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September 26 From: Eric J. Furda- Vice President for Alumni Relations Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:16 AM To: Columbia University Alumni Subject: Debating Ahmadinejad at Columbia  This message is being sent to you because of your affiliation with Columbia University.
Over the past week the scheduled appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia's World Leaders Forum has sparked debate around the world. Here on campus, in countless conversations, students and faculty challenged one another to think critically about the issues raised by his visit. President Bollinger has answered tough questions from the media and from local and regional politicians. The University has heard from hundreds of alumni on the subject expressing both support and dismay. Yesterday the Morningside Heights campus was alive as thousands of students participated in peaceful demonstrations and dialogue about issues relating to both Iran and free speech. Many alumni would have been proud of our students who, however intense and disparate their viewpoints, upheld the values of free expression and respect that define the essence of our campus community and our society. At the World Leaders Forum event in Roone Arledge auditorium, President Bollinger, SIPA interim dean John Coatsworth, and Columbia students called the Iranian President to account for his positions on the Holocaust, Israel, nuclear weapons, homosexuals, women's rights, and many other matters—and afforded Ahmadinejad the opportunity to respond. I hope you will take the time to visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/09/sipairan.html, where you can see a full video of the event, read transcripts of President Bollinger's introduction and President Ahmadinejad's remarks, and read other statements relating to the event. You may also want to read an editorial, "Free Speech in Practice," published in the Spectator, Columbia's student newspaper. The issues raised at, and by, yesterday's World Leaders Forum will continue to reverberate. I invite you to follow the links above and then log in to share your thoughts with other alumni in Columbia's free speech discussion group at alumni.columbia.edu/forum. Yours, Eric J. Furda
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| I worked during summer months of 1951, '53, and '54 in the Yukon Territory, as an exploration geophysics field assistant. People in the lower 48 probably would refer to the dogs as Huskies (2007). In 1951 I would just have known them as sled dogs. Their owners were called "Mayo Indians". They warned greenhorns to stay away from the dogs. They were well fed when pulling sleds, but seemed to be chained up and practically starving in summer months.
There is a page that talks about dreaming when I was 13 years old about prospecting at a later age. I was walking on Bay St. in Toronto, near the Royal Bank of Canada Building. Some days earlier I had been riding down Bay St. on my CCM bicycle. A truck came down Bay St., with the driver attempting to pass me while squeezing between the curb and a streetcar. The double right rear wheels of the truck ran over the wheels of my bike. I was thrown onto the sidewalk. I must have been in my first seizure. My arms and legs were rigid, I was aware but could not speak intelligibly. Two passerbys lifted me at my armpits and leaned me against the bank building, to get me out of the way of busy walkers.
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CorTech Training --- Red Wing
I used a self-belaying technique when entering crevasses.
One entry was to a depth of 96 feet.
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| See the can at left? It contains a Worden gravimeter. The instrument is suspended on bungee cord in the can. It must not be jostled nor tipped too much. It contains a quartz mass-spring system. An optical viewer can be used to detect changes in deflection of the mass as the instrument is moved from one gravity field to another. Perhaps Don Soholt helped me. We tied a climbing rope to the gravimeter can. I rappeled into the crevasse while the can was being lowered to me. I steadied the can between my knees. At some depth, I stopped, took the gravimeter out of the can --- as I remember, by holding onto my rope with one hand, turning around, and gradually lifting the instrument out of the can. Readings at surface and depth yielded average ice density. |
The closed-loop object at right center is a carabiner or "beener".
It was given to me in 1962 by Norman Hardie. He is the famous New Zealander who solo-climbed the second highest peak in the world.
He taught survival methods to University of Minnesota United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) members.
Can you find the beener in the above self-belay image??
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One subject may be seen at http://crevassefield.tripod.com/geology/index.html.
A second subject may be seen at http://crevassefield.tripod.com/acoustics/index.html
some really cool techie stuff -- vibrations and rotations
Wildflowers in Our Wild Yard
Wildflower images are shown at http://crevassefield.tripod.com/our_wild_yard/index.html.
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March 20 Pete Lumley wrote about running with Megan 2.5 mi/day from his home in Mousehole to Lamorna Cove. We can take a virtual route to Lamorna. Start at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. There is a geology hall that is ringed by 30 building stone columns. Column 3 is identified as Lamorna Granite. It was mined at a quarry in Lamorna Cove. The texture of the stone is porphyritic. It is grey in colour and is called a porphyritic granite. I have an Intel Create and Share microscope with 10X, 60X and 200X magnifications. If a Lamorna Cove resident or visitor would kindly send me a small representative sample of Lamorna granite, I would gladly post digital images. My Intel pc camera pro could yield a macro view of the specimen. I commend the seven photos, lamorna13 through lamorna19 by Simon Lewis to you. A first choice is a sample from the pile behind the cottages in lamorna19.jpg.
My favourite cove photo .
Lamorna Cove History.
Aerial Photograph.
Photo Tour: Lamorna Cove.
Pete Lumley Photography, Mousehole.
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