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Nita Little \\ first call

2008-01-04T13:14:40Z

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
International Projects 2008

Orvieto \ Italy
April 25–May 2 / 2008

Nita Little
Restless Peace
A mind in motion and Contact Improvisation experience
Residential project for experienced movers

The American performer Nita Little will be the special guest of our association, first time in Italy as guest artist, for giving the project “Restless Peace”. The intensive workshop with Nita Little is in the calendar of our Residential Projects 2008, and will be from April 25 to May 2, 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in middle Italy.

After the end of the workshop, on May 3rd and 4th, the association will plan also two days with the International Springfest Jam.

The intensive workshop and the Jam will be held both at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli, in Orvieto.

Application for registration in the project with Nita Little is open from January 7th. For information and more details write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.

Nita Little
Restless Peace
The urge to move, to go where we have never been, is the soul of our practice in this workshop.
Developing a "home base", a place of personal and creative safety is as important as the journey; how wonderful to be free when you have a home! We learn, how like nomads, we may carry our home with us, even as we track paths in and out of unfamiliar territory.
We focus on developing the mental, emotional, and physical skills that enable dancers to travel creatively. Utilizing a full dance vocabulary, we integrate gestured movement improvisation with contact improvisation and build the skills to consciously weave these two forms.

We investigate “states” of mind / “states” of body as a means to develop and direct creative work in our improvisations. Developing the ability to describe and craft subtle levels of action and experience, we boost our physical potential while increasing our readability. Moving in solo, duet and group forms, we gain compositional tools for structural orientation; like torches, they light the way.

This workshop is developed for experienced movers who wish to pass beyond the threshold of old patterns. The restless human drive that takes us out of comfort, urges us to meet the unfamiliar, to move into, through and with the unknown, is a dance artist’s call. Here, we harness that drive and discover how, moving at the speed of our restless calling, we can find peace.

This class culminates in a creative work for performance at the workshop and at Zipfest08.

Things we will do:
Go deep into the physical philosophy behind contact improvisation.
Learn underlying CI principles that manifest as pathways of action.
Build the tools for safe physical and creative relationships
Discover different spatial orientations: vertical/hierarchical and horizontal/diffuse.
Learn about our temporal orientation and develop tools that modulate time.
Develop the skills to be able to move freely between states of mind.
Deepen our agreements to open to life, to the dance.
Honor peace.

about Nita Little
www.nitalittle.com
Nita Little has been developing, choreographing, performing and teaching improvisational dance for the past thirty-six years, notably Contact Improvisation, which she helped evolve from its inception with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others.
She collaborated in numerous performing companies introducing Contact Improvisation throughout the United States. She is a master teacher with former students all over the world, who are themselves now master dancers and teachers: Gretchen Spiro, Andrew Harwood, Frey Faust, Scott Wells, Julie Oak, Peter Bingham to name just a few. Through CI she discovered her abiding interest in the evolution of consciousness and the mind body relationship. Since 1981 she has been developing an evolving curriculum called The Mind in Motion, which explores the range of experiential states along the mind-body continuum and reveals principles that define Contact Improvisation as well as other movement forms. This work is informed by her investigation of the mind through work such as hypnotherapy and NeuroLinguistic Programming.

As a performing artist her current work is a mix of both formal and improvisational choreography and scores. While anchored in process, it frequently explores character, story, and concept.

Nita received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in choreography and was on the California Arts Council Touring Program.
The latter award was to her solo dance company, NITA LITTLE DANCE THEATRE, which she began in 1984, continued through 1990, and reinstated as a pickup company in 2000. In 2002 Nita created Playing God, an hour-long dance opera that received funding through the Dance USA /National Endowment for the Arts.

Over the years Nita has been both faculty and guest artist at numerous colleges and universities including New York University, California Institute for the Arts, Texas Christian University, Temple University, Tufts University, Scripps College and UC Santa Barbara.

Nita teaches and performs yearly at national and international dance festivals including ImPulsTanz, Vienna, The Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival, the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany,the Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation and the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley California.
She also teaches locally and nationally throughout the year. She lives with her son in Santa Cruz Mountains in California.

As she has pioneered a path in the understanding of the mind/body/spirit relationship, Nita's mission, conscious evolution, has been the backbone of her passion and her practice. Her goal is to see, feel and reveal grace in all its forms and as it exists in the actions of the mind and the body.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763.341479
fax +39 0763.340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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Simone Forti "Logomotion Writing Workshop" \ project in residence

2007-10-14T00:34:21Z

Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Orvieto \ Italy
International Projects 2008

Hello!
We are happy to announce that Simone Forti will be again the guest artist of our residence, for giving her intensive residential workshop “Logomotion Writing Workshop”.
The intensive workshop with Simone Forti is in the ambit of our international projects 2008, and will be from March 8 to 15 2008 in the beautiful Etruscan city of Orvieto, in mid Italy.
The workshop is limited to 16 participants.
The intensive workshop will be held at the headquarters of the cultural Association Caravajal15 residenza dinamica, in the prestigious sixteenth century rooms of the Palazzo Caravajal-Simoncelli.
The fee is 400 euros, which includes also hospitality, reception and meals.
Application for registration is open from October 15th.
For information write to: info@contactfestival.it, or telephone to +39 0763.341479.
Info and texts below.

Simone Forti \ Logomotion Writing Workshop
Intensive residential workshop
8-15 March 2008
maximum 16 participants
7-day workshop, plus one day pause
fee 400 euros (including meals and lodging)
pre-registration: 150 euros

Logomotion Writing Workshop
Sometimes our words don't have access to what we know in our bones.
In this workshop we will be improvising moving and speaking, and we will be writing.
While our writing will stimulate our imagination and support our improvisations, our improvisations will enrich our writing with a kinesthetic timing to phrasing and windows on sudden thoughts and memories.
Our activities will include studio sessions of improvisational moving and speaking, spontaneous writing, walks in town, with partners, for conversations about matters large and small, and private times to write and to craft our writings and to read them to each other.
We will borrow from the writing practice of Natalie Goldberg as found in her books “Writing Down the Bones” and “Wild Mind”, discovering the associations that gather spontaneously around a chosen point of departure.
As our movement work will include many activities in partners and in groups, some of our writing will include more than one voice, focusing on the relationships between the thoughts of different people.
A goal will be to write with wild mind and intention, and with awareness of world.

Jennifer Dunning writes in her 1991 New York Times review: “Simone Forti presented her first dance program in 1960 and has since then had a steadily increasing influence on post-modernist choreographers interested in exploring ‘natural’ or non-formalist movement and dance”.

Info and reservation
Caravajal15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15
05018 Orvieto (TR) - Italy
tel +39 0763341479
fax +39 0763340669
info@contactfestival.it
www.contactfestival.it

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Helpful Scientific phrases:

2007-05-21T08:26:23Z

It has long been known" - I didn't look up the original reference.
"A definite trend is evident" - These data are practically meaningless.
"While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to the questions" - An unsuccessful experiment but I still hope to get it published.
"Three of the samples were chosen for detailed study" - The other results didn't make any sense.
"Typical results are shown" - 1 This is the prettiest graph. 2 The best results are shown.
"These results will be in a subsequent report" - I might get around to this sometime, if pushed/funded.
"In my experience" - Once.
"In case after case" - Twice.
"In a series of cases" - Thrice.
"It is believed that" - I think.
"It is generally believed that" - A couple of others think so, too.
"Correct within an order of magnitude" - Wrong.
"According to statistical analysis" - Rumor has it.
"A statistically-oriented projection of the significance of these findings" - A wild guess.
"A careful analysis of obtainable data" - Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass iced tea.
"It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding of this phenomenon occurs" - 1 I don't understand it. 2 I need more grant money. 3 I can get at least one more paper out of this.
"After additional study by my colleagues" - They don't understand it either.
"Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with the experiment and to Cindy Adams for valuable discussions" - Mr. Blotz did the work and Ms. Adams explained to me what it meant.
"A highly significant area for exploratory study" - A totally useless topic selected by my committee.
"Accidentally stained during mounting" - Accidentally dropped on the floor.
"Handled with extreme care during the experiments" - Not dropped on the floor.
"Presumably at longer times" - I didn't take the time to find out.
"The best values were those of Jones" - He was a student of mine.
"It might be argued that" - I have such a good answer for this objection that I want to be sure I get to use it.
"This paper will omit a review of the more recent literature in favor of" - I don't know if anything has been written on this since my dissertation.
"Various authorities agree" - I overheard this in the hall.
"It is suggested that" - I wonder if...
"The implications are clear." - The implications are not clear (or I would have specified what they are).
"It was observed that" - One of my students noticed that
"No discussion would be complete without reference to the contributions of" - I need another footnote on this page.
"Of great theoretical and practical importance" - Of interest to me"
"This research has left many questions unanswered." - I didn't find anything of significance.
"This finding has not yet been incorporated into general theory" - Perhaps my next graduate student will make sense of it.
"It is hoped that this study will stimulate further investigation in this field" - I quit.

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International Contact festival in Italy \ second call

2007-04-18T20:31:02Z

Zipfest07
International scene of improvisation live performing arts

Orvieto - Italy
19-24 June 2007
eighth edition
www.contactfestival .it

International project of Art and Culture on the Poetics of Performance and Improvisation Dance.
The festival will be held in Orvieto in Italy, from 19 to 24 June 2007.

Registration are still going on from March 15th.
Our website has all the information on Zipfest07 calendar.
www.contactfestival .it
Please visit it !!

Guest performers and teachers Zipfest07:
K.J. Holmes (USA),
Oleg Soulimenko (Austria\Russia) ,
Charlie Morrissey (United Kingdom),
Patricia Kuypers (Belgium),
Rossella Fiumi (Italy),
Keith Biesack (USA),
Jacky Miredin (France),
Adrian Russi (Switzerland) ,
Bettina Helmrich (Germany),
Laura Moro (Italy),
Ruby Worth (Scotland),
Manuela Bondavalli (Italy),
Barbara Lucarini (Italy)

Special guest for Music
the group of songs and dances of Salento
Officina Zoè

Focus zoom
Project 2007 also plans for a special appointment addressed to all the participants
registered in the festival, who are invited to present an original performance.
We request the participants who register for the festival to spontaneously
propose their creations.
It is an interesting occasion offered to those who wish to share and highlight
their own performances for an international audience.

See you soon at Zipfest07
...
Zipfest team

Caravajal 15 residenza dinamica
Via Malabranca 15 Orvieto (TR) Italy
tel +39 0763 341479
fax +39 0763 340669
info@contactfestiva l.it
www.contactfestival .it

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Zipfestival's video 2005 on line

2007-04-18T20:04:26Z

Dear Friends
As they say, better late than never!
We have published a few video extracts from Zipfestival 2005 on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/
We shall shortly send you the websites (URL) so you can see and download the video extracts.
Or you can easily find it on the festival website’s page
http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html
In the meanwhile we are working on the 2006 video and in June 2007 (19-24) we remind you the next festival is just around the corner!
Have fun watching and let us know what you think!
Till then
Zipfest

http://www.contactfestival.it/2007/ITA_2006/zip_video.html

OR check one by one on these links:

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roqpVM-nKRA

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ADwTz58GY

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EoUY1KECUU

Documentario Zip 2005 – track 4
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFfvZe9Qkw

Performance Real Time track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3NWzqGmG4

Performance Real Time track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHlJotx0U0E

Performance Real Time track 3
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QepglIvIEM

Performance Last Minute track 1
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2TI6x83gk

Performance Last Minute track 2
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PVVHJh_ao

Performance Solo in Motion
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uGTf0oA8go

Duo Piano concerto Bollani-Salis
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SefO-o4d29k

Trio concerto Salis-Rabbia-Bellatalla
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9i-Q1Bfz8

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Zipfest07 \ 19-24 June 2007 , Orvieto in Italy \ registration open

2007-03-17T16:26:13Z

Zipfest07
International Improvisation festival live performing arts
www.contactfestival.it

What:
one week with international guest artists and intensive workshops on Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, laboratories around the themes of physicality, jams, performances and concerts.

When:
June 19 - 24 / 2007

Where:
Orvieto – Italy

Whit:
K.J. Holmes, Oleg Soulimenko, Charlie Morrissey, Patricia Kuypers, Rossella Fiumi, Keith Biesack,
Jacky Miredin, Adrian Russi, Bettina Helmrich, Laura Moro, Ruby Worth,
Manuela Bondavalli, Barbara Lucarini and the guest group for music concert Officina Zoè

Cost:
Zipfest all included registration 250 Euros

Contact/registration:
more info details write to info@contactfestival.it or visit www.contactfestival.it

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Useful Website

2006-10-03T13:37:02Z

Some useful links for all OU courses can be found at:

http://www.mystudyguide.co.uk/

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Eeeek!

2006-09-18T14:41:47Z

Anyone else got exams looming? Will you be taking a break after or diving striaght into a 10 pointer to keep you at it over the winter?

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Residential school

2006-05-13T09:13:16Z

Anyone off to one this summer? I'm going to Durham for the SXR260 course ( Geological history of the British Isles).

Much as I enjoy them, I do think they're a lot of money for the pricely total of 10 points!

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Moodle/OU

2005-11-21T16:47:07Z

Does anyone know anything about the OU's switch to the open source Moodle CMS?

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Interesting & humorous!

2005-10-04T23:03:38Z

I was forwarded this last night ( from MeShell, tribe) and just have to share it!

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it online.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving.
I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it
will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at
which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept
shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY " A"

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SXR 103 Red Spots!

2005-07-31T20:23:02Z

Glad you made it this far! To see the pics, just click on the photo album back a page. If there's a pic you like, clicking on it will 'blow it up'(!!!!), and you're more than welcome to copy and paste them for your own use. Also more than welcome to post your own pics and topics, but for that you must join......... it's FREE......... go on..... go for it!

It was great to meet you all, and I hope we keep in touch.

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What next?

2005-06-23T15:15:22Z

S103 finished bar the results, so who's got what lined up?

I'm off on the SX103 residential next month and then......... today registered for the S260 course in February aka Geology!!!! Bsc(hons) here I come!

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Why do I get sent this stuff?

2005-06-23T12:36:03Z

These are from test papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers by junior high, high school, and college students around the world. It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades.

"When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire."

"H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water"

"When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide"

"Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state"

"Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water."

"Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars."

"Blood flows down one leg and up the other."

"Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration."

"The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader."

"Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire."

"A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold."

"Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas."

"The body consists of three parts- the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u."

"The pistol of a flower is its only protections against insects."

"The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana."

"The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to."

"A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors."

"The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight."

"A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is."

"Equator: A managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa."

"Germinate: To become a naturalized German."

"Liter: A nest of young puppies."

"Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat."

"Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away."

"Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky."

"Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot."

"Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives."

"For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower then the body until the heart stops."

"To prevent contraception: wear a condominium."

"For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat."

"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow."

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Powers of ten.

2005-03-10T21:59:25Z

Found this link on another of the tribes.

It worth a look!

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

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Perfefct pancake flips!

2005-02-04T18:19:31Z

Most Pancake Days go with a flop instead of a flip, but fear not...

May your pancake mixture never hang from the ceiling again, thanks to an ingenious formula from scientists at Leeds University. They’ve tossed aside the traditional method of pancake flipping (which usually involves keeping your fingers crossed in the hope the batter won’t end up on the floor!) and they’ve replaced it with this mathematical formula:

“The angular velocity of the pancake equals the square root of Pi, times the gravity divided by the distance the pancake is from the elbow times four.”

As long as you understand the formula your pancake will land back in the frying pan every time you flip it. Try it yourself and you may find pancake physics flipping marvellous!

(On the other hand, if the equation has left you stumped then a simple spatula will do the job just nicely instead!)

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Interesting stuff in other 'tribes'

2005-02-04T07:50:32Z

This discussion is going on 'Geology':

Question to the group:

Could carbonate rocks or minerals exist or readily form without assist from animals? In other words, if a planet like ours lacked creatures that fixed atmospheric CO2 and converted it into limestone (e.g., plankton & reef builders), would that planet still have deposits of calcite and other carbonate minerals?

http://uk.tribe.net/thread/009436d5-fc3c-49a7-817c-dcd3f921b92b?tribeid=c2a9bf53-728f-4244-b59e-18f299680703&r=10447

And stuff going on here is always interesting! :-

http://awesomenature.tribe.net/

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TMA 04 Question 4

2005-01-25T00:27:36Z

Anyone else having big problems with TMA 04 Question 4?

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TMA 4 Question 1 b iv

2005-01-24T11:39:15Z

I was talking to Bruce about this one on Thursday at the tutorial and we were wondering why one was better than the other. On closer inspection of the question I think the key words are "number of organisms" and "oak tree" (note, not oak leaf). Anyone else have any thoughts on this ?

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Interesting reading..............

2005-01-08T11:05:38Z

A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.

Full story: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/environment_arctic_dc

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For interest only...............

2004-12-24T08:42:41Z

I'm posting this only as I get them all the time, and thought it might be of interest in view of the block 3 content!

************************************************************************************************************

2004/12/13 14:51 M 4.5 OFF COAST OF OREGON Z= 10km 43.68N 127.43W

This information is provided by the USGS
National Earthquake Information Center.
(Address problems to: sedas@ghtmail.cr.usgs.gov)

These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake OFF THE COAST OF OREGON has occurred at:
43.68N 127.43W Depth 10km Mon Dec 13 14:51:22 2004 UTC

Time: Universal Time (UTC) Mon Dec 13 14:51:22 2004
Time Near Epicenter Mon Dec 13 06:51:22 2004
Eastern Standard Time (EST) Mon Dec 13 09:51:22 2004
Central Standard Time (CST) Mon Dec 13 08:51:22 2004
Mountain Standard Time (MST) Mon Dec 13 07:51:22 2004
Pacific Standard Time (PST) Mon Dec 13 06:51:22 2004
Alaska Standard Time (AST) Mon Dec 13 05:51:22 2004
Hawaii Standard Time (HST) Mon Dec 13 04:51:22 2004

Location with respect to nearby cities:
260 km (165 miles) W of Coos Bay, Oregon
290 km (180 miles) WSW of Newport, Oregon
315 km (195 miles) NW of Brookings, Oregon
380 km (235 miles) WSW of SALEM, Oregon

For maps, additional information, and subsequent updates,
please consult:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usrzav.htm .

Flinn-Engdahl Region Number = 030

For the most significant earthquakes, information may also be
available from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program home page at
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ and the USGS home page at
http://www.usgs.gov/ .

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Extract your own DNA!!!!!

2004-12-18T20:35:25Z

Bored??? Looking for something to do??? Extract your own DNA!!!!

http://stuartcw.livejournal.com/628940.html

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A bit of fun!

2004-12-14T17:33:09Z

Quiz: Are you clued up on climate?

Do you know your acid rain from your methane and your emissions from your carbon credits?
Any idea what's likely to happen to cod in the coming decades?

Test your knowledge of global climate change as decision makers discuss the future of the Kyoto Protocol in Buenos Aires.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3579492.stm

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ARGHHHH Maths!

2004-12-06T16:15:06Z

Anyone else finding the maths a problem?

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Global Warming

2004-12-02T07:40:06Z

Emissions double heatwave risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4059497.stm

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Block 3 kit

2004-11-20T17:29:01Z

Does anyone know if we should have this ( Rocks and mineral specimens) by now? Only wondering as beginning block 3 today, and wondering if I need to ring anyone about this.

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The Carbon Cycle

2004-10-31T11:48:21Z

This is an interesting link:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/CarbonCycle.html

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Prayer for Suffering Students

2004-10-17T13:13:51Z

Now I lay me down to study,
I pray the Lord I won't go nutty.
If I should fail to learn this junk,
I pray the Lord I will not flunk.

But if I do, don't pity me at all;
Just lay my bones down in study hall.
Tell my teachers I did my best.
Then pile the books upon my chest.

Now I lay me down to rest,
And pray I'll pass tomorrow's test.
If I should die before I wake,
That's one less test I'll have to take.

AMEN!

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