SVP Info: Weather forcasts for St. Paul, MN; Kid's book announcement

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

Greetings,

The following message is for fellow dino-listers going to SVP next week. In
case you are wondering what to pack, here are weather.com's current forcasts
for St. Paul over SVP (temperatures in °F; % are percent chance of
precpitation):
Tue Oct 14  Cloudy 55°/39° 20 %
Wed Oct 15  Partly Cloudy 54°/38° 20 %
Thu Oct 16  Few Showers 43°/33° 30 %
Fri Oct 17  Partly Cloudy 43°/38° 20 %
Sat Oct 18  Showers 56°/39° 30 %
Sun Oct 19  Scattered Showers 55°/36° 30 %

Obviously forcasts this far in advance can be horribly incorrect.

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Also, I've received my copy of the forthcoming "T. rex: Hunter or
Scavenger?": a Random House Step-Into-Reading book by me, art by Mike
Skrepnick. Not really a citable work for research purposes, but we did
manage to sneak in a few things (such as Stage II plumage on
ornithomimosaurs and juvenile T. rex).  From the back cover:
"Was Tyrannosaurus rex a speedy and savage hunter that killed its own food?
Or was it a slow-moving scavenger that stuffed itself with other dinosaurs'
leftovers? One of the world's top tyrannosaur experts [ ;-)] looks at the
evidence - T. rex's "small" eyes, great sense of smell, tiny arms,
bone-crushing teeth, and "short" legs - and takes a big bite out of the
"scavenger-only" argument."

Take care, and see some of you at SVP.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol):  301-314-9661       Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796