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Teacher leaders recommend overhaul of evaluation and accountability
NEA focused squarely on student success and 'true profession' with highest standards
WASHINGTON - May 11, 2011 -
Signaling a commitment to a new, more prestigious profession of teaching, the National Education Association (NEA) is calling on its members to set a course to overhaul teacher evaluation and accountability and advance student learning.
Based on recommendations of a workgroup of NEA leaders convened this spring by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, the NEA Board of Directors has approved for final action a policy statement that revamps teacher evaluation and accountability. The statement reflects the first broad endorsement by NEA of the need for evaluation and accountability reform.
Delegates to the 2011 Representative Assembly, NEA's highest policy-making body, will vote on the statement in July.
"As more states and districts seek to improve teacher evaluation, the risk is that reform is done to teachers rather than with them," said Van Roekel. "This policy statement on teacher evaluation and accountability was written by and for teachers while heeding others' expertise as well. It outlines a system to help teachers improve instruction and meet students' needs. It offers sweeping changes to build a true profession of teaching that is focused on high expectations. This is what our members want from NEA—and we answered with a fresh vision for the teaching profession grounded in ideas that are realistic, doable, and will ensure that every student has access to a high quality teacher."
The NEA policy statement reaffirms that tenure or career status should not be automatic, but earned. It states that career status should reflect the fact that a teacher has met or exceeded standards of professional practice. And it recognizes that if a teacher fails to meet expectations, after being given a reasonable opportunity to improve, that person should be counseled out of the profession or be subject to a swift and fair dismissal process.
Many teacher evaluation and accountability systems are in need of reform. This policy statement recognizes that creating robust systems requires the involvement of many stakeholders, and it affirms that all teachers are responsible both for providing students with a high quality education and continuously enhancing their own practice. It also states that teachers have the responsibility to stay current in subject matter and pedagogy to ensure that they can provide students the best instruction possible.
In addition, the policy statement calls for regular evaluations of all teachers that are based on multiple indicators of student learning and growth. And the statement supports the limited use of standardized tests in such evaluations if the tests are valid, reliable and high quality measures of student learning and growth.
Further highlights of the policy statement include:
- a call for high quality teacher evaluation systems that provide regular, comprehensive, meaningful and fair evaluations by trained evaluators, based on multiple indicators that include teacher practice, teacher growth and contributions to student learning. Evaluation systems should be adequately funded and staffed. Such systems should provide teachers with ongoing feedback on their practice as well as time for the collaboration so critical to identifying and correcting instructional difficulties.
- a call for high quality teacher accountability systems that recognize the responsibilities of all teachers to provide high quality instruction and to continually update their knowledge and skills. Such systems should hold all teachers accountable for meeting the standards of the teaching profession and provide them with the tools they need to do so, including notice and a limited period of time in which to remedy any deficiencies identified in a teacher's practice.
"These are not easy topics, and we know that our leaders and members will discuss them carefully this summer at our Annual Meeting. They deserve that discussion because their voices have been silenced by too many policymakers in too many states," said Van Roekel. "The time is right to take back our profession, and we believe that our members will be eager to seize the opportunity to change the conversation from how to shortcut quality to how to make teaching and public schools extraordinary for our students."
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Saints 35, Buccaneers 28: Drew Brees threw four touchdown passes as visiting New Orleans held off Tampa Bay for its second straight win.
The Buccaneers (2-4) appeared to tie the score on the last play of the game when Josh Freeman, who threw for a career-high 420 yards, completed a pass to Mike Williams in the back of the end zone. But Williams had stepped out of bounds before making the catch and was penalized for illegal touching.
Vincent Jackson caught seven passes for a team-record 216 yards but his potential tying TD was negated when he was ruled out of the back of the end zone with 5 seconds to play.
Brees hit seven different receivers in the game and passed for 377 yards while completing 27 of 37 attempts. Brees, who has thrown 11 touchdown passes in his last three games, had three scoring strikes in the second quarter as the Saints (2-4) turned a 14-0 deficit into a 28-21 halftime lead. Darren Sproles, Joseph Morgan and David Thomas were on the receiving end of the touchdown receptions in the big second quarter.
Running back Pierre Thomas scored his first touchdown of the season on a 5-yard run early in the fourth quarter to give the Saints breathing room, but the Bucs cut the deficit to 35-28 on a 3-yard pass from Freeman to tight end Dallas Clark with 4:10 to play.
GAME NOTEBOOK: New Orleans played without TE Jimmy Graham, who didn't make the trip due to a sprained ankle. ... Brees increased his NFL record by throwing a touchdown pass for the 49th straight game. ... Jonathan Vilma, appealing a season-long suspension for his alleged part in the bounty scandal, made his debut at linebacker for the Saints. ... The Bucs had a chance to tie the game at 28 late in the third quarter after Freeman hit Jackson with a 95-yard pass play, but Tampa Bay was denied four times from inside the 2-yard line by the Saints' defense.

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(CNN) -- Veronica Lon Pantaleon Mendoza said it was her son's pleas that finally led her to quit work.
The 37-year-old from San Juan City in the Philippines went back to work three months after her son, now 14, was born and worked as a marketing executive for more than five years.
"My office was in another city," she writes on iReport. "I'd need to beat the traffic; leave home very early while my son was still sleeping; travel home during rush hour and arrive home late at night when he (was still asleep)."
"A nanny took care of him. We had a maid. I would describe myself then as more of a career woman than a mom."
But, eventually, she remembers, her son started asking why he didn't see his mom very often.
See also: If Marissa Mayer can 'have it all,' can you?
"That's all it took," she said. "I resigned from work and started to spend more time with him."
Mendoza has now started a second career. When she became pregnant again, she decided to work from home as an online English teacher. "I planned, acted on it and learned how to make it work," she said. Adapt, compromise and communicate is her advice to other mothers.
Mendoza is one of many who responded with their own experiences to the news that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is expecting a baby in October. In a Fortune article announcing the news Tuesday, the 37-year-old said: "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it."
Mayer's comments have re-ignited the perennial debate around how working mothers can balance motherhood with their careers -- can women really have it all?
A CNN story published Wednesday, asked just that question: "If Marissa Mayer can 'have it all,' can you?" It prompted comments showing a variety of standpoints on the subject.
#havingitall needs to recognize each woman has a different definition of all. Trick is to want and appreciate what you have.— Krista Laursen (@KristaLaursen) July 19, 2012
As the piece mentions, Mayer is not your typical working mother and some of you echoed that, saying that because of her success, Mayer isn't a useful role model for the average person.
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cnni Even your #havingitall is judgmental!#Mayer has a womb and a brain, and she uses both. That's what most working mothers do— Ayo Obe (@naijama) July 19, 2012
There's no such thing as #havingitall, regardless of gender. Remember, anything worth doing is difficult. What's stopping you?— Jess Peláez (@volcanojess) July 19, 2012
"Using Marissa Mayer is not a good comparison to regular working moms," wrote Hamsamich. "With her millions, she can have a nursery built next to her office, and (have it) staffed with a full-time nanny."
But many of you chimed in, saying that no matter what a woman's wealth or success "having it all" is a myth.
"It is impossible to have it all," writes James330i. "The ideal parent is at home watching the baby grow up. The ideal CEO spends the majority of time watching the company grow.
"To have it all would mean finding a job requiring 4hrs a day of work and the rest being a parent."
Rmercat agrees: "You cannot be something for everyone, and be there all the time. Something at some point will have to give.
"This isn't necessarily a bad thing -- but people need to stop fooling themselves when they believe you can be in a board meeting and at the preschool play at the same time."
Pghgirl thinks that high-achieving women put pressure on others: "(It's) a shame that women and men who want to stay home with their children have to feel pressured by society to be superwoman like this chick."
Spoddney thinks that the solution to the issue lies in legislation: "When will the U.S. get with the program (I'm Professor of Medicine in Australia but worked ... in Boston for 3 years) ... Australia is much more working mum friendly and flexible than the U.S."
On Twitter, a debate sprang up on Twitter around the hashtag #havingitall.
Krista Laursen noted that the "Debate about #havingitall needs to recognize each woman has a different definition of all. Trick is to want and appreciate what you have."
Bottom line: We shd cheer 4 all women who make it to the top. But that's not enough 4 real equality. Need better choices.— Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) July 17, 2012
While Jess Pelaez came back with a challenge: There's no such thing as #havingitall, regardless of gender. Remember, anything worth doing is difficult. What's stopping you?"
U.S. academic and former State Department director of policy planning -- the first woman in the job -- who recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic on the subject described women who make it into top jobs as "genuine superwomen" and points out that many of them don't have families.
She tweeted this Tuesday: "Bottom line: We shd cheer 4 all women who make it to the top. But that's not enough 4 real equality. Need better choices. #havingitall"
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Description: There is a character that has been requested time, after time, and after so many months, I have finally filled the age old request. Have any of you heard of a novel called "Maximum Ride" written by James Patterson? Well, assuming that many of you have heard of this novel, I will be uploading my own creation of a character that is considered to be one of the more popular in the book series. Today, I will be showing you guys, "how to draw Fang", step by step. There is three main characters, and their names are Max, Fang, and Iggy. I plan on doing lessons on all three because I know that they will be well liked. Anyway, let's talk about Fang shall we? For starters the version I drew is in manga form just to let you know. Now, I know I told you guys that Fang was a seventeen year old boy, and that was totally wrong. The fact is, he is only fourteen, and he is Max's best friend. This explains why he is sometimes seen on the cover of the books, as well with fan art standing next to Max. Fang has the ability to disappear, but in order to do so, he needs to stay in a perfectly still stance. I tried drawing Fang to the best of my ability, and I tried to go by the character description as talked about in many blogs and fan sites since I have not read the book yet. He is described as being a tall lad, with dark hair, and dark eyes. He also has long, shaggy hair that looks like it hasn't been brushed in a while. To go along with his dark looks, he also wears dark clothing, and has a pair of dark colored wings. But as I read on about this unique character, I found myself asking a question, what the heck is Fang anyway, is he an angel or some other type of being? I found out that Fang is part of a six fugitive group called the Flock. He is a scientific creation experiment that is made up of ninety eight percent human, and two percent avian. This makes him a half breed with DNA of a bird. Anyway, I think my version of Fang came out looking pretty cool, and if you are fan of the series, you will love learning "how to draw Fang", step by step. It really isn't that hard to draw Maximum Ride characters at all when you do it right. That does it for now, I will be back later with more drawing fun. In the mean time, have fun, and be sure to rate and comment on every lesson you check out. Peace peeps!


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By Deb Stanley, Examiner.com
Stunning. That's a good word to use for the views of the turning leaves along Castle Creek Road on the drive to the Cathedral Lake trailhead. Nearly every turn along the 12 mile drive from Aspen to the trailhead has yet another stunning view.
Even the trailhead parking lot is surrounded Aspen trees. Come in mid-to-late September and the trees should be showing off their fall colors – bright yellow with a possible tinge of orange or red. Come too late and the leaves may be brown or even gone in the wind.
The trail starts next to a signboard. The trail immediately takes hikers right into the middle of an Aspen grove. Look left, right, forward or behind and there are colorful Aspens everywhere. Even the ground cover is yellow, orange and red. When the trees open up, enjoy the yellow Aspen groves that cover the nearby hillsides.
The trail winds through colorful groves for quite some time, but there's another treat along the way — the loud, crashing sound of Pine Creek. In fact, take a few steps off the trail when you hear the loudest sounds or when you see social trails leading to the river and you'll likely be treated to a beautiful cascade. We saw impressive waterfalls at 0.64 miles and 0.75 miles from the trailhead, shortly before a sign telling hikers they were entering the Maroon Bells Snowmass wilderness.
1.1 miles from the trailhead, the switchbacks begin. The first set are pretty easy. Around 1.3 miles from the trailhead (depending on how much exploring you've done to see waterfalls/cascades), you'll come to a valley with a gorge. This is a great spot to see waterfalls because of the numerous cascades in the cut.
The bad news? While you've climbed 1,000 feet at this point, the trail is about to get a lot steeper. Keep going. Enjoy the aspens and a quarter mile away, you'll suddenly get a good view of the craggy peaks in the distance. Soon there's a meadow with a creek in it and then the climbing begins again.
Once you hit the red scree field at around 2.1 miles, you're hitting the home stretch. Cross the rock to the final set of REALLY STEEP switchbacks. How steep? 210 feet of elevation gain in 0.15 miles. Each switchback is short, but there's 8 of them and they're STEEP!
After the switchbacks, it's just a few steps to a trail split, turn left for Cathedral Lake. And good news, from here, it's less than a half mile to to the lake and the trail is mainly level with a few ups and downs.
When you get to the lake, the work pays off. The lake is large and sits in a bowl below several peaks. That's Cathedral Peak to the west-northwest and Conundrum Peak to the south.
This is a lake worth spending some time at so enjoy!! And if you decide you want more, consider hiking to the top of nearby Electric Pass. It's about 2 miles and 1,500 feet to the top of the pass from the lake.
Details: The hike to the lake and back is 5.6 miles with 2,000 feet of elevation gain, but add some extra distance for getting closer to the waterfalls and exploring at the lake.
Directions: From Aspen, take Castle Creek Road 12 miles to a signed turnoff for Cathedral Lake trailhead. It's another 0.6 miles on a dumpy, dirt road to the trailhead.


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Phuket kids have their day
PHUKET: Tomorrow is Children's Day. Around Phuket, many government, public and commercial venues will be putting on free entertainment for the island's little people and their families.
Normally restricted government offices will open their doors and to allow young visitors inside for educational tours and information. Strong moral values, health and education are an important message promoted and rewarded on this holiday.
Phuket Aquarium at Makham Bay is putting on a variety of fun and free shows for children from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Edutainment on offer includes free entry into the aquarium for children under 14 and the chance to try out some of the Marine Biological Center's scientific equipment, including examining marine life under microscopes.
The Third Area Naval Command at Makham Bay opens its gates to families from 8am to 4pm, allowing the public to climb aboard the aircraft carrier HTMS Chakri Naruebet and Navy helicopters.
Central Festival Phuket is hosting a variety of special Children's Day events today between 1:30pm and 3:30pm and on Saturday from 11:30am to 6pm.
Children's health is the focus of today's events with the Phuket Rotary Club of Tongkah and The Thai Red Cross Society sponsoring free eye exams and discounted eye-glasses.
On Saturday, the morning kicks off with a dog show and baby crawling races, followed by a children's singing competition. Children will receive free ice cream.
Bangkok Hospital is holding a Happy Kids 2010 celebration on Saturday from 9am to 1pm. Besides promoting good health, the hospital event will feature a 'green' fashion show with recycled clothes, games, gifts and free ice cream.
Jungceylon shopping center in Patong is putting on a Kids Fun Fair on Saturday from 11 to 6pm. At the shopping center's Port Zone, children can enjoy free gifts, a comedy show and a performance by The Balloon Man. Children can have their picture taken with giant balloon characters and participate in balloon animal workshops.
Other Children's Day activity locations around the island:
Phuket Provincial Hall 9am to 3pm
Prince of Chumphon's Memorial Shrine 8:30am to 3.30pm
Rassada Municipality Bus Station 7am to 12pm.
Wichit Municipality Sri-phuwanat Park 8:30am to 12pm.
Chalong: Chalong Temple 8am to 5pm.
Patong: Loma Park 8am to 3pm.
Kathu: Prince of Songkla University 8am to 12pm.
Karon: Nong Harn Circle 8am to 12pm.
Cherng Talay: Cherng Talay Municipal School 4pm to 8pm.
Rawai: Sea-gypsy village and Bangkhonthee village.
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Man's body discovered hanged in a Phuket Town apartment
A man has been found hanged in Phuket Town apartment yesterday. Police are treating the cases as a suicide at the moment.
The man was found hanged from the apartment's ceiling fan. His lifeless body was discovered around 11am after neighbours complained to the manager about the smell coming from the man's room.
Police and the local Kusoldharm Foundation rescue workers attended the scene. Police later confirmed the incident happened in room on the 3rd floor of an apartment lock in Soi Phoonphol Soi 1, Talat Nuea in Phuket Town. Police said the man was 35-45 years of age and had a 29 year old girlfriend from Chumphon. He was paying 1,000 baht a month and had been renting the room for 2 months. Police estimate that the man had been dead for at least 3 days.
Police told media that the man had used, what appeared to be a dress, tied around his neck and then to the room's roof fan. The apartment manager told police that he had been late on on his recent rent, speculating that the man may have been suffering financial hardship.
The man's identity has not been released at this stage.
His body was taken to Vachira Hospital for an autopsy.
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Bangkok Airways add 3 new local routes to their schedule
Some domestic routes are being added as local routes continue to expand. This time Bangkok Airways has announced it's resuming its Samui-Phuket, Phuket-Hat Yai and Phuket-Pattaya/Rayong (U-Tapao) flights.
The first additions to the schedule will be the Phuket-Samui flights resuming this Sunday, October 25, and the Phuket-Pattaya flights start again next Tuesday, October 27. The Phuket-Samui flights will be operating on Sundays and Wednesdays only on the airlines' ATR72 turbo prop regional planes, same as before.
A casual search on the Bangkok Airways website, for a return flight from Phuket to Samui on November 1, then back to Phuket on November 8 indicates the cheapest fare (promo) is 2,430 baht. Coming back, the cheapest fare we found, again labelled 'promo', was 2,630 baht. Bangkok Airways operate as a "full service" airline and don't compete with the country's discount airlines. But they operate these three routes exclusively – like it or leave it.
Bangkok Airways say that the flights will be operated "with the highest preventive measures and standards". Around the country the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand have eased a few of the onboard restrictions, including the start of catering services which were originally banned under the initial flight rules when domestic routes started flying again at the start of July.
The daily direct services between Phuket and Hat Yai are also being operated on the ATR72 aircraft. The flight to Ha Yai leaves Phuket at 8.40am and arrives at Hat Yai at 9:.45am. The return flights leave Hat Yai back to Phuket at 10.25am each day. The route was very popular for the airline before the 'disruption' when airlines had their fleets grounded in April.
The service between Phuket and U-Tapao, linking the party city with the party island, will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, again with the ATR72. Phuket to U-Tapao will leave at 12.10pm and then from U-Tapao to Phuket at 4pm on the three days. U-Tapao is about a 50 minute drive from Pattaya and the airport also serves the greater Rayong area.Keep in contact with The Thaiger by following our Facebook page.
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4 billion baht medical hub planned for Phuket
Phuket officials are setting aside around 4 billion baht to transform medical tourism in the southern province of Phuket, by developing a state-of-the-art treatment hub in the north of the island. The Bangkok Post reports that the Treasury department is planning to give the Public Health Ministry permission to use 141 rai of government land in the sub-district of Mai Khao, close to Phuket International Airport. It's not the first time the proposal has come to light.
The concept is gathering support as Phuket battles to diversify its attraction beyond a tropical holiday island.
The aim is to develop Phuket as a world-class health and wellness destination, with facilities that will attract medical tourists from all over the world, as well as providing a high standard of treatment to the local population. It's understood the facility will provide a full range of health services, including long-term care, and hospice and rehabilitation services.
The island already has a well-developed medical tourism market, but has been based around local hospitals and clinics linking up with foreign marketing companies in the past. "The International Medical and Public Health Service" has been conceived to create more long term financial security and diversification, and value-added tourism in Phuket, as the island has taken a heavy financial hit over the past 7 months.
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The plan was first suggested in 2017, by then governor, Noraphat Plodthong and confirmed by the director of Phuket's Vachira Hospital, Dr. Chalermpong Sukontapol, in July. At that stage, the estimated budget was 3-4 billion baht. The director-general of the Treasury department, Yuthana Yimkarun, says the plot is being offered to the Health Ministry for free. The land is thought be worth around 1 billion baht.
Yuthana says the ministry will manage investment, with approximately 2 billion baht required for the first stage of the project. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed over 2 years.
Meanwhile, it's understood that unused government land that is currently managed by various government agencies may be moved under the remit of central government, with a view to increasing its worth. According to the Bangkok Post report, just 4% of government land is directly managed by the Treasury. The other 96% is controlled by various government agencies. Yuthana says the plan is to increase the percentage of state-owned land under the Treasury's management to 10% within 2 years.
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This is not some weirdo photography of a female body part. It's actually an artificial vocal cord created by a group of scientists over at MIT.
This particular specimen is made of a flexible polymer gel that vibrates like your vocal cords when exposed to air flow. It works so well that the researchers want to inject it into patients whose vocal cords have been damaged. They gel may restore flexibility to the cords and the patients could speak again. Hallelujah! [MIT via PopSci andDvice]


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Update: 4/13/2010: See new post for 2010 season, Avoid the late blight blues.
Update: 1/7/2010: Late Blight Q&A from the Northeast IPM Center.
Update: 8/11/2009: New factsheet from NYSIPM program: Late Blight: A Serious Disease of Potatoes and Tomatoes.
Update: 8/10/2009: Fungicide info for home gardeners added to Meg McGrath's late blight photo gallery.
Update: 7/29/2009: Cornell Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic late blight factsheet has been updated to list chlorothalonil products registered for home garden use in New York State.
Update: 7/20/2009: View new Late Blight FAQ and Late Blight: Corrections of Misinformation by Meg McGrath.
Update: 7/10/2009: Photos of late blight on potatoes added to Meg McGrath's plant disease photo gallery.
Update: 7/10/2009: View late blight webinar for home gardeners hosted on July 2 by Rutgers and Cornell Cooperative Extension. (Webinar uses Elluminate. Allow program to download to your computer and a PowerPoint presentation will appear on your screen. Make sure your volume is on. While the timer shows that the recording is already 38 minutes into the session, it is actually very early in the presentation when the recording begins. You haven't missed much.)
Update: 7/2/2009: See also: Cornell Chronicle article.
Update: 6/30/2009: See also: Late blight factsheet and webinar announcement [.pdf]
Update: 6/29/2009: Late blight webinar, Thursday July 2, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. See details at end of post.
Via Meg McGrath, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University.
Right: Late blight lesions on tomato stems
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Home gardeners need to be on the lookout for Late Blight – a very destructive and very infectious disease that's killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern U.S.
Late blight is the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s. It has never occurred this early and this widespread in the U.S. One of the most visible early symptoms of the disease is brown spots (lesions) on stems. They begin small and firm, then quickly enlarge, with white fungal growth developing under moist conditions that leads to a soft rot collapsing the stem. (See image above. More images.)
Classic symptoms are large (at least nickel-sized) olive-green to brown spots on leaves with slightly fuzzy white fungal growth on the underside when conditions have been humid (early morning or after rain). Sometimes the border of the spot is yellow or has a water-soaked appearance. Spots begin tiny, irregularly shaped and brown. Firm, brown spots develop on tomato fruit.
You need to act quickly to protect your garden-grown tomato and potato plants and to make sure that your plants don't become a source of spores that could infect commercial farms, as late blight spores are easily dispersed by wind.
Here are the steps you should take:
- Examine your tomato and potato plants thoroughly at least once a week for signs of late blight.
- Spray fungicides preventively and regularly and/or
- Be prepared to destroy your plants when late blight starts to become severe. Seal them in a plastic bag. Do not put them in the compost pile. Leave the bag 'cooking' in sunlight for several hours to kill plant and pathogen, then put in the trash.
Fruit can rot quickly once infected, but any part not affected is safe to eat as this pathogen does not produce a toxin.
If you want to try to control late blight with fungicides, you need to begin spraying fungicide now – even before you see symptoms – and you need to continue spraying regularly. Use a product that contains chlorothalonil. Copper is not very effective on late blight.
Petunias, which are closely related to tomatoes and potatoes, can also be infected by late blight and show similar symptoms.
Late blight is very destructive. Uncontrolled it will kill plants faster than any other disease. And it affects tomato fruit — especially green ones. Considering how early it is in the growing season, how long it will be until tomatoes peak and potatoes are at a size worth harvesting, and how much spraying you may need to do in an attempt to prevent loss to late blight, seriously consider growing more of the other vegetables instead of tomatoes and potatoes this year. Even with fungicide applied every week, there is no guarantee of success, especially if the rainy weather continues.
This year late blight has been found on tomato plants being sold at garden centers in New York and other states in the greater northeast. If you started your own tomatoes from seed, they are unlikely to be infected, at least initially. This pathogen is not thought to be able to survive in seed. If you purchased your plants at a garden center and they show signs of late blight, please contact your local office of Cornell Cooperative Extension or Cornell's Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic to get confirmation and tell them where you purchased the plants.
Another disease affecting gardens and farms in the Northeast is a relative newcomer — basil downy mildew. In 2008, the disease was severe on many of the region's farms. It often went unrecognized because it was new and the major symptom – leaf yellowing – looks similar to nutrient deficiency. The downy spore-bearing structures only appear on the undersides of leaves. For more information (including how to report basil downy mildew infestations), Cornell's Vegetable MD website.
Late blight webinar
On Thursday July 2, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., vegetable specialists from Rutgers University and Cornell University will be holding a webinar on late blight and other important diseases of tomato will for interested homeowners, master gardeners and extension personnel in the Northeast.
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Shell Shock! (カブトのかせきのひみつ! The Secret of Kabuto's Fossil!) is the 9th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.
Aboard Lapras, the group follows a news crew to an uninhabited island, where a scientific expedition is underway after the discovery of a fossilized Kabuto. A series of natural disasters place our heroes in mortal danger, with only the power of their Pokémon to help them. What is the secret of the Kabuto, and who wants that secret to remain hidden?
Episode plot
As the heroes enjoy a sunny day (being carried by Lapras through the islands), they get soaked when a boat passes in a hurry. Misty is annoyed, but they see the island, so they go to check it out. Ash calls Lapras back and hear a reporter, telling that a team is going to uncover the Kabuto mystery. The heroes follow the reporter and find out the team has uncovered a Kabuto fossil. The reporter talks with the chief in expedition, much to the heroes's surprise, Nurse Joy. Nurse Joy explains that Kabuto have oil that brings good health and may bring to a person immortality. Hearing this, Tracey and Ash want to help her out. Nurse Joy accepts, then Tracey and Ash turn to the camera, greeting Oak and Ash's mom, though Ash gets restrained.
Team Rocket are in the submarine and Jessie wonders what is a TV crew doing here. Meowth tells they can capture Pikachu and be on TV a while, pleasing Jessie. The heroes go with the archaeologists to explore these fossils, while a mysterious man watches them. As the heroes wander through the mountains, James lags behind Jessie and Meowth, bringing a large backpack. Suddenly, the Growlithe are stopped and growl. The large boulder comes down, so the crew escapes it. Ash tells Nurse Joy to order Machoke to stop it. Nurse Joy does that, so Machoke push the boulder down the cliff. This causes the boulder to fall on James, who falls down with it. As the expedition continues, Pikachu notices something, but there is nothing behind some rocks, though the mysterious man watches.
The expedition led everyone to a bay. The Pokémon and people begin digging out. Ash knows the result will be pleasing, but suddenly, rocks are falling down from a cliff. One rock almost falls on the TV crew, but Rhydon stops it using Horn Drill. Misty begins to feel there is someone who does not want them around, although Tracey knows the island is deserted. Pikachu saw something and runs to it, with Ash following him. Ash sees someone and takes a shortcut, then tackles the man. The man stands up and orders them to leave the island. The archaeologists, including Tracey and Misty appear. The man clarifies he is the one dropping the boulders, telling he is doing them a favor. The heroes are angered at this response, but the man tells he is protecting them all from danger.
Using the reporter's microphone, the man tells that the prophecy will be fulfilled; if the island is disturbed, the moon will glow red and the land will be overflowed by the sea. Misty does not see they caused damage, as the man itself has been disturbing by bringing the boulders down. Nurse Joy tells the man they tried to learn more from Kabuto fossils, but the man is persistent, wanting them to go away. An archaeologist appears, telling a Kabuto fossil has been found, so they go to it. In the cave, Nurse Joy confirms that it is Kabuto. Tracey sees more fossils, so Nurse Joy now knows the walls are Kabuto fossils. The archaeologist goes to get a Rhydon to dig out, but the man from before stops him. Suddenly, the cave begins to shake, as Team Rocket emerge.
Team Rocket are warned by the man a disaster will befall them all if the fossils are taken. Team Rocket throw the bomb (which gets bounced off) and Ash drops it. The bomb explodes and the fossils fall down, only to be collected by Team Rocket, who go off. Suddenly, a red moon appears. The fossils turn into Kabuto themselves, both in the balloon and underground. The Kabuto awaken and gnaw at the TV reporter's camera. Team Rocket's balloon is pierced by one of the Kabuto and they blast off. The heroes go out and feel the ground shaking. Nurse Joy knows the island WTBL sink.
The man knows rafts can be build to avoid this disaster. Seeing the water approaching, they begin to build the raft. The water rises, so Ash sends Squirtle and Lapras, while Misty Goldeen and Staryu, then attach the rope to them. The heroes manage to escape the island, which sinks with a final shake. The heroes see the truth behind the prophecy, as Nurse Joy apologizes to the man. The reporter agrees it is best the world does not know about this incident. They see Kabuto departing, with Tracey believing they are searching for a new home. Ash hopes they do.
- This is the first time Nurse Joy is seen in a different outfit other than her nurses uniform.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Ponyta.
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Pushing The Envelope
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Carla Ventresca was a young copywriter whose budget was so pinched, she made her own greeting cards to save money. Her lighthearted approach and whimsical, twenty-something characters were so popular, friends began asking Ventresca to make cards for them to give.
In 1993, she took samples of her work to a local card shop, and the owner agreed to put them on her shelves. Carla Cards was born. "I do fun cards with a positive spin," Ventresca explains. "My cards are humorous, but people won't crack a rib laughing." Now living in Boston, the 32-year-old entrepreneur is one of a growing number of designers who've turned creativity into cash by tapping into the market for specialty greeting cards.
After years of settling for traditional mass-market cards with impersonal, crass or overly sentimental greetings, consumers are demanding--and getting--an array of cards that cater to virtually every group and taste imaginable, from ethnic groups and divorced people to businesspeople and pets. Yes, pets: Animal lovers can now receive cards that look like they were sent by Fluffy or Fido.
While big boys like American Greetings and Hallmark dominate the market--and have launched niche lines of their own--most of the nation's more than 1,800 greeting card companies are sole proprietorships, like Ventresca's, or small firms. While it can be difficult for smaller ventures to compete with the giants, there's little chance card-crazy Americans will ever lose their appetite for sending and receiving friendly messages. In 1998, Americans purchased 7 billion greeting cards, most of which were sent around the major holidays, according to the Greeting Card Association.
Niche cards, though, aren't confined to the traditional. Ventresca's line includes "missing you" greetings, celebrations of motherhood, and a humorous card for the seriously stressed-out. Cards designed by 34-year-old Miga Rossetti, owner of Rossetti Cards in Portland, Oregon, celebrate the solstice. Greg Zedlar, 32-year-old owner of Conceptual Thinking Inc. in Burbank, California, hopes his business-to-business cards smooth the way for deal-making between businesspeople. And the in-your-face cards from Los Angeles-based Spice Rax--run by Penna Omega Dekelaita, 29, and L.T. Blassingame, 31--will help give a former flame the boot or let everyone know the sender is out of the closet.
"We looked at the greeting cards that were out there and were bored," Omega says. "There was a lot that wasn't represented. I wanted a line my friends and I would buy."
Technophiles don't have to bother sending something so archaic as paper greetings. New York-based Activegrams, founded by Aaron Shapiro, 26, lets computer users zip out greetings and animations via e-mail. Activegrams cover topics like romance, humor, insults and business-related sentiments. "We didn't do any market studies before launching," Shapiro says. "We just knew there was nothing like this online."
Pamela Rohland, a writer from Bernville, Pennsylvania, wishes someone would design a greeting card to ease those days when your computer keeps crashing, the fax goes on the fritz, and the printer plays games with your head.
Getting Carded
Getting into the greeting card business is relatively easy, Ventresca attests. All you need are graphic design skills and a computer. Entrepreneurs often start with less than $5,000--sometimes much less, if they already own a computer and printer. Many designers gain experience by freelancing for the major card companies. You can create samples on your computer and take them directly to stores, pitch them to potential sales representatives or display them at trade shows such as the National Stationery Show held every May in New York City.
Maureen Waters, former editor of industry trade publication Greetings Today, suggests sidestepping card-store chains, which rarely take chances on newcomers. Instead, look for creative outlets for your work: small gift shops, flower shops and airport shops. "If you find a place that isn't selling cards, ask the owner if you can set up a spinner rack in a corner to sell your cards--which, most often, are an impulse buy," Waters says.
The tricky part is staying in business. "Retailers want a guarantee of success," says Waters. "They're reluctant to take chances on new lines." Because creating cards is so easy and getting into the industry so inexpensive, unseasoned entrepreneurs often jump into business impulsively, without a business plan or a definite sense of direction--common mistakes that can prove fatal.
Ventresca's business took off with ease in 1993, but a couple of years later it slowed dramatically. "I met with friends to examine my cards, and we noticed they had no sense of direction, nothing to hold them together as a line," she says. So Ventresca decided to create a set of recurring characters--a few young women, a man and a dog--who pop up repeatedly doing aerobics, going shopping, working on a computer or eating chocolate. "The competition is more brutal than I thought it would be," she acknowledges, adding that she's taken some courses to hone her business skills.
The Art Of Business
Ventresca is one of the lucky ones. Her cards are now sold by 20 sales reps to retail stores around the United States and Canada. Even so, she's not getting rich. After five years in business, Carla Cards grosses only $50,000, and the owner still accepts occasional waitressing gigs to make ends meet.
Ventresca's experience is fairly typical of entrepreneurs
selling cards through traditional channels; Rossetti brought in
$15,000 in 1998, her first year. Entrepreneurs earning more tend to
be in specialized markets. For example, Zedlar, who made high
profits in 1998, targets corporate clients for his business-
to-business cards. Shapiro, who started Activegrams a year ago, can attribute his revenues to the advertising space sold on the company's Web site; individual customers aren't charged for sending cards.
Whether it's a labor of love or a cash cow, a successful card line can ultimately evolve into other profitable arenas. Rossetti, for one, has already expanded her business through the creation of magnets and covers for blank books.
But greeting card entrepreneurs say the rewards are more than financial. "I came to terms long ago with the fact that there will be about 12 well-known artists per generation," Rossetti says. "Another aspect of art is to make beautiful things that enrich people's lives, and that's what I'm doing."
Play Your Cards Right
The Greeting Card Association (GCA) sells a variety of books, CD-ROMs and audiotapes to help entrepreneurs succeed in the industry. Here are a few:
- Greeting Card Industry Directory: A complete guide that features the names and addresses of more than 1,800 publishers and suppliers. GCA members are cross-referenced by geographic location, product types and licensed characters. Each listing also includes information on personnel, production and distribution. Regular and international publisher members are listed, as are associate members in allied industries that provide services and products to the greeting card industry. (296 pages, first copy free to members, $95 for nonmembers.)
- Directory of Greeting Card Sales Representatives: A detailed listing of nearly 175 U.S. companies and individual sales reps that represent greeting card publishers. Each listing includes full mailing address, contact information, showroom locations, trade show participation, areas covered, types of retail outlets served and kinds of cards handled. This alphabetical listing is also cross-referenced geographically and by card product. (262 pages, $50 for members, $95 for nonmembers.) Combine this with the previous volume, and you've got everything you need to know about the industry.
- Forecasting the `New Reality' for the 21st Century: Don Reynolds, business consultant, forecaster and speaker, describes the "New Reality" in a fast-paced overview of major trends impacting our world in the next 10 to 15 years. (Audiotape, $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers.)
- Facts, Figures, Findings: Staying in Touch With Industry Changes: Ray Kenny, former vice president of planning and research for American Greetings, delivers timely information on today's greeting card industry. (Audiotape, $20 for members, $35 for nonmembers.)
To order any of these products, or for information about membership in the GCA (which starts at $325 per year), call (202) 393-1778 or visit http://www.greetingcard.org. Please note: Product availability and pricing may have changed since this article was published. Please contact the GCA for the most current information.
Contact Sources
Activegrams, email@example.com, http://www.activegrams.com
Carla Cards, (617) 242-4478, firstname.lastname@example.com
Conceptual Thinking Inc., (800) 501-0116, http://www.conceptualthinking.com
Greeting Card Association, (202) 393-1778
Greetings Today, (913) 362-7889
Rossetti Cards, (503) 235-1179, email@example.com
Spice Rax, (323) 464-6800, http://www.spicerax.com


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5 Reasons a NASCAR fan should attend Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta
5 Reasons a NASCAR fan should attend Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta
1 - You are a race fan. You like the sounds, the smells, and the excitement that only motorsports can give you. Road Atlanta and Petit Le Mans get you more up close than you have ever dreamed. If you like watching the Cup cars at Sonoma or Watkins Glen - you will be hooked on the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and Road Atlanta after only one visit.
2 - Night racing. So you like Bristol at night. You love Daytona under the lights. Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta will quench your thirst for heart-stopping action at night. The headlights and brake lights totally add something that NASCAR doesn't give us - a really different perspective of 200mph at night followed by hard braking setting up for turn one. Night racing rocks. It really rocks at Road Atlanta.


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20th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning,
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We invite you to participate in the twentieth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), the premier international meeting on research and applications in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). ICCBR 2012 will be held in Lyon, France, from 3 to 6 September 2012.
The conference series steadily expands the frontiers of CBR as a scientific field. Each conference reflects in keynote addresses on the progress of the field and its connections with related areas, discusses topical problems in a set of workshops, and presents
industrial solutions.
The CBR community welcomes new members and encourages you to join it.
ICCBR is the annual meeting of the CBR community and the leading conference on this
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ICCBR 2012 is dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year, a series of events to commemorate Turing's life and work. We do so here by remembering that were it not for Turing's seminal work in mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics this conference would not be taking place.


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The Special Olympics fall season is beginning. For qualifying information, and to sign up, call the Special Olympics Loudoun area coordinator at 703-777-0438. The schedule is as follows:
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Council meetings are held the second Monday of each month in the Board of Supervisors meeting room of the Loudoun County Government Center, located at 1 Harrison St., S.E., Leesburg.
The application can be found on the Loudoun Youth Initiative Web site at www.loudounteens.org. For more information about the Youth Advisory Council or the Loudoun Youth Initiative, contact Angela Johnson, Loudoun Youth Initiative at 571-258-3135 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
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To enter, write a personal letter to an author, explaining how the authorÕs work changed the studentÕs view of the world or themselves. Young readers can select authors from any genre.
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Winners will receive a cash prize and a $50 gift card from Target and will be invited to read their letters at the ceremony.
Loudoun Volunteer Services (LVS) is seeking nominations for outstanding student volunteers, to be recognized as Student Volunteer of the Month.
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For a written description of the nomination process and criteria, contact Lisa Rose, volunteer coordinator, at 703-777-0113 or visit www.loudoun.gov/pio/volunteer.htm.
The Loudoun Symphony Youth Orchestra will hold auditions for the 2006-2007 season. Open to young musicians age 10-18 years who have had a minimum of two years of private instruction or who have participated in a school band or orchestra program for two years. The orchestra meets weekly in Leesburg, performs three-four times per year and is conducted by Mark Allen McCoy. Auditions will be held Saturday, Sept. 9 and Saturday, Sept. 17, at Loudoun Country Day School in Leesburg. There is no audition fee, however, individuals must preregister to arrange an audition.
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The Loudoun Symphony announces performing opportunities for paid principal string positions and for nonpaid section strings and brass positions for the 2006-2007 season. Paid principal string positions are assistant concertmaster and principal viola. Nonpaid positions are second trumpet, fourth horn and section strings. Auditions will take place in the afternoon Sunday, Sept. 10, in Leesburg. The orchestra rehearsals for the 2006-2007 season are Wednesday evenings, September 2006-May 2007.
Individuals interested in auditioning should specify the instrument and send name, address, and daytime phone number along with a $5 nonrefundable fee payable to: Loudoun Symphony, P.O. Box 4478, Leesburg, VA 20177. Repertoire and an audition time slot will be forwarded by mail. Call the Loudoun Symphony office at 703-771-8287.
Leesburg Crossroads' ÒFall into the ArtsÓ committee invites all Northern Virginia artists, in any fine-art media, to submit work for a juried art exhibit at LeesburgÕs fourth annual ÒFall into the Arts festival.Ó This yearÕs festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 14, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., in historic downtown Leesburg.
Artists may submit up to three original works as photos, slides or jpegs to ÒFall into the Arts Jury,Ó c/o Loudoun Academy of the Arts, 222 South King St., Leesburg, VA 20175 or e-mail jpegs to email@example.com. The entry deadline is Sept. 14. Call 703-737-7084 or visit www.fallintothearts.org.
Throughout the month of September, Cold Stone Creamery locations will be selling Make-A-Wish wall stars, benefiting he Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic. The month-long fund-raiser will culminate with the WorldÕs Largest Ice Cream Social Sept. 28. From 5-8 p.m., customers visiting a Cold Stone Creamery location will receive a free serving of ColeÕs Creation while being encouraged to donate to the foundation. Donations accepted during September will directly benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic, a nonprofit organization that fulfills the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.
For a complete list of stores and more information about the fund-raiser, visit coldstonecreamery.com. For more information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic, visit midatlantic.wish.org.
The Waterford Foundation is accepting submissions for the $2,500 Florence Kiley Fellowship, awarded each year to a Loudoun County artist who has just graduated or is entering his/her senior year of high school.
Entry is limited to two works per artist, which must be submitted to the Tin Shop in Waterford Saturday, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The work must be ready to hang with screw eyes and wires attached. Entries will be exhibited at this yearÕs Waterford Fair. For a complete prospectus and entry form, and for more information, call the Waterford Foundation at 540-882-3085 or 540-882-3018 or www.waterfordva.org.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is holding the 14th annual Plane Pull, part of the Dulles Day Family Festival, Oct. 7. Teams are needed for the plane pull event, which benefits Special Olympics Virginia. A plane pull team is made up of 20 people who pull the plane 12 feet by a rope attached to the front wheels. A minimum of $1,000 in team sponsorship is required. teams receive 25 customized team T-Shirts, a plaque and team photo, and a company listing on the event Web site and promotional material. Trophies awarded in several categories. Call Michelle Gates, 703-359-4301 or visit www.planepull.com.
The USO of Metropolitan Washington is seeking entries for its annual photography contest. Submissions should have a military theme with a local emphasis. Photos from sites in and around the Maryland/Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia areas are preferred.
The deadline for entries is Oct. 16 and the winner will be chosen and notified Nov. 20. The winner will receive $300 in cash and the photo will appear on the cover of the 2007 USO Guide to Washington and Baltimore, published in January, 2007. The winning photo will also appear as the opening page on USO-Metro's Web site, www.USOMetroDC.org.
Photos which do not win the contest may be used in other publications, with attribution. Written permission to publish photos must accompany submissions.
The contest is open to all military identification card holders including retirees, members of the reserves and National Guard as well as Department of Defense civilians, members of the Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine.
To submit photos to: USO-Metro Photography Contest, ATTN: Erica Chapman, P.O. Box 1710, Ft. Myer, VA 22211. For more information, call 703-696-5655.
George Mason University and the Loudoun Youth Initiative (LYI) have joined together to gather youth input as part of a community needs assessment that will inform and advise youth serving organizations in the county of Loudoun. Beginning with a summit that included youth and community leaders, continuing with a telephone survey that is being conducted this summer, followed by a series of youth focus groups that will be conducted in September, this youth and community outreach will result in a revised Strategic Plan for the LYI.
The culmination of this effort will be the third annual Step Up Loudoun event Nov. 9, that will focus on commitment, coordination and communication while working towards addressing the needs of county youth.
For more information, contact Tim Chesnutt, director of the Loudoun Youth Initiative, at 703-737-8346.
The Douglass Community Center child-care program has availability for new children. The program operates daily, from 7 a.m.-6:15 p.m. and serves children ages 3- prekindergarten, must be potty trained. Fees are $155 per week. Contact 703-771-5610 or e-mail email@example.com.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyÕs Team In Training (TNT) program has guaranteed race entries into the 2006 Marine Corps Marathon. TNT trains participants with help from certified coaches who develop a training program. In addition to running, the TNT also has a walk and run/walk program where participants with different abilities can alternate running and walking.
As participants train for the marathon, they also help the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society raise money to fund cancer research and patient support services.
Individuals interested in joining the TNT program for the Marine Corps Marathon or any of TNTÕs fall season events, call 703-960-1100 or visiting www.teamintraining.org/nca.
The grassroots nonprofit organization, Operation Pinecone, based in South Riding, strives to support the service members and their families by sending care packages abroad and delivering comfort items and providing support in various ways to service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. There are collection boxes for donations for this cause throughout Loudoun County. Visit Operation Pinecone, www.operationpinecone.org.
The Loudoun School Community Coalitions sponsor the ÒParents Who Host Lose the MostÓ campaign to reduce underage drinking and is asking parents to take a survey by visiting www.loudoun.k12.va.us, and click on the Òfor ParentsÓ button, then ÒCoalitions,Ó then the George Mason University survey button. It takes about three minutes, then hit the submit button.
Sponsored by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Loudoun Volunteer Services (LVS) has teamed with the White House to become a certifying organization for the "President's Volunteer Service Awards," a national program recognizing Americans who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to volunteer service. Issuing the award is the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation chaired by two-time Super Bowl Champion Darrell Green, with former U.S. Sens. Bob Dole and John Glenn as honorary co-chairs and composed of leaders in government, media, entertainment, business, education, nonprofit and volunteer service organizations and community volunteering. As one of the certifying organizations, LVS hopes to encourage and strengthen youth volunteerism in Loudoun County. Students in grades kindergaren-12th can visit their school's guidance office for a Student Volunteer Hours form, or go to www.loudoun.gov/pio/volunteer.htm.
The Senior Center at Cascades Marketplace, 21060 Whitfield Place, Sterling, is collecting unused eyeglasses to be recycled foe people who cannot afford to purchase eyeglasses. Call 703-430-2397.
The Community Holiday Coalition continues to search for a new location to hold its annual holiday program. Last year, hundreds of volunteers and donors made it possible to help 900 families at Thanksgiving and 1,200 families during the December holiday. The coalition is looking into several options and hoping to hear from facilities managers soon.
The mission of the coalition is to help serve less fortunate families, children and senior citizens by providing much needed items, in a manner that promotes dignity and self-respect. Anyone that could help in the search or has space available, is asked to contact Karen Velez, Holiday Store coordinator, at 703-771-5718 or visit www.loudoun.gov/dss/holiday.


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Valentine's Day: The best alternative flowers to roses
Want to go for the classic Valentine's Day gift of flowers - but against opting for clichéd roses? Take a look at our top picks of gorgeous floral arrangements (without a thorn in sight).
Alstroemeria amour
For a bouquet with an exotic edge, look to South America with Marks & Spencer's mix of dazzling purple and yellow alstroemeria. Presented in a buttercup tissue wrap, this selection tells the recipient that you are imaginative as well as romantic.
£30 including delivery, Marks & Spencer.
Scarlet and Violet bespoke
Based in north-west London, Scarlet and Violet specialise in show-stopping displays – perfect inspiration for the Valentine seeking a grand gesture with an individual style. The company delivers throughout the capital. As they buy the flowers from a local market every day, each bunch is different.
From £45, Scarlet and Violet.
Sunshine from the Scillies
Rather than an expensive bouquet of flowers assembled from all over the world, why not go for flowers grown a little closer to home? From the clement Scilly Isles, these daffs are happier and less melodramatic than roses. What's more, for those in the business of extravagant gestures, you can get 100stems for less than some off-the-shelf bouquets.
Tulips in deep reds and purples come with all the glamorous power of roses, but without the predictability. This bouquet, by Liberty florist Nikki Tibbles, is available in a range of sizes, depending on how generous you feel.
From £65, Wild at Heart by Nikki Tibbles.
Fresh from the market
"Not your average florists" is how Ellie and Anna, aka the Flower Appreciation Society, advertise themselves. Based in Hackney, east London, they create unique creations from seasonal flowers, all collected from personal trips to the market. This attractive mix includes lilac, hellebore, astrantia, anemones, eucalyptus and viburnum.
£65, Flower Appreciation Society.
Long may it last
For anyone wanting to send a stunning armful of flowers without breaking the bank, Waitrose offers this sumptuous bouquet. The selection of 24 gorgeous stems, a mixture of 12 red alstroemeria and 12 deep red British tulips, comes with free delivery. The tulips can be delivered almost open, or tightly in bud for a longer display.
Passionate tulips bouquet, £35, Waitrose Florist.
Terrarium Class
Want to give a gift with extra-cool kudos? Go for a terrarium. The Victorian mini-gardens have made quite the comeback in recent months, and a gorgeous long-term addition to the home. For further points, book a terrarium-making workshop (DIY is all the rage too). Try London Terrariums; their antiquated boiling flasks and preserving jars hark back beautifully to the plant's heyday.
Berry bestowal
Why not skip flowers entirely and opt for a different gift from the garden? A blackberry box is a treat for all the senses, and will last long after the restaurants have put their prices back to normal. It includes a ready-to-plant blackberry bush (a thornless one, no less) and a jar of delicious blackberry and apple jam.
£35 plus £8 p&p, Gluttonous Gardener.


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Your Take: How to capture a 'super' supermoon
It's supermoon Sunday! This weekend brings the start of the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers, the Perseids, plus the brightest supermoon of the year.
If you're looking to capture the best of the night sky, these tips from The Arizona Republic's resident photographer extraordinaire, Dave Seibert, should help.
Moonrise is the best time to shoot a well-composed photo that includes your surroundings. Seibert suggests looking for reflections in lakes, silhouettes of planes, trains, animals or people.
Location, location, location
Make sure you have a good line of sight toward the horizon.
Lights, camera, action
Grab your smartphone, DSLR or old-fashioned 35mm and get ready to go. If you miss out, don't worry. There will be another supermoon this fall.
On your phone
Use a tripod and frame the photo. Set the exposure for the brightness of the moon. Turn on stabilization, if you've got it, and try experimenting with night mode and ISO settings. Save the digital zoom and just crop later.
On your camera
Use a tripod and make sure your ISO is 400 or less. The longer the lens, the better. Use a self-timer, if you got one. Shoot on manual exposure and focus.


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Citrus Tarts
Delightful citrus dessert featuring orange and pummelo segments baked on puff pastry and topped with orange whipped cream.
1 1⁄2 cups orange juice
6 tbsp. brown sugar
2 (3-in.) puff pastry rounds
24 orange segments
12 fresh pummelo or grapefruit segments
1 1⁄2 cups Orange Whipped Cream (see recipe)
Orange Whipped Cream
1 1⁄2 cups heavy cream
6 tbsp. fresh orange juice
3 tbsp. orange zest, chopped
3 tbsp. powdered sugar
- Stir orange juice and sugar to dissolve. Bring to a boil; cook until syrup reduces by half. Cool.
- Brush 1 tbsp. syrup on each pastry round. Set 2 orange and 1 pummelo segment on top. Bake in 425°F oven 10 min., until puffed and golden.
- Per serving, top tart with 1 tbsp. Orange Whipped Cream.
Orange Whipped Cream :
- Whip cream to soft peaks. Add juice, zest, and sugar; whip until stiff peaks form. Yield: 11⁄2 cups.


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Thompson, Summerhays lead at Sanderson Farms
BY foxsports • July 20, 2013
Nicholas Thompson and Daniel Summerhays are tied for the lead going into the final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Summerhays waited out a rain delay of 1 hour, 17 minutes before making his final 19-foot putt for birdie, finishing with a 3 under 69 on Saturday at Annandale Golf Club. He also led last week going into the final round of the John Deere Classic before finishing fourth.
Thompson bogeyed his first hole in the third round, but was nearly flawless after that with a 65 to reach 17 under. Thompson is trying for his first PGA Tour win and would join sister Lexi as only the third brother-sister combo to win on the LPGA and PGA Tours.
Chad Campbell, Cameron Beckman, Woody Austin and Kyle Reifers are two strokes back.
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For a little bit i had been contemplating implementing a solution to synchronize the data on my NokiaE61i (being contacts, calendars and such) with the Lightning calendar on Thunderbird.
After bashing my head for a few days trying to get blueZync to run correctly and realizing that ScheduleWorld/GoogleCalendar/GnomeCalendar, it's a bit of a long loop for my private data, made my mind to make a switch i had been thinking of. Evolution.
And also because the latest versions of Thunderbird , which i had carried on using from the Windows days, ate RAM like it had to.
Evolution has a relatively intuitive interface for both Thunderbird, and even Outlook users.
A really nice calendar and a good contact manager. It's just good software. Period.
It comes preinstalled in the standard distribution of Ubuntu so the only thing to do was set my accounts up on it. The explanation of that goes beyond the scope of this post.


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text: Remember that time Microsoft teased what most sane humans thought were new logos? That was right around two years ago, but the branding you see above is no mistake -- that's the new Microsoft logo, landing just months after Windows 8's new flag and merely weeks before the aforesaid operating system takes the planet by storm. Astoundingly, it has been a full quarter-century since Microsoft gave itself a new logo, and while we're sure pundits will jump all over it just because "dealing with change is hard," there's no doubt that the outfit's new face is bold in its simplicity. Care to learn more? There's a happy-go-lucky video waiting just after the break.


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Mike Ihde
- Career Highlights
- Film composer for The Sun Dagger
- Guitarist/vocalist with numerous bands from oldies to blues, rock to country
- Author of Rock Guitar Styles and Country Guitar Styles, available from the author
- Performer/clinician on lap and pedal steel guitar
- Author of A Different Slant jazz CD, and TAB book for lap steel
- Awards
- Recipient of numerous songwriting awards
- Education
- B.M., Berklee College of Music
In Their Own Words
"I've gotten the reputation of being 'the country guy' around the college because I happen to play and teach that style a lot. Eventually students find out that I play everything from jazz to rock. I started as a rocker in cover bands, but being into the pop music world got me into country styles, which got me into lap and pedal steel, and it continues to expand my stylistic abilities."
"My mission is to open up people's ears to the players and styles they've never heard, and hopefully they think, 'Wow—I really need to check that out.' My goal has always been to prepare people to be able to play anything, anytime, anywhere. In order to survive in this business, you need to know a ton of tunes in a lot of styles and be able to play them all convincingly."
"If it has strings on it, you should be able to play it. Four-string banjo? Just tune it like a guitar, and don't tell anybody. Unless a banjo player shows up at the gig or recording session, no one will know. It comes down to versatility. Being good on as many instruments as you can handle will keep you working."
"Another thing I believe strongly in is that the student work on becoming a singer. There are a million guitar players out there, and if there's a choice between hiring a player with all kinds of chops and a player who can play pretty good and sings decently, most people will hire the singer. Nobody says you have to sing great, but you have to go into it with the attitude of, 'Yeah, I can do that.'"
"People call years after they finished here and say, 'I was in a recording session the other night and played some of those licks you showed me, and they worked great—it was fantastic.' To me, that means they finally got it under their fingers—they finally figured out where it belongs, and what to do with it, and it worked. These are my favorite moments."


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oil on canvas
40 x 36 In
Brittany by Angela China
Part of a Guy Hepner and Avant Arte collaborative exhibitionAll Art Everything showing from April 9th to April 29th in SOHO.
Guy Hepner and Avant Arte aim to merge the boundaries of technology and art. The exhibition presents a collection of the most trending artists currently online, and explore the current fascination of social media, technology and the contemporary artist.
Brittany by Angela China
About the Artist:
Perhaps the most startling aspect of Angela China's meteoric rise in the New York City art scene is that this self-taught, realist painter did not begin painting seriously until moving to Manhattan in 2010. As a child growing up in Baltimore, Ms. China's artistic skills were apparent. But for a myriad of reasons, she stopped painting upon entering high school. Now in her Manhattan studio, Ms. China (pronounced Key-nah) has re-found her calling as an artist.
Having had the opportunity to work alongside several well-known, New York artists, has added to Ms. China's growth and reputation. In the spring of 2013, she was invited to present her work with some of these artists, at a group show in SoHo called "Somewhere Only We Know." A few months later, she was fortunate enough to find a mentor in Alison Van Pelt, who has provided Ms. China with guidance and inspiration. In September 2013, her art was featured as part of the prestigious New York's Fashion Week. Moreover, Ms. China has quickly established an eclectic group of collectors and as a result, she is able to paint full time.
For Ms. China, painting is a form of self-inquiry and self-expression. All of her paintings are, in essence, self-portraits. On the surface, her work is often viewed as "fun" and "sexy." However, on closer examination, her use of iconic images and designer brands construct and then deconstruct an "ideal"- an ideal that she views as an unattainable standard of what society dictates she should be. It is evident that the inspiration of her work derives from her own inner conflict. Despite the dark undertone, her work invariably portrays the elements of hope, humor and humanity.


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Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win.
Max Payne is a relentless story-driven shooter about a man on the edge, fighting for his justice while uncovering plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard. Using the innovative Bullet Time mechanic, players can slow their sense of time in order to focus shots in intense encounters for deadly accuracy in life-or-death gun duels.
Bullet time is the money. We'll help you use it with our full guide. Walkthrough, boss strategy, weapons info, hints and secrets inside.
The two weeks until Max Payne 3 hits PC don't have to go by in slow motion. Let's put those itchy trigger fingers to good use: fire up the original Max Payne and its sequel, The Fall of Max Payne, and breathe new life into Remedy's classics with stellar mods! You'll be amazed at how this collection of tweaks and total conversions brings old-school Max back from retirement. Read More »
Although there's been a flurry of press on it in the past few weeks, a lot of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has remained shrouded in mystery. Unlike most high-profile games, Max Payne 2 wasn't on display at this year's E3, almost unheard of for a title of that magnitude. And with titles like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 slipping left and right, it was almost hard to believe that Max Payne 2 was really shipping on the October 15th date Rockstar promised. But sure enough, Max Payne 2 is here. We'll have our official review up in the next few days, but we couldn't resist the opportunity to play a few hours and offer some initial impressions. Read More »
Max Payne debuted in 2001 to resounding critical acclaim. Praises were heaped on the game not only for its enjoyable third-person action gameplay, but also for its sense of cinematic style being the first to truly implement "bullet-time" as a usable game feature. Max Payne fan and kung fu enthusiast Kenneth Yeung thought something was missing though. What was a game with a Matrix-like character in a long black trench coat doing without some Matrix-style chop-socky action? GameSpy's Tom Ham sat down to talk with Yeung about his 18-month odyssey to bring the best of Asia's action movies to Max Payne's gritty New York underworld. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: July 25, 2001
Publisher: Gathering of Developers (aka GOD Games)
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Release Date: Released
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Release Date: Unreleased
Publisher: Gathering of Developers (aka GOD Games)
Release Region: Australia
Release Date: July 25, 2001
Publisher: Gathering of Developers (aka GOD Games)
Also available on: PlayStation 2, Xbox, iPhone, Android, PlayStation 3, Macintosh, Game Boy Advance, Xbox 360
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Obama and Race
When Obama first took office, his poll numbers were sky high. Easily seventy percent of the country was solidly behind him, and even many conservatives were impressed with his post-election performance. (Immediately after Obama's election, many in the traditional media were absolutely giddy with excitement. I was recently stuck in a waiting room with a copy of a December Time magazine; that issue featured four brief essays for possible Persons of the Year. The choices were Obama, Obama, the American people for electing Obama, and Obama again, but with Michael Phelps second).
Obama has squandered much of that good will. According to the reliable Rasmussen Reports, Obama's overall approval numbers have plummeted from a high of sixty-nine percent in early January (and sixty-five on the day of his inauguration, with forty-four percent of those strongly approving) to fifty-one percent in the most recent day of polling.
It's not difficult to find the reason for Obama's drop in popularity. He has turned out to me more liberal than most (at least those who don't listen to talk radio) expected. With the passage of the stimulus bill, he committed himself to deficit spending, and with cap-and-trade and health care reform, he has signaled his commitment to expensive and intrusive social programs.
Americans liked the hope and change stuff, but many draw the line here. So many moderates shift from "approve" to "disapprove," and many more conservative people suddenly strongly disapprove of Obama's policies.
Not a bad thing, from a conservative point of view. But there's a catch. People who disagree with another politics can rarely restrain themselves to the issues—rather, the other person's character and person comes under attack.
A good example of this phenomenon is the liberal response to George W. Bush. They couldn't accept that Bush happened to support different policies than they did—instead, he was a stupid, uneducated hick controlled by a diabolical Dick Cheney. (This about a man who went to Yale, and whose family has set down some pretty solid roots among the Eastern elite).
It was inevitable that such attacks would crop up among conservatives as well. Most of them are irrelevant but tolerable—the worst of these are the nutty but harmless birth certificate rumors.
There are other, more harmful attacks as well, and unfortunately some of them involve race. One, which I experienced, was a chain email, the gist of which was an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama next to a picture of monkey. Another example was a conversation I had with a conservative stranger; she suggested that Obama's sterling college record was tainted by affirmative action and summer classes, which in her experience were apparently crutches used by "stupid" blacks to retake hard courses. (Speaking as a college student, taking very difficult courses during the summer isn't exactly uncommon, nor is it done only by unintelligent people).
Both of these people were quite nice; people who you wouldn't expect to have a racist bone in their bodies, and indeed probably don't—in the former case, I am quite sure that distain for Obama won out over good judgment with the "forward" button.
Such tasteless joke probably won't set the cause of race relations back twenty years, or give the Ku Klux Klan a new lease on life, or anything of that kind. They're just nasty and tasteless, and hopefully they'll die out soon. And they aren't any nastier than thing liberals have been known to say about conservative politicians.
At the same time, while these jokes and attacks may be mostly harmless to society at large, they hurt the Republican party. Puns aren't the lowest form of humor, racial jokes are, and racial attacks are the nastiest. A party, or a movement, is defined by its base—and what discerning person would want to be part of a movement that thinks insinuating that a black woman looks like a monkey (which Michelle Obama, by the way, really doesn't) is a hilarious and cutting bit of wit?


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