INTERESTING TIMES

The previous post about big water rowing strategy for small water boaters has been helpful to a lot of non-boatmen tasked with rowing. Friends have asked me to write more about rowing skills, so here we go. It took me years to get comfortable with the basics because I was only occasionally on the oars. When I finally got control of my boat angle in turbulent water I started having better lines. Moving the boat forward and going for the meat got easier, but any finer points were lost on me. I've ridden with boatmen who row every day for months and years on end, and they knew things that you have to learn by doing. I've never rowed for a living, so I'm an amateur. Still, I've had some seasons when I rowed enough that light bulbs went off in my head. Here are three lessons that made a big difference for me.

Lesson 1: Push More (You Don't Have Pull out of Every Corner)
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HOMEWORK ATSDR CSEM
Taking an Environmental Health History
atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=17&po=o (or pdf on moodle
complete post-test questions 1-8 by next class

class on week 11 is when we get the take-home final
due friday week 12
homeworks will be reviewed over Thanksgiving
and notice given to students who haven't complete them
no homeworks will be graded late

ACAM & AAEM conference in PDX this week
Marianne Marchese is speaking, 2002 NCNM grad
her book: 8 Wks to Wmns Wellness
( notes (melanoma notes integrated from this date back, radiation notes integrated from this entry to radiation protocol) )

Of course my favorite river is always whichever one I'm on. Or was just on. Or am about to go on. Today was my third time down the Lower Wind in Washington, and it is quickly working its way into the list of all time favorites. It's not especially hard. Mostly class III with some IVish low volume rocky stuff, one hard class IV (V-?) called the Flume, and then the series of four drops at the end that most call class IV. The four large drops are 1) vertical 10 footer with an autoboof on the left 2) vertical 20 footer that I like to boof right 3) long bony slide, stupid, dangerous, but kinda fun, 4) the final 10 footer that is a clean (boof right) part of the otherwise rock-infested weir.


This is the autoboof at the first of the final series of falls.

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I can scarcely believe the tone and content of this so-called Physics class. I just escaped. The woman wanted us to devise a way of measuring the speed of light that was different from the method of Michelson, who actually did it in the late 1800's. Of course the technologies we were supposed to use were of that era. Michelson's method was ingenious and he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for it. One cocky young man got up and drew pictures on the board the spewed a load of bull about how he would do it. Made no sense scientifically. No one else in the class had a feasible way of measuring lightspeed (not an easy thing to do) so she kept us in class telling us we were to turn in our method for next class, and to figure it out while sitting there until 8:30pm. She let the bullshitter and his "group" go early, and kept the rest of us to "work on it". I refuse to turn in a load of bull and pretend that it might work. She treats us like second graders and I can barely keep myself from telling her exactly what I think of her. I am going to LAMBAST her in the teacher evals at the end of the semester. I am tempted to go to the higherups of this school immediately to tell them about the class. Unfortunately the majority of the students will say "nice" things about her because she gives out good grades. This kind of "education" is for the birds.

Mood: furious.