.S. government bond rose to its highest level since July 2015, helping to lift the dollar against a basket of currencies. Stocks on Wall Street were slightly higher.
SOLID JOB GROWTH
The four-week moving average of initial claims, viewed as a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 2,750 to 213,250 last week, the lowest level since December 1969.
The claims data covered the survey period for the nonfarm payrolls portion of May's employment report.
The four-week average of claims fell 18,250 between the April and May survey periods, suggesting solid job growth. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 164,000 jobs in April after rising by 135,000 in March. Job gains are slowing as employers struggle to find skilled workers.
There were a record 6.6 million unfilled jobs in March, according to government data published last week.
Expectations of strong job growth this month were also bolstered by a separate report on Thursday from the Philadelphia Fed which showed its manufacturing business outlook survey's current general activity index rose about 11 points to a reading of 34.4 in May.
Manufacturers in the mid-Atlantic region reported hiring more workers this month and increasing hours for their existing workforce. The survey's employment index rose to a seven-month high. While a measure of prices paid for raw materials by factories in the region fell, it remained at high levels.
The survey's prices received index rose to its highest reading since February 1989. Nearly 64 percent of the firms expected input price increases over the next six months, and 36 percent anticipated higher prices for their goods.
In response to a special question on prices and wages, manufacturers in the region said they expected changes in prices of their goods to exceed inflation over the next year. They also expected wages and benefits for factory workers to increase 3 percent over the same period.
Though these findings are unchanged from when the same question was asked in February, they fit in with economists' predictions that inflation will overshot the Fed's 2 percent target. The U.S. central bank's preferred inflation measure, the personal consumption expenditures price excluding food and energy, increased 1.9 percent year-on-year in March.
"While the strong growth should continue through the rest of the year, the rising pricing power it is supporting is becoming worrisome," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.
Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Paul Simao