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Lecture: Ecotoxicology of Personal Care Products in Illinois Rivers and Streams.
Effects of contamination in natural bodies of water. This seminar will be broadcast live and also archived on our website www.istc.illinois.edu for later viewing if you cannot attend the event...pretty sweet!
Speaker: Dr. John Kelly - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola University - Chicago Date: Mar 14, 2013 Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 Cost: Free Sponsor: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Speaker Alexander L. Mayer Date Mar 13, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL Cost free admission Contact Jason Finkelman E-Mail aems@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-9597 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27315122&calMin=201303&cal=20130313&skinId=1 Event type Film
Description: The preservation of Tibetan Bön culture is portrayed in this beautiful documentary interweaving daily life of the Menri Monastery in Northern India, rebuilt by the 33rd Abbot of Menri after the old monastery in Tibet was destroyed, and the story of Geshe Sonam Gurung, who journeyed as a young boy from the ancient kingdom of Mustang, Nepal to study at Menri and who has now returned home to share his teachings.
Bön: Mustang To Menri illustrates the interconnectedness of education, commitment to service and spiritual dedication. It communicates Bön's story and unique place in history while illuminating how and why the work that monks do is important to the modern world. It is a universal message, one that reveals how inspired individuals can overcome challenges and adversity to order to have a positive impact on the world while giving back to the people, places and traditions that nurtured them.
Date Mar 14, 2013 Time 6:00 pm Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building (map) Sponsor European Union Center E-Mail kimrice@illinois.edu Event type Movie Night
Goran and Sven are the perfect gay couple; they have a beautiful house in the suburbs, a solid relationship, a home full of love and warmth. Newly approved for adoption, they believe that baby Patrik, age 1.5, is on his way. One tiny decimal mistake later, they find themselves saddled with a 15-year-old homophobe....who may have a criminal past. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Speaker Alexander L. Mayer Date Mar 13, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL Cost free admission Sponsor Asian Educational Media Service, Spurlock Museum, Urbana Free Library Contact Jason Finkelman E-Mail aems@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-9597 Event type Film Views 8 Originating Calendar AEMS - Events Bön: Mustang To Menri Produced by Andrea Heckman and Rose Gordon. Directed by Tad Fettig. 2011. 60 minutes. In English.
Introduction and discussion by Alexander L. Mayer (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies, UI).
Description: The preservation of Tibetan Bön culture is portrayed in this beautiful documentary interweaving daily life of the Menri Monastery in Northern India, rebuilt by the 33rd Abbot of Menri after the old monastery in Tibet was destroyed, and the story of Geshe Sonam Gurung, who journeyed as a young boy from the ancient kingdom of Mustang, Nepal to study at Menri and who has now returned home to share his teachings.
Wednesday 13 - Thursday 14 March | 7:30PM Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert $10
The Smithsonian Associates’ 2012 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Mark Morris is in his fourth decade as a dance innovator. With keen intelligence, intense musicality, and convention-shrugging sensibilities, Morris has led his troupe to critical accolades and profound audience appreciation throughout the world. Krannert Center has served as the Midwest home for the Mark Morris Dance Group since 2001. Each spring, MMDG and Krannert Center collaborate on a week of engagement activities that encompass movement-based and musical programs for students at the University of Illinois, as well as community programs that serve individuals, families, and children of all ages in the Champaign-Urbana area.
The deep relationship between MMDG and Krannert Center has led to the shadow program, in which Dance at Illinois students spend time and take classes with MMDG company members in Urbana and New York City. Students from the School of Music have appeared in several MMDG pieces—which always feature live music—including Dido and Aeneas and The Muir, and Sinfonia da Camera has performed with the company. UI alumni have had the opportunity to dance in large-scale works and serve as members of MMDG’s production team. Krannert Center’s monthly Dance for People with Parkinson’s workshop grew out of the pilot MMDG program based in Brooklyn. This season, among the works that the Mark Morris Dance Group will present at Krannert Center is the compelling Jesu, Meine Freude for 10 dancers that is set to J. S. Bach’s choral masterpiece of the same title.
This rich relationship has extended the reach of MMDG beyond the stage in a melding of arts and academia that has enriched communities around the world.
After the performance, stay in the theatre for a free talkback.
Date Mar 5, 2013 - Jun 16, 2013 Time All Day Location Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana Cost Free admission Sponsor Spurlock Museum Phone 333-2360 Views 50 Originating Calendar Inclusive Illinois Events In 1994, brothers Tom and William Kelly and their friend Kevin Hasson joined together as The Bogside Artists. Having personally experienced the unfolding of the Northern Irish 'Troubles,' they united to express the struggle for civil rights in their community through the Ulster tradition of using murals for social commentary. This exhibit features murals and text that provide a balanced commentary on the history of Northern Ireland. From Protest to Peace is on loan from the Georgia Southern University Museum. The exhibit is open during Museum hours: Tuesday 12-5; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9-5; Saturday 10-4; Sunday 12-4.
CPLC Seminar: "Axonal degeneration in Huntington's disease: Linking signaling pathways to alterations in motor protein function"
Speaker Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago Date Mar 15, 2013 Time 2:00 pm Location 464 Loomis Sponsor Center for the Physics of Living Cells Contact Shawn McCormick E-Mail smmccorm@illinois.edu Event type CPLC Seminar Views 3578 Originating Calendar Physics - Physics of Living Cells Seminar "Axonal degeneration in Huntington's disease: Linking signaling pathways to alterations in motor protein function"
Polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases comprise a group of inheritable neurological diseases characterized by abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the coding region of structurally unrelated genes Among these, Huntington’s disease (HD) represents the most common polyQ disorder, involving progressive loss of motor and cognitive function that results from degeneration of selected neuronal populations within the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex.
The dying-back pattern of neuronal degeneration observed in HD suggests alterations in a cellular process particularly critical for appropriate maintenance of synaptic and axonal connectivity. Supporting this idea, pathogenic forms of Huntingtin protein (polyQ-Htt) inhibit axonal transport in various cellular and animal HD models, but the molecular basis of this toxic effect remained unknown. Evidence will be presented showing that polyQ-Htt inhibits axonal transport through a mechanism involving activation of specific JNK isoforms and abnormal phosphorylation of the molecular motor protein conventional kinesin. Surprisingly, results from our studies also show that a proline-rich domain (PRD) of Huntingtin, and not the polyQ domain, mediate the toxic effects of this protein on axonal transport. Taken together, findings from our work identify critical mediators of polyQ-Htt toxicity in neurons, thus providing novel targets for therapeutic intervention.
Middle East Film Festival 2013: "20 Years Old in the Middle East"
Date Mar 14, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location 245 Altgeld Hall, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana Cost free and open to the public Sponsor CSAMES Contact Angela Williams E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu Phone (217) 244-5939 Event type Film Screening Views 1 Originating Calendar CSAMES events "20 years old in the Middle East." First Run/Icarus, 2003, 52 mins. Filmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein, [the film] traverses the region - from Jordan to Syria, Iran, and Lebanon - to take the pulse of Arab and Iranian youth. The film offers an opportunity for Western college students to truly understand the lives and attitudes of their Middle Eastern counterparts: how they're different, and how they're the same. Undergraduate library DVD DS63.1 .T9 2003 This is part of the 2013 Middle East Film Festival.
Date Mar 14, 2013 Time 6:30 pm Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820) Cost FREE
Description: "When forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family, a Bronx teenager juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression." -Sundance.
Jack Buser, Senior Director of Digital Platforms, Sony PlayStation
"Gaming is for Grown-Ups: A View of the Industry"
March 13, 5pm 151 Everitt Lab
Buser is going to give an in depth look at the gaming industry and how revolutionary technology like motion and virtual reality as well as a whole new demographic, smartphone gamers, is reinvigorating this industry and fueling its growth. It would be a great lecture for anyone who is a nerd like me or anyone who is interested in the gaming industry. It will probably be packed, so get there early.
14th Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert JOHN NICHOLS, COMPOSER, AND TATIANA SHUSTOVA, PIANO
Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall
Dedicated to education, appreciation, and support for piano works, the 21st Century Piano Commission funds a competition each year for a composition featuring the keyboard instrument.
This year’s winners are John Nichols, a DMA student in composition, and Tatiana Shustova, a DMA student in piano performance who will present the world premiere of his work.
Date: Mar 14, 2013 Time: 3:00 pm Location: 2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana (Japan House)
"You are welcome to observe the tea ceremony for free, but if you would like to participate in the tea ceremony, the fee is $8 per person. Please bring or wear white socks so that you can be on the tatami mats. Reservations are preferred."
TSS Seminar: Jiawei Han: "Finding Truth from Multiple Conflicting Sources: A Probabilistic Network-Based Approach" Speaker Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date Mar 13, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location 2405 Siebel Center Sponsor Information Trust Institute Event type Seminar Views 855 Originating Calendar Information Trust Institute
ABSTRACT
With enormous amount of data on the Web and other information repositories, it is not unusual that multiple data sources may provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major challenge for data quality control is to derive the most complete and accurate integrated information from diverse and sometimes conflicting sources. We call this challenge the truth finding problem. We observe that some sources are generally more reliable than others, and therefore a good model of source quality is the key to solving the truth finding problem.
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Physics-Based Space Weather Modeling"
Speaker Gabor Toth (University of Michigan) Date Mar 13, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 464 Loomis Sponsor Department of Physics Event type Seminar Views 450 Originating Calendar Physics - Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar While we experience the changes of weather every day, most people are not even aware of the dynamic changes of the Sun and its effects on Earth and spacecraft. Space weather describes the various processes in the Sun-Earth system that present danger to human health and technology. Space weather forecasting aims at providing an opportunity to mitigate these negative effects. The University of Michigan has been at the forefront of physics-based space weather modeling. We have developed a flexible and efficient magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, the Block-Adaptive Tree Solarwind Roe-type Upwind Scheme (BATS-R-US) code that we use to model the solar convection zone, solar corona, the heliosphere, the magnetosphere around the Earth and other planets, moons and comets. MHD, even with many extensions, is not a valid approximation in many domains of the space weather system. Examples of non-MHD models include the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (GITM) that simulates the ionized and neutral gases in the upper atmosphere, the Ridley Ionosphere Model (RIM) that solves for the electric potential field in the ionosphere, the Polar Wind Outflow Model (PWOM) that solves for the ions escaping into the magnetosphere along open magnetic field lines and the inner magnetosphere and radiation belt models that describe the high-energy particles trapped on closed field lines. While all of these models were developed independently, they need to be coupled together to represent the space weather system. The Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) was developed to efficiently couple a subset of the various physics domain models and execute them faster than real time on large parallel computers. The publicly available SWMF is distributed with a full set of domain models. The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard provides access to the SWMF via runs-on-request. The CCMC also runs the magnetospheric models of the SWMF in real time and has been providing now-casting for many years. The CCMC also performs SWMF-based coronal-heliospere simulations, which predict solar wind conditions at Earth.
Art History: Punk 101:Cult/Fear 'No Future' Tartan bondage suits. Xeroxed fanzines. Anthems proclaiming, ?No future!? In urban centers like London, New York and Los Angeles, punks embraced these kinds of statements and tactics in live music performances and in the production of records, zines, fashion and films. In examining the materials--in particular, the films--that document or analyze punk culture, this course will explore and challenge notions about the aesthetics and worldview of punk and its legacy and discuss larger questions of memory, history and representation.
i know this probably doesn't count for mining, but you guys should come anyway! my mom is in a band called "Dody & Frazier" and they're playing at the Clark Bar on saturday night from 6-10. i'll be there at 8 at the bar ;) they are a cover duet that plays a range of stuff from the Beatles to k t tunstal to jason mraz. come drink with me!
This is going on in Chicago over break. I don't really know if any of y'all are working with/interested in glitch imaging but I'll be a part of this show and its gonna be supercool
Glitch Art 0P3NR3P0.NET Share Fest Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 6 pm
http://www2.mcachicago.org/event/event-past-7/
Share your glitch art with others or come to observe the artistic chaos. Expect to see a bit of everything; executable/artware, digital poetry, animated gifs, data-bent-psychedelia and the retro-nostalgia of pixel art. Glitch enthusiasts are invited to physically bring their error-prone data or upload their corrupted, hacked, or otherwise mis-haped files via 0P3NR3P0.NET. This event is organized in collaboration with Nick Briz, an artist currently based in Chicago.
Nick Briz is a new-media artist, educator, and organizer whose work has been shown internationally at festivals and institutions, including the FILE Media Arts Festival (Rio de Janeiro, BR); Miami Art Basel; the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruek, DE); the Images Festival (Toronto, CA). He has lectured and organized events at numerous international institutions including STEIM (Amsterdam, NL) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is distributed through Video Out Distribution (Vancouver, CA) as well as openly and freely on the web
Pretty sure i was a study subject in this or related studies
SLATE, Linguistics - Shinobu Mizuguchi - Kobe University: "Prosody Perception by Japanese EFLs"
Speaker Shinobu Mizuguchi - Kobe University Date Mar 13, 2013 Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Location Room 1038, Foreign Languages Building Cost Free and open to the public Sponsor Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Linguistics Event type Lecture Views 28 Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar Abstract'This paper* investigates the strategies that Japanese EFL learners utilize in perceiving prosodic cues in spoken English. Based on a series of Rapid Prosody Transcription tasks (RPT) with native speakers of English, Mo et al. 2008 and Cole et al. 2010 claim that higher syntactic boundaries and vowel duration are the first and the second strongest predictors for detecting prosodic chunks in spontaneous speech. The current study aims to extend this research paradigm to Japanese EFL learners and provide a comparison between native speakers' and Japanese EFL learners' approaches to prosody perception. 78 Japanese undergraduate students took part in a prosody transcription activity using RPT to mark prosodic boundaries on printed transcripts in real time as they listened to excerpts from conversational American English speech. The findings show that Japanese EFL learners show remarkable differences in syntactic cues for boundary perception from native speakers of English compared to those perceived by English listeners (Cole et al. 2010). Native English listeners are more sensitive to higher-level categories in boundary perception, while Japanese EFL learners rely on minor phrase boundaries like NP, VP or ADVP, and rarely perceive boundaries at discourse markers as independent prosodic phrases. The Japanese literature (Selkirk and Tateishi 1988, Kawahara 2012, among others) says that Japanese use pitch reset for IP perception, where minor categories are important, and that creakiness is often observed at the right edge of an IP. It is not a surprise that Japanese EFL learners rely on minor categories. Though much to be clarified, this work is a first step towards syntax-phonology mapping principles. * This is co-worked with Gabor Pinter and Kazuhito Yamato, supported by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, grant number 23720285.
Linguistics Seminar Series -- Mahmoud Abunasser (PhD Candidate in Linguistics): "Computational measures of linguistic variation"
Mahmoud Abunasser (PhD Candidate in Linguistics) Mar 14, 2013 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building Free and open to the public.
Abstract - Measures of linguistic variation, also called linguistic distances, is one of the prominent topics in the growing field of dialectometry, which is concerned with quantifying linguistic differences and similarities and, often, links it to geographical distances between the areas where the relevant languages are spoken (Nerbornne and Kretzschmar, 2003). In this presentation, I will report on an on-going project developing computational linguistic variation metrics quantifying the lexical, pronunciation, and morphosyntactic distance between three varieties of Arabic from different regions of the Arabic speaking world. The distances are based on elicitations of data from native speakers of the varieties under consideration. The speakers (and their parents) were born and raised in the same city of consideration. For the purpose of evaluating the lexical and pronunciation distance, the Swadesh list (207 items) was elicited and phonetically transcribed for all varieties. In the elicitation sessions, subjects are given the appropriate context for the lexical items when an ambiguity is expected, and the researcher made some adaptations to the Swadesh list to make it consistent with Arabic varieties. The lexical distance is based on the number of cognate words in the list. The pronunciation distance is based on the Levenshtein distance ' A variant of the minimum edit distance ' between pair of words in the parallel lists. Levenshtein distance was introduced to computational linguistics by Kessler (1995), and subsequently used by other researchers. The morphosyntactic distance depends on the variation in patterns of morphosyntactic agreement. To quantify the amount of variation we investigated different patterns of agreement depending on the number, gender and person of the subject. We elicited data for different classes of verbs (sound verb, geminate verb, three verbs where one of the root radicals is a glide, and a verb with two glides). In addition to the verbal paradigms that expressed subject-verb agreement, we also extended the investigation to object and possessive clitics or bound pronouns.
"Beats, Rhymes, and Rice" Wednesday March 13, 2013 UIC's Student Center East in the Illinois Room 750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago IL 60607 Doors open at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.
Beats, Rhymes, and Rice is a clever word play by Geo from Blue Scholars that is derived from A Tribe Called Quest's 'Beats, Rhymes, and Life'. It originally started out as a nationwide tour featuring renounced Def Jam poet Bao Phi, 1/3 of Native Gun's Kiwi, and spoken word artist/activist Giles Li. Known through the community for their art and activist, this trio tour the States to promote art and address social justice while integrating issues around Asian American back in 2007.
Today, it has spawned into an annual Hip Hop event in Chicago.
ECE Colloquium (ECE500): "What can we learn from teaching a parallel programming MOOC?"
Speaker Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, ECE, University of Illinois Date Mar 14, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location 151 Everitt Lab Sponsor ECE ILLINOIS Contact Prof. Farzad Kamalabadi Event type Seminars Views 152 Originating Calendar ECE ILLINOIS Seminars Abstract: The Heterogeneous Parallel Programming (HPP) MOOC covers a subset of the UIUC ECE408 (a.k.a. CS483) syllabus, which introduces foundational concepts and techniques in programming massively parallel processors. Effective learning of these topics requires hands-on programming activities using advanced hardware. At UIUC, we typically offer the on-campus version of this course to no more than 40 students so that we can give each student enough support. With more than 27,000 students registered on Coursera, we clearly needed a different approach. In this talk, I will start with the design of the videos that eventually accumulated 212,000 views and 345,000 downloads by 16,860 individuals. I will also describe the design of the programming lab that eventually performed more than 700,000 compile-and-runs on the Amazon EC2 cloud on behalf of 9,908 users from 127 countries. In the end, more than 2,600 students received Certificate of Achievement (with a grade of 70% or higher); 2,281 of them received Certificate of Distinction (with a grade of 85% or higher). With multiple gigabytes of data collected from the video and lab interfaces, I will attempt to answer a few questions: How do we adapt a lab-intensive senior/graduate level course into a MOOC platform? Who are the students taking this course? How hard do the students work in this course? How does the work done for the MOOC version impact the UIUC version? How does a good student in the MOOC offering compare against on-campus students? What do students think about the course?
March 19, 7 p.m., College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Derrick Brown Poetry Performance with Shanny Jean Maney Room C005 Known for a moving show that incorporates poetry, minimalist music and sound fx, Derrick Brown is unique for being an outstanding performer but is foremost a page poet. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country,” Write Bloody Publishing. Brown is the author of four books of poetry and The New York Times calls his work, “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.”
Shanny Jean Maney is a co-creator of the award winning Encyclopedia Show in Chicago. She was featured in three National Poetry Slam Championships. Her book I Love Science has made an impressive debut. Shanny’s style is full of wonder, hilarity and heartache. She is one of the most sincere and engaging performers in the slam poetry scene. Fee: Free For more information, contact English Professor Larry Starzec at (847) 543-2557 or at com592@clcillinois.edu.
Panel: Wildly Imaginative Voices & Visions @ Harold Washington Library Reading/Conversation/Signing Led by Ann Hemenway
w/ Writers: Susan Hahn, The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter (not present due to illness) T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts Adam McOmber, The White Forest Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
How to make a good impression at an interview. Michele Plante will give a lecture based on direct feedback from employers in the past on what makes and breaks an interview.
The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago (check website for free days)
Shedd connects people to the living world. We engage and inspire, entertain and inform. We are a vital teaching and learning resource, conservation leader, neighborhood partner and global collaborator. We are passionate about our animals, their habitats and the planet we share.
Food for the Soul: Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Race & Education in post-Katrina New Orleans
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
708 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27467542&calMin=201303&cal=20130313&skinId=1
Lecture: Ecotoxicology of Personal Care Products in Illinois Rivers and Streams.
ReplyDeleteEffects of contamination in natural bodies of water. This seminar will be broadcast live and also archived on our website www.istc.illinois.edu for later viewing if you cannot attend the event...pretty sweet!
Speaker: Dr. John Kelly - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola University - Chicago
Date: Mar 14, 2013
Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Speaker Alexander L. Mayer
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 13, 2013
Time 7:00 pm
Location Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Cost free admission
Contact Jason Finkelman
E-Mail aems@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-9597
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27315122&calMin=201303&cal=20130313&skinId=1
Event type Film
Brianne!
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Description:
DeleteThe preservation of Tibetan Bön culture is portrayed in this beautiful documentary interweaving daily life of the Menri Monastery in Northern India, rebuilt by the 33rd Abbot of Menri after the old monastery in Tibet was destroyed, and the story of Geshe Sonam Gurung, who journeyed as a young boy from the ancient kingdom of Mustang, Nepal to study at Menri and who has now returned home to share his teachings.
Bön: Mustang To Menri illustrates the interconnectedness of education, commitment to service and spiritual dedication. It communicates Bön's story and unique place in history while illuminating how and why the work that monks do is important to the modern world. It is a universal message, one that reveals how inspired individuals can overcome challenges and adversity to order to have a positive impact on the world while giving back to the people, places and traditions that nurtured them.
Patrik 1,5 (Patrik Age 1.5) - Sweden, 2008
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Time 6:00 pm
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building (map)
Sponsor
European Union Center
E-Mail kimrice@illinois.edu
Event type Movie Night
Goran and Sven are the perfect gay couple; they have a beautiful house in the suburbs, a solid relationship, a home full of love and warmth. Newly approved for adoption, they believe that baby Patrik, age 1.5, is on his way. One tiny decimal mistake later, they find themselves saddled with a 15-year-old homophobe....who may have a criminal past. In Swedish with English subtitles.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=26639279&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
Speaker Alexander L. Mayer
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Time 7:00 pm
Location Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Cost free admission
Sponsor Asian Educational Media Service, Spurlock Museum, Urbana Free Library
Contact Jason Finkelman
E-Mail aems@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-9597
Event type Film
Views 8
Originating Calendar AEMS - Events
Bön: Mustang To Menri
Produced by Andrea Heckman and Rose Gordon. Directed by Tad Fettig.
2011. 60 minutes.
In English.
Introduction and discussion by Alexander L. Mayer (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies, UI).
Description:
The preservation of Tibetan Bön culture is portrayed in this beautiful documentary interweaving daily life of the Menri Monastery in Northern India, rebuilt by the 33rd Abbot of Menri after the old monastery in Tibet was destroyed, and the story of Geshe Sonam Gurung, who journeyed as a young boy from the ancient kingdom of Mustang, Nepal to study at Menri and who has now returned home to share his teachings.
duplicate posting, see Brianne above
DeleteMARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
ReplyDeleteWednesday 13 - Thursday 14 March | 7:30PM
Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert
$10
The Smithsonian Associates’ 2012 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Mark Morris is in his fourth decade as a dance innovator. With keen intelligence, intense musicality, and convention-shrugging sensibilities, Morris has led his troupe to critical accolades and profound audience appreciation throughout the world. Krannert Center has served as the Midwest home for the Mark Morris Dance Group since 2001. Each spring, MMDG and Krannert Center collaborate on a week of engagement activities that encompass movement-based and musical programs for students at the University of Illinois, as well as community programs that serve individuals, families, and children of all ages in the Champaign-Urbana area.
The deep relationship between MMDG and Krannert Center has led to the shadow program, in which Dance at Illinois students spend time and take classes with MMDG company members in Urbana and New York City. Students from the School of Music have appeared in several MMDG pieces—which always feature live music—including Dido and Aeneas and The Muir, and Sinfonia da Camera has performed with the company. UI alumni have had the opportunity to dance in large-scale works and serve as members of MMDG’s production team. Krannert Center’s monthly Dance for People with Parkinson’s workshop grew out of the pilot MMDG program based in Brooklyn. This season, among the works that the Mark Morris Dance Group will present at Krannert Center is the compelling Jesu, Meine Freude for 10 dancers that is set to J. S. Bach’s choral masterpiece of the same title.
This rich relationship has extended the reach of MMDG beyond the stage in a melding of arts and academia that has enriched communities around the world.
After the performance, stay in the theatre for a free talkback.
Documenting the Emergence of the Latina/o Community in a Mid-Sized Community
ReplyDeleteSpeakers Sang Lee, Moises Orozco, and Gabriel Rodríguez
Topics Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership
Date Thursday March 14, 12–1pm @ La Casa Cultural Latina- 1203 W. Nevada, Urbana
This will be a part of the Lunchtime Discussion Series of the Spring 2013 semester
Exhibit: "From Protest to Peace"
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 5, 2013 - Jun 16, 2013
Time All Day
Location Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Cost Free admission
Sponsor Spurlock Museum
Phone 333-2360
Views 50
Originating Calendar Inclusive Illinois Events
In 1994, brothers Tom and William Kelly and their friend Kevin Hasson joined together as The Bogside Artists. Having personally experienced the unfolding of the Northern Irish 'Troubles,' they united to express the struggle for civil rights in their community through the Ulster tradition of using murals for social commentary. This exhibit features murals and text that provide a balanced commentary on the history of Northern Ireland. From Protest to Peace is on loan from the Georgia Southern University Museum. The exhibit is open during Museum hours: Tuesday 12-5; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9-5; Saturday 10-4; Sunday 12-4.
CPLC Seminar: "Axonal degeneration in Huntington's disease: Linking signaling pathways to alterations in motor protein function"
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Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Date Mar 15, 2013
Time 2:00 pm
Location 464 Loomis
Sponsor
Center for the Physics of Living Cells
Contact Shawn McCormick
E-Mail smmccorm@illinois.edu
Event type CPLC Seminar
Views 3578
Originating Calendar Physics - Physics of Living Cells Seminar
"Axonal degeneration in Huntington's disease: Linking signaling pathways to alterations in motor protein function"
Polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases comprise a group of inheritable neurological diseases characterized by abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the coding region of structurally unrelated genes Among these, Huntington’s disease (HD) represents the most common polyQ disorder, involving progressive loss of motor and cognitive function that results from degeneration of selected neuronal populations within the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex.
The dying-back pattern of neuronal degeneration observed in HD suggests alterations in a cellular process particularly critical for appropriate maintenance of synaptic and axonal connectivity. Supporting this idea, pathogenic forms of Huntingtin protein (polyQ-Htt) inhibit axonal transport in various cellular and animal HD models, but the molecular basis of this toxic effect remained unknown. Evidence will be presented showing that polyQ-Htt inhibits axonal transport through a mechanism involving activation of specific JNK isoforms and abnormal phosphorylation of the molecular motor protein conventional kinesin. Surprisingly, results from our studies also show that a proline-rich domain (PRD) of Huntingtin, and not the polyQ domain, mediate the toxic effects of this protein on axonal transport. Taken together, findings from our work identify critical mediators of polyQ-Htt toxicity in neurons, thus providing novel targets for therapeutic intervention.
Middle East Film Festival 2013: "20 Years Old in the Middle East"
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 14, 2013
Time 7:00 pm
Location 245 Altgeld Hall, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana
Cost free and open to the public
Sponsor CSAMES
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-5939
Event type Film Screening
Views 1
Originating Calendar CSAMES events
"20 years old in the Middle East." First Run/Icarus, 2003, 52 mins. Filmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein, [the film] traverses the region - from Jordan to Syria, Iran, and Lebanon - to take the pulse of Arab and Iranian youth. The film offers an opportunity for Western college students to truly understand the lives and attitudes of their Middle Eastern counterparts: how they're different, and how they're the same. Undergraduate library DVD DS63.1 .T9 2003 This is part of the 2013 Middle East Film Festival.
Sex & Gender Film Series: "Pariah"
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 14, 2013
Time 6:30 pm
Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)
Cost FREE
Description: "When forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family, a Bronx teenager juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression." -Sundance.
Doors open at 6:30 pm, Film at 7:00 pm
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?eventId=27515753&calMin=201303&cal=20130314&skinId=2292
Jack Buser, Senior Director of Digital Platforms, Sony PlayStation
ReplyDelete"Gaming is for Grown-Ups: A View of the Industry"
March 13, 5pm
151 Everitt Lab
Buser is going to give an in depth look at the gaming industry and how revolutionary technology like motion and virtual reality as well as a whole new demographic, smartphone gamers, is reinvigorating this industry and fueling its growth. It would be a great lecture for anyone who is a nerd like me or anyone who is interested in the gaming industry. It will probably be packed, so get there early.
Also, they are giving out pizza after the talk!
http://www.ece.illinois.edu/calendar/event.asp?startDate=3/13/2013&endDate=3/13/2013&eventId=26008771
reviewed by HARRISON
Deletereviewed by BRIANNE
Delete14th Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert
ReplyDeleteJOHN NICHOLS, COMPOSER, AND TATIANA SHUSTOVA, PIANO
Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall
Dedicated to education, appreciation, and support for piano works, the 21st Century Piano Commission funds a competition each year for a composition featuring the keyboard instrument.
This year’s winners are John Nichols, a DMA student in composition, and Tatiana Shustova, a DMA student in piano performance who will present the world premiere of his work.
"Tea Ceremony"
ReplyDeleteDate: Mar 14, 2013
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana (Japan House)
"You are welcome to observe the tea ceremony for free, but if you would like to participate in the tea ceremony, the fee is $8 per person. Please bring or wear white socks so that you can be on the tatami mats. Reservations are preferred."
ReplyDeleteTSS Seminar: Jiawei Han: "Finding Truth from Multiple Conflicting Sources: A Probabilistic Network-Based Approach"
Speaker Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date Mar 13, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location 2405 Siebel Center
Sponsor Information Trust Institute
Event type Seminar
Views 855
Originating Calendar Information Trust Institute
ABSTRACT
With enormous amount of data on the Web and other information repositories, it is not unusual that multiple data sources may provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major challenge for data quality control is to derive the most complete and accurate integrated information from diverse and sometimes conflicting sources. We call this challenge the truth finding problem. We observe that some sources are generally more reliable than others, and therefore a good model of source quality is the key to solving the truth finding problem.
Learn-to-Cook: Perfect My Plate
ReplyDeleteMar 13, 2013
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
ARC Instructional Kitchen
$15 members / $18 non-members
(must register- link below)
"Come join us as we honor National Nutrition Month by offering mouthwatering recipes that provided a well-balanced and nutrient packed meal." yum!
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2628?eventId=26813982&calMin=201303&cal=20130312&skinId=3999
+ heres a bunch of other cooking classes sponsored by campus rec
http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/3541
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Physics-Based Space Weather Modeling"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Gabor Toth (University of Michigan)
Date Mar 13, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 464 Loomis
Sponsor Department of Physics
Event type Seminar
Views 450
Originating Calendar Physics - Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar
While we experience the changes of weather every day, most people are not even aware of the dynamic changes of the Sun and its effects on Earth and spacecraft. Space weather describes the various processes in the Sun-Earth system that present danger to human health and technology. Space weather forecasting aims at providing an opportunity to mitigate these negative effects. The University of Michigan has been at the forefront of physics-based space weather modeling. We have developed a flexible and efficient magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, the Block-Adaptive Tree Solarwind Roe-type Upwind Scheme (BATS-R-US) code that we use to model the solar convection zone, solar corona, the heliosphere, the magnetosphere around the Earth and other planets, moons and comets. MHD, even with many extensions, is not a valid approximation in many domains of the space weather system. Examples of non-MHD models include the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (GITM) that simulates the ionized and neutral gases in the upper atmosphere, the Ridley Ionosphere Model (RIM) that solves for the electric potential field in the ionosphere, the Polar Wind Outflow Model (PWOM) that solves for the ions escaping into the magnetosphere along open magnetic field lines and the inner magnetosphere and radiation belt models that describe the high-energy particles trapped on closed field lines. While all of these models were developed independently, they need to be coupled together to represent the space weather system. The Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) was developed to efficiently couple a subset of the various physics domain models and execute them faster than real time on large parallel computers. The publicly available SWMF is distributed with a full set of domain models. The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard provides access to the SWMF via runs-on-request. The CCMC also runs the magnetospheric models of the SWMF in real time and has been providing now-casting for many years. The CCMC also performs SWMF-based coronal-heliospere simulations, which predict solar wind conditions at Earth.
It's not local but for the sake of posting it here, I will be attending my girlfriend's Punk 101 class at SAIC over break.
ReplyDeleteHere's s'more about it
http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/thomascomerford/
thomascomerford.net/Punk 101 Mix.zip
Art History: Punk 101:Cult/Fear 'No Future'
DeleteTartan bondage suits. Xeroxed fanzines. Anthems proclaiming, ?No future!? In urban centers like London, New York and Los Angeles, punks embraced these kinds of statements and tactics in live music performances and in the production of records, zines, fashion and films. In examining the materials--in particular, the films--that document or analyze punk culture, this course will explore and challenge notions about the aesthetics and worldview of punk and its legacy and discuss larger questions of memory, history and representation.
6:30 PM | Monday, March 18, 2013
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parkland college
Do you want to learn how to do those cool moves while hoop dancing? Or find a new, creative way to burn calories and build endurance?
Check out the new hoop fit & hoop”dances classes now offered at Parkland this spring! Sign up at parkland.edu (community education)
i know this probably doesn't count for mining, but you guys should come anyway! my mom is in a band called "Dody & Frazier" and they're playing at the Clark Bar on saturday night from 6-10. i'll be there at 8 at the bar ;) they are a cover duet that plays a range of stuff from the Beatles to k t tunstal to jason mraz. come drink with me!
ReplyDeletelol yes
DeleteThis is going on in Chicago over break. I don't really know if any of y'all are working with/interested in glitch imaging but I'll be a part of this show and its gonna be supercool
ReplyDeleteGlitch Art 0P3NR3P0.NET Share Fest
Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 6 pm
http://www2.mcachicago.org/event/event-past-7/
Share your glitch art with others or come to observe the artistic chaos. Expect to see a bit of everything; executable/artware, digital poetry, animated gifs, data-bent-psychedelia and the retro-nostalgia of pixel art. Glitch enthusiasts are invited to physically bring their error-prone data or upload their corrupted, hacked, or otherwise mis-haped files via 0P3NR3P0.NET. This event is organized in collaboration with Nick Briz, an artist currently based in Chicago.
Nick Briz is a new-media artist, educator, and organizer whose work has been shown internationally at festivals and institutions, including the FILE Media Arts Festival (Rio de Janeiro, BR); Miami Art Basel; the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruek, DE); the Images Festival (Toronto, CA). He has lectured and organized events at numerous international institutions including STEIM (Amsterdam, NL) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is distributed through Video Out Distribution (Vancouver, CA) as well as openly and freely on the web
Pretty sure i was a study subject in this or related studies
ReplyDeleteSLATE, Linguistics - Shinobu Mizuguchi - Kobe University: "Prosody Perception by Japanese EFLs"
Speaker Shinobu Mizuguchi - Kobe University
Date Mar 13, 2013
Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location Room 1038, Foreign Languages Building
Cost Free and open to the public
Sponsor Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Linguistics
Event type Lecture
Views 28
Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar
Abstract'This paper* investigates the strategies that Japanese EFL learners utilize in perceiving prosodic cues in spoken English. Based on a series of Rapid Prosody Transcription tasks (RPT) with native speakers of English, Mo et al. 2008 and Cole et al. 2010 claim that higher syntactic boundaries and vowel duration are the first and the second strongest predictors for detecting prosodic chunks in spontaneous speech. The current study aims to extend this research paradigm to Japanese EFL learners and provide a comparison between native speakers' and Japanese EFL learners' approaches to prosody perception. 78 Japanese undergraduate students took part in a prosody transcription activity using RPT to mark prosodic boundaries on printed transcripts in real time as they listened to excerpts from conversational American English speech. The findings show that Japanese EFL learners show remarkable differences in syntactic cues for boundary perception from native speakers of English compared to those perceived by English listeners (Cole et al. 2010). Native English listeners are more sensitive to higher-level categories in boundary perception, while Japanese EFL learners rely on minor phrase boundaries like NP, VP or ADVP, and rarely perceive boundaries at discourse markers as independent prosodic phrases. The Japanese literature (Selkirk and Tateishi 1988, Kawahara 2012, among others) says that Japanese use pitch reset for IP perception, where minor categories are important, and that creakiness is often observed at the right edge of an IP. It is not a surprise that Japanese EFL learners rely on minor categories. Though much to be clarified, this work is a first step towards syntax-phonology mapping principles. * This is co-worked with Gabor Pinter and Kazuhito Yamato, supported by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, grant number 23720285.
Linguistics Seminar Series -- Mahmoud Abunasser (PhD Candidate in Linguistics): "Computational measures of linguistic variation"
ReplyDeleteMahmoud Abunasser (PhD Candidate in Linguistics)
Mar 14, 2013
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Free and open to the public.
Abstract - Measures of linguistic variation, also called linguistic distances, is one of the prominent topics in the growing field of dialectometry, which is concerned with quantifying linguistic differences and similarities and, often, links it to geographical distances between the areas where the relevant languages are spoken (Nerbornne and Kretzschmar, 2003). In this presentation, I will report on an on-going project developing computational linguistic variation metrics quantifying the lexical, pronunciation, and morphosyntactic distance between three varieties of Arabic from different regions of the Arabic speaking world. The distances are based on elicitations of data from native speakers of the varieties under consideration. The speakers (and their parents) were born and raised in the same city of consideration. For the purpose of evaluating the lexical and pronunciation distance, the Swadesh list (207 items) was elicited and phonetically transcribed for all varieties. In the elicitation sessions, subjects are given the appropriate context for the lexical items when an ambiguity is expected, and the researcher made some adaptations to the Swadesh list to make it consistent with Arabic varieties. The lexical distance is based on the number of cognate words in the list. The pronunciation distance is based on the Levenshtein distance ' A variant of the minimum edit distance ' between pair of words in the parallel lists. Levenshtein distance was introduced to computational linguistics by Kessler (1995), and subsequently used by other researchers. The morphosyntactic distance depends on the variation in patterns of morphosyntactic agreement. To quantify the amount of variation we investigated different patterns of agreement depending on the number, gender and person of the subject. We elicited data for different classes of verbs (sound verb, geminate verb, three verbs where one of the root radicals is a glide, and a verb with two glides). In addition to the verbal paradigms that expressed subject-verb agreement, we also extended the investigation to object and possessive clitics or bound pronouns.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/319?eventId=26656123&calMin=201303&cal=20130313&skinId=1
Anybody heading down to Chicago for an early spring break?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/events/230666517067585/?suggestsessionid=5e00e056090d0f0d0ff1604efb884020
"Beats, Rhymes, and Rice"
Wednesday March 13, 2013
UIC's Student Center East in the Illinois Room
750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago IL 60607
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Show starts at 7:00pm.
Beats, Rhymes, and Rice is a clever word play by Geo from Blue Scholars that is derived from A Tribe Called Quest's 'Beats, Rhymes, and Life'. It originally started out as a nationwide tour featuring renounced Def Jam poet Bao Phi, 1/3 of Native Gun's Kiwi, and spoken word artist/activist Giles Li. Known through the community for their art and activist, this trio tour the States to promote art and address social justice while integrating issues around Asian American back in 2007.
Today, it has spawned into an annual Hip Hop event in Chicago.
ECE Colloquium (ECE500): "What can we learn from teaching a parallel programming MOOC?"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Prof. Wen-mei Hwu, ECE, University of Illinois
Date Mar 14, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location 151 Everitt Lab
Sponsor ECE ILLINOIS
Contact Prof. Farzad Kamalabadi
Event type Seminars
Views 152
Originating Calendar ECE ILLINOIS Seminars
Abstract:
The Heterogeneous Parallel Programming (HPP) MOOC covers a subset of the UIUC ECE408 (a.k.a. CS483) syllabus, which introduces foundational concepts and techniques in programming massively parallel processors. Effective learning of these topics requires hands-on programming activities using advanced hardware. At UIUC, we typically offer the on-campus version of this course to no more than 40 students so that we can give each student enough support. With more than 27,000 students registered on Coursera, we clearly needed a different approach. In this talk, I will start with the design of the videos that eventually accumulated 212,000 views and 345,000 downloads by 16,860 individuals. I will also describe the design of the programming lab that eventually performed more than 700,000 compile-and-runs on the Amazon EC2 cloud on behalf of 9,908 users from 127 countries. In the end, more than 2,600 students received Certificate of Achievement (with a grade of 70% or higher); 2,281 of them received Certificate of Distinction (with a grade of 85% or higher). With multiple gigabytes of data collected from the video and lab interfaces, I will attempt to answer a few questions: How do we adapt a lab-intensive senior/graduate level course into a MOOC platform? Who are the students taking this course? How hard do the students work in this course? How does the work done for the MOOC version impact the UIUC version? How does a good student in the MOOC offering compare against on-campus students? What do students think about the course?
March 19, 7 p.m., College of Lake County, Grayslake IL
ReplyDeleteDerrick Brown Poetry Performance with Shanny Jean Maney
Room C005
Known for a moving show that incorporates poetry, minimalist music and sound fx, Derrick Brown is unique for being an outstanding performer but is foremost a page poet. He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…one of the best independent presses in the country,” Write Bloody Publishing. Brown is the author of four books of poetry and The New York Times calls his work, “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.”
Shanny Jean Maney is a co-creator of the award winning Encyclopedia Show in Chicago. She was featured in three National Poetry Slam Championships. Her book I Love Science has made an impressive debut. Shanny’s style is full of wonder, hilarity and heartache. She is one of the most sincere and engaging performers in the slam poetry scene.
Fee: Free
For more information, contact English Professor Larry Starzec at (847) 543-2557 or at com592@clcillinois.edu.
Ron Kovatch speaks on 'Why Tucson?'
ReplyDelete1pm, tuesday march 19
Mystery Room at Jane Adaams Book Shop
208 North Neil Street, Champaign, IL
reviewed by LINDA
DeletePanel: Wildly Imaginative Voices & Visions
ReplyDelete@ Harold Washington Library
Reading/Conversation/Signing
Led by Ann Hemenway
w/ Writers:
Susan Hahn, The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter (not present due to illness)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts
Adam McOmber, The White Forest
Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
reviewed by HUGH
DeleteInterviewing Skills
ReplyDeleteA&D rm 114
Noon – 12:50pm
How to make a good impression at an interview. Michele Plante will give a lecture based on direct feedback from employers in the past on what makes and breaks an interview.
reviewed by SHANNON
DeleteRestless Heart: The Confessions of St. Augustine
ReplyDeleteMonday March 18th, 2013
Tivoli Theater
5021 Highland Ave.
Downers Grove, IL
http://www.classiccinemas.com/movies.aspx?movie=141172&date=3/18/2013
reviewed by MIKE B.
DeleteThe Shedd Aquarium in Chicago (check website for free days)
ReplyDeleteShedd connects people to the living world.
We engage and inspire, entertain and inform. We are a vital teaching and learning resource, conservation leader, neighborhood partner and global collaborator. We are passionate about our animals, their habitats and the planet we share.
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/plan_a_visit.html
Beantown Trolley Tour
ReplyDeleteBoston, MA
Daily, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
http://www.bostontours.us/?event=offer.detail&offerId=838