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Sima Guang Hater wrote:And is it still 2 seconds to answer?

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Important Bird Area wrote:Finally: NAQT has decided to maintain its current policy and continue to not post packets online for any level of play (including college).

And what about allowing people to buy electronic copies of packets? And is it still 2 seconds to answer?

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To be fair, Chicago and Stanford are both contributing to Penn Bowl.

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I'm going through the first two installments of Golden Sun again and it's honestly better than I remembered. Alongside KOTOR these two series are the best I've played. It's a very open-ended question what with plot, gameplay, etc, but which are your best experiences? Golden Sun! What a wonderful ga...

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I'm pleased to announce Medical School, The Postscript (MSTP) to be run sometime in the summer of 2019. I'm graduating and I have to take another board exam, so I can use this opportunity to foist a bunch of questions on the public. The tournament will consist of 8-10 packets, tossups only, drawn en...

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:So...what's the status of this within NAQT

The year's starting up again, surely the meetings that were supposed to have happened, have happened. Can we expect any kind of movement on this policy soon? Because I really don't want this to die out as it always does.

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A lot of tossups on topics I like This is kind of the running theme for this set. If your interests didn't align with the author, you weren't really going to like this set. That's to be said about any vanity set (the other one that comes to mind is that Will Nediger set played at Crime), so it wasn...

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So...what's the status of this within NAQT

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When you really want to break into that top bracket, your local Penn Bowl mirror. The local good teams always play that round these parts.

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NAQT has announced its new payment rates for 2017-18. Writers will be able to make up to $7.25 per tossup and $5.45 per bonus in the coming year, beginning on July 1. (Each payment depends on question difficulty and writer experience; contact me at andrew.hart@naqt.com or NAQT at applications@naqt....

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Hey people, brief PSA. For those of you that don't know, Folding@home is a program that lets your computer participate in important calculations for protein folding; basically, the kinds of calculations needed in this field are really intensive, and would ordinarily take very expensive supercomputer...

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Rocket21 wrote:Biology

https://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/view/How_to ... er#Biology
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 30&t=19865

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On the tossup on glutamate I got negged for giving "glutamic acid" and was just wondering what sort of difference there was between the two answers. The buzz was very late in question and they had already described it as an amino acid, so I felt that it was a bit much to not give points o...

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Question. I'm reading this set and am wondering about the leadin to the tossup on Dessalines, which states: "According to legend, after this man was dismembered, his body parts were put together and buried by a woman named Azalea." The only thing I can find is this which doesn't seem to c...

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Delete this post please

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So when can we expect any movement on Seth's proposals, he asked with resigned trepidation

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Cheynem wrote:What about Steven Hines (cheating)?

I wasn't impressed

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My Science Rankings 1. Josh Alman (while cheating) 2. 2010 Eric Mukherjee 3. Andy Watkins (while cheating) 4. The Apocalyptic Figure that Results when peak Seth Teitler and peak Selene Koo do the Fusion Dance 5. 2012 Eric Mukherjee 6. 2014-5 Eric Mukherjee 7. Billy Busse 8. 2017 Eric Mukherjee 9. Ad...

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Lots to unpack here. I want to start by publicly apologizing for a few things. 1. Getting a PDF of ICT 2017 2. Making an otherwise private conversation between Ike and I public. 3. Incorrectly stating that Ike was speaking for NAQT I'm sorry. There, now that's out of the way... I propose: -teams who...

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These questions were very good. My complaints stand as follows: -1708 is also a critical value for the Rayleigh number in convection (in the Taylor tossup) -The Hypernetted Chain and Percus-Yevick equations are used to find the radial distribution function, which is also called the pair correlation ...

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why do you hate fun jacob reed

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I don't think there's any moral content to NAQT's intellectual property rights over its questions that makes it okay to privatize their sets...like, the public question archive evens the playing field for competitors to study, for writers to learn, and for editors to check their clues against old t...

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Big Y wrote:Are the threats related to Chicago Open still in play? If so, what are the next steps that will be taken?

They are not. After talking to Ike, they were apparently made in anger.

NAQT's response is still forthcoming.

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Today at 12:01PM EST, I was contacted by NAQT writer Ike Jose, who told me I need to "pay for ICT" because he believes I have a copy of the questions, and that I did not "appreciate" the work he had put into the set. Initially, Ike accused a particular team of scanning and sendin...

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Y'all are talking about numbers and all that. Maybe around an "e-barrel 2.0" but around the cracker barrel the only number that matters is tha number of eyes and ears you have. I've got a hangering for qualitative reports and home fried wit, and my throat is parched! Dude, seriously, lear...

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Mike Sorice/Saul Hankin/Matt Lafer/Billy Busse/Me won this tournament, stats to follow I'm sure

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I'm curious about the leadin to this prostaglandins question. The assay I've seen used to determine whether a given unknown clear fluid is CSF is the beta-2-transferrin assay, which as far as I know isn't part of the prostaglandin synthesis pathway. Is there another test I'm unaware of?

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The people demand combined stats

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a bird wrote:Could I see the gravitational waves toss up? There was a buzzer race on the first line when I played it; I'm curious if this happened to anyone else.

Yes. The transverse-traceless gauge has come up a few times.

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J: I think this is meant to be the philosophy tossup in this packet. Perhaps I am being hella western and bad here, but this is just a list of random stories without engaging with the philosophy or ideas? A: This is pretty uncharitable to Taoism qua “school of thought” as opposed to body of stories...

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Can I see the albinism question please? In case it's unclear, the second sentence is referring to the OCA2 gene, one of the proteins that gets lost/mutated in Prader-Willi, so I think the clue is fine as it reads. Perhaps it's unclear because albinism isn't the most famous symptom of Prader-Willi, ...

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Can I see the albinism question please?

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FYI, had I known the situation would have been this jacked, I would have driven to Yale, played, and Typhoid Mary'd everyone in the field in the process.

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This sucks, end of post.

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At Illinois novice 2008, a team of Linna Duan and I lost to a team of Adam Hallowell and Sarah, whose last name I've forgotten and who accompanied Linna to the tournament. We went 9-1, they went 1-9.

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Thanks for starting this thread Mike. I endorse all of his advice, and I want to add some that's particularly useful for scientists. I made two cardinal mistakes in grad school: 1. I wasn't as productive as I could have been, due to mental health issues, burnout, and not being able to organize my ti...

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2. What's the end result of quizbowl for an individual? Sitting at the end of your career, your binary associations fading, your reflexes dulling, your trophies gathering dust If I may politely disagree a bit with this comment for a minute--If quizbowl just gives you books whose pages are left unop...

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1. What keeps you doing quizbowl? Rather, what keeps you going, even in the face, say, getting slaughtered in a game? This answer varies depending on what you're getting out of quizbowl in the first place. If you're there to win, it's getting better and winning that keeps you going. If its learning...

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As a former extremely enthusiastic professional cycling fan, I enjoyed reminiscing my former fandom via the common link question from CO Trash on Alexandre Vinokourov and Jerry Vinokurov. This was despite the fact that I negged Vinokourov with Andy Schleck, the winner of Liege-Bastogne-Liege the ye...

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I can write 20/0 of stuff I like. I'm not sure what that is. I guess we'll all see.

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A lot of confusion in this thread is arising from the fact that Joelle begins by talking about new writers, but then says that the posts should be directed at editors rather than writers. I have to take Billy and Ike's side on the utility of this thread - if I were a new writer, I wouldn't worry too...

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So this thread illustrates two useful points that I want to distill. First, we're imperfect. People - whether they're professors, editors, or writers - are only human. The errors Joelle lists from her class notes are actually pretty easy misspeaks ("lysine zipper" for "leucine zipper&...

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They complain I do not discuss enough with them and that I shout out answers. Sometimes I do place my answer with higher worth than their answers, but I feel that is justified because my answers are generally correct more often when compared to theirs. This isn't how any of this works. When I was a...

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RE: symptoms. This is actually easier than it looks, but it's a two-tier system. The first tier is, there are some symptoms that are absolutely pathognomonic for a particular condition. These clues can be used unambiguously. Because I haven't read packets in a few months and just did psych, the only...

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Also, Taejong launched the Oei invasion, not Sejong

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The second "R" in barbiturates is often silent.

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The leadin to the potassium tossup in round 9 says that: Glycyrizzhizic acid, which is found in licorice, increases the secretion of this ion. The correct name should be glycyrrhizic or glycyrrhizinic acid, and some research also seems to indicate that the opposite is true. Both of those papers say...

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When you are writing a set as it goes on which I have proof in the form of a screenshot of a communique between Eric Mukherjee and Andrew Wang, it becomes clear you and the people running your team have no respect for those interests, the people who gave you money at your site, or the activity in g...

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Can I have a look at the Michaelis Menten bonus set, as looking back at my lecture notes, neither my first year reaction kinetics, nor my 2nd year Biochemistry course differentiates between the "quasi-SSA" and the normal SSA. (assuming you've dealt with the lead in issue on the question) ...

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Can you post the question on enthalpy? Thanks. The change in this quantity is equal to the product of the area under the curve and a device-specific constant K in DSC. A diagram in which this quantity appears on the y-axis also shows dryness lines in one section; those diagrams plot it against entr...

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