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Moving mountains with climate solutions

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:07:00 GMT

Source: telluridenews.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
To illustrate the concept of using local, sustainable agriculture to reduce our carbon footprint, local Realtor Steve Cieciuch will take Mountainfilm’s Moving mountains Symposium attendees on a 2,400-mile journey. ...

Imprint Friday: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:01:00 GMT

Source: www.bethfishreads.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Welcome to Imprint Friday and today's featured imprint: Riverhead Books . Stop by each week to be introduced to a must-read title from one of my favorite imprints. I know you'll be adding many of these books to your wish list. I doubt I have to introduce you to Khaled Hosseini or even talk about why his new novel, And the mountains Echoed , was on my must list for this month. Once I started reading this much-anticipated book, which begins with a fairy tale, I was lost in Afghan's world of contrasts. Here's the publisher's summary: Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. Hosseini asks a simple question: How far would you go to save your family and ...

Chet heads to West Texas to visit the Davis Mountains and explore the U.S. Fort...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:10:01 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Chet heads to West Texas to visit the Davis mountains and explore the U.S. Fort that helped settle this vast desert on tonight’s (5/23) The Daytripper at 8:30! ...

Due to snow and ice in the mountains, Stage 19 of the Giro will skip the Gavia a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:45:32 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Due to snow and ice in the mountains, Stage 19 of the Giro will skip the Gavia and Stelvio passes—but be 21km longer: http://ow.ly/lkIgc 2013 Giro d'Italia: Stage 19 Modified Due to Snow | Bicycling Magazine ow.ly Stage 19 will be 21km longer than planned, but skip the Gavia and Stelvio climbs ...

Tweet Pick: Donald Rumsfeld is against gay marriage. He believes marriage should be between an administration and mountains of faulty intelligence. - @DamienFahey

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:44:04 GMT

Source: www.happyplace.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Donald Rumsfeld is against gay marriage. He believes marriage should be between an administration and mountains of faulty intelligence. ...

Cave Paintings Found in Mexico’s San Carlos Mountains

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:33 GMT

Source: www.archaeology.org --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
BURGOS, MEXICO—Nearly 5,000 paintings have been discovered in 11 different sites in northeastern Mexico, in an area thought to have been uninhabited during the pre-Hispanic era. More than 1,500 of the paintings were found in one cave alone. The images depict people, animals, and insects, as well as an atlatl and abstract objects, and are thought to have been created by at least three different groups of hunter-gatherers. “We have not found any ancient objects linked to the context, and because the paintings are on ravine walls and in the rainy season the sediments are washed away, all we have is gravel,” said Gustavo Ramirez of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. Scientists will attempt to date the paintings’ pigments. ...

Mountains of Wealth in Afghanistan

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:08:15 GMT

Source: ens-newswire.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, May 23, 2013 (ENS) - Illegal and risky it may be, but mining for gemstones is an irresistible way of earning a living for some Afghans. ...

Accommodation of transpressional strain in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: new constraints from (U-Th)/He thermochronology in the Alborz mountains, north Iran

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:39:25 GMT

Source: authors.library.caltech.edu --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Alborz range of N Iran provides key information on the spatiotemporal evolution and characteristics of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision zone. The southwestern Alborz range constitutes a transpressional duplex, which accommodates oblique shortening between Central Iran and the South Caspian Basin. The duplex comprises NW-striking frontal ramps that are kinematically linked to inherited E-W-striking, right-stepping lateral to obliquely oriented ramps. New zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He data provide a high-resolution framework to unravel the evolution of collisional tectonics in this region. Our data record two pulses of fast cooling associated with SW-directed thrusting across the frontal ramps at ~ 18–14 and 9.5-7.5 Ma, resulting in the tectonic repetition of a fossil zircon partial retention zone and a cooling pattern with a half U-shaped geometry. Uniform cooling ages of ~ 7–6 Ma along the southernmost E-W striking oblique ramp and across its associated NW-striking frontal ramps suggests that the ramp was reactivated as a master throughgoing, N-dipping thrust. We interpret this major change in fault kinematics and deformation style to be related to a change in the shortening direction from NE to N/NNE. The reduction in the obliquity of thrusting may indicate the termination of strike-slip faulting (and possibly thrusting) across the Iranian Plateau, which could have been triggered by an increase in elevation. Furthermor ...

Khaled Hosseini: "And The Mountains Echoed"

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:13 GMT

Source: thedianerehmshow.org --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
The author of the international best-seller “The Kite Runner” sets his latest novel in Afghanistan, San Francisco and Paris. How a wrenching family decision echoes across generations and time zones. read more ...

jw32767: I travel over high mountains, through deep valleys and forests

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:42:17 GMT

Source: www.hulver.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Getting back into the habit of doing this has proved challenging. ...

Calls grow for army to help search for Canadian Forces reservist lost in Australian mountains after ‘voices’ heard

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:45 GMT

Source: news.nationalpost.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
TORONTO — The family and friends of a Canadian missing in Australia’s Snowy mountains region for more than a week are calling for additional manpower to search for the hiker. The calls came as hopes briefly rose Wednesday of finding Prabhdeep Srawn when “voices” were heard in the search area in the Kosciuszko National Park. But reports from the site in New South Wales say that poor weather is restricting search teams to the ground. The 25-year-old Brampton, Ont., man hasn’t been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in a village near the park. Related Family not giving up finding Toronto-area man, a Canadian Forces reservist, in snowy mountains of Australia The Canberra Times reported Thursday that Srawn’s family is frustrated that there is a lack of manpower but accepts that the authorities know what they are doing. Meanwhile, friends of the family took to social media, urging the Australian military to join the search. “We need military assistance to further search efforts and save Prabh Srawn who’s been missing for 10 days,” one wrote in a message addressed to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. “Please send in the army to help find Prabh Srawn. Rescuers are in need of assistance,” another tweeted. By early Thursday, nearly 3,000 people had joined a Facebook page dedicated to finding the law student. Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell said in a message posted on the page that she had sent a letter to Prime Minister Ste ...

Photoshop Tutorial : Mystical Mountains Photo Composition

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:50:21 GMT

Source: www.allcgtutorials.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
by Howard Pinsky | Intermediate In this tutorial Howard Pinsky shows you how you can Combining your different images with some stock images, you can transform your images to a whole new level totally different image. You will learn here how to use masking, Adjustment Layers, and a few other tricks to achieve some nice [...] ...

allthingseurope: Călimani Mountains, Romania (by MARIAN Gabriel...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:03 GMT

Source: topsyturvyday.tumblr.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
allthingseurope : Călimani mountains, Romania (by MARIAN Gabriel Constantin ) ...

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:02 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Hosseini's shamelessly enjoyable tale of separated siblings draws on the tradition of the American airport novel – and is none the worse for it The US novelist Khaled Hosseini has made a career writing about the recent history of his native Afghanistan. This is his third novel, after the bestselling The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns . Afghanistan has almost no novel-writing tradition; though novels in Persian have appeared since the beginning of the 20th century, they were written and published in Iran. If there are novelists in Pashto, the other Afghan language, I haven't been able to discover it. The novelist who wants to address Afghanistan is going to have to turn elsewhere for inspiration, and Hosseini's work rests entirely on the distinguished and often enjoyable tradition of the American airport bestseller. "Human behaviour is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries," Hosseini writes, a neat conclusion of a sentence that could, time-savingly, have been written by Harold Robbins. The novel begins with the separation of two siblings in rural Afghanistan in the early 1950s. Abdullah loves his little sister, Pari, beyond anything; he will walk miles over rocks to get her what she pines for, a peacock feather. Their mother is dead; their father, Saboor, married a second time to a local girl, Parwani. Her brother, chauffeur to a wealthy Kabuli, Suleiman Wahdati, arrives in his employer's car ...

Video: Fourtitude: Four Riders, One Altitude - Wade, Dre, Thomas and Gully give `er on Rocky Mountains latest Altitude model

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:32 GMT

Source: www.bikemag.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Rocky Mountain’s riders are a diverse bunch–a fact the company takes pride in. With the Fourtitude video above, Rocky is setting out to show that their new Altitude bike line is equally diverse: to wit, four very different riders push the limits on one bike–Rocky Mountain’s Altitude 790 MSL. What sets the Altitude and, for that matter the company’s 29er Instinct model, apart from other bikes on the market is the Ride-9 system shock mount system, which allows you to radically tweak the bike’s geometry and suspension characteristics. We’ve written about this several times before. Here, in fact, is just one review. Rotating the two interlocking chips in the shock mount raises/lowers the bottom bracket half an inch and changes both the head and seat angles by as much as 1.7 degrees. At its steepest setting, the bike possesses a 68.3-degree headtube and 75.3-degree seat tube. In its slackest setting, those angles change to 66.7 and 73.6 degrees. Rotating those chips also tweaks the leverage ratio on the Altitude’s rear shock. In its slackest settings, the suspension has a more progressive stroke, which should help prevent bottoming out for riders pushing the bike hard over technical terrain. Wade runs it slackest; Thomas runs it in slacker & progressive (forward & down, aka “Vanderham Mode”); both Dre & Gully run the bike neutral & progressive (furthest down). ...

And The Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini, review

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:27 GMT

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A sprawling emotional tale from Khaled Hosseini draws in Helen Brown. ...

Stellar slopes... Michelin-starred dining in the mountains of Alta Badia

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:31:48 GMT

Source: www.standard.co.uk --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Let’s be honest, wine-tasting can be a tad stuffy at times. All that ostentatious sniffing, slurping and then you’re obliged to spit. But the moment I stepped into the cellar at the four-star La Perla hotel in the Italian town of Corvara, I was immediately put at ease by sommelier Daniel, who offered me a pair of novelty specs. “Discovering new wines should be fun,” he announced, “so it’s important to change your outlook on the world.” ...

A body found in the San Bernardino Mountains was confirmed Wednesday, May 22, to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:21:25 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A body found in the San Bernardino mountains was confirmed Wednesday, May 22, to be Karen Elizabeth Dalman, of Big Bear City, who went missing last week while hiking. http://www.pe.com/local-news/san-bernardino-county/san-bernardino-county-headlines-index/20130522-big-bear-missing-hikers-body-identified.ece BIG BEAR: Missing hiker’s body identified www.pe.com The body of a woman was found Saturday after she went missing in the Big Bear area ...

Forecasters warn of Thursday blizzards on Scottish mountains

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:06 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Forecasters warn of Thursday blizzards on Scottish mountains Forecasters warn of Thursday blizzards on Scottish mountains It may be only a month from the summer solstice, but forecasters warned today that hillwalkers and climbers should prepare for severe winter conditions tomorrow. Blizzards are possible over the Scottish mountains and there will be a severe wind-chill, the Met Office said ...

Mountains and Tornadoes

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:12:00 GMT

Source: wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Climatologically, the highest frequency of significant (F2 or greater) tornadoes in the world occurs the southern Great Plains during the spring. That's why the region is appropriately referred to as Tornado Alley and why Norman, Oklahoma has become the nexus for severe weather research, forecasting, and education in the United States (with a tip of the hat to many talented people who helped to make it so). Source: Storm Prediction Center We don't usually think of Tornadoes as a mountain meteorology problem, but it turns out that the severe storm environment of the Great Plains is partly a consequence of topography and land-sea contrasts. During the spring, the confluence of dry, downsloped air from the deserts and high terrain of the southwest US and northern Mexico (airstream SP below) with cooler, moister air originating over the Gulf of Mexico (airstream M) frequently leads to the development of the dryline . The dry, downsloped air often continues to move eastward over the moist Gulf air, leading to the development of what meteorologists call an elevated mixed layer . The confluence of these airstreams and the formation of the dryline is related to the development of lee troughing downstream of the Rockies. In addition, the location and movement of the dryline can be influenced by the gradual slope of the Great Plains. Source: Carlson et al. (1983) This elevated mixed layer is sometimes quite warm and dry and forms ...