|MUGS| Sugar Shack, MUGS Elections, and much more!

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Hi all,

My apologies about the lack of a listserve last week! Plenty of news/events to get through though:

i) SUGAR SHACK: The syrupy-swine fun starts at 6 this Friday night, but you still have two days to get your tickets! They'll be on sale for $15 in the MUGS lounge Tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday from 11:30-3, so start starving yourself in preparation NOW. Vegetarians are welcome too!

ii) MUGS ELECTIONS: Want to have a picture of yourself hanging in the MUGS lounge for the year? Better yet, want to help make our little faculty the envy of the SSMUniverse next year? Sure you do! It's election season and all positions are up for grabs! These include:
-President
-Finance
-AUS Representative
-SUS Representative
-Year Representatives (U1, U2, U3)
-Communications
-Sustainability Representatives

So, if this seems like something you want to do, e-mail us at mcgillgeography@gmail.com with "candidature for _______ (put in what you want to run for)" as the subject, and include a short little blurb on why you want to run. You'll then get a nomination form which must be turned in by next Friday, March 23rd. Voting will take place the last week of March...more info to come!

iii) GRAD STUDENTS' HABS TICKETS RAFFLE: Qui n'aime pas Les Canadiens? Okay, probably lots of you...but lots of you love hockey and all of you certainly love winning things! Buy your tickets for the Geography Graduate Students' Society raffle tomorrow (Thursday...sorry about the late notice) for a chance to win tickets to Saturday's Canadiens vs. Islanders game. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased from room 316.

iv) HELP WITH A GEOG 506 STUDY: Peck Sangiambut, a student in Geography 506 needs volunteers for a project. All it involves is coming next Thursday or Friday to Burnside 511 to perform a quick 15-20 minute test plus fill in a questionnaire. Two different GIS applications are being tested for their relative usability.

Compensation: doughnuts + a small educational talk from me on Human-Computer Interaction and GIS interfacing.
How to sign up:
email me at - suthee.sangiambut@mail.mcgill.ca
indicating in the header '506 project'.

v) GEOSPECTIVES TALK: Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, the director of the Centre for Earth Observation Sciences at the University of Alberta will be visiting us and giving a talk entitled "Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities" on Wednesday, March 21st at 3 pm in Burnside 426!

vi) PRUITT-IGOE FILM SCREENING AT CONCORDIA: For all the Urban Systems folks, this Monday, the 19th, in room H-110 of Concordia's Hall building Cinema Politica will be screening "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth", a film about ill-fated housing projects in St. Louis. Movie starts at 7 and bring your own popcorn! More info aqui: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/screening/concordia/pruitt-igoe-myth-urban-history

vii) PROF OF THE YEAR: We're blessed to have so many great teachers in the faculty, unfortunately we could only afford one "Prof of the Year" mug. Send in your nominations to mcgillgeography@gmail.com! More info next week...

viii) PHOTO CONTEST: The theme's forces of nature and you only have until the end of the month to enter...give us your best shot(s)!

ix) PIC OF THE WEEK: If I asked you what Wyoming looked like, what would you say? Here's the real answer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavaroc/5501684988/lightbox/ , (taken by one Mike Cavaroc).

x) MAP OF THE WEEK: Another interesting sports map, this time in honour of March Madness, every a state by state depiction of where every tournament teams' players come from! http://www.indystar.com/interactive/article/20120313/MULTIMEDIA/120313038/NCAA-Tournament-2012-Interactive-map-where-top-players-come-from

That's all for now, just a preliminary heads up that a special message may be sent out early next week regarding the first ever MUGS General Assembly, so keep your antennas up and eyes peeled.

All the best,
MUGS EXEC!

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| MUGS | Lounge Re-opening Party, Sugar Shack, Geospectives and More!

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Hey all,

Hope your Reading Week was great. There's a whole ton of stuff to get through this week, but first I just want to let you know that we put a ton of news up on our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/groups/157940771733/) throughout the week. Check it out, and, if you're feeling dangerous, ask to join it! Here goes...

i) LOUNGE RE-OPENING PARTY ON FRIDAY: With delicious food and comfier chairs/couches, the party will be this Friday at 2, and everybody's invited! Hope to see you there!

ii) GEOSPECTIVES TALK TOMORROW: Dr. Jeff Cardille, a Geography professor at UdeM will be giving a talk tomorrow (Wednesday) entitled "Understanding Our Environment Through Computational Landscape Ecology" from 3-4 in Burnside 426.

iii) SUGAR SHACK TICKETS ON SALE NEXT WEEK: Sugar shack is two weeks from this Friday, and we'll be joining Poli Sci, Environment, and others so it should be great. We'll be selling tickets for $15 in the 3rd floor lounge on the 5th, 7th and 9th (next Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) between 11 and 1.

iv) PANAMA FIELD STUDY SEMESTER: Information session on this awesome opportunity during next year's winter semester will take place tomorrow at 5:30 in Burnside 426. You can check out more information on the semester here- http://www.mcgill.ca/pfss/

v) MUGS PHOTO CONTEST: Taken any sweet photos this past year? Like, "contest winning" sweet? Let us decide! Send 'em in to mcgillgeography@gmail.com This year's theme is "FORCES OF NATURE"....so make sure they're FIERCE!

vi) GEOGRAPHY WILDERNESS FIRST AID COURSE: A great program offered next Thursday and Friday (8th and 9th). There'll be an emphasis on Arctic and Temperate river environments. Taught by Sirius Wilderness Medicine (www.siriusmed.com<http://www.siriusmed.com>), this 16 hour course runs 2 days, with 1 evening of CPR and defibrillation, and it includes certification or re-certification of first aid techniques required at some remote field sites. It'll also feature many indoor and outdoor simulations. The cost is $305.36, taxes included, and some research grants may cover the cost for you (ask your supervisor, though). To register, contact Suzanne (suzanne@siriusmed.com<mailto:suzanne@siriusmed.com>, 514-509-2112) (if you e-mail, please cc: Paula Kestleman (paulak@geog.mcgill.ca<mailto:paulak@geog.mcgill.ca>)

vii) QUALITATIVE SURVEY METHODS QUESTION FROM AN ALUMNUS: Elan, who graduated last year is helping some graduate students at Columbia work on a land tenure survey of Haiti. He would like to tap into our superior geographic knowledge for "some good design methods for structured social surveying"...know any? E-mail him at elan.spitzberg@mail.mcgill.ca!

viii) PIC OF THE WEEK: You know what they just put in hilly Comuna 13, Medellin, Colombia's poorest and most dangerous neighbourhood? Outdoor escalators! http://andreasmoser.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/medellin-escalator.jpg <http://andreasmoser.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/medellin-escalator.jpg>

ix) MAP OF THE WEEK: A sports map! The US split up according to College Football allegiances- http://mhermher.blogspot.com/2011/11/college-football-map-part-iii.html

Hope to see you all on Friday and good luck to all the MUGS going curling on sunday!
MUGS!
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MUGS: Last chance to get Geog Clothing, Curling, and More!

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Happy Almost-Reading-Week Everyone, Just a few pressing things:

i) LAST CHANCE TO BUY GEOGRAPHY CLOTHING: If you would still like to look your best in McGill Geography clothing, you can drop off an order form and cheque/cash tomorrow in the Geo Lounge between 1 and 3! ABSOLUTELY-POSITUTELY-LAST CHANCE!

ii) 3RD FLOOR LOUNGE INFO: As some of you may have noticed, we've gotten rid of a few couches. We promise that this would have never happened if we weren't getting a whole bunch of awesome NEW COUCHES/CHAIRS this week! However, in order to clean the floor and move everything out/in the lounge may be out of commission from tomorrow night to Thursday. But...it's for the best, and, on Monday the 27th we'll be having a Grand re-opening party, to which you're all invited and expected, from 12:00-1:30.

iii) CURLING: Check out the poster that's attached for the 2nd annual ECOSPIEL epic match-up between us and our fiercely hated rivals Environment on Sunday, March 4th. After you check out the poster act on your combined love of curling (or trying new sports), pride for geography, and distaste for all things environment by e-mailing Nigel (at nigel.roulet@mcgill.ca) and joining the team!

iv) PIC OF THE WEEK: To those spending reading week on the field course in Barbados
....I'm a little jealous - http://i.imgur.com/oMi8k.jpg

v) MAPS OF THE WEEK: A few awesome folks' dream metros-
http://imgur.com/aEev0
http://emdx.org/rail/metro/Images/ReseauCombineMetroTramways.gif
http://emdx.org/rail/metro/Images/MetroMontreal_FuturPasse.gif

Wishing you all a great and relaxing Reading Week,

MUGS
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MUGS: Wine and Cheese TODAY, Barbados Field SEMESTER!, Clothing,

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Happy Wednesday folks! Let's get to it:

i) WINE AND CHEESE: it's TO-DAY...hope to see you all there 5-7 in Burnside 426!

ii) CLOTHING: Tomorrow and Friday are, tentatively, the last two days for people to bring in orders! Thursday between 1 and 3 and Friday from 11 to 3. Forms are attached.

iii) BARBADOS FIELD STUDY SEMESTER: An amazing opportunity for next fall, with plenty of urban systems credits up for grabs! More info here: http://www.mcgill.ca/bfss/ ....note that there's an info session on Tuesday at 4:30 in the McDonald Engineering Building room 497!

iv) CURLING: Still happening at the curling rink in Baie d'Urfe, against environment on March 4th; e-mail us if you're interested in being a part of team Geography.

v) MCGILL GEOGRAPHY SURVEY: It's short and sweet, but let us know as much as you'd like. check it out-http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2FGPHX9<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZFGPHX9>

vi) SUGAR SHACK: Taking place on March 16th, keep an eye out for tickets being sold most likely right after Reading Week.

vii) SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: Have a sustainability-related project that you would want to present in poster format? Check out mcgillsustainabilitysymposium.wordpress.com<http://mcgillsustainabilitysymposium.wordpress.com> ...the symposium itself is March 8th.
<http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/programs/fieldstudies/cuba>
ix) MAP OF THE WEEK: In honour of Wine and Cheese, here's a map of the different alcohol belts of Europe (not sure if it's consumption or production based...could be both?)- http://i.imgur.com/l58MZ.jpg

x) PIC OF THE WEEK: A neighbourhood inside a stadium in Osaka - http://i.imgur.com/OxbZC.jpg

Hoping you'll help us snob it up tonight!
MUGS
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Wine and Cheese, Clothing, Geoassassins and more!

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Happy February, geogiraffers! First, I encourage you all to go check out the sparkling(?) clean, spiffed up lounge on the third floor, and don't forget about coffee & cookies every Monday at 12:30. Now, let's get down to business:

i) WINE AND CHEESE: It's already this coming WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8TH from 5-7 in Burnside 426! A great chance to meet and discuss both geothings and non-geothings with fellow students and faculty members alike.

ii) CLOTHING: Both the selection and the order forms are attached, and we'll be holding office hours throughout this upcoming week in the lounge so you can bring them in with cheque/cash. Come by anytime between 11-1 (Monday to Wednesday), 1-3 on Thursday, or 11-3 on Friday. E-mail us if you have any questions!

iii) CURLING: Still happening at a curling rink in Baie d'Urfe, against environment on March 4th; e-mail us if you're interested in being a part of team Geography.

iv) MCGILL GEOGRAPHY SURVEY: It's short and sweet, but let us know as much as you'd like. check it out- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2FGPHX9<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZFGPHX9>

v) SUGAR SHACK: Taking place on March 16th, keep an eye out for tickets being sold most likely right after Reading Week.

vi) GEOASSASSINS: If you want to be a part of the ruckus that will be hitting Burnside and other geography hotspots once this starts send an e-mail to geoassassins@gmail.com by THIS SUNDAY!

vii) CUBAN FIELDCOURSE: A great sounding opportunity through the Agricultural and Environmental Sciences program taking place in Cuba for two weeks in May! The main focus will be on sustainable agriculture and food security....have to sign up by February 15th. And note that this doesn't count towards the geography programs, it would make for an amazing elective/experience though! http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/programs/fieldstudies/cuba
<http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/programs/fieldstudies/cuba>
viii) LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT FUND: Have a suggestion to improve the GIC? They have a very large budget to help make it happen! send them an e-mail with your suggestion at lifc@ssmu.mcgill.ca

ix) MAP OF THE WEEK: What if what's dry was wet and what's wet was dry? Check out the inverted world map- http://i.imgur.com/wDRFm.jpg <http://i.imgur.com/wDRFm.jpg>

x) PIC OF THE WEEK: From National Geographic, it's Chikuminuk Lake in Alaska, with some stunning reflections - http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/325/cache/chikuminuk-lake-alaska_32517_990x742.jpg

Wishing you a great end of the week,
MUGS

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