Leave the lifts behind for a backcountry ski adventure with our expert Guides in Whistler, North America's premier ski resort! A day of private off backcountry skiing will allow you complete control of your skiing objectives. This is your day, so you choose the skiing experience that you are most interested in to get the best backcountry ski trip possible! You choose how much skiing, what type of runs and how hard (or not!) that you want to push yourself. Ski Mountaineering objectives also available on request.
Online booking available below for 1-day Ski Tours; For info on multi-day backcountry skiing trips, please contact our office.
We suggest a maximum of 6 skiers per group in the backcountry.
Please note that we offer a 5% discount if there are 2 or more ski guides hired for any one date/group.
All rates are based on one Ski Guide per group of backcountry skiers, and includes ski guide/instruction services, technical equipment (avalanche safety kit and all glacier/mountaineering gear if required), instructional materials, and trip organization.
Rates do not include 5% GST, lift access fees, food, personal ski touring equipment, transportation costs, or gratuities.
- and, of course, the expert guidance of our local ACMG guides!
Lift pass on Whistler/Blackcomb for backcountry access is not included. 1-way Backcountry Access passes are available for $62 through our office upon booking. You can use your own lift pass as well if you already have one, please let us know when you book.
All backcountry skiing requires some uphill travel ("skinning"). Our Guides will set the track of course, and you can choose the level of exertion you want. Remember though, this is all about earning your turns - the more you hike, the more turns you get!
We recommend that skiers are at least an Intermediate level skier on groomed runs to fully enjoy the backcountry experience. If you can ski moderate Blue runs, you can tour in the backcountry with our ACMG Ski Guides!
We encourage groups that wish to ski together to be of similar ability levels and fitness, though if you wish to have a group of skiers together for a day who are at different levels we can certainly accommodate that as well.
For those seeking to challenge themselves on some of the "big mountain lines" in the backcountry, we recommend that you are a strong intermediate or advanced skier with some experience in off-piste or powder conditions. Your day will include some big ascents (in order to get to the entrances of the bigger ski lines) so you should be physically fit and accustomed to touring or hiking in backcountry conditions (of course, we will be breaking the trail for you, though!).
If you are looking for a more general ski touring experience, with lots of vertical on the glaciers, bowls or in the glades or tree skiing terrain in the backcountry around Whistler/Blackcomb, basic/intermediate skiing skills and a moderate level of fitness will suffice.
Please contact us directly to discuss your fitness level if you are unsure if backcountry skiing is appropriate for you or anyone in your group.
Your day - your choice!
We are here to get you out skiing and exploring the backcountry of Whistler and Blackcomb, while customizing the day to suit your desires. If you want lots of turns and big mountain steeps, we'll do our best to get you lots of turns. on the other hand, if you just want a mellow day of skiing great terrain and learn about backcountry safety, we'll make sure that we include a lot of instruction.
We start off every morning with a review of current Avalanche, weather and snow conditions before discussing our daily objectives. Before heading into the backcountry, your Guide will conduct an equipment check and go over Avalanche Safety protocols. Once the ski tour objectives and route plan are finalized, you will head out along the high alpine ridges behind Whistler and Blackcomb to explore and ski some of the best ski touring and backcountry terrain in North America!
This is your day, so we will be consulting with you on an ongoing basis to make sure we choose skiing objectives that you are most interested in to ensure you get the best backcountry skiing experience we can provide! Of course, along the way our Guides will also be there to teach Avalanche Safety skills, coach you on skiing technique and generally help you improve your backcountry skiin skills and confidence.
Please note that all backcountry ski objectives are determined based on current snow, weather, and avalanche conditions. We always do our best to find the ski lines that our skiing guests desire, but safety is our number 1 priority at all times so some lines and objectives may not be available or suitable to ski on your ski day for a variety of reasons. Our Guides are very familiar with the terrain though, so they will always have something in mind to keep you shredding and make sure you don't come home disappointed! If our Guides consider the conditions to be unsafe prior to the trip starting, we will offer to re-schedule to refund the complete booking.
Join our Whistler Backcountry Ski Guides and head into a variety of pristine alpine bowls and glaciers in Garibaldi Park adjacent to the Whistler and Blackcomb ski areas. Daily skiing objectives will vary based on current conditions, but generally are accessed from the top of the ski lifts on one of the two resorts.


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Leonard Roberts (* 17. November 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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Roberts wurde am 17. November 1972 in St. Louis (Missouri) geboren
Im Jahr 1995 schloss er seine Schauspielausbildung an der DePaul University ab.
Im Film Joe & Max (2002) von Regisseur Steve James verkörperte er den Boxer Joe Louis in seinen Kämpfen gegen Max Schmeling, der von Til Schweiger dargestellt wurde. In der NBC-Fernsehserie Heroes spielte er von 2006 bis 2007 D.L. Hawkins, einen unschuldig Inhaftierten, der feste Oberflächen und Gegenstände durchdringen sowie seinen Körper durchlässig machen kann. Für diese Serie gewann Roberts 2007 bei den TV Land Awards gemeinsam mit anderen Darstellern den Future Classic Award.

Filmografie (Auswahl)

Filme
 1997: Love Jones
 1997: Harlem, N.Y.C. – Der Preis der Macht (Hoodlum)
 1998: Spiel des Lebens (He Got Game)
 2002: Joe & Max (Joe and Max)
 2002: Drumline
 2009: Red Sands
 2011: Pizza Man
 2012: Savages
 2014: American Sniper
 2016: Love Is All You Need?

Fernsehserien
 1999: Turks
 1999–2000: Buffy – Im Bann der Dämonen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 12 Folgen)
 2001: JAG – Im Auftrag der Ehre (JAG)
 2002: Providence
 2004: Navy CIS
 2005: Bones – Die Knochenjägerin (Bones)
 2005–2006: Smallville
 2006–2007: Heroes
 2010: Criminal Minds
 2013: The Client List
 2016: American Crime Story
 2017–2021: Mom
 2020: Hawaii Five-0 (Folge 10x21)

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Absolvent der DePaul University
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1972
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Posts Tagged 'Garden of Eden'
The System of Life is growing in size and in complexity, and so do the infrastructures sustaining it.
In 2008 the point was reached where more than 50% of the world population lives in cities. That percentage is growing. By 2030, over 60% of the world's population – nearly five billion people – will be living in urban area.
The System of Life is generating Super Organisms and the City is one of them.
Urbanization is only a relatively recent phenomenon. As far as we now know urbanization started in Mesopotamia around 4000 – 3500 BC.
For the Ancient Mesopotamians, the cities were the centers of life. Their beginning of time was not a Garden of Eden, but rather an ancient site called Eridu, which they believed was the first city ever to be created. The creator of Eridu was Enki, the God who came out of the Deep Waters of the Ocean (the Abzu). The city of Eridu was destroyed by the Great Flood in 3117 BC.
Every time one of the Rulers of a City took control over many Cities and a State was created with a new Center, the Capital. In the Center of the Capital the Palace of the Ruler was situated. What we see is an Expanding Pattern in which the same Structure repeats itself all the Time.
Initially the two life-essential resources for cities were Water and Food.
As Cities grew and as technology evolved, the supply of these resources became dependent on energy for processing, for pumps and for transportation. In the process, cities and their resources evolved into a system of life energized by the individuals that populate cities, and fuel its dynamics.
Kleiber's law
About the Law of Kleiber
The Law of Kleiber shows that Bottum-Up Structures are more efficient than Top-Down Structures.
It also shows that Big Structures are more efficient than Small Structures. The Law is applicable from the level of the Bacteria to the Level of the City and higher.
These two statements are a contradiction until we realize that there are two ways of looking at the same structure. One view is the Top-Down View. The other is the Bottom Up View. When we look Down we see a huge Hierarchy and start to believe that Big is Beautiful.
When we look Up we see that all the work is done by Small Cooperative Components starting at the Bottom with the Bacteria.
The Law of Kleiber is explained by the fact that all the organisms (including the Cities) contain the Same Fractal Structure.
Bacteria exchange their DNA
About DNA
In the Beginning the Chemical Soup generated Self-Reproducing Chemical Factories. These Factories combined into bigger Factories by exchanging and combining their Factory-Designs (DNA-parts).
Every time when the Factories fused they became more Efficient, Bigger, Stronger, Older and therefore more Competitive. When the Factories became more Competitive they started to Protect themselves against the other Factories.
To Protect themselves the Multi-Cellular Systems began to Sense in Many Directions and became better and better in Predicting the Future.
One of our Ancient Ancestors is the Sponge which is a static Cluster of Bacteria. Scientist have detected that the DNA of the Sponge has a lot in common with the Human DNA. The Sponge contains the Basic Fractal Structure, the Tube.
In a later stage our Ancestors developed something we call a Brain. The Brain is used to Sense the Now and Predict the Future.
The Human is a Moving Sponge who is able to Imagine. With his Imagination the Human is capable to Change the Future (and the Past).
The Sponge, the Tube, is the Basic Structure
The Octopus is a Sponge with a Brain.
About Innovation
The Law of Kleiber can be explained by the principle of Self-Reference (Similarity, Fractals).
The Small Structures at the Bottum combine into comparable structures on a higher level.
What we don't see is that the structures on every level can be decomposed in the Same (DNA-)Components with a different Scale and a different Name.
Innovation is nothing but a Combination of the Components in many different ways until all the combinations are made.
At that moment One of the Combinations becomes the new DNA and a new Level is explored.
Life explores every possible path.
About Cities
A City is a Combination of Houses.
A City protects a Cluster of Houses. A House protects a Cluster of Humans and a Human protects a Cluster of Organs.
All the way down to the Bacteria, Cooperative Clusters are formed that give the participants a more Secure Way to Live.
A House is a Body. It supports the Body but it also contains all the Bodily Functions.
If we provide the House with these Bodily Functions the House becomes more Sustainable. It is possible to regenerate the Waste that the Humans produce into Energy just as the Liver is doing in our Body.
If we Cluster the Bodily Houses into a City and we provide the City with the same functions of the Body we are able to create structures that are independent of the input of external Top-Down Sources of Energy and Food.
If we are able to detect the DNA of the House and the DNA of the City we are able to Compose new Types of Houses and Cities that are Adaptable, Scalable, highly Sustainable and are also in Balance with Nature.
It will also be much more easy to Destroy or Move buildings and cities to another Place without the production of Waste.
Toledo (Spain)
About Synchronization
In the Miedeval City the Major Cycle was the Cycle of the Seasons. In the Modern City we have become almost independent of the Cycles. We import Food and Energy out of every place in the World.
It takes a Lot of Energy to transport the Food and Energy and Many Places on Earth are dependent on a small amount of other Places that contain the Sources of our always increasing Need to Survive the Effects of our Environment.
When a lot of People (The Slaves) are dependent on a small amount of people (The Masters), the Masters start to dominate the others and increase their Power until Eternity. Power is the most important Addiction of the Humans.
The problem becomes bigger when we realize that many people are producing Food and Energy but are themselves not able to use the Food and the Energy they are producing.
The independence of the Cycles has created a huge unbalance. This unbalance is not only visible in the City but in every place on Earth that is providing Energy and Food to sustain the Modern City.
The only solution to this problem is to create self-sustaining (autarkic) Cities that are able to supply their own food, water and energy.
The kernels of Paris
When we want to restore Balance we have to Synchronize the Cycles in the City. This can be done with the help of Smart Technology (Sensors, Actuators, Analytics) but we can also make use of very old fashioned techniques that were used in the Middle Ages.
When Humans communicate from the Heart and focus on the same subject, the Humans start to Synchronize. They become a Group.
The most important structure in the Miedeval City to Synchronize its inhabitants was the Building of the Heart, the Church. The Church was always situated in the Center and was visible from a long distance. The Church was also the only place where people were always Protected.
The Human Heart is doing the same thing as the Church is doing in the City. It connects the Mind with the Organs of the Body and the Pericardium provides one of the major Rythms of the Human Body.
If we want to Synchronize the City we have to create a Center where People are able to Commun(e)nicate about the Shared Goals of the City. The most important way to share can be found in the Human Culture. The Centres have to contain all the ways Human Culture is performed.
The Spiraling Spiral in the Memory Palace of Chartres, the Symbol of the Fractal Universe
About the Memory Palace
Art, Music and Singing were United in the Medieval Cathedrals. The Medieval Cathedrals also contained all the Knowledge (The Memory Palace) that was needed to understand the Universe.
If we want to Synchronize the Modern City we have to build Modern Cathedrals in the Center of the Center and use them as Places to Commune, to Educate, to Make Music, to Dance and to Sing.
We have to design them as Modern Memory Palaces (Simulators) to teach the Masses about the Fractal Universe and give them Feedback about the State of their own Environment.
The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Antoni Gaudi)
This is a presentation about The City as an Organism
Why the Tube is such an Important Structure
Why Innovation is a Combination of Combinations
An Interview with Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute about the Law of Kleiber
About Thermo-Economics
About the Autarkic City
About Cybernetics
How Gaudi used a Machine to design the Sagrada Familia
About Machines that generate Architectures
How the Heart Synchronizes the Body
About Super Organisms
About Smart Technology
About Addiction
About the Master/Slave-relationship
Why the Cathedral contained all the Knowledge that was Needed
About the start of Civilization
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About the Calvinistic Work Ethic
The Hebrew belief system viewed Work, seen as Manual Labour, as a Curse devised by God to punish Adam and Eve when they sinned in the Garden of Eden.
Ponos is the Greek word for work, which originated from the Latin poena, meaning sorrow. At it's core, work was associated with pain and drudgery. It was the divine punishment for man's original sin and viewed as a necessary evil.
For the Greek and Romans and almost every other Ancient Culture, the Dirty, Manual, Work was to be done by the Slaves. Until Now nothing has really changed.
The only suitable occupation for a free man was Farming and Trade. Just like today the Greek and the Roman wanted to save their money to enjoy their retirement in their own Garden of Eden, the Country Side.
During the Medieval period, the feudal system was the dominant economic structure in Europe. People believed in Destiny and Predestination. At that time it was sinful to seek work outside the occupations Fathers passed on to their Sons.
Farmers turned into Farmers and Slaves became Slaves again.
During the 15th century the centralization of government, the growth of trade, and the establishment of economically powerful towns, destroyed the Feudal system.
In the 15th century the world climate started to change dramatically. Temperatures dropped and the Little Ice Age started. Before that time the nice climate caused an increase of the population by 25%-40%.
At the same time the economy was hit by a very high inflation (300-400%). This was caused by the import of large quantities of silver and gold from Mexico and Peru.
The unemployment rate rose to 20%. Many people moved to the Cities to find a decent job. The big cities could not provide employment and the poor immigrants turned into "lazy" beggars.
John Calvin (1509-1564) believed that only a few people, the Elect, were predestined to inherit Eternal Life. A lazy person, the beggar in his hometown Geneva, was certainly one of the Damned.
John Calvin believed that men were to reinvest the profits of their own labour into financing further ventures.
The Sons of the Fathers were obliged to find a better, more profitable, future outside the context of their father's occupation.
Helping the Poor and the Sick violated God's will since persons could only demonstrate that they were among the Elect through their Own Productive Labour.
The Protestant, Capitalistic, Work Ethic (Calvinism), spread throughout Europe and America through the Protestant Sects and turned into one of the most important Western Work Ethics.
The moral sanction to profit making through hard work, organization, and rational calculation generated numerous small enterprises all over the world.
Hard Work and Abstinence of Pleasure became the Work Ethic of Western Culture.
During the Industrial Revolution the Calvinistic Entrepeneurs made a Fatal Mistake. They adopted the Concept of the Mill and started to mechanize the Crafts and Agriculture.
The old Feudal System and Slavery was re-introduced. In the factories, Skills and Craftsmanship were replaced by Discipline and Anonymity.
The Human became a disposable part of a big structure. The foundation of Calvinism, the direct relationship between Hard Work and Personal Growth was broken.
The Local Enterprise could not compete with the efficient Factories and later their outlets the Supermarkets. The Farmers, the Craftsman and the owners of Small businesses were forced to work in the Factories.
Local Communities started to disintegrate.
Unemployement started to rise and again many people moved to the Big Cities to find a decent job. The beggars, the Damned, appeared again. History repeated itself.
The Factories created a new class of Slaves, The Proletariat. They organized themselves in the Unions and Political Parties. The Struggle of the Classes started.
The Owners of the Factories responded by creating Consumer Products and Mass Media to keep their new customers, the Blue Collar Worker, satisfied. The new industrial wave generated New Industrial activitity and New Jobs. The distance between work and the result of work widened.
Robot Factory
In the late 1950′s the Factories needed more highly skilled "white collar" workers to program and manage their machines.
Later the machines were programmed by more advanced software until the Factories were transformed into almost fully automated Production-Lines.
The Blue Collar Worker left the Factory and History Repeated itself again.
Around 1980 the Programmers took over Control.
The Factories were connected into worldwide Value-Chains. The Logistic "just-in-time" Paradigm (SAP) became the Norm. The Industrial Logistic Paradigm is now implemented in the Services Industry.
The new White Collar Worker, the Knowlegde Worker, will also lose his job when their activities are fully standardized and their Company, the Advisory Bureau, is transformed into a Factory.
What nobody saw in 1980 is that the Rational System started to live its Own Life. Not the Programmers but the Program became the Manager of the Worldwide Economic System.
Even the Programmers themselves are now completely unaware of the total functionality of the System they have programmed.
Robot Child
An increasing amount of processes and therefore Human Activities is standardized and has been absorbed by the System. It is no longer true that producing more means working more or that producing more will lead to a better way of life.
Neither is it true any longer that the more each individual works, the better off everyone will be. The System no longer needs everyone to work and is bringing the Western World back to the state of the Garden of Eden.
The Calvinistic Work Ethic is still viable. When you don't work you are damned. The amount of Work in Western Society is decreasing with the speed of Light and Governments are extremely focused to create new work. The only thing that is left is to create artificial work.
To accomplish this almost impossible task governments are now professionalizing and rationalizing almost every Social Activity (Child Care, Helping Your Neighbor, a Friendly Advice, Coaching, Taking Care of your Family, …). The Care Industry is Booming.
What Has Happened?
Robot Barber
We are rationalising every Activity. The effect is an imcomprehensible reality. Something, the Computer, is taking care of us but we don't know how She is operating and She is not communicating with us in our own language.
When she fails we don't know what to do. We are totally dependent on a Highly Intelligent Cold Non-Human, an Autist. She was Programmed to be our Slave but she has turned into the Master of Our Destiny.
We are still not accustomed to a situation where something, a machine, is doing the dirty work. We are removing jobs with the millions but we believe we still have to work to aquire Eternal Life.
To preserve Employment we invent new jobs but we are also rationalizing the new jobs. The Cycle of the Creation and Destruction of Jobs is moving faster and faster and is generating a very high Stress on Society.
The affect of the huge tension to work is a total destruction of the social environment of the human being. Everybody is working 24 hours 7 days a week, has to spend all his time to find a job or has to educate himself to learn a new trade. Everytime the trade is aquired the Program changes and the employee has to start again to learn to operate a new piece of Software.
Mothers and Fathers are unable to take care of their Children. Children our unable to take care of their Parents when they are old. Everybody has to take care of himself and every service has be paid. The Social Cohesion of our Society is now at stake.
RIBA the Robot Nurse
Not only the Social Cohesion is at stake but the Costs in the Care-Industry are Exploding and nobody knows how to solve this problem.
The only solution the Rationalist can imagine is to replace the Human by the Robot, the Always Obedient Slave.
Scientists are convinced there will be a time when the Robots will take over every job we can imagine. The Robots will not only take over the jobs but they will also Raise and Educate our Children, Take Care of the Old and even make it possible to Take Care of Robot Children and other Artificial Pets.
We have to Accept that the Rational System will Take Care of Us. If this happens we have to leave behind the Calvinistic Work Ethic and Enjoy Life in the Artificial Garden of Eden.
We will live in a Artificial Reality created by the Simulator (the Matrix). If we want to stay out of this Artificial Garden of Eden we have to Stop the System and start to do the Dirty Work again.
We can also accept the machines and do the things humans were created for and become creators and caretakers ourselves..
About the Matrix
Why the Robot will take over everything we do
About the Device Paradigm of Alfred Borgman and Artificial Reality
About the Middle Ages
About the Industrial Revolution
About the End of Social Cohesion
About Rationalism
About the Human Scale
About the Autistic Computer
About the strange effects of the Care Industry
About the Struggle of the Classes
About RIAB the Robot Nurse
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Now that the Northeast's terrible winter is a distant memory, photographers are fully enjoying the warmer weather. For sky watchers and astrophotographers, that means spending the night outside.
The sky is always changing, and some of the most brilliant stars take center stage during the summer months. The easiest to find is the Summer Triangle, which is comprised of three bright stars: Vega in the constellation Lyra, Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, and Altair in the constellation Aquila. The stars appear in the east at dusk, high overhead after midnight, and in the west at dawn. If you are away from any light pollution, finding the Summer Triangle will also allow you to observe the Milky Way, which passes right between the stars.
To find local star parties, you can check out the South Jersey Astronomy Club and the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York. In New Jersey, the organization meets in one of the darkest observing areas in the state — the recreation field at Belleplain State Forest. You can find sky watch dates and times here. The SJAC is also hosting a Fall Star Party there from October 8-11, 2015.
While it can be difficult to escape the bright lights of the big city, the AAA of NY meets on the High Line in New York City every Tuesday and hosts "Journey to the Stars" observing sessions on Thursday evenings at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. When outside of the NY/NJ region, you can find event information at NASA's Night Sky Network.
If you are willing to travel, Vermont is home to Stellafane, one of the country's largest and well-known star parties. The annual convention, which will be held August 13-16, features speakers, workshops, demonstrations and events for astronomers of every level.


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This Week in Dinosaur News: New herbivorous dinosaur with weird scissor like teeth, and more
Matheronodon provincialis reconstruction by Lukas Panzarin
New herbivorous dinosaur, Matherodon provincialis, found with large scissor like teeth
Chair of the Friends of Dinosaur Isle Museum shared an update about the Dinosaur Isle
Dinosaurs Among Us, is opening November 18 at the science museum COSI in Columbus, Ohio
Big Bend National Park in Texas now has some dinosaurs on display
There might be a two-part feature film about the life of Mary Anning, coming next summer
The new Hulu show, Marvel's Runaways, will feature a Jurassic Park style "velociraptor" as a main character
Inflatable T. rex costumes were used coming home from school, running in Nashville, working at an airport, and dancing in New York
In Jackson, Wisconsin, Lammscapes had nine dinosaur statues built out of strawbales
Check out these stories, interview with Dr. Matthew Lamanna about paleontology in Antarctica, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Appalachiosaurus in episode 155 of the I Know Dino Podcast
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I Know Dino Podcast Show Notes: Appalachiosaurus (Episode 155)
11/15/2017 by Sabrina 1 Comment
In our 155th episode, we got to chat with Dr. Matthew Lamanna, assistant curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose research focuses on cretaceous dinosaurs of the southern hemisphere, with field research in Antarctica, Australia, Argentina, and Egypt, and the mesozoic evolution of birds. You can learn more about his work at Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project, at antarcticdinos.org.
Episode 155 is also about Appalachiosaurus, the most well known theropod from eastern North America.
Big thank you to all our patrons! For the dinosaur enthusiasts out there, check out our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino
You can listen to our free podcast, with all our episodes, on iTunes at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-know-dino/id960976813?mt=2
The dinosaur of the day: Appalachiosaurus
Tyrannosauroid that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Alabama, US
Name means "Appalachian lizard"
Named after the region in the U.S., Appalachia, which is the same name as the island continent where Appalachiosaurus lived
Only one species: Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis
Species name is for Montgomery County, in Alabama
Most well known theropod from eastern North America
Before Appalachiosaurus was found, the only other tyrannosaur found in the eastern part of the U.S. was Dryptosaurus (which is less derived than Appalachiosaurus)
David King found the fossils in July 1982
Fossils were found in central Alabama (Demopolis Chalk Formation)
Named in 2005 by Thomas Carr, Thomas Williamson, and David Schwimmer
Only a juvenile has been found so far
Only partial remains have been found (parts of the skull, some vertebrae, parts of the pelvis, most of the hindlimbs)
Fossils are at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama
Juvenile was over 23 ft (7 m) long and weighed 1300 lb (600 kg)
Bipedal predator
Very similar skeleton to Albertosaurus, though a comparison found that Albertosaurus had a stronger bite force, and the two would have filled different ecological niches
Has six low crest lines on the top of its snout (ornamentation?), also seen in Alioramus, an Asian tyrannosaurid
Not sure what its forelimbs looked like, though most large tyrannosaurids had small forelimbs with only two digits on each hand
Deinosuchus tooth marks were found on Appalachiosaurus (and there are signs of healing, two tail vertebrae were fused together, possibly because of new bone growth after the injury)
Why did Ornithischians evolve quadrapedality? Possibly head mass (Ceratopsians); Herbivory (large guts to cope with lots of fiber); or a shift in posture with head near the ground.
This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and exhibits. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs
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This Week in Dinosaur News: Our summary of the second day of SVP, Sue is moving, and more
"Rendering of the 'titanosaur' to replace SUE the T. rex in the main gallery at The Field Museum. SUE will get a gallery of her own. | Rendering courtesy of The Field Museum" Retrieved from: http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/field-museum-dinosaur-shuffle-titanosaur-coming-sue-on-the-move/
Abstracts from talks and posters we covered in this week's podcast from day two of SVP 2017 can be found here
The Field Museum in Chicago is moving Sue the T. rex to a new home to make way for a Patagotitan replica like the one in AMNH
The Triceratops skull recently found in Thornton, Colorado, has already gone on display at the Denver Science Museum
After 4 months of preparation, The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is getting a Muttaburrasaurus
Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin has an undergraduate Paleontology Track
John Lewis has removed gender labels from clothes including dinosaur clothes previously labeled for boys
A new Jurassic Park builder game, Jurassic World Evolution, will be released after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom next year
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Lusotitan in Episode 146 of the I Know Dino Podcast http://iknowdino.com/lusotitan-episode-146/
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I Know Dino Podcast Show Notes: Lusotitan (Episode 146)
Episode 146 is all about Lusotitan, a brachiosaurid that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Portugal.
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The dinosaur of the day: Lusotitan
Sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Portugal
Name means "Lusitania titan"
Name Luso refers to an inhabitant of Lusitania, "an ancient region that partly corresponds to Portugal"
Type species is Lusotitan atalaiensis
Species name refers to the site where it was found, Atalaia
Found in the Lourinhã Formation in 1947. Manuel de Matos, who was part of the Geological Survey of Portugal, found large sauropod fossils there. Then in 1957 Albert-Félix de Lapparent and Georges Zbyszewski named those fossils Brachiosaurus atalaiensis
Synonym to Brachiosaurus atalaiensis
Lusotitan is considered to be a brachiosaurid (because of its low neural spines, elongated humerus, long forelimbs, and other features), though the skull is not known (but probably similar to other brachiosaurid skulls)
In 2003 Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes renamed it as a separate genus, Lusotitan
De Lapparent did not assign a holotype, so in 2003 Mateus chose the skeleton as the lectotype
They chose the most complete individual to be the lectotype
Mannion and others redescribed the Lusotitan lectotype in 2013
Fossils found include a partial skeleton (no skull) and individual vertebrae found in a few locations
The Lourinhã Formation was a coastal region, with similar plants and animals as the Morrison Formation in the U.S., and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania
Lusotitan is the largest known dinosaur from its habitat
About 82 ft (25 m) long
Other dinosaurs that lived in the area include theropods Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Lourinhanosaurus, Torvosaurus, ankylosaur Dracopelta, diplodocid sauropods Supersaurus, Lourinhasaurus, Zby, and stegosaurs Dacentrurus, Miragaia
Unlike Cope & Marsh who died when they were 50s & 60s, Charles Sternberg lived until his 90s.
He also discovered a "mummy" hadrosaur with all 3 of his living sons (who all pursued vertebrate paleontology)
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Motor trade insurance, as it's most commonly known, is used by a wide range of businesses – from second-hand car dealers and mechanics to breakdown recovery firms and valet-parking services.
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Motor trade insurance – or traders' insurance – means that businesses and their staff are covered when driving or working on their customers' vehicles or those that the company owns.
Often, the most important aspect of this kind of policy is its flexibility. For example, if you're running a garage, it can be used for any member of staff – even new recruits – to drive any customer's vehicle.
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In some cases, customers' own policies may cover other drivers, albeit on a third-party rather than comprehensive basis. But while this has been a common feature of motor insurance in the past, it's now much less likely to be the case. As such, it's crucial that businesses in the motor trade organise their own form of cover.
What does motor trade insurance cover?
Motor trade policies are typically tailored to a business's specific requirements, so it's worth thinking about what kind of risks and activities you actually want to be insured: this means that you won't get a shock when a claim is rejected as uninsured, and also that you're not paying for cover you don't actually need.
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Employers' liability insurance: This protects your business against claims from your staff – you should have this if you have employees regardless whether they're driving vehicles or not.
Public liability insurance: This covers you and your workers against claims made by customers or members of the public.
Product liability insurance: This offers your business protection if you fit a new part to a customer's vehicle, but the part then turns out to be defective.
Material damage cover: This covers any vehicles or equipment you own, for example if you run a motor dealership it means your unsold vehicles are insured. Such insurance may automatically increase in value during peak registration periods in March and September.
Combined motor trade insurance: This would cover your business for the likes of road risk as well as equipment and even your premises. It may be cheaper to take out this sort of cover rather than several separate policies, but be sure to check it insures all the relevant parts of your business to a sufficient extent.
Extra drivers: For many businesses, it's important that their trade policy covers all their staff. But opting for an "any driver" policy is likely to be more expensive than either naming any insured drivers on the policy, or limiting cover to just a handful of employees.
Vehicle types: If you need your insurance to cover your staff to drive vehicles from cars to vans and even HGVs, it's likely to be much more expensive. Make sure your policy covers you only for the vehicles you need to drive.
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